Episode 835 · Sunday, 19 June 2016

Woman Person

Geopolitical instability peaks with the Jo Cox tragedy and Swiss EEA withdrawal while pharmaceutical giants face scrutiny over Abilify side effects and mass shooting links.

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About this episode

The assassination of British MP Jo Cox has triggered a suspension of Brexit campaigning as Prime Minister David Cameron and the Remain camp gain momentum ahead of the referendum. While Bloomberg analysts warn of a potential United Kingdom dissolution involving Scotland, the Swiss Upper House has officially withdrawn its 1992 application to the European Economic Area. These geopolitical shifts coincide with Belgian police conducting major terror raids in Molenbeek to secure the Euro 2016 tournament against imminent threats.

Domestic tensions rise as the FDA issues a safety warning for the antipsychotic Abilify, linking the drug to compulsive gambling and hypersexuality. In the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting, FBI sources indicate Omar Mateen consulted medical professionals about his prescriptions during the attack, yet major networks like CBS and ABC remain silent on pharmaceutical links. Meanwhile, CIA Director John Brennan testified to the Senate that ISIS remains a formidable global threat, contradicting White House optimism, as declassified documents reveal Al-Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times despite early cooperation.

Vladimir Putin addressed the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, clarifying that he viewed Donald Trump as bright rather than brilliant while questioning the modern necessity of NATO. The episode features a look back at the early internet era, including the registration of MTV.com and the acquisition of Budweiser.com for a case of beer. Gayle King draws scrutiny for her woman-person description of Hillary Clinton, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is noted for his recent string of Hollywood cameos.


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CHAPTER 01 / 45 Discussion

NBA Finals Rigging Allegations, High-Priced Ticket Sales

Allegations of rigging in the NBA surface following Steph Curry's wife tweeting about the league being fixed for profit. Discussion focuses on the Golden State Warriors and the sale of two front-row tickets for $49,500 each on StubHub. The high prices are characterized as promotional moves that displace real fans with wealthy individuals seeking social status.

nba· golden state warriors· steph curry· oracle arena· stubhub· gambling

00:00 I think Zucari is a lizard. Proud to be a straight old white male who's also a father and broadcasting live from the capital of the drone star state here in FEMA region 6 Austin Tejas. In the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry And from northern Silicon Valley where it's going to be a scorcher in more ways than one. I'm John C Devorak Scorcher he says...I know why don't even say because I'm very happy you said that Instead of instead of starting off with

00:44 False flag, shooting is not true. Why don't we just talk about the real travesty that is the blatant fix of the NBA? I mean even I am going holy crap This this is making too much money on these games so did not have seven of them didn't Steph Curry's wife even tweet yeah, tweet to break down pretty quick Rigged it's rigged It's rigged I tell you Well, it wasn't the refs. You know it's obvious these games are rigged and I think basketball has a long history of this Yeah It does point shaving so is bad raps refs corrupt refs is tonight the visit gambling interests Is tonight the the big one the the seventh? That's the big one finally get the season over with the Warriors at home So they you know they have a good chance of winning this when rigged or not uh-huh and The problem I have though is that

01:42 The Warriors are notorious for having this Oracle Arena where the fans go crazy. It's incredibly loud and noisy, it's like that Seattle place for the football. Well, I noticed this in game five and i think it's going to be worse tonight. And let me just give you a hint of what I'm getting at... It's the two tickets were sold on the front for this game and these tickets most of these seats are owned by somebody but you can sell them through StubHub or the NBA website. Right! Two tickets $49,500 each This is just a promotional move

02:24 Well, yeah for sure it is for StubHub. It's a commercial. Yeah exactly But I know for a fact that anybody in their right mind if you can get like $5,000 for a seat and you own that seat why are you gonna go to the game? So what you end up with is a stadium full of...I'd say dumb fuck rich people that don't even know what the game's about. They just want to be there so they can say they were at the game. Oh, Daphne, are we supposed to applaud? Which of the large black men that we root for here... To be fair, to be fair for $50,000 Steph Curry has promised he'll throw his mouth guard in your head I mean that's just an extra benefit there That's probably not a bad idea Hey oh by the way speaking it speaking of the Curries

CHAPTER 02 / 45 Discussion

Fasten Ride Service Experience in Austin

A host describes using Fasten, a fledgling ride-sharing service in Austin, Texas, and notes the efficiency of three-minute pickup times. The account includes a personal anecdote about adding a profile picture to the app to ensure drivers can identify him during pickups.

fasten· austin· ride-sharing· profile picture· transportation

03:12 I changed my profile picture. Actually, added a profile picture on FASN, the fledgling ride service here in Austin. Yeah? Boom! Every single ride three minutes they're there picking me up like oh you're the white guy. Oh they're racists That's what i'm saying that I changed it and boom is good to go Yeah, would you have a picture of Steph Curry there before? Nothing. I know I don't put my just because an app has service. I'm not going to put my face on it. Yeah, I don't blame ya. Well, you could put any old white guy. Oh thanks up with your face on there and they'll be like, well, I don't want to have to talk to that guy.

CHAPTER 03 / 45 Discussion

Abilify FDA Warning, Gambling Side Effects

The Food and Drug Administration issued a warning regarding the antipsychotic drug Abilify, linking it to uncontrollable gambling and compulsive behaviors. Legal advertisements are targeting individuals who suffered significant financial losses or home foreclosures while taking the medication. Additional reported side effects include compulsive shopping and hypersexuality.

abilify· fda· gambling· side effects· pharmaceutical litigation

03:52 Speaking of gambling, John. Since you brought up the... The gambling moolah that's involved in this here is a little ad I caught the other day. If you know someone who has an uncontrollable gambling problem it may not be their fault! The Food and Drug Administration is now warning that Abilify can cause uncontrollable gambling if you had significant financial losses or lost your home due to gambling losses while taking Abilify You may be entitled to a cash award Time to file a claim is limited so don't miss your opportunity for a cash award Wow! Call Gold Chill Group now A bill if I can make you into a compulsive gambler Probably a sex maniac too. I've heard of people Shopping for lots of items on Amazon in the middle of the night without realizing it yeah, and they're right It's not ambient. I'm sorry bill if I not ambient abilify This is bad who says this is bad She says who well because all says me because the real drug you know like there are the assistant

CHAPTER 05 / 45 Discussion

Aczone Gel Side Effects, Methemoglobinemia Risks

Aczone Gel 7.5%, an FDA-approved topical acne treatment, is highlighted for its unusual potential side effects. Clinical warnings indicate the drug can cause methemoglobinemia, which decreases blood oxygen and turns nails or lips blue. Additionally, the use of benzoyl peroxide alongside the gel may temporarily turn skin or facial hair orange.

aczone gel· acne· fda· methemoglobinemia· side effects

09:42 First of all, I actually clipped a new drug and the 60-second ad because there's a couple of hilarious side effects. It seems to me... Whereas the side effect of coke is just you go a little nutty? Yeah that's different. That has been tested. So this is called Axon Gel. It gets some medication for acne. Having acne was always on my mind I asked a dermatologist about new Axone Dapsone Gel 7.5%. I apply it once a day, anytime! Axone gel's 7.5% is FDA approved for the topical treatment of acne for people 12 years and older. Axone gel is a once-a-day acne treatment with clinically proven results in clinical trials acne got better for people using axone gel in just twelve weeks. Axone gel may cause the serious side effect of hemoglobinemia which decreases oxygen in your blood

10:37 Stop taking Axone gel and get medical help right away if your lips, mouth or nails turn gray or blue. Talk to your doctor if you have G6PD deficiency using benzoyl peroxide with Axone gel may cause skin or facial hair to temporarily turn yellow or orange where applied common side effects of axone gel include dryness and itching a treated skin now I have less acne to think about because I use Axone Gel You could pay as little as $15 for Axone gel. Learn more at axone.com. Axone, prescription treatment proven results. Now that's an interesting one So yeah your fingernails turn blue? Your hair turns orange?

CHAPTER 06 / 45 Discussion

Omar Mateen Medication Inquiry, Pharmaceutical Media Influence

FBI sources reveal that Orlando shooter Omar Mateen spoke with a medical professional in Washington D.C. during the Pulse nightclub attack to discuss medications. The discussion posits that major news networks avoid investigating the link between prescription drugs and mass shootings due to heavy advertising revenue from pharmaceutical companies.

omar mateen· orlando shooting· fbi· pharmaceutical industry· advertising

11:15 And this is from a topical product. Yeah, but this is it's probably a little better than the previous product that I heard about which is Proactiv and Christina used that she had pretty bad acne when she was a kid and you can't just buy in the store to get her by prescription and yeah, it can make you nutty. I'm not quite sure what the active ingredient is but definitely she used all of these. She said I can't take this makes me crazy whatever that means But she did not feel good. on the last show because when we go through these deconstructions of mass shootings or whatever you want to call them advertising. And I forgot to bring it up in the last show which is actually kind of brought up, or suggested and you can figure out what i'm talking about here by this clip which is Mateen and drugs. True, you have some information that you found out today that Mateen spoke to someone in the DC area during the attack what else can you tell us about that?

12:23 This was the third call that we had been trying to get information out. We were told it was a friend that had contacted him during the rampage, now we know what happened A medical professional who is friends with this killer Was in Washington DC and noticed the Facebook posts that the killer was putting on his Facebook in real time during this event. Apparently, this friend reached out to Mateen they had a conversation the conversation we are told from FBI sources was about medications that is all they would give us except to tell us that he has this friend has been investigated it has been interviewed and police do not believe he had any prior knowledge of the attack

13:09 And of course they go no further into this. Why would they? That's the point. I want to make it clear to everybody that listens to this and produces this show, the large networks CBS ABC NBC CNN all of them without exception take so much money from these drug companies and many of these drugs cause hallucinations they cause madness even this prescription drug you're talking about Christina taking for acne That they have to be behind a lot of these events And they just will not touch it with the 10-foot pole because this is all their income. It's the third rail that yeah, it's where their money comes from course now You'll never hear that well I did pick up if you hear here on this show Yeah right? I didn't pick up a few bits and bobs Here in there If you want to transition into The shooting which has still kind of been the main news until we do have to move over to brexit pretty quick

CHAPTER 07 / 45 Discussion

Jo Cox Assassination, Brexit Campaign Suspension

The assassination of British MP Jo Cox leads to a temporary suspension of all Brexit campaigning. Polls indicate a shift toward the "Remain" camp following the tragedy, while Prime Minister David Cameron claims UK universities overwhelmingly support staying in the EU. A debate at the Oxford Union resulted in a 127-79 vote in favor of remaining in the European Union.

jo cox· brexit· european union· parliament· david cameron· oxford

14:10 Actually, why don't we do that first? With Brexit? Yeah. Yeah, well I only have a couple of Brexit clips and of course they had the shooting another shoot at shooting in England Wow did you some day when they were all They're all discussing how what? What's this shooting we normally expect stabbings. This one was a stabbing and a shooting of some member of Parliament a woman Who was for staying in the EU and then there's some maniac probably on drugs killed her And so then they've decided to stop all campaigning for or against the Brexit. Yeah, and which I'm not sure what side that benefits... Well there's a couple of things going on the main thing that i'm seeing is every single as far as i'm concerned about the votes have been counted every single analysis every poll you see the same thing red line blue line and then you see them cross like uh the day after this shooting and now

15:09 Stay or remain, I should say the Remain campaign is in the lead and it's three points. And then I'm telling you it's done that's it three points that'll be the difference and move on. It's a lot of these votes are postal votes that went in much earlier. I'm pretty sure that the fix isn't on this too excuse me oh yeah yeah so we're seeing... It's easiest way to do it I mean there was some member I was either member of parliament one of these guys who came out said It was a very good story. I should have printed it out. Even the bookies are now changing their... The book, no! The bookies have always been for stay. They're changing though. I brought this up in his show like almost a month ago. The bookies had been for stay all the time. But they're changing? They've never crossed over to Brexit and then there's ones who know because other ones are taking the bets you can tell

16:00 Right, but there's some member of the Senate. Well even if they we vote to leave We don't have to leave we can just say it was a suggestion and it's all really is It's not there's no mandatory anything he says the vote Which is what the fallback would be But this guy didn't have to expose that because I guess people mad and then they vote to leave but I think yeah The fix has been in sure course. I've said this all along Yeah There's no way they're gonna leave And the shooting thing is maybe just done on the...you know, it could have been one of those events that was actually created by the stay people. You don't know? Well that would be the thinking if you look at this guy and by the way, the thing that is not confirmed whatsoever is that this guy yelled Britain first there's absolutely no evidence in fact people are saying I didn't hear

16:46 Yeah. So there's no evidence of that, so either way never let a good crisis go to waste I did find it rather humorous though to hear our friend Fifi Lagarde And of course the Fuhrer of the International Monetary Fund. It was good, this reporter actually called her out on some bullcrap because she pretty much did what we find quite disgusting by saying well just like climate change you know almost all economists agree this would be bad for Britain. She said that... Oh yeah listen to it You know, it's a pretty compelling case when you have an overwhelming majority of economists from all obediences and schools and generations to actually agree directionally on the outcome of a particular decision. And that is where all our

17:38 all of them are. It's going to cost, it is going to be negative for income purposes and it will reduce trade most likely as a result of uncertainty. Those are blatant facts One economist disagrees with another, that's life. Okay now listen to what this journalist says because he had his ears open apparently during the previous Q&A with Fifi That is often what they do I say that happily because i'm a jurist by background not an economist but when we all agree with the exception of you know one particular group That's a pretty compelling situation. And yes, we all make mistakes but all of them together at the same time in the same direction I don't think so. I'm going to quote you said that I am not up to my level as an expert talking about your economists if you just said this in the Q&A But I tend not be fooled by them If you're not fooled by them maybe the British people and European people may not be fooled by them as well. I have full trust and confidence in the wisdom

18:36 There you go. It's impossible, if almost all economists say it's bad then how can you argue? Another thing I heard...I listened to the sessions that I didn't get any clips but I heard the meeting, the parliament where Cameron gets up there for the Q&A and they're yelling at each other that moment every week or so. There was a camera says all the universe, you know because everything every question and every answer was about the brexit Yeah And everything was gonna be a disaster if we left and everything's gonna be hunky-dory. We're gonna be rolling in dough so he He says that all the universities

19:19 All the universities, when polled all of them he does his claim are all for staying in the EU because this gives their students more opportunities to be part of a bigger market. He goes on and on and so I thought that was a little sketchy but then i saw this thing they were doing on PBS where they went to these various universities and they talked to the students there The student's...I don't..some of these clips are outrageous Play this clip! This is the They did a big debate at Oxford And this is the Oxford, the end of the whole thing. This was kind of the ending of it and it's an indication where the students, you know, beleaguered students think about the exit versus staying. Driven by people like you is as important in generations to come as it has been for generations which I have been privileged to be a part So finally how did the vote go at the Oxford debate union?

20:15 127 in favor of remaining, only 79 for Brexit. Next week we'll see if the rest of the country mirrors those results in any way at all. Yeah I don't expect any more funny business. I think they're done and this did it! The only thing that could happen and we still have a couple days left is you know of course there was someone who wanted to counter this... It's obvious what what you would do Want to change the headliners of course you have a terrorist attack exactly from a from a recent migrant Yeah, from someone who yells ala walk bar. Yeah exactly exact now that It's gonna be hard to pull I don't think it's gonna happen either They do have this petition going on which you probably saw it's kind of I guess it's a bit like the White House

CHAPTER 08 / 45 Discussion

Brexit Economic Impact, Scottish Independence Risks

Bloomberg analysts suggest a Brexit vote could lead to the dissolution of the United Kingdom, with Scotland likely voting to stay in the EU. Financial markets show significant volatility and fear regarding the potential exit. Germany and the Netherlands are also monitoring the situation closely, with concerns that a British departure could trigger a broader collapse of the European Union.

bloomberg· scotland· germany· markets· european union

21:00 Petition where if you have a certain number of signatures open it up, and they use all for marijuana legalization right Yeah, which was pretty much not addressed anyway course Let's see what the current standing is so they had 30. They needed thirty thousand to get it going they already Know they already had 34 last time I checked home on a second. What's the petition say? Let me see, for some reason this link is not working. Sorry. Well you're looking for that? You can play my Bloomberg guy. A UK Bloomberg guy came on the Charlie Rose show to talk about some of the effects of this vote one way or another. He still thinks there's a real possibility of Brexit

21:51 next week I think the United Kingdom could well split up you're probably gonna have to have the Scots say goodbye yeah the Scot the Scots will almost certainly vote to stay in it's possible, even if the whole thing votes to stay. And it's quite likely that the English will vote to go out so you're going have that schism re-emerges and the other thing which is sitting there in quite a big ways inside the European Union if Britain goes well then I think you begin to set off earthquakes where they are because you look at the Germans You look at them attitude they have Is their on one hand saying please stay to the British because they are deeply worried about a European Union that doesn't include another kind of reforming country within it. That sets them at loggerheads with the French, you've got the Dutch already talking about having a referendum if the British leave and so you have this possibility that the British leave

22:40 The United Kingdom comes apart and the European Union busts up. There I go, I'm scaremongering again." And the problem is that's been the difficulty of what seemed to be the fear factor. So they argue too much with the fear factor? Well, in some ways I've always thought that was legitimate. If you're the people arguing let's keep it how it is and think it's reasonable to point out that the other side has taken a huge step into the unknown and the markets show this – if you look at the market, the markets are the slightest sign of Britain leaving the European Union. The markets get very frightened Interesting. Yeah, that's true There was one little thing that Switzerland did ahead of the Brexit vote which I thought was interesting Switzerland is getting in on the act too clarifying its relationship with Europe a week ahead of the UK referendum on EU membership

CHAPTER 09 / 45 Discussion

Switzerland Withdraws European Economic Area Application

The Swiss Upper House of Parliament voted to officially withdraw its long-dormant 1992 application to join the European Economic Area (EEA). This move, occurring just a week before the UK's Brexit referendum, clarifies Switzerland's intent to remain outside the formal European single market structure.

switzerland· eea· brussels· european union· parliament

23:32 Never an EU member state, Switzerland has nonetheless officially withdrawn its long-dormant application to join the European Economic Area – the EEA – the precursor to the European Single Market. The Swiss Upper House of Parliament voted on Wednesday to cancel the process that started in 1992. It follows an earlier decision of the Lower House. The next step, the Swiss Foreign Minister told local media will be to officially inform Brussels that the application I find that interesting. I have no idea what's behind that, I didn't even know that was a long-standing application that was just lingering. I had no idea! Maybe it was just something laying around like hey whats this? Blow the dust off of it. Oh crap let's get rid of this. Hmm...I don't know Probably had some provisos that the Swiss didn't like they're pretty picky

24:35 Well, anyway so we have this happening this coming week and on Thursday. Yeah and it's supposed to rain on Thursday so the not a lot of people will come out of course let's see here is the looking for... A little fanatic soul came out Trying to find this poll what do we have now? I was like i can't find it that's odd I wonder if well anyway that way that you know kind of unofficial poll or vote works I think at a hundred thousand votes, then the government is obliged to discuss it in Parliament. Something like that so we'll see. Sadly it's just this what can you say about? I mean...I think this incident really pushed it over the edge and whether that was on purpose or whether they just took advantage of the situation which certainly looks like that but governments are don't care they don't mind killing people

CHAPTER 10 / 45 Discussion

European Terror Raids, UK Referendum Petition

Belgian police arrested 12 suspects in Molenbeek and other districts following threats against the Euro 2016 tournament. Simultaneously, a petition on the UK Parliament website to cancel the Brexit referendum reached over 46,000 signatures. The contrast between European tactical police responses and American law enforcement optics is noted.

belgium· france· molenbeek· isil· uk parliament

25:41 You don't know if it gets the means to an end. And she was kind of perfect as the example for it And wow, you know there's no gun laws in England and someone gets shot. That is astonishing to me! There are no gun laws but yet somebody ended up with a gun and then shot someone. I just want... these two clips have been keeping these clips for like a week. Just wanna play them one after another So we have a number of events that took place here in the United States Bad events Orlando certainly And I just want to play the difference in how it appears, the optics of France and Brussels two European countries who had horrible things happen. Let's listen to Belgium first. Three months after bombers caused carnage in Brussels in the name of political Islam Belgian police have arrested 12 suspects in a major overnight operation It is thought over security alerts linked to the Euro 2016 football tournament

26:42 Those detained were among 40 people taken in for questioning. The raids took place notably in the districts of Molenbeek, Schaarbeek and Foray three areas which those who planned the Brussels and Paris attacks had used as bases Belgian media suggests an attack was being planned in Brussels possibly on fan zones The government security council met this morning, including the ministers of defense justice home affairs and foreign affairs. Okay now listen to the French. French police have arrested three men in connection with the murder of a police officer and police secretary at their home near Paris. The arrests followed raids in a Parisian suburb where the killer, a self-confessed jihadist once lived

27:21 Larossi Abola pledged allegiance to ISIL in a video uploaded inside the victim's home before he was shot dead by officers. Jean-Baptiste Salvan and his partner Jessica Schneider were not the only targets, according to a list which included personalities and journalists found inside the house Reacting to the police killings, President François Hollande said France had mobilized considerable force against what he called the very substantial terrorist threat confronting the country in order, he said, to defend French principles and values but also to fight Islamic terrorism and fanaticism everywhere. Now in both those cases but certainly more with with the French

28:01 These guys, at least they give the optics. They're not messing around I mean they got their guys Their SWAT or whatever they're called and there you know they got the ski masks on and they're busting down doors And bringing up dragging people out none of that here No, none of any of that because it says Elio Gonzalez. Ha ha! Elion, Elion Gonzales That's right. That was the little Mexican no the Cuban kid was a Cuban guy is Cuban look and there wasn't Bill Clinton who had busted in with Going with a machine gun in this or with a with a tactical rifle in his face Yeah get out of here get out of you Oh here it is forty six thousand five hundred fourteen signatures so far It's uh

28:47 The URL to check this is petition.parliament.uk and then you can find it as the... And this is a petition to cancel the planned referendum. Government responds to all petitions that get more than 10,000 signatures at 100,000 signatures This petition will be considered for debate in Parliament which of course only means it will be considered for debate in Parliament but okay I'm sure if there's one hundred well It all depends. If they have the votes, why would they cancel it? No, they just keep on going. Keep on going. Which is... I'm happy that UK makes its own decisions. I'm sad for the show

CHAPTER 11 / 45 Discussion

CBS News AR-15 Purchase Report

A CBS News producer demonstrated the ease of purchasing an AR-15 in Virginia, completing the transaction in 38 minutes after a background check. The network faced criticism for immediately transferring the weapon to a licensed dealer rather than keeping it, which some viewed as a staged media stunt regarding the Second Amendment.

cbs news· ar-15· virginia· gun laws· background checks

29:26 Very yeah, that's very bad for the show. I'm incredibly sad for the show Well there'll be other things don't be other things my friend ah well you're on a subject of guns They do have a gun a couple gun clips that need to be this okay? I've been watching CBS more closely because of its it's known connection to certain intelligence agency and But so we have a... Ah, yes. I saw this story. There's a long report So they have- This is CBS buys a gun part one Don't play the two yet but CBS buys again that so CBS does the thing and it was like this It was like done by an eighth grader like Wow Did you know Adam? That you can buy You can actually go buy A gun?!

30:22 So they play this, play part one and I go... Let me guess. I can buy a gun because of the terrorist loophole perhaps? Is that where we're headed? No! Because no because of the Second Amendment makes it legal. Oh nos! ...including handguns and so-called assault rifles similar to those used in Orlando in San Bernardino A CBS News producer went to a gun store in Alexandria, just outside of Washington D.C.. I would like to buy an AR-15... Per Virginia law she provided a driver's license and voter ID card to prove residency as well as her passport to show U.S. citizenship She filled out these federal and state forms requiring her name date of birth social security number And a few basic questions about any past criminal activity or current restraining orders She also passed a brief electronic background check

31:09 38 minutes and $1,030 for her to walk out of the store legally armed with this rifle 100 rounds of ammunition and a 30 round magazine. Adam Winkler researches gun laws at UCLA well it seems so easy to get firearms because it is easy we have right to bear arms in this country and that means you have a right not only to have a gun but a right to go purchase one if you want to have one too. Virginia is one of 41 states with no waiting period beyond the background check Wow this is a stunning report! They really got into it You can walk into a gun store Yeah but I know what's going on here, I've seen this

31:50 So they go on and the kicker is the second part of this clip. So they continue with this report with people going, oh my god! You can actually buy a gun? What are we gonna do?! And so it's kind like an abortion thing. Yeah. It's all legal but no... We don't know what to- This is terrible! They're all wringing their hands about this whole thing and then they end it with THIS The gun we legally purchased was transferred to a federally licensed firearm dealer and weapons instructor according to Virginia law. Scott, the gun was only in our possession for a couple of hours. Chris Van Cleve for us. Chris thank you very much coming up. We don't actually have a gun! We're not bringing it back to the office

CHAPTER 12 / 45 Discussion

Social Media Disinformation, Assault Weapon Terminology

A viral Facebook post featuring a Vietnam veteran is criticized as disinformation for confusing fully automatic military weapons with civilian semi-automatic rifles. The post's use of the term "clip" instead of "magazine" is cited as evidence that the content was not authored by a military professional.

facebook· vietnam· m16· assault weapons· disinformation

32:38 This report was unbelievable to me. I know what's going on here now there is their advantages being taken of disinformation and i have an example which i picked up from the face bag which is pretty blatant as well confusing the term assault weapon or assault style weapon The confusion is between the capability of an assault-style weapon, which is legal to purchase and a fully automatic weapon. And this is something I saw on the face bag—and you'll see a lot of these now—it's a profile that has no posts except one

33:23 Or maybe, you know one when it was first created several years ago. And here is one from... It's like the Twitter guys who send us nasty notes and they have two followers. Very similar only this is real disinformation so here's how the format works you get a guy and he posts something if he's an older guy and you post something on his face bag and he posts a picture of himself in Vietnam with his weapon, which is nothing like the assault-style rifles we can purchase legally. And here's the text... and no military man would ever say this by the way I just can't believe it

34:00 45 years ago I was asked by the United States of America to fight for freedom in Vietnam. I was given an assault rifle that was designed to fire 20 bullets every 3 seconds, that's 400 bullets per minute with a large enough clip... he even says CLIP which is another thing no military person would say... to kill as many of the enemy as possible in his shortest period of time." Let's be real. This type of destruction has no place in our peacetime civilized society Please be honest ask yourself if you have the right to carry rocket-propelled grenades or an m60 machine gun Of course not so and please tell me why he should be allowed to own an assault rifle And it goes on, you know my take on this of course

CHAPTER 13 / 45 Discussion

Second Amendment History, Cassius Clay Cannon Anecdote

A historical anecdote features abolitionist Cassius Clay, who used a cannon to defend his home against pro-slavery posses in Kentucky. The discussion argues that the Second Amendment was intended to cover all "arms," including artillery and early rapid-fire designs like the Gatling gun, which was used against draft protesters in New York City.

cassius clay· abolitionist· gatling gun· second amendment· cannons

34:42 You should be allowed to carry a rocket propelled grenade. I agree! Let's go back to Cassius Clay, Henry Clay's brother in Kentucky who had a cannon in front of his house and he was a... put this in the context that it belongs. He was an abolitionist, he wanted to end slavery and there was a local town in Lexington apparently didn't like him for this they wanted to keep slavery so the sheriff kept trying to arrest them just screw with them as he kept his cannon in front of his place any fired at anytime these posse's would come into try to grab him

35:25 And he'd fire the cannon at them and they keep going. They kind of move away Yeah, they didn't you know do it's a thing about this is thing about cannons as their canons are menace to human life well, so He lived a long life and was a famous, you know abolitionist. And it all went well thanks to the Second Amendment! And whenever someone approaches me then it happens and says well you know when the second they had...they didn't know we'd have these weapons they had muskets okay let's do that but I do want to have access to all weapons or arms as they meant them then which includes a cannon. A cannon? And there's also in 17...it was like early 1720 or something

36:08 There was a guy who patented the design of what we later called the Gatling gun. You know, so just the argument doesn't hold true. Well if it does it's fine I'll take a cannon. The gatling gun was first used by the way...if anyone wants a little history lesson on Irish protesters at the beginning of the Civil War they didn't want to submit to the draft and they were protesting in front of New York City Hall I believe And they shot him up! And they took the Gatling gun and just gunned him down. Wow, dang! It was a test. Yeah. It's a test of the new weapon Anyway it's obvious what is going on here. Oh see maybe I had another funny thing because it all kind of ties into the Orlando shooting where a lot of these things came up Um...and I know we both did uh some work here and there let me see What is the fun thing to play? Ummm

37:06 Do you have anything more on guns or can we move? Can we move that's all I got okay. I just found that one report where they They're all it show We got a gun look at oh, we got to get well She got a gun she managed to buy a gun home my god what were gonna do with it Well don't shoot it Don't shoot it though. Oh, do you have to open? I don't want to look at it as the guy Let's sell it To a federal firearms license dealer yes quickly quickly yeah Okay So there's just a lot of noise in the ether about this. Just to be honest, it got really annoying to me I couldn't watch a lot of... It was rehashing going over and over and over again. I do have let me see Ah yeah this was a small

CHAPTER 14 / 45 Discussion

FDA Blood Donation Policy, HIV Medication Claims

The FDA's policy requiring a 12-month celibacy period for gay men to donate blood is criticized as discriminatory by media figures like Anderson Cooper. The discussion highlights the Red Cross's role as a for-profit clearinghouse for blood. Concerns are raised regarding the promotion of "PrEP" (Truvada) as a 100% effective preventative measure against HIV transmission.

fda· red cross· anderson cooper· truvada· hiv

37:56 Side story that popped up, and I think we should discuss it in this just in this context there is an FDA regulation that if you are if you Admit. I guess as or self proclaim yourself as male gay or bisexual It used to be you could not donate blood at all and They changed that in 2015, and you have to have been celibate for 12 months prior to donating blood as a gay or bisexual man —or any man who could've had homosexual relationships. And this came up with Anderson Cooper of course with the Sanjay Gupta

38:41 And there were just a couple things that are of interest here that we should note. You want to go, you wanna go help but that morning you find out... That you can't donate blood Correct There's a ban on men, gay men giving blood. It was just one of those... another shock to the system that day." Fortunately there was enough goodwill here in Orlando to keep up with the tremendous demand for blood but the inability people like Scott to donate has added insult injury. Now I mean i think the word would be you feel discriminated right? You go down there and your crying All of our friends are coming together at that moment because we just wanted to help. And then to be told you couldn't, because again it's the same thing we felt for the last few days Just because we love each other? Just because... We care for each other?! That we can't do this and it's infuriating It makes us want to stand up and scream from the mountaintops like Why is our blood not good enough Now

39:45 Yeah, now this is just a couple things on donating blood. It is a complete act of moral self-licensing if you... certainly if you understand how donating blood works when you donate blood in particular it all goes to the Red Cross and the Red Cross as the clearinghouse for blood donations they do not turn around and give that to the people who need blood at that very moment no they sell it So you give your blood, the Red Cross takes that blood. They store it they process do everything and they turn around and sell it to hospitals that need it just so you know. It's a complete act of moral self-licensing

40:29 any lack of blood. So it's something that makes people feel good and then when they can't do it, they feel really crappy I get it. They're saying if gay men are celibate for 12 months then they can give blood... And again from a medical standpoint- By the way its not what they say Anderson That is the law It is the rule according to the Food and Drug Administration. Doesn't seem to make sense. It doesn't make sense You heard from scientists there at Fenway Institute you hear from people at the Broad Institute in Massachusetts I think the science is going to eventually drive this. It's kind of remarkable, the FDA is a pretty conservative institution Does he mean conservative like Republican conservative?

41:11 Oh, that's a nice one to slip in. Because if he meant conservative as in they're careful, they're cautious but I think that's appropriate but... Yeah, that's what it would mean but this was used during a politically charged debate Exactly You use the word conservative is a propagandistic term Yes because its in a negative context to indicate Republican Science is gonna eventually drive this. It's kind of remarkable, the FDA I think is a pretty conservative institution. Right because even if somebody knows they're HIV positive and takes their medicine every day... Okay that is- now this is where Anderson Cooper needs to watch out He just said if they take their medicine everyday Do you know what he's talking about?

41:54 What are you talking about, the cocktail? Or what's he talking about? Prep. Prep. P-R-E-P This is the drug that has confused homosexuals men into believe and transsexuals I guess into believing that it is 100% effective against contracting AIDS or or passing it on. And it is not 100% effective, but the gay community which in this case I'm just talking about gay men and trans men to women they are all...they've been propagandized to believe this and it is very very dangerous! Here's Anderson Cooper propagating this saying well you know

42:49 If you take your medicine every day, God what an abuse of homosexuals in America. Take your medicine slave! It's not actually 100% safe it's called Truvada is the brand name. ...conservative institution... Even if somebody knows they're HIV positive and takes their medicine everyday the chance of them transmitting the virus to somebody else it almost non-existent studies that I've seen... Almost nonexistent... ...show that in serodiscordant couples somebody who's positive as long as they're taking their medicin as they should every day, there haven't been examples of them transmitting the virus to someone who's not positive. Right? I don't think there has been a case- I don't think there has been an example where it was transmitted that way. Except in studies where they actually showed there were cases! So the science hasn't really followed this particular thing...I think that this is more of a cultural sort of hangover from the 80s and maybe even early 90s. Oh jeez..okay well i'm worried for my gay brothers. Trying to kill us all those guys! I am worried for my gay brothers This is bad. This is very bad. This is not a fail safe thing

CHAPTER 15 / 45 Discussion

FBI Political Correctness, Loretta Lynch Hate Crime Investigations

Former FBI Assistant Director Jim Kallstrom claims that "political correctness" and White House orders have hampered the Bureau's ability to investigate radicalization in mosques. Attorney General Loretta Lynch confirms that the DOJ has conducted over 1,000 investigations into anti-Muslim rhetoric and bigoted actions over the last six years.

fbi· jim kallstrom· loretta lynch· white house· hate crimes

43:48 is just not. And anyway, okay now let's move into see what I pick up here this is... Okay we're going to talk about this unavoidable In contrast to Brussels and Paris, or Belgium and France I should say. We just don't see the same type of activity of law enforcement going after more and more people. Maybe it's impossible to find them? I don't know but we're not seeing the same type of activity as we see in Europe. And this is believed to be because of the politically correct nature

44:28 Well, listen to what this former FBI assistant director says. This is Jim Kallstrom. What's going on here? What's happening Jim? Why is the FBI not getting these guys even though they're on the radar? You know if you could wave a magic wand and say that you could do whatever you wanted to do Jim to better protect the citizens... We can never protect them all of time but there are some things I would do Get this wet blanket of political correctness off the backs of law enforcement Off the backs of the FBI You know, last time I was on with you Megan and I got about 35 calls from agents who are on the job now at different levels saying boy you hit the nail on the head. We are really... How? What's being done to them that corrals them? The rules of engagement

45:15 what the Bureau was being told about what they can do and what they can't do. They can't go sniffing around anything to do with Muslims, they can't go around to mosques, they can't do things that they would normally do I'm not talking things that are off the charts... I'm talking about things that normally would be done but the orders have come down from The White House The same people who took all of the language out of the training documents Ah you remember that? Who took all those uh- All the... The... Different descriptions of Muslims and Muslim extremists. They took all of that out, removed radical Islamist... All that language was taken out of the training manuals a while ago! A couple years ago maybe? Yeah, at least. Talking about things that normally would be done but the orders have come down from The White House The same people who took all the language out of the training documents And can't be used in any memoranda Those are the same people So they're worried about getting fired? The agents are petrified

46:13 Sure, just like the people are. The people didn't call in San Bernardino They didn't want to be looked upon right when the Attorney General of the United States I'm a we've been over this again But when she comes out and says look we're gonna prosecute people for saying certain things which is illegal Now but I forgot about this and then I Brought the clip back of when our attorney general Loretta Lynch who sometimes? Of course, you know has some gigs on the side as a country singer when she said the following. This is a country that's based on free speech, but when it edges towards violence, when we see the potential for someone lifting that mantle of anti-Muslim rhetoric or as we saw after 9 11 violence directed at individuals who may not even be Muslims but maybe perceived to be Muslims

47:03 And they will suffer just as well, just as much. When we see that, we will take action. I think we have charged 225 defendants with hate crimes offenses over the last six years most of those in the last three years Since 9-11 we've had over a thousand investigations into acts of anti Muslim hatred including rhetoric and bigoted actions They've been investigating and they have convictions. on anti-Muslim rhetoric. Yeah, rhetoric that would include a cartoon? Yes it would! Those in the last three years since 9 11 we've had over 1,000 investigations into acts of anti Muslim hatred including rhetoric and bigoted actions with with over 45 prosecutions arising out of that I think sadly that number is going to continue

48:02 I think it's important, however that as we again talk about the importance of free speech we make it clear that actions predicated on violent talk are not America. They're not who we are they're not what do and they will be prosecuted but they are pretty much legal she's hedging a little bit by saying actions predicated on rhetoric? Not quite sure what she means by that but What the result of this... He's gonna abuse the position. Yes, the result is that apparently law enforcement is worried about their...about messing it up and getting in trouble and maybe that's why we're not seeing the same type of activity we see with our law enforcement as we see in Europe here is Lynch

CHAPTER 16 / 45 Discussion

Muslim Community Outreach, Identity Politics Critique

Attorney General Loretta Lynch's emphasis on "reaching out to the Muslim community" is criticized as bigoted and exclusionary. The discussion argues that treating religious or sexual orientation groups as monolithic "communities" is a mechanism of social control that ignores internal diversity, such as the differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims.

loretta lynch· muslim community· lgbt· identity politics· sociology

48:54 Today with Dana Bash from CNN. I can tell you how we handle these investigations now. We handle these investigations by looking into anything, everything and everyone but that also includes reaching out to the Muslim community for information that they may have. Reaching out? Oh! Excuse me... Hi yes hi. I'm a law enforcement officer and i'm reaching out uh we're reaching out today in the neighborhood uh to see if uh you know if you heard anything here if you see something you might want to say something

49:41 Reaching out. That's what you did? We reached out, it was a phone call and you sent an email... Everything and everyone but that also includes reaching out to the Muslim community for information that they may have Many of the investigations that we do involving individuals who've been radicalized here or individuals that we learn have overseas, a lot of the information that we gain is from the Muslim community. And there's also... We have to stop with this community business. I'm totally in agreement with this because this Muslim community makes it sound like a separate entity within the country and it makes it sound like all Muslims are Muslims and as all equal no no no no no! In fact

50:24 is probably worse. Yeah, what she's saying is really incredibly bigoted. Yes! Thank you. She's saying the Muslim community just has some bad apples Yeah, she's you know or the good Muslim community is that separate from the bad Muslims? That's what she said. The good Muslims. It's very bigoted to do that and also it and we talked about this on Thursday the same there is no such thing as the LGBT community I'm sorry there's one thing They usually party at the same club. That's about it there is no cohesion between gay men lesbians transgenders that and Certainly, there's a lot of racism but someone sent me an email Let me see I see if I can find this email about the they have a slogan in in In well he's part of the male gay community as something like oh

51:23 It's very racist. No something, no spice... let me see if I can find this it was pretty funny. Nah can't find it anyway gay men themselves are not necessarily you know they're racists they don't all want to be just because someone is gay doesn't mean they want have sex with them and that can be done based on background religion race whatever But this community, stop already. There's no Muslim community there is no LGBT community which if you think it's inclusionary it's anything but, it's exclusionary. LGBT? Yeah what happened to Q or I or A or P all the important pieces of the acronym so this has to stop there is no such thing as a Muslim community It just doesn't exist

52:14 Because they're not all in agreement. We've got Wahhabis, we've got Shia, we've got Sunni... They don't all agree! They don't all get along. A lot of the information that we gain is from the Muslim community so what I would say is that certainly we investigate these cases aggressively no stone is left unturned there is no backing away from an issue there was no backing away from an interview because if anyone's background because for us the source of information is very, very important. And what I will say though is that it's very important for us to maintain our contacts within the Muslim community because often individuals if they're from that community and they are being radicalized their friends and family members will see at first They will see activity first and we want that information to come to us Yeah well... So reach out and touch someone See if they talk to you about it Very odd

53:08 Now, this is yeah. This is you know the thing about this community moniker is used as a mechanism of control because what you can do if you establish the idea of a community to an extreme that she's doing and then that means the community will have a spokesperson Yes, you can do that. This spokesperson now can represent the community even though everyone in the so-called community Which doesn't exist is saying this person doesn't speak but you see it all the time blacks constantly yeah Yeah, this person doesn't speak for me exactly I disagree with everything this person says and is Louis Farrakhan as he part of the Muslim community

CHAPTER 17 / 45 Discussion

CIA Director Brennan, ISIS Growth Assessment

CIA Director John Brennan testified before the Senate that ISIS remains a formidable global threat despite battlefield losses in Iraq and Syria. Brennan's assessment contradicted President Obama's more optimistic rhetoric, noting that ISIS's branch in Libya is the most dangerous and that the group's global reach has not been reduced.

john brennan· cia· isis· barack obama· libya

53:50 No. Come on, he's Muslim! He's part of the Muslim community! It's a different community to be marginalized. You know what you need for a community? A community organizer. There you go that's what you need. Oh we have one of those sorry yeah President. The interesting backdrop of all this taking place and the things the president was saying was almost simultaneously having the director of CIA Brennan, speaking on the Hill about the progress against ISIS-ISIL whatever you want to call them IS. This was handled in two different ways by different media. NBC. ISIS is bigger and more widespread than Al-Qaeda ever was, and isn't getting weaker according to an especially sober CIA assessment today Our efforts have not reduced the group's terrorism capability and global reach The CIA director also warned ISIS is now trying to stage its fighters into position

54:49 for more violence. ISIL is training and attempting to deploy operatives for further attacks. Militants may already be on the move." Okay, On the move! Now Fox and they played this on every show They did a beautiful thing Oh man it was so cool It's not accurate but at least they're doing an interesting piece of propaganda here They mixed together the presidents words the same day as the director of CIA's words about ISIS. Did you see this package they've been running? I know, I have not been watching. Be prepared to be- have your socks blown off! We've seen that this continues to be a difficult fight but we are making significant progress Despite all our progress against ISIL on the battlefield and in the financial realm Our efforts have not reduced the group's terrorism capability and global reach. ISIL ranks are shrinking as well their morale is

55:48 is sinking. The numbers of ISIL fighters now far exceeds what Al-Qaeda had at its height These are not religious warriors, they're thugs and they are thieves Again there are hardcore fighters, there's adherents As ISIL continues to lose territory it also continues to lose money that is lifeblood Yet, ISIL is adapting to coalition efforts and it continues to generate at least tens of millions of dollars in revenue per month. Beyond Syria and Iraq, ISIL is also losing ground in Libya The branch in Libya is probably the most developed and most dangerous. Wow! Fantastic That's unbelievable Great piece of propaganda And I would say the clip of the day as far as I know Thank you

56:35 Clip of the day. There's a clip that I have in the show notes, you can listen to the whole thing. But just listen...well not even but trust me in the beginning and it goes on for a couple of minutes he's kind of agreeing with the president but as you do when you're speaking in front of the Senate or Congress and well Congress of course more importantly when you're talking to people with money with their hand on the purse strings, you say, whoa we need more money! That's what he is there for but they only took the more money pitch

57:15 And not the... well listen to a little bit. ...of the terrorist threat our nation and citizens face, especially from the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Levant or ISIL on the battlefields of Syria in Iraq The US led coalition has made important progress against ISIL You say? The group appears to be a long way from realizing the vision that Abu Bakr al Baghdadi its leader laid out when he declared the caliphate two years ago in Mosul several notable indicators are trending in the right direction. He keeps going, he's very positive and pretty much nobody reported anything accurately about his speech but just like Brexit in the UK you know you just take something to mash it up and they played this over and over again every show had it

CHAPTER 18 / 45 Discussion

Abu Zubaydah Torture Report, CIA Declassified Documents

Declassified CIA documents reveal that Al-Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times, despite medical assessments suggesting he was cooperative before the "enhanced interrogation" began. The report highlights a request for legal immunity from Attorney General John Ashcroft and the use of private psychologists as consultants for the program.

abu zubaydah· cia· torture· waterboarding· aclu

58:03 Yeah, very smart. I couldn't pull anything down from that glad you did yeah? I was kind of concentrating on the kind of the gem And it was baffling to me for a while that the gem of the CIA They came out with some kind of a semi redacted report on the torture Okay, didn't see this yeah This was they played this to death and there was a long number of long reports of people talk about the CIA released a report in kind of admitting that this was torture and it's all because of this new guy who showed up, this character who apparently nobody even knew he was in prison. He was in some Polish blockup or someplace else. Zubada I think is his name? And so they found this guy

58:50 tortured more than anybody and all the reports say he was gonna give up everything he knew before they even started torturing but they did it anyway, it was just a bunch of sadists. So play this... This is at the beginning and then I want to go into describing what's really going on here The CIA Zubeda fiasco won And the CIA has just declassified documents from its so-called enhanced interrogation program This release was a response to a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union which claims that the CIA tortured suspects. Here's David Martin The heavily censored documents give a real-time look into what the CIA was thinking when it began waterboarding senior al Qaeda captives this is a train wreck waiting to happen one officer wrote announcing he was quitting the CIA

59:40 But director George Tenet assured the White House so-called enhanced interrogation techniques enabled CIA to disrupt terrorist plots, capture additional terrorists and collect critical intelligence on Al Qaeda. The first Al Qaeda prisoner to be waterboarder was Abu Zubaydah A draft memo shows that before the waterboarding began the CIA wanted Attorney General John Ashcroft to state in writing he would not prosecute anyone for what they were about to do And a cable from the secret prison where Abu Zubaydah was held said he must never be allowed to tell what happened. We need to get reasonable assurances that subject will remain in isolation and incommunicado for the remainder of his life."

1:00:27 Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 83 times, but an evaluation by the CIA's Office of Medical Services said AZ probably reached the point of cooperation even prior to the institution of enhanced measures. It goes on to discuss how it was a conflict of interest. They ended up throwing the psychologists under the bus, blaming them for the whole thing. You know what I find interesting about this is we are badasses! We're pretty much saying oh we're gonna beat the crap out of this guy until we get what we want and by the way will never let him talk about it

1:01:03 But we have to cover all that up and be quiet and ashamed of our practices. Well, that wasn't the point of this. The point of this was... And here's where I was baffled. The point of this seemed to me actually condemn the CIA a little bit for doing this because they talked about guys having to crap on themselves and pee on themselves and all the rest of it. They thought Bush would be a little embarrassed if this got out And then it was the psychologist who encourages their fault really, because they were making $1800 a day as consultants. And this thing went... This is a long report. I think I need some more study of the subject. So they needed another case in Margo and so it was a negative reaction and now I'm watching this but here's what I'm thinking. This is CBS. CBS is the conduit for CIA messaging

CHAPTER 19 / 45 Discussion

Media Framing of Torture, Trump vs. FBI

CBS News is accused of framing the CIA torture report as a preemptive strike against Donald Trump's campaign rhetoric. The discussion explores Trump's perceived alignment with the FBI over the CIA, citing his past business ties in New York and potential connections to the Gambino crime family as factors in his political positioning.

donald trump· cbs news· fbi· gambino crime family· cia

1:02:00 Now, why would they go and do that? And then they're the ones who emphasize this the most. That's the network that really took this on. So why would they... Yeah so why would they do something against the CIA if there are the CIA you know PR- And I realized that they had kind of set it up It wasn't about the CIA at all and in fact that so they brought in a little very crazy kind of I want to play the beginning again but I wanna move forward a little bit so the part I left out which is right at the beginning, which kind of tells me what this is really about. This is CIA torture two. Trump has advocated a return to waterboarding terror suspects and the CIA has just declassified documents from its so-called enhanced interrogation program. Okay... okay!

1:02:49 Now, so this was just an anti-Trump piece which CBS does in all kinds. This is a new type that they've done and it's beauty. It's beautiful! And the CIA... now we've established and I think convincingly that the CIA does not want Trump to be president and they're doing what they can to keep this from happening. I finally have to come to the conclusion Although I still think a deal can be done if Trump would go to Langley. But, I'm now thinking that... Why are they? What does Hillary bring to the party so much that they can't get out of Trump? There must be something about Trump we don't know about That these guys are just put their foot down Well, Trump is in an FBI camp We know this

1:03:40 That may be enough right there. I don't think so, i think that's not enough it's got to be more than that. You might be right if death is that petty then the country is doomed but... I'm hoping thats no all it is. He's in his FBI camp and you know the way I've been thinking about it No matter what happened, although man you can't say that there weren't a lot of cock-ups along the way or the system is clearly not fail safe and you just can't detect certain things.

1:04:17 But, you know it could also just be as simple as certainly the way Trump gave FBI a pass with oh they had a bad day. Are you kidding me? I mean he's against every single mistake government makes except the FBI no he is in with the FBI and that might be because of the Gambino connection. You know he has lot of ties to the Gambino crime family which are documented Construction business in New York City, Manhattan of all places. But you know what the big Gambino guy he was convicted on heroin trafficking so you take in the heroin coming from Mexico, The Wall, you can't smuggle it anymore You got a beautiful door ka-ching Ka-Ching I mean Trump could be completely on the let's get rich off of the heroin trade tip Could be! Someone has to be looking at us. None if would surprise me the way things are going Exactly

CHAPTER 20 / 45 Discussion

Tulsi Gabbard on Syria, State Department Dissent Memo

Representative Tulsi Gabbard criticizes a "dissent memo" signed by 51 State Department diplomats calling for military strikes against the Assad regime. Gabbard argues that overthrowing Assad would create a power vacuum benefiting ISIS and Al-Qaeda, drawing parallels to failed interventions in Iraq and Libya.

tulsi gabbard· syria· bashar al-assad· state department· hillary clinton

1:05:11 But whatever the case, when I heard this little thing and then they prefaced a story. They prefaced the story about Waterborne with Trump. What's Trump got to do with the story? Nothing! There was a lot of that going on. You know there is hope for this country and not for this election. There is a woman who I would love to have as my president And I've been a fan of hers for a long time and she came on the Broll show. Of course, I'm talking about Hawaii representative Tulsi Gabbard and this woman is good!

1:05:50 And she's better than any dude I've seen talking about what we should be doing with our country. She takes on, she is a Democrat and she takes on Hillary Clinton squarely in this interview with Rolf. Do you believe as an Iraq war veteran you have seen war up close to consider that recommendation from those 51 US career diplomatic professionals? We should probably just set that up at... Yeah, why don't we set that up first and then we'll get into Tulsa. That's probably better." This is a crazy thing that happened because who cares what 51...and who set them up? Was it the Clinton buddies or what's the deal? But there's a bunch of- Yes! And yes again, yes.

1:06:33 Well, there are a bunch of Clinton A-holes and they've come out. 51 diplomats out of the blue have come out and for all practical purposes have just said we've got to bomb Syria! Well no but the way it works is they have an electronic suggestion box apparently then if you put something in the suggestion box the rules are that you cannot be persecuted for that later on or by future... This is the overall clip as the State Department Diplomats want war. Yeah, you're playing that clip. Okay, hold on. Yeah here it is more than 50 State Department diplomats have called for US military strikes against the regime of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad saying Assad has repeatedly violated Syria's tenuous ceasefire in an internal State Department memo the diplomats argue for a sharp

1:07:26 departure from President Obama's policy on Syria, which includes targeting the self-proclaimed Islamic State but not the Assad regime. In the memo itself, however, the diplomats acknowledge the risks to increased U.S. military intervention, including the possibility of military confrontations with Russia, which is backing Assad. President Obama and his top military commanders meanwhile have raised concerns about the power vacuum that would emerge if Assad is removed. The memo comes as airstrikes on rebel-head sections of Aleppo forced the hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders to shut down Thursday. Aleppo residents also reported barrel bombs being dropped, meanwhile— Now again! —a federal judge has ruled against Texas allowing the federal government to resettle Syrian refugees there.

1:08:12 Hey, Texas. Oh I know! I'm getting my concealed carry this week you know get ready for the ISIS. I had a 17 second clip about this i'm not sure what it is... Big story this morning President Obama's policies in the Middle East coming under fire This time from diplomats at the State Department more than 50 diplomats have signed a memo urging the president to launch air strikes against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad Assad, claiming there has been little progress in five years of war. Okay now the logical thinking any person who thinks logically... The logical thinking on my part is that what's Obama putting up with this crap? He's getting thrown under the bus by Hillary. Well I would say it's a little worse if we're fighting the whole conversation sure has been about fighting ISIS ISIL IS dash whatever you want to call it

CHAPTER 21 / 45 Discussion

State Department Strategy, Assad and ISIS Symbiosis

State Department spokesperson John Kirby discusses the "symbiosis" between the Assad regime and Daesh, claiming Assad's brutality allows extremism to fester. The U.S. policy remains focused on a political transition that excludes Assad while attempting to keep Syrian government institutions and security forces intact to prevent total collapse.

john kirby· syria· daesh· bashar al-assad· russia

1:07:26 departure from President Obama's policy on Syria, which includes targeting the self-proclaimed Islamic State but not the Assad regime. In the memo itself, however, the diplomats acknowledge the risks to increased U.S. military intervention, including the possibility of military confrontations with Russia, which is backing Assad. President Obama and his top military commanders meanwhile have raised concerns about the power vacuum that would emerge if Assad is removed. The memo comes as airstrikes on rebel-head sections of Aleppo forced the hospital supported by Doctors Without Borders to shut down Thursday. Aleppo residents also reported barrel bombs being dropped, meanwhile— Now again! —a federal judge has ruled against Texas allowing the federal government to resettle Syrian refugees there.

1:08:12 Hey, Texas. Oh I know! I'm getting my concealed carry this week you know get ready for the ISIS. I had a 17 second clip about this i'm not sure what it is... Big story this morning President Obama's policies in the Middle East coming under fire This time from diplomats at the State Department more than 50 diplomats have signed a memo urging the president to launch air strikes against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad Assad, claiming there has been little progress in five years of war. Okay now the logical thinking any person who thinks logically... The logical thinking on my part is that what's Obama putting up with this crap? He's getting thrown under the bus by Hillary. Well I would say it's a little worse if we're fighting the whole conversation sure has been about fighting ISIS ISIL IS dash whatever you want to call it

1:09:02 If they're fighting Assad and we take out Assad, doesn't that remove the whole problem for ISIS? I'm just going by the narrative that's being brought to us. Well, that was actually suggested at the end of the Amy Goodman report. That's what Obama says. He says we do this and then give it over to ISIS. So let's ask the State Department. Kirby has asked his very question! The toppling of the Assad government benefit ISIS? That would be directly for the benefit of ISIS. I'm not going to speculate about what would or wouldn't benefit Daesh. Wait, wait and he says... He doesn't say ISIL ISIS just Daesh The question is ISIS, he says Daesh. I'm not going to speculate about what would or wouldn't benefit Daesh To some degree the Secretary has talked abou this there's a symbiosis between the Assad regime and Daesh And he said that many many times It is through Assad's brutality

1:10:03 I don't know what he's talking about. There is a symbiosis, he said. What? Symbiosis! Who has said this many times? The president has said this many times. I don't remember. He said that many times It is through Assad brutality that Daesh has been able to fester and grow into ungoverned spaces Okay so the thinking now just as I listen to this if you remove Assad then ISIL won't be angry anymore That's what I heard Yeah That's kind of what he is saying. Yeah, if you take Assad also... That solves the problem! That's the problem with these demanding societies. Birking them. Well let us see how the conversation unfolds. ...brutality that Daesh has been able to fester and grow into some ungoverned spaces. And one of things we have talked about

1:10:54 routinely. Although we haven't said it, we haven't talked about it recently is that we understand that while the future of Syria cannot include Bashar al-Assad... Wait! What do you mean you understand? This has never been understood. This is the main problem. No, while we understand that United States wants to get rid of him because it's Russia that were after... no this is not understood. There's sadly not a lot of questioning about that. While the future Syria cannot include Bashar al-Assad As we work through this political process to a transitional governing body, we recognize that some institutions of government – for instance the security forces in some form or fashion has gotta stay intact.

1:11:40 So that there isn't a complete collapse of an appropriate governing infrastructure inside the country. It reminds me of the neutron bomb, do you remember the neutron bomb John? This was going to be the future of war because it would kill the people but not the buildings Right I remember being freaked out as a kid about that. The neutron bomb is gonna kill, you're gonna be turned to dust You'd be pulverized. But the city's intact? Your house and your stuff would still be there Nice nice to know We'll probably stink to high heaven after awhile So, yeah that makes nothing but sense. Of an appropriate governing infrastructure inside the country as we work through this very difficult transitional process? If the Syrian government were to just immediately fall what would happen to Syrian Christians? What would happen to Syrian Alawites? Yes! Look I'm not going to engage in hypotheticals... Oh Bill you just engaged in a hypothetical! That's all he was talking about was hypotheticals

1:12:36 What a doof. But that at the end of that process gets us to a government that is put in place by the Syrian people with their voices being heard and it doesn't include Bashar al-Assad. Okay, so that is still the plan Rubble eyes get rid of him I caught something interesting on

CHAPTER 22 / 45 Discussion

ISIL Terminology, Middle East Regime Change Plan

The use of the term "ISIL" by the Obama administration is interpreted as a reference to the Levant, which includes Israel. General Wesley Clark's 2000s-era revelation of a Pentagon plan to take out seven countries in five years—including Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Iran—is cited as the underlying blueprint for current regional conflicts.

isil· levant· israel· wesley clark· hezbollah

1:13:12 Fox, Red Eye. It's a late-night show which is pretty unwatchable. Very unwatchable Yeah there was some woman on and the question came up because they played a clip of the president I don't know if i have it on this uh... on this clip where he's talking about ISIL And the President is pretty consistent saying ISIL, ISIL, ISIL, ISIL Although we say most people, the peeps in the land say ISIS and of course the elites say Daesh But this woman gave an explanation of why the president uses ISIL. Do you have any idea? Or, yeah, ISIL instead ISIS. Do you have any idea or guesses? Because he's a Muslim? Well, that could have something to do with it. He announced allegiance to ISIL It seems like it is a larger plot he has no connection? He's doing it in the name of ISIS! He says it on his 911 call so why even say that? That he's not really connected to ISIS when he obviously IS. I'm sorry I couldn't even focus on that No matter how many times Obama says ISIL we're all still calling him ISIS What does that mean? Is it just Israel

1:14:13 What is it? It's a diss to Israel because it's the Islamic State. uh... of the levant and that levant includes israel if you have a sonic state of iraq in syria doesn't include as well so i'm about does that it's deliberately i think address to israel saying you know your you're really on it's a lot more than just iraq and syria and include your character people are not part of the world who want to include israel yeah i was not going to do that or else yes there you go because he said i like it too we are makes a lot of sense It's great. Use the word diss, well there is that. But it's important you keep those guys on their toes hey you still want more billions for your iron dome rocket shield? You may wanna be nice to us and play along because I'll repeat it correctly Iran is funding Hezbollah in Lebanon and the rockets are gonna start coming from Lebanon

1:15:06 We had a Lebanese listener, producer-listener complain about that commentary from you and wanted us to correct it because he says us Lebanese we got nothing. We can't do, there's nothing going on here. We can't fight these Hezbollah guys because we're just weak and you made it sound as though Lebanon is gonna attack Israel." No that's not true. Yeah I'll have to note here but i'd like to point out that in your toxic masculinity episode you mentioned that Lebanon is getting ready to bomb Israel but that's a problematic statement. Lebanon and its symbolic army has no means to bomb Israel, it's Hezbollah

1:15:45 initiating attacks or retaliating, they do not represent Lebanon. They are simply much more powerful than the Lebanese army and Lebanon cannot do anything about them." It hurts Lebanon's very shaky reputation to claim it is the country carrying out attacks. It would be awesome if you could somehow correct that so people always hear everything I may not have mentioned Hezbollah by name but the end result... You did mention Iran, I know that Yes The end result is That's why this all had to be secret. That was the point of the discussion because that's how Hillary got her head bumped Exactly and just to remind everybody why Lebanon is of importance, this is the clip from General Wesley Clark From the early 2000s after the 9-11 attack And he is explaining what the plan was in the coming five years which has obviously taken somewhat longer But we're getting there So I came back to see him a few weeks later

1:16:37 And by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, are we still going to war with Iraq? He said oh it's worse than that! He reached over on his desk and picked up a piece of paper and he said... ...I just got this down from upstairs meeting the Secretary of Defense office today This is a memo that describes how we're gonna take out seven countries in five years Starting with Iraq then Syria Lebanon Libya Somalia Sudan and finishing off Iran So that makes nothing but sense. Nothing but sense, then we can go into Lebanon because hey you're terrorists! We got to go... Then we'll be all over protecting Israel after we let it happen

CHAPTER 23 / 45 Discussion

Third Party Politics, Gary Johnson and Tulsi Gabbard

The obstacles facing third-party candidates are discussed, specifically the FEC rule requiring 15% polling for debate inclusion. While Gary Johnson's Libertarian run is noted, Representative Tulsi Gabbard is praised for her anti-interventionist stance, with one host pledging to vote for her regardless of her party affiliation.

gary johnson· libertarian party· tulsi gabbard· ross perot· fec

1:17:16 Then we have everything. We have Syria because we're gonna, you know... We're not going to get Syria that easily with the Russians. No! We are not. Now then back to finally end around and I'll end the topic for me on this Tulsi Gabbard. I really like her. I like what she's saying Yes She is also hot And she's a Democrat. It's sad that, you know... because I can't vote for anyone now. People ask me this why? You should take a look at Joni Ernst although she doesn't get as much from them. No, don't take a look. Does it? I just wanted to mention one thing people say why are you do only vote independent Why won't you vote for Gary Johnson and I voted for him when he was independent but now he's part of the Libertarian Party

1:17:59 the party system. And I certainly don't, I do not appreciate President Obama talking about the two-party system which the entire world believes we have a two party system and last...no was it Thursday night? Thursday no Friday night! We went out some of Tina's colleagues and you know just talking about some of this stuff and people have no idea why You know, the debates are only between Republicans and Democrats except for once in recent memory with Ross Perot. And the reason is the Federal Election Committee which is comprised of Democrats and Republicans they determine the television debates not the election committee debate committee They determined the debates and they have some odd rule It says you can only be in the general election debate if you have polled 15% In at least, you know it's like five major polls or something like that

1:18:53 And so when I vote independent, it's to keep the independence able to run. If no one is voting for the independence pretty soon yeah we will have a two-party system and that's why I vote independent." Well I want to correct something you said okay? When Gary Johnson ran last time he ran as a libertarian are you sure? Yep! I'm absolutely positive And you can look at it. Well, that totally breaks my theory but that's... Yeah well no, it breaks your assertion I didn't have a theory Why did I think he was independent? You finished with the theory but then it doesn't yeah It just we were wrong about Gary Johnson

1:19:31 In fact, Gary Johnson's thing was as a Libertarian he wanted to get one million votes to show that you could get a lot of votes into it in the third party and he got almost two million votes. I wouldn't vote for Gary Johnson because I started seeing him use... For one thing is I think he has been smoking too much pot during the day and just looks stoned all the time. Second thing is he brings out the racist... Oh he's a racist! He's got a bad strategy And so that's a yeah, it's dumb. And he's not positive what see what's he for? I don't know well since i've broken my rule in the past then should this

1:20:09 person ever run for president, I will vote for her no matter what party she's in. Do you believe as an Iraq war veteran you've seen war up close to consider that recommendation from those 51 US career diplomatic professionals? No what they're proposing exactly the wrong thing to do Why Because it would escalate the current war The illegal counterproductive war that the U.S is waging to overthrow the Syrian government of Assad. It's something that Secretary Clinton is proposing, that she would do as commander-in-chief as president which was implement a no fly zone which essentially would worsen the humanitarian crisis it would escalate this war worse in the refugee crisis and it would take us directly into a violent conflict with Russia the other nuclear power in the world

1:20:58 We've got to learn from the past, Wolf. And this is what's most important here—nothing appears to have been learned from Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein and the failure of that country that came after them, the strengthening of al-Qaeda and ISIS. No one appears to have learned from what happened in Libya with the overthrow of Gaddafi. We just had the CIA director testify yesterday that ISIS' strongest and most dangerous foothold exists in Libya—failed nation. tremendous loss of life, and now ISIS stronger there today. What we will see in Syria if this escalation were allowed to occur—if we continue down the path that we're on would be that same outcome. Stronger ISIS, stronger al-Qaeda greater threat to the region and to the world what to speak of the worsened humanitarian refugee crisis and genocide that would come about as a result of that? Good to be here, both! There you go, Tulsi Gabbard

CHAPTER 24 / 45 Discussion

No Agenda Episode 834 Recap, Jo Cox News Lag

The hosts address listener complaints about not covering the Jo Cox murder in real-time during the previous episode, citing the high signal-to-noise ratio in the chat room. Credit is given to Scuba Steve for the "Toxic Masculinity" artwork for episode 834, which featured an FBI and Facebook-themed design.

no agenda· scuba steve· toxic masculinity· jo cox· signal-to-noise

1:21:53 Shining light. Yeah, but I think Tulsi's unaware of that that's exactly what they want What the Kagans want this is a whole strategy? Yes That's correct But whether she's aware or not at least she sees the bullcrap for what it is and the wrong of it Yeah Well, she does see that I agree Okay, well with that I'd like to Yeah, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you John see where the sea stands for career podcaster Devorah Well in the morning to you mr. Adam Curry also in the morning all ships of seaboots on the ground feeding their subs In the water and all the names are nights out there in the morning their chat room No agenda stream calm a word of note a lot of people were the protrubed

1:22:40 that we didn't notice them screaming in the chat room that, you know... The British politician was shot during or murdered during our previous show. And just have to understand it's signal-to-noise ratio okay? When you're sitting in there talking false flag this false flag that I don't...I tune out so you're not helping but Scuba Steve did a good job helping he brought us the artwork for episode number 834 and what let me see What was that artwork? Yeah, I remember us liking it. The title of course was Toxic Masculinity and the artwork was... Oh yeah! It was the FBI with a Facebook F. With an F as in Facebook F. Very simple, it's all you need is good very funny refers to parts of this show also refers some sort of sick reality that we're living in. Reality is exactly that

CHAPTER 25 / 45 Discussion

Executive Producer Donations, Lowenbrau Beer History

Top donors Stephen LaParo, Sarah Christensen, and Hans Christiansen are thanked for their $1,000 contributions. A tangent explores the history of Lowenbrau beer in the U.S., detailing how Anheuser-Busch licensed the brand but ignored the German brewmasters' methods, resulting in a product that tasted like Budweiser.

stephen laparo· cleveland· lowenbrau· anheuser-busch· knighthood

1:23:35 So at the beginning of every episode, or kind of in the first hour we like to thank the top donors for each individual program. The only way this show works is through your support It's not just finances but it's a tonne of things people do producing stuff sending stuff in giving us information But just like Hollywood wanted make sure that people who are truly executive producers and associate executive producers based upon their contribution Just like our artists get a credit that we thank them at the top of the show So we do have three instant nights which took the show to a nice height. I want to thank them, to begin with starting with Stephen LaParo and there's actually a couple of random number things going on here too which i thought was interesting. Stephen LaParo in Cleveland Ohio tops the list with $1,000 and he says notes going to Adams email Yes! I have it. As is known The Cleveland Berserker woke up from amnesia know exactly who I am now

1:24:33 Praise the Lord it's Father's Day, so I'm going to keep it civilized. I can't promise It'll be PG the whole way or not didn't realize we were all smack dab in the middle of purgatory And I got to lead this mess well I'm a knight of the no agenda roundtable as well too now, huh? Well bub i'd say i'll deserve my knighting in person if we make it out Of this and give these weaklings what they deserve. I'm ready to go out fighting until they take my life It's not my intention to turn to violence. I am certainly capable of doing what needs to be done These people are demented guess i'll match them. I've seen enough of that in this lifetime though I need love and sleep and happiness. I'm hurting inside. I want peace and to heal it's been all

1:25:08 It's been an eventful past month to say the least. Haven't had much sleep in the past three days, ten hours or so." My dad keeps telling me to slow down it's just not my persona. Been this way since I was a kid. So all of you out there happy Father's Day from the bottom of my heart! I too wish to have sons and daughters and learn what it is like to discover true love again," And then he goes on a little bit but does end his note I neglected you early on and want to say, I truly regret not donating giving back to your efforts. I'm working tornado clawing my way through information and putting together my masterpiece." And i believe his masterpiece is about the corruption of the calves in The Warriors game. Did you receive it? It's pretty good! It's very detailed. I haven't seen it... I'm going to send that to you if you see what you wanted to do with it because it's not my beat obviously

1:26:00 You may want to read that. So he said, I want to say a short sweet praise the Holy Father and the Divine Mother Christ help us God bless you all your friend always The Cleveland Berserker Well it gives an item as such we certainly will give him some karma He certainly wants it. You've got karma call that sleep Karma Get get yeah get some rest Please. Sarah Christensen in Brookfield, Wisconsin $1,000 the knighthood is actually for my husband Jason Owens. Take a note of that I would believe he would like to be known as Sir Lowbrow spelled L-O-W-E-B-R-A-U She's not low and brow? Well she said parents she says lowbrow Okay

1:26:47 So I think it means lowbrow even though she put an N in there would be the beer. The long story about the beer So Lohenbrau, I don't even know if it's available anymore but it was a German beer that was licensed by... This is sidebar. This beer was Lohenbrau years and year ago. Let It Be Lohenbrau. So Anheuser-Busch before they were owned by the Belgians, Anheuser-Busch decided to buy Lohenbrau to sell as premium beer one step above Michelob and so they're gonna sell this premium beer

1:27:24 And so they do the deal, they buy the brewery at least a license for the United States and the Lone Brow people. This is an industry story that floated around. The Lone Brow people come over and go to Anheuser-Busch and say we've got our brewmaster, we've got everybody here you need, we'll show you how to make the beer just the way it should be made. And the Anheuser-Busch people say now you can go, we know how to make beer Yeah, we just saw the beer for the brand. That's all we want. Just the bear tasted just like Budweiser. No doubt on a market for a little while and then it dropped out anyways. OK so that's Sir Low low in brow and low brow I'm making him part of the nobility the old fashioned way buying it. Yeah keep up the good work he made at convert out of me well that's nice

1:28:17 And then our third, and coincidentally with a similar last name, Christian Sarah Christensen and Hans Christiansen. Talk about your random number theory there! Talk about your random number theory both in for $1000 Hans, I looked up Christiansen. I looked up Hans. I looked up his email address that i got from PayPal. I couldn't find a note from him so if he has something to tell us we'll give actually Sarah and Hans combined karma would be a good idea. Absolutely! You've got karma Onward to Sir Roy of Ancona, $334. And he sent a note in and he was... He sent a check with the note that he is the Baron of... Oops let me make glasses. The Baron of Treasure Coast Omar Mateen had a Florida armed security guard license This means he had passed two separate security checks and was authorized to purchase firearms without the usual waiting period

CHAPTER 26 / 45 Discussion

Associate Executive Producer Credits, No Agenda Books

Donors are recognized for their financial support, including Sir Roy of Ancona and Tina Weissman. The hosts discuss the status of "No Agenda Books" and the need to reactivate the show's sticker website. A note from Sir Roy highlights that Omar Mateen held a Florida armed security guard license, allowing him to bypass gun waiting periods.

omar mateen· florida· no agenda books· stickers· kurt weissman

1:29:20 Also, it means he demonstrated firearms proficiency annually to include a rapid reloading. Had the FBI been suspicious of him one would think they would not have permitted him to walk about wearing a pistol." Okay? That is Sir Roy of Ancona Baron of the Treasure Coast's commentary! All right we'll give him a karma. You've got karma Anonymous in Temple Terrace, Florida $333.33 It's time for my yearly donation Thanks for all the work you put into the show last episode was absolutely dynamite by the way Thank You

1:29:59 I do a lot of driving and the days i can listen to no agenda go by those days go by much faster. I miss hearing second half of show stories like the earthquake machine but, I can see that there just isn't enough time for those anymore oh they're always around Just wanting to let you know that there are crackpots out there like me who still get a kick out of that stuff Can you please play The have more kale clip and a Trump bing-bing-bong-bong cheers I'm trying to think the trump being Bing Bong Bong which we have so many of these. I don't know which one you want short one just the bing-bing-bong-bong or is it

1:30:39 Let's see, we got a short one. Yeah I guess we'll do this. So have more tail Have more tail Have more tail Have more tail Have more tail Have more tail You will obey You will obey You will obey You will obey You will obey You will obey Have more tail Bing bing bong bong bing bing bing You've got karma Oh no! I got it! That's the one. Nailed it That was anonymous. Sean Modal from Mineola, Florida came in with 333-33 and he sent a email in greetings from Central Florida spent a rough week

1:31:25 Here yeah, I've been listening since show 800 so I figured it's time to catch up my friend Andrew hit me in the mouth back then so credit to him. I've been spreading the word regularly and managed to score at least one regular listener I know my brother-in-law would love your show when I told him about it He said he's been listening since show 100 oh and something ends or something like that without contributing Douchebagging now got you Happy Father's Day to my dad Jim. I keep punching him in the mouth Maybe I'll get him to listen to this episode anyway, I need a de-douching and of course Thanks for the best podcast in the universe please send some job karma to my friends and myself It's always it can always be better keep with the great works

1:32:11 greatly appreciated. Dame Bangbang, $333.33 she sent a handwritten note bless me podfather and JCD for it has been six months since my last donation You please accept this humble payment as penance for my sins and also five Hail Marys I would like... Five in the mornings, i think is what it is. Yes! I would like to wish Sir DH Slammer a happy birthday on June 18th Do we have him on the list? I'm gonna check That's the one that I missed And Happy Father's Day To DH Slammer Plus play Dude Named Ben and 69 Jingles From My

1:33:12 Baron for my baron. I also request a job and moving karma for us Okay, little subject name bang-bang that are in that test of the central coast since they don't have it written down Give it to me again the sequences she wants she was a dude named Ben Mm-hmm is always a goodie yeah 69 yeah and Just end job move job karma and job karma okay? crazy 69 D9 dudes! Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs! Wow kudos to you for coming up with the 69-69 that dude thing

1:34:08 Tina Weissman comes in as the only associate executive producer for this show. She sent an email. I think if you're the only associate executive producer, you should get some kind of award! Well she's getting her note read. There ya go. My husband and I have donated $200 to the show today in honor of our human resource Kurt Weissman, pronounced Wise-men. Kurt Wiseman's birthday. An aspiring knight he has hit both his parents in the mouth and we're grateful thanks to both... So let me get this straight Okay, is Kurt's kid's name this Kurt? Well I think it sounds like the child to keep Kurt whose also got the birthday. Oh anyway that was read out okay i'm just gonna keep reading and get us both in the mouth and we're grateful thanks To both of you for your diligent work and finding the truth at all Murky in the murkiness of the media John I've been an ardent fan of yours since cranky geeks day Please know that your book recommendations are appreciated

1:35:10 I'm currently reading Family of Secrets that you mentioned on the No Agenda episode. Actually, Adam is the one who came up with that one but there used to be and i think there still is a No Agenda... It's noagendabooks.com and it's still active Yeah go to No Agenda books and there are all kinds of good stuff in them The thing that's no longer active that I'd love to see reactivated is noagendastickers.com Particularly John our listeners who we would categorize by age in the millennial genre they love stickers They love stickers. Yeah, you know this is annoying to me because I know you're 100% correct and the stickers thing has lapsed and I think I'm considering myself partially responsible for it. Well noagendastickers.com is now a Chinese porn site

1:35:51 Well, that's a plus. We see it as a bonus actually! My husband and I both look forward to more No Agenda Insight and that is sufficient for us. I'd like to make Kurt an associate producer of course. Of course That would probably be the best gift i could think off Carry on! I'll give him some karma Was there any request? Or was that just... And I guess its Tom Wiseman birthday I believe I have a Weissman. No, wait a minute. You have Kurt? Yeah, no it is Kurt. It's Kurt's birthday. So Tom is the dad and Kurt's the son and Tom gets to be father. Gotcha. Alright any requests or just karma for him? That all she said was karma. Okay. You've got Karma Now you do have a make good. Uh oh. One of those requests. I'm going to read this note This is someone who sent in a bunch of money

CHAPTER 27 / 45 Discussion

Listener Feedback, Production Techniques, Hillary Soundbites

A donor's note accuses the hosts of "Trump-pumping," which they deny, claiming they only highlight media bias against him. The technical production of the show is described as a "one-man band" operation using foot pedals for muting. The segment concludes with requested soundbites of Hillary Clinton.

trump-pumping· production· hillary clinton· one-man band· audio engineering

1:36:43 I think it was a 271. They got listed already, but they need this note and this is Andrew Ward to future Sir Luna Latique de la Fringe. First of all, I've been listening for awhile my first donation. A good douching. I think it's a de-douching. You've been de-douched! No one wants a good douching, really. I have heard you guys said that you think you lost some donations because of perceived pro Trump bias. I sincerely hope my contribution helps to compensate in small way for this disturbing trend In fact, they love your pro Trump pieces We do not do pro Trump pieces. Yeah we just show how they're picking on him

1:37:27 I haven't missed a show since you guys became a couple of unabashedly, unapologetically and unreservedly Trump-pumping podcast maniacs. Again! You're not helping! In fact the only reason that I contributed at all is because you both drank the Kool Aid and jumped aboard...I see he's giving us crap. Yes exactly Okay I get it I come to know agenda from the tech industry and tech TV so i heard about JCD in his appearances on twit. In fact, they originally thought twit along with writing were as main gigs no agenda was just some hobby since twit morphed into the gadget show I stopped listening and tried out NA instead it realized my misconception quickly became hooked

1:38:08 DH unplugged too. I knew of Adam from the Headbangers Ball, sorry Adam! I know there have been much more that you've done than that but it's been fun hearing what has become of my favorite VJ. Noah Jenner is both as a news aggregator like Drudge and an illuminating source of commentary. The production is amazing I thought I'd read this note just so you could hear that. Adam does not get enough credit for his production, he has no idea... He's got four arms! What I like is the thing that irks me really and one of our knights emailed me said was so disappointed that it still going on this stupid conversation You didn't notice the chat room? Do you know what i do?! Do you know what I do!? You think this thing rides itself??

1:38:55 Where, you know like there's some army of people inserting clips after the fact I'm doing all the processing and then no. No! This is all real time people Yeah it's real time but in fact i have uh- I am- We're done with this show The show goes to tape we're done The only thing that I don't use for anything other than standing Is my left leg My right leg has a mute button There we go. See that's how it works uses his legs Yes, have you ever anybody out there ever seen a really good one man band where the guys got this? He's got a bunch of shit hanging on him is yeah Yeah, and he's skinny squeezing his armpits and it makes a noise That's Adam. Yeah, that's I'm that guy

1:39:33 I'm a guy and it's like, so you get some sort of buzz off of it. No but that's what I am doing! So yeah thank you The production is amazing You have complimentary senses of humor And JCD has some of the best one-liners in the business Especially the ones he mumbles They have to rewind Those are good I agree Will you please play Clinton It's just too delicious To believe my friend Please don't eat me Hillary Tudor the head and kids cheering so I don't know if we have that separate. Oh my second It's too we want to delicious Hey, hold on a second it's is it delicious Is that what she says do delicious to believe my friend? Yeah That's Hillary yes well for some reason then the little girl Don't eat me Hilary and then tutor they had in kids cheering this is the oddest thing oh here. It is okay, so

1:40:33 I'm sorry. Okay, Hillary delicious then what was the next one? Don't eat me Hillary! Okay all right and then two to the head yeah and then kids cheering which i don't think we have a separate Yeah we do okay good yeah of course it's almost too delicious to believe my friend Eat Me Hillary Clinton I don't think there's any complaints all right all right so that concludes our donation segment for show 835 i believe that's correct and we want to remind people do another show coming up and it's going to be on thursday and it will be let me think

1:41:20 It'll be Brexit day, isn't Thursday? It will be a special celebration of nothing to happen. We'll celebrate nothing happening yes okay so devorek.org slash na please and remember these are real credits So just like Hollywood you can take your executive producer credit or associate executive producer credit displayed proudly there wherever credits will make a difference Do you LinkedIn seems to make some form of difference? Oh, hey. I wanted to mention... was it on Thursday that I played the clip of the Dalai Lama?

CHAPTER 28 / 45 Discussion

Dalai Lama Meeting, Apple Patent Dispute in China

Following President Obama's meeting with the Dalai Lama, China reportedly retaliated by initiating a patent dispute against Apple, threatening iPhone sales in Beijing. The hosts connect these events, noting that Apple's stock dropped 2% and impacted the broader S&P 500, illustrating China's leverage over American tech companies.

dalai lama· barack obama· apple· china· iphone· patent dispute

1:40:33 I'm sorry. Okay, Hillary delicious then what was the next one? Don't eat me Hillary! Okay all right and then two to the head yeah and then kids cheering which i don't think we have a separate Yeah we do okay good yeah of course it's almost too delicious to believe my friend Eat Me Hillary Clinton I don't think there's any complaints all right all right so that concludes our donation segment for show 835 i believe that's correct and we want to remind people do another show coming up and it's going to be on thursday and it will be let me think

1:41:20 It'll be Brexit day, isn't Thursday? It will be a special celebration of nothing to happen. We'll celebrate nothing happening yes okay so devorek.org slash na please and remember these are real credits So just like Hollywood you can take your executive producer credit or associate executive producer credit displayed proudly there wherever credits will make a difference Do you LinkedIn seems to make some form of difference? Oh, hey. I wanted to mention... was it on Thursday that I played the clip of the Dalai Lama?

1:42:19 about Obama meeting with the... Right, secret meeting. Oh actually I have it here listen to that again President Obama met with the Dalai Lama today despite China's warnings that it would damage US-Chinese ties Beijing accuses the spiritual leader of Tibet's Buddhists of campaigning to split the region from China The White House released a photo of the meeting but allowed no other coverage I don't want to put this in the category you'd expect to have this news, but I think the Chinese already retaliated and... ...I think i'm the only one to connect it. I may be crazy which is of course always debatable The next day China said Oh Apple there's a patent dispute no sales at the iPhone here Which brought down the whole stock market Yes It did And I'm thinking that because really? No sales in China Because of a patent dispute

1:43:17 Yeah, of all things actually very ironic if you start to really think about it Wow I think you nailed it. I mean that to me only one who's put two and two together That seems to an apple was down 2% That's you know that's a lot for Apple It hurt the S&P of course and brought the whole market down yeah points yeah I'm in I admire what you've done there well. Thank you. I think you did are you might be right? They made a threat and they followed through. They did, and what could be next? I think it'll end in months from now that we let them go back because the public loves the Apple stuff. Oh yeah they want Stanford of course. They're all you know mind-controlled but yes i found that to me obvious. I just went oh! I was kind of looking forward of course because no one else knew about this do you think Wall Street knew that uh... That The President was meeting with the Dalai Lama? This is the reason why we do this show

1:44:16 I think people out there when you just heard what you just heard, nobody even thought to put two and two together like that. But why else would they do it? When the story first popped up—I wasn't thinking of Dalai Lama—but when the story first popped up, I thought it was screwy. The Germans are talking about it on Deutsche Welle but Apple products in China... They did warn us that's going to disturb relations Who knew it was about Apple? They know where the action is. China for Apple, and I'm not an analyst but I know that China for Apple is their future without China no one believes they have products we know that Moore's law has broken so its limited as to what we can do except less power consumption things have to be smaller

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Moore's Law, Apple Laptop Power Limitations

Discussion centers on the stagnation of laptop performance as Moore's Law reaches its physical limits. A host shares an anecdote about a son's company considering a switch to Windows laptops because new Apple hardware lacks significant power upgrades. A humorous story follows regarding a Dell laptop disguised with an Apple sticker.

moore's law· apple· macbook· dell· stickers

1:45:07 I don't know. That to me... My son was complaining about this. About Moore's Law? No, not specifically but he was complaining that his company that he works at they are going through a turnover the time to buy new laptops And he says everybody's grousing about they can't, they were expecting the Apple to do something with their laptops because there are upgrades of all their laptops have no more power. In fact in one instance he says this is actually less power because it some other overhead in the laptop so what are you going to turn a more powerful laptop for something that has less power and there's no apparent upgrade or something more powerful? I don't understand their vision at all

1:45:52 I don't understand what their vision is. This Moore's law thing they're looking and going my god We can't really there's nothing to do here where the dead end well this you know? I don't know what they're thinking either because this is crazy because these companies like his operation that's oh, I Know why he can't think of a name but it's coming to TG as one those coding schools and They're all annoyed. In fact, he says he may be going to a Windows laptop. Really? You know these kids they don't like you know the Millennials huh hmm well if we give them some stickers and put that in the laptop they won't care actually great laptops my daughter has she's got a Dell laptop yeah it's got a big Apple on the back of an apple sticker over the Dell logo that's good night and I see the thing sitting there and i'm going and it was black and i'm thinking

1:46:44 When did Apple come up with a new black computer? I said, where'd you get this apple? Yeah it's great. Tell me about the sticker. Stickers. Ah, felt like an idiot. Someone needs to get on the sticker tip for us please. We need stickers. We sure do. Anyway we got uh...the first legal non-binary person in the United States Yes yeah Pat i think is her name No Jamie It's even better Jamie Shoup becomes first legally non-binary person in the United States. Yeah? Outstanding! You can be anything in America, it's true. It was a great country. You can be anything you want to be an American. Well I think this is part of the American dream big time So Putin was on the... Yeah Putin yeah see you got clips and I got clip too

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Putin at St. Petersburg International Economic Forum

Vladimir Putin appeared at a forum moderated by Fareed Zakaria, where he questioned the continued purpose of NATO, suggesting it exists only to justify an external enemy. Putin argued that Western sanctions are hurting Europe more than the United States or Russia, and criticized the 2014 "coup" in Ukraine.

vladimir putin· fareed zakaria· nato· ukraine· sanctions

1:47:36 Putin was on... Excuse me, it's Poo-tin. Poo-in. He was on a Q&A thing that was being done as a big one and they have the Russian events when they have these big conferences are very pretty they got some good taste running these things. Hold on a second! A couple of things let's talk about this setup there on stage then it's Zakaria it is Renzi I think Zakaria is a lizard He looks like a lizard. He's got a square head, like really square head and it looks like his tongue goes in and out of... he just doesn't look right that guy Well first of all he is plagiarist We haven't forgotten we haven't forgotten this plagiarism And how hard is to write? As someone who writes for living

1:48:25 or has written for a living. It's not that hard to write. Yeah, the copy-paste thing is a little old... it was what you do in college. So he... I mean if you have anything to say here... And he's against the Constitution? He's many times said the Constitution is an outdated old document. Don't like that guy. Got to go! Don't like the guy so... Poohin's in the middle on the other side is Italian Prime Minister Renzi

1:49:04 Then there's Zakaria and Poon. Now, a couple of things about this the translators were very good in my clips I actually cut down because they like putting it you know you they leave in the bits where he is listening so I chopped some that out to make go bit faster but The shot of Poon This close-up shot and his voice and the audio I thought was incredibly important for the commandeeringness of A man speaking in a different language The translation came in at the right time. It was probably the best I've ever seen when it comes to an interview with Putin, Poon. It was good and points are well made they left a laughter in because he gets big laughs that guy. He does yeah! And there were just a few questions that they ran on RT where they asked... They didn't keep it into long boring segment. They let.. They just had it... It was punched up so they just had the question on the screen

1:50:01 And then they let Putin say something and then they killed him. If you want to try one of my clips to see how they compared yours? Yeah, what do you wanna try first? Well I think the first one he's asked a question about what... What do you think about what is going on in Ukraine? Is it a... It's just some vague question and here is what he says. Most likely, the opposition which is now in power would have come to power democratically by means of elections and we would have worked with them as we had been working with the previous government of President Yanukovych but no they had to start a coup

1:50:41 with victims, bloody events a civil war terrifying the population in the southeast of Ukraine and in Crimea. And all for what? In my opinion this is being done to justify the existence of NATO an external enemy's needed an external threat otherwise what is the purpose of NATO?" Yeah that so I actually have the same clip then I have it 20 seconds longer but the point He's like, what good is NATO? What is it really for the only reason why it's in place is because they have a common enemy which is Russia. Yeah OK I see what you did you probably put the sanctions that was a part of that into this clip do you mind if I just play your sanctions clip yeah play the same day he's asked about sanctions with the sanctions

1:51:36 Has the US been affected by the sanctions? No, they couldn't care less about them. It's Europe that has been affected and Americans tell their European partners that they have to tolerate them for a while But why do they have to tolerate them I don't understand Well if that is what they want then let it be but why Maybe Matteo can explain that to me Yeah, I had a lot of that. Well he did go on much longer and talked about... you know, how it really is hurting. It's not really hurting the Russians or the Americans but it's hurting Europe and why in the world are the Europeans continuing to hurt themselves which is something we've discussed multiple times. This is a theme of our show Yes And now one of those things you mentioned Now um... The thing you probably all seen because that seems to be only part that uh... That mainstream media is interested in showing us Is when the question came up about Trump

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Putin on Donald Trump, Media Translation Discrepancies

Vladimir Putin clarifies his previous comments about Donald Trump, stating he only called him a "bright" person, not "brilliant" or "outstanding" as reported by Western media. Putin welcomes Trump's desire to restore Russian-American relations but maintains that Russia will work with whoever is elected by the American people.

vladimir putin· donald trump· fareed zakaria· interfax· translation

1:52:38 and Putin's answer to that. Now, before we play—and I wanted to use my clip for this because I have a full length because there are a lot of interesting things he said which you will not see anywhere—here is Some a-hole on Fox News responding to you know pretty much the only clip anyone's playing is that Putin says hey, you know well I called him. I called him bright apparently there's some discrepancy and what the What the adjective was but then listen? So he has since said and I just want to make this clear And I'm gonna cite the AP prudence outside the a holes from Fox this of course is CNBC Russia will work with any US presidents

1:53:20 But what is your take? I mean, it's kind of important. What she says there that just shows that she did not listen. She says we we called the AP Associated Press and they said that after the fact after the fact Putin had said, oh we'll walk and work with any US president. That's a blatant lie I'm you know but i don't think she's purposely lying but she just didn't watch it She did not watch it because he said that during the interview So he has since said and I just want to make this clear And I am going to cite the AP Putin says Russia will work with any U.S President But what is your take? Is Russia our biggest problem

1:54:01 It doesn't seem problematic, but it's not our biggest one. No it is our biggest problem Russia is the only country remaining in the world that can assault our homeland and cause catastrophic casualties Always remember one thing whenever a senior Russian official says anything and opens his mouth he's lying and of deuces, double down and won every hand. And we're simply just playing." He took a pair of deuces doubled down and won every hand that's a poker reference which I'm not gonna... Yeah yeah he had no hands is what he was saying. He bluffed everybody away

1:54:50 Yeah, I'm not getting that hold on and we are simply just playing catch-up The new world order is just continuing f Putin F Russia now Let's listen to the whole exchange and we can stop it along the way. I've shortened it up John Just you know with taking out a lot of the Russian just so we can move along Oh, sorry here we go You made some comments about the American Republican presumptive nominee Donald Trump. You called him brilliant, outstanding, talented. These comments were reported around the world

1:55:33 I was wondering what in him led you to that judgment and do you still hold that judgment? Now this is really important because Zakaria just said three things there. But he's talented, he's brilliant... And this was reported around the world and it was based on a falsehood, which we'll hear later. It's important to understand that yeah of course Donald Trump propagated a lot of that I'm pretty sure but do your homework people! Even even that little interesting how that little gets a big laugh you know so i guess i guess

1:56:11 The Russian culture somehow people understood that to be him going like well, let me tell you son or something I don't know. Yeah, something weird like that And applause Hold on a second since we're stopping yep The question doesn't sound the quick way I think the little cough was this question is bullcrap is to set me up and It's not what I said. Ah, yes! And I think the questions all know that it is not what you said Yes...yes..yes and so he was asking me a crazy question that its not what I said and then I go yeah? Yeah. and then the audience knows because they are intelligent and keep up with these things better than we do our audiences American audience in general Except for the no agenda audience That got the big laugh okay I agree point for you Do you still hold that judgment?

1:57:11 Yeah, it's probably been in Russia. They've probably been reporting for weeks saying, he's crazy This is what he said they probably all know it's probably been discussed You personally are very famous in our country. You are not only famous as a journalist in one of the biggest TV stations, but as an intellectual. Why do you always change the meaning of what I said? He slammed Zakaria saying... Good! Hey, why are you changing the meaning? You're famous here we appreciate you. You're a journalist and an intellectual but

1:57:51 Because at the moment you speak as a journalist. Yeah, lying copy machine! Not as an analyst. By the way that is our show right there that's the difference we analyze not report it was very important difference You speak as a journalist not as an analyst Why are you juggling with what I said? I only said he was bright person isn't he bright? He is I did not say anything else about him, but there's one thing that I paid attention to and that I definitely welcome is that Mr. Trump said he is ready to restore full-fledged Russian American relations. What can there be bad about it? Don't you welcome it? We all welcome it!

CHAPTER 32 / 45 Discussion

U.S. Election Integrity, Bernie Sanders Exit Polls

The integrity of the U.S. primary elections is questioned, specifically regarding discrepancies between exit polls and final results in states won by Hillary Clinton. The discussion mentions reports of Bernie Sanders votes being discarded in California and Putin's observation that U.S. prosecutors have tried to block international election observers.

bernie sanders· hillary clinton· exit polls· california primary· osce

1:58:44 But we never interfere into the internal political processes of other countries, especially those in the United States. We are ready to work with any president that the American people will vote for. Actually they always teach others how to live! But do you think that elections are democratic in the United States? Do you think they're organized democratically? To which Zakaria never answered, obviously. No, and I didn't get it on my clip. Yeah apparently You know international observers have been you know they're being requested not to observe our elections Okay Let me stop you mm-hmm this roof this to me refers back to a couple of things one the studies of the exit polls that were done it was played and with discrepant state certain specific states

1:59:48 This guy made this long, he wrote a long paper. I think I tweeted about it...I'm not sure we talked about on the show but we should have. This guy did a study of all these primaries Clinton versus Bernie and generally speaking they say that all exit polling and the kind of analysis they do is within one or two percent, probably more like 1% of the actual outcome And in four instances, the couple of the southern states that Hillary got big advantages and Ohio and maybe one other northern state. The exit polling and the results were not within the range of acceptability. Not even in the realm? Yeah. The realm. And Hillary had won all those!

2:00:35 The one that didn't get any play, I couldn't even find a good clip of it but it was in the papers out here. A couple of million Bernie votes have showed up in the garbage because and the thing is out here and I voted for Bernie everybody out here in California this is Bernie country how Hillary could win so convincingly she didn't even win by a couple of votes she slaughtered him It just says to me that this is bullcrap. This is a bull... And all my kids, everybody I know voted for Bernie whether or whatever you were unless you couldn't get that ballot and Just because nobody likes Hillary and Hillary wins by a huge margin There's the whole victory lap dance thing. The little dance in the screaming

2:01:29 So that, I think is interesting because i didn't know this. So let's continue. Because you know...I heard that American prosecutors were trying to get rid of the international observers at the voting stations This is not big news by the way although this did happen but I think this came up in the previous cycle 2012? They have it here from OSCE. This would be the O-S-C-E they're the guys who do this and this just you know they are sheltered under human rights organizations. But I don't see, nowhere can i find any news of this trying to be blocked so if anyone has anything out there...I only found this morning so didn't have a lot of time research it but we definitely need understand who's trying to do that The US is a great power at the moment it is probably the only superpower and we accept this fact Notice that you don't see anybody playing this piece in the clip

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Putin on Hillary Clinton, Obama Open Mic Incident

Vladimir Putin reflects on his past interactions with Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. He references the 2012 "open mic" incident where Obama promised more flexibility after his re-election. Putin describes his relationship with Obama as respectful but notes that Clinton may have her own impulsive views on Russian-American relations.

vladimir putin· hillary clinton· barack obama· sergey lavrov· diplomacy

2:02:31 Here's Putin saying, Oh they want to be the Soviet Union again. No they're actually saying they are the other superpower That's what I hear. Now here is Putin saying, the US is the only superpower? We accept that fact. We are a superpower and we accept this fact. We want to work with the U.S., and we are ready to do that. And no matter how these elections are held eventually they will be held there will be a new head of state elected They will have broad authority at the moment The world needs a country as strong as the U.S. is. And we need the U.S too But what we do not need of them is to interfere with our affairs all the time, to instruct us how to live. To prevent Europe from building relations with us." You know the sanctions that you've mentioned... Is the US touched by these sanctions? No they have not suffered from these sanction in any way It is Europe that has been affected by the sanctions

2:03:27 And Russia has been affected as well. But for the US, no there's been no effect but the Americans persuade their partners to continue the sanctions Why? Just to be clear Mr President I... The word brilliant was in the Interfax translation I realized that other translations might I'm not saying it's bright, but i use the official interfax. Just so you know, I am a journalist Mr President You know? I didn't mess it up! I didn't do anything wrong! Except he added the other two words Yeah of course he did... Lies Translation But let me ask about another person who have dealt with a great deal Mr Trump who've never met

2:04:03 Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State. In your very long question and answers with the Russian people, you made a joke about when somebody asked you about her, you said I think that the Russian idiom is husband and wife is the same devil And what it means in the English version is It's two sides of the same coin Wow didn't hear that clip anywhere Anywhere? Nobody's heard any of this except the one little snippet. The interesting thing is we didn't hear it whereas it's completely usable because Putin walks it back What did you mean by that? And what do you think how did she do a secretary of state you dealt with her extensively well You know probably I probably just said that hot-headedly Probably, I was just impulsive when I said that about her. Wow Yeah, I would have used that if I was uh if I wasn't the Clinton campaign oh

2:04:58 But it's perfectly usable. I was a hothead, i'm sorry didn't mean it. I did not work with Hillary that much you know Mr Lavrov was our foreign minister back then That was him who worked with her I'd like to say that I worked a lot with the American president back then and I can say that we shared very good relations And I'm even grateful to him for the signs of attention Remember the open mic? When he was talking to, what's the other guys name? Yeah I vaguely remember this. And President Obama leaned over and said hey tell Vladimir that I can't do anything right now but once i'm re-elected then I'll have a lot more room to do stuff Remember that? Yeah I do remember that. I wonder if I still have that

2:05:49 probably that didn't work out what no I know it did didn't know it didn't work out wise anyway respect to me personally and to Russia when I started my term as the president of the Russian Federation and speaking about Madame Clinton She probably has her own view regarding the development of the Russian-American relations. But there's one thing that I'd like to draw your attention to, it is not relevant to Russian American relations or any other big political issues It is more relevant to human resources policy because you know based on my own experience I can say the following I've seen many people change after they were appointed

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Russian Olympic Doping Ban, Julian Assange Claims

Vladimir Putin condemns the collective punishment of Russian track and field athletes following a systematic doping ban from the Rio Olympics. Meanwhile, Julian Assange claims to have information that could prevent Hillary Clinton from becoming president and accuses Google of being integrated with her campaign.

rio olympics· doping· vladimir putin· julian assange· edward snowden

2:06:35 Oh yeah. Good and bad, I guess is what he meant by that. Good and bad. We don't know what that means exactly but... But you know there's a lot of stuff happening in the F Russia it's just particularly with this doping Oh yeah, dope. What can we do to screw with Russia? What else can we do to screw these guys over? I have an idea! Vladimir Putin has condemned the decision by the World Athletics Governing Body to uphold a ban on Russia for systematic doping thereby excluding its track and field competitors from this summer's Rio Olympics

2:07:18 He's denounced the sanction as collective punishment. Of course it is not fair, there are common acceptable principles of rights one of which is that responsibility should be personalized said the Russian leader now seeking intervention from the International Olympic Committee despite its vice president slamming Russia's anti-doping and athletics authorities has rotten to the core Could we stop with the slamming people in mainstream media, please? Stop with the slamming. Can I interrupt this whole line of inquiry and throw it back to the sanctions and then piling on with this stupid Olympic thing... Hey! Give us Snowden and this'll all end! I don't know. I'm telling ya

2:08:09 It'll all go... No! What will NATO have? We need the enemy. We need the enemy. There's that, that's always the case but it still you know Snowden they've got Snowden we asked for him and they wouldn't give it to us we asked and they wouldn't give it to us Julia and the signs are still stuck. Yeah, but he has a dice because I'm excited. He's like oh we'll have stuff that will make sure Hillary Clinton never becomes president and it's all the old stuff. He hasn't revealed anything new.

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Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act

House Resolution 5181, the Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016, seeks to establish "The Center" for information analysis. The bill authorizes $20 million to fund journalists and NGOs to refute foreign narratives from Russia and China, effectively legalizing domestic state-sponsored counter-propaganda.

hr 5181· propaganda· russia· china· state department· center

2:08:46 Now he's accusing Google of being in bed with Hillary. You know, I saw this Google... you mean the searches? No, no, but there is more to it apparently according to Assange. Of course there is! I mean, Google... Eric Schmidt works for Obama! He's a defense department consultant. Do people actually believe when they search on a search engine that they're getting honest results based on THE algorithm?! Please.... Yeah, you're fooling yourselves. I did find a little gem in relation to all of this... This is a bill that has been introduced in the House HR 5181 and I think you will like this. House Resolution 5181 short title may be known as The Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016

2:09:44 So if... What? A bill?! Yes, a bill. I'm gonna read parts of it to you. Yeah this'll be good! Well you can kind of already guess what it is and we've been talking about this. This isn't- You know this is about propaganda and so it starts off section two of course It Is The Sense Of Congress That Foreign governments, including the governments of the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China use disinformation and other propaganda tools to undermine the national security objectives... ...of the United States and key allies and partners. That is quite a statement right there that these undermine the national security objectives of the United States which I guess is to marginalize and squeeze Russia

2:10:29 Yeah. And so when they push back, you know they're undermining our objectives? Yeah. Two... Terrible! The Russian Federation in particular has conducted sophisticated and large-scale disinformation campaigns that have sought to have a destabilizing effect on the United States allies and interests. And by the way, disinformation is misinformation when it's done on purpose In the last decade, disinformation has increasingly become a key feature of the government of Russian Federation's pursuit... ...of political economic and military objectives in Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia,... ...the Balkans and throughout Central and Eastern Europe The challenge of countering disinformation extends beyond effective strategic communication to public diplomacy requiring a whole-of-government approach leveraging all elements of national power

2:11:18 The United States government should develop a comprehensive strategy to counter foreign disinformation and propaganda, and assert leadership in developing a fact-based strategic narrative. And an important element of this strategy would be to protect and promote a free healthy and independent press in countries vulnerable to foreign disinformation." Now we already have this in place which is why I find this bill interesting We have the Broadcast Board of Governors, we have the Voice of America. We have all the subsets, we have Liberty Free Europe All this is American propaganda which in America we call a fact-based narrative So what's going to happen and this blew me away Section 3

2:12:02 Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, Director of National Intelligence, Broadcasting Board of Governors and other relevant departments and agencies establish a Center for Information Analysis & Response which will be referred to as The Center. Why is this jarring to me? I'm huge fan of Americans! which is about... You're talking about the TV show. The TV show, two Russian spies who get married and they have kids and they live in America like good old American family there their travel agents and they're spies and I do a lot of spying and killing but whenever they need to whenever they receive information or whenever they communicate Do you know the name what they call it? And this is well known that the Russians always call it Center

2:12:58 What does center say? Well, Center says you need to take this person out. Center says you need to do this now we have our own center and it's called Center. Can't we come up with something different? Apparently not the center like MI6 there was always at least in the movies they always call it control what's happening and this is now a big spy Because of course CIA, everyone does propaganda. The State Department above all probably but here's the following function Center shall carry out integrating interagency efforts to track and evaluate counterfactual narratives abroad that threaten the national security interests of United States

2:13:40 Collecting, integrating and analyzing relevant information including intelligence reporting data analysis analysis and analytics from US government agencies allied nations think tanks ways to academic institutions civil society groups another non-governmental organizations love those NGOs. And of course we need to develop and disseminate... Developing and disseminating fact-based narratives and analysis to counter propaganda, and disinformation directed at the United States allies and partners. They're talking about RT pretty much it's just Russia today That's what they're talking about. It sounds like it, but the most important thing of course always comes at the end There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of State for fiscal years 2017 and 2018 20 million dollars to support center and provide grants or contracts or financial support to civil society groups journalists

2:14:32 non-governmental organizations, federally funded research and development centers private companies or academic institutions for the following purposes. And of course that is to support local independent media Well I think you the definition of you paying journalists is not independent media who are best placed to refute foreign So they've taken their old CIA program of having a bunch of journalists working for them? And made it legit Yeah, well or actually expanded it. But out in the open is not a secret. It's like here we are this is how we do it yeah yeah you're right so again so this money and these journalists I get some money from them and they would have a group that will be distributing the money will have this great name

2:15:21 Independent Journalist Research Agency or some bullcrap. Where are you getting your money from? Get it from the Independent Journalists Research Agency, I get a bunch of it and take the word agency out. Exactly. Fund or... So the authorization of all these journalists etc is for the following purposes to support local independent media who are best placed to refute foreign disinformation and manipulation in their own communities to collect and store examples in print, online and social media of disinformation misinformation propaganda directed at the United States and its allies and partners. To analyze tactics techniques and procedures of foreign government information warfare with respect to disinformation misinformation and propaganda." Well I could see that report coming!

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Truth in Advertising Act, Photoshop Regulations

The Truth in Advertising Act of 2016 (HR 4445) proposes that the FTC investigate the use of altered images in media. The bill's sponsors argue that Photoshopped models create unrealistic body expectations linked to depression and eating disorders in teenagers. The hosts mock the bill as an infringement on free speech.

hr 4445· ftc· photoshop· advertising· body image

2:16:05 Hey, boss. Boss. Boss! We go after independent thinkers like ourselves. Yes? That could mean a big pile of cash going to your agenda. Okay... There you go Well, this of course is a... We should probably start up our own anti-no agenda operations on the side to get some money. It'd be great! Equally as funny is another bill that came out this week House Resolution 4445 The Truth in Advertising Act of 2016

2:16:42 I guess we have a problem. This will shut down the country! Yes, but listen to it this is something that's been around and i don't think as its free speech you can't do this I don't think but Congress finds the following advertisers...I mean this'll be shocking are you sitting down John? This might shock you what congress has found. Congress finds the following advertisers regularly alter images used in print and electronic media to sell products and services Materially changing the appearance and physical characteristics of models' faces and bodies, included by altering the model's size, proportion, shape and skin color and removing signs of aging. Are you kidding me? They make these models with airbrush?!

2:17:31 I think it's called Photoshop actually. Well, Photoshop is still...I think the term for just making her legs look better is still airbrushed. Well here's the thing John! Here's the thing. Number two Such altered images can create distorted and unrealistic expectations and understandings of appropriate unhealthy weight and body image. So there's apparently some fat woman involved in this part of the bill? Part 3, decades of academic evidence links exposure to such altered images with emotional mental and physical health issues including depression anxiety and eating disorders especially among children teenagers Yeah so they say

2:18:09 Because teenagers are never depressed. If it wasn't for those bad images, teenagers would be happy-go-lucky! Especially when they're 13 year old girls... I personally take offense to men particularly white men of middle age being depicted as lazy nincompoops who were dumb. Okay honey, I'll do it. Yeah that's a pretty common image and When you see the commercial that is telling you, and I know because i'm a man. The commercial tells me if I drink that beer im gonna get those chicks Let's make sure we also make those chicks realistic You know cause what's going to happen? You're gonna get those chicks one's gonna puke on ya There all kinds of crazy shit with beer and chicks

2:18:59 So the idea here for this bill is not later than 18 months after the date of effect, blah-blah-blah. The Federal Trade Commission shall submit a report that contains an assessment of the prevalence in advertisements and other media for promotion of commercial products and services, an evaluation to which such altered images or advertisements by other media with the promotion of commercial products or services may constitute unfair deceptive act of practices... This can't go anywhere! But, you don't know. Anything is possible. It's stupid! Yeah... Who is the Bill Riders? Oh hold on.... it is... Ms Ross Latinen L-E-H-T-I-N-E-N For Ms Capps Mr Deutsch Takano Mr Ellison Mr Lewis Ms Captor Mr McGovern Mr Hastings Mr Cartwright and Mr Gallego

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Father's Day Tributes, Late-Life Fatherhood Anecdote

The hosts read numerous Father's Day tributes from donors, including a special mention for a first-time father. An anecdote from a host's time at Union Oil describes a man whose wife became pregnant just as he was nearing retirement, leading to a "sour" outlook on his remaining years.

father's day· donations· union oil· retirement· parenting

2:19:54 Well, Ellison's the Muslim. Yeah I can see him being an Atheist. And with that... I'm gonna show my support by donating to No Agenda! Imagine all the people who could do that? Oh yeah that'd be fab! On NO AGENDA! Before we start John happy Father's Day well happy Father's day to you and happy Father's day too oh it's not yeah Happy Father's Day to everybody Happy Father's Day to all the ships at sea Boots on the ground, feet in the air. Alright. What was the agreement here today? Bring up last week's spreadsheet because you have to add them so what we're gonna do You're going to look at the notes and if there is a father mentioned

2:20:43 And there's one like coming up with Thea Bachman in Haymarket, Virginia. She got a little Father's Day call out to Nicholas Samaras from Haymarket, Virginia. When you see that you stop me... I stop you right in your tracks okay good and what i'll do is i'm going to name... You just do the yeah you do your thing. I have a one beat one beat and you jump in my beat is to jump in this is a pre-production movie um okay hold on a second. All right everybody are we clear? The world's gonna go down as John... Hold on a second can I have Clyde on the set please

2:21:21 Thank you. Here's how it's going to go down, John's gonna read his normal he's gonna do one beat only one beat for Adam camera two will be ready for Adam in case she cuts it and three two one So we start with Chuck Bennett In Boise Idaho 1 2 3 4 5 And he thought our analysis of the Orlando shooting was excellent Thea Bachman a 1 2 3 4 5 from Haymarket Virginia She says happy Father's Day to Nicholas Samara Hey Why didn't camera two shoot me? Just rehearse that. She says, happy Father's Day to Nicholas Samaras from Haymarket Virginia. Shilah and McCall Brown $101.15 from Rhinelander Wisconsin This donation is in honor of my husband Dennis on his first Father's Day 101 15 represents the birthdate of our first human resource 10 1 15 we are so lucky to have him in our life and love him more than words can say Love Shilah and McCall

2:22:19 All of the mailmen are Mondo, Guerra and Guerra. Mail carrier. What'd I say? Mailman. Uh oh. In Austin Texas it's a hundred bucks And he says happy Father's Day! I hate Moby too! Sorry, I haven't donated in a while. I moved to Bernie Oh but still work in Austin for now long story tell you more later after get my PayPal stuff an order for knighthood Wow Armando Hope everything's okay and let me know what's going on miss you man? I've been seeing your smiling face David Wynn in Rockville Center New York boob 808 the 80.0 eight

2:22:57 James Casheen II in Herndon, Virginia. In the morning says James Casheen II to happy Father's Day karma for Jim Casheen who is battling cancer immobility and rehab in a location he would rather not be in get well soon dad and thank you no agenda show yes And he's in for 77-77. Sir Rick in Arlington, Washington 69-33 that came in as a check Mark DeWitt in Saudi Daisy Tennessee 66-62 Fabulous! Yeah and he's got a family reunion coming up and we'll put some karma at the end for you Sir Kevin Dills in Charlotte North Carolina 64-32 Do you have a note? No Okay Paul Love on Richmond Virginia 61-80

2:23:48 D-N is a birthday there. Dean Roker. Hold on, happy birthday to my son... Oh that was happy birthday I'm sorry my mistake Paul Love in Richmond Virginia 6180 Dean Roker Roker Roker parts unknown 5510 Michael Cully in Grove City Pennsylvania double nickels on the dime and he says please give pumpkin eater Father's Day shout out so we've done that Catherine Adams in Seabrook Texas double nickels on the dime And she says, CDR Robert CD commander. What is CDR? Commander. Commander. I guess that's a man of Robert Adams US Navy retired. Please also give him an F cancer as he was recently diagnosed with liver and pancreatic cancer from your loving and ever grateful son, Robert Junior. Yes, I've got an F cancer for the two dads on the list today and for anyone any other dads who needed it for that matter Bartosz Winnie Winnie. I know how to pronounce this

2:24:47 Wiznewski. in uh... noon kirtchen deutschland fifty five it's a new church i guess he has got a birthday on july third which will mention of course anonymous and albany georgia fifty-five dollars morning justice donations made an honor my father richard griffin i believe you had a listener spying to be sure future cancer future sent cancer survivor i would like this donation and all future donations credit him until isn't until his knighthood If he's achieved that status, I may be attributing towards my future knighting. Okay well please keep track of that for us then. Jennifer Stockdale $55 in Washington Pennsylvania Happy Father's Day to my ever patient husband Chris from his much less patient wife can you please give us some toddler sleeping in his own bed karma we need it! We're exhausted yeah

2:25:43 Yeah, you'll be more exhausted if you move the kid out of the bed. As we say kids they're not that great Eric Tolbert in Topeka Kansas 53 and let's say he has a birthday coming up Eric Fogwell in Strongsville Ohio 5252 I think he sang happy birthday to his dad Mark Fogwell Jesse Rowe in... Rayo, Rayo. Rayo, Rayo. R-E-A-U-X, Rayo in Karen Crowe Louisiana 5151 First time donation welcome Yes welcome Sir Luke of London and London London London UK 51 Matthew Mungan in Baltimore Maryland 50 and these are all fifties I'm gonna run through now Paul Rudkin Parts Unknown

2:26:31 Joel Deruane, Parts Unknown. Jennifer Hedrick in Harvard Illinois. Scott Lavender... Hold on! Happy Father's Day to Carlos Pacina from Autumn and Calvin and happy Father's Day to you guys too John and Adam. Thank You. Scott Lavender in Montgomery Texas Michael Gates in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Bill LeClair capital L small a Riverdale Michigan 50 Andrew Haverson Gravenhurst Ontario Karen's sells or and Lagrange Kentucky says happy Father's Day to Bradley seltzer

2:27:12 Dame Jamie in Easton, Connecticut 50. The love of my life Sir Matt Hatter also my dad Jimmy Rose the recently retired fireman Gil Hunter the bargain finder Big Tom after bear the fisherman and Kevin Brady the plumber happy Father's Day from Dame Jamie Good move, Dane Janie. Very good. Baronet Dingaling Dave Carey in Clermont Florida Father's Day shout out to myself after 15 year gap my wife and I are bringing our second human resource into the world in July! Hey congratulations it worked So I'm working at Union Oil and there's these two sides of the labs and one is a union one not I am on non-union doing analytical stuff

2:28:00 And there's this one guy that was older, older guys probably in late sixties and kind of a good looking guy. But he was just had this horrible look on his face just sour, sour. So I asked one of the guy said what is the deal with Bill over here? He says you know they never talks to anybody it's just sour because we had a common lunchroom and the guy says to me he's getting near retirement bill's get near retirement just as his wife gets pregnant after a 15 to 20 year hiatus between kids. Wow! And so the guy is, I mean the rest of his life is this grump Yeah

2:28:43 Yeah, I better stories. No it's you know it's hard to imagine well your ear and you have pretty young kids yeah, yeah, not that old no But they also do tend to like not live with any of them or anybody else is boom out get him out of here The anechoic are others in Tumwater Washington Chris Moore in Indianapolis, Indiana. These are 50s. Jason Clegg in San Diego, California. Arthur Brewer in Madisonville, Tennessee. He's got some note here... No Father's Day. Sir Paul of Horseheads? I will say that Arthur Brewer turned his son on to the show so he's just a good father. I say Happy Father's Day to him. Yes

CHAPTER 38 / 45 Discussion

Knighting Ceremony, Birthday Announcements

The show concludes its donation segment with a formal knighting ceremony for Jason Owen, Stephen LaParo, and Hans Christensen. Birthdays for Josh Love, Eric Tolbert, and Kurt Weissman are announced. The hosts reiterate the "value-for-value" model and promote the upcoming Thursday episode.

knighthood· jason owen· stephen laparo· hans christensen· value-for-value

2:29:32 Sir Paul of Horseheads, 50. Sir Mark Tanner of Whittier California Benjamin Wilson of Hummelstown Pennsylvania and that concludes this now we'll look down the list to see if there's any random Father Day call outs yes and just a few I have uh will just do so we have Garrett Evester from Murrieta California this one goes out to my dad Stu Evester from GMG what is that? That's his last name or you mean Murrieta No, I... Oh. I'm looking at the down the list Yeah oh i didn't see that one I just was looking at the other one yeah Robert Taylor If possible also throw in a douchebag call out because he showed me the show two years ago and still hasn't donated okay dad there you go DOOCHEBAG! Dean Taylor happy father's day to Robert Taylor Daniel Morrow happy father's day to David Morrow Amanda Claire from Austin Happy birthday to Ryan Clare from L'Irail

2:30:29 Jake Davis, my dad's Stephen Davis or Stefan Davis and my father-in-law Dan Kilo Paulette Magnione from Juliette Illinois Oh this is interesting. Please direct this payment to Sir David Trotsky account from his wife to be oh very nice Paulette. That's sweet Graham Wolfe from Wichita Kansas happy Father's Day to Pat Wolf Jonathan Atima, this is from my dad. Sir Bernie Atima or Atema Happy Father's Day Dad love you also happy father's day to John and Adam And that is from a sir John Atama he's black knight of course There was David

2:31:12 Who says happy Father's Day to Sir Bernie Atom. I don't know if family is getting in on this, this is nice. The Atomas and Janet Rupka from Sioux City Iowa This is for Sir Bernie Atoma Happy Birthday! From your magnificent... Oh you magnificent dilf very nice Michael Garnella from Hamilton New Jersey Hey mom and dad This is funny. Hey, mom and dad sorry I've been MIA miss you both today is my birthday 6 1 6 1 6 but keep that a secret Keep this all a secret for now I'm interested to see where this latest piece of garbage was in December because I live in what is this? Code! I'm trying to think if there's any happy Father's Day thing. This is not good. I'm gonna look into this later See what's going on we can help this person Wow do you reading this oh

2:31:58 No, I'm really getting the English version. Okay don't! Davis Hislop in Edmonds Washington Happy Father's Day to Father Don and Stepfather Noble We have Stephen Ramos from Virginia Beach, Virginia Father Abraham and Brother Adrian From Scuba Steve Oh yes, Scuba Steve thank you very much Claire T. Tully Ellsworth Maine To Richard Podolsky And Natalie Strange from Norwich, Norfolk That's in Great Britain Sent a donation in the hope of adding my wonderful husband and baby daddy Kevin Strange to the list of call-outs But there was no option to add his name I'm hoping you get this in time to let him know he's thought up. He listens to every show Happy Father's Day to you all Anthony Anselmo Columbus, Ohio Father's day message for Joseph Anselmo and thank you guys for doing a great show on Thursday I am so tired of how stupid my lg g b vt qq iaap community friends are thanks for dissecting the media

2:32:53 And I don't see anything else on this one. Okay, got a couple from the last spreadsheet that we're gonna throw in yeah Andrea Otto says happy Father's Day to Andy Otto Yeah Now this is a classic This is the guy's name's Andy yeah So he has a girl and expect to have the Andy's the second or whatever and it gives you know going Andrea Just I'm sorry no how good I know how it goes We have Wesley, I guess it's Ante. Saying happy Father's Day to Wesley Ante. Okay that was confusing. Only a couple came in early but I promised I'd read them on this show

2:33:38 I have a note here from Natalie Kerwood who says, I sent a donation in the hopes of adding my wonderful husband and baby daddy Kevin Sprange to the list of call-outs but there's no room. She got the wrong form, I guess? So Natalie Strange says happy birthday or happy birthday... says Happy Father's Day to Kevin her husband! Alright well Happy Father's Day everybody Just remember, be better. Actually we should play that! And we'll do that but I want to make sure there will be some people who came in late and get under the wire at 12 midnight deadline We'll push you out on Thursday with a big happy Father's Day belated Yeah we'll make good for sure

2:34:21 Okay, I'll play the be better for it. We have a new mix of be better mix for all the fathers You can Michelle Obama and first lady and Oprah The other first lady telling us to be better so adhere to that And thank you everybody else who donated we really appreciate it It's great on days like this and we hope you see the value for value Remember us for Thursday show gonna be another big one to vorac org slash n as promised You've got karma. Here's the list for today and this week Paul loves his happy birthday to his son Josh celebrated yesterday Bartosz Wysniewski 35 he will be on July 3rd Eric Tolbert turns 53 on June 21st Tina Weissman says happy birthday

2:35:14 Kurt Weissman, 28 years old today and Dame BangBang says happy birthday to Sir DH Slammer. And we say the same to everybody from the staff and management here at The Best Podcast in the Universe! Okay, we got three nightings today people have been working hard on completing their night shifts all instant nights isn't that nice? Yeah so we need give me your instant night sword then you know my comes big one Here we go gentlemen Wow instant nights galore today got to love it, please welcome to the stage Jason Owen Steven Lazaro and Hans Christensen Gentlemen all three of you have contributed the best podcasting University about a $1,000 more and therefore I'm very proud to welcome you to that roundtable no agenda nights and names and hereby pronounce to Kate V Sir lowbrow sir Cleveland berserker

CHAPTER 39 / 45 Discussion

Gayle King "Woman-Person" Comment, CIA Candidate Comparison

Gayle King is criticized for using the term "woman-person" to describe Hillary Clinton, which the hosts view as an attempt to soften identity politics. A separate clip features a former CIA officer comparing the choice between Trump and Clinton to choosing between "chlamydia or gonorrhea."

gayle king· oprah winfrey· chlamydia· gonorrhea· cia

2:36:08 And of course, Mutton and Mead. Go to noagendaNation.com slash rings and give Eric your details and we'll send it out to you when you do receive it We'd love to see a tweet Alright, you're gonna play us the be good thing? I'm going to play it at the end. Oh okay good End of show, end of show...I do have a little thingy here kind of funny just to ease us into some fun two things actually uh Gale King this is just random is not really a topic but Gale King has invented a whole new category of people and that's great and because as we know Gale who was Oprah's girlfriend

2:37:04 Who who parlayed that into a real gig and she's good I mean, I think she's really good on the on them. I made it I think she's in She says good as anybody else on that show You know the thing she says are nutty but You know, she goes to all these parties and she's always talking about well the guys at this party they can't stand Donald Trump. The people at this party want him. This is the classic you just all year in your circle and everyone agrees with everybody else and you think it's some shocker Who would vote for that guy? I can't believe anyone would vote for him. Or you could be hanging out with Trumpites and then why does anyone kill her if she's a criminal? But more on the side where, I believe the circles in which Gayle moves is very... Well it has got to be elite liberal rich. Elite liberal rich and of course very politically correct

2:38:01 Yes, here we go. What she has accomplished is amazing and I do celebrate that as a woman person. Well, there's a man person. There is woman person? I have no idea! I do. I think it is intended to soften the idea of sexism because you know women vote for women special hate place in hell for women who don't support women but now you just say hey I'm just a person oh yeah I'm a woman person but I'm just a person isn't crazy right? Woman-person. So what are we saying? I am a man person

2:39:07 Yeah, a Merson maybe just call myself a Mercer son. Yeah a Worson and a Mercer that'd be a worsened and a person now the next one was this is just great It's just a little ditty from Fox This was Greta, she had the only reason I watched that is she had a former CIA officer or at least someone who was billed as a former covert officer for the CIA and asked about what are we going to do? Is it going to be Clinton is gonna be Trump now. We know CIA is against Trump And probably because of his affiliation with FBI. Not so sure that they like Clinton, but let's listen to his description. Alright 30 seconds left Trump or Clinton who would be better? National security Holy smokes you're asking me to choose between two terrible options if we don't it's like chlamydia or gonorrhea They're both bad It was like choosing between chlamydia and gonorrhea Yeah I heard that Nice

CHAPTER 40 / 45 Discussion

Social Media Anti-Terrorism Lawsuit, Tumblr Pornography

The family of Noemi Gonzalez, killed in the Paris attacks, is suing Twitter, Google, and Facebook for providing material support to ISIS. The lawsuit alleges the platforms knowingly permitted extremist propaganda and recruitment. The discussion shifts to the prevalence of illegal content and pornography on sites like Tumblr.

twitter· google· facebook· isis· tumblr

2:40:07 Yeah, that's catchy. That's a good description! Well... They're both bad. Did you see the news story? I think it got quashed pretty quickly but man did that go fast when you see the face bags and emails Kim Jong-un dead after apparent suicide attack Oh please. I know Alright, well here we go. Alrighty let's play a couple face bag things the first one I got two clips here. I went to Facebook, Orlando and ISIS just for a kicker." Meanwhile Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson has asked Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for data from multiple Facebook accounts allegedly associated with Mateen in the letter senator Johnson claimed Mateen had posted on Facebook calls for the US and Russia to stop bombing campaigns against Isis

2:41:03 Because we know that it was to stop bombing against Afghanistan, but all these posts are done. And let's go now this is the underreported story after this other story I'm actually not sure why one of them kept that one But this is the under reported story that I think has the potential To be the most disruptive thing if he's picked up on and people start to think about this just a little bit This comes as the family of California student Noemi Gonzalez, who was killed in the Paris attacks last November, sued Twitter, Google and Facebook, arguing the social media networks have violated the U.S. Antiterrorism Act by providing material support to ISIS. The lawsuit argues, quote, "'For years defendants have knowingly permitted' the terrorist group ISIS to use their social networks as a tool for spreading extremist propaganda, raising funds

2:41:55 attracting new recruits," unquote. Okay, yeah I think that this has legs and possibilities because there is a lot of stuff on the net that is...and these guys don't do a very good job of policing anything These guy are the conduit for a lot of this This was what Clinton knew when she was Secretary of State and could cause trouble using some of these networks But I think if you look at some of these acts that the government's passed, they don't really allow this to happen. Somebody has got to be held responsible and I think the same thing holds true for a lot of illegal porn that is on a lot of these sites! If you start digging around, what is this doing here? A pick-paste imager... Tumblr

2:42:46 Tumblr, TUMBLR! Holy crap. Tumblr is a-is one giant porn site all you have to do is just do any search for any sickness you have and then put tumbler dot com at the end spelled correctly and you'll find it I-I this sort of thing... I think there's got legs I think they could go after these guys I'd like to see these guys busted. Oh, no, I think they'll go after him but they'll capitulate if they haven't already They'll do whatever's asked Whatever is required oh yeah Yeah well Now that with net neutrality and legal content it's all gonna be over Nobody is reporting any of this kind of thing No The golden age of the internet I've said before and will say again We have already gone past it we're well past the golden age

CHAPTER 41 / 45 Discussion

MTV.com Origin Story, Gopher Server Dispute

A host recounts registering MTV.com in the early 1990s and setting up a Gopher server before the World Wide Web became dominant. The University of Minnesota issued a cease-and-desist over commercial use of the Gopher software, which was settled by the host wearing a university T-shirt on-air at MTV.

mtv· gopher· university of minnesota· domain names· internet history

2:43:43 Eventually, you know the torrent sites will be done remember I remember gopher and usenet those were the days go for Go for a man. That was the pre-golden age ever tell you my gopher story No Yeah, probably but tell it but tell me again because I easily forget some of these stories so i'd registered mtv.com Then I ran in on a headless son 3 and at dig x and in Virginia I think they're above a Chinese restaurant And then I really just or I said what domain names? I don't know MTV calm Okay boom didn't have to pay anything and was all same time got curry comm like okay I'll get that and Elvis calm had that a lot of them domains But nice and course there was no web then as I set up a gopher server

2:44:29 And that, you know for me as a VJ blonde and everything, you know sending... compiling binaries and doing all this. It was quite a learning curve but I got it to work. And then put up little bits and bobs now for those who don't know what Gopher is it was a text-based navigation system with hyperlinks and was pretty much the precursor to the web. And then I got a cease and desist from The University of Minnesota And they said, well you're using that commercially. I said no this is not MTV this is me doing it they are letting me do this because they don't think the internet's going to be anything and their pretty proud of the keywords they have on AOL so we had there all happy. Yeah keyword MTV? That's right yeah and music television whoa was a double whammy! And I think they also had some gateway on Prodigy So they were all set. I didn't realize that Gopher had a provision against commercialism Yes and they said you need to pay us $5,000

2:45:20 I'm like, I don't have $5,000. I don't have it! And uh... but I came up with- You just had a website where the gopher angle come in Because I was using Gopher on MTV.com So when you could use... it's a Gopher D, so it's the daemon It's the service, it's the actual software that makes Gopher work Oh okay! They were saying you have to pay a license and I can't pay that And then we came up with a deal If you search for this on YouTube You'll find it What I said is what I'l do Is wear the University of Minnesota? I think? Yeah, Minnesota I'll wear your Gopher T-shirt

2:45:57 On MTV. You mean like a sweatshirt or t-shirt? Yeah, no on a T-Shirt and they said okay That was it that's worth 5 000 bucks probably more at the time but yeah Anyway I've never heard that story yeah i think i'd remember that one yeah that's pretty funny what happened Well, those days are over. And if you had really... You must look back on it and say, gee I got all these free domains and all that If you've got art dot com? Million bucks That's what they paid for that There was a whole bunch of these if you'd grabbed... If you knew about squatting early Yeah You'll be a billionaire Possibly Lots of money Possibly Although a lot of that is not true because search dot com Who owns that? Where does that go to? CNET

CHAPTER 42 / 45 Discussion

Dot-Com Era Domain Sales, Budweiser.com Launch

The high-value domain sales of the late 90s are discussed, including Art.com selling for $1 million. The host describes building the original Budweiser.com and acquiring the "Bud.com" domain for Anheuser-Busch from a fan in exchange for an autographed case of beer.

art.com· news.com· budweiser· anheuser-busch· domain squatting

2:46:48 They probably paid a lot of money for that, I guess. No, I was there when they did all those deals. Halsey... He got news dot com? Mm-hmm. I think—I'm pretty sure he's got search dot com—he got a whole bunch of them and he was bragging like, I think you get news dot com which had to be worth a lot of money. Yeah, it must have been. I think he got that for 40K. Meanwhile when i was doing Silicon Spin, I was sitting there next to a guy who ran art.com and he told me they paid 1 million dollars for it, and this was during the heyday of the late 90s where they had a dot-com crash just before it He says they paid him $1 million bucks for it I said jeez you probably could have got it cheaper by a little negotiation And he tells me this which showed that whole place was falling apart

2:47:39 Yeah, you know I think that's true but at the million dollar mark when we presented this number to the venture capitalists they thought it was great. Oh yeah of course! Well when Anheuser-Busch was my client before i sold them to the Belgians We built Budweiser dot com actually my first client was Anheuser-Busch and said we want you build our website budweiser dot com And we also did Bud Light But there was a small problem There was a guy who had bud dot com and they wanted it Now you know that if you're getting a call, and this is 1993 maybe? No no 2003. Sorry. No! 95-96 yeah it was around 96 that's what it was. Confused

2:48:26 You know, if you have someone calling and say hey, Anheuser-Busch wants... They didn't sell to the Belgians until recently. I'm just kidding it was a joke! Oh... I didn't sell anything to the Belgians as i just declared Okay go So its problematic if your gonna call this guy up and say Hey, you've got bud dot com we want that for Budweiser But of course the mission from Budweiser was hey Curry you've got experience with mtv dot com get us that for cheap But okay, that's what you do. What try to do? And we did it and it turns out you get it for get ready the guy was just a big Budweiser fans. We called him up and he said here is my ploy. Okay this system some stuff but they really want this great rate I'm getting the sense that I'm about to hear like a Homer Simpson or Kramer kind of story go on pretty much

2:49:20 Pretty much. I'm hearing the not good, go on. Yeah it was like hey man this Adam Bush, Adam Curry hey you know here's the deal and they just need this of course they own the name but no one wants to fight with you or anything like that so what can we do? And Woody which is August Bush the You know, the guy who got...was found when the dead hooker was found in his home. It was kind of taking over at the time and you know we'd end he would he would you like to talk to him or what can we do? And so finally we settled all they wanted was a case of long neck Budweiser with one bottle autographed by Grinder which was the elder August Bush and that was it! Unbelievable. Unbelievable Yeah well no one really knew the value then I guess

CHAPTER 43 / 45 Discussion

Rio Olympics Crisis, Red Cross Haiti Funding Scandal

As Rio de Janeiro prepares for the Olympics amid recession and the Zika virus, Senator Chuck Grassley investigates the American Red Cross's handling of $500 million in Haiti earthquake relief. Reports indicate the charity built only six permanent homes while keeping $124 million for internal management and fundraising costs.

rio de janeiro· zika· red cross· haiti· chuck grassley

2:50:13 Did you know the value? keep people away. Please don't come to the Olympics! and environmental management. Rio is expecting 500,000 visitors during the games they start on August 5th Brazil is struggling with its worst recession in decades and a political crisis that last month led to the suspension of President Dilma Rousseff The country's interim president said his government would ensure the games are a success I don't know doesn't sound like

2:51:12 They really want it to happen even. I wouldn't blame them actually, but... You know what? You know what I think that the money in the Olympics and it's huge money this political power and money is all on the television rights that's mainly where it all comes from yeah yeah Yeah don't think they care we don't need any idiots in the stands but didn't they put security people in the stands at in London when there was a place with empty just throw some security people in well on No, let me play a replay. Let me read a note from Greg Knight who comes in with this. Hey guys I just got back from Puerto Rico and thought it passed along what i heard while I was down there granted it was only there for four days but I tried to talk to everyone we came in contact with

2:51:52 No one mentioned how bad they're doing financially. The schools closing down and having no power, etc., none of that was discussed In fact when we visited an old fort in San Juan there were hundreds of kids there on a school field trip As for Zika, we only saw two mentions of it It was a sign at the airport as you exit and it cautioned about being anywhere that mosquitoes gather. The second mention was at a bus shelter There was an ad for an insect bug mosquito repellent. That would help with Zika, no locals taxi drivers or hotel staff mentioned Zika at all there wasn't even a warning at the pool which stays open until 11 and we stayed in the courtyard Marriott I thought this was all very interesting wanted to pass along keep up the amazing work yeah there you go okay more bullshit from our media

2:52:52 Something that I stuck on for, what is it now? Five years ago. Maybe it's even longer when we had the earthquake in Haiti and three presidents came onto the scene all asking for... We just need cash! I know a lot of people want to send blankets or water Just send your cash Now this is very embarrassing for Hillary Clinton In that The Clinton Foundation is implicated by certainly by Haitians Haitians in New York who you don't see on the news, but they're behind Hillary Clinton protesting saying hey yo where's our billions? Which is just gone. And so what we do now is come up with a and it's too bad for these folks But you know they had it coming We need a distraction! We need to distract the attention from Haiti away from Hillary Clinton and The Clinton Foundation So what do ya' do? Senator Chuck Grassley asked The American Red Cross for a thorough accounting of how its spent donors money in Haiti

2:53:46 The request came after a series of stories from NPR and ProPublica detailing problems the charity was having in the country. For example, how the Red Cross raised almost $500 million but built just six permanent homes Congressional investigators sought to find out where the money went, but according to their report the Red Cross may not even know. What is clear is that the charity kept as much as $124 million for itself — for management and fundraising costs a contingency fund and for things the charity calls program services something Grassley says the Red Cross could not fully explain We did not get satisfactory answers. Grassley, a Republican from Iowa described the process of getting information from the Red Cross as quote pulling teeth. Yeah so they bring their boys in there when they go after The Clinton Foundation or the big bad actors along with that thing on TV makes you question grassley doesn't it?

CHAPTER 44 / 45 Discussion

Non-Profit Fundraising Critique, Neil deGrasse Tyson Cameos

The practice of non-profits like the ACLU hiring third-party "jobs companies" to solicit street donations is criticized as inefficient. Separately, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is accused of losing credibility through excessive media cameos in films like Zoolander 2, following the trajectory of Bill Nye.

aclu· non-profits· neil degrasse tyson· bill nye· zoolander 2

2:54:45 Well, not if this is just a lead-in to further investigations. Okay good point but man Red Cross it's gonna dominate the headlines you know in Europe there are all kinds of problems with Red Cross everywhere and I have to say again...I'm a little tired of the nonprofit sector in the United States of America then how it operates follow on story a couple of kids I talked to earlier in the week when I went to the spin studio, they're always standing on the corner. You can't avoid them and this kid has an ACLU T-shirt on okay now I'm like all right and he's and I just say hey okay I'm interested in hearing about the ACLU and if you already got nervous it was clearly college kids doing this and of course is getting paid so he's telling about you see like a buck signature or something like that right but he's going on about

2:55:44 What is it called again? The... American Civil Liberties Union. Yeah, that's the one I was talking about. American Civil Liberties Union ACLU These talk and he's talking and talking so okay well what do you want in season while you sign up for 20 bucks a month I said okay now you work for ACLU No! I worked for Grassroots Project Texas which is the same fuckers who were doing that for what was the other charity we talked about on the show Save the Porpoises something like that And then I said, wait a minute. So your organization all it does is it hires kids like you to put on a t-shirt and then go out and then you solicit money? And you get paid yes they pay you well or depends on how I do but didn't ask any further. But this whole idea of what it costs to raise money...I'm okay with with a lot of it

2:56:37 But this is just a job company, this is a jobs company and they're a non-profit because they raise money for nonprofits. I think ACLU should get their own children out here and people who can really answer questions and really understand what it's about. I think this should be outlawed. I don't think this is okay just that...because it's twice the money that then gets shaved off." Well, that's an interesting complaint It's obviously been proven that the outsourcing of this sort of work looks better on the books than getting your own people, which you'd have to fire after. There are a lot of non-profits who will say okay we're collecting money for The Gays I'm just going to pick one that is easy to remember

2:57:26 And then they distribute money based upon to different organizations, based upon what they think is right. But when you look at it now we have basically just a sales arm which is non-profit They take their VIG, they pay no taxes Then it goes to... well let's take ACLU ACLU takes that money What do they do? They give it to other nonprofits So there are three nonprofits and those sometimes even give us... so there are four nonprofits That's too much Okay, well we expect to hear this complaint in future shows. I'm not sure what you can do about it. Wow! I do know this much is that if they're going to go after the Red Cross over this Haiti thing they have to go after The Clinton Foundation. They are the ones who collected most and what was the deal with George Bush getting involved? Where did that money go? To the...I have it written down somewhere. I am gonna look up after show so I can give you an answer each time let me just write

2:58:26 And then I would like to say that we will soon be rid of Neil deGrasse Tyson. Oh, now what? No it'll be- We'll be rid of him because he's overexposing himself like a douchebag and it's gonna end He's doing cameos everywhere Everywhere there is a cameo of Neil DeGrasse Tyson But he's turning into Bill Nye the Science Guy Yeah, you'll be done Here he is in Zoolander 2 I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson bitch And here he is in, what is this movie? Keep that- you gotta keep that as an evergreen. Of course I'll keep it as nevergreen. I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson bitch! and here he is in uh forget what this movie was Dr. Tyson What do you make of all this my calculations show that scientifically we're screwed So he has an agent obviously that's placing him Yeah but its dumb It's a bad idea He's completely

2:59:16 Removing his credibility, I feel. I think you're right and here's the way these agents operate they get the guy and they're looking to get him a big show because they are not making any money off of this camp. Yeah, yeah... You're right! So they put him out there and say let see how it is maybe the public loves this guy. Oh he loves it! I like him! And so they say that we could put him in this or heres our vehicle fit right in you got Neil deGrasse Tyson cameo for free And so they drop him in these things or gets scale and so he does the thing, gets his 350 bucks or whatever they pay. And then off he goes and then they start fishing a show where they probably already have a couple designed around him I'll tell you but no, I think he was a terrible host on that clone show where he tried to be Carl Sagan He wasn't any good It gets on your nerves or something? I think that we could come up with a vehicle for him That would work very well But he'd have to listen to us

CHAPTER 45 / 45 Discussion

Mohamed Morsi Sentencing, Show Outro

Former Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi is sentenced to an additional 40 years in prison for allegedly passing state secrets to Qatar. The show concludes with predictions of a "terrorist event" in Britain before the Brexit vote and a final "Be Better" audio mix.

mohamed morsi· egypt· qatar· al jazeera· muslim brotherhood

3:00:15 I don't think he put up with us. Do you have anything else, John? Or should we end this because i know you got the game coming up and there's a lot to do tonight. The games tonight! Let's see... Oh yes, I want to catch up with some stuff let's do the Egypt update and catch up with this oh very good idea Yes, I've been curious In the latest in a string of cases against Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi, this Saturday a court sentenced the former leader and two of his aides to a total of 40 years in jail. The Cairo court also handed the death penalty to six people accused of passing documents related to national security to Qatar during Morsi's rule, among them three journalists tried in absentia. From behind bars Mohamed Morsi sat and listened as another sentence was handed down against Egypt's one-time leader this time 25 years in prison along with another 15 years for a different crime

3:01:14 He's been convicted of handing national security documents to Qatar in a trial that Amnesty International has called fundamentally unfair. Six other defendants have been sentenced to death, among them three journalists including two from the Qatari TV network Al Jazeera though none of the three are currently in Egypt. The court sentences Ahmed Afifi, Mohammed Kilani, Ahmed Ismail, Asma'al Katib, Alla Omar Mohamed and Ibrahim Mohamed Hilal to death. Qatar was a firm backer of Morsi when he was Egypt's president but relations between Egypt and Qatar took a nosedive after he was overthrown by the army in July

3:01:58 2013 since then Morsi's movement the Muslim Brotherhood has been brutally suppressed by Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi regime Okay, your analysis. Oh there you go I mean this guy gets elected he screws up by being a douchebag and they Overthrow him but I thought was interesting I didn't realize that the the Qataris were or the cutter rights whatever this cutter rights The cutter eyes from cutter were that who linked in, I guess they were largely money men behind the Breslin motherhood. And of course Uma Aberdeen is directly connected to the Breslin brotherhood or the Breslin motherhood Well there was never a boring moment John that's for sure

3:02:47 Now, predictions for the week. Trump will emerge as a hero of the left with his NRA deal I think that's already done it's just the announcement is waiting and somehow he's gonna look like The Great Uniter And I do have to say, I think times are desperate enough that something may pop off in the terrorist realm in Britain before Thursday. Well if it doesn't then Brexit's not going to go through its gonna get overthrown with a pro-EU vote and this stock market is gonna skyrocket for about a week. You heard it here first, everybody and coming to you from the skyscraper, the crackpot condo in downtown Austin Tejas FEMA region six in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from Northern Silicon Valley where it's turning out to be a scorcher. I'm John C Dvorak we will return on Thursday right here on no agenda adios mofos

3:03:42 I didn't actually interact directly with people in the IT arena. Somebody whose name was... Kenny when I was last here, his first name may have been Ben. A dude named Beth. A dude named Beth. I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, Beth's dad. Taxpayers giving up their money so I don't have to pay any more than they do. The world is under-resourced. Does law enforcement know that? Does the law enforcement know that? Does the law enforcement know that?

3:04:39 This time, if you had this Dr. Tyson, what do you make of all this? My calculations show that scientifically we're screwed Flying over Afghanistan Or maybe it was Pakistan I promised myself to aim myself at every woman child and man That was on my list

3:05:48 I don't care if i missed. I'm remote controlled, I do what I am told by someone at a computer Obama gave me a push more than Bush and I cost millions I was supposed to target terrorists but not so much civilians I don't know what to say whoops some got in my... drone again naturally a drone again naturally.

3:06:51 on a golf course making deals and you allow that to happen, and you're okay with that. Let's give it up for the brothers. There are a lot of cool men out here! For the men out here be better. Your family's life do the dishes You know? Be better. Be Better. Your family's life Do the dishes. You know? Be Better Be better, be better, be better, be better, be better, be better, be better, be better, be better, be better, be better, be better. Amen. Fist bump. Adios mofo. The best podcast in the universe! Borac dot org slash N A