Episode 949 · Sunday, 23 July 2017

Bro_splosion

Silicon Valley faces a reckoning over bro culture as Twitter blacklists independent media and Patreon deplatforms activists, while the White House undergoes a volatile communications shakeup.

By The No Agenda Show | 3h 5m listen | 42 chapters
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The No Agenda Show · No. 949

About this episode

Twitter blocked all links to the No Agenda Show and its associated domains this week, flagging independent media traffic as potential bot activity or dangerous content. The platform's automated systems effectively blacklisted the show's infrastructure, forcing a move to alternative domain forwards. Meanwhile, Patreon terminated the account of commentator Lauren Southern over her involvement in the Defend Europe mission, where the ship Sea Star is currently monitoring NGO migrant rescue boats off the Libyan coast.

In the White House, Anthony Scaramucci took over as Communications Director, triggering the immediate resignation of Press Secretary Sean Spicer. This staff overhaul coincided with a ten-tweet storm from President Trump regarding the Russia investigation and healthcare. In the private sector, Erik Prince has pivoted his Frontier Services Group toward Chinese security interests in Africa, while Oracle founder Larry Ellison was spotted at San Francisco International Airport praising the performance of his Nissan GT-R over his multi-million dollar Bugatti. In Seattle, a new income tax proposal targeting high earners has sparked a backlash among Amazon tech workers in the South Lake Union district.

Biological oddities take center stage with a deconstruction of a PBS documentary on elephant reproductive mechanics, featuring the specialized equipment used for electrical stimulation. The hosts also analyze the scripted nature of mainstream media through a montage of news anchors using the identical phrase The Juice is Loose to describe OJ Simpson's parole. Sir Matthew Black Belt Financial Advisor and Sir Dude Name Matt receive knighthoods during the donor roll.


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CHAPTER 02 / 42 Discussion

Patreon Terminates Lauren Southern Account Over Defend Europe

Patreon deactivated the account of millennial commentator Lauren Southern, citing her involvement in the "Defend Europe" mission as a violation of terms regarding endangering lives. This action highlights the risks of centralized crowdfunding platforms and the potential for payment processors like PayPal to shut down independent media infrastructure.

patreon· lauren southern· defund europe· censorship· payment processors· paypal· value-for-value

03:24 They just we think somebody's probably was some Antifa Antifa and then of course in the news that are also pointed out that Lauren Southern a rabble-rousing troublemaking Millennial up in Vancouver BC she had her patreon count account killed Yeah, and and killed is a good term because what was what was the reasoning she got? She was encouraging murder or something. Well, actually I looked this up because it was too easy for everyone to say oh these guys are nuts you buy your viewer. I think the exact term was raising funds that may possibly put life in danger or endanger lives something to that order and as I was watching Lauren's

04:13 YouTube video about this. And before we get to that, let's just stop for a second and say this is exactly the reason why we have said be careful what you do with your money if you want to deploy the value-for-value model. People say well why don't use Patreon? This is why! There's something even more concerning about Patreon When you look at all their communication with Lauren Southern, it's all about our creators. Our creator is this, our creator is that. You guys just used to be a great way to get money and now everyone who's on Patreon as your creator? It's achy gooey and stinky. Yeah, it's just the people using Patreon are there work for them That's kind of the way it comes across to me

05:06 Yeah, our creators. Our people are this or that it's not got nothing to do with you It's all about them So what of course is a will become a problem I hate to put it out there But eventually someone's gonna report us to PayPal and we will be shut off from PayPal for an X amount of time It's bound to happen would you not agree? I'd be surprised if it didn't I'm pretty close with PayPal, but you know it goes like this. I work with PayPal because we have to keep this thing running smoothly. Yes it's how we pay our rent yes is kind of important and PayPal always provides you with people that are

05:49 For a while, we had our own kind of guy and then we had our own girl. And then now it's become more generalized and I'm always getting the impression what would happen is that well you know I call one of them up this is the future I call one of them up and they say yeah well it's not...I know you guys are fine it's just somebody else above get the word came down. Yeah! Word came down that's it Yeah, sorry. There's really nothing I can do yeah now. No, I can't escalate it any higher It's just not possible say it's not on my skip logic sheet anyway and talk to the guy oh no Well you know we make so much fun of Pierre drive my car That's a Lauren thing about that letter that was sent to Lauren which is in the last newsletter? Yeah um it says this does not open for discussion mm-hmm well But have some thoughts about that

CHAPTER 03 / 42 Discussion

Defend Europe Mission Targets NGO Migrant Rescue Boats

The Defend Europe mission, led by European Identitarians, deployed the ship Sea Star to the Mediterranean to monitor NGOs operating off the Libyan coast. The group alleges that these NGOs act as "water taxis" for human traffickers and plans to document radio signals and coordinate with the Libyan Coast Guard to block migrant transport into Europe.

defend europe· libya· ngos· human trafficking· mediterranean sea· george soros· identitarians

06:39 Because I was watching Lauren's video, and I've never really seen her but it turns out Tina likes her and she follows her and she'd been you know, she's you know, I got a routine. I likes the rebel Rousers and And so I'm listening to this video, and she goes into well this is just ridiculous about raising money that could put lives in danger. And then she launches into this whole thing about defend Europe blah blah blah...and it's so convoluted! I'm like hold on a second you are protesting a little too much what is going on? And it turns out that she is, she initially wanted to go on this mission but I guess she sent someone or a lot of people want to be on this defend Europe mission. I don't know if you've heard of this? Well yeah. You have or haven't? Now I have kind of heard of it seems like just a futile publicity stunt. Well now I think its very interesting what's happening here

07:33 We'll explain. Alright, so this is a group of people who have come up with the... I have a short clip with one of the founders he's uh i don't know what European country he's from but he's talking mainly about Italy in this case and they recognize something we have seen for a long time that we have a bunch of non-governmental organizations NGOs And a lot of them, and I did the work for you. You can just...I did the Googles A lot of them have been financed by the Open Society Institute by George Soros and they take their rescue boats and They are now almost off the Libyan coast So all you have to do is kind of jump in the water swim and ah! And they'll pick you up and then they bring into Europe and then you're good to go welcome aboard

08:21 And there are people in Europe taking issue with this. They say, hold on a second! This is not exactly the way it's supposed to go and who... what are these NGOs all about? I mean it's one thing to save dying people It's another thing to be you know one nautical mile off the coast of Libya just waiting for people to show up and are they maybe in collusion with some of these human traffickers? Here's a clip from this is the intro video on the Defend Europe Nation website. This exodus is stabilizing poverty and chaos in Africa that is creating emigration the first place if you invite the whole of Africa, you don't help Africa... You become Africa

08:59 but we don't want to become Africa and that's why we are not planning our vacations, but we're planning everything in our power to defend Europe. The immigration the Islamization all those problems it all started at borders in the Mediterranean Sea and it needs to end there And the problem are those NGOs They are working as water taxis, ferrying migrants from the Libyan shore to Italy basically cooperating with human trafficking rings. They help them earn a fortune and they are luring as a classical pull factor migrants in the sea in unfit cocktails which led to the death of many

09:38 Frontex as well as the Libyan Coast Guard are agreeing on the fact that those NGOs are making the situation worse. Italy has even created a strict code of conduct for them a few days ago, but nobody actually goes there controls and polices them... Well until now We have gathered a crew and organized to ship to actually go there in July and guard the borders of Europe Yesterday the Sea Star left the port of Djibouti and is now heading north. As soon as we arrive there, we will overwatch the NGOs record all of their radio signals expose possible communication with human traffickers and intervene when they're doing something illegal We'll cooperate with the Libyan Coast Guard to inform them every time when a NGO ship tries to enter Libyan waters

10:25 And we will try to sink all the abandoned migrant and trafficker ships. Do you see the issue here? You can't go against the globalist state and use their money supply at the same time, it just doesn't work that way. It's like hey! We don't want this, we don't want the migrants. This is bullcrap. So are you thinking Patreon is an agent of the globalist state? I think Pierre DriveMyCarOmediaR is yes who shut off PayPal for WikiLeaks have not forgotten never forget. Oh yes Never forget He's- this guy is the leader of the Austrian Identitarians. Sounds groovy too! So, I understand... Yeah, you know, let's hope Patreon got a call from somewhere else that hey you can't be in part of financing this You just can't be apart of that That's why it's not up for discussion It seems very very cut and dry to me That's what going on

CHAPTER 04 / 42 Discussion

Hatreon Launch and Social Justice Warrior Lists

A new funding platform called Hatreon has emerged as an alternative for creators banned from mainstream sites, featuring figures like Richard Spencer. The hosts discuss how their own Mastodon instance led to them being placed on "alt-right" lists by activists targeting their infrastructure.

hatreon· richard spencer· mastodon· social justice warriors· alt-right· censorship

11:21 Well, it was cut and dry. And that was the end of that stream income stream Yes There is a there is a new one popped up though a new funding site patreon which I think is pretty cool Patreon. No, Hatreon! Oh, Hatreon? You know what you could do is Matreon. By the way, Patreon is very sexist. How can you ever be a social justice warrior and have a Patreon patriarchy Patreon account?! No it should be Matreon. Yes well Hatreon is already up and running I think Hatreon's very funny let's see featured creators they're doing they making the same mistake

12:01 There's lots of frogs on this website. Okay, Richard Spencer. Is it Pepe the frog? Yes! Richard Spencer... Oh yeah, it's gonna be great Your creators rock dude Jeez Anyway You know Tina was really taken aback by this She said well how does that- How can that be?! Like what do you mean how could it be? Did you just get enough people clicking on a link saying I suck and then the algos kick in and you're done The absolutely done now. This was clearly a timed algo so whatever happened it came unglued I don't think someone went in said all gee these guys must be good Let me just go and look at no, I agree with that there's totally a time That's why I said try again later Yeah And we did and we tried and we tried but it took five or six hours at least

12:50 But yeah, this is... I mean you- and I want to say all of this started with the Mastodon site we set up. That's where all this bullcrap started So I'll put a hand on my own bosom for a moment because you recall what happened is there were social justice warriors calling us KKK and alt right quadroons And I think it's right Nazi quadroons, and you know and everyone the no agenda social.com got into in like yay piss off snowflake. Well, you know? So that resulted in us being getting onto lists if it sounds familiar. We're on some lists run lists and then people like we're let's do a podcast. Let's go over to their advertisers well that didn't work out too well for them because we don't have them but going after your infrastructure is an obvious next step and then so I said when that happens

CHAPTER 05 / 42 Discussion

Bitcoin Volatility and Practicality for Podcast Donations

The hosts debate the utility of Bitcoin for the value-for-value model, expressing skepticism due to its price volatility and the difficulty of paying rent with cryptocurrency. While some listeners advocate for Bitcoin as a way to bypass the banking system, the hosts prefer direct checks or traditional payment methods for operational stability.

bitcoin· cryptocurrency· donations· payment systems· banking· volatility

13:50 I'm done. If they undo it, great we'll continue but... And we're not gonna go to Bitcoin let's put it that way Please don't send email about it Can you imagine? We had bitcoin donations and then Oh hey um oh well I just put in the bank and went down to 1800 No I'm sorry Sorry about your rent Oh well You have to economize somehow Then it pops back up and even more pissed You know, the way that you could stop this first of all you have to kill PayPal and you have to kill a couple because we still haven't legacy version. Yeah right now which is not necessarily easy now and although it did happen with Omidar killing the Wikileaks money

14:38 And then we also have checks, which are direct payments pretty much. And we also have direct into bank accounts so you don't have to kill the bank account. I love it how people in the chat room immediately go these guys still do not understand Bitcoin! Oh by the way it's at 2800 right now! Yeah fantastic Right. I can understand that, John. Here's better. Whenever we get our money right every two weeks there is a little money to go pay our rent once you give that to me all day trade it for a little bit and then I guarantee there'll be more when I give it back to ya guaranteed no problem That's Bitcoin you morons!

15:16 It's going to be worth a half-a-million dollars per coin. Yeah, that's why I've held on to mine. I'm holding onto them! That's not the problem... Yeah your one coin is retirement. I just don't want to be paid in Bitcoin unless my landlord accepts it which he doesn't. Let's go back to this thing and ask this question if you would Why do you want to pay us in bitcoin in the first place? Just pay us! You gotta take say you're gonna pay us 500 bucks or 100 So you could just get us $100 through PayPal or a check. It's really easy to do, or you can send us a bill!

15:54 Or you can go through the rigmarole of getting a piece of Bitcoin, calculating its value and then having it sent to us. And we have to calculate its value and put it through... It's a rigamarole! There is still $100 involved. I respect that. I understand. That's idealism. Hey, I'm not dealing with PayPal. That's idealism. It's fine. Checks are great. Checks are better than PayPal I'm just saying that. I understand, and we don't want to be a part of the banking system even though you have to get your bitcoins, your money into bitcoin somehow. If you don't want to be part of the banking system i think you've really got some issues Don't you think? Well...

16:34 I want to be a part of the payment system. I'm not saying that I like it, but despise the banking system. But yeah, I want to be apart of it. What this is other people too pussy to do anything, but they want to use us to drive Bitcoin. You see? They're not going to say to their boss, fuck you just pay me in bitcoin now, but we have to do that. That's what that's what's going on here. You guys should be the leaders in this. We're not that we're not leaders where we do news deconstruction When people always ask us to do stuff, hey well you guys should take Be More Activist. I do not want believe me...I went to Cal Berkeley! I do not wanna get involved in activism except for my wife she should become the city council member up in Port Angeles Washington but that's as activist is I'm gonna get and as I watched a local crap that goes on these little communities I can see that big-time activism it just futile stupid

CHAPTER 06 / 42 Discussion

Vietnam War Protests and Government Apathy

A brief discussion on the futility of activism cites John McNamara's biography, suggesting that Vietnam War protests had little impact on government policy. The hosts argue that intelligence agencies and the administrative state continue to operate regardless of public demonstrations or administration changes.

vietnam war· john mcnamara· activism· government· protests

17:38 You're not accomplishing anything. Go read John McNamara's book, it's a partial biography where he discusses the Vietnam War. It turns out that all these protests and everything had nothing to do with the ending of the war! What were they about? Nothing! They got nothing, government doesn't care They do what they do. That's true, well that's true and we're seeing that with this administration We're seeing government just wants to run the way it's always run by the intelligence agencies They run on everything they'd running everything and they don't like it but their mechanism if they want to use any use a Correct me from mistaken but did the rain sticks do their trick once again? You know his work. It's raining where The wildfires in Candanavia

CHAPTER 07 / 42 Discussion

North Korea Missile Threats and Hawaii Preparedness Drills

Hawaii officials have launched a public preparedness campaign for a potential North Korean nuclear strike, including "shelter-in-place" drills. Critics argue the threat is exaggerated to secure federal funding or control travel, noting similar media cycles occurred in 2014 without incident.

north korea· hawaii· nuclear attack· civil defense· tourism· cia· intercontinental missile

18:28 Yeah, no I mean that's amazing Haven't you noticed by now we've been using these things? Yeah, I know and of course Houston's mad at me because it'd be raining like crazy in Houston. And it'll come here to Austin whenever we shake the rain sticks three days later It rains an awesome but the energy somehow is directed and...I don't know it works even Stephen Hawking Is in agreement. It has been scientifically proven that the no agenda rain sticks work You're welcome Canada Proof from the BBC right there. There you go If Hawking says a thing, you know it's got to be true So again we have the North Koreans This is bogus story the new bogus story about they're gonna again by the way We played the clip I think just a few weeks ago Back from about two or three years ago where the North Koreans were gonna bomb Hawaii is all as having Israel people

19:23 I mean this was like three years ago. They were gonna bomb Hawaii and everyone there are you put we moved a bunch of ships nearby that had anti-missile technology God knows what it cost to drive one of those things over from point A to point B with a lot of money Let me just see if I have a clip from, uh... Was it three years ago? You said? About two and a half three years ago It's a let's just look for high think Hawaii would be in on there We found it last time pretty easily also tonight American warships are tracking a North Korean vessel off the coast of China December 2nd 2014 you were right just about three years ago. Yeah, so he this is here we go dated version Here we go again This is a clip as DPRK Hawaii Americans will be banned from traveling to North Korea as tensions with that country continued to rise The threat has officials in Hawaii concerned enough that they are rolling out of preparedness plan which includes sheltering and place in the event North Korea launches a missile

20:19 Duck, roll and cover. Shelter in place! Everybody get out! We're gonna bomb you! Go go! I love Hawaii stories. And our CIA...I'm sorry. No just a little Hawaii story so we can play the ventures with this one one second. Alright that's all i needed to hear Now, yes. All I think you can legally play now here and of course CBS which is the outlet of the real government spokespeople They have a little longer this Hawaii under threat is a little longer Okay, officials in Hawaii are launching a campaign to help residents plan for a possible nuclear attack from North Korea It comes weeks after North Korea successfully test-fired and man This is such a bummer just last night. I said that Tina look a tiny house in Hawaii Maybe that's where we can retire And now that's off the table

21:04 It comes weeks after North Korea successfully test-fired an intercontinental missile that could potentially reach the Aloha State. Here's Carter Evans North Korean missile launches are now much more than just scary images for the nearly one and a half million people who live in the Hawaiian Islands. Based on what you've seen, can a North Korean missile hit Hawaii? Yeah I think there's no question about that. Jeffrey Lewis is a nuclear policy expert at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies It's frightening and so we need to take it seriously but we also need to be calm

21:41 And we need to be measured and we need to know that there are things that we can do. First you duck, and then you cover. Hawaii will not dust off these 1950s era civil defense drills what they are doing is warning residents that if a missile is launched prepare not just for the initial strike but also the fallout That could mean sheltering in place for up to two weeks. Man they read the same release didn't they? The whole shelter-in-place Bob man someone needs this is unconscionable. Yeah, this is fantastic. This was terrorism right here. This is terrorism Terrorism and someone need to do a make it em so he needs to do a mix of

22:25 The ventures and ducking cover, it would work great. Even though the threat is small we can't ignore it. Vern Miyagi is with Hawaii's Emergency Management Agency and he says there's a difficult balance between warning the public and scaring off tourists When I see stuff like how they prepare for nuclear attack that's way overboard We're not preparing for nuclear attack this is just a hazard like tsunamis like hurricanes Natural disasters though can't be prevented. Nuclear attacks can. A nuclear war is just such a horrible outcome that every moment you spend preparing for it is probably better spent trying to prevent it from ever happening

23:04 Hawaii's tourism authority is also taking the threat very seriously. The threat to the state's bottom line, this is the height of the busy summer travel season and they're saying the risk is not big enough to cancel any trips. Reena? Why am I getting deja vu of Puerto Rico when I hear this story I don't know. I get deja vu of the 2014 report that said pretty much the same thing. I'm getting a deja vu, I'm thinking Hawaii has... it's very heavily dependent upon federal government then there is little mention of oh we don't want to scare off tourists guess what you're scaring off the tourists maybe there is some kind of... Is there a Hawaiian financial package coming? Let me see. I don't think so. I could be totally wrong this just my spidey sense

23:53 I got lots of financial... Spidey sense! Spidey sense. Well? Spidey sense. We have people on the islands, they'll tell us, they'll let us know. Yeah we do, we have a few. No this is i think the same as 2014 thing it's like it's one day they want to scare us about North Korea And they don't want people going there. I mean, they can stop in tourist visas because people go in there and I'm sure there's a lot of them They don't give us any numbers but I'm sure that it is enough because I want to go and you're coming back saying what this Is pretty cool over there? I do not see any big deal so then we got that guy arrested who was stealing posters

24:36 but and then who died mysteriously. Yeah, and so they emphasize that they don't emphasize they don't talk to anybody just goes over there to take pictures or look at the scenery or see what kind of service they have to put up with in the restaurants and hotels or that crazy zoo where's my picture? Where is my Yelp reviewers when I saw that picture of that zoo Lookup the North Korean Zoo and just take a look at it. It's outstanding Wow some modern looking cool zoo They don't want anybody coming back with pictures. Just keep people from going there, put out these bogus stories and then scare the Hawaii- we can't scare the people in Seattle because you could hit Seattle from North Korea as easy as you can Hawaii period is what another five feet so they

25:23 No, no. We don't want to do that because the Seattleites will get all bent out of shape Microsoft's up there Amazon's up there we can't do that and you know And you know Seattle has real problems right now I mean serious serious problems you heard What serious problems late afternoon and thousands of Amazon workers are ending their day They're streaming out of the company's ever-expanding compound of glassy glossy office buildings in the South Lake Union neighborhood Heading for the Whole Foods or running for the streetcar. Oh This is the world of young techies, Kate and John Walter. We're in this situation where we're living in a small apartment just to kind of make ends meet right now. John says rents are rising so fast they can't save up to buy he's thinking about using the experience here leaving and going somewhere where rent isn't so astronomical it could only get worse. John likes Seattle's latest idea

CHAPTER 08 / 42 Discussion

Seattle Income Tax Proposal and Amazon Tech Culture

Seattle is considering a new income tax on individuals earning over $250,000 to fund affordable housing and homeless services. The proposal has sparked debate among Amazon tech workers regarding fairness and the high cost of living in the South Lake Union neighborhood.

seattle· income tax· amazon· wealth tax· affordable housing· tech workers

24:36 but and then who died mysteriously. Yeah, and so they emphasize that they don't emphasize they don't talk to anybody just goes over there to take pictures or look at the scenery or see what kind of service they have to put up with in the restaurants and hotels or that crazy zoo where's my picture? Where is my Yelp reviewers when I saw that picture of that zoo Lookup the North Korean Zoo and just take a look at it. It's outstanding Wow some modern looking cool zoo They don't want anybody coming back with pictures. Just keep people from going there, put out these bogus stories and then scare the Hawaii- we can't scare the people in Seattle because you could hit Seattle from North Korea as easy as you can Hawaii period is what another five feet so they

25:23 No, no. We don't want to do that because the Seattleites will get all bent out of shape Microsoft's up there Amazon's up there we can't do that and you know And you know Seattle has real problems right now I mean serious serious problems you heard What serious problems late afternoon and thousands of Amazon workers are ending their day They're streaming out of the company's ever-expanding compound of glassy glossy office buildings in the South Lake Union neighborhood Heading for the Whole Foods or running for the streetcar. Oh This is the world of young techies, Kate and John Walter. We're in this situation where we're living in a small apartment just to kind of make ends meet right now. John says rents are rising so fast they can't save up to buy he's thinking about using the experience here leaving and going somewhere where rent isn't so astronomical it could only get worse. John likes Seattle's latest idea

26:20 Tax the people who make more than $250,000 a year to raise 140 million dollars a year for things like affordable housing services for the homeless and transit so people can get to work from the places where they can afford to live. It's what you've always been asking for John it's a wealth tax of course they're now saying two people... This is not a wealth tax this is an income tax hold on I want to make something clear about the wealth tax. Income tax, where you're taxing somebody's income stream is a lot different than taxing somebody's tangible assets. Agreed. And this is not a wealth tax. It's just a gouging tax. Yes and the gouging apparently happens at a combined income of $250,000. Right. Nice! Would you say the same thing if it was you making over 250? Yeah

27:13 I would. There's zero income tax here! Yeah, let's get social! So I absolutely would. Socialism is not bad! Kate says if she ever made a quarter million in a year... Let's get social! ...she wouldn't want to be singled out Why is it fair that I worked so hard to get to that point and now I'm forced to pay more? I on the other hand make so much money that I could afford seven apartments Software engineer Ashok Chandwani Oh you get the idea You get the idea So you probably, it's just a bunch of whining techies up in the Amazon. What do they do? They're just picking back. I don't know what technical stuff that they doing. Picking back and pack. Hey was this box going out and put in his giant box. Ever get like a Amazon package with a little item in this huge box because it just so happened to be the box going by on the assembly line. I don't know how it works but yeah I've seen

28:03 Cracks me up every time. It's like the box weighs nothing, so you see the guy lugging I have stairways stairsteps to get up to the house and so the guys lugging this box is huge box of no that's poor bastard He's carrying this huge price there's nothing in the boxes dead empty Scott it's got it at one one USB thing in it But it's a I find that the number so incredulous $250,000 Okay, so the 250 per person combined 500 thousand. Yeah you're definitely rich but... Well you know rich? The people who make that money... You have good cash flow is what you've got being rich you don't have an income you just living it up. Hmm okay

28:47 Seems to me. I don't know, I'm around a lot of rich people in this area and you are too And the rich of the richest they don't really have an income A lot of them like that In fact here's my favorite thing they like to do is mock Mock The little man Oh! I am only taking one dollar for my salary You ever seen that? I mean I think Gates pulled it Every once in awhile I think Steve Jobs pulled it Yeah Steve Jobs did it I'm only making a dollar What? Get out of here, you phony. Oh man... Yeah that's right I'm only making a dollar exactly oh well

CHAPTER 09 / 42 Discussion

Luxury Car Culture and the 0.01 Percent

Observations of luxury car culture in Austin and Beverly Hills highlight the use of provocative vanity plates, such as "0.001 PCT." The hosts discuss the lifestyle implications of owning supercars like Lamborghinis and Ferraris, including high maintenance costs and the social signaling involved.

lamborghini· ferrari· austin· beverly hills· luxury cars· vanity plates

29:29 Just just seems like more nonsense, but it's more of the social stuff. You know everyone's gonna be oh It's great I was talking about because when they describe Seattle like oh that the Amazon tech workers and they have a go to Whole Foods little Starbucks Like come in it sounds like Austin I hate to say it But we have gone down that path a little and I'm driving down the garage and we're you know six flights which are disturbingly long And there's been this Lamborghini that's parked I'm not even in a reserved spot. One of the new, brand new, brand new and there's a couple of the new ones that they saw there was a lot of them in LA and there's a place across from this bookstore I go to Samuel French is just

30:13 It releases cells, I don't know what they do but they got a bunch of these lamb- Lambos. Lambos. And there's one new one that I looked at and couldn't... This thing is outrageous! Like it looks like it's from outer space. I've never seen anything so amazing. I don't know if this is one of them because I've only seen the rear end and its parked there all the time. It gets dusty then after a week or so it's been cleaned. over there and scrape with your finger, wash me. Well... And then put a smiley face on it." You're gonna want a better slogan because he finally got the temp plates taken off and now he's got his permanent plates? Yeah 0.001 PCT

30:52 That's his license plate. I'm part of the 0.01% bitches, that's what he is saying. Oh is that what he s- oh... What an ass mush! That is a dick move And he's looking for keys Somebody should t-bone this guy Can you believe that? I really want to know who that belongs too Like gotta see this guy or girl it could be woman We never think about do we Women are just not so douchey They could be douchey. Nah, but you never see a douchey woman in a Lambo. I don't believe a woman would do that. It's really more of a man's car too. You've got to have a small penis to want that car. Really micro-penis probably. I don't have a micro-penis and I want that car! Well pictures or it didn't happen Dvorak... Although i have to say....I don't have one

31:49 And if I really wanted one, I would have one. I mean, I know people that got into the Ferrari... they get a Ferrari! And then there becomes a lifestyle thing. It's a decision you make because it changes the way you spend money. House or car, that is pretty much your decision right there? You end up with the car being very hard to maintain and you have to drive it all... The dealer says, I knew a guy who had one of these cars and he said, the guys bitch at you if you don't drive it a lot because these cars are meant to be driven they're not Museum pieces. I saw one in Rome, a blue Ferrari with an old dude just racing around brrraaahhh brrrraaaahh brrrraaaaahhhh Just at the roundabouts in front of the Coliseum

32:33 In Beverly Hills, if you go to any restaurant there... You were cruising right? There's a bunch of douchebags in Lambos. They're all Arabs and they'd go like 90 miles an hour making as much noise as they can. They keep in the lowest gear And they just go around it. If they get busted, they just leave the country It's unbelievable Anyway, it's like my racism there sorry Yeah that's okay We are wrong about that Find out who this guy is And why is he living in your apartment? How come he's not some, you know, mini mansion or a mansion. Well because I mean look we've got the Google building going up right next to us and downtown is going to be tech mecca I presume maybe it's in the penthouse these are penthouse in there yes Yes, I've seen it It's quite well that's his place He's up there just why doesn't have a reserved parking spot then maybe he does Maybe that's where he keeps his his Bugatti Okay

CHAPTER 10 / 42 Discussion

Larry Ellison and the Nissan GT-R

An anecdote describes a chance encounter with Oracle founder Larry Ellison at the San Francisco airport. Ellison reportedly praised his Nissan GT-R as being superior to his Bugatti, despite the Nissan being significantly less expensive than other supercars in his collection.

larry ellison· nissan gt-r· bugatti· san francisco airport· supercars

33:28 Enough about that. These kind of conversations are weird, okay here's my last one of these conversations so I see Larry Ellison he is at the San Francisco airport and he has got one of those Nissan GT's which is an $85000 super car but it's a cheap super car its 85 grand or less than 100 thousand which is I guess inexpensive But it's everyone I got to drive one once and there I didn't like it personally, but anyway So he's getting out of it. And I pull up by say hey Larry because I didn't expect to see him He I've seen him before but I didn't expect to see him in one of these cars I expected a Lambo or a Ferrari and he said what do you think is that car that? Because I know about these cars. He said and he says this is the best car I own He says it's much better than the Bugatti

34:21 That's the best answer I could think of. I'm thinking, okay bye! Hey really spud boy? Really you think so? Douche Anyway we'll just uh yeah because of course now i live in a bag and building with 0.01 percenters Yeah that's exactly it that's right everybody Yeah I'm rich podcasting rich I am Don't get me started You gotta get personalized placing P-O-D-C-A-S-T-R Yeah, that'll look great. Yeah right next to that guy in the first clip I played about the defend Europe mission you heard that they were leaving from Djibouti and Djibouti is one of my favorite places in Africa because you like saying it because I like saying and mainly because now my duty is your duty

CHAPTER 11 / 42 Discussion

Erik Prince and Chinese Security Interests in Africa

Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, has shifted his focus to Frontier Services Group, a Chinese-owned private security firm. The company is securing contracts in Somalia and Djibouti, aligning with China's "String of Pearls" strategy to build military and logistics bases across the South China Sea and Africa.

erik prince· frontier services group· china· djibouti· somalia· spratly islands· blackwater

35:11 And we have a base there, the drone base. The African Drone Base which flies all over you know can zip across the Gulf there go check out Yemen go down and check out Somalia what's going on? But also for awhile there has been a base from the new organization set up by Eric Prince who of course know from Blackwater and Zee and later Academy And he's not found much love with, at the end of the tail end of the Obama administration for gigs. I don't think the Trump administration is interested in him. So he's turned to the Chiners and this has been bubbling under for a while that his new clients are the Chinese, but he's really doing some interesting things when it comes to the pearly necklace or whatever the Chinese think they're building. So a few years back... This by the way is a retired Green Beret. Who was this? Derek Gannon became

36:15 the new head of a private, I don't want to say military but private security corporation or company that is basically Chinese-owned. It's called Frontier Services Group now he went to Beijing and proposed this new private industry, private security company to the major investors in China And a state-owned investment company purchased the majority of the proposal and is basically pretty much the sole investor, sole owner of the Frontier Services Group. Since then, Eric Prince and his Chinese own Frontier Services Group has really been trying to expand in Africa itself—and actually now currently Afghanistan but

37:00 To kind of reiterate with the Chinese base, the Chinese naval base in Djibouti — they're touting that's going to be used for security along the Somali coast. But a couple months back, Eric Prince's Frontier Services Group had just won a security contract and a development contract for Southwest State in southern Somalia. It's all part of China's plan for what they call a string of pearls The String of Pearls kind of scenario is China building all those islands up in Spratly, and the Spratly Islands region in the South China Sea. It's just all of a sudden cropping up these Legoland-like bases which they don't call them bases some are touted as desalination centers but then you see 3D satellite overlay images and they've got missile systems anti aircraft missiles

37:47 fighter planes, bays and runways that can basically... I think we need to bring this Prince dude in. We need to have him on the Hill. We should be talking to him. What you doing boy? What's up with that? Yeah somethings up! The Chinese are building little islands and little string of pearls? This is the big stink they were making. We always have our boats going by there saying you guys are building too many... They're building Islands and I guess it's gonna be..I don't blame them because we're dominating the region. I don't know... Well, you mentioned it and that has something to do with the...I'm sure the African policy that China has. Which probably brings me...I should read this...our economic hitman... Oh good! You got a note from him? Fabulous. I do have a note from him and it might be worth reading because he's... And to explain The Economic Hitman we really need to go and read the book Confessions of The Economic Hitman by John Perkins

CHAPTER 12 / 42 Discussion

Economic Hitman Criticizes Trump's Africa Policy

A listener identifying as an "Economic Hitman" argues that President Trump's cuts to USAID are ceding geopolitical influence in Africa to China. The correspondent also defends the refugee relocation system, claiming that computerized vetting has prevented terrorist activity among relocated populations since 1975.

john perkins· usaid· china· africa· refugees· donald trump· clinton foundation

38:47 Read the first one, not the second. And get the first one. The second one is after he got co-opted and threatened I guess. He's like, well it wasn't all that bad but yeah pretty much have a read of that. Have a read where the concept is we go in and say hey you know guess what? We're gonna help you rebelize everything when to put you in power then we're going to build it all back up with our companies here. Bechtel or the other ones Bechtel. Bechtel is the main one that's what he works for, KKR and all the... There are a bunch of these guys. He works this economic hit management works for USAID mostly. Yeah which is just... And I've listened to every single show you write since HRC lost in Trump won. So because I'm a creature having what else can I listen to which lasts three hours? Well, I do not support HRC. I was and remain 100% opposed to DJT

39:44 I am so for practical reasons which i do not believe make it onto your shows. Oh, okay. Yes well probably not. Is he going to help us? Mainly because we don't talk policy. I tell this to people we're not we're not policy analysts necessarily we deconstruct news examine the damage to diplomacy and the real threat to lives overseas as a direct result of his cuts to USAID and state bring to the state department. So what he's saying is he doesn't like it that his budget is being cut? No, if you listen... yes that's the way we would deconstruct it but he would see a different way He says were hurting poor people Yeah exactly yeah as I laugh. He is ceding to China this is where really bugs me Trump? He says Trump is ceding to China

40:37 He says he is ceding to China all of Africa and many parts of Asia with his isolationist stans. His belief that we will only give money to countries which present a strategic relationship is born from the mouth of Bannon and will result in a complete abandonment of Africa and other regions where our diplomacy and financial support has been helpful to lift countries out of the morass, into a demographic and economic transition.

41:15 As for refugees, I designed the software which manages all the refugees relocation agencies and it remains in place to this very day from 10 years ago when i found a completely paper-based solution. And there was paper that is computerized Since 1975, not a single relocated refugee has participated in any type of terrorist activity within the USA. The Boston bombings were asylum cases. There have been 11 Somalis who have left the USA and been killed back in Somalia but they were known and could not have returned to the USA." Now this to me seems like an aside

41:52 In other words, what I think he's accumulated is a bunch of complaints that the media has been kind of feeding. And he's taking you know, he's writing it up for us to consider anyway, he goes on about how the refugee relocation system is what he's saying here is okay? It's not out a big deal and it's not like the way Trump presents it but you know, Trump hasn't done anything anyway He says, I went to Jordan and saw people waiting for years to have their refugee status affirmed. Hold on. Most difficult... What people? People from Syria? Yeah sure but it's just a percentage of what is coming into the United States and Europe. It's just a fraction. Of course we have empathy

42:40 The most difficult case to place in the United States is a single male. Nearly 80% of their refugees are families, father mother and children these people get five points per case every Wednesday the refugee and he goes on with a bunch of details about this and how they're placed in North Dakota and all the rest anyway let's see if there's anything I can skip ahead. Detroit? Well I look at Dearborn Michigan where the largest Iraqi population exists in the United States and there are no issues except for their pricing of hummus over there at that one deli. Look at Wisconsin, which took on the Hmong from Cambodia and nothing has happened etc., etc... Oh yes, but here's what I don't understand then I have big respect for our economic hitman moreover that he likes to communicate with us it's not necessarily an issue that these are terrorists i don't think that's a problem it's like hey hold on a second

43:36 If we're bringing all these people in, how many... what's the deal? You're ghettoizing them. That's just a fact It's not the same as the migrant who comes in and then you know lands in Brooklyn or I guess that would be crazy now he can't live in Brooklyn But you know what? I mean Queens and You know them to start something and works. It's not exactly the same thing it's like here's a whole bunch of people but put him near The house building project that's being done by your buddies who run, you know Jamie Dimon those guys up in Michigan Or put them over here where they can do this kind of work Send them over to the YoPlay guys at Yoplay or no, what's the other yogurt firm that is hiring refugees? I have no idea. Yeah... I think there needs to be a little more we need uh how about a policy just something we understand what's going on and not just bring people in Is it because we're not making enough children okay then you know then we should do that How do we integrate Do we just put up signs in more languages like Europe

44:39 Or does everyone learn English? These are the things that bother people. I don't think the problem necessarily is terrorism, I just don't see that as a number one issue. Is that person taking my job because they actually might get a leg up? Those are the questions! He's obviously doesn't like Trump and of course we are always perceived as some sort of, I got some anti-Trump stuff through Today Show. Oh good! We're not trying to be... Yeah actually a really good one too that's like Trump needs to be asked about this. I suspect it is kind of sketchy because it came from Democracy Now!. But you know when you see the tweets and the impeach him and Maxine Waters and all this stuff our job is

CHAPTER 13 / 42 Discussion

Late Night Comedy and the Trump Presidency

The hosts critique the current state of late-night comedy, specifically Jimmy Kimmel's shift toward Trump-centric material to compete with Stephen Colbert. They analyze a fumbled joke regarding the six-month mark of the Trump administration, suggesting the humor has become predictable and flat.

jimmy kimmel· stephen colbert· comedy· donald trump· late night tv

45:27 Tone it down and say what is the reality of these things right got nothing to do with and Trump is the president Yeah, so what are we supposed to turn away? I mean once a guy's elected you just put up with him if you don't like it. Yeah You know just constantly carp like rot like Reiner does no we tried to watch Last night because I saw it on Fallon Netflix now has a... I think it's like, 10 part series and it's called the stand-ups or something? Like this. The stand ups They have ten different comedians Oh my god! The first three we couldn't get through It was just all Trumps dumb hate hate hate hate And finally there is Dionne's... What's his last name? Black guy comes on Very funny But he just said that he would do black jokes in the room full of white people White people love that! He's the best

46:19 But Joe, I mean it's comedy is just... It's no longer funny. Yeah, well let me give you- It gets people a laugh but even though the laughs aren't even it's like oh so... Well actually some of these- People know what's coming they know what's coming now the punchline is clear OK, now that you mention that let's go to Jimmy Kimmel. Now Kimmel here is a...Kimmel has decided to do Trump material because of Stephen Colbert getting so much attention. So I want you to..I'm gonna play this clip This is Kimmell doing Trump material flawed Today, in case you didn't know today is uh March six months of President Trump. That's right he's already halfway through his presidency How can it only be six months? Yesterday alone felt like 6 months of the Trump administration

47:08 That felt pretty flat. So there's a joke in there, which fell really flat and didn't even get it got nothing. It got falling flat is not the word for this. And but he says and you can play it against him. He said he's halfway through his presidency at six months that way. You've got to joke I was wondering whether blow by because I think it just blew by the audience. He says six months he's halfway through his presidency and it just is delivery reaction. His delivery was off Today, in case you didn't know today is March 6 months of President Trump. That's right he's already halfway through his presidency He didn't wait for the applause The applause came interrupted the flow and he didn't pay it off with the right pacing Well today marks six months of the Trump presidency It's great! Halfway through his presidency You know that's how you gotta do it a little differently There are a lot ways he could have handled it He mishandled the joke He fumbled it Fumble

48:03 And he, and it got... I don't think anybody in the audience even heard it. And if they did you have to wonder You know maybe they were thinking yeah He's only halfway through. I mean honestly believe that a lot of people actually thought that was a fact That's sad! That's very sad but it could be I'm guessing so and if we go outside because he does lie witness news about Jeff Sessions, and he goes out onto the street in LA. Let's just explain again when it comes to... Lie witness news is a gimmick he does as a man on the street report but what he does is he sets up a false premise

CHAPTER 14 / 42 Discussion

Jimmy Kimmel's Lie Witness News and Public Ignorance

Jimmy Kimmel's "Lie Witness News" segment featured pedestrians in Los Angeles who were unable to identify Jeff Sessions as the Attorney General. The segment highlights a lack of basic civic knowledge among the public, with many people willing to agree to false premises for the sake of being on television.

jimmy kimmel· jeff sessions· attorney general· lie witness news· public opinion

48:39 And in this case... And they choose whatever answers they want, obviously. So maybe you can make... Well it's a false premise! In other words it is bullcrap He says what do you think about Moscow being bombed to oblivion last week? Was that good or bad news? Is that the question? They're gonna blame us for it What do you think? No, that's not the question. This question is different but I'm just saying that's the common premise... That's a really good one you should send that in they should use that. That's funny They should and the way this works because it's Los Angeles everybody wants to be on television and so they make stuff up they pretend they know something when they don't know anything. So this question was do you think it's always something about Jeff Sessions or about the Attorney General investigating Jeff Session?

49:24 And Jeff Sessions is the Attorney General. So it makes it kind of funny. What do you think the Attorney General should do about Jeff Sessions' ties to Russia? Oh my God, I think that we need to cut all ties to Russia right? That's right yeah What do you think the Attorney General should do about Jeff Sessions' ties to Russia? I definitely think he should see what's up with that, maybe submit a few inquiries. What do you think the Attorney General should do about Jeff Sessions' ties to Russia? I think he should try and get him to tell more of what he knew and why didn't come forward sooner about that

50:07 What would you say if I told you that Jeff Sessions and the Attorney General are the same person? That would make sense. Do you believe Jeff Sessions when he says he's more loyal to the Confederacy of Dunces than to Russia? Oh yeah, I do And who is Jeff Sessions? I'm dying...I guess under a...under Any from Russia? Who is Jeff Sessions? Jeff Sessions, that's the guy who has been known for talking about Trump doing this and that.

50:47 Did they follow it up by asking to name all the Kardashians, including the children? Which of course everybody knew. No you know the funny thing is they don't do that That would have been- that would have been obvious one That's kind of a Jay Leno used to do that Yeah When he'd go out on the street and find some idiot saying I don't know anything about him And then you always have pictures You'll always have a picture of Lincoln They say who is this I don't know Then they have a picture of a Kardashian and identify all those But here what odd in this If you look at dimension A, Dimension B This clearly Dimension A segment But they're making dimension B people look stupid because they're all, Oh yeah. Trump up there for what they say is this is true and they make it a dimension B people have done in a segment. Yeah.

51:28 I don't know that they know they're doing that. When you go out onto the street, which is mostly Dimension B, you're going to get these kinds of answers. Sure there's a few people they are going to run into who aren't funny and they will know all this stuff but so many people who don't know anything and that's why I think that audience may not have thought twice about six months after his presidency. They probably think the presidency is a year. Could be! This is really sad. I was reading a piece the other day and it talked about the cognitive revolution, which is all about dimension A, dimension B the way we view it and the author of this...I'll put in the show notes 949.noagendanotes.com You can get to it from archive.noagendanotes.com

52:16 basically broke the two dimensions into this. One dimension that still recognizes and acknowledges and understands lions, tigers, trees and wind... And then you have Dimension B which is gods, nations, corporations like Google When you think about it what is Google? It's seen as this huge behemoth and really its nowhere! Its everywhere and its nowhere But people have in their heads Google as this all-encompassing wunder thing You know what I mean Now that you mention it, I have no idea what people think when they think of Google. They don't think of what Google is which is warehouses around the world filled with servers and a campus over in Mountain View and an offshoot campus in San Francisco. That's the way I see it from a realistic perspective. And new offices in Austin? I went to the Fiber store! Remember how I had the problem with my credit card? Yes, you did. You went to the Fiber store. It was interesting experience.

53:09 Well, we're going to finish this and then talk about the fiber store. OK? The lie witness doing what he wants to do stuff like that. Yeah. And you know what his specific role in the government is? Is he a part of the governor in Russia? I have no idea who Jeff Sessions is. Do you have any idea who the Attorney General is? I thought that was Jeff Sessions It is! My millennials, stay woke! You win she says You know...I bet half the people in the audience laughing AHAHAHA They didn't know either I'll betcha they didn't know either who Jeff Sessions is

54:01 And maybe they would say half you're probably right about half. I if they start that they had people coming Yeah, maybe they should here's what this may be Kimmel should add this oh he'll never do this. I like the idea go ahead No He might do it You do it at the beginning of the show as they come in and you started asking People a little quiz about something They're gonna do later in the show In other words that man on the street thing so there's you know who Jeff session is isn't and they don't to do The whole audience but you doing maybe the first hundred people just get any and you pick the dumbos we Well, I think you just do it for the purposes of the stat. You could say that 40% of the audience doesn't know who Jeff Sessions is Just for now this network will never allow you probably never the network would be like no you can't have your own You keep your calling our viewers dumb That's not these are but clearly the people on the street are all Fox News viewers They're all dumb even though they hate Trump and they don't get it

CHAPTER 15 / 42 Discussion

NPR Podcast Theory on Trump and Putin 2020

NPR contributor Juliette Kayyem proposed a theory on her podcast that President Trump is enabling Vladimir Putin to secure Russian assistance for the 2020 election. The hosts mock the production quality and the speculative nature of the claim, which suggests Trump's policy decisions are purely motivated by future electoral interference.

npr· juliette kayyem· vladimir putin· 2020 election· russia· sanctions

54:55 But this is, I mean does the news media who we cover do they not look at this and think to themselves well we're not doing a very good job. Is that not part of their job? Their job is to sell pills and drugs and medicine That's the way they see it. I don't believe for a minute that anybody in the news media, maybe some newbie who hasn't got a clue comes into the media and says oh my god we've gotta educate the public those are people who end up on you know on the Democracy Now or Pacifica Radio or some of these very idealistic operations where they think their educating the public or maybe NPR. Oh okay well since you bring that up then

55:43 I got one NPR clip. I'm just dying to play What's her name? She has a podcast this woman and Juliet came Juliet came does that ring a bell from NPR yeah when you hear her You'll know immediately, and she so she's doing the NPR thing on the podcast which is that's Really close Mike and Tom very much like this yes as they get it okay And she has a theory about why Trump is not making trouble for Putin. And she's convinced, and she should know because she's mainstreamed. It is now fair to say in my opinion that Trump is enabling Putin and his assistants for his re-elect in 2020

56:33 There is not a single thing Donald Trump has done as president. There's not a single thing he has said, there's not a single action that can be interpreted in any way to suggest he's angry, concerned or nervous about what the Russians could do in 2020 to make me feel otherwise." So, I don't wonder why isn't Trump motivated to do something. Right? I actually look at the evidence — his failure to accept the intelligence community, his failure to implement any policies that would guide the U.S. government to protect itself, his failure to support new sanctions against Russia coming out of the Senate with a near-majority vote — that doesn't happen either – and his attempts

57:21 Water it down in the house. You don't have to wonder anymore, right? This is about 2020 right the only real takeaway the only one that matters is That our president of the United States Is enabling our enemy the president of Russia me so that he can be president again in 2020 and Yeah, she not yeah And I've noticed something else and she doesn't have the noise gate right? And she has the fan in the background and then let me see if i can do this She's got a bunch of racket going on. Yeah, yeah, she's not like yeah I think I can replicate it home you take off some noise gauge and put on the fan there we go It's and you have to do that big inhale. It's very clear to me

58:15 that President Trump is really just facilitating President Putin because he'll know that he'll help him in the next election in 2020. You left two rights out, you gotta fix it. Right? I can't! It makes me want to puke. Really unbelievable. Unbelievable and this is a journalist...I don't think she would say this on her own show on NPR she only do it on the podcast that you'll say this kind of outrageous stuff because it is. Well, that's the great thing about podcasting get to hear stuff you wouldn't normally hear You've said so yourself. You've always said these guys think they go on a podcast I'm on a podcast i'll just say whatever I feel like It's the best!

CHAPTER 16 / 42 Discussion

Executive Producer Credits and Knighting Ceremony

The hosts acknowledge high-tier donors, including Brandon Turner and Baron Jim of Jamaica Plains. Matthew Wilson is knighted as "Sir Matthew Black Belt Financial Advisor" following a significant contribution, while the hosts discuss the reliability of bank checks over digital payment platforms.

brandon turner· baron jim· matthew wilson· knighthood· value-for-value· donations

59:09 And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you John C. where the c stands for can't sell our people pills and potions Dvorak! In the morning to you Mr Adam Curry also in the morning all ships at sea boots on the ground feet in the air subs in the water all the dames and knights out there Yeah, I'll say in the morning everybody in the chat room noagendastream.com I'm glad I could tweet out at ya today and in the morning too Illuminati-ah! Illuminati brought us the artwork for episode 9 or 4, 8. The title of that was Chowhound and we had a number of very good mac and cheese bits this obviously coming along in light of the exposure of the phthalates in Mac & Cheese from Kraft the powdered crap being responsible for sick amygdala symygdala syndrome

1:00:06 and other social behavioral issues. Gee, I tweeted out one of our artists- this is really cool John you should retweet that if you can find it after the show One of our artists who did artwork for the show which we didn't use He did like a time-lapse of him. We've done two of these I had never seen it Yeah, he's in the time lapse of listening to the show thing and okay? I'll do this and then Burton shows what he's putting together It's there's a lot of work that goes into that much more than you then I think anyone really realizes yes I meant to retweet it when they came out, and I forgot too. It's fantastic. It's really great yeah, he's a good guy. I can't remember his name

1:00:44 Yeah, well his art's been accepted a couple of times and he is one of the guys who do that. Well we appreciate what he has done that is why we always thank our artists because we realize how hard it is even though its good to be you know your nose put in the facts once in awhile And everyone else who uploads at no agenda, art generator.com and also have a slew of dudes named Ben and do debts name Bernadette who want to help out when you know the Drupal experts we got a lot of so many cool people in our producing audience. Oh he got some yeah couple of responses yes yes yes oh people with infrastructure big CEOs of data companies like it's crazy what we've got listening but we should definitely run on some server stats

1:01:27 see if there's, how many people are listening. Well which we'll never know. We'll never know really? No, never. But we do have a few...we do know people that whom we can thank that have contributed at the executive producer and associate executive producer levels. That we do know and you'd start by naming them. Brandon Turner for example he's in Kingman Arizona came in with $433.33 And he says, ITM bros three things. Was Adam able to get my care package? I sent the JCD forward right around the time you moved the chugged shirt. No your micro well you know it's sitting right here all i need is and maybe this could work if after that when we do our after the show part that's not out there

1:02:18 Yeah, discussion of the show you can give me an address and I'll drop it in the mail My address doesn't exist. I can give it to you all I want but we don't exist To Adam please email me your address to the common law Cluedo have only one for the crack condo I wanna send you some crack pot crud Oh that I have to move this little thing here on a second called the cursor cursor Crackpot kind of they're good. I want to send you some homemade prickly pear jam Also need a favor no not dick pics. Oh damn Jingles, please play JCD have got ants at the end of the show thank you for your courage ki7 HDT 73s yes 73 is kilo 5 Charlie Charlie Just playing a little bit now Man I have so many good ones to play for this show already on put it in

1:03:19 Okay, when I do it. No no no come on kidding me producers go before stupid hosts produces before podcasters Baron Jim of Jamaica Plains came in with three hundred forty five dollars and sixty seven cents by the way of a symmetrical four and for today Four executive producers, four associate executive producers. Pretty good. Nice balance. Baron Jim how you feeling man? I know he had some... Well he says in an email time to make another offering to the royal couple and a consideration for my title in lands reading the newsletter about your problem with Twitter prompted me to Google does Twitter censor and got lots of hits pretty eye-opening mm-hmm hopefully PayPal does not follow suit

1:03:58 I'd like to remind the dames and knights out there that the most reliable way to send monthly or individual contributions is through the electronic checking services of your bank or credit union. Not sure about bank fees, but my credit union charges no fee to send a check to an individual or business and you can get set up for regular monthly checks which are printed and mailed every month like clockwork No charge. No postage. John will tell you that my monthly contribution is in the PO box every month I keep with good work to the best podcast in universe Baron Jim a Jamaica Plains and surrounding plantations Yes, thank you very much sir Jim. Just want to check how you're doing follow along give some karma

1:04:46 You've got karma. Number three on the list is Matthew Wilson in Hanover, Pennsylvania $333 and 33 cents another interesting feature here is that he started off exactly the same way Brandon did at the beginning of his note which is again random numbers ITM ITM, love the show and thanks for the show. Tomorrow my 20th... The 24th is my 33rd birthday see if he's on the list and even though I'm stretching my budget I want to get my knighthood please give me moving karma we had a contract fall through in a building for our office and are searching for new location after you already discontinued your lease at the current office that's always a pain in the butt. Oh yes! P.S., karma from our five-year old he has autism has had some regression that were working

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CHAPTER 17 / 42 Discussion

Sir Husky Bottoms and the Roger Stone Documentary

Sir Husky Bottoms requests a jingle and asks for thoughts on the "Get Me Roger Stone" documentary. The hosts discuss the film's portrayal of the political operative and an anecdote about Stone allegedly threatening the filmmaker during production.

roger stone· sir husky bottoms· documentary· netflix· get me roger stone

1:06:38 Oops. Hey, we got the jingle in already John! The jingle! What? The jingle it's already done the Jingles in! First you've got to banish... The guys are fast. Yeah, thank you very much. By the way, the pros are always fast. So I'm talking to...I mean when we're in with Luke Wrighter talking about screenwriting he said he started working for that guy on...I forget his name..the guy's married to that very thin actress who did all those legal shows, Boston Legal and all of this stuff. Ummm....The dark-skinned actress?

1:07:20 No, no. He's very... Calista Flockhart Yeah he is married to her and I can't think of his name. That's Harrison Ford Never know I got there. We never mind. I'll get the guy's name now tell the anecdote later Okay, but the guy can write a script in like two hours just like apparently Anyway, I was wish to alert other and I say that pros can go fast is the point? I was trying to make because we just had a guide his right some course quickly I Wished to alert other listeners to the effectiveness of donating I had a requested job car with my first long overdue donation in man by June I had made it tonight hood This was thanks in part to the effectiveness of the no agenda karma. My subsequent knighthood update note was lost in the shuffle, but basically a scenario on which I was facing running out of cash before I could realize the potential of our company had built. I was satisfied my business booked after job karma request not only have I booked eight months worth of work, I have prospects that have appeared out of nowhere as well as past client projects that have reached out all of which if landed could carry through 2018

1:08:23 When my wife and I were preparing for homeschooling our seven-and ten year old this upcoming year, our seven and ten year olds after a soul sapping year in which neither of our children adapted to the slave entraining method offered by the state. Our youngest was accepted into the same Reggio Emilio preschool that the older two had attended. To my surprise what was the monthly tuition but $333, of course. I knew this was another nudge to convey to other no agenda consumers that testimony on my job's karma success needed to be heard! Everyone can afford to give something and the value for value model needs to be reinforced. Would love to hear any observations you might have from the Get Me Roger Stone docufilm.

1:09:09 a couple episodes ago. Maybe three months ago? I don't remember which one, but... I heard recently the guy who did the film talk about making the film and that was kind of educational and uh i learned more about the film from him than anyone named Roger Stone yes it's apparently Roger Stone of course I don't know if this is in the film but threatened to kill him If he didn't like the film. It's not in the film, I would have remembered that it was not in the film. He says he threatened to kill me if the films no good and there you go And the guy says I really didn't know if I should believe him or not because apparently he was very serious about this and then he says he hasn't been killed yet so I guess he like enjoyed the film

1:09:57 Anyway, just listen to this slide. Jingle request from Sir Husky! Get out of my vagina with... followed by oh can you see that juice and I'm really stoned. Alright Sir Husky Bottoms of the Hardwoods here's your jingle request package for ya! Oh my gosh! Can you see that juice? Wow! I am really high You've got karma

CHAPTER 18 / 42 Discussion

Millennial Generation Split and Baby Driver

A discussion on the millennial generation suggests a split between "elder" and "younger" cohorts, using the film "Baby Driver" as a cultural touchstone. The hosts also perform a "de-douching" for a donor who discovered the show via 4chan.

millennials· baby driver· generation x· 4chan· de-douching

1:10:35 That was I never heard that the jingle that song it's new is brand-new came in today brand okay, all right onward to Erin Heath and I am not finding an email. I see a birthday No, it says birthday turning 30 on July 26 no note right okay? There was no note then you scroll down Now I've got, yeah. Max M the much... Oh, I'm sorry Aaron Heath gave it from St Agnes Australia $267 and 17 cents. Oh it says no note okay. Max M the much maligned millennial 220 now we're on to the associate executive producers

1:11:27 The MuchMalignedMillennial, $222.22. I've been hooked on the show ever since that first episode way back in June of last year and a lot of people got turned on at this show in June of last year. Have you noticed this? Yeah, I don't know why. It's very strange. I was shown by a friendly poster on the anonymous image board 420chan. Your coverage of the last election cycle... That's right! We got 4chan love I guess. Your coverage of the last election cycle reaffirmed my sanity and confirm my suspicion that M5M is complete BS. Well, good! That's what we're here for. This is my first time donating so I'd like to humbly request a de-douching. Yes right away! You've been dedouched. Yep... I'm going for a job interview later this weekend So some jobs karma would be highly appreciated As a member of the millennial generation I feel obligated to ask you to stop picking on us

1:12:29 Some of us are woke donators to the best podcast in the universe. Now, I remember this when this came in and I said, you know yes, I think we probably do pick on the millennials a little bit Because it is a kind of, uh... It's a humorous group. I got into a dinner conversation the other night and JC Buzzkill Jr came up with a thesis that there are two millennial groups as far as he can tell. Oh! Like an A and B dimension? No, no. It's an age difference. There is the elder and the younger so you got plenty of the elder, plenty of the younger And there is a split! This is unfortunate because we are having some pretty good cognac So I can't remember some details but I will get it next time. I just gotta visualize it. Hey Jason, what's up with the millions?

1:13:27 It's not that, that would be you. After one drink yes! Now uh... you got Indian blood in ya I'm sure of it Pocahontas so and i thought this was an interesting thesis because he was making some sense like there is a movie okay the movie is uh... baby driver Oh, I've not seen that. Uh... I've heard of it before. Okay Baby Driver which has got nothing- like 99% tomato rating It's unbelievably high The young millennials don't like it the old millennials like it Hmm That's the ground zero of the split apparently I guess Hmm

1:14:12 What is the baby driver about so that can understand why the one group means when it's like what it's similar to a fast and furious But as produced by somebody else just one of those shoot em up drive them Drive cars wrecked cars. Yes, it's about nothing as far as I can tell like the cannonball run Well, there's a reference for you. I'm of the older generation X older older older elder statesman Anyway, so he's got no request so we'll give him a car my guess Of course well We're not picking on you know He says jobs come and know we're trying that to pick out and now you get have to identify as older or younger millennial I think does this split here? We got it. So say OM or YM That's basically what we have to be looking at right

1:15:00 Yeah, it's as good a way to go as any. My millennials! Stay woke! Jobs jobs jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs! Slick. Charles Presti, somewhere in the United States $222.22 The de-douching I mentioned to Adam in my email about the art generator shout out to Andrew Galway and Nicholas Aristavi or Aristavie that's what it'd be Thanks to Agenda 31 and Congressional Dish for hitting me in the mouth. Ah, outstanding! I love that. You've been de-douche'd Yes one of the many who wrote in about The Art Generator and I'm gonna give you some karma as well you deserve it. You've got karma

CHAPTER 19 / 42 Discussion

Associate Executive Producers and Elephant Sex Tease

The hosts thank the remaining associate executive producers and acknowledge the infrastructure support from Sir Ryan Bemrose. They tease an upcoming segment regarding elephant reproductive habits featured on PBS.

ryan bemrose· value-for-value· associate executive producers· elephant sex

1:15:53 Finally, last but not least is Sir Ryan Bemrose the Baron of Puget Sound and Everett Bush. I want to say Sir Bemrose is pretty much 24-7 on the infrastructure these days you know we've got Void Zero who's really the dude named Ben in charge Of course he has a new child so he's got really weird hours and yeah he's a stay at home dad And Bemrose has just jumped in and been fantastic, and really helping out. I didn't know this! Yeah well we don't tell you everything John we need to keep you uncluttered. I dunno if i can handle it

1:16:30 Sir Bembrose anyway from the Puget, from Everett 20889. My only clip request is John's elephant sex clips! You've been teasing it for weeks! It's time to deliver. Thank you for your courage sir Brian Bembrose up there. Alright alright well I have the clips Do we play? That's our group. That's four and four We want to thank all these people for helping us to produce this show And all the people that follow in the next readout, and I'm not gonna do the elephant sex Not now. I mean would do it after you due to our process here. We gotta finish this off Yeah, will do elephant sex guaranteed on this show okay? You're not gonna like it

1:17:12 It's gonna be a big anticlimax, isn't it? No. I'll give you a little more cheese. Uh-huh. It's disgusting! Nice Thank you very much to our executive producers and associate executive producers 4x4 today which is great And it's really appreciated we give you these credits up front and early in the program just like Hollywood does that of course We don't have all the trimmings of Hollywood But instead of you being stupid product of everything, you are actually making sure that you get what you want value for value. And we're not doing it through any of these third party systems at least or as much as we can and it's yeah, it's appreciated and will be thanking more people $50 or more in our second segment Of course We have another show coming up on Sunday remember us at devorak.org slash N A and a nice little two for today is the dollar was a jingle request once again Our formula is this

CHAPTER 20 / 42 Discussion

European Union Integration and Banking Union

Reports from Germany indicate that the EU anthem, "Ode to Joy," is being played alongside national anthems at military ceremonies. Meanwhile, EU technocrats are pushing for a unified banking and budgetary union to address financial instability in member states like Italy.

european union· banking union· italy· ode to joy· fourth reich· technocrats

1:18:05 We hit people in the mouth. Yeah, let me I will go we'll do it at the next break. Interesting. I mean, I was gonna go to Euroland unless you wanna do something else? I love your land and your lands pretty good blog going on right now in Euroland first report that I got from one of our military intelligence guys agent orange he was over it there was a thing there was some kind of celebration for the oldest veteran alive. He's I think he's Maggie McGillen thing he turned

1:19:02 He's like 101 or something. Crazy guys, you know he just travels all over the world talking to troops no problem so he was in Germany and our source told us that something happened that he'd never seen before where, you know they had this big ceremony then they played the German national anthem. Then there was a little military Ra-Ra Go Fight song and then they played the EU national anthem. And we said that is new! That he's been to all the bases in all the countries doing this stuff all the time I've never seen them follow the national anthem up with the Europe with the EU anthem which of course is Ode To Joy by Beethoven. You should be pissed

1:19:40 I would be. So, I just wanted to let you know that the country that said they would never have...the union said they would never have an army and then they're getting close doing all this military stuff it's just a little creepy This is the new way that Germans, this is the Fourth Reich. Yes and... Okay send your letters to johnatdvorak.org Yes and they're tightening it up we already had financial reform I told you they were trying to put together something with a pan-EU finance minister It's getting close The 28 Finance Ministers of the European Union will resume today a discussion on their recent developments

1:20:18 in the banking sector. The theme was at the heart of the meeting held by 19 members of the EU area yesterday, with Italy being in a hot spot The government in Rome put into liquidation two banks earlier July which may cost to the Italian taxpayers up to 17 billion euros. The European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs sets the guidelines to avoid future similar situations. The Commission has an ambitious vision, that of a eurozone which on one hand completes banking union which is necessity – the financial union – and on the other hand builds a true budgetary integration, a real budgetary union

1:20:57 It also involves more democracy. And democracy for me is the fact that one can be accountable before a parliament, this parliament being first and foremost the European Parliament. People of Europe! Are you asleep? What are you allowing these technocrats to do?! They're going to take over your banking!! Where's the outrage? Where is the anger, where is the confusion, where are the questions. It's on the street in Los Angeles and I know who Jeff Sessions is...I don't see the difference. Yeah that's absolutely well...Europeans certainly want you to think they're much more involved in their politics and understand what's going on but I think they're just as bad. I think they don't understand at all but I'll bet they do know all the Kardashian names including

CHAPTER 21 / 42 Discussion

Poland Judicial Reforms and EU Conflict

Protests have erupted in Poland over the ruling party's plan to bring the Supreme Court under political control. The European Union has criticized the move as a shift toward authoritarianism, while some suggest the conflict is tied to Poland's refusal to accept EU-mandated refugee quotas.

poland· warsaw· lech walesa· supreme court· refugees· european commission

1:21:48 Poland is becoming the problem child of the EU and I do not have enough knowledge of the constitution or of the court system, but I know we have a lot of Polish listeners and producers so I'd appreciate boots on the ground report about this change that must be something good seeing as the European Union including my buddy Franz Timmermans, the vice president of the Commission. Starfleet command, they've got problems with what they're doing. Hundreds of people have gathered in front of the presidential palace in Warsaw to protest against plans by the populist ruling party to put the Supreme Court and the rest of their judicial system under the party's political control

1:22:29 Former Polish President Lech Wałęsa addressed the crowds in Gdansk, the city where he led strikes in the 1980s against a then communist regime that eventually toppled the government and ushered in democracy. He told them our generation led Poland to freedom in an incredibly difficult situation and based it on the separation of powers If anyone wants to disturb this most important victory, you the young people cannot let that happen. The protest was part of wider demonstrations which broke out across Poland. These protesters explained their concerns. The reason why I'm here actually is that I am a little bit afraid what will happen next? What about my civic rights and

1:23:15 what government will go next for. Legal experts and the EU say the changes would mean a dramatic reversal for a country held as a model of democratic transition, and move Poland closer towards authoritarianism Now this is from Euronews which is a globalist outfit so it's I found very unhelpful all I hear there's one or two men on the street woman on the street you know saying oh it was just horrible with us not gonna work but But do we know anything about what's going on with this replacement of the Supreme Court, which now can be done by I guess other people than it used to be done by? I think this is...I don't know specifically what's going on. Sounds like a sort of... I don't think that Poles are gonna put up with this. With the new law? The whole reason to do it, of course, is to make Poland take in refugees. Oh! Okay well see this..I didn't understand this. That is interesting

1:24:10 Yeah, they've gotten taken zero so far. They don't want to take any and the courts have upheld their ability to just say no right now but some stooges in stooges give it a go ahead next thing you know the place is filled with them uh-huh that's mom that's only thing I can get why is the EU again but why is the EU against Poland doing this if that's exactly what That doesn't make any sense The European Union says bad on you Poland for doing this because I presume because they're not gonna have any control But I'm not you mentioned. I mean yes, it makes no sense what I said no okay? Yes It makes no sense yes, you have a sense Sure it's got something to do with that just like the only just like just like You don't know how an air conditioner works man and by the way well Yeah The guy sent us a long note about the air conditioner because I but I'm doing this thing on some of these guys now That's pretty funny. I

CHAPTER 22 / 42 Discussion

Air Conditioner Mechanics and Twitter Etiquette

The hosts discuss a dispute with a listener over the mechanics of air conditioners freezing up. This leads to a broader conversation about social media etiquette and the decision to "block" rude commenters on Twitter.

air conditioning· twitter· blocking· social media· etiquette

1:25:08 Say I have bullcrap and I put hashtag blocked on my Twitter. You don't actually block them Yeah, what I do is like over and look and see what their stuff looks like if it's interesting enough I don't block him right now. I've rarely blocked him nowadays. I just put blocked just to freak them right and Let's just put blocked Do anything? I will explain once in for all okay we make mistakes We make tons of mistakes absolutely We make mistakes. That is often translated into, you guys just say stuff like it's fact and then blah blah blah! Yeah we make mistakes And the appropriate way to let us know we made a mistake is to say send us an email. We read emails. Hey I think this was wrong The inappropriate way is to go stand in the middle of my Twitter feed that's my people they look at my stuff and go I can't believe

1:26:05 I'm so surprised! It's always that, it's always...I can't believe how an air conditioner works. I can't believe. Oh i'm so surprised 50 year old man don't understand AC And I had to mention to him, he says you both owned AC and seen these things freeze up. And I had to say or didn't say it was going to write it then do it which is... It doesn't matter! I don't care! The point of this is that I never had an air conditioner. I live in California off the Chambers & Schope Bay. I don't need an air conditioner. I don't care. Do people no longer see that's just rude? You're just being rude. Yes totally rude. Blocked.

1:26:46 No, I didn't block him. I want to see his bitch like yeah just like the boy. I did know what carpet bag it was And go over to the reddit man chase Yeah, go to read Go to the reddit there's a special no agenda reddit for you guys Go to the reddit hey, I love this new scaramucci guy You know, here's the funny thing. This guy is you could he probably drives that Lambo in my building It could be because it looks like a guy doesn't it? He looks at like a guy and a Lambo Let's listen to a couple of reports And the one I want to listen to mainly is Hallie Jackson and Hallie Jackson is probably one of the prettiest

CHAPTER 23 / 42 Discussion

Anthony Scaramucci Appointed White House Communications Director

Anthony Scaramucci has been appointed as the new White House Communications Director, leading to the resignation of Press Secretary Sean Spicer. The media has dubbed the transition the "Mooch Smooch," while the hosts analyze Scaramucci's performative style and Wall Street background.

anthony scaramucci· sean spicer· hallie jackson· nbc· white house· communications director

1:27:27 of the correspondence at NBC. She's just, she doesn't wear a lot of makeup. She didn't try to make herself look beautiful but she is really pretty. I want take a look at her for a second and Hallie... You know what? Do you know what i like about her? She looks like a woman yeah well it's not a waif Yeah, well... She looks like a woman. Anyway so she's gonna do the report and she's got this funny smile on her face and I've seen this we used to have a guy at PCMag we had a bunch of guys at PC Magazine in the heyday that were sales guys that were just beautiful men

1:28:03 And they would sell like crazy and they would always get the accounts that had the female buyers. That's exactly what I did at all of my companies, there was always some woman who remembered me from MTV and would swoon over me while I slipped a contract in front her. Very common thing we do... Rodney Zaks man! It made feel like a cheap whore John, I want you to know that. Well not cheap, it wasn't cheap. So these guys would go out and these girls Hallie Jackson has a crush on Scaramucci is my theory because she had this dumb smile on her face and it was like, she's giving the report. And I'm thinking that she's the kind of girl... Stop! Let me say it sadly now better look at her picture She's the kinda girl you always see with the douchebag in the Lambo

1:28:56 Well, we got the douchebag. We got Hallie and I get the feeling that you're going to see a lot this time. I believe this is NBC and it was it should say on there what she would think of as NBC. But she is just gonna love this guy. Let's hear this. Tonight press secretary Sean Spicer is out he quit suddenly this morning as a new communications director was announced His name is Anthony Scaramucci, a longtime Wall Street banker and former fundraiser for the Trump campaign. One of his first orders of business today was naming a new White House press secretary So what will these staff changes mean for the Trump White House?

1:29:37 We start tonight with our chief White House correspondent, Hallie Jackson. Make America great again. Former campaign adviser Anthony Scaramucci, the new communications director with Sean Spicer long rumored to be on thin ice resigning as press secretary all smiles today after a dramatic 24-hour battle behind closed doors multiple sources familiar with the fight tell NBC News Reince Priebus initially resisted the move The chief of staff now tells NBC he's behind Scaramucci 100% with Spicer telling the AP

1:30:25 could benefit from a clean slate. No, it just does to the audience and she responded positively. And they said oh yeah and they call it the mooch smooch. But you know what's interesting is that on CNBC they talk about this guy like he's a god! They love him

1:31:10 Oh, we love Steve. He's great! Yeah he's fantastic. Everybody knows him so well. He is obviously a professional schmoozer that really knows how to put the charm on. He looks like a charming guy I'm having dinner with the former New York banker on Tuesday for his birthday and you'll know him but also need ask about Trump and Deutsche Bank because that's where the former New York banker comes from He would know something. I think he would, but the Scaramucci guy...I think he's gonna be a barrel of laughs If anyone thinks that they removed him Spicer because you know well he wasn't effective But you know because too much Saturday Night Live parody are you kidding me? I could do this guy on Saturday night live! He's just begging for parody begging for it and he's a huge performative guy

1:32:01 In fact, I'm not gonna call him Scaramucci. He's Mr Performative! Let me ask you a variation of what I asked Sean Spicer on his first day Is it your commitment to the best of your ability give accurate information? The truth from that point? I mean...I sort of feel like I don't even have to answer that question I hope you can feel that for me just from my body language That's the kind of person I am. I'll do the best I can Hope you could feel for me Just with my body language this is the kinda guy he's kind of like Vinnie Barbarino A lot, like- Hey! Come on man. Come on let's go over to Brooklyn He got that little voice? Oh he is gonna be fantastic Oh yeah this is great stuff this guy And of course I'm waiting for the Queen parody Scaramouche! Scaramouche! You wait it's coming It's coming All of that's coming

1:32:48 I can predict that from the future. You're starting to write the ideas for our guys instead of becoming today, when the show's over? I am from the future! It's so obvious what is going on here. Yeah it's really interesting that this guy has come in and you know its almost...this choice I think is more just thinking about our president as a TV guy he's like It's time to shake things up. We need a new face! Yeah, see we need some recasting on the show it's a new season So let's see what can do Spicer love the guy love Spicer but you know his Q rating is just a little flat

1:33:25 So we need someone who everyone's gonna respond to in a crazy way. Someone with some connections to Russia... Make sure of the check, mm-hmm. Oh yes, connections to Russia perfect Slimey Banker mmm perfect Slimey Banker very very important Drives a Lambo Yes Perfect Now if he has a midget in a bikini driving him around in the Lambo then he just shoots up and credibility Yeah that's gonna be too hard to cast now I don't think But you're right. It's just it was casting, it was just a new cast-it's casting time! That's it! You nailed it. You nailed it. Anything left on that clip? No no that's all I have unless you have another one... I don't have any. I do have another clip. A Scarmoochie?!

CHAPTER 24 / 42 Discussion

Trump Tweet Storm and Spicer's Resignation

President Trump launched a ten-tweet "storm" regarding healthcare and the Russia investigation following the White House staff overhaul. Reports suggest Sean Spicer resigned to avoid having "too many cooks in the kitchen" as the administration faces increasing scrutiny from Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

donald trump· sean spicer· robert mueller· tweet storm· cbs news

1:34:10 Well, does it say Scaramucci? No. I'm just asking if you have more. Yeah no it's a Scaramucci here...I think this one This is on CBS where they didn't really have a Halle Jackson to swoon over the guy and we'll probably get her hear from her This is the Trump update, this CBS version of kind of the same story. Before President Trump helped the Navy commission its newest warship today he launched a barrage of tweets 10 of them before 9am The president vented on several topics including health care Hillary Clinton and intelligence leaks Tweet storm came a day after the White House communications team went through a major overhaul

1:34:48 Errol Barnett has the latest. In the same way, we will win, win, win! We will never lose, we will win! Commissioning the new Gerald R Ford aircraft carrier in Virginia President Trump focused on strength of the military and his own White House America might is second to none and we're getting bigger and better and stronger every day of my administration. After shuffling his legal team earlier in the week, yesterday the president reorganized his communications staff appointing financier Anthony Scaramucci as Communications Director that decision led acting director and press secretary Sean Spicer to resign I just think it was in the best interest

1:35:36 of our communications department, of our press organization to not have too many cooks in the kitchen. Amidst the shakeups Mr Trump voiced frustration at so-called fake news illegal leaks and special counsel Robert Mueller in another round early morning tweets. Democrats and Republicans warned the president not to interfere with Mueller's investigation. And I think we need to let him and his team, and our investigators here do their jobs in follow these leads wherever they may lay in follow wherever they may go and follow the facts any attempt to fire Robert Mueller is an attack on

1:36:12 Now many close to the president will soon face congressional scrutiny as part of investigations into Russian election meddling. Yeah, yeah that was CBS we had a triple so I do have the ABC who's the Who was the reporter on that why they bring in the British guy? What's the deal with that that it was a weekend guy think or oh? I don't know who that guy is but you know that's what I've never seen him before and I haven't been following all right Whoever he is. He's having to follow another question another question And what constitutes a tweet storm versus

1:36:49 A tweet like a tweet wind or I think we'd farted According to one of the people that woman. I think that CBS substitute host She said that it was 10 tweets ten tweets is a storm in a row okay, ten tweaks And then if there's dead tweets shower would be just five maybe oh Don't know what we can make it up. We have the opportunity to coin well, we gotta have okay? We got a tweet shower. We gotta tweet storm. We got a tweet What's the other one tweet hurricane tweeter cane tweet hurricane? We became and I tweet fart just this two one tweet toot a Tweet toot but shoots already amassed it on things. I don't if you didn't give me again You could ever tweet toot

1:37:36 So let's go to Spicer out on ABC backgrounder on Kushner. The only ones he really consulted with were his daughter Ivanka, his son-in-law Jared Kushner. The other senior staff David for the most part did not even learn of this until the president had already made up his mind when they did learn of it some of them tried to get the president to change his mind but to no avail. Complete surprise one report which I don't have that clip of said that

1:38:18 that Spicer was kind of protesting what was going on and Trump slammed the door in his face. I think it's a democracy now. Get out! And already, I've seen the news networks go like oh we can't wait yes he's gonna have lots of things to tell do you think he had an non-disclosure agreement? Yes sure it'll be great he'll really tell us everything that's going on because he's one of us You're not going to have a lot to tell is gonna be sessions if they fire him. So I don't actually see but could happen, I don't care so let's Let's Do something you see you promise? You're gonna do something yes five my fiber report my fiber report quick fiber right all right fiber before we get to that so doors over night losing our train of thought because I want to make sure cuz there's nothing more irritating than me that teasing something and

CHAPTER 25 / 42 Discussion

Google Fiber Installation Issues in Austin

A host recounts a frustrating experience trying to set up Google Fiber at a new Austin apartment. Despite visiting a physical "Fiber Store" and interacting with "Googlers," the process was stalled by database errors and address verification issues, leading to speculation that Google is scaling back its fiber business.

google fiber· austin· chromebook· address verification· tech support

1:39:11 Then never doing it. We're kind of same show as a famous of my elephant sex I'm kind of famous for What would you do elephant sex now or fiber report? What do you know? I want to get the fiber out of the way then we do elephant sex all right So, as you know by somehow I got stuck in between creating a Google Fiber account and paying for it. They actually $10 went off my card but I couldn't create an account so then I went online and said man people are stupid like why don't you unplug your computer for 30 seconds? All right fine yeah so go to the fiber store very interesting experience. Yeah so the fiber store is a big space on the corner of 2nd and Lavaca i think here downtown Austin

1:39:50 And it's a big space. You walk in, walk up this two Google people, Googlers standing there and say hi. Yeah so I had a problem with getting creating an account online and I want Google Fiber. Okay can i have your first name? Adam It was weird! I was expecting to say and your last name but that question never came just like okay you can just sit over there on the middle couch And this is like three living rooms. You go sit on the couch and you're sitting in front of Google... They're doing some kind of virtual reality video that's very short, it's only a minute or two and it just looping That's all they are showing nothing else just the... Shit what does that thing called? It's a virtual reality paint program

1:40:29 I can't remember what it's called. That they just showed over and over and over again, the wait was pretty long and there is plenty of Googlers walking around but I guess they had to wait for my turn How long was the wait? 15 minutes So i saw that video five times at least And then finally a girl comes over and says hi She was actually pretty knowledgeable I explained the situation Okay let's try this Can you log in? What do you mean? Then she hands me a Chromebook which I'd never had in my hands. And she says, no it's really... don't worry about it you know because you login and then you click this button and you log out and everything is gone. Okay, I'm sure. You know the Chromebook was very interesting with a touch screen and everything. I'm surprised by it. Very surprised. It had a nice feel? I just kind of liked it. It was all Google. A lot people like the Chromebook Yeah, I can understand why. I ordered one so that I could play around with it for $200 bucks perfect

1:41:28 Um, and then she actually was pleased. She was smart. She said, well you know what? I said yeah probably better if I just create a new Gmail account. Said yeah would you mind doing this now? Just do it for fiber that's fine to do all that and but then she looks in she's like whoa wait a minute stop stop stop You kind of like you jumped over something here. You would log in... you wouldn't log... you went from logging into creating a new account What happened in between I logged in and then i showed her when i went to fiber.google.com slash myfiber slash that it just takes me right back to the page to configure my package with everything pre-configured the way i wanted it, either the way i like my package

1:42:12 And then it says card declined. It went through the whole process and that's what, there was a bug in it and she actually said yeah, seems like there is a bug in the code I'll have to escalate that but for now would you mind? She said no problem, I'll create a new account. Good point. But I'm glad that she actually identified as a bug and not like I am stupid because that's what online help people were doing You're stupid! Get another IP address get another use of different browser use different OS Is it plugged-in? Now unplug it Hold your right foot in the air, plug it back in. But then you're like, hmm I don't see this building! Here we go again... The address verification system. Your building doesn't seem to be uh.. is it new? Yeah, I think people have been living there for about a year and a half

1:43:01 Yeah, but is it new? Yeah. It's new. Oh man and so is your apartments new yeah, yes Well do you have one of these things in your apartment she holds up a little look like one of those air purifiers the plug-in So this bad boys actually use the words bad boy once you have this bad boy on your apartment Then you're good to go I'm like well how do I get one of these bad boys in my apartment well? It's weird because your building still says under construction Okay, so I'm guessing I'll never get Google fiber That was it? Yeah. You got screwed! Yeah, well no she said it could be three days three weeks three months that was... Three years. She didn't add that. That was pretty but she said well you know what your on the list is under construction I said I know for a fact that my building said we have technicians coming into your apartment today for something for Google Fiber then so I know that happened but I wasn't here when someone came in and rummaged through our stuff

1:44:02 But there is something going on. Yeah, no right can't you can it's all I know I think Google Fiber is falling apart. I think Google in general they have so overshot their own capability... There's a rumor that it's up for sale. Oh, there's a rumor on the street that it's up for sale. They're shopping, they're shopping the whole fiber business but in general and they're shopping it It's what it's called shopping, shopping for a deal in general. They don't understand people that understand customers they don't know how to deal with you. That's Google. You're stupid and we're Google so yeah, but now we're always right because we're Google which answers your question about how people see it as always right? Always right. That would be Google yes the problem

CHAPTER 26 / 42 Discussion

PBS Documentary on Elephant Reproductive Biology

A detailed deconstruction of a PBS documentary titled "Animal Sex" describes the process of collecting sperm from an unconscious elephant using electrical stimulation. The segment covers the biological mechanics of elephant erections and the specialized equipment used by researchers.

pbs· elephants· animal sex· biology· electroejaculation

1:44:53 It's gotten worse and it's not getting any better. I can see where it's gonna bite him in the ass eventually. Tell me, tell me where is going to bite him in the ass? You might as well put it into book now! It's gonna bite him in the ass somehow...I don't know how..I can't predict what or how its gonna bite him in the ass but you cant treat people like that As a big company, you're gonna get sued. Some sue's gonna... They're gonna get sued and then it's going to get sued again and again and again It's going to be that they're going to realize their deep pockets are going to be sued forever about something I mean the EU is taking advantage of them Yeah And with that i think we should do some elephant sex Okay Alright Elephant sexes? It is Okay so I'm watching PBS TV and there's this show on called Animal Sex or something

1:45:41 And they're showing this elephant, their guts on the elephant. They knocked him out and they're getting his sperm through some electrical thing. The way this clip begins is they stick it up- Whoa! Stop stop stop stop You cannot just get away with some electrical thing. I'm getting there, it starts off with some giant probe that's like a big...I would say it's the size of a football dildo and I'm watching this and I'm totally grossed out they're sticking this big dildo electrical football up the elephant's butt

1:46:19 And they get and these got the elephants got some huge erection, and there's some woman. They're stroking the erection is disgusting. Do way she's a video man. You can probably download it if you know where to go. No kidding, this is... If Bill Nye put this on his show he'd get another Emmy and she's giggling! She's stroking the elephant and she's giggling Yes And this guy there is trying to hold this thing up but in order to get some goo out of him so they can examine him I think they've tried to sterilize this guy because he's a rogue or something I'm not sure because they never really explained it cause he was so yuck

1:46:58 And so let's just play as we, as this first clip begins the big giant football goes into the elephant. Bullet that goes inside the rectum that delivers an electrical current in... Oh man I can't wait to try this! ...the pelvis which hopefully will stimulate erection and you'll just see how massive his penis is The elephant is unconscious but breathing on his own. This four ton bull won't feel anything during the procedure A large homemade condom is placed over the head of the penis to collect any ejaculate. Hey baby, don't worry I made this condom myself at home and it's all good baby! So when it's flaccid like this the penis would normally be retracted into the prepuce out of harm's way but in the moment you can see that its very rubbery, it's very fleshy there's no bone in the penis at all

1:47:58 The erection is all done by filling the penis with blood under pressure. Gradually, they increase the voltage. So as the arteries dilate in the pelvis then muscles contract down the veins that would normally take the blood away so that means this large sausage if you like starts getting filled with blood under pressure which can't then escape out again and that's what extends it towards me. And you can see I mean it started but it's certainly not finished yet. You can pull a bit more? Yeah, yeah! It's a huge weight when this is filled with blood This is heavy. Yeah, I bet When they reckon full maybe even 30 kilos

1:48:48 Not in a nice erection, but not swinging yet. No fluid yet." Blood rushes in to fill the penis. There we go! Wow! It's alive! Seriously alive and that is all done by blood pressure? That's not muscles did that? And again my god! That's fantastic John this you did not disappoint I'm telling you. I'm watching this on PBS on TV I said, this just should be banned and then they go into the next part where they're actually showing ban What do we ban? This is there showing the elephants having sex nice. It's beautiful Apparently this thing which is the size of let's see oh

CHAPTER 27 / 42 Discussion

Elephant Estrus Cycles and Mating Behaviors

The discussion on elephant biology continues, focusing on the rare fertility window of female elephants and the chemical signals used to attract bulls. The hosts remark on the unique physical adaptations required for elephants to mate given their massive weight.

elephants· estrus· pheromones· mating· pbs· biology

1:49:33 It's the size of a sewer pipe. It's about 12 inches circumference. Or diameter, no 12 inches diameter. Diameter? Yeah 12 inch diameter which is a larger circumference of big giant thing and the girl is just patting it and rubbing it and she's giggling I can't believe the patriarchy made her do it how about the male scientist this is just an outrage microaggression he was aghast He was doing the rectal bullet This thing has a brain or something Wait, it's not only 12 inches in diameter. It has a brain? Or something because when the elephant has sex with another elephant they really can't do a lot of thrusting and they make a point discussing this maybe it is in the next clip. We also face another obstacle... A very narrow fertility window

1:50:31 Elephants have a different reproductive cycling compared to humans. They come into estrus, in other words they release an egg only once every four to four and half months that's very different from humans who release an egg once every month so for human there is twelve opportunities in the year to fertilize the woman For these animals it's only going to occur about three times a year And for males in must there's even worse news After their two-year pregnancies, females then spend at least another two years nursing their calf when they have no interest in sex. Oh no! That means they're only receptive for 2 to 4 days once every four or maybe even five years that is a long time to wait for that tiny little window of receptivity so the females can't leave it up to the males to figure this out They have a way to tell them else to advertise that there ready for sex Here we go

1:51:29 They're gonna advertise for it, huh? Yes. Now we get really gross! They're gonna advertise... So let me just understand this is educational I like this This is you know this is... Oh yeah well you would Yeah, I you know as a 52 year old guy. I think it's funny You can still make dick jokes about an elephant there you go This is about the biggest big joke will ever have well. I know how he advertises. I know how this works I don't offer about elephants. I lived in Uganda as a kid I could tell you but before they play the clip before Blake them How do they do it? Oh this easy that put their picture on elephant back page calm for sex And that chemical is in the urine

1:52:08 And the males can pick up on that chemical. What they do is they put the trunk down, they sample a little bit of urine and bring it to their mouth and it's kind of like tasting and smelling the chemical. They can detect that the female is about to release an egg because she starts releasing that chemical about four weeks before the egg is actually released It is thought that the ovaries release this chemical signal into the blood and then the urine, steadily increasing in concentration in the final weeks leading up to ovulation. Only the biggest strongest bulls—the ones with most experience—are able to tell exactly when those precious few days have arrived. And they have that very short time to mate with her because she's just advertised. She hasn't left it up for them to figure out. She has told them she's ready for sex!

1:52:57 Wow, talk about the patriarchy. We should kill all elephants these guys are horribly misogynist. Bare moments when a female is in heat the race to mate is on Before accepting him she puts up a token chase A bull doesn't need to move his hips during sex His penis can thrust independently Nice no bad thing when most of his six-ton weight now rests on his hind legs. No John I'm so happy we did this is just beautiful

1:53:37 Just beautiful. And again, what station was this on? Where can we find this? This is on PBS. This is one of the great shows, beneficial shows everyone should watch on PBS I think it's called Animal Sex and they discuss all these different habits of these animals It's interesting how the male elephant is really dominant in this whole procreation No, he's not. He seems passive to me! It's the female that tells him she can have sex and she doesn't put out after the baby is born. I misunderstood. I thought that HE tells HER when she's ready? That's what I heard. Nooo! You're listening to the wrong thing! She PEES on him!

1:54:16 And then he says, oh God I gotta fuck her now. And so then she puts up a phony chase and has to chase him around a little bit and gets pooped out. Then she says okay this old guy is going to drop dead if i'm not... So she stops and screws her with his self- this crazy penis that has a brain and it figures out where to go and it does it on its own because he can't move, he's too heavy. He's on his back legs, probably killing him... And then now this is a female dominated society! You get that all wrong I don't know what you're talking about. I'm Stephen Hawking, bitch Wow, John. That was one of the best rants you've ever gone on I think Yes ladies and gentlemen john at the vorac org is where you want to be Give you a little slow clap on top of all of it that was not anyway I found that the whole thing was not

1:55:19 I don't know. I didn't get, it was like grossed out...I did record it so obviously wasn't completely grossed out but that was kind of gross. Do I need to know about this? Do I need to know? I would have stopped better than most of the drivel. It's better than Trump hate. Better than anything on television and you know what actually I feel bad one am I thinking you deserve this Totally, totally. Especially but only because of your wrap up because it sounded so close to home like it's just like I think everyone knows what I'm talking about. Yeah that was one of those gags yeah let's start off with thanking a few people that actually helped produce the show by contributing starting with Jeffrey Walso who has to be moved up

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Knighting of Sir Dude Name Matt and Donor Roll

Matthew Messer is knighted as "Sir Dude Name Matt" on his 21st birthday. The hosts read a long list of donors contributing $50 or more, including Jennifer Douchak and Baron Mark Tanner, while playing requested jingles like "ISIS in America."

matthew messer· knighthood· donations· value-for-value· isis in america

1:56:12 to executive producer or associate executive producer. Okay, because he sent us $154 in Canadian and we are giving a yes yeah absolutely that's and since he did that we have to give him the Biden ISIS jingle and some karma I know what it is of course yes here it is You've got karma. Very nice! Jonathan Halpern, US $150.62 Matthew Messer 12345 Now hold on he's going to be knighted today Yeah? So he says this donation is in celebration of my 21st birthday Congratulations July 24th but listen you guys since around episode 353 when I was a sophomore in high school BAM

1:57:19 I would like to thank you two so much for being a twice weekly part of my life for the last six years. That's right, your parents aren't really necessary when you've got us You two have taught me so much about how to think critically about the world around me and how to laugh even when events going on in that world seem to suck. Yes! John, this is why I do this show these kinds of notes. I would like to humbly request to be knighted sir dude named Matt accounting attached below as i'm a college student pursuing a degree in MIS and plan on becoming a sysadmin a dude name Ben not to change your name. I'd like to request Adam play the Isis

1:58:01 Wait a minute, did we just get this twice? Or am I on... No. That's- I mean talk about your random number theory Oh yeah Wow Adam played the ISIS- See that never surprises me Played the ISIS in America jingle because every time i hear the original song out in public I have to stop myself and sing out Isis In America And Dan Hartman my friend, well I wouldn't say my good friend but I knew him before he died and he would be tickled to hear this for sure. Thank you for your courage soon-to-be Sir Dude Name Matt and yes we thank you for your courage sir so I'll do the whole sequence again as deserved.

1:58:52 You've got Carmen. Nice! That is weird, man. Two of those almost in a row. Yeah since we haven't heard her for months. That's crazy. That's what makes it even crazier. Thomas and Frankfurt Deutschland $111.11 This is five times middle finger up donation to Twitter. Denied you posting any good one Thomas. It calls them out as a douchebags James Blanchard in Lafayette, Colorado 9999 Jamie Jason Peterson in parts unknown 95

1:59:29 Philip Sanders also 95 in Ewing, New Jersey Michael Padden pedantic pedantic in Sharpsville Pennsylvania And 95 by the way is the 95 950 dimes for show 950 which is the next show which is on Thursday? Yeah Thursdays and show 950 and this this promotion of nine hundred and fifty dimes Got us one two three four five five Okay, we hope to have a little more on Thursday at least at least help us celebrate our pre You know before you did next big break would be show nine nine nine which is dynamite idea And then there's show 1000 so they'll be two in a row that'd be worth paying attention to Wayne Lark home and parts unknown Australia 95 and mark

2:00:21 Kedrowski in Bear Lake, Minnesota 95. Ben Blessing 77-77 Sir Brian Kaufman, Scottsdale Arizona 7575. Timothy Gekas in Sacramento California came in on pop money 6279 and I'm only guessing he's in Sacramento because they came in from the Sacramento Credit Union April Beerg 6262 and she sent a nice card... No 6222 but I'm not sure why. From Amboy Minnesota Nuts and she sent a nice car saying that we're great

2:00:57 She's the one who has the Tweety bird on her chest. J-Us? Uh, Jennifer Douchak from Marietta Georgia And she does have... I don't know what she said. Alright you gotta get up kid! I shall do an interlude in the meantime. I'm here. Oh your back out No interludes It's on the table Um So she had a little note in Do you have to undo your safety belt when you get out of these chaise? I just use a harness Can't be said enough Thank you for keeping me sane Aha! The bi-weekly something incubations keep me firmly in dimension A. I appreciate all that you do, I need a douchebag call out from you. Call out my little brother Jason Douchak. He's in South Korea currently he is long time listener no time donor

2:01:50 He did hit me in the mouth. He has that going for him and she would like some requests maybe you can put them at the end, do the Obama no-no-no and uh... The Screaming Goat We're kind of full for today but No not until the show ends when we do our thing at the end of this segment No! Why do I have to do that all the time? Okay well I just want The Screaming Goat Okay Just say it then Screaming goat Yeah You'll get the goat I'm gonna give you the goat When you least expect it 5678, sir not appearing on this podcast. I don't know what that means. Barron Mark Tanner a buddy in Whittier California 5678 Donald Napiers 5510 double nickels on the dime with Tom Hazel in Hanford California double nickels on the dime Douglas Kuhlman and Sioux Falls South Dakota 5510 he's native of the Dakota Territory Aaron Lambert Tumwater Washington 5433 Marcos Murayama Nagasaki

2:02:54 And somewhere, what's P.E., you think? It's in Linz. Peru! Oh he's in Peru. Lima, Peru. Right, I didn't see the Lima. Yeah that's a lot of Japanese in Peru. Scott Nelson in Melbourne Florida $50 and one cent Now, the following people are $50 donors name and location. And we have a few Daniel Laboy in Bath Michigan Susan Johnson in parts unknown James Crane in Missouri City Texas Jennifer Hurst Brandon Menk in Tempe Arizona Patrick Maycombe Sir Patrick to you and New York City

2:03:41 James Blair in Holland, Ohio. Sandy Geisler in Watkinsville Georgia Thomas Wilkinson Somewhere in California and last but not least Kirsten Gleb a pop money donor I have no idea where she's from and she's never told me okay And we want to thank all these folks for helping produce the show number 949 yes indeed coming up on 950 we highly appreciate it Now we do have a meet up I think next Saturday but i haven't confirmed all of this. Oh? I'm gonna send the mailing out if you're not on the mailing list you won't find out about it and I don't really have uh...

CHAPTER 29 / 42 Discussion

No Agenda Meetups and Birthday Karma

The hosts announce an upcoming meetup in Austin and provide "birthday karma" for several producers. They conclude the knighting ceremony for the day's top contributors with the traditional "Hookers N' Blow" litany.

meetups· karma· birthdays· knighthood· value-for-value

2:04:19 You can do this. I'll just create a page, Dvorak dot org slash meet up and it will be up probably by the Tuesday. Wait wait isn't slash meet up dot htm? Little insight gag there okay. Never grows old. Dvorak dot org slash meet up dot h t And I'll have that up on Monday. Alright everybody, thank you so much for giving us some value for the value we are giving to you that's highly appreciated also people coming in under $50 that is typically for reasons of anonymity We also have some cool subscriptions please check out how you can help us for our show on Thursday at devolrac.org slash n-a For those who need it Jobs jobs job and jobs Let's vote for jobs

2:05:12 You've got karma. And on the list today we find Patrick Gary turning 33, Matthew Wilson 33 on July 24th. Matthew Messer 21 on July 24th Thomas Wilkinson 30 on the 24th as well Man tomorrow's gonna be a busy day Brian McFadden 49 tomorrow and Aaron Heath turns 30th on July 26 Happy birthday from all of your buddies here at The Best Podcast in the Universe! And I need to give some special relation- actually rebound karma to my buddy He knows who he is

2:05:50 You've got karma. What happens? And I also have, since you're on it, I got the... I got a emergency jobs karma for Sean Davis An emergency jobs karma! We will not stop we'll go right to it Jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs Let's vote for jobs! You've got karma Alright let's get our blades out here Got it Yeah where is yours Right here Okay On the podium, please. Matthew Wilson and Matthew Messer to match

2:06:27 And Matt and Matt, everybody. That's right gentlemen thank you You have both contributed to the best podcast in the universe with the amount of $1,000 or more You are very welcome here at The Roundtable Of our Noah, Jen, The Knights & Dames And I very proudly pronounce a K-V Sir Matthew Black Belt Financial Advisor And sir dude named Matt Gentlemen for you we've got Hookers N' Blow We've got Wren Boys n' Chardonnay We've got Pipelines N Poppies Ronnie Eggs N Grapefruit Juice WWE N Dabs Arrow Gay N Ambien Lead Slingerz Whiskey N Gunpowder Brisket N Brown Ale Tacos N Tequila Opium and warm orange juice, breast milk and pavlova, hot pants and booze. Sparkling cider escorts, ginger ale and gerbils And of course mutton in mead It's the good stuff Go get yours over at noagendination.com slash rings Eric the shill will take care of you Thank you again for supporting us with the work that we do Oh I um...I put some of my treasures up for sale My treasures Remember how I jettisoned all my stuff when we moved?

CHAPTER 30 / 42 Discussion

Adam Curry's Treasures for Sale Website

Adam Curry has launched a website, forsale.curry.com, to sell personal broadcast equipment and MTV memorabilia. Items include an Apex Aural Exciter used on the show and various ISDN codecs and mixers from his career in radio and television.

adam curry· broadcast gear· mtv· collectibles· apex aural exciter

2:07:23 Yeah, you got a bunch of stuff that you're gonna get souvenirs that people want to buy. Yeah yeah so I got if you go to for sale dot curry dot com number four sale dot curry dot com okay let me do that now well yeah why don't you check it out i mean and then you might like some maybe my one yeah my one of those mtv hats I think there's something very nice at the bottom of the list that you will be excited about um this is just a start because there's more coming But, uh... on the page? Did it load? Treasures for Sale by Adam Curry. This is a collection of stuff I've been dragging around with me for decades! I finally decided to clean up and get rid of it Some of my quote-unquote stuff is worthy of a good new home Collectors may find some of the items of interest Others for sentimental value or actual use Yeah okay

2:08:16 I'm in. Alright, check the- You sold me! Okay you want to go to the Apex Aural Exciter? The worst sign is 1401 broadcast audio processor?! Yeah you can do that but first go to the Apex Aural Exciter and optical big bottom John and look at the description. I have...I already have one of these. I like putting...oh brother okay i'll read this This is the Apex Aural Exciter it's a device uh Horowitz has one too Like putting my testicles up for sale, this is the infamous Big Bottom that made me sound like the biggest baddest mofo in broadcasting and podcasting. Not only my voice but John C. Dvorak has run through this puppy for hundreds of hours! A true collector's find." Now go to the Talos Xtreme ISDN codec

2:09:11 This is a dis- this is... I, you know guess what? You got one of those too. Yes I do Yeah But check it out! This is worth money that's why I priced it high Oh yes 500 Used on the infamous Aero Classic Rock morning radio show that got burned to the ground after exposing pedo bears in the Dutch Justice Department That's a fine for any collector John Yeah has it got burn marks on it no You got a lot of stuff. You got a Bering shark, which is yeah you're asking too much for Soundcraft 4-channel mixer you're asking too much for right I already sold one I mean Jay oh yeah two of them mm-hmm you sold one four hundred bucks no it's 50 per It's 100. Oh, I know it says price 180 shit. I sold the soul that to cheap to him then damnit

2:10:10 The Mac Pro surprisingly a lot of people. Yeah, but there's more coming swap watch yeah, please read the description Stupid big Tracy like watch that makes us SIM card and connects that takes a SIM card it connects to something else via Bluetooth crazy expensive and douchey at the time of purchase price $50 you pay shipping yeah now you pay shipping It's overpriced ten bucks, but I'd say you still gross. Let me give you the real price here already sold it for they ask you did yeah baby brother All right, all right a lot of stuff. It's all gear. It's I thought it was like no There's more there's more stuff coming t-shirts and stuff come old used underwear I can think about your alright so I went and I watched these Sarah Lacey presentation

CHAPTER 31 / 42 Discussion

Sarah Lacy on Silicon Valley Bro Culture

Pando founder Sarah Lacy delivered a keynote speech criticizing the "brosplosion" and toxic masculinity in Silicon Valley. She linked the behavior of tech executives to the political climate under President Trump, though the hosts question the validity of connecting corporate harassment scandals to the administration.

sarah lacy· pando· silicon valley· feminism· donald trump· sexual harassment

2:11:05 Sarah Lacey is the editor-in-chief of Pando? No, she is the founder and one of the... She's a founder. So she was doing what and writer and she was in town? No this is from her speech that she did that was lauded by women I know About the bro culture in Silicon Valley. Okay? Yes, she's been on that I bet you can explain before she said it. You're gonna explain later okay. You've explained it to me outside this was a setup bit remember your punchline Are you back all right? I'm mom all right. I also put her entire prezzo in the show notes It's a power flower point now

2:11:55 I'm just playing this just so you can hear what she's saying, because i think the way she says... Also what she's wearing is very interesting. It's kind of like a Lena Dunham outfit and I think she's gone full Lena Dunham. And she makes very generalized statements or very broad sweeping statements And to me, it's like absolutely there are women and men is a problem everywhere. Everywhere! And I'm sure that where there is money, there are even bigger problems As we know most of the wars in the world are about a couple guys turf and hookers It's always what its about Always So...it's always good to improve everybody Yes, we all want to be better

2:12:38 But I'm not so sure your approach is going to work very well. Hello, hello how are you? So my first book I ever wrote actually my second book was about entrepreneurship and emerging markets and I was hugely pregnant when I was promoting it And I did 30 keynotes around the world and I got to go talk to all these places about why Silicon Valley was so great! They would look at me like yeah we know shut up today Today you get to hear about why Silicon Valley is awful. This is the keynote you've been waiting for if you're outside the Silicon Valley ecosystem and sick of the smugness, and I honestly said she's smuggly don't know how I'm gonna get through all of this in 18 minutes. I have just spent over a year writing a book about my journey from cool girl patriarchy enabler was she ever a cool girl?

2:13:33 Is this a TEDx talk? No, it's just the conference. She said 18 minutes and that to me is a TED talk Oh yeah, well she didn't get paid if that's what you're asking. Well they don't pay a TED, Ted doesn't pay anybody I think That's my point So she is speaking at a conference in Canada, maybe they paid her plane ticket or something But she wants to get out so she is going to do all these and just like her previous tour of 30 all over the world 30 TED Talks My journey from cool girl patriarchy enabler To badass feminist mama bear And so I've researched every element of this

2:14:08 And we are in the middle of a brosplosion. Brosplosion! In Silicon Valley, that is like heavy work. Loved it, needed it. Working around the clock so I'm gonna move super quick everything on these slides is sourced I can send you the slides if you want the data and you want those sources just email me afterwards and we're gonna like micro machines speed through this Hey baby let's micromachines speed through this okay? I don't even know what that means. I liked it so much, I remembered it micromachined through this okay? It's... but that is a mean! It's-I dunno but really its the whole presentation that I just found bothersome because she comes across as extremely smug and I dont understand why she chose that tact or maybe thats just the way she is but she has an extremely valid point when she gets to

2:15:02 Reasoning as to why this is happening or what influences are going on gets a little dimension B. You have a valley full of guys who want to talk about how horrible Donald Trump is, they act just like him! share the politics, but they literally do the exact same tactics to the point where if you even look at some of the walk back apologies from the men who have lost their jobs. This is also interesting this is a new term we gotta be on lookout for walk back apologies Walk back apologies. It means that you apologize, but it wasn't good enough! Over these sexual harassment scandals they're calling it witch hunts and fake news. I mean...it's actually amazing that they don't see that they're looking in the mirror Any thoughts before I play this out?

2:15:53 It sounds Sarah has this good speaking style that I think is this is pretty much her style. Okay, and I don't know if she can It's not Valley girlish very much. She's very yeah, she's very a little bit She's some the South you do or southern thing to work. She doesn't really want it. I don't know what she hates I don't know why because that's enabling the patriarchy So here's the good news. Unfortunately for all those bros, I'm from energized feminism in America. Women of my generation are wearing pink hats on their head who spent their 20s and 30s

2:16:31 Go feminism with kind of handmaid's tale style blinders on wanting to pretend sexism didn't exist and it wasn't a thing We've now gotten just so horrified by the amount of rights that this administration wants to take away from us Oh, hold on a second. Is this sourced? Can I see can I find the source of this of their rights your rights that are being taken away Sorry It should be in the slide. It should be a reference on the slide. It's not, but we've been so horrified by our rights being taken away Do you have a thought about what rights are being taken away? None that I know of Her rights specifically her rights

2:17:12 She still has the right to speak at these events. Yes, she has a right I presume she's talking about the right to an abortion which you still had that right is not been taken away it's been made difficult by douchebags all agree with that certainly in Texas douche bags but it's not like everybody with a pink hat couldn't put their money together and build an approved clinic I'm in No, I don't see that. It has to be the government! All of us in our 30s and 40s and 50s in this industry who suddenly want to be thought of as women in this industry, and want to work for and help other women in this industry. And this has now become our issue. On top of that you have the millennial generation and all that millennial entitlement we've all read so many case studies about is great.

2:18:10 for women coming up who are millennials because they are simply not accepting the I gotta pay my dues bullshit that women of my generation accepted. On top of that, you have the teen Vogue generation that basically has a 20 year head start on my generation and accepting that feminism there's a need for feminists and they want to identify as feminist." Man this is could not be more polar opposite to The Elephant Story huh? Damn Good contrast. Good work! Yes, thank you. So what's interesting is that she blamed Trump and she saying this is the bro culture... maybe not saying harassment but the bro culture that this because of the president? Does it ring true? Did she say that?! Yeah, she said it was because of Trump they don't like his politics but they talk about fake news and witch hunt in their walk back apologies

CHAPTER 32 / 42 Discussion

Silicon Valley Political Climate and Janet Napolitano

The hosts discuss the perceived "fascist" political environment in Silicon Valley, where expressing conservative views can be socially risky. They contrast current gender politics with past reports of male humiliation under Janet Napolitano at the Department of Homeland Security.

silicon valley· fascism· janet napolitano· department of homeland security· gender politics

2:19:05 Which means you apologize is not good enough. Well, she's definitely in the hate Trump camp Like everybody else in the valley and she says so herself about even the men for some reason Silicon Valley has become Democrats and I'm not absolutely sure how that happened why it happened but it happened and And a lot of it has to do with like, for example when I went shooting with a friend of mine CEO friend of mine. He said, Do never ever say that you've ever been shooting with me. Oh gee. Fantastic yeah yeah

2:19:44 If you don't think that's a fascist environment, I don't know what is. But it was a little disingenuous because she was on this CEO thing a long time ago. Didn't she have the first altercation with the Uber guy? She had, she first her first altercation was with Zuckerberg. Oh, refresh my memory. That's an old is one of her things she got blasted for it because she did a interview of his Zuckerbergs you wanted to do and she they went, you know, the Zuckerberg is kind of a doofus. And so it didn't work out for her or in there when criticized are they people like to criticize Sarah? And I think it may be this style that you're talking about.

2:20:37 And somehow she got wind of it and she made an issue out of it. And the guy who turned out to be a douchebag that he was, okay so this is way before Trump. Okay, so its not something that just happened because of President Trump? No, Trump is a convenient whipping boy in this case the way I see it I mean, we do need to figure out how to address this in a way different than what we're doing right now. Because i know that any woman listening can't even hear that were trying to be reasonable they just hate us. I don't think every woman but I think a lot of women misinterpret everything because well if you guys only knew kind of thing

2:21:19 But yeah, I think it's unreasonable to bring Trump into the...I think it weakens the argument. Well, it's not even that! It's just how do we move forward from this? How did we just move forward because it's a great topic and you know Just like the pharmaceutical industry This will just go on forever and ever and ever and will treat the symptoms by You know firing guys And making guys like Mark Cantor look like a huge douchebag which is sad We're not going to talk at all about, you know what it was like a Department of Homeland Security when Lucy Napolitano was there and men were actually being... Here's your desk stupid man. You can sit in the bathroom with your desk." That's how men were humiliated under Janet Napolitano. Yes it was a scandal. It wasn't a real scandal that nobody would- No it wasn't a scandal on our show because we knew about it

CHAPTER 33 / 42 Discussion

Modern Chivalry and Door Opening Etiquette

A humorous debate ensues regarding the proper way to hold a door open for a woman in the modern era. The hosts analyze the "twirl" move versus the "sideways flat" approach, reflecting on how changing social norms have made traditional chivalry complicated.

etiquette· chivalry· gender roles· social norms· austin

2:22:09 So and nobody else is picking up on it's all one-sided right so, so how can we use an agenda? This is all she is serving in a gender. Here's what women who listen to no agenda We have quite a few we have quite a few just tell me what you want I think I'm very willing to do anything I mean if don't say education and but it's just know What do you want? I really mean it. I hold doors open, I stand up for women and do all the approved things... This is an issue! You have this situation with... They're putting men in a bind at least these different groups and I would put Sarah in that group of doing this

2:22:51 Are you supposed to open the door for a woman? Or are you not supposed to be if you open the doors and insult some women, it's demanded by others. Are you supposed to pick up the check at lunch? You're supposed to split the check at lunch or you're supposed to let them pay for lunch With some women, you're in trouble if you don't split the check or you're a douchebag or a chauvinist pig. I have to pick up the cheque. Or if let them pick up the cheque and he really should have picked up the cheque it's your fault! I have a door question which is an issue for me this is like maybe we should ask women for their pronoun? And the pronoun wouldn't be a pronoun but it'd be like... Your majesty! There are five kinds of men You have to be male number six number four number three

2:23:31 And that means you have to act like this. You can't open the doors, you can pick up the check Here's a question But is that a ruse? Because you really should force yourself to open the door and pick up the check because that's what they want I don't know...I gave up And there ya go Here's a question I have a door issue If the door opens inward Do you-and it's in your door like a shop door or any other big door Okay Do you A Push the door open and stand aside while straining your muscles, keeping the door open so the female can enter first? Or do you open the door, enter, twirl and hold the door open... So the female can walk in then. I always twirl when given a chance! I've gotten into trouble with twirling. Because you're making a scene!

2:24:29 I, yeah. I don't know...I used to twirl now i'm a holder. I think you should twirl hold the door open and then bow and have a sweep of your right hand welcoming him with a welcoming sweep And her pronoun is Your Majesty And it's your majesty, you may enter. And you stay bowed over until she lets...she is at ease." I think the twirl move is seen as incorrect. I really do! What? What's wrong with twirling?! No because you entered first. The idea is to show your power by opening and holding. You are going through the door and then twirling and then holding it open? Yeah bad

2:25:13 as opposed to pulling it open and letting them go. No, it's not pulling open is if it opens inward that's the problem heavy door opens inward you can with the palm of your hand you can go flat and press the door and then allow her majesty to go through Or you can go in, twirl and hold the door open. Which is what I thought was the cool move! But here's the deal... In California it's illegal for a door to only open inward in any public place. It's illegal. Yeah well this is Austin. It's like die. Die in case of fire I don't know. What do you think? So, you like to plow through the door and then hold it for the person?" Yes, I find that more logical but...I've noticed- I also think it's chauvinistic a little bit but what you're doing is going in first so that way you'll take the bullet. That's what I'm always saying! Baby, the bullet will hit me first. It's like food tasting

2:26:12 You know, so you can't let them go and do that. You gave a little kick in the butt when they go in if you let him go into it Wow We are off the track here but this is important stuff It is I think...I agree This is a serious question I have And I believe that the proper way that is expected from the patriarchy Is to make yourself thin and flat sideways and then hold the door open with your right or left hand whichever one is appropriate That is what is expected of us and that's what I'm doing. Okay, so what you're going to say is the best way... okay now this a door that opens in and they are going in. So your'e going up to the door put your hand on the door smudge it. You're gonna be smudging the door. And if you can manage to do because it takes a little leverage. It does depending on the door can be tough

2:27:06 Yeah, and so you push the door open and then you hold it open. And then you move yourself kind of like... You kinda suck yourself back a little bit. Yes. Then they proceed in. Now you could let the door go and have it hit them. Yeah? Which is always funny but generally speaking you would hold it up until he got in there say thank you and then you follow. Yes! Follow yes exactly I think that's probably the best way Because you get to smudge the door. Yep, it's cool It's kind of risky that because if you slip up You're gonna hit him with the door I mean so you're showing actual masculinity like look what I can do? I will protect you from this horrible door Yes exactly Now going in and twirling another would you plow through the doors kinda super gay kinda super gay This is very well super maybe but The other one is let them open their own damn door

CHAPTER 34 / 42 Discussion

Diamond and Silk Critique Rosie O'Donnell

Pro-Trump commentators Diamond and Silk criticized Rosie O'Donnell for promoting a game depicting the President falling off a cliff. The hosts note the professional production quality of the duo's videos and point out Apple's inconsistent standards regarding disrespectful apps.

diamond and silk· rosie o'donnell· apple· app store· donald trump

2:27:59 in the morning. All right, everybody. Well then while we're on that topic let's go to a bowl of stupid with diamond and silk because you said you wanted to talk about it. I like these girls! Silk? Girl, who goes into this weep bowl of stupid girl?! Well, Diamond, Diamond, Diamond... This weep bowl of stupid go to Rosie O'Donnell Oh it looks like Miss Rosie is exhibiting moronic behavior because she's running around acting like a moron Now it appears that she may have made up a video game and we'll say allegedly where it has the President of the United States as if he was falling off a cliff. Well how about somebody push you over the edge, Rosie? How would you like to be pushed over the edge?

2:28:47 I Thank you for censoring me, Sylvia. You're welcome. Since you want to show our president falling off a cliff... Uh-huh! How about you do us all a favor? Yes! How about if you throw yourself overboard? Looks like you may have an island place somewhere. I

2:29:36 These women are pros. They're pros 100% brought that out, I started thinking about it. You're right way too good man and now that someone is doing nice little bit of editing bits in there that takes time you look at the website yeah just look at everything they've got agents on a you want to do you wanna invite them to your beauty on your show? And their pros and and I can see them There's some videos of them being interviewed. And you see, you can see them going in and out of their roles. You really can't I'm sure they just think they just discovered this that they could do it but somehow this is now pro operation. I think this is a Roger Stone game would not surprise me at all with him in July 2016 on stage good one and I think that somewhere aligned he's the kind of guy that would come up with something like this yeah and I

2:30:37 They may had a predilection toward Trump in the first place. I mean, their early stuff maybe they were pro-Trump very unusual for black women Black women came out for Hillary to it much of just massively more so than the men and These women are counter to that and whether I don't know whether it is sincere to be honest about it But this they're definitely funny. Yeah, I like them their pros and They've got a good point. I remember when President Obama became president Apple would not allow A whole bunch of games the apps To be sold on the App Store

2:31:20 Because you couldn't be disrespectful towards the president. But now we have to push the president over the ledge app and there's all kinds of bullcrap like this, that's a valid point! Yeah Someone should call Apple to account! Again it is left leaning Silicon Valley No kidding I know exactly what it is. Oh, I got something really...I think very interesting. This is a guy from Bloomberg Businessweek and he's on NPR and he's talking about Banyan your buddy Banyan and fake news because you kind of brought him up here with Stone, Bannon they're all these people they're still so upset about

CHAPTER 35 / 42 Discussion

Steve Bannon's Strategy of Fact-Based Narrative

A Bloomberg Businessweek analyst describes Steve Bannon's strategy of using documented facts rather than rumors to damage the Clintons. By providing research on the Clinton Foundation and Goldman Sachs speeches to mainstream outlets like the New York Times, Bannon successfully drove negative narratives during the election.

steve bannon· clinton foundation· goldman sachs· investigative journalism· bloomberg

2:32:20 these guys, you know publishing guys but guys in media you know helping out Trump and there's two clips I'll play the first one just so you can kind of get an idea of what he feels about how Bannon in particular helped Trump win. That's exactly right. In fact, that's what drew my interest in Bannon originally he had what I thought was a very shrewd analysis of why Conservatives in the 1990s had failed to stop Bill Clinton and Bannon's Analysis was that conservatives have become so wrapped up in their own

2:33:10 rumors and silly scandals what today we would call fake news that they didn't realize they had kind of lost the general public did not have credibility in so they went ahead impeach bill clinton and then he looked up and nobody really went along with them it didn't it didn't hurt clinton politically didn't hurt the democrats politically and bannon's analysis of that failure uh... when his follows he decided that in order to really stop Clinton's you had to rely on facts and not rumors And so what he wanted to do was to go in and dig into all the foreign contributors who'd given money To the Clinton Foundation. He wanted to try and get The speeches, the private speeches I should call them that Hillary Clinton gave to Goldman Sachs and others

2:33:56 and really fan this idea that there was just something nefarious or disreputable going on at the heart of this. And the idea was, look... Investigative reporters are legitimately interested in this stuff. So if we can marshal a bunch of facts, not rumors but facts, hand them over to reporters at places like the New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg News then I am confident that they will look into these stories themselves and they will drive this narrative that i think is going to be harmful to the Clintons and as you say uh... That's exactly what happened

CHAPTER 36 / 42 Discussion

Tom Cruise Movie American Made and Mena Arkansas

The upcoming Tom Cruise film "American Made" revisits the CIA-backed drug running operations in Mena, Arkansas, during Bill Clinton's governorship. The hosts discuss whether the film's release is prompting a media effort to defuse long-standing "conspiracy theories" regarding the Clintons' involvement.

tom cruise· american made· mena arkansas· cia· bill clinton· drug running

2:34:33 So, if I understand properly they got all these facts which are really good facts and then they just put the facts out there and that helped Trump become the president. What? That's kind of what i heard him say! Yeah it's kinda what he said but when did this happen? Well it didn't however we're going to talk about a fact here which we've talked about on this show for years Which is now a subject of a new Tom Cruise movie, which I haven't seen. I watched the trailer looks great But I don't know if it's dimension... Tom Cruise knows how to make good trailers Yeah, I don't know if its Dimension A or Dimension B the conclusion of this movie but it must be B but it's about Mina Arkansas and The drug running

2:35:23 Okay, which the Clintons were involved in I'm just gonna say it and So this comes up in this conversation and continuing with the anti Clinton theme here Robert Mercer the father of Rebecca Mercer And they're both very big funders you know there. They are the ones who also bought a stake in Cambridge Analytica outfit that caused Brexit. All right? They caused it, and I guess... Caused yes. Exactly. And they did it with Putin On the right during the Clinton presidency—I think it was then— he had this theory or supported the theory that Bill Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas had been involved in a CIA-backed drug running scheme based out of an Arkansas airport

2:36:11 This was yes, this this was a conspiracy theory that had some prominence on the far right fringes. You don't encounter... That's us John! The far-right fringes! ...or a lot of conservatives It would seem so but that's bullcrap. An Arkansas airport? This was yes, this this was a conspiracy theory that had some prominence on on the far right fringes Who is it they're talking to This is the guy from Bloomberg Businessweek. This guy sounds just like Matt Taibbi a little bit I think there's a milieu that we're dealing with Joshua Green all right it's almost time Encounter a lot of conservative donors especially not successful businessmen who are willing to believe things quite that extreme even if they intensely dislike the Clintons

2:37:00 But I think that gives a flavor of Mercer's, you know, animus and paranoia about the Clintons. And it helps explain why he was so determined to stop Hillary Clinton from becoming president. Now with my no agenda hat on, I immediately think wow are they promoting the Tom Cruise movie? Is this whole thing to promote the Tom Cruise movie or has... because i didn't know about this movie until uh I was looking around for other stories on Mina since this came up and then I see the trailer. Oh, okay It has that crept in and they're trying to defuse it? I mean we don't know what the movies like yet But I'm I miss if Mina is a great story all kinds of dead people fantastic is really the basis for the the Clinton body count

CHAPTER 37 / 42 Discussion

Peter Smith and Klaus Eberwein Suicide Reports

Two men linked to investigations of the Clintons—GOP operative Peter Smith and Haitian official Klaus Eberwein—were recently found dead in reported suicides. Smith's death by helium asphyxiation and Eberwein's death before testifying against the Clinton Foundation have raised significant public suspicion.

peter smith· klaus eberwein· clinton foundation· suicide· helium· haiti

2:37:51 Yeah, and of course we were condemned by one of our producers for not discussing at all the latest I have a clip. I've been waiting for a clip because I wanted it all neatly packaged because And well, my conclusions after our clip. A GOP operative looking for Hillary Clinton's deleted emails and a Haitian official set to testify against the Clinton Foundation are both found dead as a result of suicide Now investigative journalists are asking whether the deaths of these men have anything to do with Bill and Hillary Clinton The first man to reportedly take his life was Republican strategist Peter Smith

2:38:29 An opposition researcher and GOP donor, Smith died more than a week after he gave an interview with the Wall Street Journal about his quest against Hillary Clinton. He told the newspaper that he was working to retrieve the 33 thousand emails believed erased from Clinton's private server but that his death is raising eyebrows. The suicide note said quote there was no foul play whatsoever It also said Smith took his own life because of a terminal illness and that his life insurance was about to expire. The autopsy said he died of asphyxiation due to displacement of oxygen in a confined space with helium." What is that? What- what is that? Asphyxia... confined space with helium?! Yeah, you can kill yourself with helium it's not that hard Wait wait I'm just trying to get into the guy's head

2:39:18 So instead of sitting in the garage with the engine running, he goes out and gets some helium. Which is not cheap nowadays It's very expensive And he puts his head in a bag of helium? I mean this-this how you want to end your life Doesn't sound right to me either believe me careful of helium balloons You gotta add that to the list two hot tubs canoes and DC waters Please no small aviation then due to displacement of oxygen in a confined space with helium despite The note The Wall Street Journal said the operative was close to finding the truth behind the emails was hell-bent on locking up Hillary and Showed no signs of giving up on his goal. Oh

2:39:54 He was on the record. He reached out to me, he was in no way ashamed of what he had done. He was actually quite proud of it and fervently believed that these emails would eventually surface. He really believed that he was at the end as he described it- Stop stop! He firmly believed that what he did was right? What did he do because it sounds as though he did something illegal If you listen to that, what the guy said as he explains it sounds like they did something illegal to get whatever he got if he got anything at all. And but what was it? Which is kind of vague the way Prattles us off blah blah blah

2:40:34 I don't know. I'm trying some helium, but I'm not sure what happened." He was actually quite proud of it and fervently believed that these emails would eventually surface he really believed that he was at the end as he described it he thought that he was at nearly the last chapter of a long saga and soon these emails would come to light in that he will ultimately be vindicated in this quest that he was on I don't know, it's about the emails and i'm very troubled by the 33 000 emails. And we know when that number crops up That's a signal this is sign there's something going on Uh, and we have more on the clip

2:41:10 Meanwhile, the suspected suicide of Haitian official Klaus Eberwine is now under investigation in Miami. Eberwine was a former director general and advisor to the Haitian president. He was due to appear in court this week to testify in the Haitian Senate against The Clinton Foundation for alleged corruption. She takes a tremendous amount of money and you take The official was an outspoken critic of the Clintons and accused them of redirecting billions of dollars in state department aid for the devastating 2010 Haiti earthquake right into their pockets. According to Haitian newspapers,

2:41:58 Eberwine's colleagues recently said he was in good spirits with plans for the future, but he also feared for his life due to a sharp criticism. His friends and family were shocked to find out that he died from self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head Although both men had different reasons for their vendettas The two men were both seeking to bring down Clinton's corruption Now here is problem I have Because of course, Haiti is complete corruption from the Clintons. The Clinton Foundation and their buddies... this is documented. Look at Charles Ortell's work on this. Yeah, Charles Ortell is the guy who has done the best work on this. Right? Oh yeah! He's done fantastic work. The money where the money went that's what they claim it but the way that conspiracy guys jump on these kinds of things

2:42:45 You know, there were all kinds of reports about both these guys and notes and what they left. And there's a lot of conflicting information I just don't really know but... When you put in your suicide note there is no foul play That's what i mean that's kind of tough And the helium. It didn't kill me, or anything like that? I mean why the helium? The helium is dumb. There's another question... And if his insurance policy is going to run you can't collect it if you kill yourself! No this makes no sense. The whole thing makes no sense. But here's a real problem I have with the report uh the gunshot now we don't know enough about it typically

2:43:25 The Clintons like to do two shots to the head and the gun in your left hand. That's kind of the message they like to send, so like... And who was it? Was it Vince Foster who shot himself in the head twice? Yeah I think so. Yeah fantastic but the helium bothers me and I'm also very bothered by two recent suicides in the music business you know Who is it? The guy from Lincoln Park and then Chris Grinnell of Soundgarden. Both by hanging! There's a lot of guys killing themselves by hanging, and I tried to find an answer you know... And looked around but really couldn't find anything and i wonder why? It used to be gunshot... You know... We started hanging was supposed to be a spook thing Really?!

2:44:24 Yeah, there's a lot of you know if you're gonna get if the CIA wants to Do suicide suicide you do hang you because it means there's a lot of you know This is very shocking to see somebody hanging. Oh yeah believe I've never seen one But I would assume and yeah, I mean if you can just Just see this time seems like you really if you do that You really want to send the message to somebody? You know I don't I don't know, but it's bothering me. So we're clueless is what you said totally idea No, I'm throwing it out there and then maybe somebody has an idea We have all kinds of interesting no one has any idea these guys are really good whoever was doing this I Think that's the only correct answer Just a final thing for me well though we do have a couple more minutes if you want oh

CHAPTER 38 / 42 Discussion

UK Knife Crime Restrictions and Private Property

The UK Home Secretary has proposed new restrictions on the online sale of knives and a ban on possessing "offensive weaponry" on private property. The hosts compare these measures to American gun control efforts, noting the government's tendency to target objects rather than underlying social issues.

united kingdom· knife crime· gun control· private property· offensive weapons

2:45:17 the, from the UK. Now whenever we have a shooting here in the United States what immediately is the action that is taken as we try to take away guns? We tried to restrict access to guns you know never go for the underlying reasons just it's always like this gun, then the gun zealots say you know guns don't kill people crazy people kill people Yeah, but somehow we still always wind up with restricting access or taking away guns. Oh we try yeah And and we're always saying you know the UK is always like oh You guys are your guns? and we always say well you got a knife I'm trying to stick you with a knife and lo and behold this is how it's going from the Home Secretary in Gitmo Nation GMT

2:46:09 They're going to tackle knife crime. The proposed new action would restrict the online sale of knives and ban possession of dangerous or offensive weaponry on private property." So they're gonna restrict sale- Yeah, on private property you can't have a knife collection. Gonna restrict the sale of knives... yeah that will re- It's so hard to do this! Knives are everywhere but I guess it's the knife That's what they're gonna do. They look like they're doing something and talking about says you brought that up We must play this clip the guns at airport report Okie-dokie with a summer travel season now at its peak the TSA today Announced it has discovered our record number of guns at this country's airports The vast majority loaded with rounds in the chamber among the passengers authorities say were found with the weapon Was an American Idol winner here's NBC's Tom Costello

CHAPTER 39 / 42 Discussion

TSA Record Gun Confiscations at Airports

The TSA reported a record number of firearms discovered at airport checkpoints, with many passengers claiming they simply forgot the weapons were in their luggage. Notable incidents include an American Idol winner caught with a loaded handgun at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.

tsa· airports· firearms· scott mccreery· open carry· raleigh durham

2:47:02 23-year old Scott McCreary, the winner of American Idol Season 10 says he forgot he had a loaded 9mm handgun in his backpack at Raleigh Durham Airport. Issued to summons, his was one of a record 89 guns found at airports nationwide last week including this loaded .40 caliber concealed inside a wheelchair cushion in Knoxville In the first six months of the year, the TSA discovered 1800 guns putting it on track for 3600 for the year. Yet another record in a string of yearly records. The most common excuse passengers claim they simply forgot. So they forgot that they had a loaded firearm with them?

2:47:40 And you know, if you own a firearm, you really need to know where it is at all times. The busiest day last week Tuesday the 11th the TSA found 20 guns. The airports with the most guns last year Atlanta Dallas Houston Phoenix and Denver While it's difficult to pinpoint a reason, the confiscations are rising as more Americans buy guns and as more states pass open carry laws. 45 states now have some form of an open carry law but bringing a gun to a TSA checkpoint can result in arrest and up to $12,000 fine. Passengers who want to transport a gun must unload it and check it in a locked case. Yeah people are stupid

2:48:21 It's pretty funny. Yeah, I'm sure it happens yeah 3800 times geez yeah people are stupid that's only the ones they catch yeah That's okay. I can't say anything more just people are stupid and they just do this stupid stuff No, I have two clips. They want to finish with 40 caliber What is that 40 caliber? I don't know someone get everyone riled up colt 45 you know 40 kind of what a 40 is But the scene that's the most popular I don't know. Okay, so there's a quickie little thing here which is...I realized when i heard this was on Kimmel that uh I miss these things this is those things where they just go around the country and get the exact same answer? I'm sorry it's law enforcement uses 40 okay interesting

CHAPTER 40 / 42 Discussion

Media Echo Chamber on OJ Simpson Parole

A montage of news clips shows various anchors using the exact same "The Juice is Loose" phrasing to report on OJ Simpson's parole. The hosts highlight this as an example of the lack of original thought and the scripted nature of mainstream broadcast news.

oj simpson· the juice is loose· media tropes· parole· news montage

2:49:19 And this is what you get. They used to do this on The Daily Show, they used to do a lot more than they do it now and I'm kind of missing it now that I have one of these and this is the clip OJ Simms has been released so everybody says this is the juice on the loose clip Well, the juice is almost loose. The juice will be set loose! The juice will soon be on the loose. The juice will be loose. The juice is loose. The juice is loose. The judge let the goose lose... or the juice I should say

2:49:59 They don't have an original thought between them these people I mean it is and we do our own version of the juice is loose Maybe a misunderstood the new story. Oh, yes, Joe J. Simpsons referred to as the juice yes, I know I know One last clip And this is one of those clips of CBS again, my favorite news source. CIA Broadcasting Network. Yeah the CIA Broadcasting Network they always leave something out

2:50:42 or they don't really miss report, or they twist the facts. Or they make you think one thing when they're telling us something else. The Tiffany Network John! The Tiffany network of news Yes that Tiffany network and here's an example this one just story was a good story it's an interesting story but it really galled me for a number of things and I'm gonna say would you listen to this and tell me then one or two things they completely left out of the story that you really wanted to know And this is the mathletes. I was wondering what it was going to be. Here we go. We end tonight with an update from the International Mathematical Olympiad in Brazil Team USA finished in fourth place out of 110 countries Jim Axelrod met up with the American mathletes on the road to Rio

CHAPTER 41 / 42 Discussion

International Mathematical Olympiad and CBS Reporting

CBS News reported on the US team's performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Brazil. While the segment focused on the coach's "low stress" approach, the hosts noted that the report failed to mention which country actually won the competition, focusing instead on a "feel-good" narrative.

math olympiad· cbs news· po-shen lo· brazil· education

2:49:59 They don't have an original thought between them these people I mean it is and we do our own version of the juice is loose Maybe a misunderstood the new story. Oh, yes, Joe J. Simpsons referred to as the juice yes, I know I know One last clip And this is one of those clips of CBS again, my favorite news source. CIA Broadcasting Network. Yeah the CIA Broadcasting Network they always leave something out

2:50:42 or they don't really miss report, or they twist the facts. Or they make you think one thing when they're telling us something else. The Tiffany Network John! The Tiffany network of news Yes that Tiffany network and here's an example this one just story was a good story it's an interesting story but it really galled me for a number of things and I'm gonna say would you listen to this and tell me then one or two things they completely left out of the story that you really wanted to know And this is the mathletes. I was wondering what it was going to be. Here we go. We end tonight with an update from the International Mathematical Olympiad in Brazil Team USA finished in fourth place out of 110 countries Jim Axelrod met up with the American mathletes on the road to Rio

2:51:29 So the expected value of the number of crossings is always... The man in front of the class is no ordinary math teacher. This is so good! And the kids in the chairs are not ordinary students. E squared e They are the US team for the International Math Olympiad, the best high school math minds in the country. But instead here's another line. And Po Shen Lo is their coach One can think of this as having the same role in inspiring people to do their very best in mathematics, as the Olympic athletic competitions have for sports. The son of immigrants from Singapore, Po was on the team in 1999 but when he took over his coach three years ago, the United States hadn't won in 20 years!

2:52:13 No surprise when ranking students from 71 countries, the US tests in the bottom half. But at training camp at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh Poe has his math leads build strong bonds out of the classroom as well as in. 17 year old Zach Croman from San Francisco is making his debut on the US team. The team does a great job of supporting each other in the sense that no one's pressured to get a certain score or they feel like they've failed We all just want to do our best. It's the same trick. Poe was straightforward about his low stress approach when he interviewed for The Top Job What I said is that if you put me in as coach, we're gonna do much worse than we ever did But he was wrong! The drought has ended the US has placed first each of the last two years If you just constantly challenge and enjoy the love of doing better today than you did yesterday Then you will be on an onward march towards success

2:53:13 An important lesson for world-class math students. It's like if you've got a guy and the rest of us as well it's been a great pleasure to book with all of you guys Jim Axelrod CBS News Pittsburgh okay alright what was left out of the story that you might want to know who won Yeah. Who won? Who came in second and who came in third, according to the report it would think we came in fourth this year even though we won the last two times which is kind of what they leave that left us off. They drop us off with, we just want twice in a row, but we didn't, yeah, we did too. A year ago.

2:53:56 I don't know. They didn't say, they didn't want to tell us You're not allowed to know slave so what is the point of the exercise? To let everyone know that we're kind of good Is this foam finger time or what is it I have no idea. I don't know what the point was, it was just a... That is very odd. It was just a typical CBS story they leave stuff out you don't know what they're doing it's just one of those, its' the end of the last story all the networks do nowadays there's a feel-good story yes human interest Right, and Scott Pelley was one of the best at doing this because after he finished his funny bit story, little story at the end. He would be laughing at the end of the broadcast. He'd be laughing at the end of the broadcast with a big smile on his face. He's glum the whole time except for the very end and then he'd sign off. And these guys that do this human interest story at the end all three guys do it all three networks do it

2:54:55 But they do this, it's bogus. Who won? It was just annoying I should look it up or put on the next show figure out who won And with that we close down another broadcast day here at the Tiffany Network new style Postmodern of podcasting. That's right baby Oh, I figured out the CIA They kill you by hanging as their message and if they really want to mess with you then they make it look like autoerotic self Asphyxiation that's that's it. That's like a you know, it's like it's like the Mexicans put your wang in your mouth CIA does that? That could be yeah, that could be it. That's pretty embarrassing Yeah Well I have no life insurance so

CHAPTER 42 / 42 Discussion

Show Outro and Hollywood Trip Anecdote

The hosts sign off with their traditional "In the Morning" greeting and a discussion about rainsticks. Adam Curry shares a brief anecdote about a trip to Hollywood, visiting Paramount Studios and meeting with producers from "The Blacklist" and E! News host Cat Sadler.

paramount studios· blacklist· cat sadler· rainsticks· ants· sign-off

2:55:43 Okay. Yeah, just letting you know but I'm staying away from small aviation and everything else and hot tubs Alright coming to you from the Cluedio here in downtown Austin Tejas We're in FEMA region 6 on all the governmental maps In The Morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry And from Northern California or I'm sorry Northern Silicon Valley? I'm John C. Dvorak and I remain John C. Dvorak That is correct sir and we will be back- I said get it I flexed it Yeah I gotcha We'll be back on Thursday Remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA Until then! Adios, mofos! I got ants... I got ants

2:56:46 I don't know if we had ants. We had ant invasion, uh... I was thinking if you desiccated a big pile of ants and then ground them to powder like a fine-grind black pepper? We were having dinner and yeah! I got an ant somehow in the meal And I ate it These things are peppery I got ants I've been back to back tomorrow by doing the burning trick is torture I got ants I Got ants

2:57:52 I got ants. I got ants, ants, ants, ANTS! You know who sent us these rainsticks? The producer of Utah. Oh, not that bad! Shake the rainstick, shake the rainstick, shake the rainstick... Shake the rainstick, shake the rainstick, shake the rainstick. Get your stick hold it by the shaft ready? Where'd you get the rainstick John Utah? Shake the rainstick, shake the rainstick, shake the rainstick.

2:58:49 We know we have the power. That shit works though. It may rain in Austin for three days from now. Ah yes, nothing like a good rain stick battle in the morning. The rain stick I believe... Nah nah I've been working on technique. Oh no! Oh no! Can't we pull out our rain sticks as professionally licensed rainstick operators and Immediately it starts raining. We did it again on the previous show, you got 10 inches For some reason this rain stick thing seems to work It's made as a musical instrument and not as an instrument of weather modification Rainstick shake the rainstick Shake the rainstick Shake the rainstick To get a little crazy for ya Want some crazies? Social justice warrior crazy just a lot Oh I love that You can play the goat screaming at the end Ah well let me get the goat all cute up Nothing like a goat Gotta be the goat Let me just test the goat

2:59:55 There's this group and these people with these t-shirts, I don't know exactly what group they're with. They run up and grab their fish and throw them back into the water because John Fish is not a fish. Mac-Mac-Cheese Mac-Mac-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-Mach-M

3:01:32 It's the love drug you meet up with somebody and both take a shot of this you fall in love And or at least your amenable, at least you can put up with each other one of the group control room Doesn't work in the other dimension now it doesn't the control is busted Listen you crazy lunatic 70 year old man baby. Oh Dynomous I hate that word hi pop star. I'm Van Jones Surely you've heard of me from the homeless guy people have no idea how good you are not my board. I didn't He's a show-off gaze like a what we used to call it with a flamer, I have some great gay stuff coming up later

3:02:33 Yeah, yeah She's a fast-talking dingbat. The head pops off into the air. I can't believe it took her 30 million seconds! I like the word gushing, though. A handful? I didn't know there was anybody making sex robots... And i've seen some hugs and kisses on the cheek go wrong

3:03:10 Oh, I gotta wear a headscarf because some dumb fuck on TV tells me to. Fact check false! Yeah they run facial recognition on his head. What the fuck does that mean? You see you can't carry... No he didn't say that it was a joke John obviously hello. Hello I get it. Hello. Yeah. Lost my cursor My trip to Hollywood. I went down to Hollywood, got to go into Paramount Studios through that big giant gate but i had the wi-fi password. Password is downsizing! Yeah so there's a bunch of rules and stuff you have to follow but if you follow any of them... Did you see those celebs? Yeah they're all over the place. So I went to the executive dining room meet up with the writer who was one of the producers from The Blacklist. I didn't say anything sucked did tell him I had issues with this storyline yeah

3:04:13 Everybody's interested in podcasting. So then I went over to E, Cat Sadler is unbelievably beautiful and hopefully she'll be listening to the show as a regular because she has got a lot of Twitter followers so I got all my names matching like everybody you know it was fun yeah drove down and i drove back and I'm lucky to be alive I'm Stephen Hawking, bitch.