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00:00 Just Bing it. Just Bing it. Dun dun da dun, dun da dun da dun dun, just Bing it! Adam Curry. John C. DeVore. That's Thursday December 7th 2017 this is your award-winning GiveOnNation Media assassination episode 9 or 8 8 This Is No Agenda Winding up the sticks to save LA and broadcasting live from downtown Austin, Tejas. Cap on the drone star stick here in the Cluedio In The Morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry And from northern Silicon Valley where i am expecting the worst... I'm John C. DeVore. It's Crackpot & Buzzkill! Yeah how far are you from any of this? Jean Claude? 350 miles Oh okay so your far enough- I know a guy who is in Santa Barbara and it's like 8 miles away

00:48 Yeah. Isn't that where Oprah lives? I mean, that can't be done! You can't burn down Oprah's place... Well they're not gonna burn down Santa Barbara, that's for sure but the shots from the 405 going through just nothing but flames on either side of the road were fantastic. Unreal! Now is this typical for California? It's flying from hell through hell Is this typical for California? No It's global warming, man. No I understand it's global warming but we've been had this been going on for years the global warming so i wonder if maybe it's uh... Yeah just as a confluence of two things one we had the too much rain and then that area especially in the Ventura County area apparently had been overgrowing for years and there'd be no fires there because we have all these fires in Southern California when the Santa Ana winds and so when this thing took off it just to go like a rocket

01:44 It's bad. Well, I mean you have 70 to 70 mile an hour winds right? Yeah, that same thing happened in Napa Valley we had these reverse winds that come off the desert and they just They're dry and they've their high speed and they use something lights it just like a blowtorch Hmm well i think We should do it for him then Okay, I don't-I kind of resist this because of the East Coast getting pummeled. Yeah and we have rain here now But by the way I think also the East Coast getting pummeled is mostly lake effect snow which will have nothing to do with the rain stick Exactly The sticks do not do snow they only do rain as far as we know yeah their rain sticks Are you ready? California! How many times are you gonna do it We gotta do three

02:28 So three for ready one two three wait. Oh stop. I'm already in sequence It's gonna rain like it'll be too late, but it's gonna rain like like crazy and Austin is always how it goes well? I don't know a bit you know too late or not I feel we should still give it a shot for our brothers and sisters And we did have a few requests yeah So anyway, do you have a TV or anything monitoring the news? No I don't should I is there something that why not? What else Franken does Yeah, I mean the I guess the idea is that he resigns today. Well There's that's never been confirmed by his office. I have I'm thinking I have a bunch of L Frank and clips well let me start with a backgrounder

03:22 Go. Quick backgrounder, ABC. We're at about two dozen senators now including some male senators but the majority of the female senators I believe also the chairman of the Democratic National Committee calling on him to resign it is a coordinated effort to push him out which is a striking departure from the efforts rally behind him and around him that's dominated since the stories first broke I think in part it's driven by new accusations, new revelations. But I think more broadly it is a recognition of this cultural moment, the societal moment that we're in. The contrast with Republicans who have rallied behind Roy Moore, the RNC re-endorsing him, President Trump

03:57 offering that endorsement as well, I think could not be more stark. And I think that's one point for Democrats. I think it's even bigger than that though. I think Democrats are realizing now look we cannot say that we stand in solidarity with the women who say they've suffered at the hands of powerful men without showing by example that there is accountability and the fact that John Conyers, the senior most member of Congress House or Senate happens to be a Democrat resigned his seat this week. That's the beginning of that accountability, and there have been several senators — Al Franken's colleagues — who've come out just in the last few minutes and said their expectation is that Senator Franken resigns his seat tomorrow. Democrats who realize this is a bigger moment than they can potentially harness — they realized that women are frustrated and angry. Many of them are running for office now for the first time citing this sort of treatment endemic in society. And I think they're looking at this, and they want that contrast

04:47 And whatever happens in Alabama next week, I don't think is going to be impacted by Al Franken in Minnesota and whatever his decision is. But I think Democrats would like to say look when we had a problem in our own ranks, we did something about it. Look at what the Republicans have done and use that as a voter to make a judgment. There's your strategy of a similar one from ABC which is report can coordinated attack on Franken Uh, for some... Oh yeah. Interesting you put little dashes in front of it Did you do that? No. No. Oh. Some of you did. Must be a database The cascade of calls for Al Franken to go started this morning with a handful of women senators Enough is enough It appeared to be a coordinated strike One after another they flooded social media By the end of the day at least 38 senators were calling on Franken to resign We're saying he should resign

05:47 And I get no pride or pleasure in saying that. Thank you." Just days ago, most Democrats were holding their fire This was Senator Patty Murray of Washington. "...the Senate Ethics Committee should do an investigation and that's where I believe it should go..." "...just FYI... he resigned about 30 minutes ago..." Oh he did resign? Yeah He's done But today is starkly different I didn't say anything. Just hours earlier, another woman had come forward saying Franken forcibly kissed her. The senator denies that allegation tonight eight women in total have accused Franken of sexual misconduct the first radio host Leanne Tweeden who released this photo I think today's revelations

06:50 just further add to a fact pattern here that's just unacceptable. Franken has apologized and promised to make amends I know there are no magic words that i can say uh... to regain your trust but tonight the trust of his colleagues now appears lost for good alright Mary Bruce live back on the hill again tonight in area you've been working your sources what do we know about this promised announcement from senator franken well david frankens office tonight says no final The final decision has been made, but multiple Democratic sources tell us he is in fact expected to announce his resignation tomorrow. Okay a troll room update apparently he announced his future resignation whatever that means or his pending resignation What does that mean? I don't know And now it's time for your sexual harassment update Yes it is

07:45 Well, here's what I was looking at this and now of course the... And I think this may be true but Tom Arnold brought it up into a series of tweets and now everybody is tweeting about it. It was discussed in Deadline Hollywood, the online publication that I think is owned by Variety that Roger Stone is behind this whole thing Yeah, I heard about that. It could be! He's that kind of guy Well it makes sense because the one thing that Stone... Stone is one of those guys who can't just do stuff and shut up about it Right yeah he has to take credit all the time And that is weakness but you have to look for the cues and it was actually mentioned in this Atlantic article which I want to discuss which is titled I believe Franken's accusers because he groped me too

08:30 And then it has a subhead which I think is misleading, which is the Democrat Party needs to stand with women who have been harassed and not defend the politicians who abused them. Who are they defending? Who's the politician that they've been defending? The Democrats? Yeah. What male politicians have been defended so far? Not really any, I guess. No of course not none. This article goes on another woman who...I want just read a couple things here's a sentence In this article Roger Stone had tweeted that the touchy Franken was about to be exposed six hours before the story drop Fox and that's to me is like okay. This is a stone again either good know about it in advance, and so I think that that was The giveaway that he may be behind this whole thing and manipulated the woman tweeting but

09:30 I'm gonna read a few quotes from this woman who wrote this article, who is a...I don't know. She sounds like kind of a tough chick and Tina Dupuy radio thing you should take a look at her. Is she hot? She's very pretty. T-U-P-Y Yes. Oh yeah! I see. You can imagine...She has a radio show? Are you sure she's not a podcaster? She has a radio show, I think. She looks like a podcaster. But she's like the type...she goes running up to Franken and she wants a picture for her mom according to the article and he grabs around the waist He doesn't grab her ass! He grabs around the waist and squeezes it couple times. I'm gonna read a couple quotes

10:10 Not that I had, now here's like a background. And not that I had an interest in politics and grandstanding she puts that in there kind of a guilty thing. Right? Like- I'm not at grandstander! I'm not trying to do this. That's never good things. Never do that. Not knowing they had an interest in politics and in grand standing at 14 I ran a scorched earth campaign to make the entire group home I lived in recycle my faucets the district office representative George Miller. Anyway, so she's not like a naive... We also have to make a distinction between something that is done within the power structure such as an employer-employee in any other type of relationship where one party has some form of power over the other and just being a douchebag. I mean there are some subtle differences

11:03 It doesn't mean that he isn't still a douchebag. We'll assume he's a douche bag, but we have to also be a little more tolerant in this she comes rushing up to him by her own accounts because she wants to get a selfie with for her mom and so you know she runs up I need a picture with you and me So they think...and i don't know if you've had pictures taken with a group of people your arms are cut You're either going to be scrunched up look like an idiot or put your arms around them So you put your arms, he puts his arm around her and she says I'm reading now. We pose for the shot he immediately put his hand on my waist grabbing a handful of flesh. I froze! Then he squeezed at least twice okay well she froze

11:48 Whatever. Then she says, and this is interesting I've been married for two years at the time. I didn't let my husband touch me like that in public because I believe it diminishes me as a professional woman so here's a woman who was a grandstander but she won't let her husband put his arm around her and give her kind of a squeeze or... A little tweak there, a little boob tweak come on! It wasn't a boob tweak, it was around his waist or her waist. There's no boob tweak. I'm just saying if she doesn't like her husband to put his arm around her the way Franken did and give her a little squeeze... What kind of a marriage is this? I don't want to comment on that. I don't know! And then she says, she says this event which nobody apparently noticed but her... She said it shrunk me It's like i was no longer a person only ornamental Well here it is John

12:39 The problem is the differences in what douchebags are doing. And I think it turns out to be that there's more douchebag men in the world than not when it comes to women. I disagree, I think there's a lot of them... You just said they're the majority? I think they are! But but but I'm not saying necessarily that they're grabbing or doing anything like that, but they speak degrading tones without maybe even realizing it. But yeah, I think that the majority of men do that. I do. Okay good, I'm glad Yeah, I've thought about it and like you know every guy I know... And obviously we could be shoved into any category but you know We're doing a show and so it's a little different. I don't walk around town talking like this and say hey is she hot?

13:31 Wait a minute, I actually do. Well yeah, with the birth of two of us you're right! You're definitely that way. Yeah. Well, let me just finish this. And so she goes on and she says that diminished her you don't matter and I do he wanted to cop a feel and he demonstrated He didn't need my permission You know She throws him and there's a picture of the two of them and he's their head-to-head kind Of a shot shouldn't have to do then she's leaning into him Nearly 20 years ago during the Kennistar investigation president Bill Clinton was taking night classes now listen to this She won't let her husband give her a public squeeze but listen to this

14:09 I was taking night classes waiting tables and chasing boys who look like Ricky Martin Okay, this is not this woman has got to get her acting. That's what she says She saying I was chasing boys who looked like Ricky Martin that's kind of sexist said that's sexist yeah totally sexist so she's a psycho Just leave it at that. But we got a nasty note from somebody, from the newsletter one of our female listeners who said we're a couple of pigs for suggesting that this is you know two guys can make any commentary on sexual harassment. You know what? If I saw one woman who was making good commentary then it wouldn't be necessary but its not in fact I'm gonna jump ahead just a tad here let me grab this

14:59 Where did I put this? Oh, here we go. Keep going and I'll find it because it's in a different category. I got to find it now." All right well anyway the point is that this Franken thing...I've suggested using the power of Twitter that he not resign and realize that he is being...the Democrats bring it up all the time....He is being bullied! This is bullying! Not all of it

15:36 It's all bullying. The fact that you had the clip, I had the clip that this thing was a group of women starting off that were ganging up on him and bullying him he is being bullied by women Well let us listen to two of them This is Lois Frankel Democrat from Florida This Congress with an unanimous voice vote passed a resolution that mandates anti-sexual harassment training for members staff. Well of course it's about time but here's the thing Mr. Speaker, it is pitiful and embarrassing that a member of Congress would need an instructive manual that tells them that they must keep their pants on in their office What's wrong with that? What we need is to create an environment, an environment of a safe and respectful workplace and policies and procedures

16:34 that will allow victims to come forward, to be fully compensated for members to be held accountable and to have fair due process. That is the thing that I believe is lacking in a lot of this because when you know Franken was also one of the more recent allegations was anonymous yeah I think that's an issue. That's the latest mouth-kissing, tongue in the mouth event I think. Right? Yeah right but when it's anonymous you know you...I mean it's not a court case but when your anonymous that doesn't work that way and we even have a sixth amendment that says that now you have the right to face your witnesses and accusers of whatever crime

17:29 Yeah, but this is witch hunt's different. Well yes it is and that's exactly my point a witch hunt is very different You know, and it can be applied anywhere. And this is kind of my point if you listen to this... This is just a quick hit here. This was on some Democratic strategist that Tucker Carlson had on us. The only thing that's important is what she says right in the beginning and I've discussed this with several women. Last thing I want to do is put myself into position to appear to defend Al Franken whom I know well and have never cared for don't think he was a good senator, think he's kinda creepy. This is all plausible as far as I'm concerned

18:06 But I'm very struck by a couple of things and one is the pivot that the entire Democratic conference in the Senate seems to have made. A year and half ago they were defending Hillary Clinton, who everyone knows attacked the women who accused her husband of sexual harassment assaults she attacked them belittled them And today their saying on the basis of anonymous accusations that they can't even bear to serve without Franken Where were they a year and half ago? Okay so there's a couple things wrong with that statement First, I think we can all agree that it would be better off if the women were in charge. Really? Because... You see that statement right there, I hear over and over again. We all know as if it's a fact that things would run much better when or if women are in charge and ... And I'd like you to ISO that. I can't do it right now but I will.

19:03 And first of all, I think they truly believe it. They truly believe it and It was interesting. I was talking with the Tina last night and you know she says well You know yeah if give women a chance and I said well, I just want to do you know how many? female CEOs there are fortune 500 companies and she was Quite surprised when I gave her the list and I just wanted I'll just give you this real quick Mary Barra CEO of General Motors Ginny Romney, CEO of IBM. We have Nui-Lindra Ngui who is a CEO of PepsiCo we have Marilyn Hewson CEO of Lockheed Martin it's not and this is not small companies Meg Whitman of course HP we have Safra Katz of Oracle

20:00 I mean, the list goes on and on. Oh no it's a huge list and the companies are monsters. Lockheed Martin being the most impressive. Yeah! Have you ever seen this woman? No one has ever seen her. And that's what Tina said she said well no one ever talks about that all you hear is the feminists saying we get no shot. Well clearly somethings working within corporate America its not in no means majority but But it's not like these are, you know small... No I'm actually stunned that she didn't know all this. In fact i think its probably pretty common. Exactly! They'll shake their fists but then at the same time hey what are you gonna do? These women are running these companies and in some cases like Ginny's at IBM she is running into the ground She's not doing a good job at all The company hasn't made a nickel since she has been there Yeah let's talk about my favorite

20:54 Over there Yahoo. I was really rooting for her Marissa Oh, I was never rooting for I was always rooting for I wanted to win. I wanted her a win Well III found that what did she ever do in it before she got this job? She jumps from being a kind of an ambassador or for Google It gets to go at all the conferences and look pretty And then they just make her a CEO when these incredibly large company out of the blue and everyone's, oh yes yes. Oh no how about letting her pay a few dues and maybe getting you know a few jobs in between? They jerk right to the top right and then they give her like a 50 million dollar hand you know golden handcuffs goodbye she's like she's a rich girl now I mean she's going to be the most eligible in town well I think she's married there are a couple other cases that have come to light one is uh Shirvan Peshavar

21:47 He's at Sherpa Capital and he's been accused of sexual harassment. John Travolta's biopic of Gotti, supposed to be released I think in a week pulled off the slate and that's a pretty big... let me see his wife is in there Kelly Preston Stacey Keach Kevin Connolly There's probably some You know this is probably gonna be a decent movie, but they're not taking any risk and then in our ongoing What is the risk? The risk is that the way things are going now you can't say to somebody so Travolta It's not it hasn't really quite popped open because it's a gay thing But he is coming by what but I still want to know what's the risk roll the movie out Are they gonna get protests yes people will will not go to the movie

22:47 Well, that's different. That's what I'm saying! That's why they won't roll it out. You think the risk is that this great movie like you just said might come out and people aren't going to go to it? Yes. They're not gonna go out of curiosity...I'd say more people would go to it. No, but I don't think so. I make the opposite argument. Okay well they've chosen this path then we have another Netflix and as you know we see that this is-we believe this may be being misused by the big broadcasters and studios to get rid of all those horrible video on demand a-holes And this is, let me see... Danny Masterson? He was named early. Well he has now been fired from the ranch amidst rape allegations. The Ranch is a Netflix show and I like this! Did you know that the Met Opera has suspended conductor James Levine? Now that you mention it lets just skip this one by one and go to Democracy Now with their sex rundown which includes this and more.

23:48 Here we go. He did not perpetrate sexual misconduct toward me, nor have I ever claimed that but i now know for sure that he is a liar The Moore campaign said Trump told Moore in a phone call from Air Force One on Monday quote Go get em Roy On Capitol Hill, Texas Republican Congressmember Blake Farenthold said he'll return $84,000 to taxpayers after news emerged that he used a congressional fund to settle a sexual harassment settlement claim filed by his former communications director Lauren Greene. Greene says she's been forced to resort to babysitting and other odd jobs— Talk about it! —to make ends meet after Farenthold blackballed her from politics when she accused him of sexual harassment, gender discrimination and creating a hostile work environment.

24:35 Meanwhile, another Texas Republican 68 year old Joe Barton said Monday he's retiring from Congress over a naked selfie that's appeared on social media amidst revelations of extramarital affairs. Wow! That guy got screwed huh? Yeah I mean that's the stuff that i'm worried about is that people...I mean it was between two consenting adults whether he's cheating on his wife or not as irrelevant It may be relevant in an election, you know what someone's character is. Well the naked picture didn't help No it didn't no I The way he looked at the picture didn't help On social media amidst revelations of extramarital affairs Barton's retirement paves the way for a special election in Texas' 6th district

25:15 In Detroit, Congressmember John Conyers is expected to announce today he will not resign from the House but will not run for re-election. Multiple women accused Conyers of sexually harassing or groping them—charges he denies. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other top Democrats have called on Conyers to step down. Conyers' grandnephew, Michigan State Senator Ian Conyers, is expected to announce he'll run for John Conyers's seat in 2018. Netflix says it will resume production of its popular House of Cards series without former lead actor Kevin Spacey. Wow! After more than a dozen men accused Spacey— Holy moly, I didn't know that!

25:56 Yeah. Oh man, it's... I guess they're gonna kill him off! And clearly it is such a successful show for them that they need to do something and yeah so.. Well I don't think its even that. The ratings were dropping but what was going on People are gonna get irked if they didn't finish the thing with an ending. They gotta end, oh okay! You're gonna watch this thing year after year after year binge binge binge and then they just stop it? Stop it yeah that's right can we-we don't care about sexual harassment you have to to end our binge-watching.

26:56 In New York City, John Hockenberry, the recently retired host of public radio station WNYC's The Takeaway has been accused of sexual harassment and unwanted touching and bullying by several female colleagues. And Vice Media has fired three of its employees over what the company called verbal and sexual harassment and other unspecified behavior." Oh! What a great list! And here is this interesting thing about Hockenberry He's in a wheelchair! Oh, hey. So? Doesn't mean he can't harass. Equal opportunity. Who knew?! Yeah who knew!? Wow... And by the way there is this Sacramento kicker which you probably should play which has actually followed this report. This sex-acto kicker. Sacramento huh...?

27:46 And in Sacramento, California, lobbyist Pamela Lopez has named Democratic Assemblyman Matt Dababneh of Los Angeles as the lawmaker who sexually assaulted her, forcing her into a Las Vegas hotel bathroom last year and masturbating in front of her. Dababneh has denied the allegation. This is Pamela Lopez speaking from her office on Monday. collective action. Many women have stepped forward and said, me too I've been sexually harassed or I've been sexually assaulted in my workplace and it's taken courage

28:26 She said workplace. Oh, she said work plate? I thought she said workplace. Well, I don't know maybe i'm wrong let me listen again place Yeah place she says place sexually assaulted um in my workplace and it's taken she says sexually assaulted In my workplace And it's taken courage for them to do that yo yeah What is it with guys who think... No wait, stop. Stop! This is a serious mental condition that I don't understand. You're talking about the guy who grabbed these women's... make them... and by the way how do you do that? You got your kind of busy seems to me. Got one hand

29:12 You know, doing something and you're holding the other one. I mean what do you...it doesn't make sense that they have to sit there and watch. Well they just throw something at a guy and walk out! Kick him in the balls! But this is the point John- John! No it's not but this is the point if its your boss or if it's in a workplace situation you don't feel that brave necessarily maybe now women will I hope so She was a lobbyist Doesn't mean that she's not, that she wouldn't be afraid. Just as lobbyists are cutthroat a-holes doesn't mean That she didn't have issues when this took place I can understand it! I remember when...I was sexually harassed? Hashtag me too. I was hitchhiking I was like 14 hitchhiking home from school Can't believe my parents let me do that and then in the car stop got in front we're driving And it was probably about 25 minute drive and the guy starts massaging his crotch

30:10 And I see it out of the corner of my eye and yeah, exactly. Woo! The beaches are open!" And...and I see it out of the corner but like, I must be mistaken maybe just a little adjustment or something and I remember he said hey you know we could always pull over and uh..I'm like yeah pull over let me out now He says well don't worry about it now let me out and I got out but I was shaking I was really shaken It's just because he was basically doing the same thing It's frightening Yeah well It's creepy. It is! Now though, it's getting very interesting. This is a great time to be alive, great time to be a podcaster. It's a great time to be a podcaster. Facebook is deleting posts and I believe maybe Twitter as well of women calling men scum or trash are now being deleted by either the content deletion team or some algo

31:09 As hate speech it is hate speech. It is, but I don't think I don't give a crap it shouldn't be deleted Well, it ruins our show because we like to read from Facebook We do anything maybe later okay good yeah so well speaking of Gene Simmons was on I think he was on the BBC or I don't know why he gets invited down the other shows and he likes going on them and So They were talking about the Me Too, hashtag Me Too campaign and sexual harassment etc. And you know that he was I guess the topic was now your kind of a douchebag especially when you boast about this there's a photograph of 4800 women that he supposedly had sex with and this came up in the conversation. He didn't touch drugs The women though that sort of third element to the rock-and-roll lifestyle You really went to town there It is all true

32:09 4,800 women is supposedly your... Oh, gee. Gene Simmons hero of douchebags everywhere! 4800 women is supposedly your record? Your tally? You know one or two whatever that is yeah and there was a point I know your wife made you burn the Polaroids that you said were the proof of the public thing it was not a secret All right, now the conversation goes into the Me Too. You will know of the hashtag me too Where women are calling out behavior where they have suffered in the past Sexual harassment at the hands of men and your name has appeared in a couple of tweets Why would I want to do anything? Look, I'm not even going to hold up the hypothetical Nothing happened

32:56 all of a sudden, 44 years on in a rock band somebody's coming up and saying this guy is a bad guy. It's not true I think the climate is horrifically bad and yet at the same time empowering to the right women there are some really bad guys out there...I just happen not be one of them When you read what women are saying happened to them what do you think about the culture that you live through? In one sense everybody lives through it The woman who were going after the Weinsteins of the world they should go to The police are here and the court system is here for you to do what the women did with Bill Cosby. You have a complaint, go to the cops. Going to the Court of Public Opinion on social media is maybe exactly happened the way it happened. Why don't you get yourself a lawyer?

33:39 But isn't there a question of changing the culture, the kind of stuff that maybe you don't go to police over but just think I'm going to call this out because women don't have to accept it any longer. And what about... There's an organisation here in England, I saw it yesterday on a chat show, woman heads it about the victims, y'know men who are committing suicide who are wrongly accused of all kinds of nonsense What about them? Do you think its gone too far or unfair No! It's not fair. I'm not saying it has gone too far and not enough, I am saying GO TO THE COPS And maybe they'll feel like they can do that now. Maybe there will be... Well, I think they could always do it but the cops half of the time don't pay any attention to this sort of thing There's that? The guy did what?! He took me into the bathroom and then he jerked off Okay Did he grab you? Did he hurt you? Are you bruised? Is there legal recourse against that if someone does that? I don't know maybe I mean yeah lewd behavior

34:35 I don't know, but it's like I'm sure it's low on the list of priorities. Especially in California where you have... Listen to this. This has got nothing to do with the sexual thing but I want to play this clip. In California if you put something in your car and the window gets broken and stuff gets stolen. Listen to this Prop 47 report local. Just be aware. The real risk in this is when you go out to your car and you just put your bags in your car, and then you go back into shop... You wouldn't do that? Well if it's in plain sight I mean it doesn't take anything to break somebody's window and get in so now some of the SUVs have little covers for that back area

35:17 Do you think that deters them? Absolutely. It's easy, it's fast and Sergeant Nelson says it doesn't really come with enough serious consequences The voters of California have essentially decriminalized theft especially if its less than a thousand dollars so the risk reward for the criminal is definitely there for them So someone steals from you $900 in stuff What could they get? It's a low misdemeanor now. I mean you might spend the night in jail, that's it! From my experience this is why you're seeing this rash of car break-ins in San Francisco and Oakland and a lot of places there's no punishment that goes with that crime anymore. The old days you know you'd get 30 days or 60 days or if he kept doing it you know six months in there in the county lockup... That doesn't happen anymore for them so in the mind of a criminal though you're trying to do whatever you can do to get stuff with the

36:04 least possible amount of resistance consequence and chance of getting caught. Wait a minute, is this a local California? It's the California Prop 47! The voters in California voted that shoplifting petty theft robbery anything that's under $1,000 is a misdemeanor that just punishable by day in jail. Wow I didn't know this either. I mean, I remember...I just vote no on most of these things so i probably voted no on it but I don't quite remember that when this happened but apparently it did and this guy's bitching about it, I think rightly so and this is the thing because the cops are the ones who push these things too much work! And so the same thing when somebody says well this guy took me in a bathroom and jerked off oh do I have to file paperwork on this?

36:52 Hmm. We got a lot of stuff going on. Who was behind this Prop 47? I don't know, I have to look into it. I just got this clip yesterday so... Yeah, be interested to know what the thinking is behind that police paperwork. So the police just put a bill and everyone like, well that sounds good to me? Come on people voted on it! I'm pretty sure this would not have been passed if it wasn't for the police endorsing it, I'm sure of it. I'd be stunned if that wasn't the case or the district attorneys are the other ones who don't want to do anything You know, unless they got some guy they could railroad and make a big deal out of some poor bastard who did some copyright theft let's say. And they'll make us stink about that because they can make hate- We know people have gone to jail for very innocuous white collar crimes that involve no money. Yeah! They bust your window take your stuff and you're too bad. They won't even bother taking the report.

37:50 Then we had the Time Person of the Year 2017. Well, I happen to have the clip from The Today Show where this was revealed with the editor of Time Magazine if you want to play that? Sure what's it called? Well that is a good question! Time person of the year. Revealed in the sedation, duh! About to come the answer to a question we've all been asking who will be Times Person Of The Year? Edward Felsenthal, Times Editor-in-Chief is here to reveal the pick Good morning Edward. Alright, We Kept This Secret. Was this just real quickly was this a hard decision or an easy decision this year? Well you know this is the 91st year we've named a person of the year it's always hard but I think especially hard this year

38:36 a year of so much disruption in the United States and around the world. We're going to count down, we're going to keep the anticipation going number three on your list The President Of China Xi Jinping he has consolidated power in his own country to a degree not seen in decades and even more importantly He's made very clear that he intends for China To lead the world And step into the breach as the US retrenches The runner-up president Donald Trump First of all your rationale He tweeted that Time wanted him to be the person of the year and he rejected you. Want to set the record straight on that? Well, he's number two on our list because he has changed the very nature of the presidency and the way The White House functions. He is on the verge of his first major legislative victory. He is reshaping the judiciary and aggressively rolling back regulations

39:27 The tweet, as we said wasn't correct. In fact we did the photo shoot for the reveal were about to do five days before the tweet. We didn't say probably but you know how it goes I think it's time for the big reveal so I'm gonna let you do the honors who is Times person of the year? The 2017 person of the year is the silence breakers, the voices that launched a movement. This is the fastest moving social change we've seen in decades and it began with with individual acts of courage by hundreds of women and some men too who came forward to tell their own stories of sexual harassment and assault. We see celebrities on your cover, but most importantly perhaps we see someone whose face is obscured this is the woman whose name we don't know the woman who came forward bravely or thinking about doing so I just want to say one thing off the bat and I kind of pulled a Dvorak yesterday and that was misunderstood

40:29 The time person of the year, I'm a little tired of it not being a person. This has happened several times in the past. It's not a person then its global warming or some other thing. Why can't it be a person? I like the whole idea. Look, first of all we know they do this for one reason and one reason only. It's not some big social justice warrior crap! It's to sell ads! Yeah. It's a special edition. Rose McGowan on there... But i got the biggest kick out of that main person was what's her name that horrible

41:17 Excuse me. What's the name of the woman that's front and center in that picture? Actress... Oh, yes of The Sisters Yeah, the sisters. So next to her is Taylor Swift I just thought that was hilarious! Well... Taylor Swift was not part of the Me Too anything she just sued some guy for grabbing her ass Well no I think she's look The fact that she's in there Look i'm team TayTay and I said look twice in a row I'm Team TayTay You're saying look a lot Thank you I just called myself out No need to pile jump Could you stop coughing? Get a lozenge

41:57 I do or a cough button. There's an idea The coffin wouldn't work with this mic yeah, well you're right anyway anywho and in XLR Any who yes? Yes, any who? I'm very happy that Taylor Swift was included now naturally they do that for for reasons of discussion and ratings because a lot of people got triggered, because hey look she's white supremacist we all know this. She hasn't spoken out against Trump how can she possibly be there? But! Because she was with the hashtag MeToo women in Time Magazine now it's good for her

42:39 I like her. I like what she said in court and that guy that DJ's a douche, and he's not there's a whole Category of douche DJs out there ah all of them pretty much Yeah, pretty much It's a generality you can make so um so I'm very happy for her yeah, I am I am but or for me it's like okay? I keep asking now what and The way I see it is This is going to continue for a long time and the women of the United States for sure of Gitmo Nation But probably of the world as this spreads will be calling out men everywhere And men will get fired shamed etc. And in most cases rightfully so and I'm telling you right now that The women of the world

43:32 are sorry if someone gets wrongly accused, but they really don't care. And I understand where they're coming from and the good thing is... Okay, where are they coming from? A lifetime of being harassed! Yeah. A lifetime yes it's subtle things John it's small and subtle things yeah you hear it on this show You said so yourself Well, I think you're abusing the situation. But that's okay they can do what they want it's up to them although i'd like to see men and women a little more kind of in the same team well yes Yes and because now we're getting into a situation where Men aren't gonna say anything Why do you think there's a rise of sex robots? Hello!

44:19 Look, guys are all ready. Apparently there's a huge group of men who are already happy just jerking off in front of you I'm sure the sex robot takes care of all their urges Yeah! This sex robot is pretty one Apparently there is a channel 4 documentary that haven't been able to get on the YouTube yet about the sex robots So on the Today Show, they had...this clip is a medley of complaints that they ran. Because they had the woman who started the Me Too movement by the way and that Me Too hashtag thing was in 2006. A black woman came up with it and just caught on again so 10 years later but here's the medley of complaints and I think there's a couple gems in here this is just various women

45:08 complaining in very short snippets and they run this on the Today Show. I think people forget a lot that there's a human behind this when you go through something as traumatic as sexual violence, there is a way to close up who were we supposed to tell? Were we supposed to call some fantasy attorney general of movie-dom? We're conditioned since birth before our feet hit the ground to be polite politeness kills To be kind, to be liked, not make waves That has to stop. There wasn't a place for us to report these experiences I am here to give you permission to be angry Having somebody else connect with you and say, You're not alone in that It just frees you it frees you from the shame I always thought maybe things could change for my daughter I never thought things could change for me We have to teach our boys From a very young age that its important that no only they take care of

46:03 Women but that they are respectful and that they understand that there are things that are not okay Hopefully we will have the next generation of people that are very mindful and are being shown respect And will give it in return. I think women are starting to believe We don't have to just live like this Me too can be a conversation starter or it can be the whole conversation It is a socio-political cultural gender revolution. Why not fight back? What else are we doing?" What I don't get, now that I listen to that thing again is why Megyn Kelly who really is one of the people who started this ball rolling if not McCallum isn't on that cover. Well there should be yeah. McCallum for sure Martha McCallum she's the one who got the big settlement and can't get work anymore John we already put Taylor Swift in! We can't go too crazy with the white nationalists and Fox News bimbos

47:08 No Fox News bimbos. No Fox News bimbo's for you! All right, I got one more clip about this whole thing It's going back to Matt Lauer there is a page six which is the gossip sheet on the New York Daily Post and Liz Smith used to write that and she just died yes she did She was what? The editor of it And they have decided Because it's so easy to do they're gonna do a TV show With some of their guys because they saw TMZ and golly It can't be that hard if TMZ can do it Yeah, and so they're good So they have this kind of mock TMZ thing with just the way they get them The host is okay Then there's a some gay black guy who's just you know Kind of he's okay And then there's a kind of a dimwit

48:01 seeming unless she gives reports and then there's a black woman and she never says anything. You said yeah! And so they talk about Matt Lauer here in this clip, and this is the Page Six TV on Lauer. more about the other side of Matt Lauer that no one knew about. He was spotted recently in East Hampton with his family when all of these details came out, we know, we reported it exclusively at Page Six that he drove to East Hampton where his wife lives with his children to talk to this oldest son about what was coming out in the headlines because he wanted him to hear it from his father but there's another side of Matt Lauer that

48:42 deviant sexual predator, essentially is that what that's what a lot of women are accusing him of. And sources have told me that he belongs to this boy club, very powerful rich man who are entertainers. He played looking at you Jeff Zucker, you're on deck his golf with them and I'm told they indulge in kinky behavior and act extremely inappropriate toward women. Who is this guy? I'm told really, who was this guy I'm told, really? Come on man. You know they do. Men who are entertainers he plays golf with them and i'm told that they indulge in kinky behavior an act extremely inappropriate toward women

49:22 Wow. Hey, Carlos I actually just got the chills when you said men that he plays golf with because this is your reporting your sourcing nothing that i had to do it and that sounds eerily similar to one of the women who is this person who talks like crazy? Who she's a dingbat. Oh jeez. When you said men that he plays golf with because this is your reporting your source thing nothing that I had to do with and that

50:07 for No. Okay, well there's your report from page six. And that's their TV show? Oh my gosh! I think they tried to make it a TV show but it was only on the web. It's a podcast. That may actually be a netcast, not sure. I don't think that's just a podcast. Well here is my final conclusion for today.

51:12 As I said, this is going to continue and we are there's a very interesting combination We have now of social justice warrior movement of not offending anybody and not being Not tolerating being offended. I predict women are going to start ratting out women on stuff It won't be of sexual nature but we're creating a culture where everybody's gonna be afraid to do anything And you watch, women will be ratting out other women for just other stuff. This is where it's going. Yeah here's what I... You want to hear my prediction? Sure!

51:52 I'm gonna do a lozenge after my time. This whole thing blows over once the Alabama election's over and we go back to Russia or Mueller or something else, this is a... This whole thing was designed just to get Judge Moore not elected in Alabama by keeping this as a bubbling issue. It's gonna just drop dead. Yeah that's what I think it's going be after the election in Alabama This will be take second. This will be a second tier story then third then gone There you go your sexual harassment update I did want to follow that up with Another type of award well not really award, but we had the time person of the year The Grammy nominations just came out

52:43 And this is very interesting along these same social justice warrior lines. On NPR's I believe on point with Tom Ashbrook, he had on his resident music expert to come in and discuss the nominations and we discover something that is not only Remarkable, but it actually makes everyone gleeful. One of the big stories is the album of a year category. There are no white men nominated in this category for first time ever at the what 60th Grammys Wow, that's great first time ever No white men nominated I mean that's progress This is great nominated in this category for the first time ever after what 60th Grammys? Yes Zero white men there and surprises in or out this year D

53:44 So one of the big surprises in that category is Childish Gambino getting a nomination for album of the year. Many people thought that would have gone to Ed Sheeran because his album Division is one of biggest of the year Yeah, but he's a white guy so ehh The highest selling album of the year until Taylor Swift came along Childish Gambino aka Donald Glover or yes yeah okay How does that sound huh? Donald Glover? Well, is a rapper. Here's the next bit I mean it just kept on going everybody so happy that the album of the year we I guess that's a really important category I don't I never really thought about it as the most important category but like I guess back when people bought albums before the... Album of the year! What's an album daddy?! Before the unbundling of the album

54:35 And we brought tracks or forget it. We just stream stuff Things are changing a hip-hop very big this year at the 60th Grammys Oh, hip hop has been around since the 80s No white guy in the very top ranking country music shut out I mean how many white guy hip hoppers does he know? Besides Eminem well that would be pretty much one of the vanilla ice yeah No white guy in the very top rank and country music shut out. Oh more white people top categories this year Those favorite rap and hip-hop pop not even doing so well Taylor Swift a Grammy favorite in past years did not receive a nomination For her eligible singles, but she's up for two Grammys one four countries song of the year Here's the song she wrote better man by country group little big town bills Okay now the audience of NPR is

55:27 is also delighted. The fact that there are no white men on that list is very important to me. I am a white male, but we're actually voting and looking at the best album of the year It's really important that there is a lot of hip-hop represented here, certainly with Kendrick and Jay Z. Just make sure there are no white guys in there! Is it hip hop or... Why is this important to this guy? That sounded pretty rehearsed to me honestly. Yes but still even if rehearsal not rehearsal why is it important to him or anyone else? I believe he works with black kids He seems kind of racist doesn't he? He works with nonwhite kids

56:21 Yeah, well the whole thing is by definition racist doesn't mean that it's no longer culturally accepted because it is. One more listener. I was just at somebody a couple of callers ago said as a white man I'm very concerned about the Grammys. I'm not sure exactly what he was saying... I think you were celebrating. I think he was celebrating the trends Nico Oh good, good. That's what I was hoping! Oh, oh...I'm so- I was worried for a moment that we had a racist on NPR Exactly what he was saying I think he was celebrating the trend Nico Oh good, good. That's what i was hoping Yes, I think that ended up being pretty clear After all these years of people of color not being recognized finally it is happening and I think that great Jeez Here's a band name for you No White Men

57:11 Zero white men, that's even better maybe. I'll give you a clip of the day for that last one. Oh that's very kind of you. I didn't expect to hear anything like that. That's crazy and that but by the way, let's give all this give the blacks and the hip hoppers and everybody in between the black all the credit and recognition they deserve in an era where their albums don't sell anymore and CD sales are down the drain And it doesn't get a bit and I'll tell you maybe giving him some recognition 20 years ago Oh yeah You can't do that that only works if you're a politician you did something bad 40 years ago? You can't do it in music

57:49 Doesn't work that way But John we live in interesting times, and I'm I am podcasting times yes And I will say I'm happy. I'm a podcaster because no matter what someone might accuse me of Nothing can go wrong I can fire you. Yeah, and you can't get much lower than podcasting. There's no lower rung on the showbiz ladder! No? I agree. So we're there baby! We're hugging it! And also I really like that you and I both know that no one has anything on us I love that. It's paying off, i was a nice guy all my life and now it's paying off. There has got to be guys for me. You could have been a complete total dreadful douchebag if you were in the right position as a podcaster to weather the storm but there is no storm to weather And with that I would like to thank you for your courage and say good morning to John C

58:46 Where the C stands for Caucasian Dvorak. In the morning to you, Mr Adam Curry in the morning all ships and sea boots on the ground feet in the air subs in the water all the dames and knights out there Yes in the morning to the troll room no agenda stream calm good everybody have everybody here on board Nice to see you Thank You please stop inviting me to private chats on that I don't have nothing to say to you What would somebody do that for? I don't know. It's for the same reason people... Again, I got an email. Hey Adam! We really love for you and The No Agenda Show to help with the homeless population in Austin from a non-profit here. Oh, you've got a form letter?! No no people signing me up for stuff and sending emails it's really annoying

59:35 Anyway, I do want to thank cesium-137 for bringing us the artwork for episode 9 or 8 7 The title of that was kebab panic and it was the douchebag e meter which is a nice mocked up version of the you the Mathis meter that was deployed by the Church of Scientology And it had on the scale douche bag And you set it to 33 cycles and then off it goes. By the way, in the show notes for today I have the entire manual for the original Mathis E-meter. The e-meter? What about that what about the fruit meter? That's what I mean this is the psycho... Oh okay, the psychoanalyzer. Psychoelectrometer I think is what it is It's very interesting! It has instructions You know how to... It doesn't actually say if the meter is here this guy's gay

1:00:30 But, but it's used for... you know the thing was even then... Science! Yes. Even then it was used as a lie detector and other things of this ilk so it's very interesting this history of Candanavia with their fruit meter. Very interesting It's fascinating. Well, I wouldn't say that... You hear only about this stuff on the No Agenda show! This is true. Noagendaartgenerator.com is where you can upload your art we always appreciate it and remember we got the big 1000th episode on the way so I know people who are already working on art for that So do we have a date for that yet? When has that taken place? If you have a calendar we can figure it out. I do. I have a calendar let's see so we have nine

1:01:24 989 palindrome for Sunday, then we have should I don't know someone will figure it out. It'll take too long Well you can do it right there now. It'll take too long okay? We'll worry about it later Palindrome for Sunday 989 huh that sounds good Yeah, we could do something with that yeah, yeah, and we might have to Kelly Stewart in Kanai Alaska came in with the top number of 12 1217 Which guess what is the date and a day for her birthday. It's not today's date obviously, but it's her birthday on 12-12-17 so it was a wish

1:02:10 To which Kelly, I believe is... Yeah. It is a female. Kelly can be... Is either. My nephew punched me in the face a little over a year ago she says. Hold on it's called hitting them in the mouth not punching them in the face Well no! I'm assuming her nephew punched her in the face? Possible Oops I was out of work and now, I've got three jobs. I'm going big! My birthday is 12-12. Here's a present to me and to the best podcast in the universe if I get to pick, I'd like to be Dame Kelly of the KNEI. You got it? One of my three jobs as a recruiter focusing on IT and engineering sending an Alaskan sized dose of Jobs Karma for No Agenda listeners. All right

1:02:57 Anything else? That's it. Yeah. Jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Karma. Dame Kelly looking forward to your ceremony later on Evan Johnson in Tigard, Oregon 367.77 He sent a note in John and Adam despite your missing last time I am NOT sir Duane although I do live in Tigard, Oregon Just you know we have a bunch of people well Dwayne is doing Melanson he's the he's a Duke So it gonna know It's been nearly three years since I started listening to no agenda after moving to a new apartment into unit number 33

1:03:44 It was destiny. This donation should bring me to baronet with some extra thrown in, since the donation doldrums after the massive outpouring during the 10th anniversary double deal has been making me cringe for you guys also shamefully I haven't contributed in a few months and the guilt has been weighing heavy on my soul I was inspired to step up in part by noticing an article confirming a no agenda theory about DNA testing compliance, fudging results to make people think they're all from Africa. Yeah did you hear about that? 23andMe specifically did that because there were what they deemed to be racists who were saying how is it possible that you have some African blood in me? I want you to clarify and what they did is they made a category which was African or

1:04:38 and they put in less than one, which means it could be zero or it could be up to 1%. And they thought that was hilarious because the racists would forever think that they might be part African! Yeah, well this is the kind of thing you have to deal with. This also accounts for there's a clip it's not in today's batch but it was from last week last show and maybe we can play it later yeah or actually I'll just explain it Well tell me what it is see if I can find it with my swanky system No its just says DNA on it and there are three of them this is a clip where the Today Show I believe it was The Today Show or may have been Good Morning America Or it could have been CBS morning show anyway. It was one of those three shows they had a guy do a Take the three main DNA testers take triplets Yeah, we actually talked about this on the show weeks ago Maybe maybe months ago This is different because this only happened like last week mmm Okay well would they tell me what the results were

1:05:37 There was a whole bunch of similarities, like African but then there was wildly different subcategories. Let me start over then… All right I'm sorry This came out after your thing that you just mentioned They had the three testings, they had the three women who are all exact dupe and boy they talk about triplets who look like each other. Was this the Fox & Friends 5-hour DNA? No. Okay alright. The Sun of Today show is a morning thing I'm sorry and so they had in it because then this was very elaborate they had to keep starting over they had two three kits they had the three women that were triplets with different names they each took

1:06:19 Each one of them took each one of the tests and so they compared them side by side and individually. So all the results had to be identical for the three, and then they compared the three different kits to each other. It was a 3-4 way deal. And what do you think happened? They nailed it. All three kits had the exact same results except for, you know one was off a little bit but they were all identical for all three women it was unbelievable how great these kits are. Sounds like a native ad to me! Well... It was a native ad but for which one of the three groups? I can't tell. They didn't say which company it was? Yeah, they said all three of them. They had 23andMe, MyHeritage and some other ones. Now that's gotta be a setup

1:07:02 Because, first of all people do not give your DNA to these companies. This is not a smart idea! It's just not I don't trust this at all they always have different results but they go on the Today Show and it's all perfect And they did this- I will say one thing They all had a little bit of DNA from Africa Or the Middle East. It was Middle East, Middle East Africa. Well North Africa Every other test that I've seen where they do because as many of these have been performed There's always at least subtle differences in the results but yet on the Today Show... Not in this case Yeah Okay what does that tell you? They nailed it By the way I'm gonna put Evan Johnson on the title change list because he's not on there Good yeah all right

1:07:51 This donation should bring me to Baronetta County below. Shamefully, I haven't contributed in a few months." He goes on. Article confirming the DEI's read this already people think they all have an African heritage What a strange world! I also noticed that a recent clip of the soon-to-be new princess of the UK telling her bogus story about mailing women in politics about a dish soap ad Her cadence and wording was nearly identical to Chelsea Clinton. I found this very unnerving." That's an interesting catch, huh? Yeah, Emilio. If anyone out there has been feeling... yeah by the way that dish soap thing was... Well also you know she was her parents divorced when she was six

1:07:02 Because, first of all people do not give your DNA to these companies. This is not a smart idea! It's just not I don't trust this at all they always have different results but they go on the Today Show and it's all perfect And they did this- I will say one thing They all had a little bit of DNA from Africa Or the Middle East. It was Middle East, Middle East Africa. Well North Africa Every other test that I've seen where they do because as many of these have been performed There's always at least subtle differences in the results but yet on the Today Show... Not in this case Yeah Okay what does that tell you? They nailed it By the way I'm gonna put Evan Johnson on the title change list because he's not on there Good yeah all right

1:07:51 This donation should bring me to Baronetta County below. Shamefully, I haven't contributed in a few months." He goes on. Article confirming the DEI's read this already people think they all have an African heritage What a strange world! I also noticed that a recent clip of the soon-to-be new princess of the UK telling her bogus story about mailing women in politics about a dish soap ad Her cadence and wording was nearly identical to Chelsea Clinton. I found this very unnerving." That's an interesting catch, huh? Yeah, Emilio. If anyone out there has been feeling... yeah by the way that dish soap thing was... Well also you know she was her parents divorced when she was six

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1:16:15 And there's a bunch of these lists of all the stupidest things they've ever done. I have a clip out of just one to seven stupidest things they've ever done, but I have a clip of two other things that I personally find to be... One is slightly offensive but the other one I personally... They're actually both incredibly offensive and stupid But I want to play this clip so you can hear them. Because you probably, I never know this ever happened but apparently it did. This Today Show gaffes." When the Today Show reported Amy Winehouse's death back in 2011 her music video for You Know I'm No Good played with the caption, "'You know i'm dead' underneath. The following year Kathy Lee Gifford made at the cringeworthy mistake of asking Martin Short how long he and his wife Nancy Dolman had been together

1:17:01 Completely unaware, Nancy had died back in 2010. Unbelievable, but if you know I'm dead who's it like in the Chiron unbelievable. That's that's harsh Bitcoin for a moment yes bitcoin so bitcoin has now skyrocketed past 15,000 yeah and But seems like only a week ago It was passed 10,000

1:17:50 And we already have some more issues cropping up as I predicted You have two coins. I Have some coins, but I'm more than you I'll sell them when it's at a million okay? I will join 30 grand away I consider that yeah sure try and sell them the end and why would I ever put my bitcoins on to anyone else's server for example What was the name of this exchange? 62 million dollars a nice hash. Nice hash, 62 million dollars in Bitcoin stolen So that's people's bitcoins you know You put it in your wallet there and oh It's all great and then all of sudden its gone Its just stolen or hacked Or maybe they stole it and say they were hacked Yeah I mean this is very very... And we got the big They actually moved it forward The

1:18:50 The futures, Bitcoin futures on the... I think it's this is it CBO, the Chicago Board of Exchange? Yeah. So how does that, how do the futures work? I don't really understand. So you're betting it's kind of like a contract, like an option in a way? No, it's contracts and you only have to pay all on margin so you buy delivery of a, I dunno what there's always different amounts but let's just say for purposes of this conversation, a ton of soybeans to be delivered in September 2018. And you pay 1 tenth what... You pay a certain price for the soybeans and you put down about a tenth of that

1:19:29 to cover the bet. And then it's, that goes up and down and up and down you can trade that. You can say oh look at this going way up I'm gonna sell it now so you sell it next month to somebody else who wants the soybeans eventually it gets covered at the end of somebody gets a bunch of soybeans delivered right? Hopefully its not you! Right because that would kind of suck Yeah, you'd have a bunch of soybeans. In fact I know story I've heard about someone who was stubborn and they felt that the price should have gone up but never did. They took delivery of the soybeans and had them delivered to the basement of their house. This is...I don't know if it's true story or not but its' good story. And apparently because soybeans are hygroscopic they absorb water lifted the house off its foundation. Okay alright now it's Snopes material!

1:20:20 Well. There's a lot of problems that are going on and you know people know that I don't think it's currency. I don't think it's an excellent store value It is not because you know what the value today could be wildly different tomorrow sure everyone's happy when it goes up But it will go down. That's just its science. Its math. There's no other way for it The way the universe works fine what you're seeing now though is because of the incessant hype there's an incredible demand so people are just jumping in to And everyone's buying because everybody wants to be a part of the craze. Now, I'm thinking about this and you know looking for what could possibly happen is there something big? I am always looking for something bigger behind the Bitcoin cause we still don't really know who invented it except Max Keiser maybe but we still don't really know and We're getting into this point where they're... You know we also have The Risk someone creating a majority attack

1:21:22 So in the, and I'm not completely versed in this but when someone controls more than half of the network hash rate They, so 51%, which is very possible someone has that. Someone controls that you know who really can mine? Who could really not caring what it costs the US government would be one or some agency or I don't know maybe someone who has a 500 million dollar contract with Amazon for servers. There's a lot of people who could possibly create a majority attack and then you can pretty much capture 100% of all the hash

1:22:01 I know this is not a great technical explanation, but it's in the wiki so it must be true. Now what if... What if the US may be behind this? And here would here would be my way of my use for it. Behind the whole thing? Just bear with me! The Chinese are going nuts over Bitcoin They are. Arguably, arguably yeah I think that what i understand the Chinese are the ones that have a lot of Bitcoin they love it because they want to go outside of their system

1:22:43 Ah, yes. It's supposed to be a great way to bypass the financial currency crisis. Yes I've heard that about Bitcoin. I've heard it might be a great way to bypass though. Which can't be done. So what if we wait until all the Chiners have their cash in? Now I'm talking Bitcoin 100 thousand. I'm just going to pull a number...I think it would be about 100 thousand. You'd make at quarter million for all you care. Can you get out? A hundred thousand! Now you can't get out and $100,000 there is this anyway forget about that The Chinas put their cash in, Bitcoin's a hundred thousand. Boom! Pull the rug. Collapse China all their money is gone. In one go

1:23:25 And that wouldn't even have to be a majority attack. It could be, you know, a short it could be a massive short it could be a huge sell-off. It could be a destruction of the blockchain because once you start a cascade of selling everyone will just go crazy and they'll be selling all the way down...it can go to zero! Now it may bounce back up again which is where you want to be waiting I'm buying in a nickel Yes So I don't, that thought crossed my mind like you know when i heard about the majority attack that stuff is actually possible. You know it's much worse than the dot-com bubble when we were all looking around going why did... I took my company public raised a whopping 16 million dollars

1:24:16 And, you know I was looking at people raising 500 million 600 million for you know sock puppets. Billions? Well and a billion yeah for sock puppet stuff You know pets calm was the big you know it was that was the big joke But what is going on here is there you are they're really intelligent people are just their judgments become clouded I mean you can always put so you can always mess around with stuff but anyone thinks this is safe and they're building their future on it now I would really recommend you not do that. The Winklevoss twins! Yes, they better be selling if they care about their money they should be selling and then i came across this new world order outfit called One Global Democracy which is a very interesting little...I think the guy was on Fox the other day I saw him. Let's see what it think is one global yeah oneglobaldemocracy.com notice its not .org

1:25:15 and they have a one global democracy, an idea whose time has come. Let's listen to a bit of this video. Climate change inequality and fear are tearing our world apart National governments have failed to solve these global problems Separate countries simply don't work anymore The United States will withdraw from the Paris climate accord People have lost patience with the slow, incremental approach to reform. Strongmen exploiting desperation are seizing power turning back the arc of human progress We have reached a crisis point Wait for it! People who normally tune out politics have woken up They're woke But the system is so broken no one seems to see a way to fix it

1:26:23 It's time for a new story. To raise our sights to what is possible and give people hope again A story of how we can create peace, equality and justice worldwide within our lifetimes through bold new approach One Global Democracy – A World Without Borders No borders. Wait for it! Many of us believe in a future where countries no longer divide us and we work together to face our shared challenges, but few of us realize one global democracy is now within our grasp thanks to two new technologies

1:27:11 With blockchains, the technology behind Bitcoin we can enable everyone to vote online securely as the digital divide closes worldwide. And with a liquid democracy model everyone can vote directly on policy. There you go John! Blockchain is the way for global voting. Okay so this guy... Yeah Peter Sherman Yeah, he's the former radio talk show host. Also is a politician in Ontario and is a progressive conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for a few years represented this area I don't know where you got this idea Well You know that I will say I like the concept of using blockchain for voting

1:28:11 You know, that would be a reasonably secure way. Although completely open you can't vote in secret but it would be and yeah are you gonna see this talk? I guarantee people will be talking about the blockchain. People want to vote online for some sick reason and yes it's not going to be secret so your ballot is open so you'll be able to see what somebody voted You can still have somebody point a gun at your head and say, okay open your computer and vote for this guy. It could still happen. This is bullcrap you if you people If it's not so important enough for you to go down to the voting place And put your X on a ballot and stick it in the box That started that important is that did just electronic voting? I'm dead set against it well

1:28:59 Blockchain doesn't do anything for me. I don't even care about that there's plenty of secure ways to do voting over online without blockchain Hmm, I understand where he's coming from and I think you're gonna hear a lot of people using this as a great idea. I find it kind of ironic that we have the no borders No Nations global kumbaya people using a phrase that includes the name chain at all You know some the blockchain your change your change That will be your identity in the in the new world order your hash You'll be your number you can tattoo the number on your arm. It's really cool Yeah

1:29:38 Sign me up. I vote no, right? So are you familiar with this dispute between Amazon and Google that has a little bit that has led let's led Google to block YouTube from playing on Amazons Echo show and I guess also other like their fire TV devices what why is this why are they doing that because apparently Amazon won't give Google some content Something like that. Yeah, let me see oh yeah here it is Amazon Oh Amazon doesn't carry Google products like Chromecast and Google home Yes It doesn't make prime video available for google cast users So I ask you these are two of the very same people who are touting the importance of net neutrality so the evil ISPs can't filter out or charge you more for specific kinds of content

1:30:37 I guess we don't have to worry about that with you assholes in charge. They're doing they're doing exactly that Yeah, they are blocking content based on Personal beefs and stuff in between actually which is which is normal It's normal business But where does anyone see the irony in this no? I'm I'm anybody at those two companies see the irony in this I guess not oh It's just like, you know... You literally now cannot see the content you want. Isn't that the end result that you wanted to avoid? Get a Roku. Yeah, Roku works fine I got the Roku But who knows it could happen Roku could get... hey Roku we don't like what you're doing We don't like how your displaying our stuff We are going to block access. Rokus cut off plenty of things they don't like but i'm telling you that dispute can happen now you have an issue between devices people use

1:31:38 Which may come down to your phone. You got a phone, oh I'm sorry you can't get any Google stuff on your Apple Phone. I see that in the future." It should be now! That's a good idea. Can start soon enough Yeah...I just found that to be, ya know... Yeah, it's your beef of the day. Should be a pet peeve. Well its not really a peeve No its not really a peeve. I cant take that as a peeve Its just ironic And I need you, based upon our list to talk about the hamburgers in the UK. Because a lot of people are very disappointed that you teased that in the newsletter and then we did not get to it which means is shorthand for We Forgot. We forgot? It wasn't like a high priority item. I did say in the last newsletter I teased again!

1:32:27 with a picture of some hamburger, somebody. Let's put a couple things... let's start talking about the hamburger just for it. It's not gonna take forever but there's a way of making an American-style hamburgers pretty straightforward You can go to any good hamburger shop all over the United States, Quarter Pounder or Nations Burgers and even some of the big chains. You're saying there's plenty of examples? There are plenty of examples. It tends to be mustard mayonnaise maybe mixed up with maybe some ketchup usually a pickle and then a burger that is fried with a piece of cheese on top of the fried burger

1:33:05 JC pointed out, because when he was in London he decided that wherever we went whatever pub whatever thing we went to I didn't know it was doing this till near the end. He'd order a hamburger pubs have them restaurants have me just had a bunch of them and he says these pieces the way England looks at a hamburger is they see it as a sandwich yes They don't see it as a hamburger. No, they literally call it a sandwich and many of them eat it with a knife and fork Wow that's wrong you always get a knife and fork with it And you'll find it like there'll be the burger on top of the lettuce, which makes it slide off. And then everything will be put on top and then at the top they'd be maybe a tomato and then on top of the tomato would be a slice of cheese. They don't get it. It's just ingredients haphazardly thrown on a bun. In one case he says can I get some condiments? She said what would you like? He said I'd like to get some mustard. Oh we haven't got any mustard.

1:34:05 So he couldn't get mustard for his hamburger. Although I don't like mustard on my hamburger, it doesn't seem right. It's beside the point whether you like it or not. It should be available. Mustard goes on a hamburger very common. Dammit! You're getting really pretty... Well, no. I mean you come out with item like mustard so there should be no mustard is what you're saying or it's no big deal? You're saying it's no big deal but it is a big deal. You have to have mustard available and it should be on the burger to begin with but they got none of this going on They don't know anything about... It's not that difficult And now we see in the United States especially with Uber Keller deciding to come up with $5,000 hamburger

1:34:47 And of course, he's been going on with the French chef for a while because Hubert Keller started this thing called The Burger Bar. Which has got these miscellaneous types of burgers that are very French And he got into it, I think Daniel Boulud in New York started doing these burgers with foie gras on them. And now the two chefs are going after each other. Meanwhile Wolfgang Puck who used to work at Maxime's when he was younger also has a French take on the hamburger and what these burgers are to me are meatball sandwiches! You take the burger and they roll it into a ball. They don't put in, you know what do you have to do with the burgers? First, you gotta flatten it and you gotta do that with pressure. You gotta put something over something to flatten the burger out. It's gotta be a flat thin burger. Uh, it could be a flat thick burger but generally speaking still gotta be flat. It can't be round. And so they take and they roll around ball and they push it together with a very

1:35:41 Excuse me, very little effort. And then they put it on there so the bun is now a mile high. There's no way- You can't put in your face? You can take the whole thing and squeeze it down that's why knife and fork work so well These are not hamburgers! John C. DuBorac's Pet Peeve of The Day Now Let me get, since I'm on a roll. So Jan Eilman writes me he's one of our producers and he's a good friend of mine is Dutch. Yeah. He's the guy we went on a tour of Holland of all the great restaurants two years back. He writes to me says ah, the reason that the Bosch washing machine is way it is because it saves energy and it doesn't damage the fabrics. Exactly. It also doesn't dry them

1:36:28 It's here, here you go. I'm watching this thing it takes two and a half hours to do a load it's there stopped dead yes! It's saving tons of energy when its not running It spins a little bit and it slops around the clothes, and then it sits there again for half hour saving energy. Yeah, saving energy because its not doing anything that's called saving energy. Meanwhile its not going to damage the fabrics? What can...washing underwear! Oh I don't want to make sure my underwears gets too damaged from this nasty rotation of a Maytag. Come on! This is bogus! These washing machines suck! They do

1:37:10 And we called it, we said it was probably some energy-saving bullcrap. Yeah, oh it saves energy yeah. Everything just unplugged! Let me tell you something I now remember growing up in the Netherlands which is part of socialist Europe At the time, and we having a clothes washer and dryer was not common. This is 1972-1973, but it just was not common. And in fact if I recall correctly, I think some people kind of looked down upon it Because you weren't using a service? No, no. Because we didn't have slaves! No because... well really the detergent is bad for the environment and your using up energy I recall that. It was frowned upon to not do your wash by hand this machine stuff was bad all around and maybe that's the genesis of it

1:38:09 That's interesting. The great American washing machine and dryers are, I think they're pretty common in the United States because when you do women got tired of doing washer board stuff this work out on a washer board now they got their ringer and they were done with it Well, the tit in the ring was on one of the more modern machines since the washerboard. Washerwoman! But I suppose if you had lots of services around there that were very complete and you could just drop your stuff off and get it back the next day that would be fantastic but that doesn't sound like it to me. It sounds like they wanted people who do hand labor

1:38:44 Wash it by hand. Soak it, soak it, wash it by hand! Now another statement you made about your trip to Gitmo Nation GMT is that there are no rodents, no rats... There's just no rats? Yeah because of the foxes Are you sure there's no rats? Well I didn't see any rats and we and there have been reports a very few rats I'm sure there's rats all over the place but the foxes keep them ones that are visible down well experts at Edinburgh University have come up with a solution to the apparent rat problem in the UK. Okay Which you didn't, you did not hear. Figures released last week show that London councils That's kind of the council estates that's the ghettos where welfare people live receive 100 well there You go and receive 100 complaints about rats and mice each day With some local authorities reporting at ten percent increase in the number of rodents since last year

1:39:43 But instead of using poison, and this is interesting the researchers are proposing releasing genetically mutated rats into the rat population. What could possibly go wrong? Wow! Could you imagine that they're saying this approach is similar to approaches already being tested in mosquitoes Yeah mosquitoes they do that yeah malaria these are rats yes yep Yeah, it's a DNA editing technique called CRISPR. I've heard about this! And with humans then? Well, I think you can do a lot with humans You can probably take the douchebag gene out of men which i think is what's on deck... I think has already been on deck because if we keep seeing these new more and more these reports being done by these millennial quote-unquote man kind of indicates that somethings up

1:40:43 This is very interesting, this CRISPR process. I have to read into this. Do-it-yourself garage scientists could unleash genetically edited organisms into the wild? What is this process? We're stuck with that problem anyway. Yeah yeah it's this process technique called CRISPR there's another link... no links are on the same page here we go First genetically modified humans could exist within I got to look into this stuff. This is I'm sure we have a lot of people under who understand DNA editing You got to talk to us about this stuff Yeah, well they're probably all gung-ho about it

1:41:26 Well anyway, so yeah. Genetically modified rats are in your future. Mutated I should say not modified mutated. That'd be great if they're giant become giant for some reason. Giant rats that can walk. Giant rats that can talk! Hey you! Yeah that would be fantastic No i don't think it would be that. If you want to write some good science fiction I like the idea Let me see, what else do we have? I got a thing for you. A couple of clips that... This is something you point out. I just want you to play the clips back-to-back and then you can tell me what it is in these clips that you've kind of been pointing out as a kind of problem no one wants to address. The two clips are interesting problems SoCal fires. This is the ABC report and then interesting problems SoCal fires our local report at

1:42:22 And yet there it is. Tonight, the Thomas fire just one of multiple blazes scorching the state to the south. The Creek Fire on the northern edge of Los Angeles forcing more evacuations that fire also out of control and in Santa Clarita, the Rye Fire jumping Interstate 5 shutting down at major highway. So let's get to Marcus Moore joining us live tonight and we can see that stunning scene behind you. The flames, the home gutted and I know there's real concern tonight because these windy conditions expected to continue Yeah, that's right David. That high wind has been picking up the embers and those embers have really been skipping from house to house jumping over some homes but destroying others and the other problem we're hearing about water pressure Firefighters telling me that they've had to let some homes burn because they simply didn't have enough water pressure in some of those hydrants perhaps Because of the power outages David just a devastating scene playing out there behind you

1:41:26 Well anyway, so yeah. Genetically modified rats are in your future. Mutated I should say not modified mutated. That'd be great if they're giant become giant for some reason. Giant rats that can walk. Giant rats that can talk! Hey you! Yeah that would be fantastic No i don't think it would be that. If you want to write some good science fiction I like the idea Let me see, what else do we have? I got a thing for you. A couple of clips that... This is something you point out. I just want you to play the clips back-to-back and then you can tell me what it is in these clips that you've kind of been pointing out as a kind of problem no one wants to address. The two clips are interesting problems SoCal fires. This is the ABC report and then interesting problems SoCal fires our local report at

1:42:22 And yet there it is. Tonight, the Thomas fire just one of multiple blazes scorching the state to the south. The Creek Fire on the northern edge of Los Angeles forcing more evacuations that fire also out of control and in Santa Clarita, the Rye Fire jumping Interstate 5 shutting down at major highway. So let's get to Marcus Moore joining us live tonight and we can see that stunning scene behind you. The flames, the home gutted and I know there's real concern tonight because these windy conditions expected to continue Yeah, that's right David. That high wind has been picking up the embers and those embers have really been skipping from house to house jumping over some homes but destroying others and the other problem we're hearing about water pressure Firefighters telling me that they've had to let some homes burn because they simply didn't have enough water pressure in some of those hydrants perhaps Because of the power outages David just a devastating scene playing out there behind you

1:43:14 Now you want me to play the second one right away? Yep, play it. Power outages are also making the job even harder. A lot of water systems rely on pump systems so they're electrically powered and that could account for some of the difficulties that we've had plus an enormous amount of usage stress on the water system so there's a lot of different factors Well what do you think the common thing is here this theme power Yeah, they got these electric pumps and they don't take into account the fact that if there's a bad fire like this it blows out the entire grid. Wait a minute I don't know how stupid... Don't they have generators? What do we have for... Oh geez! I think you used the right word in that sentence Stupid! It would only be worse if they drove to the Tesla fire truck

1:44:10 Which is coming, I'm sure. I'm sure there'll be a Tesla fire truck! Yeah Oh yes this is great we need one of those And it can do 0-60 in 4 seconds which is something that I never want to see on a fire truck No definitely not So these things so they go to some guy's rich house up there and their bell air is on fire and they hookup and nothing because there's no water pressure Because the electric pump is burnt out because there's no electricity for it. This is like stupid." Well, they'll fix it for next time. A lot of schooling going on if you have to do by your in Southern California actually Northern California too and you need a contractor for something good luck! The president announced I guess he announced that this morning that he's going

1:45:08 He said, oh we're gonna move our embassy to Jerusalem. I do have the two Jerusalem clip from CBS if you want to play it Okay, let me see Jerusalem is it called Jerusalem clip by name? To Jerusalem. As in T-O? Yeah. Because sometimes it's... Oh, Two Jerusalem. I see what you're saying okay David, thank you. Trump's announcement today that the United States now recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel for the first time since the Jewish state was founded nearly 70 years ago Mr. Trump also ordered the State Department to begin planning to move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem a campaign promise Major Garrett is at The White House

1:45:53 We cannot solve our problems by making the same failed assumptions and repeating the same failed strategies of the past. President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel rejects the policy of previous presidents and the recommendations of his secretaries of state and defense This is a long overdue step to advance the peace process, and to work towards a lasting agreement But administration officials could point to no evidence this symbolically important shift in US policy will accelerate peace talks. Mr Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner is leading that White House effort and has yet to formulate a plan. We will move the American embassy to the Eternal Shrine

1:46:39 Now, I have a couple questions about this. But also have another clip that I want us to listen to. First of all, I believe today this announcement comes on the 100 year anniversary of the Battle of Jerusalem Which is not being mentioned. I thought that was rather interesting Yeah, and i'm thinking he must have some kind of deal with BB He said look because it's largely unimportant other than that a whole bunch of Arab countries hate him and you know They do Here it is. We have a world leaders clip let me play that for a second

1:47:36 Calls between President Trump and several leaders here in the Middle East have unleashed a wave of alarm and even anger. This is why there are concerns that if President Trump goes ahead and recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, starts the process of moving the U.S. Embassy from here in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the Arab world will see United States choosing sides siding with Israel long-running dispute between the Israelis and Palestinians. Now, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas through his spokesman tonight says that the moves could kill the peace process King Abdullah of Jordan said the potential US action could have dangerous repercussions

1:48:20 for security throughout the region. And Egypt's president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi also weighed in telling Trump there is no need to complicate matters here in the Middle East. Palestinian factions are now calling for three days of rage right across the West Bank and Gaza Strip As a result Israeli security forces are preparing for demonstrations that could very well turn violent So three days of rage. Yeah, I don't know if that started yet but yeah it's starting so what is it what is behind this? This clearly he must have some agreement... Well a number of presidents have promised to do this over the years because Israel once

1:49:03 once Jerusalem recognizes its capital which is all it already is the capital the Prime Minister's there. I mean everything's there stuff going on yeah, and For some reason, and I'm not even absolutely sure what the reason is. We've been reluctant to do it even though I think I believe Clinton and Obama both promised to do it by the same Secretary of State kind of mentality no don't do it's just going to piss everybody off so they didn't do it and Trump promise in promising the campaign did he did And now everyone's still irked, you know. And all the world leaders are all bent out of shape and I find it probably that maybe if your thinking any differently I'm kind of baffled by the outrage

1:49:49 It's their capital. Well, I mean, I understand the outrage from Arab states because there are disputes... Well even that, I don't fully understand that! Oh well but there is dispute and this is what the Six Day War was about. There's disputed about you know it's yes we have the Temple Mount then the wall but we also have an important mosque as all kinds of important... So why can't be the capital? I'm not going to be bothered, it's not going to be shoved over. Well, I think it's the Jews and Arabs hating each other that probably has something to do with this. They do hate each other but so what's the...I just don't see it personally. Not getting the reason for all of the outrage and Theresa May and everybody is all bent out of shape about it.

1:50:33 Okay. Well, maybe someone will help it but what I wanted you to listen to- We're gonna get a history lesson and we're not going to... Yes, well, we are going to get it is fine It's not gonna be useful Maybe it will be at least in modern day version now listen to the- Well, we got a lot of dudes named Muhammad And yes, we do. We have a dude named Muhammad Mohammed He's actually a dude named Muhammad Yeah, and he's always been quite good at analysis. He'll give it to us Actually there are couple these guys have been pretty good at it Now, I want you to listen to this piece of the it's actually the last minute of Trump's announcement and tell me our president doesn't have dentures. For the many who desire peace To expel the extremists from their mists It is time for all civilized nations and people to respond to disagreement with regioned debate

1:51:27 not violence. And it is time for young and moderate voices all across the Middle East to claim for themselves a bright and beautiful future So today, let us rededicate ourselves to a path of mutual understanding and respect Let us rethink old assumptions and open our hearts and minds to possible and possibilities. And finally, I ask the leaders of the region political and religious Israeli and Palestinian Jewish and Christian and Muslim to join us in the noble quest for lasting peace Thank you God bless you god bless israel

1:52:19 God bless the Palestinians and God bless the United States. Thank you very much. The last part is the best! Well see people have been speculating about this and I didn't never thought of the dentures angle. God bless Israel, god bless the Palestinians and god bless United States. Thank you very much. The United States! Yeah, dentures are loose To me that's a... I hear dentures on everybody else People are like he is having a stroke He is drunk He could be Adderall No no no You nailed it, you nailed it I think its dentures I'm giving you kudos for nailing it That what it is Is he got the wrong poly grip? You know, he has been reused I can reuse this again

1:53:04 And this has never been revealed. No, well this is why we are the no agenda show. That's why his teeth look really good for a guy who in his 70s. Yes particularly with the dental care they had back in the 70s Yeah yeah he should have...yeah Gee I hope I don't have to have dentures when I'm 70 though that you have dentures? No God no not 70 So, uh... But isn't that like I love that you've got this and they're falling out. You might as well just be gumming it. Gum it! Come on President, gum it! And you know what? They could have such a field day the press if only they would think about stuff like this

1:53:49 Because then you could have questions. Well, you can ask him! You can ask questions. Where dentures were they falling out when he gave his speech about Israel? Yes. Ask Sarah Huckabee about that and see what she says. Oh did you hear what Chelsea Handler said about Sarah Huckabee Sanders? or a pig or something, what she did. When somebody from the Trump White House stands at the lectern and tells us that black is white... That harlot that they're dressing up and trolloping out every day? I mean one day she's has no makeup on it all, the next she's got like six foot long eyelashes And then she's got cleavage and summer whore lipstick all over her face Can you believe what they've turned her into? A proper trollop! That's some woman-on-woman hate right there Yeah its a hateful woman. That's not okay

1:54:35 No, and it's all about appearance. You know call her out because she's a Democrat. Oh I'm sorry what am i thinking? Yeah woman on woman hate yes well I've got a bunch of clips you know About that we did I went to democracy now start following them because they always have news stories And nobody else plays this kind of built up now We gotta catch up with some of these stories cuz nobody's playing these stories mm-hmm and so I want to do that But before we do it there's a radio guy named Quinn Who apparently, uh... I have that clip too! Yeah Thomas Kilbride our one of our producers did dug it up and actually sent him the stuff. And Quinn play you want to play your copy because my copy i still have the little silence at the beginning it needs to be edited down Oh okay well then I have to go and find out where it was

1:55:23 Well, you can just play mine again. We talk over it. Okay? Yeah good no problem here we go okay um also Guy named Tom sent me a email here about a radio show called the No Agenda Show Hosted by Adam Curry, former VJ and... Hear the disdain in his voice. Like I have a venereal disease By Adam Curry, former uh... He couldn't be worse Let's do it again By Adam Curry, former uh... VJ Did you get any VJ on you? And tech columnist John Hey what was this reverb? Should we be doing that?

1:56:02 I hope not. I love it, his reverb is quite spectacular It's really doing it for me By Adam Curry former VJ and tech columnist John Dvorak Well I know him. I know that guy But anyway That's the mouse guy They've identified what they call the Trump rotation See, first it's unfit for office. Then we move to Russia then when that doesn't work we go to the popular vote We bring that back again and then we go to impeachment and then to the 25th amendment And then too he is a sex predator and then too he is nuts Now we have to include obstruction of justice in the rotation

1:56:41 So, it's obstruction of justice and when that doesn't work we'll go back to unfit for office. Russia didn't win the popular vote you know whatever it takes but thats the Trump rotation. Nice! Wow he made us a jingle basically listen if you just say thats the trump rotation Yeah, that's a Trump rotation. Thomas Kilbride sent that email and it was cool! I like that a lot Very good work. I really appreciate that He didn't plug the noagendashow.com site and call us a radio show but you know from his perspective i guess we are.

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2:06:24 Yeah, I typed it in. Bingit.io? You saw what Noah Jender? It says Noah Jender welcome to the Noah Jender show notes search! It's got a big photo of one of the cover arts that says Noah Jender Oh it loads- I guess it loads... Well you didn't- you obviously didn't No it loads a different picture each time Ah That's why But anyway, and you know what? It's pretty damn useful. I've just gotten into the habit of binging stuff And you come up with great articles from the past almost six years or seven years. It's not bad. Alright

2:07:00 Well you bingin' this other thing right now? Bingin it. Yeah, nah what was I being- forgot what i was binging You were binging something Oh the no agenda peerage page well let's I'm gonna try with bingit okay BINGIT.IO Just bing it just bing it dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun just bing it Okay we're looking for a song that has just binged it We can get that probably by the end of this show today yeah It does not have any results for the peerage page fail Aaron knows what it hated when that happens. Let's see Oh a little update on Sweden you know things have been heating up over there, you don't hear a lot about it in the m5m reporting

2:07:48 About the migrant issues and the stuff that they're bringing in or the stuff that they're doing there And a lot of the Swedes are pretty angry about it. This is a podcaster, a youtuber named Peter Sweden. Peter Sweden here Things in Sweden have now escalated to a completely new level A military RPG weapon has been found In the Swedish capital of Stockholm Let us dig in for a minute. This is an RPG, a rocket propelled grenade! This is a military weapon that has been used in wars to take out tanks

2:08:25 And this has now been found in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. And not only did I find this RPG weapon, it was actually loaded as well with a projectile! So a fully loaded RPG was found in Sweden in 2017 This is not Somalia It's not Iraq It's not Afghanistan This is Sweden A European country Damn They haven't even had one of those. What a report! Well, this is just... he's a podcaster You can't find this report anywhere on the news go Bing it No one's talking about this funny RPGs Loaded yeah that thing could do some damage Brexit is if a kid gets a hold of it I don't want to hear about it Brexit Still you know prediction we hold fast to it that they'll have a do-over Tony Blair

2:09:21 He's all over it. fastest growing economy in the G7, we're now the slowest. Our savings ratio is at the lowest for 50 years. The investment community internationally has now gone really negative on us. Our currency's down 10%, 12%. Yay! Investment in the motor car industry for example is down 30%

2:10:01 living standards are stagnating. I mean this is causing us real damage that's beyond doubt." I mean it hasn't even happened yet wouldn't you say that all those problems are because they're in the European Union? That would be the logic, they're still in the European Union nothing has changed! Yeah where did all those problems come from just cuz they wanted to Brexit?! Well yeah doesn't make sense I'm feeling a do-over. That's what I'm feeling. Guess who has been saying this since the past? Yes, yes! You know, I give you total props for that. While we're spanning around the globe let's go to Candanavia. Justin Trudeau on global warming. A bit of

2:10:47 I don't know if he realized what he was saying, but it turns out to be just a beautiful little 20-second clip. Let me be very blunt about this coal represents perhaps the greatest challenge to Canada or to the world not meeting... I like how that's a nice little faux pas It's the greatest challenge to Canada. I mean in the world Yeah, it's a challenge to Canada because they're the oil guys. I think he was speaking the truth there Maybe. It's the greatest challenge to Canada or to the world not meeting its climate change targets unless we reduce coal consumption, We are not going to be able to create catastrophic global warming. That's interesting

2:11:41 Well, here's a play this clip. This is I think Good Morning America did this clip. This is 2004 2008 there's only a bit of it. A prediction of what's going to happen in 2016 agricultural production dropping because temperatures are rising. There's about one billion people who are malnourished with that number just continually grows. It's June 8th, 2015. One carton of milk is $12.99. Gases reach over nine dollars a gallon I remember this. We, we think...I probably still have that original clip which was a whole like it was like a 10 minute thing about- Yeah of all these horrible things that will happen in 2015. Gas will be $9 a gallon and we're all going to die. Milk is 20 dollars. Yeah. We're all gonna die. Definitely gonna die. I have a bunch of stuff that doesn't get reported any place else. I got it all from the Democracy Now! And I can do it as a clip blitz and get them out of the way.

2:12:44 I don't have my clothes on may not work today because you're having trouble would get yeah Yeah, I don't know if we should do it. Let me play a few things for you that we'd not get hearing about Travel ban and the UN treaty yep, I think I can do this The Supreme Court ruled Monday the latest iteration of President Trump's travel ban can go into effect even as legal challenges continue in lower courts. The courts order means that Trump administration can fully enforce its new restrictions on travel from eight countries, six of them predominantly Muslim. The ruling will bar most citizens from Iran, Libya Syria Yemen Somalia Chad and North Korea from entering the United States along with some Venezuelans.

2:13:30 September, shortly before the Supreme Court was set to hear oral arguments on the previous iteration of the travel ban. Last month, the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to allow Trump's latest travel ban to take effect following an appeals court ruling that blocked part of it from being enacted. We'll have more after headlines. The travel ban came as the Trump administration said it's withdrawn from the U.S., from the United Nations Global Compact on Migration. Over the weekend, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said President Trump will no longer commit to the deal in which countries pledge to uphold the rights of refugees, help migrants resettle and ensure they have access to jobs and education.

2:14:15 Blitz. Unreported Honduras news. In Honduras, police in the capital Tegucigalpa refused to impose an overnight curfew ordered by the government after days of protests over allegations of fraud in the country's disputed presidential election. Electoral officials say they will not declare a winner in the November 26th election ordered to allow the filing of challenges and appeals. Early Monday, the government-controlled electoral commission found that incumbent U.S.-backed President Juan Orlando Hernández was ahead

2:14:50 opposition candidate Salvador Nasralla by a margin of about 1.5 percent, after a recount of suspicious votes from just over 1000 polling stations. Nasralla and his supporters have charged the commission with vote rigging. We'll have more on the crisis in Honduras later in the broadcast. Here's one they don't want you to hear VW guys get prisoned Yeah, I heard about this. Senior Volkswagen manager was sentenced to seven years in federal prison today for his role in the emissions scandal Oliver Schmidt a German had pleaded guilty to fraud Schmidt led VW's engineering and environmental office in Michigan and covered up the company scheme to cheat on diesel emissions tests Let me throw one in here hold on a second I'll do it little 33

2:15:43 Blip blips. Congress votes down! Al Green's articles of impeachment. The House overwhelmingly voted today to kill a resolution from a liberal Democratic lawmaker to impeach President Trump, majority of Democrats joined Republicans in opposing the move. Democratic Congressman Al Green of Texas says President Trump has associated his presidency with causes rooted in bigotry and racism after Greens resolution was read aloud the house voted 364-58 to table that measure 33. I'll do one more. A compilation of Democrats flipping out over the United States tax bill Madam President in the early hours Saturday morning under the cover of darkness The Republican majority rushed through one of the worst most hastily considered pieces of major legislation I've seen in my time here in the Senate We are all going to die this is

2:16:44 Armageddon. Friday was my single worst day as a U.S. Senator It's really akin to rape This is the death penalty to the people in my district How can our Republican colleagues be so heartless and cruel? I think it is undemocratic and anti-American than anything that I've ever seen One of the great robberies, act of criminal activities if you like In modern history because the federal treasury is being looted tonight That's why we call it a tax scam. We're educating the American public about this tax scam It is the worst bill in the history of United States Congress. The worst! Cruel, malign, malicious misguided bill If the Republicans pass this horrible tax bill with a health care repeal added in

2:17:36 This is really devastating. But I think this could trigger a depression in the United States at some point A depression in the United States? You really believe that? A recession, I'm sorry My piece explains why an estimate that thousands will die as a consequence of this bill Is actually a very conservative estimate... I didn't come down to Congress to rape and pillage The people of my district Well, they're all going on and on. Before you go on with that... It might be true by the way I don't know it's very possible who knows? Yeah well it seems unlikely but they're going on and on about that now all the news people are covering one thing or another but how come they don't cover this story this isn't-this will be the last Clip Blitz I got other stuff to talk about but play this one I thought was like outrageous is The Cluster Bomb Story Red 33!

2:18:33 Would have been slick the Trump administration is way didn't play it there. Yeah The Trump administration has waived a ban on older cluster bombs, paving the way for the U.S. to expand its use of the weapons which are banned under a treaty signed by over 100 nations. The weapons scatter so-called bomblets over a wide area exploding into shrapnel that tears through flesh. Some of the bombs fail to explode effectively becoming land mines that later maim and kill civilians—especially children." Wow! How does that not get discussed? Why these guys are going nuts about this other stuff. Well, you know why you're asking questions that we know the answers to and there's another one that's kind of not discussed. Yeah okay This is a Yemen update this is the president that ex-president that the Houthis were out to get his dad and nobody mentions it to me

2:19:30 In Yemen, former President Ali Abdullah Saleh was confirmed dead Monday after a video posted online by Houthi rebels showed Saleh's lifeless body dumped in the back of a pickup truck. Saleh was killed as pitched battles continue to rage in the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, between Houthis and forces allied with Saleh's political movement. The killing could escalate Yemen's civil war which has brought 7 million people to the brink of famine and fanned a massive cholera epidemic Huh. Yeah, I was looking at... How does that not get discussed? Well the one that I really looked for a clip it may be available by now but this morning I looked everywhere even RT and Ruppley and all those guys. Saakashvili you know the Thai eaten nut job from Georgia the country Georgia so he was arrested and then people broke into the police station set him free they got him out over the roof

2:20:30 You gotta see this video, it's crazy. And apparently because he was in some kind of corruption scheme with the Russians... Talk about an Orange Revolution hit job! This has Soros' hands all over it Now we're not getting any real good news. There was one story that also Democracy Now did on the national monuments rollback, they got everybody all bent out of shape I don't...I personally didn't think it was as big a deal as they could make it because over the years anyone who's been following this is the federal government has been buying up private property all over the place with their own like most California- In fact I think Obama administration did a lot of that

2:21:08 Yeah, they were really overdoing it. So Trump rolled back some of it on a couple of monuments that are in the middle of nowhere Utah This national monument— Yeah, you got it. Donald Trump traveled to Utah Monday where he announced plans for the largest rollback of federal land protection in U.S. history. The plan calls for shrinking the Bears Ears Monument by more than 2 million acres— That's more than 80 percent and splitting it into two separate areas. Trump would also slash the state's 1.9-million acre Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument by 50 percent

2:21:44 The national monuments were designated under the Century Old Antiquities Act, a law meant to protect sacred sites, artifacts and historical objects. Trump criticized the law Monday. Your timeless bond with the outdoors should not be replaced with the whims of regulators thousands and thousands of miles away that don't know your land—and truly they don't care for your land like you do. But from now on that won't matter. I've come to Utah to take a very historic action, to reverse federal overreach and restore the rights of this land to your citizens

2:22:32 Trump's move drew outrage among environmentalists, thousands of whom marched on Monday through the streets of Salt Lake City where riot police held them back from the meeting between President Trump and leaders of the Mormon Church. The protests came as five Native American tribes filed suit against President Trump, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and several other officials in a bid to halt the rollback. So I guess the protests are saying that he's doing this to give the oil companies free reign to go and drill on the land? Is that it? Mineral companies, I don't know. The monuments are still protected its just Obama and Clinton are the two people who did each of these monuments they just took a whole chunk of half the state so you can do anything Why did they do that

2:23:25 Because they were because the feds have been doing this for years buying up your taking it using any excuse to take up property own property It's just a state is like half owned by the fence and so it's California. Yes, it's basically job security For the Feds I guess I don't know what to call I mean there's other Rationals or but the Feds own way too much in the United States? I mean you know that's not the idea for the government to own all the property I have an update on victims of the directed energy weapon attack in Cuba. Yeah, these guys are in bad shape. Doctors who are treating the victims of the unexplained attacks on Americans in Cuba have discovered abnormalities in their brain as they've been searching for answers for how these patients developed all kinds of symptoms ranging from neurological to vision and cognitive problems

2:24:19 The doctors have found changes in the white matter tracks. White matter in the brain acts like highways of information that lets different parts of the brain talk to each other These are the most specific medical findings to date that doctors have been able to come up with, showing that whatever harmed the Americans in Cuba it led to discernible measurable changes in their brain. Investigators still don't know what kind of device or weapon could cause these types of changes in the brain and outside experts tell the AP that acoustic waves or sound has never been shown to change white matter tracks They also say it's very unusual to see changes in the white matter without also seeing changes to the grey matter, neurons that process information in the brain. The US says 24 American government workers in Havana were hit by unexplained attacks in their homes and in some cases hotels

2:25:09 Almost all of the Americans heard some unexplained sound and then later developed symptoms. Some of those symptoms included hearing loss, cognitive problems memory and balance issues and even eyesight problems The U.S says it still doesn't know who's doing this but as it learns more about what happened to these victims they're learning more about how to treat potential cases in the future. With white matter damage there can be all sorts of behavioral or sensory or motor problems because the white matter is what really allows the entire brain to communicate with itself, damage to the white matter can cause changes in thinking it can cause sensory changes in some cases, it can cause changes in movement or speed or thinking abilities in general

2:25:54 So typically when we talk about white matter damage that might be due to sound, we're talking about major explosions or what we call blast injuries. And so if someone is in the battlefield for example and there's an explosion near them the massive sound waves can indeed disrupt the white matter and change the subtle microstructure of the white matter that has been documented I'm not aware anyone who has ever shown sort of more focused or subtle sound related damage. And there's something in that report that tells you about PTSD, I guess? That your brain actually changes the white matter changes because of a sound blast It was remember if you remember when this first happened There was a CIA guy on one of the shows who says You know maybe we shouldn't be talking about this and probably shouldn't be blaming the Cubans He is making some sort of apology

2:26:50 And I think it's a weapon that we've developed. I have the clip, that says here Cuban sound incident with spook. I think that's what let's listen to it. The bizarre incidents beginning last October left a group of US diplomats with severe hearing loss blamed on what one official says could have been a surveillance device deployed inside or outside the Americans Havana residences which are all owned by Cuba's government said Several US agencies, the CIA FBI and State Department's diplomatic security service are all investigating. We don't know exactly where this came from okay we can't blame any one individual or a country at this point yet an investigation is underway we take that very seriously Canada also says some of its diplomats in Havana

2:27:38 also suffered symptoms. In Havana, a Cuban newscaster says the government is investigating and quote Cuba has never nor would it ever allow that the Cuban territory be used for any action against accredited diplomatic agents or their families. So who's responsible? Perhaps a third country, some suggest possibly even Russia where there has been a surge of harassment and outright attacks against US diplomats in recent years or just a surveillance attempt gone terribly wrong says as former CIA veteran I personally think it was an accident, a surveillance attempt I do not think the Cubans would attack us physically like that, especially given the timing. The U.S has already expound to... Yeah there you go yeah accident You're right it's probably one of our things and we have it there We have it at Gitmo or whatever and someone pointed in the wrong direction It went off. Yeah. Who was cleaning it? And went off. Yeah something like that But with the fact that we have something like this is terrible who the hell wants to get hit by one of those Whatever that thing does

2:28:44 There's a concerning report, I should have done this in your UK hamburger bit about the rats. There is something wrong with the weed in the U.K., and then I'm saying that as an expert in consumption of the holy herb. Chronic cannabis users are at risk... This is from The Daily Mail so you know it's true. Chronic cannabis users are at risk of experiencing a horrifying new condition that has been reported hospitals across the country Scrumeting, doctors say is becoming an all too familiar sight at emergency rooms with patients screaming and vomiting as they turn up for help. The condition called cannabinoid hypermesis syndrome CHS is not properly understood but medical experts believe the symptoms appear from individuals using or consuming heavy amounts of marijuana over a long period of time

2:29:40 And then they literally scream and vomit at the same time or scrum it. This is contaminated drugs! It must be Yeah, this has got fentanyl in it or something like that. Something really bad and you should immediately stop smoking whatever weed is out there and grow your own or something. Only smoke it where its legal. And grow your own! This isn't bad. Yeah, grow your own. I mean California... well actually not California yet but it's January but in Washington State and Colorado they have labs that test all the dope so when you're buying from one of these shops you're not getting some crazy crap off the street And the fact that some of these drug dealers think, oh well it shouldn't even be passed as a law because the street stuff you can get at cheap or we like to stay in business. Drug dealers this is nonsense cause this is what happens what you're dealing with is some contaminate somebody. Some people in the government hate this stuff so much they'll contaminate it was rat poison and you smoke it and you get sick. Damn! It's really bad. Yeah yeah okay I got a couple more Well I have one longer clip but just want us to listen too Okay Because its real beauty

2:30:47 And it really shows you the problems with political correctness, social justice warriors and politics in government. I don't know if you saw this or not... It's a little long but it's... I cut it down as much that could but just everything was so dynamite! This is the mayor of Brighton Minnesota Valerie Johnson And she's on a city council meeting. Now, these things are streamed live typically and this is really just like a conference table they're sitting over in the corner of maybe the auditorium or the gym. Oh, that's right! This is great clip. Yeah and it's streamed live because that's you know that's the transparency and openness of today's what do you call not legislators? City councils. Yeah city councils right

2:31:35 And it was just mind-boggling. We all have white privilege, we don't know what it's like to not have it because we do! We go everywhere and were just...We had that way but I don't know the difference. We don't know what it's like to not have it And I said, we can't do what look at who's up here. We can't move forward as all being people of white privilege we can't because we don't know the difference of not having it. Now this is one other person council member and the mayor is about to respond. That's the first council member and then the person who responds is another council member calling her out, and then the mayor comes. And you'll hear that it's the mayor? I said we can't do what look at who's up here We can't move forward as all being people of white privilege We can't because if we don't know the difference of not having it Because I'm white You think I was privileged my whole life

2:32:27 Are you kidding? I grew up in an Italian neighborhood. When they came here, my grandfather came... They didn't speak English but they assimilated. But I resent that you think that I have white privilege. Everybody I work for or with is usually from another country and they say to me, here's what they say is we as Americans don't realize and it doesn't matter what color we are as Americans because I believe we are all Americans Is that we are privileged to just live here So I don't want to think that this body doesn't feel that they can't represent people because they're white. You are the exact reason we need this commission, if you don't understand white privilege then you aren't representing those people. You're not willing to listen to them and what you have just said is the most

2:33:25 racist, excuse me? Don't you ever, ever accuse me of that. You have no basis to say something like that in public and no basis to say something like that." Then let me rephrase it. That statement was one of the most racist things I've ever heard. What statement? That you are offended by the fact that you're not feeling...the white privilege thing White privilege exists and it is something that we need to accept in this country.

2:34:04 You're interrupting me and, you know what? We're on camera. I'm running this meeting of something pretty big here. It's unacceptable! You are out of order! No, I have basis for it based on what you just said. No, you don't Well because you said hi to Bernard, do you understand?! Oh excuse me, I work with people-I probably know many more people of color than you do My favorite part I know more people of color than you do. And i work with them so, I do not want to have this argument with you but you are out order and your out of line okay fine that the discussion I just heard now makes me so angry I'm shaking You refuse to understand how other people in this community

2:35:02 feel. But you refuse because you're obviously not going to support this, and what you're doing... You don't know what I'm gonna support but I have a feeling. Quit interrupting me! You are accusing of things that are wrong. Quit interrupting me, I am going to finish my statement What i heard was a racist statement You're just crediting. I'm... Goddamn, Tina! I'm passionate about this. I am so passionate about hearing all sides of the story and for you to disregard the fact that white privilege exists is beyond me. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,

2:35:56 And you wrap things all around wouldn't it be better if women ran everything? Well, I don't think I can top that No, I think that's good. I got some clips out play at the next show which is just as good then as they will Be now yeah, I gotta cut lots of stuff left over. I've got a funny funny gay clip I think you'll like you know from the gays the gays yes the gays alright everybody Yeah, the troll room liked that comment John for sure. Oh my goodness. The ring structure wins! Yes, john at Dvorak dot org Just saying... And that wraps it up for today We will return on Sunday with another episode of your best podcast in the universe It is your show remember us at dvorak dot org slash na

2:36:52 And until that time, coming to you from downtown Austin-Tejas, capital of the drone star state in the 5x9 Cluedio in the common law condo. In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where I remain! I am John C. Dvorak We return on Sunday right here on No Agenda we'll see you then and of course until then as always... Ahem Adios! Mofos Oh my god oh my god

2:37:36 Oh my god. Oh my god! Nobody had bangers. Trying to get a decent banger. Decent banger? I'm the only one who ever asked for bangers in match because it's trying to get a decent banger and you get a big piece of meat

2:38:47 He's a banger. I'm the only one who ever asked for bangers in match because I was trying to get a decent banger Nobody had bangers! Nobody had bangers! You kinda need to remind yourself that you need to focus and try not let stuff bother you as much as possible. But it is gonna bother you because your human, and I was human...I am human still! But i was just referring myself in the past Not that I wasn't human And I was human, I AM HUMAN STILL

2:39:45 But I was just referring to myself in the past. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, You kinda need to remind yourself that you need to focus and try not let stuff bother you as much as possible. But it is gonna bother you because your human, and I was human...I am human still! It's what i was just referring to myself in the past Not that I wasn't human And I'm a human, I am human still! It's what I was just referring to myself in the past

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