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00:00 You know, I know a lot of guys who knit. Promoting social media balkanization and broadcasting live from downtown Austin, Tejas. Cap of the drone star state in the Cluedio In The Morning everybody! I'm Adam Curry And from northern Silicon Valley where i'm back home...I'm John C. Dvorak It's Crackpot & Buzzkill! In The Mornin'! Ah were you gone? Yeah went to the store Oh Costco? I went to Costco Mm-hmm

00:42 So it was a interesting now you have not actually celebrated Christmas yet. No is coming You guys are very interesting you Dvorak clan I'll tell ya yes, we do where and What he called on the cutting edge is that what you're gonna say? Untraditional no non-tradition Orthodox And we're not even Jewish hey Well, we were in shy rack For for the festivities. I want to hear more and we had a white Christmas that was fantastic Yeah, bet you did Chris my goodness. I had forgotten what cold was like

01:23 You get it's not good white Christmas is a no fun. It was zero degrees, and then you get what is this? And half these places they won't let you even start a fire so he can have like a Cozy fire and a white Christmas The air B&B that we had had a fireplace on gas But the gas wasn't hooked up to it which was somewhat disappointing and I've written a review about it Good pisses me off Yeah, what's the point? What's up with windchill? Wind chill. What about well I mean what's up with it people use that as like a death knell yeah They do well and windshield doesn't make a difference no kidding III You know just walking outside And then there wasn't there was actually no wind when I was outside and my legs just froze Was so unbelievable I had forgotten all about you know lived in Jersey in New York, and yeah But you were you know the people who have to realize is

02:19 we notice this going back and forth from Washington, is that your pores literally change from hot weather pores to cold weather pores. But it takes weeks. It just doesn't do it automatically so when you're coming from hot weather pores which is what you have generally speaking in Austin and you go up to Chicago, it's gonna be freezing cold So you might if your pores have to adjust the pores in your skin have to adjust yeah, I didn't know this Yeah And so when you could this is why people and they come down from the northern climes Like Mimi's up there most of times should come down here. Yeah, and she and it'll be like 50 I've also noticed though that men and women do have a

03:06 Different temperature settings for themselves. Well, there's that there's a little bit of that but it's really mostly the pores That's why you were so cold hmm well And I would have been that you've been cool for couple weeks before he got used to it Yeah, climate eyes does it work? Yes So did just walked around a little bit in Chicago for about I don't know 23 minutes What part of Chicago we were in Lincoln Park and Okay, which is a nice area it is one of the better one of the three or four good areas Yeah We had an Airbnb on the fourth floor that was a mistake Because it had no elevator. Oh, yes that would be bad Didn't really consider the odd especially when it's freezing out and you can your legs are You know living in Amsterdam? Yeah I'm used to canal houses and stuff and then yeah for about the death of the tenth time young guy yeah Okay, not such a great idea But it was a lot of fun

04:00 It was a lot of fun and I met all of Tina's family, extended family. The extended family? The extended family yes you know like husbands of sisters and kids of sisters and her mom...I hadn't met her mom so I didn't meet her mom You never met her mom? No no Yeah, what did her mom think of you? You're a good man Adam is what I heard her say. Oh she must... does she listen to the podcast? Don't think so She would never have said that if she listened to the show we know better than that We had a special episode for NinerNiner3 which was... Everybody loved it

04:44 I think pretty much that there were as you got some complaining letters cuz no not really complaining letters But you know people say well, you know clearly the guy is Psyopsing you You fell for it. I'd like that one or just interviewing the guy what do you fall for? Are you all of a sudden working for him like yeah, you could hear his tricks It was obvious he was trying to push back on ya and convince you have other things. I don't think so oh What were you what was he trying to convince you of that? You had some other opinion. Oh, well net neutrality Always easy. He's like a net neutrality guy. Well no but he he is more against Corporatism and crony capitalism and his feeling is that with the Net Neutrality rules removed now There's no rules they haven't been put in place Yeah And it's interesting because I got an email from one of our producers and said yeah

05:37 I was going to go all off and spout at my friend that this has never been in place. He says he can find no factual evidence anywhere that these rules were not implemented, in fact the documentation says they were implemented... I guess they just weren't. When? 2015 I think was that it? No. I don't remember when it was but where they or were they not implemented I'm pretty sure they were not I'm sure they're not. Where were they implemented? Has the judgment come down on anything using these rules? No, not to my knowledge but they were official. Well there were suggestions. Ah okay. You could say oh yeah well this is what they were thinking if they have these rules and they're looking at them and saying that we should follow these rules and then do it but you can say they are implementable

06:39 a bill that has been passed, that just had a date on it so there's implementation time. Here is the FCC March 12th 2015 published in the Federal Register April 13 which means because they became effective 60 days after publishing in the Federal Register So they were published and therefore they were of in effect but they just seem to have no effect Or it was there was no I didn't notice any difference in anything. What changed when they became not in effect? Nothing, nothing's changed because this whole thing is bogus Oh and now I'm an agreement with you but when people call me out and say okay so if they were implemented It appears as though we're gonna have to do a little work actual work And have something that throw back at people oh god forbid okay

07:35 Maybe our producers can help us. I suppose you suck. He didn't say you suck, but that was the thing and Pachenik actually for those who don't know what it is or what happened on the last episode he interviewed Steve Pachenik the PSYOPs master of The United States government yeah supposedly yeah and When he pushed back, he was spouting off the typical, oh you know but they're gonna charge you extra for access to Facebook. I'm like that's a good thing as far as I'm concerned but okay fine, fine what? Yes fine! Good for me and we had little fracas So did he actually say they're going to charge you extra for access to Facebook? Um...I don't know if it was verbatim that But yeah, that's basically what he was saying Why would they do that They won't

08:32 And I pushed back and said, nah. I don't think that's true at all. He said well... Well you're... he has this way of if he doesn't agree with one of his tricks which i have noticed is so he'll compliment you on how eloquent you are or how incredibly smart you are or her smart your family You'r the smartest guy ever met Pretty much like that yeah but it was good people seem to like it this was a the first episode in our let them Let Them Talk series, Let Them Talk number one. Yeah probably have another episode next Christmas? Or maybe before then! Oh well if we're lucky... You know the funny thing I've noticed is a lot of people don't want to talk No. They only with this let them talk idea which is a good idea is only works with people who want to talk

09:21 And then the real problem is they actually have to be interesting. So we have, it's a double barrier. This is why we don't do interviews in general. Finding a Steve Pchenik is really not that easy. That's true. That's why it's going to be just a series and not some like a written up We're not gonna do a third show week this was You could do three shows a week do one of these sure No, probably as if it's easy And that is very difficult I mean This is one of the reasons I always should tell people in backgrounders about the show Is that once you do I chance and have my friend on the show? Yeah this sort of thing just because there's a number of problems 1 or

10:01 Booking people to do a show is very difficult. They don't they don't show up they have all kinds of problems I'm surprised you pulled it off in fact You pull it off long before the and and and again want to thank Tommy Garcia our producer who was in Florida about an hour away from where Pachinic lives And he went over there with this setup with his mic with this laptop, but everything and that's it sounded good then that was It was just really. Luckily we have producers all over the world Yes, yes! Beyond lucky is just fantastic That's what I like about this If we want to do another one We can get one of our producers and they'll be happy to go over set it up make sure its sounds good Yeah because 90% I wouldn't say 90%, but at least half of our producers are dudes named Ben who can do this They can set people up with even if they've never done before they can do it

10:55 No problem. Now, okay well I have a question yeah Well first of all did people appreciate it with donations when did you look at the numbers that? Were people appreciative of it or do I just have to wait there was just as appreciative of all the Evergreen shows that we throw in during the holidays okay now there were no change now We always have to remember, of course during the holidays like this particular day. The day before Christmas Eve I think we're gonna have the same problem with New Year's Eve which will be doing a show on is that there is no nobody they're not around people are off doing stuff that's why the networks put all reruns on for two weeks. Not just the reruns I've noticed a new

11:45 Something new is they're using fill-ins the B team Fox News is doing this over news. Yeah, they can't do reruns of the news That's a problem yeah, but you know even these shows So they just have the people from Fox Business News or come over and host and they all kind of suck You know I don't and Mark Stein who who I like as an author And there's a funny guy to have on his show what he can't host the he's no host He's no No filling. He's a better guy there are some people that are natural guests yeah, and they can't host now Let me ask you an important question Did you find out well of course? You haven't really had your Christmas so it's maybe I can't ask the question yet We were going to find out what triggers worked best for

12:29 With the Millennials in your life, and I guess you haven't seen them so you haven't had a chance to live it over for dinner Okay, did you test any triggers? Did you find it? I found two that really work. Okay What are they cuz I didn't find anything that anyone say if the Millennial says something and we're picking on Millennials But there are kids We love them So if they said by the way, I think they love to be picked on not so sure yeah, we had some triggering events Well yeah, I mean picking is one thing triggering is another The so that I have to one that always wouldn't if you just be a millennial Just say something to me. Just just make a statement So how will you have was work this way? No, no make a statement just you know like I think Hillary should of won That's racist what yeah If you just say that doesn't matter what it is the trigger It doesn't if can be unrelated to the statement the trigger sets in immediately. It's great to watch and

13:26 You know I don't think my family would fall for that. Okay, because I'll tell you why cuz Eric Eric DeShill is racist? Eric DeShill is if anybody in the family's actually black it's him oh It was unaware he was raised in East Oakland and And it just turned out all the neighbors were black and he picked up a lot of body language and things that he's never really rid himself off. If he runs into a black guy, who is the most obnoxious person in the world? He's best friends with Eric.

14:02 And does Eric start to go into into no Eric does this on purpose? He says that's racist. I just about the damn anything it's crazy, okay Okay, then he's been doing it for so long at the dinner table or person you know He'll say exactly what you said right out of the blue some of those things because that's racist and then you know Then it would top it off with some other kind of thing That's even funnier uh-huh So that so this would not work because we've all been used to hearing Eric pull this stunt okay well Then I have another one This is the one, now it may be too late but just saying Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays was a bonanza. Really? Yes!

14:47 Especially in a store, like just say to the person who's helping Merry Christmas and it's gonna be like, say happy holidays. You gotta say happy holidays! Well that okay let me mention something here that is very retrograde That argument is over years ago but okay if they're still stuck with that in Chicago that's well no It's not let me tell you and this goes very very deep And it's obvious why this is happening, because Merry Christmas equals religion equals Republican. That's equal strength! Your holiday stems from Holy Day. John I'm all... You should throw this at them. Oh you're more religious than me you saying Happy Holy Days but hey let's play this clip Merry Christmas versus Happy Holiday

15:41 Kiddoki for he and the first lady were married And posted this late-night tweet people are proud to be saying Merry Christmas again I am proud to have led the charge against the assault on our cherished and beautiful phrase. Merry Christmas Some people believe the so called war on Christmas began when retail stores started swapping out the term, merry christmas for happy holidays. And by 2005, the change upset several cable news hosts like Bill O'Reilly but frustration with the term may be less about religion than politics a poll conducted by the Public Religion Research Institute found 66 percent of Democrats prefer storage use the term happy holidays

16:22 While 67% of Republicans say stores should only say Merry Christmas. On the campaign trail, candidate Trump promised to bring back the phrase. Politics aside Mr. Trump's not the first president to say... His predecessor used the phrase every year. Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas everyone! Merry Christmas everybody! Past presidents also use the term happy holidays Which comes from Old English for the term holy days and Christmas is the only federal holiday based on religion Serena Marshall ABC News, Washington Right and there's no reason unless they're apparently Democrats or the yes. Yes early Well come on aren't all Millennials Democrats?

17:10 Yes, okay. So I'm telling you the sequence is Merry Christmas crazy religious people crazy religious right? There's a war on God there's a war on religion not not Islam of course but Christianity and even Judaism I think this war on Jews So when you say Merry Christmas, it's religious. You're crazy religious right? You're Republican your Donald Trump That's the only how as this woman says in this report which was quite concise I might add It's the only holiday that is a religious holidays act literally literally religious holiday Yes And so if you're celebrating this holiday are gonna work that day

17:53 You know and I read so it's a religious holiday, so it's not like all you're doing is if you don't like it change It and right. I'm sure they'd love to get a constitutional amendment Change well that's not an amendment issue. No. It's a law okay, and But I think that I think the comeback is happy holy days happy holidays if holiday is stems from Holy Day That's more religious to me, especially in a generality within Merry Christmas which is kind of a conjured up holiday. It's not – they don't know the dates. It's all kinda phony." And then the Jews on Facebook who I'm friends with, facebag friends, they had their – and these would be liberal friends of mine.

18:42 And they would say, go ahead wish me Merry Christmas. For me it's just Monday. You can go to work! What are you doing on facebag? Do some work! Tell them that get jet tell him to talk about it with Hanukkah Harry Who's Hanukkah Harry? Oh, we talked about this on the Noah Gen... I'm sorry. The HM plug? I didn't hear it. Oh yes, Horowitz says that the Jews have a Santa Claus-like character called Hanukkah Harry because the kids Jewish kids they're seeing all this stuff going on They got to tree you see trees and the Santa Claus is all this stuff with the kids And so they've dreamed up Hanukkah Harry and apparently has been on forever

19:25 Non-jews don't know about it, and they have a some sort of tree called something as they've got another was a parallel universe Christmas Starring Hanukkah Harry so it's bullcrap. You gotta take the day off there not working on Monday That's funny yeah I thought so what did I never heard a Hanukkah Harry no? And that didn't hear anything about Kwanzaa this year yes Kwanzaa for some reason just dropped by the wayside Yeah Sad. And some, but was it you or was it one of the kids that mentioned to me about Festivus being an invention of Donald Trump? No way!

20:08 That's apparently going around some face bag circle. Oh, geez! Donald Trump is responsible for this phony Seinfeld episode in some awkward way which was done in the 90s. Anyway... No Well I can say Merry Christmas around here and nobody cares. Californians are more lax about this stuff And then again, there's that example of Obama year after year after year saying Merry Christmas. Why don't they complain about that? Because he's not a Republican and yeah, and he's a Muslim we know well Yeah, what you know now if a Muslim can say it anyone can say it but then on a serious note Did you see this video that was going around this guy who had a dashboard camera drove around downtown LA on Christmas Day and

20:55 Where it's just the claim is 20,000 homeless people many of them in tents and he just drives around block after block both side of the street completely lined with tents. Yeah best unemployment year ever It's really this is its It's unbelievable. I could do the same thing in Oakland, I can do it here in Austin! I took my first trip for like maybe two years because I had to go pay the taxes and before the deadline so I could get my full credit for my back property taxes which... Yeah you know I heard you-I did hear you talking about with Harvard what- I'm driving down San Pablo Avenue

21:38 In Oakland, all the hamburger places there used to be a quarter pounder. There's now it's a taqueria and it was homeless people that... All the way into Oakland where then all of a sudden it's all brightened up and everything is really fine in Oakland But this is Oakland too. It's just um, they're under the overpasses everywhere you go now They're on both sides of that where there was only one side last week And what has being done? Is that this is just a state's thing right states have to take care of this federal government can't know City City City It's distressing. It's really distressing Yeah, especially whenever says oh the unemployment is lowest ever than it ever has been it's not even close What did the shadow stats numbers are we're still 20%? It's actually trending down on shadows That's finally but once Trump got in and started trending down what it's still sitting at 22%. Yeah Well, we're lucky and by the way, it looks like it to me too when you drive around see all these guys intense hmm

22:39 I mean, those people are unemployed but the government doesn't count them. Oh he's in a tent, he's not in the job, or he's not in the workforce... He'd like to be! Yeah let me see while we're talking about the young generation let's go to our Dodd Report segment Bill Gates admitted that his common core experiment was a failure It was a failure. I'm glad he admitted it, what's the next sneaky trick is he gonna try? Interesting you ask that it's called Next Generation So they spent four billion dollars in implementing Common Core Taxpayer money not his money! No there's no way he spent four billion dollars on anything. Promoting it? I doubt it. 400 million

23:41 itself influenced 4 trillion in US taxpayer funds towards the goal. That seems a little much, but 400 million sounds right." Yeah that sounds... he can afford that? He can afford that yeah. He says well you know there's one thing I've learned it said no matter how enthusiastic we might be about one approach or the other decision to go from pilot to wide-scale use is ultimately and always something has to be decided by you and the others in the field. Yeah thanks Bill! How about doing a little test marketing? You know what that means. What do you mean? No, I'm just asking bill. Oh bill yeah He should know yeah although that Vista. I don't know if he doesn't know about They tested at it's one of those things where that's all in-house testing Yeah And is and with Microsoft during that era were they they used That kind of fire me you have four people like for hours or stack ranking or whatever is called Yes, I read the back ranks that stack ranking

24:36 And those were the days where you never say anything bad because then you get ranked poorly by one of your coworkers and get fired. So everything was, oh this is great! Oh Bill that's the best thing I've ever seen. Ah that's tremendous, tremendous good thinking. It's kind of a problem. So the Common Core is will be fading away and next generation science standards will be coming in, and again the whole real issue with this is that it's all done on the computer The learning and the testing done on the computer which does not necessarily mean the kids are learning anything They're learning how to make the computer give them a smiley face or little bleep bloop bloop

25:22 or little Pavlovian ding. I think computers should be taken out of education, at least until you get to high school and then there should be a computer lab where you learn about computers and computer people they get them sit in front of the computer they don't even know how the computer works yeah i mean i think it should at least have an understanding like if they have for example used to have auto shop And the idea was that you could work on these cars, but you had to have some understanding of how the car actually works. What an internal combustion engine does?

26:04 And the same thing I believe with computers. Otherwise you're just like this magical thing with a screen in front of you that's doing magical stuff, that's not the way it should be thinking about these things. Well that's only going to get worse and the computers will no longer be serviceable. You already can't open up your Mac. The Mac has always been kind of that way, but I think you could still understand how the Mac works. Or look at the thing I'm using for podcasting. I use an Intel NUC and the Intel NUC, you can actually open it up and swap out the solid disk, the solid state hard disk. You can pull it out and put a bigger one in because it's always too small. And they have a Wi-Fi thing that you can put in there. But instead of that John, instead of understanding that kids are being taught to code

26:55 Which makes even less sense. Which brings me to a clip, this was on... it was a pre-recorded clip Tucker Carlson had Brian Kaplan on he's law professor from Harvard And he has, well you'll hear at the end he has tenure. So he's able to say this kind of stuff and he's against the entire idea of sending all our kids to higher education. There were some things that I caught on the news over the break that would really go against all of the broadcast standards and certainly to say oh we shouldn't be sending all the kids to higher education they should go to vocational school is quite controversial

27:39 The heart of my story is something called the signaling model of education, but in common sense terms it just says a lot of the reason why education pays isn't that you're learning useful job skills. You're showing off, you're jumping through hoops, your impressing employers but of course if everybody jumps through the hoops and can impress employers you've got to jump through more hoops than everybody else or else the whole process is waste time. Exactly! The costs are really high I mean the cost not just an individual but society down to a generation of young people how do those match up against the benefits? Yeah, well so again for the individual what I say is that if you are a strong student then college is A good deal for you especially If you do one of the high-earning majors on The other hand if you are weaker students someone who struggles to get through high school Then college is probably just going to be a waste of money even for you personally But again, I always try to turn it around to not just thinking about what's good for the individual but thinking about it from the point Of view society which should we really be encouraging more people to go? if people were actually acquiring a lot of useful skills in school and

28:35 Well, then it is an investment in our human capital. On the other hand if the main thing you're doing is jumping through hoops and showing off It's really a socially wasteful process to large degree And that's really what I say as it is extremely wasteful for society A lot of people are picking up addictions and mental illness Sure, of course you can do that other places. But yeah I mean in a way you might say there's the addiction to getting more education which is fairly rampant So what percentage would you and this is speculative but of any society or ours specifically ought to be going to college? Say about 5% So that would make you an elitist and a bad person because you're writing off the other 95%, correct? Well, you might say it's elitist to think only good person... You have to be a good person or... You might think that you'd have to be an elitist if you don't go to college.

29:26 So, you know college is the kind of thing a lot of people just go through and punch the clock and sit through classes and get a degree in something or other. Don't see that really improves them as human being it's a big burden on society and also it's just a burden on individual to feel like if I don't accomplish this then my whole life is wasted time. There are many different paths success I'm a big fan of vocational education, the kind that you see in countries like Germany and Switzerland. And again just very notable how little of an underclass they have there. The kind of person who in the US would say, I hate school, I'm sick of being here maybe I'll go drop out and be a criminal. In Switzerland or Germany... Or a podcaster!

30:06 and People, as you said people love the idea of education. If you go and look at survey evidence the share of Americans who favor cutting education is almost minuscule and that's really the main thing I'm pushing is spending less on education saving money on something that doesn't deliver the goods especially from a social point-of-view thinking about better ways to spend it Do yo have tenure? Oh yes! Yeah, I bet your bosses aren't impressed by this argument Can't talk like that unless you got tenure

30:49 That's for sure. I like the way you snuck a Tucker Carlson clip into this show. Well, in a broader perspective we are raising a slave class who are in debt going to a school that is really only just a fancy piece of paper. There was a couple of things I didn't like about this one was his comment high, what is it? High earning major. If he's gonna take the argument which his 5% thing which I agree with the basis of everything he said but when you say something like high-earning major, I don't know what he's talking about because especially in undergraduate work in college there is no higher earning major. It's a, I got my degree in history with some chemistry which didn't get me a job

31:43 Well, back in the day you got a job. Yeah. I don't know if you get a job now Probably not. I'd be broke But sociology history literature English You know There's a bunch Latin. I mean there's a bunch of things you can get them There's no high-earning majors in there except the engineering right and then you should probably should get a masters degree or something a little higher And so that doesn't make any sense. How about this? The high earning major is something you can use to become a teacher or professor, that's about it! No

32:23 The way I see it, because I was kind of...I went and bounced around majors. And so I had to take one of my...I started off at Cal as a freshman then I went to...I was told to go to junior college and figure out what I wanted to do And so I went to Foothill. And at Foothill, I took all those practical courses. I took broadcasting. I took advertising. They had a course that wasn't...I couldn't transfer some of these courses back to Cal but I did take the other courses English and all these other things that got me my grade point up and I went back into Cal but I went back to Cal in history out of the blue something I never expected to do because I had a history instructor

33:10 Kermit Franklin was his name at Foothill, who is extremely entertaining and he made it very exciting. And his commentary was always that you don't go to college to get a job You go to college to improve your educational skills, your way of thinking and you just... To improve yourself. And that was the classic way- And organizational skills? Well, organizational thinking skills is what I was thinking. Oh critical thinking! Yes, critical thinking So I get a degree in history now i'm a podcaster and I've been an essayist for like 25 30 years That's nothing to do with history

33:47 I mean, I do bring historic stuff up. No that's not true! I believe your history education is extremely valuable to the program Yes But it's just ancillary if i didn't have the history you're in something else I think we'd still be podcasters but the point Is that this idea of you have to go to... This is the problem You don't go to school to get a job You want a job? Go get a job Right This is not the popular opinion No, it's a very unpopular opinion and people always go well what good you know I'm taking this history. What good is it gonna? Do me well you know here we got you can be a low-paid podcaster yeah That's pretty much the future for everybody Everybody's gotta be a podcast They all listen to him so yeah Yeah everybody listens the part of the number of people who listens to random podcasts that nobody else listens to

34:42 Is astonishing and I like that. So, I talked to Pi. Oh listen! I went and had Drinks with the Illuminati and one of her friends in one of our...I think he's one of our knights And they would both rattle off these podcasts Yeah that no ones heard of Then it never heard of any of these podcasts and I write them down They were listening to different podcast themselves what they hadn't heard of That's what i noticed It's like, oh I listen to this. Oh never heard of that! I listened to this...oh never heard of that!" Yeah there must be a million podcasts. Oh man we sprouted something beautiful didn't we? I had nothing to do with it. Well this brings me to another podcast which was recorded as a podcast it aired on BBC Radio 4 I believe Prince Harry and President Obama. I don't know if you had a chance to listen to this

35:40 I have a clip from it. Oh, okay! But i only have one clip...I have the same clip. If you heard that clip you would get the same thing. Well mine is longer. Well you can play the long version. I just wanted to keep it concise because I thought it was very insightful and important what Obama said although I disagree with it. I don't disagree with it, I do let's listen to it okay so the social media landscape has changed dramatically since then issues of trolling extreme extremism fake news and cyber bullying are major social issues is there more that you could have done as president? To get ahead of some these issues do you think well most of this is happening in the

36:30 Outside of government and in the United States in particular We have a very strong First Amendment. I am a as a former constitutional lawyer Firm about the merits of free speech and The question, I think really has to do with how do we? harness this technology in a way that allows the multiplicity of voices, allows diversity of views but doesn't lead to a balkanization of our society. Rather continues to promote ways of finding common ground and I'm not sure government can legislate that but what i do believe is that really all of us in leadership have to find ways in which we can recreate

37:25 common space on the internet because my space will call it my states at least for example We had three television stations and everybody watched Walter Cronkite or David Brinkley or whoever the chief anchor was Everybody had a common set of facts. And so they might be conservative Yeah, almost ready but people generally could agree on on a baseline reality. One of the dangers of the internet is that people can have entirely different realities, they can be just cocooned in information that reinforces their current biases. Alright go ahead and then I'll give you my take on it Well my commentary is what he said was at the end...the rest of it's just blather but at the end he, I think defined dimension A and dimension B Yes he did

38:19 Now, having done that I believe he's noticing the same phenomenon that we notice only he is noticing it from dimension A. I'm sorry from dimension B and he thinks all the Republicans in voting for Trump and all this stuff happened during or before the election and tweeting and all of rest of it He thinks that part is the nutty part And everybody should be a Democrat That's what I believe he is actually trying to say there. When he is talking about people cocooning themselves, he is pointing the finger at the Republicans. Yes? To me when you said Balkanization... You have to be careful of the Balkanization and let me just explain Balkanization that is such as the Balkans which belong to Mother Russia and then were broken apart and then we have all these little states now

39:12 This, to me was actually quite clarifying. He wants a central space with the common set of facts which I usually just call it myspace because that would work great he is advocating for centralized systems which goes against the entire nature of the internet The beauty of, and the reason why Facebag and Twitter and everything is falling apart. And it is falling apart because its not the liberal voices that are being silenced by loud conservative voices as Twitter themselves state like oh people are so loud on twitter other people are afraid to tweet bull crap! The Balkanization is the DNA of the internet It's a decentralized system in its core

40:00 That is exactly what is wrong with the internet today. We should not have all of these centralized spaces Go over there and talk about what you want to talk about go over there now Should there be a way to connect them so you can cross over and go like I'm a member of the I hate Donald Trump group Just to see what people are saying, yeah, I'm not gonna go post in it I'm not gonna know I'm not gonna say much probably But that is what the internet is. It IS balkanized, and if he talks about I don't know if the government can legislate this meaning maybe we can That's a huge mistake it will never work We need to promote decentralization It will not work with central space You could see it failing Well I didn't get that much out of it all I noticed was important in an entire interview which was very stodgy

40:55 Was the fact that he noticed that we have the dimension a dimension B problem. Yes, the rest of this I don't even know what's These are two globalists This is what the globalist want the globalist one same everybody same rules same laws Equality justice say money everybody wants all of that Yeah But what do you expect when you have to globalist talking to each other exactly but it is it is not going to work Well, I think we're pretty confident that that's the case. Think it'll work when they start censoring everything and shutting down websites and doing you know getting... You have to take bolder moves You got to start shutting stuff down! You gotta put that FBI sticker on anything that you disagree with The government can do that. You know luckily NPR has thought about this problem as you know NPR they fight in battle fake news

41:50 So they came up with a brilliant idea and they said why don't we do a hackathon? Hackathon and have all the smart kids come up with ways to solve the fake news problem on the web it was a hackathon Fake news The winning programmers made an extension that you can add to your internet browser, which is called Open Mind designed to help separate the bogus from the real. Now listen I've never heard more news speak in my life than this particular clip it's called open mind

42:28 this app, this extension. Most approaches try to train a machine to essentially delineate between fake and real news. You can't necessarily be sure that your algorithm is going to be smart enough to do so, rather train people on how to do this themselves. Another member of the team, Michael Lopez-Brow says that's what Open Mind does it encourages you to seek more information. So as your navigating the web whether it be social media site or just doing some random Google search... It doesn't do anything Dan!

43:16 If you have an open mind, install this. We'll close it for ya. You to seek more information So as you're navigating the web whether it be a social media site or just doing some random Google searches our app will be tracking your browsing history and basically performing analysis of what kind of text It's like Google What could go wrong? Reading And if the computer notices you leaning in a particular political direction This is fantastic! If you're leaning in a particular... then what did the computer should shock ya Give you a jolt. You should be sitting on a metal plate, right through the touchpad. Yeah Oh shoot I'm leaning in the wrong direction of what kind of text it is your reading and if the computer notices you Leaning leaning particular political direction It's gonna let you know you can actually go to a dashboard see your own bias See your own bias oh, I can't wait to install this extension. Oh you can actually go to a dashboard see your own bias and

44:12 and get suggestions for reputable outlets on another side. One, we hope that people will appreciate having a very easy access to news from the other side of the aisle and two, that people will also appreciate having real-time analytics so that they can better monitor the kind of news that they digest. Sort of like how when you're on a diet or something, you're trying to monitor your nutrition intake? The vision for this is like that but for news I love this! The No Agenda Show now with zero calories. What kind of nutrition could you, nutrition number could you put on information? The vision for this is like that but for news. The programmers say they're going to launch Open Mind early next year the prize by the way for winning the hackathon is a visit to Congress where they'll get show off their product to some very polarized news consumers. Well there ya go. This is a disaster waiting to happen Yes

45:09 But of course, once it's released and once it goes into the wild. It'll be picked apart, ridiculed. Those guys are gonna be in for a heap of trouble because they're gonna get nothing but hate... And you can't use this in Europe! You know? You can't be tracking people with stuff- well I guess if you install it and agree to it maybe you can. I don't know. And then where's it aggregated? You know, is it some magical dashboard? Is that uh...? NSA Utah This seems like a fabulous tracking program To see who we need to eliminate because they're leaning in the wrong direction. This is the worst I'm gonna give you a borderline clip for that, but I will take that Thank You right on that was yeah Yeah, you got a good one there now by the same token We have other issues and the World Health Organization Is coming out with their new international classification of diseases report? Yeah

46:08 Which I think that's the one that classifies homelessness. No, no i'm wrong about that but there's all kinds of... Not just the ones dog bite on a bus? Say what? Dog bite on a bus! What about it is that the one the medical thing where they have all these little things listed so you have a dog bite on a bus It's got a special code you gotta put in oh no no no That's..I know what your thinking Well let me see No, no this is infected. No I have it here This is the ICD 11 beta draft and has stuff like external causes Musculoskeletal system circulatory sleep-wake disorders but the one that is on deck and in the draft is Gaming yes, I have a clip of that too okay Let's play your clip Is that video game addiction?

47:08 I would think so. The World Health Organization is looking into officially recognizing video game addiction as a mental health disorder. Scientists say excessive gaming can cause depression and aggressive behavior, problems which can be diagnosed and treated the new classification could come in the New Year All right let me read the description to you since this is something you don't get from any news anywhere it's just all gamers are crazy Although every study so far that we've seen to date, this shows no correlation between gaming and violence or anything of the like. Gaming disorder... That's the title name of it

47:49 is characterized by a pattern of persistent or recurrent gaming behavior in parentheses digital gaming or video gaming which may be online i.e over the internet, or offline manifested by number one impaired control over gaming example onset frequency intensity duration termination context two increasing priority given to gaming to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other life interests and daily activities, and 3. continuation or escalation of gaming despite the occurrence of negative consequences The behavior pattern is of sufficient severity to result in significant impairment in personal family social educational occupational and other important areas a functioning

48:37 The pattern of gaming behavior may be continuous or episodic and recurrent. The gaming behavior and other features are normally evident over a period of at least 12 months in order for a diagnosis to be assigned, although the required duration may be shortened if all diagnostic requirements are met and symptoms are severe." Can you read number two again? Number two, increasing priority given to gaming to the extent that gaming takes precedence over other life interests and daily activities. You mean like watching football every Sunday or having a season ticket to the basketball team and going to every game, like Jack Nicholson does? He sits in the front row at all Laker games. Anything like that is mentioned as a possibility of one of these ailments? No! Well they put it in the same... These are disorders due to addictive behaviors here are the categories in the ICD-11 beta draft gambling disorder

49:38 Which can be predominantly offline, predominantly online or unspecified. There's gaming disorder and then they go to other specified disorders due to addictive behaviors which I guess would be drugs so they put gambling... What about the football game? No! Unless you're gambling on it What about, well you know this would qualify as gaming but I'm gonna say it anyway. Because I think this would probably fall into the gaming thing. Fantasy football. Sure! Fantasy sports because these guys you know this is like, of course this is encouraged It's also encouraged by society to do fantasy football because in case your more interested in games even though your not rooting for a team your rooting for players

50:27 This is, you know this is just normal to me. I don't...you know people like to do this stuff again. You gotta do something with your time! How about day traders? how about people trading Bitcoin they're obsessed they're up at all hours of the night well yeah they are so obsessed they bitch to you and send me emails And they continue to do it despite negative consequences of losing your money Boy, they really created a loading zone over Christmas. Poor schmucks! People don't understand the psychology of it like oh it's down to 13... Oh It's down to 12500 buy on the dip buy on the dip goes up. Yes at 15. Oh shit It's down to 13 people are gonna get so hurt Well I think especially the people who and these are the people should be looked at that people who are mortgaging their homes yes

51:24 Yes, yeah you can. Yeah it's impossible I'm just finding what is my question is what is the agenda behind throwing? Just this and sure people are addicted to gaming sure they are sure people get into it And I mean I think virtual reality is going to be horrible for For social I have a theory okay no advertising oh No, I put him back into some situation where there's advertising like watching football on TV. They can feed them advertising This is the non this just gaming it's not there's no way of communicating with them The fact that they need to buy a Lexus for Christmas or that they need you know to buy something some

52:08 Some type of soap there's nothing. There's no and they've tried this by the way I should mention this in a lot of games They actually sold advertising space, and I think they actually did it I think Grand Theft Auto had advertising space in the beginning didn't and second third life or second life whatever those like yeah It was for cats hmm and so You have these billboards that were sold to people. I don't know how effective it was, probably not at all but they don't want this we want the people watching TV and looking at native ads in a newspaper and doing these things that are more normal. Ah! This makes sense to me We want people to participate in our system

52:56 That's what the World Health Organization wants. They don't really give a crap about you being addicted to gaming, and of course gaming addiction exists but why is it in this report as one of only three categories? Why is it on the CBS Evening News? Mm-hmm good call because there's no advertising Maybe okay well we need to keep our eye on that see if they make any moves Well, the advertising guys you know they've been pulling their hair out trying to get into these scenes where they can advertise. I know like Electronic Arts definitely has sponsorships...I don't know about real advertising but sponsorships in their games for sure i know that Yeah well that's a plus So okay That makes a lot more sense then It's like we need to participate in our program slaves We need you online looking at ads

53:54 We need you're watching TV looking at ads. We need to just look in it ad so we can continue and Probably also because these are closed systems, you know No one can get in you can't have Russian trolls can't get in and start start trolling you to vote the wrong way Yeah It happened drop of a hat dangerous And put that app on your computer the one that tells you if you're gonna if you think it's not thinking right You're leaning there if you leave Leaning in the wrong way believable no we're doomed no just appear you not allowed yeah I'm not going to say that haha we're doing them different and with that i'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to you john c when the sea stands can't be do devore act

54:43 Well in the morning to you Mr. Adam Curry, also good morning to all ships at sea, boots on the ground feet in the air subs in the water and all the dames and knights out there Yes! In the morning to The Troll Room noagendastream.com who are trolling me hard and heavy today saying I don't get it I don't know I'm stupid I'm a fed shill That's my favorite I'm a fed shill because I'm against Bitcoin Ed Sheeran I'm liking that in the morning to Nick the rat who brought us the artwork for episode 9 or 9 or 3 That was our let them talk episode number one and we did have quite a controversy after Episode nine nine two. I'm sure you caught some of that what? Regarding the artwork for 992 which was these Santa's husband now if there's one person who has bitched and moaned at us about

55:36 Throughout the years. Well that someone's taking art, and it's not under free fair use you see here Oh actually is a it is not under fair use That would be comic strip blogger. Yeah, and he uploaded art which we both liked and we looked at it said well That's probably stolen then we said oh no It's different from the one that is in this book Santa's husband And we did an image search which we always do were always trying to you know protect original artwork and not 15 minutes after The show was released I get a tweet from the guy who drew all the illustration who it's his book

56:13 He says, that's funny. Why is someone called Comic Strip Blogger being credited for my work? And as I went in and he was...I hope he didn't listen to the show but when I just said well dude i'm so sorry can we just put your name on the credits yeah that's fine and please promote the book okay so you put Santa's husband there But Comic Strip Blogger really blew it! It think this is the first time we've had this happen No well yeah it was the first time we had it with art We did have it with a clip that somebody dreamed up. It was a produced clip from some specific podcast and then they closed it off, you see? Yeah but not with art No but we've seen a lot of art that was stolen Yes and we just haven't used it Because by the way the way we do that We look at the art And say is this guy If the guy's a professional artist Yeah And we have a number of real pros That can do slick stuff

57:12 It's usually got a style that's theirs, and so we don't even bother with that. And then we have guys who are good artists and they generally sometimes...and they have a certain consistent style, and all this stuff is documented on the website, on that site, Noah Gen Art Generator. Then there's one that's out of place, it's out of context. That's what I thought with bought to come a strict bloggers piece. I looked at it And we should why we started looking into it, and I said this is not his style of cartooning right It's a little different and it's like different enough that we checked it out We didn't find that that are run over he got it Apparently on the inside of the book or something That's just it wasn't widely published on On the on the net which is why the image search didn't turned up nothing

58:05 Didn't turn up nothing and I'm actually surprised that is the first time this has happened right and By the way, he's apologized so it's okay But you know let this be a warning we really need to have as much original heart as possible It's uh That's what our show has always been as original as we possibly can be now now The original can also mean a very good and deep redo of something that can be twisted in such a way that, in other words... A parody. So you make it a parody? A parody or fair use and then you got a piece art and you know always by the way there's plenty of public domain art out there anything before 1900 you know with your old stuff right

58:51 Dude over anyway it is it happens, and this happened in this too bad. Yeah We're not we're not mad It was just well we still use the piece well hell yeah We are the no agenda show man Let's thank some people who Now this is for two shows. This is for two shows most of it is for one show this show So you're saying not a lot came in everyone loved they let them talk episode But almost no one donated forward Is that what you're saying? I would say that if you compare the monies from the first and then the second It would be about 2 thirds

59:33 after two-thirds new one third but you know it's hard to say okay the way it breaks out is just difficult. I just want to make sure that when we do this You know that I thought it was valuable and i just want to make sure we get some value back. That's all, that's the system! That's our agreement with our production audience. My general thinking is that anytime we do any sort of Evergreen whether there are interviews or Ramsey Caine material or clips of clips or songs... We're always going to take a hit

1:00:10 Always. Except for one thing, we're not actually doing any work that day so we don't have to get up early. So there's a, you were paying for that. Let's start with... AJ Van Steenburger? You know, I don't know what I can do about this but if Eric could use a lighter gray it would be useful. Cause it's like dark gray with black... Oh! It works for me. Looks good here. Well looks like crap here. But uh, AJ Van Steenbergen Burger or Berger? Bergen, I'm reading from his note In Carl in Carlsbad, California gave us $1500 and He's the top guy. He we donated before he is a retired lieutenant colonel in the Marines And he uses marine letterhead which is really dynamite nice embossed thing at the tops It says Semper Fidelis on it gentlemen please accept this attack be I'm gonna be Marine like Please accept this attached donation from a humble knight there's anybody where he is

1:01:15 He's got to be he's gonna up his game today. No, yeah he's going right the Baron and here he explains it This contributions take me to Baron hood I elected to pursue this course of action to avoid carrying the title of baronet Both because the title entitles me to no territory And because it is not what I think of as a manly title agreed by the way we know this yes It's not Baronet. He's got a spell B-A-R-O-N-E-T-T-E like like a majorette No, it's b-a-r-o-n-e-t Yes the correct spelling so it's not that feminine You know he's not on our list So I've added him to a title change because that didn't happen in there yes you should do that Okay does he have a name for his barony or protector? Yeah, I'm reading all right

1:02:06 Please change my knighthood name to Sir Joseph and dub me the Baron of Southern California if that territory is available. So this brings up the question, we do have Baron Mark Tanner I can't remember what his territory is down there and there's a couple other barons I believe in Southern California but I don't know anyone who was just taken Southern California, they've been taking areas or so there will be a dispute so this will This will be disputed and we should make that clear. Okay, so we will give him the title change and we will work it out when the dispute arises? Yes but I can guarantee you this will be disputed We're going to have to work something out of those So its kind of shoot first ask questions later Oh absolutely Got it Just like the Marines The no agenda way No just kidding, just kidding Marines

1:02:58 I could have said the police. Goodness knows these people need benevolent leadership if they are to survive the coming apocalypse brought on by the hordes of immigrants streaming across the southern border through the first sanctuary state. Sadly, these subjects will not know how much help they need until they have hit rock bottom." And keeping with Adam's desire to hear about people whose lives have been changed by your program, is that your desire? I didn't know that. That is... well we have discussed that this is what- We discussed it as well as due It's the biggest reward for me doing the show Please know that if..that I've been homebound for almost five years by severe nerve damage to my feet likely caused by almost 35 years of active duty and a bit too much running and hiking CBD

1:03:48 CBD. CBD and now it's legal mm-hmm yeah CBD actually that will should help you in this regard and I mentioned this, I hate to tell you this but i'm going to do it uh... I've talked to a lot of vendors of cannabis products Oh, by the way that one of the bills passed in one of the states, Spellchecker when they were about legalizing cannabis changed it to legalizing cannibalism. Professor Ted would be so proud. Almost got passed anyway, the vendors will tell you that uh You really need a 50-50 dose because CBD does need some THC

1:04:37 For full benefit. Oh, you mean okay? So 50% CBD 50% THC This is what although these guys are all look like stoners to me But this is what most of the vendors will tell you in states where it's been legalized for a while And they've got enough experience with CBD to make these claims But that's it. Just on topic, but not for the donation I got a follow-up note from Bad Chad from Colorado our EMT buddy remember he is Blue Collar Worker dad you know totally against weed hates the whole idea and he in the car It was all the CBD cream was working

1:05:19 Yeah, so he said the cream works great. Just use the cream that cream on my work He said I sent old man my old man a care package from lavender blossoms This is what what I received this was the CBD only version unfortunately this totally backfired? He's been out to Colorado about three times in six years to visit us mostly to see our son and after trying the CBD THC solve We picked up at the dispensary here, he was already planning another trip back. The reefer madness was upon him! His own flesh and blood hadn't been enough to ditch the hellish Wisco winter and... Wisco? Wisconsin winter and break out to 300 days of annual sunshine here with us but after the first taste is a sweet sweet kind bud He's ready to drive 16 hours through most miserable section of highway on planet Earth until now that damn lavender blossom goo I sent him apparently works just as well or better

1:06:09 Than whatever he got here, and now we stay put in the frozen wastelands. Thanks for ruining Christmas lavender blossoms It works Yeah does work. It's fantastic wife has to use it first you got our through arthritis and hurts your hand gets all Wrecked and she uses this stuff, and it just feels fine That's why I'll say it again. I'll say it again until people finally realize that I'm gonna say it too often That's why when you go to these pot shops in Washington State or anywhere that they have them It's filled with old ladies. It's not filled with a bunch of stoners, they buy the buds, you know little box or little vial of bud and they take one hit and they're done and that can last months but no these old ladies buy this mostly these resolves that you rub on yourself

1:07:00 Anyway onward yes in keeping with Adam's desire to hear about people whose lives have been changed by your program Please know that I've been homebound for five years from severe nerve damage to my feet likely caused by 35 years of active walking and running too much. Your show about a year ago this month and in all candor it has helped me to maintain my sanity through some difficult days Not whining just letting you know how valuable your show is for me I and my sweetheart Gracie look forward to another decade of excellence in podcasting Technically, she's a douchebag But we really don't want to call her out since as you can see she writes the checks We love Gracie

1:07:42 NJNK. Thank you very much, Joe Van Steen. And I look forward to your title change. Yes, Baron today and we'll deal with the fallout! Yes, and I know a couple of parents are listening as we speak. Onward to Simon Bruce Cassidy in Oslo Norway $1,000. Merry Christmas from Gitmo Nation polar bear please name me sir he's another night I think is on the yes he is sir snaldus of The dudes named Ben also for the roundtable would it be possible to serve brown cheese and aqua V

1:08:23 and Smalahove. Check the book of knowledge on that one." What is that? And Hemmers... Jemmer's Brent, or Hem- I don't know it's probably Hemmer's Brent If i can't pronounce it how the hell am I gonna serve it? Smallahove! That looks easy to pronounce Hold on let me get this one first Brown cheese aquavit and smallahove but what is smallahove? And Hemmersbrent hold on lets uh see can we figure out what it is Ding it baby. Go ahead, baby! Ding it baby. Yeah go ahead, baby! Ding it baby. Come on go ahead, baby! Ding it baby. Yeah do it, baby! Ding It Baby Smallahove Western Norwegian traditional dish made from a sheep's head originally eaten before Christmas The name of the dish comes from the combination of Norwegian words hove and smalla All right. Okay small heads and the other one I Forgot what it was

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1:17:43 But you know, it's not impossible to de-brainwash them. Takes effort! Did I have a clip here of...I'm not going to play it now but wondering? I have another combo clip for this Iserbyte woman that you played the clip with. Oh, Izzerbee. Izzerbee. Yes yes, we'll play that right after the segment. Yeah do you want to listen to this? It was not gonna make any happier, but not homeschooling. John mentioned that the civics is not taught in schools anymore Can you recommend a text I could read teach them with? He wants to do some ancillary tutoring. I purchased tragedy and hope for when they get deeper into the world history But it's like some light reading for the kids 8000 pages

1:18:32 Something like that. It's like, or at least minimum but I haven't even made a dent in that massive book. And you want the unabridged version by the way? We've discussed this. That's right it's actually a controversy Are you it's the one I have are there other books or subjects? You could point me towards. I want to make sure I Raise critical thinkers who have an actual understanding of how our country and the world works I think Mel Brooks history of the world is a fabulous movie to show to the kids So, I was watching The Producers again Wow great unbelievable original with with zero Mostel was never topped

1:19:17 Have looked through and read some of the books in the NA Books Club site, but I haven't seen anything. I'm like a mask and I like Yes, they do have my kids listen to you guys when I get a chance good They haven't fully grasped everything But they do enjoy the show well that's a plus thank you for again for all you do jingles Donald loves Nazis back-to-real news service goat karma okay Nazis Service goat was the other one service go I don't loves Nazis Back to back to the real news and then karma good karma Donald loves Nazis Donald loves Nazis CNN say that he's KKK Sighail with it Wow, let's end by talking about the biggest baby news. This is my favorite baby of all George

1:20:16 And now, back to real news. You've got... Harmless. You know- let me just explain why that happens is um Now that everything is in a database It's kind of sucks actually The database is picking up the ID3 tags and not just the title because I just used to look at the file name And now it's picking up tags. So when people put tags in a clip they send us, sometimes it's confusing, sometimes it says something completely incorrect so I've been methodically changing all of these tags as we go along. Guess you write a script and take all the tags out? No because you have to... Good idea! Does anyone have that for me?

1:21:04 I'm sure we have enough dudes named Ben. All right, tell me what database you're using they could find a way of great idea a script Why didn't I think of that? Oh script a script a batch file BAT just run it baby Kalin and this store in Northville Michigan two three four five six happy holidays comrades please call out some major douches mark Choma? Marks, what is this soul soul soul. Donate you plucks says Sir Cal very nice and being Polish I can say that David boat David Boda in Monroe North Carolina to 22682 please accept this humble lucky pair of boobs 8008 plus 3333 times two

1:22:04 for my first executive producership of the greatest podcast in the multiverse. It's actually universe, but if you're multi-verse... Eh we'll take it. And I get it a lot people say that for some reason and again we came, we saw he died don't raff two to the head and a jobs karma thank you very courage Two to the head where the hell did that thing go? Yeah really sucks Didn't we lose this one before? The two to the head. Two to the head? Yeah, I think so No... you can find it and then you found it That's the same as not being able to- that's the same as losing it It means we'll never get to hear it again

1:22:53 Two to the head. Come on, try the number two yeah I got it Yeah now it wasn't the number two so I mean that is the land of unconfirmed yes We came we saw he died Shut up shut up and then You've got Karma. It was jobs karma, you gotta play jobs karma Jobs and jobs let's vote for jobs You've got karma I'll get there

1:23:39 I think you put it at the end. Anonymous 22025, hey gents it's been a crappy holiday season my sister adopted her first rescue pup which is now two years old last Christmas and started having full-on grand mal seizures. I had dog with epilepsy. I was one of them that they don't just not...I don't know what triggers this problem you never figure out It was one at the time vets have been trying to control them over the last year to varying level of success My dog only had a fit about once every three or four months. Did they did the dog fall down? Yeah, they fall down then they wiggle oh Sad it's kind of pathetic. They drool you know what think you know what the dog needs CBD CBD maybe we'll fix it

1:24:29 Yeah, maybe. Dog's dead. It'll fix that too! after about six good months this week was a very bad week. Doctors and neurologists are running out of options, animals are my sister's passion I would like to spread some holiday cheer and request the double shot of karma for her and our dog if you don't mind keeping up the great work love the humor and analysis that you guys bring me." I think they should try CBD on the dog what state is this guy? He's anonymous I don't know where he's from probably in some state where it's illegal Illegal. Yeah, well give it a shot and let us know you've got karma I mean CBT is specific Double-shot he wanted CBD is specific for these types of things for Procedures yeah, yeah A lot of kids been lives have been saved yes

1:25:31 Let me read this one. I know this guy. Roderick Velo is very famous in Holland, he is a television host, a news... He's a journo! A journal, a financial news journo. And I've known him for over 30 years. Dear Adam and John, he's from Amsterdam... Enjoying the No Agenda show twice a week in my car or at home? High time to donate again! I'm a journo myself with one foot in the M5M and the other in alternative media Big thing in Holland today is government action to fight quote fake news by appointments with FB, Facebook & Twitter Government suggests a permit system for those companies to stimulate fair reporting. Here you go licensing!

1:26:17 Heartbreaking to see how some colleagues approve of these governmental actions. They think the government is doing a noble job by fighting fake news from Moscow! That leaves me speechless, really appreciate all the work you do you guys do it's a lot of work great radio as well love The old universal sound but Adam gets the quality back I'm convinced. What does that mean? Oh he likes okay so it's the new windows sound He likes the new windows. So he loved the old sound but Adam gets the quality back I'm convinced so maybe it sucks, I don't know Maybe just like it's like big. Yeah, right. Sure No, he's made it very unclear Kind regards Roderick phalo Amsterdam The Netherlands I worked with him at radio decibel the pirate radio station Oh really goes that far back that far back? Yes. I'm gonna give him I'm gonna give a service go karma Thanks, Rhoda. You've got

1:27:12 Nice to hear from Yeah, it's fun. Yeah from the end He is a respected news journal Helen Helen Trejo 200 bucks parts unknown USA Let me make sure I got this is a holiday and birthday donation for David A rellen, what do you think? Relinus relinus relinus I would say David are LNS Or are our relative Errol and Errol on this. I'm going to go there. Errol on this is birthday is on December 26th that we have him on the birthday list. Sure is. Yep, I am so happy to spend the holidays together with him and celebrate 6.5 years together excellent research and analysis on the education system pushing a global perspective when you do have a clip coming as we knew in second person that needs this

1:28:03 I noticed during my last five years at an Ivy League for, at an Ivy League school for, and then Ivy league for grad school. Not sure how that's put together looking forward to more no agenda in 2018 Helen. Okay give her a karma. Yes love too thank you very much Helen. You've got Karma That was a very good list of people that helped us produce with executive producing and associate executive producing show 994 we got six to go t-minus six is the big 1k show 1000 episodes Protecting no guarding your reality

1:28:43 The best podcast reality guarding your reality no guarding reality. We're not going there just reality Hmm because their reality could be very could vary in some small way regarding actual reality Yes, that's a nice night and No license required yet Can you believe that the Netherlands and all the journals are gonna face it face it? So it's gonna be a certificate You know what's next oh I just realized how its gonna work The HTTPS Anywhere certificates, they are going to be attached to this. So if you are not sanctioned... If you're not certified I love the certified search certification, the search for your server

1:29:30 Then you will not receive the proper certification. The browser, just like it does now when you're not HTTPS Everywhere compliant... ...the browser will then alert you that this certificate is NOT a fake news unfriendly certificate How about that? Well, yes and I think that will account for about 90% of it. And then there'll be black site browsers that are specific to everything else but the people who they'll be convinced the public will be convinced these are unsafe And only a few dudes named Ben and maybe most of our listeners will use these browsers to go in other places. But it'll be 10% max because everyone's gonna be afraid, oh god I don't know if bad things can happen. Even downloading the illegal browser?

1:30:21 Yeah, that could be a problem. You're gonna have to go through proxies or something good either go to Mexico through a proxy the downloader who knows and I say this because this morning our cert expired for no agenda social comm And these days, certainly I only checked it on the Chrome browser. When you... no longer does it say this is dangerous- You can hit advance and just say I trust that you can't do that anymore on Chrome. You can no longer say I trusted anyway let me go It just says nope! Can't do it. What? Yep That's deplorable Where's the free and open internet This is net neutrality at its finest John. You will conform Hows that net neutrality

1:31:08 Anyway, well you already pointed this out that the ludicrous aspect of Google and it was a google and somebody else going back And forth not running Amazon not running each other's yeah So according to the troll room all brawl browsers now do this which means Safari Firefox Edge? What about they other cup there's a couple other job what about the tour browser? Yeah, but that's only for tour. No they There's other things you can do with it hmm I've long said we need a true, well that's what Firefox was supposed to be is just have a true browser for the people and you know they went and took money from mainly Google as far as i know. They're their main sponsor or they were for awhile and they did all of the toolbar stuff which was nefarious

1:32:00 I don't see it happening. There's no reward We have lots of open source product and of course you don't have to email me, i'm sure there are tons of open source browsers that are great but they will get no adoption That is the way it works. That's the way its designed to work Now this program is designed to work in a way that we bring you value You evaluate it, listen to the show, like yeah! That was worth something for me Two hours, three hours. However much time we entertained you however we got you through your morning commute Please send us some value in return It works with all kinds of contributions to the production of the show But obviously we need money to continue and we would appreciate you thinking about us for our show coming up on Sunday Devorak dot org slash N A And remember your special... Oops! Wrong one How the hell did that happen? Oh shit I'm a mess today Damn it

1:32:56 Come on, why isn't it playing? What the hell. Oh you're looking for the uh yeah this is gonna have to be fixed. One of these days hold on here we go there you go what I was going to say is remember to trigger millennials with a formula! Our formula is this... We go out and hit people in the mouth. Shut up! There we go You know when you're talking to no agenda listeners long time short time whatever they actually use the reference oh my husband hit me in the mouth yes

1:33:35 I guess yeah, my husband hit me in the mouth six months ago. That's when I started listening or I hit it I hit my husband in the mouth yes It cracks me up No, no, it's on our night. Oh, that's our night rings Yeah Isn't it so let him in the mouth on the night? So let's put in Latin so let's play the eyes are by is there is a be whatever oh Bloom and fixed beliefs. This is one of the clips from one of her... People can look her up on YouTube. She wrote the book, The Deliberate Dumbing Down Of American Education Right which has been repressed And you can read her book You can listen to her talk she's kind of entertaining she's a little serious but this is a good little clip Constant training, sensitivity training break their values

1:34:27 Right, no right and no wrong. You've got to have all religions represented so you know tolerant of everything because that's the new world order disorder excuse me Professor Benjamin Bloom is probably the most important behavioral psychologist ever to live I mean maybe not quite as much as Pavlov and Skinner but he really implemented this system in education in United States and uh... he was the author the taxonomy of educational objectives. And I know that doesn't mean much to say, it means a lot to teachers they know all teachers have to go through that Bloom's Taxonomy and Just give you an idea of how blatant they are Benjamin Bloom said the purpose of education and often says parents really listen to this

1:35:20 You think the purpose of education is reading, writing and arithmetic? The purpose of education is to change the thoughts actions and feelings of students. And then he goes on and he says... He defines good teaching, this is even worse from a parental standpoint as challenging the student's fixed beliefs. Okay, and that's what they do. They challenge the fixed belief she goes on to talk about how he she seen him in a one-on-one situation Turn a religious person within five minutes by challenges He likes to do he thinks one of the things is challenging somebody's got a bit fix believe you don't like it You challenge and challenge And you have more tools at your disposal to change their mind than they do to change your mind because there are kids who?

1:36:08 And she says she's watched a kid turn into an atheist in less than five minutes. It was a religious Catholic or what? Yeah, and just the guy is really good. Jeez that's more like hypnosis almost it seems if you can do it in five minutes. Well persuasion I think when Scott Adams talks about... Ah yes persuasion. hypnotic tricks used to persuade. I think that's what we're dealing with here, but this guy also you know he's pretty much trained the whole education system to be this way which is the change... You got a kid? He's raised in certain way and this is why the Amish and some of these other groups... Yeah they don't want any electronics no technology They don't want anyone near their kids

1:36:47 And the kid can make a decision, and many have, a lot of them unsuccessfully because it's kind of such a radical difference to go into the real world or the other world and get a job or do work there. There are some towns where there is a lot of small businesses that have a lot of Amish employees, and they're great furniture makers. The kids sometimes can fall in love with an outsider It has very you know it works doesn't work so much depending on the family background the kid whether the kid can handle it There's a lot of how about some music they listen to how about those influences? I mean this is big stuff The kids yeah, yeah, I agree couple of go ahead in the black community. He's got like a different set of Music that they listened to vote hmm I'd say white girls are listening to the same music as the black community. I don't see any difference there well maybe

1:37:45 There were a couple of kids in Jutland who designed an experiment. They took cress seeds, is that like watercress seeds? I guess... They took 400 seeds separated them out across 12 different trays six of the trays were placed in two rooms both rooms are kept at the same temperature both sets of trays were given the same amount of water and access to sunlight throughout the experiment The difference between the two rooms was in one room, they were placed next to two Wi-Fi routers and the other room was not next to Wi-Fi routers. In fact there was no Wi-Fi and no cell phone anywhere near it After 12 days...and it's in the show notes 994.noagendanotes.com You see the difference if this is true I have no reason believe it isn't The Wi-Fi rooms these seeds are destroyed They're dead

1:38:47 They just look like brown ant poop or dead ants really Quite telling and it's hurting. It's well, it's not like we didn't know it but it said You know start with this for your kids take the cell phone away at night Don't put it next to their bed Well We're starting to get reports on this people shouldn't be using the phone so much or they should use they shouldn't have the You have headphones or they should use well the claim is it just destroys your DNA I thought you know that only happened when he went through the airport scanner Well, the new Airport scanner which is a miller wave. I don't think it really has much of an effect on you I Don't know this didn't study But they don't want to study yet because everyone's too much money involved oh my god We're gonna be out of business as somebody finds out we're killing people right anyway okay?

1:39:51 Onward yes, I'm more jealous depressing topics. Oh okay? Then we might as well shut the show down right now I have nothing but depressing topics actually no I got some fun topics You probably heard this happened over the Christmas break. The gift-wrapped package of horse manure delivered to the LA home of US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin over the weekend? Well, this man claims he did it! 45 year old Robert Strong a psychologist for the Los Angeles County Public Health Department told Reuters on Monday He left the poop filled parcel addressed to Mnuchin and President Donald Trump To protest the federal tax overall signed into law last week which she believes will hurt poor people

1:40:30 He left it in the driveway outside Mnuchin's home in the posh Bel Air neighborhood, causing a lockdown that required the LAPD bomb squad to come X-ray and later open the package. Neither the U.S. Secret Service nor the LAPD would confirm Strong was the culprit. The Secret Service interviewed a person who admitted delivering the package but no charges had been filed against him as of Monday afternoon. Strong posted a photo of the card on Twitter. It read, Mr.'s Mnuchin & Trump We're returning the gift of the Christmas tax bill, warmest wishes. The American people." Nice to know he's a psychologist working for the government that makes a lot of sense. Yeah what an idiot I think they should throw the book at him it's terrorism No it is not terrorism yeah it is! I consider it terrorism terrorizing the guy you got just like there you know send in some crazy package putting it on the porch yeah could have blown up

1:41:26 is a shitty form of terrorism. Ah, there it is! Good one. I got a little fun quote from Bernie Sanders complaining about the tax bill I don't think he realized himself how stupid he sounds because now it's down to we really have nothing left to say and again, I have no idea if this is gonna work. But I know that it certainly worked for the Christmas holiday seems like spending was up despite crap weather or point nine percent Yeah, oh that's that's a big deal isn't it? That's almost yeah, that's pretty good No four point nine percent. Oh jeez, that's much better than I thought As you pointed out

1:42:07 The, uh... Oh! They're making them just temporary. These tax cuts it's a scam." Yeah but that- You get it till 2025. Yeah 2025 and then it can sunset but it's a scam! And probably won't because nobody likes to take tax cuts away Let's listen to his bit here with Jake Tapper. Next year, 91% of middle-income Americans will receive a tax cut isn't that a good thing? Yeah it is a very good thing and that's why we should have made the tax breaks for the middle class permanent but what the Republicans did is made the tax breaks for corporations permanent Bastards! The tax breaks for the middle class temporary and according to the Tax Policy Center, that same organization at the end up 10 years

1:42:51 83% of the benefits go to the top 1%, 60% of the benefits go to the top one-tenth of one percent. Meanwhile, at the end of 10 years well over 80 million Americans will be paying more in taxes. 13 million Americans as a result of this legislation are going to lose their health insurance. Healthcare premiums are going up we got a 1.4 trillion dollar deficit as a result of this bill and Paul Ryan is going around saying oh! We have to offset that deficit by cutting Social Security Medicare and Medicaid. To answer your questions

1:43:26 Should we have focused on the needs of the middle class? We should have. But the bulk of the benefits in this legislation go to large, profitable corporations and to millionaires and billionaires. Yes! Screw everybody else Well, of course he's nuts. And most of what he said is bullcrap. But moreover 2025 so let's presume Trump... By the way before you say that if he says we should have done this and we shouldn't have let it sunset okay fine then when 2025 comes along

1:44:04 I was gonna say, in 2020 if Trump gets re-elected he'll go through 2024. 2025 two Republican terms it's probably going to be a Democrat! Yeah so they can just put it back in and no one is assuming its permanent can't be done hmm I'm very curious to see How this works out. The thing is the cycle, you know I'm a big fan of your cycles We've been waiting for something to happen looking at the streets of downtown Los Angeles It seems like it's not things are not all too rosy No They're terrible or any go look under any bridge or overpass in America You know will this thing it could be a very hard collapse? That's what I'm thinking

1:44:53 Well, they're always different. That's the real problem with predicting or understanding these things every time there's a collapse It's always different There's some it the triggering mechanism is different What happens is different how its handled as different and this will be did whatever it is gonna be different? It could be the Bitcoin could trigger the whole thing for all we know I mean you never it's yeah Yeah if everyone loses their ass Although I have to say the only thing that I see with Bitcoin It is starting to level out. I mean, we have kind of a consistent range that actually makes it more attractive to be used as money but believe me the government is not going to go easy on you taking your dollars and converting them into Bitcoin and vice versa No they killed their friend Gaddafi Yeah for the gold dinar yeah because he was gonna do a gold dinar And that's one of our old no agenda theses and only old-timers would know what were talking about

1:45:53 I, since we're talking about big corporations taking everything and doing all this stuff. I have a lighter clip that I want to just get out of the way and then I have a question for you. Okay? This is the singing flight attendant. Okay no other setup? No And the Southwest Flight Attendant getting national attention tonight for a special serenade Chareze Miles belting out beautiful music at a Houston gate this weekend. A student of music and a believer in its power, Chareze says she likes to sing her way through Christmas.

1:46:40 Those stress travelers clearly an enthusiastic audience. Cherise with 20 years on the job and when we come back a different type of crime fighting tool, On Patrol with the police who say the practice of meditation is changing lives stay with us. I left that last part in because it was funny this is kind of just an open question I've noticed this How many companies, especially in the airline business would let and probably encourage that woman? And by the way she was using one of those microphones with the button and a curly thing hanging out at the bottom. It's the worst microphone you could imagine. My first Sony? Yeah something like that but she could get through it but how many companies except for Southwest

1:47:28 Would ever allow this that Southwest lets people do monologues and comedy. Yeah, they do all the steps This is all based on what PSA used to allow They were all the same way PSA used to have a smiley face painted on it on the airplanes and they would let this go on. These other airlines, they are to get a stick up their butt and they wouldn't let anything like this happen. What is the deal? I mean do you have what is the concept here where you can let this happen without it disrupting anything in effect encouraging? I think its very positive thing. It's extremely positive we flew southwest and I always enjoy the jokes that Purser will make

1:48:14 Yeah, the joke. And yeah put the thing on your mouth and My favorite for a child or if he's acting like a child yes The jokes are pretty much on public domain that Or decide which child you want to has the best chance of living put their mask on first You know That's what we used to be We've become a whole bunch of politically correct douches But when it happens in I think It's probably very specific to the airline industry. You know, people are nervous they like the idea of flying but they really don't like the idea of flying there is always you know could something bad happen so if there is a nervous energy and it really breaks the tension its the perfect environment in fact They should just have stand up comedians on airplanes all the time Yeah! It makes people feel very comfortable I'd sit through a whole couple sets

1:49:12 Bring the guy out start right here in the take takes off just do the whole flight because they're short flights Yeah, you know do a whole hour. Yes exactly screw the inflight movie Just just do a set well luckily Southwest has no in-flight movies and never has never will Well, they don't have in-flight movies But now you can connect to their Wi-Fi and stream TV for free yes You get maybe you have your own computer yeah pretty much everyone has that That's true. Vanity Fair getting a lot of heat for being part of the liberal No More Clinton gang, the Never Hillary-ers? We don't really have that. The Never Trumpers and Never Hillarys... we don't have a word for it or term. Because nobody does it! Well, Vanity Fair released this Christmas video It's time to start working on your sequel to your book What Happened

1:50:10 What the hell happened? Get someone on your tech staff to disable autofill on your iPhone so that typing an F doesn't become form exploratory committee for 2020. You know, on Anderson Cooper you were telling him about alternate nostril breathing He seemed really adept! You should try teaching a class Take more photos in the woods How else are you going to meet unsuspecting hikers? Take up a new hobby in the New Year. Volunteer work, knitting, improv comedy... literally anything that'll keep you from running again! To finally put away your James Comey voodoo doll Now we all know you think that James Comey cost you the election and he might have but so did a handful of other things It's a year later and time to move on So cheers to you Hillary Clinton Cheers to you Hillary Cheers to you Hillary Clinton

1:50:57 So on the face bag there was quite the outrage about this. How could you say this because the defense it's misogynistic to say take up knitting You know, I know a lot of guys who knit my mom used to tell me that football players She knew football players who knitted yeah It's a form of meditation for some people and it's very healthy I can knit I can do only one stitch but I can't knit I've actually would like if I I don't know why, but I'm not interested in learning. But I should because every once in a while you're seeing... Especially if you go to a government office and you're sitting there You can do some reading, you can do different things. You usually forget to bring something nowadays you bring your cell phone read the news but sitting there and knitting is probably a better use of your time. Very producing and very cathartic. That sucks! But it was just interesting to see that was the main like well... It's misogynistic

1:51:58 Talking about women knitting and a lot of women like to knit. Yeah, my daughter is condemning them because they have nothing else to condemn It's just dimension B stuff just going just going nuts yeah Very very tough for a couple of days on the face bag New York Times though made a great point about something that we've always questioned so in Alabama We had this election and What was it? 98% of all black men, black women came out to vote for Jones. Yeah not not Jones the other guy I'm sorry yeah no it was Jones Roy Morris the guy they hated right and so The New York Times

1:52:51 Points out actually their headline is black turnout in Alabama complicates debate on voting laws Alabama is one of the premier states where they have voter ID and it's going to make it impossible for African Americans to vote because they don't have a driver's license Don't know where to get a government ID. How does that remind? I should remind everybody that we had a number of clips of Black somebody went on asked black people about Any of these things, just because we're black doesn't mean we don't have driver's licenses. We drive! What are they talking about?

1:53:31 Anyway, you go on. I'm sorry well know that was it I was just excellent point and it's It was nice to see it from the New York Times You know is yes exactly where was the Alabama? Is a state that has voter ID laws Yes target state yeah for the end so how does that work? We don't want voter ID because you can run people through twice or three times That's what the Republicans would say in agreement Yeah, yeah Bill he lives with me. I know he hasn't got a driver's license or doesn't have anything in fact he has never been... He is just the guy. Birth certificate? No nothing. Alright what do we have here? Here i got like a bunch of short clips. I'm gonna do it clip blitz at the end. Okay. I do have uh.. We should do the weather report which is apparently costing us money

1:54:24 Record cold temperatures, dangerously cold wind chill values as the jet stream dives to the south air straight out of the Arctic in place with windshield warnings and advisories up from the northern plains stretching to New England. We're talking about windshield values 15-35 below zero tomorrow morning even in the afternoon subzero windchill values will continue through the end of the week on Friday with the heart of the cold air digging from central Canada into the Great Lakes and then east towards north in New England. Frostbite in as little as 15 to 30 minutes precautions need to be taken bundle up layer up snow spreading from the northern plains to the Great Lakes for Thursday and into Friday will drop an additional several inches In fact, the northern tier of the United States will see these totals see that deep pinks here

1:55:07 Another storm system coming out of the Pacific will drop one to two feet of snow with elevation from Idaho to Montana near zero visibility three to six inches in central Iowa as well as localized amounts a lane where they've already had feet of snow over a foot additional on the east side of the Great Lakes back to you. Oh I missed the vortex word in that report yeah cuz there wasn't any ah I saw one yesterday that showed it was the vortex oh Oh! Whatever that is. Yeah, it's cold air So I guess Erie Pennsylvania had like six feet Nice It's a white Christmas man Hey white Christmas Merry White Christmas Interestingly Which website was it? Government website? A Canadian government website I wish had a clip but its horizons dot GC dot CA We're indoctrinating the kids of Candanavia

1:56:03 by saying because of global warming Santa Claus signed an international agreement to relocate his workshop to the South Pole, to escape the effects of man-made global warming. That is pathetic! And this is what's going on in schools too... That is pathetic! It's child abuse I agree it is child abuse Alright, I got another one here then This is a, I don't have the whole thing. Well, I do have the whole thing in the archive but we're not playing that. I just archived it. This is that guy Jerry Van Dyke who was, who's a, I believe working for somebody

1:56:54 And this is only a small snippet of the long... Who is it? I don't remember who he is. Isigai wrote that book about prison, the prison, the kidnapping networks in the Middle East and he was kidnapped himself Oh okay yes we've discussed him recently Yes I remember now Now he drops, now he has a couple of things. This is only out in the middle I just took this segment because there's two things in here that I wanted to note One is that he has all the characteristics of a spook and the other...and he looks like one He's got the grey hair everything perfect And he uh..has 2 little things in here that I want to just discuss for a second I had another contract under through council on foreign relations To trace all the various networks

1:57:39 that emanate from Pakistan and Yemen and Saudi Arabia with ISIS because I am in this unique position because of my age and background, and I'm not married. And I don't have children. And I still go out and do this with those men who were our allies who are today our enemies whether they're in Yemen whether they're in Egypt or whether they're in Pakistan hence...and that's what I was doing! And I went back to Pakist-I went back after Steven Sotloff was murdered I secretly went back to Afghanistan frightened that when as soon as I entered the country and went to the airport, my name was on a list because the jailer said were not going let the bird out of the cage second time. And you know in the Taliban just don't wear beards and black turbans they're clean shaven and they're everywhere very sophisticated operation. And i went to see my friend who I thought was that I had

1:58:31 Because of my relationship to him and that I had been kidnapped And he we sat in a hotel, and I told him the whole story He said no And he said it's this they told me it's 180 degrees different and My advice to you is to leave very soon because what you are involved in here is something much greater than yourself? And as far too dangerous than you must leave So the next day. I went to see the former head of the NDS which is the combination CIA FBI Okay Okay, first of all he's being hired to do spook work for the Council on Foreign Relations. That was nice and a nice little additional bit. He dropped a lot of little things in this. It shouldn't be...shouldn't be taken out off these circuits. He also mentioned an MI6 officer is going on and on until he says she

1:59:19 You realize he's talking to some female MI6 person. But the one that got me more than even the Council on Foreign Relations thing was the NDS con... Yeah, what is it? National Defense System? You tell me. I went out of my way looking for any reference to this operation, a combination of CIA FBI which again which kind of puts me in the mood of thinking the Trump situation and the CIA trying to screw him with all these leaks and then the FBI going after them and that... I would say that it sounds like they're in cahoots! Well I just binged it because as you know we Bing It here BINGIT.IO NDS stands for National Directorate Of Security

2:00:01 the primary intelligence agency of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. I don't believe that's what he is talking about. Well, okay... Would make sense that there are a bunch of CIA spooks involved in it Yes It would. I'm trying to think what else could be? Maybe but where did they mention the FBI? I was just looking at the Wikipedia entry Could be Unless the FBI's mentioned, I'm not buying it. Let me see what he's talking about hmm He says it was a combination of FBI CIA which I didn't know existed It also makes no sense for those two to be a combo unless somehow they've come well We do know that the FBI is often involved in overseas investigations Yeah The FBI came in to look at the bombing situation There's hundreds of FBI agents in Amsterdam just sitting there doing FBI work in Amsterdam yes

2:01:06 When did the FBI become an international agency? When all oversight was lost and they can do whatever the hell they want, which seems to be happening. Which makes me very anxious Well I don't know anything you can find much out about this FBI CIA NDS thing well for sure we have enough producers who might have this information for us Well i'm hoping that somebody does as why played the clip That's a good one. You know, I just caught me... This whole the entire interview with this character which is available on C-SPAN if somebody wants to go track it down Well we have it in the show notes all 17 minutes of it It's quite interesting because he you can see it He's constantly thinking about what he can and cannot say

2:02:07 And so most of the interview is this. And it'll go on for like... 20 seconds and then he'll say something. And so he's very careful, but He's not so careful as not to kind of tell us that the Council on Foreign Relations is hiring spooks and there's this operation called the NDS and that some of these mi6 people over here floating around are women Check this up Okay I found something here This might help us The Taliban's capture of Kunduz in 2015 was the worst kind of intelligence failure

2:02:45 where intelligence cooperation among the NDS, National Security Agency of Afghanistan. The NSA is what that is. Ministry of Defense and Interior Ministry was weak this failure was because security alerts and intelligence reports regarding the Taliban's plan of capturing the city were not taken seriously but were simply overlooked by the MOD and MOL Kunduz capture should not have come as a surprise given the amount of territory the Taliban was already controlling here it is however Kunduz rapid fall and slow recapture was an intelligence failure. Intelligence gathering, processing and analysis has been a complicated problem ever since the establishment of the NDS with the assistance of the Central Intelligence Agency." Now it doesn't explain how the FBI is involved... I think that's a secret!

2:03:36 I wonder if the FBI even knows. You might be onto something with this, might be the group he's talking about but i think it's a secret that the FBI has got anything to do with this or anything for that matter going on in Afghanistan and he let it slide put it out there we picked it up nobody else will of course and they...i think somebody screwed up and let these guys let this information escape yeah i'm gonna listen to that whole thing its called what is it called here Yeah, Jerry Van Dyke all archive. It'll be in the show notes under the clips and docs Definitely have a listen to that that's interesting I like that are you familiar with binoma? The country of binomia no well neither is Nikki Haley of Well don't blame her she now MSNBC am joy Joy read

2:04:33 As if she knows. They're into trolling people, this is the new normal on MSNBC This time around it was UN Ambassador Nikki Haley She reportedly got a call from a person she thought was the Prime Minister of Poland who wanted to talk about elections in the mystery nation of Binomo You know Binomo? Yes yes Yes, yes. Ambassador Haley totally knows Binomo. Everyone knows Binomo except there is no island of Binomo It does not exist. Binomo is not real but we won't let that stop us from rolling the tape You know Binomo? Yes, yes They declared independence Right

2:05:16 They had elections and we suppose Russia had its intervention. Yes, of course they did absolutely And now this binomial land makes the situation in the South China Sea even more tense? And we're aware of that and we've been watching that very closely and I think will continue to watch as we deal with issues that keep coming up about the South China Sea. That's correct What should be done because of this binomial Let me find out exactly what our stance is on that and if, what if anything the US is doing or thinks should be done. And I will report back to you on that as well.

2:05:58 Why don't they just do one of those old shows, remember? I guess it was in the 70s mostly where you had these goofballs. Mostly DJ's calling people up with all the bull crap. Hey everybody! It's time for another prank phone call! You know what we're doing on this show. Woo hoo hoo! One famous prankster duo that put a number of albums out The Jerky Boys The Jerky Boys Yeah so now MSNBC has become... The Jerky Boyz Yeah, good work MSNBC. Good luck for your reputation! Now I do think it does bring out one thing which is and i think this is the Trump administration's fault uh the ease in which people are lie

2:06:47 She doesn't know what the fuck's going on and she says this, it ruined her reputation. Good! I never liked this woman. And uh... I don't think she was put in that position because of her great view on the New World Order I think she was put in there to be destructive. Well good, but she's doing a poor job of that even. But the fact that you'll just...oh yeah sure. Just lie or it's not even lying because lying is something that you do overtly. Bullcrapping. Bullcrapping yeah. You could call any representative or senator and pretend your making a donation say you're from Bonomo

2:07:30 Then you'll get the call will be taken. Yes, in fact that's something our producers can work on before Sunday Call Maxine waters about a big donation from the country of Bonomo and you'll fool her You'll get her on the phone so some one of our producers sent in a note saying that somebody Oh no, it was on Twitter. Somebody met Maxine Waters or saw Maxine Waters having a hissy fit on an airplane because you know something was wrong with her seat. No no no no One knows enough. This is such a dumb story, that's why I would not bring it up It was Sheila Jackson Lee Ah! Right And there was a woman who had first class seat The airline says it was cancelled so she got an economy plus seat and then um... Sheila Jackson Lee was in her seat and she says ah this is... but the problem is that Sheila Jackson Lee then said you're racist

2:08:32 Which is kind of her go-to I guess. Sure, yeah, you're a racist But when you read between...I really don't care about the story I'm sure it's just a mess this stuff happens with airlines fine but when you read that Sheila Jackson Lee is escorted to her seat by a special gate attendant so she can you know settle in comfortably and come on So I have a letter here from I don't know what his name is, I think it's Jackson but he says he likes to call himself Jack King. So he's probably a character. But he did say something which I started thinking about because we talked this story up. It was one of the major networks they played this story and then I started thinking about you know when I was at Mevio every day as a matter of fact at noon a siren would go off

2:09:31 in old civil defense siren, they use this kind of a clock. And every new... I think we'd start making a racket. Love the show you keep me sane he writes. A couple weeks behind on the shows if you've already corrected this please disregard late in show 987 you played a clip about Hawaii sounding as air raid sirens also known as a civil defense warning system for the first time since the Cold War And then we attributed this to their freaky about North Korea. I'm not sure where this report came from, but it is bull crap! This system is used for air raids tsunamis and hurricanes and is tested on the first Monday of the month every month for at least the last 30 years. I grew up in Hawaii

2:10:18 And as kids, we would have to do drills every month in school where we'd hide under our desks for an air raid or run through the mountains for a tsunami. If this is not a test but because there was an incoming attack maybe it would have been at first since the war however, as a test is simply not true what was presented on by The News Network and I Thought about it and I said, obviously this was going on. Somebody saw this created a bogus fake news report And we played it straight up as if it was a fact. Should we want to find that? If you can find it Was it Hawaii or would you have titled that

2:10:59 Hawaii Air Raid, or Hawaii Siren. Yeah and no it's actually Hawaiian Air Raid Allwart. Allwart! Oh right all of us were alert across Hawaii today a blast from the past Warning sirens in paradise. They blared in Hawaiian cities and villages for the first time since the end of the Cold War It was just a test in response to the threat of an attack from North Korea. No, there you go Yeah fake news and that was CBS Network News nice

2:11:47 So there you have it. All right, before we get into our second thank-you segment that's finally happening I have warned for this now it's in ad week big news and actually started with Ozzy or OZ what is it? OZY who I hate with a passion. Who's OZY? So if you go to ozy.com that said it's a new site but they do profiles And they raised 35 million dollars for this news profile site. And why I don't like them is, you know... They have professional journos! I got a call professional...I think we talked about this? Maybe not. A professional journal it's like oh I want to interview your profile do profile. Like yeah, I don't usually do that stuff but they seem to have profiles of important people so I'm flattered Okay, I'm looking at it now. I will say this

2:12:43 I've never seen this site before. They got 35 million, maybe they should put a little into advertising. Ah well it's interesting you bring this up. It turns out that a number of advertisers are very disappointed with the bots clicking on videos that they are paying to advertise on Aussie and I just want to say their business model works as following. They interview somebody and you think okay, it's great but my interview will be published no-no-no when there's news about you then we'll put That up like well Why didn't you tell me that in the first place because yeah? I said hey When is this gonna go up

2:13:25 No, no. When there's something notable about you then we have the profile then we put it up So that's bullshit and I feel very insulted that you did this You've been interviewed by these guys? Yes Oh when was this? Probably a year ago maybe a year and half And never published It's never been published So you just were used... Now i have to die If I die oh look! We have an article We'll put this up. Well, that's a very interesting scheme so they claim 40 million people a month Come to their site bull crap Yeah exactly is more like a million and a half but I doubt that too well now you could get to a million if you'd get to me But Ozzy is defending Defending this by saying well when we purchased this audience traffic. We thought it would all be no real people

2:14:19 Now just let that sink in for a second. They're purchasing traffic to their website, which is not your typically qualified person who you want to consume your ads now Procter & Gamble Bank of America Unilever, they're all saying wait a minute. This is bullcrap We want more transparency and you know our money back is what they should say yeah Well, they're gonna there going to stop spending yes stopping spending is not the same as getting ripped off right But it's this is now this is real I think has been the big secret we knew it oh

2:15:05 It's one of the reasons I didn't want to continue my own company. Is the concept of arbitrage. It's very simple There are many companies like I think one is called Monopoly Inc or something, or Monopoly LLC and you can buy clicks and video views from them And you purchase it the same way ads are purchased You buy it on a CPM basis cost per thousand and in this case its clicks So if someone watches the video And it's 1,000 of them you'll pay $5. You turn around and you sell that traffic those so-called eyeballs to the advertising network or the direct to like a BMW which is a case I happen to know and you sell it for seven dollars per thousand and then you have four more in some sense Yes, and then you take that little piece in the middle you make shit content from it

2:16:01 And you take your profit. And that's how all of them are operating and it happens most at the end of a quarter, when someone is getting ready to do around financing You just go out, buy some traffic, show the numbers, there I am! It's beautiful and it's huge huge scam And eventually everybody does it that's why our model. Yes, doesn't has nothing to do with any of that stuff We are the most by donating to no agenda imagine all the people who could do that oh yeah The cue was we don't do any of that stuff would have been perfect

2:16:45 Yeah, well I was gonna make it even more elaborate more interesting But you stepped all over me with the get me right into the tank and people so sorry but You're right. It would have been, but I wasn't...you know here the funny thing was that we actually have a discussion. Oh you want to discuss it now then? No no we don't need to discuss it. I think you made your point and I say you make this point a lot and I think it's a good point to be made because you have to realize that a lot of these operations out there are not like us. We get direct We get our money directly from the listener and the producer as it were. It's a value for value, and it works... So we can bitch about all this other stuff? Yes. This is scam? Well I'm sorry that you wasted your time! Well when I'm dead they'll publish it, it will be groovy. Yeah okay well..I'm guessing that they're gonna be dead before you are, then they'll never publish it

2:17:40 Let's start thanking a few people, starting with David Fugazotto who says for $100. He came in with $100 and says Merry Christmas. Dominic DeVito comes in for 100 bucks and he says continue hitting him in the mouth so let's just thank everybody. Sir Phenom of the Patriots Nation Appleton Wisconsin 8250 and you can read along and see if there is anything we need to talk about. Herb Lamb 8008, boob. Gerald Preston 8008 a boob and I think Gerald is the one who sent in two donations that were he had us big boob in a small boobs. Oh, I might be wrong. It's all as Brandon Turner when we get to Brandon Turner stop me okay? No, we're Brandon turners not on the boob list is he no why is that I don't know well That's weird well Brandon Turner also said I believe 8008. I don't know why it's not on here

2:18:42 Gerald Preston, Michael Freeze. Hold on a second! Nuts... There's a moth in the house. Oh! Michael Frys or Fries-Michael it says 8008 Chris Engler. Boom for Christmas what else? What would more people want? Sir Chris by the way David Randall Lane 8008 Brian Kaufman in Scottsdale Arizona 7575 Oliver Aho Really? And he has a... He wants to de-douching first time donor. I'd like to thank you and John Mondro for hitting me in the mouth and call out Jeff Reese for never donating. What a douchebag! I'm going to need some karma as I'm 18 year old going off to college next month Thanks, Rebby Yes, you're gonna need a lot of that. I'll de-douche you You've been de-douched. You have been de-douched my friend good

2:19:42 Anyway, that was 75 bucks from Oliver. David Ritchie in Mentor Idaho. What a great name for town 6969 Barron's Mark Tanner in Whittier California 686666 then we have David Lane 6006, huh? Okay. Well then we'll get I'm gonna stop here because this is also what We got here from it's we had an 808 and a 606 From Brandon Turner. He also sent me a Nixie tube clock Yes you want to yes now are those

2:20:22 Are those original old tubes in there or how is that? Or are those new? I think they're new tubes because the two is an upside down, the five's and upside down too. Yeah just explain this clock Okay there's a Nixie tube so these old-fashioned displays that go back for wherever They're very valuable nowadays. I think I had them at school for the school clock at one point maybe could be And he, and Brand is Sir Peep Slayer's who it is. He which is what I put on the thing you know I put it on there when I asked Eric what happened? He made these clocks out of this. I can't, I've gotten kind of close to setting it but it's like a programmable thing that creates stuff... The exact same problem like oh let me just set it and okay I'll do that tomorrow after the show That's going to take a little time It's gonna take forever because what he tells you is instructions, he has got a whole page of instructions that don't make any sense at all

2:21:23 And so I have to ask him, he's gonna have to get us on the phone you and me separately just set the clock. I mean, I follow the instructions. I read...I spent about an hour trying to set the clock but you do it you push down and then You're trying that thing start to flash and you push the other button It wouldn't go past 10 or they would start doing their yeah Or which sets starts at the other side well once no one's just working? It's a beautiful piece. I really like it Well, I got it was in six minutes But then I'm afraid to touch it now right I also got a note from Harper Yeah his kid

2:21:59 Yeah, Merry Christmas Adam. Can you play ants from Harper? Done done and to show song yeah So we had Anyway that was Not it was a great gift I appreciate I love the thing is beautiful But setting it he needs as a technical writer who knows how to do instructions That's all I have to say alright Alright, where was I? I was at the last one. Okay we're off to Sir Patrick Coble out there in Tennessee $59.95 He says...I'm donating each show until then five dollars for show 9.95 less of 2017 for the face bag users I'm donating this each show until then Don't eat out two to three times or cancel subscription and make it happen Yeah he's been on the face bag Promoting this idea appreciate it okay

2:22:56 John Leibick in Glen Gardner, New Jersey 5625...265626. Oh here's peeps there Brandon Turner and he comes in with 5555. JCD has a note on the device. Okay yeah my mistake so I'm not gonna call Eric he sent in 5555 with the note and the device the other two guys are accounted for yes David Randall Lane is the guy who sent the two in, you can see it. David Randall Lane comes in twice at 8008 and 6006 for the small boob or you could say it's like different size boobs on either side. Yeah like most women

2:23:43 Like women with no implants. I would agree with that, everybody guys notices that most women are a little lopsided Yeah, this is fine. I hate to use that word and there's some women that do have true breasts that are not Very unusual yes It's like being ambidextrous As it were Sir Dan night of the absurdly large campfire in Hathaway Park Pines, California 5510 double nickels on the dime Ryan McConnell 5105 thank you for the great year don't forget about a Seattle area meetup. I'm gonna do one yes sooner than later surrounded by slaves this is sir rounded by slaves nice yeah it's also ko what k0 JBS 73 that's right 73 is kilo five alpha Charlie Charlie here

2:24:39 Surrounded by slaves, and that was 50...75, 73. Scott Floyd in Clayton California 5017 he's one of our biggest Clayton fans. Kenneth Lindbergh in Miami Florida these are last ones are all $50 donors name and location 50 each James Butcher in Dallawinoo Washington Peter, Sir Peter to you. Totez in Sugarland Texas. Jeffrey Zellin in Oakland Michigan. Michael Kaufman in Hillsborough Oregon. Michael Robinson in North some town Melbourne Victoria Australia Rob Maxwell 50 parts unknown Richard Hufford or Hufford one of the two

2:25:34 Jeff Sackett, anonymous. Brandon Mink, Sir Brandon Mink in Tempe Arizona another anonymous a lot of anonymouses that Patrick made That was anonymous donating specifically to give tons of praise to Adam for that interview if podcasting doesn't pan out maybe being the Charlie Rose of kooks like us will work out better Actually, who's gonna replace Charlie Rose? Maybe you. That would be great! Tell me about your sexuality it's in your DNA Patrick Maycombe Sir Patrick in New York City Oliver Gard GARD in Portland Oregon Edgar Elmager Elmager Elmagur something Omigard Omigard Agir Omigard Nils Bonneker Louis Pasteur and Nils is in Hamburg Deutschland

2:26:27 Louis Pasteur in Miami, Florida. Jesse Ferreira in Newbury Berkshire UK. Alexa Delgado in Aptos California. Robert Makowski in Rhinebeck New York and that'll conclude our group of well-wishers and happy producers that helped us do show 994. Yes t minus six to the big 1000 Double producerships oh, you know I just thought of something was that we made the show may go off because I think I Think everything we've coded is in is in cobalt And when we get to 1,000 it's not going to turn over right and what will I say in the opening? I mean nine or nine or four am. I gonna do one zero zero zero a

2:27:17 Don't know or one triple zero. We need to get some consultants in and spend millions of dollars have one fix this problem 1001001 we need to think about this not to win say no said how about nil? How about zed I like nil 1 nill nill nill nill nill nill sounds like a soccer game yeah, 1 nill nill nill oh Yeah, I like all right. I like zed I would also be nil Someone will come up with nada one nada nada nada Zilch zilch zilch zilch And i want to thank sam agro and i think it's leanne For uh sending me in the keeper such a lovely handmade christmas card very nice you don't get A lot when you move to new address

2:28:07 You don't get a lot of Christmas cards. I don't get a lot anymore, when i was in the 90s, late 90's when PC Magazine was a monster and everybody I got millions of Christmas cards. I could decorate the fireplace with them from all these companies and everybody signed every, you know the whole company signed out on this thing and you'd get all these things in now same companies are in business. Now all I get is nothing! I get jibjabs on email. I get nothing. I don't even get any emails again well yeah on email once in a while somebody says happy or some one of our donors will say Happy Christmas or Happy New Year but oh what happened to all these cards? It's over

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2:32:10 After we heard this well, I thought was a very bogative report from Gitmo nation GMT about Scrum it you recall this report people. Yes We call this report is when I ignored it kind of and still am ignoring it So I can't remember what they would have stands while was in the Daily Mail which is something about vomiting and screaming the concept of the story is If you smoke a lot of weed, then eventually you get this syndrome which combines screaming out for dear life and vomiting at the same time. Yeah, which by the way I don't...I live in California there's plenty people that are smoking too much weed Dude! You had a partner for 10 years who smokes too much weed That's you? Yes

2:33:05 I've never had this. It sounds like bull crap! Well, it's come to the United States. A small percentage of people who smoke marijuana find that long-term use makes them sick with this violent vomiting illness and in California pot will be fully legalized in July so doctors there worry that they might see more cases of this mysterious syndrome Reporter Pauline Bartolone has the story. Marijuana's been legal for medical use in California for longer than two decades, And as Shelfante Linné Queen points out about her neighbors at her San Diego apartment complex, smoking pot is a way of life here. Everybody here smokes. Smoke weed, smoke weed, smoke weed, smoke weed... Queen's 48 years old and says she has been smoking pot since she was a teenager She says it helps her deal with depression and anxiety

2:33:58 But after five years of smoking all day, every day, Queen started to get very ill. My first time that I was actually sick and couldn't stop vomiting and in a great deal of pain and hospitalized...I was there for I think three or four days. That scenario played out over and over again for almost two decades You're out of your mind in pain like, I've screamed out for death, I've cried out for my mom who's been dead for 20 years mentally not realizing she can't come to me Queen and her health care providers never got to the bottom of what was causing her vomiting episodes She dropped down to a frail 109 pounds

2:34:39 and was dismissed from a job. I'm literally thinking, I must have some sort of cancer something they can't detect Finally, a year-and-a-half ago an emergency physician gave her something to read about a condition called cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome And that's when i googled it That's when I figured it out People who smoke cannabis may be doubtful that the drug is linked to this strange vomiting illness truth is The medical community has only recognized this syndrome for a little over a decade. A Colorado study found the number of people with the symptoms doubled when medical marijuana use surged. This is something that we've been seeing for many years, but it's really increased in frequency Dr Amy Mullen works in the emergency department at UC Davis Medical Center She estimates she sees this syndrome every other shift

2:35:33 She says it's frustrating because there is no one remedy. I'd have someone who was very distressed, intractable vomiting and i would give them my usual cocktail of medications that almost always worked and wouldn't work. Doctors say these episodes are expensive That's because to rule out other medical problems they have to order CAT scans and lab tests Mullen says even when she tells patients to lay off the marijuana they come back A lot of times they don't believe me. I think it's because it's under-recognized syndrome, marijuana is used for nausea and so it's difficult sometimes for people to make that leap of regular heavy use can actually cause vomiting

2:36:18 Back in San Diego, Shelfante Lene-Queen says she's relieved she finally got a diagnosis. She is back to healthy weight and hasn't been back to the hospital in a year. She has cut down on her pot smoking but not given it up completely I don't want to discourage anybody from smoking weed or whatever at all. I just want people to be aware that it exists Now, if I get sick as sad as I'll be and as upset and disappointed with myself as I'd be at least it's a freaking choice. Queen and the medical community say has marijuana laws loosen they want people to know about this syndrome so they have that choice too So i did research By the way was Hillary in her place? What was the deal with the barking woman It did sound like her didn't it you're right I did some research

2:37:11 And very interesting to me that these symptoms can indeed occur and appear to occur in people who are on a very high-powered hormone replacement treatment, and specifically that is the transgender community. Yeah, and if you look at HRT and THC that appears to be a combination that can make you very very ill and psychotic at the same time.

2:37:47 Now, the woman who was speaking didn't sound to me. I can't tell...I didn't see the video. Yeah, I don't think she was transgendering but this could be what's going on and probably worse it you know that's what you might want to taint your weed supply with if you want to create some kind of reefer madness problem Yes, well I was suspicious the first time I heard this story and thought they were putting in that heroin. Yeah fentanyl or the other stuff the worst right which would do no you just die with us yeah it probably would just drop but i felt there was some sort of contaminated weed oh it's definitely contaminated but maybe with HRT? I don't know if that's easy to just sprinkle it on how that works

2:38:35 But for sure there's issue. Well, we got a lot of people who smoke weed so someone will have some ideas Yeah We probably do well it's gonna do I do have a short three clip clip blitz one two women one two three Four I can do a four clip Blitz no no I can only do three oh Want to do it? Yeah, we can. Do you want to hear any other clips from me anything else that... No no I'm not ending this show! Okay just doing clip blitz okay. Library of Congress and Twits, Tweeters. A few people knew this but the Library of Congress began archiving tweets seven years ago every single tweet but the novelty is worn off especially with 500 million new tweets each day so starting January 1st only tweets the agency deems significant will be archived

2:39:39 Well that's bogus. Ah, see I knew the clip blitz wouldn't get very far. 33! It is bogus. It's a wonderful life movie for all you FBI fans The classic film It's a Wonderful Life is a holiday tradition for many families this time of year, but you may not have known it was once considered communist propaganda by the FBI. The 1946 film stars Jimmy Stewart as a failed businessman who is about to lose his loan company to a rich and greedy banker The bureau singled out the portrayal of a banker as a common trick used by communists. It said the movie attempted to show people who had money were mean and despicable characters, was deemed to be subversive but was allowed to keep playing anyway.

2:40:32 This is great. The new health headline tonight involving vegetables and what your mother said, eating your vegetables just might make your mind 11 years younger that's according to a new study showing that people who eat one to two servings daily of leafy green vegetables like kale lettuce or spinach have a slower rate of cognitive decline potentially staving off dementia That new study published in the journal Neurology Red 33! Blip blips Well, that was actually it but let's play the ANA fiasco and we'll talk about it. Okay, ANA. Next tonight the midair security scare raising serious questions tonight four hours into a Tokyo-bound flight from Los Angeles. Oh yeah! The crew realizing

2:41:20 passenger had boarded the wrong plane. The pilot then turning around supermodel Chrissy Teigen with husband musician John Legend you see them there on board they live tweeted the entire episode passengers questioned back at LAX and the FBI is now involved those travelers re-ticketed on a new flight that has just landed and we're starting to hear from those passengers in Tokyo but how did this mix up happen in the first place ABC senior national correspondent Matt Gutman is at LAX Tonight, the FBI is investigating how a pair of brothers with a single boarding pass got on flight 175 from Los Angeles to Tokyo.

2:41:57 The mistake only detected 2,000 miles into the flight when a headcount revealed the extra passenger. You can see the flights boomerang path leaving LAX at about noon and hooking right back to LAX arriving just after 730. The All Nippon Airways flight sequestered in a secure part of the airport they discovered that a pair of brothers with nearly identical names allegedly used this same boarding pass one of them did have a legitimate ticket for flight 175 while the other had a real ticket to Tokyo also but with a partner airline, United. Thank you so much for taking me on this awesome vacation babe

2:42:39 Welcome to Los Angeles. One of the passengers on board a very bemused supermodel Chrissy Teigen, she was traveling with her husband John Legend tweeting why did we all get punished for this one person's mistake? Why not just land in Tokyo and send the other person back how is this the better idea you ask? We all have the same questions. The airline partially answering that question in a statement today as part of the airline security procedure The pilot in command decided to return to the originating airport where the passenger was disembarked. Ultimately, it would cost passengers an extra eight hours in the air and a total delay of over 15 hours. Well mostly tired and pretty angry. Pretty angry? All right let's get right out to Matt Gutman. Matt you mentioned those two brothers at the center of this mix-up what's their status and are they to blame

2:43:33 Well, there's certainly a deplain but the FBI Tom hasn't yet decided whether or not to press charges. But also facing stiff questions will be the airline namely how did it allow a passenger with a duplicate boarding card to get on board and why wasn't an accurate headcount made until after the flight was well underway? ANA could face some significant fines Tom all important questions still unanswered alright Matt thanks so much Bullshit! Exactly. No way, no way did they turn around because someone had the wrong boarding pass uh-uh I agree and here's a couple of interesting little tidbits that gave me that indicator besides the luckily they got the live tweeting model and her tweets are actually kind of funny i guess they had an internet connection on the plane yeah it was very cute

2:44:25 Yeah, they're very cute. Now a couple of things that I noticed one if you look for this story and Associated Press apparently did it version of the story that no newspaper picked up on in fact if you'd bing it I was using the news clip, you know the news head where you just see news stories. All the new story... Every one of the stories that you see one after the other are all broadcast stations. I thought that was weird. You'd think that The Washington Post would have something about this and then I tried to figure out the name of these two guys which is not unusual they have names? No! Do you have their names can you tell me what their names are no

2:45:07 No, you won't try to try maybe this it'll show up eventually and and then she made a good point on her tweets is why are we going back? Well We just continue on to Tokyo land there And he kicked the guy off or do whatever you have to He had a ticket to Tokyo on United and they are code shares as far as I know At least that's what the report said. Mm-hmm So want to just leave him on the plane with their system make they have he's had the extra seat So, this stinks. This was a test by the TSA or some government group to see if they could do this to that airline, probably one of the other airlines. They said these guys are lax... My thought was different.

2:45:46 Okay, first of all why they were Had stiff questions for everybody and they interviewed people who are sitting around the passenger apparently But how about this? Maybe they didn't put enough load enough fuel on board. There's something else there is something else and we're not but Totally being bullshitted about this. We're totally being bullshit I agree now that fuel concept which I like now that you mentioned it is doesn't necessarily, it doesn't I mean actually necessarily. Let's back up the Japanese pilots are terrible they're the ones who land in the drink over here in San Francisco they had this a couple of times. That's racist man! They're terrible they have all kinds of issues on different Japanese airlines and this was all Nippon

2:46:37 And so it could be what you said, could be correct. That was my first thought was oh crap we didn't load enough fuel on board were going to be an hour short. Yeah they could have glided in and they were taking a route that wasn't going over Hawaii So they couldn't land in Hawaii and get some more fuel That's a possibility. I think it was a test because if that is true about the two Why would they have at the to board different boarding passes? The whole thing was sketchy and I mean in India don't tell us the names of their Arabs Jones are the bar the bar codes, I mean they had exactly the same barcodes and therefore registered Okay It just doesn't make a lot of sense

2:47:17 No, that doesn't make any sense and that's one of the things the model said she says what is it? The machines it goes beep-beep. It doesn't do anything It doesn't check with anything just beeps possibly as you go through and it is possible That is not just like just like the button when you went across the street on the crosswalk I'm pretty sure there's just two loose wires on the other end Just to keep the slaves busy press this while your waiting stupid slave Yeah well Whatever this was, this is something very phony about the story and it's not going to get... you're not gonna hear anything else about it. Well we have enough people in aviation that something might leak out and if it was a fuel issue or some other weight imbalance or some... there could be a number of things I didn't consider the Japanese pilots You're right they suck

2:48:08 So the who knows but it could be I still could be a test mm-hmm How long is gonna take for them to figure this out? We'll put an extra guy on the plane right and then what then what are they gonna do are They gonna come back or again. I mean this really does stink so the story was and again only broadcast It was a TV story, that's right And I love that that broadcast doesn't question anything just oh, that's that's what we got okay That's fine it makes nothing but sense I don't know, I can't think of a single instance when someone who was on board that they turned around certainly after four hours of flight time. We have all these stories and remember this... All the yeah four hours geez

2:48:49 And then four hours back. We have all these stories about, remember that woman that used to sneak on board constantly and she was flying all over the country? She was a stowaway ten times in there where she was given... they arrested her every day. Never turned around. They always flew it at the location and then put on another flight back if she didn't get away with it which he probably did a lot of times So no, this is a bogus story. It's clear that our producers have a lot of work to do before Sunday You need a lot yeah They got to do a lot of stuff if I just have one final one I know good pump and dump when I see one And I believe it has something to do with options employees end-of-the-year Whatever it is the idea was and I'm just look this is not stock advice

2:49:41 It's not stock advice, but I believe this is a pump-and-dump story. for the iPhone X, from 30 million units down to 50 million. A U.S.-based analyst is predicting shipments of just 25 million units warning that consumers are balking at the product's high price and lack of innovation. One analyst I spoke to said, don't get too worried just yet. Maybe the situation is actually weak demand for the iPhone 8 Most of the parts between the iPhone X and iPhone 8 are the same There's just two key parts that are unique to the iPhone 10 Those 2 parts are an OLED screen And a 3D sensing module

2:50:37 sort of provides augmented reality features and other technology to the iPhone X. And in both of those cases, this analyst hasn't seen any production cuts. And to him that suggests that iPhone X is doing just fine." Apple has not publicly disclosed quarterly sales targets for the latest iPhone which went on sale in November and Apple representatives said the company doesn't comment on market rumors On a recent visit to China CEO Tim Cook said he couldn't be happier with demand for the iPhone 10 in the country Of course, it's not a pump and dump. It's like a reverse version of that and I think that's what's going on This is total total bullcrap It's presented everywhere as all iPhone less less sales than expected but the company didn't put out any news themselves Just an analyst. Yes Sketchy and you know You got your quarter coming up to say well

2:51:35 We sold 60 million. There's no way that they're going to be short, certainly not by 20. It's always better than expected is the operative phrase. These guys know how to do that. Apple knows how to underestimate. Yeah well maybe I'm still too high for long term. I have, I got a few left. We've been moving to the next show. The one is timely. I want to catch up with Trump and what's going on with the investigation here is Chip Reid on CBS kind of giving it to Trump and there are couple moments in here where they kinda like let you make assumptions that aren't true

2:52:14 President Trump talked up the new tax cut today as he visited firefighters in West Palm Beach, Florida. But based on recent tweets the Russia investigation is what's really weighing on his mind. Chip Reid is traveling with the president. I have nothing to do with Russia! Everybody knows it! That was a Democrat hoax! It was an excuse for losing the election! President Trump has ripped off... Nice whipsaw by the way That's fantastic. They have no shame over there. I have nothing to do with Russia, everybody knows it! That was a Democrat hoax, it was an excuse for losing the election... President Trump has repeatedly condemned the investigation of his campaign's contacts with Russia

2:52:55 In a tweet yesterday, he once again attacked the FBI for its role calling the agency tainted. But even before the investigation began, the US intelligence community concluded that Russia did attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election in President Trump's favor The question for special counsel Robert Mueller is whether the Trump campaign or even the candidate himself worked with, or colluded with Russia in that effort. There is absolutely no collusion... Trump's lawyers predict the investigation will wrap up soon but many legal observers say Mueller appears to be only in round one two former staffers including former campaign chairman Paul Manafort have been indicted and their trials are months away

2:53:39 Two other former staffers, including former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn have pled guilty. Flynn admits he lied to the FBI Yesterday, Flynn's brother tweeted that the president should pardon Flynn Earlier this month the president didn't rule it out But immediately afterward, his attorney insisted there is no consideration of pardoning Flynn. The White House emphasizes that no one has been charged with or pled guilty to working with Russia to influence the election. The question is whether Mueller is trying to squeeze them for information indicated that they or others did

2:54:17 Recently the president's supporters have ratcheted up their attacks on Mueller. Some have even gone after his staff, claiming that they are mostly anti-Trump and some others have urged the president to fire Mueller but the President's attorney says there are no plans to do that. Elaine? Chip Reid, Chip thank you. Yeah what a mess! A couple of things I like the way he runs kind of as examples together he says Flynn pled guilty and the way it's Structured as though he's like he pled guilty to what? It doesn't say that. He pled guilty to lying to the FBI He says he plead guilty and ed and admits to lying to the FBI, but they never said that the two are connected

2:55:01 Right. So you watching this all he's, he's been guilty as guilty of collusion? Yeah. That's the first thing you assume is guilty of collusion. Well, CBS Of course these guys know what they're doing. Yeah that's great also He also says he also brings in that old bromide that we have to keep debunking on this show which is the Intel community already already he says already as though it was in the past Saw that Russia was trying to rig the elections. This is based on that stupid report that came out That was denied at first and it finally came out because somebody had said it had to come out where you had Homeland Security And the CIA and maybe nobody else all the intelligence agencies agree Whereas it was not true as really only clapper who agreed?

2:55:52 Yeah, in that report. Yes and and another one of these bullcrap things that is creeping in I see I saw it over the over the break everywhere Yeah Russia hacked the voting machines which is patently It's just a false statement the only there Sorry for using that does that come up? Where does that even come from? It comes from the port scan, port scans on voter databases. Which they claim... Yeah so what's that got to do with rigging an election machine? Nothing but this is now translated into Russia hacked the voting machines it's insane!

2:56:32 I'm hearing it everywhere. I'll do a collection of people saying this okay, I want that great to a collection also I have a great report for Sunday A news report no less from a news organization that will be out of business eventually showing the correlation between SSRIs, other big pharmaceutical drugs given to children and other people who commit mass shootings at school or otherwise. It's a great report! Oh yeah they're done. Yeah they are over and out which is why you need to support The Best Podcast in the Universe with your donations certainly for our Sunday show Dvorak.org slash NA remember us there

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3:00:07 Well, I think he can do what this guy tried to do. He can fabricate things, he can make up stuff...he can lie What could an FBI official and FBI agent do to stop a president from getting elected? Well, I think he could do what this guy tried to do. He can be a total moron, he can recruit others No, he belongs in the middle of this guy in my personal view. He belongs behind bars

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