Competitive Victimhood

00:00 Shut up! Can't you read English? Adam Curry, John C. DeVore Act. And Sunday January 7th 2018 this is your award-winning Gitmo Nation Media Assassination Episode 9 or 9 or 7 This is no agenda Assessing amygdalas from coast to coast and broadcasting live from downtown Austin Tejas, Capitol Hill in Star State In the Cluedio in the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where I'm ten times louder I'm John C. DeVorek Yes in the morning to you, in the afternoon I should say Is it afternoon? Oh yeah its for you Yeah we've been uh... We had some technical difficulties this morning Yeah the stream wasn't working And now your rig is not what it was last time Well ya know how it goes Its like look the streams not working It's clearly my fault

00:59 And then I start twiddling and twackling and doodling diddling, and then all of a sudden nothing works but the stream works. So we'll see how far we get today. Well as long as...as long as the information we communicate is understood Yes Completely understood Okay Let me see There we go! Just as i was all jacked up and ready to tell you about this fantastic Windows experience that I had yesterday That I'm so excited about Now I don't want to talk about computers at all now Maybe have that Spectre bug.

01:35 Yeah, right. Oh yeah slowing down that you know that's been very interesting to watch this Intel versus the world of microprocessors Everybody saying well you got the problem too No We don't have the problem You got the problem but did but there's the problem the cloud is slowing down It's just does anyone nobody's got the problem I'm looking at this somewhere like I trying to get a handle back it up explain what we're talking about here Not everyone knows there's apparently some deep-seated bug in it looks like all the processor chips that have been made for the last 10 to 20 years, at least the last ten years. And I guess they knew about this a while ago and they're trying to work on it and from my perspective what I've read, and I haven't talked to anybody yet about it but I will

02:23 It's a obscure situation that probably doesn't affect anybody, but they're worried sick because if anybody can get into the chip through something... it's like a back door. Well I got what i think is the best explanation from producer Trey real short Okay, a modern processors get some of their go-fast juice by trying to guess what you're going to ask it to do next. It predicts that you're going to want the CPU to do X Y or Z and it already gets started on it That's actually pretty damn good so by the time you ask it to do the work its either already done we're close to done

03:00 The flaw is that researchers figured out how anyone can ask the processor what it has guessed you will want to do. That means an attacker can read things in the computer's memory they're not supposed to have access to This is especially bad in places like Amazon's EC2 or Microsoft Azure where they run virtual servers for many different customers on the same physical hardware The only fix for this according to producer Trey is to disable the prediction ability. This however does mean you get, you don't get the speed boost which is why the fix slows computers down from he says 12%-30%. And he does IT security for Cisco specifically gets paid to understand these vulnerabilities and explain them to less technical folks! Well I would question the 30 percent number but... He says 12%-30%, he says 12%-30%. Yeah

03:48 Yeah, that's pretty much what it is. But why? And this is all the chips So its also an AMD? yeah Oh man I bought some AMD! I bought AMD and like It's gonna go to the moon! AMD is pretty high right now...and ARM apparently has issues too. Oh really? Wow That would make sense. Thats what Apple uses. Don't they use ARM? Apple? Yeah They use mostly ARM except Mac Right so What does this functionally mean? Nothing really As far as I can tell it means nothing except if you were a high level guy, superstar hacker that was working for an evil agency or something. It's possible and i think the big fear is not with the individual in fact some people say unless you are sitting there at the computer you can't do anything but with servers

04:40 and these big serve cloud systems. Yeah, like Amazon. And of course if you'd listen to me and use cheap little hard disk you buy from Costco... I can just see Twitter running on the little drives from Costco it would be great! Who needs Amazon? We don't need any of that. Alright now i'm ready to talk about so but I had an experience yesterday that really was to me wasn't oh wow And have you ever seen the Microsoft mixed reality home? No, I haven't. Which has nothing to do with your home it's a... They have okay well go on just tell me what you're gonna tell me Okay so you put on these glasses The VR glasses they are mixed reality glasses So you don't have to have a space that has sensors everywhere It is two cameras on the front and you slip it on and You're in I think they call it like the cliff house

05:39 And what you can do is you can, uh... You know it's like Second Life in a way. Kind of corny looking and oh gee there's the mountains and who gives a crap what the surrounding is? But you can pull up applications, all your applications on your computer. And so instead of alt-tabbing around which I do a lot you have this huge space so you can have...you know..your browser window there, your email over there and just by turning your head you see the different windows and you can still use your keyboard in your mouse to interact or you can use these the wonky controllers which is not very useful at all for doing work. But I can see if they had the input part right, you know that this might be something i would do the show in because then you just have all this stuff around you and instead of

06:28 You know, where's that jingle? I can have 15 different jingle windows open and just go to one and select it. It was mind-blowing! I have to tell you... And i'm not a VR guy at all. I've swam with the whales, you know, shot the bow and arrow. Okay But this is a different version of interacting with your computer and I was very impressed by it. One step closer to insanity. Mark the dates people, mark it. Mark the dates And again I'm going to say that once you put this headset on your perception of what's reality changes within 30 seconds You're done! You're like okay this is the world i'm in It responds, it works...I have some ideas and stuff I want to do In uh..in this type of space Okay go for it Come out with a product

07:23 I'm going to. I have an actual product in mind. Yeah, I'm sure you do! You're all jacked up, I can tell. I don't know about jacked up but I gotta get me a pair of these headsets it's really... Who had the pair that you got the play with? At The Windows Store! I went to The Microsoft Store. You went to The Microsoft Store? Yes! Report necessary. So I went to The Microsoft Store We went shopping yesterday with The Keeper and her daughter Elise And we went out into the domain which is Stepford Wives You Want To Shoot Yourself But it's like, I was a domain. It's called the domain. It's a big shopping living area is one of those Stepford wives where you live in this community and you shop in this case like yeah so they got an Apple store And they have you know they got all the big ones all the anchor stores its its quite large huge Whole Foods

08:10 And they have the Windows Store, and that's all I want. I only wanted to go to the Windows Store. It is not called a Microsoft store? You know they just have the four colored blocks on the... I think if they call it- It has got no signage at all? That's a good question let me see what they officially call it so is it Windows Store Domain? Who's the Microsofts but not the Windows Store? I'm not sure sure it felt to me like there were The- uh, what the- no it's the Microsoft Store. Yeah, Microsoft Store That's the official name but it doesn't have any branding on it other than their red green blue yellow Logo which is enough because that drew me in I'm like oh yes Windows Windows

08:48 And the only reason I went there was just to ask the guy about, hey where's the Surface phone man? Is that coming and he like oh nobody knows. We have no idea and then he said but i want to show you this because there was no one in the store whereas the Apple Store was cramped... Oh no! The Apple Stores are packed They got a new Apple Store they actually emptied out their existing Apple Store built a new one a new bigger one a new bigger one in the same general location And the Windows, the Microsoft Store was... I'll just call it the Window store. I think that's better The Window Store was you know there may be ten people in there and so you know going in and they didn't really have anything to do Again I asked him on the other surface phone now want to show you this and he says you know this is people don't understand again I think it came out in October or November and this is so typical Microsoft No one heard of this

09:39 Of course nobody heard of this and it's really cool. They acquired a company well, but they did they actually previewed it on some ads and stuff way before the October that Yes, yes And then it kind of fell flat because it wasn't really It wasn't ramp to correctly now they have no idea how to do this and there and The more I look at VR Here's the here's where the opportunity is for me and you know for me certainly The content they have is all games Where'd the opportunity is very obvious what else you can do in this space?

10:19 But just to start with, I would love to see... It has a minority report effect. That's exactly what the effect is and it's very subtle but when you can instead of alt-tabbing and opening things up and positioning on something...I have a big screen too! I have a monstrous screen And still i run out of space Now you just paint wherever you want and you can use Cortana to say bring it closer You don't even have to use your hands Yeah, I don't know. I'm gonna get what report back as we move along But I was I was really impressed and I'm surprised that this is not it doesn't have an Apple logo on it That's probably why put an Apple logo people be losing their crap over it So I feel so dumb for having stuck with Apple for so long Because you I really missed out on a lot of interesting things that were happening because I just wasn't on any other platform I never learned about it never heard about it never got a an important update notification

11:20 Hmm. Yeah, a lot of people are comfortable in the Apple platform and they stay there yeah And it's gotten so bad that I'm using edge why it's fast It's fast. It's not that much faster than Firefox my experience is it as much faster now They may be slowing something I was using Chrome previously which is fast but the Edge browser Yeah, it's faster. It does suck up a lot of resources well. I use all three Yeah, for different reasons. Yeah for example just a little tip for everybody again I'm gonna mention this I mentioned it before in the last show even though we didn't get any donations You always have a tip on the show that's worth money Yes, oh yes what was the tip again? The tip was uh... What is your new tip

12:18 Well, the new tip is that if you're using Firefox and you're reading The New York Times at some point, The New York Times says, You've read your 10 articles. Get out! That's when you switch browsers. Then you switch to Chrome and get another ten. Put another ten up So what I'm yeah, I don't know why but they're doing the count was somehow within the cookies of that browser only And they're not really Doing it right is they're doing it wrong. I mean you should if you're gonna kick somebody off for reading their 10 articles Just this should be kicked off everything Yeah, then they don't have a way well The New York Times I can bypass so easily same goes for Forbes Wall Street Journal's that has a good firewall It's hard to crack that one. I'm not quite sure how to get through that

13:02 But what would give us the chip? How do you get through the New York Times firewall?" Oh, well no. I do that with the Freedom Controller which gets an offline version it's... That's not a tip that is handy for anybody to use. No. So okay so i've closed the Microsoft Edge browser and it still sucking up resources It hasn't actually gone away so I'm going to end the task will that blow up everything? No they'll just blow up all this stuff you're doing on edge Okay good so didn't blow up Yeah the edge okay here's the thing with the Edge browser Resource usage off-the-hook Yeah, and it's one of those I don't like these that linger. There's other programs that do that they say okay? Oh yeah, yeah We're closed here were done weird clothes Skype does this yes Skype well Chrome Does it too they keep a little thing in your tray sitting there doing stuff? I'm sure sending information to the Googles get an eye on you we know what you're doing curry anyway alright So I'm back to chrome now because I didn't want 80% of my system being used by the edge browser. I just noticed that oh

14:05 Alright so much for our tech news everybody. Whoo let's get on with the big show as good as it gets Yeah, it is as good as a guess what you got for us Jean-claude I got a couple things but Well, I'm going to tell you what we're going to talk about today in advance. We got the CDC warning us that they were gonna be bombed any minute. Yeah yeah duck and cover duck and cover duck and cover. Let's listen to this clip. That headline from the CDC The agency said it will meet January 16th to come up with ways to help Americans prepare for the possibility of a nuclear war, including in presentation they're calling preparing for the unthinkable. The CDC calling a nuclear detonation quote unlikely amid rising nuclear tensions with North Korea." I had the similar report but from the BBC? Wait that wasn't this

14:56 Was that, uh... No. This sounds more like CNN. The CDC wants everyone to get ready for the possibility of a nuclear war but they don't want people to freak out! They also said this meeting is not- Sure! Don't freak out people just saying! Tied to the recent tensions between the US and North Korea Centers for Disease Control officials will meet January 16th in Atlanta to discuss federal and local response team training for nuclear detonation. Topics include preparing for the unthinkable, and roadmap to radiation preparedness. This meeting was set up last April. Okay so it was... Buy iodine! That's right the no agenda iodine pills its time, it's time Play this play this ice a lot of the blue

15:41 Buttocks. Okay... Next from Alabama this evening, a fire at the home of- Wrong! It says buttocks iso Then I screwed it up so don't play it Okay that was very anticlimactic Yes it was I will have to work on him for the next show Okay, so it's not worth playing at all because Exactly because it's actually another story that but dogs will be included in the other clip But is there was not as an ISO out of the blue It won't make any sense now because of that intro that I left on there for some stupid reason Oh, I forgot to wrap up my mixed reality rap with one thing imagine okay? So The way this will be sold. I'm pretty sure

16:30 is you'll have a smaller head thing, because they're already quite small but it will be pretty small. You'll be able to plug it into your Surface phone so that you will have this huge environment that travels with you. Okay So that you are on the plane and you've got a 30 foot movie screen in front of you or you can do all kinds of different work But I think... Because you had the original idea that whatever their apps work on everything I think that's what we'll see. You know, you'll have your regular... Everything will be in your Surface phone pretty much. That will be on the computer. Yeah, that would be good. And there is one thing missing from this whole thing which is a little bit of study. What does it gonna do to your optic nerve? Oh no! It's going completely fuck everybody up. There's no doubt about it now. Yes like you and your ears.

17:29 I got you too. I was telling Tina this yesterday and immediately her face clouded over, I said baby i am not going to be living in the virtual reality world, I'm trying to jack some coin out of it just trust me on this she said this can't be good this is not gonna be good... No! The virtual reality's going to be very bad for human society in general if you've never read Neil Stevenson's Snow Crash You need to read it because the metaverse is exactly what is now possible. And, the thing that I think makes it work is that all of these headsets you plug into any computer running Windows 10 and it just quote-unquote just works. Plug and play baby! No drivers needed! Plug and play. Well speaking of which... The big CES is taking place at this start this weekend?

18:27 I don't know. I think so maybe or started already and this week is the end of it? I'm not sure I didn't keep track of the dates, but that wasn't gonna go So I didn't care I have same show every year. I was away people bothered to go at all I have a report the tech industry's premier annual gathering CES kicks off this week with no women Leading the keynote sessions and no code of conduct that might prevent incidents of sexual harassment. Yes has attracted criticism for not making itself more welcoming to women. Even as the issue of sexual harassment and assault has grabbed headlines in the last couple of months, the stakes are high for the technology industry rocked in the past year by a sexual harassment scandal at Uber and misconduct by some prominent Silicon Valley investors. CIS organizers say they made a push to make the event more diverse after executives at Twitter and other tech companies criticized them for speaker lineup dominated by white men

19:18 The event also comes under particular criticism for the so-called booth babes, high heeled female models who are used to show off the latest gadgets and for not following other trade shows by coming up with a code of conduct to prevent female attendees from being the subject of unwanted sexual advances on or off the trade floor. Organizers at other tech gatherings have increased security, trained staff as well as mandated badges be worn at all times so that attendees can quickly identify a harasser. Some 200 thousand people are expected to attend this year's event. You know of all the... Stop you can give yourself the borderline clip of the day Oh well thank you I did it It's a Dom Clip Yes Dom Clip Of The Idiots

20:07 I've been to these shows so many times. The amount of sexual, nobody has time for sexual harassment. Oh there she goes you know this just never happens i've never seen it well i've never seen it the booth babes i've seen i used to take pictures of them because it's always when you get a good shot it's good practice it's good practice but But they've diminished the number of booth bays over the years to the point where there's hardly any of it compared to that 1980s. But John, we also have no women speaking at do-no-women keynotes... It's all white men! I mean how does the tech industry not recognize they needed to at least do a little bit just even if it was just to pretend?

20:50 Well, they could have put a woman on the speakers dais I suppose Let's see who let's see who the speakers usually for years and years and years was just always Bill Gates Does he draw a big crowd everybody going now? Now it's gonna be the AMD guy He's gonna come out there And I'm sure he's gonna say we're great is the AMD guys gonna be the speaker. I think so That's how we got it. We gotta bang it. I gotta bing it mmm Bing it baby Those guys they could make so much money off of us if they just listen to our marketing. Yeah Let's see what we got here yeah, I being it

21:29 I'm gonna go to Microsoft Edge. Here's someone who will not be there. The leading man behind the push to end net neutrality is canceling an appearance at a major consumer electronics show because of death threats, former Verizon executive and current FCC chair Ajit Pai was supposed to speak next week in Las Vegas it is not the first time he has gotten threats while speaking on net neutrality rules last month the FCC chair uh... the chambers were evacuated to investigate a security threat Repealing those regulations for an angry protest across the country including right here in Seattle. Yeah, then I this outrage over the net neutrality Decision has been quite fun to watch on the face bag Okay What's this thing here? I'm looking at says Nvidia CES 2018 keynote live who's gonna be the speaker and

22:25 Is the CEO? The CEO is an Asian. How's that a white guy? I didn't make the report, I just got the borderline clip of the day for it They don't have his name on here What kind of press release is this? It'll be the CEO He's an Asian guy, know him Okay Well but there are no women There are no women Oh okay now so Asia we've got the multi-culti thing going Where're the women I mean, who's gonna be there? You got women. Do you have Ginny from IBM? Is she speaking? No! She's not speaking. She shouldn't. They'd run her out of town. She would ruin the company. Well... Okay Here is what I would do How about Melissa? Have Melissa go out and do a deconstruction of Yahoo! She's fired! Perfect! I want to hear that Here is what I predict and you know we're from the future

23:23 There's going to be allegations. And I would go, if i was a woman...I'd go there and just have someone brush up against me and call bloody murder! Yeah like that woman who was, remember Lewandowski when he grabbed the reporter girl? Yeah, something like that. That's easy enough to jerry-rig. You could do that! If anything they're opening themselves up to some big exposure I think that's... with these types of reports... Ehh buncha men! Buncha men? Buncha men yeah Okay, so I guess Just go on the floor me to start screaming see what happens. Oh no there We see you know what we haven't somebody should have put together a meet you cap oh Damn, what another good idea? Yeah? We're loaded with them, that's all we do Me too red red with the orange or yellow embroidery

24:28 Or black, no. Or maybe a pussy cap that says it! There you go... Me too. Now you're talking to me. Exactly Alright so the CES well good I'm- That's why i'm not going You never go to those things It's like oh god I want to go to CES because there is all bunch of white guys and then no women And booth babes Yeah booth- Those horrible booth babes Even though you can use them for good practice? And you know you can- Those booth babies are mostly hired by the Japanese companies Oh, no doubt. They're no fools. All right onward yes I got a couple...I got a story that never got any action. I've got two stories here that just did not get any traction and they seem to me to be one of them in particular seems you have legs but doesn't well this one here probably doesn't have legs this is the dead woman in trunk story

25:22 Okay. A Santa Cruz man is facing serious charges tonight after he was caught with a dead body in his car halfway across the country. Investigators say 30-year old Tostin Walsh Lohman got into a high speed chase in South Dakota yesterday, it was on Interstate 90. Troopers tried to pull him over for speeding Police say the lowman was traveling as fast as 118 miles an hour before he hit a spike strip near Rapid City. When officers searched his car, that's when they found a dead woman in it so far no word on who she is where she's from or how she died Okay That's the end of this story there has been no follow-up nobody cares and why was this guy in South Dakota? In the first place he's from Santa Cruz Why don't they give us any why even report if they'll give us any background anymore

26:09 They're just doing headlines. That was what, CBS? No that was our local news. Oh the news is just doing headlines. Here's a headline! And here's another one. This is, I think this is ABC. Not sure and I didn't put it on here but I believe its ABC and its... No, I think this might be CBS. Well, it doesn't make any difference because the story has all these opportunities for a six-week cycle story has all kinds of possibilities and it just falls flat you've never heard anything about this. The terrorism white supremacy Terrorism charges have been filed against a man in Missouri suspected of trying to derail an Amtrak train in October. Court papers say that 26-year old Taylor Wilson has ties to white supremacist groups. Prosecutors say he pulled the trains emergency brake in Oxford, Nebraska no one was hurt but Wilson was found with a loaded gun and engineers cab Yeah again nothing well get it what they don't report on either

27:10 By the way, hitting the brakes is not the same as trying to derail a train. No it's not necessarily an act of terrorism but it's not a good thing you should be doing. No I shouldn't be doing it You recall there was... The FBI thwarted a terrorist attack on San Francisco's Pier 39? Yeah that was about a week or two ago Yeah, what is the follow-up to that? Well there's no follow up other than that according to the affidavit – we love reading these from The Special Investigator – that the perpetrator Everett Aaron Jameson — three names of course. A Modesto tow truck driver. He was given the task you know hey man let's go have a violent attack over there at Pier 39

28:05 And he told the undercover agent who was goading him to do this, that Christmas Day would be the perfect day to commit the attack. But then he said you know I don't feel so good about it, I really want to do it... Yeah I'd like to back out and they just goaded him into doing it! Yeah yeah hello. Jameson told the undercover agent Monday he had reconsidered felt he could not carry out the attack after all but no no no no you just got to keep going gotta do a thing just kind of do what you can do what you can do And that is not followed up. I mean, it is despicable! They do this all the time. This is what the whole six-week cycle was based on. Exactly what the six week cycle was but instead we get one headline which is FBI's great saved us all and then no followup. If these guys get a decent lawyer they usually get off

28:59 Yeah, it's entrapment of the worst kind. Yes they dream up the scheme yeah They give the guy that Rick you like doing it so yeah if you all a low walk bars and Kind of Muslim are you anyway? You don't want to blow up the place Not a good Muslim exactly I let's get into this book Okay, I have a bunch of clips about this book and I have it from two different. I haven't from both CBS And then they have the real raunchy really really bad stuff and I just use the word really a lot there From ABC where they're just out to make Trump look like a bonehead now wait now. I have not read the book Yeah, is it available on Kindle yet? Probably not. It's probably only available around its floating round There's a PDF of it floating around Now what is interesting

29:48 is that it is very obvious that the Dimension B believes this is completely true. Everything in this book is true. Yeah, they believe that group. They believed the gorilla TV story was true Yes that no that was really interesting I'm actually looking for let me see if I can find this there was a Dave Weiner post I wanted to share with you Once you talk about the The Gorilla Channel and also I'll find that email yeah some hoaxter got on Twitter And he posted as I could read this thing if I can find it didn't think of

30:26 printing it out, but it's in the newsletter. It's in the newsletter in its entirety. Anyway go to the newsletter and look at it so um...it claims that Trump was irked because he didn't find a guerrilla channel on his television set in The White House this of course makes no sense from from get-go since there has never been such a channel He's never seen such a show so why would you want to see? But okay we'll just go along and believe he's nuts And so he wanted to see the gorillas and then when he saw it, they set up a transmitter. An actual TV transmitter on the south lawn. Apparently nobody noticed this I guess big TV transmitter that would have been picked up by everybody in the neighborhood nobody said anything. The thing is... This is ridiculous story! The visual I get is that he has a television with rabbit ears

31:16 On top of the TV in the White House. Yeah, because that's the only way you would receive it and you know... So he needed an attention so the whole thing was a massive... Here let me read it to ya I have the post here on his first night in the White House President Trump complained that the TV in his bedroom was broken because it didn't have the quote guerrilla channel Trump seemed to be under the impression that a TV channel existed that screened nothing but guerrilla-based content 24 hours a day. To appease Trump, White House staff compiled a number of guerrilla documentaries into a makeshift guerrilla channel broadcast into Trump's bedroom from a hastily constructed transmission tower on the South Lawn. However, Trump was unhappy with the channel they had created moaning that it was boring because the guerrillas aren't fighting quote

32:05 Staff edited out all the parts of the documentaries where gorillas weren't hitting each other and at last the president was satisfied. Quote, on some days he'll watch The Gorilla Channel for 17 hours straight! On some days he'll watch The Gorilla... oh no He kneels in front of the TV with his face about four inches from the screen and says encouraging things to the gorillas like, ''The way you hit that other gorilla was good!' I think he believes the gorillas can hear him This is... I mean, so here's day one. I ordered a copy, of course. I've read the New Yorker excerpt and the Hollywood Reporter piece and have so many things to say Let's start with two We knew that Trump White House was in chaotic, planeless place A random Ouija board manipulated by rich donors to drain the treasury quickly And to service their pet projects But with Wolfe's writing we have stories to go with this Until now we could only imagine...we had a spy in there the whole time! We didn't even know it What a gift

33:04 And with a clear picture of how much of fool Trump is, we know there's nothing more to him than what he appears to be. A well compensated money laundering self-promoting agent for Russian oligarchs! That's all that Trump is! Yeah and Wolf claims he has audio tapes... ...Of his interviews With Trump? With everybody. Oh, well he probably does. Well he should bring it! I don't believe any of this. Well... Transmission... Man, I totally agree with you. A hastily constructed TV transmission tower on the South Lawn Why?! Why on the lawn!?

33:42 Yeah, why in the line and how would the FCC put up with that? Why don't you just connect a video of VCR directly to the TV or whatever I mean But it was all bogus from the beginning because why would Trump think there was a guerrilla channel And why would he give a crap if there was he doesn't I don't get that impression does much more watch CNN and bitch well I Think that is the level That dimension B truly believes Trump is out. I said this in the newsletter, it's not that they believe it they want to believe it! They want to believe the worst that's all they if anything good comes out yeah you're not there shake their heads nah nah nah that's no good

34:27 So they want to believe it. This is why they want to believe the bull crap about, oh, the rich are getting a tax break for the rich and now we have our guy... Yep! The anonymous CPA says here's the numbers no way. Yeah that's not true unless I suppose if there's somebody who is actually that rich and has no property and owns nothing I suppose he could probably benefit but Okay, and it's just it's surprising that that level that I mean so that is truly what what a large portion of people but large group of people believes Is that the president literally? Is demented and only wants to sit with his nose four inches from the television screen to yell at the gorillas. I mean come on

35:15 It's gone, that's how far back bad it has gone. So let's listen to some clips from CBS. Well I'm trying to decide should I play the clips from ABC where they just go after him? No you gotta come on you gotta ramp it up is it you got an end with it with it like sometimes do the reverse when you're playing a bad then you played the good but let's play their good and then we'll play the bad so this wolf book CBS one okay more now from White House correspondent Margaret Brennan Thank you. Thank you very much on his way to a working weekend at Camp David, President Trump ignored questions about his former chief strategist Steve Bannon now I played this as just the part of it. I don't play that ABC is little more full man. I'm just playing snippets from the CBS stuff and the reason I played this snippet is because there was something in here This is the reporters yelling any other reporters? It sounded like the wrong Reporter clip

36:12 It did, didn't it? Yeah because they're asking a different question from awhile ago which I think i have that actually. So CBS is playing this...I took and I ISOed the person yelling out a question and either if this is a true question which is the ISO If this is actually somebody asking this question then the reporting group are idiots! See, I recall the should Steve Bannon be fired from a different...I have the clip where they're yelling on the lawn and this i think. But this morning you were tweeting about your mental state why did you feel the need to tweet about that this morning? Well only because I went to uh the best college. See that's- I don't think he did anything on the lawn did he

37:01 No, he was no that was one of those Reagan moments where he's walking to the chopper and he's waving and not taking questions. And that's when they would do what should Steve Bannon be fired now is that CBS playing b-roll? Well it's an old clip because he's already been fired Not yes but that doesn't mean a reporter knows that In other words, it could be some if they asked a month ago But this is this is a report from now supposedly The question I think It's possible that one of the reporters thinks Steve Bannon still work in there because they talk about him so much No, I think they just pulled in a clip and just yelling. They just hey got a search under yelling at Trump That's the case If that's the case has very poor form for CBS

37:51 If that's true, what you just said is true. That is really bad. Yeah! So yeah it's really bad so they're just throwing this crap together I mean they could get her...I'm sure there's..I don't know how this happened but let's play the final part of CBS, this is CBS 2 Bannon praised the president on his radio show Wednesday night. The President of the United States is a great man, you know I support him day in and day out. Prompting this response... I don't know he called me a great man last night so you obviously changed his tune pretty quick. The damage may already be done In the book, Bannon alleges that the president's son-in-law and White House advisor Jared Kushner is involved in financial crimes. And that Donald Trump Jr was treasonous for having met at Trump Tower with Russians offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton." I got a lot of flack for what i said on the last show... Is that the headline reads everywhere Steve Bannon says

38:50 Donald Trump Jr. acted in a treason, committed treason I think I've seen headlines even. Yes something like that But what he said was even if you don't think it's treason illegal or bad You know, you should have called the FBI. I happen to think it is." It's a little different than him saying he committed treason and people get more like, yeah shut up! Can't you read English? Yeah, I can actually and that's why it's...I should write that timecode down shouldn't I? How about in the theory that this is really CBS

39:33 I didn't play the long clip. So, I'm going to play the long clip. We've only played part... we haven't played the whole clips so i just interrupted it okay well finish that clip so i can give my thesis. Having met at Trump Tower with Russians offering damaging information about Hillary Clinton White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders downplayed the president's relationship with Bannon. I'm not aware that they were ever particularly close Katie Walsh former Trump White House Deputy Chief of Staff was also quoted by the author as saying that six weeks into the term Kushner still could not name the administration's top three priorities

40:09 Working with the president, she said was like trying to figure out what a child wants. Walsh later denied that remark. I absolutely spoke to the president. Sanders said the author Michael Wolff only had limited access to Mr Trump, a claim Wolff disputed this morning. I mean i've spent about three hours with the president over the course of the campaign in the White House In a tweet today, the president called that book phony. He said it was full of lies and implied that Wolf has made a career out of inventing stories. Well, he's got it. He's gonna make millions on this book good work Yeah So the idea CBS is sticking with this and I'm starting to listen to the CBS thing as though The CIA is now on board with something And because CBS was lockstep on this idea that you actually presented now You agree with which is this is a way at am I? Actually Mimi was listening these clips with me and she agrees totally with this that this concept

41:10 The whole thing is to get rid of Kushner and Ivanka, get them out of there. And she says that he's just... Ivanka has got Trump wrapped around her finger because she doesn't want to disappoint his girl who you like so much and so she wants to be in there with Kushner, her husband. And he's a douche! Yeah, and Trump can't get rid of him. And this is gonna maybe be the way in that CBS was backing them up on this and also let's get rid of Don Jr., too He's really just kind of getting in the way. He's also ugly but me know he's really not pretty he needs to go Well whatever the case and I said whatever the case They they can't get rid of these people and this is one of the ways they're doing it now well ABC is having none of it They're not on board huh?

41:58 ABC's not on board with that. All they're on board with is the Dimension Bs, but butt-slamming of Trump and when you listen to their report compared to CBS let's start with clip one. Butt slam! Bannon turning on the president and his family President Trump is tweeting about Bannon now nicknaming him sloppy Steve The president is also going after the author of the bombshell book tonight, the author saying he spoke to multiple members of the presidents inner circle He says they told him that the president is like a child, he does not read, he does not listen Here's ABC senior White House correspondent Cecilia Vega tonight. President Trump today headed off to Camp David for the weekend, as for questions he wasn't having it. We're making America great again thank you very much! The new book Fire and Fury taking his White House and it seems all of Washington by storm at bookstores long lines within hours empty shelves

42:54 The president now lashing out at author Michael Wolff and former chief strategist Steve Bannon. A key voice in the book quoted disparaging the president and his family, the president tweeting the book is full of lies misrepresentations and sources that don't exist Look at this guy's past and watch what happens to him and sloppy Steve. Wolf stands by every word, and tells NBC News the president's inner circle thinks he is unfit for office. They all say he is like a child And what they mean by that is he has a need for immediate

43:30 immediate gratification. It's all about him, they say he is a moron, an idiot... This man does not read and does not listen." Wolf paints a portrait of mentally unstable man saying the president often repeats the same stories every three minutes and recently at Mar-a-Lago failed to recognize lifelong friends. I will quote Steve Bannon He's lost it. Well, before you say anything... Before you say anything from Politico this morning Bannon expresses regret after slamming Trump family in new book

44:11 In fact, he says Donald Trump Jr. is both a patriot and a good man He's been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that has helped turn our country around I regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting regarding Don jr Has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments in the first year of its presidency rut row That kind of messes things up. Well, not necessarily because what other show besides this one is going to read that quote? Nobody but the thing is he doesn't say Kushner's a good guy so that still kind of fits with my theory You gotta get back on track because that's what CBS is doing they know whats going on but ABC and NBC both

44:57 are just doing this and they have Wolfgang, the guy's a moron. He's an idiot! He lost it!" And then they go on to talk about how he didn't recognize people that means he is like losing his mind. Hey who are you? Edmar Alagra, yeah he didn't recognize the reporter or his friend from Media Matters who set him up with the reporter Oh who were you? Yeah okay you can sit down reporter whatever it is Now, here's the thing. They go on with the moron, the idiot they good they report all this stuff and then as you play clip two they do they say this these incidents not confirmed by ABC News now that's your ISO so here you go it is an ISO I know I should put under now here you go it goes like this This is none of this is confirmed but we're gonna report it on network news anyway

45:48 None of the other people did. No, but we're gonna do it that tells me that ABC is whatever the current loop is that you have to be in they're not in or they've been left out of it I have no idea what they are trying to pull here but their putting Disney the main corporation at risk You can't say we have no confirmation of any of this shit. It's interesting you bring that up because let me just play this I'm gonna go back to that clip the screaming clip where he was asked about this. Listen carefully. This morning you were tweeting about your mental state, why did you feel the need to tweet about that this morning? Well only because I went to the best colleges or college uh...I went to a- I had a situation where I was a very excellent student came out made billions and billions of dollars became one of the top business people went to television for ten years

46:42 a tremendous success as you probably have heard, ran for president one time and won. And then I hear this guy that does not know me doesn't know me at all by the way did not interview me for three he said he interviewed me for three hours in the White House it didn't exist okay its his imagination so many of the people that I talk about in terms of fake news actually came to the defense of this great administration and even myself Because they know the author and they know he's a fraud. I consider it a work of fiction, and i think its disgrace that somebody is able to have something do something like that The libel laws are very weak in this country if there strong it would be very helpful you wouldn't have things like that happen Okay so I think thats where maybe going we may be going towards and he talked about this alot In his uh...in the campaign About the libel laws

47:42 Maybe, but I still like to know what. I don't know where Disney fits into this because they obviously fit into this and ABC is just on this rampage. They do have the rest of this kind of a short. ending here this is Wolf on ABC. This is the clip 3 which is the final of it but that's not the final, the report went on forever this is the final clip that I have." But the White House now forced to answer questions about the president's mental stability. It's disgraceful and laughable if he was unfit probably wouldn't be sitting there. This is an incredibly

48:20 strong and good leader. Their strategy to disparage Wolf as someone who had limited sources and limited access the president tweeting today I never spoke to him for book but But Wolf says whether or not the president realized it was for the book, they did spend about three hours together during the campaign and in The White House. So let's get to Cecilia Vega with us live tonight from The White House and Cecilia President Trump was hoping to start the new year boosted by victory on the tax cuts but this book is now dominating the White House agenda for sure? Oh it certainly isn't there is definitely a sense of outrage outrage and frustration about that here David but this

48:57 is a West Wing used to dealing with crisis. David, as one senior White House official told us quote people expect us to be running around with our hair on fire but it's hard to do that when it's already been burned off. Sicily Vega? Yeah Then I will say if you're listening to this program right now and instead of thinking boy the media are really full of crap, You're thinking boy these guys are the Trump protection podcast. You need to leave. The Trump protection podcast! Yeah, you need to leave because you're really misunderstanding what's going on here Because the next time it'll be about something that you're involved in and you're gonna notice The bull crap and then maybe too late because now you can't change this once this stuff is out So this will be your right. I mean, this will be history forever Trump is a moron He's an idiot he watches a gorilla chowding. I mean they've been pounding on this topic as part of the rotation He's an 80 is unfit for office. He's unhinged and plus the other things. He's a liar or and there's a million other things there I mean he is a ridiculous boaster which does not help his cause but

50:04 But he's not, I mean why are they trying to...I think this is damaging the country. You cannot disable the President of the United States who has a lot of things that he has got to do just day-to-day just to keep the country from getting attacked by or by subterfuge. I mean this is not a healthy situation, this is very dangerous and nobody seems to care about that they want to get this maniac out of there when the whole thing is political say it again the reason you want to do this with Trump is to keep things so unstable till 2018 because

50:43 The Democrats are completely out of the government. They've been pretty much marginalized, it's all run by Republicans and they have to get back in by any means and this is their methodology I think it's low end, doesn't talk about issues... Well the question is will it work? Well, they don't know. They think it will that's why they're doing it and they're going to keep doing it for the next... Oh no I know they think but I don't see this working. You're right if its doing anything it's ripping the country apart which of course the president is participating in willingly. Well yeah well he's not politically savvy

51:21 He was politically savvy. We wouldn't have any I mean if he was as savvy about politics as he seems to be about real estate, right? We probably wouldn't have any of this. He'd be heads would be flying well Let's let's take a little trip. Let's take a little trip you sitting down Well I gotta, hold on a second let me get a drink of water cause I forgot to go do bench pee. Oh no no don't drink the water because you might puke. Are You Ready? Let's take a trip we're going in John! We're going deep into the alternate universe! Here...we....gooooooo! America first! America first! Here we go dimension view, dimension view, dimension view! We choose the view! Haaaahhh!

52:10 Hey Sparky sparking all right here. We are John dimension B Okay, and dimension be we have a continuous loop of Stephen Colbert Stephen Colbert and his audience and Stephen Colbert I believe is still the number one Chat show in the evening still the number one is the number one late-night talk show number one yes Number one and here's what he had to say about this book but today But today we learned why Trump may be acting like this. According to a new book called Fire and Fury, Donald Trump didn't want to be president he didn't want him to win there's a name for that the majority of American voters

53:05 Trump was planning on failing and walking away with the fame and the money. Or as the article describes it, this was a real-life version of Mel Brooks' The Producers Now in some ways it still is I mean just look at all the happy Nazis Oh! There we go What? Am I being too hard on Nazis? Didn't realize they had so many Nazi fans here tonight It's a brilliant plan, but then tragedy struck. He won! Donald Trump Jr told her friend that on election night his father looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania was in tears and not of joy Really, Melania cried on election night That is the first thing we have in common Other than of course our smoky eyes

54:08 The campaign was in such disarray that his closest advisors had no faith in him, like Trump strategist and Vincent D'Onofrio for Men In Black. You got any sugar water? When he came on board in August, Bannon thought the campaign was done for. He described it as the broke dick campaign. The campaign struggled with a candidate who had no previous government or military experience Our previous president was a professor of constitutional law but in Trump's campaign early on A campaign staffer was sent to explain the Constitution to the candidate

54:54 You can't have a president who doesn't know what the Constitution is. That's like a pilot saying, attention passengers we are heading toward Houston so just sit back and enjoy the flight one quick thing if anyone on that back there knows how to get to Houston then land a plane please just push your call button and I'm not sure which button that one is though And it just went on and on from there yeah So... That's what he does He's very popular But it was interesting to hear that the Hitler joke first didn't go over too well. You know, people like, oh... Well I think a lot of the people there obviously had not because he was a reference is actually have call back to the producers Yes

55:41 Which was about Hitler and Nazis. Yes, and well I said there's a lot of happy Nazis Yeah which is what happened in the? There was no happy Nazi. No they were acting happy in the play yes the producers or springtime for Hitler And he was trying to connect those two Visually a gag and he couldn't do it. He just didn't have the I mean it was your you can't do well, I'll tell you the problem his audience Probably has never seen it. I'm guessing that's true. They probably go to the Broadway play yeah, I Mean so they was redone as a movie a second time yes after the Broadway play But it wasn't a success because it wasn't as funny is there original with zero most L luckily tonight

56:32 I will have the DVR running. I'm sure i'll have plenty of fun clips for Thursday as Seth Meyers is hosting The Golden Globes tonight. Well, Seth Meyers has talked about this hosting gig because it's causing a problem with... well you wanna are we... No, we're still-I think we stick in dimension B for this clip okay. The first major award show of the year in Hollywood, The Golden Globes, is about to kick off as the red carpet is laid down at the Beverly Hilton Hotel Although Hollywood is no stranger to dealing with issues during awards, this year's season has been overshadowed by numerous allegations of sexual harassment and abuse. Something the Globe's host Seth Meyers isn't afraid to tackle. We talk about difficult things on our show a lot so... Difficult things! We have some practice but we have a good group of writers that when- I love how it's all wee wee wee wee wee

57:26 What about you? You're not standing there, it's just if there is critique... He is not writing this material. No but he also doesn't want to take responsibility for it We are talking about difficult things and everybody voices their opinions and that's... You know what, can you stop a second I wanna call on that one If your guy doing lot of people materials and your still working on it as team effort And you start saying me,me,me they gonna write crap for ya He, I wouldn't... First of all? I wouldn't say that at all. I wouldn't be talking about it. Does he ever go out and say hey these jokes are written by my team! No. He never does that. Never

58:03 You don't do that. We know it's a guy He does a lot of referential material when he doesn't fine It's not a big deal. It's not blames him, too All right, we talk about difficult things and yeah when they suck he blames the writers exactly That's that's the whole mark of it great late-night talk show all right you made your point go on to break to tackle I We talk about difficult things on our show a lot, so we have some practice. But we have a good group of writers that when we're talking about difficult things everybody voices their opinions and that's been very helpful to have happen.

58:39 Say what? Maybe he's got a mouse in his pocket, that's what he was referring to when he says we. A conversation backstage before you go on stage and have it in front of an audience so fingers crossed that we hit the right tone but that is certainly our goal. Fingers crossed that we hit the right tone! What is the tone? A-hole? This is a problem now this is a real problem A lot of these women in this video report you saw some of the dresses already, so it's black dresses out of... It's for the- there is actually this, it says something interesting here. Hold on. This have already announced that they will be wearing black on Sunday to show solidarity amidst the Me Too and Time Up movement Times up movement? Have you heard of the times up movement? Times up for Trump Is that what is? I don't know its gotta be No let me see Let do, im gonna bing it, im gonna bing it Here we go Bing it baby We are binging it! BINGIT.IO

59:39 Okay, I see powerful Hollywood women unveil anti-harassment action plan. I think this is what Time's Up is about. I thought it was Me Too! That was about Me Too? Well, Me Too is not working... Oh you think okay Time's up is about oh he's fucked then because he's got to He has to here's what he's gonna do they're gonna shoot They're gonna shift This into an anti Trump thing because of that book You have to remember that interview, I know it. That-I've seen that interview. That interview took place before the book brouhaha took off. Okay okay gotcha So you- It's gonna be a lot of book stuff But the big problem is for the designers! If you look at the red carpet coverage which i always watch, I love watching Ryan Seacrest

1:00:23 I have a big TV so i can actually see him and then he'll say what who are you wearing? Who are you wearing and Juliana Rancic, who are you wearing oh it's so gorgeous gorgeous gorge. Who are you wearing And uh It'll all be crappy black and that's not what the haute couture designers want to show because that's not the color for the next season. So I see a problem here and woe is me if you're not wearing black, how about that? Yeah i know it's going to be a problem from nowhere but what about wearing black highlights or lowlights as it were? Show solidarity amidst the Me Too and Time's Up movements However, there may be more prominence of the issues during the awards themselves.

1:01:20 watching a night where I'm sure people will tell us what they're feeling and that's always been a great thing about the Globes is people use it as platform and i don't think this year will be any different. No, that's not a great thing about the Globes! That's what's annoying about all award shows When you look at things like the Me Too movement in Time's Up and when you look at Solidarity that we are going to see on Sunday There's a reason to be hopeful that next year is going to be different than this year and moving forward that ten years from now This will hopefully all feel like ancient history, but it will require a solidarity And I think that we're just starting to see the beginning of that now The golden days will be ad live on NBC on Sunday January the 7th. Yay Okay Well, it'll be interesting to watch there again with the women are gonna have to wear black. This is this is bullying

1:02:06 Yeah, it is bullying that you gotta wear black. I mean if I'm one of the women and an actress...I'm gonna come rolling out there And I got this special dress that was maybe designed over the last six months by my favorite guy Yep Or or wim or woman yeah Got a painted white I want to wear this and now have to wear black because I just been cowed into wearing black I call him or her up and say hey what are we going to do? I've gotta be like black! I gotta wear black! We'll throw something together I can't wait. It's gonna be so much fun. Where did this alternate universe story come from? Came from the alternate universe! Alright John, let's go back. Are you ready?! Let's get back quick because i'm nauseous From this day forward it's going to be only America first! Come on Sparky! Hop on! Sparky come here! Come here! Oh oh here we go hold on! We choose love!

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1:10:56 There you go, I'm looking at my clip list and I see the buttocks clip is like a Meg which is bullcrap. It should be about I don't know 60k it's an ISO so I must have messed up. I think so. I'll fix it. I'll fix it well where that came in is I play the full clip which has got the buttocks clip within it this is a story about One of the women that accused judge Roy Moore no wait should we do it shouldn't we be doing our update if we're gonna If we're gonna, do this what up? And now it's time for your sexual harassment update. Yeah, it's a sexual harassment about that one sorry That's my fault. It's okay This woman who came out and bitched about him grabbing her buttocks Which is at the clip is in here Her house was burnt to the ground No Hillary's house

1:12:00 No, not this woman's. Hillary's house just caught fire. It was different. They were burning records is what they were doing probably and they got... Oh that guy lost in the fire I'm sorry! So this house and then it turns out you see there's all these indications we had they kept hammering the Roy Moore thing and this again is ABC so somebody actually finds out it was some like some local nudnik that probably said the fires been trouble in neighborhood they talk about it but But while they're at it, while they're reporting it, they might as well put in a couple of slam pieces so we can make the association that Trump and Roy Moore are all the same person and they just sexual predator creep. So let's play Judge Roy Moore unrelated. Oh I'm sorry.

1:12:48 The buttocks clip. I was unprepared, here we go. Next from Alabama this evening a fire at the home of a woman who accused Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual assault and late today authorities revealing they are speaking to a person of interest ABC's Steve Ossonsami tonight Fire investigators in Alabama tonight believe that this was no accident, that someone purposefully burned down the home that belongs to Tina Johnson. One of the women accusing Republican Senate nominee Roy Moore of sexual assault but they tell us tonight they don't believe this was any sort of payback for that accusation and not connected to Roy Moore or any of his followers

1:13:23 Johnson claimed Moore crossed the line when she was 28 and meeting with Moore in his law office saying that he couldn't keep his hands to himself. He just grabbed me from behind on my buttocks, and he just squeezed it really hard And I remember thinking...I was so ashamed humiliated in that moment. It took everything out of me." The house burned down Tuesday and neighbors report seeing a drunk man walking around the home before the fire In a statement tonight investigators say they're speaking to a person of interest but say, No one was home and no one was hurt in the fire. Neighbors say they do know the man who was seen around the house, and say he has long been a problem. David? Non-story! My buttocks... Run for the sole purpose of running that buttocks clip. Right. This is ABC again this isn't it this isn't anti Trump news item. They're sexual predators at ABC all of Disney I'm convinced and its very..I think we need to be looking at Disney very closely

1:14:35 Well Disney does have all sorts of issues if you wanted to start looking at it. The pedophilia stuff always comes from that direction, yeah so maybe somehow... You know you gotta be careful when people are screaming when they're pointing at somebody else and we've seen this many times in this hashtag me too what was the other one? What's the Times Up movement? That the people who are yelling the loudest Yeah, well there's an old Dutch saying for that. Wat je zegt ben je zelf met je kop door de helft! Exactly. Second Columbia professor resigns after accusations of sexual misconduct as predicted on this program that it would hit academia but is not really opening up... yet

1:15:21 No, it's gonna be tougher in academia because there is a... It's like police. You know they got like the blue line, the blue badge of honor or whatever they call it where the police don't bust each other cause they're all you know, just don't. Huffington Post, HuffPo, HuffPo, HuffPo contributor and self-proclaimed male feminist and leftist Christian Chekulas Turns out he has a history of domestic abuse and physical violence carried out against his ex-wife Amber Sweeney. There you go, that would be an example of what we're talking about He punched me so hard I had a black eye! He has thrown me through the wall kicked me and beat me! He shoved me through the wall in front of our little one She was a baby at the time And that guy looks like a dick Well... And what do we have yet here?

1:16:13 Vice was one of the leading voices that falsely claimed that Gamergate was about harassment, misogyny and sending death and rape threats to female game developers. I'm reading from a gamer website obviously. So there two guys from vice were fired or suspended Andrew Creighton and Mike Germano for you guessed it sexual misconduct Dropping like flies Yes But it is quite quiet on the, on the YouTube. Yeah it's just dying off I just want to get the... It'll come back though because its part of the Trump cycle so it will be back in some way Yes. It'll be tonight, it will be uh..it will be the-I think the theme, the best one was Franken and I'm still surprised he didn't try to stay Well did he actually leave yet? yes he did because they swore in the other person Oh okay He is done an gone oh I didnt realize yeah see went out like a whimper, went out with a whimper not a bang but he, I still think that the theme

1:17:16 And I think we're good. This is gonna crop up at the Golden Globes, this will be a little short-term prediction Yep The theme that why am i? Why are they throwing me out for something I did years ago and it was innocuous when we have a sexual predator in the White House Admitted sexual deviant in the White House admitted sexual deviant yeah I'm by the pussy guy And so that'll show up on the thing tonight. There'll be and somebody may actually come to defense if I was in the dimension over there, I would do it. I would come into the defendant if I was in Hollywood when I was getting a real order up on the stage. That's what I would do. Really? If I was in Dimension B, I'd say, I want to say, do a call out to Al Franken who was right and then you know, do something. You would have the same career as The Dixie Chicks. It's a good idea

1:18:07 It works. Yeah, well luckily there is Some help and on oh, you know I should Yeah, close it out for a second. Let me just close that one out But we do continue as there is some possible this treatment on the horizon For dimension B And we need to just step back for a second and no yes We need to remember that we have ample evidence That dimension be human beings have enlarged amygdalae and an enlarged amygdala. Yeah, you know when you are in a life-threatening... In any situation where you are afraid your brain sends signals the amygdala sends signals to the rest of you to the important parts of your brain I'm not a brain scientist as you can tell

1:19:00 that says this is life-threatening and that's why you hear these types of, you know we're all going to die and he's going to kill us. And Hitler...all this stuff So there was a study and I have the study here from Science Direct and i will read the abstract Recent evidence indicates that phyllocybin Psilocybin. Yeah, don't tell everyone what it is yet. Don't tell anyone... be quiet! Psilocybin with psychological support may be effective for treating depression some studies have found that patients with depression show heightened amygdala responses to fearful faces. Fearful faces remember that like an orange face

1:19:49 And there is reliable evidence that treatment with SSRIs attenuates amygdala responses. We hypothesized that amygdala response to emotional phases would be altered post-treatment with psilocybin In this open label study, 20 individuals diagnosed with moderate to severe treatment resistant depression which is what dimension B has underwent two separate dosing sessions with psilocybin Psychological support was provided during and after these sessions, and 19 completed fMRI scans. After the first week private okay neutral fearful and happy faces were present in the scanner analysis focused on the amygdala group results revealed rapid an enduring improvements in depression symptoms post psilocybin site psilocybin psilocybin increased responses to fearful unhappy faces were observed in the right amygdala post treatment and right amygdala increases two fearful versus neutral faces were predictive of clinical improvements at one week after

1:20:48 And this would be able to be administered with a spray. Woo! Now you may tell everybody what psilocybin is? Well, first of all I don't have the same position that you have. I think the audience knows what we're talking about. These are magic mushrooms. I didn't know it because i've never done them. Well maybe you should. You won't be so fearful of ugly faces. Damn man... That was uncalled for. It's just a gag I have some still somewhere someone sent, but we've been too afraid to try him because you know someone sent them Yeah, well yeah. You don't know what's there? I mean you could have bought him in Holland and one point I think they stopped selling them finally now They haven't in the smart shops. I think still do these you think I think that's where I go Just go there and buy it for something trying me, but but I like the idea of it being a spray Yeah That sounds pretty cool Here's the no agenda version you get rosewater

1:21:53 Oh, you should have a little rose water spray on your face. It's so good for your complexion and it's just healthy and yeah Just sniff it all in And you spray him with the psilocybin I don't think that's legal You know, I don't think people like to be drugged personally unknowingly drugged the pharmaceutical balance sheet would say otherwise Unknowingly is the word I added a word. Yeah, so there's no evidence people want to be drugged There's no evidence exactly you got it But it does bring us hope that we can change the world Because it's it's I think it's real It's a real affliction and I love but I think we've I think that's it's proven itself I loved that that it's actually scary faces

1:22:49 Is what really freaks him out. So now it starts to come together, oh they see the Cheeto head and ohhh its orange! Its scary! Huh, it's weird. No it's not weird It's something I wonder what this with the spray what mmm? It needs to be tried That's what now there is a try the spray There is some more science news on the horizon This is another product for us since of smell can trigger memories and emotions now researchers say the smell of a loved one can actually ease your stress level The sense of a romantic partner makes people feel more calm. Conversely, the smell of a stranger can trigger feelings of anxiety and raise the level of stress hormones in the body. Study authors writing in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology say that if you're stressed or traveling grab your partner's shirt and pull it in close." So I'm thinking...

1:23:42 If we create, you know it could be either t-shirts because we have a t-shirt no agenda shop kind of an operation and we infuse it with our body odor then people will feel safe when they're wearing our shirt. They'll be reminded. Well, there's a couple of you got a problem with this idea One is I'm not doing it but two The other kind of a non-starter Is the other problem is they don't know what we smell like and they wouldn't reassure anybody no, but I would want to remind Myself that I saw an old I think was on Leno or maybe as even before Leno might have been Near the end of Carson one of the actresses was yacking about

1:24:25 how they were, I don't know how they got to this part of the conversation but it talked about memories and smells. And this woman who's a very attractive actress she says all I know is that when I smell Old Spice... I go nuts! In a good or bad way? In a sexy way. Sexy way really?! Yeah Because it's an old established smell. That's a daddy complex or something like that, grandpa complex. But old spice... Grandpa. Old Spice is a gizzy good thing. Okay well you're not doing it but I think that once you have listened to the show in your No Agenda odorous t-shirt Stint shirt Been our stink shirt

1:25:09 We have a new product, Stink Shirt. So you're wearing the stink shirt you're feeling good your amygdala shrinks You feel dynamite and maybe we put a little bit of magic mushrooms in there just for good measure Then when you're on the road And if you feeling tough and things are not going to all you put that he's put the stink shirt back on Back on and you're good to go yeah, you probably get some funding for that Probably not. All right, onward! So are we in a segment of some sort? No still no we are completely open and free to go so let's go into discuss a little bit about the flu oh good everybody got the flu so I have a couple of different clips but they keep running these damn stories and we ran one like a couple months ago

1:25:57 But then it turned out that the flu shot is no good. And here's a clip from December, the December of last year and this is flu and bad shot. Flu season is getting worse and fast. The number of states sickened with high flu levels more than doubled in the last week now at 21. The South and West seeing the most patients with flu related symptoms Is this flu and bad shot or a new update? No, this is flu in bad shot really does it have a date attached to it mmm Let me look at properties. I don't know if I can do that for well I can go into your clips Actually you can hover the arrow over the file And it should pop up automatically after about two seconds is that a Windows tip yes a Windows tip okay, and it says

1:26:57 Now item type mp3 file size and length it doesn't give me any what's this okay? What's the size size? You really determine things by size, huh okay. Yeah the size is 856 KB Okay well I'm sorry then that's exactly the clip you're playing. I mean here Here's the flu update You're right, you're right. Play the flu and bat play what you were playing it. You are correct. You picked the right clip and I was...I don't know why I got so panicky. Flu season is getting worse and fast The number of states sickened with high flu levels more than doubled in the last week now at 21. The South and West seeing the most patients with flu related symptoms

1:27:45 This one really hit me hard. California school teacher Laura Londano skipped her flu shot this year I have my two weeks off and this is how i'm spending my holidays, just in bed now here in urgent care. This season's vaccine isn't cutting it reportedly only 10% effective against this year's dominant strain of flu yet doctors still recommend getting a flu shot Everybody who I've seen who had flu, most of them have not had the flu shot. And the people who have had a flu shot their symptoms are much less and experts say since not everyone who has the flu goes to the doctor the numbers are likely higher than reported

1:28:23 And Adrienne Banker joins us now live on the set. And Adrienne, you were telling me the flu season is supposed to get worse before it gets better? Exactly Tom so the experts at the CDC are saying that the flu should peak sometime between now and the end of January So they're saying it's a critical time to be extra vigilant about hand-washing and of course You still have time to get that flu shot That hand washing though is so important all right Adrianne Thank you Hmm...that hand washing is so important Yeah, there's a couple of screwy things in this report. One is the flu shot is no good but it still somehow lightens the load if you get the flu We had the flu... everybody had the flu that went to on this trip And what kind of symptoms were there?

1:29:05 I don't know. We all took Tamiflu, just the normal flu was the flu-flu. Mimi hit her a little harder she took couple of weeks to get over it and but everybody else took Tamiflu pretty in and out no problem that's what you want to do if you catch it soon enough vitamin D3s, Tamiflu and your good to go yeah wasn't a problem I don't know what these people are doing. If they're getting Tamiflu, I think everyone should have at least some backed up something in the cupboard that you can use it or the one I like even better is a real lens. Yes. You always mentioned relentless ever lens and I think it's like but it's harder to use though because you have to breathe and you got this guy's was a powder and somebody let's go back to the initial concept. The initial concept is the flu vaccine should stop you from getting the flu? Yeah

1:29:56 And it just seems like it rarely does. In fact, people- I'm just getting worse and this is apparently this year now the flu update report goes from the 21 states and this other clip was from yesterday and it makes us sound like we're in the worst situation ever. The new numbers from CDC are no surprise to Dr Kate Katzung another patient with flu-like symptoms ending up in her ER So far this flu season a staggering 41,719 cases have been reported. Nearly three times more than this time last season. Christian got it on the 21st then Jacob got at the 23rd then I got it 26th Outside Portland Oregon the Frazier family fell like dominoes four children crippled by the flu

1:30:51 Mom Jamie is still sick today. Christmas consisted of the ones who were sick wearing surgical masks to open their presents and then pretty much going back and laying in all of our beds again. It turns out the Frazier family was hit with two strains of the flu even though the kids had their flu shot Last year at this time the outbreak was widespread in 12 states. This year, 46. You know I got an email from the local health authorities in Austin Texas then it was sent to everybody who attended an outdoor charity event that was before Christmas

1:31:34 And it said, oh well one of the people attending had pertussis which is whooping cough. Yeah whooping cough and what was interesting is the health officials said in this email they said even people who have received a vaccination for pertussis Can get it and pass it on I'm like well, that's not a vaccine then It's not working very well. I mean what is none of this stuff seems to work measles you get the shot You know your measles mump rubella you can measles I mean Maybe I'm just the only one but I thought that you know we've eradicated polio because we all had our polio shot And it seemed to stick there's no polio yes

1:32:23 But then well, I don't know why this shot this particular flu season shot is useless If I go back and listen to 10 years of shows a betcha eight of the ten have the similar report didn't work Well, a lot of them didn't do it seems more and more likely. They don't work anymore. I think there's some I mean, the way they do this to begin with is to try to predict...they find some flus that are being honed in China because China mixes their ducks with their pigs. There's all these reasons that the flu propagates in China. Now a couple of things one, China doesn't do things where they used to do them 20 years ago

1:33:04 And so I don't know that they can find the flu in China as much as they used to. Then they look in Australia, because it's winter and Australia when it's summer here, so they can find a couple of flus down there maybe then they could make a vaccine at the last minute and sell it to us but this whole mechanism of finding and guessing the flu and putting four different vaccines together is because there are supposed to be four flus in there by this much. Where in that last report, the report before that with the kids they said they had two strains of the flu and they were sick as dogs and... They had a flu shot which is not a good thing And then the report before that where it says well you should get the flu shot anyway because the symptoms will be less It doesn't sound like it from THAT report

1:33:52 The kids were in bed all the time. And what, when you know get your Tamiflu instead it's an antiviral that works pretty well. Yeah this is a this isn't actual no agenda tip you do want to have that in your standard. You want your Tylenol? Do you want your boner pills? You want your iodine and you want some uh Tamiflu or Relenza yeah I used to always travel with a, in my suitcase always have a pack of Tamiflu. The key to Tamiflu is you gotta catch the flu early because however far along you are in the flu situation would if your sick getting sicker

1:34:30 you freeze it in, because it stops the reproduction and allows the body to develop antibodies. But you freeze at that point and you end up with a flu for five... Whatever point in the flu cycle you are at, you're stuck there for five days if you catch really early like right away and notice that is the flu not cold, that's as far as its gonna go. So you don't want to... Bottom line is just doesn't work and lot of this is bull crap Yeah, it's all bullcrap. These people are dropping dead from this flu! Yeah but we're not gonna... People are not really dropping dead from this flu. People are dropping dead from not eating real food that's the main problem eat some real food yeah I got a note from producer Dustin who heard the story about uh the partner of that producer i was talking about and he analyzes like packaged foods to see how they can get less ingredients in and make it more addictive

1:35:28 Yes, he said in 2001. He moved to Madison Wisconsin he worked with programmers That used to work for crafts IT department They said crafts goal at the time was to lower the amount of real cheese And the reason is it's a commodity and the price goes up and down so they want you know more plastic or whatever It is they put in there So they can you know kind of stabilize the cost Whatever it is You're not eating food You're eating plastic. Yeah, you're eating a most fire delicious plastic. It's delicious Yeah, here's another here's another we did these news reports early I'm gonna do one more because I've been carrying this clip forever But this is like one of these clips

1:36:25 that when they're done is network stuff. And then when they're done, you just have more questions that just need to be answered and the one very glaring in this dinosaur eggs in China In Southeast China this week a construction crew made an egg-citing discovery. They were clearing ground for school when they found more than 20 perfectly preserved dinosaur eggs Scientists estimate the eggs roughly the size of small footballs are 130 million years old They were found in a part of China that was home to about twenty dinosaur species quite a find That's interesting

1:37:07 I thought so, but you know what question comes to mind? Were the eggs still good? Were they good. Could you fry one? No! The big question that comes to mind is... What are they worth?! Oh, and I didn't really think about that but yeah that makes sense Yeah Is it worth a million dollars an egg or are they worth 25 bucks? I have no idea And they didn't tell us anything They just said hey we found some eggs woohoo! And at the end of their report the beaches were open Woohoo!! Well, in that case then let me give you a real report about something. In my continuous obsession of the dumbing down of the American educational system which we've been following for a couple of episodes... well, we've been talking about it throughout the life cycle of the show really someone sent me a YouTube video podcast it's The Rubin Report have you ever seen this? Yes I have! I can't remember but I have seen it. I like this guy. I like The Rubin Guy he has pretty good show

1:38:09 And he had on an interesting guest, Eric Weinstein. Eric Weinstein is the executive director I think of Peter Thiel's...I have it here managing director of Thiel Capital so he's a money guy and that you it's worth looking at it to link in the show notes nashownotes.com will take you there this guy is a mathematician And so he analyzes things in a very interesting way. Just, fun guy to listen to and he had a number of points that I wanted to share and the first is about the state of our educational system in particular STEM Now what have we been told consistently for the past, nah crap let's say 10 years at least maybe longer

1:39:01 What have we been told? Yeah, about our educational system. We need more STEM! Well it's what we always hear is were the worst in the world. We're bottom of the list. We suck everyone's ahead... We're lousy at math or lousy at science Yes, we're lousy at stem This Weinstein guy says that is bull crap and well, have a listen. So do you weep for the state of math in America right now? Just the public state of it? Oh I have a totally different impression. I think we are unbelievable at science and engineering. And that what we're actually in is a multi-year, multi decade conspiracy effectively to deny just how good

1:39:44 our educational system can be, just how good some of our people are. And this has to do with the economics of staffing the STEM workforce science and engineering so in order to get the money get the labor we've had to continually pretend as if Americans are terrible at mathematics when I think were actually really good we have a very heterogeneous K through 12 system and some schools are terrible but there lots terrific ones and you know we have high schools multiple Bronx Science Stuyvesant, Far Rockaway which is now closed to produce multiple Nobel Prize winners and yet we pretend that we are somehow lagging. We're incapable and incompetent it really has to do with labor market issues where scientific employers are always looking to get lower cost labor they prefer usually to import

1:40:44 talent and effectively poverty from relatively less well-off countries to staff our science and engineering workforce. So I actually think we're doing terrifically well, I think math is in very good shape, I think physics is theoretical physics has been having a much harder time of it for the last 40 odd years so I'm pretty happy with mathematics. Professor Dvorak your thoughts? Well I'm not going to argue against that, I mean its possible It makes nothing but sense, really more oriented to making everybody kind of docile workers and office workers with the Democrat mentality. I like what he said that you know really they just want cheap labor so they'd rather say it's all crap let's import some Chinas

1:41:31 Yeah, there's that. Makes sense and they do want cheap labor this guy over in UC Davis over here has been talking about this when I was doing the Silicon Valley spin show in 1998 we'd have him on and he would be bitching and moaning but still doing it nobody pays any at all no no no It's fine We want more H1B Indians right From the Indian Institute of Technology, IIT. Well this comes from another point that he made which hopefully you'll have something to say about it because when i thought about... What? I said probably not. Probably not. It's a stretch Yeah thanks. I do have some educational stuff too so you can go on This is about growth

1:42:12 and how we got to where we are today with our commercial industry, just industry business as well as education. There's a big critique which is that sometime around 1970 the engines of authentic growth within the American economy and in the world economy sort of mysteriously started to sputter so if you think about post-war post World War II Anything that is built on a growth expectation is going to have the characteristic, for example law firm where partners can have several associates under them. Under him or her trying to become partners so while you're growing thats possible but when you hit steady state every one of these institutions with an embedded growth hypothesis becomes a Ponzi scheme

1:43:02 And so the problem is we absorbed this throughout our country and the universities function just like that law firm where one professor is hoping to train 20 future professors over a lifetime. Right, and we had about 8% of the country educated post-secondarily after high school before World War II and then we got up to about 50%. So that expansion fueled a golden age because you could do all sorts of things with promising people a future while having them contribute their youth into a System and then when that stopped between 1970 1980 there was a sort of a panic and then we had to restart as if growth fake growth, and you did that by Offshoring. You did that by mergers? You did that by playing around with numbers and

1:43:57 And so the universities got caught up in that. And that's really the problem, is we've learned how to play the science and engineering shortage card... How about that? It's a Ponzi scheme! I like it! I never thought of it that way but it makes SO much sense And we know that growth is an issue in general. I mean, do you have a...I ran a publicly listed company on NASDAQ If you're not growing by 20% every year then you're gonna get dumped by the shareholders? You're a shit company And so how do you do that? Well, ultimately you start jacking the numbers and really this only Sorry buying your competition is a good way. Yeah buy in your competition nobody left and then you're screwed and How about getting cheap labor? It helps cheaper labor people firing people well he wraps it up with this there's no such thing as a long-term labor shortage in our market economy because the wage level

1:44:58 There's no job an American won't do. I will literally clean your bathroom with my toothbrush if the price is right, so it's the same way I have a Steinway shortage in my apartment because not because there are no Steinways to be had but because I don't feel like shelling out for the grand piano that I've always dreamed of and so... Not cheap for a Steinway! What are we looking at? 25 grand or something? Must be. At least right yeah So, yes. And now that gets back to the minimum wage which is as you've pointed out many times the minimum wage should be closer to $30 not the 15 that everyone's buying into. Yeah. That's because we're really oriented toward cheap labor and turns out 15 is probably cheap.

1:45:51 That's exactly right. Americans won't do that job, he is right! I'm not going to go clean toilets for minimum wage but i might for $100 an hour... I'd do it for 25! You're a cheap date. I know, I am very cheap date. So yeah, I ball in on all this stuff of course but the education thing that I want to talk about is more insidious Because I don't know how it works into what he had to say, but I think it works in somehow And first I want to play these clips and I'm gonna tell you what's going on or What I think is going on. I think we're gonna see more of it I'm not absolutely sure why the numbers work out the way they do and why this trend has to whether this trend is being pushed But let's play Baltimore school CBS

1:46:41 Public schools were closed again today in Baltimore, but it wasn't a snow day. The schools have been dealing with flooding and heating issues blamed now on decades of neglect and mismanagement. Errol Barnett is there I'm here in school with my two coats because it's freezing. Outraged by the state of Frederick Douglass High School, teacher Karagu Buta posted these videos of buckled floors and burst pipes And we got steam It was almost as cold in there that is out here right now They flooded the first day and moved to another class then that class flooded At this elementary school former NFL linebacker and current teacher Aaron Mavin asked his students how they were holding up

1:47:23 Some Baltimore students endured 44 degree temperatures indoors before schools were closed yesterday and today. 60 of the city's 180 campuses reported weather-related problems. They should burn books? Yeah, so This is going on not just in Baltimore, it's going on everywhere. According to Mimi who is involved with the city government up in Port Angeles they're purposely not maintaining the big high school and some of these other schools up there Why not?

1:48:04 They want to tear them down and build new schools. Oh, okay it's a pressure tactic? It's a scam because apparently I guess there is money to be made by rebuilding the schools from scratch, tearing them down... There is a lot of construction costs involved. Maintenance is you could maintain a school if actually did it, probably keep the thing going forever. But there's no way of making any extra cash that you can put in your pocket." This is a scam and this obviously has been going on in the Baltimore schools longer and if you play Clip 2 there are even some weird things that the state is somehow involved in this. It is the cumulative effect of frankly

1:48:45 decades of underinvestment in urban school buildings. Dr. Sonia Santelises is the CEO of Baltimore City Schools Some of this is about also taking into account that young people need to be fed, that we have a lot of young people who are frankly safer in school then they are out. Since 2009, the school system has returned roughly 66 million dollars in state funding for repairs according to The Baltimore Sun that's because contracts didn't comply with regulations but the schools tell us that's misleading and say specific requests for school heating systems including one for Douglas High were deferred by the state

1:49:26 Amid all this, Butos says teachers have learned to be resilient. They do everything they can to make it better and they try not to fuss This is one of those situations where people should've been fussing for a very long time Now this week's problems have created a new practice for Baltimore schools. Each campus will now have a daily temperature check so decisions to close can be made on a case-by-case basis rather than at the district level, Jeff? All right Errol Barnett thank you okay is this money that they get from the federal government that is then supposed to go to this or how does this

1:50:02 I don't know. I just listened to this report, it was apparently state money and may have come from the feds originally you don't know but then they rejected it and sent it back and they wouldn't do this they wouldn't do that and in the contracts weren't compliant with some sort of regulation and there's a million excuses not to do the job of upgrading and keeping these schools running, keeping me the heaters going their furnaces And I mean, that's just one case. But when they showed the they were taking cameras around showing the floors were unraveling and there was rot on the ceilings and never paint the place...I mean this is all done on purpose instead of you can maintain some of these buildings forever. The parents will be happy to come in on Saturday and do some maintenance? Oh there'll be some liability issues. You can't do that anymore I guess, can ya? So the whole thing is some sort of massive scam

1:50:55 It's like Cal Berkeley, they're asking more people to... Oh you're an alumni. You should give us some money." Why are you building all these buildings? They've expanded the campus where there's all these useless buildings and got instead of the normal 30,000 students that got 40 it's getting the size of Ohio State yeah And it's like why well I'm glad you brought that up because I have a clip about Cal Berkeley Oh good. This is from Heather McDonald, who was a journalist I was not familiar with her work she was speaking on a panel the audio goes in and out little bit but it'll be very legible um and she deconstructs for us exactly why we're seeing what we've been seeing uh particularly at Berkeley

1:51:40 With you know these shutting people down shut up. Don't talk You can't you know, you can't do you have to be this way? You have to think this way I'm afraid for my life etc And it comes down the money as well The students are the most privileged individuals in human history at any college they have unfettered access To the thing that Faust sold his soul for knowledge and The Renaissance humanists would have killed for access to this college campus or any other. Every book in human history is available to you, You have scientific laboratories open without constraint, you have magnificent library collections, you have the ability if you want to learn languages, to learn history... This is the most privileged position

1:52:35 that anyone has ever been in. And to test how valuable it is, there are millions of Chinese students at this very moment who are studying nearly 24 hours a day in order to enter this environment. Now what I'm sketching out—what I see as the university's reality—is obviously not the dominant narrative today The dominant narrative on college campuses is that to be a female or to be an underrepresented minority is to be the target of incessant and virtually lethal oppression. During the wave of protests that took college campuses in 2015, in the fall, a group of minority students

1:53:21 occupied the provost office at Brown University and asked to be exempt from traditional academic requirements of showing up in class or doing their exams. Why? Because they said they were fighting to survive, they were fighting for their life at Brown Now I posit that's a delusion Nevertheless it is a delusion that is generated by an unholy alliance between students Student Services Diversity Bureaucracy. At Berkeley campus, UC Berkeley University of California, Berkeley the Division of Equity Diversity and Inclusion which is funded at 20 million dollars a year The Vice Chancellor makes 250 thousand dollars a year which is a pittance compared to UCLA's vice chancellor of equity diversity inclusion who makes 365 thousand dollars a year I'm thinking I need a new business card

1:54:19 That's a great title to have. What is it? Diversion, diversity equality... I mean never even heard of it these people making 300 grand which is much more than most faculty make they have hung this Berkeley division has hung banners throughout the campus emphasizing the university's paramount mission, which is to assign places in the highly competitive totem pole of victimhood. One health services person says I will be a brave and sympathetic ally. Well we all know this language of allyhood To need an ally means that it divides up into the oppressed

1:55:02 the oppressors and their allies. And if you're not in the oppressed or the ally category, One of the banners says, shows two underrepresented minority students who say allow others than yourself to exist. Again I would say that's a delusion and the adults on campus to the extent that they cultivate this mentality are not doing those students any favors because they are not seeing they have at their fingertips opportunities to learn and to plunge into real difference, which is studying something other than yourself. To plunge into the past. They will never have that opportunity again but this

1:55:54 view that universities are places of lethal threat is what leads, inelectably to the sense of entitlement to silence non-conforming speech whether through administrative fiat or through violence. After the Milo riots in Berkeley on February 1st A bunch of students wrote op-eds in the Berkeley student newspaper justifying the anti-Fa tactics that rioted both on Berkeley campus and in the city of Berkeley. And they echoed the very language of these banners. Remember, allow others than yourselves to exist. One student said I was fighting for the right to exist. Somebody else said again I was fighting for my life

1:56:47 As long as that sense is dominant, you are going to continue to get the demands to silence non-conforming speech because it is allegedly a threat to a student's identity. I'm thinking magic mushroom spray Wow! Isn't that amazing? That was a good one where'd you get that? Um...I think I don't know if someone sent it to me or i found that I was looking for something else. It was on YouTube so I came across somewhere but... Shut her up! Haven't heard from her for a while, I don't know where she is This very dangerous speech she's using there Yeah well she's talking old school Old school doesn't work anymore Old-school does not necessarily good thing too doing public anymore I guess I have the couple of things

1:57:46 I don't have a lot of the thematic thing. I'd like, but do have a couple things that I want to get off my chest in terms of clips. Let's play the Jeff said this is one of the pot reports i've been trying to avoid because they're all over the place. I'm in California pots legal now and everybody's doing reports on it and uh this what this one here? This is an NBC report that has two or maybe three whipsaws in it, you may or may not identify. But they're talking about one thing and then they bring in a clip that's got nothing to do with it

1:58:24 And then they continue their report as though they had verified their assertions, which is the classic what we call whipsaw in this show. It's also referred to a non sequitur because it doesn't make any real sense if you listen to it. But this is about Jeff Sessions and Pott and his nuttiness and this guy has attorney general and as a Republican who should be a 10th Amendment guy It's got his head up his ass. Just days after recreational marijuana sales began in California, the Attorney General's decision could dampen the spark that ignited the pot industry's massive growth

1:59:02 Today, Jeff Sessions rescinding an Obama administration policy which largely shielded legalized marijuana from federal intervention. Allowing prosecutors to enforce federal law that prohibits pot sales. It's been busy nonstop as soon as the doors open we have people waiting But in Los Angeles they're already rolling in green The budding industry expected a harvest $1 billion dollars in taxes within a few years. Wow, this report is so devoid of content they just filled it up with bad puns we're harvesting this oh my god do they bring in rolling it up? What else are they going to do? But in Los Angeles there already rolling and green the budding industry expected to harvest one billion dollars in taxes within a few years I expect lines out the door and I expect the sun come up

1:59:56 and people to enjoy their cannabis. With California set to become the largest market for marijuana, recreational pot is legal under state law in eight states and the District of Columbia. Some experts say the impact if today's move while uncertain may be limited The idea has always been to prioritize the most dangerous, the most violent, and the most difficult criminal organizations nothing about rescinding the policy We'll change that. Sessions, whose long fought marijuana legalization called it a return to the rule of law Good people don't smoke marijuana But today's decision doesn't clear the air where pot is sold Well good people smoke marijuana Well this guy you know I'm still convinced he's just trying to get fired Well there was... You know i was watching smirconish on CNN These uh they're like a weekly show

2:00:55 I don't know it. When you hear him, you'll probably recognize him. He said something good! Let's see what you're saying at my Smirconish Twitter and Facebook pages? What do we got? Smirconish, I'm smoking my first bowl of today watching you this morning and I've got a message for Sessions. I'm getting high today tomorrow and every day till i die My body, my choice Hey 420 time...I'm for you! I don't like the trampling on states' rights. I did want to raise that journal point however which I think the burden really is on congress to get off of the federal books That which he now is empowering US attorneys to empower, to use, to enforce. That's the word." Thank you very good point where is that outrage? I mean Sessions isn't dope. You're not wrong but this has been... Congress has been talking about this and we had some clips before it for a couple of years they're on the ...they're going to make a move

2:01:51 and do this, and I think Trump is inhibiting it. Well here's why he may have an issue." A drug test if you want to collect your unemployment check This week the Trump administration published this notice announcing it plans to rewrite rules on drug testing for unemployment insurance likely giving states more leeway to require more testing Last winter Congress overturned Obama-era regulation that limited drug testing for unemployment benefits to job categories where d for the job, like airlin enforcement officers. Rep want the testing to go f that I'm privileged to r very upset if they thought compensation while they w for unemployment benefits have to pay for it. And we

2:02:39 they lost their job through no fault of their own. George Wentworth from the National Law Employment Project calls added drug testing government overreach. To have the public perceive you as being more likely to be a drug user just because your unemployed, I think that really promotes an unfortunate area of practice. It's not going help the average unemployed worker when they're looking for new jobs Under any new Labor Department rule, it would be up to states to decide if they wanted a screen for drugs and how they'd pay for the expensive new requirements. That's bullcrap! Yeah so there is a problem. The system is somehow preventing this idiotic law which shouldn't have been on books in the first place And again its a 10th amendment thing

2:03:35 And I asked the question to people, how did prohibition come about? It wasn't some guy writing a federal law. They had to do a constitutional amendment. This is the same thing and then when people say well you know the feds trump state that's bullcrap Well, they had to do all right now is unconstitutional the fact that Jeff Sessions is supporting it and he's supposed to be a balabam Right sky great. Let me understand something did they have to do a constitutional amendment because there was a constitutional There was constitutional legislature about alcohol No It didn't know they had to do a constitutional amendment cuz you can't at the federal level

2:04:18 Just write a law saying you can't get alcohol is now illegal the way they did with marijuana. But the 21st Amendment was saying alcohol is legal? Yeah, it's the 21st Amendment Repealed the other and that's what that was my question. There is no constitutional Amendment about marijuana right so you don't need a constitutional amendment to overturn on an honor you're missing this okay? Explained, you don't need a constitutional amendment to overturn it You need a constitutional amendment to make it illegal the way they did with alcohol I see what you say okay gotcha

2:04:55 Gotcha. Nobody wants to talk about that and that's very 10th Amendment, very states rights and that's Jeff Session in Alabama! That's the state's right state so what is this guy coming off with? Oh marijuana people are bad people He doesn't realize, he is like violating all the principles of the Republican Party especially conservatives. Which he's supposed to be! Why is it? Well... He just wants to get kicked out that's the only theory we have. It's the only theory I've got because otherwise it makes zero sense. Why would you want to get kicked out and seen by the future of America which are all weed smokers as a douchebag?!

2:05:30 He doesn't see it that way. First of all, he'll get another pension and be able to double dip like a thief... Yeah we got that part. And secondly he actually doesn't think marijuana smoking is a good thing. He probably doesn't like alcohol either so why he joined up with Trump? He's a teetotaler! Which is always to me a bad sign. And I have an report on alcohol... We've long known that drinking too much alcohol isn't healthy, now scientists in Cambridge have added a stark new warning they found damaged DNA in the stem cells of mice after giving them diluted alcohol and say this points to an increased cancer risk for drinkers A missing part of the whole puzzle is how precisely alcohol causes damage to us

2:04:55 Gotcha. Nobody wants to talk about that and that's very 10th Amendment, very states rights and that's Jeff Session in Alabama! That's the state's right state so what is this guy coming off with? Oh marijuana people are bad people He doesn't realize, he is like violating all the principles of the Republican Party especially conservatives. Which he's supposed to be! Why is it? Well... He just wants to get kicked out that's the only theory we have. It's the only theory I've got because otherwise it makes zero sense. Why would you want to get kicked out and seen by the future of America which are all weed smokers as a douchebag?!

2:05:30 He doesn't see it that way. First of all, he'll get another pension and be able to double dip like a thief... Yeah we got that part. And secondly he actually doesn't think marijuana smoking is a good thing. He probably doesn't like alcohol either so why he joined up with Trump? He's a teetotaler! Which is always to me a bad sign. And I have an report on alcohol... We've long known that drinking too much alcohol isn't healthy, now scientists in Cambridge have added a stark new warning they found damaged DNA in the stem cells of mice after giving them diluted alcohol and say this points to an increased cancer risk for drinkers A missing part of the whole puzzle is how precisely alcohol causes damage to us

2:06:11 and what our research shows is that alcohol as it's being processed by the body and converted into energy transiently accumulates as a toxin which attacks DNA in a fundamental manner, and damages the genetic information that constitutes the code of life. Researchers examined the effects of acetaldehyde harmful chemical produced when the body processes alcohol It also showed how we defend ourselves, producing an enzyme that can break down the chemical and how DNA repair functions normally fix any damage. In mice when we take away the enzyme that clears a toxin as well as this DNA repair pathway then very small amounts of alcohol cause violent damage to the cells that produce blood

2:06:55 and we show these in two ways. First of all, we show that the chromosomes from these blood cells are fundamentally altered and this is important because altered chromosomes or altered DNA is the basis for why our cells ultimately go on to age or accumulate the changes that make them cancerous." The study was funded by Cancer Research UK it details how alcohol can increase the risk of developing breast bowel or five other types of cancer and suggests binge drinking may increase that risk even further. Oh, thank you Captain Obvious! Binge drinking? It's not good for ya... sure yeah I don't know it's like we've turned back the clock with the Sessions guy that's a very disappointing. That Sessions guy he just gets on my nerves i liked the guy before he became this

2:07:50 Thumper hey before we go into thanking some people two short stories now the first one is Sinclair broadcast group They were fine to John if you read this they were fined 13 million dollars by the FCC for failing to identify sponsored programming and Well, what's interesting about... so here's what they did. They had 60 and 90 second spots that promoted the Huntsman Cancer Institute I think it was John Huntsman's institute in Utah and aired them on the local newscasts as freestanding bits but the company did not identify the spots as sponsored content paid for by The Huntsman Cancer Foundation

2:08:36 Yeah, which is not that hard to do you put at the end right but so they were busted now I think the reason why they were busted as they're trying to buy a Tribune and someone's trying to stop them or yeah Sounds like this is a scam because I'm pretty sure this happens all The time that you are being hoodwinked into thinking something is an actual news story But that does bring me to another story. That that broke about Forbes magazine. that were probably written for the sole purpose of selling you a product and they dress it up like it's a news article. Joining me now to talk about this is Tyrell Ventura, host of Watching The Hawks. The report asserts that the publication of Forbes is aware of actual payoffs

2:09:41 In isolated incidents between brands and journalists, what are the grounds for that accusation Tyrell? That's a strong accusation. It is a strong accusation and where the outline journalist who was investigating this found this was in the case of Chris Chong who is an author or blogger for Forbes who was putting out stories about I want to say about a dozen stories up on Forbes and when these kind of allegations arose Forbes immediately took them down because most sites, your Forbes or HuffPosts they have rules that say they don't allow their contributors to do this. Because a lot of times these sites will approach the contributor not Forbes. They'll go after someone writing on Forbes and say hey do you want to make an extra $150 bucks? Or even more I saw some numbers $1100 and said hey do you want to do this insert into your article away you go.

2:10:30 of laid out in their reporting is that you really got the idea that most dot coms and most publications kind of just look the other way. You know, even though it's against the rules, there are rules they have for journalist conduct there, they don't really enforce them. They only kind of enforce after the fact after its made public somebody figures it out or another good journalist investigates the journalism as always getting paid on the side But what you're seeing is that a lot of people are using this for supplemental income and in the online news world, as you know, as I as well as I do my there's not a lot of money. That money window just getting smaller and smaller especially for independent journalists so the temptation to corrupt your reporting is there? And that's what these PR companies and these big corporations jump on and take advantage of So what I thought was interesting about this Is this not the publication itself

2:11:23 That is taking the money. It's the journalists who are on the take Yeah, yeah that's where you got busted and you can do they're not gonna get away with this hey This is I'm Forbes. I want the money I'll tell you when you can do a native ad story And I'll give it to you to do well how many that's okay? But how many journalists do you think are doing this especially on HuffPo BuzzFeed like the will huffpo Well huffpo probably a lot of them because then we get paid by HuffPo They don't pay right And so yeah, you have to do shit like that of course. So the trick is... I don't know about Forbes, Forbes pays money and real money. I don't know why why you would do that? Well what's real money if you're writing two articles a week That's not gonna keep you fed is it with Forbes You could make a lot of money at Forbes

2:12:15 Well, you don't make anything I like Brian maybe it's changed at Forbes. I mean they had they were throwing money around quite a bit when I was working for him and With those in the late 90s well Here's the good news The good news is that with our value for value model? You never have to worry about it when you're reading Huffpaw Well God knows maybe even Wapow who knows you got your thinking continuously who are they making money the journalist has no money that They take a money for this story WAPO and New York Times both pay their writers pretty well. And if you would take money for doing something else, you'd get fired immediately! Yeah if they found out sure Well they'll find out that's the joke of it because it's always done through PR agencies and they talk too much

2:13:01 You really can't get away with it as far as I can tell unless you're really good because they talk to me Yeah, that's a good point. It word gets around is what you're saying? Yeah Well words should get around that we do it differently Okay, we do have few people thank for show 999 or nine or seven. Yes, a few people is the operative word Yeah very few today actually Jeremy and Lederman is the top of this list at 101 dollars in one sense last year my douchebag friend He writes Michael Harker reminded me to start listening

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2:23:15 No belts, three roads. This is the Chinese initiative to take over the world where they have many routes, train routes. Yeah just to run their goods everywhere as cheap as they can and flood the market with Chinese stuff that's somehow subsidized by the government but maybe not we don't even know how that economy works well all of the EU all of Europe is in on it big time uh but also Pakistan would be a middleman you could get rich yes that is the economic belt so we have the the train belt this the sea route belt and we have

2:23:51 economic belt, so that's three belts. There are no roads involved even though they call it the One Belt One Road initiative and Pakistan is all in we've discussed this previously Pakistan is oh well we'll take your money China's we'd love to have some of some stuff moving through us will take it well I'm pretty sure now that its Rex Tillerson who was fighting this tooth-and-nail Maybe for his own good, maybe for the big oil. God knows but this is the latest. State Department they have announced just moments ago that they are suspending assistance to Pakistan. Michelle Kaczynski is with me now from the state department what exactly did they announce?

2:24:35 Hey Brooke, well we've known that the US now is spending more than $200 million worth of foreign military assistance to Pakistan. I mean that was something of a surprise even though what the State Department is saying now is this should come as no surprise to Pakistan but it's a big deal that you know we've heard the tough talk from President Trump as well as from the U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley on Pakistan and the US is not doing enough to counter terrorism so to take away this chunk of money now they're announcing today just now in fact that they're withholding even more, they're suspending above and beyond that 255 million dollar in security assistance here's what the State Department just told us

2:25:19 Today we can confirm that we are suspending national security, or excuse me, uh, we're suspending security assistance. security assistance only to Pakistan at this time. Until the Pakistani government takes decisive action against groups including the Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani Network, we consider them to be destabilizing the region and also targeting US personnel The United States will suspend that kind of security assistance to Pakistan So Heather's explanation was so thin I've gotta think it's about the Chinas they just don't want the Chinese in bed with anybody so you're gonna do that fine no money from us

2:25:57 And why are we giving money to Pakistan anyway? Well, so we have a long relationship with Pakistan when beginning when the Indians were in bed with Russia. Okay during the Cold War mm-hmm and so the Indians are by all the Russian jets And so we had to sell somebody some jets, so we sold them to them Pakistan and then with this been kind of a you know together with Pakistan for a long time and now they Decided well. You know these Chinese look a little more stable than Look at look at the color of their money hmm. Yeah, I love the color of their leader is that orange oh?

2:26:36 As long as he's not as long as their leader is not orange and their money is green. It was good to go Another member of the consortium would be Cyprus The cypress would have an important Role possibly at least that's what the Chinese put in all of their plans it could be Cyprus But maybe we'd be Greece and really the last time we heard anything from Cyprus Was when they shut down the banking if you recall yeah, this was what was it four or five years ago? Maybe longer six years ago Yeah They shut down the bank and then charged you a fee to get your money at which the fee was like a percentage of it Like 25% right again Russians were freaking out. They couldn't get any yeah because Russia's use Cyprus for their Like for some other banking well before the Chinas get into cypress oh here we go looks like we have a deal

2:27:26 between Israel and Cyprus, and this is unexpected a surprise I thought you know with the Leviathan gas field. I don't think it was a surprise to you! Well you don't know what I'm gonna say... They're already going to run that pipe through there. You don't know what i'm gonna say do ya? Okay, so something is a surprise. Yes the surprises So I thought there would be a pipeline of gas pipe which is coming it's been announced its you know Nobel Energy It's Bill Clinton as the advisor makes nothing but sense They were supposed to run a gas pipeline up to it would be Greece or could be Crete But no and there's BB netanyahu standing right there with the douche from Cyprus they are laying down a one-and-a-half thousand kilometer undersea cable

2:28:10 With a capacity of 2,000 megawatts to transmit electricity directly. This is new! Where's the electricity going to be generated? Well apparently from Israel I don't think they have that do they? Do they have that kind of surplus? Did they already set up these appliances? I don't know but i doubt it Well, I thought it was an interesting story. And maybe this next story... Now remember this is Israel that wants to lay basically an extension cord

2:28:49 A big one, an extension cord will cost three and a half billion dollars. And then this pops up in the news. Police in Cyprus say they're holding an Israeli citizen who's accused of organ trafficking. Moshi Harel was allegedly involved in luring donors to Kosovo a decade ago to sell their kidneys for transplants needed by rich Israelis Many of the donors remained unpaid. A Cypriot police spokesman said he was arrested at Lanarka Airport in late December Wait a minute. Maybe just coincidence? So they take your kidney and they don't pay you?! Yeah, bastards! All you get is a note with lipstick on the mirror while you're in your bathtub filled with ice I just it's just completely coincidence sure but when we have this big news story coming out and like You know then oh we caught this guy And it's the perfect story everyone's heard the story I got drugged They woke up I was in the bath tub full of ice It may be just a cover story for something else Something could be

2:29:45 Just thought that you know, you don't often hear stuff like that anymore and then it to be involved in Israeli in Cyprus I just thought that was an interesting coincidence. I found something I was just scrounging the newspaper And I found this and I went wait a minute this guy gets killed It's like that character remember that guy? That wasn't Sudan or someplace named double-faced boxcar He's got some stupid name is something daddy back there all the Marlboro man It's some guy that had two names and he was always getting killed. This is a story, I just ran like yesterday, one at Dead or Alive the frustrating failing hunt for ISIS leader Baghdadi! I thought they killed him several times in one time they killed that poor girl who stupidly went over there to talk peace

2:30:35 with ISIS and then he grabbed her, married her off to some creep. And then she got killed in a bombing that we initiated and that was supposedly killed Baghdadi. Why can't we get something that is a little more definitive with these stories? We hear it...we get the Baghdadis dead thing was on all the network news Yes, but now no apparently he's not dead in fact. Let me search the archives let me see if we have one of those clips Bag daddy, let's see I probably wouldn't have put the his whole name because I don't remember writing bag Daddy BAG HD ADI unless they have a couple of them here's the first one 10 armed trucks were destroyed in the attack and

2:31:24 But in a statement, an official from US Central Command said we cannot confirm if IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was among those present. So they didn't know? I don't have any other ones. Okay... We do but it's probably titled strangely. A little Bitcoin update for everybody. other cryptocurrency investments who are not following federal and state securities laws. The SEC adding, if you lose your money it may not be able to help get it back. Bitcoin jitters on Thursday also stretched across the globe to Israel where authorities proposed banning companies that invest in or mine bitcoin from the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange. The move came after a sharp rise in shares of company blockchain mining

2:32:31 which said it would shift from mining for gold and iron to mining crypto currencies. The Israel Securities Authority or ISA expressed concern that soaring share prices of Bitcoin companies are irrational and that Bitcoin prices were behaving like a bubble. The warnings are just the latest from regulators around the world, which have prompted huge swings in the value of the cryptocurrency. Bitcoin surged in mid-December to a record high near $20,000 then dropped to less than $12,000 at the end of the month it has since recovered some to $15,000. Yeah and since this report came out its gone up to 16 three or something

2:33:13 But it's not, I don't see it really rising much more. I see going to the downside and that's purely because of the futures market all the futures are all geared towards loss You know you guys got 36 contracts and I know it's like a shitload of Bitcoin It's all negative, all for down. All for the downside so you know this is how well it's corrupt it's a rigged system if you want to make money off of it find these little shit stocks from China mainly what was the other one was a funny one the Long Island Ice Tea Company they changed their name to The Long Island Blockchain Company yeah literally changed their ticker LBCC oh that thing has been you know as had 700% gains in a day now it also goes back down so you got to

2:33:58 But that's where you can make legitimate money, and then when you sell that bullcrap stock if you're lucky... with your Robinhood account, then you get your money right away. You don't have to wait 10 days and even Coinbase has now said they are going to introduce their own futures trading so I just feel sorry for people who are believing in the myth that once Wall Street came in you should've taken that as the clue... ...to get out but it doesn't mean there's not lots of opportunity but its still not money

2:34:37 I'm okay. You should have we need a jingle I've asked for a Bitcoin jingle forever people don't want to make it. I just play my global warming clip Okay, what's the title all this freezing cold is good guys? It's flooding flooding Boston the storm surge inundated streets. Holly and Tommy Schlichting rushing to get the water out of their basement, but as you can see there's still lots of water pumping out and hopefully get it all into the drains before tonight's high tide. Why is that? Because once a high tide comes in this office for the water ago.

2:35:15 Officials tonight say it was the highest tide ever recorded in Boston. If anyone wants to question global warming, just see where the flood zones are. Those zones didn't flood 30 years ago. Dozens of rescues along the Massachusetts coast... In Marshfield a National Guard high-water vehicle bringing people to safety. There were cars outside almost completely underwater. Yeah we're all gonna die! It's about the same as a 1978 flood, but there is no evidence that they're trying to make evidence that the high tide was as bad as it was in 1921. So this is a bull crap report. This guy jumps right on the global warming thing and in fact when we did these flooding reports from four or five years ago in Europe, a lot of the flooding that took place there was because they changed their flora and fauna. They took the trees out and things had sucked up water

2:36:07 you know, Europe was getting flooded in places where it's never flooded before because of the change in the layout in the flood zones. But this is nonsense! And we don't even know what happened before 1821 when they had a big flood in 1821, they had a big flood in 1978. Now they have another one and this guy says well you can tell from the video it hasn't happened like this since ever! And he's bull crap that guy is full of it. I get so annoyed by these guys and their global warming myopia They got to...they have memory that goes back like their memory and as far as there at would actually their memories not even that good

2:36:46 It's not okay. Well, that will that call that no that no it's not the end of the complaint That calls for a report because of what's happening in Greenland right now The maps of the world will have to be redrawn hit it this is what would happen to San Francisco back? John C. Dvorak on the scene well we had a super tide the other day and the super tight actually covered up the mud flats and And I'm looking right now, the mudflats are there. The same as they were in the late 1800s and I can see them and the mud is prominent and it's raining over the last few days but the mud flats are still there and you can see it's just that...I haven't seen a change. Because of what has happened in Greenland right now, the maps of the world will have to be redrawn. Yeah go draw em yourself! This is what would happen to San Francisco Bay. Yes sir

2:37:43 I'm on the San Francisco Bay. You're actually right there, right where he's talking about Yeah, I see nothing explain that explain it explain it explain it hey remember the The really underreported story about the NSA tools being stolen and they're still not even sure if it was from the inside of the agency or hackers who got in from the outside. It was a New York Times report, and no one discussed this but us...and The New York Times! Now a former US National Security Agency contractor has agreed to plead guilty

2:38:21 I'm not quite sure why they word it that way, but okay. All right then i'll plead guilty to stealing classified information But not just classified information he had been spent up to 20 years Stealing highly sensitive government material from us intelligence community related to national defense Collecting a trove of secrets He hoarded at his home in glen bernie maryland is just a hoarder 50 terabytes of data They got. That's quite a hoard. Holy moly! 50 terabytes and guess where the... it was a contractor, what company did he work for?

2:39:00 Booz Allen. Booz Allen, you nailed it! That's right. Shut up! Why don't they just use him as a backup provider? I'm sorry? Why don't they just use the guys of backup providers? As an archivist. A cloud. An archivist In fact i'm going to call you The Cloud from now on. I am The Cloud He is The Cloud John C where the c stands for Cloud Dvorak There goes that one What's your Iran update? This is an Iran update, comes from yesterday. It was a PBS NewsHour and it was not the whole thing it was very long report but I thought this is the key Popular unrest in Iran continues to spill into the streets The nationwide protests have lasted for the better part of a week exposing deep economic rifts especially among the younger generation who struggled to find work and build a future

2:39:54 Hari Sreenivasan explains what's fueling this resentment toward the regime and the government response. Overnight, video posted by protesters showed crowds in Tehran shouting death to Khamenei, the country's supreme leader but by morning a different cry Worshippers chanted death to America at Friday prayers. And a hardline cleric accused social media networks based in the US of fueling the unrest It was cyberspace that was kindling the fire of the battle, it was cyberspace that every moment said where protesters were gathering and what slogans they were chanting So far these protests lack the scope for 2009 Green Movement

2:40:39 that saw hundreds of thousands accusing then-President Ahmadinejad of rigging his reelection. This time, for the last week, demonstrations have swept Iran's provinces to some 80 cities and towns mostly outside Tehran It is in some of those areas where the country's economic stagnation is most sorely felt President Hassan Rouhani had promised the 2015 nuclear deal would jumpstart the economy by lifting punishing sanctions. Instead, growth continues to lag food prices have gone up and youth employment may run as high as 40 percent It is their duty to hear us out. It is not acceptable for them to sit in their offices and not be aware of the prices of chicken, meat or rice, or not know how tough it has become for people to make a living. These shouts should be heard by officials. Unemployment is taking over. What wrong have the young done to not be able to work?

2:41:35 Hmm, you know we got I don't if you saw these emails. We got from I know this is our dude named Muhammad They send it from a different email address So I'm just gonna use his first name Saeed and he's in Tehran Benny has to email name Mohammed is I believe in Qatar or Bahrain so this is Said and he is in Tehran And I'm gonna read his two notes to us About the Iran protest, a few things to consider. The first day of protests was in Mashhad, a very religious part of Iran which for intents and purposes is run by Rouhani's competition and was intended to be an anti-Rouhani demonstration but the next day demonstrations broke out in many places at once it was supposed to be a smart political move but it got out of hand interesting

2:42:17 One of the most interesting things is the secular nature of it all. Unlike other protests in the past, even the Green Movement you didn't see any religious chants it was all nationalistic and secular People always steered away from revolution here because the cost is so high but it seems people are changing their views I'm in Tehran there are not many people gathering up but its increasing day by day So we have to wait and see if it has legs And heres a follow-up clarification As far as he knows, it was never about eggs. He doesn't remember not a single protester protesting egg prices The only reason he says I personally didn't want to revolutionize Iran was it wasn't clear what would come next and now not me nor anyone else cares about it There was a major uproar few weeks ago when Rouhani for the first time made the budget clear And there was lot of upset over how many people's money had been spent all these years Hmm

2:43:09 So he's not seeing the general story about the eggs and the prices. Yeah, that thing didn't have a bull crap story about the eggs... But in what country do people get all...? I mean we certainly got outraged by how the government is spending our money here. Yeah, we don't seem to care on killing another hundred billion for military. Yeah spending how about auditing things? Maybe we can save a hundred billion They say it's true they say it's happening so yeah right So this looks like a State Department thing

2:43:51 I think it's a dud. I don't think this is gonna get very far, I hope it does but I don't think it will The protest? We haven't heard much because we kind of snowed under the book It just gets crapping out already Once we got the wolf book then it was like oh there's no more news The world is quiet Yeah everything is Wolf Book Everyone just sits around waiting for more details We're pathetic More details so that we can see what an idiot we have Cheese face If anything we are quite pathetic I'd say. I have to say, we're pretty pathetic. So they had Gretchen Carlson since we have the Golden Globes coming up today that we're both going to watch it. Of course yes. Gretchen was on PBS she's fallen all over herself because she got interviewed by Judy and Gretchen is now the chairman of Miss America competition

2:44:41 Which is a volunteer but very important wait didn't she wasn't there some? Fracas and she got angry or wanted to resign or a lawsuit. I remember something about this like the day ago, so I don't think okay all right well maybe I'm wrong but she was in Miss America and And they play some old clips of her. She's very pretty and she was a violinist who cast violinist not as large. I remember this yeah And so she won and then she, they're putting together a team of these Miss Americas. So I'm listening to this and there's not a very good interview to be honest about it except for the part they start talking about should they even have a Miss America contest? Judy asks and Gretchen is big pro-Miss America type but then that question about the bathing suit competition.

2:45:30 What do you say to people, Gretchen Carlson who ask do we need a Miss America pageant anymore in this country? Because after all it objectifies many parts of who a woman is. Well of course that particular area that always gets criticism is the swimsuit category and I'm going to be taking a very serious look at that Listen, Miss America gave me amazing life skills. I challenge anybody to get up on a stage in front of millions of people and answer questions and perform your violin talent as I did. I entered this program because I was a serious classical violinist that was going to be my career and talent was worth 50% of my points in Miss America it's a scholarship program. I was a student at Stanford University and Oxford and when I went back for my senior year after being Miss America my parents were so grateful

2:46:21 that I used my $50,000 that I won to pay for the rest of my education at Stanford. So this is what's happening for thousands of women across this country and I'm going to work as hard as I can to make sure that THAT is the message that's getting out about this organization." And if you emphasize that instead of say the swimsuit part are people still gonna watch? Oh, well you know we'll see. I'm planning to reach out to experts in all those fields to figure out what's best to get people interested but i'm not worried about that at all right now What I am worried about is wrapping my arms around this organization getting up-to-speed as quickly as I can Getting just exactly the right people in place To help me on this mission And I think what amazing is that right now on the board it's four former Miss Americas

2:47:13 Yeah, that's gonna ruin the show. No! I listened to that interview and what it said to me is bathing suits stays. Yeah but its... sure Sure, and I was right it was the CEO of Miss America who resigned in December. Oh no that guy's a douchebag Yeah he had to go and but she was a part of getting him out oh yeah because they had all these emails going back and forth talking about the Miss America winners like dogs and pigs and shitheads Yes exactly She is a terror So she got rid of help, get rid of that guy. She put herself in this job with other Miss Americans I'm telling you what that interview told me because she never said anything they ever answered the question Judy never followed up That tells me that they might not only keep their bathing suit thing but go to string bikinis You know what? I can only hope

2:48:06 I still don't understand why this is acceptable. Why are they not boycotting the advertisers? She explained it, she got through college! They gave her money, she explained it Yeah but you don't need to prance around in a bathing suit that's almost the definition of prostitution Okay sorry...I'll just leave it at that I'm thinking, uh... Well we'll see. We'll see. I-I hope that string bikinis are in Go Gretchen! Alright everybody A challenge but we made it once again And we will do it all over again with new fresh content for you And we'll do that on Thursday Of course we'll have the report on the funeral known as The Golden Globes

2:49:06 Everyone in black wearing black with black bales. I'm gonna wear a black just watching the show me too, okay? Coming to you from downtown Austin Tejas we are the capital of the drone star state right here in FEMA region 6 I'm in the common law condo and these 5 by 9 Cluedio and very happy to remind you will be back on Thursday, remember us at Dvorak.org slash NA In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where it's kind of getting cold we're gonna have some rain i don't know why anybody cares about the weather report but i sure do i'm John C. Dvorak We return on thursday right here same channel same no agenda show until then as always adios mofos

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2:53:31 This is an alternative universe and he got his victory from cheating. Always a pleasure. These incidents not confirmed by ABC News