Service Burro

00:00 What are they gonna do? They can't hit the side of a barn with these missiles. Dressed in black because it's the new black and broadcasting live from downtown Austin, Tejas capital of the drone star state in the Clunio. In the morning everybody I'm Adam Curry and from northern Silicon Valley where the third time is a charm especially when you do it twice! I'm John C. Dvorak It's just...it's the year 2018 it's just not going to be kind to technology

00:41 I'm calling it now. We had power, bad year for technology. I am so tired of technology! Well listen to this, let's start off with this clip. The lights were... what you just said might be right The lights went off on it at CES, they were at CES blackout. If there's one thing you need at the world's biggest electronic show it is electricity but the power was knocked out for two hours at the CES technology show in Las Vegas Nevada Energy blamed the blackout on the convention center's equipment Yeah Oh yeah everyone's blaming each other You know what it is? It's the union

01:30 It's the Teamsters. They do this all the time, they used to do that in the Javits Center in New York all the time it'd be at noon you know that you're loading in and someone touched something they weren't supposed to and then electricity goes off and they turn it back on and then the word goes out yeah stop touching stuff Well, I do believe that to be true. They pull stuff like that whether this is the case here in Vegas where they don't believe these this is unionized as a New York It remains to be seen whatever the case I think it's semantic I think Vegas I thought the Convention Center is very Unionized and Vegas I could be wrong We need some verification of my understanding is not Okay, but Javits yes absolutely yeah no But just like you know

02:19 It's so much interdependency on things. All every little bit has... Microservices architecture, baby! Yeah but it yes is true in microservices architecture that is exactly the problem you know I have this touchscreen which I use for the jingle so I can easily play myself a little ding there and I just boot up this morning I've changed nothing of course I rebooted how foolish of me And, you know it's all we don't recognize the screen plug it in always plugging a different port Oh setting up your device which I thought was set up before now. We're setting it up again for it Yeah Different port and then you have to calibrate it and I defy you defined in one go how you calibrate a touchscreen on Windows It's one of those menus that looks like it was from the windows NT days

03:08 I've never seen it. Yeah, yeah, it's like touch screen input settings Widget thing my Bob does it entail poking a lot at the screen no poke? Yes, yes you do yes You have to if this is not the screen hit enter then touch the screens ah oh So that's at 7am, you know it was just a little early for me doing all this stuff. And then we had our streaming issues again but we're back up and good to go and it is the second show of the new year? Second show? Third Show? How many shows? I don't know. Somebody called me out for bitching about the low numbers in the last show saying it was the lowest of the year It was, it was the first of the year okay The guy says hey Well you weren't lying! It's the lowest of the year. It's like saying that first day of the years to get the highest temperature of the year and this lowest at the same time Record temperature record low for the entire year So far its the coldest year on record Of this year No the coldest month on record of the year

04:11 or something like that. Another guy, one of our normals sent in a note saying hey I'm sick of this newsletter begging for money you're gonna get all the money ever wanted on the show 1000 and then he says i guarantee it of course I don't know what that means no and uh... he says in their newsletter we threatened to quit. You see that? Yeah yeah I've threatened to quit several times. Well you threatened to quit but I'm talking about the newsletter specifically You're always threatening to quit. Yeah, but what about the newsletter? There was nothing in there that said it were no I don't think so somewhere So I must have said I must have said at some point and then we're done People also send me email and say you haven't said that before yeah people send me emails now Why do you hate animals? Because you said I hate dogs which is not true

05:08 It's not true. I don't hate dogs, i've had many dogs and then you know whenever i'm bitching about service dogs or anything like You know service goats for all I care Then I get uh, you hate animals man what's wrong with you? Yeah I was wondering myself well no I don't I hate people who abuse animals to uh to get ahead in line like pita Get them to really but you know people a lot of animals Peter kills I think more animals than anyone people People who are used it's John at the vorac.org? People who are using animals as ring it on emotional support Animals to get preferential treatment and bring their animal with listen to this

05:59 You'll love this. Therapy dogs are pretty common in schools and nursing homes, but have you heard of a therapy donkey? Well we're introducing you to Jane and her big ears and soft coat are bringing smiles to everyone in the Northland It's not every day you see a donkey in Canal Park. It is so hard to believe, how can you not grab a quick photo? But that's exactly what Jane the therapy donkey is there for. Even people who don't like animals love these donkeys See? Even people like me, who don't like animals they just LOVE THE DONKEY! Very few people will walk by her without stopping We just stopped to see uh you know the waterfront and of all things we did not expect to see a donkey And this Jenny isn't bashful at anyone or anything She loves dogs she loves people

07:00 Bullshit! I mean, there's no certification for this. That's a lie! There is no cert- Yeah, there is a whole group. It was sort of medical group called the Donkey Certification Company. There's Jane I was wondering how long you're gonna take to find that donkey brain? It only took a minute or two She loves dogs she loves people She doesn't she loves being trailered and she loves new places. According to Jane, she kicks someone on their ass. Listen to the certification bit again. To owner Tracy Blue, Jane is the only certified therapy donkey in the area gaining that certification in December. She had to be taught not to be scared of

07:51 Listen, stop talking over it. The only certified therapy donkey in the area gaining that certification in December she had to be taught not to be scared of strollers and bikes and skateboards and rollerblades and wheelchairs and the lake so aside from spending some time in the sun All right So this is clearly a disturbed person who is like no she's now she is she's disturbed but she but I like it because she gets You know, she gets the attention she needs because of her donkey. It's like... Which is okay and people like it but stop with this certified bullcrap. That's just bull crap. Certified by who? That's the question I want to know. Donkey certification. Donkey certification! We should start up our own donkey certification. Yes finally something we can do

08:49 Service donkey certification. And we could, no! We could have... Oh John you know I'm so stupid i can't believe it It's been staring me in the face the whole time We need to go big What do we have? We have the best artists We can create harnesses sashes certifications on parchment paper Shoot man we can even repurpose our No Agenda rings and call it service donkey ring Yeah, that would take much This is a great idea One of our best yes Welcome to excuse me ma'am. I'm from the donkey certification inspection Yeah, your donkey does not seem to be certified but here's a coupon oh My goodness just a thought yeah, welcome to the show Welcome to this show if you're just new all your newcomers This is the way it's gonna be that's how it always is well are we dead yet?

09:51 Why? What was gonna kill us this time. Well because of Trump's bigger button tweet, are we dead yet? Has uh... Oh the big button? Have we been nuked yet? You know I don't know about it, I've seen lots of it, he definitely has a big button. So, whereas we were about to die a week ago—maybe it was now a week and half ago because of this tweet. And people were very, very upset about what the president has done. The president of South Korea says hey man thanks! A surprising approval for Donald Trump's hard line on North Korea from the south. President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday Trump's fire and fury threats for Kim Jong Un might have done its job.

10:30 I think President Trump deserves big credit for bringing the inter-Korean talks. It comes after the two Koreas held talks on Tuesday, for the first time in more than 2 years where the North agreed to hold military talks with the South and send a large delegation to the Winter Olympics next month After initial skepticism of the talks from Washington, as Reuters Christine Kim explains Moon's shout out to Trump sends a strong message. Outside observers have said Moon's comments should be seen as a smart strategic move it's pretty much the best move he can play in this situation Analysts say South Korea is standing firm in showing North Korea the alliance between the United States and South Korea strong, that South Korea probably won't be too relenting in giving Pyongyang what it wants this time around while it maintains a strong relationship with the United States. The north for its part made it clear in talks its weapons program isn't up for discussion but the south shouldn't worry. Its missiles are only pointed at the U.S

11:28 Analysts say North Korea is likely to use these recent talks and their friendly gesture of sending people to the Olympics, to further their insistence that North Korea is a responsible nuclear power. At the same time, North Korea would want to create some distance between South Korea and the United States, and perhaps later down the road corner South Korea into taking sides between North Korea and the United States by saying the nuclear issue is something that does not involve South Korea Still, Washington welcomed Tuesday's talks as a first step toward solving the nuclear crisis and the U.S. State Department said it would even be interested in joining future talks. There may be an opportunity for that more talks are slated for the two Koreas before the PyeongChang Olympics next month

12:13 I wonder what Uncle Don thinks about that. I don't know, they also said in one of the reports that the possibility of Kim Jong-un and Trump meeting is pretty high which I suspect... Oh! I'm sure it is. I'm sure he would love to have that happen So I am jumping ahead immediately to the travel when we can vacation over there And I'm thinking, I was thinking about this. You know the thing you really want to go to North Korea for is to see that show they put on once a year. Yeah the military show The big thing is in the stadium, they have all these dancing girls. Oh that's not military? Is that not the military show? No no I think the military shows are in the street this is one of those giant stadiums They got this huge one of the biggest stadiums in the world and they fill it up with people women were with flags It was a synchronized thing You've seen movies of it. It's spectacular Madeline Albright was lucky enough to get to go see it Damn, I'm thinking

13:11 Why just once a year? They could pack, because they can pack this sucker in. John! They could do three times a day Just like Universal Studios! Universal Studios! There won't be enough people for that. Yeah maybe but they can definitely do once a month That'd be great Because these people, they practice all year. Why don't they just do it? Keep doing the show is kind of like practice right and they can just keep doing the show once a month They can do this thing cost a lot of money to put on but they can pack that stadium They won't charge right I mean this is an amateur hour with these guys you know They won't know what you know, what they charge to the locals five bucks to get in or maybe it just an invite I have no idea but I think they can get a hundred bucks a seat. Well hold on second The locals are in the show. They're not in the stands every single seat is for tourists John What are you thinking?

14:00 Well, there's a lot of foreign guests I'm sure but the thing is gonna be...I'm saying they gotta put somebody in the seats now because they don't have enough tourists. But I'm only one step removed from Dennis Rodman at this point. I'm still working on it! Yes, well yeah we should keep working on it. Yeah, we should be doing the show from there. Well, I don't know if their internet connection is going to... What are you talking about? They hacked into Sony Yeah, they did. Oh my... Sure. There is a historic precedence though with Olympic Games being important for nasty countries I take you back to 1936 the 1936 Olympics when the Germans participated Despite African-American athletes causing Hitler some embarrassment The German team achieves overall success

14:55 They win 33 gold medals nine more than the Americans as they top the table and the event itself is a resounding success The ultra modern feeling showcase receives almost universal praise So what if North Korea does extremely well, they won't it was the thirty-three by the way 1933 Olympics Yeah makes sense. Sorry. Yeah, of course Of course well I know, it's a positive development. You don't hear much about it No because nobody wants there to be any positive development Mimi says to me why don't you guys try and do one whole show without ever mentioning Trump Oh she is on this bandwagon now too Who else is on the bandwagon? Everybody

15:48 The past couple of shows, you know people just said we could we could do it It wouldn't be a problem. No, but we can't do it today We can't do it when there's you know, just stuff going down now we can do it Let me can I read something from Carl Rove put in this little article? You read Karl Rove interesting Yeah, I do not not a lot by him. I Just wanted to give us a little perspective Long before the presidential election, the populist candidate's mental state was under attack. The New York Times ran a series

16:25 Over several days, suggesting he was unfit for office and included a letter from an anonymous psychiatrist diagnosing the candidates megalomania and saying he presents in speech and action striking and alarming evidence of a mind not entirely sound. Another piece said the political outsider was laboring under the delusion that he is persecuted and possessed enormous passion for haranguing every time he sees a crowd gathered." One psychologist refused to call the condition ordinarily crazy, but added I would like to examine him. Well another said he was beset with what I believed to be delusions." These articles appeared in 1896 targeting William Jennings Bryan, the Democratic presidential nominee—one of those switcheroos that we like to do every so often. Ah! Very nice. So I'm thinking when reading this…I have a list…

17:18 This is the this is the Democrats payback for what we did to them in 1896 I have a list. I have a list of site psychiatric disorders in US presidents from 1970 night 1776 to 1974 nice From my sources so we have it's a little column here We got the president we have the diagnosis and Confidence level which is it seems like that's only a one or two so two is less confident apparent No, I don't know. I don't have a legend on this for some reason evident in office persistent or recurrent impaired evident to others or sought treatment and if it is by today standard a DSM-IV criteria Are you game? Hit It!

18:16 John Quincy Adams, bipolar disorder. It was evident in office it was recurrent he was impaired by it Jefferson social phobia Which is not a DSM for criteria, so we're gonna skip that you just shy yeah Madison that makes zero sense to anybody but okay This is from you know him it was awhile ago and probably I should have mentioned this is from the Journal of nervous and mental disease which sounds official Madison major depressive disorder

18:54 John Quinn, I'm sorry. Pierce? Alcohol dependence major depressive disorder Lincoln... Well we should stop there. JC and Buzzkill Jr., we talked about this because he was there some moment where studying this before prohibition The amount of, if prohibition did anything it backed everybody off from the outrageous amount of drinking that was going on. They would drink so much! So alcoholism had to be a serious problem. Lincoln major depressive disorder recurrent with psychotic features grants alcoholic social phobia specific phobia for blood

19:43 I have that too. But only if it's coming in the doctor, only if it's coming out of my arm into a needle If you what's okay? Hayes major depressive disorder Garfield depressed depressive disorder Teddy Roosevelt bipolar taft breathing related sleep disorder Wilson anxiety disorder generalized anxiety disorder major depressive disorder personality change due to stroke parting stomata form disorder Coolidge, social phobia major depressive disorder hypochondriasis. Coover major depressive Eisenhower major depressive Johnson bipolar and Nixon alcohol abuse so this is not new

20:29 No, it's how we roll. Come on! Kennedy had some issues too that weren't mentioned. Kennedy was doped up and was nuts We had Reagan who was... Sex addict Yes, Reagan who demented early You know Alzheimer's But hey, Reagan has Alzheimer's in his last few years Yes, yeah fact Nancy was running the show So well I'm glad you brought this up because i have a clip Alan Dershowitz did a little explanation on one of the morning shows and he is a democrat who is being shunned now, of course because he's telling the truth speaking truth to power but no that's not acceptable in all dimensions

21:12 And he brings up the Goldwater rule. Well, it's very dangerous you know there is only one thing worse than trying to criminalize political differences and that is trying to psychiatrize them Psychiatrist now who are trying to diagnose without ever having met the man That's what they did in Russia I represented dissidents who they locked up in mental hospitals That's what they didn't China That's what they did in apartheid South Africa I'm so glad he bringing this up I hope people see the irony How dare liberals, people on the left try to undo democracy by accusing a president of being mentally ill without any basis.

21:53 The 25th Amendment doesn't apply. Everybody knew who Donald Trump was when they elected him I didn't vote for him, I voted against him People voted for him But he hasn't changed in office and this idea of diagnosing him instead of opposing him politically poses an enormous danger to democracy Well he's arguably one the most vetted candidates ever run for office In public life, the left went after him but the president even pointed out himself This is not the first time the left has gone at Republicans. They did the same thing to Barry Goldwater, they did the same thing around Reagan right? What is it about Republican presidents that leads the left to say we don't just disagree with your policies you must be crazy Well You know I think over a thousand psychiatrists diagnosed Barry Goldwater and said he was mentally ill They were then rebuked by the American Psychiatric Association And said do not make diagnoses without seeing in the patient and they continue to do it today look

22:48 about Ronald Reagan, they had a point. He was perhaps beginning to develop Alzheimer's we have the 25th amendment for that but the 25th amendment is not supposed to be invoked if you don't like somebody politics or you don't like his style vote against them! The 25th Amendment requires the vice president to invoke this and then it requires two-thirds of both houses It's not gonna happen is designed for people who are totally incompetent not people who disagree with There ya go Yeah, Dershowitz isn't making any friends. He's making huge enemies people really dislike him for this and he's now on Fox & Friends a morning show on Fox that's pretty low It's just low That's all you can score then you know then I'm sure it's hurting with clientele as well But this is what happens with these guys when they're there really there are people assume

23:47 that they're of a political style and bent like, like a Noam Chomsky for example. And they assume that they're gonna just follow the party line when they are actually free thinkers! Have you been following the... I guess I didn't delve into it but Noam Chomsky said there's nothing there in the Russian thing? Yeah he says the Russian thing is a scam So how is that going over Well, it hasn't been really taken. Nobody knows quite what to do about it this is a real mind screw job because Chomsky as I self-loathing Jew hater of the United States in a lot of different ways and doesn't make a lot of sense these that would supposedly are public intellectual he's extremely politically biased he still suffers from the

24:39 The fact that I remember when I was a kid, him siding with the Khmer Rouge and he denies it of course but there's evidence about it. Oh Jane got over the whole Hanoi Jane thing too quite definitely she had to change her identity yeah she had a couple ribs removed I believe. Ribs removed couple facelifts so not even sure it's her could be a stand-in might not be that the pieces made a different they actually put those pieces together yet another person flew around exactly That's an old Joan Rivers joke. Credit where credit is due. Just to go back to what Mimi said for a moment, our job is to deconstruct media and if the media is talking about this I mean...I'm surprised how much we bring to the table that the media is not covering because we feel that that's deconstruction of news as well

25:32 And what are you going to do when you have, and we're gonna switch topics to the Golden Globes. What are you gonna do when your host comes out and says I'm not gonna talk about Trump? And every other joke... Yeah he never mentions Trump's name! He just talks about the President. So that whole night was like- But I've thought about this. I just wanted to say one more thing about it. We may cause the impression that we are pro-Trump, which I think we're truly agnostic. The thing that—I think the context you have to understand this in is that we find him incredibly—so we're older guys, so not worried if Kim Jong Un's going to kill us like okay fine whatever it's good now

26:18 I find him incredibly entertaining, and find the whole situation entertaining. And we laugh a lot because it's just our dream come true to be able to see this unfold before our eyes. We live in fantastic times! So you know just because we don't act scared or apprehensive... Oh yeah well this is what we're trying to convey to the listeners too and the producers. Thank You This is all bullcrap! To get all worked up about this stuff? Well, who in their right... I've said it right at the beginning when this whole thing began with North Korea. What are they gonna do? They can't hit the side of a barn with these missiles and they're going to blow up some city? Their attack would be... It would just be destroyed! They'd all be dead! Yeah. It doesn't make any logical sense that everyone... Oh my God they launched another missile! And I think even Trump overreacts to this thing.

27:13 Although he may be overreacting for other reasons. I would recommend an article and I forgot to send it to you But um, it was in the Federalist and it was called To understand Trump talk you must speak outer borough And did someone say burrow? That burrow Oh Burrough oh burrow sorry, I misunderstood Is a very good article it was actually kind of came out with Scott Scott Bayle kinda introduced the idea he says. People from the outer borough exaggerate everything according to accent experts who help actors prepare for parts are few basic elements of the queen's accent.

27:57 And this is basically a guy from Queens who's raised in Queens. He's always been from Queens, he's never been accepted in Manhattan and he does what the people in the outer boroughs do they exaggerate? They lie? Hey lady I've been waiting two weeks for a cup of coffee! It's the example they give. And does somebody come out and say, oh my God he is a liar! He said he has waited two weeks and only been waiting ten minutes? Well this was what President Obama was very good at is every word that came out of his mouth... he was like a robot you know he knew how we could back up every single word and that's why it was boring unless he was telling written jokes and boy could he deliver

28:37 But he was good. Yeah, yeah, fantastic comedic timing and this may be the point where I remind everybody I haven't done this usually do it once a year haven't done this in awhile just Look for the Zen TV experiment The Zen TV experiment. It'll take you a little bit, just go through it will take you about 30 minutes and it's just a couple of very simple steps You can easily bing it, you'l be able to find it How about that huh?

29:19 Dynamite. You know what's crazy about that? You think somebody would give us work just to do these things for them No, that's actually a Microsoft Bing commercial apparently never aired Of course There's three of them hold on it was called the bing tone That's what it was called they did a whole campaign for a being tone here's another one Somebody has a clue. Yeah, but then of course they had to take it away because you know this is no good I think that's the best one it's catchy. It's got a nice rhythm to it. It's very catchy toe-tapper

30:12 Yes, sir. It is a toe-tapper indeed anyway bing it the Zen TV experiment by the way I love one of many things I love about this show Let me just tell you how much I loved this show despite my now increasing hatred of technology Yeah, I really loved doing the show You know even though we're basically already paid you know because that's screw it We'll do what and they'll do it on Sunday and with everything's broken. And yeah, well figure out another time Yeah, we really want to do the show. Unlike you know I'm nothing against let's say a train conductor You know and he was driving the train that guy but if the trains broken i'm sure he's like let's have another cup of coffee He doesn't care about driving the train We care about doing the show Well that's a reference that eludes me The Train Guy? yeah I was just trying to think what kind of guy wouldn't care If uh...if he showed up to work and couldn't work but still got paid Oh A Train Guy! Yeah, you have a Train Guy Yea exactly Because it is boring

31:13 You know, yeah. So you're going along and going on all you get to do very rarely but once in a while you get to go usually through a residential area at two in the morning if your BNSF Yeah, we have it in Austin they come through Austin too and they're quite loud All right where were oh? Yeah, we'll golden globes ah yes now I thought, uh...I don't have any clips. I don't know if you have any? I have two! Okay good. I thought that Seth's monologue was pretty good

31:51 I thought it was insulting. And, you previewed it. Seth Meyers...I think he's being incredibly condescending and insulting to the people who actually put these movies together. The people that have to work their asses off on these for very low pay by the way. Their makeup artist doesn't get paid much A lot of people, wardrobe people get paid very little. And then for him to say what he says here this is, it says to my idea that this is the American dream I thought was incredibly insensitive If you're watching at home and you see everyone in their tuxedos and gowns This looks like a room of privileged Hollywood elite and that's fair but everyone in this room knows That Hollywood is so much more than that when you're on a film set

32:40 You meet hairdressers and camera people in script supervisors. Most of the jobs on film sets are jobs for people who work long hard hours they are American dream jobs those people aren't there Those people aren't there thanks to their rich dad except for that one PA Okay, I was really talking about the jokes because the joke about the PA i thought was pretty funny if you're talking about an industry event but go on Well, I'm just thinking what he said there was it was just kind of condescending. And we have the little people and they have their American dream jobs and we don't want to forget about them! Let's have a little applause for them! You know how I took this? The first thing that triggered in my mind was oh maybe a lot of these Dreamers are working on film sets That's exactly what i thought Huh funny you think that well It might be true I don't know

33:43 The other thing, I mean there's a lot of stuff you could have taken from this. I thought the awards generally...I did figure something out is that a lot of these movies, the number of movies that were nominated and the ones that were ignored especially the tentpole pictures they've gotten to the point- I thought about this why are the tenth pole pictures pretty much given nothing. They don't get anything, they don't get an award for it There are some action actors or some different kinds of things that go on in these big movies the big you know that Thor movie supposed to have some of the best special effects ever seen Well this I can explain This comes right down to the controversy about Marky Mark and Williams

34:25 Well, actually they said you want to change it a little bit. I want to go... Actually let me just hold off on that clip. Okay because it ties together what you just said why are the tent pole pictures? Why don't they get any awards? This is related to The Golden Globes. Let's play it. We've got the Wahlberg Williams unanswered questions Next tonight, the new uproar over unequal pay just days after declaring time's up at the Golden Globes. A new report tonight about Mark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams both reshooting scenes for a movie one paid $80 day The other getting a reported 1.5 million for the callback Here's ABC's Eva Pilgrim

35:05 Tonight, backlash over an alleged massive gender wage gap during the emergency reshoot for the kidnapping drama All The Money In The World. I have no money to spare After sexual misconduct allegations surfaced against Kevin Spacey director Ridley Scott pulled Spacey from the movie and hurriedly re-shot his scenes. Scott reportedly saying all the actors agreed to return to work for free. And i said not only would I but I'll give you back My salary if that would help and I'll give you my Thanksgiving break if that would help. USA Today now reporting Michelle Williams nominated for a Golden Globe for her role in the film did the reshoot for just 80 bucks a day while Mark Wahlberg's team negotiated a 1.5 million dollar fee

35:50 And that Williams, who was represented by the same agency as Wahlberg wasn't told she'd be making less than 1% of her male co-stars fee. On Twitter comedian Billy Eichner calling it shameful director Judd Apatow writes this is so messed up that it's almost hard to believe almost. David a source close to the production says the distributor Sony had nothing to do with pay negotiations no comment from Wahlberg's reps or Williams, David? Thank you Weaver okay I have some thoughts here that just tying back into the previous topic

36:27 The film industry is embarrassed, and most of them are very left. They're embarrassed about their riches and you know so they always that's where a lot of this political correctness comes from And so they offset that with prestige This is why I see all these British actors winning our Oscars in our golden globes They need to continue to fill that with prestige and this is about the art, and oh yes we might get paid a lot but it's all just art. And if you read any story about Williams they consistently say she deserves twice the amount of money Marky Mark made because she has been a four time Oscar nominee

37:09 And so it's part of this embarrassment, and I'm pretty sure—no, I know for sure that Mark Wahlberg snubbed Obama many times about some things. He may be Republican for all I know! I don't think he came out and said go Hillary. But he is a producer. This guy is not just some dude who's an actor. I've read many pieces saying well you know it's only a bit part basically… He's never been nominated for an Oscar. It's just like, oh my God! They're so full of crap. Everybody understands that what- Well we know they're full of crap by the way before you go on with this spiel I do have to add before we get too far away from the clip

37:52 Don't you think they should have mentioned what the agency was? They both had the same agency. I couldn't find it anywhere, I know exactly...I mean if i looked up who his agency is It's one of the big boys but its embarrassing to say one of the agencies and they wouldn't...and what kind of reporting is that? That's the first thing! Who was it?! Right Yeah another thing, oh they can't say because they don't want to get into all kinds of trouble and wont' have access anymore to any celebrities This is exactly what's happening. He had it in his contract, reshoots will cost you money! He has it on every contract. I had an agent in Hollywood once and I remember very specifically we always put in there its pay to play so even if your not used or any of that you still get paid there's money for reshoots

38:41 Now, and he just said no you know I don't even know how it went down. But he said yeah reshoots is in the contract this is what will cost ya. I'm thinking ha-ha I'm gonna screw the movie! And maybe he did!! So what? But to tie this back into the Oscars and how Hollywood is rediscovering itself and fixing all these issues, and time's up. I think you're right about all that and there's a situation with it...I was just wondering who the agents were because she probably had a better contract than she did. And she's volunteering to give up this and that and whose fault is that but

39:23 Get back to the tentpole thing. I don't think it's any of this, you know it's nice to project that maybe they have a guilty conscience and so the billion dollar movies pushing... The first billion dollar movie and then the second one now we did a billion, we're gonna be doing two billion and putting 500 million into making them moving all the rest of it They don't put any of these movies on the awards. No rarely I don't think it's because they can't afford. Screeners, they can't afford what happens in the underground is that at this time of year all you find is DVD screeners and these are the screeners that these guys get during the system if your in the system you get screeners and there's guy out there who take all the border marks off the screeners and take the little message at the bottom with 800 number I've got screeners too

40:22 And they just take all that off, and they clean it up. And they put it right into the underground and Pirates Bay has the movie in a good quality not a stupid cam movie which is useless. The tent pole movies do have no screeners out there because they can't afford to. Yeah you're right thats a very very good point So its just the opposite of what you said because its about greed, they want more money! And so, you know yes and then they cover that up with all of this prestige Exactly there. It's a very indecent business and it's always been an indecent business should be no surprise to anybody So this is just what it is If you read about the movie business in the 20s and 30s especially Disney go read up on Disney. It's the same thing

41:18 I've read somewhere that, I believe the actual accusers like McGowan and a couple other of Harvey Weinstein they weren't even invited to the award ceremony. Yeah it's true and instead...and this looked planned to me I didn't do any research into it but looking at the red carpet because I love the red carpet I watch E!'s Red Carpet coverage and I switch back and forth And uh..a lot of the nominated actresses had I'm gonna tell you my impression, and you know probably gonna piss some people off with it But a lot of these actresses had an activist with them. I guess was some I don't know who initiated it but like yeah You know everyone bring an activist with you And they were all being interviewed on the red carpet and It felt so contrived to me like I'm to believe that you've been working with this person all your life Or you've been very involved in their cause I think a lot of them are

42:12 Some of them possibly, but most of them it just seems like they had been given a briefing. They met them probably met him a couple times But may not have been working with him for a long time and it was it was a very Scripted type of deal did you see any of that to any of the red carpet coverage? I did not I don't watch that crap You know what really looked like look like bring your Negro to work day That's yeah It was really exactly what it was really insulting I felt because it was every activist was black a black woman and And I just didn't seem like it was sincere. It's the world of being a phony! Yeah, yeah it's make-believe world yes so here's the one scene that got my attention the most because

42:55 This was like a total WTF kind of what, what is this and why are we looking at this? And why are they doing this and this is the WTF Golden Globes in The Rock moment. Welcome to The Jungle Dwayne Johnson along with Simone Garcia Johnson All right, as part of the 75th anniversary of the Golden Globes, the HFPA is creating a new honor. Golden Globe Ambassador with an expanded role that embodies the HFPA's year-round philanthropic efforts throughout my personal and professional life I'm surrounded by brilliant and strong women ladies and gentlemen i am thrilled to introduce the first ever ambassador my 16 year old daughter Simone Garcia Johnson

43:46 Simone, I am so incredibly proud of you. Thank you! Awkward. It was ridiculous! Some 16 year old comes out, they give her more time to talk than half the people accepting awards? And why?! Why does she get this honor because she's The Rocks daughter and she's 16? Yeah back to our entire conversation... The Rocks not gonna get an award did he get an award no of course not he doesn't tent poles yeah so how do you offset that

44:32 No, you let his daughter do something for the foundation Come on. This is this is exactly what we're talking about thing is so corrupt I was a part of it will never really part of the movie business but oh yeah It's completely corrupt d'oh Anyway, the best part was no doubt. I want him now. I want Oprah to be president I can't well do another thousand shows Oh Oprah. She comes out and lectures everybody, then all we hear about on every little talk show the next day from The Real, The Talk, The Chew...The Chew is still behind so it wasn't The Chew but all the rest of them in all this daytime, Oprah! Oprah! Oprah! Oprah! And then even when they had the mudslides in Montecito Santa Barbara County got ruined by mud slides which was a frightening concept. More Oprah news

45:26 Yeah, more Oprah. She's walking around in the mud We don't know if her house is really destroyed because they never kind of they kind of beat around the bush about it Never see you do yeah? No no it's just like she's just walking around but I'd be really not Oh, come on. Just from a show perspective... She's not running in a million years. Gail talked about it the next day on the CBS morning show. And just since I'm ever on the shit list anyway what's wrong with Stedman? He looks like he's had a stroke and he just... It kind of looks like Bush senior only younger

46:07 He's just, his mouth is like hanging half open. Looking from left to right. But then when Oprah got up he did the right thing and escorts her halfway you know kind of here to the first rung of the... They had some goons by the bottom of the stairs for all the women finally. One of our gripes One of the perpetual grab because you know why unless you want to see one of these gals tumble down the stairs You know head over heels, which would be funny No, that's not funny Oprah as president. She knows how to do a pratfall it could be! Oprah as president, oh my god the stuff dreams are made of Well The Rock wants to run for president too It's gonna be funny who thinks they're gonna get anywhere I mean Hillary is going to run again which i think is the most interesting thing about this group

47:03 I get the feeling that Hillary's in behind this, she is going you guys promised me the presidency it was part of the system. I'm supposed to be next so i am running again until I get this job right like the energizer bunny well alright ummm... So what did you think about the event overall? Eh, boring. Yeah it was pretty boring there wasn't there was no real controversial stuff that anyone said uh... And everyone wore black except the one woman who won the award for that movie yeah There was kind of a funny story The I.I. Latonya movie It's a funny story in the Dutch press there's this um

47:47 He used to be a singer and I know him quite well Gordon. He doesn't have a last name just Gordon like Madonna raging Queen Yeah, he's probably about 230 pounds you know six feet tall big guy kind of bearish like guy And he's just really Queenie all the time and he's on every game show every talk show You know one thing? Oh, do you know what the kind of person? I'm talking about me and See I don't know that reference, but that's funny. I'll take your word for it like Bruno from Dancing with the Stars There's a lot of these guys, they play the queen game constantly. So he had this big thing I'm going to the Oscars and of course i'll be covering it for show news which means show news asks hey would you like to go stand on the red carpet and interview people because obviously didn't have a seat inside but that's how its played off in the press and yeah he is a love him or hate it guy so he shows up

48:42 And you know with his all this fanfare, and you know the televising some of this in a red like Eddie Murphy read Jumpsuit I've made it leather and that was of course completely feather ball light atop it almost It was completely inappropriate when because he didn't eat literally did not get the memo about everybody go black So look like a real douche That's funny. Yeah, that is funny yeah Let's see alright well OK, we have a couple of things. One of the big breaking news is The Wolf Book. Yes! Now first I'd like to say although I replied immediately and said thanks it wasn't until several hours later that I realized when a producer sent both you and I copy of this book

49:35 through email, that I realized it had been copied repurposed published and was being circulated very... It was going viral on the internet. And you know my stance about this? You know, I thought oh the book's not even available or whatever someone sending me... That happens from time to time. I typically buy the book anyway on Kindle You know, these PDFs that's not always that easy to read as a book format. But to me I believe... Books are better! Yeah but I believe that a majority of liberals and Democrats stole this book and distributed it. I mean I saw a lot of evidence on the face bag. So they all look at this, read this here it is finally its here with complete disregard for ownership and intellectual property

50:22 And it kind of pissed me off. Well, it's not as though the book didn't sell a lot I have no idea There are contrary theories about this Nobody wants their stuff stolen And as a writer I can say that, and all my stuff's stolen. But there is lots of evidence that when something goes into the public domain like that sales actually increase. I'm not going to argue. Now I know this evidence but it's more about the concept Yeah, the concept I understand what you're saying and especially the hypocrisy of the liberals. The hypocrisy of it yes that's really what i was talking about That's what your bitching about really yeah like its not money out of wolfs pocket let put it that way But I just want to reiterate I pay for my content You know I do I say no I don't want this stolen thing ill just buy it Yeah I dont blame ya Cause thats how I live

51:17 This is how you live. Yes, it's how I... So let's take a look so if somebody sends you a free computer You wouldn't take it? That has nothing to do with intellectual property John There's a lot of intellectual property in a computer Let me tell ya Okay but a computer you It's not the same thing Is it stolen? Is it a stolen computer No! I don't want it Okay well who's stolen? It goes into a lot of debate Let's go and look at the book though. Okay, this book I didn't realize that he was a wolf came on Colbert I know Wolfe item never met him but I know his work and I know what he does He's good But he had but this book is just a book of dimension B stuff done by a guy stuck in Dimension B

52:08 coming from a dimension B attitude and then when you think about his methodology which he describes here, you go oh my god there's no way any of this could all be just bullcrap. Which he admits might be true but he says to Colbert that it's... You have to read it as though it's all true or you're gonna miss the point I guess. Okay well sorry yeah sorry no I'm sorry because that you hit it just right okay well you said in the foreword of this you say But but this is your authors that we say you eventually after going through all your materials settled on a version of events I believe to be true What does that mean? It means it's the Trump White House. Everybody is telling you different stories let's put it this way everybody is lying in their own particular way because That's

52:55 what you do in the Trump White House. So I had to go and take whatever the event was, find as many people as I could and then use my judgment. So it's just a judgment call as to what stories to include? what version of stories to include. In other words, there's a story in the book between a fight between Steve Bannon and Ben Yates. And they run down...they're running down the halls of The West Wing into The Oval Office and I got two

53:36 pretty different accounts there from one side and from the other. So then I went to other people and thought, okay, I know these people well enough. I think...I'm confident that I've got it." Who did you believe? Which one did you believe? It was a combination! You would have to believe neither of them in this situation. So some, you know, okay this is the hope side and this sort seems true. This is the Bannon side, this sort of seems true. Now this is the Trump White House so everybody I mean they would kill each other you have two fundamental

54:17 These two sides who would be each other's assassins if they could be So therefore how do you get the truth out of out? Of that out of one side telling you one thing and one side telling it telling you the other before you even say anything But I cannot believe that we went through 2 minutes on a late-night talk show without at least to funny interjections by the host This is ruining late night television. Well, that's the way Jack Parr used to do it too. Yeah he's dead so look where that got him! Let's remind ourselves of what I'm going to talk about by playing the wolf ISO which i believe is the premise for the book let's put it this way everybody is lying in their own particular way because

55:08 what you do in the Trump White House. So if the premise is everybody's a liar, and you're dimension B person. You're going to see what you want to see as the truth I mean he's actually right on the money He's saying there's two dimensions A and B And everyone's lying and what he thinks he could do is straddle and take it all in from both sides and make an honest judgment between the two dimensions

55:47 Not realizing that this premise is impossible and his own premise that everybody's a liar Just belies the whole thesis of being able to pull the stunt off. It is a stunt by the way Yeah, and so he goes in there with dimension B in his heart Believes everybody just a lying a-hole takes what he wants, puts it together and creates a narrative that the White House says is bullcrap. And I believe it... He himself- It IS bullcrap! It's a bull crap book. Yeah. Uh.. I'm sure there are some funny stories in there but its still bullcrap So you haven't read or just read a little bit of it? Or whatever you've read? I have only looked at pieces of it You know Was it entertaining? He's a good writer That's not my question Well, a good writer makes it entertaining Yes totally entertaining Okay so the way he answered the question is it's entertain- Totally entertaining, he's a good writer

56:42 Yeah, he is. Well I have a clip too actually where he talks about the stuff you mentioned in your intro to the Colbert clip but i thought this was funnier if you understand the context of it This is Wolf being interviewed by Katie Turr Now why is this interesting? This is where you go... Oh! I know Why Because she has a book out about Trump Oh, oh no one gives a crap about her book at the moment and she's pissed about it

57:22 So the context of this happens a lot by the way, it's like this I just clip. I'm with now I'm anticipating this clip is being great It's it's so yeah, I mean with that context in mind. I thought this was fun Tom Barrett is saying that he's misquoted Katie Walsh is saying she's misquote or they all lie because you know that she had footnotes and sourced every season like one of those anal people completely source every little bit and make sure that... Oh yeah, she's the sorority girl that gets straight A's and is on a scholarship. The sorority girl of the journos! Exactly!

57:59 They are all lying. I mean they're all you know, they're in a situation I mean we're in a situation now where Donald Trump has come to think that this book is a mortal threat? I don't know if it is or it isn't but he certainly feels that way and he is making demands on everybody You know, I know I hear through the grapevine, you know that Katie Walsh's job is at issue now and which I regret. And even that she's not really saying that I misquoted her she's saying that something like she was quoting Steve Bannon who said he's a child everybody says he's a child in fact

58:43 So we're having people are scrambling and they are panicked which I absolutely understand. Nobody saw this book coming, nobody saw that it would be... That must sting when she hears that like you know nobody saw this book coming like so you know that's why no one's buying yours Katie Turr! She must go I think he's definitely turned on her because when he was on Colbert, I didn't clip this but he said that he didn't think the book was going to be as big a hit as it become and told the publishers that they were printing too many. Really? Yeah, so he had a negative attitude about the book. In this case what he's doing with her which I don't know if it came before or afterwards...I think you're exactly right is giving her the needle. Exactly! She questioning him in such a way that it's like okay you want to play that game? I can do it It's exactly what happened Who said he was a child Everybody says he was a child in fact That's not a fact

59:41 You know, not everybody. It just can't be—it's impossible that it's a fact! We're having… people are scrambling and they are panicked which I absolutely understand. Nobody saw this book coming. Nobody saw that it would be as... As big as it seems to be and And everybody is caught a deer caught in the headlights. You have tapes are you gonna release the tapes? No, I'm gonna do I have what every journal Like release on my tapes man Actually just stopped for a second he addressed this on Colbert ooh uh-huh and on a cold bear he said oh

1:00:23 I'm in the writing business, i'm not in the tape business. This is what's interesting because he's going to use that same excuse except then he compares himself to a journalist it's like he goes back and says im a writer and then no i have work product listen to him nobody saw that would be as as big as it seems to be and everybody is caught, a deer's caught in the headlights. You have tapes are you going to release the tapes? No I'm gonna do...you know i have what every journalist has worked like every journalist I have tapes I've notes But if people are questioning why not produce them? So now he says he's a journalist right just so we can switch stripes there The evidence Because that's not what...I'm not in your business

1:01:07 Now he's not in her business. Evidence is the book, read the book if it makes sense to you If it strikes a chord that rings true It is true I love that! If it rings true, it IS true Confirmation bias! Confirmation bias exemplified by this guy. Isn't that beautiful? It's fantastic, that is a great little quote within his... Yeah I'm gonna have to ISO that, remind me to ISO that. That's good one. Do you know what every journalist has worked like every journalist. Stop stop just before we get started, I want to get this thought out of the way. That is exactly why hoaxes work

1:01:50 They ring true, but they're not true. Exactly. But if people are questioning it why not produce the evidence? Because that's not what... I'm not in your business My evidence is the book Read the book If it makes sense to you What was that infomercial Read the book remember that infomercial no I don't there was an infomercial and it was It was maybe it was about UFO is about strange things now. I'm talking 80s And throughout the whole thing was like ever wondered about area 51, and then someone else would go read the book

1:02:28 They should still work. Yeah, well he's doing it right here! I'm not in your business My evidence is the book Read the book If it makes sense to you if it strikes a quiff It rings true It IS true The troll room was saying that that was a Dianetics commercial And that may be right. I don't know, maybe but just going back to what he just said to her this was an opportunity for her to do what i just did and ask about hoaxes and other things Just because something rings true doesn't mean it is true He says if it rings true It IS true She should have jumped all over the place

1:03:05 over that what is she doing? She's too caught up with the fact that it's not her book. That's why she's not, she's thinking how can I discredit this guy i mean she's not doing it on purpose probably but she's vengeful. She's really droid this is dropping the ball big time exactly Evidence is the book. Read the book if it makes sense to you, if it strikes a quiff, rings true...it's true. Do you say if it strikes a quif? I mean this guy is all over the map. And I read it, a lot of the stuff did feel true. There were a lot of factual errors as well. We're living in a time with this president where everybody's very... But let's go to factual errors you know? You get pinned on this because everybody is looking into this. But here's the thing about factual errors and I wrote a book about Donald Trump so... Mike Berman mixed up with Mark Berman or vice versa. CNN was not the one who released

1:03:58 the dossier that is absolutely completely untrue no you know now she's doing what we in holland call ant-fucking and she's like well you had this name wrong and it wasn't cnn who released it first you know these are very simple facts you could verify them fact check false CNN was first on that story. They reported on it but they didn't release the full story. Do you see the low level that she's at? Yes, CNN versus Buzzfeed we know BuzzFeed released it first. She is at a very low level of questioning. This is an association thing I've seen this done before and

1:04:40 The idea is good. She had her opportunity when she dropped the ball on the, if it rings true it is true I mean that is just dumb So she just drops the ball and now she's going nitpicking And the nitpicking is like you try to do that To show oh he's inaccurate about this therefore He's inaccurate about everything Oh, you made this mistake. Therefore you may everything's a mistake I get letters from people because I write something and I make it a little miss error small error of some sort Well now I can't believe anything you say So she's trying to do pull that off which you can't do especially with this guy who's sharper than she is Yeah much sharper She's just playing at a very low level and isn't it interesting that?

1:05:24 In the Netherlands, it's very accepted to say ant-fucking and it's literally the translation. Yeah And you can say that in a business meeting You can never say that here we know we have nitpicking A nitpicking CNN was first on that story Oh by the way stop Hate to keep interrupting. I was fine. This is great. This is too much fun picking nitpicking is a much better term Because you can't really if you can't fucking an it's not possible, but you do pick the old isn't one right here Let me get it let me get it now read this so nitpicking is a much superior term I think the Dutch is like saying and fucking oh

1:06:04 I have no argument. Whoa, time code! Hold on. I love you man. You're the gift that keeps on giving so...I didn't even know what the hell i was going to say about that she is- You were calling her out for being the sorority sister that's just all upset about something she's got her panties in a bunch Oh oh I know it comes right back to She is here with the Oscars and the money

1:07:05 I made sure, yeah. She is like...I did the work! I'm a journo! Try Dell to go and I deserve to have this success but you schmuck, you know? You Will Smith of journalism, you Marky Mark of cable news Yeah, you get more money than me. You're just not that good. Did you know and she did all the work? She did put all it is just like I could do Williams girl when she says I'll give up my Thanksgiving Yes, yes, I'm good. I'm a social justice warrior yeah because Everything every fact was correct. Yeah and believe me she said to all her friends. I'm really not doing this for the money I'm doing it because it's what needs to be done It's important for the future of our country

1:07:55 No, she probably said this country instead of our country. I digress. Somebody who wrote a book about Donald Trump...I was really cautious that every single fact in there was correct because i didn't want anybody to say your book isn't true because look at this tiny little thing so did you have a fact checker go through it? Absolutely had actually three fact-checkers but this is Oh yeah?! You think you had a fact checker Missy! I had three fact checkers Is this guy gay I, you know...I can't. I don't pick it up that he is. He might be but the f- But he's throwing stuff at me! That was bitchy! That was like...I had three fact checkers Well i think yeah I actually doubted. I don't know any well maybe I mean it's possible but why?

1:08:39 The whole thing was ad lib. And they should have picked up on a few of these little mistakes if there were three fact checkers and yes... Another opportunity miss, she should have said well they didn't do a very good job did they? Exactly I absolutely had actually three fact-checkers but this is listen I stand by it Why open yourself up is my question why open yourself up I mean, because i wouldn't do that. I understand... As- as a- as I say- He opened his wallet up! First time I think it is- I said come on in money Actually if you read the book I think it is abundantly clear and you just have to- Well there are but there aren't- You just have to read the book She's she's she's But now she's crying

1:09:20 I love this. This is great. First, I mean, I think it is actually if you read the book, I think it is abundantly clear and you just have to but they are just have to read the book when someone an author writes a book. It's that's a that's That's a very significant... It is huge thing, I know. Because they put my life into it. Here is the evidence. It's the book. Read the book! I agree and you should read the book 100%. But this idea that... Why did she say you should read the book? Is she saying that to him? I think what she means is yeah, you should read the book. My book. I think that was what she said to him there

1:09:57 No, she's saying that to the audience. She's looking right at him. She's looking right at me. She's saying it to the audience That's a very significant thing here is the evidence It's the book I read the book I agree and you should read the book one hand but this idea that so let's let's go and dress and address the idea of tapes I have Everything that I do has been has been has been specifically, closely sourced. That's what we do. We take notes would you show your reporter... See now he is a reporter again. Would you open your notes to the world? Um that's.. You know there is it called work product

1:10:43 Is that what it's called John? Work product. Not that I know of, all I know is people don't want to open their notes up because they're also careless! I left some work product in the guest bathroom this morning and then and that turns into a book if i were in the television business and that's what we do with cameras audio... What?! That's what we do now he's in the television business He wrote a book. That's one thing I'm a writer, I know he's right or writer this is an incredibly This is a written story. I've told a story he sold the story You know just read it if you think if you think it's

1:11:28 If you don't think it's true, which 35% of the country is not going to think it's true. Donald Trump... 35%... Oh they're bringing up one of these bogus numbers. ...they are not gonna buy this. Yeah there ya go. 35% of the country is nuts! Or idiots And that's crappy because they're all buying my book You know what? if I were him I would have added at the end and I'm also very proud to say It has already been optioned for a movie just to Press the needle in a little further. That would have been a great one I don't think he had the opening for it, I think Listening to the way wrapped it. I don't think you quite had the he cattle earlier I think he could have done that but that your right dad would be putting this twist and knife He's at the end of his little count as bitch Bitch and with that I'd like to thank you for your courage is a in the morning to John see where the sea stands for

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1:27:23 There's a real new idea, maybe it just a coincidence that actually happened but I thought it might have been sweetened to get your attention. It might be something we can use in the future and it came out at the end of this flu report. I want to play the flu ABC. This is the flu story and then I'm going to play it ISO which happened slightly after this story was over Up on the hill, Mary thanks as always. We're going to turn next here to the deadly flu outbreak across this country from a 21 year old son he was an aspiring trainer to a 19 month old boy both dying from the flu among many victims The earliest and most severe in years The disease now spreading across 46 states hospitalizations doubling in just a week So why is it so powerful this year? And if you get the flu shot now how soon before it helps

1:28:11 Here's ABC's Gio Benitez. Tonight, a dangerous strain of the flu is hitting the nation hard! The CDC says the H3N2 strain is causing one of the worst seasons in recent history. This virus tends to affect older people so over 65 and very young under a year. 19-month old Nathaniel Downey of Toledo, Ohio died Monday from the flu. The family says he suddenly started coughing and within an hour couldn't breathe even the seemingly fit can be affected this 21 year old aspiring to be a personal trainer died. The family says a simple cold turned into a serious flu we showed his photo to the doctor

1:28:48 He says cases like these are very rare and he'd need to know more, but that any age group can catch the flu. It's certainly an awful and scary story when you're looking at the overall numbers of people in his age group this person isn't necessarily at increased risk of adverse outcomes Tonight the CDC is still urging people to get the flu shot even though it's only estimated to be 30% effective against this year's main flu strain and Gio Benitez outside Mount Sinai Hospital here in New York City where doctors say they're seeing a spike in flu cases. And, Gio do experts think wild temperature changes that we've seen across this country are hurting our immunity when it comes to fighting the flu? And the other question we're getting from a lot of people is if you get the flu shot now how soon before it takes effect

1:29:31 You know, David in fact experts are actually trying to figure out if there's any relationship between the flu and those extreme temperature changes. But you know what? Regardless they say get that flu shot it's not too late to get it they say it takes about two weeks to be fully effective so the sooner the better. Now, there's just trying to get rid of these stocks of useless flu shots. Can I just say something as an aside? Both of my sisters one living in the Netherlands and one living in Italy have also been struck by the flu. Yeah It is all over the world it's global man! It's a bad strain and I would hope that everybody especially NO Agenda listeners would have pre-ordered Relenza

1:30:18 Well, Relenza or Tamiflu. Relenza is the harder to use product and I like it better but you need to be sure. Why is it harder to use? Because its a powder that you inhale. Yeah, but you don't inhale it that way. You have to have this is the special device and you'd have to poke it in his Powder comes he had a breathe it in and because it goes into the lungs idea not up your nose And It's so it's a little more difficult I think it just more effective and it makes more sense to me that relenza But either one relenza or Tamiflu? You should always have this in your cupboard and when you're having for one

1:31:05 one package for everyone in the family and if the flu comes on you just, there you go. You're going to be fine which we did when went to England I think everyone caught the flu in some form or other We just kind of floated through it because it's not that much of a problem if you're prepared. But anyway, back to the story... That is a good tip and I think people should take it seriously. Don't take the flu shot! That's for sure don't do that. Well obviously doesn't work so what good is in there also gives you overconfidence? So even if you take the flu shot you should have this medicine. And wash your hands. Yeah wash your hands a lot So here's the very end of this, the ISO at the end of this segment. They transitioned to something else and I'm wondering you can hear it there is a little piece of sweetening in here or perhaps has actually occurred but i think it sounds great and really brings your attention to this story. So the sooner the better. Alright Joe Benitez we'll stay on this flu. In the meantime return next tonight to be outrage after a... Of course beep! Now I have an alternate version that

1:32:08 Okay, here we go. So the sooner the better. Alright J-O Benitez and we'll stay on this flu. In the meantime return next tonight to The Outrage after a... That's how they should have cut it! I was guessing you were gonna do the missile launch but No, Donkey is the new missile my friend. Donkey is the new missile I caught something very, you know the...I'm all over the educational stuff and so people send me a lot of interesting things. Ever since the Dodd report that we did talking about the deliberate dumbing down of the American education system there's a lot of interesting data points as to what's happening with the labor market with jobs what jobs are paying the most money and this was on Fox Business

1:32:58 Anthony, Anthony Rinaldi. And he's a construction guy in New York! You know? Construction guy. And so they're talking about labor rates and you know actually it's interesting that we were talking about unions or non-unions with the Javits Center but this is about construction and wages you know, the type of labor that is needed in New York City. Really, this is New York City. And this is part of the demand! This is part of the demand What kind of hourly wage are you looking at here for a skilled guy? It all depends if your talking union or non-union Union skilled guys could be over $100 an hour Operating engineers I'll give ya reality

1:33:58 Operating engineers, these guys are making $400,000 a year. An operating engineer would be a crane... Crane operator. A crane operator? A crane operator. Four hundred thousand dollars a year?! 400,000 minimum! Minimum!? What would you get in Miami? I'm going to say probably Miami, they're in the $250,000 range. But you can't employ just somebody off the street who says yeah I could drive that car. No no no, operating engineers is a different skill set 100%. With money like that I would have thought Labour would be pouring it and go to trade schools or something but get qualified for that kind of money? Well you know what is is...the work is booming! There's so much work going on right now there are not enough bodies to fill it

1:34:41 How about that? Yeah, that doesn't surprise me. $400,000! Well I knew that...I mean the guys over in Oakland who run those giant cranes they get like 250 or 300 thousand a year but those things are hard to operate They really take an expert especially with cranes Right but this is labor supply that drives wages I have a feeling it's not always been... I mean you're just talking 100 dollars per hour for some guys It's really been that way for quite a while. Right, but yet everyone wants to be a lawyer? Well they're funneling kids to schools of trade, the schools are largely

1:35:22 A lot of them, a whole bunch of phony ones cropped up during this recent period because it's student loan scam. They just don't want to scam kids and so it's really a mess. I mean there is... The guy's right. There's a shortage especially some of those $200 an hour jobs are not can find people for that you can bring them in. Silicon Valley jobs where you know they can learn at IIT how to design a chip and then they'll hire them at lower wages. And it's one of the semiconductor companies, but yeah, no that does nothing that surprises me Wow all right? I thought it was on to something like screw podcasting I Can fly an airplane? I'm sure I can learn how to drive a crane operate a crane

1:36:14 Yeah, you probably could. There was also something else this relates to the new tax law that we have in Gitmo Nation proper Something about the 529 rule? Did you ever heard of the 529 rule when you explained it I betcha I heard of it man It seems like a hidden gem to screw states over think of the 529 plan as a love child born in the mid 90s to your federal and state governments They named it in a flash of creativity after a section of the tax code. States generally manage the investment plans, while the feds let money grow long-term tax free. Many states also try to encourage savers with short term rewards – when families make contributions they get credit or deduction on their state income taxes. Most often the state tax credit is the foot in the door

1:37:04 Troy Montanay oversees Indiana's 529 program, where savers get a tax credit. 33 states do this putting extra skin in the game – that credit in Indiana or deduction in Oklahoma means less tax revenue coming in. States just figure it's worth if gets more people to college. But all of this is why Congress' sudden expansion of the program into K-12 schools has some experts worried. This change allows private school families to put their money through 529 accounts and avoid state income taxes. Nat Malkus studies ed policy at the American Enterprise Institute, it's a conservative leaning think tank

1:37:48 It's a change from the federal level that puts a number of states in a pretty tough position moving forward. Malcus says if lots of new families sign up and current families contribute more, well then states could end up losing a lot more money in tax breaks. I think it would immediately create an unintended budgetary hit to the state's budget Greg Burke of the New York State Council of School Superintendents says this expansion surprised After all, it came top-down from Washington and states haven't budgeted for it. New York offers savers a $10,000 deduction on their state taxes. In Illinois where Michael Frerichs is treasurer, its even more generous

1:38:31 $20,000. He says 529s were meant to save long term for college and that letting families use them for kindergarten changes things if they're putting money in one month and taking out the next They don't really have that advantage of long-term investing It's really just using them to get around state taxes seems like a pretty big deal to the states well Yes And it's gonna be more important than ever because you can only take out so much ten thousand dollar cap on state taxes, local taxes sales tax and something else. Real estate taxes? Yeah right real estate tax yeah it's all yeah taxes... So what you're saying is because this will be a loophole to allow if as long as you can take the deduction or your spending in our education you can it'll be closer to like $20,000 instead of 10,000 cap? Yeah maybe. Hmm interesting

1:39:32 Yeah, this is a... Very interesting. Kind of a disaster for some people. Mostly as you've mentioned with the, even though this is a tax cut for the rich it's really gonna screw, this is not a tax cut for the rich as you pointed out with your meeting with the anonymous accountant who handles billionaires no they're gonna take a huge hit because a lot of them live in California or New York where there's already a huge income tax and New York City they actually have a city tax So you have an income tax, state income tax which amounts to a lot and it caps at 10 grand. It's like nothing for some of these guys and yeah it's gonna be a screw job for the rich I noticed that there is a new business model and its social justice And when I say business model I'm talking about really

1:40:23 I mean, we've seen social justice creep into education system and to government. It's everywhere but now it's also in the investment community and Silicon Valley. And it took me a while...I saw an interview with one of these investors and they're going after Apple for their product so they're invested in the company Yet they're going after the company to change it's their activist investors But instead of get rid of the CEO or you know, the other typical stuff that you would hear. Yes This has been done with environmentalists too. Yes exactly It's been activists environmentalist who go into these companies and they make a big fuss about your wasting energy And all the rest I can't do that with Apple no

1:41:08 But they can always pull out the think of the children bit and the context of this is that the investment firm, not retirement fund but the investment firm in this story. They're raising a new fund and you know the way that works as you say okay we're raising a Kleiner Perkins it's not Kleiner Perkins I forget who it is John or Jane or something We're raising, you know investment fund 2018 version two and it's $1 billion. And here's what we're going to do with it and then you get a prospectus in it says okay we are going to invest in Silicon Valley company and start ups but they all have socially aware, where they all have to recognize equal justice for all. A rift is brewing among Apple investors over whether the company should address fears that too much screen time may be harmful for kids

1:41:57 Two major Apple investors are urging the company to take action against iPhone addiction. An open letter to Apple, sent by hedge fund powerhouse Janna Partners and a California pension fund cites recent studies that find screen overuse could hurt the development of children's brains and is contributing to depression and suicide risk in teens But Reuters reporter Trevor Honeycutt spoke with some Apple investors who say getting hooked on smartphones is exactly the point. What they're telling us is that the fact that Apple products are addictive, is what makes the company so great So a lot of investors like stocks that are hated by some people They like stocks

1:42:40 alcohol, tobacco gambling. Why? Because even in a recession people spend money on those things and some people are starting to think of Apple as being a sin stock kind of like those. One fund manager says the real culprits are social media companies and that Apple is merely the portal through which Facebook and Snapchat keep kids coming back for more. Apple has not commented on the letter and while its products come with parental controls Some fear if Apple doesn't do more proactively, the government just might. Technology companies have been the market leaders they have been the stocks that have seen the biggest rise over the last few years and The only kind of shadow on the horizon is this idea that maybe someday The attention that these companies are going to get is it's gonna lead to more regulation and it's gonna cut back on their profits So there there is a

1:43:33 corollary to what happened with the tobacco industry where they faced a number of lawsuits and regulation that curtailed their profits. So, that's kind of the biggest fear for investors over the long run." Investors have already seen some regulatory backlash France for instance is banning mobile phones from schools at the start in the next school year. And I think it is a trend and these phones should have been banned in schools years ago. It's interesting because you're going to see, maybe we can even touch on the lawsuit that Google kid brought against Google after he wrote the document about... Yeah it was good lawsuit Did you read that thing? No Oh! I have couple of excerpts we can look at that in a minute

1:44:22 No, but I was just on theoretically it seems that it was an unfair firing Oh But when you but he gives all these examples of what actually goes on within Google as they call it the googly way You know. I mean I read his document oh That's one well no no in the lawsuit they have a hell of a lot more Okay, I have not looked at that okay Leeway The Googly Way, but I was going to say that Yeah, and Tucker Carlson has become a little unwatchable because he's always the two same topics. You know why do immigrants who are here illegally get preferential treatment over Americans? And no one ever answers the question is kind of it yeah He's got that look on his face constantly just like dude They're not gonna answer and you know and he make gives people hypotheticals now or what if it was Hillary's painting himself into a corner It's not good

1:45:11 And another one is he says that he's more afraid of Silicon Valley than the government. I'll say there's something to that, but you know the importance that is given to these companies and this type of news story rarely does anyone ever kind of offer the crazy notion that you don't have to use Facebook You don't have to use an iPhone now and these companies are doing just horrible stuff Horrible stuff. And every single time I think, what are the alternatives just in general? You know love this! I think that there's only one company that you can kind of trust even though their operating system is all full of all kinds of spyware and stuff

1:46:05 I think when it comes to just what the cloud is doing and how they're going to track you, I think that on the most honest guys in the room and that's saying a lot for Silicon Valley is gonna be Microsoft. They've been through...they've been around a long time they have been through all of this bullcrap anti-competitive stuff. They still have stuff to learn. They got their new guy who seems like he has some integrity And I'm telling you there counter culture but if this would be my pro tip Microsoft for the win I'm not kidding. He switches to Microsoft and now hear him oh yeah, oh yeah, no III Freely admit that but just I've dealt with the company you know I've looked at their mixed reality stuff Yeah interesting ideas But you know let me tell you this VR stuff is bullcrap it's total bullcrap. I mean he got some games and

1:47:00 Yeah, I mean. I was really interested in having you know my own space where I could set up my desktop windows That was a whole jacked-up about it just the last show right so he and it's kind of there You need better resolution And I thought you could you know you could open up all these like all these different Windows and I could have a panel for my from my carts over here No, you can basically pull up a desktop And you can put an app full screen in the desktop, but you can only have one open at a time. But that's not even the thing that irks me the most So you set up this and the idea is great I mean it's totally snow crash, but they're going in this weird direction And all of this VR stuff is filled with it. I just want a black space Yeah maybe can put a background It's a room whatever no they give you a cliff house and the cliff house You always hear you know to see the surf and the birds and when you move your head then it I don't want

1:47:54 I want to hear that! I want to do some email. You know, it's great to have an email the size of a movie screen and sit back and kind of...do your email And it does work to a degree But you know there has to be this like James Bond villain house and you can't change any of tha- I don't wanna house! I don't wanna have to teleport to the movie theater You know, I just want to do it here. You know just put stuff in and you know if people want to go berserk and build stuff fine but the its everything like going into one of these virtual chats It's like old-fashioned like modernized Roman or Greek architecture And you sit on these luscious chairs and you go hey Hey! Hey! And the hands look crummy and this is stupid They're a long way from being anything good Yeah But again, screw Google

1:48:45 Seriously, the people talk about you can't do without their email. You know we're all stuck with them now We're not I don't use it I have my own server. Mark Perkel runs the server and it's on Squirrel, we got squirrel mail or any pop client or IMAP no problem. I can run it through something else. I don't have to just do through squirrel mail. I just like squirrel mail and I don't use Google. I mean, I use Google for one thing is to send you clips only because he's got one cause it's easier to send a whole crap load of stuff without having to click more than once.

1:49:23 But that could be fixed someplace else. I don't know... And the same with, you know just... I'm still baffled why we can't get decentralized search up and running That would change the game You know then we probably need our own browser which i guess could be done but Why are all these great open source gurus not really putting some It must be possible beyond the realm of what it is today because its shite and I've experimented with all of them But the idea it should be able to work and then you change the game, but no that's not what's happening We're all creating little startups of nothingness. Well, that's the way it is anyway Yo Current Bitcoin price thirteen thousand four hundred and twenty two I hope y'all bought on that dip at 15 whoo-hoo. I have a Tech news oh, I was gonna do a Bitcoin report

1:50:22 Well, you were leaving tech news. But I can push this tech news off... I played a Bitcoin jingle! I know, I heard that and you didn't give me the chance to get my tech news in after you did your tech news. Oh, I see. I'm sorry it wasn't really tech news but go ahead please It was definitely tech news. It was more usability news About tech no it was our mini version of CES except we had the electricity on and just everything is shit VRs. It's not the same thing at CES what are you talking about? Yeah, all right? Where's your tech news this is well This is kind of an interesting story This is the story that came up on CBS which is a story I was complaining about I mean that wasn't in Leone Massachusetts wherever it is

1:51:10 New York, I'm not sure. Anyway, I was talking about how I get routed through neighborhoods I think i put this in a column. I get routed through neighborhoods on some one particular route to place in Oakland will take instead of going an extra two blocks up and taking it right on some main drag they route me through some little neighborhood past a bunch of homes kids playing baseball in the field, in the street now you're talking about Google Maps? You're talking about Google Maps? Yeah They all do this. And then I go back to the street, it saves no time! It maybe saves a tenth of a mile and then i'm back on the same main street that would have been on if I'd gone straight. So this apparently is a bigger deal than I thought it was. If you listen to this, this is the Leonia NT Tech News.

1:51:59 This will change life in Leonia. It should. This new sign in Leonia, New Jersey is a low-tech solution to a high tech problem. There's approximately 60 streets that are going to be closed. A way to control the out of control traffic for residents like Melissa Soisman. How long does it take you to get out of your driveway? Sometimes it takes 10 minutes, 15 minutes... It depends on who's going to be nice and how much I'm gonna push up against their car till they let me out. Leonia is a one square mile town in the shadow New York City's George Washington Bridge For years whenever traffic would back up at the bridge savvy commuters would get off the highway and take a shortcut through Leonia

1:52:37 If you knew the secret, there were ways to beat the jam. Stay to the right to exit 78, Leonia But now everyone has Waze or other traffic apps that routes them through Leonia and once the main streets get clogged start sending commuters through residential side streets Mayor Judah Ziegler. Because they have an app that says take a right then left and right then left to shave three minutes off your commute, now they're all over every narrow side street in this municipality This is what it can look like on the once quiet streets of Leonia Their plan? Restrict the streets during rush hour just to Leonia residents Have a hang tag in your car

1:53:18 or get a ticket. We're not talking about 20 bucks, no we're talking about $200. 200 bucks has some teeth. From Medford Mass to Fremont California communities have become victims of the traffic apps as Leone's police chief Tom Rowe discovered if you pass a law the app will remove side streets from its menu of shortcuts and people will do whatever the app tells them to do and it's scary sometimes it's what the app stops telling them to do that should make life less scary here. In 1000 feet, stay to the right. It's funny it reminds me of the early days of GPS we would have a story every now and then now and again about some guy who turned right into a drink into the drink boat ramp something like that yeah yeah I think we're in acceleration mode

1:54:11 where the technology is really in every aspect of our life and I told you we had power go down during the extreme climate change cold. Yeah, I don't think you mentioned this... We did, we talked about it that the building is all... Actually they gave us a $50 gift certificate! They should have given me 50 dollars off on your rent. It's Le Politique which you would like I don't know what that even is. It's a brand new restaurant in Austin and it's the chef is from Joel Rubishon Oh, which Rubishon operation? The one in Vegas? I think so. He also worked at the French Laundry Yes French yeah So if you ever get here You know save up my money and we can go there Sounds like a winner Now why was I saying that? You were saying they gave you 50 bucks off of 500 No no forget that What I'm saying is We're in acceleration mode Acceleration of all this stuff

1:55:13 And now we're recognizing openly that these things, that the phones are not good. That the apps you run are not good. None of it's healthy But there is no real outrage We're all just like... Okay There is no time for outrage You gotta check your Facebook updates It's really true I know, it was just Professor Ted man he was right And the sad thing or the fun of the irony is that he has no internet, so he doesn't know what's going on. No one tells him what's happening. Somebody should go visit him. Alright here we go. There you go! So as I said, I hope y'all loaded up on The Dip at $1500 seeing this now 13409. 15000 you mean? 15000 yeah

1:56:08 Yeah, people getting screwed on this. I feel... When it's at $25,000 you'll be singing a different tune! Yeah but what happens is you know people get caught up in the hype and then it goes down and then they're like when do we cut our losses? And then it goes back up of course that's the whole idea of a loading zone Here's Buffett on the cryptocurrencies The good old boy from Omaha In terms of cryptocurrencies generally uh I can say almost with certainty that that they will come to a bad ending. Now, when it happens or how or anything else I don't know but i know this if i could buy long-term puts... If I could buy a five year put on every one of the cryptocurrencies I'd be glad to do it but I would never short a dime's worth Have you thought about trading the futures? To take a negative position on Bitcoin? No

1:56:58 You would not do that? No. There's no reason... I get into enough trouble with things, I think i know something about why in the world should I take a long or short position of something I don't know anything about so uh you know we don't have to know what cocoa beans are going to do or any cryptocurrencies We just have to be careful. I thought that was an interesting little cock up he made there He confuses cryptocurrency with cocoa beans And it's obviously a Freudian slip, I'm just wondering is he doing something with cocoa beans? Well I think he's trying to think of the futures market and cocoa beans are in that.

1:57:39 Conflated or did whatever the word was really supposed to use well He has cocoa beans on his mind But you think because she asked about the futures market cuz he was talking about put which is something very far Maybe he's trading cocoa beans. I don't that's why I'm interested coffee is like a big thing that trade I know with the cocoa beans how you even do that? Oh, no wait wait Wait remember the story that global warming is we won't have any more cocoa beans worth at cacao Is that the same Yeah, it's the same. Okay so maybe that's why he is thinking about it because of the news stories there will be no more cocoa beans bull crap story. It was something I don't know anything about you know we don't have to know what cocoa beans are going to do or any cryptocurrencies... Actually think we should just refer to it as Coco coin

1:58:29 from now on. And I won't know the answers. Although when we sat down, Warren you did say that we should have announced that we were getting involved in Bitcoin this morning Well that is true That would be much more interesting to the audience than if we were going to issue a whole series of cryptocurrencies tomorrow We aren't believe me and we don't own any, we're not shorting any, we'll never have a position in them He very clearly talks about shorting

1:59:16 The bitcoins and the cryptos, which is what's happening. I told people not to do it. The crooks are in people! Ah you know... But i think let's go long on Cocoa Futures because he probably knows that its bull crap that nothings gonna happen but now the news Whether its going to happen or not doesn't affect the price It doesn't what people think is gonna happen. What's going to thank you, but at a certain point There's there's a turning point after everyone has said oh it's you know it's gonna go up. It's gonna skyrocket

1:59:53 So you can make money that way and then be ready for the flip. Yeah, then if you're like a genius that nobody is and you can sense the top which nobody can do they think they can. And once in awhile you do and then you think you can all the time and of course you can't because you got lucky that one time it's horrible stay out of the markets buy real estate. That's all I could say Or do a podcast Do a podcast and ask for money Fabulous Yeah, and there was your segue. No it's a little too early you're right it would have been on time My apologies I thought we had ten more minutes to go I miss read you coulda still good point It's a good point to hit

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2:09:25 Head over to noagendanation.com slash rings Eric DeShill will make sure you get your well-deserved knight or dame ring it's only for royalty that's how it is and thank you for your courage so uh democracy now has been I'm trying to listen to them more because they have some of these offbeat stories but at least they covered the Assange thing but they didn't cover it completely Play the Assange thing, and I'll explain what I think might be going on here. Ecuador's foreign minister says WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's stay in the Ecuadorian embassy in London is untenable. Assange first sought refuge and political asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in 2012 when he faced possible extradition to Sweden amidst a sexual assault investigation. The investigation has since been dropped

2:10:17 Assange denies the allegations and calls the investigation a pretext for his ultimate extradition to the United States, to face prosecution under the Espionage Act. Ecuador is now calling on Assange's stay to be ended through international mediation." Okay, so what wasn't covered is there's now they move to make Assange an Ecuadorian citizen with a passport from Ecuador. And I believe this is a pretext to making him a diplomat. Ah! And diplomats can do anything they want? Then he can waltz out of the embassy... Can beat someone up? Can park illegally?!

2:10:56 Yeah, well to a point. And so he waltz out of the embassy they can't touch him He'll then go to Ecuador where he'll be assigned some diplomatic duties in Australia Huh get back home and then wipe his brow and you hope that the Australians don't send him in the United States because that's I think he's correct They're trying to bring him into United States. He's not an American citizen But somehow he's a traitor hmm I think it'd be a great move. How come no one thought of this before? It seems like such an obvious thing. You tell me! Hmm, such an obvious thing... Well, I have a bit of news from our buddy Nigel Farage This is from his radio show He's on board with us now My mind is actually changing on this

2:11:42 What is for certain, is that the Clegg's... ...the Blair's and the Adonis' will never ever give up. They will go on whinging and whining and moaning all through this process So maybe just maybe I'm reaching the point of thinking that we should have a second referendum on because what on EU membership The whole thing yes, of course of course unless you want to have a multiple-choice referendum I think if we had a second referendum an EU membership We'd kill it off for generation the percentage that would vote to leave next time would be very much bigger than it was last time Just finish the whole thing off and Blair can disappear after it into total obscurity has he flipped

2:12:27 Well, he's flipped but I think he has flipped much the way Theresa May flipped. Flipped out! She decides to have a snap election so she can get more power and she lost power. Exactly. It was stupid yeah. I think the same thing is going to happen here. Why is he doing this? The way that propaganda machine works you give it two shots...it'll beat ya. Yep seems to work that way. Yeah. Today is an interesting day showday but Project Veritas releasing a whole bunch of videos undercover videos Which and again, you know I love the idea. I love the project I feel they do a lot of baiting of people and this is You may have seen some of this They did some undercover video within Twitter talking specifically about the president's tweets And it's a hidden camera and the girl who was asking the questions young lady you see her hand in her hand has

2:13:24 You know some kind of sexy bracelet. She's a very good-looking hand, but she's really leading this guy on This guy's got it probably has a heart on under his desk like yeah Hot girls Yeah you bring in somebody like that and he'll just agree with whatever she says Whatever I have 47 seconds of some of these Jim Oakes This is better audio than usual, but I'll just play it just for so we've played it and we have the clip in the archives. It's really... And that's a problem with the whole Project Veritas Is it doesn't really translate well The sound is very very bad So you're not a Trump lover? No We're more than happy to help the Department of Justice in their little investigation Okay

2:14:14 I don't like being So you really can't hear that well, I guess. They kind of, I didn't think you could hear it. He just like to get Trump right? Well there's a couple of things in these and just paraphrasing so one is they appear to want to be helping out

2:15:10 the FBI with or the special counsel with quote that little investigation by also giving DMs and I guess they had DMS between the president and his kid. And so they're handing that off, you know it's like oh we got all this stuff yeah so what? You know a lot of its just really not important but its the mindset is really the... We now think it was The Daily Caller News Foundation evidence that Google is filtering out conservative websites. There's a lot of weird stuff going on, a lot of bias and it's affecting lives and this kind of shows just how Silicon Valley is thinking Twitter's not very significant anymore I don't think they also specifically talk about shadow banning so it is a real thing known within Twitter yeah and now you know why have never been verified? I'm not A-hole from the No Agenda show

2:16:09 Well, you were in A-hole before the No Agenda show. Thank you? And you weren't verified then either! What do you mean? You're blaming the No Agenda show when I think it's just somebody doesn't like you and because I think somebody asked about that he'll never get verified even though your famous yeah You have every earmark of a person who should be verified. I'm a Marconi award winner, my friend! And you're a Marconi award winner on top of that not to mention the podcast award and there's no...and you were famous for being an early VJ if not the originator and on and on. Why aren't you verified? That podcast thing doesn't make any sense. Now i don't want it

2:16:51 Yeah, you say that. Oh yeah no if it happens I'm closing my account absolutely It's the mark of the beast That's how they're gonna track people and who to kill first the verified ones go first Yeah You just say that cuz you're just irked No i'm not really I used to be I'm not anymore mm-hmm Let's change topics this guy Norman Finkelstein And the only reason I've got these clips because you're gonna hear this guy talk and you're gonna go, oh my God. Why does he clip this guy? He is an unpresentable droopy dog voice that's worse than anyone you've ever heard but his information is so interesting and he is a genuine...he's not on the Council of Foreign Relations. I checked this guys background. There are lot of books in the Middle East seems to know what the hell is going on to an extreme

2:17:45 And he comes on Democracy Now to do one of those whole shows of me talking kind of thing. Mm-hmm, and I just found it was fascinating because he has some real interesting kind of dirt But I haven't let... What's his background? He is a writer. He is a researcher. I don't have to go look at his bio but he's done a crap load of books about the Middle East. A Middle East expert all right now now I've set it up so that at the end, there's a guy who is going to talk about his next topic and they kind of bring it in. And I'll give you the choice whether we want to continue listening or not after each break. OK, start with… I'm pretty easygoing. Actual refugees and children of refugees but under the categorization used in Gaza they're all classified as refugees. So that's 70 percent.

2:18:33 Secondly, half of Gaza's population or slightly more are children. And so you have this overwhelmingly refugee child population and they rely overwhelmingly on UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency UNRWA is financed between 25 and 30 percent by the United States, and that comes to about $300 million a year. And so the threat of cutting the money to UNRWA would be—it's—would be devastating for an already devastated population, overwhelmingly children.

2:19:14 Nonetheless, I would like to keep things in proportion. So it would be a catastrophe—no doubt about it—if UNRWA is defunded by the United States. However, let's look at the numbers. We're talking about $300 million annually. Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia He paid $500 million for a yacht. That would have covered all of UNRWA's expenses, the American portion, for more than a year. He paid $450 million for a da Vinci painting. That would have covered all U.S. expenses again for more than a year. He paid $300 million for a house in Versailles

2:20:08 That would have covered all the UN expenses, UNRWA expenses by the United States. And God only knows how much money he paid for Tom Friedman's column in The New York Times." Well why don't you explain what you're referring to? This op-ed piece in The New York Times about Mohammed bin Salman, crown prince of Saudi Arabia. Wow there is a lot to unpack there! So you want to listen to what he has to say about...we have, by the way in the show notes we should have that column. I sent it over there. It's a very interesting thing to read if you want to read well, it's up to you do you wanna hear any more? No no I'm completely done

2:20:54 Are you kidding me? Clip two. The crown prince of Saudi Arabia. There are young people here, so I have to be careful about my language but all it was a very expensive— Be careful no cursing on this show No it's not cursing but it was a protracted —it was a verbal blowjob probably the most expensive one in world history that was administered to Mohammed bin Salman. What does a Jew know about blowjobs? Stop for a second, that term is actually in use in the business of writing especially journalism I thought it was hagiography Blowjob Blow job is a very common phrase used by writers and journalists mostly

2:21:48 When somebody writes a piece that is so ridiculous, fawning it's beyond hagiography. It's a blowjob! This is great because that will be the title of my book when I write it. Blowjob. It's a blow job bio. But just to interrupt one more time, everyone out there should read this piece. It is horrible! It is exactly what he says. And it's about which prince? The new one or the old one? It's about the new guy that Ben Solomon. Yeah well... Friedman you gotta remember as a guy we've identified probably working for one of the agencies three-letter agency A three-time Pulitzer winner with which is really almost impossible to achieve without some help

2:22:34 And a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, which I believe by the way working journalists should not be a member of that organization. It's got a globalist agenda. Him and Sanger both in The New York Times are both members it's got a globalist agenda they shouldn't be members of it. It's got a perspective and you have to kind of sign onto it. Anyway let this guy talk, I'm sorry. Expensive one in world history that was administered to Mohammed bin Salman. The column he wrote in the Times—it was vintage Tom Friedman, he goes into Saudi Arabia for three days, says everything is wonderful, talks to the crown prince's sister who is representative of the people of Saudi Arabia, says they're all very enthusiastic about him and then walks away and writes this column

2:23:30 Sorry. Hardly mentioning in this column, among other issues Yemen? Well- Mohammed bin Salman who is in charge of the U.S.-backed Saudi assault on Yemen Yes well Yemen is all look the fact of the matter Is that every reactionary every regressive movement in the Arab world is financed by the Saudis, whether it's Yemen, whether it's Bahrain, whether it's Syria, whether it's Egypt. Everywhere, it's the Saudi money—and it's also, incidentally, the Saudi money that keeps the Palestinian Authority afloat.

2:24:07 That's why they have to pay all—they have to pay deference to the Saudis. It's a wretched, parasitic regime." What about Jared Kushner's relationship with Mohammed bin Salman? And how does that play in here? Just as a programming note, I personally would've rather had this in the B Block. I think it's good enough for The Bee. Yeah, well I couldn't find a way to work it in. Well now you're going on to part three which you can make it- You can choose to listen or not listen this part is about Jared Kushner Oh are you kidding? Definitely want the dirt on the Kush! There ya have it. What about Jared Kushners relationship with Mohammed bin Salman and how does that play in here

2:24:54 He's gone repeatedly to Saudi Arabia. Jared Kushner, senior advisor to his father-in-law President Trump apparently is in charge of the Middle East peace process and they have Apparently cooked up a plan Jared Kushner and Mohammed bin Salman for peace in the Middle East Well first of all we have to look at the context Does this guy look like Harvey Weinstein? No, he's skinny. Ah damn He's on death door I'm glad you got this for prosperity sake Jared Kushner knows nothing about anything Kushner is only there Because he's married to Trump's daughter He's the son of Charles Kushner Charles Kushner is a real estate mogul

2:25:44 a billionaire who has the distinguishing characteristic of actually having been arrested and spending time in jail. Now, that's very rare— AMY GOODMANNAN By Chris Christie when he was a prosecutor in New Jersey? REV. GEN. RONALD REAGAN Right. That is very rare in the United States for a billionaire to spend time in jail. Among other things, he hired a prostitute and had her photographed in order to hire a prostitute to have his brother-in-law photographed, and then presented the video to his wife at some family gathering. Jared Kushner got into Harvard University because the year he applied, his father gave $2.3 million dollars to Harvard. Everybody agreed that he didn't have the grades, he didn't have the test scores

2:26:34 These are people who profit—who profit from their parents' profit. There's no known knowledge that he possesses about the Middle East, and incidentally it's the same thing with Mohammed bin Salman. His only interest is—has only one interest. And, of course, the interest is to maintain his power. The Saudi regime is a parasitic regime. Work—literally in Saudi Arabia work is the four-letter word. If you say that you have a job that you work, the Saudi ruling class looks at you with contempt. You work?

2:27:17 And so the Saudis know in their now battle with Iran They know that they couldn't prevail against Iran on a military level and the strategic level You know ran as a 5,000 year old civilization. It's a very impressive place And so they're hoping that the United States and Israel will take their chestnuts out of the fire Hmm this guy is good Yeah, he's got a good grip on things and he is a horrible orator but his knowledge and I love how he just throws it all out there. It's great! If somebody would just take that guy aside... But you know these types of guys they don't care He would have great podcast potential

2:28:02 So he has this one less, this is the one we're gonna play. This is interesting because this last little clip which was very short I just clipped it out of there...this a long piece of whole thing because he uses the same terminology that Wesley Clark used when you go through his list and as soon as I heard I said this is an interesting common way putting something will take their chestnuts out of the fire. So they want Israel and the United States to go to war with Iran, and so they're willing to do anything—you know, they'll give away Palestine or they'll give away this studio. They'll purchase it and give it away to get the United States and Israel to do their bidding. So we're not really talking about a peace plan. We're talking about handing

2:28:47 Israel everything it wants in exchange for Israel and the United States taking out Iran. Taking the taking out Iran? Yeah, taking out. Let's listen... Seven countries in five years starting with Iraq and then Syria Lebanon Libya Somalia Sudan and finishing off Iran Not quite the same. Finishing off, no he said finishing off I think it was the earlier one and he's done that of course that clip a number times but I kind of remember somebody saying taking out could be but i think he's right this is like you know maybe there Saudis behind that whole list that Wesley Clark elucidated they seem to be behind everything except this damn show where's our check? Where's our Saudi check bitches! Damn thousand shows

2:29:40 Yeah, we have not. It's been very hard to pay a lot of attention to what's going on there and really a lot of the focus has been on the Clintons because they were so brazen about it but you look at John McCain and yeah I mean Kushner is bad actor he's dummy You can just see it! When he talks especially notice it So I hope Mueller takes him out We take him out The only reason we think that Mueller is allowed to continue We'll see. On that, there's been a lot of news about... was it I guess sneaky Diane Feinstein as the president now calls her released the transcript of the testimony from the owner of Fusion GPS is that right? Yes

2:30:33 Yeah, I'm sorry but actually have a clip of her. Pretty good clip from me. I'm sure you have a clip? But i have a long clip of... They actually got Mike and Diane's face on Democracy Now! It wasn't them of course it was somebody else but they actually played it so its kind of interesting. Looking forward to it Where would it be? Oh, I see. I got it here and her head is gone. No, there you go compiled by a former British spy named Christopher Steele It alleges there was a conspiracy of cooperation between the Trump campaign and Russian officials This is California Senator Dianne Feinstein explaining why she released the transcript. I Think people are entitled to know what was said

2:31:19 The lawyers also wanted it released. I see no problem with releasing him. Senator Grassley says you jeopardized their ability to get certain witnesses like Kushner, your reaction? Oh i don't think so that's been difficult in any event to my knowledge there has not been a single fact in that report that has been proven to be incorrect that it's really to muddy the waters and create a problem. You know, Steele brought this information into the FBI and it's quite amazing that you get punished for providing information

2:32:06 The founders of Fusion GPS asked for the transcripts to be released publicly. President Trump's lawyers have sued both Fusion GPS and BuzzFeed, the news outlet that first published the dossier. All right let me just give you my take on this I just did not have enough time because of our technical difficulties so i was going to pull the clip of this meeting that the president had with his cabinet and with the leaders from both parties, the bicameral summit. Love bicameral as a word finally using that the bicameral summit and Feinstein said so Mr. you know she was given the floor they were almost right across from each other looked like pretty strategic placement and she said something which caused a little bit of confusion, she said well would you be willing to do it in phases where we have phase one we deal with the DACA issue and then we do all the rest? And Trump said yeah I'll have no problem with that which

2:33:04 By some accounts people say, well he didn't...he's a dummy. He didn't understand that she was asking for a clean bill I'm not quite sure but here's how my take on it was the following He made a deal with her She's been kind to him in the past You said some you know not flattering things But she's given him benefit of the doubt I think he made a deal with her She's old and wise She doesn't give a shit what if he calls her sneaky Diane Which is probably even a cool name really And the deal was, look you I'll make you look good. I'll say we will do something it will definitely do it in phases whatever it is and so that was perfect but You've got to release the testimony Now the question is why Is everyone freaking out about this transcript? Because there's nothing really bad in it if anything It unmasks a couple of other things But its my belief that this was a setup

2:34:00 And the setup was, you release that so we can then go demand that everything be released. So here's Grassley slamming Feinstein right after this took place. The powerful Republican chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said the ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein's decision to release the transcript From Glenn Simpson, whose firm was behind the dossier is a breach of trust that could derail efforts to secure Jared Kushner's testimony. The president son-in-law these transcripts would have been released eventually anyway But I think it does create some problems for instance when you're getting people to voluntarily come to you Senator Grassley was asked but did not comment on this tweet where President Trump called senator Feinstein sneaky underhanded and her actions possibly illegal

2:34:46 All this went down as Democrats released a new report commissioned by Senator Ben Cardin that documented the Russian president's decades-long strategy to undermine democracy, and it concluded Moscow will likely target the 2020 election spread. From that, so we said okay fine see you shouldn't have done that. That's crazy then we moved to Mark Meadows he's the congressman from I forget where he's from but he's the chief of the committee He's a big kahuna in this whole investigation and now he's saying well Paul We should have everything open on and out on the table And what they desperately want now is the Pfizer report

2:35:25 First it needs to be shown to all members of Congress and then to the American public. And they are just jizzing over themselves that they're able to call for this now. Well, exactly and so it's not only troubling there but I think its time and Jim Jordan and I are here tonight to call on our leadership to say that what we need to do is let every member have access not only to that FISA application, but to all the outstanding work that Chairman Nunes has put forth in terms of gathering documents. It's time that every member has access to those documents and so we're calling on our leadership uh... to make that available. And I think that was the setup! Well it was probably agreed upon then he could blast her on Twitter Sure She doesn't- she's a smart cookie she didn't care No she is not THAT smart I did call her a cookie

2:36:20 Well, another thing that came out in this is I think in that report it's even in there. Is that somebody in the Trump administration was working with the FBI? No no, that's now been debunked. That's been debunked yeah and that was in The Wolf Book but okay yeah the whole thing isn't best It's a mess! And its going to come to light you know this is the whole thing is correct... FBI come on the FBI was built on corruption You know, Robert Mueller who was who unconstitutionally stayed an extra two years in that post because he had the goods on 9-11 or who it came in right before 9 11 and they gave him an extra two years. The whole reason for that 10 year term is because of the roots of the DNA of the FBI with fiefdoms of power such as Hoover. No what's his face?

2:37:17 What, Herbert Hoover? No the FBI guy. You mean J Edgar Hoover? J Edgar Hoover yes I mean that's... now he is running this investigation come on wake up! Wake up people! I'm woke bro! Meanwhile Another is the first we had this stroke who's crotum guy. He got demoted to the HR department Which I'm sure it's just what the news media says who the hell knows now The other guy whose wife worked at fusion GPS He's within the FBI. He got demoted. The senior Justice Department official with an apparent conflict over Fusion GPS, the firm behind the Trump dossier has been demoted for a second time Bruce Orr is no longer head of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force he was stripped of his role as Associate Deputy Attorney General in December after Fox News reported or had meetings unknown to his superiors with the co-founder of Fusion GPS former journalist Glenn Simpson as well as former British spy Christopher Steele who compiled the dossier research

2:38:20 It's unclear where Orr has landed, though he is still a Justice Department employee. Orr's wife Nellie is a Russia specialist who did research for the Trump project which was funded by the DNC and Clinton campaign. As division head for organized crime, Orr was also directly involved with an interagency investigation that tracked a drug and money laundering scheme to Iran. Critics say the investigation and potential prosecutions were derailed by the Obama administration, fearing it would upset Iran leading up to the 2015 nuclear deal or is scheduled to testify to the House Intelligence Committee behind closed doors January 17th. That was Harridge? Yes yeah The Pixie Girl who's... Pixie girl pixies pie. Pixie girl. And what I've now also learned is that our assertion about how

2:39:07 how the media works with the intelligence community comes out of the text between Scrotum and his girlfriend Lisa where they leak information to a newspaper then it gets published. They say, oh look what the newspaper just published and then they run it up the flagpole inside the agency Yeah, that's an old trick And there's evidence of it now just evidence yeah Lacking is the outrage Yeah, there's no outrage. Nobody cares and you know There's a funny thing is that nobody cares moment in there? There's a lot of coverage of the flooding yeah And I have this flood event and they're somebody brought up a new term Because they were wondering while during this when their big mudslide came and mud is the worst yeah in California those areas where you have this susceptibility to this and it's like There's nothing worse than a sea of mud now It'll kill ya

2:40:02 It'll kill you and it make you like, and you'd get drowned in the mud. You can't get any mud in your lungs even when you got water in your lungs you can survive it You can't get out of the mud. It brings everything with it, cars and other houses and trees because the mud is like so dense that it can carry everything in it and this could be as high as a 10-foot wall of mud. Voluntary evacuation orders were issued but only 15% of residents left many who got caught at the mudslides had just evacuated in December during the wildfires After what you've seen are you surprised that so many people died?

2:40:38 Absolutely not. This town has evacuation fatigue, a lot of people are complacent." This is what people had to escape through large trees boulders even cars washing down the street and through the homes in this case you can still see about three feet of mud inside the home right now it's thick it's like quicksand it's difficult to walk through but the good news Jeff the family that lives here was not home at the time evacuation fatigue. And because you're talking about why are people not being outraged, I don't think they can be outraged anymore because they're sick of it and this but the worst case or the worst thing about this evacuation fatigue in Santa Barbara how many evac...they weren't going through an evacuation a month it wasn't like the bombing of London no it was like that one fire right everyone said get out of town he got to get out time cuz the fire

2:41:30 And then they came back home and now I gotta get out of town because of the mud. They were evacuated once, and then now it's evacuation fatigue? Oh! It was so much work to leave the last time. I mean that's the American public today." Well...to be fair when the earthquake hits you just lay in your bed and wait Yes, because i've been through enough earthquakes that I know that that's your best-that's your number one way to go That's not a form of fatigue I don't think so. It's a form of reality, there is no reality about not evacuating when this mud is coming down on you Right and they had gotten... how does that work? How do they do that through the... They trip everyone's iPhone or everyone knows No, they were going door to door Door-to-door huh? And the guy said not leaving Yeah friend of mine was in Montecito and he also didn't leave He's okay but jeez

2:42:26 And there was also gas lines erupted, explosions. Well yeah because that mud will take the telephone pole right out of the ground And these poles are everywhere, wires. It's a mess! Cleaning up the mud is worse than cleaning up the aftermath of those fires in Sonoma County because there's nothing there just sweep but this is like it does nothing to sweep you gotta get three feet of mud everywhere California's face and California's cursed well that part of California Santa Barbara area I've always been convinced as cursed yeah I think it's a bad area But anyway, so evacuation fatigue. Do it once is enough I'm done! We're in trouble? Well usually an economic collapse fix resets a lot of stuff. When's the cycle come and due? It's actually due last year so... I know what's keeping it up Trump? Well we talked about this a little bit on Horowitz What's keeping it up as the government has been really

2:43:33 Doing what it can to manipulate the market as much as keep things propped up Our Ponzi scheme that started this is a Ponzi scheme going on and yes, no one's yeah Yeah, so cheap money. They can borrow cheap money stocks go up everyone's at Wall Street's making money Yeah. But it also flows into 401ks, everyone's happy? Everyone is happy! So we can just keep going... You're a big proponent of jamming money into the system so this could go on for awhile and we could never come to an end Well this happened in the 1850s And you can jam money into the system only so long before it coughs at it and goes wait a minute That was after the 49er gold rush? Yeah

2:44:14 So it was just too much money, too much gold? Too much gold. That was one of the reasons that the economy collapsed in 1857 and that was considered America's first genuine depression Well I want everyone to remember now...that when it hits, when the big one hits We're gonna need your support and you can say this. Yeah, well we will need your support Luckily a lot of people are wealth healed but you know also say this when it hits you heard it here first And fourth and fifth And then there's this advertisement for IKEA.

2:45:08 peeing on this ad may change your life, wants women to prove they are with child to receive the discount which some are saying could be interpreted as sexist and others argue is just plain gross. Mothers will have to bring the soiled ads into stores which unfortunate cashiers will then have to handle to process the discount. Woohoo! Peeing in the stores...peeing in the stores I'll give you a clip of the borderline Oh okay borderline I think you should go to the store and pee right there in the store. Yeah, hey what about this look? I'm pregnant and honestly you know how do you know it's not for men sir When are we gonna stop the ladies night in bars yeah, I think this should be illegal I agree with that yeah

2:45:57 Let's play it fair, people. Hey another chink in the armor for education in the Me Too and Time's Up extravaganza Montreal novelist is calling on Concordia to clean up what she calls a culture of harassment This is Concordia University in Montreal The university's president says it is looking into allegations of sexual misconduct by members of the English department Now Annie, the former graduate is the first to give interviews about the experience What is she saying? Well, Heather O'Neill says that she has been speaking out publicly not only about her personal experience but also the culture within the university's creative writing department for many years. So she has mixed feelings about why it is only getting attention now in reaction to a blog post by another author and former student Mike Spence.

2:46:43 for when she was a graduate student in the creative writing program 20 years ago. For her, the harassment began with one professor saying that he wanted to publish her poems in a literary magazine and inviting her for a drink at a bar to choose those poems. Now she says that at the time it didn't raise any red flags because it was considered acceptable part of networking to do so but what-that when she got to the bar there was no mention of the poems at all rather sexual advances that she refused She says that there were uh...

2:47:29 again another half dozen invitations followed that one and that she refused but Heather O'Neill really describes it as a struggle for her as a young student. There you go, its happening in academia John! A struggle for the poor girl yeah well its happening its happening you predicted it and its happened oh yeah nailed it that was obvious You get a donkey I get one donkey One service donkey for you sir alright wind us up John I got one, uh...I got a couple things here. I gotta update on the Cuba story and some other demographics. Now i'm just gonna have-i'm gonna play a this is the CBS clip

2:48:11 And this is, I thought was a disgusting story and it goes on everywhere. It happened to my wife years and years ago because this is not a new phenomenon patient dumping. So y'all just gonna leave this lady out here with no clothes on? Overnight Mamu Baraka walking past the Baltimore Hospital when he noticed something he says he'll never forget. You all need...I'm assuming that you all are with the security department okay Is there a supervisor available? The hospital's security guards had just wheeled the patient to a bus stop and in the freezing temperatures they left her there. The only thing she had on was a hospital gown It is about 30 degrees out here right now, are you okay? Are you unable to speak?

2:49:10 Are you okay, ma'am? Do you need me to call the police?" It's called patient dumping and it doesn't just happen in Baltimore. In 2007 60 Minutes investigated the practice of removing homeless patients from Los Angeles hospitals and leaving them downtown. Often the patients are not insured or have other financial issues. It's unclear if that was the case in Baltimore. Okay, man. Go ahead and sit down Thank you I'm gonna call to get you some help in a statement the University of Maryland Medical Center said they share the shock and disappointment of many In the end they say we clearly failed to fulfill our mission with this patient

2:49:59 The man who recorded the video called 911. He says medics ended up taking the patient back to the same hospital A review is underway that could lead to personnel action against the hospital employees involved Alright, I know we've talked about this before explain exactly what's going on How can this be with Obamacare by the way? Because it doesn't because Obamacare is not anything that got anything to do with anybody but insurance companies. It's just a driver I can profit and these guys this is unprofitable patient comes in there actually have to treat.

2:50:34 And they, when they get the chance they look left. They look right and put her in a wheelchair and throw her down outside of the place and drop off at a bus stop she's still wearing a gown with her butt hanging out in 30 degree weather. They don't give a shit they hope that she dies This is the way the medical system is working now in this country It is pathetic it's profit oriented never used to be You couldn't make money on the medical business you could make a salary, you could get rich as a doctor And now it's just a bunch of insurance scams. And people like this, they got to get rid of them and they gotta find some way to move them out. They do in Los Angeles, they do it here and they've been doing it for years. I think because I do listen to your other podcast you were talking about just homelessness forget the patient dumping did you tell me? And I looked it up and Tina and I were looking at online last night that there is whole tent city in front of City Hall in Berkeley Yeah! Of home...and meanwhile

2:51:33 You turn on the news, it's only arguments about Trump. Yeah the tent city in front of Berkeley and with a big sign I've mentioned this on The Horowitz Show A big sign in front says that first they come for the homeless which is a reference to the Jews Then they came for me Yes, right and right on the lawn of that would take some pictures of it and try to put in a newsletter. Yeah newsletter Good one good for this giant I drove past everyone holy crap But in reality The media the media is doing the public a huge disservice by not focusing on some of these issues This is and I think that probably half of our audience Is a paycheck away

2:52:17 I know that... There's probably a few. You get you get a couple of bad donation shows, it's like hmmm yeah lot of people live paycheck to paycheck. Homelessness or suffering from homelessness Well you can fall into that trap especially if you have no any sort of safety net Yeah its very easy and most people don't think they have the safety net It is also not being taught No they're not being taught anything! Your're being groomed to be a credit score Yeah, and a renter. No offense That was really depressing thanks for that Well I'm just saying that's what happens when renters can go from renters to homeless No i'm just saying the whole report you're winding up the show on a very depressing note Let's see if it works for donations I don't know It's a test Maybe that was a mistake Bill Alright well You effed up the B block so

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