Yeah, you gave the machine just the amount of red meat it needed.
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak.
It's Thursday, May 30th, 2019.
This is your award-winning Get More Nation Media Assassination, episode 1142.
This is no agenda.
Transmitting molecules of freedom and broadcasting live from the frontier of Austin, Texas.
Capital of the Drone Star State.
In the morning, everybody.
I'm Adam Curry.
And from northern Silicon Valley, where there's no black holes for sound here...
I'm John C. DeVore.
It's Cracklot and Buzzkill!
In the morning!
No black holes for what?
Somebody made a black hole that sucks in sound.
Oh?
Yeah, it's called the Fillmore Auditorium.
Hi, hey-o!
Somebody made a black hole that apparently sucks in sound.
I don't know.
At the Fillmore?
Yeah.
No, no.
That was just a joke.
No, that's a good joke.
I like the joke.
Hmm.
Sucks in...
I could use that in the studio.
Yeah, you could.
Just to paint it on the wall.
Put a cup on the wall.
Suck it in.
Beautiful.
A couple of different ones on the wall.
They'd be...
Place would be dead quiet.
Hey, I just saw this morning this no...
Hashtag noplant19.
Have you been following this?
Have you heard of this or...
I have not heard of it nor followed it, obviously.
Well, apparently, because of the inclement weather we've been having, it is too wet, and the breadbasket, the corn belt of America, has not been able to plant.
We're a week behind now, and they really only have a couple-week window.
Wait, this doesn't make sense.
It is global warming's fault.
It's the extreme weather.
Yes.
That's right.
Yeah.
But this could be pretty bad.
I mean, if we don't have soy and corn, China's going to have a problem.
There's droughts in other places.
Could this be it?
Could this be the Armageddon?
Could this be the Armageddon?
Cornmageddon.
Whoops, got to write it down.
I will say, we've had some crazy weather.
You know, these tornadoes, which some of them were actually in Texas, Oklahoma, obviously Ohio, Indiana.
And today, like last night or this morning, 3.30, boom!
Big thunderclap right over the house.
Straight up in bed.
Like, what?
Yeah, it was very loud.
And here's the thing that's interesting.
If you look at some pictures of this devastation, tornadoes are...
Tina's...
She's lived through hurricanes in Florida, but in Indiana, although their house was never hit, she can recall as a girl several times going into the basement or sheltering for tornadoes.
They just show up out of nowhere.
They just hit and it's boom.
There's no warning.
There's not much you can do about it.
And it's happening.
These tornadoes are happening in the place where we will eventually, hopefully before 2030 so the world doesn't die, we'll have the most solar panels and windmills.
Well, those won't last.
So it's a race.
Can we build these solar panels and windmills fast enough to stop the horrible tornadoes, which have been there for as long as everyone was ever known?
Okay.
Can we build them fast enough or will they wipe them out?
And believe me, that's going to be painful, man.
And there's a couple pictures of some windmills that just broke.
Those big colossal ones from a tornado.
But even worse, sure, people lose power during tornadoes, but it's not like the gas plant typically is out of commission or the coal-fired plant or the nuclear plant.
But if you're using wind and solar, yeah, it's going to be actually out of commission.
Like, no commish commish.
It'll be gone.
Anyway, just stuff I was thinking about.
Yeah, yeah, you were thinking about it.
So what was the hashtag about again?
Hashtag no plant 19.
No plant 19.
No one's been able to plant.
They're talking about once in a hundred year issue.
If this wasn't blamed on global climate crisis, then we've got to use the right terminology.
If it wasn't blamed on the climate crisis, it would be called a once in a hundred year occurrence.
I think that's what I'm reading.
I just noticed it this morning.
I'm sorry?
I said it's bullcrap.
It is?
Yeah.
It happens all the time.
Oh, no.
What?
That they can't plant during planting season?
This is not a new phenomenon.
I'm sure you can find plenty of records showing it over and over.
Go to the University of Nebraska.
All I know about the planting, they plant it here.
I'm having fresh corn.
I had some for dinner the other night.
Okay.
As long as we know that you have fresh corn, there's no problem in the Midwest.
Everything's okay, people.
Move on.
I'm just saying, it's not like a worldwide phenomenon or anything.
They'll get the corn out of it.
This is just a whining, a pre-begging for money moment.
Ah, okay.
We'll pay attention to that then.
They'll be shocked if they don't grow corn.
They'll probably have a very hot summer, and then they'll die when the global warming stuff will crank up.
Climate crisis.
Yeah, climate.
We've got to come up with something at third term.
They use climate crisis and climate emergency.
Yeah, that's the new ones.
Run for the door.
There's got to be something even better than that.
There was something, an interesting very short video, which I do have in context, about 50 seconds, of Catherine McKenna.
And she is the Scandinavian Minister of Environment and Climate Change.
Yeah, this is the woman I played all those clips of about three shows ago.
Well, you missed this one because she was in a bar.
Oh, this is the newest.
Yeah, this is a good clip.
This is a great clip.
She's in a bar and it doesn't even matter who she's talking to, but two people are arguing about some point.
She goes over there and she says, hey, if you want people to believe your point, well, she's going to tell you how it works.
So here I am at Christian's Pub in St.
John's.
And you won't believe who I have here.
Mark Critch here.
And I've got Chef Mookie.
And I got screeched in.
So it's really amazing.
But the funny thing is, so you think, like, it's amazing.
You got screeched in.
You hear all these facts about Newfoundland.
And what the hell are they doing now?
They're fighting about the facts about Newfoundland.
And do they really get them right?
So what's the discussion now, boys?
What we were talking about is St.
John's the oldest city in North America.
And there's some debate about that.
He was saying that it could be Missouri.
But we firmly believe it is because there's nobody from Missouri here.
But you know, I actually gave him some real advice.
I said that if you actually say it louder, we've learned in the House of Commons, if you repeat it, if you say it louder, if that is your talking point, people will totally believe it.
So just go in.
St.
John's, Aldo City.
There you go.
If you just keep saying it, that's what we learned in the House of Commons, just saying it over and over again, people will believe it!
Well, we had the same thing with Pelosi.
Somebody caught this old clip.
This is Pelosi talking about what's termed professionally, I guess by people like her, the wrap-up smear.
And it's a diversionary tactic.
It's a self-fulfilling problem.
You demonize and then you...
We call it the wrap-up smear.
If anyone talks politics, we call it the wrap-up smear.
You smear somebody with falsehoods and all the rest.
And then you merchandise it.
Yeah.
And then you write it.
And they'll say, see, it's reported in the press that this, this, this, and this.
So they have that validation that the press reported the smear.
And then it's called the wrap-up smear.
Now I'm going to merchandise the press's report on the smear that we made.
It's a tactic.
And it's self-evident.
Oh, and I have a feeling now that this exact tactic was used with these multiple videos of her.
And I think I can show this.
So just to review, the president tweeted out an edited video, which now the term is doctored, a doctored video of her stumbling and fumbling and saying three things and holding up two fingers.
And it was quite embarrassing.
Yeah.
Pence is something we've done over the years ourselves.
Yes.
Then there was a secondary video, which to this day, I still suspect NBC created it, where Pelosi was speaking slowed down, but not just to speed slow down.
It was a digital effect.
It was like vocoder, keep the tone the same, but just make it slur a little bit, a couple percent, and it sounded like she was drunk.
And this is the video that YouTube took down right away.
But Facebook, evil, evil Facebook, who are in the news business according to Anderson Pooper, Facebook did not take it down, and this was a problem, and here is Hillary using this in an interesting way.
The big social media platforms know their systems are being manipulated by foreign and domestic actors to sow division, promote extremism, and spread misinformation.
But they won't get serious about cleaning up their platforms unless consumers demand it.
And we saw why it's so important just last week when Facebook refused to take down a fake video of Nancy Pelosi.
It wasn't even a close call.
The video is sexist trash.
I love this.
Sorry, by the way, for the single channel.
I was just sexist, by the way.
That's why I stopped it.
Sexist trash?
It was ageist, perhaps.
Or what is it when you make fun of someone being an alcoholic?
Alcoholist.
It's alcoholist.
It was alcoholist, but I wouldn't say sexist.
And YouTube took it down, but Facebook kept it up.
So let's send a message to Facebook that those who are in Facebook's communities would really like Facebook to pay attention to false and doctored videos before we are flooded with them over the next months.
This, by the way, was Hillary Clinton doing the commencement speech at Hunter College in New York City.
Who wants that?
Inspire these children, Hillary.
Oh, yeah.
Inspire them.
Don't do that.
She's about to announce.
But this...
No, no.
This one clip is...
I got to play this.
No, no.
I'm just...
I'm shutting you down.
I'm still referring to the last clip.
Okay.
Now, the last clip, she said...
These...
These horrible institutions, these social media platforms, won't do anything about it unless consumers demand it.
What consumer is going to demand taking this great stuff off the platform?
It's the entertainment we're there for.
Exactly.
I mean, please.
But Kara Swisher really took it one step further on CNBC. Remember, we have the video the president tweeted out, which was funny.
We've done these.
Then we have this, I think NBC created slowed down video, which was clearly meant to distract from the actual issue that Nancy Pelosi has of speaking coherently.
Apparently, just from the doctored video, but it's things she really said.
It wasn't manipulated in that manner, except putting it all in a row, which is funny.
But Kara Swisher takes it to the level I predicted it would go to.
Now, YouTube took it down, and that was CEO Susan Wojcicki's decision, and she'll get praised for it or not praised for it, but she made a decision.
In this case, they left it up, and then they didn't properly label it.
I mean, if you look at the labels, they're so confusing, and you don't understand...
What's going on?
Now, I understand Facebook is working on a new labeling system for deep fakes or things like this, but it creates an incredible amount of confusion if they don't explain what's wrong with the video, especially if their fact checkers have determined it a hoax.
Why can't they just call it a hoax?
And I think, you know, again, they don't have to take it down.
They just have to handle it correctly, especially after Donald Trump tweets it and it becomes a very high-profile thing.
He didn't tweet it, Swisher.
You see what she did?
I told you that would happen.
We spotted this immediately.
This was going on.
This was the way it works.
Yep.
That's exactly it.
It was cross-referencing to the point where you didn't know what the hell was going on.
Yep.
The video that was taken down had nothing to do with the president.
Nothing.
Except distract from, and I'll be ageist, an old bag who's mumbling around.
It's time to go, man.
By the way, I want to admit, I was talking about how she talks like Ron Paul with this kind of clip speech where she cuts off words.
Yeah, forgets words.
Play my original clip again right at the very beginning.
You'll hear her do it, and I'll stop it when she does it.
And it's a diversionary tactic.
It's a self-fulfilling problem.
You demonize...
There it is, right there.
Self-fulfilling problem.
It's a self-fulfilling problem.
By the way, Trump does this all the time.
Trump does this.
He's always cutting off words and starting a whole new sentence.
I haven't noticed it with him.
Oh, okay.
Well, I'll get something for the next show.
Totally.
Especially when he's doing...
Well, she does it to an extreme, but that's...
Ron Paul used to do that all the time.
Maybe it's just an old people thing.
Well, let's see.
Not all old people.
I'm generalizing, but...
No, I think you...
I'm trying to determine this because Ron Paul's been doing it since he was in his 60s.
I'm in that same bracket.
I notice that when I'm writing, sometimes I will leave a word out that I just thought of.
How about how you title your clips?
Let's just keep it there.
Well, that's sloppy.
Sometimes it'll be all caps.
Sometimes it's misspelled.
Sometimes, you know, different names.
I'm just rushing.
I guess I'm rushing.
Yeah, you're rushing.
You're rushing to get it out the night before.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm just messing with you.
I mess up tons of stuff.
You're messing with me.
I'm messing with you.
I'm messing with you.
But no, I've noticed this.
Not everybody does it, by the way.
Yeah.
It's fast.
People talk too fast is usually part of it.
Or they have a – their brain is working too fast, which – Yeah, that's the problem I have.
It's possible that Pelosi's – nobody says she's really a dummy, so she may be just thinking too fast, and so she leaves words out.
I mean, Ron Paul was – I thought he was the worst for it.
I thought it really hurt his chances of ever running for president because he could never – He just dropped the...
I can't even copy the technique, but...
I think, here you go.
It's a version of me thinking I'm really dancing, really great, and then looking at the video...
Still bugging you.
Oh, yeah!
I got a nice note from one of our 26-year-old producers.
Hey, man, don't worry about it.
It's because we're tall.
He says, I'm 6'5".
I look like a tard.
It's no good.
It's because we're tall.
It's very sweet of you to say.
But that's what it is.
You think you're really saying a lot of good stuff.
That's funny.
You would say, Tommy Toon, how tall was he?
He was like 6'8".
He was tall.
He was a great dancer.
Graceful, beautiful dancer.
Extremely tall.
Yeah, small penis.
Got to take away something.
Anyway, so, yeah, there's a lot.
And, of course, we watched the nine minutes of Mueller.
More interesting was the analysis.
Nine minutes of Mueller.
There's got to be a song in there.
Nine minutes of Mueller.
Nine minutes of Mueller.
This was the kind of thing that, for a linguistic experience, I'm a nut or legalese nut like myself.
I love looking at legislation.
I love looking at legalese, trying to understand it, you know, binging the phrases to understand what it means.
First of all, this occurred, as far as I know, it wasn't the Department of Justice, but Barr was in Alaska.
And the way Mueller came out and clearly had not rehearsed this written speech, which he was just reading the whole time.
He didn't really even look up much.
If you've rehearsed a speech a couple times, then you can look up from your paper and you can just look into the general direction of the audience.
It was none of that.
He was kind of stumbling.
So if he did write it himself, he certainly didn't rehearse it.
And I... You kind of give the impression right away that, hey, where's Barr?
He's in Alaska.
Let's get out there and do this press conference while the boss is away.
That's kind of the thought I had, yeah.
That's a bit the way it looked to me.
And it was also announced, you know, 90 minutes ahead of time.
It was just, it was like announced and there he was.
Now, I did pull a couple of short clips because I feel it's fun to dissect exactly what he's saying and what it really means.
Well, I have a background.
Yes, let's do this.
Sure, what do you have?
It might be a little more broad.
Yes.
Broad.
Yes, broad.
What you got?
Well, let's see.
I see Mueller Presser, PBS. Yeah, I think Mueller Presser, PBS is from PBS. It says nine minutes.
Oh, this is the clip.
This is a clip of the decennium.
I knew there was one clip that I... Well, it just started.
I think you can kill it.
If we had confidence that the president clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the president did commit a crime.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller broke his silence today to emphasize that his report did not clear President Trump of trying to obstruct the investigation.
He pointed out that Justice Department guidelines barred him from prosecuting the president.
Under long-standing department policy, a president cannot be charged with a federal crime while he is in office.
That is unconstitutional.
Charging the president with a crime was therefore not an option.
On Russian interference in U.S. elections, Mueller warned, as he did in his 448-page report, of ongoing efforts by Moscow.
But he also said today he was unable to prove a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russians to influence the 2016 election.
There was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy.
The special counsel statement comes amid a growing battle between the Trump administration and congressional Democrats, who want Mueller and administration officials to testify on the investigation and other matters.
Today, Mueller warned he would not say more than what is in his report.
Is there more?
We could just keep playing this whole thing.
It's not that much longer.
Oh, I see it here, yeah.
...is my testimony.
I would not provide information beyond that which is already public.
So beyond what I've said here today and what is contained in our written work, I do not believe it is appropriate for me to speak further about the investigation or to comment on the actions of the Justice Department or Congress.
Mueller also acknowledged he had disagreed with some of Attorney General William Barr's decisions in the release of the report.
At one point in time, I requested that certain portions of the report be released.
Instead, Barr initially released a four-page letter saying there was no finding of conspiracy with the Russians and not enough evidence to pursue obstruction.
The evidence developed by...
Okay, all right, I just got to stop.
That was really dishonest, what Judy just did there.
Yeah, totally.
Well, let me just play that.
Specifically, what Mueller said about what Barr had done was actually giving him a pass.
Like, attaboy, way to go.
Well done, Barr.
You're off the hook.
I'm retiring.
You're off the hook.
Here's the clip.
At one point in time, I requested that certain portions of the report be released.
The Attorney General preferred to make the entire report public all at once.
And we appreciate that the Attorney General made the report largely public, and I certainly do not question the Attorney General's good faith in that decision.
Where was that in the PBS report?
No, it wasn't.
You're right.
She was very dishonest.
Oh, that's extremely dishonest.
This is PBS without Gwen Ifill.
Yeah, that's true.
Alright, I just have a couple of clips and then I have some analysis which I was able to find.
And the first was really the difference between what everyone's focusing on, which is guilt or not guilt of the president in obstruction, and really what he said about the Russians.
And just to reiterate...
When you indict someone, that doesn't mean they're guilty.
It means that, hey, you've got to come to court and we're going to see if you're guilty or not.
You can indict Russians and they're not going to come.
They're in Moscow or whatever.
They're in St.
Petersburg at the IRA. They're not going to show up.
But still, Mueller gives them a lot of professional courtesy.
As alleged by the grand jury in an indictment, Russian intelligence officers...
Who were part of the Russian military launched a concerted attack on our political system.
The indictment alleges that they used sophisticated cyber techniques to hack into computers and networks used by the Clinton campaign.
Now, this was...
I'm factually true, technically dishonest of him to say this.
It was the DNCC and the DNC computer server, which the FBI never had an original copy of.
They received a copy from CrowdStrike, the Ukrainian-owned company.
It was not specifically Hillary Clinton's campaign emails.
Well, that's why I say it was factually, it was Hillary Clinton's campaign because the emails showed that the DNC was rigging it for Hillary.
Right, and the other breach was an unsophisticated spear phishing attack against Podesta.
Now, let's stop for a second, though, and remind everybody...
That the original attack on the DNC was shown by people like NSA's Binney and others, everybody who's looked at it, and it was moved to a thumb drive, and that's how it got out.
It wasn't stolen over the net because the bandwidth was not high enough.
All those calculations have shown that it had to be put onto a thumb drive, and that's how it got snuck out of there.
And again, this is all alleged, you hear.
And that, well, alleged or not alleged, it's still not sophisticated when he's, he goes on, it's a sophisticated attack, making it sound like the Russians used the internet to steal the DNC documentation when all evidence Shows that it was moved to a thumb drive, a 3.0 thumb drive, a USB drive, because you didn't have the bandwidth to move all that data off there in that short time period according to the logs.
It's cyber techniques to hack into computers and networks used by the Clinton campaign.
They stole private information and then released that information through fake online identities.
This phrase, I'm not quite sure what he means by that.
Fake online identities.
Yeah, but so what's fake about it?
Maybe it wasn't really Russian.
Maybe it wasn't Ukrainian, Bulgarian, whatever it was supposed to be.
It's just specious what he's saying here.
Well, it's very specious, and the Guccifer thing has never been straightened out to my liking.
No.
Some guy's in jail.
Yeah.
And it's never been explained to us who this guy is.
Organization WikiLeaks.
And I love this little part.
So it released it.
Identities and through the organization WikiLeaks.
So they released it through the organization WikiLeaks, which assumes complicit behavior.
The releases were designed and timed to interfere with our election and to damage a presidential candidate.
And at the same time as the grand jury alleged...
And I just have to remind everybody, it was damaging because what was going on was damaging.
Because they were screwing Bernie Sanders.
So let's just recall that, yeah, Russians, whoever hacked this, released it, bad, bad, bad, bad, bad.
But aren't we happy we found out that she was cheating with the whole top of the Democratic Party to screw other candidates?
Candidates.
And at the same time as the grand jury alleged in a separate indictment, a private Russian entity engaged in a social media operation where Russian citizens posed as Americans in order to influence an election.
These indictments contain allegations, and we are not commenting on the guilt or the innocence of any specific defendant.
Every defendant is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.
So the Russians get this really nice complimentary little bit there from Mueller saying, hey, we're not saying they did it.
They're presumed innocent.
Everyone's presumed innocent until proven guilty.
We all know this.
Or do we?
Let's check in with John Brennan.
People are innocent until, you know, alleged to be involved in some type of criminal activity.
Oh yeah, that's right.
If you're Russian, it's a different story.
But if you're Donald Trump...
The report has two parts, addressing the two main issues we were asked to investigate.
The first volume of the report details numerous efforts emanating from Russia to influence the election.
This volume includes a discussion of the Trump campaign's response to this activity, as well as our conclusion that there was insufficient evidence to charge a broader conspiracy.
And in the second volume, the report describes the results and analysis of our obstruction of justice investigation involving the president.
The order appointing me special counsel authorized us to investigate actions that could This isn't nice.
He did a lot of these where he would look up for just a second when he wanted to emphasize a word.
And the way I read this, and I'm OCD about this stuff, any effort by the president that could obstruct justice.
Not obstructed justice, but could obstruct justice.
He claims that was in his original mandate.
I would counter on that, but still it's very specific because this was messaging to a whole bunch of other people.
It could have obstructed justice.
The order appointing me special counsel authorized us to investigate actions that could obstruct the investigation.
We conducted that investigation and we kept the Office of the Acting Attorney General apprised of the progress of our work.
And as set forth in the report after that investigation, if we had had confidence that the President clearly did not commit a crime, we would have said so.
We did not, however, make a determination as to whether the President did commit a crime.
The introduction to the volume 2 of our report explains that decision.
So it's really nice that the Russians are presumed innocent until proven guilty, and then this chicken shit line that any lawyer, especially a constitutional lawyer, what the hell are you talking about?
You can't prove a negative.
You had a really funny tweet.
What did you say about the No Agenda show?
Oh yes, the No Agenda show is, according to Mueller, because he didn't address it.
He could not prove it wasn't the best podcast in the universe.
It was not the greatest podcast in the universe.
So therefore, we are the best podcast in the universe.
I had phrased it, because that's what everyone's doing.
They're taking this out of context and they're saying, well, he didn't say this thus.
Yes.
Well, he didn't say this thus.
Well, he didn't say that the No Agenda podcast is not the best podcast in the universe.
Yes.
Thus, it must be the best podcast in the universe by the same logic.
Yes, and I dare anyone, please find evidence that the No Agenda podcast is not the best podcast in the universe.
You will not be able to prove it.
Here's Alan Dershowitz.
First of all, no prosecutor could ever say that a person is guilty because prosecutors only hear one side of the case.
They don't have their evidence cross-examined.
There's no defense lawyer.
There's no opportunity to challenge.
There's no due process.
So all a prosecutor can ever say, is there sufficient evidence to indict?
Let's move it to the next step, which is a trial.
Look, one point that's clear is if you cannot indict a sitting president, why do you have a special counsel to investigate a sitting president?
Special counsel are not supposed to just make history right for the future.
They're supposed to decide one issue.
Is there sufficient evidence to indict, or isn't there?
And if Mueller says that that's a moot issue, what was he doing?
He should have ended this investigation the day they determined that there was no evidence of collusion, and he continued it on and on and on, and that was a serious problem.
Now, this is the stuff you need to understand.
He doesn't determine if someone's guilty or not.
He can indict.
He can say, I have probable cause when you take someone to court.
And I hadn't even considered the whole idea of, well, if you know up front that you can't Why indict a sitting president, then why are you even investigating it?
Because it's all messaging, and it's all cover-up.
And this was the last part of his cover-up, of his mop-up operation, which we'll get to and reiterate once again in a few minutes.
A little messaging.
Hello, hello Democrats.
I want you to make a big stink so we can make sure no one finds out what this is really about.
I'm going to give you some information, some breadcrumbs.
The department's written opinion explaining the policy makes several important points that further informed our handling of the obstruction investigation.
Those points are summarized in our report and I will describe two of them for you.
First, the opinion explicitly permits the investigation of a sitting president because it is important to preserve evidence while memories are fresh and documents available.
Among other things, that evidence could be used if there were co-conspirators who could be charged now.
And second, the opinion says that the Constitution requires a process other than the criminal justice system To formally accuse a sitting president of wrongdoing.
Oh, well done.
Well done, Robert.
Yeah, you gave the machine just the amount of red meat it needed.
It just keeps spinning all the way up to the elections.
This is meddling in our elections right here.
And now he extracts himself as he waves off, you can't, you can't make me testify.
You can't subpoena me.
I'm Bob Mueller.
At one point in time, I requested that certain portions of the report be released.
The Attorney General preferred to make the entire report public all at once, and we appreciate that the Attorney General made the report largely public, and I certainly do not question the Attorney General's good faith in that decision.
Now, I hope and expect this to be the only time that I will speak to you in this manner.
I am making that decision myself.
No one has told me whether I can or should testify or speak further about this matter.
He noticed he doesn't say no one has mentioned if I can be forced to testify in this matter.
This guy is above the law.
Literally.
There has been discussion about an appearance before Congress.
Any testimony from this office would not go beyond our report.
It contains our findings and analysis and the reasons for the decisions we made.
We chose those words carefully, and the work speaks for itself.
And the report is my testimony.
I would not provide information beyond that which is already public in any appearance before Congress.
And he's out.
Beautiful.
Great extraction.
So he gave a little compliment to Barr.
He gave the Democrats what they needed to feed the machine for a little bit.
And he really distorted the process and explaining to the American people what he really found out, which is, you know, we got nothing, so move on.
We got nothing.
But I got some great constitutional analysis from Jonathan Turley.
He is a constitutional professor at George Washington University, the Spook Academy.
And I had to go to the BBC to find this.
I did not find, except for the Dershowitz, who's also, you know, he's Mr.
Soundbite.
This was, I thought, pretty good.
Well, for more on today's announcement, I spoke with constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley.
What do you think Mr Muller actually achieved with this statement?
I'm not sure, because there's a lot of curious aspects to the statement.
On one hand, Mueller was saying that this policy that you can't indict a president also meant to him that you couldn't reach conclusions on whether a president committed a crime.
And that led a lot of us to scratching our heads, because no one has ever made that argument before.
Those memos deal only with the prosecution of a sitting president.
They say nothing about reaching conclusions.
That's what a special counsel does.
So, Mueller was saying that he basically redefined his role and that he never intended to reach conclusions on crimes.
That was a surprise to everyone.
For the last two years, Congress and the Justice Department have been expecting conclusions.
So, why the ambiguity?
Do you think he's just kicking the can down the road?
Is this actually a referral for impeachment?
Well, I think that he is clearly indicating that Congress should take this up.
But the legal basis for what he said in the presser was confusing at best.
Even if these memos were ambiguous, the Attorney General of the United States and the Deputy Attorney General, his immediate supervisors, told him to reach conclusions, according to Attorney General Barr.
The Attorney General makes policy internal justice So he ignored that, and it led a lot of us wondering what's going on here.
He reached conclusions on crimes associated with collusion, and then he didn't when it came to obstruction.
So what can clear this up?
Because Mr.
Mueller was supposed to be that person.
Well, now it's in the hands of Congress, but the Democrats are sort of caught in this vortex of their own making.
You know, they have pumped up impeachment, but the leadership doesn't want to impeach Donald Trump, and the only thing they want less than impeaching Donald Trump is actually removing Donald Trump.
You know, he's good for the Democrats in office.
But this is going to put more pressure on Nancy Pelosi.
A lot of Democrats are saying, well, what gives?
When are you going to start an impeachment inquiry?
Is there something that Congress could do that falls short of impeachment but still expresses their displeasure and has some kind of legal weight?
Or what about censure?
You really, censure is really not something the Constitution contemplates.
You either impeach and remove a president or you do not.
And the Democrats have control of the House.
They probably could impeach this president.
He would then have to stand trial in the Senate.
But anything short of that is going to be viewed as a victory by Trump.
What they want to do is to investigate every aspect of his life, and they're going to proceed to do that.
And Mueller certainly gave them support for doing that.
He kept on saying, you know, we couldn't rule out a crime.
And it led a lot of us to be like, well, what exactly are you doing?
You're saying that you can't reach a conclusion, but you have almost this coquettish way of, you know, doing a wink and a nod that I can't rule it out, you know.
And I thought the whole press conference was a little bit odd.
And then he refused to take questions.
So it was sort of like Moses down from Mount Sinai.
Yeah.
Jonathan Turley, thank you very much.
That's exactly what it was.
The God Muller came down.
Well, there are...
I have three clips.
One, let's do the one that addresses this straight head-on, which is from PBS. And this is Yamiche, who is on the Trump side of this.
She's not on the side of it, but she's the one who's following the White House side of it.
And she has a very interesting...
And I believe the accurate take on what's going on with Trump.
Well, the White House and President Trump really have a simple reaction to the threat of impeachment.
Bring it on.
The president is saying that essentially if he were to be impeached, that it would help him in a 2020 campaign.
White House aides have been telling reporters all day if the president was to be impeached, he would use that in 2020 and possibly even be able to win back the House of Representatives from Democrats if he was able to use that message.
It's also important to note that the president for a long time has been saying there's a deep state conspiracy against him that, of course, has not been proven.
But the idea of an impeachment could actually play into that.
You could see the president double down on the idea that people are very upset about the 2016 election and impeachment is just one other thing that's being added to that.
So that's why we're seeing, as Lisa noted, that Democrats are really proceeding cautiously because the president in some ways is saying, try me, impeach me if you want to, but I'm probably going to come out ahead.
I agree.
I agree, too.
I mean, the timing of it...
I think Pelosi knows this, but they're going...
And I pointed this out in the newsletter...
That they're going after Pelosi.
I think all these clips that we've been seeing are...
Yes.
Of the I'm not coherent version created by NBC as far as I know.
Yeah.
Yeah, and it could have easily been.
And I saw recently, I tweeted this when I saw it on the Twitters, a CNN story about her being an idiot.
And it was a picture, one of the worst pictures I've ever seen of her.
And there's no reason for CNN, a big Democrat stronghold, to make her look like...
So horrible.
And I believe there's a movement and I think the Justice Democrats could be behind it or any number of groups that want to get the impeachment decision.
Well, also, you know, I was thinking about this.
Pelosi and Schumer, the leaders, leaders, they were very clear.
We need to take back the House.
We need to impeach Trump.
Then we got a lot of excited young Democrats, including the Justice Democrats, of which only two got in, but we have a new house, and the women who came in, but also the men, but I think the women are most visual.
Only two got in, but a bunch of others that are in joined now.
Of course they did.
Like Ro Khanna.
Right, but this is now the new Democrat Party, and they, A, don't have the historical experience of how bad impeachment can be for the party impeaching the opposite side.
It can hurt politically.
They also, although they know the history, maybe they're saying, you know what, this is the new Democrat Party, this is the new world, it's different now, and they're going to give it a shot.
But for sure, these videos that showed Palancey, Palancey, yeah, Nancy Palance as an old bag who doesn't have it together is not in her favor.
They're pushing.
And I think that she will have to fish or cut bait.
And she'll probably...
I think she'll fold.
Maybe she hasn't shown evidence of folding in the past, but she could.
I think that these guys also have another couple of thoughts in mind.
They have...
These are young Democrats.
They're We say foolish.
They have a constituency that is probably talking to in their ears saying, hey, when are you going to impeach Trump?
When are you going to impeach Trump?
And they have to assuage these people, even though there's just maybe a loud mouth minority of the people that voted for them.
And so they're all in on this.
I mean, these people are serious and other people like, you know, Elizabeth Warren, who actually doesn't have to vote on this because she's not in the House, but they've gotten on the bandwagon because of the base.
Yeah, Kamala Harris.
Nothing changed.
Nothing in the report changed.
All of a sudden, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, they're all like, oh yeah, it's time to impeach.
We got to impeach.
Bob gave us the blessing.
God, Bob.
And this was...
Perceived as such.
I have two clips from MSNBC pretty much saying what you said.
Uh...
This was one of my top-line takeaways.
After he said, I am not permitted to indict the president, he went on to say that That requires a process other than the criminal justice system to formally accuse a president of wrongdoing.
You don't need to be Rand McNally to see that roadmap.
Rand McNally?
What kind of reference is that?
Who's Rand McNally?
Well, apparently, unbeknownst to you, Rand McNally was one of the great map-making companies.
Yeah.
And he was referencing them.
Wow.
Even though nobody uses Rand McNally maps anymore.
That's pretty obscure by today's terms.
I want to hear it again.
You don't need to be Rand McNally to see that roadmap.
He was virtually announcing, Congress, do your job.
Shining light on the breadcrumbs.
All right.
So that's where we stand, and I think it'll be interesting.
And I think they're going to...
I think...
I don't know.
We're going to get to see how strong a leader Pelosi is if she can keep this from happening.
If she folds, which she might, like you said, I don't think she will, but if she does...
It's going to be great for the show.
It's all good for the show.
A reminder, as we put our no agenda hats on a little tighter, this has nothing to do with the Russians, has nothing to do with really Trump even.
It has to do with the fact that the Obama administration was caught by the NSA and the FISA court, and I put the documents in the show notes again under the heading of any collusion.
Any collusion?
Where you can see that between 2012 and 2016, four years long, four FBI consultants, meaning they were not FBI, they consulted on behalf of the FBI. I'm informed they might have actually been contracted by Susan Rice.
We'll find out eventually.
That stuff is all redacted in the documents.
They were using 702 queries, about queries on American citizens, in the NSA database, which is against the law.
It's the number one thing that wasn't supposed to happen with this type of collection.
And the rate, which is called an error rate in the documents, was 85%.
Meaning that 85% of these four years of what these four contractors were looking at was actually spying on American citizens.
That needed to be covered up.
And they were spying on Democrats.
They also were spying on Trump eventually until they got caught, which is they had to shut it down.
That was, I think, in April of 2016.
And that's why we had to bring in the Steele dossier to make it all look like it was all above board.
And I'm on the beat with Joe DeGenova.
I had no idea.
There's a radio station in D.C., WMAL, and they have a morning show called Morning on the Mall.
That would be the mall of...
Yeah, the mall.
The mall.
The mall is...
The mall.
It's the mall.
The mall.
And I have two clips, because he explains it so well.
So, well, this one is self-explanatory.
You are watching the quintessential Washington power battle.
And here's the problem for the agencies, the FBI and the CIA. They have one disadvantage.
They can leak to the Post and the Times, but they do not have subpoena power.
And Bill Barr does.
We are headed toward a gigantic, gigantic fight.
The intelligence community, which includes the FBI, is in full resistance to disclosing what they did during the presidential campaign.
But here's the other problem they have, and they're very fearful of.
The FISA court has already found that there was political spying going on starting in 2012.
Not 15, not 16, 2012.
Why was that spying going on in the Obama administration?
The FBI and the CIA desperately fear that if these disclosures become publicly known in a wide-ranging way, Their powers may be cut back, FISA may be restricted, and some additional people may go to prison.
Christopher Wray is now standing in the way of history.
Make no mistake about it, Christopher Wray has become an enemy of the people.
And the president is doubling down on his declassification, heating up this war between the Department of Justice and the intelligence community.
The Attorney General is one of the most respected...
People in this country.
And he has been for a long period of time.
He's going to look at a lot of documents.
Some he might find interesting.
Maybe he'll find none interesting.
But for over a year, people have asked me to declassify.
So what I've done is I've declassified everything.
He can look.
And I hope he looks at the UK. And I hope he looks at Australia.
And I hope he looks at Ukraine.
I hope he looks at everything.
Because there was a hoax.
That was perpetrated on our country.
It's the greatest hoax...
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
It's the greatest hoax probably in the history of our country.
And somebody has to get to the bottom of it.
We'll see.
You've got to appreciate it.
I'm surprised he didn't say the greatest hoax in the history of the world.
He wants that.
He also used the word treason to accuse these guys.
I don't have the clip, but he said...
He called it treason.
These people were treasonous and tried to overthrow the government.
No, that is actually treasonous.
It was right after he said that, that we had this quick presser from Mueller.
I don't think that was a coincidence.
Oh, I missed that sequence.
Very good.
Back to DeGenoa with the one-minute final explanation again of what this is really all about.
Joe, on whom are they spying in 2012?
I want to go back to the FISA warrants.
You said the FISA warrants go back to 2012.
No, no, these are not FISA warrants.
Not FISA warrants.
That's the scandal.
These are not FISA warrants.
Okay.
What these are, these are illegal access to NSA databases about American citizens.
They are called Section 702 queries.
702 is a section of the National Security Act which allows searches under FISA for certain information about Americans.
But it must be minimized and it must be kept very, very secret.
In fact, those inquiries made by four FBI contractors were illegal.
Those queries were made about Americans.
Those queries were used to unmask Americans.
Those queries were then used to use the unmasked information to leak information to the press about Americans.
This is what they really fear.
Dan, I think we'll also see there was some spying on journalists and other people, maybe some podcasters.
One or two.
Maybe.
Now, the 2012, of course, would be the Romney election.
Yep.
And they would be spying on him.
Of course, he's such an idiot.
The guy is just...
I don't know what his problem is, but he's a...
Somebody turned him somehow.
Because he's pretty much on the other side of this argument.
Yeah, 2012.
You know, Obama...
Do you see a situation like this and you...
And you're dealing with the FBI, which has a tradition of blackmail.
But also, the Obama administration was throwing journalists in jail.
And I think in this time frame, they were doing that.
Were they not?
Yeah, I believe they were throwing people in jail from the get-go.
It'll all eventually come out in the wash.
Will anyone go to jail?
Unlikely.
We'll see.
Unlikely.
Well, since we have a few minutes left, maybe we should look at the 2020 field.
Anything from the Cosmic Weenie?
Nothing new.
I think the last update was probably two weeks ago.
I have nothing new going on.
It's the same.
I still believe Hillary's number two.
Joe number one, I presume.
No, no, no.
Sanders is number one.
Oh.
I don't believe the nonsense about Joe.
I pulled an old clip about Joe.
Well, old clips about Joe are great clips.
Old Joe.
Old Joe clips.
OJC, everybody.
Yeah, old Joe, you know, we laughed about him a lot.
You know, just all in jest.
We love old Joe.
But now Joe is serious, and I think this clip will show that he cannot be president.
Unless we have a really, really, really well-selected vice president on the ticket.
We return to 2013.
I had two cranial aneurysms, and they literally had to take the top of my head off.
I mean, we don't have to go any further in the clip than that.
The top of the man's head has been taken off twice.
Twice.
Twice.
I had two cranial aneurysms.
And they literally had to take the top of my head off.
I mean, they take a saw and they cut your head off.
His head was cut off.
Not the top.
They cut his damn head off, John.
The man's head has been separated from his body.
He cannot be president.
This is truly impeachable.
I had two cranial aneurysms.
And they literally had to take the top of my head off.
I mean, they take a saw and they cut your head off and And go in to find the artery, that is, one was leaking, the other that hadn't, before it burst.
Those of your docs know, every profession has their sick jokes.
The joke among docs is, how do you know someone's had a cranial aneurysm?
On the autopsy table.
Only 20% of the people have it even get to the table.
Well, one of the fascinating things is the second operation, after the first one, which was a bleed, and they gave me a relatively low chance of surviving.
I remember going down the dock, asking the dock, and you're counting the ceiling tiles, and you're heading into the operating room.
A lot of you have been there.
And I said, Doc, what are my chances?
I had two great neurosurgeons.
And I'll never forget.
I will not mention his name.
He's one of the leading neurosurgeons in the world.
He said, Senator, for mortality or morbidity?
And I'm thinking...
I swear to God.
I'm thinking, oh, geez.
You know, well...
I said, let me put it this way.
It was a long road to the operating room.
I said, it's an absolutely true story.
I said, what are my chances of getting off this table and being completely normal?
He said, well, your chances of living are a lot better.
And her head is gone.
So, no one brings this up.
Hey, how are you medically?
I never thought about this.
If Trump had his head taken off...
No one brings up anything.
If Trump had his head opened up and taken off, this would be like, you'd have 3D graphics, we'd have Sanjay Gupta showing how you'd remove the top of the head.
Come on!
It's a beautiful thing.
It's beautiful.
Wow, that's a good one.
I'll give you a Borderline Clip of the Day for that.
I shall accept that.
Borderline Clip of the Day.
See, I did have something else for 2020.
I don't really have anything good.
Well, I do have a...
Since you're giving something to kind of slam Joe, I always slam Kamala, whatever you want to call her.
Listen to this.
This is her ideas.
Here's a person who is a legal...
She's an attorney.
This is the most unconstitutional thing I've ever heard from anyone.
California Senator 2020 presidential hopeful Kamala Harris says if elected, she'll require states trying to pass anti-abortion measures that could violate Roe v.
Wade to get pre-clearance through the federal government, similar to the Voting Rights Act.
This is Senator Harris speaking.
Wait a minute.
How is it similar to the Voting Rights Act?
What is the rule with the Voting Rights Act?
Well, I don't know.
That's not in play anymore.
I mean, it hasn't been renewed.
And I don't know what that refers to.
It has something to do with laws against voting, I suppose.
I guess the Justice Department takes a look at it because there's a Voting Rights Act.
But there's no act like this for abortion legislation.
And the states can do whatever they want.
No, no, no.
Not in Kamala's book.
No, now you've got to go through the feds to pass a law.
Similar to the Voting Rights Act.
This is Senator Harris speaking to Lawrence O'Donnell during an MSNBC town hall Tuesday night about her proposed Reproductive Rights Act.
When elected...
I'm going to put in place and require that states that have a history of passing legislation that is designed to prevent or limit a woman's access to reproductive health care, that those laws have to come before my Department of Justice for a review and approval and until we determine that they are constitutional, they will not take effect.
Yeah, she's going to do that with an unconstitutional act.
It's great!
Not the Department of Justice.
My!
My!
She's already there.
She's going to be a gem as a president.
She's already in.
She's already there.
Why else would we just might as well elect E.D. Amin?
All right.
Nobody gets that joke.
Well, you know, I lived in Uganda just as Idi Amin was coming in.
That's why I had a whole different response to that in my mind.
I remember leaving in a haste.
The thing that...
If you remember, these states are supposed to operate kind of, you know, each state has got its own thing, and if you don't like what they're doing there, if you don't like how they treat women...
Move to another state.
Move to another state.
You move to another state, even though it's impractical in most cases.
Or here's a crazy idea.
Why don't you vote out the a-holes that are doing stuff you don't like?
It's just a crazy idea.
There's a thought.
Let me write that down.
They should teach that in school.
It's just a thought.
But the other thing that goes on is, for example, Netflix...
Boycotting Georgia for its production of movies.
Oh yeah.
Yeah, this is virtue signaling of the highest order.
There's a clip.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I didn't realize there was actually a clip.
I'm like, yeah, great.
That's crazy.
Netflix is the first major studio to threaten a boycott of Georgia in the wake of its passage of a six-week abortion ban earlier this month.
Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos said Tuesday it would work with the ACLU to fight the law in court and would, quote, rethink Netflix's entire investment in Georgia if the law goes into effect.
High-profile filmmakers and production companies, including Kristen Wiig, David Simon, Mark Duplass, Ron Howard, Killer Films, have said they will boycott Georgia, a major hub for film and television production, because of the new law.
Oh, and unfortunately, those are exactly the projects the Obamas had all lined up and ready to go.
Oh, well, we'll just have to delay them.
Why is Kristen Wiig...
At the top of that list.
What has she got to do with anything?
She's an actress, a comedian.
Spy slut.
Could be.
You never know.
And with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage and say in the morning to the man who put the C in cranial head removal, John C. In the morning to you, Mr.
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The title of that was Nadster.
And this was done by Darren O'Neill.
A classic, simple, straight, sweet, right to the point, nailed it.
Great Photoshop job.
Obama, Barack, and Michelle holding onto bags of...
That was just a photo.
I'm sorry.
Darren actually found a photo of them holding bags of Netflix cash.
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Getting on there.
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Nice.
We have a tour of the Vatican planned on Vatican...
I want to give them some advice.
A tour of the Vatican.
Yeah.
When those annoying guys come up to you and go, Skip the line!
Skip the line!
Skip the line!
You want to skip the line?
Hello?
Skip the line!
You want to punch them?
But go with them.
Skip the line.
It's worth it.
How much do they charge?
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Back off!
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It's worth it.
Huh.
Yeah.
Alright, last thing I want to do while in Rome is visit the Vatican, but Tim decided that we had to go four kids and four adults for a Vatican Colosseum tour in six hours.
What's not to like?
It's cool.
It's a cool tour.
It really is.
It's worth it.
I told Tim that I would not leave the ship unless you wore a mega hat to the Vatican.
Which he agreed to do.
Excellent.
So I'm hoping that we'll end up in some type of altercation that could help to possibly cut our tour short.
Notice how no one's going to come up to you.
Cut that!
Oh, never mind, sir.
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Why not?
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Somebody take the clip.
My butt hurts from working out.
I think that's something you can use.
Sir Thomas, the unbelieving...
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
He asked for something.
Oh, did he?
What did he say?
Oh, he has karma for the store and lab.
And he says, any chance you still have that clip with the Japanese-speaking dude calling for 100,000 ninjas?
I think that's the one.
You've got karma.
I think he was talking about ninjas.
I'm not sure if that was the guy.
No.
That's the one I got.
Sounds like he was constipated.
Sir Thomas the Unbelieving Night, 284.
Associate Executive, producer for Sir 1142.
Dear John and Adam, on this rainy day in May, I lament the climate crisis and the cold it brings.
Such a crazy time, everything seems to be upside down.
You may have heard about the insane stuff going on in Austrian politics.
The Russians and Red Bull are meddling.
Not just the Russians and Red Bull.
Who else?
The word is Mossad.
Ooh!
Yeah, you know what happened?
Sebastian Kurz, who I've had my eye on for a while, he seemed like a real up-and-comer in kind of the nationalist leagues of politics in the EU. And even though his party held on to their recent majority, they had some video sting on his, I guess, his second-in-command that looked like the guy was taking bribes.
Maybe he was.
It's kind of hard to figure out exactly...
What the backstory is, but it kind of collapsed the whole government.
And the word now is that it was maybe a Russian oligarch's niece who was spy-slutting him, or it was Mossad.
I mean, there's a lot of different theories out there.
But for sure, there's issues with Austria.
Keep it in your pants, men.
Yes.
I don't think there was anything coming out of the pants.
It was something caught on video, which looked like corruption and bribery.
The young guy, and he continues his note, the young guy that Trump likes so much is gone, and now that we be ruled by technocrats, you two are directly responsible for helping me through this time with a smile on my face while everyone else's heads explode.
Yes.
For this service you provide and for one of my own ulterior motives, I'm happy to donate once again.
I request new human resource karma for me and my smoking hot wife.
I have hit her in the mouth a few weeks ago while on a long drive.
She didn't hate listening to you guys, which came as a surprise to me.
There's no evidence she does not like us.
According to Mueller.
That's right.
And since the house-buying karma I've requested two years ago worked out brilliantly, I am confident that the new human resource karma will work just as well.
And maybe you could play the shape-shifting Jews at the end of the show.
I always crack up when I hear that one.
Have a great day, Sir Thomas.
The Unbelieving Knight.
I'll play it right now for you.
This will get her excited.
Roll up, roll up for the medical safety news.
Step right this way.
Hello!
Roll up for the safety news.
You've got karma.
.
you you Hawk in Mabelvale.
Mabelvale.
Mabelvale.
That's it.
Mabelvale, Arkansas.
I've been listening a short time, but I want to ensure the show sticks around.
Thanks for the entertainment points.
Hawk, thank you.
I'm going to give Hawk some karma because he gets it.
Thank you.
You've got karma.
Thank you very much.
Welcome to our producer value for value network.
He left his last name out.
That's okay.
A loogie, I think, is what it is.
Lucas Taema.
Very good.
Taema.
Lucas Taema.
Very good.
And he's in Oogsticht.
No.
Oogsticht.
Oogsticht.
The first G is kind of silent.
Ucht.
Ucht. Geist. Geist. Ucht. Geist. Ucht. Geist.
Yeah.
You're nailing it so hard.
Yeah, 250.
I'm never going to get that one.
He mentions on there that he's improved over the years, but he doesn't think much of the pronunciation.
Yearly podcast feed paid from the Dutch government.
Loot refund.
Corrected with inflation.
Thank you for all the efforts that Adam and John put into the podcast.
Not always with the correct facts.
What?
What are you telling me?
But enough interesting items to make listening worthwhile.
I found an old Nokia E72 show number 33 listened to and I can only conclude that it provides more value and sounds much better.
I don't know what any of that sense is.
I think he's talking about...
I probably had my first Nokia E72 around show number 73.
I was in the UK at the time.
And I'm using one again.
It's my OTG phone.
I think that's what he's referring to.
Anyway, actually, love-hate-that-true, by the way.
Yeah.
That's true.
I hear voices when someone uses that word.
That's exactly right.
It's true.
It's true.
Keep on podcasting.
And...
Let me give him a little comment.
Thank all these folks for producing Show 1142.
Executive and Associate Executive Producers has listed.
That's right.
These are valuable credits when you take them where people appreciate them.
Hollywood is one place.
There's multiple places where credits are recognized.
Certainly you can use this on your LinkedIn.
It does seem to help people get jobs and be recognized.
And you should be proud of being a producer or executive producer or associate executive producer for No Agenda, episode 1142.
We will be thanking more people, the second half of the show.
Also, another show come up on a Sunday.
You can support the work at vorac.org.
Splash and hang.
We are bringing it and breaking it, and it's all there for you.
You've got to propagate it.
Our formula is this.
We go out, we hit people in the mouth.
Water.
Water.
Shut up, slay.
Shut up, slay.
I have a note.
Some controversy has occurred over my promoting of the power line networking.
Yes.
Hopefully this closes the segment.
I doubt it.
But this note's interesting.
This is from one of our producers, Mitch.
Explain what this is about again, the power line, because people are going to be confused.
The power line networking, which is an old technology that's never really worked very well, but recently they've gotten it to work rather well.
And you use your power lines within the house to do Ethernet, to move Ethernet data from one end of the house to the other just by plugging in the wall.
And it's pretty much a radio signal that's being sent on those wires that picks it up at the other end, and you plug an Ethernet cord right into the plug and into your device, and you don't have a bunch of Wi-Fi noise and RF all over the place.
And it does get into the farthest reaches of a house.
It doesn't give you the full speeds that you had at the beginning because those lines are so noisy, but it gives you a lot better than normal than you would get from stretching a Wi-Fi, or unless you want to mesh your whole place, which is like, then you just get noise everywhere.
I remember hearing, he writes, about power line technologies in the early 2000s.
I live in rural Nebraska, and the implications for ISP competition with already existing infrastructure was a big deal.
Can't remember specifics, but I'm sure the cable companies killed it in the FCC as a monopoly threat.
My only current internet provider, aside from crappy satellite, is fiber directly to the home with mandatory phone 4 megabit down, 1 megabit up for $85.00.
That's the slowest fiber to the home I've ever heard of.
Yeah, what is that all about?
For $85 a month.
It's a customer-owned co-op with discussions to go to a true pay-per-bit unlimited full-speed pay-per-bit.
I've always advocated that stupidly.
As for actual power line adapters, I recently pushed internet across a farm.
I cross the road, I can't trench under, and there are Powerline main lines going across the yard which would have made pushing Wi-Fi impractical.
I have $150 in the project.
After contacting TP-Link customer service, one of the Powerline adapter operations, I learned that you can daisy-chain adapters up to 1,000 meters a jump.
Really?
Yeah, that's interesting.
That's a kilometer.
That's pretty good.
Yeah.
A thousand meters.
Well, yeah.
No, it's not a kilometer.
A thousand meters is one kilo meter.
A thousand meters of jump.
We have a number of deep freezes and old buried lines, which I suspect kills my range per jump, but it works with acceptable latency.
Potentially, you could plug in a ton of extension cords and have internet wherever you need it quickly.
I don't know if this is being installed commercially.
It's like Christmas tree lights.
Yeah, exactly.
That's exactly what it's like.
I don't know if this is being...
The old-fashioned ones where you take one out, the whole thing goes down.
I don't know if this is being installed commercially, but it bloody well should be.
It makes no sense to install a short-range redundant copper Cat 6 that is reaching similar speeds.
I know.
It's just crazy.
Plug that shit in.
And as a father of four kids and under, I have to ask, is there a leaky boob donation?
Which is a commentary, I suppose, on his wife's nursing.
There is no leaky boob donation.
Not that I'm aware of.
Someone will dream one up.
Yeah, it'll happen.
Just stay tuned.
We don't even have to worry about it.
But anyway, I thought that was kind of interesting.
Now, I've talked to other...
They have notched out the 20-meter band and some other bands from these systems to let hams be able to operate while these things are in play.
Oh, who says?
Show me some documentation.
That's what they say.
They.
They say.
I thank they very much.
And these things are considered, where they don't notch them out, they're illegal.
And this would include the British Isles.
I think these things are illegal.
Right.
Well, you know, I think...
But it works.
It works.
John, this could be community-based internet.
Neighborhood net.
Neighborhood net.
I'm thinking we white-label this stuff.
It's an exit.
Now, a couple of things people should know.
I give a little bit of information every time.
You cannot run the connector.
You cannot Anything that's got like one of those, what do they call a breaker in it?
A surge protected?
Yeah, you cannot stick it into a surge protected circuit.
Or GFI. Screws with the signal and it doesn't...
By the way, since we're on our tech segment here, I am now running a UPS, uninterruptible power supply on the studio.
And?
It's great.
I'm very happy with it.
It makes no noise.
Is it fanless?
No.
It has a fan, but the fan only really kicks in once the power's been off for about 10 minutes.
Then it's going to want to...
Well, depending on how much you're drawing, obviously.
Then it's going to want to recharge, and then it gets hot, and then all kinds of stuff happens.
But it's definitely...
Because I've had some brownouts here, which blew out the system once during the show and once right after...
And so I'm really happy.
You'll love this.
So like, oh, I'm going to sign up again for the Amazon Affiliates program because there's so much.
I got all that Podfather gear that I put on the podfathergear.com website.
I wanted to put this one on as well, and the way it works is you click on the link, and then if you buy the product, then the affiliate gets a fee.
What's interesting about the affiliate program is that when someone clicks on your Amazon link, For the next 24 hours, anything that person buys, you get a piece of.
So I immediately saw like, oh my God, I'm making money on Gatorade.
Someone was buying all kinds of food products and a book.
And I'm like, this is fantastic.
It's just, oh, I'm racking up the dough.
$20.
But it's like, oh, this is great.
I get an email.
I want to put this UPS on.
And I logged in.
I can't log in.
I look for the email.
Yeah, we verified your page.
And it's just not commercially interesting.
You only have old stories from other people.
I wrote a whole damn thing about how to set up a podcasting rig.
And they're saying, no, no, you don't really have any.
You're just no good.
I got deplatformed.
They cut you off because you made 20 bucks?
I got deplatformed because they feel that my page is not valuable.
You made 20 bucks.
Hey, that guy made money.
Take it away from him.
What?
Yeah, I know.
I can find the email.
I can read it to you.
So they don't want your business?
No.
So they don't want you recommending Amazon products?
No.
Not through Amazon, apparently, no.
Where can you use it?
I had one of those affiliate links, too, and they just kicked me off unceremoniously.
But that was years ago for my blog, I think.
And so I just gave up on it.
I never went back, but I always felt that there must have been some mechanism where it's okay to To promote something and have, you know, like on Twitter maybe?
Yeah, you think?
Let me see.
I'm trying to see if I can find that email.
I may have deleted it.
I don't know.
Well, I'm talking about crazy messages.
So I got this message, which I thought I'd record.
Oh.
And this is the, where is this thing?
This is the ominous threatening message from Microsoft.
Uh-oh.
Are you in trouble again?
Microsoft spyware alert.
Pornographic spyware.
Riskware detected.
Error number 0x80072EE7.
Your computer has alerted us that it is infected with a pornographic spyware or riskware.
This spyware is sending your financial details.
Credit card details, Facebook logins and personal details to an unknown IP address remotely.
Please call us immediately on the toll-free number listed, so that our support engineers can walk you through the removal process over the phone.
If you close this page before calling us, we will be forced to disable your computer to prevent further damage to our network and will send a copy of this report to the concerned authorities to raise a complaint against your IP address.
Well, I'm sure you got on that stick right away.
Wow.
Made that happen.
How dumb do they think the public is?
Well, unfortunately, it works.
What they've done with this particular page, I don't even know how I got to it.
Something triggered it.
But the page locks down.
Yeah, you have to kill your browser.
You can't get out.
Yeah, I know.
I've heard that.
It's really a...
These people should be arrested.
Yeah.
Speaking of such, today in Montreux, Montreux, Switzerland, Montreux, for the coming four days, once again, it is the annual meeting of the elites in the new world order, the Bilderberg 2019 Assembly!
How come Jones isn't there as usual?
With his bullhorn.
Well, it's quite a trip to go to Montreux.
Although very nice, it's hard to find.
I've been to Montreux several times for the Montreux Jazz Festival, for the Montreux...
What is it they had?
The Montreux Modern...
I have a different name.
Actually, that's where I still have a picture of me, Run DMC, and the Beastie Boys on stage the first time when they got together to do their collab.
But I have the list of participants.
I think it's pretty well known.
Show stance on the Bilderbergers as this is a drinking club, although it is always interesting to see who shows up.
And what happens with them?
You know, the tinfoil hat conspiracy theory thinking is, Bilderberg, this is where the future is determined.
This is where the next president of the United States is going to be chosen.
This is where we decide who lives and dies.
It is truly the Game of Thrones.
And I have a list of participants.
Let's go through a few, shall we?
Where did you get the list and how do you know if it's complete or not?
A, I got the list from their website because they publish it.
Ooh, a secret organization.
It also shows you how to do the handshake and everything.
So we have James Baker.
Of course, we know him.
He was former Secretary of Defense.
Jose Barroso.
He is now chairman of Goldman Sachs International.
He was the president of the European Union.
Huh!
Funny how that works.
We have...
Office of the Secretary of Defense, New Space and Technology Projects, Matthew Daniels, that's a U.S. person.
We have Chairman and CEO of Axel Springer, a very big media company of Deutschland.
We have James Ellis, who is the Chairman Users Advisory Group of National Space Council.
A lot of space this year.
We have Jeremy Fleming, who is the director of the British Government Communications Headquarters, also known as GCHQ, the spy agency.
We have the international president for SEIU, the Service Employees International Union.
We have Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir Technologies, the data mining company.
Henry Kissinger, of course, will be on hand.
I don't know.
Is the guy still alive?
It's amazing.
Henry Kravis of KKR, the famous barbarians at the gate.
Jared Kushner will be showing up as swamp creature numero uno, listed as senior advisor to the president of the...
Is he bringing Ivanka?
Can you bring your spouses to this thing?
Only if you wear the mask.
Jared, his title is Senior Advisor to the President, the White House.
Let's see, we have Megan McArdle, columnist, Washington Post.
Claire McCaskill, a former senator, analyst, NBC News.
John Micklethwaite, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg.
We have Zannie Bedos, editor-in-chief of The Economist.
Gee, I wonder, will they be reporting on it?
Oh, no, I'm sorry.
They have Chatham House rules.
No one is allowed to talk about the club.
Oh, wait a minute.
Hold on a second.
Are you telling me that professional journalists and editors from major newspapers and outlets are signing non-disclosure agreements and going in and then not reporting anything back to the public and they think this is okay?
Do you consider Bloomberg and The Economist major outfits?
Yeah.
Then yes.
Sajja Nadella, CEO of Microsoft.
His Majesty the King of the Netherlands.
My buddy will be there, of course.
Get a report from him.
I will.
David Petraeus.
He is chairman of KKR. I didn't know that.
Of the KKR Global Institute, which is some non-profit bullshit thing or think tank, I'm sure.
We have the chairman and CEO of Total Oil.
We have Matteo Renzi, former prime minister of Italy.
Let's see, we have director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
Margret, of course, the prime minister of the Netherlands.
The Dutch are always there.
Eric Schmidt, Technical Advisor of Alphabet Inc.
That's the Google guy.
That's the true spook in the mix.
Mustafa Suleiman, who is the co-founder of DeepMind.
It's a cornucopia of who's who.
We have the CEO of Credit Suisse Group.
We have Peter Thiel, of course, of Thiel Capital.
Mark Tucker of HSBC. We have the president of the Ford Foundation, and the one that caught my eye is the founder and chair of the organization Fair Fight.
She will be there.
Her name is Stacey Abrams, also known as the woman who did not win the governorship in Georgia.
That's an interesting catch.
I was wondering where you were going with this.
I saved the best for last.
What the hell is Stacey Abrams doing at the Bilderberger conference?
She was thinking of running for president.
Well, here's what I'm thinking.
First of all, she's a Council on Foreign Relations member, which also is a head shaker and baffling.
If you look at her wiki page, she's damn impressive.
She has written novels under pen names that have sold hundreds of thousands of copies.
She writes these really eloquent pieces that say nothing but look really good.
The former New York banker, you'll recall, he said to me, she's no Maxine Waters.
Keep your eye on Stacey Abrams.
And the reason why he said it, of course, she's got the banking money behind her.
He's a banker.
There's bankers here.
It's the banking candidate.
I think she's...
You know what?
If I didn't know any better, I would say that she's letting everybody duke it out, let someone pop the top off of Biden's head, and then she'll come in and she'll announce she's running and she has a real shot.
No.
Well, this is where our paths separate.
Sundance.
She has zero shot.
She's unlikable as a candidate.
She's kind of full of herself.
Kind of?
She's probably a spook.
I don't think she's a spook.
You know, I was looking at her wiki page.
Well, now I have to look at it.
No, I'll get it for you.
I have it here.
Well, I mean, you know, she might not be.
Well, she's got some...
Okay.
But she sounds suspicious.
Well, she's highly educated.
She was a Harry S. Truman Scholar, studied public policy, UT Austin, LBJ School of Public Affairs, Master of Public Affairs, JD degree.
She's a Yale, so she's a lawyer.
Yale Law School.
She worked as a tax attorney.
At a top firm in Atlanta.
And see...
There was something about her writing I wanted to mention because she'd done a lot.
She's published articles in public policy, taxation, and non-profit organizations under the pen name Selena Montgomery.
She's the award-winning author of several romantic suspense novels.
Here's the problem.
She is about to be investigated.
by the State Ethics Commission.
Because when I looked, I saw the name Stacey Abrams, and it said Chair Fair Fight.
I'm like, what is this Fair Fight?
I initially thought this may not be the same Stacey Abrams.
But Fair Fight is a very interesting, and it's actually a couple of entities.
You have the Fair Fight Foundation, Fair Fight Inc., and the Fair Fight PAC, Political Action Committee.
And the nonprofit, which is a 501c4, I pulled the 990 for us.
She's been making $80,000 a year from this nonprofit, which has pretty much only promoted her.
She is also the chair, which is a huge no-no in non-profit land.
If she considers running for anything, she has a mess to clean up.
Well, here it is.
Stacy...
Oh, I didn't see this.
Stacy Abrams under investigation by State Ethics Commission.
Georgia State Ethics Commission will subpoena bank records from Stacey Abrams' 2018 gubernatorial campaign, several other groups that helped it to raise money.
I'm just getting this in now.
Okay, well that makes nothing but sense.
Also has not reported 2017 Form 990, which I think is a violation.
That should be in as of October last year.
Yeah, she's unlikable.
I agree with you.
And we've read her stuff, and it's just like a lot of beautiful, eloquent words saying nothing.
But we can differ on this.
I think that she could be the great hope for the Dems.
Kamala Kamala is a much better shot at it.
Yeah.
Well, she's polling at, what, 1% or something?
No, she's got more than that.
She's up there on the list.
She's actually on the main list.
Okay.
Anyway, I thought it was interesting she was going to be there, and why wouldn't a politician from Georgia be in Montrose, Switzerland?
Yeah.
Yeah, why?
Why not?
A little bit of Montreux trivia history.
The song Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water was written there when the casino burned down.
Smoke on the Water, Fire in the Sky.
Oh, that was about the casino burning down?
Yeah, they were recording there.
There was a recording studio in the casino.
I think it may still be there.
their queen owned it after the fire.
And they were recording.
And if you, if you hear the song, we all went down to Montreux and they'd sing it about how they were recording in the studio.
And then the studio was on fire.
And then if you've been to Montreux, you see the smoke on the water.
Yeah.
I'm sure the elites.
Drunken elites have their meat in grey.
That's where most of the elites go to have their blood recycled.
You go up in the mountains there.
You go to Montreux.
Younger, much younger.
11 or 12 are the best.
Twelve.
Okay, twelve-year-olds.
Twelve-year-olds are the ones you really want.
Take their blood and give them your blood.
Circulate that, baby.
Just pump it.
Pump it, pump it.
Here's a couple hundred bucks.
Come on those, kid.
Yes.
So, Merkle, here I got a good couple of things, sir, that could be...
This is an entremont.
Okay.
Jimmy Kimmel does one of his little bits where they go out into the street.
In this case, they just have a clock.
A regular, old-fashioned...
An analog clock?
Oh, okay.
An analog clock, and there's not one kid or college student in the vicinity that can read it.
When I was a kid, you know, you learn in school out of tell time.
They'd have the thing with all the clocks, and you had to write in the time.
But now we all have phones, and we just look at it, and we know.
And it made me wonder if young people even know...
How to read an old-time clock anymore.
You know the round things with the hands?
Okay, so...
Anyway, we went down the street.
We asked people to tell us what time it is using an analog clock.
And it's time to find out how they did in tonight's edition of Can You Do It?
Can you do it?
Well, I got a question for you.
Sure.
Can you look at this and tell me what time it is?
Oh, no.
No, I can't.
It is 4...
like 37?
It's 2, I want to say 40, no, not 45.
Chris, let me ask you this.
Where do you go to college?
UC Arlington.
You want to say anything to your teachers back in college?
Not at all, because they're going to be so disappointed that I have not read a clock like this since elementary school.
Let me see, okay.
Oh man, it is 8, 10?
8, 20, 8, 15, 8, 17.
No?
A.M. or P.M.? Wow.
Yeah.
Of course, it's man on the street.
You can pull out anything you want.
Well, you can.
But I'm in on it.
I think that there's no doubt that most people...
And the words that he didn't use properly was tell time.
That's what he used to refer to.
It's not like looking at a watch that it's 1203.
You have to look at the clock and tell time.
And I don't think half the kids can do it.
There was another man on the street that, and I may have clipped it, but it was Fox News, I guess, Fox and Friends in the morning.
And the clip, the way it was presented, the reason why I thought it was interesting, is, look at this guy, whatever his name is, Fox and Friends.
He's going down the street.
No one cares about him.
No one gets a shit.
No one wants to talk to him.
It was kind of like hating on Fox and Friends.
So I look at the clip.
And the guy is trying to stop people, but they're all on their phone, and they got the earbuds in.
They just look over some guy randomly talking, and they just keep walking, because they're all on their phones!
All on their phones.
And also, I was listening to this...
Kimmel had that nice little music here.
Can you have it here?
Tell us what to find out how they did in tonight's edition of Can You Do It?
And I heard that and I'm like, you know, it reminds me of our old game show.
Do you remember our game show?
Uh, win, drone, or die?
Win, lose, or drone!
That's right, everybody!
This is where we pull one lucky contender from the audience.
You will be running, and you will win if you want to ride from the drone, but if not, you lose on win, lose, or drone!
Win, lose, or drone!
Yeah.
Screw you, Kimmel.
He stole it from us.
Screw you, Kimmel.
Our show is better.
Well, talking about people stealing stuff from us, do you know that when Alex Jones starts his radio show, he talks about FEMA Region 6?
Yeah, I probably stole that from him.
Oh, that's been going for a while.
But did he...
What about this?
Here, play the Alex Jones.
Tell me what the back song is he's playing on his show.
It's probably Flight of the Valkyries.
I'm just guessing.
Okay.
All right.
Hold on.
I'm getting there.
Hold on.
Uh...
Alright, our devastating victories against the globalists here and abroad are so incredible, so historic, that words can hardly describe the victories we're having.
Does he have the version that goes Cinco de Mayo, though?
He does not have the song version.
He doesn't have the spoken word version.
He has just the old one, just the regular ones.
If y'all are wondering what we're talking about, before we hit play and record at the same time on the recorder here for the show, on the stream, it's become a...
An OCD thing, superstition of mine, to play the Flight of the Valkyries, and then I have to add the lyrics.
The singing version.
Yes, the singing version, correct.
I have to add the lyrics Cinco de Mayo at the right point, otherwise we won't have a good show.
And we've been doing this for how many years?
A long time.
A long time.
That's one of many superstitions that we're dealing with here.
It's as if he's in baseball.
Baseball players are the worst for this sort of thing.
Oh, about superstition?
Oh, yeah.
Not shaving.
Or shaving.
Having sex, not having sex.
I personally like to have sex the night before the show.
Good for you.
And I always make sure that I mention that.
It works.
Baby, it's for the show.
Speaking of Jones, there's a couple of deplatforming news and different things happening in the purge, in purge space.
First of all, and this comes down to really how no one should be trustworthy of internet, Silicon Valley technology platforms because you start to rely on it, you can get screwed.
Now, the Yellow Vest, just before the European election started, they have a Facebook group with 350,000 members.
Yeah, that was frozen.
No one could post.
It was just what it was.
No one could follow up, nothing.
They froze that.
Why?
Why?
You're not going to get an answer, but it seems obvious they just want to shut down discourse or whatever.
And you probably know more about this than I do, how Amazon works.
Previously, they would maybe buy up some stock.
Some of your stuff, and then they'd sell it.
That is now apparently going to be over.
You will move down to the marketplace where you just sell on a piece-by-piece basis, which I think is going to cost a lot more, and you probably won't be surfaced, and other things will get positioning and search, etc.
The Bloomberg headline is literally, Amazon purges small suppliers for Procter& Gamble, Sony, and Lego bulk orders.
Are you familiar how the selling works on Amazon?
Not completely.
JC, Buzzkill Jr., has been looking into it and he's got a friend that works there too.
And there's a lot of layers to it and there's a way of selling stuff on there and reselling stuff on there.
Well, you can be a small or a big vendor, and you have to pay a certain fee, and they also do just dropshipping for you.
Yeah, right.
You can hire them to do that, and then for an extra fee, they'll put your stuff in there online, so you can not only use them for dropshipping, but you can use them for pick-and-pack, dropshipping, pick-and-pack, and cataloging.
And so everything's fee-based, and they're trying to move to more of that sort of thing so they don't have to be responsible for the prime and all the rest.
Right.
Well, it seems like it's put a lot of people out of business already.
Oh, it wouldn't surprise me.
Yeah.
Any examples?
Well, the story, the Bloomberg story, obviously has some examples.
Let me see what...
But it's just, you know, like some small guy.
I can tell you...
Where is it here?
And there's also this possibility that this, I don't know this for a fact, but knowing the way they operate, it seems to me that if you're like double dipping, in other words, you have a, you don't have a real story, not a real company, you're just selling stuff, and you're selling stuff on Amazon, and you're selling stuff on eBay, they might take a, you know, like that.
The mom and pops that have long relied, and this is why it's important, The mom and pops that have long relied on Amazon for a steady stream of orders will have to learn a new way of doing business on the web store.
Rather than selling in bulk directly to Amazon, they'll need to win sales one shopper at a time.
It's one of the biggest shifts in Amazon's e-commerce strategy since it opened the site to independent sellers almost 20 years ago.
While the plan could be changed or canceled, it's currently moving forward.
Um...
Let's see.
I'm looking for an example for you.
But I think that says it right there.
That's really what's going on.
You can also be deplatformed off of other technology platforms, literally.
Uber.
Here's a recent story.
Starting today, Uber is going to be giving the boot to riders who have low ratings, a significant change to the company's previous policies.
The ride-sharing company says its new policy is about holding both riders and drivers accountable.
Uber has not disclosed what ratings will get riders deactivated in their term, but is this a good move by Uber?
I think it is because Uber's trying to clean itself up.
There was an Uber driver that unfortunately murdered a passenger.
So when you get rid of some of these, you know, on both sides, it's not just the drivers.
What kind of qualifications get you booted?
That's the thing.
They list out bad behavior.
You can't insult the drivers.
You can't yell.
You can't vomit.
I know Scott asked that.
And you can't have sex with the driver either.
There's a whole list of things.
Oh, that's it.
I'm moving to Lyft.
You can't have sex with the Uber driver.
There are two booted from Uber.
Scott, in case you were wondering.
But Heather, go ahead.
So, you know, it's actually moving towards a social score.
Yep.
Good point.
Yeah, I mean, low rating social score.
Yeah, it's going to be stuff like that.
Yeah, well, that's what's happening.
And, well, I will say, you know, Willow, my sister Willow, of course, everyone who came to Austin had not been to Austin or hadn't really experienced the e-scooter rage in Austin.
Was running around in the days surrounding our wedding and having a good time and snapping selfies.
And I was pleased to hear that Willow got a fine from, I think she was using the bird bike, the e-scooter.
She had not returned it or parked it in a proper place and they fined her.
They've caught her?
Well, because...
And not the authorities, the company itself.
Oh, because it's got a GPS on it.
The GPS, yeah.
So that's good.
You know, I like that.
Hey, if you don't put it back properly or in the right place or upright, I think they...
What was the fine?
I think it was 20 bucks.
That's pretty serious.
It's pretty serious.
Then there was another, this is a great news story, that Newark, New Jersey is leading the way in something that I really hope Mayor Adler of Austin will consider implementing, maybe even something for California.
Well, you may want to think twice before giving money to panhandlers in Newark.
Police there will now be ticketing drivers they say are posing safety risks and delaying traffic by stopping to give money.
Police have issued 90 summonses in just the last few weeks, and that comes with a $50 fine plus court costs.
The city says that this is all part of a larger plan to help the homeless.
Newark Hope One, a police mobile unit, will also try to keep panhandlers off the streets by offering services to get them help.
I would love for this to be implemented in Austin.
Already the Austin Downtown Alliance, which I do like the Austin Downtown Alliance because they keep the streets clean.
They have people out there sweeping up and keeping it all tidy.
But they're already like, oh no, you can't do that.
That would just prolong people's experiencing homelessness.
No, we've got to stop with this.
You cannot go anywhere in Austin, stop at any light without people begging for money.
And it's coordinated.
I see the guys on Sunset Valley Road and Old Torf.
They each got a corner.
They switch around.
It's coordinated.
They're sharing smokes.
Come on.
It's a business for them.
I like this idea.
I do have a comment to make.
Okay.
Because you were talking about the homeless situation.
It's noticeable there.
I think the scooter thing is more horrid than the, which is something we don't have in San Francisco because San Francisco has got too many hills.
Right.
You start going downhill on those scooters, you'll be hitting 80 by the time you're down at the stop sign.
Mm-hmm.
And I'd like to see that.
But the homeless situation in Austin, which is, I guess, getting bad, is nothing, nothing compared to the homeless situation around here with the tent cities and the streets just filled with poop.
There's nothing.
There's not even close.
Not even close.
You're not even in the top ten.
What do you mean?
In terms of a mess.
It's not that bad in Austin.
I mean, there's a couple areas around the bus terminal.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
You don't live here, so you're just wrong on that.
You're just wrong.
I took a drive around purposely to look at the situation based on some people who had done some research.
Then you're now mayor.
Congratulations.
You're doing a fine job.
I love what you've done with the city.
Well, I'm not, I didn't see it.
I go to Seattle, I can see it.
There's like whole cities on the outskirts of town, like a shantytown.
I just didn't see it.
Okay.
I think it's just, you know, you're harsh.
No, I'm not harsh.
I gave money to people, as you know, on the street for years.
And in Austin, I finally got tired of seeing the same damn guy asking for money.
No improvement.
Yeah, I need this for socks.
Yeah, I need this to get to my job.
I need this for them.
No.
I'm just saying, I think you were irked because he never acknowledged the fact that you gave him money.
No, I'm not irked at all.
I'm irked that it doesn't improve anything.
It only makes it worse.
It sounds harsh.
I'm not saying that's not true.
Yeah, so we need to stop the giving.
If we're not going to arrest people for panhandling and openly doing drugs, then at least stop the supply.
Well, I don't understand why they don't stop them from doing drugs.
There's needles all over the place.
Well, here it's because we're trying to be Little San Fran.
Little Frisco.
And then finally, some big news.
And I predicted this would happen, and people laughed at me.
Gab.com?
Gab, you know, who make that browser?
Are you using the Dissenter browser now?
Yes, I am.
It's an excellent product.
Outstanding, isn't it?
It's so fast, so lightweight.
It's fast that it does it.
It's everything Brave is without having this kind of uncomfortableness to it.
Exactly.
Everything about Brave that you liked, and not all of the weight that was just chugging it down.
So I'm really liking this.
Gab.com is the Twitter clone that they created, which was immediately dubbed as, Oh, that's where the Nazis are!
It's the old right!
And it's where people go when they're deplatformed.
That's where Laura Loomer is and Alex Jones.
But also, there's art groups and there's other things on there.
It's not just Nazis.
There's probably no Nazis on there.
No, I think there's some...
You know, there's like 4chan memes and stuff.
But their policy is, you know, we don't kick you off unless you're doing something that would violate the constitutional terms of free speech.
They announced this morning they're going to federate.
And I knew this would happen, and I think it's fantastic.
So you know the Mastodon, the NoAgendaSocial.com is our own server.
It's our own little place where we have our own Twitter-like social network clone, and it's open source.
Anyone can set it up and you have this federation where anyone else with a server and a community, you can follow each other and post and reply cross servers through this thing called ActivityPub, which is an open source.
And it's kind of, I would say it's the piece that RSS has always been missing as a piece that kind of acts as an arbiter to make sure that you see the messages you're supposed to see if you're following someone.
Now, as an administrator, as an individual, you can silence someone.
You don't see anything from them.
You can block them.
But as an administrator, you can block an entire server.
NoagendaSocial.com, almost within a week of Inception, was blocked by people who literally called us KKK Nazi quadroons.
And with this news, the main guy behind the open source development of Mastodon immediately, well, I'm going to block them!
All administrators should pre-block them!
Make sure you're ready to block them because they're alt-right!
Block them!
So they're going to block Gab?
Yeah.
So they can't federate with Gab because they're alt-right?
Well, I mean, anyone...
That's kind of...
Well, I think...
I love this.
I love this.
Because...
Well, just by federating, I think that the number of small servers that people will set up for their own little KKK alt-right Nazi quadroon discussion will federate with Gab, and it will be much bigger than Mastodon.social.
In fact, I predict, and I've done it before, Twitter will also federate.
Everything is going to federate.
And you still have control over your server.
If you want to block people from Gab, then you can block everything or people can block individually.
But you could also federate with things you do like.
I'm sure there are more social justice warriors in the world who want to talk to each other.
And you don't have to be a part of some big thing.
As long as you...
As long as the capability is there, it always solves itself.
I'm very excited about that.
I think this is a huge deal for Gab to do that, and I congratulate them.
These guys are doing the right thing and taking the open source back.
I love it.
We'll see.
What do you mean, we'll see?
We'll see.
Well, you said it like, we'll see.
We'll see.
We don't know.
I mean, it did cost money to do these things.
What, to federate?
Well, I mean, yeah, somewhere along the line it costs money.
That's like saying it costs money to create their browser, which it did, because someone developed it.
But it's not, you know, you don't need millions of dollars to do these things.
We did it with a goat's head and a hat drone.
An Aaroner, who's running NoAgendaSocial.com from his house.
So, no, you don't really need money.
I'm sorry, that's just not true.
And the whole point is you can decentralize so you don't need to be running thousands of servers everywhere.
No, that's a plus.
It's the wave of the future.
Federation is the future.
Well, I'm not going to argue with you.
You're all in on it.
And as far as I'm concerned, I mean, I'm on No Agenda Social all the time.
I know.
We see you.
Stop posting.
And I find it to be very useful.
Stop posting so much.
It's crazy.
You're never on there.
I'm on all the time.
Well, you should post something.
People would love to see that.
So we have new rules for the Democratic candidates, even though they haven't been expressed.
They've got too many people running and they don't know what to do about it.
So they've decided to come up with some new rules.
We don't know what the rules are going to be because we're right on the cusp of the first debates.
The Democratic National Committee has toughened standards for its second round of 2020 presidential debates in September.
Contenders will have to register at least 2% in four approved polls.
They also have to raise funds from at least 130,000 donors across 20 states.
It is an effort to winnow a field of two dozen candidates.
Stacey Abrams all the way, baby.
Let them all duke it out.
I'm going by Stacey Abrams theory.
Yeah, you can keep it.
Bad news for you?
Okay.
Besides the Stacey Abrams prediction?
Uh-huh.
Vaping is bad.
Recent research shows e-cigarettes may pose an increased risk of heart attack.
A new study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology has found the substance used to flavor e-cigarettes can threaten the survival and proper functioning of human cells.
The study's author says the research refutes the common perception of vaping as a safe alternative to smoking regular cigarettes.
The Food and Drug Administration said last year vaping had increased nearly 80% among high school students and 50% among middle school students over the previous year.
Yeah, this is about one thing and one thing only.
And by the way, I heard this study.
Tina was very happy to read this to me the other day at breakfast.
Yeah, you know how that works.
I'm like, you know, there's a study here.
Vaping is going to kill you.
And now that we're married, I have a vested interest.
Which she does.
Remember, it's about the flavors.
And the flavors are being removed everywhere, mainly by Juul.
Juul is locking this shit down.
It's an $8 billion investment by the same people who make Marlboro cigarettes.
They want everybody out of the market.
What, you make some little juice and you want to sell that?
No way.
Because people are going to die from it.
This is locking down the nicotine delivery vehicle to big tobacco.
That's what all of this is about.
Because notice, it's only about the flavors.
Well, what is it about the flavor?
And if you read the study, it says, yeah, you may, may die, your cells may die from that, but no matter what, nothing's like smoking the real thing.
Nothing's like smoking cigarettes.
It's right there in the study.
So this is a continuing...
Another study debunked by the No Agenda show.
I'm going to show myself a little by donating to No Agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that.
Oh yeah, that'd be fab.
Yeah, on No Agenda.
In the morning.
And we have a few people to thank, starting with Sir Donald Borowski.
He's the 123.45 in Spokane Valley.
He did leave a note on the Starfleet Command.
Oh, I love his letterhead.
Yes, love his letterhead.
Don't play the theme.
I won't.
No worries.
Okay, so he says, gentlemen, three things.
John's interview on show 1139, the interviews on 1139 were excellent.
Two, I was watching an old Joan Rivers show.
Adam was a guest doing celebrity gossip.
That's right.
Wow, that hair.
Let me tell you, I loved working with Joan Rivers.
She was so nice.
And I butted her up so well back in the day.
That was when she was on, I think it was the Fox stations, I think, her daily talk show.
Yeah, I'd come in, MTV was a couple studios down, and I'd just hop on, do a walk on.
She was great.
Three.
Is having my name read as a no-agenda producer just so much virtual signaling, no-agenda style?
Completely.
It's yes!
Well done!
And then he signed off.
Sir Donald of the Fire Bottles, Viscount of Eastern Washington State.
Always entertaining.
Thank you very much, sir, for your courage.
Ryan Smith in Raleigh, North Carolina, $100.67.
James Gill...
Gilkison, Gilkison, 100.
Congratulations on the wedding.
Anonymous, 100.
He wishes to remain such.
Oscar Schenk in Portugal, $99.99.
Hey, Oscar.
Oscar, we're going to be...
He's in Lisbon.
Oh, he's Dutch?
He's Dutch in Lisbon.
Yes.
Adam, als je nog tips nodig hebt in de buurt van Lissabon, laat het me weten.
Oké, zal ik doen.
Sir Stephen, or Stephen, Hutto, in St.
Petersburg, Florida, 7070.
Sir Dwight the Knight, in Burlington, Ontario, 6789.
Nelson Ernst, 5678.
Robert Bruckner, 55-55.
Thomas Miller, 55-55.
He's in Naperville, Illinois.
Sir Andy Cantrell in Terrigal Beach, I think.
He turns 51 today.
He's got a birthday.
So does Sir Dwight the Knight.
Well, that's his niece, Amelia, her fourth birthday.
Ah.
Oh, and he wanted to let us know.
Job's karma for his mom worked.
Would like to pass some karma on to anyone who needs that.
He will put it at the end.
Sir Dwight, tonight, of course.
Jonathan Reisman, Reisman, Reisman, 53.
David C. Pugh in Massillon, Ohio, 53.
Kyle Blank, 53 was a special donation marking the spleen, pig spleen, as a weather predictor as discussed in the newsletter with a link discussing this.
Because there's some expert on pig spleen weather predicting who died 12 years ago.
And he was, you know, apparently he brought this skill from Norway or Sweden or one of the Nordic countries where I guess they use it.
And what happens is that you, when you Pull the spleen out of a pig is written up in the...
There's a link in the newsletter.
When you pull the spleen out, you can look at the fat layers and the thickness, and by dividing the spleen up, you can predict the weather for the next six months with great accuracy.
With great accuracy.
Anyway, so here's the $53 donors.
David C. Pugh, Kyle Blank in Houston.
Stephen or Stephen Kunkel in Atlanta, Georgia.
Stephen, I'm sure.
Sir Donald Earl of Mills in Shasta Lake.
James Frimmel in Mountain View, California.
These are all in celebration of pig spleens.
Sean Mountain, $53.
Peter Chong in Lakewood, Washington.
Gilles Peveau.
He's off.
No, that's the end of it.
We only had...
Well, it wasn't a big success, this promotion.
The pig spleen?
Yeah, you might want to re-evaluate that.
Maybe not do it next year.
Pig spleen.
I had little choice in the matter.
Giles.
Gilles.
Gilles.
Hey, French guy.
Yeah, our one French guy.
And he has a real French name.
You are very welcome to the producer ship.
Can we go back to our 5191 donation which celebrates your wedding, I think?
Oh, and Sir Mathieu also is French, of course.
Ah, yes.
Anonymous, 5191.
Anonymous, 5191.
He's involved.
He's a Jersey guy.
Anonymous says, I'm a donation from a Jersey guy.
Congratulations to Adam and Tina.
Thank you very much.
Trigator of the North Texas Swamps, William Miller.
These are all $51.91 donation.
Laggards.
Kerry Rosenbarker.
Josh Anderson.
And he has a call-out for TIG in New York as a douchebag.
Douchebag.
TIG. Zuli Firpo in Woodland Hills.
And that's the end of that list.
Onward to 5142 from Chris Warich.
Wait a minute.
I got to read this note here.
Zuli from Woodland Hills, California.
Third donation and happy wedding.
Thank you.
Need relationship karma.
My grandmother jumped off a building when she found out my grandpa had a secret family with an underage teen.
I'm cursed.
My seven-month relationship just ended because the man didn't have feelings for me.
Yet again, the curse strikes.
Your karma can break this.
I do not want to resort to a brouhaha.
Which is...
The Brugia.
The Brugia?
What is Brugia?
Witch?
The Witch.
Well, Zulry, watch this!
Relationship Karma for ya!
You've got karma.
You can email us back with thanks.
Carl.
A Warichan.
Warichan.
Chris.
Why did I say Carl?
I don't know.
He's following people who are all $50 donors.
Name and location, if I have it.
Starting with Peter.
Then Eric Dutro, Robert Fittler, who rhymes with Jimmy Burdett in Norman, Oklahoma.
Darren Denizowski, I'm guessing, in Dubai, Arab Emirates.
Richard, Sir Richard Gardner, Jeffrey Zellin in Oakland, Michigan, Stephen Kirkpatrick in Langley, Washington, and last but not least, Sir Brian Watson in Raleigh, North Carolina.
I want to thank all these folks for producing show 1142 and keeping this show alive and going into the future and beyond.
What rhymes with Fittler?
Hitler.
Oh!
What is he talking about?
I'm thinking like, what could that be?
Okay, thank you.
Thanks.
Hashtag, got it.
Thank you so much.
And thank you to all of you who have supported the show for today, episode 1142.
This is the Value for Value System.
The only way it works is if you support us and we'll continue to make shows for as long as we can physically do it.
Part of that is also subscriptions.
Lots of people sign up for those.
It's great if you do it.
It does help with sustaining.
And everyone under $50 also comes in for reasons of anonymity so we don't mention their name.
But it is all incredibly appreciated.
Thank you so much.
We had a couple of meetups.
That went very well, apparently.
We had the Eastern North Carolina meetup.
I didn't hear anything from the Pittsburgh meetup.
The Tel Aviv meetup looked like we had some dudes hanging out there.
The first one in Israel.
That was nice to see.
Yeah, that was actually pretty cool.
You went?
Did you go?
I wish.
Then what's today is Charleston, South Carolina.
June 2nd, that's next week, Sarasota, Florida.
The 6th of June in Seattle.
June 7th in Toronto.
June 8th, Oklahoma City.
June 12th, it's set.
London.
Go to noagendameetups.com.
Our very own Earl of Tennessee, Sir Patrick Coble, has set this up.
He's going to be there.
How crazy is that?
Wow.
Yeah.
And we're doing it the same place you did it.
Oh, that little bar?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Hopefully the library will be open and you can do it in there.
Well, Sir Patrick has been very kind.
We arrive on June 12th in the morning, so we're just going to shower, whatever, and then it'll probably be around 6 o'clock in the evening.
So it's going to be the same day that we arrive, because of course the next day is a show day, and Friday we have to go to Northern Ireland.
So looking forward to that, and thank you, Sir Patrick, for setting up.
June 15th, Copenhagen.
Guys, another one I'd love to do.
July 4th, Seattle.
July 9th in Knoxville, Tennessee.
And July 13th in Atlanta.
And we also have one nighting today.
I didn't see the...
I was looking for it on the spreadsheet because it was kind of a cute note.
It's Marty Williamson.
Did you see Marty's name anywhere on the list?
No, but I can do a quick search.
Well, he and his daughter apparently have been saving by donating, I think, $15 a month for years, and so now finally he's been saving, and so it's his knighthood, so we're very excited about that.
But we do need you to remember to support the program.
We'll do another one on Sunday.
You can do that by going to...
A couple of very needed karmas...
Jobs, jobs, jobs, and jobs.
Let's vote for jobs.
You've got a comment.
It's your birthday, birthday.
I don't know what you have yet.
And it is the end of the month.
It is the 30th of May 2019.
Here's our birthday list.
Sir J.D., the Baron of Silicon Valley, will be celebrating tomorrow, the very last day of the month of May, the 31st.
And we congratulate him, of course.
Sir Dwight the Knight says happy birthday to his niece, Emilia.
She will be turning four on June 1st.
Happy birthday.
And Sir Andy Cantrell turns 51 years old today.
We say happy birthday from everybody here at The Best Podcast in the Universe.
And then we have...
Just the knighting, yeah.
So let's...
If you can get the sword.
Here's mine.
There you go.
Thank you.
Whoa!
There it is.
All right, Marty Williamson, step on up to the podium.
Thank you very much for your enduring support of the No Agenda podcast and the amount of $1,000 total now, which you did over many years.
I'm very, very proud to welcome you to the No Agenda Roundtable of the Knights and the Danes, and I hereby pronounce the KD... Sir Marty Williamson, Knight of the No Agenda Roundtable for you, of course.
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Dvorak.org slash NA. A little Entremont?
Love it.
I've been tracking people particularly of left political persuasion who go off the deep end and start cussing like crazy because they really have no other way to get their emotions out and under control.
And I got a good one.
Yeah.
And...
Sketchy segment.
Very sketch.
But it's almost like a Rob Reiner type thing, only with cussing.
So, if you have kids, or if you're sensitive, you may not want to listen to this.
This is actor-comedian Michael Rappaport.
Are you familiar with his work?
Oh, yeah.
No, I saw this.
This was on this little video he made.
Yeah.
This is...
Yeah, the guy was off the rails.
I think he needs to seek help.
Dick's thing!
Dick's thing!
Dirty fucking dick saying, you heard what Mueller said?
The only reason why you're not in prison right now, you fuck, is because you're the president.
Because they couldn't arrest you.
You're the one fucking person who couldn't get arrested for what you've done.
You sloppy dog.
You committed crimes.
You just committed crimes well.
Congratulations.
Okay?
You're a good criminal.
You should be fucking proud of yourself.
Okay?
You better win in 2020, because if you don't win in fucking 2020, you fat, sloppy dog, you.
We're going to arrest you.
Okay?
We're going to put you in an orange jumpsuit.
Okay?
That's going to match your orange fucking skin.
Okay?
You're going to be in a prison next to El Chapo.
That's the kind of criminals you're going to be next to.
Okay?
And we're going to get your fucking son, Dick Stain Donald Trump Jr., and your daughter, and that fucking mute...
Fucking Junkyard Jared!
You fucking criminal!
You crook!
You pimp!
You con man, you!
Because you think he's Robert De Niro.
I did like Junkyard Jared.
I think I'm going to use that.
Well, you know, he looks, to me, he has a very slight genetic...
Similarity to De Niro's look.
Interesting point.
Yeah, it does have a bit of that, doesn't it?
Interesting.
Yes, and I think there may be something genetic here going on in some reptilian fashion.
I have no idea.
It doesn't make sense.
Could be.
Could be.
Hey, Assange.
Assange, I mean, there's the same kind of screed that De Niro does.
Yeah.
Well, maybe they're hanging out together.
Well, that seems unlikely.
In Tribeca.
No, no, man.
De Niro.
Show business De Niro.
So Assange, Julian Assange, apparently is too ill to appear for a court hearing, according to the BBC. This is a disconcerting story.
I don't know if I have any clips about it.
Pamela Anderson, after he got arrested, she visited him in jail.
She never reported anything about his health.
Maybe you're looking at it the wrong way.
Who was the last person to visit him from the outside?
Maybe it was Pamela Anderson.
Is that what you're thinking?
Yeah.
You know, this was a thought several years ago when she visited him.
She brought him vegan sandwiches, which is the definition of poisoning someone, if you're going to give them vegan sandwiches.
But, you know, I don't know.
I definitely think he's...
Because no one says what is wrong.
He's too ill.
So either it's total horse crap, and I don't want to show up.
I don't understand why.
But if he's gravely ill, as they say, too ill, gravely, then he's probably been poisoned.
Well, they did move him to a hospital.
So I think he was...
They poisoned people in the UK, you know?
Have you heard about this?
I've heard, yeah.
Especially people who have something to do with Russians.
I'm not saying he does...
But they poison people over there.
And I really adore Pam Anderson, but she is suspect.
Well, that's an interesting point.
I won't go on with that.
Let's see what's going on.
Here's the latest.
I got some updates.
Before the update, though, I do have to play that this clip I think is important because I think it's about time somebody did this.
This is Malaysia kicking back recycled crap.
Oh, yeah.
They've been dumped on them.
Malaysia will send up to 3000 tons of plastic waste back to the countries it came from in an attempt to halt wealthier countries from dumping their used plastic under the guise of recycling.
Malaysia became the world's main dumping ground for plastic refuse after China banned its importation last year.
The plastic smuggled to unlicensed recycling plants from countries including the United States, the UK, France, Canada, and Australia, and is causing environmental problems for surrounding communities.
This is Malaysian Minister of Energy, Yobi Yin.
So what the citizens of the UK believe that they send for recycling is actually dumped in our country.
Malaysians, like any other developing countries, have a right to clean air, clean water, sustainable resources, and clean environment to live in, just like citizens of developed nations.
Now who's been sending this crap?
The Malaysian government.
And they're putting them in the shipping containers that, you know, all this stuff is, you know, all these leftover shipping containers, they have a bunch of them dead-headed.
Yeah, we make them.
And they're just stuffing them full of old bottles and stuff and shipping them right back to the UK mostly.
Yeah.
The UK's been using Malaysia.
That's pretty funny.
You know, it'd be like at the port of Oakland getting like a thousand shipping containers.
Full of crap.
Full of crap, yeah.
They can just stack up the containers and leave it at that.
Yeah.
I was delighted to read this article in the New York Times.
Was that two days ago?
Yeah.
President Trump grousing about Bolton.
Finally!
President Trump was grousing about John Bolton, his national security advisor, at his Florida club.
Guests heard the president complaining about the advice he was getting and wondering if Bolton was taking him down the path he did not want to go.
Hello?
Hello?
You should bring in the Curry-Dvorak Consulting Group for your national security.
We'll set you straight.
Jeez.
Did you get this long?
Yeah, I think there's also something he said while he was over in Japan.
There was another little thing that he said.
I think it was...
Again, it's such a baffling notion that this idiot...
Well, I think what happened is Trump wanted to prove that he could do national security and deal with all these different countries without it being a military guy.
And so for some reason...
Oh, actually it says it here.
Mr.
Trump picked Mr.
Bolton in part as a reaction against the narrative that the current and retired generals in his administration were really running things.
This is from the New York Times.
And in part to find a polar opposite of Mr.
Bolton's predecessor, McMaster.
It also helped that Mr.
Bolton had the support of Sheldon Adelson, the casino mogul and Republican financier who has been a key backer of the president.
Bolton and the president also know each other from the old bathhouse days with Roy Cohn in New York where all kinds of crazy sex stuff was going on.
The New York Times is really...
That's not in there.
No, you're right.
Editorializing.
In private, Mr.
Trump made fun of his advisor's militant reputation, suggesting that he was the one restraining Bolton rather than the other way around.
Quote, if it was up to John, we'd be in four wars now.
Well, get rid of him.
I believe that's true.
Yes, fire this guy.
Fire him.
He's dangerous.
And he's an idiot.
Get rid of this guy.
Well, they've got to get rid of all the neocons.
They're not healthy for the country.
No, you're right.
It's not healthy.
It's all very bad.
I mean, they're running on their own agenda.
Another update, I got Venezuela.
There's a PBS update on their economy collapsing.
In Venezuela, the government has made a rare admission of just how bad things are.
The nation's central bank reports that Venezuela's economy shrank 22% in the third quarter last year, and inflation soared to 130,000%.
Some 3 million people have fled Venezuela as their economy crashes.
And this is all good for Bitcoin, of course.
Did you see Bitcoin?
You don't.
Why do we even ask?
It went up.
It hit 9,000 for a little bit there.
What?
That's what I heard.
No, it's on a tear.
Good.
And here's Tim Draper, legendary Silicon Valley cuckoo investor.
I can say cuckoo because he's probably a billionaire, so whatever he does is still pretty smart.
He has his recent appearance on CNBC. This always happens when things start to turn bullish.
When people ask, well, so what do you think has happened with Bitcoin?
I say, well, you know, one Bitcoin is still one Bitcoin.
It always has been, always will be.
There are only 21 million of them, and you probably should get one.
As opposed to thinking, comparing it against the fiat currency.
Because I look at currencies and I say, well, there's Bitcoin.
And they say, well, that's very volatile.
And I say, no, all the other currencies are very volatile against Bitcoin because they know that this is really transforming the world.
And so these currencies that are tied to political forces or...
You know, dictatorships or even the dollar, which really does have political influence and the monetary policy has to be so precise to get it just right.
Why bother?
I agree.
I'm a recently converted Bitcoin maximalist, and I think he's right.
You should at least try and have one Bitcoin, or a piece of Bitcoin.
I've got that policy.
Same policy.
I want one Mickey Mantle autograph.
This is only a limited number, and he's dead.
And how'd you do?
I didn't get one yet.
Oh, you're still working on it?
Yeah.
I have a fake Babe Ruth autograph, but that's not the same.
That's no good.
I wonder what happens if somebody finally cracks the code and they can just make bitcoins on a Timex computer.
You really don't know what you're talking about.
No, you don't.
No, I don't.
You know, we had the Guardian telling us how to deal with climate change and the words to use, climate crisis, etc.
And emergency.
NPR has given guidance to their radio programmers regarding any story that has to do with abortion laws.
No.
The term unborn implies that there is a baby inside a pregnant woman, not a fetus.
Babies are not babies until they are born.
They're fetuses.
Incorrectly calling a fetus a baby or the unborn is part of the strategy used by the anti-abortion groups to shift language legality public opinion.
From now on, use unborn only when referring to the title of the bill, Or qualify the use of unborn by saying what anti-abortion groups call the unborn victims of violence.
The most neutral language to refer to the death of a fetus during a crime is fetal homicide.
Oh, brother, no one's going to do that.
It's pretty nuts, isn't it?
Oh, on the air, we should use abortion rights supporters and abortion rights opponents or derivatives thereof.
It is acceptable to use the phrase anti-abortion rights, but do not use the term pro-abortion rights.
Holy crap.
Why?
I don't know.
Because it's not correct.
I don't know.
If you say anti-abortion, you should be able to say pro-abortion.
Do not use the term.
Instead of pro-abortion.
Yeah, you're supposed to use pro-abortion.
I said not to use it, you just said.
Abortion rights.
Let me say it again.
On the air, we should use abortion rights supporters or abortion rights opponents.
Oh, so you just don't want to use anti and pro.
Yeah, but you can't say pro-abortion rights.
It's abortion rights.
It's advocates of abortion rights.
I have no idea.
This is insane.
The language.
Meanwhile, half the hosts on NPR have speech impediments.
But we're going to be nickel and dime about what we're saying.
It's pretty interesting.
It's good to keep up with these usages because they are used to influence public opinion.
I mean, climate crisis, I mean, really?
Yeah, I know.
By the way, Colorado had a test and they offered free birth control.
I'm not sure.
Oh, IUDs.
What else do they have?
Only IUDs?
Oh, that sucks.
Anyway, their teen pregnancy rate went down 42%, which leads me to believe it's still an education issue.
Education and access.
Well, I think most things are an education issue, but it could be a reporting issue, too, with these sorts of things.
Also true, yeah.
Also true.
It's true.
But really, the options do kind of suck.
Okay, let's go with this.
Here's Merkel talking about the Jews and hate crimes I think is interesting.
Miracle stressed the importance of learning from Germany's own history.
There is to this day not a single synagogue, not a single daycare center for Jewish children, not a single school for Jewish children that does not need to be guarded by German policemen.
We have to face up indeed to the specters of the past.
We have to tell our young people what history has brought over us and others, and these horrors, why we are for democracy, why we try to bring about solutions, why we always have to put ourselves in the other person's shoes.
On Saturday, Germany's anti-Semitism commissioner advised Jews in the country to avoid wearing kippahs or yarmulkes in public because of the rise in anti-Semitism.
German government figures show anti-Semitic hate crimes rose by almost 20 percent from 2017 to 2018.
That is one of the most insane policies or suggestions I've ever heard of, and it is insulting that they would even say that.
I think one of the newspapers printed kippahs that you could cut out so everyone could wear one.
I thought it was a pretty cool promotion.
We could do that.
But that's not a solution.
There's no solution if you're going to bring in migrants, immigrants from poor...
Poor, uneducated, Muslim countries who have been brainwashed into hating Jews from their birth, especially Wahhabists and Wahhabist countries and all those influenced by the Saudi Arabian churches or mosques, I'm sorry, and expect them to, you know, just intermingle, just no problem.
That's not even mentioned, that migrants.
No, no, just...
You don't think that's a coincidence?
So I guess that star has to come off my jacket too, huh?
Damn.
Do you think that the migrants and the increase in hate crimes against Jews, there's some connection?
Yeah, of course.
Well, how come they don't talk about that?
No.
Well, it started off with the whole problem they have with their history.
Ah, the Germans, man.
Today's new Germans have really got a raw deal.
You know, they've got to live with all the Nazi crap and the Hitler crap, and they had nothing to do with that, this generation.
And now they still have to deal with this stuff, and...
Yeah, that's your Euro elite, man.
That's how they run it.
Hey, you know, you got a problem now?
Just take off your religious symbol.
Take it off!
I would be leaving Germany.
Screw them.
Here is the latest from Iran.
It's literally the latest from Iran.
Ali Khamenei issued a new statement today, apparently overruling Iran's president.
Earlier, Hassan Rouhani had told his cabinet that talks might be possible if Washington ends sanctions on Iran and complies with a 2015 nuclear accord.
Whenever they stop cruelty against our nation, put aside the cruel sanctions, stand up for their commitments and return to the negotiating table, which they left themselves, the road is not closed for them.
The road is open.
Meanwhile, U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton blamed Iran for recent attacks on tanker ships in the Persian Gulf and on a Saudi oil pipeline.
Bolton visited the United Arab Emirates and said any further attacks will draw, quote, a very strong response from the United States.
Do you think he has a hair lip, Bolton?
False flag.
He might.
Do you think that's what he's hiding behind that mustache?
Hello, you know, has to...
You keep bringing it up, so I'll bring it up.
It's a very gay mustache.
It's a very gay mustache.
I wanted to go out there for a moment.
We've had a number of seemingly pretty serious reports from Air Force personnel, and apparently for some reason they're allowed to talk about it.
And we see video, and we see military video of the flying Tic Tacs.
Now that you're mentioning it...
It is kind of suspicious.
You're talking about the discussions of the UFOs.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, what is this all about?
Well, I only have one theory.
We have to get people believing in seeing stuff that is really nothing.
And by the way, as you know, I totally believe there's aliens here.
We have the tall blondes.
We got the grays.
We got the shapeshifters.
They're all over the place.
Could be your neighbor.
If you think there's not aliens living amongst us, you're nuts.
Of course we do.
But this stuff, these little tic-tacs and videos, and it's never any good video, ever, even from the military, who can see if my shoelace is untied from space.
But okay.
I think it's preparing us for the hoax that is coming in 2024, which will be the moon landing.
So we have to start believing in things again.
Believe what you see.
Believe what you tell us.
I think that's why this is being done.
Well, I will say this.
It seems out of the ordinary.
And I'll back it up with something I just...
Do you remember...
I'm too young.
You may remember in 1962 there were three nuclear tests done by the U.S. detonating nuclear devices at high altitude.
Do you remember this at all?
Oh, yeah.
What do you recall from that?
I think there were more than two, actually.
Three.
Three.
They were whoppers.
They weren't little bitty guys.
Yes.
In fact, there were three of them, Bluegill, Starfish, and Uraka.
And the first one was August 30th, 1961.
One or two of them failed.
They had to blow up the rockets because they didn't go up high enough.
But the one that went up there, the first test was one megaton, which is not that big.
But then they did a huge, like a real whopper, and it blew out lights and stuff in Hawaii, the electromagnetic pulse.
Here's what's interesting about this.
It was called Operation Fishbowl.
Which makes you just...
Why would you call it Operation Fishbowl if you're detonating nuclear devices at high altitude?
680 mile high, to be exact.
Was it that high?
Yes.
Are you sure?
Yes.
Well, I'm reading from the wiki, so I guess...
Well, the wiki's usually got those numbers right.
680 miles high.
And why is it Operation Fishbowl?
Were they trying to break out of the fishbowl that we're under?
I don't know.
What I do know is that by NASA's own admission, the problem for sending stuff to space today, it apparently wasn't a problem 50 years ago, is the Van Allen radiation belt.
And that it would be very difficult to go through the Van Allen radiation belt without dying.
Interestingly, the Van Allen radiation belt starts about 640 miles up.
So I'm thinking, were they at the time trying to blow a hole in the radiation belt?
Did they create the radiation belt by blowing this stuff up?
Or did they actually create a hole that the rocket went through?
I don't know, but to call something Operation Fishbowl is suspicious.
And we shall see 2024.
Start believing it now.
Because we're going to land the first woman and the next man on the moon.
I like kind of what you're doing here, but the logic is elusive.
We didn't have any such thing going on before the 69 launch to the moon and everyone was all in on that.
It's not a big deal.
There was a bunch of follow-up events.
Do you remember War of the Worlds?
Why now are we promoting the alien thing unless you're...
Going to tell us that there's aliens on the moon?
No, it's just...
No, no.
They're not promoting aliens.
They're promoting UFOs.
They're promoting flying objects that go fast, can come from space.
Things that are unbelievable that you're now seeing with your own eyes and you are to believe it.
Yeah, but even so, that you have to make the further jump that aliens are somehow involved.
This is not...
No, I didn't say aliens are involved.
What are you talking about?
I'm saying...
I'm saying they are.
What?
You're saying that's real?
The Tic Tac on the ocean?
You think that's real?
If it is, aliens are involved.
Okay.
Hold on.
You started off this whole exposition talking about you think there's aliens all around us, there's shapeshifters living next door, there's grays, there's tall Nordics.
And so then you go from that statement of Your perceived fact to this thing about the little bouncy balls and the tic-tacs and the crazy stuff that's going on with these guys, and then I bring aliens back into it, and you condemn me saying you weren't talking about aliens, but you were.
I don't understand why you're bringing it back into it.
I'm saying is that these videos and all of a sudden these officials, oh yes, look at all this, we don't really know what's going on, but look at the video, there's everywhere, there's flying saucers, there's all kinds of space stuff.
John, it's a part of a giant psychological operation to get you to believe that we can do all this stuff.
I don't think we can do it.
I don't think we did.
That's my point.
Doesn't mean that I don't think they're here.
That was just qualifying that I do believe in this stuff.
Okay, so you set the stage poorly.
Okay, well, I apologize.
Project Bluebeam.
It's to get you to believe in something.
And yes, we did have this bullcrap.
When was Orson Welles?
The 1930s?
Mm-hmm.
30s?
No.
It was later than that, wasn't it?
It was still the radio days.
Of the...
I don't remember what year was that.
I mean, if it was in the 40s, it's possible.
1938.
You're right.
1938.
There you go.
It had very little to do with anything.
It was way early.
Well...
We did have a lot of movies.
There was a slew of...
Flying saucer movies in the 50s.
Like more than a few.
And some of them have been redone since.
And maybe that's something.
But still, there wasn't much going on in the 60s in that regard.
It was Camelot era.
And then the Vietnam War and then the moon thing.
I mean, it just was out of the blue, it seems.
There was no preparation.
So I don't know what they're...
You have the thought that they're...
You know, they're softening.
Their body blows.
Yeah, I think we're trying to show dominance once again on the moon.
It's a Trump thing.
Space Force.
You know, although somehow we don't seem to really want to put up the money that is apparently necessary.
We lost the technology.
We lost all the tapes.
We lost all the telemetry.
But we're going to go back.
First woman on the moon, 2024.
I don't know.
And then this stuff starts coming out.
To me, that is...
No.
Well, let's wrap with going back to politics, which is more entertaining.
At least to me.
Yeah, if it has anything to do with 2020 Mueller or Trump, no.
But okay, what do you got?
I don't have anything.
Mueller, no.
But I got my other fave.
Or fav.
The Nadster.
The Nadster.
The Nadster comes on and makes some comments.
We go to Pelosi.
There's something about this clip I wanted to play.
Jerry Nadler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said Mueller clearly did not exonerate President Trump on obstruction, and he vowed to continue his committee's investigation.
With respect to impeachment question, at this point all options are on the table and nothing should be ruled out.
Trump is lying when he says no collusion, no obstruction, and that he was exonerated.
If Mueller wanted to exonerate the president from having committed a crime, he would have said so.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi also said that Democrats will continue to investigate, but she again stopped short of calling for impeachment.
Everybody wants justice.
Everybody wants the president to be held accountable in the most serious way.
And everybody believes, I'm talking on the Democratic side, that no one is above the law, especially the president of the United States.
Do you remember why you wanted that clip played?
There was a reason, and I've seen it.
I've been lost to history.
Well, this clip proves, proves exactly what I was saying.
There are aliens among us.
Okay.
Nadler's one of them.
Well, Nadler could be.
You know that thing he was doing where he was like having cancer and all the rest?
It was because he had to shed his skin.
Yes.
Go look at Men in Black.
Go look at Men in Black.
It was constricting him and he couldn't breathe and so they got him out of there and then he shed his skin and he's fine now.
You're nailing it.
Now you're nailing it.
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Adios, mofos and such.
We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other thing, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that challenge is one that we're but because they are hard, because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend Thank you.
From Dallas, Texas, the flash, apparently official, President Kennedy died at 1 p.m.
Central Standard Time.
The End
The End He kept shit, talking bullshit.
He said the tank wasn't ready for nobody listening.
The next thing you know, he's gone.
On the Loon, the man does.
Gus hangs a little bit and he burns to a crisp on the orders from Nixon.
He's the best astronaut, but never gets mentioned.
Thanks a lot for wrong.
If only we could have gone.
Ooh, ooh, ooh.
If only we could have gone.
Ooh, ooh, ooh.
If only we could have gone.
The electric grown moon in 1969.
The currency is going to be here.
So what we think of moon landing?
I'm sure we could fake Ruth Bader Ginsburg going to work.
I'm speaking out today because our investigation is complete.
The Attorney General has made the report on our investigation largely public.
We are formally closing the special counsel's office.
Happy trails to you.
And as well, I'm resigning from the Department of Justice to return to private life.
Happy trails to you.
I'm speaking out today because our investigation is largely public.
Take this job and shove it.
I ain't working here no more.
And as well, I'm resigning from the Department of Justice to return to private life.
I'll make a few remarks about the results of our work.
As alleged by the grand jury in an indictment, Russian intelligence officers, who were part of the Russian military, launched a concerted attack on our political system.
The indictment alleges that they used sophisticated cyber techniques, a private Russian entity engaged in a social media operation where Russian citizens posed as Americans.
And as well, I'm resigning.
I'm from the Department of Justice to return to private life.
And as well, I'm resigning.
I'm from the Department of Justice to return to private life.