 and says, you can't stop science. You can't stop science. No way, no how. You can't beat science. Welcome everyone to progressive discussions. This happens to be the official All Hallows Eve Day of the Dead countdown 2017. And we only have one unseasonably warm day. It's not today. Tomorrow it's supposed to be 80 degrees Fahrenheit and after that it's straight through typical seasonable October weather, my favorite month. Okay, seven lucky bells for this week's progressive discussions. Discuss politically on our show. It's part of our series, Crappitalism in the conk show. There's the conk soaking that conk energy. Yes, King Neptune, we never run out of material. If you are a true progressive warrior, you never run out of material. Especially with, I don't know what to say. I don't know if he has partial dementia or if he's just downright sane, stupid, or all three of them, or ego maniacal of course. Corruption perhaps. He's a Republican. Yeah, I know the Trump administration, yeah. Yeah, they're like, well they don't believe in progress. It's like the old popes during the Middle Asians. They're anti-science, anti-progress. But they're pro-money. Yeah, where's me gold? Yeah, I know, the Leprechaun movies. Yeah, they were funny. Leprechaun in the hood was a bit ridiculous. Leprechaun in outer space was also dumb. Yeah. But you know, they just kept on making more, you know, worse than the Rocky sequels actually. Hey, there's another one coming up, Creed. No, that's been out. No, it's coming up again. Wait, this is Apollo's kid, right? I don't know no more about it. That's all I know. It's got to be Apollo's kid that grew up. I think semester stone is directing. All right, I'll talk to you later. Of course he's directing. You know, I don't think he might not even be in it, you know, but I believe it's called Creed. Well, he could be in it to help train the kid. Well, that's possible. It's the least he can do. But I think Paulie's still alive. Hey, Paulie. He's gone. He's gone. He's dead? No. Burge is narrative? No, Paulie, Adrian's brother. Oh, that guy. The guy that was a little, he hit the bottle a little too often. Hey, Paulie. Paulie doesn't have a telephone. Hey, Paulie. He used to open the window. Yeah. No, I know about Burgess. Anyway, that's, that's all I know. Nick Burgess. Burgess Meredith. I mean, that's a real actor. That's a real versatile actor. Burgess Meredith. Burgess Heal. God bless his soul. Anyway, the last of the Doseki's and Bar, I have made the decision that there is no Mexican beer strong enough for James P. Madonna. I'm going to, I'm going to have to go back to the Yenling Porter or the Zouek Polish Porter and Stouts and Red Irish Ales and all the, you know, all the craft beers, all the American craft beers, which happened to be more potent than, than most of the European beers and with the exception of Newcastle Brown Ale, which isn't bad. It's still weak. I'm sorry, Europe. I'm sorry, Asia. I'm sorry, Mexico. But I mean, I'm not a flag waiver by any stretch of the imagination, but American craft beers are number one when it comes to full-bodied, rich, robust flavor. But you know what? It's not a bad beer. Doseki's and Bar is not bad. Let me have, let me wet my whistle. Wet my beak. You know, I was watching, I always watch many science documentaries on a science channel and other channels. Isn't it interesting that, not that, not necessarily, not necessarily that birds are the closest descendants of dinosaurs, but birds hatch from eggs and they're warm-blooded. That's what amazes me. They hatch from eggs, like a primitive creature that is generally cold-blooded. They're warm-blooded. Anyway, I salute my near, dear, very close friend Natalia from San Diego, California is visiting me for six days this Monday. Wow. Yes. I will have her for six days. Very happy about it. The last time I spoke to her, so was she. Reuniting. Okay. I want to start off by bashing Newark Liberty Airport. Oh boy. This is what happens. All right. I'm having a professional driver, limo drivers that are reasonably priced ones that myself and my sister and brother-in-law have been using for years. They're very reliable, very nice guys. I'm reasonable. They'll pick you up in a new black Lincoln with black leather seats and tinted out windows. It's not a cheap-ass yellow taxi cab. The reason why I'm doing this is because Newark Liberty Airport, not departure, but arrival, is worse than a zoo during feeding time. It is an absolute insane asylum. They allow, now, granted, if you're just a regular pedestrian, I mean a regular person, civilian, that's driving there, that has to take a thousand and one fucking exits just to get there off I-95 South in New Jersey Turnpike. Okay. They won't let you, like, you can't, if you don't see the person that you're picking up. You can't stop. You gotta go around again and around again until you see the person. But these fucking, these commercial drivers, I don't know if they have appointments to pick people up or not, but they're all blowing their horn at the same time trying to fight their way in to get close to the curb. They're parked this way diagonally, double park. It's the diagonal part that got me upset. They're all competing with each other to get customers. Oh, it's okay for these commercial drivers that have no bonafide appointments to do that, right? But it's not okay for regular people to do that. Um, I guess, you know, I guess anything goes under a Republican administration when it comes to the private sector. They're all blowing their friggin horns left and right. It's a nerve-wracking insane asylum. And I did not see this at all at San Diego Airport. It's very calm and laid back there. Very peaceful, very well-mannered, very, it wasn't hectic. There was no chaos. But in Newark there was chaos. Now, I hear the same thing sort of happens at JFK Airport in New York City. Why are they allowed to do this if they don't have bonafide appointments? Like, why is every time Dick and Harry are allowed to just shove their commercial vehicles in there? And why are they blowing the horns? It's like they're saying, pick me, pick me, pick me, pick me. First of all, if you don't have an appointment blowing the horns like that, I thought it was called noise pollution. I thought there was a law about that, even in New York City. You know, remember the old days in the 70s when you couldn't even see the New York City skyline because the pollution was so bad and you went and everything would beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, all these asshole taxi cab drivers blowing their friggin horns. You know, it's noise pollution. So this is why I have a driver picking her up and taking her there because I'm telling you, I got no tolerance for this bullshit. Well, what are the police really picking up over there? Well, if they're all blowing the horn left and right, there's a really good chance that they don't have appointments. And they're not supposed to stop there? No, they are stopped. They're stopping. But they're not supposed to? They're parking diagonally trying to shove the grill of their vehicle against the curb, double parked, diagonally parked, blowing the horn, which means they do not have booked appointments to pick somebody up, which means they are coming in and trying to fight with other drivers to get people. They're only supposed to drop you off. Well, that's... Same thing with the day. That's departure. Same thing with the pickup. Now, arrival, only commercial vehicles that have booked appointments should be allowed to go against the curb, not diagonally, but against the curb. And everyone else who's not a professional driver, they come by normally. They look and see if the person's there. If the person's there, they stop. They put the suitcase in the car and they go on their merry way. If the person's not there, they drive around a second time or a third time. Usually people know how to time it. You know, like, if you get off the plane and you're going towards, I think, what they call a carousel where the luggage comes out of the plane and it goes around and around and around, you see your luggage, you grab it. Now you're right there. There's the exit. Okay? So you try to time it. But you don't, like, fight for customers, blowing your friggin' horn left and right, causing chaos. So, shame on you. Chisels Hall is shame. Newark Liberty Airport. I don't know who is in charge of Newark Liberty Airport that allows such chaos. I really don't. There's not supposed to be any parking at all. Pick up and delivery. No parking. That's it. You see the person, you pick them up, you go. You don't see the person, or you drop them off, you say, and they go inside. Well, they have to check their luggage outside. Then, if not, you go around again. Maybe you call them on your phone. Hey, I'm here. Are you there? You go around until you pick them up. You don't loiter with your vehicle and blow the horn. You don't do that. Okay, now, my second, the second half, which is really, there's nothing else, the second half of my little monologue is do not under any circumstances. And I just watched the YouTube video coming from legitimate news media. Do not under any circumstances. Do not under any circumstances. Download on the new Facebook Messenger app, because once you do that, your big nose Zionist motherfucker, Mark Zuckerberg, or maybe the powers that be that pull his puppet strings, they can spy, and they will spy, on everything you do with your smartphone, even if it's private texting conversations, email, your camera, everything, everything you do will be spied upon, and you're not told that this is going to happen. It's against your authorization or your will, so to speak. All right, that's why I give the middle finger every time I'm in front of a monitor of any kind, because if you're spying on me, go fuck yourself. Fascism, yes, yes, you're not told you're being spied upon. This would really, you know, I should put this on Jesse Ventura's page, because he would really be upset. He's really against being spied upon without his authorization. So is, I don't think Dr. Ron Paul is too fond of that either. But anyway, yeah, don't download on it. It's amazing how they withhold information from the people, and they just do things. What app is that again? I just said the Facebook Messenger app. It's like a blue, the logo's like a blue arrow of some kind. Facebook Messenger. Facebook, yeah, you know, Big Nose, Zionist, Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook Messenger app. When app, I guess, means for phones. Application for anything. Could you download an app on a laptop or a tablet? Not the same. It's different. No, you download. The phone is touch. You download software on a regular desktop. But the ones for the phone are touch. Touch screen apps. Well, you might as well say the same thing about a tablet. It's touch screen. Some tablets are and some Windows 10 are. You don't need to have touch. I kind of like the old fashioned buttons. I have one. I have a mousey. Yeah, by the way, sometimes my infrared ball free, castrated mouse, mouse functions a little bit. I got to shake it up. I got to smack it around a little bit to get it to work. Maybe it's age, I don't know. Or maybe there's debris on it. Maybe I need to clean it. You know, there's a little red light underneath it. Yeah. Infrared. I'm sure there's one there too. I forgot to check the stopwatch. Good thing I... 16 minutes. Good thing I bet my neck over that way. So that's it. Oh, by the way, on my Android, which I'm not happy about, sometimes I get forced downloads of software that I do not authorize to download. They just do it. And there's no button that says cancel by the way. There's no cancel button. Are they from Windows or the operating system? The operating system that by default comes with the Android. I know, but updates. UMX. No, they weren't even updates. They were just applications. Just apps. You're supposed to have a cancel button if somebody tries to force a download on you. It's really nice that you have the option of saying no. That would be nice. That would be a nice thing. Yeah. But nevertheless, tis the season. So let us sink our teeth into these readings. Maybe we can bang out one or two before we have to pause after the 29 minute countdown. Don't ask me why it's 29 minutes and 50 seconds. Ask the Sony Corporation. If it was up to me, unless I find out differently, I'd rather just film straight through. Go ahead. Millions of Social Security recipients and other retirees. I'm going to get fucked. Get a 2% increase in benefits next year. Oh, wow. A whopping 2%. Don't spend it all in one place. The largest increase since 2012. It should be more than 2%. Well, no kidding. It's long overdue. Though it comes to only $25 a month. Big fucking deal. For the average beneficiary. It's like your uncle giving you two bucks as a kid. Hey, kid, go buy yourself something. Yeah, like Andy Griffin and Opie. Give him a nickel. For emptying out the waste paper basket. Speaking of kids getting money, the funniest thing was the Dennis the Menace episode where Mr. Wilson worked in a bank and Mr. Wilson gave him a lecture about saving you money and Dennis the Menace brings to the bank like a handful of change and wants to put it in a bank account. And he's calling. He comes every day to see if his money has grown. Every day he's bothering Mr. Wilson. Holy shit. You know, I just thought that was real funny. It was cute, but I thought it was funny. Well, like I knew it was funny. If he put it in today, it wouldn't be growing. The interest sucks. That's right. Now, maybe with the popularity of the federal credit unions and some savings and loans. Yeah, they do offer better rates. Federal credit unions. And there's a couple commercials on TV now. Yeah, yeah. The cost of living adjustments or SCOLA affects benefits for more than 70 million United States recipients, including Social Security recipients disabled veterans and federal retirees. That's about one in five Americans. The Social Security Administration announced the COLA on Friday. By law, the COLA is based on a broad measure of consumer prices generated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Advocates for seniors claim the inflation index does not accurately capture rising prices faced by seniors, especially for healthcare. It doesn't make your life any easier. It's really made it tight, said Barbara Bogart, who retired from a home healthcare company. You have to be so careful to make it each month. Bogart, 75 years old, lives near Indianapolis. Said she gets less than $1,000 a month from Social Security, her only source of income. They probably wouldn't give her food stamps with that much. New Jersey, forget it. New Jersey, if you pay room and board and you don't pay for utilities, they chop your food stamps down to nothing. But Chris Christie, who passed that law recently, sure is not missing any meals, obviously. I have all the normal costs that people have. I have groceries, gas for my car. I have to be cautious. Some conservatives argue that the inflation index is too generous. They don't want you to have anything. They want you to be a slave or die. Because when prices go up, people change their buying habits and buy cheaper alternatives. Too generous? What about all the free billions in tax money that they give away to their rich buddies every year? Okay, isn't that being too generous Republican Party? Yeah. Do as I say, not as I do. The sum of prices went up only slightly in the past year, despite a recent spike in gasoline prices after a series of hurricanes. Slowed oil production into Gulf Coast, said Max Gulker, senior research fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research. Doesn't anybody just tell off these conservatives when they blurt out idiotic statements? Isn't there anyone with balls in any form of American media? For the most part, there was a decline in energy prices for a lot of the year. But at the end of the year, we saw that uptick in gas from the hurricanes. The average monthly Social Security payment is... $1258. Big fucking deal. Or about $15,000 a year. Big fucking deal. Compare that to all the perks that these do nothing congressmen get. Congress enacted automatic annual increases for Social Security in 1975. Presidents often get blamed when increases are small or zero, but Donald Trump has no power to boost the increase unless he persuades Congress to change the law. In 2009, Barack Obama persuaded Congress to approve a one-time payment of $250 to Social Security recipients as part of an economic stimulus package. Over the past eight years, the annual COLA has averaged just about 1%. In the previous decade, it averaged 3%. Multiple years of small or no COLA reduces the income of the retirees for the rest of their lives. That's what said Mary Johnson of the Senior Citizens League. Spend it all in one place, suckers. By the way, this November 2018, make sure everyone makes it their business to vote. Because if you don't vote, don't complain. And democratic socialism is great. Capitalism sucks. It is proven with statistics and scientific fact to suck because Northern Europe is just doing fine in Dandy for many decades. Overall. And they can afford health insurance and they don't have the infant mortality rate that America has. Your life is better. If you're on the take, let's say you're filthy rich and you don't have enough money, and you're a politician, and you're on the take, then it's easy to turn around and say to Bernie Sanders, hey, you want to give away ponies. You want to give away ponies. What about the ponies that the top 2% of the wealthiest get? Ponies, they get Clydesdale. They get Arabian horses. They get thoroughbred race horses. They get the whole friggin' ranch. They get the whole ranch. Heaven forbid the little schmuck gets a pony. Or a screwy, waskily, widow-gway rabbit. Heaven forbid. America's weight problem isn't getting any better. Overall, obesity, you'll figure, stayed about the same. About 40% of adults and 18.5% of children are obese. That's an addiction to refined carbohydrates. As simple as that. And the American food industry with the USDA and FDA, they're all in cahoots. It's an addiction. So it's like a drug dealer. Those numbers are a slight increase from the last report. But the difference is so small that it could have occurred by chance. You better put your knuckle over where you're reading. Worries to experts is the rate for children and teenagers, which had hovered around 17% for a decade. The two-to-five age group had the biggest rise. The years ahead will show whether that's a statistical blip or marks the start of a real trend. The bad news is that numbers did not go down. In recent years, state and national health officials have focused on obesity in kids who were the target of the National Let's Move campaign launched by former First Lady Michelle Obama. The report released on Friday covers 2015, 2015, and 2016. Oh, by the way, a working First Lady. The new figures are from a manual government survey with about 5,000 participants. Obesity means not merely overweight but seriously overweight as determined by a calculation called the Body Mass Index. More details from the report. The 40% rate for adults is statistically about the same as the nearly 38% in 2013 and 2014. Obesity rate for the age group is 41% for men and 45% for women, between 40 and 50. Oh, are you done? Yep. Good, we have to pause. We'll be right back. How about that? Good googly go, man. Okay. Okay. We're back. All right, continue. Yo. Oh, that would help, right? Yes. Continue. Thank you for remaining. As we rid our landscape of Confederate heroes, we are already embarked on a campaign to dethrone another tainted historical figure, Christopherl Combo. Oh, that's come back. He was the one who told his shipmates, gee, these Native people are very friendly and generous. They would make excellent servants for us. Nice guy. Recently in New York, two statues of him have been vandalized. No, I think Columbus is now becoming a Native American or Indigenous Peoples' Day. As we observe, did Columbus Day on Monday? I salute you. A national holiday? Indigenous Peoples' Day. That for most of us is just an excuse to take a three-day weekend. Some cities have used the occasion to officially rename it Indigenous Peoples' Day. And I salute you again. And why not have a shorter work week as long as you don't take a cut and pay? Americans are overworked. Not enough leisure time. At least Europeans have leisure time. In atonement for the many wrongs inflicted upon Native Americans. Hey, I see nothing wrong with taking a bill, I mean bill meaning money, put a picture of taking one of those slave-owning, plantation slave owners off, put Chief Sitting Bull, who I think is a hero, I believe is a hero, puts Chief Sitting Bull on there, take another bill, put Harriet Tubman on that. So now you have a woman and a woman of color who did a hell of a lot fighting slavery. So what? Do it. Hey, put the buffalo back on the nickel. Do it. The bison. It's a symbol of America. That's right, there are no buffaloes. They're bison, bison, bison. They're a symbol of America. Put the Indian head back on. Well, they should discontinue pennies. Now at least put, listen, take a nickel, put the bison on that. Take a quarter, put another Native American on that or something. George Washington's on the dollar. How many more places do you want to put George Washington's mug? You know what I mean? Shelly Bean, go ahead. Perhaps this is also an opportunity to ask ourselves how the removal or destruction of statues that few people ever notice benefits the African Americans and Native Americans who are disproportionately poor, sick, and lacking in opportunity. Progressive delight in dealing out symbols, pressuring high school sports teams to drop mascots that are deemed offensive. Well, that's petty. How do you take a professional sports team that perhaps could be like 80 years old and all of a sudden dump the logo off the helmet? Or maybe change the name? It's petty, it's really. Look, those fans that buy tickets to go see the game, they're not thinking racist thoughts. They're thinking about their home team winning the game. So it can get out of hand. Like the Cleveland Indians. I like that smiling Indian head with the feather. He's got a big smile with teeth and everything. It's cute. These symbolic changes are an easy way to compensate people for centuries of mistreatment. And they might make us feel momentarily virtuous when a plague comes down or a street sign is changed, but the exhilaration of race can degenerate into ordinary vandalism. Why don't you just give these people equal rights? And if they're poor, take care for the poor and tax the rich and do the right thing. The action is more important. As is the case of the recently beheaded statue of the Confederate soldier in Columbus, Ohio. Now these people are still fighting the Civil War. Ohio? Oh, not in Ohio. What the hell is it doing up there in the first one? What is it doing in Ohio? You know what? Slaves used to cross what's that river separating Kentucky from Ohio? The Ohio River. Slaves used to... They had a hard time doing it, but that was one of the escape routes. Once you go across the Ohio River into Ohio, they can't come after you and bring you back to the plantation. You were free. It's time to ask ourselves whether we have gone too far with this iconoclasmum and accomplished too little. One paradoxical result of this effort to exercise the demons of the past could be only to anger people who may have some vague tie to these symbols, but probably didn't spend a lot of time or emotion venerating them until someone came along and branded them as racist. You just end racism and you take care of the poor. That's the best thing you can do for indigenous people and for black people, people of color. That simple as that. And of course you don't behave in a racist manner to immigrants of color either, like the Trump administration is doing. Perhaps their resistance to change might simply have come from the fact that they just liked their town square the way it was. People will fiercely defend even something that they never especially valued if you threatened to take it away. Five decades ago, Daniel Patrick Monaghan caught hell for suggesting that the issue of race in America had become so contentious that it might benefit from what he referred to as benign neglect. Perhaps he meant that there may be a limit to how much force-feeding of racial awareness people can absorb before they begin to resent it. When I listen to the endless racial consciousness raising on national news media, I wonder how many people like me just tune out the moral indoctrination as it leaves us feeling powerless in the face of monumental wrongs that seem never to be addressed. The record of white America is full of sins for which we could atone. I just wanted to see it. Yeah, I'm looking. But at some point remorse mutates in self-flagulation. Self-flagulation. One thing is sure the effort to obliterate every trace of the ignoble chapters of our history will do little for those who suffer the most. Except fleeting satisfaction that will inevitably give away to the enormity of the struggle that they must wage every day. As for those Americans who have seen those symbols removed, we should not expect deeper racial sensitivity. I wonder if that will happen with the conservatives down in Texas where they edit and censor textbooks. Yeah, also the southern conservatives they love to have them extra voter IDs, too. Oh, yeah. So the po-folk don't bother to go vote. There you go, yeah. And therefore the Democrats don't get elected. That's it. Oh, by the way, people, if you're wondering about these two characters, they're kind of part of Old Man Leonard Nimoy Spock. This is, of course, the Gorn, the captain of the Gorn ship. And this is the, I don't know what it is, but it's a monster from the old Star Trek series. I'm sure if you're a Star Trek fan, you'd recognize it. It's got a fin on his back and a tail and a horn on top of the head. A snow monster. Yeah. There's snow in that episode. I forgot the couple from the day of the dead. I forgot. I'm going to have to definitely remember next week, next Sunday. That'll be our special Halloween Day of the Dead 2017 show, I think. No, next week? No. Next Sunday is the 27 27. No, it's the 23, 22, 21. Next Saturday or next Sunday? Sunday is 21, 20 is Saturday. The 16th is Monday. Today is the 14th. Yesterday was the 13th. You might be right. Friday the 13th. Yeah, and it definitely was and felt like a Friday the 13th for me. Yeah, it did. How are we doing on time? All right, let's go. Plenty of time. Yes, but we do have to recharge after the second video. Boney Maroney. I have to recharge too. Yeah, we should actually go to lunch, even if it's a little before three. All right, go ahead. When it comes to toxic foods for pets. Oh, gosh. Most people know the common offenders such as chocolate and onions. Don't give chocolate to a dog. Onions are toxic to many animals. And they're so medicinal to humans. The Allium family Alliup. But several newer toxins have surface that many pet owners don't know about yet. Many people give fresh fruit to their pets. Is the pet in iguana if the pet's not a vegan? You don't give fresh fruit to the pet. I saw swimming iguanas today. I was looking at a very cute baby blue iguanas. They're hybrids. There are red iguanas, blue iguanas, as well as green. I believe they were in the Galapagos. But when they were all out sunning on the beach in the rocks, they all looked like statues. Are you talking about the charcoal gray or black? You're talking about the marina iguanas that hold their breath and graze on seaweed and algae. No, those are marina iguanas. They snort the salt out. Well, all lizards do that. They expel, they perspire through their schnozzola. They don't sweat. In fighting each other. Well, lizards that are communal, that are not solitary, like an African chameleon, they're all solitary. They don't want to know. Even a mother doesn't want to know what's baby's wisdom hatch. Goodbye, get away from me or else. But communal lizards, like bearded dragons, iguanas, they have an alpha male and an alpha female. For real, you know. Many people give fresh fruits to their pets as a treat. And while most fruits are considered safe for dogs and cats, the one major exception is grapes and raisins. Well, naturally raisins be in dehydrated grapes. Atoxin in the skin of grapes and raisins can cause serious damage to the kidneys. Now, you see why it's important to talk about pet health as well as holistic human health because I bet a lot of people are unaware of this. I bet a lot of people are unaware of chocolate being toxic to dogs. I'm learning now about grapes. Listen, if you have a carnivorous animal you feed it properly. If you give it top-of-the-line food like if you have a cat, let's say, and you give it, let's say, blue buffalo or a nova or a Paul Newman's brand, and you know, you give it a good top-of-the-line company, I'm telling you, you don't even have to give them vitamin supplements. You don't have to give them supplements at all. That's how good this food is, you know, and and as far as exotic pets go, black soldier fly larva are naturally very high in calcium. No need for supplements. Go ahead. Not all pets become immediately ill from grapes and raisins. But the small number that do can have serious health issues. The other more recent toxicity is to sugar-free gums that contain the sweetener xylitol. Yeah, we're next. Xylitol. This sugar substitute is completely harmless to humans. Well, I don't know about that. But can be potentially very dangerous in dogs and cats. I wonder if stevia is safe to give pets, because I use natural stevia. Small amounts of the toxin can cause a life-affreting drop in blood sugar. This is valuable news, this is valuable consumer advocate news coming from progressive discussions. And a large amount can significantly deliver. Wow. The blood sugar can change dramatically in as little as 30 minutes after ingestion. This toxic reaction usually requires admission to the hospital for treatment and serial blood sugar and liver function monitoring. There are dozens of other common household toxins that can affect our four-legged family members such as household cleaners, paint, glue, house plants, insecticides, rodenticides, and of course human medications. Pagan Christmas is around the corner and I just want to say that the plant called poinsettia is very toxic to pets, to animals. Very toxic. Probably even toxic to humans if a child eats one of the leaves. And of course, human medications I said that. If there is ever a question as to whether a substance is toxic, there are two great resources that all pet owners should take advantage of. One is the ASPCA website. The other is the ASPCA animal poison control number 1-8-8-8 4-2-6 4-4- 3-5 This hotline is staffed by veterinarians and their database for medications, plants, and just about everything that is indigestible is exhaustive and thorough. There is a charge for the call. Charge. But the information might just save your pet's life. Charge my ass. I'll give you my chalet and you're ready for us to scull. Alright, we got time for one. The National Rifle Association Yeah, they confuse me quite often. Said on Sunday that it opposes any legislation to ban the use of bump stocks. Oh really? So why does a regular Joe 6 bag need to have a bump stock or an automatic military firearm? Gee, I won. On semi-automatic weapons even as it has said some regulation might be necessary. Yeah sure, some regulation. That means nothing. On Sunday morning talk was the gun lobbying group said the Trump administration not Congress should take action on the devices. Under the Obama administration the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms permitted the sale of the devices in 2010. Really? Somebody got paid off. But stocks have taken center stage in the gun control debate after the Las Vegas shooter apparently used them to convert semi-automatic rifles into fully automatic weapons mimicking machine guns. Hey, can the family of victims sue the NRA also? No, unfortunately. Just as they cannot sue the maker of the gun. No, that's why you need regulations and laws. No, you don't go after the maker of the gun. Unless, you know, unless a car is recalled that has a defect. That means the Second Amendment is much of greater value than the First Amendment. Yeah, but when the Second Amendment was created people had muskets. They had a little lead ball inside of a musket a flit lock with a black powder flit lock and obviously one bullet. I mean one ball. A lot of them left their musket at their armory. I don't have a problem with people having a musket in the house. You never know when you might need it and a lot of these people hunted. Don't forget they lived on, you know, their own land. Whether they had a log cabin or a family-owned farm, you know, a lot of them hunted. The Appalachian people hunt all the time. Yeah. So the musket is not a problem. It's this automatic weapons that's the problem. Because they're only made for one thing. They're not made for bringing down a deer. They're not made for bringing down an elephant. They're made for bringing down a human being. As many as possible. At one time. At one clip. That can shoot a hundred at a time. The clip. Some stocks have taken center stage in the gun control debate after the Las Vegas shooter apparently used them to convert semi-automatic rifles into fully automatic weapons. It's illegal to convert a semi-automatic to a fully automatic. The ATF ought to look at this, do its job, draw bright lines. Oh, it is illegal? But it's obviously permissible. It's happening. If you can sell it, then how can you stop anybody from using it? Illegally. It's illegal, but you can sell it. Oh, gee, that makes a lot of sense. There you go. NRA Executive Vice President Wayne Lapia said allow a Congress to take action. Risk turning the bill into some kind of Christmas tree. To advance other gun control measures that could affect both semi-automatic and automatic weapons. If you fuzz the line, they're all at risk. And we're not going to let that happen, he said. But Senator Dianne Feinstein of California, Democrat said Congress needs to close the loophole. There's too many loopholes in general, period. But try to get a Republican-controlled Congress to close loopholes. Well, we're going to see a nice picture of that with Donald Trump's new taxes. Okay, we're going to see all those loopholes. Oh, the new taxes. Oh, by the way, I hope you people enjoy the rather comical banner of a Jack O'Lantern car to look exactly like Donald Trump. It says whatever, I promise to make Halloween great again, something like that. Yeah, but the Jack O'Lantern is done by an artisan. An artisan. It looks just like Trump. The hair, the snarly you know, when Trump raises his voice and shouts the face. And Feinstein introduced a two-page bill last week that would ban bump stocks. Trigger cranks for similar devices within six months with an exception for government or military use. Regulations aren't going to do it. We need a law. It can't be changed by another president, right? Now, we're seeing one president change actions of a president that came before him. And that would happen in this area. And I hope that Americans will step up and say, enough is enough, Congress do something. Yeah, right. Do something. They didn't do anything for eight years. Obama was in office. She said she has 38 cosponsors on it, such a bill. But all are Democrats. You know, every time positive things are done you always have to have all these victims before something's done. You know what I mean? It's like... She said House Speaker Paul Ryan said last week that bump stocks are something we need to look into. Oh, really? It's to look into. It's not up for debate. Regular folks should not have automatic weapons. It needs to look into it. But conservatives in his conference are already saying they are opposed to the legislation. We've got to vote those motherfuckers out in November 2018 from Italian. Representative Steve Scalise himself, wounded by gunfire at a June 14 congressional baseball practice told NBC's Meet the Press he also opposes any congressional action on the devices. What a stupid motherfucker. Because he's getting his palm greased. It has to be. Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi already said she wants it to be a slippery slope. She doesn't want to stop at bump stocks. They want to go out and limit the rights of gun owners. Well, for the type of gun. For the type of gun, yes. Not guns, period. I would love to own a Winchester or a Henry rifle to be honest with you. Are you okay? Are you croaking on me? I'm fine. The White House hasn't said where it comes down on the issue. Okay, good. You finished it. Now we're going to take our lunch break. You will be joined by House with the Feeder Conservative Bible Versus and Promo. And then we'll be back with the balance of the show. Feel free to hit the pause button. I can't get my foot in there, brother. Feel free to hit the pause button and learn. Hit the pause button and learn. Greetings. This is James P. Madonna of Megalife 21 Hard Hitting Podcasts, Holistic Health Talk, and Progressive Discussions. 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That's www.newslettercensored.com We're back. Back from lunch. I hope you learned something with How to Defeat a Conservative Bible Versus. Anyway, I want to apologize to Spanguli or Count Dracula or whatever that I forgot to take him out in the first two segments of progressive discussions. You see him up here? He's in the coffin and his lid is right next to him. Do you see him? Okay. The second Mickey's M-Bar beer. Okay, continue. Donald Trump on Saturday again hinted at military action against Korea, North Korea. Well, Kim Jong-un is always threatening the United States, isn't he? He's trying. He always threatens. His sister is being groomed for political power. Well, yeah, because he killed most of his family. Oh, he had some relatives bummed off? He even bumps off relatives? Absolutely. What a fat bastard. Keeping alive tensions with the isolated nation and distancing himself further from his top aides who favored diplomacy. Only one thing will work. Her Jimmy Carr is going to visit meet with Kim. They need to... He's a great negotiator. If they're going to do that, they need to let that basketball player go again. Oh, Dennis Rodman. He likes Rodman. You said he likes Rodman. He likes Rodman. I don't know what connection... I don't know what chemistry they have, but you're right. Yeah. Only one thing will work in dealing with nuclear armed North Korea. Rodman and Jimmy Carter. Shikorya at the same time. Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years. Agreements made and massive amounts of money paid. He said and it was not clear what money he meant. Yeah, the North Korean people never get helped. They live in poverty. The money doesn't trickle down to there, okay? No, with military dictatorships that are a part of fascism, trickle down doesn't apply. Just like with Republicans. Trickle down never works. That approach he wrote in a following up follow up post hasn't worked. Agreements were violated before the ink was dry. Making fools of U.S. negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work. It was the second consecutive weekend in which Trump has taken to Twitter with belligerent messages that contradict his top military and diplomatic advisers. So North Korea is not willing to compromise. That's what you're trying to say. Obviously not. Because presidents in the past have paid them a ransom to stop what they were doing. I'm sure it was Clinton but he hasn't stopped. He just kept going. Let me tell you something brother. Bulldog, General Bulldog Maddox whatever the hell his name is and the United Nations they have it all planned out. Kim is just going to get obliterated if he doesn't watch this step. In every way, shape and form. Last weekend Trump wrote to his Secretary of State Rex Dillerson saying that he was wasting his time. They're supposed to have an IQ test to get supposed to debate. They're calling each other out to listen to Trump. By trying to talk to the government of North Korea, dictator Kim Jong-un to find a peaceful solution to what has become a potential nuclear standoff. The President's postings a week earlier just a day after Dillerson in China said the United States had established direct contacts with North Korea to probe its willingness to negotiate. We were widely seen as a humiliation of Dillerson and not the first. Dillerson subsequently denied that he has threatened to resign. The dispute between Trump and Dillerson over North Korea, among other issues has severely strained relations within the cabinet. North Korea has conducted itself a dozen nuclear deaths and Kim has threatened U.S. allies like Japan as well as U.S. Doesn't Japan have a military yet? Well, they do now. They need to. Well, yeah, but the United States and Britain just as it did with Germany forbad them from having military after World War II. Yeah, doesn't Merkel have a full-blown military in Germany? Now they do. Because I believe that Germany and Japan have higher technology than probably most of the world. But they always do. Well, the German army now is growing and is sticking its nose into a lot of things around the world. Army, I'm talking about this. We are teaching them at Alamoguardo Air Force Base in... I think it's Arizona, isn't it? Germany, Germany and Japan doesn't need no frickin' United States to train them. And they don't need to buy American frickin' planes. They got, believe me, they got high technology. They got enough technology to have their own space program and space stations. But they don't need U.S. help. We did not want them getting into starting World War III. So I wouldn't worry about it. But now we're allowing them because you have you know, you've got Putin sending the military to the European, the border, right? By Poland. Not by Poland, I mean by Poland. And then you have Japan that has to deal with North Korea firing missiles over their airspace. I mean, we need them. We need them to be more self-reliant. Well, the problem is that there are some who say that the Germans are working with the United States but against the United States. Well, Merkel's not crazy about that. For World War III again. I'm telling you right now. They have figured out that they it was difficult to get by military action. So they came up with the European Union to conquer Europe. I'm telling you right now, NATO and United Nations I'm willing to bet everything I have that they are not fond of Donald Trump. And Merkel is no fan of the Trump administration. They've never been fond of many of our American presidents because we do not allow the United Nations to do what it is supposed to do. In the old days when there was a flare up somewhere around the world it was the United Nations who went in there to quell it. Well now you have occupation by American bases, U.S. bases. You have poppies member of the Wizard of Oz poppies. You have poppy fields with the Taliban being opium drug lords in Afghanistan. How long has the U.S. been in Afghanistan now? 16 years? Yes, something like that. Poppies. Voice technology is amazing. Excuse me. You can ask your phone a question. Yeah, I tried. It doesn't understand my English. Siri. I tried speaking slowly. Does that app cost money? You know I like to take my phone and smash it to smithereens verbally. The King's English. Do you understand me phone? And it keeps on getting words wrong. I'm serious. Even Cortana fucks up on Windows 10. I talk slow. The King's English. What do you want from me, man? And even a book on Uber. Within a right setup you can verbally lock the doors in your house, dim the lights and change the thermostat. I think the programmers have a dim light in their brain that came up with these programs. Virtual assistants are handy but they're always listening. As more manufacturers and developers jump onto the audio tracking bad way. You might wonder how much your devices are starting. And what happens to the audio files they gather? You think it's like when Captain Kirk used to speak to his computer on the bridge that understand every freaking word he said? No, it's not like that yet. And that was Majel Barrett Gene Roddenberry's wife who spoke to the computer. Really? Oh, you had to give her a job. Oh, sure. Nepotism. Nepotism. Worst of all are... Cheap labor is what it is. They're on a budget. That use ultrasonic data to profile you. You don't hear the tones but your device does. Some regular apps are designed to spy and report back recordings. Not really. Creeps out? What were we talking about at the beginning of the show about spying? What kind of people are? Lots of consumers don't trust their virtual assistants and wonder how to switch them off. If you're worried about the privacy risks of your smart phones always on microphone here are the tips to turn it off. Sometimes it's just like accidentally just engages. But it never understands me. You know, I don't use slang at all. When you put the Facebook app on your phone it requests access to your microphone. Requests... Some of them request access to all your contacts. I don't want them bugging all the people I know so they can come back and complain and say, hey, what's the big idea? Why? Within the most boring professional profile I've ever seen in my life Facebook needs to record your voice when you shoot live video. But some people are wary of this. Does the app only record you when you're on camera? Which is often bad quality video incidentally. Or when you go live on Facebook. Is Facebook listening through your microphone? Here, let me do the proboscis the eagle beak. Mark Zuckerberg. Let me tell you something. There's nothing that the eagle beak the people the tribe that have eagle beaks would not do to make a fast buck. Look at the guy in Hollywood with the pedophile scandal. What's his name? Weinstein. Harvey. Harvey Weinstein. Facebook denies these claims and there is no solid evidence to support this fear. But you can sever the tie between the app and your microphone. Many people have no use for this access anyway. So there's nothing to lose by switching it off. If you are an iPhone user which I am very impressed with this performance by the way go to settings Facebook settings again slide the microphone switch to the left so it turns from green to white that turns it off. I try to explain to somebody about how to work how to alter settings you got to be real stupid ass not to understand simple settings right and you click on your settings it's self-explanatory. Yeah if they work. Sometimes you click on something and it doesn't work like it's supposed to. When you go to settings it will be an arrow like for instance when you choose the microphone that you want to use if you want to do let's say a video chat it will ask you your camera you'll see it you'll see the name of the camera you choose the microphone you want the microphone from the computer from the computer jack or do you want to use the microphone on the webcam it gives you that option it's self-explanatory but there are people that are that they're that stupid alternatively you can go to settings privacy microphone look for Facebook and do the same you got to have the plugin like the same with Google Google talk you have to download on the plugins to make them work. Note that you can toggle the microphone on and off for other apps too if you are an android user unfortunately I am an android user well then try settings so I smash it to smithereens with this settings applications application manager look for Facebook permissions turn off the mic the only thing with Facebook live is does it pre-record on your profile when you go live when you decide that your video is over do you have a pre-recorded is the video appearing your album or is it like gone gone well you save it well you should be able to save it save it you should be able to save it yes if you do decide to shoot video later on just return to those settings to establish a connection with your mic you can always switch it off again when you are done well your internet connection also plays a big role in the quality of your video if you have a slow connection on a wifi you are going to get a horrible video and what are you doing is amazon echo always listening Alexa do you want to listen to me go fuck yourself is activated when it detects one of its wake up words which are Alexa Amazon computer it is a wake up word for you it is called black thorn chilele from ireland it is a wake up word for you you will know the device is ready for a command when the outer ring at the top glows blue but until that happens Alexa always has open ears waiting to be addressed oh really and does Alexa understand the king's English when spoken slowly Amazon keeps an audio recording on its servers of every voice command you have issued to her you want to keep track to me here I got something for you I have an itch in the middle of my forehead according to Amazon there is also a fraction of a second of audio before the wake word that is stored along with each recording that fraction of a second gets saved along with your main command and the recording ends after the command has been processed I was surprised when I checked my amazon echo recordings in one recording I was explaining why I wasn't taking a deal on a commercial building that I had up for sale you should take a moment and check your recordings like echo Siri is always attentive even when you've forgotten your iPhone can hear you what about a voice command that actually works that actually understands the English language with iOS 8 Apple introduced the hey Siri wake up phrase so you can summon Siri without even touching your phone so Siri is the name of the Apple voice command is it what a C? Siri or an S? S S-I-R-I it's probably the name of that guy you can see EO's wife or something it's usually some egomaniacal reason why they pick names Apple says that this is processed locally on the device and that it does not start recording your voice or daughter but it even hears hey Siri is this almost over? once your request is recorded it uploads the audio file to Apple's servers for processing but that might still give you the willies and luckily you don't have to disable Siri completely navigate to your iOS devices settings general Siri then toggle allow hey Siri to off Google wants more voice activated tech and the company recently released its latest masterpiece OK Google this serves as Google's new wake phrase calling the attention of Google Assistant Google Home Speakers Android Smartphones and the Chrome browser so the Chrome browser can speak to you too well really well you have to download on the certain app right certain software every time you use OK Google or use another voice control function your request is recorded you know I tried the Chrome browser in the search in the search window and it doesn't hear my words verbatim it sucks sounds like all of them do yeah and I speak slowly like Tarzan would speak no slang I know you slang I use the king's English luckily Google introduced a new my account tool that lets you access your recording and delete them if you want you can also tell Google to stop recording your voice for good on Android go to settings Google search now voice and turn OK Google detection off I got a better idea create voice command program that works that actually works that understands the English language as it is in the dictionary finally there is Cortana Cortana is a retard I have done the same thing the voice activated system from Microsoft that's right Cortana can answer questions do searches set appointments and open applications the wake phrase is hey Cortana open Cortana on your Windows computer select the notebook icon in the right column click on settings then toggle hey Cortana to off oh you mean to get to dummy or up I think I have done that I'm not sure brace yourself because ultrasonic technology is hard to fathom some programmers create apps that can track high frequency sounds humans can't hear them but certain receivers can your smartphone can spy on you using waves you don't even know are there there you go marketers can use the information they collect to tailor their advertisements to you the apps are looking for beacons tiny auditory clues that suggest where you shop and what you like to buy marketers then pair your browser cookies to track a single user's behavior across multiple devices in fact hundreds of android apps are already using ultrasonic sounds to track user behavior these behaviors include physical location and tv viewing habits in response google announced that android apps that use ultrasonic tracking would be banned or suspended developers will have to prove they adhere to google play stores updated privacy policy the new policies require developers to disclose and apps ultrasonic features and ask a user's permission before accessing a gadgets microphone so if you're worried about ultrasonic tracking check the permissions before you install an android was informative for those that care you might want to take it home no no no no because I've gotten super frustrated and aggravated that they were giving me they were acknowledging totally different words than what I was giving them totally different words even though I pronounced them properly and slowly yeah no we don't have time for you no we don't so we're gonna say so long have a safe weekend and upcoming week and we'll see you next Sunday Sunday not Saturday because I will be occupied Domingo Sunday we'll see you now wait a second next Sunday is what I can't see you Saturday 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 20, 21, 22 Natalia is going to be 21 Natalia is going to be departing in the in the early afternoon because she has to be at the airport I'm thinking it had something to do with Halloween no no Halloweeny we've got time because she's going to be here yeah yeah well she's going to be departing she has to be at the airport I don't know what is it one or two hours earlier because of security purposes okay alright we're doing good