 It's got it. Hey, uh, you guys. Oh, sorry. Yeah. Yeah. There's some work right there. Yeah. Yeah. I think it has to wait. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Hello, Joe. Can you hear me? Hello, Joe. Hello, Joe. Hello, Joe. Hello, Joe. Hello, Joe. Hello, Joe. Hello, Joe. Hello, Joe. Hello, Joe. Hello, Joe. Hello, Joe. Good evening, everyone. I'm really excited to be here tonight with my dear friend, Stefania Maurizzi, who I haven't seen for a few years. So, first, just a short introduction and then this will be a conversation and I hope you will join us as well. SED is a country which needs heroes. That's what the German playwright Bertolt Brecht said. And I would add, SED is a country, your country, my fellow Americans, which needs a guy like me from the Balkans and an Italian to come here to Washington, D.C., to protect the first amendment that will speak about the protection of freedom of speech and journalism. SED is a country in which a publisher like Julian Assange is being imprisoned in something which is called the British Vantanamo. SED is a country which doesn't put people in prison who committed war crimes. But you know how SED is, we are lucky tonight and we are lucky when we have people like Stefania Maurizzi here and Randy and Fritzi Koem, whom I unfortunately didn't know, but I'm really glad to be here at this tribute. So we are lucky that we have such people here and also people like Steve Donzinger in the audience and many others. We are here tonight. I'm speaking fast because Randy said you have to finish until I go away. And these people here are not really interested into this book talk. They came for a tribute to Fritzi Koem and so on. But as I can see you are all here also because of this book. So a few words about the book and then I'll pose a few questions. First of all, this is an incredible book. This is a very courageous book. I think it's one of the best or the best books about Victor Litz and the case of Julian Assange. Why? Because Stefania Maurizzi is one of the very journalists who was there from the very start, I think from 2008, who was there at the beginning and she describes it very well in this book. First of all, because Victor Litz succeeded to create something which other major publications and newspapers didn't succeed to create in that way. And that was the norm of Victor Litz, as Stefania Maurizzi shows, which is encryption. And you were interested in encryption because you studied mathematics, which I found very interesting. I didn't know it before I read the book. And why is that important? It's important because for the first time we were able to protect whistleblowers. We were able to reveal secrets without being traced by the CIA, NSA or the Pentagon. And this book, as the title says, secret power is mainly about those most powerful institutions in the world, American institutions, to target that one man, not only one man, but the other man in the audience who was also targeted by the way Stefania and me were also targeted, not in the same way. I'm not comparing us to the fate of Don Zingler or Assange. But we were also spied on at the Ecuadorian embassy in London by the CIA. So instead of now spoiling the whole book, maybe we start from a phone call you had. And on the phone call you heard a voice. It wasn't Assange. And the voice said, this is Wikileaks. Maybe you can start from the very beginning. How did it start that you became interested in Wikileaks? And how did this contact appear? And then maybe you can come also, which is also beautifully described. This is really like an amazing thriller. The first meeting with Julian in Brussels, just before the Afghan war logs. And maybe we start from that and then we will continue through various topics, the Afghan war logs, the spying at the Ecuadorian embassy and so on. Yes, thank you. And thank you, Randy, for making this possible. Thanks to you. So I'm an Italian investigative journalist. I work as an investigative journalist for the last 16 years. And my work was initially for the leading Italian magazine on espresso, which has a strong tradition in investigative journalism, especially in exposing fascism, corruption, mafia. And I worked for them and for public health for 14 years until in 2020 I decided to resign from my newspaper. And I was like jumping in the dark. I had no idea whether I would have been able to find another job. Because as you know, journalism in these days is a very bad, is in a very bad shape. And that is, it's very, very hard to get a job as a journalist. But I resigned because I wanted to do this job. I wanted to keep doing my work with Wikileaks. In my newspaper, a lot of publicized was no longer possible. My work was not possible. So I had to choose between leaving my newspaper or leaving my work on the Netflix case. And I decided to leave my newspaper to keep doing my work on this case. Why an Italian journalist spent 13 years of his investigative work on this case? Because this case is absolutely crucial. I'm not sure how much information the public, the American public has about this case. I think you have very, very little information, unfortunately. And this is a tragedy because a man who did war crimes and torture, they are killing him, literally killing him, is in a British righteous prison. And his only crime is that he revealed the U.S. and Salah's crimes in Afghanistan, in Iraq, one animal, the drone wars, and he had no other reason for saying that. They want to kill him because he did something special, not just him, of course. No one does everything alone. He did it with this media organization, Wikileaks. And what they did is basically that they agreed and gave in for what are called the secret power, the highest level of power, where the intelligence services, diplomacy, and the state operate. I mean, our usual work is to expose corruption, expose mafia, expose these kinds of things, and this is tolerated in our democracies. You can do it, maybe you risk your careers, maybe you risk a lot of cases, but you can do it in our democracy. The problem is when you touch the highest level, the level where intelligence services move, the level in which the state operates. And that's the only reason why they are killing him. They are literally killing him. I have seen this from the very beginning. I can tell you what I have seen in this case really upset me. I've seen a man who really encourages journalists. I can tell you, really, really encourages. And this was one of the very first things that impressed me about Julian Assange. It was 2008. And one of our sources, Jordan's sources, has stopped talking to me because she was convinced she was illegally intercepted. And of course, there is no way to know whether you are under illegally perception, maybe you are just paranoid, or maybe it's true. Maybe someone is listening to your conversations. And my source didn't want to be with me. She disappeared. I have never, never, never had more what she knew after so many years. I don't know what she knew. But for me, it was crucial. It changed my journalism forever. I realized that I needed better sources. Because the mobile phones, emails, are very easy to penetrate. And we are following the students. We are following the irregular case. I have been followed by the police, by all sorts of actors, by corporate spies. They want to discover who talked to us. And so they are willing to their money, and if they have goods, they spy on us, on our meeting, on our sources, on people who talk to us. Confidentially, of course, because investigative journalism is developed through confidential interaction results. So, I realized that I needed better source protection. And I'm a mathematician. Before journalism, I got a degree in mathematics. And so I knew that there was something called cryptography to protect services. I mean, in these days, you use cryptography. Maybe you don't know, but you do use cryptography. You use WhatsApp. You use Signal. You use Home Banking. You access your medical records using encryption. Otherwise, everyone could see your medical records. Everyone could see your bank records. You use encryption without knowing that you use encryption. But at that time, there was only a media organization in the world using encryption to protect sources, on a regular basis. And that media organization was Wikileaks. So one of the sources in the field of cryptography put Wikileaks on Marathaspey, and they took any third means. You should have a look on that bunch of lunatics. And the lunatics were Julian Assange Wikileaks. And very, very few knew about Wikileaks. And then we need to see if they had the published bombshells by collateral murder or the ambulance. And then I started looking at them. I was really impressed because they were able to get documents, see the documents that know how the media organization was able to get it. They were able to publish it. They had the courage to publish. People went, the Pentagon asked them to remove from the website their publication. They said no. I mean, I have been a journalist for the last 21 years. I have never met any journalist saying no to the Pentagon. They were so powerful. They can hurt your life and they did. So for me it was amazing that it was a media organization, especially after the 9-11 when every major health plant, media health plant was publishing whatever the Pentagon or whatever the CIA was telling them. It was amazing that there was a media organization willing to say no to the Pentagon. So I said, I absolutely want to know these people. I absolutely want to learn from them about this encryption. And suddenly one night in July 2009, they called me in the middle of the night. It was a sticky night, very hot the night in Rome, very heavy nights. The last thing I wanted to do was to wake up, but the phone was ringing, ringing, and at the end I woke up and I was, so we are weaklings. You have to rush to your computer, download this file, and you have an hour to listen to the file because it was an audio file. And you should, we are looking for an Italian journalist because it is about the intelligence candidate. And we want to understand whether it's damaged, we want some help to verify it, and to understand the local context. So at that point I realized they were acting, they were working in the organization, getting the documents, analyzing them, trying to understand whether it's true, whether it's false, to understand whether they, it was in the public interest or it was not in the past interest, and to publish with a link. So that kept the link back for the public. So that was the last, the first time I worked with them, 2009, July. No one knew about which weeks and my editors didn't take me seriously, but which weeks was an important thing. And a few months after they revealed collateral murder, they became famous around the world. And since then I never stopped working on the secret documents, including vault seven, for which they see a hand plan to kill Julian Assange. I'm not sure if you realize how serious this matter. They were planning to kill a journalist for revealing secret documents, getting documents, not false documentation in the public interest. This is a, this didn't happen in North Korea or Russia or one, this is happening here in your country and telling you what happened in your country and your media, barely reported on this. And yet this is what the CIA plan here, you know, and you know what I've said to me about this case. I have worked on all this documentation for the last three years. And I have been done this completely safe. I experienced intimidation. I was following very aggressively. I was physically attacking wrong, installing important documentation which never should create a game while traveling from the airport to the center of the skin. I was fighting inside the embassy, my phone was on screen opening too. But apart from this intimidation, we are serious but not in the lead, you know. Apart from this, I have always been safe. I was never arrested. I was never questioned. I was never put in prison whereas Julian Assange, after publishing this documentation 2010 has never worked as a free man again. Even in the last 13 years for revealing these war crimes and torture in Afghanistan in Iraq, he has never known freedom again. And so only a matter of a few months is to leave Europe. He leaves Europe and get extradited. He leaves there. Absolutely. He has no chance whatsoever to win his case. He has no chance. It will mean to be there. That's why I really walk out. It's like you go out to work on an investigation. You're ready to ask you to go out to do an investigation. Your colleague falls off a cliff. You don't abandon him. You try to save him. It's a matter of decency. It's a matter of professional decency and a matter of something about humanity. You cannot abandon a family. Almost all others believe who work on stuff is abandoned. He took 12 years before the New York Times decided to speak out for Julian Assange and set a column by the administration. He had to go ahead with the Spanish case. 12 years. Had they spoken before, he wouldn't be in that much time. 12 years. They have been silent for 12 years. That's why I cannot, I mean, I cannot be left on this case. I've done, I'm at peace in a sense. I have done all I could. I have, I have tried to discover the truth. I have, I have, I have been engaged in a real French warfare against the West government, state government, Australian government, Swedish government to get the full documentation on the case. I paid myself as long as I could, let the legal fees to get the documentation about the case. Unless you know the facts, you know, you cannot unless you know the facts. So I have done all that good to make the public understand how it is so important and people ask me why you are so obsessed about this case. I'm so obsessed because I want to live in a society in which you can reveal war crimes and you can be free. You can be free and safe. You, you don't have to spend 13 years in prison in the British harshest. And you can be free and the war criminal should be in prison. You should be free. You should enjoy spending these children. You know, this is the difference between democracy and dictatorship. If you are supposed to take criminality at the heaviest level, they send you killers and kills you, kill you in a democracy must be possible. This is the difference between democracy and authoritarian states. That's why I'm so passionate. And it's only a matter of months before we, his destiny will be decided before he will be extradited here and put in prison for life for revealing war crimes and torture. A big applause first, please. One big comment and then my next question. As you can see with Stefania, yes, she's one of the really passionate journalists and human beings and all. But I must say that, first of all, she is very modest. It's not that you didn't have problems with your previous newspapers and so on because you were touching big beliefs and speaking about these secrets and working with them in a way in the sense of analyzing and publishing secrets. So it's not that you didn't have the problems. It's not that you haven't been inspired by this day. Also a small anecdote, whenever I invite Stefania to invent some in the Balkans, but also here. She always first called the question who is paying it. And I don't want to come if in any way the money is connected with the leaks or those people. So in that way, although she's passionate as you can see, which I really love. She is a very principled journalist who always stick to her principles. Unlike many other journalists from the newspapers you name. So my question I can see right there who is signaling me that we have to move on. But I have another question. My second question will allow me and I will invite you to come to the National Press. You met Julian Assange for the first time at the European Parliament in Brussels in 2009. You met him several times at Ecuadorian embassy and there is a chapter in the book which speaks about Julian as a character and his character. I must say I'm not a fan about speaking about characters and that person is nice or whatever has a good sense of humor. Although that helps of course for people to be more interesting, but I'm more looking at the acts and what they accomplish. But in the case of Julian Assange we have to speak about the character because this country and the media of this country and United Kingdom did everything in their power to be successful in a character as a nation. This book is great because it's a sort of CSI going back to the preliminary investigation on the tape allegations and showing how it happened at the same time during the Afghan war logs. And it also deconstruct the character assassination which happened with Julian. So I would ask you how do because I think people in this country don't know many people who didn't meet him yet. I hope you will meet him as a free man who will come and lecture at your universities. As you talk about this imagine, how did you find him for the first time when you met him for the first time in Brussels? What kind of character is he? How did his physical and psychological state also deteriorate during those years at the embassy? And when was the last time you met him? So last time I met him was in 2018. It was November and it had been impossible to meet him because the Ecuadorian front is denying any access to GC birds. And I had tried eight months to get access. I went to the embassy and I was shocked. And I came out of the embassy with my editor. Julian Assange's guy. I'm not exaggerating. He had lost a lot of weight. He had this hair so I can have it. It was really beautiful even if it was in a very bad shape. And I remember this. My editors didn't get back to me for two days and it was strange. They sent me to London and I needed to write about it. And after two days my editor called me. Why you are not replying to Fania? We have been trying to call you to email you, send text messages. Why you are not replying? And I have nothing on my phone. Nothing on my computer. My communication was cut out. Then we discovered that we had been targeted. And my phone had been secretly stolen. Julian is a special human being there. And I don't think you have any chance to know who he is due to this bad press coverage. The press coverage is a scandal about this case. He is a sweet person. Of course they have destroyed him. And of course maybe he is a different person. I don't know because I have been unable to visit him in prison. We are not allowed to visit him. But he is a compassionate human being. He cares about justice. He could have created and established a company to make money. But as he is not interested in money. And he gave his life. And they took the best care of his life. And even if he will come out alive, no one will get back those years soon to him. So they have destroyed him. When people ask me, will they kill if extradited in the US? They have already killed him. They have already. They have destroyed his life. They have destroyed himself. We have witnessed it. And we couldn't do anything. We were reporting and no one was doing anything to change the situation. So I'm really mad at these things. I'm really mad. You realize how deep the public opinion is going to protect people who are exposed to state criminal justice. I think Randy now has to go ahead. Go ahead. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Thank you. That was wonderful. Tomorrow at two o'clock in the national press. They will be sitting along with a lot of people. Hey, how about that? They walk in. No, you need to register. You'll get a. We're going to see a little later, right? No, three, right? Good. This is the 7 o'clock. I think after two weeks of organizing I'm going to be needing a daily light, a straight jacket, and a bobby steel gas that you can bring. All right. Fritzi Cohen. Fritzi Cohen, this is why we are here tonight is to honor this wonderful woman, Fritzi Cohen. Like I said, the last time I started, if you went to her house, and I say there are a lot, I stayed at Fritzi's place, I stayed here, and if it was so full, Dave says go over there. Fritzi and I had a great time hanging out. She was always concerned that I might drink too much, and I walked in there one night late, and she said, go to sleep. And the dog went up to her bed. She wake me up and said, the dog's up here. And the following morning, the last time I was there, she says, Randy, have you been on my liquor cabinet? There's two inches of whistle pig. It's this cognac or bourbon or something. So I'll replace it. So I went to replace it the next day, it was $92 for a whole bottle of it. Everyone seems like their own whistle pig right now. This is by the shillings and I didn't say, I heard it quicker. Fritzi was a left-finger, but you would never know it, because she's like the only person on the left that has a sense of humor. Fritzi was like, he has no sense of humor. I mean, she has a sense of humor. He really did. At any rate, Fritzi would always bust my chops by the way. She knew how to push buttons. She'd pretend like she couldn't hear it. So one day, we're talking back and forth, we're talking about the French Revolution. I'm going on for like 20 minutes and she turns around and says to me, what? She always, what? See, do you hear that? Of course I do. I'm just busting her balls. But I know she liked the bust chops, David. And as soon as she went to heaven, she said to God, hey, you know, God, he's making sense of good work. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. No. I'm doing this for that. I'm playing that. This is where she always says, I don't give a fuck about the rest of the crowd. I mean, that's the only right, Fritzi. Let's say together now. One, two, three. 15% today. The dog now. All right. There's the boy. If you take a look inside the age two. It's a great book. She left it to me. I read it two days at this time. There's a great inscription too, Fritzi. And if you take a look in any of these rooms, she has books, no TV, no radio, no microwaves, but books and great books. And it's the only place in the city or in the country where you can actually, at this point in time, find Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Nabokov, and the people of that hill. And in this place, she never buckle to the third red sierra. All right, so now we're going to bring up one of her friends, someone that I know she admired and someone that admired her. He's a whistleblower. There's in prison because the blue whistle and torture. He's a pro like that. Are you sure it's just you here today and says, I just saw you on another YouTube channel, why there must be an eye on John carry on. I got I just saw an article that was just printed to see anything. By the way, there's like 60 people here tonight, 40 of them are waiting to see. Well, you guys get another project. By the way, the CIA just laid off, you know, budget cuts this thing off three quarters Valley Times. James cloud. So when she did do something interesting, I mean only she could have gotten me to start watching time across. I don't know what it is. I said, I love 50% of what I said. Well, how much do you like? How much do you want to see a life 30 hours is right. All right, so John Chariot is. Give a big. I'm going to meet, probably in 2009. I came here to the tablet in with my boss I was working on the Senate Foreign Relations. And my boss wanted to leak a story to James Ryzen that of the New York Times, what better place to do it than at the bar covered in right. That's why there is a tower. So, so we came here to see Ryzen and pretty came up to the table and introduced ourselves. And rather than just to say hello, shake hands, walk away. She stood there and engaged all of us in conversation. And when she walked away, I said, wow, she's really insightful. Who was that? That's pretty good. She owns the tavern. Well, a couple of years later, I became a dangerous criminal, at least that's what the Justice Department says. I was a dangerous criminal. And in the year between my arrest and my incarceration, I came to the table a couple of times. And every time Princey was here, and she would ask me how I was doing. Everybody asked me how I was doing. She really meant she really genuinely wanted to know how I was doing. And then I went to prison in February of 2013, and she began writing to me while I was in prison. It was a very generous thing to do. I realize now that, you know, I'm out leading my life, how time consuming it is to sit down at a table with a piece of paper and a pen and genuinely lay out your thoughts and your feelings to someone who has nothing but time on his hands. And she didn't write me one letter or two letters. She wrote me dozens of letters. The theme through these letters was a theme of integrity. While I was in prison, I read a book by an Israeli journalist and psychologist by the name of Al Press called Beautiful Souls. And Beautiful Souls was a psychological look at four whistleblowers through 20th century history. And one of the conclusions that Al Press came to was something that so described Fritz Cohen that it stuck in my mind this last decade. It said that whistleblowers have an unusually highly defined sense of right and wrong, far more highly defined than the general public. It's so highly defined that whistleblowers don't care what happens to them. There's an issue of right or wrong, black or white. Now, I sort of came of age in a culture at the CIA where nothing was black and white, everything was a shade of gray. That's just not true. That's not what life is. Fritz Cohen never believed what was a shade of gray. She believed that things were black and white. She had that unusually highly defined sense of right and wrong. She criticized integrity even when that integrity cost her friends or cost her money or business. It was something really to be admired. I got out of prison in 2015 and again coming to the tavern and many times with my friend Gary Porter here on Sunday nights to hear jazz downstairs. And every single time that we come, for instance, we come over and say hello. I came for lunch a couple of times. Once I came by myself and she sat at the table and had lunch with me. It's not like she didn't have anything better to do. She's running a business, but she sat down and had lunch with me. I always knew that when she asked how I was doing, she really wanted to know how I was doing. I was not Fritz Cohen's closest friend, but I'm honored to call myself a friend. And I'm sorry that she's not here. I'm sorry that we didn't tell her these things when she was still alive. But I'm glad that we're here tonight to be able to ruin this. Wow. I can hear you. You're not in the office, but three books at the same time. Yes. I know it's subtle like I'm on golf and horseshoes. The monkey agrees that we are in the arts. That's good. I don't know. I was gonna try to do my George Jones. It's wild stuff. I'll say that for a journey for me. I had a dinner with him last night. He did this impression, incredible impression. You know, the Queen's period of the watch, the Queen's funeral. He imitated the guy doing the play-by-play. It's hilarious. I'm going to talk about Joe Biden, Joe Biden, who is too late in senile to even change his old bikers. What's she involved in building seven? Possibly this grandfather lit the right step-fire. I said, I like that frenzy. Let's go back to the shipper. All right, coming on now. Joe Gloria's announce. He's actually live streaming. Thank you. Hope people can hear us now. Except for my last five minutes. Tonight's the 1984, okay? I saw you on that show, Randy. First, that Martin comes to 1986. She was person of the week on ABC News with Peter Jennings. If the three people are on the show, Peter, that was just, yes. She was for her work, exposing the FBI and their infiltration of peace groups involved in Nicaragua and El Salvador and Guatemala and other places for ratings. And I think you respond to them on rounds. And she's a long time, legendary civil rights attorney, and I got involved in this case through her and she really hit her off. She's been at these events. She's been at these events for signs, seen signs a number of times. I invited her and she said, okay, because she should be speaking today and there she is. But everybody hear me now. I met Frixie. We hit it off immediately. One of the things that Frixie gave me was coming to Washington with our freedom set. And I painted Washington. To me it was, you know, the old phrase, the only justice is the justice is justice in the halls. It just drove me nuts to come here because my whole life I had come on buses and picketed and listened to speeches and it was awful. I was never going to come here again. But once I met Frixie, it was a whole new world. And we became quite close. And what Frixie needed for me was to send the art constantly from many, many, many different sources. And it was just incredible how much help she read every day. She read early in the morning because I got my message about 10 o'clock and she'd already read, I don't know how many newspapers and whatever. But she, she sent me stuff from Tourette's, Mitt Press, AndyWar.com, John Stewart, Fox News, Spectator World, How could the resistance argue with an art house? It was nothing that she didn't read. And I was so lucky that she shared it with me. It was really a pleasure. And I love to come down and see her and we had wonderful conversations. One of the things that she did more recently than not was to start after COVID. Her weekly, which we're not going to become weekly in her mind, but her breakfast readings, which were the most important things that she could do. And she did it so well. Frixie was a peace and justice woman. And she said that all the time I'm for peace and justice and that's what I do. And she, the last meeting she held here in June, was on the subject of it was on one of the things she wanted to do with it was to bring the peace and justice movement struggles to consensus in the US. And the subject of the, of the meeting was, was the, the, in ways that the government was making poison and making had laboratories all over the world, and she wanted to expose those laboratories, and her main enemy was the Pentagon. But her goal was peace and justice for all. One of the things one of the three articles that Frixie said sent to me was an article by Patrick Livingston. It was absolutely amazing. You know, I went through my email to see who we were, Frixie, and sent me. And I had never read this article. Who has time to read everything that Frixie sends. But there's Patrick Livingston article. I said, well, I'm going to read this with Frixie now because she was, she was, she's so sweet. I hope you don't feel bothered by my sharing. I know you likely know all of the facts, but perhaps seeing them organized in this way could be helpful. The presentation has certainly been helpful to me. And I guess I'm trying to do my small bit in pushing for a song just women. Frixie. All right, so it's, it's absolutely touching article and I'm going to try to briefly run through it. He goes through three pictures of a song. The second picture is Assange's arrest in April. So over six months. The second period is Assange where he's very active and very energetic and opposing what's happening. He's yelling. The second picture was taken from from one of those bands, well, coming back from the court and still he had energy and he held up his fists. You could see it through the window. The third time was unfortunate. He was distant. He was not involved. There was no communication with the people on the street. He was just not there. And this one of just a couple of characters. When we look at them and find ourselves among those gathered the scene left behind. Assange decided to blast with this with the strange reflections and we're practically lying. Assange is great for us. He is remote within the frame. And it's a figure paintings as it will even as he leaves us. Assange is already gone. Just want to go to the end of the article, which I can hardly imagine. These images spent six months to place them side by side is to detect and outline the story of a very eventful year in a life. They are to me shards of a broken ball. Holding fragments of poverty in one hand. One imagines an unseen whole. The object that is no more. They seem to be pieces of a shattered long. A life depart. A life by turns taken away. The story of the images tell us that Assange is but also ours in some measure the story of the way we now live in the western democracies or better put post democracies. And this way, three pictures on mirrors held up to us that we see ourselves as we are. One of the last emails I received from FitSea was her feeling bad that she couldn't go to the July 4 ceremony in her neighborhood because she really enjoyed getting involved with everybody. I don't know what their politics were. She just like to be with people and to feel this presence of people. But she couldn't go because she said it was her sciatica. We don't know exactly what it was, but I doubt it was her sciatica. And she got kind of self conscious about being patriotic, but she was patriotic. You know, in her own way she was hopeful that she was going to change this country and she was going to make it finally accept peace and justice. Here's what she said at the end of that email. Yes, if you are having trouble figuring out how you feel about being an American. I used to say us us air, because we're only part of the Americans. We James Baldwin, we are a complicated country, and the US is definitely an experiment with many failures, but also successes. We should remember that miss you. All right. I got to get really close. Can you hear in the back of the room. Turn it down. You're tired of hearing me. All right, so I know you got a remote. By the way, Dave Rubin. He said, all right, let's do this. And we started out the massage. Stand up for a science, which was saying that for a science and same for a science combination. But that's after sick. Where did Sam. Oh, Sam's right here. All right, so, Sam, you remember that moment just sitting next to us. What she has that I have some got that. I just don't get it. You know, anyone in the rooms, you get Jack Reed, he's got like insurgent back. She's got that terrible year about Paris commute. City right there. All right, so moving right along. At number four. It's gonna be as long as the journey was telling. Are you coming up? Sam and I are good friends. We go way back. We was working up there at the old lion sense in New York City. I think along with Sam. He said that if I asked when I would go on, he wouldn't wouldn't have me talk at all. Close to anybody. I had all the stuff written out and then the stuff feeling swirling. It's very funny. I mean, you're in being here without. Prince being here in the flesh. But in a way, it's, I mean, I liken this place to her so much in a city of facade and pretense and boning us. I mean, textually or artistically. This is real. We learn and dignified. Let's see. Yeah, you really can make contact. Yeah, she had nerves of steel and twinkle in her eye. So the day that they close themselves upon this work. 84 unvaccinated never never saw her. I mean, I thought I didn't buy into the pandemic narrative. But and died of cancer and partly told the soul she had. Like your brother. So many remarkable things about her. Her capacity to talk to anyone and everyone. One of the things that she really wanted to do was to have left right dialogue. To actually talk. And it's so crucial because part of the problem that we have in our society. That's the so called left and the so called right all the time for their. Be tensed. Schumer and McConnell are talking all the time about what deals they can cut to look over regular people. The problem is that the people down below left and right are actually in this state of antagonism and hatred. For each other over that's the media structure that feeds that MSNBC in box, and if your neighbor likes your political opponent, you got to unfriend them. So, so that's the end of that. We need to elders and dwarfs to stop fighting against each other. And perceive their mutual enemy of moral somewhat hurt each other. Central to her was the military industrial complex. It's what she went back to again and again, and it's how she perceived the Cold War. It's how she perceived Russia gay. It's how she perceived that on WikiLeaks. And it's how she perceived the pandemic, which is how I got to know her more and more. She was very generous in talking about my writing about pandemic origins and embraced me at a time. Most of my friends and political allies were running for the hill for outright attacking. But she understood that just because the United States says it wants democracy doesn't mean itself and just because Bible that say that they're doing work to help you make itself. So the system lies and stop pretending that it doesn't. And they're probably up to something no good here. Let's figure it out. And that was very, very meaningful to me. One time that I think the biggest compliment that I ever gave her to like was I told her that staring at it once and when we were eating and I was like, you look like someone I can't place it you look like someone I can't place it and then the end of the meal I was like, Dan Ellsberg. Dan Ellsberg. And she does to me, you know, in a Jewish heritage, Wisconsin stock, I think there's a team pool in there, but her face like laid off when I finally said Dan Ellsberg. This last Thanksgiving, I procrastinate about a lot of things. And I was trying to figure out what to do with Thanksgiving with my mom just being my mom right now. And I tried to get reservations here like the week or two before, but it was all blocked. And I was sort of wanting to panic mode. Okay, do I want to figure out local friends who don't have any place and try to figure that out or you know what I want to do. And then I get a call from Fritzi inviting me to her place for Thanksgiving. So I'm like, oh, I'm going to the tavern for Thanksgiving and look at Fritzi for Thanksgiving. And it was utterly hilarious seeing her and my mom sitting on the house the whole time. My mom in a Palestinian dress, you know, and Fritzi. You know, it's like, you know, Native Americans and others bring a thread. And, you know, you have this fear, you know, two parts of your world collide. It's going to be weird, but it was beautiful. It was absolutely beautiful. It was absolutely beautiful because of Fritzi's warmth and hospitality and humor. Let me just read a little something. She gave me, as Randy said. She was a great reader as Randy is. She gave me a book by Wendell Perry, the farmer poet. He died. The need to be whole. And, you know, and I should of course tie this to WikiLeaks. Part of our state is the attack on WikiLeaks. And I promise in aside this word, a scientific journal that we can do journalism in a different way that's of liberation for the global public. The first thing they did against Wendell is one of the first things was try to unplug their money source very hard because they saw that a global public will only have money or an independent entity one that isn't sectarian politically one that isn't realistic but is trying to engage the global public. And that's where they went after WikiLeaks. And I think we have to be honest with ourselves. And notice that the instrument of our, a major instrument of our potential liberation is now we're fighting for it. So we are now with our limited resources having to defend WikiLeaks. What are all of the stories that WikiLeaks would have broken for the last 10 years, you know, during this attack. All of those are gone, whether they relate to the pandemic or war or economic policies or whatever. Okay, let me just read. It seems much easier to converse at a safe electron after we with people in whose category building along straightening people have abandoned any willing membership of the great category of all humans. Perhaps it's implied obligations. And could see sort of war or hard on her sleeve as, as a human. And with that twinkly in her eye. There was also this can do optimism that no, don't give up. Don't say that things are lost. And if people aren't talking roll of their sleeves, and with enough great determination, I find a way past that. Thank you so much. We're going to have one more. We hear about. And then we're going to take a little loose break and then we're going to come back very commonly. What? No, no, I'm going to do it now. No, last wine and stretch out 1520 minutes. No, I won't. Remember the old children's edge. Less is more. More or less. You're a quarter. That's right. We're going to do this again next year at the same time. Just wait 365 days. Okay, well, there's a window. No, no, no. All right. One thing about Princey that we haven't talked about is that she was the first in Washington, DC, to start a project to hold the Pentagon for its vast resources and the way they wasted. That was long before. And all of us here, I think we're involved in the stuff. So that's, that's an indication of just how early she was to the mark. Second thing is that she in the 1980s was the leading figure in Washington DC, getting the city of Washington DC to enter into a Washington Moscow arrangement for cultural exchange. And what's the first one ever. And it was because of that cultural exchange that I ended up coming virtually every Sunday night to the tabard to hear the best jazz basis that we have in the United States Victor boss. Who has to have the longest running just because the third thing is, she was, she started a business of raising fish. Out West offshore, and had to take on the big chemical companies. And so that became one of her sessions. She talked about a lot of time. Do you think your book why five beyond three four. Do you think you're talking about five beyond three four. Yes or no. If you want five beyond three four, do you think you're talking about five beyond three four. I just want to say one thing, right. There's one thing is like, it's like, hey, there's two weeks later, she's still like, he's back. It's okay. You forgot to say that she was generous. She was charitable. She was pretty calm. She embodied those words on that statue on the face of it. You know, by Emma Lazarus, you know, give me Britsy, you're tired, you're four, you're only 233 that was great. Why is Russian going to blow up. You understand the word I'm saying. So, by the way, you just said Max was sent to that was Max Max. Those are the three things he was going to talk about. It's going to jump. So, coming up now, I met her 2017 when I was exposed back channel between Roger stones. All right, I was fingered as the batch. Said, we found the back channel. That's exactly what Julian's son would do. That's a great story. Let me make it to Roger's son. Again, I'm sure he'll keep. So, and so I did her show. That show is no longer, you know, our tea is gone. In fact, all the comics tonight wants work with the camp at our team. So we've given them safe refuge here. This is kind of like rich joint cast of land. All right, anyone that worked at our team is here tonight. Just don't tell. Don't tell Gemma cost. There's a little big story on it, but she, she rat lines, gray zone and she's really wonderful. Great. Make sure that everyone heard the three points that year is made about for the legacy. The people in the back here that we've got her efforts throughout the 1970s to expose wasteful spending within the Pentagon. Then in the 1980s of the Cold War fizzled out. She led an initiative to make the United States capital, Washington DC sister cities with Moscow, the capital or the sort of the rushing capital and the cultural bastion now that would be seen. But a political capital of the Soviet Union, and she did this cultural exchange that even without the official enforcement from from the government or leadership here in DC, and that resulted in a wonderful show downstairs every Sunday. Still going on still going on. What was the phrase he's the most. The best jazz basis to the United States. It was the most promising jazz basis to Soviet Union when he came here. I just wanted to make sure that everyone needs to first those three things about pretty that I think are really important to emphasize about what she contributed to DC, before saying that I really believe that for the is while she's here. Thank you Randy for organizing this and bringing all the people together who wanted to come and remember for the more the public life that she lives. So thank you Randy and also thank you Dave Ruby. For the fact that all of us are gathered here because we wanted to remember her together. Some of us friends, some of us don't know each other but pretty here, uniting us, but she also lives on, as Randy said throughout the evening in this institution that is built around us this is all reflection. And so how she dress or you've been to her home and see her home. This is pretty bold and original and pretty beautiful. I mean, I dare you to find I challenge you to find a finer DC hotel, a finer hotel nation capital. This, this, this place is on par and my personal taste more more tasteful than anything that you can find downtown with the W. Pay attention to the detail when you pass through, whether it's the covers on the outlets or the lights which is the colors in the room. The paintings, the political art, it's all reflection of frifty touch. And if it weren't for frifty, and her husband, her husband Edward who passed before she did. This building would probably be a character list luxury apartment building or an evil thing tank like everything else in the area seriously this is a collection of apartment buildings that Edward and frifty purchase and preserve. And transformed into this hotel. And so that this building is really something that embodies her character. And I only met frifty in the last few years of her life. My husband Max and I met her through. I think she reached out to us because she, as everyone has made a point of saying was so constantly engaged with the news medium what was happening that we just stumbled upon our side and tried to pursue a relationship because we're in DC and so we've had meetings or dinners lunches with her downstairs and thought to know Dave and every aspect of the tabard and I'm really grateful for that. Because she, I think, embodies, she had a real, the thing about frifty and I think this is consistent, the stories that everyone has shared about her tonight. She had a real intuition, or she didn't she wasn't waiting for somebody else to tell her what to think. She wasn't waiting for her friends or her peer group or anybody around her to push her in a certain direction. When a question came up, she already knew what she thought. And so she wanted to find the people who are on the same page as her and try to figure out what was actually going on in this country or what was going on politically and culturally. And through that intuition she also had an admirable confidence. She just really wasn't concerned about how anyone was going to take what she said, and she could carry out a conversation, and even if you didn't agree with anyone. And I really admire that these are things that I, those are, those are characteristics that I would try to learn or adopt from frifty's legacy because I think it makes for a really admirable and admirable cherished person because obviously that's why we're all here. And so, thank you everyone for being here again brandy and Dave for putting this together and frifty go and give it. Yes, he did. She was quite addressed. She had the lair and lamb wagons of this with the door done. And you know, it's great about Dave Martin, Margaret, others here, she would be when I was drinking at that bar. She, she was like Miss Kitty, she'd be there like drinking with everybody late and she put everybody to the table to talk and shop and take six points. Unbelievable. What a character. All right. What do we have? Where are you going? Joe Lori, I want you to mention your name. I'm going to hold the camera when the music starts. You want to move? I'm just kidding. Yeah, all right. So my name again, please. Yeah, I show them. Reminding you this is just this is this old guy, you know, he was here during the play. He did that. Happy birthday. Someone asked me, they did it when my mother died. They said, how old was she? I said, it doesn't matter. She was 20 or 80. It was the only mother that I had. And someone said about frizzy. I said, it doesn't matter. She's the only frizzy we all had. There's no real place in frizzy comedy. I don't know if we're a year and a half, but Barry, we got there as you did see. As you did, you know, she was that infectious. And so we're going to take a little break here. It's a wonderful band. It's played for a long time. Really set there for an hour and a half. It's kind of wages. And then go to new decisions. I'm joking. I'm going to send it out. The Amigo. All right. You want to get a drink? I'm going to send it around. And Steve Jones and we're going to start doing a comedy. into the comments tonight so uh and vote this Lucy Murphy. Lucy Murphy is going to close the show why don't you help us spoil that for me. I have enough promises to speak. Somebody ordered me a couple shots and I'm going to come back. That's almost a piece. Right, so three more teams, right, so we got five Canadians who came in from New York. They followed me down here just for this. They're terrific. They all worked really hard for the five. They all worked first for months and they were at the very first all of the ones here in New York. These Canadians they can't show them. They did it without money. You know, I'd probably care of their counsel. They used to be in the room, but they weren't told because they knew what they were doing. What about Lee? He's not one. Lee is in the street. All right. He's not. He's not. Yeah, but you know what? They brought in a lot of people. I know people came today that won here for them. You know what I mean? They were here for Chris. Right. And the people when the folks in the park was over, they left. They weren't here for the time. Because they weren't here for uh, but I'm going to make sauce. I'm just joking. It's quite interesting. I'm just joking. Joking. It's just live. It's live. Right. No, uh, so not. They got books that are 100 years old in there. They got a lot of time to be by uh, by, you know, the northern part of where it was. Yes. He was able to get out. He probably got out. Best of all, he's led it right. He's led it right in the National Geographic up until it got dark. You know, it's dark. However, the jailer there is the one that's stuck them out. The jail, he got to know the jailer. Oh, really? He's a zoologist as well. He was talking about the community cooperation between animals. He was talking about you tracing common land. Broad history is basically close to the question. This was in 1905, I believe. That if humans don't grow up, right, we won't survive. I've had a read that book. I guess. Can you also go to a book, and I haven't read it, about the Paris community. I don't know. Very good. My read March is good. March is good. Yeah, it's good. Well, uh, you know, uh, when uh, and uh, going to 16, going up, going up, I went into this box territory, uh, you can uh, whatever. I can't, I can't, it's from, it's from, it's really exactly like how that work started. Jefferson Douglass, exactly how the war was done. It should have never started. It was all one of these things that happened. The guy was the head of produce. I'm sorry folks. I know I feel a great grouch in March. I suggest you get in 10 years and 11 or 11 years and 12 years. And you have to be able to do it like a five and 10 to one. We're live here. I'm trying to do. Come on. How much? I like my favorite is Animal Crackers when he says, how about your fellas making out and see if those the resistance says they complain you make a $10 an hour. I see. And how much you get for not playing. They have to $12 an hour. Well, let me out of this today. Now for the hoisting, oh, we make a special day. That's a $15 an hour. That's what we hoisting. And that's what we hoisting. Everybody get for not hoisting. Yeah, you put them forward. You see if we don't, we hoist, we don't play. I see Kathy. I've had enough. Why don't you introduce Steve Brown? Swimming here. Just come back from Iran. She's been to one step. Photograms of Iran. Where are you? Nobody would be interested. Where we look into what the purpose of the assault for now is on this. We just have a comment by a Navy security officer. I don't, I mean, not everybody's in and out. But we're hoping to try to go do. You'd be a hot potato forever. What do they do with them? I've served three or four years in Illinois. You'd be a focus of constant protests and annoyances and demonstrations and rebellions. The people support it on its own. The only thing the people support actually is by 90% it's going the ways. So I said that because those tests, we're going to get an attitude. In other words, it would be a hate and annoyance. But the same reason why you didn't want a sergeant and stand with his wife and pose that they'll judge. They can't even come up with any talk of my own story. We'll keep this. All we'll have to do is suicide. I knew. I've been here 20 or 25 years. You see what I mean? You see what I'm saying? There's an argument. Right. Why do you think the administration is just coming to get back on her? It's only going to go 45. You're bothering me today. Let's fix the point for demonstrations. And look, I think we're going to be talking to the head. Okay, I'm going to look at this. We're going to take the camera and go and see if we can find you. How do you see signing books? Let's walk over there. This is Stefania Maricci signing her book. I have mine to give to you. Stefania. We're live streaming. You're signing my book. For me, thank you so much. Thank you so much, Stefania. How is the book doing right now? What about the mainstream press? Is there anyone reviewed it in the mainstream press? Yes. The Guardian, for example, written about your book. But we reviewed it in the mainstream, and so I think it's going to be a press book. And the Italian press, have they covered it? Yeah. Okay. We basically, we basically read the book. And to achieve that ambition, thanks to the fact, thanks to the little people, because the big newspapers today, Typical, unfortunate. Thank you, Stefania. Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm going to close the door in three minutes, so if you're not in here, you're not going to be watching. Unless you're on consortium news. Alright, can the people in the corner stop laughing away? I'm going to close the door in three minutes, so if you're not in here, you're not going to be watching. I'm going to close the door in three minutes, so if you're not in here, you're not going to be watching. I'm going to close the door in three minutes, so if you're not in here, you're not going to be watching. I'm going to close the door in three minutes, so if you're not in here, you're not going to be watching. I'm going to close the door in three minutes, so if you're not in here, you're not going to be watching. I'm going to close the door in three minutes, so if you're not in here, you're not going to be watching. I'm going to close the door in three minutes, so if you're not in here, you're not going to be watching. I'm going to close the door in three minutes, so if you're not in here, you're not going to be watching. I'm going to close the door in three minutes, so if you're not in here, you're not going to be watching. I'm going to close the door in three minutes, so if you're not in here, you're not going to be watching. I'm going to close the door in three minutes, so if you're not in here, you're not going to be watching. I'm going to close the door in three minutes, so if you're not in here, you're not going to be watching. I'm going to close the door in three minutes, so if you're not in here, you're not going to be watching. This is a really big ask. Here's this guy's story, when he was a freshman in college, he looked up with a boy who was a freshman in high school, the police found out about it. He ended up going to jail for nine years, spent four and a half years in solitary confinement, and upon being released, he almost got civilly committed. Civil commitment laws are on the books in 30 states and at a federal level. What it means is, if you're about to be released from prison, if you're deemed unworthy to rejoin society, you can be kept in a treatment facility that essentially is like a prison for the rest of your life, and it's almost happened to this guy. So, these jokes shouldn't write themselves. Actually, no, they're not. Because I tried to write a bunch of jokes that puncture up this guy's text in front of a sex spot, I immediately told them not to use any of them, because they were highly inappropriate. By the way, this guy named his pet dog, are we all sex offenders? No, but anyway, right now for you guys, we're going to read an excerpt from his thoughts with my joke included. And I think you guys will see when my joke kicks in. This is real. This is real. When I was 19, I fell in love with a boy who was sweet and smart and quirky. He would read me his poetry and talk to me late into the night about anything and everything. So, there are secrets that he made me laugh. He was my best friend. One night we stayed up late talking quietly together after our friends had fallen asleep in the room around us. It was my last night back home on break before returning to college for spring semester. He kissed me for the first time and asked about oral sex. He was a freshman in high school. We never thought that night would lead to a prison cell, but in the next decade of my life, we spent an iron and criminal justice system designed to crush my humanity. Worst blow job ever. Would you, I'm mad again. This is the comedy portion of the evening, you guys. And I would be doing frisk in this service if I didn't bring it. So, that was that. And that was real. That was a real email that I got. So, yeah, let's change gears a little bit. I'll be honest with you guys, a little bit vulnerable here. I have bipolar disorder. It's a mood disorder. Well, I don't know. I have a little bit vulnerable here. I have bipolar disorder. It's a mood disorder. Well, I have these like manic eyes of my thoughts really race. I think it gets delusional and will be followed by these really challenging, impressive lows of the kind of claw my way out of it and move forward with my life. And the delusions that I have on a manic, they're very specific. They're very weird and they're very recurrent. One that I have that I think I'm not only the Messiah, which is embarrassing enough, but I think on a reincarnation of the Rastavarian Messiah, Bob, and Bob Marley would sing about all the time. It's really embarrassing. Plus, can we talk about how disappointed the Rasta community would be if it turned out I was their Messiah? Hello, gross. Hello, Rasta's in his eye. The reincarnation of Hale Selassai. Stop booing. I know I'm not what you were expecting. Just bear with me. Yes, I realize your religion was created by working class, black people as a social fan against the white oppressor. Well, then who better to lead you to Mount Zion than to put a little white guy from New Jersey. It's the perfect twist ending. Stop booing. What's that? Why don't I have redlocks? Because not even the Messiah makes redlocks that don't look ridiculous on white people. Subscribe to my podcast. I really do have a podcast. Nobody wants that guy to get a Messiah, you know what I mean? One thing that happened when I was mad, one of the symptoms is that you'll spend money recklessly. So when I was mad, I like impulsively donated $1,000 to former Hawaii Congresswoman Tulsi Gavir's presidential campaign. I know, but at the time, I donated $1,000 for campaign because at the time, she was the most overtly anti-regime change war candidate. Yes, she was. And because we were supposed to be together. At least that's what I kind of thought at the time. Guess what happens if you donate $1,000 to help gather president of the campaign? You get a bone crumb. You get a bone crumb. You get a bone crumb. You get a bone crumb. You get a bone call from her mother. Carol Gavir called me for real. And because at the time I was such an exuberant Tulsi supporter with such a deep dive knowledge of her political campaign and presidential campaign political history, me and Carol talked on the phone for like 40 minutes. I was like, Carol, I can't believe the way the mainstream media is treating Tulsi. She's a veteran for God's sakes. This is ridiculous. But we're not finding mission. Our government is CIA is arming all sorts of terrorist groups like ISIS, Al-Qaeda, and Al-Mustrah. Jin came back and he introduced it to Congress to stop arming terrorist act. I didn't even get a committee. Are you kidding me? Now CNN is trying to paint her a thing that's thought of politics and a boot puppet? Not cool. And Carol was like, I know, it's crazy. My man, Graham, likes to resonate with her 100%. Because they happen to be true, whatever. Also, you guys need to realize right about the time I made this donation, it was right when the mainstream media was making these unsubstantiated claims that the Russian propaganda machine was aligning itself behind Tulsi, and as some of you may know, I worked on the radical political comedy news show, Redacted Psychologically Camp, for the last five years. Now, super proud of all of the work that I got to do on the show, also it was funded by the Russian government, whatever, whatever. So, yeah, so when they were saying that the Russian propaganda machine was aligning itself behind Tulsi, I was like, wait a minute, that's some bullshit, I worked for the Russian propaganda machine, and that's not what's happening. How did he goddamn, if I'm gonna let this Russian-eating-nothing-burner narrative under my involves-the-gappers presidential campaign? Of course, the record, I do not believe that Redacted Psychic was part of the Russian propaganda machine. I think the show brilliantly used the platform as given to amplify the voices of independent journalists and frontline activists. All of the time, all of the things that was really going on in America, all of the very broken corporate white-watch media landscape. Also, those rubles always came in on time, maybe. People are saying, don't you think daddy's bad, don't you think daddy's bad, and he's just gonna die. He's a monster, so is the U.S. and NATO, I don't wanna talk about it. There's a lot of neo-Russian-Ukraine, all right, I don't wanna talk about it. So I really thought that this red-baiting and Tulsi was gonna be like a cultural that was gonna undermine your campaign, and if you were paying attention at the time, it actually really did do that, but I came up with a manic plan. I figured I was gonna create this breadcrumb trail, this Russian-eating breadcrumb trail that's a corporate hack journalist could follow and story all the way down the rabbit hole up, and then at the bottom of it, instead of finding the Russian propaganda machine associating itself with Tulsi, they would find me, instead, feel ridiculous about themselves. So here's what I did. But we realized when you made the donation, you could fill out whatever name that you wanted to. So I put Whoopi Breaks for the name, because as you all know, Whoopi Breaks is the alias I created 13 years ago when I needed to take over temporary control of the internet in order to keep the geochrons and raise the evidence for the war crimes from YouTube. You guys all know this. There's otherwise no way to assassinate me. Really, it works, because I'm still there. All right. So for name I put Whoopi Breaks, for occupation I put Comedian and for employer I put Redacted tonight. I sort of let that sit there and percolate and wanted to see what would happen. And the fact that Whoopi Breaks is my name had the added benefit that when Tulsi's mom, Carol Gavir, called me, she did have to say, hello, is this the Whoopi Graves who donated a thousand dollars to my daughter's presidential campaign. So that was a win. And also, I don't think I've really expressed to you guys just how we hear being Carol words to each other, because that first phone call was not our only phone call. We talk on the phone at least four more times after that. And yeah, sure, I initiated all of those phone calls. But she answered every time our report was undeniable. Anyway, but some months and months later, I've been out of jail, been out of the hospital, whatever. I don't want to talk about it. I get a call from Lee and he goes, hey, man, do you want to hear how you became part of a national news story for a couple of days? And I was like, oh, shit, what happened? And it turned out it worked, you guys. My manic plan came to fruition. Are you guys familiar with the online publication, The Daily Beast? Yeah, I didn't know the study topic. I mean, it's kind of like a following. That's the word we're following, and it should. But this is true. The Daily Beast. May 17, 2019. Headline. Toltec adverse campaigns being boosted by food and ecologists. Second paragraph. Donors for a campaign in the first quarter of the year, including Stephen F. Cohen, Russian studies professor at the European University, and prominent frontline sympathizers. Sharon Tennyson, vocal food supporter, none the less founders of the team at Russian authorities in 2016, and an employee of the Kremlin-backed broadcaster, RT, who appears to have donated under the alias Ubi Graves. It worked, you guys. The music plan came to fruition. Just instead of having the intended consequence of protecting Toltec, and the unintended consequence of getting me fired from a job. Whatever. Anyway, guys, I'm Jonathan Hall. Thank you so much. Hey. I'm going to pick up the next speaker. So funny. He walked with that number. We're going to hand this thing over to everybody. Okay, so you're going to keep it over, John? What? And keep it going for a reason, because that's the state of it. Has anyone else here at any point voted for Randy Grayden? Everybody? No? Okay, a couple of people. I said, oh, yeah, okay. Can you look at the phones? Oh, all right. That's part of your own adjacent. But you know, I don't have a politician. Does anyone else voted for him? Hi. Yes, sir. Okay. That's fine. That's Senator Merron. Senator Schumer? Senator Schumer. Merron? Yes, sir. Merron. Senator Schumer. Yes, sir. Senator Schumer. Yes, sir. I guess the D-Ball. He's the guy named. I've been in the right college for a bit. That's right. Yes, Senator Schumer. At the time, Randy Grayden votes. It was, you know, 30. 30. 30. Really? That's both of them. That's both of them. That's all of them. Oh, yeah, you got Schumer. Yeah, that's it. Okay, I would love to this new ballot. But no, I was talking with Randy. I don't know what it's going to be about. Here, probably a minute now. Give me a minute now. Give me a minute. It's not, I can't do it anymore. I used to be a productive Schumer. A productive Schumer also known as being delusional. I remember one time I got very high and then said the email. And then spent the rest of the day. You were really good about that email. I was like, I hold a punctuation in the tracks. In the email, dates accurate. I set out on salutations. Create a choice. We do nothing else that day. But, uh, okay. Joints, anybody smoke joints here? Used to? Okay. I also, I didn't use to do it. I love to smoke joints. So those are fun. They're fun to smoke joints. They are fun. But I find them a bit wasteful because in every joint circle, you're supposed to do puff puff backs. You take two puffs, you pass it wrong. When you get one person in every joint circle who treats it like puff, talk for five minutes, puff backs. You know what I mean? Like they will hand you the joint eventually, but not before you get their thoughts on brick and board. And I think everybody's captivated by what I'm just saying. They're talking with the joint, you know, in their hand. They get their joint point. And then I realized, we're watching them. We're not really listening to what they're saying. It's kind of dogs to the tennis ball tracking. Yeah, we're ready for them to pass it. Um, I was also on the detective tonight with J5. I was often accused of being a useful idiot, who was a useful idiot, which I really object to be useful. Uh, anyone who knows me as I am an idiot. I was actually walking to the board for an active dinner. This is actually kind of impressive. I fell for it over the phone scan. Has anyone else wanted to be put in a conservatorship? As far as I'm concerned, Britney Spears dad could run my life. That would be great for me, actually. Sometimes I think if I had like three more brain cells that I wouldn't have put a quarter of my savings on target gift cards, it was bad. But it's embarrassing to talk about because there are a lot of red flags in retrospect. One was that everyone I talked to over the phone had a South Asian accent, which I don't know. I guess that's a red flag if you're a racist. God, God, I wouldn't know about that. No, I am like clinically stupid. I was, I'm so stupid. I technically have autism. I was diagnosed in the 90s. Well, that's what it meant. Like today means you're good at math. I don't relate to that. I have the 90s version of autism, which back then it just meant you were a kid who liked to taste the key. Anybody who was dumb, white and weird, was considered autistic. Let's see. My mom thinks vaccines cause autism, which I'm too stupid to understand that one either. I can understand both sides, but I understand the skeptics of that because it's very convenient to blame like this external thing for your kids' issues instead of their own shitty DNA. You know that my problem? My mom would bring an alternative health people and be like, yeah, it's definitely the vaccines that are making her something to do. It's got nothing to do with your Irish-American heritage and the generations of the past to do that. Half Irish half Norwegian. My dad is Norwegian. He's basically the benefit of my kids' logo. It's my dad. It's kind of unfair. Like I have to read for them. There's no one in Miami whose dad is just a dolphin. And that's a big obligation to root for this team. He is a voiceover guy. That's what he does for his job. He used to work in radio. And it's a perfect thing for him because he dumps his play all the time. This is my dad's natural thinking voice the day-to-day conversation. And he's like always on. He's got no off switch. He can pick me up once for the airport instead of being like, yeah, thank you by 12.30. He says, I will beat you without that's new. One time when we were watching the Vikings and there was a fumble forthcoming that very upset, but instead of swearing at the TV, he goes his words. He goes, this is not a well oiled machine. The anti-drug talk is very awkward with him. I mentioned drugs earlier. Anybody get the anti-drug talk? Drone up? Yeah. Okay, a couple of people. I actually think it's better to not do it because drugs are very slain based, right? And slang is very generational. Different generations don't get each other's slang. I couldn't understand what my dad was trying to tell me. American city down in something. Enders is going to try and peer pressure you. They're going to say things like, listen, Duke, you want to wobble with a fly? Then you better know how to job. Come on, Kat. You won't get sick with a little pitch of that pixie breakfast. Don't joke. It'll take you to the moon. Gals and gents, they all go through so well of your sleep and give that on a slap. It'll take you to an eagle like a tree takes to sap, dig it. I was like, I think you're just going to ask if I want to try weed. I think that's my time. Oh, my God. Okay, I have to be up here. Do some proud work, I guess. Where are you from? San Francisco. I used to work at a prison factory. Where are you from? Jordan. Okay, wow. Far out. Dude, I love the lettuce tree. I think they have the best lettuce in the Middle East region. Truly, it's like soggy in Syria. Let's be honest. It's good, but soggy in Jordan is crisp. It's not like Lebanon, though, where it's, you know, you've got the right crispness level. Where are you from, man? Washington, D.C. Hey, I love the city. For a lot of reasons. Probably my favorite one is the good record customer. Don't act like you don't want to talk about it. This thing is legendary. They get all the minute registers from the East Coast. They come down to D.C. Do men's shots. It's a lot of fun. Where are you from? France. I used to work at a prison factory in France. This is a small world. And where are you from, sir? You know, I've actually never been to... I've heard it's kind of a soup area. Yeah? What do you expect? I mean, I wouldn't know. I'm a salad guy. That's the end of the comic, me. Oh, thank you. Just to be on the tail. We appreciate everybody for having this super important... More and more, there are less and less people who can freely and honestly talk about Julia Sarge's case and what's going on. So we have to keep doing things like this and speaking out with us. It is a shame what is happening to him and to the press. But on a later note, I think I'll bring you to your next meeting. Are you ready for more funny? Okay. Just to ask before we're... I was also on the deck, right? She's a super funny state of committee. You can see all over New York City. Nice round of applause. We want to leave. Naomi Karabati. You have a really good project. And it is a letter in the air. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so happy to share the stage with all these budgets and soil it with my colleague. Anders was talking about the drug talk. A lot of drugs are legal in D.C. Did you guys know that? Drugs are nearly every drug is legal in D.C. It's raining, but nobody can do them because they work for the government. A pool track will go late on the city, I think. And it's the government really worried that people are going to smoke weed and spill government secrets. Like, you guys know that side effect of weed. Talking like that's not one of them. Maybe you could put it in a little water. Like, I had a friend that took a strong at a hole. She went in for three weeks. I don't know. I think they're worried people in the military will smoke weed and you can't have that. They got to look tough. You can't have a poor starter general smoke a baddie. And then he starts to worry about things. He said decades ago, like, I mean, I got a call, which that's just, he's in that gang of statement. Jesus Christ. He just called with the Taliban to say sorry. He's like, it's pretty late. I got a question. It's past 20 years. What's being weird? It's, what's that? Hi. Yeah, it's, it's a little bittersweet for me. That all these drugs are becoming legal now. It's how do we know who's cool? You know, I was cool because I drove a car fully tripping on a highway. You know, I don't have other stories. Like, what am I going to tell my grandchildren? They're going to be like, grandma, you did medicine for fun. There's psychedelics in our playing stones, but like, what are you talking about? I don't think in the future we're going to be able to tell children not to do drugs since we're discovering new medical benefits every day. So what's the day of program going to become? You're just going to have a police officer walking to the class. I mean, he's going to be like, right kids, just talk to your doctor and find out if Kevin is right. They want the drug war. They work for them. That's it. Yeah, this is a fun crowd tonight. We shall all go around the room and talk about our favorite over operation of the U.S. right down on the seas. And then they'll really break the crowd open tonight. Anybody? Now, nobody else wants to talk. That's right. It's my job right now. It's my job right now. I was a high school history teacher for a long time. Eventually. And I really sometimes miss it because now I already get a free gun. And I remember having Levi stapler that seems a little bit unfair to me. My students, they actually found out that I was doing staff comedy when I was teaching. And boy, oh boy, did they immediately say, okay, and ask me for drugs. But the hardest part of it was it just became impossible to just tell a joking plot. You know, the bar got way too far. I was just kind of like a normal run of the mill. You know, Abraham Lincoln was that guy who heard the book over the play. Regular crowd, please. Works every year. I turn around. There was no last month. And one of the things like, how do you expect to make this business with those kinds of shows? I'm like, David, you're a 19-year-old freshman. I'm like, we're both not going to make it. Okay. I feel like I'm really killing it with the people who can hear. So that's good. But my favorite part of teaching was going on field trips. And it's really hard to take out city kids to go on field trips. They, it's really hard to get them out. And finally, I got my students out to see 12 years of slave because it was obviously part of the curriculum. And that was, yes. Welcome, Jeremy Corbin. Okay. So they're finished or should I just give in my money? Finish. All right. This is funny though. We're going to end the way up there. I swear to God. If you don't, I don't know what I'm going to do in my life after this. But yeah, there's something beautiful about walking into a movie theater with 150 kids and seeing the faces of other people there. I'm like, enjoy your matinee. So apparently, I brought my, I'm a high school teacher. I brought my students to see 12 years of slave. Apparently there was a New York Times writer sitting with them and he wrote my principle of three page email about his experience watching this movie with my students. So I wanted to read some of it to you here today and I think you'll really appreciate it. So Dear Principal Weinberg, by way of introduction, I'm a columnist for the Times and the resident and it pains me to write to you today, but it would pain me more not to do so. This is definitely not the first draft. You can tell I have lived in many countries. I have been your students age. I watch movies almost every week in different cinemas across New York and never in my life have I been so ashamed and embarrassed by behavior in a movie theater as I was today. Oh my God. What did my students say in this movie about slavery? Oh my God. We're going to have to do this whole curriculum over again. We're going to have to really get deep into history. Apparently one of the students said that the actors had extremely small tits and that was the inspiration for this three page letter. I go on. They complained and requested something more copious as we watch one of the greatest decorations of American history take place and he goes on and on. It's really a beautiful letter. I mean we really ruined this man's movie. But I'll just read you the end of this. I will never be able to think of 12 years of slave with every award it's likely to get. Now that award-winning amazing movie without thinking of the way a group of students so far removed from those days in that history betrayed the memory of such a big history. So I wrote him a reply. And do you guys want me to read it to you? I don't know what you're saying. Dear, are we streaming? I would love to read back the names. Dear writer for the New York Times, thank you for taking the time out of your busy day of that today watching. Writing and general fury at the world to notify my principal of my students' behavior. It is true that they besmirched all of American history that afternoon at the Regal Union Square Fordson Cinema and brought shame upon Bay Ridge High School. There has been a long unfortunate and shameful history in the United States of favoring big titties over small titties. In fact, I fear I may be part of the oppressor class. Whenever I have a drink bought for me, I believe I have taken that ramen coke directly out of the hands of women with smaller titties. Perhaps Steve McQueen will one day address the tragic fate of small breasted women in 12 years upon her chest. Shame on you for letting me know that. Until then, I will be sure to address this in my curriculum directly after I cover the difference between fine arts and penis screening. I thank you so much and so appreciate that you're getting involved in the community and that you're not a cunty and touched intellectual. You're sincerely Miss Paravani, PhD cum, an instructor of American history. Thank you so much. I'm going to have a very funny interview in town from New York. I'll see you super funny. I will let you guys figure that out before I bring her up. Hey Joe, get out of here quickly today. This show is absolute chaos. Again, thank you so much for having me. I'm so glad to be here with all of you today. Thank you so much Steve. Give it up for the very fine Kelly Bachman. Kelly Bachman. Thank you so much for having me. Please clap if you can for a seat. I'm really so sorry for your loss. I've only met her a couple of times and I feel the loss and the love for her in here. And I know at services a lot of times you want to get up and tell a funny story about someone that I keep wishing I had one to tell y'all, but I know after the show you'll tell me the stories you have. Because I really like this period. I wish I had more comfort after that. I can tell you what I do when I'm going through a hard time. That helps. Last time I was going through a hard time I bought this rock. Have many of you tried buying a rock? I'm pretty sure it's a main column piece and I talk through it now. So that's something I don't really believe systems are. I don't know what groups these believe systems are. But I was raised Catholic. And the cool thing about rocks is they don't get your family any generational trauma. So hold on to some of these. I've also been getting into journaling. That's another self-help tip. My journal is a lot of, I am on my path. I am on my path. I would describe my journal as the shining meets the secret. I asked for signs a lot. I was thinking about asking for a sign here. It seems haunted. So that seems like a good place to ask. I tried asking for a sign before I walked outside of my Brooklyn apartment the other day. And a man in my sidewalk just yelled, I'm still working on it. And he ran away. I think my religion has a mistake about that a lot now. But yeah, I don't usually come to D.C. I usually come here to meet my dad. My dad drives up from my family and here we've gone to protest together. Have you ever seen a big white guy with a beard and a cowboy hat in the barreling for the White House? It could be my dad. Last time I met him was January 17th. We went to a march together. My dad was screaming. It's like the ally didn't ask for. Got it. I always think it's exciting when men lead a chance at protests for women's reproductive rights. Last time I was at the protest, a man yelled, they don't want you to stop karma change. Lady, get in line. And I looked all the women around me and I could feel that we had all collectively decided to just slap him and keep talking unless he's in the case of the sites to kill us all. But that same man said to me, he said, you know, if there were more women doing mass shootings, think about it. And we went far away against some legislation on home control. We involved a lot. And no, I haven't thought about that. But then it occurred to me, I think of women were to buy guns and say they're for abortions. I think we could get some legislation on gun control. Sometimes I think about buying a gun, folding it up to my uterus. And I was yelling, they have salt wrinkles now or the baby can't sit. Yeah, that was hard for me to say too. I haven't had my period in 85 days. Is that a sign? It's 13. Oh, it's 13. It's finally getting better. That's good. Yeah. No, I haven't had my period. I just keep googling it. Yeah. What's that about? A little webinar and baby search. Now, of course, I've taken so many pregnancy tests in the last two months. I can tell how she was starting to think I wanted. Last time, I was like, maybe this one. This is not a fault of our first chance. That's why you can just let it slide right across the counter, wouldn't you say? But then something exciting happened to me a week ago. We can all be vulnerable here, right? A kind of two-week up and came out of my vagina. Like I'd do some kind of goo. I would call it a gabadoo. You know, ladies, if you know what I'm talking about. Then my doctor ran the idea by me that I could be having a miscarriage. Which is kind of fun. No? Can we have a generational divide? No, I thought it could be kind of fun. You know, my doctor said that. By my doctor, I mean my roommate, but I showed it to him. Still, it's fun to think about miscarriage. Get the fuck out! Don't let the lady on the door hit you on the way out. So, it was the vaccine. I like this one, but I'm good. Yeah, I think we're supposed to lie to ourselves. And I think that was probably, I'm assuming that's why you're period over here. We don't really have a system. We don't have a system, yeah. Whatever you remember. Well, oh, oh, I see it now. Randy's ready for me to go. So, I'm gonna see you stop. Okay, this is a joke between you and Randy. It's the next slide, Joe. Well, let's give it up for Francie. We'll work that out. Okay, good clients. Do you remember when you talked to them? I kind of thought it was like, it's like a place of hope that people live funny when they happen. It's like kind of a thing I would hope I would do, something just a place for the community. And, you know, bringing all these people together and all the ideas, all the wonderful. And I just, I really just want to hear more about her. I really hope this will be better. So, with that, I'm gonna bring up the next comment. He's also in town from New York. A little running theme. It's like we all drove together. And he's also on Redacted tonight. He's going to the Tommy Central. Keep fit or get it going. Clap, clap, clap. Give it up for Kelly Boblin. That's what we're gonna have. Hope y'all are, you know, doing well in certain circumstances. Yeah, I'm Kelly's boyfriend. So any good will you had towards her extended to me. You have to. I had an ex-girlfriend who she broke up with me very suddenly one time while she was picking on acid. And I was completely sober. So that made it difficult for me. I couldn't really argue with her because like her third eye was open. You know, like she was seeing with this clarity that I just didn't have. She was like, I don't know what's happening right now, but I think I'm experiencing ego death. And I'm realizing right now that I am one with everything except you. We are too. Stand over there, please. Okay. I'll talk about this. I just don't want to do for a very long time. I've had recurring dreams that I am locked in a room being interrogated by Homeland Security. And I think I have these dreams because when I was a child, I was locked in a room interrogated by Homeland Security. I'm not further connected. I'm not like a certified astrologist, but I'm not kidding on astrology. Okay. I'll never synthesize my cynic in that way. But what do we do? We're going to talk about, I don't know, 9-11. So this, I get interrogated by Homeland Security multiple times as a child. This happened to me, as you probably assume, in airports. Me and my family would go see the rest of our family in Pakistan. Here's a pop quiz for this crowd, very intelligent crowd. Y'all think, well, these interrogations, they happen to me on the way to Pakistan or coming back from Pakistan? Both. Both? Not both, but I appreciate the solidarity. Which one do y'all think? You've got to choose one. Which one do y'all think? Think about it. Oh, not? Yeah, actually, of course, John gets it. Yeah, on the way, on the way, on the way from me back, on the way back, they were, when I was leaving the country, they were, uh, not, not about that. They were pretty cool about that. What are you doing? I'm like, going back to where I came from, they're like, oh, we're, we got our model minority right over here. And then on the way back, I can see that same dude on the wassup, bro, remember me? And he did not remember me. He never got a very bad memory. And so it was always on the way back. I would be randomly selected. Government of that in the news, right? You'd be randomly selected. Come back here randomly and sit with all these people who look like you randomly. Uh, it's all random. I'd be like, oh my god, America. So random. Remember when we ran into a game court? Government was in on it. So, uh, what would happen, y'all, I'll be like, I don't fuck up. You know what I'm talking about? 13, 15 and 17, you know, they take away all your stuff, separate you from your family, go down a long, winding hallway. It's scary when you're a kid. Like, you know, they don't, uh, they don't at least like, try to make it a little hungry when they don't. They really try to scare you. And I remember I'd be sitting in this interrogation room, with these two agents have something on their eyes. And then they'd go through my stuff. Remember the first question they asked me, uh, every time they asked, uh, what is your business in the United States? I was like, I don't know, you fucking halo. I'm 13, I'm not 13. I got 13 year old business. Making sure my heel pets are happy and healthy. That is my 13 year old business. But I do have these, you know, uh, these nightmares. And I woke up in one of these nightmares recently, with my girlfriend next to me. So I had to explain to her that I had these screens and she got real serious. She was like, job her. This is trauma. You have trauma. I was like, all right, whatever, white girlfriend. But I guess trauma exists now, but I just think maybe there's any other non-white people in here, this couple, uh, then all the trauma talk kind of seemed like it came out of nowhere at first. But I thought about it. I was like, you know what? I do have recurrent nightmares. And I do find myself at bars, drunkingly yelling at white dudes being racist. The next morning I wake up and I was like, I don't think they're being racist. And, uh, maybe that's called being triggered. I'm like, whatever. So what? What, what? Maybe I have a little bit of trauma. So what? It's like, so to see a therapist. I'm like, what therapist do I fit into for these problems? The real therapy, it's like kind of a white world. I don't have a therapy. I'll be sitting across from some white lady, like I need to help right now. Not an ally. Okay. Like I'll be standing across from her. I'm like, maybe I want, maybe I do want the nightmares to stop. Maybe I do want to stop yelling at happiness and white dudes, uh, as bars, uh, when I'm drunk. Maybe I want to find out, is this why I've become this like, this like anti-government leftist? Is this something that happens to me externally? It didn't even come from within. It came from outside. Am I my trauma? Am I not my trauma? Like, what is identity even? Therapist is just like, Xanax. We'll do Xanax. So yeah, I feel like I should say, you know, Muslims, uh, we're not terrorists. And I know that for a fact, because there's actually no such thing as a terrorist, which I know sounds like something a terrorist would say. But I do mean that. And we all know this, uh, the word terrorist is an extremely political term, right? Every country on Earth, their enemies are terrorists. They're never terrorists. We're never terrorists. We haven't, uh, you know, hope that one doesn't anyone else. We're never terrorizing them, apparently. And we know, the UN has never been able to even come up with a definition of a specific, precise, accurate definition of what terrorists literally is. Probably because every time they try to, the CIA comes in and says, that's not gonna work for us. So, huh, no, no, no, no, no, no. Clockwork. We can bring it up. Come on, we're Cuba, Brazil, we're in the clouds, we're Cambodia, or Iran, or Iran, or Sudan, or Somalia, or JFK, or... One more time. That's not enough. Fuck, one, two, three. fuck. Nose goes. I think this is the proud of the JFK and Spears Nose Goes show. So good. Glad that hit. Going back, the only way that you want to have a definition of terrorism, the US would actually embrace and be excited about, it wouldn't have to go from extremely vague to an extremely specific definition. Look, here's the one we condemn terrorism, obviously, and terrorism is, as we all know, anytime, anywhere, 19 news, you don't need board order here, board a plane, planes, very important for, no, not fire jets, those are cool, commercial airlines. Now, 10th in anytime, 19 news, you pray five times a day, book United, Tuesday, 747 a.m. going to New York. I know these new energy and crowds always get weird. It's all like, damn, this brown guy knows a lot about 9-11. And then, yeah, I did smell my whole thing. And, but just remember, I choose 9-11, 9-11 shows me, okay? For the record, this is, this should be a whole week back, this is a tame version of what my comedy will be, because I'm trying to get, I'm trying to get famous, people don't know who I am, yes, but I got to kind of like meet them halfway, you know? But just know this, one day, I'm going to be a famous medium, and then my comedy will be free and liberated and unstoppable. I want to have the lowest rating on bronze medals of all time. I want to have confused, frightened reviews, just like, I guess it's not really special, but it is seven minutes big on the application process at Hamas, and it's a largely medium. I'm going to say, I only got to meet Fritzi, a very small handful of times, and so I'm very sorry, I think the United States agreed that's in this room, but from the tiny handful of times I got to meet her, it was very obvious that she was an extremely sweet and kind and warm person, so I'm about to switch everyone in here tonight, and thank you so much for listening, and get out of the way. Okay, can I put on my name here? I got to do all of these meetings, he's definitely on the ground with me. One of the good things about this is the terms of, can you talk about, can you talk about, can you talk about money, good day, can you talk about, can you talk about, can you talk about, can you talk about money, George Sorrell, can you talk about how much money I get from a partner foundation? Can you talk about how much money I get from the four-down foundation, and how I moderated my views to the last year, to destroy the from all the positive and offensive now. Lady Clinton is a hack, she's sold out, I understand, she's where would she be? She's got a wrong place. Well, I got into that this night, if somebody didn't promote me, they'd get an apple, all right? So, and anyway, I'm not a fan, I'm not a big fan of Lady Clinton, she's got, is it Goldman or Goodman? Whatever it is, please be doomed. Hi, I'm Lady Clinton, can you talk about this, I'm Donald Gonzalez, you got this in terms of, I say fucking in terms of, in terms of, in terms of, in terms of my fucking Spanish the words, the fucking Kabocha, your fucking one Gonzalez. I know, I know one Gonzalez, yes I know, which seems to have a time Julian is gone and two thousand and seventy uh miss Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez and Alan there they sabotaged her in two thousand and seventy so I don't support for being any part of this entire public experiment so you know what Alan is saying what's on my fucking mind all right Amy Goodman fuck Julian is gone and now she's trying to it's on for it's too fucking late yeah anybody agree with that you don't know what she did hi Julian oh what about you and rogers don't uh are you gonna are you really going to fall into that what do you mean fall into it Alan why don't you say about your two days in that Indonesia I need some more what did that hit was a price water all right give me a fucking break I know all about it man she's into the thing one imagine five is regular I've been waiting a long time to say what I thought she should not be at the NAS press but tomorrow to be with this wonderful group of individuals who have actually supported Julian's time the very beginning she should not be there you don't fucking cut someone's legs off and come in and offer them a fucking wheelchair that's when she's done you know when she did that 2010 sabotage she came in and stand back Julian Assange said already spent seven fucking years inside that embassy and she does the stand backs stand backs and point some believes a rogers stone story after he's done seven fucking years in that embassy she does that and now she thinks she can just come back and it's gonna be forgotten why ever forgotten because it's been a very two days later Pompeo came out after Pompeo said pull up the left as if she's left it's a left doesn't like support assigns that was the time they call in the entity hostile entity so I'm gonna say it as a decent because we were very difficult I mean very hard to get this man she that's the real thing fritzy Cohen was the real thing present day fritzy colin speed from the very beginning knew what was going on she understood she would have never ever put herself in that position and a hammer guy with distance seven years in the embassy without sunlight seven years without sun no mother namey couldn't get off I don't care she's speaking the wrong to me I'm not going to be there I mean I mean because I had the dog I can't get in there it goes to the dog the dog it's not they don't believe that Julian Assange is a journalist the national press club all right thank you gentlemen don't think let's service thank you national press club give me a break it's a national break it's a madness that's what it is graphic Randy all right I'm gonna be very nice I think the whole thing people should go to to the event and like hold their nose and Amy speak no no no they should go to this event tomorrow it's very important but you don't have to you don't have to subscribe to what any good they cannot cannot atone for what she did 2017 because it was such such a violent thing to do to Julian Assange you just can't do that after this guy spent seven years and it's not that she never did what did he do hi I'm Amy Goodman I'm reading a yes what do I say next coming up on my show or she has a larger turnover rate there than a fucking sausage factory at WPAI I mean at democracy now why I'm getting you know I'm serious there's the guilt for at these at these free places the democracy had a lot to air in my day Emily concert everybody I know left out place they're there for a couple of weeks she comes in like real Patrick and George Sorrell says here put some lights inside thank you very much you understand me Leslie Leslie was Leslie kids at CBS there was the last time we had new was when Leslie Cobert was at CBS News back in the 80s and and the Hassan bus we never have they were there father Brown and Reagan said well yesterday a C-123 transport came in route from Andrews Air Force Base the man in stricken Ethiopia accidentally stranded 3,000 miles off course toward Sandinista the plane which was equipped with foodstuffs disguised as M-16s, AK-47s and Grandma Glanches whatever the call was cut down over Sandinista I'll have more disinformation as it becomes available for us she is a lot like cookie cook only they know who cookie cook is these two over there cookie hood a lot of fencing on cookie cook am I right yeah look at what you heard Margie knows Margaret Constance even though she wasn't this great as far as all time sure that we should spend more time now shitting on Amy good because I'm having a lot of fun doing listen if I had her kind of money we could we could save WPAI we could save for you though it's specific but you know there's not enough for her she wants to be uh Mary and Davis versus uh wife I don't know I don't know all right Amy here let's give you everything so you can say can we talk about you talk about can you say all right let's you know this one over here is real journalist this thing over it is a real journalist if you saw it's to be honest news now you don't have that anymore you don't have that anymore now all you have if you want to see it in our MSNBC there's nothing but shit panels of discussion by the same people you know you've got uh you've got one blitzer and five people and you get five different points of view the right to far right to extreme right the fastest right and then third panel discussion now I'm going to now let's fucking think the horse is out of the barn by someone that does not fuck around with it's not hold back if you've been patient you've been there all night long uh and the only person that can close this show for the for people like yourselves who are as politically you know into this I am not as soon but you know really the joy one of the events when you change all right so that's the fourth time that's it all right you're going to freeze off another one yeah thank you consortium this is thank you for if not looking it's going around here's a couple of this so max is funny oh yeah he's funny and he's feeling stupid a servant can call it talking about the rags kids that can't think of but fritzy absolutely loved max more than any germus z is the real germus would you please bring up max bring it on i think it's not a good thing listen that is appropriately weird really appropriate i'll try to be at the event tomorrow what's it called this is something trying to go hard struggling it's going to be like what like 12 committed anti-war activists who always stood in the sange and Amy Goodman so i don't know maybe i'll give you the first math issue do that but i'm still getting fired from down here and i'm appropriate for you so yeah i don't know randy appointed me to do stand-up like a few times ago and i just figured my profession as a journalist is a fucking joke so well it's only literally the worst profession on earth i'm really ashamed to be a journalist but that's sort of what i was trained to do as part of the unskilled middle class and i grew up in washington do andrew lesley like as a kid uh can you come to my bar mitzvah yeah that was fucking weird it's like the proverge we have different administration but yeah so when you grow up in bc i've been here for for decades decades i was here when it was when there used to be black people here i'm not thank you so much okay i live in southeast here in anacostia it's a black neighborhood or maybe what's down on this tree white neighborhood all the white people come and you know where a white person lives they always put like a flag over so it's like they just landed on the fucking room so we're here an american flag we've got a flag to some random state that i'm from like or gone or we got a lgbtq cia flag we're in front of it we have a really good like equity there and and we got a black black matter yard sign and uh yeah i'm sure there's a black man on my lawn next to my black black matter sign so that's what's going on in bc right now that's the reality of cappuccino city and you can live here for three decades and still not know how to get around thanks to cure on farm river design this place is like they're designed to prevent and invading arnie from getting around and i got to use gps everywhere like go to my parents house i gotta use gps and the gps the voice in losy the city breaks like take proceed to the right lane and take exit eight to george washington part day south now burning to 395 and ronald rake and the national airport and the lulls you to sleep and they say so many fucking things at the same time that you start getting like simultaneously lulled and lost and confused so i found a way to renew ai technology to change it to something that would actually i would remember and would alert me which would be the the voice of my dead jewish grandma exit eight b proceed right to exit eight b to national ronald rake and wait a minute why did they why did they name an airport for that for that lousy horrible horrible horrible actor that monkey ronald rake and he was horrible when he did to the air traffic controller oh you're not going to turn right after all i've done for you i blocked you and i hope you're not okay i'm leaving i'm gone i'm leaving by everyone god here did anyone come from out of dc i've stayed yeah quiet well you didn't have to catch a flight because you're from like ronald ronald so yeah one of those fighting races but i mean anyone who's trying to fly right you're gonna have a hard time what is the cancellation rate of flights like five seven percent ten percent it's out of control all the southwest flights that went down and the transportation secretary he's not finding him he's not doing anything he's like he's like well we tried to um we gave you the opportunity to go to the counter and wait in line and potentially get a refund if you were there and weren't there and what this means though is something good in a way because it although it couldn't be something bad from a symbolic point it means we will not in any in the near future have our first openly gay president you might have a closeted gay president because of your republicans but not an openly gay president as mayor peed mayor peed was grown in the same political laboratory it's the first black president to be owned by the israel abu brocco obama he talks the same way you know they talk the same way they're like i believe we need to believe in the better future of tomorrow with the audacity for our children because the children are our future means absolutely nothing and i was waiting you know for pretty judge to be president because do you remember when obama was president and after letting all the white ministers off and not prosecuting anyone for the financial collapse and the gigantic hustle at the vampire squid and pulling sacks around the country that he started lecturing black people everywhere he went or lesson here we want me to pull up her pants stop watching sports on i'm the white people don't have to do that but you do i was hoping there would be like the first gay president to lecture gay people it would be kind of interesting you know is he even gay because i remember when gay people were interesting they were kind of a little often like they had a sharp point of view kind of like you know jews used to be before zionism it would just get up there wasn't gay people pulled their pants stop having prostitutes started orgasms and doing poppers and decorating straight pink songs you need to be like a middle class square like me i wonder if chaston is his beard i can't even believe he's gay but i personally as a jew i want to be the first jewish president to lecture american jews on the crimes of apartheid israel never happened why did they never get back to supporting that shit water palestinian children dropping 5 000 pound gvu bunker buster bonds of multifamily homes and we're supposed to be like i'm this way i'm this way i'm this way i'm this way i'm this way i'm like that that's part of my identity you know so if they're letting this way out i'm like okay i don't know so i would like to do maybe i'll run the people's party ticket yeah it's not a good uh it's a 49 more states and i'll do it and yeah as the first jewish president to lecture jewish people here's something that i would say i would say that this is my address to jewish americans to jewish america as a people who have suffered displacement and genocide it is completely morally and ethically unacceptable and antithetical to our jewish traditions that we would support the same against the palestinian people ladies and gentlemen the president london's been assassinated we are now going to appoint a king jeffreeze the second black president to be controlled by the israeli lobby as president of the united states yes yeah jerry jerry cornydine and do that much and they basically did the same thing where's your important phone call like you're not even labor leader anymore come stay for randy didn't stay for me he didn't stay for you know he left with he was down there with a progressive international or i don't know they're all i know is that they have helvetica font on their website and they're socialists like i don't know if i can trust socialists who have helvetica font that she is too clean it's too corporate they're the helvetica socialists all right jeremy come back i had some foreman jokes but no i mean he was he really didn't do that he's like i would respectfully ask that you yes i would please respectfully ask that you recognize that palestinian technically qualifies human beings as well i would you explain your dissimistic statement about the biological qualification of palestinian such perfectly human beings this is absolutely not acceptable in jewish people everywhere extremely angry and you know that was that was it along with break and along with the but it's democracy this is our managed democracy we live in a managed democracy it's very hard for any of us to make any headway here and they're not going to come out and like assassinate me like that or just assassinate me on on wikipedia or you know if you actually make an impact on like me like truly a massage well you see what they do so it's such a great democracy i mean how excited yes just to bring it back to fritzy the most the thing that you can say about fritzy is that she was not a phony she's not a phony and i'll bring it back to fritzy but i just wanted everyone to remember the vote we just had on the referendum on sending a hundred billion dollars to Ukraine remember that that was also an awesome display of democracy um and yes fritzy believes in real democracy and she she created a space like this that was democratic um actually this is the longest i've gone about being interrupted in the town of in by fritz and co and that but it actually doesn't feel good it feels kind of like avoided there's a void um me and ania were planning a trip overseas to europe several months ago and i got a call from fritzy while i was in the corner i was blue and i had heard that she wasn't well so i was wondering what the poll was about and she said i'm not going to name the organization so this organization has been incredibly weak on the ukraine proxy war do you have their number i want to call them this is so unacceptable how soft they're getting that's who fritzy was and she was literally dying and she was still fighting for our future and still trying to get rude to people and she was always focused on the future and the president whereas you know a lot of other people as they get to that age they dwell in nostalgia in the past she was always focused on the future as ania mentioned she reached out to us i did not necessarily know who she was although she was at our circle but she made a point of reaching out to us cultivating us bringing us to the tavern in and supporting us a lot of people there's like there's like literal websites who funds the braze um like like we're something like corporate gargantuan well one person was fritzy kohen you know he's on steve rick lush and john and she supported us as much as she could but she also supported us in ways that were not uh well as tangible for example she supported our friend white reed as he was starting his journalistic career and here's why what put him up in an adjoining apartment here when he you know probably put in a reported housing in dc and he sits on one to report from the ground in donbas report from bolivia report from europe and do incredible work and it was you know people like fritzy fritzy supported people like him as much as she could and it's really made i've seen it make a difference in people's lives but the most important thing was the community that she gave us whether we were hanging out at her house in her kitchen uh whether she we were at the tavern in it was the community that we wanted so there was one person who was always pivotal to that and that was dave ruby let me bring dave on i just want to thank fritzy possibly for bringing dave into our lives and i know that he is going to be a pillar in continuing the legacy that fritzy and so and so all of it and so you know i think one thing that has fritzy on so much out pandemic restrictions that people didn't understand was how it fractured communities and forced people into their homes and onto screens by design she understood that and she struggled to form the whole like to create this community so i think one thing we can do stick together overlook our petty differences and continue to fight what matters whether it's doing a song whether it's stopping this insane proxy war and future wars and to honor the legacy of fritzy in that way okay you'll do that you know you're all star fuckers and july member of part of this all right so max once again please take a seat for us that was apparently the only thing i agree we have is one person who has been involved in the civil rights movement all of her life all of her life i saw that great picture before that he said jones we know about that but i want to thank before i get to where i want to thank everybody for coming in uh new york city nyc pre-assigns my uh editor and the engineer of uh sans can't gather freedom i can't help me lane i want to thank uh i want to i really want to thank you if you go and start incentives okay i'll let me see you first you're only lower than this near one of you if you go over and you go and if you look inside the program page to ask if you read this beautiful piece what do you call it is that an epitaph or is that an epitaph i don't know what's the method for friends for what we wrote there i don't know however i'll see what it is i know it's very it's not a eulogy it's it's a personal thing but if you read that andrew wrote it and uh look at page two of the wonderful beautiful dynamic program that you put together yeah fucking s cost me a hundred dollars and that's mine that's my fault everybody else see brown who's okay i don't think they're dc actually first signs and everybody who performed tonight if i did mention you i don't start and so listen i don't want you to go away we are going to close this because prissy i saw the emails she said how do i reach loosey murphy loosey murphy has closed every one of these programs she is a long-term lifelong civil rights activist and one of the best singers that i met in this city or across the country and she knows he jumps you put together so i'm i want you to listen to uh loosey murphy who's going to close it in memory of this beautiful woman that i love i didn't know her but just a year and a half but i totally loved it it's incredible so here's loosey murphy you're going to go down thank you for steve jones and for staying the rest of it and in action s cost me's actually came early to tune it out so that uh my nerves wouldn't jangles but i'm actually going to ask you all to to sing a song with me in uh the african tradition of calling the spawns so i'm going to sing you a lot and you're going to sing it back to me and can i mention one thing james james james the guy who drove the truck for three and a half sounds because i just feel the the spirit of um what i don't see