Adam Curry: Going into the bin baby. Adam curry, John C Devora.
January 28 2020 for this short award winning keyword nation
media assassination episode 1629
Unknown: is no agenda
Adam Curry: taking the piano propaganda and broadcasting live
from the heart of the Texas hill country here in FEMA Region
number six in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry
John C Dvorak: in from Northern Silicon Valley where we call it
propaganda. I'm John C. Dvorak.
Adam Curry: It's all propaganda. All of it, all of it. All of it.
All of it. Oh, my goodness. Texas is propaganda central
right now. Oh,
John C Dvorak: ye. Ah, the convoy.
Adam Curry: Eagle. Take Back Our borders. I really I must alert
everyone. This is Abbott has been activated. This is all
politics has nothing based in reality. And everyone's getting
all jacked up.
John C Dvorak: Really see the photo of all the tractors? Yeah,
well, I consider it a iPhoto. Because it's like where it was.
Where is this thing where you have these, these tears? Like a
hillside with tears and tears and tears all with 1000s
attractors, supposedly at the Texas border.
Adam Curry: I'm telling you, of course, people are going to show
up at the border. Let me run through a couple of clips
because this is the battlefield is now between your ears. This
is and you'd think oh yeah, everyone. Yeah. We're the good
guys. Now you're being propagandized. We're talking
about a two mile stretch of border. There's people walking
across three miles down the road. But oh no, it's going to
be take back our borders. Texas
Unknown: responded Friday to Washington's demands for border
access with demands of its own for the federal government.
Demands for proof wrote Attorney General Ken Paxton have the
government's authority to turn a Texas park into a port of entry
anytime you might spend suing Texas should be redirected
toward enforcing the immigration laws Congress already has on the
books, Paxton wrote, a strong response came as Customs and
Border Protection officially reported more than 302,000
encounters at the southern border in December. The highest
monthly number ever recorded. More people than the entire
population of the city of Plano Governor Greg Abbott said today
he had asked the president eight times to help with no response,
giving him constitutional authority to protect the state
from an invasion. Dallas appellate lawyer David Cole
thinks the invasion argument has some weaknesses. But he said
Texas may be able to make an argument on exactly how much
control over immigration, the federal government actually has
call agreed it is very awkward right now having military and
law enforcement both on opposite sides of all of this down at the
border. The governor also noted today, he believes all 25 states
that are backing Texas in its efforts would be willing to send
troops to help if they're needed. All right,
Adam Curry: time to load them up. Get it ready, locked and
loaded. We're going to the border don't go. Oh my god, I
John C Dvorak: thought you were going well, I
Adam Curry: was gonna go until first of all, we have boots on
the ground, plenty of boots on the ground. Obviously people are
sick of what's happening at the border. But this is nothing more
than a Republican Party setup against Biden, of course. And I
can think I can reasonably prove this. I'm not quite sure what
Tucker is doing. If he's really just a willing idiot and all of
this but he had Ken Paxton on our State's Attorney General,
John C Dvorak: isn't it the guy that tried to impeach Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. So how's he a guy? Who what's the deal with him? First,
let's get a little background on this guy. First of all, the
Republicans in Texas tried to get this guy out. But now he's
like their spokesperson. Yes,
Adam Curry: there was a battle for him. And I don't think it
was there all the Republicans but there was definitely a
faction that did not like him. And and I have to say that the
title a guy seems like a pretty reasonable guy. He's doing good
things for the state. But now it's clear that Abbott is just
the global shill. You have to realize you've got from
seriously from a callin airport. There's there's they're
basically bringing in young age men not to create a an army
inside of America. They're cheap labor. And it's Republican and
Democrat. You know, companies, you know, it's just companies
capitalist. Our children are too lazy to go on work and crappy
ass jobs. And so we need to bring them in. And they're
walking right through TSA of this is all the United Nations
Office of international migration and the faith based
organizations that are that are paid 1000s of dollars for the
migrant resettle immigrant resettlement program. It's all a
scam, and we're all being played. And when I heard this
short exchange between Tucker and Ken Paxton, it has nothing
to do with what's going on with with, with the immigrants in
America. It's about getting Biden out and the Democrats and
Unknown: it's just propaganda. So what would happen if Biden
decides to quote federalize the National Guard of Texas? Look,
he can do that any President can do that. I think that that
pretty much ends his election possibilities, not that there's
that good now anyway, but this is becoming the number one
issue. When you come into a state like Texas that I think
people can clearly see. We're just trying to protect ourselves
from crime and terrorism and a lot of bad consequences, I don't
think and now these liberal sanctuary cities know the same
same problem. They've got just a little bit of what we have. And
they know that this is real. So I think it's becoming more
Americans are becoming more aware. And I think if Joe Biden
decides to force that onto us by taking over the National Guard,
I think it's an automatic loss. He's done. And so you know, in
some ways, you have to suffer with the consequences for a few
months if he does that, which I still hope he doesn't. But in
the end, he loses the election. Absolutely. If he does that. Oh,
it
Adam Curry: seems like this is only about the election, Ken
Paxton, Tucker, please lead the witness some more. Do
Unknown: you think it's possible that he will? I mean, I guess
it's possible. No, but what? What would you rate the
likelihood?
John C Dvorak: You know, I don't know. I mean, by the way,
anybody who says, you know, first they get into the topic,
and then they milk it. And then just to stretch it even more, is
a question you can't answer. What do you think's the
likelihood? What's your percentage? One to 10? That'd be
next year? What is your, you know, just drag it out? That's a
good, good catch. Yeah,
Adam Curry: it's leaving the witnesses obvious. It's obvious.
Okay. We'll continue.
Unknown: Do you think it's possible that he will? I mean, I
guess it's possible. No, but what what would you rate the
likelihood? 20? You know,
I don't know. I mean, I don't really think Biden's thinking
about this much. I think it's his his his handlers, whoever
behind the scenes making those decisions. That was I could
probably better give you an answer. But, you know, I have no
idea what he'll do. Because I don't think he knows what he's
going to do. And I after he's done. I'm not sure he even would
recognize what he did. So if I knew who was making that
decision, I could actually direct questions, or somebody
could I think that would be helpful, but we don't country
right now. Yeah,
no, I don't I've never met someone who could answer
conclusively who's in charge the United States. Obviously, it's
not him. It's
Adam Curry: only about who's in charge and Biden's gonna lose.
It's a lose lose for him. I mean, that that, that was kind
of embarrassing. It's like, if you really want to talk about
the problem, talk about the problem. And clearly the the
busing was the setup. I'm not saying that that was wrong. I've
been I'm not saying that. I don't agree with hay, give it to
the sanctuary cities. All of that is correct. But we are
being played. And we're being played and you called it on the
last show with the take back our border.com website which seemed
very sketch sketch, I said it's sketch 700,000 trucks. And so
this is Fox Business News. They bring on a Texas representative.
I don't even know who this guy is, but he's a Republican. And
he goes too far and he shows his hand but even the setup were
first they show you the map. Look at all these Republican
states. All the governors that are backing Texas. Hmm. Do you
think it's political,
Unknown: Texas now receiving support from 25 Republican
governors all backing Governor Abbott's border actions blaming
the Biden administration for the crisis? I want to bring in Texas
Congressman, Lieutenant Colonel Keith self, Congressman, good
morning. Let's talk about this trucker convoy, you brought this
up just a moment ago. So this is called take our border back. It
kicks off Monday. So you've got multiple starts. You've got
trucks leaving from Virginia Beach that are going to go
through Texas, Arizona, California. On the website, it
describes the vent events as a peaceful assembly, encouraging
all freedom loving and law abiding Americans to attend. I
saw that you posted on AIX, to raise awareness about that. You
obviously just mentioned it a moment ago. I understand that
you're going to be speaking once they get to Eagle Pass. I also
see that it's gonna go through Yuma it's gonna go through San
Ysidro, California as well. Seven or 1000 vehicles. That's
the prediction here. How do you keep that well peaceful, and on
track. That's a lot of trucks.
Well, the people that have organized this are the same
people at West California to DC with the truckers rally I
understand we're going to be joined by Canadian truckers so
these people are committed to a peaceful demonstration I'll pay
Adam Curry: attend Shouldn't what he's saying here. He's
saying all these the people who did the trucker convoy to DC and
then he says, and we're going to be joined by the Canadian
truckers, what? Seriously now? The Canadian truckers? They're
going to he's he is playing on visuals. Oh, yeah. The Canadian
truckers. Yeah, we were all for the Canadian truckers, it'll
even bring in the farmers and on
Unknown: track. That's a lot of trucks.
Well, the people that have organized this are the same
people that went to California to DC with the truckers, I
understand we're going to be joined by Canadian truckers. So
these people are committed to a peaceful demonstration that
we've had enough. The American people have had enough. were
demanding that the Biden administration do its job,
enforce the laws on the books, and secure our border 8 million
people during the Biden administration. That's more than
the population of Ohio. This is the time for us to rise up as
the American people can demand that our president do his job.
Adam Curry: All right. So he I don't believe this for a second.
I do not believe there's going to be 700,000 trucks. They set
that number out there. The number is being propagated
everywhere. And then, of course, the Fox Business News model. As
the obvious question, his answer is quite interesting.
Congressman,
Unknown: I love the fact that people are standing up and using
their voices peacefully. But we know that bad actors in the past
have co opted these types of events, and done everything they
can to make the peace loving Americans look bad. Are you
concerned that there might be some sort of CO opting of this
con going?
That's always probability, but you learn as you do these
events, what?
Adam Curry: That may be a possibility. But why would you
say that may be a probability?
John C Dvorak: That's always a possibility. Oh,
Adam Curry: you said probability.
Unknown: That's always a probability.
Adam Curry: But you probability. I don't like that. I don't like
that. I don't like it.
Unknown: Probably probability, but you learn as you do these
events. So know that that might have been in the past. So
they've got measures in place to make sure that does not happen.
And I am hopeful that that will not happen because this should
be a peaceful movement of the American people joined by other
nations if they want to come this is the Canadian farmers,
trucker. This is the German farmers. This is the French
farmers release the Dutch farmers. This is a movement well
beyond the United States that people are simply tired of the
overreach of their federal governments that were pushing
back. Now is the time.
John C Dvorak: Well, how many federal governments are there
besides ours? How can they always say, I've noticed this
before? Recently, I don't have any clips, but where they're
referring to like the French federal government or the or the
British? And they say, well, the federal government?
Adam Curry: Federal Government's Exactly. So a couple things
here. So you know, the Biden administration, I don't know if
I actually have a clip of that, I think actually do. said, Oh,
where we're stopping all LPG export license as an
immediately. That's all they're trying to screw with Texas? I
don't think so. I think what what Biden is trying to do is
keep lots of gas in America and maybe do something about
inflation, lowering liquid lowering natural gas prices, it
doesn't seem like that was a punitive move. All these
messages everywhere. And then of course, what do you do on the
degree they
John C Dvorak: should be putting that gas into into play here?
Yeah,
Adam Curry: well, and that's what they're doing. It has
nothing to do with the
John C Dvorak: just stopping export license doesn't mean they
stopped pumping now. And
Adam Curry: so immediately, we get vice. I want to remind
everybody that Vice went bankrupt and was purchased by
one of its major debt holders, Soros. Soros investments, for
$200 million. They wound up buying it for like $2. And here
is their headline, protest. convoy headed to southern border
is calling itself an army of God. Experts say that the
Christian nationalist rhetoric adds a dangerous dimension to
the standoff between Texas and the federal government. And this
is written by Tess Owen. And let's look at some other VICE
News story by test Oh, an extremist call for civil war and
succession over Texas border ruling. Far Right Congressman
explains there aren't enough white people joining the army
Republican wants schools to call animal control on furry
students. Come on, people get it. That's a good one. have
actually this is a war for your mind. And well let's get some
joy read to balance out the coverage here something
Unknown: called take our border back convoy noted this on a line
today. And here is a polite gist of the text in this invitation.
It says calling all truckers bikers, law enforcement,
Veterans Military elected bikers. Yeah, we
Adam Curry: need some bikers, all truckers we're podcast our
spotlight
John C Dvorak: podcasters bikers, law
Unknown: enforcement, veterans, military officials, business
owners ranches and freedom loving Americans. It's supposed
to start in Virginia Beach on Monday. Its separate rallies on
February 3 In your Eagle Pass Texas yuma arizona and San
Ysidro, California. They're saying it's supposed to be a
peaceful convoy and active, active activism lineup of people
sounds a lot like the lineup of people who were at January 6.
Adam Curry: He says, It sounds like the same people that were a
January section.
Unknown: A lot like the lineup of people who
were at January 6, right? Listen, as long as it's
peaceful. I support people's right to booze. Yeah, you know,
they don't like was having an aborted bout means it's
peaceful, right. But this idea this
John C Dvorak: is peaceful, right?
Adam Curry: As long as peaceful right? As long as these peaceful
Right? Right,
Unknown: by all means protest laws is peaceful, right. But
this idea that trying to spark some sort of civil war, that's a
real problem. That's not That's not a thing. And you know, when
you look at that map, you see a lot of places where there are
very few people. And that, you know, the places in between
places are the places that are angry, they are the places where
the power doesn't reside in creature, and therefore, and
they want to be separate from the places where it does reside,
because the biggest universities are not there. The biggest
cities are not there. They feel overwhelmed, but you cannot, you
know, plan to break away from the United States just because
you feel overwhelmed. You have to win the argument. And that is
where they are failing.
Yeah, I think a lot of people forget what
John C Dvorak: the, yes. What argument is he talking about?
He's just talking
Adam Curry: poop. He has nothing to say nothing.
Unknown: Well, but you cannot, you know, plan to break away
from the United States. Just because you feel overwhelmed.
You have to win the argument who
John C Dvorak: wants to break away from the United States
because they feel overwhelmed. That's
Adam Curry: what this is the propaganda. Oh, they want us to
just slow that in. Yes. Yes. They want us to cede
Unknown: break away from the United States just because you
feel overwhelmed. You have to win the argument. And that is
where they are failing.
Yeah, I think a lot of people forget that the what originally
sparked the notion of Civil War was the it was an election. It
was the election of Abraham Lincoln, who the slave owning
South slaveholding South did not want to be the President of the
United States. They feared he took away their money making
human bondage industry. Yeah,
Adam Curry: Human Bondage industry. Okay, well, let's just
throw a couple more on top of it. Let's bring in the ladies
from the view. We need to do more of this more. Tim Scott
Unknown: shocked a lot of people because he claims to be a man of
faith, just like Mike Pence claims to have been a man of
faith. They have every religious person scared that they're
coming for their religion, while the devil takes their soul. They
are not even walking in the path of as Tim Alberta said, you can
either take up the sword with a strong man like Donald Trump.
Jesus, they
Adam Curry: they're quoting some kind of scripture here, John.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, they're butchering some sort of
Scripture, calling Donald Trump a strong man, a strong man who
Unknown: takes their soul they are not even walking in the path
of as Tim Alberta said, you can either take up the sword with a
strong man like Donald Trump, or you can walk in the path of
Jesus. They have all completely you know, in their cheek I was
to their face I was making about
Adam Curry: a turn their cheek on their faith. This is a new
one.
John C Dvorak: You're these these women on the viewer, a
bunch of atheists. I love the turning
Adam Curry: their cheek on faith is fantastic. There
John C Dvorak: are a bunch of atheists and then they go off
every once in a while. I don't know what the point of going in
the other direction is. I have It's baffling to me to listen to
these people. Well, that's why it's fun.
Unknown: Jesus, they have all completely, you know, in their
cheek, I was to their face. I was
thinking about all of this today. And it's like, you know,
Trump
Adam Curry: was thinking smoke was coming out of my ears.
Unknown: I was to their face. I was thinking about all of this
today. And it's like, you know, Trump is his word of the times.
You don't like when Ronald Reagan was around? John Kennedy
and the rest of them. There was a certain decorum in the
atmosphere. There is total chaos now because of social media, and
all of the things that he any anonymous idiot can make a
statement. He
is scary. Many people realize that they were this is really up
to us. It's not up to the media. It's not up to us at The table
it is strictly in your hands. What country do you want to be
in? What country do you want to be in? Do you want to be in a
country where people can live up to their potential no matter
what their faith is, no matter what their visual is, no matter
what their proclivities are, the country you want, where you can
be who you are, or do you want to be in a country where the man
says, day one, I'm going to be a dictator.
Adam Curry: Oh, misquote, dictator, dictator, come on. So
they're just, you know, again, just go listen to C span in the
morning you'll hear Democrat line, he's going to be a
dictator. You'll hear we're probably one from day one.
You'll hear Republican line. Biden's letting the man ruining
the country.
John C Dvorak: Just just
Adam Curry: to prove a gummy nerd is 33 wrong because he's
such a douche in the troll room.
John C Dvorak: I'm very nerd 33
Adam Curry: Yeah, he's a douche.
John C Dvorak: He's a douche various a guy or a girl. You may
have misgendered him? Yeah, I
Adam Curry: hope I did. But Adam isn't even aware that the
Canadian truckers are really ruling on the field here. Yeah,
I am douche.
Unknown: A federal court has ruled the government's use of
the emergencies act during the convoy protests back in 2022.
Was not justified. The CBC is Karina Roman, is live in Ottawa
and Karina even reading over their decision, which runs
nearly 200 pages. So we're just all kind of getting our heads
into it. But so far, what have you been able to glean from it?
Okay, so
let's just go over the language that the judge has, in terms of
his conclusion,
Adam Curry: this was actually quite an interesting,
interesting take that happened. And I think it's worthy of two
clips, that, you know, Trudeau going after the truckers, taking
their money, blocking their money was completely illegal.
And they're homina, homina homina, about
Unknown: him, saying, I have concluded that the decision to
issue the proclamation that would be the invoking of the
emergencies Act does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness,
justification, transparency, and intelligibility and was not
justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal
constraints that were required to be taken into consideration.
Now, obviously, that is news that he found very differently
than the public inquiry, the Reloop reloc Commission, which
found the government was justified, in invoking emergency
sacked Andrew. And of course, you know, in this 190 Plus
pages, there are many, many reasons, many goes over the
arguments of both sides, just to give people a sense of what
parts of the charter we're talking about. We're talking
about section two B, which is the freedom of expression,
Section eight, which is search and seizure, he did not find
that there was any infringement on the right to assembly because
even though of course, you know, people were restricted in where
they were allowed to go. That is, you know, allowed with
reasonable limits, but in terms of freedom of expression, and
search and seizure, that's where he found there were
infringement.
Adam Curry: Actually might have been blue douche 33 I don't know
if someone named douche
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I know about all this. But so what what
difference does it make? What do you make this point? What
difference does it make? They can't, you know, make Trudeau
bend over and take care of 20 lashes? Well,
Adam Curry: it was really the it was Chris Chrystia Freeland,
who, who was in charge of this operation? I do have she
John C Dvorak: resigned. I think that she well, she came out and
apologized for some
Adam Curry: what she's not. She's not a horrible woman not
apologizing here. So
Unknown: we are aware of the court decision. We have
John C Dvorak: you noticed the cadence. Oh, yeah. It this is
the same meal. You have Susan Rice. Lisa Monaco, they all have
the same exact they're all part of some sort of some sort of
underlying middle you didn't
Adam Curry: she go to? There was something about her background
that I recall when we look it up. I would listen to the clip.
So
Unknown: we are aware of the court decision. We have
discussed it with the Prime Minister, with Cabinet
colleagues, with senior federal government officials and experts
experts. We respect very much Canada's independent judiciary.
However, we do not agree with this decision. And respectfully,
we will be appealing it. I would just like to take a moment to
remind Canadians of See how serious the situation was in our
country. When we took that decision, the public safety of
Canadians was under threat. Our national security, which
includes our national economic security, was under threat.
Under threat, it was a hard decision to take. We took it
very seriously, after a lot of hard work, after a lot of
careful deliberation. We were convinced at the time, I was
convinced at the time, it was the right thing to do. It was
the necessary thing to do. I remain and we remain convinced
of that.
Adam Curry: So she says there was it was necessary, there was
a national emergency. That's actually the part that is most
damning as there was there were issues in Ottawa, but no way was
there a national emergency.
Unknown: And in terms of the justifiability. Andrew, you'll
recall that there was a lot of talk about the CSIS definition
of a national threat to security. And what's interesting
is the judge found, it doesn't actually matter whether or not
CSIS said that there was a national security threat or not
me that should be given weight, that, you know, it's something
to actually consider, but it's not the sole reason to invoke
it. So you might say, Well, then why did he say they were
unjustified? And, and, again, Andrew, I've only read parts of
it. But from what I gather, it really comes down to this was
not a national emergency, that the police and the provincial
authorities in different regions where we were talking about
Alberta and Coots, or whether we're talking about Quebec, or
Windsor, they were able to deal with the problem at hand what
really the problem was Ottawa, and that means it wasn't a
national emergency. Any talks as well about some of the financial
penalties they brought in in terms of seizing and freezing
bank accounts, because that affected people beyond just the
people they were trying to affect that itself was an
overstep. But he does say that the Cabinet had the right and
the power to invoke in terms of that is within their power, but
they did not have the justification. It was an
unreasonable evidence before Yeah, I got it.
John C Dvorak: Then again, yeah, so what?
Adam Curry: Well, you You said yourself to our our friendly
Canadians of Great America is that they're good at complaining
and maybe they'll complain enough.
John C Dvorak: Yes, I did bring it when they complain
Adam Curry: and they keep keep complaining that that's very
offensive. And they're complaining, complaining about
me
John C Dvorak: date. Well, just for people who don't I was on
Grand American. I have a thesis about the American Revolution.
The difference between the Canadians and the United States
when they were both run by Britain, is that we had a right
we had an armed revolution where a violent folk, the Canadians
never did, they never had an arm revolution. They just complain,
they complain and complain. And they are right and even they
kind of know they're really good at complaining. Yeah, it works.
And it does work. It does work is different. It's a different
approach in our approach but
Adam Curry: so while we're in in this season of reveal now we
know Okay, so that was bogus. The our trucker thing this
700,000 trucks is a boat I don't
John C Dvorak: understand why any trucker would go down to
Texas. You have to
Adam Curry: and the vibe in Texas is we're gonna get them I
mean, people are spun up seriously they're spun up Yeah,
we're gonna we're not we're not going to stand for it. I pray
that everything goes okay down there. It won't take much look
at this just look at the videos on tick tock and YouTube and
everyone's cracking up their guns and getting ready it's like
oh my god please It's not worth it not this this is not the this
is not the battleground in there I think Abbott went too far now
and it's not even him it's just the all the
John C Dvorak: all these other organizations like this others
sketchy operation sketchy say the borders org or whatever it
is. Yeah. You have to wonder what what's going really going
on. I swore I wouldn't go to the board in a million years. We
Adam Curry: have boots on the ground. So but seriously three
miles away from Eagle Pass people walking across the
border. Hello, I'm in. So
John C Dvorak: this is a there was a guy. In fact, there was,
there was a guy on one of the TV networks that was just walking
back and forth across the border. United States, Mexico. I
mean, I didn't get back and forth and back and forth.
Exactly. Now, this, you brought up the point of the replacements
you're bringing in yet because our people don't want to work
Adam Curry: migrate? Yes, migration replacement,
John C Dvorak: I have a series of tick tock videos. All right,
about the Gen Z, the Gen Z's who don't want to work now I have
kind of their latest kind of play
Adam Curry: the jingle first and play the jingle. So we feel good
about tock tock, tick tock.
John C Dvorak: No, I have different ways of looking at
this. And I've got one clip that'll kind of push it over to
one side. But there are rational reasons that and I've, I've seen
these videos, why these kids don't want to work because it's
like they're being exploited. The minimum wage isn't what it
should be. It's 40% below what it should be on and on date that
you see a lot of it, but I'm taking the more of the critical
side of this because I think I think that's always more
beneficial. If people can take criticism, even though these
books certainly can I want to play a few of these. I have
quite a few actually. But they're entertaining. I want to
start with the Gen Z dude who's quitting.
Unknown: Here's why I'm quitting my first full time job. For one
we have to go into the office every day. I have to wake up at
eight so I can get into the office by nine times even
earlier. Two, people always are telling me what to do. That's
not how I roll. You just because just because you're in a
position above me, doesn't mean you can tell me what to do.
Okay. And three, I'm not getting paid over 100k Yes, this is my
first full time job. But also I know my worth, and it's well
over 100k And I'm not getting that. So I'm excited to announce
that I am quitting and pursuing full time social media
influencer brands, if you would like to work with me, please hit
me up. Thank you.
Adam Curry: Well, this is a loaded clip.
John C Dvorak: First, yes, of course. This is noodle boy. Part
two, more or less. And this guy is just so full of himself and
he's going to be an influencer oatcakes. Sure.
Adam Curry: Which is the number one dream job of most young
people. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: well, it's it is a dream job because if you were
an influence, you could actually pull it off which is rare. You
can make a million dollars a year yeah.
Adam Curry: For a while.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, it's not forever as long as you feed the
algos. I do want to get to the classic dough didn't do I should
play this at first this is a one this woman the nine to five gals
to clip she is the one that said a lot of this off articles were
written about her she's there's at least 10 clips of her
apologizing for one thing or another. And then she finally
ended up quitting her job. And she's got a clip with that. But
this is the original clip that got everything started. And so
far as the Gen Z's being condemned by other people. And
Unknown: I'm probably just being so dramatic and annoying. But
this is my first job like my first job after college and I'm
in person. And I'm commuting in the city and it takes me puking
forever to get there. There's no way I'm going to be able to
afford living in the city right now. So that's off the table
like fucking da, if I was able to walk to work, and it'd be
fun, but I'm not. So it literally takes me like I leave
here like I get on the train at 730 and I don't get home till
like 615 earliest. And then like, I don't have time to do
anything I don't. I want to shower, eat my dinner and go to
sleep. I don't have time or energy to cook by dinner either.
Like I don't have energy to work out like that's out the window.
Like I'm so upset. Nothing to do with my job at all. But just
like the nine to five schedule in general is crazy. Being in
office nine to five like if it was remote, you get off at five
and you're home and everything's fine but like I'm not home it
takes me long to get home and like, like people are dropped to
the office like it doesn't you don't get off at five. And I
know it could be worse. I know I could be working longer but like
I literally get off it's pitch black like I don't have energy.
How do you have friends? Like how do you have time to like,
meet like a guy I don't know. Like how do you tell I'm really
dating like I don't have time for anything and I'm like so
stressed out and I'm also getting my period so that's why
I was emotional but like, am I I'm melodramatic, it's fine.
Adam Curry: I think there's a couple of things at play here
first and foremost, without a doubt wages are too low for
inflation and it is very difficult to make ends meet just
for the basics which now now of course these children are being
pushed towards Yeah, we should have universal basic income note
the basic word to that was you cannot discount several years of
work at home, which is quite preferable to I guess everybody
work at home that's much better. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: what she said herself, you know, when you work
at home you get when it's five o'clock, and by the way, that
one and I don't have any clips exemplifying this but all the
Gen Z are supposedly literally stopped. Maybe they do have one
stop at five at five o'clock. Computers off. They're out the
door.
Adam Curry: John, we saw that 15 years ago of me view. Five
o'clock. Pick up the bag. 505 Everyone's gone. Yeah, poof. And
that's and that is just a general worth that we saw during
the show. We have seen this take place. We saw the post
suffocation. We saw the pandering we saw it and this is
part of the I know it sounds Boomer ish even though I'm Gen
X, the voice of Gen X and the face or hair of Gen X I was the
head of Gen X. We saw the participation trophies. And just
to insert some quick clip into your clips. Now we have at
airports, multiple airports around the United States, the
sunflower Blaine, have you heard of the sunflower lane?
John C Dvorak: No. If you didn't already, it sounds bad. If
Adam Curry: you display the sunflower symbol, which you can
get at the airport, there's a special Lane in case you're you
know, autistic or triggered some
Unknown: passengers at Gerald R Ford International Airport may
soon be sporting a bright yellow sunflower, it's part of a
program to identify those who may need extra assistance. It's
part of the hidden disabilities sunflower program. That means
airport staff will be trained to recognize the sunflower symbol
and provide assistance and accommodation as needed. The
Sunflower item can be found at the airport's Visitor
Information Desk and security screening checkpoint. hidden
disabilities are physical or mental impairments that others
may not be able to see like learning disabilities, diabetes
or epilepsy for an airport joins over 232 Other airports around
the world aiming to make travel more inclusive and accessible
for all 432
Adam Curry: airports for the if you have learning disabilities.
Come on.
John C Dvorak: Wow, this cropped up overnight wonder who's behind
it that's worth looking into. Yeah,
Adam Curry: just popped up for me this morning. And I saw an
article and someone sent me that someone sent me a note about it.
And you know that it was for people who have autism hidden
disabilities. Hey, a my when I was a kid, blind people went
through the airport. Talk about a disability. They didn't get a
special line. But now it's like, oh, I have learning disability.
Oh, you can't learn to stand in line. No, I can't. I can't deal
with a line. I can't deal with people in the line. Alright,
back to your Tiktok sets interest.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I can't deal with people I can't stand
in line can't stand. What
Adam Curry: is happening. You know what it is? It is food
starvation. They have no nutrition. They're eating bad
food and their bread. Idiocracy is nearby. It's common
John C Dvorak: people here we go to a British, a black British
girl who is Gen Z. And here's her lament.
Unknown: And Z won't apply to jobs. Gen Z won't put up with
this. And all I can think is great. I am so glad that people
born 1997 and on have some sense not to be exploited. There's
never a reason that we shouldn't be offering salary ranges on
jobs. I've genuinely wonder what companies think jobs are for, I
would never apply to something if I don't know that they're
going to provide me with a wage that I deserve. And that's
especially true as a black woman where I know I am much more
likely to not be compensated at the same rate as my white co
workers. Gen Z. Care about equity and diversity is a core
principle for a majority of the generation. So when we're
talking about Gen Z, changing things up in the workplace,
wanting work from home, wanting to know how much they will get
paid. All I can think is great. Let's do more of this.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, we have the get what I deserve. Yeah, meme,
which isn't dollars.
Adam Curry: You know, I understand the disappointment
because I have children with this disappointment, like, I'm
working in a restaurant, but I went to college, and I got a
degree. And, and that was kind of the promise is don't worry,
you know, that just did not happen. So, you know, sold
drugs, it made a profit got it, but I was promised and now it
John C Dvorak: was promised who promised him so society or
society? Well, yes, if it was a person promising you'd I could
see that you'd have a complaint. But society can't make promises.
I should mention that you don't
Adam Curry: have to convince me by the way back in my day. It
MTV. We I think the 1987 88 interest rates were high, I
would say they were in the nine 10%. Nine, I think nine or 10%.
New York was in shambles. MTV paid. That was non union. If you
are an associate producer, an AP, which is kind of you know,
you run scripts around and you and you get coffee. No, it's
above gopher. It's an actual title you get it says but
brunette he's not old enough to know what I'm talking about. Me
you had a path there was a path to go from a P to P you could
become a producer peep these kids lived for in a in a house
in Brooklyn, which at the time Brooklyn was Brooklyn. It was
not it was not Yeah, it was not. And they had massive commutes to
get into the city. And they were happy. I mean, yeah. And they
they got by and they worked and and they were the first to be
there. And the lastly because I can become a P I can be a
producer. If I keep at it. And then I've seen many of them go
on to I see the Joey the horse de mio I see him on credit roll
of big award shows as the director used to get coffee. But
he grinded. You know. That's that's what's gone. And I'm not
quite sure how I
John C Dvorak: think you're right, that that's definitely
what's missing. Yeah. And I think it has to do with the
educational system and the so called promise from the society.
That yes, I do have a two parter here. That before we get to the
one that's going to be the end is going to be the hiring
managers, which is going to be some people actually talking
about this. But this is a two parter from a long clip. It's an
X Gen lament. And it is it's a bunch of X Gen Xers Gen Z lament
it's a bunch of Gen Z years talking socialism and universal
basic income this was actually put aside for the universal
basic income discussion. Yes, and it's it's a bunch of
different people coming in and out. And and it's got a music
bed, I'm sorry. But it's at least shows you some of the
other the other element at play here. Because that last one girl
who was a black woman who's saying we're into equity, in
other words, we're into you know, everyone gets should get
$100,000 a year, just because they're good people. So let's
start with this, this, listen to this, or know
Unknown: who needs to hear this. But the majority of your
struggles are because of capitalism having to spend the
majority of your life in forced labor. Because getting your
physiological needs met is good kept behind a paywall is not how
humans should be living their lives. Humans really have to pay
money to stay alive. We have to pay for food, we have to pay for
water. We have to pay for shelter. The Universe put us on
Earth, a planet that has everything humans needs to
survive. And yet we've evolved to the point where we have to
pay money to stay alive. And
we're working 40 to 60 hours a week, like on average. And we
cannot afford to live like we just do not make enough to pay
rent to pay for food. Everything is so expensive right now in
wages are not keeping up with the cost of living and I
think to myself, is it depression or is it just the
reality? We're living in an excess?
John C Dvorak: Oh, yeah, I've
Adam Curry: seen this. Is it depression? Well, it's part of
it is economic depression. Yes.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, a little bit. Yeah. It's a spotty. But
this is the idea that you're a human so you deserve free.
Shelter free food.
Adam Curry: And remember, Andrew Yang's property propagated this
Andrew Yang the UBI this has been propagated by many
politicians. This is out there and it's being dangled like
yeah, we need the basics. We have the rights. We have human
rights for food, clothing, shelter. We should get that for
free. That should be the basics. And then when we work we get to
party.
John C Dvorak: Face, where Valerie
Adam Curry: Gail Clark curry would say, Adam Clark curry.
Life is unfair. It was harsh. But it was said to me many, many
times
John C Dvorak: or two, there's just something
Unknown: very unnatural about being in this world, the fact
that we have to pay to live, you know, pay to have health
insurance, pay to eat and drink like money is so fucking
important. Why do we put so much power into a piece of paper and
cotton? Is it
depression? Or is it the fact that our government is more
aligned with corporate profit than human lives?
government keeps us in a perpetual cycle of struggling
and suffering that most people can't even pay attention to
anything outside of their own communities? Let alone what is
happening in the world?
Is it depression? Or is it the culture of our country that if
you can't get ahead, you're just not working hard enough? There
is
no reward for hard working people anymore? I don't want to
work anymore. What is the point you cannot get ahead?
Is it depression? Or do I just need to work harder? Three jobs
and still fucking struggling? And I'm just getting myself
farther and farther into credit card debt because I don't have
enough to avoid using it feels like I'm drowning. Is it
depression?
Are we just been priced out of existence? Water, housing,
health care,
everyone should have access to them. It shouldn't matter. Your
social economic class matter your sex, gender, racial
identity. They are basic human necessities. No one should go
without.
So what is it? Is it depression? Or is it just living in America?
Adam Curry: There's one thing that about the visual of this
clip, which I did see. And I you can't really know for sure, but
look like everyone in their car had a pretty nice car. Yeah, I
noticed. And, and I don't know that a lot. My first car, I was
on television, I was making 19,000 guilders a year on
television, which at the time was $8,000. I think, of course,
it was Dutch socialist country. My first car was a lancea. An
old lancea with the paint was all off, scraped off it. And the
wheel literally flew off while I was driving to work one day. You
know, it's like that we had Crap Cars. We worked on him
ourselves. As you can tell, that's when my wheel fell off,
because I didn't tighten it. But you know, it's like that, that
John C Dvorak: we used to work on cars. Yeah, we used to work
on our own cars and move them to your own car. Well, you have a
gun I had we had the gun. Strobe Light in the car.
Adam Curry: Can I just can I just insert a little anecdote
because this is certainly not so
John C Dvorak: well. Before you do that. I just want to mention
that last clip. When that woman was reading her laundry list,
she said she used the term racial identity. Yes. So you can
just say like, self identifies anything you want.
Adam Curry: Of course you can, including a victim. So I had not
flown since we flew to Nashville after the show. And part of the
reason why this is firstly, taking flying lessons I'm going
for my instrument rating is expensive. But Amy Lynn, who was
my instructor, 24 years old, she put herself through American
Airlines Academy took out a loan for I think $15,000 and, and
she, the timing was perfect. She got hired immediately at at a
regional airline. So boom, she was gone. So I really wanted to
make this flight so we can be back for the show, and then have
a release two nights with my buddy Vico, who I've known for
35 years in Dallas. And so the new instructor, Nick, Nick is 27
Similar story, took out loans because he wanted to be a pilot,
took out loans, put himself through flight school. 27 has a
two week old baby. His wife is now at home with the baby. He is
going to work for one year then we're gonna move back up to
Dallas get his ATP is air transport license so he can fly
on jets. He sees a future of course there is a future right
now. And you know and he's I am not a CIO so she doesn't know
who I am of course he's like you aren't MTV me back when they
played music? Yeah, the back in those days. Listens to maybe one
podcast from time to time is not on social media. It I like
reading books. I'm just saying it's not this is not par for the
course for everybody. But I was delighted and very very pleased.
He's with my instructor. The young future of America. It is
it is here it is here.
John C Dvorak: That's probably true but that's what we do on
the show but
Adam Curry: he's not on Tik Tok. So that
John C Dvorak: so we're gonna go to the last clip in the series,
which is these are. This is a radio, like Good morning zoo
show radios on the run of the radio stations and they're, and
they're reading and discussing. Yeah, everything's got you got
everything ready.
Adam Curry: I'm ready. I'm ready.
John C Dvorak: They're discussing what hiring managers
have kind of uncovered about Gen Z and I thought this was a good
way to wrap up this series of complainers 100
Unknown: hiring managers were part of this survey and they
were asked about Gen Z employees. Well, more than half
say recent calling college graduates are not prepared for
the workforce. 53% said young applicants struggle to make eye
contact during job interviews. 50% say they're asking for
unreasonable compensation. Nearly half say the interviewees
showed up wearing inappropriate attire. 21% refused to turn
their cameras on for virtual interviews. And one in five
employers say a recent college graduate had actually brought
their mom or a dad to the job interview. People are bringing
their parents to a job interview.
It's embarrassing. I thought you're gonna say when it came to
the camera and you know the virtual interview so they were
using those filters like with the dog ears and stuff like
that.
I could see that happening to now those Jen's ears lucky
enough to get the job are not starting off on the right foot.
63% of employers say young professionals can't manage their
workload. 59% say they miss deadlines often and 53% report
they're frequently late to meetings, and Gen Z has a bad
attitude to 58% of employers say the young jobseekers get too
easily offended. Imagine that 55% Fine, they don't respond
well to constructive feedback and 52% claim they have poor
communication skills. So that girl better adjust her attitude,
and learn how to dress for work and not bring mom and dad to an
interview when she has an opportunity for a better job.
Adam Curry: I think we should just change their names from a
Jen to just sunflower kids. There's a sunflower kids.
They're the ones that need to go to the special line at the
airport. They're the sunflower kids. And and it's really Yeah,
if we if we want to place blame on immigration, it's their
fault. That's why we have to bring in Yeah, I have
John C Dvorak: to assume that that's true. The good news is
that even though it's a minority, a lot of reporting
that came in because it's 52% 58% 63%. If somebody says
70%, say this, that means 30% Don't are getting good people. I
mean, they're just not as though it's not Gen Z is a bunch of bad
apples from beginning to end. Because there's some that were
brought up correctly, they're well worth they somehow got
jobs, maybe in the family store, or they worked during the
summers when they were because when I was a kid I worked during
the summers when I was in high school and college and
Adam Curry: at what when you when I was 16 Saturday job,
you're got you have a Saturday,
John C Dvorak: I had to paper routes. But I had the paper out
too. I had two paper routes. Okay,
Adam Curry: your bully for you?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I had a shopper route, which is the
moneymaker. Don't kid yourself. Once a week. It was free money.
So anyway, the thing is, I had run into kids, I give the same
thing. Yeah, maybe I did this in that when I was a kid. And they
say there's no opportunity for us because they've and I agree
with these kids who say that because we moved all our
manufacturing to China and Mexico. And there's a lot of
word areas that used to be rife with the industry or got nothing
left. Except you know, some storage facilities or store
more, you know, your place where you could put your stuff because
you got too much. So the problem is, is systemic. But these kids
have got to get a clue.
Adam Curry: The Sunflower kids, that's what I'm gonna call them
from now on the sunflower kids. So, of course, this comes from,
and I'm guilty of this too, you know, helping your kids out bad
teen as hard as you'd like. That's it, you're not getting
any more figured out. Which is what you need to do. You know,
tough love it, hey, you can't pay your rent, you got to find a
cheaper place. Or get another roommate. I mean, they get
another roommate and that's what we used to do. So it is also
parents but I will say though, even if you listen to no agenda
stream, we've got the MMO the millennial media offensive. We
got good kids out there. I would say that most of our producers
have great kids. You meet him, you meet him at meetups, they're
go getters, they they're out there they're doing stuff so
it's this Is this is not our norm. Let's put it that way.
Thank God.
John C Dvorak: No, it's just I'm guessing it's just it's not 100%
But there's a majority of Gen Z kids that are like the ones that
were toddlers
Adam Curry: sunflower kids sunflower kids, well, then
there's this this is not helping much up the road from you in
Oakland. It's
Unknown: just kind of scary in general, not even just to go to
work, but just kind of coming outside. Dariel
Crenshaw works for Kaiser Permanente oaklins largest
private employer, the health plan is directed workers in
Oakland to stay in their offices for work and lunch, because of
concerns over crime. Workers are being told to bring their own
food or have it delivered, I do
agree. Because just their safety for their employees, you know,
if you can work at home work at home, if you have to come in,
just be safe about it
in a memo issued last month and obtained by KTVU. Kaiser also
tells workers not based in Oakland, don't have any meetings
downtown, move them elsewhere, or have them online, and also
says the Claremont hotel in the hills is the only hotel approved
for business logic. In a statement, Kaiser said in part,
those recommendations remain in place for now. Kaiser Permanente
is committed to ensuring the safety and security of our
employees and physicians across all of our locations. We
continually monitor our environments for concerns,
review our practices and strengthen them whenever
possible. Many downtown merchants and other people who
live and work in the area are taking issue with these
directives. And that
is a little upsetting to hear that, you know, because you
know, everyone's trying to thrive. Everyone's trying to you
know, make business you know, it is pretty slow as it is I don't
think you want to discourage people from walking around and
kind of given to the bad elements that are running
around. I think I think quite the opposite. I think if there
are more people on the streets, there will be less incidences.
Adam Curry: Yeah, we need better examples than what's on tick
tock, you know, you better examples of people who who grind
go grind. That's That's what used to be the American dream.
I'm old now. Of course, a lot of jobs a lot of cushy job,
John C Dvorak: by the way, I thought Foley sent me that clip
exclusively.
Adam Curry: Oh, I must have picked it up from somewhere
else. I didn't get it from Foley. I don't think so. I don't
remember. There was also and this really stems from the from
the.com Bubble days. As you know, there were some reboots,
and we got this enormous true bubble of quote unquote
journalism, journalists journalism, which somehow
includes BuzzFeed. Then here is millennial extraordinaire Taylor
Lorenz lamenting the news business.
Unknown: The entire journalism industry is basically in a
freefall. Today, the Los Angeles Times laid off 115 employees,
they wiped out their entire DC bureau in an election year, they
laid off pretty much all of their sports teams, they killed
their entire tech and business section. They laid off breaking
news writers, social media editors, the list goes on. But
what's really dark is this is just the latest in months and
months and months of layoffs in the media industry. In fact, 10s
of 1000s of journalists have been laid off in the past year,
major media companies like Buzzfeed News have completely
shuttered their news operations. Time magazine also just laid off
a ton of people and Oh, Sports Illustrated basically shut down
last week. Pretty much the entire digital media ecosystem
that myself and a lot of other millennial journalists came up
in has been completely hollowed out and it's not just digital
media sites, local news has been obliterated. The newspaper
industry is cratering rails essentially dead aside from NPR
which has been gutted. Meanwhile, hundreds of workers
at Conde Nast, the parent company of pretty much every
major magazine, from GQ to vogue to the New Yorker to Vanity Fair
are on strike because they're also facing impending layoffs.
Even mainstream national media outlets owned by billionaires
like the Washington Post where I work and the Atlantic right
estore have done layoffs. If you're a young journalist say
there's almost no on ramp to traditional journalism, even if
you do get a job journalist salaries have been stagnant and
even declined. And by the way, we don't make that much to begin
with. I don't think people understand how bad the world
would be without journalists, journalists,
John C Dvorak: just as a backup to that report from her, which
was pretty concise up to say, here's the print media declined
PBS report from the same probably about the same time
that she did that,
Unknown: you know, Emory, as much as it pains me to say this
this this the story of print media is in so many ways a story
of decline Sports Illustrated, which was once considered the
standard of sports journalism today, announced they're going
to lay off most of their staff. You work in this space. Is there
anything that is working? What's the story of reinvention for
print media? Is it the nonprofit model that Evan Smith has
championed with the Texas Tribune? The
Texas Tribune is a good example. It's had some financial
challenges, but they've done incredible work on a different
model. You we have seen in the past handful of months, this
initiative called press forward, which is $500 million being
committed across I think 22 donors, foundations and
individuals to support a local news initiative. In markets
across the country. We have a lot of people living in news
deserts now in this country. And this is an this is an effort to
try to return local news to a lot of those communities
strengthen it in places where there may be fledgling efforts.
You know, Baltimore's another good example of that, the
Baltimore banner, if the Baltimore Sun is disappointing
you you should be supporting this new this new effort, which
is a startup, which is being run in part by a lot of alumni from
the Baltimore Sun. Look, in my perfect world, they both thrive.
But if one model isn't working, we have to be experimenting with
some others and a lot of those are not for profit models.
Blogger
Adam Curry: news is worthless news is news news just is news.
It's opinion that you're talking about opinion and insight. And
does yeah that's why it doesn't work with the advertising and
you know, whatever. I want to get back to that to that in a
moment. I want to take a little sidestep because the young kids
in the United Kingdom are freaking out. And I have three
clips to show what this is really about but they're
freaking out because the army chief came out with a statement
and said Oh prepare for war there will be conscription which
is fancy English for the draft and they're all add didn't get
any Tiktok clips, but they're all They're not going to draft
me I'm not going to be the arm I'm not gonna fight anybody. I'm
not going to Oh, no, I'm not gonna prepare for war. Now
Unknown: simply the United States actually they're gonna
station nuclear weapons in the UK for the first time in 15
years. And that's down to tensions escalating with Russia.
Yeah, Pentagon documents have revealed the RAF Lakenheath in
Suffolk would host the warheads that are reportedly three times
as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb.
Well, this comes as Boris Johnson has vowed would fight
for his country if the UK goes to war.
Adam Curry: Now let's listen to Boris Johnson, who is very gaunt
looking these days, no doubt from the ozempic that he tried
and he's really just promoting his column.
Unknown: Lance Corporal Johnson reporting for duty and
responding to the appeal from general sunders for a Citizen
Army and encouraging young people across the country to
think of the attractions advantages of some kind of
military training or service because the moment they think
it's either uncool or unethical, or perhaps they're not following
general Sanders, they're following Colonel Sanders to
find out what we need to do about it. My column in the Daily
Mail,
Adam Curry: so let's find out what this was really about. As
we have Sky News, where the relatively serious sit down
interview with the former minister of defense in the UK
Unknown: lucky to have to buy sell with with us this morning.
It's good to see very serendipitous because somebody
who you'll know well, General Sir Patrick Saunders, I'm not
sure if you served with him, but certainly you have. So you did.
So he's suggesting reading between the lines in the
Telegraph today that if we go to war with Russia, we could find
that our US may have to be conscripted. That's a bit alarm.
Yes, head of the British Army, one of the most cerebral
thinkers that we've got a strategist, we need to listen
and listen carefully. We've been too complacent. I think I've
said this many times with you what's coming over the horizon
should shock us it should worry us and we are not prepared.
We've had a couple of decades, three decades or so since the
Cold War, life has gone well, it's now going to get more
difficult as authoritarian states exploit our timidity
perhaps reluctance to really put fires out and the best example
of that is a democracy on the on the corner of Eastern Europe
that's in its third year is now in conflict and we've not
resolved that. So Patrick Saunders is saying prepare for
what's coming over the horizon. There is a 1939 field to the
world right now. There's a forest authoritarian states are
rearming. There's a risk averseness about the West in
wanting to deal with that and are waiting for it and
institutions, global institutions such as the United
Nations aren't able to hold these Arab nations to account in
fact, the UN I'll go further is reaching its League of Nations
moment unless It's reformed. So that's where the world is
heading, we need to wake up to that there's a mindset now of
this era of insecurity that we're heading towards. And but
we're still on a peacetime defense budget of just 2%. That
does change. And the Red Sea is a great example, that if you
don't step forward, if you don't, if you're not robust in
dealing with those that are testing the the envelope, it
will be weakness will be exploited, and it will affect
our economy
Adam Curry: more money. We need more money for weapons. That's
what this is all about. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: more money to squander actually to put in
people's pockets. This half this money is not there's report
after report coming out that if you know, maybe 40% of the money
is actually going to where it's supposed to go. And the rest of
its just being squandered or pocketed, or Oh, yeah, this goes
through corrupt channels. I mean, can we do something about
this before we start just throwing more money at stuff?
Can we it's not impossible.
Adam Curry: Ukraine says it uncovered mass fraud and weapons
procurement. Oh, you don't say report from Rwanda? Oh, wow,
really? Oh, that's a surprise. Now back to the news business. I
believe part of it first of all, way too much. That was just free
money. Alright, we just have to live with that. That was free
money for how many years? 1512 years. 0% interest that's free
money, free money. That's why everyone was investing. The only
ones in my opinion did smart in the news business, the New York
Times, because they took that free money and bought games.
John C Dvorak: And kept MP brought non news product s which
Adam Curry: is the Tiffany network, CBS, they would always
news is a loss leader. And we make it up we invest in our news
to bring you news. So that's part of our service just to get
in the door. But you know, news by itself has never been a
profitable business. You either buy a newspaper to propagandize
for your own for your own means for your own business or
whatever you want to use it for. That's why billionaires have
always owned rich men, particularly our own
publications. It's just it's not a business. But now we oh, we
had the internet and all these ideas. And so now that has to be
thinned out, they've got to go away. And luckily, we bring in
something called AI, which, even though it's sad, that will be
your news, your news, actually not your opinion and your
insight and your analysis. But news will just be brought to you
by AI. That's why the getting rid of a whole bunch of people.
And I think when it comes to AI, we had an event take place,
something is on the horizon. But I have said that this AI stuff.
The way it's going to be used is something's going to come out.
And we need to flood the market with thinking like, oh, that's
just AI. Yeah, no, that's not real. That's just AI. And this
is part of the Swift up.
Unknown: Now a disturbing trend on social media struck one of
the world's biggest stars this week, when explicit AI generated
images of Taylor Swift began to circulate on X, formerly known
as Twitter. Taylor Swift's fans, or Swifties, rallied to flood
the platform with posts and drown out the so called Deep
fakes. The incident has led to renewed calls by politicians in
the US for legislation to clamp down on these AI generated fakes
now,
Adam Curry: so first of all, its ex now, Elon Musk is great at
making money from the government. So I wouldn't put it
past him that somehow he's involved in this up. But all of
a sudden off Taylor Swift, there's pornographic images of
her head on porn bodies. And I did some research. This has been
going on for a long time we've titled by the
John C Dvorak: way, yes, for a long you could do this with
Photoshop, anytime you want. I mean, it's maybe not as fast as
the AI is a little quicker. If it works. If it doesn't work.
It's not. But this has been it's just the invention of Photoshop,
or even before that, when with guys who knew how to do photo
editing by cutting, cutting the low head out of a photo itself
and gluing something. This is nothing new. This is nothing new
Adam Curry: at all. No, but what I think is happening and I have
a piece of John Claude Van Damme Pierre with the question that
was asked about this all because the White House is concerned,
why is the White House concerned? Something's coming
out. It's going to be some nasty images from somebody who needs
to be able to say that's a I listen to the setup question.
Listen to her answer it there
Unknown: were fake sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift
all over social media this week, like generated by AI. How
concerned is the White House about the news His use of this
kind of technology? And does the White House want to see Congress
move forward on legislation that would make sharing posting
images like that a federal crime?
So I'm glad you asked that question, because it is.
Adam Curry: First of all, all these questions are approved
before the press conference. So for jumping over Claude Van
Damme to say, I'm glad you asked that question. This was a setup
question. This was known she knew this question was coming.
It was probably could you please ask about about the images?
John C Dvorak: And she could have written a question for all
we know. And
Adam Curry: so all of a sudden, now we need legislation against
this. No, no, no, something's coming. That is going to be
highly embarrassing to somebody important legislation
Unknown: that would make sharing posting images like that a
federal crime. So
I'm glad you asked that question. Because it is
alarming. We are alarmed by the reports of this the circulation
of images that you just laid out a false images to be more exact,
and it is alarming. So while social media companies make
images,
Adam Curry: there's images of me holding up an Israeli flag.
Yeah, oh, it's alarming, their own
Unknown: independent decisions about content management, we
believe they have an important role to play in enforcing
enforcing their own rules to prevent the spread of
misinformation, and non consensual, intimate imagery of
real people. Sadly, sadly, though, too often, we know that
lacks enforcement disproportionately impacts
women, and they also impact girls, sadly, who are whelming
targets the overwhelming targets of unlined, harassed harassment
and also abuse. So the President is committed, as you know, to
ensuring we reduce the risk of gender generative AI producing
genders like through his latest executive order that we
announced just just in the fall of last year.
Adam Curry: She's reading the script here.
Unknown: So this problem is not new. And it's one that the Biden
Harris administration has been prioritizing since day one, we
have taken this very seriously. Again, this is alarming to us.
You as you know, he launched a task force to address online
harassment and abuse. He did that just this fall, the
Department of Justice launched the first national 24/7 helpline
for survivors of image based sexual abuse. And so our
commitment, and that we will continue to do and continue to
take action, and make sure that we continue to work on this. And
again, this is very alarming and we're gonna do what we can to
deal with this issue.
Adam Curry: This has been going on for decades. This is not new
and alarming. That first something at who could it be?
I'm thinking Kamala, well, there may be pictures of Kamala.
John C Dvorak: Oh, yeah. Because she was notorious actually for
having heels. Yeah, I can even name the guy that should be seen
with
Adam Curry: heels. Hi, Harris. We all know her nickname in
Washington, DC.
John C Dvorak: So this, I just want to point out that when she
says, if you notice in the past that you ever heard, I think
when Kelly McInerney, whoever was running the trumpet when she
was a press secretary. She never said the Trump pence presidency.
No. I don't remember anyone saying the Obama Biden
presidency except Biden when he was running. Yep. But this woman
consistently says the Biden Harris presidency and she did it
in that clip. That's what tipped me off. And so she said that
yes, that would be the lead. So she so they got Harris mentioned
a lot, maybe could be some family picture. Now. Harris
Harris would be the because you know, they I think they still
would like to run her or maybe it's a way to get her off the
track. Or maybe there's a lot of possibilities here you could do.
I'll
Adam Curry: be honest with you. The first thought was, oh, my
god, they've got pictures of Big Mike. We need to say that's AI.
Now that was my first thought. But because that would be where
you need it. But then I got this clip of Larry elder on the poor
boy show, and he says no to Big Mike. He says Kamala all the
way. Here's
Unknown: the deal. The reason Joe Biden is not going anywhere,
if you can fog up a mirror is because the next person in line,
it's not it's not Gavin Newsom. It's not Michelle Obama. It's a
Kamala Harris. She wants to be president. I read a lot of black
media, and they feel she's being picked on for her so called
cackle. They feel that Joe Biden has given her thankless tasks
like getting to the bottom of the root causes of illegal
immigration. And black women are the most loyal part of the
Democratic base, and they will be furious if she's dropped
kicked for anybody other than Michelle Obama. And Michelle
Obama does not want the job. She wants to be loved. She wants to
be liked. There's nothing that's always suggest to me that she
has the temperament does not have the temperament to be a
politician. She complained for eight years about what it was
like to be in a fishbowl of being first Lady, what makes you
think she wants to be a politician and if Michelle
Kamala Harris have dropped kick for some white dudes like Mayor
Pete or Gavin Newsom, they will be livid. They won't vote
Republican, they just won't vote at all, thereby guaranteeing
whoever we nominate will win. They won't do that, that you
live with the identity race card, you die with it. And
that's why she's there. She got picked because she's a black
female. She's still a black female by the way she wanted to
run for president she did run and tell her to step aside from
Michelle Obama, even if Michelle Obama announced but what she
Kamala ran for da of San Francisco she got elected. She
ran for ag of California got elected and reelected she ran
for US Senator got elected and she's on the card with with Joe
Biden got elected she's never last election when she's been on
the ticket. Nothing and there's nothing that all that suggests
to me that she's going oh my god, I'm incompetent. I'll step
aside for Michelle Obama. Oh my god. I mean, crap. Let's step
aside for Gavin Newsom. Not going to happen.
Adam Curry: God like galeri elders theory there.
John C Dvorak: Yep. I think he nailed it.
Adam Curry: And then add to that this women, particularly women,
girls, you know, camo, I think there's a picture out there.
There's a horse more than one probably they've got to say this
is AI.
John C Dvorak: Because it's just fully Brown. As to why
Adam Curry: would Willie Brown sabotaged? Does he have reason?
John C Dvorak: I don't know that he would. Although maybe he
would.
Adam Curry: I think it's out there. This This seems Willie
Brown
John C Dvorak: is a male. Yeah. And he would probably think that
Gavin Newsom be a better president and Camelon he knew
that he had a lot to do with cannon mullahs getting up to
worship guys. He's
Adam Curry: still alive Willie Brown boy. Yeah, he's
John C Dvorak: still floats around every once in a while you
hear from him. He may even have a podcast but Willie Brown would
be I wouldn't put it past him. He was the probably one of the
greatest politicians in the history of California Black, a
black guy who is just could make everything happen.
Adam Curry: Just one last story on AI I'm a big George Carlin
fan such a big fan that you even made a compilation for me
because you have it. You have almost everything. George Carlin
it was neatly organized. You sent it on a on a thumb drive
for me. Every I mean, yeah. You
John C Dvorak: just have his discography. I
Adam Curry: mean, you have all his stuff. It's great. It's
great. It's hard to get as beautiful. It's a very, very
nice collection. And so George Carlin's estate sued this dude
over so called comedy special. That was aI generated. And
people sent this to me like, Oh, you think AI is no good. Look at
it. This. It wrote the script. I don't I don't think it wrote the
script. It did the voice. And when I looked at it, I was like,
no, no comedy comm can only come from humans. It can't come from
AI and I want to play 50 seconds of this comedy special. Maybe if
he had played it in front of a live audience and had real
laughter? Which there probably wouldn't have been much I'll
John C Dvorak: say, so I haven't seen this. So this entire thing.
Oh, good. I know about it. And I just have never followed up
fears. I know what it's gonna be. It's interesting. 50
seconds.
Unknown: There's one line of work that is most threatened by
AI one job that is most likely to be completely erased because
of artificial intelligence.
Adam Curry: I know it doesn't even well, they have a little
bit of it. But now it doesn't really mean
John C Dvorak: I can hear it yet. But it sounds like somebody
else that's just coincidently sounds a little bit like Carlin
is what it sounds like intelligence.
Unknown: Stand up comedy. I know what all the stand up comics
across the globe are saying right now. I'm an artist and my
art form is too creative, too nuanced, too subtle to be
replicated by machine. No computer program can tell a fart
joke as good as me. Well, let's see. This is just off the top of
my artificially intelligent head. A fart was in the middle
of a very nasty divorce. So she went to her sister's house and
she asked her sister, do you think I'm doing the right thing
by getting divorced? And her sister said he's been holding
you back for too long. You have to leave that asshole
Adam Curry: your your votes, please.
John C Dvorak: Holy moly. That's terrible. And by the way, Carla
wasn't a joke teller. No, I mean, maybe early in his career.
He did some jokes. But so that's a joke, literally. I don't know
how the AI came up with that idea. And he was observational
comic, very much different and also used to get into the weeds
with the with vocabulary. And he didn't sell anything like him. I
know
Adam Curry: But when it first came out people said oh this is
great and I watched a little thing I mean, it had within 20
minutes you know there's certain
John C Dvorak: that can't laughters do not even close to
being that well done really kills
Adam Curry: it that really kills it does. So, I still say that
the best is when AI is used by comedians. And when we have
funny stuff that they make funny, funny videos Funny, funny
memes that dare I say it blew by No, no, no crazy. Go crazy.
John C Dvorak: Well, a creative people get a hold of AI they
Adam Curry: can do things. Yeah, it's a tool for creative people.
Sure,
John C Dvorak: yes. Why comic strip blogger all of a sudden is
a great artist.
Adam Curry: He's certainly trying he's never quite it's
sometimes it
John C Dvorak: hisses yet but he's gone from his like is kind
of interesting would be very soulful material that he used to
do to stuff that is extremely slick. It's just this like as
too slick. It's it was it was, it was a lot of steps to slick
but it's a an interesting change of style. That is noteworthy to
me.
Adam Curry: I would like to remind people at this at this
moment, that this is a value for value podcast, I almost almost
brought the Executive Associate Executive Producer segment out
forward to this hour. But then we had one donor come in to save
the day. But I do want to remind you that while you're enjoying
this, and while you slowly tune out over time, at the end, we do
thank everybody give them their due credits, we bring Knights
and Dames onto the stage and bring them to the roundtable. We
talk about our meetups, there's a lot going on with the no
agenda, nation. And just reminder that if you get any
value out of this, if anything in this first hour and 22
minutes was a value to you, that we would like you to return that
with your time, talent or treasure. And some a good
example of time and talent was boots on the ground. And I was
not aware of this. Tracy sent me a note says Adam, a number of my
family members saw a show on PBS called Nazi Town USA. Which I
was unaware of it came out a couple days ago.
John C Dvorak: Is the masterpiece of this is the
American experience show. wounds. Yes, yes, this show I
would I didn't take any exception route. But I could
have
Adam Curry: private training, we have a trailer.
John C Dvorak: Well, let me just make your you can go do your
thing.
Adam Curry: Sure. I'll be over here. Just call me when you
read.
John C Dvorak: This thing had so much innuendo in it about Trump,
the usage of the word insurrection, the use of it was
one thing after another, they were trying the best they could
the writers, I guarantee it to associate the German Boond
movement from the early 1930s. And the fact that they wanted to
take over the country and run it. Some is a little sketchy.
But they wanted to take it over and turn the country into a
Nazi, you know, stronghold, fascist country was so you could
just you could take I mean, it's good, by the way. It's
excellent. Information is very interesting and entertaining.
But the idea there was a it was pretty propagandistic. And I was
a little offended by that part of it.
Adam Curry: So Tracy says that my fam her, his or her family
members were saying this documentary is exactly what
Trump is planning. It's all about the white Christian right
taking over the country turning it over to a new dictator. And
we should mention that there was a very, quite a substantial
Nazi, fascist Nazi movement in the United States. There was
really when it comes to what's the term I'm looking for. We had
we had best looking baby contest at fairs, eugenics, it was the
eugenics
John C Dvorak: eugenics, it was like what we were the eugenics
kings, it
Adam Curry: Hitler sent fan mail to the United States, you
Genesis said, Wow, you guys have really got a good idea here. And
he loved it until he started gassing Jews and then the
eugenicist in America went oh, let's, let's take let's simmer
down a little bit
John C Dvorak: your names to something else planned
Adam Curry: parenthood which Margaret Sanger she was a part
of the Eugenics Society of America. I know you You don't
like that? You don't think I'm not gonna get into
John C Dvorak: it she her main focus was birth control period.
Yeah. Not breathing.
Adam Curry: All right. But there, so there was definitely a
huge, so if anything for sure. The jump there was a big huge
Genesis movement in America and we backtracked on that when we
saw what could happen with it, what could be done with it, we
sterilize black girls, there's all kinds of horrible things
that we did. This is not this is not what Trump is doing. I'm
going to play this is very cool,
John C Dvorak: by the way that what you just talked about? That
the idea that oh, this is what Trump wants to do. That was the
whole reason for this American Experience show was to Yes,
twist the minds of the viewers. Yes. And I find it offensive. I
thought that the information was good, but I was familiar with it
to begin with. What I found a way they presented it to be
obvious propaganda, anti Trump prop, anti Trump, anti
Republican, anti Christian propaganda.
Adam Curry: And I'm just waiting for the following question to
pop up again. Because we've heard it in the past, I tried to
try to find a clip, but it hasn't occurred yet. If you
could get in a time machine and go back and kill baby Hitler,
would you do it? This is the kind of stuff you're going to
hear. IE, hey, if you could kill Trump before it becomes Hitler,
would you do it? You watch that's all coming.
Unknown: The 1930s There were these camps all across the
country. And they
looked normal. But it wasn't.
It was a Nazi camp.
Adam Curry: thing we have to
Unknown: go the depths of the depression, a great many
Americans started to ask themselves whether the American
experiment was failing. Lots of Americans thought that
capitalism democracy they were done for it and something else
was going to have to take its place.
Membership gotten
the Friends of the new Germany, the American and the North. us
for this, this might seem fascist ideology tapped into
some dark realities in America. I'd like to tell you a few words
about our purpose Nice.
Adam Curry: Very hard to hear any have imagined that I know. I
know. It gets a little better at the end that's that comes
straight from the PBS website. It's almost done. It's going to
build a distinctively American version of Nazis,
Unknown: or asterik power or after influences within the very
fabric of the United States.
They were literally holding parades in front of Jewish
people's homes. There's no such thing as foreign fascism.
Fascism is always homegrown.
Adam Curry: And what we have now, if Funny enough, funny
enough in the United States, what we have now is we have Jews
very, very worried. I was talking to the girl who stayed
at our house to take care of Phoebe, American Jew, and she
says I'm a little afraid, warranted or not. I'm a little
afraid to wear my Star of David out in public. I'm worried when
I get into an Uber and it might be a Muslim. Or might be but the
funny thing is, that's coming from
John C Dvorak: this media spinning it up. Yeah. You got
spun up.
Adam Curry: Yes. Very. I definitely tried to spin her
down a little bit. And, you know, and so what they're
bringing in now is I'll make sure you know that it's Trump is
Trump is Trump is Trump is Trump.
John C Dvorak: Was his Jewish daughter. Yes. Jewish son in
law. He may be Jewish. We don't know.
Adam Curry: Yeah, I had it was actually kind of funny.
John C Dvorak: But okay. Yeah, he's hates Jews somehow.
Adam Curry: Yeah. The so the International Court of Justice
by the night I got a clip. I have a clip to you. Once you
play your clip, I have a clip of Kirby which I think is pretty
funny. Yeah, I
John C Dvorak: do not have Kirby. Okay.
Adam Curry: What do you have? Well, that's
John C Dvorak: a good question I brought condemned Israel. Would
that be the one that would sound like it? Yeah, Qatar
Unknown: and Saudi Arabia have welcomed a ruling issued by the
International Court of Justice on South Africa's genocide case
against Israel, which orders Israel to prevent genocide acts
in the Gaza Strip. The Qatari Foreign Ministry said the ruling
serves as a stark acknowledgement of the grave
threat of genocide looming over the Palestinian population in
Gaza. The Saudi Foreign Ministry reaffirmed the rejection of
Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and as
violations of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment
of Crime of Genocide. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Prime Minister
of Mohammed shtayyeh said he hopes the ruling against Israel
would include an immediate ceasefire given the severe
suffering of Gaza residents.
states now have a clear legal obligations to stop Israel's
genocidal war on the Palestinian people in Gaza and to make sure
that they are not complicit. the ICJ order is an important
reminder that no state is above the law. It should serve as a
wake up call for Israel and actors who enabled its
entrenched impunity. Alright,
Adam Curry: this is a problem because this justifies the
genocide Joe moniker. And Kirby was sent out to defend genocide
Joe,
John C Dvorak: by the way, that report I should mention came
from China dies okay,
Adam Curry: this report comes from TRT I think, which is even
more fun. Hey, Kirby, by the way, have you noticed he's
wearing dog tags
John C Dvorak: but over over everything over his tie over his
tie, break ice Fred getting shut down? He needs to be identified
if he's if he's killed, what what is the deal there? What
Adam Curry: do you think kind of the, you know, he has a chain,
I've seen this. He has a chain that you know, the one you'd
have a, you know, your ID on. And he has a dog tags, you know,
identical you break one half offs, and that back to the next
of kin. And he's wearing those dog tie. I find that to be very
bizarre. Anyway, you
John C Dvorak: know what it is? No. It's the dog tag of Lloyd
Austin. It's a memorial. Maybe Kirby's just a dog,
memorializing Lloyd Austin, who is yet to be seen. And he's back
in the hospital. My interpretation? Well, we'll
Adam Curry: see what happens. Here is a question that came in
regarding genocide. Joe,
Unknown: thank you. The fact of the matter is the ICJ has not
dismissed the allegations against Israel with respect to
genocide. They do believe that those allegations warrant
further investigation and deliberation. So do you stand by
the words that you use earlier this month, to characterize
those allegations? That they're meritless, counterproductive and
completely without any basis, in fact, whatsoever? And what are
you basing that off of if the UN's top court believes that
there is a plausible risk of genocide, they're specifically
directing Israel to prevent and punish the direct and public
incitement to commit genocide?
We have no indication that that's that that's going on
Sabrina. We have no evidence that they are deliberately
trying to exterminate the people of Gaza. Well, the
ICJ specifically cited inflammatory statements that
were made by Israel's defense minister, referring to human and
non human animals, the President of Israel, saying the entire
population of Gaza is responsible. Do not see that as
risking incitement. Comments
like that are certainly also counterproductive, and
unhelpful. No question about that. But we haven't seen
indications that the Israeli Defense Forces are getting up
out of the rack every day putting their boots on the floor
and saying that they're designed their whole effort is to go
exterminate the Palestinian people. They're trying to
eliminate the threat that Hamas poses. I want to be very clear,
and I know I've said this a million times. And you're all
probably sick of me following up on this, but that doesn't mean
that we excuse any single innocent life loss. The right
number of civilian casualties is zero. But there's no indication
that we've seen that validates a claim of genocidal intent or
action by the Israeli Defense Forces.
Adam Curry: There's no evidence of genocide he says there's no
evidence they don't get their boots on every day and said
we're gonna kill us and Palestinians that would be
genocide. This is not generally what is the definition of
genocide?
John C Dvorak: Let's look it up. Okay,
Adam Curry: let's course the book of knowledge is very varied
these days.
John C Dvorak: interested? How
Adam Curry: about the Holocaust Memorial? Should we take it from
them? No, no.
John C Dvorak: Britannica. Britannica. Yeah, I think it's
more objective. Okay,
Adam Curry: Britannica says? Genocide, the deliberate and
systematic destruction of a group of people because of their
ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race.
John C Dvorak: You will here's the basic. here's the rub. I
think this is maybe from Oxford. This from Oxford. Yeah. The
deliberate killing of a large number of people from a
particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying
that nation or group gets pretty close. Well, if you do they
definitely want to destroy something. Yeah, they
Adam Curry: want to get rid of it. For sure. Well, anyway, By
John C Dvorak: the way, this way I have to read this. The
original the origin of the term genocide. The word genocide did
not exist prior to 1944.
Adam Curry: Oh really?
John C Dvorak: It's a very specific term coined by a Polish
Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin. It's a new word. It's a
relatively new word. Oh, that's
Adam Curry: interesting. What is the root of the word is it from
Greek or something?
John C Dvorak: What's the etymology look and see
Adam Curry: I have said word.
John C Dvorak: Lawyers are saying here what the animal
ology is
Adam Curry: no. Well, we've sent in our negotiator
John C Dvorak: here to way way way sorry. He formed the word
genocide by combining Gino from the Greek word for race or tribe
with side from Latin word for killing.
Adam Curry: Right. So erase or killing? Gino is eraser. Is that
what you said?
John C Dvorak: No. This race? Oh, race. Oh, you know is Greek
for race or tribe. Oh, race killing. Okay. Or tribe tribe
killing.
Adam Curry: He should have copyrighted that and he will be
very rich, right. It
John C Dvorak: goes way beyond copyright.
Adam Curry: We sent in our negotiator who do you think we
sent in?
Unknown: Sullivan, President Biden is sending the CIA
director to help broke. Washington Post. A gentleman
there CIA director William J. Burns will look to close the
gaps between Israel and Hamas. That deal is said to include the
release of all remaining
John C Dvorak: costs for one second. Yeah. Under normal
circumstances they would have sent in Lloyd Austin or
Kissinger.
Adam Curry: Oh, I'm sorry. They
John C Dvorak: can still send into the agenda rolling his
corpse.
Adam Curry: Lloyd I wouldn't have been Lloyd Austin as Lloyd
Austin the guides to do the negotiation. Don't you typically
send a diplomat? If you
John C Dvorak: do? Well, you can see that's the great thing about
William Burns. He's a historic diplomat. So as head of the CIA,
they can move him Illinois. He's just gonna be just a diplomat.
He's not there to collect any information about it. Boys in
the streets Oh, not
Adam Curry: at all
Unknown: gaps between Israel and a loss. That deal is said to
include the release of all remaining hostages held in Gaza
and a two months ceasefire. Burns is expected to travel to
Europe for talks with Israeli and Egyptian intelligence
leaders. It's also sledded to me with Qatar as prime minister,
Israel continued to its defense today, Gaza's health ministry
reports, Israeli fire struck a crowd killing at least 20 people
wounded more than 150.
Adam Curry: That report was missing number of children
wounded or killed.
John C Dvorak: You're slipping. Well wasn't from Democracy Now.
So
Adam Curry: no, it was Chicago news wire. Meanwhile, there's
some new allegations about the United Nation pressure
Unknown: is growing on the United Nations and its operation
in Gaza, Britain and Australia on Saturday joined other
countries in suspending their contributions to UNRWA, the
United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Then later in the day,
Germany announced it would follow suit and that one could
really hurt as it was UNRWA was second largest donor. This
withdrawal of support follows allegations that 12 Anwar staff
members took part in the Hamas October 7 attacks on Israel.
Israel, of course, has never been a fan of the UN. But it's
now up the ante by saying it's determined to permanently stop
Anwar from operating in Gaza, in Tel Aviv is also calling for the
resignation of the UN agencies boss. But there are some who've
moved to defend Anwar, they point out it has 30,000 People
working under his auspices, and that the 12 has been accused
were all instantly sacked. Chris Ganesh is a former Anwar
spokesperson. He says Israel has a long history of making claims
about the agency, which turned out not to be true. We
had allegations that UNRWA was hiding rockets components in its
schools and was colluding with Hamas terrorists. In fact, it
was UNRWA that found the rocket parts in it schools immediately
reported to all our major donors and the Israelis condemned it
what did we get in reply? We got further accusations in spite of
having done all this that we were colluding with terrorists
Adam Curry: are very suspicious
John C Dvorak: you know the UN who did the joke of it is that
it's the United States taxpayer that's putting up most of the
money that's all I think all of it all pretty much all I do have
a three by three about all this time.
Adam Curry: Three by three. I'm so excited
Unknown: each day run meant by JC three
Adam Curry: by three bearings don't read from ABC, CBS and
NBC. I lead you right into it. That led you right into it.
Unbeknownst to me, we have a three by three. This is where
JCD takes the top news organizations lays them out side
by side it seems we have and three by three plus once again
today.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, we have CBC also but let's go with ABCs wn T
Matt Gutman.
Unknown: Shocking new allegations tonight against the
UN's largest aid provider in Gaza. Israel submitting what it
says is evidence that 12 aid workers took part in Hamas is
October 7 rampage, the United Nations Relief Agency for
Palestinian refugees or OpenRA. Immediately firing those workers
saying its investigation could lead to criminal charges.
Tonight the State Department temporarily pausing funding to
the agency investigation
proves that in this case, I think it's about a dozen
employees are assisting Hamas. And even to the point of maybe
even, you know, involved in hostage taking then absolutely
they need to be held to account. It
comes after the International Court of Justice, in a sharp
rebuke of Israel's conduct of the war, ordered it to, quote,
take all measures to prevent genocide. The interim ruling
stop short both of calling Israel's actions in Gaza
genocide or demanding an immediate ceasefire. And what
does Israel say to the allegations of war crimes or
crimes? Families being blown up in airstrikes without genocide?
The
problem is that come off. He's doing everything he can use the
population as a human shield.
And tonight Hamas releasing chilling new video showing three
female Israeli hostages pleading for their release. The family's
asking we only use a steal from the video. And David back to
those UN workers accused of involvement in Hamas is October
7 attack. The Biden administration is now calling
for a full and transparent investigation. But they say that
the actions of a few should not impugn the entire agency.
David's still just extraordinary of true.
Adam Curry: This if true. This is interesting.
John C Dvorak: Now that contradict your clip. Yes, it
did.
Adam Curry: But there was something in that I found very
interesting. The family has asked that we only use a steal.
Why not? Why wouldn't you as a news organization, show the
hostages pleading for their lives?
John C Dvorak: Might be pandering. Okay, by being you
know, sickening.
Adam Curry: Oh, unlike everything else they show.
John C Dvorak: Please, designed to be safe. It was not their
state department didn't give him the Go ahead. It's
Adam Curry: designed to be sickening to show what Israel is
doing to Palestinians. That part is okay. I'm gonna say
John C Dvorak: in BC.
Unknown: Tonight the UN's highest court ordering Israel to
prevent genocidal acts by its forces but stopping short of
calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. South Africa had accused Israel
of committing genocide and ask the International Court of
Justice to order an end to Israel's war against Hamas.
Israel has an inherent right to defend itself. The vile attempt
to deny Israel this fundamental right is blatant discrimination
against the Jewish state, and it was justly rejected. Danny Danon
is a member of Israel's Parliament, and the
International Court of Justice said there is enough evidence of
potential genocide that there is a case to hear, what's your
response to that it
was a fake case against Israel, about a fake genocide, blaming
us for genocide. That's an absurd.
The judges highlighting this quote from Israel's defense
minister as potential incitement. We are fighting
human animals, but also calling on Hamas to immediately release
its hostages. The court has no way to enforce its rulings which
come amid a devastating humanitarian crisis families
waiting for hours for a single bowl of soup. Palestinians hope
the ruling will add to international pressure for a
ceasefire. It
makes it very difficult for this Biden administration to continue
to
provide cover to Israel,
this reaction from the White House.
We don't believe that right now in general ceasefire is the best
approach. We have no indication that they are deliberately
trying to exterminate the people of Gaza, the
White House saying like the cord, it's called on Israel to
reduce civilian casualties. The US also halting funding to the
UN Agency for Palestinian refugees amid allegations 12 of
its staff took part in the Hamas terror attack. The employees had
been fired, the UN says and it's launched a full investigation.
John C Dvorak: Okay, so they reversed the order. Yes. The
report they put the UN thing at the end which NBC would be kind
of globalist operation I would see the One A minimize
discussing that. So they put it at the end. I thought that was
interesting. Another thing that I find unique is why is it South
Africa? Ah,
Adam Curry: the I know this because a lot of money came from
Qatar into the south out that guy with the big mouth into the
South African political system. They had no money. He had the
guy who was saying we're going to we're going The shoot white
people, that guy, right that guy got they had no money to run for
there for the election. This is just what I've read. I don't who
knows if it's true and so they they take Israel to court, the
international criminal justice system and and then all sudden
they have all this money. So I think that's why South Africa
did it. And then they recognize the ICJ which, you know, because
and I don't even mean doesn't America, blatantly say we don't
recognize this court?
John C Dvorak: I don't know if that's the Google. I know we
don't recognize the ICC is a different court. Okay. They're
all you know, whatever. Okay, let's go to CBS which has the
mum in my opinion still has the best coverage of everything. I
think they do the best job even though ABC supposed to be the
top news network. Here we go. CBS, the wall continues
Unknown: to close in on civilians inside Gaza resulted
1000s of miles away in The Hague. The United Nations
International Court of Justice has delivered its interim
rulings on South Africa's case against Israel. The court
residing Judge Jones Donohue stressed that this was part of a
wider court case to determine whether or not Israel was
committing genocide. That however, could take years not
she warned the court
considers that the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the
Gaza Strip is at serious risk of deteriorating further before the
court renders its final judgment. And so
while the courts stopped short of ordering an immediate
ceasefire, it has unequivocally ordered Israel to take all steps
within its power to prevent genocide and punish those who
incite it. It also demanded that Israel provide food and water,
the United Nations is 1.1 million are now facing
starvation and access to humanitarian aid, which is still
only trickling in. And for those who live there. Like Hi, I'm hi
dad who just want a ceasefire. This ruling was never going to
be enough this immaculate why would the world cold give them
more time to continue genocide against us. This is unjust and
unfair. Israel has to report back on its progress to the
International Court in a month. But for Palestinians trying to
outrun this wall a month is a long way away. And today the UN
Relief Agency in Gaza is under fire. 12 of its workers have
been fired suspected of taking part in the Hamas attack on
Israel last year and taunting the United States the agency's
biggest donor to temporarily halt its funding worth pointing
Adam Curry: out today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. I was
waiting for that good. One CBS show in the United States is
from the Council on Foreign Relations website. The United
States has long had an uneasy relationship with the
International Court of Justice, which primarily arbitrators,
legal disputes amongst UN member nations that recognizes
jurisdiction. The United States withdrew from the court's
compulsory jurisdiction in 1986 after the court ruled it owed
Nicaragua war reparations. So it was raining. So it withdrew from
the compulsory jurisdiction. Reagan pulled us out Yeah, so
we're out.
John C Dvorak: Good for him. Nicaragua, Rog, lovely.
Unknown: I mean really, really? Really, dude.
Adam Curry: I right, buddy? Yeah, like no, no, no, we don't
recognize you when we were clearly at fault.
John C Dvorak: All right, so let's go to the plus here is
going to be CVC which of course is a kind of a boring version of
our networks using that pops the gotten that pops No, they
usually they don't they I mean, it's not as bad as some of them.
They don't have anything like the BBC. But they don't have as
much it doesn't have as much pizzazz and and triggering is
our networks. Okay.
Adam Curry: Well, come on. What are you talking about trigger
right off the bat?
John C Dvorak: Well, baby crying Yeah,
Adam Curry: it's good one.
Unknown: In the Hague protesters and supporters of both Israel
and Palestinians set the stage for the momentous ruling by the
United Nations top court. Lawyers for Israel had wanted
what they call the observed genocide case dismissed. While
South Africa's legal team demanded what amounted to a
ceasefire in Gaza. The court considers that 15 judges did
neither the rule that while some of Israel's acts in Gaza could
plausibly amounted genocide, the court did not order a halt to
the war, instead judge to
Adam Curry: hear from the International Criminal Justice
Court and we all we order a halt to this bar. Can they do this?
Is it that easy. They can do whatever they want. I mean, they
can order a high edict they think they should have ordered
doesn't mean he was going to follow it. They should order it
was wrong with Israel and the other previous reports
John C Dvorak: said that they get damaged month to comply with
some sort of report. India did do a little paperwork. It seems
to me that paperwork, but they're signatories, and they
were ordered to stop they have to stop
Adam Curry: the epithets is just insane to listen to. This insane
is completely
John C Dvorak: insane
Unknown: plausibly amount of genocide, the court did not
order a halt to the war. Instead, Judge Joan Donahue said
Israel must take actions to prevent an acts of genocide. And
to improve the humanitarian situation particular
the court further considers that Israel must ensure with
immediate effect, that its military forces do not commit
any of the aforementioned acts
Adam Curry: kill better.
Unknown: In Gaza, where the fighting is some of the heaviest
of the war, and where Palestinian officials say 26,000
People are now dead, half of them women and children, there
was disappointment or check and felt would have come up with
anything. Immediately. There should have been a ceasefire I
had saved for the videographer working for CBC News, then they
can start investigating and see what's really happening here.
When I say methods everyone's expecting that Israel won't
follow through with the ruling said Omar Al Sokka. Since wins
Israel follow through with any ruling from the UN, Israeli
officials, including UN Ambassador Gilad or dawn,
meanwhile, lashed out over the fact that the genocide
accusation is still hanging over the country. Today
the UN has become one of the weapons in the arsenal of modern
day Nazis against us. Every human body has become weaponized
against the Jewish state.
Adam Curry: You know what's amazing about these reports it
has people so spawn up where you know, it's like Walk down any
street in your in your town. And look at the homeless the drug
addicts the thieving from stores the total decay look at the I'll
give it to you the potholes look at the look look at children who
are crying that they can't make ends meet no one cares about
that. No. Oh no juice. Let's troll room was filled with them
today. It's amazing. This getting spun up over this. This
has been going on forever. Nothing new. Sadly, yeah,
John C Dvorak: it's been going on since I remember when I was a
kid. A kid in college I was college kid when I was young at
the slingshot and they were arguing with each other back in
the day. This is you know 4050 years ago and I went to hear a I
got I talked about this before i i went to Wheeler auditorium for
to hear would turned out to be a three hour lecture on on the
music industry by Phil Spector.
Adam Curry: Wow.
John C Dvorak: That was feels great. It was great.
Adam Curry: Did you have the crazy hair? Yeah, you had the
crazy hair.
John C Dvorak: And he was way it was wearing? He was wearing some
sort of a blousey white shirt with the frilly the Danda
sleeves. It was like a lace. Yeah, oh
Adam Curry: yeah, frilly shirt, frilly shirt,
John C Dvorak: frilly shirt, and that frilly shirt, he mentioned
that and it was and he was referring back to the he was
talking about the jukebox box days of of creating hit records
and talk to any made dimension. And I already took took this to
heart when I was a became a column writer. Never have to two
dogs in a row. You can have hit dog hit dog hit but okay, if you
have two dogs don't dog on, you're done. You're done. And
they won't they won't play your stuff anymore. It's just you're
done. Yeah. And so, but he referred back to the 40s. And
he's talked then he says, you know, this situ and he talked a
refers specifically to the situation in the Middle East
with the Jews and the Arabs back then. And it was just it was a
nightmare. It's always been what you just said it's always been
going on but now you so why do we get spun up about because
Adam Curry: we're, we're be taught to choose aside because
you know, it's all everything. All the problems in the world
are the fault of one side or the other. That's what it is and
people fall for it every single time. Every single time. Whoa
blue, red, blue. Right, Left up, down Jew Muslim. It's always the
same. Although I don't hear Chinese Uighur, don't hear that
often.
John C Dvorak: It's ended, in fact, going to the Chinese news.
Wait, wait, wait, before
Adam Curry: you go to the Chinese news. I have one clip
from your buddy Kristen Welker, who is tells us that the White
House is very, very tired of the protests. Very tired of being
called genocide. Joe. Joe
John C Dvorak: is one of them upset?
Adam Curry: Very, very upset about it. Yes.
Unknown: What is the White House has planned to deal with
protesters in the coming weeks in the coming months and the
concern that it could overshadow his message?
Yeah, this event today was certainly a smaller event. And
we're told it was actually invite only. So perhaps that is
why there were no protests happening today. But the White
House is understanding this is a problem when it interrupts the
message of the President when he's on stage. So they've hired
a guy named Doug Landry. He is an expert at campaigns and some
campaigns over the past several years. And he is somebody who
they believe can come in and come up with a creative
solution. Or Mike membeli, at our Monica Alaba said he can
come up with a creative solution to try to make sure these folks
have a voice and their voice is heard. But it's not interrupting
the President's.
Adam Curry: You can have a voice but you can't interrupt the
president. Stop that. Stop
John C Dvorak: came out of that last particular event, I guess
where I think he was in Milwaukee, where they call them
genocide, Joe, but genocide Joe, but it's the
Adam Curry: chanting it's and it's all it's all the socialist
Marxist influencers who are doing this been doing it for
decades. They occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter.
Oops, oh, crap. Now they're doing it against us. Oh, well,
it was for when they were doing it against Trump, but then do it
against Joe, to be expected but but that's the point. It's like,
there's atrocities all over the world. But no one cares about
them. Ask yourself, why do you care so much about this one? Be
a gatekeeper of your own mind for two seconds.
John C Dvorak: More concerned about the pie holes.
Adam Curry: I'm with you on with you on that shine.
John C Dvorak: This is the as you as what happened to the What
about the Uyghurs? Well, here's China from this CCTV, actually
CGTN report from Beijing on China and their human rights, so
they're obviously taking care of the problem,
Unknown: or Chinese envoy has expressed the country's
readiness to collaborate with the global community to advance
and safeguard human rights. China's Permanent Representative
to the UN Office at Geneva was speaking after recommendations
made to China were adopted on Friday during a session of the
UN Human Rights Council Chinchou you also said Beijing aims to
ensure that the benefits of his modernization are distributed
more fairly among its people.
So as you can see you we will be out of course and so in the
process of achieving this ambitious goal, we will ensure
the fruits of modernization will benefit people all over the
country more faily continuously improve the level of human
rights protection and promote a free and overall development of
the people. While promoting high quality development of the human
rights course China will always uphold the spirit of
establishing itself while bearing in mind others an
advocate for equal and orderly multipolarity and inclusive
economic globalization that benefits everyone.
Adam Curry: Yeah, I know that people are teaching guys people
are tuning out like a China whatever. I don't know. It's not
it's not in the programming. It's not in the programming. If
it's not in the programming, people don't care. That's like
Africa. You know, I keep trying to play Africa clips is like you
can see the drop off right away. Oh, Africa. Yes, a big place.
John C Dvorak: Who cares buddy wants to deal with.
Adam Curry: I do have a fun and tight. I don't want to give it
away. I want to give it away. A report came out a report
somehow. We have big pharma and the medical industry has looked
into the future and the future is dementia. In Canada.
Unknown: A new landmark study is projecting a 187% increase in
people living with dementia by 2050. The report also looks at a
major shift in dementia demographics in this country. To
discuss the findings is Dr. Roger Wong, Alzheimer's Society
of Canada, board member, Clinical Professor of Geriatric
Medicine at UBC.
Adam Curry: I found this to be fascinating. First of all, the
number 187% not double, not triple not quadruple, not
180 511 187%. This must be a climate change model. And he's
got I mean Isn't dementia something that we pretty much
have licks? Why would it be increasing?
John C Dvorak: Let's find because people are living longer
or maybe it's not as part of it's not increasing or, or maybe
it's the way it's being defined or the definition is changed.
There's a lot of reasons. There's
Adam Curry: some of that, but there's an agenda here.
Unknown: So how do we prepare? Doctor,
I think there are four different ways that we can think about it.
The first thing is in terms of our healthcare system, we need
to ensure that our policies in place an implementation of these
policies to allow for equitable access to dementia care,
including diagnosis and prevention, equitable, all
Canadians in ways that are culturally sensitive. The second
way is to research we need to ensure the research on dementia
in Canada would include participants from very diverse
backgrounds, because they make up the population in Canada. And
a third way really, is to think about policies policies that
will reduce differences in dementia risk across Canada. And
that will include policy to allow for national data
collection and tracking. And fourth, and last but not least,
is to make sure that there is education and support that is
again done in culturally sensitive ways to support
persons living with dementia, and their care partners and
loved ones.
Adam Curry: So I was about done with this. I'm like, Oh, this is
not interesting. Who cares? What's kind of bogus report and
then all of a sudden, this guy on cloaks, it's about the
Asians.
Unknown: The report highlighted the fact that the Asian
population is really going to be impacted. Can you expand on
that? Tell us why?
Absolutely. So what this report does is to look at individuals
from different cohorts and different groupings, and this
discovery that for people with Asian including South and East
Asian ancestry, that the number of individuals living with
dementia is projected to increase by nine fold, so a nine
time increase from about 40,000 people plus living with dementia
right now in Canada to over 400,000. So it's a significant
jump, again, multiple reasons the population is aging, but
there are also the presence of risk factors that lead to
dementia since especially in this population. The other thing
to remember is there's also a lot of culturally sensitive
values, attitudes, beliefs, or stigma that could become
barriers in terms of these individuals accessing care
Adam Curry: those pesky Asians don't like our health care
that's what that's what this report is about. Oh, you're
gonna get dementia you pesky Asians if you do what do you
think you're going to buy eating healthy that you're going to
live longer? No, no, no, no no that's this is the
pharmaceutical industry of Canada targeting the Asians you
got to come into the fold now of course weird report but of
course what they'll do is you just kill them. Well, they have
that base layer. Yeah. Make got made you got made. Yeah, got
made. Absolutely. I'd be very worried. If I was Asian. coming
for you.
John C Dvorak: There is a kind of part of the clips earlier of
the kids bitching about the country being crap and United
States is it's all America's fault and capitalism Cordex this
is gonna play this is a clip I think is going to portend
especially if Trump gets elected because people want to leave the
country. But this is from a show called the bridge. I played the
whole I think I have the whole beginning so you get a feeling
for it. This is a podcast. Oh, luckily out of Beijing. Oh, and
I just want you to hear what they think of the of this new
trend.
Adam Curry: Snappy music, I like it already. This is a great
podcast,
Unknown: shall I call it upon to the bridge the fun conversations
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bridge. To the bridge, the American Dream is no longer to
settle down in the states and have kids and then quote, The
American dream is to leave America and quote what does that
bring to mind for you? baybay Wow,
that's a huge statement.
Great. I
love that. Through well, maybe to a certain extent, but you're
I was reading about this. And my the thought in my mind was,
there could be a silver lining to this dark cloud, you may say,
you know, dark for US citizens. But then I think this will be a
great opportunity for more Americans, especially the
younger generation to walk out of the country.
Adam Curry: I love this because, yes, I would say a large
contingent of young people in America think that you can just
go to any country and go in and live and work. Yes, that's how
it works here. Apparently. The answer no, no, Austria does
Australia, don't they still require, like a million dollars
in the bank account? Or some you have to be at a literal
John C Dvorak: to become an Australian citizen that might be
required?
Adam Curry: I think it's even for working there longer term.
No,
John C Dvorak: I don't think well, maybe we have Australia
and New Zealand is pretty easy to get into. Yeah.
Adam Curry: Well, who would want to go No one goes. No, I think
you have to be a billionaire and and build a bunker if you want
to live in New Zealand? That's no problem.
John C Dvorak: I think there's but I think we're gonna start
hearing about this more. It started with the CNN report in
the Chinese loving it. Just dead. Young Americans,
especially like the ones complaining earlier. is just
going to leave the country. They hate it here.
Adam Curry: Yeah, well, good luck.
John C Dvorak: That's what I think.
Adam Curry: I've lived in a couple of countries. I still to
this day, it was Christina.
John C Dvorak: And you've lived in very, you lived in England
for a long time. And you were in the very liberal Holland, which
is like, you know, she was perceived as the great Paradise
by many liberals in the United States, because you can bicycle
everywhere. Yeah,
Adam Curry: I have a report. Remember now what I've said many
times is that the Netherlands is the narco state of the European
Union. Let's get a little rundown on what's going on in
from Deutsche availa.
Unknown: Now the European Union is teaming up with port
operators to combat increasing illegal drug trafficking. There
have been huge increases in the amount of cocaine entering the
continent through ports in Belgium and the Netherlands in
recent years and that has prompted the EU to start a new
project to fight back against the drug smugglers person has
been steadily ramping up on European politicians to act to
tackle the drug gangs operating here. Criminals have reportedly
been handing out hundreds of 1000s of euros in bribes to port
workers and threatening them and their families to gain access to
shipments. The Dutch port of Rotterdam is another key focus
of the project. Scores of people have been shot or bombed in drug
gang violence in Belgium, the Netherlands and across the
European Union in recent years, including the murders of famous
investigators and lawyers, as well as innocent children caught
in the crossfire customs officials here in Antwerp seized
116,000 kilos of cocaine last year coming in on ships from all
over the world. It was another new yearly record for the port.
And bear in mind, that's just what's being seized, not what's
getting past the customs officials. The gangs are
bringing the drugs in from Latin America, mainly Ecuador and
Colombia. The Porter liars comprises of European
politicians, Port masters, shipping companies and security
firms.
Adam Curry: And it's so bad. They're the micro mafia, killing
each other. Over stolen dope. It's this it's a mess. It's a
mess. But hey, they got wooden shoes. I just need to play a
couple clips. We were going to take our break in a moment.
Because Rev. Al had another classic Reverend Al moment. Not
on his own show, but he was with the Joy Joy read the readout.
And of course bitching about Trump is
Unknown: somewhere around a quarter of a billion dollars
he's going to have to come up with so Donald Trump will become
more unhinged. He will become more desperate. We're going to
see him and his followers go into the Twilight Zone in terms
of action now, because I do not believe he has the money. And I
And if he defaults, he has judgments against him. His
property start getting lean. He is facing something he's never
thought and his brand has been totally demolished now, because
the big businessman will be exposed like the Wizard of Oz to
have no clothes and no way out.
Adam Curry: This is a new one a hybrid. The Wizard of Oz has no
clothes. The
John C Dvorak: Wizard of Oz has No clothes. This guy is that
gold mine
Adam Curry: the Wizard of Oz has no clothes Joy read what say
you? Yeah,
Unknown: there will be no owning beauty pageants and partnering
with Macy's and all of those things go nice. Now in his state
of mind, what was the movie where they said you play with my
money you play with my emotions, his emotions are about to get
played with.
Adam Curry: Oh, yes. Now while we're on that
John C Dvorak: he hasn't owned a beauty operation for decades and
years.
Adam Curry: It's alright the Wizard of Oz has no clothes.
Bless just discuss this for a second. This sexual harassment
suit very interesting
Unknown: US Department of Justice says it former New York
Governor Andrew Cuomo did sexually harass more than a
dozen state employees. The settlement was announced today
the DOJ concluded its investigation and provided ways
New York can change how it handles complaints. Cuomo
resigned, as you recall his governor in 2021, after claims
that he created a hostile work environment, to staffers were
accused of not reporting the allegations.
Adam Curry: So just contrast that which no one heard about
what they're doing with Trump. This guy was an actual sleazy
Scuzz and just gets a 25 second story.
John C Dvorak: It's quite, it's quite ridiculous on this Trump
Adam Curry: has plenty of clips here.
John C Dvorak: Why don't I do the reason I got my clip in
cludes? A little mention of the fact. Maybe I don't have it. But
the fact that reed Hoffman is the one who financed this whole
deal. I
Adam Curry: think I have that on seconds. I do have that. Well,
John C Dvorak: I know what it was. It was Yeah, Trump's
attorney came out I didn't record it. He came out and just
raved about the phony baloney nature of this entire trial
where they couldn't put on a defense they wouldn't let him do
this or that or the other thing. And then she definitely she said
they watched the fact that she wanted to mention to the jury
that reed Hoffman is paid for the whole thing is just part of
a smear campaign. But
Adam Curry: do you know what the now she's claiming? That? You
know, she's getting death threats. But the real lawyer No,
no, no. This Carol woman but the real. The original suit. The
where she claimed damages for was because she lost her job as
a columnist at I think vogue at 76 years of age, which kind of
you might have been lost that anyway. Yeah, I would think
Yeah, but that's what that that's what it was really
originally about. Everyone sees this. Everyone sees what's going
on. It's now here. You're right. Let's listen to joy. Reid. Let's
see if she sees what's going on
Unknown: the unanimous verdict. Donald Trump is on the hook for
just over $83 million in damages at $3.3 million. To be exact. It
took just less than three hours of deliberation by the jury to
come to that verdict. It's a huge increase from the $5
million verdict. A separate jury awarded Carol last year after
finding Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming
her. Now this is the part where if you've got kiddos in the
room, you might want to cover their little ears because kiddos
Adam Curry: watch those kiddos which is paedos talk Ms. Carol's
Unknown: case goes back to the 1990s and she accused Trump of
doing exactly what he said on that infamous Access Hollywood
tape
Adam Curry: now please indeed, if you have kiddos in the room,
you may want them not to hear this because this is on
television where he
Unknown: said when you're a star they let you grab women by the
you remember the rest. Miss Carroll told the jury that he
did exactly that to her, forcibly putting his tiny
fingers into her against her will.
Adam Curry: She cannot resist she cannot resist.
Unknown: Ms. Carroll told the jury that he did exactly that to
her forcibly putting his tiny fingers into her
Adam Curry: now that doesn't jive with what he said on the
tape. He said they let you do anything. Now it's forcibly I
mean I'm just
John C Dvorak: as big gibberish me forcibly and letting you know
Adam Curry: I'm an effing here, obviously and the whole thing is
you are all thing is horrible. The whole thing.
John C Dvorak: This is just trying to bring back the old
meme so we can get the list that I made.
Adam Curry: Yeah, we'll play that as end of show.
John C Dvorak: Play out of it. Yes, Trump.
Adam Curry: Trump rotate. It's
John C Dvorak: just the same and plus the new stuff, you know,
which is I've got to add to the list. Now let me see. Let me
revisit the list. Hold
Adam Curry: on. Let me see if she adds anything to the list in
the next 25 seconds against
Unknown: her will in the dressing room of a New York City
Department Store. I'm sorry to be so blunt, but I think
sometime I actually forget what we're talking about here, aka
sexual assault, and then he serially defamed her.
Adam Curry: I liked that serially defamed, which of
course is usually only used in the context of serial rape. But
that's a good dude. Job, Joey. Previous
Unknown: New York jury ruled that yes, he did both. And then
he defamed her again and again and again, leading her to sue
him again and leading us to where we stand today.
Adam Curry: Unfortunately, I didn't really follow the suit, I
would like to know because, you know, where does freedom of
speech and and where does defamation start? You know, can
I sue some of the trolls and the troll room?
John C Dvorak: Yeah. You should. Yeah, we're talking the way they
call in Yeah.
Adam Curry: Oh, all kinds of things.
John C Dvorak: We'll stop at troll room.
Adam Curry: Let me see. Is there anything else we need to do?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I gotta play this one clip.
Adam Curry: Okay. All right.
John C Dvorak: Because we talked about it earlier. They This is a
guy on another. This is a nice. He's a radio guy who has a
podcast and he brought this character on
Adam Curry: another podcast you're going to love and going
into the bin, baby. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: that's not good. And but this was an insane
analysis of the mystery of the missing Austin.
Adam Curry: Austin? Yes, yes. has been delayed
John C Dvorak: alysus I think takes us a little beyond what
I've been thinking.
Adam Curry: Let's review for a second. Awesome was gone. No one
knew. We're waiting for him to show up. It takes two weeks then
he shows up in something that was supposedly his home. We're
not sure you don't like the look. You think you know he a
you know and you think he's, you don't trust it? Is that a good
enough backgrounder?
John C Dvorak: And then it comes back? He's back in the hospital?
Yeah.
Unknown: What's problematic is this. We have traders within our
government. And I want to just finish a statement. I do not
believe what people saw was a real defense secretary Austin, I
believe he disappeared for the length of time he did, which is
an abrogation of his duty. And I believe what we saw was a
computer generated AI presentation, people said and
I'm not a sound engineer. Good night. I
have two hearing aids. But sound engineers have said, it's not
the same voice. They can some of these guys are sophisticated. So
what am I saying?
What is the real story was Austin in Ukraine, when Russia
basically blew the hell out of a NATO bunker. While the rumor is
yes, and even the Russian Defense Ministry said he's dead.
So how can people go on believing lies when there is
zero credibility? So
what I'm saying is computer generated imagery matched with
AI and I don't buy artificial intelligence I buy this AI and I
think I'm the first guy that said it as alien interference
alien intelligence alien meaning foreign to humanity. It can be
demons it can be fallen angels it can be you know the little
less. What is alien interference?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I alien interference. I now am inside.
Does that take Alex Jones it go for this? This has fallen
Adam Curry: angels. I now have to go back and do a sound
analysis of of a home homebound Austin versus you could previous
Austin that's I believe
John C Dvorak: it's so echoey the homebound Yeah, that you can
do the analysis would be not valid. I
Adam Curry: think because you played that clip. I think you
got to Theramin it's been a long time but you deserve it. You
deserve a Theramin Hey, Willie in interference. I'd like to
thank you for your curtseying the morning to you the man who
put the scene conscription say hello to my friend on the other
end the one and only Mr. Jobs
John C Dvorak: in the morning all ships you see boots on the
ground feed near subs in the water. And all the days and
nights out there in
Adam Curry: the morning to the trolls control room. Hello troll
stick a few 1920 on the counter today listening to us 1920 How's
that stack up? This sucks. It's because of your china clip.
John C Dvorak: One low and China clip that was one minute long.
Adam Curry: I'm telling you that China clip does it man. You can
follow along with all of the trolls. It's very feisty in
there today. It's kind it's kind of interesting. It's a very good
indicator of the I'll just call it the troll spun up meter. You
can see you ha boy trolls are out of control today. Even void
zero went in and said hey, simmer down people now that's
like you got daddy mad. Daddy mad when void zero comes in. You
can be a troll by going to troll room.io You can listen to the no
agenda stream there. 24/7 There's all kinds of groovy
podcasts on 24 hours a day many of them live, which is fun. You
know, everyone trolls long does other things. It's good. Yeah,
we have. We start with the blues and bluegrass, I forget what
it's called. Show on Sunday morning, followed by Darren
O'Neal. I mean, it's it's it's a great group, we have that hang
out there. 24/7. You could also use a modern podcast app, where
you get alerted when, when this show goes live when many shows
go live. Also, when the show posts, let's say you can't
listen live. Within 90 seconds. You get an alert. And you could
tap right in and listen live. That's some that's some
newfangled stuff right there. And I'm happy to announce John
that Apple podcasts, Apple, the big Silicon Valley company has
capitulated. They have added a piece of functionality developed
by the podcasting 2.0 group. They've capiche this is just the
beginning they've cracked.
John C Dvorak: And they I don't know if you want to use the word
capitulated. I'd say that they wised up. Yeah,
Adam Curry: wised up is a good it's probably friendlier. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: usually makes it seem like they were forced or
something they weren't forced, didn't have to do it.
Adam Curry: No, that's true. I mean, there's the podcast
industrial complex. What happens is, we develop something and
then Spotify goes and does their own version, and then it fails.
So one of the first things we did in podcasting, 2.0 is
transcripts. And all these modern podcast apps have
transcripts, you can follow along, you can search them, and
Apple is now adding that functionality to the Apple
podcast. So that's, that's just the beginning. We're taking over
them very slowly. Now, if you want to make sure that your
podcast is always in your podcast app, because sometimes
things disappear on some of those bigger apps, you will want
to get a modern one at modern podcast apps.com. We actually
said we put them on the list at the bottom, you have one feature
you get on the modern podcast apps list at the bottom. We're
happy to have him for that. Value for value is I have got a
note about value for value. I wanted to ask you about one of
our producers. Let me see. Joshua, okay. Can I just read
this to you for a second? Yeah. All yours. Now, he says, I've
been writing this email to you all week in my head finally had
a chance to type it up. I love the V for V model, think you do
an excellent job of promoting it. Thank you. Well, John, and I
pioneered it. Which brings me to the point of my email. He's a
sixth grade teacher. He's email boots on the ground, absolutely
fed up with the way education have done, the country has been
thinking a lot about some kind of education model based around
Wii for Wii. I'm very curious about what your thoughts might
be on this. If you think this is something that could work is
value for value, something you think only works in the
podcasting, entertainment industry, or do you think it
could be expanded beyond that? John, you are very familiar with
scholastic systems, your thoughts?
John C Dvorak: Well, it's already been expanded. It's also
the model used initially by public broadcasting Public
Radio, public TV, and also you can't overlook the churches.
Yes. And you can actually overlook any a lot of public
institutions like museums that have have used the value for
value mechanism, but they just kind of skewed differently. But
it's still basically the same thing. Yes, it could work. I
don't see why not. It would have to be structured in a way that
would be acceptable to the participants. And I don't know
how you Dad, I don't know how to do it. I
Adam Curry: think the main thing that people forget about value
for value is you need to ask, if you don't ask, you're not going
to get so it's isn't it really about asking? Well, asking
John C Dvorak: is it is a big part. A big part of it. If you
haven't got the wherewithal to ask, yes. Which is
Adam Curry: a lot of people have difficulty with they find it
very hard to ask. Yeah, I agree. You got to ask well,
John C Dvorak: and he has to be sincere when you ask you can't
just ask like a wimp exactly like a tip jar. Yeah, you do.
Get a tip jar.
Adam Curry: And you have to take checks. Do not
John C Dvorak: as an inside joke as a very inside joke. He or she
had to take checks checks are a big deal. They
Adam Curry: are a big deal. And now and we also have stripe now
which is we're seeing people from all over the world starting
to stripe
John C Dvorak: allows you to pay pal, I don't know when this
happened, but they some countries like New Zealand. Oh I
think Australia to some extent here for sure. Indian, they
won't just want to take PayPal for whatever reason. Yeah, so we
have a stripe available. I think that's pretty International. And
then the other one that showing up now is people put through
their bank or using wise. Yeah, and that seems to come through
Adam Curry: wise really is always interesting.
John C Dvorak: Just to it's like pop money was I mean, it's like
what happened whatever happened to them by the way?
Adam Curry: Yeah, yes, they dried up and blew away. Well,
value for value can come in many really in three forms time,
talent, treasure time and talent is very big for us because that
directly goes to our bottom line. That's things we don't
have to do. Speaking avoid zero. Thank you void zero. Look at the
infrastructure that he's been running. He's upgrading the NEC,
he's not doing it on show days, which is great. So we're happy.
It's working. We have HK we've never built a website ourself. I
don't think Tim has built no agenda show.net We have Daniel
does the meetup website of course, Sir Paul couture, who
not only did the nogen our generator but upgraded it and
made it lickety split. He probably put like a huge, a huge
piece of iron on it because we were complaining. Everybody's
like it's slow. He's like, I watch this. I'll fix Yeah. Then
he did. And we appreciate that as we do with the artists who
upload art, whether you use AI or not, and it's really about
the intent. It's about the humor. Being people artists
often listen to the show and they they guess what topics
we're going to be going through it turns out to be a mistake
they really miss it usually on that but they
John C Dvorak: present when we get to the art later when we're
after the show's over we go over and we look at this an
interesting topic that we didn't discuss. But you know, it's like
come on. Well, we
Adam Curry: did discuss Texas we did discuss Barbie and Francisco
Scaramanga he got it he nailed it with the with the Barbie with
their AR 15 was in our looks like an AR 15 It looks like a
hybrid ar 15 shotguns somehow with a big Texas flag
beautifully done. We did look at a couple other let me see there
was a lot of lot of submissions. Let's take a look at what we had
for the
John C Dvorak: last year the reason for this particular piece
it really stood out as slick pretty made the point a little
you know the Barbie contrasting with the shotgun and everything
was just it's just a great piece. Do you think this was a
good work generally speaking
Adam Curry: Do you think this was aI
John C Dvorak: it looks like it might be my heart AI and maybe
some AI involved? Yeah, no no
Adam Curry: certainly not our logo and all that stuff that the
no way that AI does know
John C Dvorak: today is just too much work.
Adam Curry: Yeah, when you use it as a tool, it's good. And
those had heroes John, I liked the stars on her boobs.
John C Dvorak: I didn't say that you did
Adam Curry: okay, all right lies then there was the Barbie
snubbed Barbie with a little her little Oscar? Was that from
comic strip blogger
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that was a I
Adam Curry: Darrin O'Neill had his super aI don't mess with
Texas with the I guess it looks like a cowboy with some razor
wire Oh What else is there I don't know if there's anything
else that the yeah there's some Obama's with a Big Mike pin I
didn't It's too small didn't really work. Who 33 I don't know
there was there and really I guess that was it was just the
best one it just it popped pop was there anything else?
John C Dvorak: No not really. I mean I did like the duck by
madmen it made Marriott
Adam Curry: Yes. Yeah. The duck in the air
John C Dvorak: about it Yeah,
Adam Curry: well oh wait there's another bar Oh, I'd like to the
no agenda Barbie. And we I think we both thought that that was
actionable. The one that was down at the bottom and 5 million
John C Dvorak: then the real an actual Barbie Yeah, that I think
is actionable. Yeah, we got to because it's using a finger to
do advertising for the show in the way we're holding the sign.
Yeah, we got to buy I think it's probably sketchy.
Adam Curry: Well, Francisco Scott a manga thank you so much
for supporting us with your talent and with your time. It is
highly appreciated the work of all the art It is always
appreciated. No agenda art generator.com You can follow
along live during the show you can go back and take a look at
any time these also show up I don't know if it has the no
agenda shop done anything new recently. They're probably just
looking at like wow this is all AI is any good? Nowadays no, no
agenda shop
John C Dvorak: do we need to hear from them?
Adam Curry: Yes, T shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies, koozies
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donation. We have no contractual agreement with them, which we
love. No meetings either. It's just fabulous. Love working that
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John C Dvorak: habitually. That's Bitcoin money.
Adam Curry: I think it is.
John C Dvorak: Chris Hamilton's up. He's in Benbrook, Texas
33333. I happened to be one of your bakery worker listeners.
Yeah, I have been meaning to donate for a while but kept
putting it off. Well, now he's got some dough.
Adam Curry: Since you mentioned Oh, hey. Oh, took me a second.
Yes, very good.
John C Dvorak: Since you mentioned the bakery workers in
the last show. I knew it was assigned to donate. Please
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Unknown: You've been de deuced to please
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Unknown: They always give me a brisket on my birthday.
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John C Dvorak: Eli the coffee guys from Bensenville Illinois.
Maybe it's the sad puppy in the newsletter or maybe it's the
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no. Thursday's breakdown of the Carey Lake recordings provided
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Adam Curry: here's some bonus content inserted into your
donation segment. I got an unedited version of the Kerry
Lake. Recording. In fact, it also was accompanied by a note
from our producers, who says Damn, Jeff DeWit is one of the
good guys. He has helped a bunch of people I know get gigs and
Trump's wake lake was bitter that Trump was coming in to
raise money for DeWitt. That's the guy who got who resigned.
And the Arizona GOP and not her. She was not scheduled to be a
speaker or get any money from Friday's event. first clue about
Lake was running for Senator while contesting 2022. Governor
race. She has been running for VP since 2020. To do we'll have
the last laugh. Blake just committed political hierarchy
theory. So now I was not able to clip it because it's it's it's
not good for audio clipping. But the way it came out the way it
was presented to us. I would I have to say, the context and
nuance was edited out. That sounded much more like he was
reporting to her what was coming down the pike and not
necessarily there to bribe her.
John C Dvorak: So that would be that would make sense to me. I
thought the whole thing was rigged. Yeah.
Adam Curry: So and I did put the link to this full recording,
particularly the beginning as a lot of the beginning that was
not in the released version. And there's some other bits that's
just taken out that's taken out where he's kind of going yeah,
you know, that's what these guys do that kind of stuff. So I
would have to say that was there was definitely there's multiple
sides of that story. Carrie Lake may not be the heroine that she
appears to be. We I love our producers, sir. Mostly nerd.
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John C Dvorak: Right there at the bottom of the list is Linda
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and she donates 200 bucks every show. So I can read her note
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Unknown: jobs, jobs and jobs
John C Dvorak: must be paying off for her. Yes.
Adam Curry: Now I would like to say that although we're happy to
read your code bond, Gino and all that the concept of value
for value is sometimes it gets a little distorted. We give you
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people donating of any amount really doesn't show
John C Dvorak: it's under 50. Today. Yeah.
Adam Curry: So it's okay. Because if we're not doing the
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Just consider any value you receive. Send it back. We
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John C Dvorak: Yeah, let's start with I guess his Doosan Palo
moto in Oviedo, Florida all these are impossible to say $110
And he does say or she could be a sheep now is a great work.
Andrew Gardner in Leonard town, Maryland. 100 bucks. He's on the
birthday list and he wants to call All Out Sir Elliot Gardner
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out but they got a few line 13 I got no name.
Adam Curry: That's me neither. I got no name. Well,
John C Dvorak: somebody sent us $88.92 Thank you very much.
Kevin McLaughlin is next from Concord North Carolina. 808
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Thompson, Connecticut 5678 and credit sad puppy. Haley Curtis
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dispensaries already donated? Oh, no, that's funny. The two of
them don't leave
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Adam Curry: I thought I heard a show
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Unknown: want to go hang out with all the nights and days
you'll be triggered. You will be ready to say like
Adam Curry: alright, I'm over ISO today, so I might as well go
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John C Dvorak: I figured you would be because last show you
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Adam Curry: sewed Here we go. Okay,
Unknown: take your hands off your kiddos ears. That's
Adam Curry: too long. Too long.
Unknown: It's like a digital fentanyl.
Adam Curry: Kinda like that one. Kind of like that one. I think
this this is new. He did some new Ding ding ding
Unknown: ding ding ding ding ding bomb Pune
Adam Curry: then I have this one there is no evidence I thought
that was pretty good. And then we go to the well for the final
ones
John C Dvorak: fantastic episode. We got Okay, so wait
well what will be the winner right Wait, wait
Adam Curry: wait wait. I have one more an incredible episode.
Fantastic or incredible? Which one? This is a tough call I
John C Dvorak: think Fantastic. Fantastic episode because I like
to breathiness a little bit I have two okay, which I will
already concede the one that's going to be that one that you
just played Yeah, but let's go with promise
Unknown: promise made and a promise cap.
Adam Curry: It's funny. All right.
John C Dvorak: And then roll
Unknown: that's not how I roll.
Adam Curry: Yeah, I think the fantastic episode is
appropriate. Yeah, that's just the one we got to do and now
it's time for you to see I love it when people post good news
stories that we've already played on the show I saw that
Mastodon you like keep up well yeah
John C Dvorak: well the good news today is I don't have a
good news clip what you know what happened? No this is how I
was talking to me me and she posted a couple of clips into
some other clips over a couple of good ones by the way really
great clips this isn't a trusted the fisherman and then I forgot
to put them on the on the on the countdown sheet and I never I
never produced them
Adam Curry: and I don't even have a backup good news Are you
kidding I shipped from
John C Dvorak: a couple of shows ago I have a backup good news
but not
Adam Curry: if it's not currently it can't really can't
really can't really well I feel bad now. Well, you should this
is your beats. How can you how can you miss your beat?
John C Dvorak: I know it's pretty funny.
Adam Curry: Well, then I'll let you play one more clip before we
go. Just just so we get
John C Dvorak: what they will call it the good news clip. It's
Miss Biden.
Adam Curry: Always good news to play Biden. Okay. All right.
What are we playing?
John C Dvorak: This will be I got to Biden clips. One of them
is Biden talking about the first about second amendment gun
rights. And here he goes by the F 16. Comment. Well,
Unknown: guess what, man? I didn't see a whole lot of
patriots that out there. Walking around making sure that we have
these weapons. Well, and if you really want to worry about the
government, he needed an F 16.
Adam Curry: Wow, is he on that tip again? He's done this
before. This is old. His old
John C Dvorak: everything he says his old Oh, Biden on Biden
on beer
Unknown: beer brewed here is used to make the brew beer. Boo
worth Ryder. Thanks for the great lakes. I'm wondering.
Adam Curry: Okay. All right. You know, you better have a good
news clip next show. I mean, you I mean, it's one thing to throw
in a China clip. And then you have no good news is an atrocity
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they're given frozen sandwiches that still have ice and that's
the kind of environment you would go to you
will you help me know when Miss Grace shows we don't need no
border patrol
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children and their families
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Arizona, those kids are ages they're given peanut butter on
tortillas or even frozen sandwiches. Still have ice in
the Vironment. You want your?
Adam Curry: That was a very interesting comment. I thought
that the idea of given these children's tortillas with peanut
butter, and some of them were out of the fridge, they still
had ice on them. It's just despicable to this woman. And
it's just the whole idea of I don't know if she has kids, but
she's probably feeding a mac and cheese and they see any
Unknown: weakness. They will come by the millions. They will
come by the media and they see any weakness Oh,
aliens is 00 with Mexico since they sleep in Sydney. I will
build bringing crime. They're rapists. I will have Mexico pay
for MOPO vorak.org/in a fantastic episode