John C Dvorak: outstanding product.
Unknown: Adam curry,
Adam Curry: John C. Dvorak 2820 20 for the show award
winning combination media assassination episode 1646.
Unknown: This is no agenda, counting
Adam Curry: chemtrails and broadcasting live from the heart
of the country here in FEMA Region number six in the
morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry and from
John C Dvorak: Northern Silicon Valley where we want to remind
you that weather is not climate. Unless it is I'm John C. Dvorak.
Adam Curry: Buzzkill. That's right. Beautiful day here in
Hill Country. Fredericksburg, Texas is beautiful. It was
beautiful. We had a couple of days out
John C Dvorak: here too. It's supposed to be raining. Oh,
Adam Curry: sorry to hear that. What are the algos telling you
to be worried about today everybody? Please check yourself
check your amygdala make sure you're worried about all the
right things. Hey, before we even get started, I want to say
you know Tina is on her way to Florida. So last night she
actually left to yesterday, so I had a chance to watch the movie
produced by Dana Brunetti. No agenda executive producer
GranTurismo though
John C Dvorak: Yeah. Wow.
Adam Curry: I have seen a lot of race movies. I would say this is
the best one. It should I agree. It should receive an Oscar for
something. Well, too late. No, no. And I also
John C Dvorak: I use it to say I got to see it on IMAX so you can
bet that was it's
Adam Curry: everyone had warned me it starts a little slow. A
little slow. It granted a little did a little bit for a second.
Oh yeah, it
John C Dvorak: does start a little slow. But I thought it
speeds up like a car.
Adam Curry: Yeah, yeah, it was so good. And I loved the casting
of Jan's mom. Geri Halliwell, Gary Halliwell. Cherry cheer
Gary Halliwell. Spice Girl.
John C Dvorak: Yeah,
Adam Curry: I thought that was great. With Oprah's great
casting to put her in. Notice that know that? Because that
means that you even you and I can get into his movies. Right?
To put a Spice Girl in your racing movie. Come on, we can
get in there. And congratulations to Ashlynn speed
number 32. No a generation racer. She's racing F four.
Yeah, she's moved up. No sooner have we talked about her? Have
we helped her career? Have we put her on the podium? Then she
goes to Formula four. Yes, this is great. I'm telling you f1 f1
for the win. Let's see. Well, they've knocked the bridge down.
John C Dvorak: This I love watching that rich go down over
and over. Man Well damn this thing. There's
Adam Curry: there's a lot of speculation, a lot of a lot of
information a lot of things we do know we don't know. Of
course.
John C Dvorak: Well we know now that the more important thing
is, they've got to change the name of the bridge because
Francis got key is a bad guy.
Unknown: He's a racist to Francis Scott Key Bridge. Now a
barrier for a key shipping lane, the Port of Baltimore is
expected to be closed indefinitely. Please investigate
the collision that caused it to collapse and work to clear the
wreckage is critically important to our economy. Last year, the
port processed over 52 million tons of foreign cargo or some
$80 billion each day it shut down a $217 million trade loss
and while Baltimore handles just 3% of container volume for the
Eastern Gulf Coast's it's the top US port for automobile
imports and exports. Nearly 850,000 vehicles passed through
last year. The port is also crucial for energy exports
shipping some 20 million tons of coal per year most to India,
it's a key lifeline for the local economy as well accounting
for more than 15,000 direct jobs and nearly 140,000 indirect jobs
generating $3.3 billion in personal income.
We're looking at not having ships coming in for no one knows
how long at this point, you know, and that's going to affect
the lives of longshoremen and stevedores and tugboat crew,
some
40 ships remain stranded in Baltimore Harbor automakers like
Ford, GM and Volkswagen say they will be rerouting their shipping
to avoid major disruptions, the accident certain to have a
massive impact on the regional supply chain and the local
economy. Yeah.
Adam Curry: The fallout you know, really bad.
John C Dvorak: That was a better I have a report from that
report. Where did you get that?
Adam Curry: That was from Papa France. 24. It was good, right?
Because it had the economic stuff
John C Dvorak: and a bunch of good stuff. Listen, here's what
NPR did.
Adam Curry: Let me see The NPR here we go see it as
Unknown: divers continue their search for missing construction
workers following the collapse of a bridge in Baltimore.
Investigators are looking at evidence in the case. Apparently
out of control container ships smashed into the bridges support
structure early Tuesday morning, causing the massive structure to
crash into the water and under the ship. The bodies of two
workers are recovered day other workers who are on the bridge at
the time are missing and presumed dead. The Biden
administration is promising an aggressive effort to reopen the
Port of Baltimore to shipping traffic and rebuild the
structure.
John C Dvorak: We got on. I know. I just as an aside, I do
have a kind of an interesting tidbit clip. Okay.
Unknown: Remember station w wipr talked to one of their co
workers who said he was scheduled to work on the bridge
the next morning, he said the men held from Guatemala,
Honduras, El Salvador and Mexico. Tragedy. Oh, yeah, no,
we're all
John C Dvorak: a bunch of illegals that we're working on
to deal with that's why they don't talk about it.
Adam Curry: In fact, the president of Mexico has already
complained. Let me see. Lopez Obrador said that insensitive
irresponsible politicians did not understand the contribution
of migrants in the US. They found two bodies in a pickup
truck. Yeah, that's that's your that's your your high paying
good union jobs. That's right. Dignity. Yeah, they illegals
working on of course, fixing the potholes. We have boots on the
ground. By the
John C Dvorak: way, try to stop a second. So I went into my
tires leaking. Oh, no. And so I had to get a new expensive tire.
Because it wasn't warrantied because it was caused by a
pothole. You had pothole damage to my tire is going to cost me a
lot of money,
Adam Curry: you need some illegals. I'm sure we can get
some let's go to the Home Depot and have them and pick them up
and have them fill up your potholes. boots on the ground.
From one of our producers, he works for a port company owned
by SSA Marine, which controls port operations at the Baltimore
marine port. This is why we have the best podcast in the
universe, we have the best producers in the universe.
Everybody's an expert at something, I'm sure this guy has
been sitting around listening to the show forever. Thinking is
great, I have nothing much to contribute, then all of a sudden
Whoa. And that's when you email us that's how you're supposed to
do it. It was confirmed there were two pilots and control the
vessel the vessel was leaving the port after being loaded
speed six knots after they lost power. They issued a mayday
which allowed emergency traffic closure of the bridge. And I
mean all those videos, it doesn't look like there was a
lot of time so that losing power, there was enough time for
the May Day and for them to close the traffic on the bridge
guaranteed it was late. But so I think that's could have been
much worse. They followed all the emergency procedures, which
includes emergency dropping of the anchor, the smoke, this is
from internal communications. So take it for what it's worth. Of
course, the smoke scene is from the emergency generators, which
takes several minutes to kick in, they tried to stop the ship,
but it was too short of a distance. The cause of the power
failures still unknown. Although dirty fuel is a possibility. It
seems they lost control of the steering while motor and
propeller was still going. A collision was inevitable with
the vessel this size and this amount of displacement confirmed
that people died but you probably have that information.
Thank you very much to our boots on the ground. So that's the
official word there at the port. Now, it was really odd. My
neighbor out here, Laura Logan, she was on the stick right away
about this right away, calling it a cyber event. Yes, and she
was all over a banyan show and Newsmax or news nation, whatever
it is. And now let
John C Dvorak: me just let me just say two of them one is
Newsmax and the other one is news. Naisha there's
Adam Curry: two different things. Now I hold my neighbor
in high regard. I know who she's married to. I know that she does
know
John C Dvorak: your beer friends. Yeah, they were
friends.
Adam Curry: She started coming to our church as well which is
interesting. She definitely has intelligence sources. And now
I'm going to play two clips. The first one is from winch because
she has the same story is very long. So I tried to get the two
concise clips. But the first one is really her sources. And
although the none of her reporting that I've seen she is
she's staking her reputation on this, which for someone like
Laura is a big deal
Unknown: US intelligence elements within US intelligence,
have identified this as a cyber attack. And the way that this is
done is using a technique which is called spoofing. So there's a
lot of conversation that you know about the feed, the ship
was going that calls were made to emergency services or to the
Harbormaster. And, you know, there's a lot of conversation
about, exactly, you know, all the different variances that
happened to you. But what they don't want you to talk about,
right, because they introduce all these other things, so that
you will not have a conversation about how this is done. It's a
very simple technique, and it's called spoofing in the
intelligence community. And basically, what you do is you
identify what is the GPS signal, we all know this is satellite
base that the ship is using to power its, you know, its GPS,
and to guide that ship on its course. And you create a more
powerful signal, so you overwhelm the signal that
they're using. And what this means is effectively, whoever is
on that ship piloting. And when that pilot is on board, a
complex maneuver like that has to be handled by the harbor
pilot. So he's watching his GPS signal, and it's telling him
that he is on course, that everything is fine. But now he's
looking at what he sees. And it doesn't look the same as what's
on the GPS. And what the harbor pilot and the crew are now
looking at is as they're getting closer and closer, they're
realizing Wait a minute, we're not in the channel, what we're
seeing with our own eyes doesn't match what's on the GPS, but the
GPS is telling us we're still on core. And so then they start to
panic, right. And as they realize that they're in a really
bad situation, they're now trying no likelihood, right?
What they're trying to do everything that they can to stop
it, but at a certain point, physics takes over the weight of
the ship, the weight of the cargo, the speed of the water,
the sharpness of the turn, there's nothing that you can do
at that point.
Adam Curry: So this is Chi stands by this, that it was GPS
spoofing. And it was dark of night, and it was timed at
night. So that the you know, just have the, there's not a
whole bunch of eyes would be on the bridge and seeing what was
happening. And here's a clip from the that was little
yesterday. Here's a clip from this morning about our sources.
Unknown: I'm talking to people who are on the inside some who
are in active duty, some who are retired, and everyone literally
from critical infrastructure in Department of Homeland Security
to the intelligence agencies, they know there's no other it's
there. This is a cyber attack on a critical infrastructure
corridor for the United States. This is you know, for those
people think this is just a river. This is in Baltimore,
what is this matter? You don't know anything about what you're
talking about? This the I 94 corridor on the Eastern Seaboard
is literally what connects the north and south and when I talk
about hazardous materials, right, this is a brilliant, well
planned strategic attack on one of the most important supply
chains in the United States of America. The only other one is
in the western side in California. That's the only one
that's busier. And what you have does you now have shut it down?
Adam Curry: What do you think about that? Is that bridge
really that important? Is it visit vital for our
infrastructure?
John C Dvorak: Apparently, it wasn't vital before 1978 when it
was built.
Adam Curry: I always have to talk to her about two things.
One, I've got to talk to her about the Right. Right. And and
also I should not tell him not to stand too close to jet
engines. Don't want to get justice. Kidding. Kidding. I
mean, she's staking her reputation on it, which is this
way.
John C Dvorak: It's an interesting thesis that you'd
have to try to figure out how it could be done to overwhelm and
it would have been reported by more than one I would think it
was it couldn't be targeted unless they had to I don't know
how they could do that. But it's possible, I suppose. To target
one. Oh,
Adam Curry: no. I mean, it's a bit much GPS spoofing is is very
easy. That's easy. That's super easy.
John C Dvorak: Is it easy to to do it so nobody else notices?
Oh, yeah,
Adam Curry: you just need a transmitter that is just closer
to the receiver then blocks out the satellite signal?
Absolutely.
John C Dvorak: That I think is the I'm not I really I like to
hear from some experts that we have that.
Adam Curry: By the way. 1600 airplanes in the last four days
have had GPS issues over the Baltic Sea. I mean, this we know
this happens. It's the easiest thing to do was
John C Dvorak: also a solar flare, which was attributed to
this issue. Oh, I hadn't heard that one was there and yeah,
they came out and said well, the solar flare has been causing
trouble.
Adam Curry: But spoofing is very easy. We GPS it's really is. I
mean, you just have to have a signal sending, sending out the
the skewed data, but it just seems like wow, okay, and then
that doesn't account for the timing of the engine going out
and I mean that there's a lot of a lot of holes a lot of holes
but I still don't know if this because her big claim is that
this will take four to five years that the structure you
have no idea how bad this is because of the cement pylon that
probably you don't have to build a new bridge. That's likely
true. But is it really? Is it really that crippling? I mean, I
know that you won't be able to get your Mercedes Benz on time I
heard I heard the CEO on CNBC Oh, well, we'll get your your
your Evie Mercedes Benz to you as soon as possible. I don't
know that. That's the thing that only she's talking about. It's
much more interesting to me than then the GPS spoofing is is this
really that important of,
John C Dvorak: of a cord was a 3% cord. We know that right?
Adam Curry: But she's talking about the bridge itself. It's
not the port. It's the bridge
John C Dvorak: though. The bridge Yeah, will take a while
to build but she says the one that was put up was, I guess
thrown up. That was a piece of crap. I've never seen anything
collapse like that. Well, the whole thing looks like a
TinkerToy going down.
Adam Curry: Well, if you I mean, hitting that pylon is I mean,
that's yeah,
John C Dvorak: we're just single point of failure to that
extreme. That was poorly designed. If did that's the
case. Okay. Jhansi.
Adam Curry: Dvorak is terrible engineer. I mean,
John C Dvorak: did you see the tweet just looking at you not to
be a chicken? You didn't know a bad AK. Did
Adam Curry: you see the Twin Towers? How about that?
Unknown: They will I
John C Dvorak: don't think that was legit. Well, maybe this was
this seemed legit. They just said,
Adam Curry: How about building seven that you're you're
complaining about a bridge, that thing fell down out of sympathy?
So I don't know that it will unfold. But if so no one else is
talking about that, to me is the most interesting part. Is it
really that bad? And man, it's like when you get a whole bunch
of people calling you from intelligence. Oh, yeah. You
know, is that? I mean, that could be Q level stuff. Like,
oh, this is this is it, man. This is it. And by the way, now
that I have you on the phone, JFK Jr. is still alive.
John C Dvorak: Which is a big Macedon, which is,
Adam Curry: which is a big one out here. That's a big one. A
lot of people talking about that. I
John C Dvorak: find that peculiar that it would be so
prevalent in that area. Oh,
Adam Curry: it's it's very interesting.
John C Dvorak: You're living in an area that is loaded with
crackpots. That feel
Adam Curry: right at home? Yeah, really. It's a beautiful thing.
It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. All right. So that was
why we really just don't have any more everybody's seen.
Everybody's seen the video footage. I can understand where
if you hit them. It's so it's such a perfect hit. That I mean,
even if they just hit the trust of the bridge, it would have
taken that thing out. But it really hit just the sweet spot,
which you don't really expect to happen. So and and if it is, is
it. More important to me is is it really going to cripple our
internal infrastructure? That's the I thought you would know
more about the I 95 Corridor seems like something you would
know I know
John C Dvorak: about the I 95 corridor? Yeah, but far as I'm
concerned as back east I'm, I'm a West Coast guy gonna carry
Adam Curry: that's the spirit John.
John C Dvorak: We looked at China for our way of cleaning.
Adam Curry: Well, all right. Since we're talking about China,
this is hasn't really hit the news that hard here in the
States, but it's big in the UK.
Unknown: Yeah, it's dominating the British papers today stored
in what the Daily Mail calls and highly unusual move. The US and
UK publicly identified China as a source of a decade's long
cyber attack campaign that campaign targeted among others,
politicians, journalists, institutions in the UK, the US
and New Zealand now says that its parliamentary system was
also targeted in 2021. America, the US has announced that it
announced criminal charges and sanctions against seven hackers
who they say live in China. Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister,
British Prime Minister is now under pressure to do more, to
fight and to sanction those who carried out these attacks. acts,
particularly as anger is growing over the fact that Britain only
slapped sanctions on to hackers. They belong to a group called
advanced persistent threat or a PT not to give you an idea of
the scale of these attacks,
Adam Curry: what kind of what kind of hacker name is that?
Fear sitting down with a bunch of hackers like oh, we got up a
cool name like a non Oh, yeah. advanced persistent threat.
Yeah, nailed it, bro. advanced
Unknown: persistent threat or a PT not to give you an idea of
the scale of these attacks. For in one instance, an attack on
the UK Electoral Commission gave the hackers access to the names
and addresses of 40 million people registered to vote. One
MP, saying Britain turned up to a gunfight with a wooden spoon
is in a way in a bid to describe the response of Britain to
punishing these hackers as the Times reports it, China is set
to be declared a threat to national security. So
Adam Curry: bemrose in the troll room says that a PT is what the
white hats give to groups who they don't have the name of and
then they'll often put a number so a PT 35, advanced print, so
it's not what they call themselves. It's what we do with
our good guys call them. And it sounds to me like an attack on
five eyes. Now the through a New Zealand, the UK, the US, all of
us, it's your pivot to Indochina. There you go. It's so
much confusing. collected
John C Dvorak: a names of 40 million people. Okay. Yeah. So
why it's called
Adam Curry: Facebook, what are you talking about? No,
John C Dvorak: many Facebook?
Adam Curry: Many, many Facebook. So then I hear about that
Beijing is filing a lawsuit with the World Trade Organization
against the United States. Yes, this is a good story, the same
issue that the European Union had on Well, I don't think the
European Union is filed any suit. They're complaining about
the IRA, the infrastructure Reduction Act, which gives
incentives to us electric vehicle makers, and they're
saying it's racist. It's, it's discriminatory. And now that's
one thing, first of all, Boo China. That's one thing, but
then Janet Yellen, comes on Andrea Mitchell show and accuses
China.
Unknown: And then he finally asked you about the New York
Times report, but other reporting that we've done on
Elon Musk and his relationship with China, obviously, Tesla
competing now against their cheaper EVs. But he's really
dependent on that Chinese market, very tied in with them.
He has huge defense contracts his satellites are satellites we
rely on for so much of our communication isn't a national
security problem. For women and his rockets, of course, is it a
national security problem for our government to have so much
reliance on this one entrepreneur? Well, look, we
take national security very seriously and want to protect
our national security. Our desire is not to shut down
economic relations with China, we want to diversify our supply
chains. But many American firms operate in China and gained from
the ability to sell to China's large market. China obviously
sells a lot in the United States. And the competition
among our firms is by and large, a healthy thing. We want to
stabilize that relationship and not shut it down. But also we
need to make sure that the playing field is level and we
are concerned about Chinese subsidies and the impact on our
firms.
Adam Curry: So she's saying the Chinese are subsidizing their
companies. Well, now now now brakeman clump wishes where we
say in the old country, that brace that breaks my clog.
John C Dvorak: Oh, terrible saying,
Adam Curry: Well, if you had wooden shoes, then you'd be
you'd understand it. This is a lot. So are we going down into
this
John C Dvorak: something going on right now? There is a mu BYD
which is the company that was evey cars, supposedly going to
build a mega factory in Mexico bloodbath, the bloodbath car,
bloodbath company, BYD bloody your dream, you're so the
bloodbath company, BYD is rolling out this summer, a
massive campaign to introduce the BYD electric vehicle to the
United States, huh Interesting you can go to their website and
you can see the movie about and they're gonna be they're gonna
be sponsoring the big world cup or there's some soccer you have
some soccer
Adam Curry: well that's not that's not that's not how you
get the Americans you know, I
John C Dvorak: know but they don't really know they figured
it out Americans are very slowly turning to this yeah they're
Adam Curry: sponsoring UEFA which is the Euro chaotic that
is very odd. Why would they but
John C Dvorak: anyway so we have the this coming and supposed to
roll out to summer and we're going to start seeing we don't
see it what Chinese cars what's the big threat? What Chinese car
is on the road? Name one.
Adam Curry: I can't that's what I thought they're all in Russia.
John C Dvorak: Right? Why does even bother selling does they
got Russia to market? Goodbye Mercedes. Maybe this whole thing
is about you setting yourself they bring down this bridge.
Mercedes can't bring cars here. They can't sell them to Russia.
They're screwed. Maybe this is targeting them. Oh, whatever the
case
Adam Curry: like that. This? Okay, but they were I thought
they were gonna put them in Mexico.
John C Dvorak: But the Mercedes? No, the BYD. Oh no, they're
gonna build them in Mexico so they can get cheaper labor and
roll them into the country and save a few bucks a day. They're
not building him here because no one's gonna let him do that. But
they are going to be rolled out this summer. But tonight, I
don't think it'd be the Mexican ones because I don't think that
factories done or even started for all I know. Anyway, the this
is all suspicious. And it's like a, you know, free trade is
supposed to be free trade and we subsidize our people. They
subsidize their people everybody subsidize, we're supposed to.
Adam Curry: The thing is, it's such a joke. All of this to me
is a joke. We are in perpetual relationship with China.
John C Dvorak: They buy it again. And there's nothing we
can do about it. Well, no,
Adam Curry: I mean, we they buy our debt and then they have
dollars and what are you gonna do with the dollars? I'll go buy
some land? Buy some real estate buy San Francisco. Doesn't China
own a lot of real estate in San Francisco?
John C Dvorak: Not that I know of. I thought they did. Well,
that would be a good ploy.
Adam Curry: Wouldn't surprise me. That's what I always heard
China. I'd
John C Dvorak: ever heard this on our ship. I mean, Chinese is
a big Chinatown in San Francisco. There's a lot of
Chinese in San Francisco and
Adam Curry: Roush.
John C Dvorak: Rouse them get rid of them. They've tried to do
that before how and why
Adam Curry: buyers from China are snatching up Bay Area homes.
John C Dvorak: The Arizona San Francisco Oh,
Adam Curry: I'm sorry. Okay, we're gonna be technical about
it. This is from 2014
John C Dvorak: be technical about it now. Okay. Well,
Adam Curry: the Bay Area, California, you know, the part
you care about? Well,
John C Dvorak: if I was in China, I would be by I know in
my head where I live, which is in Albany Hill, I called China
hill.
Adam Curry: But isn't the whole point that we're just in this,
we are the customer, we buy their stuff? They buy our debt,
it's the circle, it goes all it? I mean, actually, Germany had
this with Russia, which is gone now. Germany would build
Mercedes, you know, sell them to Russia. And Russia supplied all
kinds of stuff back to them, including, you know, Deutsche
Marks until we throw them off of Swift.
John C Dvorak: With a bunch of idiots.
Adam Curry: Oh, man, did you? I think I had was it here? Here it
is. Reuters reports now, Swift planning launch of new central
bank digital currency platform in 12 months. You know, you
gotta wonder,
John C Dvorak: you know which side of the argument you're on?
Yeah,
Adam Curry: of course, I'm, I'm totally on the side of that.
They're going to do this. It's inevitable.
John C Dvorak: So I didn't say I mean, it may do it. It doesn't
mean it's gonna be a success. Oh, no, we're gonna get rid of
cash. I'm in your life right before your dad. Yes.
Adam Curry: Before you're dead even Yes. Yes. It's already gone
practically. For all practical purposes. Yes. Oh, we're
definitely going to get rid of cash. Definitely. Well,
John C Dvorak: that's a huge mistake. Why?
Adam Curry: But I mean, the whole point of a digital central
bank digital currency is to easily be able to inflate and
deflate and manage you know, the money. The money money. Yeah,
take Yes. Exactly. To take your money. That's and they know what
they just got one step closer. And Texas slim has been has been
warning about this. We've been talking about it for quite a
while and they finally did it in the omnibus bill. Well, you're
gonna hear Massie and some rando rancher, well,
Unknown: you know, the left wants to ban cattle and before
you can ban anything you need a registry you need to know where
it's at and who into it. And that's why they want to tag
cattle. We've seen it happen in Europe. Now on the right, you've
got some cronies who stand to make some money from these ear
tags. They're the ones who get the $15 million earmark doesn't
go to USDA, it's going to quote stakeholders. That is a code
word for private entities are getting a handout. And what
they'll do, they'll verticalized the industry with this the big
corporations, you know, you just talked about China, there for
corporations control meat processing United States, once
owned by China, one's own Brazil, by Brazil, American
ranchers will be working for those organizations if this
tracking goes through, because they'll verticalized the
industry
said, What's your response to this tracking of cattle? Are
you concerned as well?
Oh, yes, I am. It is the key that opens the door
to end to the end of independent producers across the country.
And it is a private property rights issue that we really have
to consider here. When we start talking about RFID ID and data
monitoring monitoring of farmers and ranchers and their cattle
herd size, we open up to what the door for what is going on in
the European Union. And under the rules of sustainability,
sustainable development, we know that the RFID has led to a land
seizure in the name of climate change. So once we open that
door, there's no going back and they can come and they can
monitor, measure, report and verify everything that's going
on your on your farmer ranch and then maybe down the road in the
name of climate change they can come and dictate to you the
rules of their production which is subjective on from a third
party verification and it is extremely dangerous to private
property rights. This is a Liberty taker not a Liberty
maker and
Adam Curry: this is all part of what Larry Fink from Blackrock
calls you know I was he calls it a commodity now it's like
creating an wish I remember what Larry Fink of Blackrock said
tokenizing every asset that's what is tokenizing so they want
to tokenize the herd and then you can of course you can do all
kinds of financial stuff once it's tokenized and you can track
it and you put your key put your cow on the blockchain on
whatever CB DC blockchain there is and then you have total
control total control this is this is happening this is really
happening the except you know these guys they should have
Texas slim on don't get this Rando guy on Slim's much better
better look better had everything much better. So yeah,
the everything's going to be digital and although we keep
laughing about climate change they're all so crazy that it's
creeping up on us bit by bit and then before you know it sorry,
no be for you because you drove too much you don't have an Eevee
John C Dvorak: so the thing that didn't get much news coverage by
the mainstream but was on some of the was on YouTube and
elsewhere was the big hailstorm in Texas that took out a solar
array that's miles and miles of these panels all busted up by
the by the by the incoming mail. Gee, who would have ever thought
that was that even covered in the local news where you are?
Yes. Yeah, it wasn't covered here
Adam Curry: a little while your California you don't care about
the rest of the nation. Dead Well,
John C Dvorak: that's there's truth to that. Okay. Here's your
new solar array. Here's the solar energy clip I
Adam Curry: Have you have you have a clip about it. Oh, not
John C Dvorak: about that because I can't I never saw it
except on YouTube. By
Adam Curry: the way when when it hails and we've had a couple
good hail storms. Two things happen one you keep getting
emails Hey, it's roof repair guy here. Want me to check out your
roof. And the other thing is you always hear someone some poor
sap like oh man. My kid parked the car on the street.
John C Dvorak: Didn't think of course he had all dinged up
Adam Curry: windshields broken, windshields broken and love. You
can
John C Dvorak: break a windshield with a hail stone and
you can break a solar panel with one Treasury
Unknown: Secretary Janet Yellen toward a factory in Georgia
today that will soon start making solar cells for the first
time in seven years. And Bureau Scott Horsley reports Yellen
says federal tax credits helped pave the way for the plants
reopening Neva
factory in Norcross, Georgia. It was one of the first plants in
the country to manufacture solar cells when it opened back in
2007. It struggled to compete though with cheaper solar
imports, and the factory was shuttered 10 years later. Now
it's and he was trying again. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen
credits clean energy tax breaks and the inflation reduction Oh.
Domestic manufacturer X
ray thanks to the IRA investing in clean energy is a good value
proposition. And for the future yellow notes
Adam Curry: that solar energy accounts for more than half the
new power generating capacity added in the US last year. So
this is just proof this is proof that one wasn't a trillion
dollars I think the inflation Reduction Act was I think a
trillion plus yeah a trillion plus dollars proof that it just
went to private companies may go I'm obey Janet, because you sent
it to us we'll make some solar panels. Yeah, it'd be great.
John C Dvorak: You wish to in other words, they couldn't be
profitable making them competing. Exactly. We think a
level playing field with the Chinese came in and just blew
everybody away. China's
Adam Curry: right them. They shouldn't be suing us. We're no
good, though. They're no good either. Hey, oh, it's
John C Dvorak: just the system's no good.
Adam Curry: Since we're on climate change. I have a big
mystery answered. Something that we've been talking about on this
podcast for well, probably since its existence. And if it came
out of the blue all of a sudden from the high wire, you know,
the high wire Dell big tree.
John C Dvorak: I'm familiar with it. I've never listened to it.
Adam Curry: Yeah. Oh, during COVID He had all kinds of great
information. Oh, well, good for you. I think Dell used to
produce medical shows on M five M like the doctors I believe he
produced that one. No
John C Dvorak: Good for him. Yeah. So he Yeah, we need people
like this. I guess he's Yes, exactly. Because he can't get a
job anywhere else.
Adam Curry: So we had on climate engineering expert, Jim Lee. And
man, that he he just laid it all out and explained why we've been
seeing all those Tic Tac Toe things in the sky, which is
seems to have increased incredibly in the past. Do you
have a lot of chemtrails in the sky where you are? Or you have
nothing? Nothing ever happened? Nothing bad in California. You
know,
John C Dvorak: there's I saw like one case, one trail maybe a
week ago. No. And oh,
Adam Curry: so but you've seen the pictures of people taking
pictures of the sky? Yeah, I've seen these criss cross. Which it
Look, I've been a pilot since 2006. I've never seen it so bad
as it is now. But you know what? This guy has solved the mystery
of the chemtrails,
Unknown: the Obama administration while everybody
was having the Trump Hillary Clinton election, you know, wall
to wall coverage. Everything always happens. While nobody's
looking. Right? The Obama administration signed the
federal alternative aviation fuel emissions pact with the
European Union, China and the ICA. This can be summed up in
just a couple word biofuels for contrail control, which goes
back to what alrik Schumann was saying, to change the chemical
constituents coming out of jet aircraft, so that there's less
warming, more cooling contrails. So I got in touch with the guy
at the FAA, who was testing the biofuels. His name is Dr. Ranga.
Sai how thorry that he's the head of the FAA aviation climate
change research initiative. And I specifically asked him, and I
sent him the documentation as to what did alrik Shuman mean by
less warming, more cooling contrails predictable for
operational planning. He says, We want more contrail induced
cirrus clouds by day and none by night. This is this is intent. I
have this signed in writing directly from the head of the
FAA s. ACC era.
Adam Curry: So if you've ever looked up in the sky, he has
seen all those, I'll just call out call them contrails. They
don't evaporate, they eventually spread out and become a cloud
cover cirrus clouds, which are the flat clouds. And this,
apparently what this Jim is saying comes from a specific
mixture of biofuels that is used in the aviation industry. And it
is in fact, what is creating these grids in the sky. Now
Unknown: you look and you see American Airlines pairing up
with Google artificial intelligence to route planes
around contrail forming spaces in the sky. These are called Ice
supersaturated regions, basically Google AI and goes
back to what Ulrich Schumann had actually created in 2010. He
pretty he brings something called co sip. The contrail
Cirrus prediction tool. CO CIP is involved is evolved to be
part of what's called the next gen transportation system in
America. Oh, that's what makes all the tic tac toes in the sky
will learn.
John C Dvorak: If it was Google AI wouldn't knows contrails be
black?
Adam Curry: No. Why? Oh,
Unknown: wow, oh, hey, oh, part of what's called the next gen
transportation system in America. That's what makes all
the tic tac toes in the sky. It is a supercomputer that routes
all the flights. And inside that supercomputer is a subsystem
called the aviation environment design tool. AED T in the ADT,
it tells planes, at what altitude to fly, how much fuel
to burn all of these things. And it takes in environmental
concerns into how it routes flights. And
Adam Curry: that brings us right back to the Biden Administration
with an executive order which we already knew was coming. And
this is it.
Unknown: What did the Biden administration just can't come
out with a report on solar radiation modification? What
three areas of study did they say they want to focus on?
Stratospheric Aerosol injection, may call it solar radiation
modification, and cirrus cloud theny. So what you have here is
a grand conspiracy between the scientists who are trying to, as
they would put it, mitigate global warming impacts from
aviation. But in reality, what they're doing is they're turning
what's been 60 to 80 years worth of pollution into an active
geoengineering program.
Adam Curry: I think it makes total sense. They've always been
doing this. And we always knew that one day they'll come I was
oh, no, we've got to do this aerosol Bill Gates. Hello, Bill
Gates. We got to this aerosol stuff because it's for climate
change. Well, they've been doing it all along.
John C Dvorak: Well, when I was a kid, they were always seeding
the clouds in California constantly Sure. Seeding Yeah,
that's one thing what else still claim it's still modification?
Yes, yes. But
Adam Curry: this is people had been noticing they've been
noticing the criss crosses in the sky. And here's your answer.
Your This is the time remember next gen, I was all over next
gen because that was going to be a whole bunch of things. And
while I was looking at the pilot was airplanes and how they were
going to decrease separation with a really with the under the
hood as they were changing the fuel, so that we have more of
these clouds that spread out and is basically ruining our days.
It's it ruins
John C Dvorak: you go in there, but okay, ruins your day.
Adam Curry: You know, nice blue skies. Oh, no, we can't have
that. These people are crazy.
John C Dvorak: Well, that's for sure.
Adam Curry: I ruining our blue skies. Okay, one more climate
change clip, then we can move away from that. This is the
farmers are protesting once again, they're in Europe.
They're in the year, a year now to control in Europe. They're
mad and they're going to Brussels. They're throwing poop
everywhere. They're starting fires. But just so you know, the
people that they are looking to the politicians they're looking
to, to solve their issues to help them reduce these
ridiculous climate change regulations. There are let me
see what what political bent Do you think they have? Could it be
Oh, tell me far right. Yeah, probably count the number of
times.
Unknown: For the third time in a few weeks, firecrackers and
smoke dark in the sky in Brussels EU court. The
concessions given to them by the EU so far have not been enough
for these farmers, particularly the youngest among young people
have a lot of expenses, so are most in need of fair income. For
the moment. This anger could push these young people to move
away from the traditional vote of the agricultural. It's
clear that it was more center right or even right wing. Here,
all the cards are reshuffled, and we don't know who the
farmers will turn to,
especially since for several months in the European
Parliament, far right parties have been moving into
traditional territory of the array by casting themselves as
the spokespeople for farmers the embrace of state interventionism
has been an ideological evolution for certain far right
groups
can work very clearly in the 80s, we had far right groups,
typically the National Front in France, which were more of a
neoliberal trend, but they have evolved their discourse instead
of elements because it's an opportunity to capitalize on
societal needs and perhaps further broaden their electoral
base.
The far right other target As the environmental measures of
the European Green Deal, which remain at the heart of the
debate, despite already being significantly watered down
recently
Adam Curry: by the EU, there you go. What do we count? Yeah, far
John C Dvorak: right.
Adam Curry: Far Right. The far right, whatever that means. I
think they said farm right. Was farm right? Yeah. Well, they
don't you know, if you are protesting and you're a farmer,
you're basically a Nazi.
John C Dvorak: That's yeah, that makes nothing but sense. That's
Adam Curry: the whole idea. Well, yeah, you what? Oh, no,
no, you're part of the far right.
John C Dvorak: Not right. Not conservative, although
Adam Curry: that bastion of freedom. They're in Berkeley,
right where you are, you know, the ones that don't care about
the rest of the country. Right. Yeah. Are repealing repealing
its controversial ban on natural gas appliances?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, they couldn't. There was a little
old. Yeah, nobody was buying into this one. Yeah,
Adam Curry: but New York is still all in there yet. He is no
more pizza ovens. We actually learned them into the idea. No
more monsters. It's crazy. The UK though the Oxfordshire city
county council approved plans this week to lock residents into
one of six zones to save the planet from global warning
warming. Yep, this is the 15 Minute neighborhood, instead of
saying neighborhood under the new scheme of residents wants to
leave their zone.
John C Dvorak: I love that. Yeah. Well, you have to get a
visa.
Adam Curry: Citizen. If you want to leave your zone, they'll need
permission. Yes, there it is. There's your visa from the
council. And they will decide who was worthy of freedom. I
think this is written with some slant here. Under the new
scheme, residents will be allowed to leave their zone a
maximum of 100 days per year. So you have a there's your budget.
There's your climate budget 100 days a year, don't try to buy
anything outside of the zone. Because they'll know
John C Dvorak: you go Amazon know Amazon's behind it, you
know that right? But
Adam Curry: if you go to Well, I'm sure they helping you. But
if you go to another zone and get something to eat with your
cashless society, they'll know that every resident has to
register their car. And then of course, their cars will be
tracked via cameras around the city. It's all coming. It's all
coming. It's so amazing. Between that and four years of Trump, we
have to stop after you know, in was it,
John C Dvorak: the show was 2028 is the end of no agenda
Adam Curry: just rise, the end of the show just has to end we
can't handle it anymore. We don't have the bandwidth for it.
And then, of course, with war in Ukraine, with with the terror
attacks in Moscow, which now I think we're Putin says we're
both right. It was Ukraine, with the US in the UK. So it wasn't
just Ukraine. It was Ukraine with the US in the UK, which by
the way, a lot of people have deconstructed Victoria Newlands
comments at the end of February in in Ukraine in Kyiv. embsay
Oh, yeah. And she was already telegraphing it, which I thought
was about the Taurus missiles, which Germany didn't give. But
here's that 38 second clip again, where she talks about
some mighty big surprise surprises,
Unknown: I have to say that I leave tonight, more encouraged
about the unity and the results about 2024 and its absolute
strategic importance for Ukraine. I also leave more
confident that even as Ukraine strengthens its defenses. Mr.
Putin is going to get some nice surprises on the battlefield,
and that Ukraine will make some very strong success as you see,
Adam Curry: that's where I disagree with the
deconstructionist she says on the battlefield.
John C Dvorak: Yes, I agree. I agree with you. So I
Adam Curry: don't think I don't think that was any telegraphing
by any means. And there's some pretty some very lengthy
deconstructions of it.
John C Dvorak: But whatever we'll take a concert hall
outside of Moscow is quite on the battle the
Adam Curry: battlefield and now Bo now ISIS ks every all ISIS K
they're threatening France they're going to the threatening
the Olympics, so it's always fun. It's always fun to to bring
bring back ISIS K.
John C Dvorak: But anyway, Mrs. K is right. ISIS k is not really
anything to be brought back. ISIS case stems from One
specific Province in Afghanistan starts with a que ya Corazon
it's just a bunch of disillusion Taliban guys the
Adam Curry: whole thing is ridiculous it is it is
ridiculous it's ridiculous but you know it makes everybody
worried and I read the shake everybody up and but that
doesn't matter at all because all anybody can talk about is
did he?
John C Dvorak: Did he did he did did he clips and
Adam Curry: and I got there you are right on cue to disappoint
me with a whole bunch of detail. Yeah, of
John C Dvorak: course because I unlike you, yes, you deal with
some popular storylines that you reject out of hand. Wait, now
Adam Curry: hold on a second. I have not rejected anything out
of hand. The I have said that what is happening here is
they're washing the cup on the outside. The inside is where all
the wickedness resides. This is did he is just a cover for the
true wickedness. That's what I said. Okay, what's
John C Dvorak: the true root wickedness?
Adam Curry: Oh my god, the lesbian witches who perform
witchcraft every single day in front of our kids. Taylor Swift
Madonna. Rihanna,
John C Dvorak: was all in the music industry, which is kind of
what he's brought up by this Diddy thing. I lived with Sean
Puffy Combs for a year.
Unknown: That's the crazy thing that that was Ellie Reed's idea
right? It's
Adam Curry: this is what you want me to play? No, but
John C Dvorak: this is good. This is from 2016 Asha This is
Asher. This is Asher complaining about you know when he was a kid
he was taken it's always by the way they also don't have all
these clips. But Bieber I guess was was taken in. Yes, by Diddy
to this camp by the
Adam Curry: way. It's it's like not a secret within the music
business. That Diddy is gay. This is like oh,
John C Dvorak: well in fact, I don't have that clip either. I
can just good. One of the guys one of the guys that one of the
guys who's doing the mate one of the main complainers call it and
he uses the term virgin whole year kind of got which kind of I
don't know how they got it on Fox but they did. Williams he I
think it was who it was. Oh cat. Well, he says that did he wants
to do everyone's you know and he goes on about this. He said you
just have to say no. Yeah, that's Katt Williams. And you
just have to say no, and you know you back up. But yes, it
seems as Joe in general.
Adam Curry: If did he even whispers the words virgin and
hold to you? You need to say no, I agree. This is very sound
advice. very sound advice.
John C Dvorak: But yeah, you can let's play a short clip. I lived
with Sean Puffy Combs for
Unknown: a year. That's the crazy thing that that was la
Reed's idea, right? We're sending yo yo to say the whole
puffy flavor campaign with 13. What we went
John C Dvorak: there to see the lifestyle right. And I saw it.
But I don't know if I could indulge and understand what I
was even looking at. It was it was pretty wild. So nobody tried
to you know, some woman didn't come alive. Okay.
Unknown: What I did say is that there were very curious things
taking place. And I didn't necessarily understand
Would you ever send your kid to puffy camp?
Adam Curry: Yeah, so it was actually just so you understand
the the Genesis that puffy took Usher on under his wing and
Usher was the one who quote unquote, discovered Bieber, and
then he sent Bieber off to be with with Diddy for two weeks.
John C Dvorak: Well, it's sorted. Well,
Adam Curry: yes. Hello. Oh, my, there's gambling going on in the
music business. What you don't hear very much of is Clive
Davis. He's the one who discovered Diddy if we go all
the way up the chain. And by the way, if you notice, Diddy is now
a rapper. What happened to music industry executive, which is
what he really is, because he runs all these labels and sub
labels. And then of course, y'all curry you're not doing the
research. This is Epstein. Okay, because yes. Oh, they're
blackmailing everybody. I still need to see one videotape from
Epstein.
John C Dvorak: Yes. Why they would show us anything. Where's
Adam Curry: the Hillary Clinton video that that four cops
committed suicide over? Where's that?
John C Dvorak: You think they would get leaked somehow? You'd
think? Well, the clips I have are if I didn't take the
mainstream media. I took Jesse Walters. That's not mainstream
Adam Curry: media. Well, it is but it's it's more mainstream
than most. Well,
John C Dvorak: the reason I say it's not is because it's like
watching a hysterical old lady. Okay, Jesse Walters.
Adam Curry: By the way. This is its waters, not Walter's wallet
John C Dvorak: Walker's water US waters Jessie waters is just
short of holding clutching his pearls booklet you know the way
you get to the top of your blouse and you hold it tight
against your neck. Is he says
Adam Curry: he sounds like 99% of all podcasts and rumble and
YouTube videos. That's yeah, that's and that's that's what
everybody's does that well, your algo brought up for you John
Diddy.
John C Dvorak: No. Oh, okay. No, I was watching Jesse. Will Will
Oscar show rock
Adam Curry: rock Jesse Walker's. Alright, let's get into it.
Shockwaves
Unknown: reverberating through the music industry after federal
agents raided the LA and Miami homes of billionaire Hip Hop
mogul Sean Diddy Combs. Homeland Security conducted the armed
raid and an alleged sex trafficking operation TMZ leader
capturing Diddy pacing around a private Miami airstrip did he
wasn't arrested but his phones were seized. And there's
speculation tonight that he's fled the country we can't
confirm it. Just breaking tonight, though did his
attorneys putting out a statement saying quote there is
no excuse for the excessive show of force and hostility exhibited
by authorities. This unprecedented ambush paired with
advanced coordinated media presence leads to a premature
rush to judgment of Mr. Combs and is nothing more than a witch
hunts. The raid was triggered by a litany of lawsuits including
from his own ex alleging abuse, rape and sex trafficking did he
settled that one but then, two months ago, his former producer
Rodney little rod Jones filed an explosive lawsuit containing
disturbingly graphic and disgusting details that not only
implicate Diddy, but aim straight at the heart of the
music industry.
Adam Curry: So in all of this interesting that Diddy has not
been arrested his kids weird his kids are living at these houses.
And let me tell you, you want to see some messed up kids look at
kids of billionaires. And but he's right. Did he is putting
out a statement. He's right this is a witch hunt the witches of
the music industry Taylor Swift.
John C Dvorak: Oh, beyond what he did there.
Adam Curry: Oh, yeah. These these are the evil ones. They're
the satanists and Sam Smith. We'll just call him a woman for
argument's sake. Who? Sam Smith. Don't you remember he he was on
the Grammys in the devil suit in the cage brought to you by
Pfizer.
John C Dvorak: Oh, that guy?
Adam Curry: Yes. Yes. These it is a witch hunt. In that regard.
He's correct. It's a witch hunt. The Witches are out to get them
to cover up their own evil doings.
John C Dvorak: I like your thesis
Adam Curry: Thank you clip to
Unknown: an elaborate racketeering, blackmail and sex
trafficking scheme that is lawyers compared to Jeffrey
Epstein's. Now, for over a year, little rod had unfettered access
to Diddy's world, his homes, his planes and his parties, where he
claims he witnessed mountains of narcotics, illegal firearms,
police drinks, workers, and underage boys and girls. The
producer claims he was groped by Diddy, groomed and forced into
humiliating sexual performances. Did his chief of staff Christina
quorum is said to have been the galane Maxwell to Sean Combs Oh,
there it is. Allegedly ordering her assistants to keep Mr. Combs
high of gummies pills cocaine and ecstasy and maintaining a
steady stream of sex workers for her boss. Now some of the women
brought into Diddy's orbit were under the age of 16. That's
according to the complaint. The lawsuit claims he required the
sex workers and underage girls to sign NDAs prior to entering
as parties and prior to being drugged and sex trafficked at
these parties.
Adam Curry: I don't believe this first second sign this NDA Oh
sure. Both now. Okay. So so far, except for the underage part. We
have drugs and hookers hmm sounds like DC to me. I mean,
okay. This is all just salacious gossip and and it's so
uninteresting in the world that we live in. When Taylor Swift is
performing witchcraft onstage in front of your seven your seven
year old. Oh, Taylor. The kids are talking in tongues.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, yeah, that's true. That is a short
clips. Here's the last one
Unknown: that did he call these his freakout parties and attend
There you go free celebrities, politicians, athletes,
international dignitaries like British royalty Prince Harry,
and music label executives. little rod clubs some of the
biggest names in the recording industry sponsored these parties
with sex workers, drugs and underage girls, the CEO of
Universal Music, Lucien Grange is named as a defendant. So as
the former CEO of Motown Records Ethiopia, Hubbard Merriam, and
others know rod says hidden cameras were in every room of
Diddy's homes. Little rod believes that Mr. Combs
possesses compromising footage of every person that is attended
his free golf parties, and his house parties, salacious tapes
of Hollywood's biggest names, including record CEOs and
politicians doing drugs, and cavorting with prostitutes and
minors. The complaint argues that these free golf parties
were a business model, young and up and coming talent attended
and were promised career opportunities and access to
music executives. They were then plied with drugs and alcohol
filmed somewhere blackmailed. There was a quid pro quo,
according to the complaint. Oh,
Adam Curry: wow. How surprising. Well, I
John C Dvorak: have a question for you. Yeah. How does this
sound any different than a Hugh Hefner, Playboy Mansion party?
Adam Curry: Not none at all. Not at all. Except that there's a
promise of a career. Well, I guess you know, you hey, I can
get to Hugh I can get you in Playboy. Maybe that was the
promise. Yeah, you're completely right. It's ridiculous. The
whole thing is a big distraction.
John C Dvorak: A lot of don't know. Oh, yes, it's
Adam Curry: of course it is. Have you seen what's going on in
the world? Airplanes are falling out of the sky
John C Dvorak: by airplane fell out of the sky. Well,
Adam Curry: the 737 max but that you know, this piece is falling.
The Boeing is an unreliable product.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, well, there's your story. Yes. How did
that happen? We've talked about on the show. We know how it
happened. Well, the GE guy in charge anything that is what
you're gonna get. Hello. And he quit. He's resigning. Yeah,
yeah. And a year. Well,
Adam Curry: they've got to find a successor but there's a new
twist a new twist in what's a new chapter of Alaska flight
12am Sorry, a new chapter, not a twist a chapter in what's a new
chapter
Unknown: of Alaska flight 1282 where the door plug on a Boeing
plane blew out while in the air. The FBI Seattle division has
sent those passengers a letter it says we have identified you
as the possible victim of a crime isn't unusual for a letter
like this to be sent out.
This is extraordinary for the DOJ and the FBI to be issuing
this letter
attorney Mark Lindquist said the 27 passengers he represents in a
lawsuit against Boeing and Alaska Airlines received the
notice
this letter is a result of cumulative errors by Boeing
cumulative negligence. The DOJ has just lost their patience it
seems while
the embattled company is not named in the FBIs letter
linquist
says everyone's drawing the inference that the target is
Boeing,
Alaska Airlines tells como in an event like this, it's normal for
the DOJ to be conducting an investigation. We are fully
cooperating and do not believe we are a target of the
investigation. Boeing simply said they weren't commenting
linquist says the DOJ is working to see if there's grounds for
new criminal charges,
Dora replied blew out 16,000 feet. There were a variety of
injuries had this happened at cruising altitude, you likely
would have seen people sucked out of that hole. The pilot may
have gone unconscious due to hypoxia. The plane may have gone
down and
in this case, the attorney welcomes a federal
investigation. We
want accountability. We want answers. And we want safer
planes from Boeing. Yeah,
Adam Curry: I agree with that. We definitely want safer planes
from Boeing boots on the ground, of course. Word is spirit
Aerosystems these are the guys who actually were split off from
Boeing I think will be Boeing again by June 2025. The
transition will start this June will take one year to complete
of course very complicated because after Boeing sold this
Wichita division to what became spirit almost 20 years ago,
they've taken in work from Airbus Sikorsky Bell and others
something Boeing will take it all and spirit will just cease
to exist other think others think Boeing will buy the
commercial part and the defense part will remain autonomous. We
should have a better idea in a few weeks boots on the ground in
the industry close to the fire. So that looks more and more like
military industrial complex work is involved here too.
John C Dvorak: Obviously, yeah. You don't want to change the
direction of the cash cow.
Adam Curry: Well, no, I never thought that I would that I
would be pro Airbus. Because you know, they're basically plastic.
I like sheet metal and rivets but not these These guys are no
good.
John C Dvorak: I don't have any clips on this but I want to make
some commentary on Bobby The Op
Adam Curry: I have a clip to set us up.
John C Dvorak: Good. Here we go. Robert
Unknown: F. Kennedy Jr. has announced a relatively unknown
political new cover as his running mate in the race for the
White House. Silicon Valley lawyer Nicole Shanahan will join
his independent ticket as they seek to win over voters unhappy
with a Biden Trump rematch Shanahan is the ex wife of
Google's co founder and says she shares Kennedy's concerns about
the environment and vaccines.
There is only one candidate I have met for president who takes
the chronic disease epidemic seriously. It is Robert F.
Kennedy Jr. and I will be his ally in making our nation
healthy again.
Shanahan has deep pockets she donated $4 million to a Super
PAC that bought a Superbowl commercial.
Adam Curry: I'd have some thoughts too, but you go ahead.
John C Dvorak: So this woman is the one behind that Kennedy ad
that ran on the Super Bowl. That was a top throwback to the 60s.
Of course, she wasn't born until 84 or something like that she
was doesn't even know who Kennedy was. But okay, so she's
somehow responsible for that ad. She was brought in when Kennedy
first came in as an independent and and he looks like he's
polling for about 12% As we speak, he gets on all the
ballots, which she can assure because she's got a lot of
money. That's it was the first sir good clip the
Adam Curry: Sergey Brin, settle
John C Dvorak: he was married to strike a rent for a little while
she met him at a yoga camp and got pregnant had a kid here they
got to did you
Adam Curry: hear that? Supposedly the reason they split
up is that she banged Ilan.
John C Dvorak: It was in the newsletter. I thought you read
it. I'm just
Adam Curry: not everyone who listens to the show reads the
newsletter.
John C Dvorak: Anyway, the newsletter has a very nice clip.
Adam Curry: By the way, no one saw the newsletter. It went to
junk a lot of it Yeah, no, it hurt everything hurt donations.
Everything it did
John C Dvorak: it did it where you got screwed. And it had I
think it had to do with the title using the word killer.
Adam Curry: Oh, yeah. Yeah. So it's on you. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: yeah, totally. Well, it's not really because
it's stupid.
Adam Curry: Yes, Monty 83. There's a newsletter. Stupid
trolls.
Unknown: So
Adam Curry: woman is no good. She's just let me finish I'm
sorry.
John C Dvorak: So she went on the suppose he had an affair
with the language they both deny but he got divorced from her.
Anyway, she I think she's kind of she is beyond the left wing
crackpot type because she just recently as mentioned again, in
the newsletter, we discussed that she just recently after
getting divorced, she's had a druidic ceremony. So she's a
druid. And I should mention that when I went to InfoWorld back in
the 80s it when it was initially an intelligent machine journal,
it was run by Druids. Really? Yeah. And Maggie cannon told me
about it because she says she goes in there they go into some
Friday night or something. She goes back into the office for
some reason. There's everyone's wearing these horns on their
heads and doing some ceremony
Adam Curry: at InfoWorld.
John C Dvorak: Yeah.
Adam Curry: This is some Silicon Valley lore I have not heard
yet.
John C Dvorak: Oh, yeah. And so there's a lot of druidic
bullcrap in Silicon Valley and she's a part of it, but
Adam Curry: they didn't they meet at Burning Man or her
current guy who works here he
John C Dvorak: met at Burning Man, I want to read a little
clip from Britannic about druids, the nobody knows
anything about him. So it's all all supposition and some kind of
just say, I've met a druid. i Okay, tell us what you know. I
met a druid in
Adam Curry: Amsterdam, because we got DMT from a druid that he
got it. That was Yeah, I did. DMT twice in my life is not 20
years ago. By the way. I enjoyed the experience don't have to do
it again. But I enjoyed the experience. And a druid comes
over to the house. And it's because of pure DMT is from tree
bark. It's not synthesized.
John C Dvorak: How do you know he's a druid? Dude,
Adam Curry: he had the horns on his head and everything. No,
yes. Yeah, you had the lots of you know, like, what's your name
from Stevie Nicks type flowing robes and stuff. It was great.
Hey, man, you got some got some tree bark for me. So they're,
they're a weird bunch. And when I saw the picture in the
newsletter of her having her hand holding ceremony with the
guy who works at lightning labs of all places, Bitcoin one no.
Well, lightning Labs is very specific. Lightning labs they
they built the first they built lightning node which is for the
Lightning Network. And those guys I think have lost their way
to be quite honest. They're there. They're a little nuts
about money. Yeah, but she was wearing like a druidic tree
outfit with leaves and stuff barefoot.
John C Dvorak: So here's from Britannica other Roman right.
Nobody knew anything about the jurists, and so they had to go
with Roman writings from Pliny the Elder and others. Other
Roman writers also fixated on druids love of blood and gore.
Pliny the Elder wrote of the druids appreciation for both
mistletoe and human sacrifice. To murder a man was to do the
act of highest devoutness he wrote, and to eat his flesh was
to secure the highest blessings of health. Tacitus, the great
historian even described a battle in Wales in which drew is
covered their altars with the blood of captives and consulted
their deities through human entrails. So they held up to you
know, somebody's in intestines, who knows? Yeah. According to
the writers, the pagan practitioners presented an
existential threat to the Romans. So my thinking is that
this woman was introduced to the campaign because Bobby, the OP
came in, and he's polling about 12%. And initially, he was
taking from both Biden and Trump, but by bringing a drew it
in I pagan woman, who is obviously a kind of a gold
digger, to say the least, she comes in adds to the ticket,
she's, you know, charming enough. And she will kill any
chance that a Trump voter is going to cross over and vote for
Bobby DAPP. That's the ends that is just he's only going to suck
away the votes from Biden. And that's the reason she's there.
That's
Adam Curry: the OP right there. I completely concur. word around
town. Because I know many people who are looking at Bobby the
opp, oh, no, oh, no, no way. Because he or she sent money to
the Soros sisters da A's. She's a lib tard I'm just repeating
what people around town say is completely and utterly
destroyed. Any chance of any wavering Trump voter selecting
Bobby this way? And this? I mean, first of all, it's just
pathetic. I mean, I understand that he had to get on the
ballot, and he needs at like 15 or $20 million quick. So that
was that was the choice is like, Well, look, you got a lot of
money. I'll make you my VP. And yes, I have to agree. I don't
like calling people. Gold Digger easily, but she sure seems to
have all the traits of one.
John C Dvorak: So so that was the idea. And now we've got
Trump as a shoo in. Yeah. Because they're just gonna
completely bother the app is just an insurance policy to make
sure that Trump gets in here. So somebody somewhere some guys
pulling strings are intent on getting Trump elected. And I'd
say this is the time to do the betting. If you're I have in
around Vegas.
Adam Curry: Get in now while stocks last. So I watched the
majority of the fact Dell big tree was there. Because a lot of
people like and I know even though Trump is saying, Oh, it's
horrible, you know, you can vote for him. He's no good, which I
think is part of the op. It's just it's just materializing. It
still would not surprise me. If if Kennedy if Trump wins, if
Kennedy is not brought in for some cabinet post. Yeah, it
could be that would not surprise me. Because all the people there
who were speaking and speaking up to the up to Kennedy coming
out and then him announcing what's her name?
John C Dvorak: What's her name? Shanahan Shana
Adam Curry: chin. Shan Shan
John C Dvorak: Shan That's your new
Adam Curry: Nana Chan. That's her new name. Yeah, so let's
make it a little racist while we're at it. Shana Chan. Yeah.
We're people who had some very interesting things to say. And I
pulled one clip, because I was watching in real time. Cali
means this is the true med guy. And I just love this. So who can
Cali means is his name Le Cali le meme means mea NS Cali means
so means okay. Yes. And he runs through med which is a now
natural path type outfit. The anti farm by an anti Big Pharma
but he has a history with Big Pharma and he talked about it
working for the food and pharma industries early in my career.
My job was to funnel money to institutions that America
constrast we funneled money to civil rights groups. In return,
the NAACP said it was imperative to keep Coca Cola on food
stamps. They actually said it was racist to take Ultra
processed food and soda off of food stamps. And today soda is
the number one item purchased with that program. We funnel
money to medical organizations, the American Diabetes. Oh yeah.
Oh, you've never heard this.
John C Dvorak: No, I never heard that soda was the number one
thing bought by food stamps. Oh, yeah,
Adam Curry: of course. Well, yeah, you can. You can use them
at fast food. Remember, very important using your snap card
and fast food. They actually said it was racist, to take
Ultra processed food and soda off of food stamps. Today, soda
is the number one item purchased with that program. We funnel
money to medical organizations. The American Diabetes
Association of all groups took millions of dollars from Coca
Cola, and they said small cans of the drink was a good choice
for diabetics. The American Academy of Pediatrics 80% of
their funding comes from the pharmaceutical industry. We
funneled money to researchers, I was shocked as a junior employee
to be communicating with top professors at Harvard and Tufts
nutrition school. I found that 11 times more funding comes from
the food industry for nutrition research than the NIH. I found
out that more than 50% of the Harvard Med school budget
touches farm in some way. We funneled money to the media,
pharma funds over 50% of all TV news funding and I realized that
wasn't influenced consumers. That was influenced the the news
itself. And he went on and on and on and on. And of course he
went into ozempic and have that's going to bankrupt
Medicare. Even Bernie Sanders is now coming out saying, Oh, we've
got to get cheaper. ozempic Okay, thanks, Bernie. Yeah,
that'll do it cheaper ozempic Don't don't mind you know, the
fact that you're going to put people on medication kids on
medication for the rest of their life. But let's get back to the
to the food stamps or the snap cards. Because you can use them
at fast food and they have a new addition which is just it's more
input for the ozempic to
Unknown: breakfast powerhouses are teaming up three types of
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts are reportedly go on sale at
McDonald's later this year. The donuts will be available across
the country and McDonald's by the end of 2026. After a phased
rollout the partnership could increase the scope of Krispy
Kreme and today Krispy Kreme is giving away a free doughnut
between five and 9pm. To celebrate less,
they're putting that conveyor belt inside of the McDonald's
rolling them off the hot
Adam Curry: hey, go media loves it. But wait, there's more. We
need more sugary stuff, whether it's high fructose corn syrup,
or sugar, aspartame or whatever you want it to be. Yes.
John C Dvorak: I'd like to know what McDonald's thinks it's
doing. First Kosmos thing which is the sugary drink operation
and it was all about and we've played many a clip Yes. From
people going, Oh, it's so great. And now Krispy Kreme a Donuts,
donuts, Chai at McDonald's or not? McDonough. If
Adam Curry: you had if you had a nation that has money from the
government in their hand and their crack addicts, I'm pretty
sure if you were enterprising, it'd be like Hey, Adam, I got an
idea. Let's stop this podcasting. Nonsense. Let's
start a crack stand. So that's all that sugar is, is crack it
may we have a nation addicted to it. Boy oh boy. Oh no, but don't
worry, because you got the ozempic now, and hey, hey, kids,
here's a good one for you. Let's double down
Unknown: Dunkin ready to give you a little buzz spiked to iced
coffees and teas are officially available now in Chicago. The
coffee comes in four flavors original caramel, mocha and
vanilla. And while the teas have some unexpected flavors, they
include a strawberry dragon fruit and a mango pineapple.
Drinks are not available in Dunkin shops. Instead, they will
be at local grocery stores, of course, Jenner and
the liquor store.
Why not?
Adam Curry: Why not? Do you think there's gonna be any
raspberry in there, no
John C Dvorak: sugar. backup your piece about just buying
everything left and right. I'm not going to play any of the 20
Minute promotion that they did. But I want to play the intro to
it because this adds right into it. This is the UBI presentation
on NPR work
Unknown: on fighting poverty in the USA pandemic government aid
made it clear that getting people in need a little extra
money could help them in huge ways.
And they spend the money in ways that everyone does right on
those basics, going to the grocery store, making sure the
rent is paid, paying the car note those sorts of things.
Consider this universal basic income one seemed like a radical
idea in the US before the pandemic. But now many places in
the country are pushing to make it a permanent part of the
social safety net.
Adam Curry: Yeah, oh, there was a whole I missed that a whole
special on NPR about UBI. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: went on and on with people talking about
literally just throwing the money away. And that's okay.
Because that's, you know, that's what people want to do. And they
got the money to do whatever they want with it. And it's just
the damnedest thing ever heard. Now,
Adam Curry: this is remember, my, my, my take on the COVID
situation has always been financial. It's always been
financial. And now we have it. This is perfect. We've got
inflation, oh, I'm sorry. It's transitory. We've got inflation
that is transitory. In fact, let's talk about that for a
second
Unknown: this morning. $1 won't go quite as far at Dollar Tree
these days. The company now says it will increase its maximum
prices stores to $7. This year, a $5. Cap was put in place last
summer. Family Dollar recently announced it will close to 1000
stores 30 of which are Dollar Tree stores. So
Adam Curry: they had a cap last summer of $5. Now it's seven.
That's I
John C Dvorak: was a kid $1 Was there used to be something
called the five and dime store.
Adam Curry: Yes, we had one close just just last year here
in Fredericksburg. We had a five and dime on Main Street and it
closed. But just think about it. They had a cap of $5 at the
dollar store a year ago. Now it's $7. Is that not somewhere
like a 30%? Increase? That's a big big jump. Yes. That's your
inflation. Look at it. Look at Tiktok all the kids are crying.
They can't afford rent. They can't afford anything. I mean,
in addition to their iPhone, of course and their fancy
John C Dvorak: car, they go yeah, they can spend two grand
on an iPhone, that's fine.
Adam Curry: Well, that's on the payment plan. You know, the it's
all finance. It's all finance quote unquote. It's free. Yes.
All financed through AT and T T Mobile Verizon. But if you
really look at the $7 trillion that we created, 7 trillion was
created by the banking system. This came up on a very brief
segment with Muhammad Al Iran Aireon. He's an economist. He's
often on CNBC, and they talked about the $7 trillion that we
printed, and what are we going to do about it? Are we going to
catch up? Are we going to feed or begin to, you know, we're
going to pay that off? Because it's you know, it's debt when
China bought that a lot of Chinese purchasing of our debt.
And here,
John C Dvorak: first of all, by the way, I just want to make it
clear that the United States Americans by our own, we are
stuck with the debt personally stuck with the debt.
Adam Curry: Yes, our own Treasury buy. We buy our own
debts called monetizing your debt. We buy it ourselves
correct. And but what are we going to do about it? Are we
going to pay it off? We're going to fix it, we're going to figure
it out. No. But why
John C Dvorak: are we at 7 trillion? Why 7 trillion next
year?
Unknown: Why go to whether it's to US or elsewhere? We watch it,
we you
never go back from
the crisis. We don't that's
the Fed's balance sheet is the same thing. It is sad. And at
some point, we're going to pay for this, we will pay for this.
We have
been saying this for so long, that we're going to pay for it.
We're going to be talking to Maya McGinnis a little later
about some of the issues surrounding this, too. We've
been saying this for so long, decades and decades. When does
it actually
so remember the old PIMCO concept of the cleanest dirty
shirt? Okay, we live in a relative world. So if we
misbehave and others misbehave more, we don't get punished
because we've got the reserve currency, and we are the place
where people outsource savings to so as long as we remain the
cleanest dirty shirt, then we're not going to be punished. If
others start being cleaner than us, then then this will change.
Adam Curry: We have the cleanest dirty shirts. Exactly.
John C Dvorak: That's a great analogy. It's perfect.
Adam Curry: And this is why they have to they must create a
central digital bank, current central bank digital currency
they have to for all the UBI for all of the newcomers who are
welcoming in who if we're getting your work permit, don't
worry. Here's your card. Here's your ID. Here's your UBI this
it's a foregone conclusion. And just to add to that, the me see
where do I have it here? The UBI part or the digital ID part is
really approaching very rapidly and we're going to usher that in
for social media. I know you don't agree with it and you say
it's crazy and yes, you'll be able to get around it, but can
California already has SB 1228 large online platforms user
identity authentication, this bill would require a large
online platform as defined to seek to verify the name,
telephone number and email address of an influential user
as defined by means chosen by the large online platform, and
would require the platform to seek to verify the identity of
highly influential users as defined by asking to review the
highly influential users government issued
identification. And this is happening everywhere, including
Florida childhood
Unknown: has completely changed. And the reason has changed, of
course is because of the smartphone kids today, teenagers
today. According to the research, they are more
sedentary, more solitary, more anxious, more depressed, more
risk averse. Something has changed, and it seems to be the
access to the phone. So now here comes the state of Florida.
Yesterday, Ron DeSantis, has signed the most restrictive
social media ban for teenagers anywhere in the country, people
14 And under banned from social media in the state of Florida
for 15 and 16 year olds will need a parental consent.
DeSantis says this satisfied me the way the bill was written. I
think it's a fair application of the law and the Constitution.
There, of course, will be lawsuits as there have been in
other states, the Republican Speaker of the House there in
the state of Florida says we're going to beat those lawsuits,
we're going to beat them and we are never going to stop this is
a major major deal. But how do you police this? Exactly?
Because my 10 year old will register on Instagram or Tiktok
as though she's of a certain age, and it's about I have to
take the phone away? Well,
it becomes a legal liability for the companies. I mean, the you
know, Instagram knows me well enough to know that I spend a
lot of things in my pants and I get nothing but ads for spilled
things on pants, right that they know their customer they know
when it's a 10 year old versus a 28 year old. But the point is,
past bands have struggled on free speech grounds, right,
there's an access to information that should be available even to
young people. What's unique about the Florida law and the
way it's written, which will be a legal test that we're going to
be talking about is it's not about the information. It's
about the qualities of the app. So the infinite scroll, the
addictive algorithm, the information you can access on a
WW dot straight up computer. Yeah,
Adam Curry: and it goes on and on and on. Okay, I want to go
down this rabbit hole for a few minutes. Because there's a lot
of people out there talking about the about the apps being
and social media being very bad for children. Here's the ABC
Good Morning America. Let me see is this sits Yes, this is I
think they bring in Jonathan Haidt here who just wrote a book
about this. This is a Good Morning America about the
Florida social media ban. We
Unknown: turn now to a social media show down in Florida Shona
Rhonda Santa signing a bill banning children under 14 from
having their own social media accounts. But it's expected to
face a number of legal challenges and Ariel Russia
joins us now with more can imagine a bumpy road ahead.
bumpy
road ahead. A lot of very strong opinions on this one. If this
law holds Florida will have one of the most restrictive social
media bans in the country. The bill signed by Governor Ron
DeSantis won't take effect until January 1, and is likely to face
major legal challenges. The new measure bars social media
accounts for children under the age of 14 and requires parental
consent for 15 and 16 year olds. It also mandates that social
media platforms search for and remove the profiles of kids who
don't meet the age requirement. proponents have argued that
access to social media is harmful to children's mental
health. It's not yet clear which social media companies would be
impacted. But the trade group net choice which represents
several major social media giants slammed the move is
unconstitutional saying it violates the First Amendment,
the equal protection clause of the 14th amendment and federal
law Florida. It's not the first state to enact this type of ban
Arkansas and Ohio have also passed similar legislation,
Lindsey but both are tied up in court since
Adam Curry: the phrase was used by requests. Yeah, we got to
bring that back. You got slammed, they slammed the
slammed him for this. So then they bring on Jonathan Haidt, H
AI d t, he wrote the coddling of the American mind, great book.
And now he's gone off the rails as far as I'm concerned. He's
now he is now advocating for the only way we can do this as
government ID the only way which of course, is not the solution,
but it is what I predicted
Unknown: and a new book is addressing this issue. It's
called the anxious anxious generation, how the great
rewiring of childhood is causing an epidemic of mental illness.
And author and social psychologist Jonathan Haidt is
joining us now to talk about
Adam Curry: it. This is gonna be interesting because all the
research that we even Zuckerberg said it in the most recent I'm
hearing Oh, there's there's absolutely no proof. There's no
proof that social media messes your mental with your mental
health. There's no proof at all. Why
Unknown: this book? Why now?
Because I'm a social psychologist. And as I've been
digging into what's happening in the social lives of kids, I've
graphed out all the data from all these studies. And what we
see over and over again, is that levels of mental illness,
they're sort of stable in the tooth out early 2000s. And then
right around 2012 13, they all go shooting up, we're talking
about depression, anxiety, self harm, suicide is up by more than
50% among American teens. And it's not just us, it's actually
happening in many other countries. So we need to
understand why and that's what the book is about. So
Adam Curry: notice, he says, 2013, that is not that's when
the social media networks really starts at will they had momentum
at that point, not the introduction of the smartphone,
Unknown: can you really peg this to smartphone use the age of the
smartphone and seeing the prevalence of it and this
generation Gen Z is really an experiment in what happens when
you put a smartphone in everyone's hand. Well, that's
right, because the millennials went through puberty with flip
phones and flip phones aren't particularly bad you use
interest to communicate. It was when we gave kids smartphones
and then right around that time, they also got Instagram and
other social media accounts. When kids move their socialist
onto social media like that. It's not human, it doesn't help
them develop. And right away mental health collapses.
Adam Curry: Okay, so this, this is bullcrap. Because Because
Facebook didn't even have an app for the longest time if you
recall, even Wall Street was like Facebook man, they're not
going to make it because they don't have an app. Remember
that? No, yeah. So it wasn't the smartphone. I'm not saying the
smartphone is great. But it wasn't the phone and I have a
sneaky suspicion that this lawsuit against Apple is is more
about taking away or distracting from this social media companies
and the apps that run on the smartphone focusing on on bad
apple all your bad. I think we'll send a clip about that.
Let's let's bring it in. And before I continue,
John C Dvorak: this is the we didn't do the mash up of the
apple or I'm sorry, the three by three but this is the mash up of
the three by three that brings every network into the picture
and their commentary about Apple
Unknown: today the US Justice Department is looking to take a
bite out of Apple the Department of
Justice filing a landmark lawsuit today against Apple. The
DOJ in 16 states accusing Apple of monopolizing the smartphone
market antitrust
lawsuit against Apple, the second largest company in the US
and the world, its stock fell 4%. Today consumers
should not have to pay higher prices. Because companies break
the law.
Attorney General Merrick Garland claiming apple 70% domination
over the US smartphone market as a result of illegal behavior.
The DOJ alleges Apple worth $2.7 trillion unfairly tries to keep
users hooked on iPhones and charges high fees from app
developers. Apple
has consolidated its monopoly power, not by making its own
products better. By making other products worse,
the Justice Department joining more than a dozen states in
nearly a 90 page complaint, accusing the company of
violating antitrust laws through the iPhone, Apple Watch and
Apple Pay
and DOJ alleges the tech giant blocks third party apps and
other services from competing with Apple products like denying
iPhone users access to any other digital wallet tap to pay
service. Other than Apple Pay.
The DOJ specifically calls out Apple for allegedly boxing out
other companies devices to help keep track of items like keys to
give an edge to its own air tag and for allowing lower quality
text messages between iPhone and Android users Apple
pushing back saying in part, this lawsuit threatens who we
are the principles that sell products. We are if successful,
it would hinder our ability to create the kind of technology
people expect from Apple.
Apple denies the allegations and says a victory for the
government would also set a dangerous precedent, empowering
government to take a heavy hand in designing people's
technology. Apple
basically telling DOJ See you in court. The company is expected
to follow legal response soon. Apple official said in their
statement tonight DOJ is lawsuit is wrong on the facts and the
law.
The feeling inside Apple's Cupertino headquarters is to
fight back hard against what they are calling a misguided
assault. And the Justice Department says if left
unchallenged Apple will continue to strengthen its monopoly but
the department hasn't ruled out even breaking up Apple if
necessary addressed except that hasn't happened since Bell
systems back in 1982. Let's make
it personal but I can't see my mom certain videos or she can't
see me certain videos and so we find
your mom iPhone.
Adam Curry: Yeah, I know they're attacking the the most
successful device manufacturer. They really are. Meanwhile, I
mean, this kind of just came out. But this happened between
20 2016 and 2019. Facebook was, was making a lot of their users
try out their VPN. Did you catch
John C Dvorak: this story? No, I did not catch this story. Yes.
Adam Curry: So they had a VPN product. And so they, you know,
they offered, they have their root certificate. And they were
and that this is this is all emails that are published now.
And this is only just now coming to light. Zuckerberg every it
was called Ghostbusters, this project internally because they
had the they had the root cert. They were conducting a man in
the middle attack to intercept and decrypt what their users
were looking at on Snapchat, YouTube and Amazon. I mean, that
is possibly the worst thing you could do. And of course, it
makes you think about the VPN provider using and they had kits
root kits for and or the kids for Android and iOS, that
impersonated official servers and decrypted traffic Facebook
wasn't authorized access? Of course not. So they could plan
competitive moves against Snapchat and other companies.
Nice. So wow, that's not a that's not a big story at all.
No,
John C Dvorak: I like you said, like I said, I haven't heard
this story. And it's a killer. And
Adam Curry: on top of that, the it's now coming out that the
Department of Justice demanded from Google comm all information
about certain accounts, users who accessed certain YouTube
videos arrived around January 6. Yeah, it is a good one. So if
you so you know, there you go. You're you're watching the
video, you know, it gets heated up. So it shows up your
recommendation, you click on it, boom, you're on a list. Yep,
you're on a list this this is it's all it's the season of
reveal was upon us. But we still have to deal with the social
media companies. World Health Organization getting in on the
on the gambit,
Unknown: the schoolyard bully is increasingly becoming a cyber
bully. A new study from the World Health Organization finds
online harassment among adolescents is on the rise
magnified by the increase in their digital interactions.
About one in six adolescents say that they have been cyber
bullied once or twice in the last couple of months. And here
we can see that there's, there's not much of a gender difference.
The
study use data from 44 countries and regions across Europe,
Central Asia and Canada. Researchers surveyed more than a
quarter million kids aged 11 to 15 years old. For boys cyber
bullying peaked at age 11. For girls, aged 13. And these kids
now spend up to six hours a day online bullying inside schools
has declined over the past decade as cyber bullying surge.
Social media companies, such as metta have beefed up child
safety features recently, in an effort to limit harassment and
exposure to harmful content. But the WHO says there needs to be
more education around the dangers of cyber bullying, as
well as an increased investment in peer violence monitoring. All
Adam Curry: right, so lots of monitoring going up. But I'm
just thinking about, you know, it was Google who pushed so
hard, Let's Encrypt push so hard that every website has to be SSL
encrypted. Yeah. Which I refuse on webpages that I host that are
just pages of like a show notes. No, yeah, who cares? Well, they
also control the browser that then shows a little thief with a
with a mask like trying to get your data is reaching through
your browser. Oh, dangerous. Oh, except the risks move on. What
who controls those certificates? Who controls the root
certificate of all this stuff? Is it really to be trusted? I
doubt that. I
John C Dvorak: doubt it too.
Adam Curry: So now we bring on guys are all scammers at heart.
Now we bring on our Surgeon General Vivek Murthy. And this
is on CNN with the on the Amanpour show. And well, it's
everything just bad.
Unknown: Are you surprised that this country I mean, you know,
pretty close to top of the tables in the OECD nations is
the second most unhappy, depressed country in the world.
Only Uzbekistan has it worse. Oh, we're
Adam Curry: better than it was Becca Stein, you might as well
just call us phone number wise.
Unknown: Well, I'm deeply concerned. But I think one of
the key lessons from this is that economic prosperity alone
is not the key to happiness. And in fact, what we are seeing is
that in many, many cases entries, which are increasingly
modernizing in terms of their economy, their culture, etc.
We're actually seeing that unhappiness is growing. And I
think that's coming for a few different reasons. One of them
is because we are actually pulling further and further
apart from one another. With the benefits and efficiencies of
modern technology and ways of life, we actually have fewer
friends that we trust with your relationships we can rely on.
And that is a direct impact on our happiness and well being.
The other challenge, though, is I think technology has been a
mixed blessing for us. And I think particularly when it comes
to young people, the impact of social media on their mental
health has often been quite negative, which is why last
year, I issued a surgeon general's advisory on social
media and youth mental health to point out the fact that when
young people are using social media, as they often are for
more than three hours a day, they double their risk of
anxiety and depression symptoms,
Adam Curry: which is great. We can we can get more anti
depression drugs. Don't You're not fooling me, Vivek. So let's
continue on. By the way, three hours a day, try six, you have
Unknown: in fact gone even further comparing social media
and the tech companies to 20th century car giants, which have
produced vehicles without seatbelts and airbags until
legislation mandated it.
Adam Curry: What a horrible, horrible analogy. How about just
drugs?
Unknown: What's happening in social media is the equivalent
of having children in cars that have no safety features and
driving on roads, with no speed limits, no traffic lights, no
rules whatsoever. And we're telling you, you know, what, do
your best figure it out? It's insane.
Yeah, that is what we've done to our children. It's we've put
them in unsafe, untenable environments, and we're hoping
for the best and you know who else we've placed a burden on
our parents, parents all across the world are trying to figure
out how to manage social media for their kids, these platforms
are rapidly evolving. Many parents never grew up with them.
And what they are finding is that their kids are often
exposed to extraordinary harms, whether that's violence and
sexual content, whether it's content generated by the
algorithm that in some cases tells them to harm themselves.
And the experience itself, many young people tell me has led
them to often feel worse about themselves and about their
friendships, yet, they feel they can get off of it. Because the
features that are built in are meant to maximize how much time
we all spend on them. And that is a profound source of concern
for me as a doctor, as I watched the profound the profound and
disturbing health effects on our kid. Hey,
Adam Curry: Silicon Valley that coming for you very
John C Dvorak: little side bit in here, which is, this was the
same kind of complaint that we heard in the 80s. about video
games, yeah, oh, these video games are gonna ruin the
children. And then, in the end that evolved over time and to
you know, simulations have good and bad benefits. But then we
have these clips, listen to this flow state of mind.
Unknown: There's a state of mind called flow. When you're
completely absorbed in an activity that's challenging, but
not too hard. artists
feel it when they paint or draw. Musicians feel it when they play
an instrument. It's a sense of deep engagement with an activity
where you might look up and suddenly notice a lot of time
has passed
and flow can help you feel less stressed, says Kate Sweeney, a
psychology professor at the University of California,
Riverside flow is
really good for us. It gives us a lot of positive emotions. But
it's also especially well suited to times when we're really in
our heads when we're worried about the future when we're
ruminating about something and we just can't turn it off. Flow
is a pretty good off switch for that kind of thinking. So he
says an easy way to achieve flow is by playing video games.
Adam Curry: Before you know it, you're in a movie produced by
Dana Brunetti.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, well, there's that but there's a part
two to this, but that it's like wait a minute, everything that
we're all the information that they throw at us is all bogus.
Can I just say tell us one thing one minute and they tell us
something else? The next is flow thing I never heard and I would
say
Adam Curry: that if you if we on this podcast right now say video
games are bad. There's proof then you will get a million
emails, new evidence video games great me by the way. I think
that's how a lot of dudes become trans. But the video game
industry is huge. They have a lot of money. They got a lot
biggest bigger than Hollywood. They have a lot of money and
there's a lot of lobbying and a lot of that has military
industrial complex who love the simulation. If you can become a
third place at Lemond as a sim driver, I'm pretty sure you can
be good on the battlefield if you've played war Warcraft or
whatever it's called.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, sports ball. Yes, sports
Adam Curry: ball and the other one the Yeah, what's what's the
other one call of duty? A bet you, you bet you're a decent
warrior a bit, you're good solid.
John C Dvorak: That was the thesis of a movie that's never
been produced again. It was produced once in the 70s, called
the last star fighter and everyone that listen to this
show probably seen the movie. And it was based on the premise
that they could put a video game out into public domain. And then
the kid who could beat the whole game and be the best in the
country, could be solicited for an intergalactic battle of some
bad dudes in outer space. I totally one of the really great
movies, and it's never been done. Again, it's never been
fully explained why they can't produce this movie, again, as I
think is because this is in play as we speak. But you can claim
the second part of the flow one
Unknown: of the good ones, there's really two groups of
people who know a lot about flow. That's psychologists and
video game signers. And video games are really kind of as a
whole built for exactly this purpose. They're getting harder
as you get better. They're showing you and you're making
progress. Sweeney
studied how video games help people worry less. She recruited
300 college students and put them in a slightly stressful
situation,
they were unexpectedly photographed and made to believe
that their peers would be rating their picture. While
the students waited they played a game that was similar to
Tetris.
There were three versions of the classic game where players have
to stack up falling blocks, there was a hard one where the
blocks move too quickly and frustrated the players as
slow one that was too boring, and a
third version that was just right, and allow players to
achieve flow.
And the folks who were in that state, that flow state that we
created with the game, they had an easier time waiting for that
news about their attractiveness than those who were in the other
conditions.
Sweeney says flow can be a bit of a gateway to addiction. But
anything can be addictive. If you do it too much. It's
a great tool for flow. As long as you're not sort of overdoing
it and checking out too much from your life.
I need flow. I'm gonna download that just write Tetris game.
Adam Curry: Yeah, I'm telling you, you get into a state of
flow. You're primed to become trans I'm telling you right now,
but you can do you can email me
John C Dvorak: call is called flow because as soon as you're
gonna call yourself and flow, my name is flow.
Adam Curry: Yes, they put you in a state of trance. Yeah, but
simulation, it is a simulator. And you'll you'll see. And I
know people who are too boomers talking about video games. Hey,
we bet we've been around video games longer than you've been on
the planet. Okay. I was addicted to asteroids for
John C Dvorak: quite a while. Asteroids. Original that was oh,
gee, Pinball. Oh, gee, that's an OG. Yes. Great. That was a great
game when it came out.
Adam Curry: Asteroids was phenomenal. Especially the
arcade version. Anyway, well, that's
John C Dvorak: the one that yeah, that was the one. Let's
get
Adam Curry: back to how we're going to kill our kids. And now
with AI, by the way, for you, dude, video gamers, this is for
you. So of
Unknown: course not everybody thinks AI is going to be the
replacement, you know, for romance, not just dating apps,
but actual robots and things. Whereby on. So
I think it can be tempting and easy to look at AI as a panacea
for all ills, and it might be easier and more convenient to
turn to a chatbot tend to go out and build a relationship. But
these are fundamentally different. There is no
replacement for in person human connection. It's how we were
evolved over 1000s of years we were wired hardwired to connect
with one another. And we've got to intentionally build that back
into our life now because it is slipping away.
Adam Curry: I think we this is where we bring in the in sells
Unknown: to bring this back in a way to social media that you are
very concerned about social media algorithms amplify
misogynistic content,
Adam Curry: again, they amplify influencers telling you to get
on antidepressants because hot girls take Lexapro What
Unknown: about women podcaster and business professor at NYU
Scott Galloway has said you know,
Adam Curry: business professor isn't the professor of marketing
business but hold on stop it's your it's your beat Scott
Galloway that you can't tell me as a business professor who may
see this may see what is he began be a clinical perfectly
Clinical Professor of Marketing. What is that?
John C Dvorak: A click no idea what that is. Sounds
Adam Curry: like something you can get off of a podcast
John C Dvorak: like a clinical professor, clinic
Adam Curry: Clinical Professor of Marketing, at what school and
why you
John C Dvorak: my NYU screwed up.
Adam Curry: I mean, we could give out clinical,
John C Dvorak: clinical, clinical clinical podcasts.
That's our next PhD
Unknown: I misogynistic content. Again, all about women.
podcaster and business professor at NYU Scott Galloway has said
you know because there is a really dangerous phenomenon we
do not want young, lonely, depressed males, you know, you
know in society, which is what social media is also enhancing
plus all those in sales, you know women hating in sales, all
of this also is on social media or when it
comes to the algorithms. I do think that they are highly
problematic. I think they they tend to amplify content that
has, as I think of it a high emotional valence. That means
that content that's going to stoke our emotions, if you want
to draw people's attention in psychology will tell you that
the best way to do that is just stoke anxiety, fear and anger.
There's so many parents that I have met all across the United
States who have told me that when their child was in a moment
of emotional distress, they broke up with a girlfriend or a
boyfriend or they had a major disappointment in life, that At
those times, they have sometimes turned to social media for help
somebody the algorithm has often served up content that in fact
amplifies their sadness. In too many cases, parents have told me
that in those settings, the algorithm brought content to
their child that not only suggested that they take their
own life, but actually walk them through how to do that. And in
many cases, their child did end up losing their life. These are
unconscionable circumstances and situations that should not be
allowed.
Adam Curry: Ah, here's Adams advice, stop scrolling, start
seeking. Get off of this stuff. Parents, if you're going to be
held responsible. We already are putting parents in jail because
their kid got a gun and shot up the school. You'll be
responsible for everything your child does. If you don't get
them off social media. Get them on the basketball court. Get
them on the fence, get him on the fencing boards, anything,
anything but this
John C Dvorak: let me cake the fencing court how many schools
have that that's how
Adam Curry: I got into fencing. I was quite good at fencing. You
know that, don't you? I would say you bring it up every every
couple of years you bring in I was third in the nation. He was
actually pretty good Dutch nationals. I never got beyond
foil I was wanting to say but I got stuck at foil. But if
fencing is it's pretty cool. And they remember they came to the
school, they did a demonstration. And they choose
two kids and then you're sitting there like oh man, I wish they
would have chosen me and said Hey, you can come by the studio.
It's actually a fencing studio. Come by the studio. The master
will will give you a free lesson. I was hooked. I loved
it. It was perfect for soy boys is great. You don't need to be
that athletic to win at fencing anything but this anything. It
John C Dvorak: won't even let you do dodgeball anymore. Those
things too dangerous.
Adam Curry: Yeah, I had I had quite the reach actually, as a
kid. All right. We can now move to the latest in I think
replacement migration. Actually, there's a there's a guy I think
he's on. I know he's on telegram but he's also on Mon x bar RGV
truth RGV truth. And he has been he is down by the border on the
other side. And he is sending me pictures. It's all United
Nations International Office of migration. They got signs they
got instructions. They you know they give you your bag, your hat
your card. It's all a setup this all to move people into our
country because they don't want to have wages rise. In fact, we
need to suppress them with cheap labor. The minute they get here,
the system gets overloaded see Chicago then we need work
permits right away. Thank you unions. And well what about the
people who were flying in? How about those Senate
Unknown: amendment that 1000? Yeah, here we go. Senate
amendment that would ban the use of taxpayer money to fly
migrants into the US goes down and a whopping defeat. It was
5147. Every Republican voted for it. Every Democrat voted against
it. Republican Senator Bill Haggerty out of Tennessee
proposed the amendment. He joins us in studio and hello to you
was the writing on the wall before this thing even hit the
floor.
You know it was amazing. Chuck Schumer tried everything he
could to block this until the very dead of night. We ran right
up to basically a government shutdown before he finally
capitulated and said okay, we'll put it on the floor but I didn't
get it onto the floor till the middle of the night, perhaps.
One 30 In the morning, when the vote went down. I think they
thought no one would see it. No one would see that every
Democrat voted to fly. illegal migrants in here from countries
like Haiti Cuba, Nicaragua, Colombia. on taxpayer funds
using charter flights, flying them over our border and putting
them into the interior of America, how many were talking
about Senator 320,000 last year?
Adam Curry: Now, on the other hand, if we don't do this, and
this is an interesting way, also a little bit about birth
control, and Planned Parenthood and abortion rights, but look at
what's happening in Japan. Immigration, not encouraged
immigration. I don't think it's easy to go and live in Japan.
I'm not sure how hard it is very hard. It makes sense. Yeah, it
makes sense because their birth rate has plummeted. It's been
down for decades. And now this is the result with birth rates
dropping
Unknown: dramatically. In Japan, a company there has announced
that it is stopping production of diapers for babies, it says
demand is simply not there. Instead, it's refocusing on the
growing market diapers for adults, in fact, firstly, your
parents have outsold diapers for your newborn now for about a
decade. It's a surprising piece of data that shines a light on a
serious problem. The number of births in Japan dropped to a new
low last year with more than twice as many deaths as new
babies born. If things continue that way, Japan's population
could shrink by 30% over the next 45 years. I'm pleased to
welcome to the day Jennifer Robertson she's a Professor of
Anthropology and History of Art at the University of Michigan's
basically the demographic, the chart has flipped flopped in the
past century and six successive Japanese governments have they
tried and been unable to encourage you know, the people
to get married and have more babies.
Adam Curry: Now listen to this. Very
Unknown: good question. Well, during the height of the Pacific
War, roughly 1932 to 1945. In Japan, the government withheld
birth control, and also allowed soldiers to take two week
furlough so they could impregnate their wives to put it
directly. Today in democratic Japan, they can't do that. And
so they are trying all sorts of options, giving more money to
families to have children. The idea was floated back during the
administration of the late former Prime Minister Ave, in
2006. Seven to introduce robots to the home. But that hasn't
proved feasible at all.
Adam Curry: Robots Robo sapiens. That's that's the answer.
John C Dvorak: So the real answer, which was a subtext in
what she had to say, is, financial incentives would make
a huge difference. If it was a real incentive as opposed to no
incentive or oh, here's a tax credit. Exactly. You start
giving people the kind of money they're just rolling away on the
immigrants. You kick you get some babies out of it. Yes. And
no, they don't even think about that. Because they don't want
you.
Adam Curry: That's right. That's right. Well, that's our that's
our choice here in America. make babies. That's my that's my
advice. Okay.
John C Dvorak: So I want to get onto Mars. Something a little
different. Yeah, please, because it's kind of an ask Adam.
Adam Curry: I'm kind of depressed now. I mean, we've got
we got Japanese diapers for adults. I mean, what are we
going to do? robots? Robots.
John C Dvorak: How about this? This is an I consider this
Adam Curry: a do I need to get the jingle? No,
John C Dvorak: I consider this a native ad. This is NPR ad for
WTF meals. This is not the bonus, which I don't really,
really want to play. But I want you to play this home
Unknown: chef delivers home cooked meals to your dinnertime
routine. Each weekly menu rotates 15 oven ready and fast
and fresh meals that cook in the oven or microwave for a fresh
flavorful meal with minimal steps. After you're done. Toss
the TIN for easy cleanup. Wow.
Adam Curry: You're telling me that wasn't an ad that is that
really? No.
John C Dvorak: That was an ad. It was actually an ad ad copy.
Yeah. So how does it question to you is how does this differ from
the 1970s? And, and something called the Swanson TV dinner?
Dinner? Sure, with the 10 that you toss into the bin? Yes, this
exactly the same. They re introduced the Swanson TV
dinner, to the American public making some sort of a high tech
bull crap, kind of like we're, you know, apron and all these
other operations kind of failed. Here, we're gonna send you a
whole box of these things. Cook and put them in the oven. The
microwave although it's putting tinted stuff that you know metal
in the microwave is not necessarily productive.
Adam Curry: But well hold on a second. Let's let's let's see if
we can find a Swanson TV dinner commercial. 1955. Here we go.
Unknown: You guys think you're lucky you can get Swanson TV
turkey dinners, but I say Swanson TV turkey dinners are a
bigger break for husbands. You take me, I can be early. I can
be late. I can bring pals to dinner anytime I please and get
this. My wife never panics. Never pan Streisand TV turkey
dinners from my fishing compartment of our refrigerator
when I'm a little off schedule. And right You are Jack. And that
is because Mary Lou knows that she can have a swell dinner
ready and just
Adam Curry: Hey, honey, can you make a swell dinner for me
tonight? Honey,
Unknown: right talk about easy. Well, she just popped Swanson TV
turkey dinners in a hot oven. Their you know their oven ready
and individual. He didn't serve trays. Yes. What's the Swanson
TV turkey dinners. You just heat and serve and you serve big and
hearty slices of moist tender Swanson turkey with grand giblet
gravy show cornbread dressing and fluffy whipped sweet potato
get to the 10 year old and Swanson butter and garden
frisbees with more butter. Butter luckyme My wife uses
Swanson TV turkey dinners. Make your husband lucky to watch TV
turkey dinner husband lucky Swanson TV fried chicken
dinners. Swanson TV beat dinners from your groceries big freezer.
They
Adam Curry: didn't they didn't have the payoff of toss the tin
John C Dvorak: Yeah, well everyone expected the toss to 10
I guess they knew enough to do that anyway.
Adam Curry: Yeah, well here Yeah, I was a kid. Here's a 32nd
from the 70s this is better maybe? Let's see.
Unknown: Swanson puts dinner together the way you like it.
Crispy, juicy chicken with all the fixings. When Swanson a you
choose dark meat or lightweight dinners you get just what you
want. From today's Swanson, your choice of chicken dinners.
Adam Curry: No toss of the tin.
John C Dvorak: I says a little as an aside this the family
ended up selling the business course it folded after they sold
it and bought the Swanson winery in Napa Valley is really based
on really, can
Adam Curry: you toss away the bottle? Of course you can. You
can toss away the bottle. So you're right. It's the only
difference is the term TV. Because that was the big thing
is that and we had TV, dinner trays and you'd say we had trays
so you set it up. You'd be sailing on the couch. Yep, right
there on the couch. And it went. And it was called that it was a
TV dinner tray. Or TV dinner table. Which one was it? I don't
remember. Yeah, I
John C Dvorak: still have a set of him I used to use came around
when she was a little girl. Yeah, we have to eat in the
dining room.
Adam Curry: Oh, yeah. No, it was a big deal if we could eat in
front of the TV that was like oh, okay, kids. Because cool
because the movies aren't waiting for before we had video
recorders. How can we sit? Can we watch Can we eat dinner while
we're watching TV mom and now it's just a throw it in the
microwave? Eat it while you're on your video game and scrolling
on Twitter. Now how we've devolved let's start fencing
kids start fencing. Okay, well there was some kind of odd I
have a couple of clips I would like to play them. The M five M
just went off the rails with this Rona McDaniel Rana Rana
McDaniels Yeah, I remember firing. I have these are
actually from deadline. So it's what's your face? Nicole
John C Dvorak: wall and it'll be from Jessie wall. Walker.
Adam Curry: Yeah. Well, I'm gonna since it's about MSNBC and
not Jesse walking. To play these first times
Unknown: in which we do this when we meet you and us here at
the table are don't have to tell you this. Dire, the show has
dedicated itself to a jarring pursuit of the uncomfortable
truth about our politics and our political leaders and our
justice system. And, yes, the media today, this network, this
part of that story. On Friday, NBC News announced it had hired
Rhonda McDaniel as a paid contributor. By Saturday night
it was reported in The Wall Street Journal that MSNBC
President Rashida Jones had separated this network from that
decision indicating that Rhonda McDaniel would not appear on our
air.
Adam Curry: I love the series s&s of just how serious Nicole
Wallace takes herself and the journalistic integrity of the
NBC news department.
John C Dvorak: I find this whole story because of the NBC. The
guy who runs the news department, being a spineless
weenie. And everybody and this is the most amazing thing I've
ever witnessed that some news that these people think they're
newsman, and then they're not. They're just a bunch of
chatterboxes
Adam Curry: I'm Walter Cronkite's, Prodigy debits I
Unknown: Sunday morning following her first paid
appearance on NBC Meet the Press. My colleague, Chuck Todd
went full William McElroy
Adam Curry: went for what? William Knakal who's William
McAvoy?
John C Dvorak: Bye bye be right. You're asking the wrong guy. And
they'll look up William McAfee
Unknown: on behalf of who's paying her. What was that the
RNC? She did say that, hey, I'm speaking for the party. I get
that that's part of the job. So what about here, when NBC made
the decision to give her NBC News is credibility. You guys?
What does she bring NBC News. And when we make deals like
this, and I've been at this company a long time, you're
doing it for access, access to audience, sometimes it's access
to an individual. And we can have a journalistic ethics
debate about that. I have that.
Unfortunately, this interview is always going to be looked
through the prism of who is she speaking for? Unfortunately,
Adam Curry: they didn't have the debate about all the shields
that they have hired, like John Brennan, for access to the
intelligence community, all the former generals they have for
access to the military industrial complex. They have
Scott, what's his face from Pfizer? You know, he's always on
CNBC, for access to Big Pharma. This is that's the debate that I
would have liked to have seen. You have chip Todd, Todd
podcaster, that you find out who that guy is.
John C Dvorak: There's a million of them, including the ex CEO of
Pan American Airways. No, you can't figure out who it is a
football player, a botanist. There's, there's that name is
very common. So I don't know what the reference is to and I
guess you'd have to work at MSNBC to understand it back to
Unknown: Nicole Wallace. My colleagues, Joe Scarborough and
Mika Brzezinski also weighed in this morning.
We weren't asked our opinion of the hiring. But if we were we
would have strongly objected to it for several reasons. Oh, it's
Adam Curry: the newsroom on HBO. That's, well, there's a
reference for you. The guy that you're looking for.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, so it's a fictional character
Unknown: character behind but if it were, we would have strongly
objected to it for several reasons, including, but not
limited to, as lawyers might say, Miss McDaniels role in
Donald Trump's fake electoral scheme. And her pressuring
election officials to not certify election results while
Donald Trump was on the phone.
To be clear, oh, we believe NBC News should seek out
conservative Republican voices to provide balance in their
election coverage. But it should be conservative Republicans not
a person who used her position of power to be an anti democracy
election denier.
Adam Curry: Love it when the news reports on itself and
they're not just reporting on. On other news, people know
themself. They take themselves so Do you not realize that we
all laugh at you? That we mock you? And and wait and this is
the kicker? They take themselves so seriously. For what are they
doing? Like 900,000 viewers? This podcast has more listeners
than you have viewers people.
Unknown: For our part here. We're gonna cover this story as
part of our ongoing series of conversations about American
autocracy asking the question are positing the theory that it
could happen here? I'm gonna read to you an excerpt from
Timothy Snyder's on tyranny. Timothy
Adam Curry: Snyder on to who is this?
John C Dvorak: Oh no, is
Adam Curry: this another queer reference and it's
Unknown: standing by to talk to us. This is from the first page
that's the first chapter of on tyranny, quote, most of the
power of authoritarianism is freely given in times like these
individuals think ahead about what a more repressive
government will want, and then offer themselves without being
asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power, what
it can do and quote in this new either way.
Adam Curry: It's Timothy. Timothy knows what he's talking
about. This they are the witnesses fart sniffing. That's
with this is it's what farts sniffing the sniffing each
other's farts. This is nasty and then
Unknown: offer themselves without being asked. A citizen
who adapts in this way is teaching power, what it can do
and quote, in this instance, NBC News either wittingly or
unwittingly is teaching election deniers that what they can do
stretches well beyond appearing on our air in interviews to
peddle lies about the sanctity and integrity of our elections,
which Ron McDaniels did yesterday at the press. Can you
say as you sit here today, did Joe Biden win the election fair
and square one, he's
the legitimate environment
where and square one it's certified, it's done. But I do
want
to say that why has now to be able
to I'm gonna push back a little because I do think it's fair to
say there were problems in 2020 and to say that does not mean
he's not
Adam Curry: gonna win, you know, wait for it. Here we go.
Unknown: But we've also said election deniers is not just
they can do that on our airwaves with that they can do that as
one of us as bad carrying employees of NBC News as paid
contributors to our sacred airwaves.
John C Dvorak: I have that in one of my clips are so far so
good airways.
Adam Curry: You're on. You're on cable Lady and Our sacred
airwaves. You're on dying cable. Everyone's cutting the cord with
you. Oh mio Mio.
John C Dvorak: Yeah. Love this sacred airway could
Adam Curry: airwaves. Yeah, how about that? Everyone get the VAX
sacred airwaves. Okay, well, since I'll just blow right into
Trump here.
John C Dvorak: But I want to play my Jesse clips because they
get a little better about
Adam Curry: how many of you have I hate that I hate the Jesse
stories.
John C Dvorak: Jesse Jesse Weller his. His presentation is
sucks. Is it's decent here. Oh, Rona one.
Adam Curry: You don't have any you don't have Rhona one. Oh,
fiasco is that the one Okay,
Unknown: McDaniels out. NBC just announced they're firing the
former RNC Chairwoman after one day on the job. I'm banning
Adam Curry: him after this. I'm banning Jesse Walter Walton from
our airwaves. That's
Unknown: point three Scaramucci from our sacred airwaves.
Chairman Cesar Conde just sent out a memo to employees that
reads, I want to personally apologize to our team members
who felt we let them down. We will redouble our efforts to
seek voices. They represent different parts of the political
spectrum. The talent is already taking a victory lap.
I still feel I still feel like a little it always feels wrong to
talk about things, you know, in the company. And I think it's a
show of respect for the people who work at this company. You
know, it's not about hiring a Republican. It's not even about
hiring somebody that's Trump ties. This was a really specific
case because of Ms. McDaniels and her involvement in the
election interference stuff. And I'm grateful that our our
leadership was willing to do that. I think this the bold,
strong, resilient
thing Oh, resilient. So NBC breasted a 180 after the talent
revolted. The people who were involved
in hiring Ronna Romney McDaniel, they don't know the Nixon rule.
No one close to the crimes. This is about
truth versus lies service to the country versus service to one
man committed to toppling our democratic system.
But we've also said election deniers is not just they can do
that on our airwaves with that they can do that, as one of us.
As bad carrying employees of NBC News is paid contributors to our
sacred airwaves.
You wouldn't hire a pig pocket to work as a TSA screener. Oh
no, I find the decision to put her on the payroll. It's
inexplicable. This
Adam Curry: is what our news media has become their reporting
on other news media is great. It's it's it's atrocious.
John C Dvorak: And by the way, these clips are better than the
ones you provided because it's got Rachel in there. Oh, that's
Adam Curry: so much.
John C Dvorak: We have a double band we have the band Jesse
Waller.
Adam Curry: Plus, and Daniel's all of them.
Unknown: The second was a kicker. Rhonda McDaniel tells
fox that she still hasn't heard anything from NBC. She learned
she was getting fired by reading it in the media. And now she's
looking for a lawyer and her agency that walked her into this
gig CAA just dropped her
John C Dvorak: died now there's information for you. Yeah, well,
I will agree the way C a blocked her into the deal and then fired
her. What kind of what kind of representatives are is that? Is
that a true story and we know that for a Fact. Well,
Adam Curry: yes. And do you know that most news people have an
agent and it's UTA universal talent agents agency who manage
the talent, according to I believe, what stories need to be
massaged by whom and where they, you know, this. Laura Logan was
telling me about this that you know, her agent will be talking
to her boss at CBS. And in the age won't be at all she's
perfect to go to Afghanistan, these this is underreported
under investigated, the talent agencies have a lot of power.
And it's unjust.
John C Dvorak: Didn't this crop up in a recent strike against
some of these guys by one of the Writers Guild or somebody that
said that these agents were having too much power? Remember
that was like five six years ago?
Adam Curry: I vaguely remember we should ask Dana. Dana well
let us know. Actually,
John C Dvorak: he would give me a little Yeah, I could get a lot
of information about who
Adam Curry: is who is baby a ginger spices. Agent I want to
get the her agents.
John C Dvorak: News thing is newspeople being controlled by
the agent, this is bullcrap all of
Adam Curry: them at NBC or with UTA as far as I know. And I hear
him talking about it sometimes you have
John C Dvorak: to disclaim it. That's the real underlying thing
because she was represented by CAA we
Adam Curry: will see a are the ones who who organized the Well,
what was it called? Not never again. Enough was enough. Stop.
What was it the around the Harvey Weinstein thing? Yeah,
Melissa Gilbert. What was
John C Dvorak: all over tallies? It's how famous it was. We can't
remember. Well, they
Adam Curry: suck at doing the real work. What was the name of
that? Me too.
John C Dvorak: The Me too. Me too movement.
Adam Curry: But there was an but there was another one. They had
us not Melissa Gilbert. That's horrible. She's fishy
John C Dvorak: cat hats.
Adam Curry: No, no, no, no. They had it at the at the Oscars.
They were all wearing T shirts. Oh, yeah. And what was the name
is? What was Rose McGowan with her about I'm with her now.
Time's up. Time's up. That's it. Times up and and who was that?
That That actress who is married to a CIA agent. Time's up
Florida one now but it was she was important.
John C Dvorak: Tallulah Bankhead?
Adam Curry: Not even No. Not even close. I'm thinking about
it now. And we'll get to it.
John C Dvorak: Anyway, that you're just hoping the chat room
comes.
Adam Curry: I know I'm waiting for like, come on trolls. What
are you doing? What are you doing? Time's up was the one and
those in there some? Some actress and she was all very
important to me. And she was she was leading this and then it
kind of failed and then everyone sunk away into the background.
Things always flop in there. Yeah, they listen. Listen,
Milan. Oh, there it is.
John C Dvorak: Thank you. Oh, Melissa Malama. Yeah, thank
Adam Curry: you clip custodian. Anyway, moving right along. So
meanwhile,
John C Dvorak: you get off on me for bringing in deti clips. And
in here you go off the deep end with this kind of detail. That's
very celebrity news. Very to play. Very
Adam Curry: weak comeback Dvorak very weak. Trying to cry harder.
Meanwhile, Trump Media and Technology Group dj t stock
ticker short sword sword is now what are we at now? Six, almost
$62
John C Dvorak: And I think it hits 75 At one polling dropped
back to fit the same. You see I
Adam Curry: have it 7120 was the high I believe? And yeah, now
now it's today. It's about it's 6196. So that's working
perfectly. Perfectly for for Orange Man bad. But we got to
take it one step further. This is my favorite this
Unknown: morning ahead of his criminal hush money trial.
Former President Trump is under a new gag order prohibited from
making public statements about witnesses, court staff and
jurors in the case concerning his alleged payment to porn
actress stormy Daniels,
Democrat judge he wants to do that because they're all trying
to damage Trump as much as possible.
The gag order still allows Trump to criticize the judge in
District Attorney. The trial begins in three weeks, but
another deadline looms closer Trump has eight days to post a
$175 million bond in a civil fraud case. A big day on Wall
Street yesterday could help him with his financial challenges.
Shares in Trump's media company rose 16% on their first day of
trading, his stake in the company is now worth more than
four and a half billion dollars.
This company is now valued at about 1000 times its annual
revenue, it really doesn't make any business sense.
Adam Curry: Unlike every AI company, every bull crap company
we've seen in the past 30 years. Of course, it doesn't make
sense. Today,
Unknown: Trump likely won't be able to cash out though to later
this year. This
Adam Curry: is this is the biggest lie I've ever heard. And
they're all doing it. Oh, he has a lock up he can sell even the
Clinical Professor of Marketing was spouting this bullcrap.
Anybody who has a $4 billion stake can easily get half a
billion dollar caller. Do you want to explain collars everyone
knows what we're talking about?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, collars and off the book sale of the asset
to somebody else some, some person or entity that gives you
the money in advance. It's it's I don't know why it's called a
collar. I should know well, but
Adam Curry: it's a collar around your neck. It
John C Dvorak: but the board would know this to the board can
grant him the ability to sell the stock tomorrow or at least
sell $150 million worth of it tomorrow, which is not that big
of a steak. It won't sink to thing if they want to. And he's
the guy that's that keeps the thing in check. It's him. It's
his name. If he went to the board and asked for that you
think they'd say no. That's the dumbest thing to forget the
caller. Yeah, but no way. They wouldn't say no. They'd say
Sure. Here. You know, here's your your your your lockup is
over.
Adam Curry: Yeah, exactly. Well, but he can't sell it. How's he
going to? You know what, he's got a new Gambit. I love it. And
I'm buying me one.
Unknown: It's annual revenue. It really doesn't make any business
sense from where we stand today. Trump
likely won't be able to cash out though to later this year to
raise money even faster. He's now selling Bibles. All
Americans
need a Bible in their home and I have many as my favorite book.
It's a lot of people's favorite book. We must make America pray
again. So
called the USA Bible sells for 5999 It's huge. It's a great
John C Dvorak: other funny. You. Actually one of the more
charming aspects of Trump is you just cannot get him out of
huckster mode. No, he sees an opportunity.
Adam Curry: I'm buying one. This is fantastic. Are you kidding me
this almost everyday thing
John C Dvorak: that all these huckster things he's done,
including the phony bills, the $2 bill, all the rest of it, the
coins. It's all collectible. It's ultimately collectible to
political memorabilia, people. I
Adam Curry: wish I could have gotten those sneakers. They're
all
John C Dvorak: the sneakers. Yeah. Oh, I know. A little high.
Oh,
Adam Curry: they only made 1000 I know guys who were really lay
down. 10 grand back. I need these stickers. I need this. And
yeah, that
John C Dvorak: was another one. Yeah, no, you can't. You know,
this. Everything from Trump Steaks to Trump University, and
I always try to slam him for this stuff. But this is a guy
who is the American. Yeah, classic American guy who's just
trying to make money at it anyway. He can. He'll do it.
nickel and dimed or billions make
Adam Curry: America pray again, is the best slogan.
Unbelievable. I love it. I want that Bible. It's it's it's the
most popular book. It's a huge book. It's a great book. I read.
I read this book all the time. It's a great book. I
John C Dvorak: got them all over my house. I got books and
Adam Curry: you can't you can't not love it. That is you're
right. We are gaudy. That's who we are as Americans face it.
We're not like commie socialists. We love this stuff.
deep in our hearts. We love this. Every I think also every
immigrant who comes into America like is this a great country or
what? This guy is selling Bibles? Come on. It's, it's
awesome. And of course, it flies in the face of this little
report. Christian
Unknown: nationalism is a cultural framework that
idealizes and advocates for the close fusion of a very
particular expression of Christianity with American civic
life, it does include those Orthodox and traditional beliefs
of the historic Christian faith. But what it also includes are a
number of cultural elements. These cultural elements are a
desire for a traditionalist social policies to be central to
the society. It also has a desire for strict authoritarian
social control. We want
Trump to be the dictator to change politics forever.
We also see another cultural element is a desire for strict
ethno racial boundaries.
For example, an overwhelming majority of Christian
nationalists believe in replacement theory, and the
conspiracy that claims white Americans and you Europeans are
being deliberately replaced by non white immigrants. Many
Christian nationalists also see black Americans as inherently
more violent, thus justifying police brutality. Do you mean a
certain ethno religious group as having the only rightful claim
to being American is known by some as white Christian
nationalism, and many see it as a threat to American democracy.
One of Trumps close allies, the Center for renewing America
think tank has already forged policy plans for the second
term, aligning with this far right idea. With a statement on
the CRS website reading our mission is to renew a consensus
of America as a nation under God.
Adam Curry: Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. We can't have that. One
nation under God, indivisible. No. What are they trying to do?
John C Dvorak: They're trying to screw us horrible idea. I
Adam Curry: got Did you see this boots on the ground from our our
fellow ham November 7 Delta Romeo kilo? No, I
John C Dvorak: did not read it. Yes, he's
Adam Curry: David. He is the Arizona State communications
coordinator for the Convention of States, which we talked
about. And because you were you were very against this idea,
then I'm all for it. And I saw it come through, but I had not
read it. I'll read it because it's interesting. He said, I
want to weigh in about the Convention of States. I have my
boots firmly planted on the ground in this department, once
again, proving we are the best podcast in the universe with US
producers.
John C Dvorak: It's It is unbelievable. Considering the
lousy donations, we've been getting recently, that we have
this kind of access.
Adam Curry: Yeah, and we don't have to hire anybody for this
kind of access. Todd. I've been a volunteer for the Convention
of States for eight years. And I'm currently the Arizona State
communications coordinator. I've worked tirelessly to correct the
perception that, John, that the Convention of States is seeking
to change the US Constitution, nothing could be further from
the truth. As we want to simply propose amendments to the
Constitution and stick to the three subjects of term limits,
fiscal restraints, and curbing federal overreach. We are
already past the halfway point to call a convention as 19
states have already adopted resolutions, a total of 34 is
needed to call a convention. Although John thinks this is an
unorganized pipe dream. We are actually I love our producers,
we are actually a well organized group of regular people
volunteering part of our own time, talent and treasure to
something that can positively change the country in a
desperately needed way. It's been a long road to get to this
point, especially since a lot of people cling to the fear that
this will jeopardize the Constitution. It will not. And
what they don't know is that this country has a history of
state conventions. We still use them today to negotiate water
rights. Miss characterizing the movement as a constitutional
convention, when it's really an amendment proposing convention,
is what the enemies of the people No, that's me, are an
enemy of the people. John, I know that neither of you are
enemies of the people. That was your worst out, but felt it was
necessary to bring this to your attention so that you guys could
continue to be informed at the highest level of information. It
is also my duty to do so. Thank you both for your own tireless
efforts for the cause of liberty. I'll catch you in the
morning. 70 threes, November 7, Delta Romeo kilo, there you go.
There you go. So now you know,
John C Dvorak: I appreciate that kind of note.
Adam Curry: Yeah, it's a great note and then had explained I'm
all for this Constitutional Convention of States and we'll
John C Dvorak: see how it goes. I
Adam Curry: got the halfway there. Halfway there.
John C Dvorak: Oh, goodness, new got cyber attack. last clip,
which is kind of interesting. I also have a George Galloway
tirade in front of Parliament, which I thought was decent.
Let's do that
Adam Curry: one first, and then the cyber a clip. Okay, George
Galloway. Now he's the commie.
John C Dvorak: No, no, no, you're taking another guy. Oh,
he's Galloway.
Adam Curry: Galloway just won his district and he's in the
army.
John C Dvorak: Well, he's, well, he could be but he's a commie in
the same way that that Claire's a communist is
Adam Curry: a three minute, three minute clip. What is a
three minute clip?
John C Dvorak: It looks minute and B it looks
Adam Curry: it looks Miss clip to let me say the truth
Unknown: is the our country is in very real danger of falling
into the trap of Mussolini going around the world threatening
people with Germany's army. Our politicians go around the world
threatening people with America's Army. But there's a
big change coming. Madam Deputy Speaker. They don't like it on
either side of the aisle. But President Trump is coming back
in November, and he doesn't much fancy the NATO. He doesn't
intend And to send American soldiers to die for CO pianist
or for the Zelinsky regime in gear. He has no intention
whatsoever of continuing the war in Ukraine and I heard the
member, senior member of the House say, if America withdraws
from NATO, we're going to have to increase our contribution to
5%, six, maybe 7% of GDP. These people seriously imagine that
they'll continue NATO without the United States of America.
What kind of NATO without would really be Gilbert and Sullivan,
unless, of course, we are going to devote not 50 billion of our
public treasure, but hundreds of billions of our public treasure
on defense. Well, have any of these people seen the state of
the public realm in Britain? Have they seen the state of the
National Health Service? Have they seen the state of our
streets or public buildings, or public transport? Have they seen
the wage packets being earned in this country? Have they seen
pensioner poverty? Have they seen your poverty in action?
Have they met people that have to choose between eating and
eating? And these fools want to spend not 50 billion, but
hundreds of billions on weapons of war, that we're going to
fight with an army that could fit into Villa Park 70,000
soldiers can fit into a single football stadium. And
Adam Curry: he was also on the Big Brother, I think, wasn't it?
John C Dvorak: I don't know. Yeah, I
Adam Curry: think it was, I think it was on the Big Brother
show.
John C Dvorak: But it was that that was a decent, right? I have
I have their day. You know, their predict everyone's getting
ready for Trump. It's like they're getting ready for Trump.
Trump. I don't see how he's not going to get in. I mean, now
you're gonna let Biden in again. Oh, nervous woman.
Adam Curry: I have boots on the ground from uza where that's our
producers name uza WUSA regular troops on the ground from France
Germany and Poland have arrived by rail and air to chair Cassie.
South of key of substantial force. No numbers have been
leaked yet. They're being housed in schools. For all practical
practical purposes. This is a NATO force. Let the games begin.
Mr. King's House business cards will be in great demand whoever
that is. So yeah, so we've got NATO troops on the ground. And
everyone's talking conscription everywhere going to war. Wow, I
gotta get Christina out of there. I would say I gotta get
her out of there. This is
John C Dvorak: she's not gonna get conscripted. Well,
Adam Curry: not yet. But you know, they'll have look they
took young girls are now fighting for Ukraine young
Ukrainian girls. Yes, well, we're
John C Dvorak: gonna do everything we can to kill
everyone who's Ukrainian. That's what we're doing now.
Adam Curry: Yeah, so we can move in.
John C Dvorak: All right, sidebar. Gil can move and we're
not moving
Adam Curry: cargo is already know we need Cargill workers.
That's true. Cargill is already executives. Exactly. And we need
to steal that Russian money. So we bolster our SWIFT system.
Good idea. All right, cyber attack. Last news. And before we
take our break here, Homeland Security
Unknown: will soon be requiring companies working in critical
infrastructure to report cyber attacks to the government in a
timely manner. Otherwise, the company could face fines more
from employers, Jenna McLaughlin
2022, Congress passed a law that would require owners and
operators of us critical infrastructure to report cyber
incidents to the Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity
agency Sissa. That includes everything from the power grid
to oil and gas pipelines. Now, Cisco is releasing an initial
version of those specific rules or a Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking. Companies will have 72 hours to share cyber
incidents and 24 hours after making a ransom payment to a
cyber criminal group, since the expects over 300,000
organizations will be accountable to the new rules. If
companies fail to comply, they could be subpoenaed or referred
to the Justice Department for potential civil action. The
government believes these rules are vital during a time of
rampant cyber attacks against US companies. Yeah.
John C Dvorak: So the government got sick of waiting to have this
government corporate, you know, agreement that was going on
during the Obama administration. We discussed it all the time.
And then we can keep with you maybe this is proprietary, you
know, unless you know everything we're up to. And now they said
okay, we waited too long enough. We're just gonna pass a law rule
and you're gonna have to do it or you're gonna get fined Big
time after 72 hours if you don't join, you know as Sisa this
bullcrap operations, that's not going to do anything anyway.
This is this is a horrible.
Adam Curry: Actually I have two more quick things to discuss
before we break. The Have you heard this outfit? All sides.com
Sounds like a rainbow news outfit to me. But they had they
declare now based upon Gallup polling that LGBTQ plus voters
will actually decide the 2024 presidential election. Because
over the past decade, voters identifying as LGBTQ plus have
more than doubled. What's more, this group is growing. The LGBTQ
plus demographic is now a larger voting bloc than the suburban
white mothers that pundits love to discuss on election night.
Why Wow, this is so you know, what's happening is kids are
afraid not to say oh, yeah, I'm queer, right? We're, they're
afraid to say they're straight. But if you really think the
Williams Institute recently noted this increase as well
reporting that among younger Americans 14.9% in the 18 to 24
and 8.8% in the 25 to 34 cohorts identify as LGBTQ plus. And what
does that mean? Well, now we go to Sarah, the Gentile, who says
Hi, Adam and John, I'm a professor at a private
university in the south Hello, once again, best producers in
the universe. I wonder she's a clinical professor, professor at
a private university in the south and adjunct at a big 10
University in the Midwest. Every spring in my big 10 appointment,
all faculty have to complete the title 10 And Title Nine
training. These are usually 45 minute training modules are
mandated reporting assault on campus and how we are to help
students experiencing students experiencing those situations
etc. I've completed scores of these over the years and they've
always been the same. The same Narrator same situation, same
videos this year, or this year, however, there's a notable
difference that gays are gone. Take, for example, this
statistic shared in one of the modules quote 13% of students
reported non consensual sexual contact by physical force or
inability to consent rates were significantly higher for women
and the T GQN. Students. This is a new acronym TGQ N, which
stands for transgender women transgender men, nine bit non
binary gender queer, gender questioning or gender not
listed. You guys called it months ago, the gays are gone.
There was no reference to lesbians or gays. They have been
completely erased, not one mentioned in this entire
training. This was not the case last spring when I had to take
the same training. Whatever starts in the university will
always trickle down and out. So expect to see T GQN. Soon
enough.
John C Dvorak: We'll keep an eye out for it. We had that clip a
couple of shows ago with the girl who is bitching lesbian tic
tock or who is bitching about what's going on? And she this
basically mirrors what she let
Adam Curry: me tell you, the gay guys I know are there. They're
angry about this stuff. They are pissed off. They are like this
is insane. And you know what? The gays can save us, the gays,
the gays will save us? Yes, they will. And in a rare moment of
camaraderie the gays and the lesbians will actually join
together. Which is not true that would be rare. But they've got
to they've got to save themselves. Unbelievable. And
with that happy news, I'd like to thank you for your courage
say in the morning to you the man who put the sea in the
Convention of States ladies and gentlemen say hello to my friend
on the other end the one and only Mr. John
John C Dvorak: Murray you Mr. Adam curry in the morning ships
and sea boots on the ground feet in the air subs in the water and
the Danes and the Knights out there and
Adam Curry: all the gays in the morning to you Hello, trolls.
Hold on Hold up. All right, we've gone up a little bit here
we had 1552 and the last troll count we did on a Thursday 1576
Is your troll counter today. And we are very happy to have our
trolls there in the troll room at troll room.io or, or you can
join them by going to podcast apps.com and getting a modern
podcast app. Now when I tweet, we got a new thing called
episodes.fm. So when I tweet out the link to the show and you
click on that link, it brings up a list of 30 apps. And right
there you can choose which app you want to use Uh, yeah, this
is another podcasting 2.0 innovation. They just keep on
coming. Unbelievable. Well, it is it is because these are
people who care about freedom of speech, and make sure that
you're not stifled by Silicon Valley. But there no will be.
Well, we won't be. There's no way they can't. We are
unstoppable. Now, of course, we're poor, but we're
unstoppable. And we're very proud of it. Also, you get
updated within 90 seconds of a podcast posting its new episode,
certainly this one and other smart podcasts. But there's a
hundreds of 1000s of them who are using the new system, all
part of podcasting. 2.0 We are a value for value podcast, which
we started probably we get is going to be is going to be 17
years in October. Yeah.
John C Dvorak: Any minute. Wow. That's unbelievable.
Adam Curry: Hey, it isn't your birthday soon to
John C Dvorak: my birthday is coming up on April 5. We'll be
looking forward to that. And it'll be the day after the
wedding. Yeah,
Adam Curry: we're taking that with April 4, which is a
Thursday. Correct. It's a Thursday by Washington married
on Thursday, not getting married in the church.
John C Dvorak: They're getting married. They're getting
independent. Think of another Universal Life Church marriage,
as far as I can tell. So
Adam Curry: universal? Yeah, I know. I'm a minister. I'm a
minister, Minister, Minister of the universal and I'm a Doctor
of Divinity. And well, you're this boss, above boss. Always,
always.
John C Dvorak: So I do want to mention that when we get to the
donation segment, when I mentioned in advance, do not
read the first name on there and give it to me because that name
should be anonymous, but it's listed on there. That would be a
bad thing to say. We
Adam Curry: don't want to have anything bad happen here. So I
will not I will not pass
John C Dvorak: it to me. And I'll read from his note. I'll
Adam Curry: pass it to you. Let me just see. The very first one.
Not not Yeah, the very
John C Dvorak: first one, that one right at the top. Okay, I
want this got no note.
Adam Curry: Yeah, I got it. I will not mention it at all.
Blank it out. So value for value means that we are not part of
the podcast industrial complex, which is not doing so well.
Actually. There have been moments it has.
John C Dvorak: It's not today, but it has his moments.
Adam Curry: Well, and Bill Maher is about to make the biggest
mistake of his life. No, yes. He started a podcast network. Oh,
plea?
John C Dvorak: Yes. Yeah, there goes money. That's where I guess
he's making too much money. So throw it away. Yep.
Adam Curry: So it's, it's going to be the guest
John C Dvorak: network? Yes. If he had never heard of such a
thing, the club
Adam Curry: random studios network. And he will be hosting
as he seek it seeks to host podcasts built on an idea of
freedom of expression. Hmm. Okay. And he starting with that
ESPN lady. He's hired her to Sage Steele. She was for ESPN
Sports Center. The day after there was some free speech
lawsuits. I don't remember what that was about. But anyway, we
would be perfect for that network if we thought they would
work. But that they don't, then I'll tell you why. Because you
get into the network. And it was like, Oh, it's great. You know,
you're gonna get publicity and be a part of Bill Maher system.
Oh, great. Great, great. And then all the advertising goes to
Bill Maher show. Or maybe one other you know, one other one.
This
John C Dvorak: show gets popular. Yeah, this happens.
This happened. We've witnesses both witness why witnesses with
your network. You're the one that was doing a network. Even
though you now decry it. Yes. I also see it on Leo's network.
And these are networks I decry. Yours was a little more
aggressive to
Adam Curry: decry it because we raised $65 million, and nobody
made any money. Hello. And
John C Dvorak: all the way the kicker is and you probably
wouldn't say this as easy as I can. Every buddy complained all
the time now GAC am I'm not making more money, how come
they're emphasizing this and not that every one of you had all
these famous podcasters working there, and they all complained
and they didn't complain a little they complained all the
time. Yeah, and that's what Bill Maher is gonna get down. That's
why we had aggravating complaints. That's why you
Adam Curry: have a podcast relations manager the worst job
in the company. When Richard was his name Richard forgot the end
for a while that we had Aaron Aaron was running it and he gave
up the just like, I gotta leave this job. You couldn't pay
anybody enough to deal with the aggravation and the crying that
goes on, which is why these podcasts and eventually they
they unionize and then your to completely screw
John C Dvorak: Oh, then your host shuttered shut it shut it
down shutter, the ringer,
Adam Curry: they just unionized. The rager it's all over. It
doesn't work. You cannot monetize the network. Just take
it from me. Spotify spent $2 billion so Oh, we didn't get any
of that goodness. Of course. I mean, we should have honestly we
somebody should have at least hired us for a couple mil and
then fired us. But no, no. You know why? Because we speak
truth. Truth to Power. That's why are we speaking truth to
power? Joe?
John C Dvorak: I don't know how much power is listening to the
show, but we're speaking to somebody.
Adam Curry: somebody's out there. Oh, they're speaking
truth to me. All right. So instead, we opted for the value
for value model, which is actually it's pretty good. If
you can keep your costs low. IE, we don't have Neumann mics. Now.
We run the whole thing on a $500 rode rode mixer. Mic and that
little b. What's that? Beelink computer.
John C Dvorak: I didn't know I use a NOC. We run a we run this
thing on the Intel NIC an old
Adam Curry: one. We run this on a Beelink and NOC and a $500.
Road mixer. Okay.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that's a scarlet.
Adam Curry: That's where we run this thing on and I got a couple
panels on the wall. All right. That's how we run it. And
luckily, we have people who provide value back to us when
they say you know, I got some value from the show. I laughed.
I cried. I got mad. I learned something I got it. I learned
something about the markets. I could make some money there.
Save my life. Hello COVID Lots of stuff because you back time,
talent or treasure? All three of them are valid. So we have
people running servers people do you know what people doing art
for us? Let's talk about that for a second. We have artists
who continuously love to make artwork. While we're doing the
show live this it really is one of the coolest things. And
actually I was on Oh, you're gonna get asked I was on the
union of the unwanted you have to go on the show. Have you
heard of this podcast but
John C Dvorak: it's a union of the my unwanted but you unwanted
who's unwanted? Well, that's
Adam Curry: why I always was against this show. And I don't
want to I'm not unwanted. I'm very wanted. I'm loved.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, we want you however
Adam Curry: this is. This is an essence. It's a zoom call with
like 12 or 13 people. And they all and they all have podcasts,
Sam Tripoli, they remember the guy who I called the the
sidekick. And then people like, I'm not donating because yeah, I
got the same name of the podcasters. By the way, Sam and
Adam. were texting all the time. Now. We're buds. You guys should
be buds. Graham was on there from Green
John C Dvorak: is angling for my job. Let's face it. Who? Sam?
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, that's
Adam Curry: an interesting idea. I like that. I like that. Oh.
John, I said on the show, I said without John or without Adam.
There is no agenda. It's just there is no one. There's no no
one. I know that this. Without either one of us. The show
doesn't work. It would just have to end so Don't die on me yet.
Oh, man. And I'll do the same. Because there's a lot of a lot
of show left in us until 2028 Then, then we definitely have to
anyway, we
John C Dvorak: can go off our merry ways. And our publishing
company running. Well by then we have a Kindle.
Adam Curry: I mean, what else? What more do you need? I don't
know what I'm gonna do. But yeah, here we go. What should I
do
John C Dvorak: here and you get plenty ideas.
Adam Curry: But none of them make money. That's the problem.
Podcasting is demonetised podcasting. 2.0 is great, but
it's zero money. It's just it's for legacy for the children.
That's the only reason I do it. Anyway. These guys, all of them
have their own podcast like the Liberty lockdown. I mean, it's
all great podcast. And they all listen to no agenda. They love
us. They love you, and they want to have you on the show. And I
would I would recommend you do it. I could do that show. Sure.
I think you'll really enjoy it. I had a good time. I wasn't sure
what to expect and had a good time. Anyway, back to a value
for value we want. Many of them use value for value. They love
it. Yeah, well, they should guess. And then they also
they're all poor. But they love
John C Dvorak: that. Well, it's because sometimes the email goes
astray.
Adam Curry: People have to say the email was really important.
There's so many podcasts and things you can pay attention to.
I mean, when when did he is in your algo. Sometimes people
forget we have a podcast and we need to be supported and then
when the algos because that's what it is. Just oh he used the
word killing. Well throw that to junk. Get rid of that and
probably went to promotions which
John C Dvorak: is even funner funny episode went to promotions
that shouldn't have.
Adam Curry: We want to thank Darren, who provides a lot of
our standby this but a lot of time and talent that Darren
provides to the show. He does the rock world pre show before
every single Thursday in Sunday's broadcast. And prize
John C Dvorak: you didn't say that the Korean Devorah in the
corner there was too small.
Adam Curry: It was we talked about this for quite a while. We
didn't
John C Dvorak: talk about that you never mentioned it. Okay,
you give Darren a lot of leeway.
Adam Curry: These Darren O'Neal you know, his music tastes sucks
but Darren is a good guy. Now okay, so we chose Darren ISIS K
with the only thing I didn't like about it was the hand
grenade I
John C Dvorak: was more disturbing like I didn't mind
the hand grenade at all is ISIS k which is like a
Adam Curry: Special K packaging classic. No agenda, spoof art.
We love those 33% More psyops works for me and then the hand
grenade Now, other things that we looked at. I really, I really
liked Scarah mangas meat food.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I liked it too. But it was again it was it
was time it was way too small. It
Adam Curry: was too small and then as you imbuing into it you
see like some Chinese some Asian cook Yeah, but it turned out
John C Dvorak: to be racist. Yeah, it
Adam Curry: says really good. We were okay with the racism
actually, but you couldn't read it from afar and was newcomer
food
John C Dvorak: well, we weren't that good with it. We always
picked it no he said no one had gone with Rarey good sunshine
laughing Chinese guy I'm sorry Should I have put it properly a
laughing Chinaman still gonna work I'm still laughing when I
see it and like it was good. It's very funny to look at
Adam Curry: we also we looked at networks Toshiba laptop, which
was it was in the running for sure. And honestly, I think that
the the I actually use that for the pre stream art this morning
people stopped making pre stream art. They used to do cool art
for me to post when when we go live and they stopped doing that
for some reason. Well, I
John C Dvorak: did use I will say yeah, I know where they
used. I used I will I use the most compelling piece that was
on here which was an AI generated art piece of but it's
a girl who is she's the kind of woman that does exist in the
real world I would have nothing to do with anybody who does this
show or listen to this show. You can just tell and comic strip
blogger did it and he needs to get some he's gotten it down
pretty well to create this this sort of thing. These the buttons
didn't help either.
Adam Curry: Comic Strip but no, it did not. That's there's
another reason why the newsletter got sent to spam.
This blatant sexual. That
John C Dvorak: was not in the newsletter. It was just in the
post. Okay.
Adam Curry: Well still still do better.
John C Dvorak: Are you making it up?
Adam Curry: What else was there? Behind whale poop stuff?
Unknown: There?
Adam Curry: I don't know why. fat lady all of a sudden some AI
fat is not
John C Dvorak: fat. She's not found that was, you know what a
fat lady looks is that's not what we're thinking about. Very,
very little. Very odd. Basically, you know, five pounds
overweight is
Adam Curry: bad. And I don't think anything else really did.
John C Dvorak: Now. I think that cut well, we
Adam Curry: did talk a bit about the no agenda racing team car
battery. Talked about that. But that really didn't.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, it wasn't compelling. Yes, workss networks
is on a downward spiral.
Adam Curry: Tina just texted me. She's in a dress in a gown and
she says I'm ready to meet Trump. She's at Mar a Lago
tonight. You
John C Dvorak: know, Trump is in New York at the at the cops
funeral. Now I know he's not there. So he's not going to be
at Mara Lago A. And meanwhile, cop. Trump is going to the cops
funeral and Biden is going to a donation fundraiser. A
fundraiser he's not even to see the dead policeman. And it's and
I got a number. Anyway, I got a number out of this. I got a
couple of numbers. Rhonda McDaniel is going to be paid
$300,000. That was her fee for MSNBC. But for $100,000 at the
fundraiser, you can get your picture taken with Biden, Obama
and Clinton in the same shot. So they're going to set up a photo
booth. The three of you will be there you go in $100,000. Check.
Boom. Here's a picture taken or if anyone sees one of those
pictures on the wall somewhere. That guy's an idiot. Okay.
Adam Curry: Anyway, Tina will have boots on the ground from
Mar Lago for me. I've never been this big. You know who's at her
table?
John C Dvorak: You told us already but just in case I
forgot
Adam Curry: it. Just so you know. That was an off air
conversation. Oh,
John C Dvorak: I don't remember that. Yeah. James O'Keefe. Oh,
that's right. Yeah. That should be interesting. Yeah.
Adam Curry: I wonder if he's going to be wearing his gay
disguise.
John C Dvorak: He's going to be filming it. I can't. I'm
Adam Curry: very uncomfortable with what he's doing. It feels
so mean. Now he's silenced and poor
John C Dvorak: Yes Honey, we're
Adam Curry: how honey potting these poor games sell
John C Dvorak: gay guys. homely gay guys in sell gay guys
looking for any attention whatsoever that's not good.
Adam Curry: No, it's not. So anyway, he's just short
John C Dvorak: of wearing one of those old Groucho Marx.
mustaches. Phony knows exactly
Adam Curry: what it looks like. Anyway, thank you very much
Darren O'Neill no agenda art generator.com is where you can
find all of the art we have over 30,000 pieces. They're not bad
for 16 146 episodes. We have hundreds hundreds of artists you
can join them you can open up an account at no agenda art
generator.com Thank you to all of the artists for all we
appreciate everything that you do, but only one can be chosen
obviously. Now we go to the treasure part. We like to thank
our executive and Associate Executive Producers first. These
are $200 and above and John's gonna kick it off.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, we have a not necessarily perfect
anonymous guy is in Texas for $20.69 but I will read his note
starts off he's kind of one of these guys. What do you have two
weirdos?
Adam Curry: No, I know exactly. Well, he's for 2069 So okay,
John C Dvorak: yeah 2016 in yellow on the show but I saw on
your Yankee looking site that you mentioned my name on the
show if I donate over 50 I do want do not want to be named.
This guy doesn't want to be named but he sent an email in
over the years where he's named okay. No need for recognizing a
mooch who had been listening since I first heard Adam on the
Joe Rogan experience a while ago There you go Rogen big fan of
this show and appreciate you guys you guys make me laugh stay
gay.
Adam Curry: Okay, anonymous anonymous. Yeah, shoot you know
jingles nothing else there. No, it was it. We move on to Brandon
Johnson Parts Unknown 403 dot 33. He has a long handwritten
note but I shall read by
John C Dvorak: the way. This is another donation that is
problematic like the one we just read. Because he had sent in his
site supposedly sending a certified letter with a donation
and never got through and we went back and forth and back and
forth. And finally it came in. And then he Rice's unreadable
note I can read it. Okay, if you can read it, you can read it.
Adam Curry: Yes. Brandon Johnson ITM gents thank you for your
courage. Firstly, everyone listening to this needs to check
their conscience and contribute one of the three T's karma will
take note and peg you back in kind. Yes, yeah, I'm speaking
from personal experience as my first treasure donation was a
show number donation for episode 1601. I expected nothing in
return. By the way that we do the same. We give the value we
expect nothing in return. It comes but we expect nothing. And
we're right. Most of you don't send anything. All I asked for
from the universe was house selling karma. And literally the
day that my tithing was accepted. We sold our house that
morning I woke up seeing threes everywhere. So what should come
as no surprise at all worked out? Signs are all over if you
simply pay attention. Second, please revert back to my first
point. If you value the show and appreciate the insight of our
two gracious hosts Adam and John that do not take them for
granted. All of us producers must contribute time talent or
treasure to keep this train rolling. Lastly, this completes
my knighthood and I would like my name to be sir Rev. Joseph
James plus the 33 Joseph James the 33rd Sir Rev. Joseph James
the 33rd Please and thank you oh Blanton single barrel bourbon at
the roundtable. Okay, yeah, if I could also humbly request baby
making karma for me and my smokin hot wife of 21 years
along with the following jingles Oh, I didn't see any of this.
Okay, donate. I got the I got the donate. I got the donate.
Sorry, this part I wasn't quite rude. Yes. Okay. J donate 33 is
the magic number. Okay. Magic number got that one. And little
girl Yay. Oh my goodness. Okay. And the Go podcasting. Okay,
well, I think I think we can do all of that. Keep up the great
work gentleman Godspeed. Sincerely yours a fateful night.
PS was you say here this is kind of a funny note. PS. In light of
the good news jingle. I'd like to share this quote. The world
isn't getting
something or darker. I guess the world isn't getting darker the
veil sheltering you from reality is being lifted.
Unknown: Whoo
Adam Curry: All right very nice. You've got Dog Dog Parma
Unknown: does the magic the magic number
Adam Curry: no one there we go and your baby karma All right.
Did it all did it all did it all. I had one miscue sorry
about that Tara
John C Dvorak: comics. Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, Canada.
333 Paris of Canada.
Adam Curry: What do I hear in the background over there? Ah,
okay.
John C Dvorak: What you're hearing is they've decided
because of the potholes. Say later, my new tire if
Adam Curry: you complain about the potholes, yeah, I complain
about
John C Dvorak: the pot but no, they're dead. What you're
hearing is a machine that is shaving the road for the
repaving Oh, so
Adam Curry: they're fixing the fixing potholes locally, they're
John C Dvorak: going well, this is not where the potholes are
the potholes. The potholes that are dangerous are on the
freeway. Stop
Adam Curry: complaining. They're fixing it for you. Well,
John C Dvorak: they're making a lot of noise as you can tell,
they are there. Anyway, Alberta, Canada 333. It's interesting
that we got no classic three, three 3.33 donations on this
show. In fact, we only had a total of 43 donations over 50
bucks which is really low for Thursday. And tower comic says
thanks for the deconstruction Can I get a D douchey
Unknown: you've been D deuced. For
John C Dvorak: my buddy Blaze, and he would like an R two d two
karma and a jingle Amen fist bump. Yeah, we
Adam Curry: can do that. Hey, man fist bump. You've got karma.
Amy burn is in Swan ona North Carolina. 333 She says thank you
for making me laugh when there's so much grim news. By the way,
if you've been listening to this podcast the whole way through
and you haven't laughed once never listen again. It is it is
hard if you don't laugh at least once during the show then we
fail. Really enjoyed Adams testimony no bells are karma.
All right, thank you very much.
John C Dvorak: Yes sweet. It's very sweet. Hey, we go to Eli
the camera gets her Eli that coffee goes slips in an ad in
Bensenville Illinois. He's very slight $212.12 I would like to
credit this donation to scare a manga Oh for his Tree Lobster
art from the last show which cracked me up so that's a
gruesome or not is that a switcheroo that was just a
dedication. No credit he says credit he says credit credit so
he gets the donation scare him let him buy the plug is coming.
I had the pleasure of meeting him at a brewery event where I
was selling coffee a few weeks ago. John you were spot on in
the newsletter. The bridge did fall like it was flimsy. To
jingles can summarize this week's bridge collapse. Please
play coincidence I think not. Followed by build back better.
My wife's favorite jingle producers ruined coffee with no
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code ITM 20 for 20% off your first order. Stay caffeinated
Eli the coffee guy
Adam Curry: I will say I ran out of black rifle this morning. And
so then I picked up one of their gigawatt packs that need a
little more than then I would put in the black rifle but he's
good at that it keeps me awake and jolly
Unknown: coincidence? I think not sort of
beyond your three
Adam Curry: Leonora Coronel Coronel Coronel Nevada Nevada
City. Is it in Nevada City if it's in California or Nevada
City,
John C Dvorak: it's still Nevada City. 2008
Adam Curry: Associate Executive Producer $21.60 ITM gentlemen my
smokin hot husband Gus has been a devoted listener since I hit
him in the mouth and 2021 You're a good wife, and I'm ashamed to
say he still hasn't gotten around to donating. Please do do
Shem for his 48th birthday tomorrow, march 29.
Unknown: Ben de duced
John C Dvorak: Linda Lubetkin comes up and she's the fun
Finally Associate Executive producer on the short list. Oh
sure. He's in Lakewood, Colorado. And of course she
wants to jobs karma. So there's nothing new there. She says for
an exceptional resume, go to Image makers inc.com For all
your executive resume and job search needs. That's image
makers Inc with a K. Or find Linda Lou Potkin Duchess of jobs
and writer of resumes on the producer list.
Unknown: There you go jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs, for jobs.
Adam Curry: And that is it for executive and Associate
Executive producers. As you know, the rules aren't anything
above 200 hours, we will read your note, regardless of what it
is long as we can, we can read it. And it's not too long and
it's not too crazy, but we pretty much read them all.
Anything under that we pick and choose where we can depends on
time depends on what the note is. But if you really want to
have it read 200. Above is where you go for your executive and
Associate Executive Producer status, which are real credits.
Go ahead, ask Dana Brunetti producer, Bob GranTurismo.
Should have been an Osprey when you saw that movie. I am too. I
loved that movie. I sat there and I said Phoebe. That was a
great movie. Phoebe's like Ray
John C Dvorak: was watching the movie with you. Oh, yeah. Oh,
yeah. She loves Dino dog. I had to mention this. Dogs can see
LCD screens. They never could see a television
Adam Curry: set. That's right. They'll see these screens man
all the difference in the dog's life
John C Dvorak: when the doing dog shows seeing cats too. So
dog story watch so dogs watch TV now.
Adam Curry: I know. I know. It's great. She loves it. But I just
especially loved like the when they show the inside of the
cylinders firing and
John C Dvorak: the movie it does special effects and everything
that but that movie was so well produced and well done. Well
shot the guy you know it got it. I think it paid out. But it was
like, you know,
Adam Curry: oh no, they made bank upfront. It was one big
commercial. Oh, yes, there is no dummies like, Hey, by the way,
for all you're gonna pay me in advance, I'll do anything for
all the crap I gave him about 50 Shades of Grey. This really
makes up for it. Not in money, but it makes up for it. Anyway,
we don't read anything under 50 Because people there like to
stay anonymous. So 4999 is always good. Don't add any fees
because that will put it up over the 50 and then we might make a
mistake. And of course we want to thank everybody. And if
everybody did this, it would be great if you just take out a
sustaining donation which is some kind of regular thing that
you automatically have paid and it can be anything you want. If
everybody did that, we'd be in fat city instead. Here we are.
That would be the day shortlist
John C Dvorak: keep to idealize the whole situation and think
they can do exactly what you described. Was that oh, you know
if I got like $500 like No, I only need like 10,000 people to
listen to the podcast. And if I charge them each 10 bucks a
month. Oh yeah, that's perfect. Because at 10 bucks a month that
means that's like over $100 million a year I'll make a
million to a year with 10,000 listeners
Adam Curry: Yeah, that's how they always started. That's how
we started and then with our $2 donation Yeah, boy boy did we
learn learn fast? Yeah, we did we learned newsletters help
podcasters if they can get them through. So thank you very much.
No agenda donations.com is where you can learn more and be a
producer. No one here is a listener. You are a producer of
the best podcast in the universe. John will take us now
through the 50 donations.
John C Dvorak: The Highland Craig's start us off from new
brown fells Texas, Braunfels, Braunfels? Yeah, whatever the
case is. I'm still irked. 182 18 She has a nice and or she or he
I think his wife that wrote this note. Yeah, this is helping my
hubs and i She says by COVID. Nice note from one of the
Highland Highland Craig's Ms. Ms. and Mrs. Craig this Duane
biblico. in Calgary, Alberta. No jingles no karma, of course when
3003 Baron surfer si r Fe are in Shasta Lake California, full to
the brim by the way. 123 45 Hakan Anderson in Portland,
Oregon. 105 35 Cole McCormick birthday boy. First time
donating Nisa de douching.
Unknown: De deuced Coca
Adam Curry: Cola. I know this name. I know Cole Cole
McCormack,
John C Dvorak: he needs some of his jobs. Kermit then he donated
105 35 Thanks, cool. Hi Hawker. In Higginsville, Missouri 100
And he says the state's reality outstanding product. No kidding.
Kevin McLaughlin comes in with boobs. 808 1646 Boob donation,
Sir Richard Hufford in Tempe Arizona 808 Happy Easter wishes
coming Easter Sundays coming out. Let's bring that donation.
Easter donations coming up.
Adam Curry: Guess what? We're working on Easter and we're
John C Dvorak: working on Easter the High Holy Day. It's one of
them. Sir Richard Hufford in Tempe, Arizona, who came in with
the OIG as I said, Ryan and to neodi and note DFO and Antonioni
and
Adam Curry: intent on Eddie and tinetti
John C Dvorak: to take his Antonioni while it says right
there. Oh, he's got his pronunciation internet and
tinetti. Well, that might be the way you pronounce I think 808
For him, Chris, just sick in Phillipsburg, New Jersey, as
he's got it No. 808 He says he says he's here for his two
favorite boobs love you guys love you mean that cute is cute.
Derek Allison in Rock Springs, New York eight oh, we get every
808 day. Yeah. He says Shiloh leaps is a douchebag we got that
out of the way. Dana Carroll or Dina Carroll in Lawton, Nevada,
Laughlin, Nevada 7227 It's interesting town John Boyd bore
high bore.
Adam Curry: Holy Bible boy bore hole a bore. Well means Hey,
Farmer.
John C Dvorak: Hey, mister. Hey, farmers 6114 like Chad cuit in
Folsom, California 606 mile boobs. Paul Webb in Twickenham
Middlesex UK for the 585 Matthew Golan in Miami, Florida. 5510
Adrian Christiansen 55 Brian congar and I think these are all
$50 donations that have been jumped up. Indianapolis, Indiana
5272 John Robertson, yet Yucaipa, California 5272. Person
of merit comics not a comic guys today, Columbus, Ohio 5272 and
Scott Nelson and Council Bluffs, Iowa 5001 And the following
people are $50 donations. Starting with Amie Grohl in
bureau in Washington right outside the airport, John Walter
and when achey Washington, Fall Line farm in Columbus, Georgia.
I'm gonna go visit them. Quinta Rick's Inc. in Bradenton,
Florida. He put a note in here it says John is great. Adam, you
too. Okay. In the comments on the sensationalism. Jack
Schofield in yankeetown, Florida, Shana Norberg in
Seattle, Washington, another Washingtonian, Brian Eamon
Heiser in Lancaster, California, for a Scott Brinkley in
Christiansburg. Virginia, Aaron Weiss Gerber in Bend, Oregon,
Michael Elmore in Gastonia New York, Richard Gardner, who I
always think is New York, John Taylor in Florissant, Colorado
ZEV green in Teaneck, New Jersey and last but not least, the good
old brand family in Placerville, California want to thank these
people for making show 1646 a reality and a winner.
Adam Curry: Also got a note here from this is from Spartanburg
who will be titled changing today to a baron. He says I
don't know if I ever got my got my make right to Baron. Oh,
okay, so no, I guess we miss it. So we're doing it now. If indeed
I'm a baron, I want to relay my disgust with Adams lack of
appreciation of pournami for Clip of the Day. Yes, that very
well as clip of the year he says as a bear and I wish to confirm
a clip of the day from my territory and your honor. Keep
up the great work and yes, I know send more money. James
Nitto clerical change, please. Oh, that's his name that I
please update my name from Spartanburg to Spartanburg.
Okay, Baron does spell check your words for spell check works
wonders Dvorak ha ha in the morning. Thank you both for the
best podcast in the universe with my latest donation. i What?
John C Dvorak: I will say that i i There's typos in the
newsletter on and off. I
Adam Curry: came. I missed one. I missed one.
John C Dvorak: We missed more than one but the one that you
missed it I missed we all missed is the word shipping was spelled
shopping. Everybody in their sisters seems to have
Adam Curry: caught that the ones that receive the email. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: the five guys who received the email all wrote in
well,
Adam Curry: people who receive it read it. That's the good news
bill. With this latest donation like now qualifies the barons in
Schubert Trove. My title I only think it's fair to have the best
choice of your remaining lands for you to determine. I would
like for them to Come with copious concubines to help
maintain order in the territory hope the double credit deal
isn't the extra strategy Keep up the great work. I love the value
for value model not a bad concept from a couple of mofos
Oh beautiful thank you very much. Here's the jobs karma that
was requested
Unknown: jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs for jobs.
Adam Curry: You can go to no agenda donations.com Thank you
again to our executive and Associate Executive producers
for 1460 For our form 4066 4616 46 is a lot of
episodes
yes, we've got some birthdays to talk about niceness. today. Hi
Khan. Kula Andrus wishes his nice Tilda a very happy birthday
she turned one year old on March 24. Cole McCormick turns 27 on
the 25th David wicker says Happy Birthday to hope she is turning
seven today. We have Ivonne Fergus turning 58 today and it
is Jackson Smith's birthday. And Jackson is turning five today
and he is looking forward to the no agenda ABC book which I think
is coming in May so stay tuned. Parker's 33 celebrates today JP
Smith wishes his son Jackson Wyatt Smith. Oh, I just did
that. And Leonora wishes her smokin hot husband Gus Happy
birthday he turns 48 on March 29 Happy birthday from everybody
here the best podcast in the universe
don't want to be and we just read the note from Spartanburg
and Spartanburg becomes barren today and he can figure out his
own protectorate and that of course will be part of the no
agenda peerage. Congratulations, Baron Spartanburg, thank you
very much for supporting the no agenda show then we have one
night to do today. So there's our one night blade and this we
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People get a lot of value today. Going long alert the affiliates.
We have a couple of meetups to promote. But we first have a
report from voc learning and the VOC lending and eat up report
that's in the Netherlands. Andre
Unknown: live from the no agenda, eat up no agenda in
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Adam Curry: Frankenfood felly in vacillating, is better and I
just want to remind you to stay humble stack sets and start with
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Unknown: Hi, Natalia here and I'm dying because I have a lot
of hot flashes.
Looking for a boy Friends
why you think we're wrong all the time? Or high or heavy?
In the morning Damien Mitchell, the lover of dirty jokes were a
bit low and dirty jokes here
these mofos just arranged my marriage
Thanks What a wonderful meetup tonight. Fantastic Hello here
gotta hit him in the mouth
Adam Curry: by the way, I'm planning a trip I'm gonna do a
solo trip to the Netherlands see my daughter I think maybe the
beginning of June so we need to plan a meet up. I want to go to
one of these meetups, these people having too much fun. I
love it. meetups happening. Today North Georgia monthly meet
up at six o'clock at the Cherry Street brewing in Alpharetta,
Georgia Saturday the Ventura County California most peaceful
meetup noon, noon o'clock at noon institutionelle company in
Carmilla card Millo California and also on Saturday, the Osaka
Castle cherry blossom Amarillo tamarillo Yes, thank you. Back
to Saturday, the Osaka Castle cherry blossom viewing and
amygdala shrinkage meetup 1:33pm. In Osaka Castle Park,
Osaka, Japan I know we have a lot of nights in Osaka. So I'm
looking forward to a wonderful meetup report sir bill of Osaka
he's I've met him several times. Of course I've also met him in
in Tokyo. So looking forward to your Meetup report. And then
finally the biggest little meet up to 33 at Bighorn Tavern in
Reno, Nevada. That'll be on Saturday as well on the horizon
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the meetup report. That's what most of them were like only that
sounds funny when you have Dutch accents but all of these meetups
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Unknown: you go hang out with Dyson days you will be triggered
you will be where everybody feels the same. Is like
Adam Curry: and they're gonna make it easy on Yeah, I have
zero ISOs I don't know what happened but I wound up with
none. Wow. So it's gonna be one of yours.
John C Dvorak: Well, I don't have anything good I don't think
maybe maybe Okay, let's try let's start from the bottom here
and go with yeesh
Adam Curry: He's okay, no, no, no.
John C Dvorak: Okay, then go to tragic.
Adam Curry: Tragic. Miss better than yeesh Yeah,
John C Dvorak: it is. And then we had somebody that submitted
this one this is the use as a producer submitted one this is
the good work tick tock good work they're tick tock. Huh,
Adam Curry: let me hear the tragic again.
Unknown: It's tragic. Good work there. Tick tock.
Adam Curry: Did not you right, none of them are really
fantastic. Which one do you like the most
John C Dvorak: like to tick tock
Adam Curry: tick tock. Okay, now we'll use the good luck there.
Tick tock. That's good. news. Good news. Good news. Good news.
That's right. We're about to send you off into your long
weekend. We got all kinds of wonderful things coming up and
we want to make sure that you leave here with a song in your
heart and a skipping your steps that we bring you one good news
clip that is guaranteed to bring a smile to your face. John, what
do we have today?
John C Dvorak: Well, today we have a woman who was in the
hospital she had cancer she got over cancer and as she was so
happy as she left the hospital and i By the way, have a short
comment to make Mimi has a short comment to make about this clip.
She's supplied this one by the guy as she gets a proposal for
marriage as she gets out of the hospital and
Unknown: story to brighten your morning one woman celebrates
completing her final round of chemo treatments and got a huge
surprise this video Oh that you're looking at is going viral
showing 27 year old Angelica Mae walking out of the hospital
after finally beating stage two breast cancer. Now that's
already going to be an unforgettable day for her. But
it's what happened next. That has people on social media
buzzing watch.
Grand healing
Adam Curry: so I just want to say right, I love you know, one
book. We married
Unknown: Goodness How sweet. That is so, so sweet. And of
course, she said yes. Hey, and if you would like to send us
your good news story of the day, just email us your pictures and
your videos. To Good day. Good. news@fox.com
Adam Curry: That's right. Good day. Good news that no agenda
show dotnet.
John C Dvorak: Exactly. Mimi pointed out that what kind of a
douchebag asked her to get married after she's cured of
cancer. That's
Adam Curry: what he made me would say rescue his home in
heavy rain
as it for your good news, and it was good news. I mean, yeah, I
mean, I understand what she's saying. But don't throw any. Any
hot coals on my goodness, shake the throw
John C Dvorak: shade. And the good news is
Adam Curry: we've got good news coming up. Next on the stream
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Until then, adios mofos who we who we answered.
Unknown: In Mississippi six former law enforcement officers
Brett McAlpin, Jeffrey Middleton, Christian Deadman
Hunter Aylward, Daniel Updike and Joshua Hartfield each enter
the Rankin County Courthouse risk shackles to their waist in
jail suits. Those six officers pleaded guilty once again. This
time to st charges have
received prison terms that add up to more than 130 years it had
no warrant when they went to arrest or to torture the guys in
the house. It was simply because they were in a house with a
white female and mocking, beating and torturing them for
more than an hour. That included the use of stun guns and sexual
assault with a sex toy that you build. Those are hideous and
Michael is the former officers called themselves a goon squad
because of their tendency to use excessive force and then cover
it up.
Prosecutors today describe the heinous acts that occurred
during the raid on a Brexit home the depravity of
the crimes committed by these defendants cannot be overstated
his private parts in an attempt to put it in the mouth of a
defense is so much secrecy not only
did they torture them they were trying to plant drugs they
destroyed evidence get
some dignity realize that people are still a man's hands down
perhaps graft is holding hands and making sure
do you understand I don't think the Senate tools are in fact I
think these men should all spend the rest of their lives behind
bars okay then if you do the crime you gonna do to try and
stop a US deal those things not work. Spoon Western Australia
has used a secret actually. A sticky with the oil relief to
test and growls triggering a food AMI stinky been brutally
effective. Still processing everything. Fake news we're
trying to make this 15 year olds enough
Pasadena blast
definitely wasn't expecting to see that Eclipse Ross so I mean
this is obviously offensive for for people who study these and
I'm wondering whether there's just a lightning aspect you're
being tracked by these killers and maybe that's why you put
them whales I'm guessing the bows versus whales would be
yes yeah
we're traveling this 15 year olds in hospital
fascinating blast. Thank you so much. I know banning anymore.
Forever NBC fake news, which is all up in arms about hiring
Ronna Romney McDaniel, the former RNC chair, Michael
Steele, who is also former RNC chair works at MSDN seem to
chunk former Democrat campaign staffers whose wife is a Bernie
Sanders campaign staffer.
She is now a paid contributor.
I have no idea whether any answer she gave to you was
because she didn't want to mess up her country.
Higher. Higher, higher rung by Ron. Ron. Ron Higher, higher.
Higher. Higher, higher, higher. Higher prana. Now,
get her off the set. Chairman of the NBC Universal News Group
Cesar Conde
sent a memo, rescinding hiring of Ronna Romney McDaniel.
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