Adam Curry: We need an emergency pod then emergency pod.
Unknown: Adam curry, John C Devorah.
Adam Curry: My 1420 24 This year horn winning nation media
assassination episode 16
Unknown: is no agenda cutting
Adam Curry: to the fog of facts and broadcasting live from the
heart. Country here. Number six in the morning, everybody. I'm
Adam curry from
John C Dvorak: Northern Silicon Valley where we're all wondering
what we're going to talk about today. I'm John Cena moreq.
Adam Curry: Breaking breaking, nobody knows anything. Alert
alert. Well, that was certainly a rhetoric rhetoric. Reset. Man
Oh, man. Oh, man. Yeah, I had a very interesting weekend. Yeah,
sad Saturday. The fiber goes out for most of the day, and that
does slow things down. And that Friday, actually Friday, and
then Saturday. You remember we had that whole conversation
about ghosting by Drs. Yes. Well, both of them blew up.
John C Dvorak: The ghosted drive blew up to both of them. Ah, see
now I was laughing earlier, but now I don't feel good. No, you
shouldn't it that's terrible when they go straw. That's a
nightmare.
Adam Curry: You sound a little different. Why do you sound
different? This is
John C Dvorak: your new gear. You're all geared up?
Adam Curry: Is it? Is it a different microphone perhaps?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I've got no changes.
Adam Curry: Second, let
Unknown: me the EQ. Yeah,
Adam Curry: yeah, must be the EQ I don't know what it is. Is very
weird. You sound you sound all bassy Okay,
John C Dvorak: do I sound like Count Basie?
Adam Curry: Yeah, let me turn this off. Maybe that'll help you
say,
John C Dvorak: I'd taken a big Basie Yeah, you
Adam Curry: sound very basic. I'm taking out your big bottom
anyway. No, yeah, yeah. You don't need it. You don't need
the big bottom. Well, of course with the with shows like like
today there's like I think we're probably both over clipped.
John C Dvorak: I don't think so. I don't think I had that many
clips. I think you probably do because you get your you have
your minions your slaves provide you with extra clips. And I
Adam Curry: think I actually do pretty well on my own. Why
didn't you I saw you had well, what tell me where you want to
start? Because obviously people are like, oh, yeah, I can't wait
for the show. So I have a lot of thoughts about about what
happened but maybe you have a background or just to get us
started for prosperity sake. You know, in the future when
someone's listening to the show and says what are they talking
about?
John C Dvorak: Okay, well let's start with immediate shooting
revenue. This is a guy called Stormin Norman who is a well
known kick talker, and I thought he wrapped up the media coverage
pretty well. Today,
Unknown: several of the liberal outlets made the choice to
display absolute degeneracy when covering Trump's attempted
assassination in Pennsylvania. Now, not all of the left leaning
outlets did this. ABC News CBS, NBC News and others reported
correctly along with center independent and right leaning
sources that Trump was shocked and Secret Service removed him
immediately. Yet CNN and others decided to go in a different
direction. CNN wrote Secret Service rushes Trump off stage
after he falls at rally DND star and other USA Today outlet said
Trump removed from stage by secret service after loud noises
startles former president. The Washington Post wrote Trump
taken away after loud noises at rally very specific that
politico decided to kick it up a notch by writing a photo of
bloody Trump fist bumping immediately spotlighted by his
allies. Newsweek wrote an incredible headline that has
since been deleted. Magga responds with outrage after
Donald Trump injured at Pennsylvania rally. Yes, that's
the story conservatives pounce on the former president's
attempted assassination. Now, not to be outdone, Colorado
Democrat and State Representative Steve wood
decided now was the right time to tweet. The last thing America
needed was Sympathy for the Devil. But here we are. It turns
out that spending eight years calling a man Hitler and the
devil has disgusting consequences. And as usual, the
legacy media are complicit
Adam Curry: Yeah, it's really interesting is everyone's kind
of trying to search who to blame what to blame. And as always,
there's this incessant who what why where why we got to find out
manifesto where Baba set up false flag it's like everybody's
just just buzz and just
John C Dvorak: buzzing around Mastadon that's what the whole
thing is set up. It's a phony. It's it's false flag.
Adam Curry: Yeah, there was definitely a lot of that, you
know I can tell you pretty, pretty confidently it was real.
How about this? You saw the picture of the bullet flying by,
John C Dvorak: you know, I, I, I saw that picture, but I blew it
up and I didn't see anything going anywhere.
Adam Curry: So, Mike, my question is, is that is that
really even possible to? I mean, I don't know. I know back in the
day if you wanted to if you wanted to catch a flying bullet,
you had to have a super fast shutter speed. I don't know how
that works with digital cameras today.
John C Dvorak: Know that now that you mentioned it? The No,
there's no way. I think that's just bullcrap.
Adam Curry: I have my questions about it for sure. So where do
you want to start to Who do you want to blame first? Who could
we can blame a lot of different people? Well,
Unknown: I
John C Dvorak: think we should start with let's start at the
top. Dan bond Geno, we'll have some very interesting show.
Tomorrow radio show.
Adam Curry: I have I have a Dan bond Gino clip, actually. Yeah.
Once
John C Dvorak: you start with that, then I want to play the
old clip from CBS that extols the virtue of the head of the
Secret Service. And I
Unknown: got to tell you the secret service to be very
careful. I can tell you an absolutely confirm right from
the horse's mouth from multiple people, not just one and I saw
Congressman wolves, Texas out before on x, there have been
repeated requests to increase the security footprint around
not just the residences of Donald Trump, but the body
itself, and they have been rebuffed. Like I said, I can
tell you actual quotes, the secret service directors
completely failed, and candidly should resign today, Kim Cheadle
has failed Donald Trump and honestly failed Joe Biden to
he's the president right now. Where's the DHS Secretary? I
mean, this is you're blaming it on manpower? Yes,
John C Dvorak: you could blame it on woman power because here's
the CBS report this is Oh yeah, this
Adam Curry: this and this just air didn't it didn't this just
air like a week ago or so? I
John C Dvorak: think it's older than that. This is the head of a
secret service CBS Okay,
Unknown: to expand hiring. They're aiming to have 30% Women
recruits by 2030 and even allowed YouTube influencer
Michelle Caray to train with agents. But I'm
very conscious as, as I sit in this chair now of making sure
that we need to attract diverse candidates and ensure that we
are developing and giving opportunities to everybody in
our workforce, and particularly women.
That workforce will be pivotal for the 2024 campaign season,
which for the first time includes a former president who
already has lifetime protection. Agents were there when Donald
Trump was arraigned in New York, we
were able to work out the details ahead of time of how
that particular day was going to go. But we will always ensure
the safety of all of our protectors that
we have the service has a zero fail missing a missing officers
are training to uphold pretending this field is the
most famous address in America. This
Adam Curry: this Cheeto lady. She was assigned to Vice
President Biden during the Obama administration. Which I didn't
know Well,
John C Dvorak: I think in between then, and now she was
the head of she was a basically a glorified security guard at
PepsiCo. Yes.
Adam Curry: Yes, she was she the only see I read that somewhere
too.
John C Dvorak: Well, she if you I don't know if you saw this
what you probably did, but people should at least take a
look when they when they shove Trump into the into the car at
the end of the shooting. And they whisked him off. There's
three women there
Adam Curry: and they are fumbling and bumbling to be quit
John C Dvorak: fumbling and bumbling. They're small to their
small women. You know, they talk about hiring more women. How
about hiring some 320 pound, six foot six black dudes who would
like to do that kind of work? Because they you know they were
on a football team. At one point. They're like knocking
heads. I didn't see one black face and the whole contingent of
security at that additional distri, diminutive women that
were scrambling around and getting bumped into and they
didn't couldn't hold their own ground. I saw that but I didn't
see any bruisers. So the rather have a be honest about her. I
have a big bruiser, black, white. I don't care what it is.
But there are black bodyguards that are the kind of guys who
you do trust and want the female, female. The females
anything about hiring more black dudes, the female,
Adam Curry: you got to hang up about the black dudes. The
female, the female agent who was part of the human shield with a
ponytail. Tina saw her at Marilla I go when I remember she
was there for some event. And then Trump walked in. And she
she said that she was, to quote her badass. She thought she
thought she was really impressive. So, and it's hard to
I mean, I saw it and another secret service agent bumbling to
get his weapon into his holster. I mean, you know, there's a lot
going on. But ultimately, they all jumped in the line of fire.
So there's that. We'll get to that in a minute. Here's the ABC
Stephanopoulos also interviewed Cheadle, and Astor the and this,
I think, was pretty recent as to the most important question,
what is the
Unknown: greatest threat now homegrown terrorist or
foreign terrorism? I think it's probably a little bit of both, I
think we have to make sure that we are assessing the risk for
both of those as well as any other type of threat that may
come at us whether it's a lone gunman, you know, an organized
attack or an organized group. So we tried to cover off on that,
and
how does the current divisions in the country that the extreme
political polarization, how does that feed in to the threat
environment?
I think it plays into it. I think that the environment that
we're dealing with today is certainly different than it was
four years ago. I'm sure we'll see an evolution in the next
four years as well. But it is definitely something that we
take into consideration.
Are there any specific and credible threats out there right
now.
So there's nothing specific and nothing credible out there right
now. But we are tracking all threat streams, and we certainly
work with our partners at the FBI and other intelligence
agencies that supply that information to us.
Adam Curry: No credible threats. Nothing to worry about.
Everything's good.
John C Dvorak: That was yeah, that was a useless interview, to
say the least.
Adam Curry: I was just to get the threat part out there. But
well, let's
John C Dvorak: go do the threat party here. Let's play this
super cut. I got a couple of them here. This is the kind of
the negative stuff that was going on. Let's start with the
old supercut of threats. This, most of these are from
2015 2016. But there there's end later and during the Trump
administration, but they still they're still valid.
Unknown: I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all
over the country, and maybe there will be
people need to start taking to the streets. This is a dictator.
You know, there needs to be unrest in the streets for as
long as there's unrest in our lives. enemies
of the state.
Show me where it says The
protests are supposed to be polite, and peaceful.
Do something about your dad's immigration practices you
feckless may go low.
We had to
resist the temptation to run up and wring her neck biggest
terror threat in this country is Whiteman. Most of them
radicalized right up to the right.
I thought he should have punched him in the face. Even if he lost
He insulted your wife. Yes, but are called Mexicans rapists and
murderers.
He's what do you think?
I think you should punch him in the face and
then gotten out of the race, you
would have been a hero.
I'd like to punch him in the face. I said we're in high
school, I'd take him behind the gym and beat the hell out and
punch
some people in the face.
When was the last time an actor assassinated a president,
they're
still going to have to go out
and put a bullet in Donald Trump.
And that's the fact is his character is stabbed to death.
Where is John
Wilkes Booth when you need it?
I have thought an awful
lot about blowing up the
White House. And
Missouri State Senator is under investigation by the Secret
Service after saying she hopes President Trump is assassinated.
I will go and take
Trump out tonight. And if you see anybody done that cabinet,
in a restaurant
or gasoline station?
Adam Curry: Wow, that's good. Where did you get that from?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, it was floating around was that I think
they had no it was the RNC who put that together, but it was.
Wow. Then we have from November 23 is November 23. Clip. This is
from late last year on the Pisarski show Dan Goleman saying
the following.
Unknown: But his rhetoric is really getting dangerous, more
and more dangerous. And we saw what happened on January 6, when
he uses inflammatory rhetoric now. And his recent true social
post is incredibly, incredibly scary for anyone that might be
trying to work in government. And it is just unquestionable at
this point that that man cannot see public office again, he is
not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy.
And he has to be he has to be eliminated.
Adam Curry: Man. You know, I think throughout the past couple
of years at least we've always said that you know, this is not
good, and I think we even got a little desensitized to it. It
just so you Stuart, you just so used to laughing it off? Yeah,
John C Dvorak: most of it, by the way stems from MSNBC. Rachel
Maddow. John Heilemann is the guy in that previous clip who
somebody put up as your buddy. You should put a bullet in
Trump's head that he did that on MSN. That's an MSNBC guy. Yeah.
I think the guys that that's directly responsible for the
shooting, if I was going to point the finger at anybody, I'd
say as Brian L. Roberts, the CEO of Comcast who put together this
guy is a bad actor. Yeah.
Adam Curry: There were a couple of prominent people. Who also
it's, I mean, we'll just we'll go through a couple of these
now, just so we can get the lay of the land, but one most
recently is Lea Delaria. You familiar with Lea? Delaria?
She's an actress, slash comedian. Huh, let me see
somewhere I have her have her bio, but she's been a you know,
a number of shows. And she did this. And I actually, I think I
decided not to clip it a couple like two weeks ago. It was like,
Yeah, whatever, more of that. But now it's more relevant than
ever. And she's just looking at the camera with a very, very
angry like, that's an accurate description.
Unknown: I'm done.
Fucking seriously. Done.
The Supreme Court
has pissed me off so much right now. Like, so much. Joe.
You're a reasonable man.
You don't want to do this. But here's the reality. This is a
fucking war. This is war now. And we are fighting for our
fucking country. And these assholes are going to take it
away.
They're going to take it away.
Fuck you clearance
Uncle Thomas.
Fuck you, Joe.
You now have the right
to take that bitch Trump out. Take
him out Joe. If he was Hitler, and this was 1940. You take him
out? Well, he is Hitler. And this is 1940. Take him
the fuck out. Blow him up.
blow him up. Or
they'll blow us up.
Adam Curry: Oh, just beautiful. This show nice. There was
there's a lot of those. But you know, what's kind of interesting
about this? Is that now comparing him to Trump to Hitler
and Mussolini, Mussolini, that can no longer be done. I mean,
that's going to get called out by everybody. Wouldn't you say?
John C Dvorak: I have to agree. So I think there's but here's
another one of these in the same series who as we get these other
way, this is Biden on Friday, seven seconds. Most
Unknown: importantly, I mean, it's in the bottom art. Trump is
a threat to this nation.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, but it from the bottom of my heart
Adam Curry: or my heart most most importantly, there was
another one there was, was it. Claire McCaskill, this, she used
to be a Senator, this is another MSNBC this this was this is very
typical, like a minute rant from, from someone on MSNBC. A
Unknown: lot of people would try to draw similarities between
Mussolini and Hitler and the use of the terminology like vermin.
And the drive that those men had towards autocracy and, and
dictatorship. The difference, though, I think, makes Donald
Trump even more dangerous. And that is he has no philosophy he
believes in, he is not trying to expand the boundaries of the
United States of America. He's not trying to overcome a
neighboring country like Putin is in Ukraine, he is not going
to some grandiose scheme of international dominance. All he
wants is to look in the mirror and see a guy who's president,
all he cares about is selfish self promotion. That's the only
philosophy he has, which makes it even more dangerous, because
he has actually said out loud that it would be okay to
terminate the constitution to keep him in power. He said this,
he actually said those words. And the irony is all of these
supposedly conservative folks that have populated the
Republican Party all stood around and with their thumb in
their mouth going well, yeah, okay. I guess so. It's It's
bizarre.
Adam Curry: You know, again, it's like I feel like in a way
everybody's kind of failed because it's like climate change
you know, it's like Oh, haha, climate change. Whatever Stupid
idiot don't believe in it. But all we the D sensitive D sense.
ties ation towards this type of rhetoric is of course, a problem
and I have another example now this this was a this kind of
sums up all the all the different lies that are just
taken for for truth by people because I mean it'll because
it's on on MSNBC or when you're some, I guess something that
people find is factual and trustworthy even though we know
none of it is and this what this is this it seems like she has
grayish silver hair I don't know I don't think she's probably in
her 40s she's a she's on Tik Tok. And I've seen her before
she's she's actually has reasonable audio and has pretty
good diction. So it was worth it's long, but we can stop at
anywhere. But it's it's interesting how she just brings
back all these things that are just factually not true. And
wraps them all up. Well, folks,
Unknown: I tried. I really did. I managed to squeeze out some
genuine empathy for Orange. And I thought I did a pretty good
job. And then I made the mistake of looking at Elon x and I
remembered why the right is not compatible with empathy. And
then I remembered Paul Pelosi getting hit over the head with a
hammer and mocked by Schlumberger and company. I
remembered the image of bound gagged and hogtied Joe Biden
that Trump had tweeted to the world. I remembered the
assassination threats against Michigan Governor Gretchen
Whitmer.
Adam Curry: I find this interesting because she is
making a summation of things that you know had been named and
have been you know that also everyone's desensitized to this,
you know that no one's a real winner in this, you know, the in
this back and forth of who was worse Trump or Biden, or who do
we need to get rid of,
Unknown: and how one in six election officials have
experienced threats because of their job, ranging from death
threats, that means officials young children to racist and
gendered harassment by the right, I remembered MTG calling
for the execution of Barack Obama.
And do you remember that?
John C Dvorak: I don't remember all this stuff that she's saying
are just blatant lies.
Adam Curry: I don't remember that either. Oh, ghosts
Unknown: are posting an animated video depicting him analyzing
AOC I remembered the far rights violence against minority
communities in Charleston, Pittsburgh, El Paso, buffalo,
Jacksonville, et cetera, et cetera.
Adam Curry: Okay, yeah. Oh, yes, the racist cetera.
Unknown: I remembered Trump calling for people at his
rallies to be harmed and how he wanted to shoot protesters in
the legs. And of course, I remembered January 6, and how
all our lawmakers lives were in grave danger. Capitol Police
were pummeled and traumatized for Trump's adrenaline rush of
vengeance for a country that kicked him to the curb. You
could see
Adam Curry: you can see where someone gets really wound up and
spun up if if if this if they're consuming all this and taking it
in as fact and as scary and so she's kind of okay with what
happened. I
Unknown: remembered eg women who faced violence at Trump's own
hands
Adam Curry: 1000s of women who faced violence at Trump's own
hands
Unknown: and then I caught wind of JD Vance. And all the want to
be up trumps as peanut gallery
John C Dvorak: stuff. You said this sounds so no, I know it's
in and out of phase. barely understand what she's saying. I
don't hear the enunciation. You are bragging
Adam Curry: was not bragging about it. But this is actually
better than most Tik Tok clips. But you're right. Anything else
you want to complain about? You know,
John C Dvorak: I just wanted to let you know. analysis was
lacking.
Adam Curry: Hey, don't worry. I'll do the same to you later,
Unknown: I can speak to President Trump's attempted
assassination. And Representative Mike Collins
going one step further claiming Biden set the orders. I
remembered lock her up and Knock the crap out of them and good
people on both sides. And when the looting starts, shooting
starts and stand back and standby. And I remember that
between 2013 and 2022 75% of murders committed by extremists
were caused by right wing extremists.
Adam Curry: Okay. Now we're getting a little off track but
only
Unknown: caused by left wing extremists Of course I don't
advocate celebrate or condone violence. That's what the other
side does. But I draw the line at feeling compassion for a man
who we all know would be making a joke about the shooter having
poor aim is this had happened to Joe Biden, um, which by
Adam Curry: the way, was quite quite a thing. I mean, right
away. And it was kind of on both sides like hey, you missed and
on the other Oh, I can't believe he missed I mean, this is a very
very sick and troublesome culture wherein not
Unknown: gonna go down the road with all the conspiracy
theorists that his security team is so incompetent and for the
life of me, I don't understand how a man who was just shut out
was able to stick his head above the Secret Service human shield
that was huddled around him right after the shooting. So we
can fist pump the air and encourage his voters to fight.
Adam Curry: So that's kind of the it was a setup by Trump. I
mean, oh, yeah set up,
John C Dvorak: you know, Democrats, these Democrats
should look in the mirror. They shot Reagan. They shot at him
almost hit Gerald Ford. These are all Republicans are getting
shot at Steve Scalise and 12 other Republicans there was an
assassination attempt on them and Scalise was almost killed
and now we have this I don't you know, this is just, you know,
these Gunny hating Democrats shooting at Republicans left and
right needs to do they need to look in the mirror is the folks
who
Unknown: are supposed to be experts at protecting the
President's noggin would have been a little uncomfortable with
giving the shooter a second chance of blowing it to
smithereens, folks, I think we all know what's in store for us.
We're going to the biggest misuse of martyrdom there ever
was. We're gonna see mediocre men marinating in victimhood,
tossing out thinly veiled calls for retribution and dog whistle
after dog whistle for mega minions to avenge the radical
left Joe Biden will be painted as a cutting force of evil at
least when he can remember where he is and when to take his
Alzheimers meds. It's gonna be torture, absolute frickin
torture. And instead of talking about the corroborated testimony
of young girls who were allegedly violated at the hands
of the depraved sociopath who happens to be the Republican
nominee, we're gonna hear about a cult leader victim, who
bravely gave the tip of his ear to say racism everywhere. Yeah,
well, all I can say is I'm gonna be sure to remember all the
folks who feared for their safety because of orangey and
Imperva, Licious Polonius, Schlumberger, MFIs, thin skinned
rhetoric over the years, and I'm gonna remind the bad actors that
malevolent men don't get to turn victimhood into victory.
Adam Curry: Mm hmm. So that's what we're dealing with. This is
cultural, this is spiritual. I really hope that people will
tone it down on all sides of this. And actually, if I were
consulting Trump, here's what I'd say I'd say, you know,
because of course the expectation is, you know, I'm a
martyr I don't even know if he's gonna go that far. I would say
first go to the family of those wounded and killed and then I
think he should go and he should visit the parents of the shooter
John C Dvorak: that's what he should do he may actually do
that God's litter without your advice. That's definitely Oh,
take care take care of the family that got the guy got
killed. Yeah, I mean, this will do so let's get into the I have
a series of clips from France 24 that I picked up this morning.
So they're kind of objective and kind of an essay kind of
objective and kind of new, including one clip which I
guarantee you didn't you never heard about. Okay. This is the
shot analysis series. And there is where you can start with shot
analysis. But first to play this French 24 Shoot rap Crux BS.
Adam Curry: Shoot got in rap got it.
Unknown: ABC is reporting up this rifle that's the shooter
had was legally purchased by the shooters father, no knowledge of
how he got into possession of the weapon or from his father,
it must be said, and the motive for the shooting, also not
uncovered by the FBI yet. They have discovered through state
records that the 20 year old was a registered Republican.
However, when he was 17, he made a $15 donation to a progressive
political action committee on the day that Joe Biden was
inaugurated into office. So his political leanings not really
understood there. And the FBI is now investigating as to how this
attempted assassination could have taken place and what the
motives were. Wow, they
Adam Curry: have more information than media here in
the States. I hadn't heard that. Yeah, I know. It's funny. It's
unbelievable. Notice, by the way, very, very little about the
shooter. And of course, he has, you know, three names always
good.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, the three name phenomenon is back, Thomas
Adam Curry: Matthew crooks being called Thomas and Matthew is
kind of interesting to me, but was two of the apostles, Thomas
and Matthew has probably got to wonder about his family. Well,
you
John C Dvorak: know, there you go. So let's go to shot
analysis, F 24.
Unknown: And as you asked, How could this have happened? I
mean, given the usually ironclad security around these sorts of
events, well, it's
the one who goes to these kinds of events somewhat regularly. It
is kind of fascinating to me that something like this kind of
happens. Now, it must be said, The shooting took place from
outside of the security cordon around the venue, so he hadn't
managed to get this weapon inside the venue. But I think
that also raises even more questions because that means
that there was an unsecured roof with a direct line of sight to
the stage where the former President was talking within 150
meters of that stage. Now, that is important, because for
reference 150 meters is the distance that an Army soldier
needs to be able to shoot a human sized target ads within
with an M 16 rifle in order to pass their training. The AR 15
Is the civilian version of that m 16. Rifle. So the fact that
this roof was within that distance and not secured by the
Secret Service, really is quite, it's quite mesmerizing, and has
led a lot of people to believe that there was a lapse in
security here. So there will be investigations. We know that the
House Oversight Committee has asked the head of the Secret
Service invited them to come and talk to to the panel to see how
this could have happened. Yeah, that'll
Adam Curry: be some nice talking. I will just be chatting
with you.
Unknown: That is the question on everybody's lips at the moments
How could something that seems so obvious have been have been,
have been overlooked. The counter snipers that were at the
rally spotters, this shooter and it did neutralize the threat
within three seconds of those shots being fired. So a quick
response by the counter snipers, but questions as to how he got
on that roof with the gun in the first place still abound.
Adam Curry: So just just from from what we know now, it seems
like that roof was an obvious an obvious problem. It seems like
there was understaffing there's all kinds of reporting that they
had asked that the Secret Service had asked for more team
members they were denied. We'll find out I guess in the in the
in the chat they're going to have in the house this morning.
And now this is from 4chan. So take it for what it is. There
was a statement posted for one of the one of the one of
Hawkeye, that's the the counter attack team. And then I'll read
it. For what it's worth. My name is Jonathan Willis. I am the
officer in the famous photo of the two snipers on the roof of
Trump's rally. I came here to inform the public that I had the
assassin in my sights for at least three minutes, but the
head of the Secret Service refused to give the order to
take out the perp 100% The top brass prevented me from killing
the assassin before he took the shots at President Trump. I
didn't follow the orders though. As soon as the shooter opened on
Trump I returned fire despite strict orders to not engage. I
had eyes on the shooter for three minutes watching him
fiddle with his rifle, adjust the scope, it was obvious he was
a shooter. Yet I was not allowed to engage after I killed the
shooter. I was arrested, questioned by the FBI and just
released an hour ago, I already lost my job for not following
orders. But I'm glad I took the shots anyway. I don't know if
it's true. But interesting. If if something like that turns out
John C Dvorak: well, this whole FBI operation in Pittsburgh
which is taking the lead on this is the same group that's that
had Hunter Biden's laptop the whole time. Oh, really. That's
my understanding. That's the group that's the group that
would handle Delaware. And that case so that so this group in
Pittsburgh, at least if you read enough of it about it, you know
this could be bullshit too. But if you read enough about it, it
seems as though this is a bunch of bad actors. Well,
Adam Curry: here's what we know about the FBI and the six week
cycle which we followed for well over a decade. The the typical
process and this I think a lot of the Department of Justice is
like this but the FBI specifically what they love to
do is find some weak brother online who's either either
talking Allah Akbar I'm gonna go shoot the shoot everything
fatwa. Or, you know, I'm going to shoot the president and
they'd like to hype him up and get them all jacked and then you
know, get them the phony detonator or something else and
then take them out or arrest him and as always a him and and then
claim victory and look we're so great our budgets are justified
so it's very possible and we've how many times we've read this
over and over again on the report Special Agent undercover
human you know, special, special agent who acted undercover and
had long hair months long discussion seems like pretty
easy to do with a with a 20 year old.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, especially Yes. Especially if you look at
the guy, although I do have the well I want to skip to that. But
let's go to the second part of this shot analysis on
Unknown: Washington of course. On and Fraser Dyson, thank you
so much for that update. Well, I'm also joined on set by our
international affairs editor caravan. Gorgeous, stunning.
Thank you demand. You are also our former Washington
correspondent. So you've seen the security measures that are
taken firsthand. Can you bounce off what Fraser said and give us
tell us a bit about your first hand experience? Yes,
well, as Fraser said, these are some very secure event, when you
go to one of these rallies where whether it's for a sitting
president or a presidential candidate, there are a big
layers of security. And to make things simple, there is
basically a three rings of security around someone like
Donald Trump, the initial, a very close range security
perimeter, which is secured by the Secret Service agents that
you see in that pictures, the men in the suits the women in
the suits, they're around him, then there's the second layer of
security, that's the perimeter with the barriers that you need
to be checked before you enter. And so when you're talking about
a rally like this, it's the people who are going to that
rally the supporters but also people like us, the media, we
get screened, we go through a metal detectors or bags are
open, they're sniffed by dogs. I mean, there is heavy, heavy
security. What we're talking about here where the shooter
was, is that third sort of perimeter of a security and if
you talk to Secret Service agents, law enforcement agents,
everyone will tell you that there is an advanced a team with
the campaign and the law enforcement that go to this area
and decide where that stage is going to be. And then law
enforcement Secret Service, need to secure everything around and
Fraser was talking about the fact that this roof had a direct
line of sight to that podium, and that is the question.
Adam Curry: Yeah. drones were the drones that everyone's
gotten to drones, everyone's got a drone, no drone,
John C Dvorak: no drone, no drone. Let's move right to clip
three. And then we get to the the weird clip.
Unknown: There's one question about how did someone gets to
that roof? How was that roof not secured? Even though there was a
direct line of sight? That could be a potentially a question for
Secret Service and for that advanced preparation. The other
question, which is several experts have been pointing to is
the potential lack of communication or wrong
communication between local law enforcement and the Secret
Service when they first spotted when people started spotting
someone and something that was wrong on that roof? Why was that
not communicated faster? And why did they not take immediate
action or more immediate action than was taken? So still a lot
of question as Fraser said about how we got there, and then how
that communication between the different law enforcement
agencies maybe broke down.
John C Dvorak: So that brings us of course, to the witnesses that
saw the guy up there and kept trying to draw attention to him.
There's two of those.
Adam Curry: I haven't I have the the BBC sequence which appeared
pretty quickly and first it appeared you know, somebody
videoed it off the BBC indirect sound. I'm going to actually
redeem myself for the sound earlier
John C Dvorak: Oh, it's good. You know, I have to copy I had I
got that early one that you that you must have fixed Well,
listen, but there was a later when they came out that was that
was clean. Yeah, this
Adam Curry: and this is the full it's an I have a cut up in a
couple of different clips. This is worth listening to. This is
the the BBC is on the ground. And they had they had a guy, it
was kind of it was kind of funny. You know, the BBC clearly
that, you know, some guy was like, hey, hey, you. You go
follow Trump. It's like, it's like the punishment bench over
at BBC. Oh, now I gotta go on. All right. I'll go follow the
campaign. I'll go, I'll go to the rallies. And this guy fell,
as we say with his nose in the butter.
Unknown: Donald Trump was at a US election rally in
Pennsylvania. When gunfire was heard from the crowd. And the
former president was bundled off the stage by security officials.
He raised a fist to his supporters before being taken
away in a car. What appeared to be blood was seen on Mr. Trump's
ear. He was criticizing President Biden when the
incident happened.
Adam Curry: Wow. He was talking about immigration had a big
chart up on the screen. But by the way, I found the BBC France
24. Their reporting was superior to our own reporting. It was
amazing. It was an amazing
Unknown: worst president in the history of our country took over
and look what happened to our country. Probably 20 million
people. And you know, that's a little bit old. That chart that
charts a couple of months old, and if you want to really see
something that said take Look what happened
Our correspondent Gary O'Donoghue was at the rally and
spoke to this eyewitness detail where
the shooting was coming from. Because he was coming from
outside.
I think it was like one of these buildings back here. Right.
So you think he was coming from higher up possibly behind the
fence? Okay, and what was the atmosphere like in the crowd at
that moment when it started? Panic that people started
running? Yeah. Right.
tripping over each other and yeah,
yeah.
And do you know, did the police move in pretty quickly?
From what I saw? Yeah, there were police officers in the
field like right beyond the fence and they took off
immediately. Now
Adam Curry: let's jack up the rhetoric a little bit here. BBC,
it was
Unknown: about 10 minutes into Donald Trump's speech and he was
talking about immigration and and then we heard we were
actually live on air at the time. And we we were talking to
our colleagues at the BBC World Service and we we heard the
shots. I heard maybe six or eight it sounds like from that
film you've just played there may have been more but certainly
six or eight in rapid succession. We we hit the dirt
we hit the deck because we had no idea where the where the
shooting was coming.
Adam Curry: Right we we is a big word. It was him. This is
pictures of him in the literally buried in the dirt.
Unknown: And now since then, people have been streaming out
of the event that the former president was taken away quickly
surrounded by the Secret Service and taken away immediately
reports of some blood on his ear possibly him holding his ear. We
don't we don't know the detail. When I when I've just spoken to
who said he was 50 feet from the former president. He said when
the shooting started, a speaker fell and it's not clear whether
that was on stage of fell into the crowd. He said he saw one
person being put in to an ambulance. He said there was
panic, people hit the dirt people started screaming.
Another eyewitness I said so I spoke to said there'd been a lot
of panic in the crowd. As you can imagine. I have to say the
emotions are extraordinary here. I'm going to, I'm going to say
something now, which will be shocking. Here we go. But I
think it's worth knowing. So please prepare yourself for
this. Just a moment ago, a guy walked past and said they fired
first. This is war.
Adam Curry: That's too bad. He wasn't recording that as it's
Oh, yeah. So here comes the redhead who everybody probably
Unknown: saw. We had a party here all day at the Broncos
farming greenhouse here. And we all decided, hey, you know, when
we hear Trump up there, we're gonna walk up through the field.
Stand by the trees up there under the shade. And watch the
rain. Listen to the rally. Right? We couldn't see him, but
we could hear him. So we walked up, and probably five to seven
minutes of Trump's speaking I'm estimating here. I've no idea.
You know, but we noticed the guy crawling arm, you know, bear
crawling up the roof of the building beside us. 5050 feet
away from us. So we're standing there, you know, we're pulling,
we're pulling that the guy crawling up the roof. And he had
a gun. Right? He had a rifle. Right? We could clearly see him
with a rifle. Absolutely. We're pointing at him. The police are
down there running around on the ground. We're like, Hey, man,
there's a guy on the roof with a rifle. And the police were like,
oh, what you know, like, like, they didn't know what was going
on. You know, we're like, hey, right here on the roof. We can
see from right here. We see him. You know, he's, he's growing.
And next thing you know, I'm like, I'm thinking to myself,
I'm like, Why is Trump still speaking? Why have they not
pulled him off the stage? I'm standing there pointing at him
for you know, two or three minutes, Secret Services looking
at us from the top of the barn. I'm pointing at that roof, just
standing there like this. And next thing, you know, five shots
ring out
for your your son. shots came from that guy on the right
100% 100%.
Adam Curry: So that I think is what most people saw. But the
interview definitely went longer.
Unknown: We had a party here all day. Sorry, this one.
It was about 10 minutes into Donald Trump's speech. And he
was talking about immigration and and then we heard we were
actually live on air at the time. And we we were talking to
our colleagues at the BBC World Service. And we we heard
Adam Curry: played this already that that work and we try this.
Unknown: And he he was up there for a couple of minutes. Up
there for a couple of minutes. Absolutely. At least three or
four minutes. And you were telling you at least in the
secrets. We were telling the police we were pointing at him
for the Secret Service who were looking at us from the top of
the barn. They were looking at us the whole time and we were
standing by that tree. Could they use binoculars? They see
probably not because the roof the way the slope when he was
behind where they could see. But But why is there not secret
service on all of these roofs here? I mean, this is not a big
place.
Did you see I mean obviously everyone when the shooting
started, everyone was very panicked. You're pretty sure
they shot the guy Absolutely. 100% Okay, yep. You saw that
happen? Yep. Yep. Okay. Yeah. And did you go up to him
afterwards? Or
they? Yeah, they crawled up on the roof. They had their guns
pointed at him. Make sure he was dead. He was dead. And that was
it. And she Oh,
John C Dvorak: that's been edited. Well, he
Adam Curry: has here's the piece that was cut out. Did
Unknown: you see? I mean, obviously, everyone when the
shooting started, everyone was very panicked. Did you see what
happened to him at all?
Oh, yeah. They blew his head off. Okay, sorry. Secret
Service, please head on.
Okay, just be careful, because we don't quite know who's
watching but you're pretty sure they shot the
Adam Curry: guy was watching his people who are interested in
what really happened. I'm sorry. Absolutely. 100%. Okay.
John C Dvorak: Video. Leave the guys comment in there. There was
a second witness. Well,
Adam Curry: I want to finish this. Oh, there's more. Yeah.
Unknown: Yep. Yep. Okay.
Yeah. And you see them go to him afterwards. Or they
Yeah, they crawled up on the roof. They had their guns
pointed at him. Make sure he was dead. He was dead. And that was
it. It was over.
It's incredibly shot. The
guy was on the roof right there. You can see the white roof.
Right there. You can look at him, could you I know. Other
than he was in muted colors, tan tight clothing. We saw the rifle
flinging around as he was trying to crow. I mean, we saw the
rifle 100%
I mean, do you know about guns? Do you know what kind of weapon
it was? Oh,
absolutely know about guns for sure. Yeah, I mean, there is a
rifle of some sort. I wouldn't know. You know, I wasn't close
enough to read the label on it. But it was it was a rifle of
some sort. Yeah, absolutely. So
what do you how do you process what you've just seen?
I don't know what to say man. I'll tell you is you know if I
if I walked up close to there with anything that can seek your
service considered a problem? I wouldn't be standing here
talking to you right now. But I don't know why a guy who were
standing there pointing now to police and Secret Service is
crawling up the roof. All right.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that was could have been tighter by the
by the correspondent who they then they go back and they cut
out one thing and the whole thing is loose as a goose it's
very poorly done by the BBC.
Adam Curry: Surprise, surprise BBC.
John C Dvorak: So this is another witness which showed up
on this one showed up on CBS. And this is the is shooting
second witness to see shooter. poorly worded clip number name.
I don't know if you knew her this probably not. It sure it
was showed up on the live feed and then disappeared.
Unknown: I am told that our CBS colleague from KD K Jennifer
Barrasso is on the line right now. She is outside the scene of
the rally. Jennifer Hi there.
So I have a witness right now. He had just showed up at the
Trump rally just a short time before it started. And he
actually tells me that he saw the shooter on the building and
his name is Benjamin Macer. Thank you so much for staying
around. Just take me back. What were you doing before the
shooting happened? And then what did you see in here?
I was just hanging and standing there like everybody else
waiting for Trump. And we as Trump started, we I noticed two
officers that were looking for something or somebody it was. So
I was looking around myself and seeing a guy on top of one of
the buildings go in between one building to the next and went
and told the officer that he was up there. When I went back to my
spot, I heard that people could still see the the person from
where they were standing. So I checked that out. And I went
went back to tell the officer that if he came over there, he
could see them. And when I turned my backs when the shots
when the shots started, and then it was that took me a second or
two to figure out exactly what it was. And then it was just
getting out of there and helping helping some some other person
now with her child, and we got out and that was that was the
end of that. I went left. That was all
John C Dvorak: so this wasn't like a big secret. What do you
mean? Well, I mean, people saw this guy. Oh, yeah. You have to
assume there's others and nobody did anything. And then of
course, is that sketchy report from Fortune, which I didn't
know about which is sounds sounds credible, unfortunately.
Yeah.
Adam Curry: I mean, we're so early. I mean, it didn't usually
these things happen on a show day so we can do nothing. And
then we have a couple of days to meet me about that. And, and
that was like we really needed an extra day because we don't
know anything about about the shooter. You know, just, you
know, there's a couple of like graduation videos, some weird
video in your car. He's
John C Dvorak: gonna go commercial commercial. Yeah.
Which
Adam Curry: immediately like, oh, was he an actor? You know,
there's there's so much unknown, but I think as long as we can
all first of all, sadly, this didn't end well, for some people
in the crowd. You know that that's the thing. You know,
that's the thing we've got to remember here. But we will. But
right now, this is this is a very very crapped time for
America, I don't like it.
John C Dvorak: Well, this woman who is running the Secret
Service should have resigned immediately after that death of
the bystander, and then the wounding of the President, I
don't understand why she just immediately wishes what Bungie
knows and others have been asking for. He's not the only
one, that this is one of those things where you have to, you're
responsible, you're the head of the operation. I put in place,
of course, as a dei hired by my Orca, but you get in there at
you have you just have to quit. I mean, it's just what you do.
Adam Curry: I agree. I agree. She should
John C Dvorak: have resigned immediately. And she's not going
to resign, I can assure you, and she's going to get into an
argument with Congress, and she's going to stick around is
going to be one of those situations where you have
incompetent people running things, even though they She
sounds, she sounds like you know, not unusual for a
bureaucrat, but she should resign. And then somebody has to
investigate what, what was wrong. I didn't because I you
know, they, they showed this, suppose he's brought this guy
down within three seconds of him taking shots, which adds some
credibility to that fortune note. Yeah.
Adam Curry: Well, I mean, we saw the video we see the guy you see
him walking. Yeah. But when he says when he says the head of
the Secret Service wouldn't let me take the shot. Who is that?
Is that someone who's in charge on the scene? Or is he going
back to HQ? Now, there's
John C Dvorak: got to be somebody on the scene. There's
got to be one supervisor that would say yes or no, you
wouldn't call it a Washington DC for that situation that's been
taped to ever? Who's going to answer to get an answering
machine? Jill, Jill, Jill and Joe. So it would be so there is
something fishy about the whole thing. And I would fall back on?
Look, we're dealing with the Biden crime family, which is
what it's always been called and an assassination attempt on
Trump after trying to throw him in jail through four different
jurisdictions and 90 indictments. It wouldn't
surprise me if the if act. I know it sounds like completely
insane that anyone would be this way. But I'm throwing the whole
thing at the White House.
Adam Curry: Oh, I put it I put it all on Biden. Absolutely.
Absolutely. And, you know, the coincidence of this happening.
Right after two mega gaffes in the Big Boy press conference, by
Biden is not lost on me. Let's just revisit quickly.
Unknown: And now I want to hand it over to the President of
Ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination. Ladies
and gentlemen, President Putin. You gonna beat President?
President Solinsky. I'm so focused on being Putin, we got
to worry about it. Anyway. Mr. President, I'm better. You are a
hell of a lot better.
Adam Curry: So that was one. And then of course, the other big
one.
Unknown: It is first press conference of the year President
Joe Biden fielded nearly an hour of questions highlighting his
policies and political future. Best
way to assure them is where I assure myself and that is, am I
getting the job done?
The President first pressed on whether vice president Kamala
Harris could be for her President Trump in November.
Look, I wouldn't have picked Vice President Trump to be vice
president. So I think she's not qualified to be president. So
let's start there. Number one,
Trump weighed in live with a post on social media reading,
quote, great job, Joe Biden ignored the actual question
about how the VP would fare against Trump only stressing
that she's qualified to be president and offering praise.
She was
a first rate person. And in the Senate, she was really good. I
wouldn't have picked her unless I thought she was qualified to
be president.
Adam Curry: Now that was and that I mean, that was definitely
news. I mean, everybody all the news channels like oh, no, oh,
he couldn't do it. He could, you know, I mean, I have a ton of
clips. We don't have to go there right now.
John C Dvorak: The whole thing was a disaster. But to have
Adam Curry: this happen right after those mega gaffes and what
was supposed to be as we heard the big boy the big boy
conference is not lost on me. So the there's just no
coincidences. I just don't believe in Him. We have a second
clip of that second shooting witness you want to play that 22
seconds.
John C Dvorak: Yeah. Then I want to get back to the French 24,
which has been the new information which that you're
never going to hear in the mainstream media. Yeah, play the
second half. It's not much to it.
Unknown: So this man was able to basically climb to the next
building. And you told law enforcement. Hey, there's a guy
over there.
tracked? I don't know how he got up there. I don't know. But I
definitely saw him up there. And and that was, that was all I
know. All right.
John C Dvorak: So the final clip on the French 24 series. And
this you will not use, for good reason, probably. This will
never be explored on the mainstream because it was, I was
taken aback by it. But it doesn't surprise me this is a
shot analysis with an E at the end of shot. This is the last
clip. And
Unknown: there were others like Tim Scott, who also said that
the inflammatory rhetoric by Democrats and their allies in
the media recklessly stoked and fears and resulted in what
happened. And I mentioned this part about the media. Because at
that rally, after Donald Trump was taken off of that stage, the
crowd part of the crowd immediately turned to the press
rise to the media and started accusing the media saying it's
your fault. And some even tried to break through the press
risers in which pushback by security. So the likelihood that
this could get out of hand in the coming months is possible.
The question is, where is this going? Are people going to sort
of try to tamp things down? Or are we going to see more
possible acts of violence down the road towards November? Well,
Adam Curry: I interesting you bring that up, because Sky News
in Australia had a similar take,
Unknown: speaking of Trump's reaction in the moments after he
was shot, and as you said, you know, he got to his feet. He he
raised his fist he said Fight, fight fight. I don't know if you
saw but CNN actually criticized his reaction, saying that was
entirely the wrong thing to do. And all it did was to incite his
supporters, he should instead have tried to calm things down.
I mean, how do you respond to CNN with those sorts of
comments, even in the moments after Trump was shot, I gotta
say, President company excluded James Danika.
We don't hate the media enough, certainly in America, however
much we hate the media, we do not hate them enough.
There has been so much of that already. Both sides of this, you
know, the reaction from mainstream media, from CNN, from
MSNBC, the headlines, which are trying to both sides and
attempted assassination of Donald Trump, because they
cannot bear to allow their audiences to know that he has
become a murderer. Thanks to them.
It's really, really horrifying. And I would expect for more and
more of this to come out there were so many headlines that
refuse to even call it an assassination attempt. You know,
as you guys were pointing out 10 minutes ago, you know, mostly
peaceful assassination attempts, there's going to be a lot more
of this, the media always in moments like this ends up with
an egg on its face because it is so deeply partisan in America at
this point in favor of the Democrats.
Adam Curry: A fine example of that is CBS anchor, Margaret
Brennan's initial response to the shooting and
Unknown: he closes with God bless America. And we saw him
raise his hand in the air defiantly blood on his face as
he left the stage.
She is recovering from these injuries. Now, this was a
traumatic event, no doubt for him. But I did notice there was
no call for lowering the temperature, condemning all
political violence and really trying to signal to his
supporters as well. Not to retaliate or to have any kind of
escalation here. I just am looking at these little belief
in his inner circle that he's under siege. I understand his
rally. So there's a lot of every
exactly digested like you're saying, I mean, every single
text message, literally every single one from Trump sources is
outraged and shocked. And so that is certainly the mood
inside the highest ranks of the Republican Party. Speaking to
CBS News tonight.
Adam Curry: I'm just thinking. I mean, pray for President Biden
because what an what a great opportunity for for this to be
cleared up to get him out. Oh, deranged Trump supporter
retaliation. Sorry, Joe. I wouldn't put it past I wouldn't
put it past the elites of the world.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, well, it's possible but I just don't see it
happening because it's always the Republicans who are the
targets and they're the ones who take You know, I haven't bullet
same datum Democrats it doesn't happen.
Adam Curry: Let's hope it doesn't happen to anybody. I
want to play a couple clips from Jake Tapper because he's, for
some reason he's moved to the forefront ever since he started
doing the deconstruction of Biden.
John C Dvorak: He's moved to the forefront because he's on the
Council of Foreign Relations.
Adam Curry: There you go. Let's listen to him on his State of
the Union more
Unknown: do you want to know about the shooter? Very, there's
very little we know about him right now. He's 20. He's from
Western Pennsylvania. He's registered Republican. He gave
money a small amount.
Adam Curry: No, no, no, hold on a second. Listen to that. Listen
to the this. This is the narrative now, which I find I
find absolutely fascinating. I'm having all kinds of issues here
with my my system. Second, why can I not do this? Anyway,
democratic
Unknown: get out the vote group, a democratic aligned group of
some sort. What more as an intelligence professional Do you
want to know about him? So
Adam Curry: I'm moving into the full of the age of political
violence.
Unknown: Last night, as you all know, horrifically a shooter
opened fire and tried to assassinate former President
Donald Trump at a campaign rally. This was the closest call
in terms of a major assassination attempt on a US
leader on that level in more than 40 years since Ronald
Reagan in 1981. We do not yet know the specific motivations
behind this would be assassin sick and twisted, though they
assuredly are but but sadly, this is not the first time we've
seen this kind of repugnant and unAmerican violence. In 2011.
Then Democratic Congresswoman Gabby Giffords was shot in the
head and nearly killed by a gunman in a constituent event
other innocent people were killed. A 2017 shooting at a
Republicans congressional baseball practice. Left
Congressman Steve Scalise in critical condition. Then, of
course, there was the unite the right white supremacist rally in
Charlottesville that year. In 2020. Violence exploded in
protests after George George Floyd's horrific murder. Then on
January 6 2021, attack on the US Capitol and that aftermath which
left multiple Trump supporters and Capitol police officers
dead, an individual who left pipe bombs outside the
Republican National Committee and the Democratic National
Committee buildings. That individual still not been
identified. In 2022 former Democratic Speaker Nancy Pelosi
his husband Paul was attacked with a hammer in his own home by
an intruder searching for the former speaker. Another man with
a gun a knife and a zip ties was arrested outside the home of
Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh to say nothing of
lesser return Cesar sayoc, who sent pipe bombs to Democrats and
members of the news media, including CNN in 2018.
Adam Curry: And then Jake turns on the waterworks. Last year,
the
Unknown: US Department of Homeland Security warned of a
high threat of violence from radicalized individuals, Lone
offenders or small group attacks that occur with little warning
and said that the 2024 election cycle will be quote, a key event
for possible violence on quote, the assessment warned of
violence against quote government officials, voters and
elections related personnel and infrastructure including polling
places, ballot Drop Box locations, voter registration
sites, campaign events, political party offices and vote
counting sites. Unquote. There is something troubling the
American soul right now.
Adam Curry: It's you Tapper. Too many
Unknown: Americans see those with whom they disagree, as the
enemy, to be shunned to be banned to be ostracized, to be
threatened with violence, or even to have that violence
carried out. As with so many prior acts of violence, we right
now see too many awful responses out there to this hideous attack
on former President Trump responses that are part of this
trend that includes those who without evidence, are blaming
this act of violence on those with whom they have
disagreements. We are praying for former President Trump's
recovery today and praying for his family and for those victims
of the attack. And we urge in the strongest possible terms we
this election and all our political differences must be
determined by ballots and votes, not by bullets. And that this
rhetoric of dehumanization, stop political violence has no place
in America. I wish that were true. It's
Adam Curry: our history. It's almost our culture. Are you
kidding me? Wait,
John C Dvorak: the way he put that it sounds like he wants to
play that last little line again and deconstruct it. Okay.
Unknown: We are praying for former President Trump's
recovery today and praying for his family and for those victims
of the attack. And we urge in the strongest possible terms
that this election In all our political differences must be
determined by ballots and votes, not by bullets. And that this
rhetoric of dehumanization, stop political violence has no place
in America. I wish that that were true. Now he's
Adam Curry: blaming Trump. He's blaming Trump. Oh, this
demonization you're doing about the people that's driving people
to shoot at you. That's what I hear
Did you hear something different?
John C Dvorak: political violence has no place in
America. I wish that it was true. Yeah. Because what he
wishes it was true that political violence had a place
in America is the way I heard
Adam Curry: I think it'd be great if we could all come
together and hate the media. where's the where's the pulling
the plug on the on the transmitters? Don't transmitters
anymore? Cutting the fiber? Which transmitters? Yeah, the
need to have we need to have that pull the plug on
John C Dvorak: those people's Joy read. Another finds mad owl?
The head of Comcast CEO, Comcast, Roberts. These are bad
people.
Adam Curry: There was a very interesting and that's
John C Dvorak: you know that what they are is they're they're
provoca tours.
Adam Curry: Yes. Well, yes. It's not news. It's yeah.
provocateurs is a good one. But we're all we're all in on it.
We're all sharing the videos, we're all meaning about it.
We're all this, you know, we're seeing the result of our own
actions. And, you know, throw some SSRIs in there, I'd love to
have an analysis about that. That guy looks like he might
have been on something, you know what I mean?
John C Dvorak: That's the last thing they're ever going to
discuss as long as they allow advertising, the pharmaceutical
companies to do advertising. So this is one of the main things
that has to go.
Adam Curry: So it was a video that was sent to me several
times by multiple people. It's posted all over Twitter. April
8, I guess about three months ago. The Prophet Brandon Briggs
made a bold statement while he was being interviewed. He has
his own YouTube channel. And he's clearly a follower of
Jesus. But what he said here was quite interesting. And I'm
pretty sure this was indeed three months ago, because you
know, this could have been just said it was three months ago.
But from all the checking I did, he said this in April, because
the Lord told me, he said, I am not done with America. He said,
there's going to be a new wave of patriotism coming out. And
that's whenever I saw Trump, and I saw that I saw a red wave
coming out of Michigan. And then I saw Oklahoma and there was
embers of people. And they were all on these these. They had
torches all throughout Oklahoma, and they were raising up these
torches that look like fire. And they were bringing forth a new
patriotism upon the nation. And it was coming, it was being
birthed. And it just kept spreading like fire all
throughout America all throughout, and I saw Trump
rising up. And then I saw an attempt on his life, that this
bullet flew by his ear, and it came so close to his head that
he busted his drum eardrum, and I saw he was he fell to his
knees during this timeframe. And he started worshiping the Lord.
He got radically born again during this timeframe. I'm
talking when people say he's saved now but he becomes really
on fire for Jesus for what I saw coming. And then I saw people
interceding when he I see him I saw him winning the presidency
through great the Lord show me would go clear into the summer
great persecution would come on him through the judges, and
through the through the law and all these people trying to sue
him and all this stuff, but there would be a stop to it. And
there things would start to break free come toward the fall
and then I saw him winning the election through the Patriots
coming out and voting and then and then and then there will be
a great economy crash that's all they had a great economy plan a
crash there you go.
John C Dvorak: The prophets Well, you know, guys having
religious visions, you know, which is something of a
violation of certain precepts. And then going on and on like
this is just another whack jobs the way I see it. I
Adam Curry: know the way you see it.
John C Dvorak: I just thought it was interesting to plenty of
those guys
Adam Curry: out there the detail of his ear error was quite
interesting. Well,
John C Dvorak: I didn't blow his eardrum out. So he got that
wrong. Yeah.
Adam Curry: But did you see Did you see that? It looked like
Trump had a hole in his jacket.
John C Dvorak: Somebody pointed that out. Yeah. I saw it. I saw
the pictures. But
Adam Curry: I was reading about your class up. I
John C Dvorak: mean, yeah, he might be wearing a bulletproof
vest.
Adam Curry: Yeah, but if he got hit you would that that would
set you back. I don't think he got hit but
John C Dvorak: generally, but not if his small caliber. I
don't know.
Adam Curry: But I was reading about George Washington, who was
fighting the Indians. And the story goes General George
Washington, that he was hit four times by the Indians firing
rifles at them and they just went through his coat didn't hit
him to horses got taken out underneath him. And and even to
Indian, you know, like chiefs at all. We can't hit this guy. He's
got the great spirit watching over him. just reminded me of it
like wow, what a what an incredible, incredible moment
that he just turns his head bullet grazes his ear if
something went through his his coat like unbelievable.
John C Dvorak: And I don't think I think the whole I don't think
that's now there would have been reported. But
Adam Curry: oh, please nothing's reported we do breaking we know
nothing we saw here. It was really hard. We still we still
know nothing. We know absolutely nothing. It's a sad state and we
don't know anything about this about the shooter. All we have
is
John C Dvorak: it have this we have this.
Adam Curry: I have the nine second clip of him in the car. I
Unknown: yeah, here.
My name is Thomas Matthew crooks.
Adam Curry: I hate Republicans. I hate Trump. And guess what?
You got the wrong guy. Now that is puzzling. You got the wrong
guy. What does it mean? What does it mean?
John C Dvorak: Well, he looks a lot more like the guy than the
dead guy does. I mean, Thomas Matthew crook, if you see
pictures of him when he was in high school, they have pictures
floating around if he's a goofy looking guy looks like an INCEL.
That's definitely the case. And even when he's in that TV
commercial, you can see what a goofy looking guy he is. And
then they have the dead guy in the picture. The dead guy
doesn't look at the same, you know, it's not blah. He's not a
dirty blonde. He's kind of a brown haired guy. It doesn't
look anything like him. And then the I'm questioning whether this
is the right guy and what the hell's going on? Well, I don't
believe this guy. This guy's just a troll. It looks a little
like him. But I think again, oh, no, again, we
Adam Curry: don't know any since
John C Dvorak: you brought it up that we don't know. I don't know
who this guy he really is.
Adam Curry: A lot of 30 threes. On this particular day. So read
the list. There we go. Pennsylvania, 33rd. State. It
happened three months, three weeks and three days before the
election. The date was 13. Seven and 137 is the 33rd prime
number. Whatever. 330 333 days after Beau Biden died 33 weeks
and three days after the JFK anniversary. I guess you can
find threes anywhere three years. And 333 days after Robert
Trump's death brother. And and you know, there's a number of
these. I kind of liked the 33rd state. I like the 33333 days
after Beau Biden died. Me I was like, yeah, it was kind of
Masonic numbers.
John C Dvorak: Research any of this to make sure it's accurate.
Of
Adam Curry: course not. I've got other things. I'm rebuilding my
studio. I got no time for that. Let's, let's see what was
happening before this went down. Because again, the coincidence
of this happening when President Biden was very much on the ropes
is just astounding. Today behind closed
Unknown: doors. Senate Democrats listen for more than two hours
as Tom Biden campaign officials made their case for why the
President could still win in November and should stay in the
race.
What's on everybody's mind? Is there a clear path to victory
here? Can we honestly say that we're on the path to defeating
Donald Trump and holding on to the Senate and holding on to the
House of Representatives, One
senator describing the meeting as tense at times, were told a
number of lawmakers complained to the Biden team that they were
being put in difficult, impossible and untenable
positions having to defend the President's disastrous debate
performance to their constituents back home. One
senator telling ABC News, I needed to see hard data that
showed a path to success in November, and we did not get
that. Two hours later the meeting breaking up the
President's aides leaving senators filtering out. Some
of my concerns are laid. Some others have Been deepen. Peter
Welch of Vermont is the only senator to openly call for the
President to drop out writing in The Washington Post. We have
asked President Biden to do so much for so many for so long and
as required unmatched selflessness and courage. We
need him to put us first as he has done before. I asked him at
today's meeting changed his mind.
I have naturally flatlined, but I really appreciate why.
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, hinting this situation
will come to a head this weekend. I
think everyone will be talking over Friday, Saturday and
Sunday, you should have some idea of what's going on go
Adam Curry: oh, that's kind of handy that we're all gonna have
the meetings this weekend. And then all of a sudden, something
changes as
Unknown: President Biden tries to regain his footing with
Democrats on Capitol Hill.
We just want to make sure that Donald Trump is not President.
The
ground is getting more slippery.
I think a single press conference can change things
habits. Now
John C Dvorak: the mere fact that we're sitting here having a
conversation about whether or not our candidate for president
can get through a press conference on NATO, and we're
having to talk about hope he gets through it.
Unknown: It's not what you want. Several
more House Democrats today publicly urged the president to
withdraw as the top Democrat in the House acknowledged he's
getting an earful. Do they confer with you try to get your
blessing notify you in
advance? As you can imagine, there have been a lot of
conversations and those conversations are private. This
afternoon,
three top Biden campaign officials met privately with
Senate Democrats trying to prevent bleeding support. Can we
honestly say that we're on the path to defeating Donald Trump
but they've already lost one Vermont's Peter Welch was the
first to say the president should bail on reelection? Why
was this the time when the right time is the President's most
vocal supporters in Congress include members of the
Congressional Black Caucus, but the Nevada Democrat who chairs
the groups as the Biden campaign still needs to prove itself the
need
to make change, structural change in the campaign, change
around strategy change around how we make investments and
spending to do what to win in November.
Adam Curry: So that was all going on. But all kinds of
horrible, horrible news for President Biden. And now it
turns out that, you know, George Clooney wrote his wrote his op
ed, is Clooney, a CFR member? If not, he should be yes, he is. Of
course he is.
John C Dvorak: And before you continue, Pennsylvania was the
second state, obviously, because Philadelphia is a foundational
city admitted to the Union second, not the 33rd Well,
that's
Adam Curry: just fake news, then
John C Dvorak: the whole thing is the whole list. I'm sure it's
Oh, crap.
Adam Curry: I'm sure it is. That's why even go to look at
it. But here back to Clooney. It seems like Clooney set this all
up and submarine Good Old Joe.
Unknown: So it was personally an affront to him and a hurt to him
to have Clooney speak out against him. I think one of the
things isn't the reporting also is that part of what seems to
have gone wrong here is that fundraiser in Los Angeles, and
then maybe the jetlag that we're off of it. The only reason why
they flew by it and from Italy, across all the way to Los
Angeles overnight to that was because George Clooney, where
they wanted to do the event said that was the only day available
in his shooting schedule. So there is a frustration, then
that comes out that then Clooney is the one who took the shot at
Biden. And like there are a lot of layers to what's going on
here. George
is a spy
Adam Curry: and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
John C Dvorak: Yeah. Which is weird if you asked me, but fact
so he did, you know, the counter argument as well. Clooney, it
was only there for a few minutes. And he had the day left
and Biden stuck around which is not necessarily accurate, or
it's kind of a bleeding, leaving out the information, which is
that Clooney had to get back to his set. Yeah, he was there for
a while and then went back to the film. It was for
Adam Curry: shooting schedule, of course. Yeah. What's more
important? who becomes president or my movie? Well, no, we don't
know what's important. Here's NBC. Again before the Trump's
shooting. Tonight,
Unknown: the list of Democrats calling on President Biden to
end his campaign for reelection
is growing. But ultimately, the President's gonna have to make
his own decision.
The first senator Peter Welch of Vermont, joining a list of more
than a dozen House Democrats publicly asking Biden to do the
same, including Earl Blumenauer from Oregon. I mean, his legacy
is at stake now. And despite President Biden's repeated
insistence that he'll remain in the race. I'm not going
anywhere. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries today
indicating his caucus is far from decided. Those
conversations have been candid, comprehensive, and clear eyed.
And they continue and
Senate majority of Leader Chuck Schumer batting down a report
claiming he has signaled to donors he's open to a change at
the top of the ticket by saying, quote, I support President Biden
and remain committed to ensuring Donald Trump is defeated in
November, the White House in the campaign hoping to calm Capitol
Hill fears sent three top officials to brief senators. But
many of the senators left with more questions than answers.
I still have concerns because I need more of the data and
analytics that show the path to victory. Biden
does have his backers in Congress who are encouraging
their colleagues to end this speculation and get on board.
We have the team, we have the operation, we have the president
who I trust, but
many others have offered less than enthusiastic support.
Adam Curry: And then the final one from CNN,
Unknown: like this is a continuing trauma and turmoil
for the Democrats. And when you go and talk to a lot of them,
what they say is I just want to be over already. I want it to
end. And I have heard people who say to me, I don't want Joe
Biden to be the nominee. I want this to change, but I don't even
care anymore. We just need to stop.
Adam Curry: And that's where it was before all this change.
Everything changed. In
John C Dvorak: really, what do you say? Let's just stop and do
some analysis here. Okay, first of all, do you think Biden will
be the nominee or not?
Adam Curry: So far, he is he still is the nominee. Now?
John C Dvorak: I got it wrapped up. Actually, if he wants to be
the nominee, he is the nominee. Yeah.
Adam Curry: And he clearly wants to be.
John C Dvorak: So will he be? You willing to take a chance and
make I guess?
Adam Curry: Yeah, I'll say that he will be the nominee. At the
convention, he will not bow out before the convention and the
convention, he will be the nominee. I'm pretty secure in
saying that deal. Well, that's fine.
John C Dvorak: But will he be on the ballot at the end of the day
in November?
Adam Curry: Oh, who knows? You could be dude. Oh. Yeah. The
other one
John C Dvorak: is the other cool question that we should answer
where we still have the big audience who's going to be the
VP for Trump?
Adam Curry: I think, oh, for Trump. I find this somehow. It
feels like it's not going to be anybody we're talking about.
John C Dvorak: I'm going to stick with my earlier
prediction. That's going to be Rubio.
Adam Curry: That will be someone no one's talking about anymore.
Rumor. Rubio kind of went kind of went down the list. Once JD
Vance came onto the scene.
John C Dvorak: I'm gonna stick with Rubio, because I don't if
he picks JD Vance, I'll be stunned. JD Vance was a never
Trumper he has all these issues. I mean, I don't know. He wasn't
a almost didn't get elected. If it wasn't for Trump. He wouldn't
even be in office. And Trump said something about facial
hair. Yeah,
Adam Curry: he doesn't like he doesn't like Pete guys with
facial hair. That's true.
Unknown: I saw I saw
Adam Curry: someone on Tik Tok, I think hits obvious. She said
Baron is going to be his VP. Forget about forget about the
age qualification. But he's got by the way, Baron is looking
like a pretty cool dude.
John C Dvorak: But he should be on a basketball team in some
college for sure. For sure.
Adam Curry: Yeah, for sure.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, he is. Yeah, Bear. It'll be interesting
to see how he turns out.
Adam Curry: Well, I think the next move is is Trump's and I
already told you what I think he should do. The how we move
forward depends entirely on his next move. I mean, it's really
critical. What he does. And just as an aside, I mean, he's not
Superman, he's 78. Anybody getting shot basically in the
face? That's gonna set you back a second. I would think I mean,
you're just like, Oh, hold on, hold on what's happening here?
John C Dvorak: So I just one thing is going to happen. He's
going to be at the convention. Yeah. Oh, for sure. And he's
going to come out with a big thing on his ear, a big bandage.
You think there's gonna be an oversized bandage, no big thing.
He's gonna look like Van Gogh. He's gonna come out with his big
band. It's just gonna be reminiscent of Jack Nicholson in
Chinatown who acted through the whole movie with a big bandage
on his nose. If you recall. Trump's gonna be like you watch
he's gonna come out with this big bandage on his on his ear.
So
Adam Curry: I don't know about that. Yeah, You know, I don't
think so I think what I do know now, again, the staging, when
isn't it coming up? When is the convention? Is it this week is
this coming week? Next week? Monday is Monday. Alright, so
that's tomorrow?
John C Dvorak: Yes, tomorrow.
Unknown: Now I think I
John C Dvorak: think the VP is going to be picked on Wednesday.
I think Wednesday's VP day, I'm pretty sure that until then,
we're going to have all the speech everybody in their system
is going to be giving a speech. And I think the Lonnie is even
going to be up there for one
Adam Curry: she wrote, she wrote a letter Melania wrote a letter.
It looks a little bit chat GPT ish to me, to be honest,
John C Dvorak: that probably was barely speaking. But it was it
was
Adam Curry: it was a sweet letter, you know, sweet letter,
like, let's all calm down. Let's, you know, there's
politicians are also humans, they have families. It was nice.
Of course, you know, gets no, no traction,
John C Dvorak: because oh, I wouldn't get any traction. I'm
sure went through a bunch of PR people too.
Adam Curry: So do you think our country can can can live through
this calmly that we can, that we can not go all in and start
yelling at each other? Can we hear yelling
John C Dvorak: at each other already? Yeah. I think it'll
calm down for a while, but it's gonna heat back up. You watch. I
mean, it's just doesn't. It's kind of part of what you want to
do. I have a funny clip, which would be kind of cool to play
before the break. Of Katie Hopkins, who is kind of a fan
favorite. She's used to be on the LBC she's a British
commentator who got kicked off the air. Yeah, because she was a
little too conservative for the BBC and other operations, other
news outlets, also
Adam Curry: a bit of a blowhard, and annoy she's a
John C Dvorak: she's a she's a Yeah, she should be an actress
or something because she's ridiculous. But I have to say
she's very funny sometimes. And this particular rant has got
some good material in it. batshit
Unknown: bonkers Biden land where Biden is out on the
campaign trail, like a maniac trying to run away from his
terminal diagnosis that's already been decided by Pelosi
and Obama. They're just working out which day, the guillotine
will finally fall, and he's acting more demented Saturday,
calling out weirdly when it's doing a speaker Trump's a
rapist, just like a drunk uncle at Walmart. He's got his cock
and he's trying to have a pole ring donut from Krispy Kreme. In
other news, the big news is that Lincoln might have been queer.
While we need to go back into history to put queerness in to
make it more acceptable now, I mean, we're surrounded by queer
leaders. Macron Trudeau. I mean, I'd hug you kissed armor. And of
course, you've got a bomber with big mind. You don't need to make
Lincoln game darlings, you've got them surrounded all the
time. And finally, Trump is absolutely owning this chaos
amongst the Democrats and loving it. He fed the media a headline
yesterday, which is that is VP pick is a bit like being on The
Apprentice, knowing that they would gobble it up, make the
story all about him in an elevated way. It looks like
darling Melania will turn up at the RNC and she will be
perfection. And even if you criticize Melania even if you
have things to say about her, at least she's not guilty of elder
abuse like Joe That's it. Because Biden and I have
Adam Curry: one more question for you Do it because one thing
that I heard a lot was well, he's guaranteed to win now. Do
you buy? I mean, I'm not quite
John C Dvorak: sure why not buying it because I somebody
sent it. I sent that same note back they said everybody, the
Democrats have something that Republicans don't have, and
that's a machine. They create votes they they literally
literally dead people. Dead people vote Democrat, they don't
vote Republican. And and a lot of people vote more than once.
And as usually Democrats, they have a machine they Chicago is
probably the epitome of this machine, where they just run
everything. And as she runs through the machine and out
comes a winner. California has largely adopted it. And so we
have nothing but Democrats and in the school systems push it
and they push the Democrat narrative and so no, I don't
think anything's a shoo in. Yeah, if it if they if they turn
the machine off, it'll be a landslide, I think. What's his
name, the extra music guy. The EX political consultant, the guy
with the round head he looks a little like a cartoon character
is Obama's guy Oh
Adam Curry: X or X X, X or X. The X Men X
John C Dvorak: he thinks is going to be if, if Biden stays
in he keeps predicting landslide which says to me, and he's part
of the machine. He's, he's the Chicago machine. And so that
means that there's a possibility that the Democrats will turn the
machine off. Well, that seems to be the threat. I don't see any
reason Axelrod saying that unless that's a threat to turn
off the machine.
Adam Curry: Well, I'm still going to hold the event even
though this happened, I'm still going to say that they really
want him in they want they want the him to handle the financial
problems that are inevitable. And he's probably the guy to do
it. He's probably the guy to do it.
John C Dvorak: Or the guy to blame.
Adam Curry: The just a man you're so project 2025 I there's
some, there was some Yale lady who explained it was hilarious.
She's like, they want to get rid of people who farmers who, who
farm corn, you go into the document, you say, Well, yeah,
it's actually it's a GMO corn. They want to get rid of that.
Okay.
John C Dvorak: Project 2025, which I believe Trump doesn't
know anything about not much Or does anybody I mean, this is
like, out of the blue document that's used as a as a cudgel by
the Democrats to beat up the Republicans. And it's like, hey,
you've looked at it. I haven't even seen a copy.
Adam Curry: Yeah, no, I've put it in the show notes twice.
Actually, what I like is all the you know, all the memes that are
going around, I have a list of them. So because of course no
one no one really reads it only dopes like me. Well look, it's
900 pages. I don't expect you to read it. In it. Arby's five for
$5 returns $5
John C Dvorak: would elicit these up myself,
Adam Curry: I love this $5 footlongs come back to Subway
ashtrays, and Burger King is MC rib all year round. Dining Pizza
Huts with red cups and these my Marlboro points catalog returns
I like that one. And how about this pull tab beer cans who
doesn't want him? Smoking in real food on planes? Put CD
players back in cars.
John C Dvorak: CD player in mind, you have well hello your
car.
Adam Curry: No fat chicks in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit
Issue. Middle car seat with no middle car seat with no seat
belts and a federal bailout for Red Lobster that I actually that
to me is like there's America man is like we just go and do
it. There's a lot he makes fun of floating around
John C Dvorak: that. And
Adam Curry: with that I'd like to thank you for your courage in
the morning to you the man who put the sea and Kruk say hello
to my friend on the other end the one and only Mr. John
John C Dvorak: ships and see boots on the ground feet in the
air subs in the water the games and nights out there. Alright,
let's
Adam Curry: do a troll counts here. We got going on.
4031 No, yeah. 4031 Trolls hanging out listening in good.
But
John C Dvorak: that's the new record.
Adam Curry: I think it is a record. No, I
John C Dvorak: know. It's a record. I write these down. More
assassination
Adam Curry: attempts. This is good. Well, I hope that
everyone's Okay, hope
John C Dvorak: we're all we're all dealing directly. 3046 Oh,
you
Adam Curry: brought that down. We had 2347 on the last Sunday.
So this is good. The trolls, of course are in the troll room.
Hit forth. Give me the number 4031.
John C Dvorak: That's dynamite. Almost 1000 More than the old
record
Adam Curry: now. Well, I'm happy that people come to listen to
the voice of reason as we cut through the fog of facts.
Because breaking, nobody knows anything. But well, no more on
Thursday. Let's not. Let's not obsess about, you know too much.
Because that's the point. Yeah, though, Bob, pay attention all
this meanwhile, who knows what's happening? That's what we
needed. What is going on? What is happening, this stuff going
on something that
John C Dvorak: we aren't clipsham stuff going on? I
didn't really annoy me. That's why the Eclipse came in so late
because I was doing my normal clip routine. All of this is
wiped off the map. And I know I know. So all I have is just a
million to these clips about this. Your speculation about one
thing or another this is no good. It's
Adam Curry: only to keep people busy and busy, distracted and
divided. That's always the point of any distracted
John C Dvorak: and divided the big three. Yes.
Adam Curry: The trolls are a troll room.io You can go there
at any time. It's 24/7. There's always something happening. And
we got a lot of a lot of shows on the no agenda stream. So you
can just leave it on. I mean, I know people have it on 24 hours
a day and actually in the troll room too. You can always listen
to it on a modern podcast app and if you do that So, now, it's
always whenever these things happen, you know, you get the
inevitable tweets, we need an emergency pod and an emergency
pod please. And emergency pod.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, it does happen. It
does use the pointless
Adam Curry: and, and a very violating use of the word pod,
John C Dvorak: which is very, very, very,
Adam Curry: very disturbing to me is that disturbing. But if we
were to do that, you would know about it, because modern podcast
app alerts you when we go live. That's what's kind of cool about
it. And of course, you can listen to all of your podcasts
in there and bless you. You can listen to all your podcasts, you
can import your podcast list support independent podcast, app
producers, a overcast is going to do a complete a rewrite.
That's probably the number three app overcast. And he's gonna do
a whole new a whole new version. Bless you again. Sorry, that's
okay. Go to podcast apps.com. You can, you can pick one, pick
any of them, but look at all the different features. But for sure
we get one that has the alerts. When we update our show. And we
published 90 seconds from that time, you'll know that it's
happening. Now, unlike the mainstream media and all these
jokes, who we've been listening to and watching diligently who
can cannot say everything because they have all kinds of
agendas and issues. Certainly when it comes to well, like it
was this shooter on any kind of antidepressant SSRI, we'll never
hear about it. At least not at the mainstream. Maybe we'll get
some insight to it. And we'll let you know because the big
pharma owns the media with their advertising budgets, so they can
never say anything negative about them. And we don't we
don't take any corporate money of any kind. No ads. We just
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we don't have. We don't have fans. We don't have an audience.
We don't have listeners, we don't have watchers may have
viewers, we have producers and boy did they send it a lot of
boots on the ground, and clips and information and insight and
a lot of help, which I think helped both of us to sift
through everything that was coming in, it's much
appreciated. It's part of our value for value model. time,
talent or treasure will take anything that you want to give
us as long as it equals the value you got out of the show.
So art is definitely something that we like getting from our
producers. We always have 20 At least 20 different pieces to
pick from we think it's it's while we know it's good for the
show people see it. It's good for sharing it gives you a
laugh. It makes people interested in what's in this
show. And I would say the artwork for episode 1676 titled
douche mobiel by the way, we looked after the show that the
douche mobiel was named after Sam Altman's supercar, which is
like a $30 million car. And it's a plugin like hell. And it's a
plug in hybrid, which is the funniest thing that art was
brought to us by Darren O'Neill who did a great prompt jockey
job and it got it he got attention. It was an even Tina
said was that Jake Tapper is uh yes, it is. Yes, it is Jake
Tapper. It had them all GT with all of his badges and then his
CNN Mike and his press hat. And it was really I think it was the
best piece we looked at anything else? No,
John C Dvorak: it was the best piece of it. I mean, it wasn't
like there was nothing that was competitive. And I'd made the
comment since I had complimented him earlier in the show that he
went out of his way to produce a winner and he's also moved up
the ladder and so I think he's one away from
Adam Curry: the guy with no artistic talent at all that we
can tell isn't a cruel the art world is cruel. He's
John C Dvorak: got one more to go and he'll be tight with
Martin JJ for second place all time to have another
Adam Curry: another Dutch master that is crazy. And Darren
usually it's funny how that works. These Dutch masters
peoples toiling away and then he slaps them together and boom it
making art is hard. And maybe this is this is truly the the
only thing that AI is good for is art for the no agenda show.
To be honest about it funny. That's worth 50 billion in
investment did we see anything else there was a loose in
John C Dvorak: their ass I mean that he did a couple of good
pieces probably and this piece the for the art generate for the
AI to make this art. I don't know how many times he had to
redo the ROMs redo the prom but every time is gotta be like 10
bucks or at least $1. But let's say 10 bucks were the cycle time
and on the part on the other end of it. It's probably cost the
you know, a lot of money. eventually because yeah you know
this wasn't a one shot
Adam Curry: no no no Darren let us know I'd like to know how you
did it well the giveaway prompt yeah and how many times he redid
the prompt let's see the one I'm a little tired of is all the a
lot of the AI art is all circle. Oh, that's all comics should
blogger he started his prompt is draw a circle put in it. Every
single piece of is is a circle.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, it's always a circle. He's becoming a circle
jerk. And
Adam Curry: there it is. Thank you very much. Darren O'Neal
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Adam Curry: You came for the media deconstruction but you
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John C Dvorak: You never know does you live in Staten Island?
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Adam Curry: No, he lives in Manhattan. He lives I think at
the village I know because my stepdaughter sees him all the
time at the bar. He hangs always hanging around I think He is
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John C Dvorak: They get back to work.
Adam Curry: You know, he's in his 70s he's chill, he rides his
he has a bike with those big fat wheels that he rides around. You
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John C Dvorak: not that I know I'm glad to hear well here we
Adam Curry: go. Taylor Swift boots on the ground. I have a
terrible memory in general. But do recall the Eros tour she only
has one song that people are dubbing witchcraft. I assure you
it's not people are unhinged, but she's defending the Swifties
now, of course, of course some I mean, how many witchcraft songs
do you need? You'll one one only need one. Of course some
Swifties are also unhinged, but not all. I guess she's a
straight laced Swifty. It's just cool to hate her show to hate
her now. Well, I think it's always been cool. The no agenda
show I think has always kind of hated her. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: we've always kind of hit it sounds great. Yeah,
Adam Curry: we were always cool. Besides the Taytay hate the
shows are wonderful. As always, the jokes have been top notch.
I'm usually a free few episodes behind. But always listen when I
can. I'm about to venture off on a three week European vacation
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just let me know.
John C Dvorak: I adore no answers with this one.
Adam Curry: Out the door. I adore you both. I met Adam a few
times now. So John, you're up next. Good luck. There you go.
Keep up the great work. Karma is a cat love. I count his day me
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Unknown: it? You've got karma.
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Yeah. Opposite day when I was tough.
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Adam Curry: Hyderabad
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Adam Curry: a DTS sent me a note and said Why does John hate
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doesn't hate Indians. So you must have said something that
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John C Dvorak: Indians are so sensitive
Adam Curry: so says Oh, I know you're making fun of their
accent. Okay, yeah, there you go. The guy just supported us. I
liked this guy. Okay, well, he likes you. Although he's he's
thinks you hate Indians. You're just a hater man. You hate
Taylor Swift you hate Indians get it together you're driving
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Especially the French those are the guys that don't don't they
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Unknown: You've got karma.
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Adam Curry: Thank you. Kevin says I'm a pharmacist so a
health care professional but not nearly in the weeds as your
neurotic neurologist friend a couple episodes ago I'm speaking
on experience. My father passed away live in years ago with
Parkinson's coupled with Lewy body dementia. Yes, we've gotten
a lot of these emails, a lot of good, detailed information. I've
been saying since 2019. Joe is a mirror image of my father
freezing arms, gait, difficulty memory issues, willing to bet
the farm hallucinations, if not now, soon. There's no way you
can convince me otherwise. He does not have that Joe. It's
sad. His family is pushing him through an extremely difficult
mental condition. I'm not necessarily hoping for his
demise, but wish we all in Perkins media could freaking
understand what is going on. And there's no way I want my dad
running the country seeing what he went through. Thanks for all
you guys do. And I wanted to add a another note, since one of our
producers sent this in, it was I mean, I said can I read this
because as sad as it is that my father in law was diagnosed with
Parkinson's over 20 years ago. Through his many medications he
was able to function with little issue until last year, that's
when the hallucinations started and they escalated quickly to
the point that we have placed him in special care. From what
we have research on the subject most Parkinson's patients will
eventually succumb to Lewy Body Dementia if they live long
enough. He says I agree 100% With your producers that talked
about her mother's cat in the plant and the anger and refusal
of help. If you didn't laugh, you'd cry. My father in law's
convinced he's the president of cow herbal soup, and that and
that all these and that all his gold is hiding in the floor
tiles. For the record he has no gold and was the Deputy Fire
Chief of the city for most of his life and it's a horrible
disease that's
John C Dvorak: terrible well I want to play a bonus clip for
the people that like to listen to this part of the show. Oh
because we got into a debate we got to debate about this because
this is Biden Raiden from the prompter and then just out of
the blue says What are you doing? Yeah, and you thought it
was a in your might be right we need to but he played this this
Biden clip.
Unknown: I'm gonna go to South Korea and we're gonna get to
chip What are you doing? I'm gonna get Japan and Korea. Yeah,
Adam Curry: so I saw you post about it. And I had to post
because you were like what is going on insinuating that I
think someone posted in that thread like oh is his they
couldn't he couldn't hear and then they were talking to him in
his ear. Now. This is a typical prompter fail where they
scrolled too fast. I think just scrolled up too fast. Could you
just can see him looking right at the prompter.
John C Dvorak: He looks up when he says what are you doing?
Because we know
Adam Curry: it's because of the prompter scrolled up and he's
looking about the prompt or see if the words are there. Where
did they go? That to me was a classic prompt or fail why
John C Dvorak: it does happen. Where I've read from prom during
read. I've never said what are you doing? When the prompter guy
falls asleep by the way which does happen? Yes, it's a boring
job.
Adam Curry: Yeah, we used to have prompter girl Christine,
and prompter boy John at MTV. This is when the prompter was on
a literal conveyor belt with a camera pointed at the conveyor
belt and they'd put big sheets of paper and roll them
underneath the camera. This is before we had digital digital
capability. And we have a little control and we just roll this
conveyor belt back and forth and had large type on the on the
event you had prompter formatted paper. That's how old I am kids.
John C Dvorak: There you go. Why don't you read this one? I'll
read the last one. Like this
Adam Curry: is from Eli the coffee guy. Oh your buddy.
That's right. Like many of the post COVID workforce it's it's
like the media stop trying and it's just mailing it in. To
paraphrase Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Solzhenitsyn salts
the need salts and eaten that was close. It's like social
philosopher dude.
John C Dvorak: No, he's these Ibiza novelist,
Adam Curry: novelist dude. To quote, salts and Easter Alex,
Alex, Alex said we know they're lying. They know they're lying
and they know that we know they're lying but they are still
lying. In our country the lies become not just a moral counted
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John C Dvorak: went after that too. Oh, I'm so glad to read
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Unknown: ESP ICT and indeed
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John C Dvorak: have a lot of truckers in we have a lot of
truckers that listen to this show. And
Adam Curry: And rightly so. Rightly so. Cops to a lot of
yes, a lot of people have a lot of time on their hands. Let's
see, count him as a producer that can give you boots on the
ground information on the trucking industry? Well, you
just let us know when it's relevant. We both look forward
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John C Dvorak: get to craziest producers I so it's always
amazing. So amazing.
Adam Curry: It is truly amazing. She continues, I can tell you
with 100% certainty, there's always another side to every
story. And I'm thankful you guys give voice to that and explore
alternative theories. We both feel frustrated and angry about
what the MSM and five of them and the radical left have done
to Trump and now the inevitable attempt on his life yesterday.
Sadly, we aren't surprised. Is this all part of the plot to
make sure Trump is elected? Well, as it seems like it'll
help. We look forward to your analysis. Also question for you.
Do you think Trump will do anything to thwart the unit
party? And how will he scale back the administrative state?
He's tried before but did not succeed.
John C Dvorak: And he won't say that next time.
Adam Curry: We'd love to hear your thoughts on how he plans to
do this, especially if he is handling a failing economy and
threat of multiple international wars. I've seen firsthand with
the overreach of the executive branch.
John C Dvorak: Oh, my God, where are we in Russian government is
the primary issue facing
Adam Curry: our thoughts? Well, lots actually, I do have a while
I play clip in a minute, listening to no agendas help us
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And thank you to all the no agenda producers who have
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and a biscuit on my birthday jingle. And actually I wanted to
play since she asked that there was a very interesting, very
interesting interview, David Stockman had this analysis about
possibly a path for Bobby, the OP.
Unknown: So it is very possible that by the time we get to
November, that the Democrats will throw in the towel is their
candidate will come in very badly behind Trump, they will
have no way of stopping Trump, except to line up behind Robert
Hansen. And throw a lot of those blue state boats in the US House
to Kennedy. So it sounds far fetched. And I agree. There's
no, you know, low probability scenario. But it's possible that
in a hung jury in the Electoral College, and a down to the wire
vote in the US House come January 2025. Set you could
elect a third party candidate who basically would turn the
system upside down. Kennedy is the one guy that can get us out
of the Forever wars. And he's the one guy that understands
that government is not your friend most of the time, and it
needs to be curtail and contain for the constitutional process.
He's your real constitutionalist which is unbelievable this drop
is never read the Constitution by it does everything he can to
override it and set it aside that
Adam Curry: Bobby never gets any any play here. So I figured I'd
add that I don't think
John C Dvorak: I'm not talking I love what I do
Unknown: resist. We might
Adam Curry: oh wait that's not what she wants. She wanted a
biscuit.
Unknown: They always give me a biscuit on my birthday. There
you go.
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Do it kids.
John C Dvorak: Off the Wall Clip to play? Okay. You know, we're
sure the United States spends all his money on armaments that
we just give away to other nations in the form of suppose
it loans and whatever. Military here
Adam Curry: military gear, here's
John C Dvorak: what China does with their resources. This is
China in Africa.
Unknown: A new report says Beijing's mouthpiece now has a
presence in over 70% of African countries, while US funded
broadcaster Voice of America only has one Bureau on the
continent.
There's an impact in the sense that China is able to establish
and instill certain media and ideological narratives on the
African continent. Narratives such as solidarity with China,
you know, sort of trying to export authoritarian models onto
the African continent. Herman
Wasserman, head of the University of Cape town's Media
Studies Department detailed one case, he told me about times
that he's seen Chinese media reports outline how US companies
are profiting from Russia's war on Ukraine. He said the media
reports suggested that Washington is keeping the war
going because it's making money. But what makes Africa a target
for influence. The continent has abundant rare earth minerals,
resources critical for making green energy products. African
countries also hold over a quarter of the voting power in
the United Nations. An economic pressure on those countries
could sway their choice of votes. Zooming out, Chinese
state controlled broadcasters have a big reach in Africa. In
Kenya alone, China's state broadcaster shengguan reaches
more than 10 million people every month. China's propaganda
department also provides free content for African state and
private broadcasters. In addition, it trains many young
African journalists and since them on paid trips to China,
China
trains a lot of journalists actually probably trains more
journalists, more African journalists than any other
western country. Ah,
Adam Curry: not surprising. And did you hear about Uganda since
we're on Africa news for a moment new gold discovery and
Uganda valued at close to $13 trillion
John C Dvorak: how does that lay there languishing for all these
years
Adam Curry: and will that affect the gold price you think it
would like all of a sudden there's this new glut of gold
the glut of gold there you go
John C Dvorak: well it depends on how hard it is to get out
Adam Curry: well they there they got a got a picture on the just
lick they're like just pans of it. Oh look at all this gold and
then and this is the mistake they're now saying hey, maybe we
should do a gold backed currency Listen guys, Gadhafi this is not
so
John C Dvorak: you know you're gonna find you're gonna find
gold a big pile of it like trillions of dollars worth you'd
want to cordon off the whole area and say oh there's hardly
any here because you know what you've done is pulled a you know
an Osborne and pre announced all this gold Yeah, probably not a
not a good strategy is going to it will lower the price.
Adam Curry: Some climate change news this. This one was
interesting. Maybe you know more about about this phenomenon. New
research has revealed that the solid inner core of our planet
may have reversed its rotation. A comparison of earthquakes
seismic waves from the past decade with those from similar
quakes in the 1960s showed that the inner cores rotation
relative to Earth's outer layers stopped from 2009 to 2020. And
now it may have reversed direction something that appears
to happen every 60 to 70 years or so, while more research is
needed. If the cause rotation has reversed. A number of things
could be impacted such as the length of our day, Earth's
geomagnetic field and Even our climate. Now I've heard about
the poles reversing. And this is something that's happened
historically. But I didn't know about Earth's inner core.
John C Dvorak: Reverse the zero 10 record that accounts for the
poles. The magnetic field, it's creates a magnetic field by
spinning around, I guess. Why don't you think about this?
Well,
Adam Curry: I'll tell you, I'll tell you one thing. This has
been a beautiful summer. It's 70 degrees in the evening. It's,
it's phenomenal here in Texas right now. And it's well into
July. This is this is not on par with the past couple of summers.
Even though on record,
John C Dvorak: this summer we have here or the July we have
here is very much the same, as usual, is overcast and cold.
Adam Curry: And this field was named weirdos.
John C Dvorak: In the 60s in the 1800s is what Mark Twain was
bitching about saying, you know, the coldest winter I've ever
spent was the July in San Francisco. It's still true. I
was reading I was not I don't you know, this is just normal.
It's annoying.
Adam Curry: I was reading another Mark Twain quote, quote
the other day with something that went like this. Politicians
are like diapers both should be changed frequently. Does that
sound like a Twain quote to you?
John C Dvorak: It sounds like one of the it may be maybe an
end of his little long and then
Adam Curry: violence case, we got both. So back to climate
change for a second one of the one of the big promises, is
flying cars on batteries. It's going to be great. Everybody,
everybody will have a flying car. There'll be no emissions,
you get to traffic, it's all going to end is great. There's
100 companies at least all soliciting investor money. What
they never mentioned is your actual radius is about 60 miles,
you can fly for about 27 minutes, and then the battery
has to either be changed or recharged. And they were
supposed to have a big demo of actually, I mean, it's not a
flying car. It's a helicopter. It's a it's a it's basically a
drone, you've probably seen it with the big, circular disc on
top with all of the propellers. And the body looks like a
helicopter body. It's a very ugly, very ugly thing. And I was
supposed to be debuting an air taxiing people for the Paris
Olympics, which is about
John C Dvorak: this area they're supposed to be we're gonna have
one of these air type electric air taxis around the Bay Area
supposedly, yeah,
Adam Curry: Dream On next
Unknown: is one of the many logistical questions still
hanging over the Paris Olympics two weeks from the opening
ceremony. Will there be flying taxis? Well, he had to
disappoint us tech editor Peter O'Brien.
Adam Curry: By the way, I'd like that introduction. Here to here
to disappoint us. Just perfect. Peter, the
Unknown: idea has seen its wings clipped in the end.
It has to be honest, I'm quite quite sick of flying taxis now.
We see them every year all the trade shows they're there every
year at Viva tech. I've not been in one. Have you been in one? I
don't think anyone's actually, you know, no one's really flown
in them apart from very select few people though they've been
sort of bandied around for years. Case in point last year's
Paris Air Show the Paris airports Company announced with
its German startup partner volocopter, that by the Olympics
this year, they would have electric vertical takeoff and
landing aircraft services in time for the games. In other
words, human sized drones carrying carrying passengers
flitting around the city. Now, they then started to sort of
backtrack, and we heard that a few months ago volocopter saying
that there would not necessarily be commercial flights available
because even though they did say they had backing from the French
Civil Aviation Authority, they would need a host of other
approvals for this. And then they then started talking about
demonstration flights featuring celebrities VIPs and athletes
with two weeks to go they don't even have this French Aviation
Authority approval to even run demonstration flights on the
routes they're hoping to do so let alone commercial flights,
which I say as I say would require a whole load more
approvals.
Adam Curry: It's never going to happen. The weight to power to
weight ratio is ridiculously stupid. So then we have this I
don't know where this story came. I got it from a number of
different people about it's too hot for rescue helicopters to
fly. In this incredible heatwave we're having and on Yahoo. They
so they're talking about extreme heat baking the West emergency
helicopters struggled to fly they literally show a picture of
a helicopter in the UK, just to make a stupid You know, with a
GE registration, and they show an MD 902. I'm very familiar
with the F flown at the MD 902, which has a, an operating
temperature of minus, it's like minus 40 and plus 127. And by
the way, for every 1000 feet, you you go up in altitude, the
temperature drops by three degrees to two and a half to
four degrees, I think depending on where you are. And so a lot
of these rescue helicopters are saying, but we can't fly. And I
will say to that there are helicopters that are
specifically made for high and hot temperature. And if your
helicopter can't fly to save one, you don't have the right
gear. So I don't know what what the stories are about all of a
sudden that tiny warming climate change, but you need you need
different a different helicopter, there are
helicopters that are causing air density is the problem. That's
really it's not that the engines melting or the or the the
controls can't handle it. It's the air density, which
definitely becomes a lot less dense with heat. But there are n
different blade configure as a whole bunch of ways that this is
solved. So I don't know if people are maybe they want new
gear. And we need new helicopter or you're talking new
helicopters. That must be it. But I just got a lot of people
asking that question, so I figured I'd answer it.
John C Dvorak: You did a great job.
Adam Curry: Thank you. And then this news which came to us part
of the cyber pandemic as predicted
Unknown: yet another data breach this time at AT and T and nearly
all of its customers are affected. at&t revealed just
today I crystal the records of calls and texts of 10s of
millions of cell phone users and many non customers were exposed
as well. The wireless company says the data was illegally
downloaded and a third party cloud platform. at&t says their
breach includes data capture between May 1 of 2022 and
October 31 of that same year. Plus it also includes records
from January 2 to 2023. For a very small number of customers.
at&t has more than 100 million wireless customers and all
here's what the stolen logs contain a record of every number
a customer called or texted, the number of times they interacted
and the duration of those calls. at&t says the data does not
contain the content of calls or texts, or other personal
information like social security numbers and dates of birth.
However, the company acknowledges that publicly
available tools can often link names with specific phone
numbers. The company admits it learned about it back in April.
You might recall that was while the company was dealing with an
unrelated major data leak. TNT released a statement saying in
part, we launched an investigation and engaged
leading cybersecurity experts to understand the nature and scope
of the criminal activity. We have taken steps to close off
the illegal access point. That goes on to say the company is
cooperating with law enforcement and reports at least one person
has been apprehended so
far that our Justice says it is investigating the incident at&t
promising to defy current and former customers whose
information was involved in this hack and provide them with
resources to help protect the information moving forward.
Adam Curry: This is so the reporting is so poor This is
they're just reading press releases at this point. This is
part of the snow snowflake issue. Snowflake is this company
that does external data for companies and they they're the
ones that have all these problems and from what I
understand it's coming from probably from the exploiting
Confluence you remember this bike maybe a year ago? I don't
know if it was a zero day but somehow the you know Atlassian
they have all they bought all these different programs. They
have JIRA and Confluence and another one I'm sure and
Confluence I mean we use that at me vo but that's been
compromised at some some crazy low level and it's just that's
just been a leaking sieve and a lot of government a lot of
government contractor contractors use it government
use it in general but he does like no reporting on it. And and
even funnier, the award winning technology podcast pivot with
your buddy Cara. Cara go ahead Swisher. They're all they do ad
reads. And the and Atlassian advertises on their podcast. Do
you think they would handle this issue? I think they would report
on it.
John C Dvorak: Well, not if they want to keep their advertiser.
Exactly.
Adam Curry: But at this point, I mean, I wasn't AT and T customer
and one of those previous leaks leaked all of my information.
And they are how many days Front offers do I need to get from
companies that say, oh, we'll give you a year off of dark box
or whatever, you know, all these different companies that that
protect you protect your identity, it's compromised, your
compromise. Everything is compromised. It's no good and
the reporting is poor. We should start a tech show.
John C Dvorak: Because everyone is so interested. The did you
what? What was? So what's the status of this fiber going down?
Adam Curry: My fiber? Yeah, no, they didn't tell me
John C Dvorak: up again. Oh, yeah. No,
Adam Curry: it was down for about eight hours. And you know,
I diligently go on the website, and I type in my address, which
I'm sure is being leaked somewhere. And then they and
they say, well, there's no outage. And then I go to the
chat bot. And I go through all the questions until it finally
says, Would you like to speak to a human? Yes, please. And then
you get little dot dot dot bubbling. Oh, hi. Looking up
your data. Okay. All right. I see. Yeah. Already. Did you
check on the outage? Yeah, I checked on the outage. There's
nothing there. Let me check your line. Via five minutes later.
Well, it looks like you are in the area of an outage. And then
also an outage shows up on their outage map will text you when
it's back up? No. It's also poor.
John C Dvorak: When you went to what's the provider frontier,
Adam Curry: which they bought up the FiOS system from was that
Verizon Fios. And in general is good. I mean, it's I haven't had
a problem for at least a year. It goes down yet. Maybe once a
year. There's something but they did not tell me what's
happening.
John C Dvorak: I have a couple of clips from Scott Ritter
analyzing the Ukraine air defenses that are that keep
wanting more money from us. And more, more,
Adam Curry: more gear. Yes. And the Dutch f6 teams
John C Dvorak: and Scots kind of a boring guy but he I think he's
accurate with his analysis. So I thought I clipped this in play
it Ukraine
Unknown: seems to have a particular desire for the
Patriot air defense system, but it will take whatever it can
get, whether it be NASAMS whether it be the Irish T
whether it be the French Mamba, they're just looking for modern
air defense systems. The problem is how do you reconstruct
integrated air defense umbrella when you don't have an existing
umbrella under which you will be allowed to maneuver these newly
acquired air defense batteries into place, set them up, get
them prepared to fight. You see, when Ukraine was initially
provided with these NATO air defense systems, the Patriots
NASAMS Iris de Mamba, they had a Soviet era air defense umbrella
that consisted primarily of the s 300 air defense system, but
there were others the book and other systems in place. And so
Russia had to contend with an existing capable air defense
system in order to get to the air defense systems that were
being provided by NATO. This allowed Ukraine the time to put
these systems where they wanted to put them and to operate them
roughly the way they were intended to be operated,
including with great assistance from Western technical
specialists, Western intelligence, etc. But now we
have a situation where this air defense umbrella no longer
exists and when Ukraine brings in their air defense systems,
they have to do to so in a very makeshift haphazard manner. They
aren't able to use them the way they were designed. This
requires trickery, you know, turning on and off radars firing
missiles before radar lock is taking place. It's a very
inefficient way to use air defense systems. And because
Russia is able to put an intelligence surveillance and
reconnaissance umbrella over Ukraine anytime Ukraine uses air
defense it's detected and then the Russians in very short
order, locate and destroy the systems. Why isn't that
Adam Curry: the whole point so we can get more money to send
more
John C Dvorak: guy get trumpet just to stop the stupid war.
Anyway, goes on his muzzle rapid
Unknown: pretty much Ukraine's in one of these vicious cycles
where there simply isn't enough weapon systems available to
allow Ukraine to build the air defense umbrella it needs in
Russia will continue to destroy those weapons systems that are
provided by the West, depleting the West's own supply of air
defense system. This is one of the detrimental consequences of
the attritional warfare that's being waged today in Ukraine.
Russia is able to destroy Ukrainian military equipment
provided by the West especially air defense and Iran. far
greater than the West can resupply Ukraine or even
replenish its own stocks. This is a losing equation. And
without air defense, Ukraine is literally an open target for
Russia to take apart as it best sees fit. This is one of the
consequences of the war in Ukraine. And it's one of the
issues that this NATO Summit has not been able to resolve in
favor of Ukraine. Indeed, no issue has been resolved in favor
of Ukraine. That's the reality of NATO today.
Adam Curry: Oh, it's even worse than that. a stern warning from
Moscow about the latest development in Germany,
Unknown: Russia is stationing need us long range missiles here
in Germany could mean that European capital cities become
military targets. The Biden administration announced the
deployment from 2026 at a NATO summit in Washington earlier
this week. Now the agreement includes Tomahawk and hypersonic
missiles, these weapons are nuclear capable and have a range
of more than 2000 kilometers. The US and German governments
say the development is immense their commitment to NATO and
European Defence
Adam Curry: the German citizens who believe it or not, or just
people have banded together and protest and when you do that,
what do you do? Well, you get all of your country singers
together and do it We Are the World type deal. And they said
this is no us playing it because obviously it's all in German.
It's kind of black and white video and it's all the you know,
it's like the heavy metal guys singing the folk singer girls
singing and and like some opera guy singing and they all take
turns. And the the the chorus is we're not going to give you our
sons. We're not going to give you our sons to fight your
battles. A little late, Germany,
John C Dvorak: I say a little late. Yeah.
Adam Curry: That means the people don't matter anymore.
They don't matter to any of these
John C Dvorak: journeys. Leaders are no good. They are not.
Adam Curry: They are not.
John C Dvorak: But as Katie Hopkins says, at least they're
clear.
Adam Curry: Let's do a little bit of Big Pharma news here AI
development. Now the breaking news this morning from fire. I'm
sorry, not a development. It's breaking news. Now the breaking
news this morning from Pfizer, the drug makers moving forward
with a daily weight loss pill. Ariel ratcheted back with what
we know. Good morning again. Aereo Hey,
Unknown: good morning again to you, Michael. It's approved this
would be one more tool in the fight against obesity Pfizer
this morning announcing it has selected a formula for its once
a day GLP one receptor weight loss pill. The pills intent is
to act similarly, as a as those weekly shots like the Gobi and
zet bound that suppress appetite and lower food intake. While
last winter, Pfizer decided to end a trial of a pill that you
take twice a day after 50% of the participants reported
experiencing side effects like nausea and vomiting. They come
and they stop taking those pills by the way the company decided
to end instead rather to channel its efforts into creating a pill
patients would only take once a day Pfizer will be developing
the pill through the end of the year and will start trials after
that to determine the safety and efficacy and tolerability before
submitting it to the FDA for approval. Rebecca so much
popularity among these drugs you can see why they're trying to
get one out there as well. Ariel Thank you
Adam Curry: know, they're all trying to get it onto Medicare.
That's that's really a goal. boots on the ground. John and
Adam by work at a third party administrator for group health
benefit plans. I know I'm a real hoot. This is our producers
enjoying your coverage of the GLP one craze I'll be keeping my
ear to the ground at work for any info you might find useful
decided to send this off our chief legal officer told me how
it's easier for patients to get coverage now for bariatric
surgery, because it's cheaper for the insurers than GLP ones.
Bariatric Surgery tends to be a covered service for our clients,
which is large employers, but patients are usually required to
jump through a lot of insurance hoops because it's so expensive.
The thought of that surgery actually being preferred by
insurers really points out to how out of control the GLP ones
have become. Example my co worker has a family member who
is roughly 40 pounds overweight, they were denied Medicaid in
Nevada coverage, Nevada for GOP ones and we're guided towards
bariatric surgery instead which was approved and her two cents.
Driving people towards the surgery is very extreme,
expensive and unnecessary option when you could just incentivize
healthy behavior. A little fat shaming paired with health
benefits for nutritional counseling and personal training
could go a long way to saving insurers money and saving
patients from the extra health risks that come with surgery or
medication. Since Well, I can tell you that I've heard from
other people in the medical device industry, other
producers, that they've got a lot of lobbyists on K Street
pushing for more bariatric surgery because they're
basically going out of business because of GLP. One. So these
are the fights that are going on. Yeah, have a surgery. That's
better. Oh, take a pill. It's better. Is
Unknown: it less?
Adam Curry: Easy for you to say? Easy for you to say? Update on
our astronauts.
Unknown: NASA has acknowledged potential alternatives to
Boeing's Starliner if needed to bring back astronauts to Earth
from the International Space Station. So
the Starliner brought the two astronauts to Space Station on
his first mission carrying people but the pair have been
docked far longer than planned. NASA said, NASA says the pair
may return at the end of the month pending results of testing
on a faulty propulsion system. And the space agency said
Boeing's Starliner still remains the primary option for what
Adam Curry: you clip is coming in and out. Yeah, I know. But
everyone else can hear just not you. Boeing's
Unknown: Starliner still remains the primary option for returning
crew. But officials did acknowledge that a Space X
capsule could be part of a contingency plan for returning
them if necessary. At the moment, officials don't see any
reason just yet to turn to another transportation option
that we like options.
Adam Curry: Alright, so let me explain what what happened. So
after both my drives blew up,
John C Dvorak: you can explain what happened with the Starliner
Adam Curry: now they're gonna have to come back on the on Elon
Z
John C Dvorak: deal. Yeah, there you go. Elon is going to lord it
over him after that.
Adam Curry: And I guess rightly so. Yeah, I
John C Dvorak: think so too.
Adam Curry: So both of these my all my machines have now blown
up ever blowing
John C Dvorak: up problem?
Adam Curry: I do. And then as I say, I bet
John C Dvorak: you you know, how about getting some ups is in
there. Maybe that's got something to do with it? No, you
don't think so?
Adam Curry: That my mistake was to listen to you and ghost my
drive.
John C Dvorak: But what else were you gonna do? Well,
Adam Curry: I don't know. But I Ghost Ghost. I'll tell you what
happened. And I think it's my fault. Okay, well, that will
that make you feel better. So I don't
John C Dvorak: really care one way or the other. I'm just
telling you that most people ghost the drive and you're fine
and dandy afterwards, unless they have some power issues. So
Adam Curry: I ghosted the drive. And which worked fine. I had a
perfect copy. And the machine was working now it's a surface a
Surface Pro eight. So you can't actually get to the battery or
the drive. Of course, Microsoft, that was cheap, weird. Now I was
cheap. And I so then I decided, well, let me see how it works.
And so I decided to try and boot up from the ghost to drive. And
that's when it all fell apart. And then both boot records or
master boot records or whatever it is exactly, I don't know, got
corrupted. I couldn't save it with the rescue disk. I couldn't
I couldn't restore it. The only you know, have you ever been in
the automatic repair loop? Have you ever seen so
John C Dvorak: I would never run that in a million years but
doesn't do
Adam Curry: anything is it just keeps going into a loop? It was
horrible. Yeah, it doesn't do anything. It was it was
absolutely horrible. Now I was lucky. Lucky that Jeremy Allen
had sent me a Dell 3830 at slimline computer and and he
loaded windows 10 on it and he took out all the bloatware and
he really it really was very kind of him they sent it with a
with a keyboard and mouse and some green tips, armor piercing
the shells some rounds you know the usual stuff that you send in
along with, you know, an ankle holster all the stuff you need.
So I spent Saturday rebuilding everything from scratch. I mean,
I have all the data I have all of our clips and then my my show
prep and all that stuff. But I had to rebuild the whole playout
system this thing called an Error List. And over the years
I've done a lot of custom configuration. And what I was I
was doing clips and this is from yesterday I was and that's what
I think happened here to make long story even longer. I was
running it through the through the road caster and you know the
road caster just hooks into the window sound system. And now I
understand why you sound so good all of a sudden, is because
Astok somehow it recognizes two of the sound cards in the road
caster, as is like headphone interfaces for Skype or
something like that. And it automatically selects those and
puts all kinds of sound enhancements on it. And it
wasn't until this morning when I'm like I'm clipping like, this
sounds like crap, what is going on here. And then, and I finally
dig into the actual sound sound control panel, which is from
Windows three, that pops up. And you click on these drivers and
in there, it's like, oh, well, you look at that it has all
kinds of sound enhancements pre selected for your convenience.
And I've that probably was always you, you sound so good
today, compared to the years years literally years, because I
figured this one small thing I use I had to dial down your low
end everything it's amazing what this is done now that I figured
it out.
John C Dvorak: Now I gotta go listen to this show. Is that
what you're telling me? So I can hear myself? Please.
Adam Curry: Whatever you do, don't listen to our show. I
mean, that would be horrible. That would just that was doing
the show. I usually don't listen to it. Sad news came across my
desk yesterday. Breaking news to tell you
Unknown: about fitness guru Richard Simmons has died. Just
turned 76 years old yesterday. In a post on X Friday. He said
he received numerous birthday wishes and was responding to
many emails. Simmons was best known for his aerobic exercises
and uplifting spirit he rose to fame in the 70s and 80s and
establish several gyms across the country while starring in
and producing energy fitness videos.
Ah, that's a loss. You know? Well, it
John C Dvorak: makes you wonder about fitness. Have
Adam Curry: you ever met him? No, I
John C Dvorak: haven't you have you?
Adam Curry: Yeah, he did some shifts. It was a time at MTV
when they would always bring in guest V J's, which the regular
VJ is kind of detested. It's like you know Paul Provenza was
there every week Paul prevent on MTV? Not funny. Ever. They tried
to they tried to stay resented. We resented it. Paul prevents a
Judy to nuda and emo like them again. Yeah, so Richard Simmons
did meet emo. He's actually pretty smart.
John C Dvorak: He is exactly the way he portrayed. That's
Adam Curry: not an act of Gilbert Godfrey. There's another
one Gilbert Godfrey was all man. Oh, he's had so many guests,
Vijay shifts. It was annoying because it devalued like oh,
well any douchebag can do this apparently. Which I guess it's
true. But
John C Dvorak: this is a little this is a little inside baseball
here. We're getting a little of the long term simmering
complaint.
Adam Curry: Yeah, and then we get preempted by Monty Python
and Beavis and Butthead. I mean, it was horrible. John, it was a
grind. It was rough. It was tough to be a VJ.
John C Dvorak: Z said good looking hair. Yeah,
Adam Curry: yeah. And another person who passed away
yesterday. Shannon Doherty from Beverly Hills 90210.
John C Dvorak: How old was she? She
Adam Curry: was he was very old now. She was young. I think she
was in her early 50s And she had horrible horrible cancer.
John C Dvorak: So turbo cancer No,
Adam Curry: no, she had she had cancer for quite a while that
Tina met her. She came when Tina was working at the store here.
She would come in and she
John C Dvorak: lived down there.
Adam Curry: I think she had a house around somewhere in hill
country or in Texas. Maybe Houston let alone Hall was a
good store Let me see. I
John C Dvorak: would get to watch stories. No, I'm sorry. I
got a Death Watch story kind of an advanced Death Watch story.
Okay, this play this. This is the Mexico port. So we talked
about China earlier. Let's talk about um, some more. Navy
Unknown: leaders in charge of Mexico's largest shipping port
say they are seeing an increase in unregulated dual use
chemicals. The same chemicals that are used in food and
medicine production can also be used in producing meth and
fentanyl. And other officers say the majority of these chemicals
are coming from communist China
Mexican naval officers say close to 60% of the shipping
containers that enter the country each day come to the
Manzanita port. When the containers arrive. Officers say
only about 2% of the contents are inspected, and total only
about 10% of the ships that dock at the port are physically
searched. They note a full search is conducted if it get
tipped off about illegal cargo. The head of the Port says due to
its location the man's Ennio port is ideal for transporting
cargo to North America, South America and Asia. According to
US Drug Enforcement official tolls. Mexico has long been the
source of most of the fentanyl that comes into the US. Within
the last few years Mexican drug cartels have stepped up exports
of meth to Australia, the Netherlands and China. For the
first time Mexico was listed as one of the world's top producers
of meth. That's according to the UN's office of drugs and crime
report for June. The port commander is raising concerns
about the increase of the dual use chemicals. He says
international cooperation is needed to help regulate the
transport of these chemicals. It's
Adam Curry: amazing you buy a strip of 12 ivermectin from
Mexico and the US Postal Service stops it right away and send you
a nasty note but this no problem.
John C Dvorak: Just send it through. We I take it you tried
this ship in Mexico, many,
Adam Curry: many people have have this at this stop from
Mexico. Yes. In Port kind of and Shipping News. The pier in Gaza
is shutting down tonight
Unknown: this $230 million dollar problem plagued here
built to provide desperately needed aid to Gaza will soon
cease operations built by the US military on President Biden
square. The Pier has been operational only about 20 days
since its completion in May, due to technical issues and rough
seas that the pier could not handle. We were on the pier just
weeks ago, seeing the destruction of Gaza behind me
makes you realize how important humanitarian missions are to get
food into Gaza. But it is also obvious how difficult it is on
this floating pier and you feel it going up and down and you can
hear the clinging as well. Despite the massive price tag
and the forced shutdowns, the Pentagon called it a success
today, with the head of USAA saying enough food has been
delivered to feed 450,000 people for a month. But it is unclear
how much aid actually reached the people after it crossed the
pier. Those Palestinians whose situation grows more dire every
day, the UN saying famine has spread throughout Gaza.
John C Dvorak: So let me get this straight $320 million pier
that doesn't work. And you already floated off how it
floated off already. And this is a considered a success by the
Pentagon.
Adam Curry: It would have been more successful if it had cost
half a billion
Unknown: wasn't believable wasn't enough.
Adam Curry: I'm still watching out for the downturn in AI.
Although I think Darren O'Neil success with his art is a good
indicator. Chad GBT secretly developing a new type of AI
reports Reuters is a broad project strawberry. Yes, the way
strawberry works is a tightly kept secret. Even within open AI
itself. The source reported to Reuters of the project involves
a special way of processing an AI model after it has been pre
trained on extensive data sets. Its aim is to enable artificial
intelligence to not just generate answers to queries, but
to plan ahead sufficiently to conduct so called deep research
by navigating the internet autonomously and reliably. What
could possibly go wrong? Reuters said it had reviewed an internal
open AI document detailing a plan for how the US firm could
deploy strawberry to perform research. Googling basically,
however, the agency said it was not able to establish when the
technology will become available to the public. It's a work in
progress. And that brings me to a boots on the ground you are
curious about the NVIDIA GB 200 Scientific Computing chip. And,
and we have a producer just to give him his give you some
background on him. He's been doing performance optimization
for scientific computer codes for 15 years, worked for an
optimized scientific computing models for Department of Defense
Department of Energy, academia and industry led a team that was
part of the design and delivery of the frontier supercomputer at
Oak Ridge National Lab optimize scientific computer models for
many fields such as weather forecasting, climate modeling,
that's where you that's where you you stumbled on that one,
nuclear physics, acoustics and more, Kenny says listening to
Episode 1673 about the NVIDIA GB 200 Super chip. The clip has
somebody claiming that the new Blackwell chip will be great for
Scientific Computing, especially for CFD, what that was the
website again, the flow, the flow computations, CFD, I
John C Dvorak: forget what it was computerized flow diagram. I
think that's it. Scientific
Adam Curry: Computing still almost exclusively uses Fp 64
double precision floating point for calculations. The Blackwell
chip has Fp 64 performance of 90 teraflops, which is only a 25%
increase over the H 100. GPU. The memory bandwidth of the
Blackwell chip is double that of the h 100, which can have a
large impact on performance or the amount of increase is not
unexpected for new generation of hardware and isn't better than
what Nvidia competitors are offering. Maybe the person that
video was excited about the NVL 72 system. But even that isn't
particularly novel. As someone who's been deeply ingrained and
optimized performance of Scientific Computing codes for
some of the largest and fastest high performance computing
system in the world. I can confidently say that those of us
in high performance computing who actually understand how
hardware impacts application performance are pretty
underwhelmed by the utility of the latest in video products.
What Yeah. Not to mention, I'm intrigued not to mention the
fact that the cost of Nvidia hardware is so high that the
performance per dollar of Nvidia for scientific computing is not
good. Many people still purchase new Nvidia hardware for
scientific computing with us because they have already ported
their models to CU da queued up and don't want to invest the
resources porting the other software to other alternatives.
So according to our our boots on the ground here, not that
impressive.
John C Dvorak: Well, just based on the tone of that note, I have
to probably assume I will assume that he knows what he's talking
about
Adam Curry: short and video.
John C Dvorak: Well, not that not advice, not advice. Don't do
it.
Adam Curry: And then finally, for you, we all know the vortex
law of what is your law about the economy and economic
John C Dvorak: downturns? Yes.
Adam Curry: Can you explain it again? Yes,
John C Dvorak: every when the economy starts to fail, the
hookers get better looking and are cheaper.
Adam Curry: So this article from me see hairdresser in New York.
She says we've all heard that she says strippers are the first
people to know when the economy is getting bad. She doesn't
really complete the model. But she says as a hairstylist, I
have my own theories. There's a new economic theory from hair.
Okay, when girls start going natural or getting more low
lights getting smudge roots that's how we know it's not just
because they don't have enough money for maintenance but they
also don't have enough time to come to the salon and get their
highlights touched up every four weeks because they're working or
they're stressed or busy and she says game on economy is down
because of the hair theory though she
John C Dvorak: says the economy's down
Adam Curry: is going down yes
John C Dvorak: is going down but oh wait that sounds to me as
though she's saying the women are busy and don't have time to
do all this work on their hair so that's the economy should be
going up no
Adam Curry: they're working three jobs that's what they're
working on this on the street corner that's probably what's
happening
John C Dvorak: she needs to bring this she needs to flesh
this out as it were.
Adam Curry: Okay, I'll see if I can give you an update soon.
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Adam Curry: it's good. It's definitely worth the read by go
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Adam Curry: Well, we might have a producer out there.
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Unknown: Go hang out with all the Tyson days. You'd have
to say
is like a body.
Adam Curry: We always like to choose our ISO material. Or the
last little clip that we play at the end of every single show and
I have I only have two today. Do did you come up with any at all?
I
John C Dvorak: defer to your two.
Unknown: Oh man.
John C Dvorak: I'm worried about should be good. Well, I'm
Adam Curry: afraid and I'm let's see what we got.
Unknown: I really want to tuck into that beef Qi. No,
Adam Curry: see, that's no good. Wow, it's poor showing today.
Unknown: Holy crap. What was he thinking?
Adam Curry: That's all okay, I'm
John C Dvorak: a winner.
Unknown: Thank goodness. But don't you worry. It's
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John C Dvorak: he added the prices vary but he you can get
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Adam Curry: Wow, what's the size?
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it's not small like they're fairly decent size decent size I
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John C Dvorak: But if make sure you mentioned that you heard it
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Unknown: assets to make sure that those were cleared for
investigators to move safely in areas are still working on it's
still an active crime scene. I'm not gonna say that the
scene is 100% Clear to super savers wasn't available for the
press conference in.
More detail.
Tonight, breaking news over president and presumptive
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump rushed off the
stage after being shot at a campaign rally in what is now
being called an assassination attempt both being the 45th
president and posting on his drugs, truth social life on this
evening. bullet grazed his right arrow.
Super Sarris wasn't available,
rather chaotic at that point, half the people were looking in
because if
anyone's got to
understand the diversity of this community as unique as the
breakfast tacos here in San Antonio, is your string. Who is
your favorite
fearless hero? Well, your unique Ted Easterbrook from a taco,
you'd have to go to the doctor and think she was rude to when
he sold in the right mind would reduce you to your immutable
characteristics and see you as their statistics are normal and
class would never be crossed and they would never treat you like
we've been usually a frenzy or ghosts in the dark your brains
put into a tizzy as you start to see something started through
the cognitive dissidence. At least we know we can rely on our
favorite fear lists here we can rely on Old Joe to never say
something racist.
was a bad dude and he ran a bunch of bad boys if you have a
problem figuring out where do your premier from and you ain't
black.
Mr. Shot you can chuck
it sounded like there was six seven shots to start with coming
from behind the bleachers saw the man tilting the head and I
thought he heard another couple rounds I don't like it was
behind me but I belong up
nobody's ever walked off that corner like very
confusing initially. It's like we Kennedy couldn't quite tell
where I was gonna miss
a shot you can chuck what
was going through your mind as you heard gunfire Get
down get down. All you
got to do is make 10 points and
then we heard a different caliber gun. Very confusing
initially I thought it was a firecracker.
Now if we go
through magnetometers your bags so Search. I'm not
shocked that this happened. And then we heard a different
caliber gun
shop shop took a gunshot wound to the head. Everyone
seems very angry.
So do magnetometers your bags are searched what was going
through your mind as you heard gunfire Get
down, get down.
I'm not shocked that this happened. Nobody's ever walked
up that corner line.
What I said was I beg your pardon? What can we do for you?
Nice, David. What are we doing? Look, I wouldn't have picked
Vice President Trump to be vice president. I thought that would
happen. I mean, I my numbers are better Israel than both China,
South Korea and North Korea, Russia. My state and Delaware,
from Wisconsin to North Carolina anyway, in Russia. And in China.
By the way, how accurate Does anybody think the polls are
these days, and by the way, is ready to talk. I'm not ready to
talk to Putin. I'm prepared to talk to any leader who wants to
talk, including Putin call me. I'm determined on running. But I
think it's important that I realize my fears. I see him see
me out there. Let me she's my head. I beg your pardon. What do
you hear from mainstream economists? Are you safer? Is
your family safer? So if I slow down I can't get the job done.
That's a sign that I shouldn't be doing. Or put there's no
indication No. Anything beg your pardon?
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holy crap. What was he thinking?