John C Dvorak: Yeah.
Unknown: Adam curry.
John C Dvorak, it's
Adam Curry: Thursday, August 8, 2024 this to award winning game
our nation. Media assassination, Episode 1684,
Unknown: this is no agenda,
Adam Curry: joyful and cuddly and broadcasting live from the
heart of the Texas home country, here in FEMA Region, number six
in the morning. Everybody. I'm Adam curry,
John C Dvorak: and for Northern Silicon Valley, where we all
congratulate camp on Kim for getting the VP pick. I'm John C
Dvorak buzzkill in the
Unknown: morning.
Adam Curry: And here, I thought we can probably get through the
entire episode without that nickname. But I am so wrong. I
am so wrong. Yes, I somehow, I don't think Trump will use that
one. I don't think he'll use it. Would be great if he did. It'd
be very funny, but I don't even
John C Dvorak: use cackling camera, which is, I think you
pointed
Adam Curry: out, is odd. It's very odd. Yeah, it's so obvious.
Well, I guess to satisfy everybody, we should start off
with the outrage of the day. It's all that people can do on
Twitter is talk about the socialists. He's no good. He's
no good. Tim waltz, who reminds me very much of that other team
guy who was that, who was, uh,
John C Dvorak: who was Kane, Tim Kaine.
Adam Curry: Isn't that basically the same guy?
John C Dvorak: It looks like the same guy, only this other guy's
got a fatter jaw. Hey,
Adam Curry: it's that's called cuddly. Did you get the same
super clip? I did.
John C Dvorak: I have a, I have a, I have a super clip, which is
the walls medley,
Unknown: maybe similar.
John C Dvorak: Well, how long is yours? Well, that's
Adam Curry: a good question. Mine is 135
John C Dvorak: 130 you have 130 you have 135
Adam Curry: have 135 Yes.
John C Dvorak: Oh, let's play it. Oh, here we go. This. Kamala
Unknown: Harris picks Minnesota Governor. Tim Walz says, running
mate. What
does walls bring to this? He's
cuddly, cuddly,
cuddly, cuddly, for maybe
a little more of a cuddly choice.
Tell us more about like the texture of the man. He seems to
almost have a twinkle in his eye. Tim Walz is the opposite of
weird Wall Street's America. He sounds like, you know, a
football coach. He's
a hunter that you could visit with at the hardware store and a
dictionary get weird and anti weird. You'd have Tim Walsh
picture there. I bet knows how to make a good hot dish.
Casserole, very
down to earth. This is authenticity. Authentic
communicator.
The word joy came up a lot. He's joyful. She
seems happy. Happy. Go lucky
warrior. And he's happy. And a happy warrior,
joyful warrior. He
is one happy warrior, a
happy warrior with a happy warrior. Nice
guy,
good guy,
a very nice person,
reliable, definitely affable.
He is an extremely affable individual, very affable. Plain
speaking. Way of folksy vibe. This
folks the idea
vibes election, kind
of a folksy guy, the
idea that Tim Walz is in lefty is just not true. I
don't think either of them are Bernie Sanders progressive. A
rather safe pick. I think a safe pick, the safe choice. This
is a do no harm. Do no harm. He's just more of a vanilla
pick, a younger version of Joe Biden. We
got Brad summer. We've
got coconut tree memes.
There's joy in the Democratic Party right
now, those outside of Pittsburgh loves
Tim walls.
So talk about walls.
Adam Curry: He is cuddly and joyful. My
John C Dvorak: clip is so dear. It's got different it's got the
cuddly stuff, but it's got a better punch line.
Adam Curry: Oh, okay,
John C Dvorak: it's shorter we can play. This is just to show
you how much crap the mainstream media puts out in support of the
Democrat Party. Is it's it's an embarrassment.
Unknown: All American definition of a man from middle middle
America, high school teacher, football coach. He has
this folksy, personal, informal vibe that is really appealed to
a lot of Democrats. He's
a kind of a Fauci guy, very friendly,
nice guy, totally approachable. You
get the feeling that he's got plenty of neighbors that were
Maga house, and he picks up their paper, brings it to their
friend or their his friends.
Walt has an ability to be I know one person said cuddly Tim Walsh
is
the opposite of weird, maybe
a little more of a cuddly choice. Cuddly, cuddly.
This is going to be mac and cheese and a trip to the
hardware grounded vice presidential candidate is going
to make people smile. He
seems to almost have a twinkle in his eye.
He ice fishes. He's a hunter.
He does butter carving.
Adam Curry: Wow, if, if this guy becomes Vice President, we get
the mac and cheese life, and
John C Dvorak: he does butter carving,
Unknown: mac and cheese life, mac and cheese
John C Dvorak: that is so pathetic. Well,
Adam Curry: I love it when they when they all pick up, well,
when they. Read the Talking Points Memo, I presume. And then
here's what you could say about Tim. He's cuddly, he's joyful.
He's, you know, etc, etc. I just hope that these super cuts that
people realize that's what's going on. We've been doing them,
what for almost the entire length of the show.
Unknown: I just hope that people see
Adam Curry: it, that your media is nothing. Now, by the same
token, your social media is also nothing. Have you noticed that
ever since Elon purchased X, while you can say anything that
you want, it's meaningless. The Journals all left, or at least
they don't. They don't promote anything anymore. Nothing goes
viral that gets out into you know, no one's playing stuff
from Twitter. There's no longer people saying, oh, oh, this is
trending on Twitter. It's bad news for him. No, none of that.
It's now just a place to go and go. But that's all that it is.
It's meaningless. I see you posting. Think about it. Elon
Musk makes it free for everybody. It's good. You can
say whatever you want. How long would it last?
Unknown: I see you posting?
John C Dvorak: I i repost? Mostly,
Adam Curry: yes, soon to be illegal. So let's meet Kim wall,
soon to
John C Dvorak: be just doing it. As long as it goes on, I think
it's gonna, it's gonna end. It's gonna end. Let it turn into just
a financial resource. Let's, we'll be using it to collect
donations. Let's,
Adam Curry: let's meet now. Here's, here's the the problem
that he's run into, and I think this is a universal issue,
doesn't play very well in America at all. I'm thinking
Swift Boat with John Kerry. And this is Stolen Valor, which many
are quick to point out to me, is punishable by jail.
John C Dvorak: It's a felony according to the the Stolen
Valor Act of 2013
Adam Curry: so what we what we are learning about Tim is that
he kind of waffles a bit and says, you know, I carried a gun
in combat while he was in the Army Reserves for 24 years when
His unit was to be deployed for I think it was, was it Iraqi
Freedom. Or was it the Iraqi? Yeah, he then said, Well, you
know, I'm gonna run for governor or whatever Senate. I think he
was stationed in Italy for a while. But when you say things
like, I don't care about the NRA, I don't want guns like the
one I carried in combat, oops, and this, and they've been
calling, I mean, I've seen none of it is playable as a clip, but
I've seen people. I have, I have a pretty decent rundown of this.
Oh, okay, good.
John C Dvorak: I'm glad. And I hate to do it, because now you,
you I did it, then you did it, now I'm doing it, which is a
Jesse waters analysis he's got, yeah. First of all, I want to
make Jesse waters. He has the prime time on Fox. So thus he
has the best writers.
Unknown: He does. Yes, he does. He's got
John C Dvorak: so so it's not a complete abomination to play his
analysis.
Adam Curry: Cut him out. Did you cut him out or you left him in?
Because
John C Dvorak: I was No, I left him in because the whole thing
is, it's a package that's very well done. Okay? I usually just
just use it, cut him out, to be honest about it. All right. Now,
exactly what I called this clip another issue, I
Adam Curry: would say, Jesse W on Walt's Stolen Valor. That
seems to be the right one.
John C Dvorak: Sounds like it would be
Unknown: inflated this guy's resume like he inflated his own
waltz. Never went to war, he never saw combat. He was never
in a war zone, but for years, he's been claiming otherwise.
I spent 25 years in the Army, and I hunt. We can do background
checks, we can do CDC research. We can make sure we don't have
reciprocal carry among states, and we can make sure that those
weapons of war that I carried in war is the only place where
those weapons
were. Waltz, never carried weapons in war. He's lying, and
he's been giving reporters the impression that he's been a
combat vet for years. Bloomberg putting out a piece saying Walt
served quote in Iraq as part of Operation, Enduring Freedom.
Waltz never went to Iraq, and Bloomberg had to retract it.
Waltz put out a campaign press release claiming he was a
veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom, claiming he served on
the Afghanistan. He never served in Afghanistan. Waltz told the
Atlantic He just returned from fighting in the war on
terrorism. Waltz never fought anywhere. He abandoned his unit,
left his battalion hanging right before he was supposed to deploy
to Iraq. I
was like, well, for Pete's sake, this guy quit. If I say I'm not
going to do it. I mean, what the hell kind of leadership is that
he was a congressman. He, you know, he bragged that he was, he
was a command sergeant, retired Command Sergeant Major. I'm the
highest ranking person ever. In the in the house, and, you know,
all this lie that he was telling. And there was lots of
public, you know, lots of cards coming in the mail, you know,
for him to be elected, they said, right, honor, he's a
retired Command Sergeant Major just tooting his own horn, just
hanging on the coattails of people that actually are command
sergeant majors that went through all the process and put
all the time in Stolen Valor is really what it is.
Adam Curry: So when you get this from Fox, it was kind of to be
expected, but when it boils over and flows to CNN, you know, you
have an actual problem. And here's the fact checking going
on at CNN waltz
Unknown: did make a comment speaking to a group. He's done
it a couple of times where he has used language that has
suggested that he carried weapons in a fighting situation.
As you know, with your contact with the military. I know from
coming from a military family, there is a difference between
being in a combat area, being involved at a time of war, and
actually being in a position where people are shooting at
you. There is no evidence that at any time, Governor Walz was
in a position of being shot at, and some of his language could
easily be seen to suggest that he was so that is absolutely
false. When he said that about about gun rights out there.
Adam Curry: So to trolls cotton gin, I see you who say, Who
cares? This is it's the media always picks our winners and
losers. This this actually matters. We are, huh, media
deconstructionists, so you're listening to the wrong podcast
if you don't care. This is exactly Get
John C Dvorak: off. Get off. Get off. That drawer room, get out.
Adam Curry: This is exactly what you don't want. In the age of
media picks your leaders or your representatives, and it's so
pathetic when you see Tina Smith, who is the representative
from Minnesota trying to do this. Well, here
Unknown: is Tim Walz, who enlisted when he was 17 years
old. He served in the National Guard for 24 years, and I'm not
aware of any military service that JD Vance has ever served.
So let's just make the comparison there and what
happened in the tragedy of the killing of George Floyd and then
the unrest. Okay, pardon me for that.
Adam Curry: Jim Acosta is correcting you. You've really
messed up as a Democrat. So
John C Dvorak: that's for sure. It
Adam Curry: is really unbelievable and not credible
that this guy was not fact checked on this point. That
makes no sense, or they were in such a hurry to get just anybody
in anybody but someone who would win, because that's what it
looks like.
John C Dvorak: Well, I will mention that this was supposedly
put this guy was picked and chosen and put in by Eric
Holder, who is the head of the of the choosing committee, one
man choosing committee, and he, of course, is connected to
Obama. And as I mentioned the newsletter, there is some
thought that Obama is still irked about this whole thing,
that that Kamala should not be the person in this position at
all, and he's sabotaging the campaign.
Adam Curry: Yeah, I'll buy that. I really will. I mean, it just
it's so odd that this would not be checked because there's video
of veterans going to his office in like, 10 years ago, saying,
hey, you know, this is not cool, what you're doing here when, I
don't know if that was as senator or as governor. No, he
Unknown: was a congressman. Oh, Congressman, I'm
Adam Curry: sorry. So either way, it's like, and you know,
some of the the media is just, well, this, this is our guy.
Let's pick up on anything we can. He's joyful. The whole, the
whole campaign is
John C Dvorak: true. Joyful is my favorite. And
Adam Curry: I've heard that pluf, pluf is now, is on the
Yes, the campaign. So Plouffe is a, he's a, he's the guy that
makes all these that makes all of these campaign stops look
like the real deal, and he knows what he's doing. He was Obama's
guy, so they're doing a good job with that, but him in but even
if you look at the at the YouTube numbers on the which is
Joe Biden's YouTube account of the stream of of the
announcement. There's only, like 50,000 views. So, you know,
something smells bad. But let's get to meet the candidate, the
VP candidate. I haven't asked John. We don't have an ask John
jingle, unfortunately, we should ask John. All right. Ask John.
All right, John, here we go. This is an ask John question.
Let me just make sure we have the right one loaded up here.
But in
Unknown: Minnesota, just like in Wisconsin, we respect our
neighbors and the personal choices they make, even if, even
if we wouldn't make. The same choices for ourselves, because
we know there's a golden rule. Now,
Adam Curry: whenever I see Tim waltz walking around, he's
always putting his hair hands together in prayer, emoji
fashion like, Oh, thank you. Thank you. Yeah, thank you
Master. Yes. So what do you think his gold we've heard of
the golden rule. What is Tim Waltz's golden rule.
John C Dvorak: Think on your neighbors
Adam Curry: during covid, you might think you might be had
John C Dvorak: a call in line so you could, if you saw your
neighbor walking the dog, you can call it in and have him
arrested. Well, that's, that's the good neighbor policy of Tim
Walt. Well,
Adam Curry: you'd think when he says golden rule, you'd think he
would say, do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
That's even Rob Reiner knows that's the golden rule, but here
is the golden rule of your potential future vice president.
But
Unknown: in Minnesota, just like in Wisconsin, we respect our
neighbors and the personal choices they make. I even if,
even if, we wouldn't make the same choices for ourselves,
because we know there's a golden rule, mind your own damn
business.
John C Dvorak: There's your new golden rule, yeah, mind your own
damn business, and if you see anybody walking their dog, call
our hotline.
Adam Curry: Yeah, I got, I got several notes from, from people
in Minnesota, Minnesota, by the way, which is sue for Sky
colored waters. Supposed to be a beautiful, beautiful state.
John C Dvorak: I've been to 10,000 lakes. I've been there
numerous times. Yes.
Adam Curry: First of all, says our producer, Thomas, Don't
believe the hype. He's America's dad or Minnesota Nice. He's the
type that will have his administration send a lawsuit to
a single mother of four wrapped in a bow right before Christmas
for simply refusing to go along with his covid lockdown. He's
the type of good neighbor that sets up a snitch line for people
to report those that are not following his mandates. He is
the type of person that promotes having drag shows in our state
capitol building. Oh, that's entertaining. He made Minnesota
a trans sanctuary for those to be brought into the state and
have the gender reassignment surgeries without the parents
consent. He forces all schools to have tampons in the boys
restroom. So clearly Thomas from the from the Free State of
Minnesota, is not very happy with no Tim Walsh, now what the
thing that I find very odd is that the the mainstream M, 5m
they are crediting him with coming up with the weird term,
yes.
John C Dvorak: This is a, this is a very common this is
everybody says that yes, yes. And, in fact, I think even if
you go to his wiki page, you'll see that
Adam Curry: well, because Wikipedia is, of course, the
book of knowledge.
John C Dvorak: Well, true propaganda, just beside the
point. Let's
Adam Curry: see what NBC does here. This morning, the
Unknown: new Democratic ticket is off and running vice
president Kamala Harris and her new running mate, Minnesota
Governor Tim Walz setting out on a swing state tour. Why walls?
Sources tell NBC News The two had strong chemistry when they
met last Sunday. Harris, sources say, was swayed in part by walls
is biography,
Adam Curry: swayed by his biography,
Unknown: walls also repeating that now popular attack line
that first got him attention among many Democrats, these guys
are creepy and, yes, just weird as hell. But according to a new
poll, 71% of Americans say they don't know or have an opinion on
walls. So now the race is on from both sides to define him.
Adam Curry: That's also something that is not very well
or discussed at all on the mainstream is name recognition.
This is always a thing that they that they add in like, Oh, you
have to name recognition. Name wreck. No one. No one was
talking about Tim waltz, except Kara Swisher, who said he would
be a horrible pick. But I'm sure by the time pivot comes out on
Friday, he'll be a great pick. There's no doubt, because she is
the most wishy washy of them all. Here's here's. NPR, yeah,
Unknown: he's the one that coined the phrase weird, or the
viral meme weird, in describing Donald Trump and JD Vance. So
tell us about Tim Walz. Who is he? Well, he's
Minnesota Governor. He was born and raised in rural Nebraska.
He's in his second term as Minnesota Governor. He's the
head of the head of the Democratic Governors
Association. So there's some thought that he has some ability
to raise some money, bring some cash to the ticket as well. He's
a veteran of the Army National Guard, and, you know, we know he
didn't really know Harris very well before these past couple of
weeks, but impressed her. And he does have these connections on
Capitol Hill, so he's also kind of a governing pick as well.
And, you know, really, as noted him coining this phrase, weird.
A lot of this is about messaging. He's very good at it.
And he's really somebody who, two weeks ago, was not on the
tips of people's lips for who could get this job, but clearly,
you know, talked his way
into it. With that and with his personality, talked
Adam Curry: his way into it, with his personality. Ah, this
is dynamite. Well, of course, even we were convinced that it
would not be waltz. I mean, I still held on for a hopeful Wes
Moore, just to give Moe the benefit. But that didn't happen,
and Shapiro was what everyone thought would be the pick. And
that didn't happen. Here's CNN. I just think it
Unknown: was weird. It turned out not to be as a false a note
as I thought it might be, to do this roll out in Shapiro's home
state, if you're not going to pick Shapiro, they could have
done this roll out in Michigan. They could have done this roll
out in Wisconsin, someplace where there wasn't one of the
finalists wasn't from, so it wouldn't seem like a, you know,
in your face kind of move. But also, even if it's a second
order or third order, you know, issue, the fact that a lot of
people sometimes boosted by the Trump campaign, we're now
learning, but a lot of people in the Democratic Party and on the
very online guys, Diane, jeez, singled out Shapiro because he's
Jewish, and they did single him out because he's Jewish. He
doesn't have any positions on Israel that are different from
any other people he's competing with or from Kamala Harris. But
the whole genocide Josh thing, the fact that Walt seemed seems
like the safer pick than Shapiro, tells you something
about the problems running through the Democratic Party.
Democratic Party.
Adam Curry: I mean, this, this has to be sabotaged. There's
just this guy has so much nasty garbage hanging off of him.
John C Dvorak: It's good. I think there's, there's an
element of that. But I do have some comment about the Shapiro
non pick, because it was lined up. That's what they were going
to do in Pennsylvania? Yes, and I was totally convinced it was
going to be Shapiro. But What? What? It turns out, this has not
been discussed except very obscurely, and you'll never find
it. Shapiro was for school vouchers, and the teachers union
basically put their foot down. So you're not picking this guy.
Oh,
Adam Curry: I believe that. Yeah, of course, that's not
discussed. Why? Why bring any information to the people that
would be wrong? Yeah, and they're pretty powerful. That
lady who screams and yells, what's her
John C Dvorak: name? Oh, from two both the groups have ladies
that scream they see the California or the NT, the
National Teachers Association, and the other one, they both
have screamers. Now the thing is, the Shapiro did speak at the
event, and I have to say, and I can see why they call him the
Jewish Obama. He has the same cadence. He does the same
structure. He does the 12345, repeating himself in a certain
kind of a way that very Obama esque. Obviously, there's a
speaking coach that teaches this, and he's, he's really
good, but no, he's
Adam Curry: out well. So here, here's some, some, some of the
nasty dirt.
John C Dvorak: By the way, he can't be too happy.
Unknown: He's joyful. He's not happy. He's joyful. There's a
big difference. Big difference. Big difference. He
John C Dvorak: can't be too joyful. I don't think he's
joyful.
Adam Curry: Here's another thing that's a problem for him. Alex,
Unknown: critics are also blasting Tim Walz for saying
they are saying that he failed to prevent a massive covid 19
fraud scheme that ensnared the state of Minnesota, the
Minnesota government. What's the latest on that? Well,
Diane, what's interesting, this is one of the largest covid era
fraud cases that we know of thus far, federal charges filed
against some 70 individuals basically saying that they took
advantage of two different covid era relief programs to the tune
of about $250 million now it's important to note that the
governor Walz has not been charged or or that even there
haven't even been accusations that he was somehow involved in
this, but the criticism is that he appointed the folks that were
overseeing the handing out of these funds. I can say that an
audit done of the doling out the disbursement of these funds.
Adam Curry: There's this guy trying time to dance around it.
He
John C Dvorak: did. Why this guy can't just get it blurted out?
Is he a professional? Oh, yeah, it gets worse. They
Unknown: can do better, and that any responsibility in that falls
at his feet. But again, this is something that he has not been
wrapped up in he's not, he's not charged, or, or, or faces any
charges or stemming from, from, from, from this case, yeah, no,
Adam Curry: it's dirt, and it's not good for him. Now he does
have the trans kids. This was an unbelievable report, because he,
he, he sounded like a mainstream he,
Unknown: yeah, because he,
Adam Curry: because he turned his his state into a sanctuary
state for kids who want to have transgender surgery without
their parents permission, not a very popular thing. I don't
think anywhere anymore. And listen to this child abuse also
Unknown: standing in that. Sea of people, a parent, transparent
about his family. My partner, Gretchen, Oh, I
Adam Curry: love transparent. You're transparent. You're a
transparent. So transparent, you're transparent. Parent,
Unknown: transparent about his family.
My partner, Gretchen and I are here today.
Adam Curry: Can't even say wife. Can't even say wife. Has to say,
my partner, okay, maybe he's not married, but you know what?
John C Dvorak: I mean, he's like, probably married. I mean,
this the kid that is. This the six year old. Yeah, this is so
pathetic about
Unknown: his family. My partner, Gretchen, and I are here today
because we are parents of a trans child.
Their child is six years old, and she was as excited to be at
a boring capital on spring break as any six year old kid could be
squirming and fidgeting her way through speeches, hardly aware
her existence as why her parents drove five hours today to speak
publicly.
Adam Curry: This is a great setup, hardly aware for
existence, but she knows she's trans. Speak publicly. It's
Unknown: 100% personal. I mean, the safety, the happiness of our
child is, is it couldn't be more personal Asher. Why
are we here today for trans right, for her rights to be, Oh,
her, yeah, as you can see from this,
Adam Curry: this breaks my heart. They've psyoped This kid
into believing the kid is trans, and I'm here for trans six years
old. 6pm six years old. That's heartbreaking. What these people
are doing.
John C Dvorak: Well, here I want to play just this the Minnesota
Attorney General. This is the clip, which kind of is a little
background around on this whole thing. They they're really trans
nuts up there in Minnesota this, m n, a G,
Adam Curry: M N, a G, got it? Because, let's
Unknown: be clear, this is life affirming and life saving?
Health care,
when our children tell us who they are, it is our job as grown
ups to listen and to believe them. Please clap. That's what
it means to be a good parent. Well,
Adam Curry: John, you and I are both parents, and by the way,
may I congratulate? Oh no,
John C Dvorak: and we're again. I love the term grown ups. Oh
yeah, that's
Unknown: Bucha 12. Yeah.
Adam Curry: I would like to congratulate you on 40 years of
matrimony, and they never had a fight. I thought it was 4036 oh
yeah, no, it's four. Yes, 3636 and Mimi came down to celebrate.
John C Dvorak: She's on her way.
Adam Curry: She's on her way, clear the decks, she's on her
way. What are you guys doing tonight?
John C Dvorak: Depends on what time she gets here. Well, don't
Adam Curry: you have a reservation at a swanky
restaurant?
John C Dvorak: You know, she's picked up this weird, oh, the
food allergy, yeah, a wheat thing ever since, a covid, which
really cracked the it's very difficult to eat at any
restaurants without her getting sick. You're cooking for her,
yeah, I can cook better in most places.
Adam Curry: I know you can. So what are you cooking?
John C Dvorak: I've kind of fallen back on cooking filet
mignon, roast, mac
Adam Curry: and cheese,
John C Dvorak: mac and cheese, mac and cheese. Happy
anniversary.
Adam Curry: Happy anniversary.
John C Dvorak: So that's good, man. I'm
Adam Curry: happy for you guys. 36 years that's nothing to
nothing, nothing to joke about. It's nothing
John C Dvorak: to sneeze at. So back to this woman, kids at six
don't know kids are going to tell you what they what they
are. JC, when he was, I think this is a good story. JC, was
three characters, yes, besides being himself, a little kid,
about 678, years old, yes, he was also a robot, yes. And my
favorite, Jacques, the maitre. D,
Adam Curry: hmm. Which I'm sure you took advantage of, just like
he was trying. Oh
John C Dvorak: yeah. Well, he would, when he was shocked the
Mater D, yeah, and he was roaming around with it, with a
napkin over his over his arm, go,
Adam Curry: forearm, Go, get me this from the kitchen. Jock, he
would,
John C Dvorak: he would go do all kinds of errands. But he was
also the robot. He was also a third character, which I think
was a cat. Oh, yeah, I
Adam Curry: never heard about the cat, but I yeah, I can't
remember the
John C Dvorak: third character, because it wasn't as strong a
character as jock and the robot. But this is what are we supposed
to do at that point? Oh, he's a he's a reason. He's a mater. D,
let's make him a major. D, what if he. Wanted to be a girl for
five minutes. What we're gonna do? I mean, this is ridiculous.
Kids do this stuff and you're not. You take it to a point you
don't take it so seriously that you chop their nuts off.
Adam Curry: Okay? No, no, you don't. But in today's world, you
know, remember, we're all still incredibly traumatized by covid.
So people are still strange. We have to keep remembering this
stuff happened during covid That made and remember my, my my hair
girl and she says that there's a very high correlation between
people who were wearing masks in the car by themselves for three
years, who also have trans kids. It's, it's part of the same
trauma that has been, just been been injected into them. It's
like, it is a four. It's like, MK Ultra. I really think it's,
it's related.
John C Dvorak: Well, it's definitely weird. Oh, there you
go. And I hate to use that word I mean. And if you if I say it
again, if I say weird again, call me out and make me stop.
Okay, because I don't like the word at all anymore, so I'll say
peculiar.
Adam Curry: Yes, that's a good one. Peculiar. That's peculiar
is that the best word we can come up with, there's got to be
a better one, strange.
John C Dvorak: Let
Adam Curry: me see synonyms for let me see weird,
John C Dvorak: similars for weirdness. Let's look at what
they could be weird, okay, but while you're looking that up, I
will, I will say that.
Adam Curry: Listen to this. There's this. Okay, go ahead.
You'll say this, and I'll give you some, some other words.
Really use screwy, bizarre, bizarre, curious, I like
curious, erratic, erratic, quirky, quirky, quirky, quirky,
off the wall, off beat queer, huh? That's interesting. That's
queer.
John C Dvorak: Maybe that's what they're trying to inject,
bizarro,
Adam Curry: outlandish, wacky, with or without an H,
Unknown: kinky.
Adam Curry: I like, I like quirky. Now that's quirky is
good. Quirky, unique anyway. So I realize now that because I
have, I have made a habit of watching these zoom calls, these
phony baloney zoom calls where they say, Oh, this is the
biggest zoom call audience ever. We know it's not true. We know
that you don't have 100 or 200,000 people on a zoom call.
You may have people watching a stream, but that's not all on
the Zoom call. So there's some disingenuity there, but Tim
waltz was on the white dudes for Harris, the crackers for Kamala
call. And I have to say, I like this guy for one reason. He's
highly editable, and then he speaks in bursts, and you and
there's enough pause you can you can slap stuff together. So I
took his four minutes and broke it down to one with the punch
line at the end,
Unknown: I'm going to echo that message, that message of hope.
My oldest daughter's name is Hope. That's because my wife and
I spent seven years trying to get pregnant, needed fertility
treatments, things like IVF, things that they would ban. And
so once again, I keep talking about this idea. You're right.
These guys are the anti freedoms. I grew up in a small
town, 400 people, 24 kids in the class, 12 cousins. And I hear JD
Vance trying to talk about what a small town is. There's one
golden rule in a small town. Those of you under from a small
town, mind your own damn business. We don't need it. I
don't know who's asking for this crazy stuff that they're pushing
who's asking to ban birth control?
Adam Curry: No one.
John C Dvorak: No, no. He's full of crap. He's a liar this.
Adam Curry: No one. No one is asking for that. Who's
Unknown: asking to raise the price of insulin?
Adam Curry: No one. No one is asking for that. No one. Tim,
Unknown: I'm a legion Club member, and none of the dudes
there are. What's
Adam Curry: the Legion club?
John C Dvorak: I have no idea. I've never American Legion.
American Legion.
Adam Curry: They said Legion club.
John C Dvorak: I think he's, that's, I think he shortened it,
but it's got, it's got to be the American Legion for, it's for
veterans.
Unknown: I'm a legion Club member, and none of the dudes
there are asking to cut veterans benefits like Project 2025.
Does. Oh, really. So look, we need to point out
Adam Curry: he's a big look guy, by the way, he's really good at
the look like, look. So look,
Unknown: look, we need to point out to this. The reason rural
America hurts is because robber barons like these guys have come
in there. They undermine the basic social safety net that
makes this country great. So this is preaching to the choir,
but the choir needs to sing. No,
Adam Curry: this guy's as good as Kamala. This like that. This
is preaching to the choir, but The choir's gotta sing.
Unknown: We're not in this alone. The rest of the world
needs us to be here. These guys throwing our names.
Adam Curry: We're not in this alone. The rest of the world
needs us to be here. This guy is good.
Unknown: This is preaching to the choir, but the choir needs
to sing. We're not in this alone. The rest of the world.
Needs us to be here, these guys throwing our NATO allies under
the bus, the idea that they don't care what happens in the
rest of
Adam Curry: the world, this is completely not true. The he's
basing this on Trump saying if they don't pay, we're not going
to protect so it's not same as throwing your NATO Allies under
the bus not
Unknown: addressing climate change that's going to impact
communities that are less fortunate than anyone else,
though
Adam Curry: that's also not true. They are addressing
climate change. They just don't believe in the hoax, but they
are addressing it,
Unknown: not addressing climate change. That's going to impact
communities that are less fortunate than anyone else.
Those are the things it has to do. We have communities that are
going to pay the price because we don't address it. And for one
thing, don't ever, don't ever shy away from our progressive
values. One person's socialism is another person's
neighborliness. Just do the damn work. Yeah, and that's
Adam Curry: what's going to tank him forever. He's basically
saying one person's No. He's literally saying one person's
socialism is the other person's neighborliness. No, socialism is
socialism. And if you, if you don't understand the
distinction, then just you're dumb.
John C Dvorak: So, so I have some, I have some wall stuff
too, but I want to stick with the Zoom calls for a minute.
Okay, stay with the Zoom call. But I haven't at this at the at
the rollout, when he was introduced,
Adam Curry: I was, well, I was moving on, all right. Well,
we'll do Your will do? I'll come back to the Zoom calls after
your waltz stuff. What you got? Okay,
John C Dvorak: so he comes out and lies about, I have two
clips. First, he lies about Trump. Okay, which is bound to
do, sorry.
Unknown: Donald Trump sees the world a little differently than
us. First of all, he doesn't know the first thing about
service. He doesn't have time for it, because he's too busy
serving himself again and again and again. Trump weakens our
economy to strengthen his own hand.
Right? He must lost money.
Adam Curry: He's not doing very well at that Gambit. Is he?
Unknown: Trump weakens our economy to strengthen his own
hand. He mocks our laws. He sows chaos and division, and that's
to say nothing of his record as president. He froze in the face
of the covid crisis. He drove our economy into the ground. And
make no mistake, violent crime was up under Donald Trump.
That's not even counting the crimes he committed.
Do you think he writes that himself?
John C Dvorak: I think he does. That's not bad at this point. I
think he does. I mean, eventually, maybe he's going to
bring in some pros, but he is, because I've listened to enough
of him, he's got a pretty good style of it's a kind of a
switcheroo punchline style that, yeah, I think it's just natural
to him. He's an asshole. So
Unknown: John, John, you sound like Twitter? Yes,
John C Dvorak: I do. I've been on Twitter. This is him now. He
goes against, he goes up against. He starts condemning
Vance. Oh, okay.
Unknown: Vice President Kamala Harris takes her new running
mate, Governor, well, this is
Wallace versus Vance.
John C Dvorak: Is that the clip you want? Walls versus Oh, okay,
yeah, you can play that. But that's how I thought I had a
different clip. Well, should I not play this? And to go back to
the zoom, you might as well play to get it out of
Unknown: the way, Vice President Kamala Harris takes her new
running mate, Governor Tim Walz, to the battleground states of
Wisconsin and Michigan, but Trump's VP pick, Senator JD
Vance, shows up in the same exact cities to ramp up his
counter messaging entities. White House correspondent. Iris
Tao has more
in their first full day as running mates vice president
Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz came painting
in Wisconsin and later in Michigan, and
in 90 days, the nation will know Coach walls by a new title,
Vice President walls, who's just tapped as Harris' VP pick the
day before, continues to highlight his background as a
veteran for
24 years, I proudly wear the uniform of this nation, the
former President Trump's running mate, Senator J, D, Vance
traveled to the same exact cities where Harrison walls are
campaigning. Vance criticizing what he calls open border
policies,
and I heard just earlier about a criminal who was deported from
this community who came back in and then raped an 11 year old
girl and
responding to the attack line,
Adam Curry: taking the high road, huh, calling him weird.
Look, I got my wife
Unknown: here. I've got three beautiful kids at home. I'm a
normal guy who wants to live the American dream and wants all of
you and your kids to be able to live the American dream. If
those people want to call me weird, I think it's a badge
of honor. Earlier today, Vance landed in Wisconsin just minutes
after Harris touched down at the same airport. Vance walked to
Air Force Two then told reporters,
I just wanted to check out my future plane
the Harris campaign on Wednesday. That's
Adam Curry: not. Fair, they cut off the better part of that. He
said, I just want to check out my future plane. And I figured
you of the press will be lonely because she never stops to talk
to you. That's what
Unknown: he said. Then told reporters,
I just, I just wanted to check out my future plane. The
Harris campaign on Wednesday said it had raised $36 million
since announcing walls as the VP pick. According to a new memo,
the campaign will focus on the so called blue wall states like
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, and use walls as a key
asset in appealing to rural voters.
I think a better I'm sorry, I
John C Dvorak: was going to just say make two comments about Yes.
First of all wall said in that one speech where he talked about
carrying arms in the in combat, which he never did, he said he
was in the army. He never was in the army, national army, the
National Guard is not the Army. Army. It's different, for sure,
it's totally different. Not if you were in the Coast Guard, you
were in the army, you're not. No. The other thing is this
coach thing, which really bugs me when it doesn't come up as
much as it should. Supposedly, it was the coach of the football
team, and the football team went from win list one year to the
net the state championship. He was not the coach of that
football team. He was the linebacker coach, a linebacker
coach for a high school football team, is probably just one step
above water. Boy, hello. So that's another example.
Adam Curry: Everybody. Check falls. Come on,
John C Dvorak: tech. Check false. It wasn't. JCD,
Unknown: yeah, that's
Adam Curry: good, by the way. I think a better word is cookie.
Those guys are, that's
John C Dvorak: what I like. Cookie we haven't heard since
the days of 77 Sunset Strip, that's all your old timers are.
Adam Curry: What was 77 Sunset Strip,
John C Dvorak: it was a, it was a black and white, late 50s,
early 60s. I think TV show about detectives, and there was this
guy Ed kooky Burns, who was actually also a singer. Oh,
great. And kooky was a very popular term in that era.
Adam Curry: Well, I'm bringing it back kooky. I think kooky is
is cool. Kooky is cool. So anyway, so I watched the I
watched the Zoom calls. But I just love this concept, because
it's so dumb. We had the comics, comics for Kamala. I sent a link
to Joe Rogan, and I say, what is this? He says, It's Cox for
camel. Ah, okay, got it. It was organized by Eric Swalwell. The
only thing that was actually kind of funny was John Hamm came
in at the beginning. Who was, you know, arguably one of the
biggest stars in Hollywood and and the host from The Daily
Show, Paul Mercurio, another funny guy. He did like, Oh, John
Hamm, you're on the wrong call. And just cut him off. That was,
that was kind of funny. So then we had in in order of
appearance, Swalwell, the funniest guy in California,
Donny Kathy Griffin, sia John Pritzker, another comic, Adam
pally representative, Maxwell frost, Nick's. Nick Offerman
actually have a clip of his if you want to hear it. Tiffany had
dish. She twerked bad. This was really hilarious. Mark Hamill
came back, and at this point, there's only 23,000 people at 39
minutes in who have watched this thing, Lake Bell John Stamos and
Matt friend. And Matt friend did a Howard. He did a decent
Howard, stern impersonation. That was kind of funny, but it
wasn't like hilarious Michigan State Senator Mallory McMorrow,
then Rosie O'Donnell, who was just moaning about her VRBO. Ed
Helms, Phoebe Robinson, Kathy Griffith came back in again.
Lisa Ann Walter and Tom Arnold. That was cringy. Kevin Nealon,
oh rip. Kevin Nealon, Jared Moskovitz, he's from Florida.
And George Wallace, and so by 90 minutes, there's only as less
than 21,000 people watching this fabulous zoom call. And here's
an example of the comedy, the comedic stylings here of Ben
Stiller on cucks for Kamala. I just want to
Unknown: let you know I'm gonna match your $150,000 donation.
Everybody's got to get out and vote and donate. And she's also
an historic candidate, you know, it's going to be the first woman
president, and that's incredibly exciting. And, you know, she's
Indian, she's black, she's everything you can be more than
one thing. It's incredible. You know, I'm Jewish and Irish. I
wish I was black every. A white, Jewish guy wishes he was black.
You know, it's just get out there and vote and donate and
like, take advantage. This is such an important time right
now, and this, this, this wave of energy that's happening. We
got to keep going with it. So please do everything you can.
Wave
John C Dvorak: areas. Wave
Adam Curry: of hilarious energy. I've got to play some of this
parody that Nick Offerman did
John C Dvorak: before you do that. I contacted mo facts, and
I also talked to Horowitz about this, every white Jew wants to
be black.
Unknown: And what did you learn? I
John C Dvorak: learned that actually mo had an interesting
take, because he said that a lot of young white Jews are into hip
hop and and they kind of want to be black in a certain kind of a
hip hop way. They ain't like us. See Drake and yes. And Horowitz
was just like, shake you. Just hear him shaking his head.
Adam Curry: He hung up, didn't? He went, I'm not listening.
John C Dvorak: He was a DM, so, DM,
Adam Curry: so Nick Offerman, do you know Nick often? I've never
seen this guy. He's got, yeah, yeah. He's got side burns like
that, Andy and Octo and knock, knock, knock. And he did his you
just tell me when you want to stop. Maybe after one verse,
you'll be done. He did a parody of Lee Green's, I'm proud to be
an American, which is Trump's signature song.
Unknown: When he bought the disabled and war heroes, I look
the other way. He said to march on the Capitol. Well, if the
President says it's okay and I don't mind sex with porn stars,
I'd do it too, if I had the guts. But when it comes to
fucking the furniture. Well, that's just fucking nuts. So I'm
proud to be a Kamala man who has quit the GOP comes. I just can't
abide a man who's tried the 34 felonies, and it's time to stand
up and face the facts that the men that I once cheered are a
bunch of wingnut white nationalists. Those guys are
fucking weird. All right,
Adam Curry: I'm gonna have to stop it here. I mean, this, it.
This is so, I mean, I pray, please don't make Kamala Harris
president, because this is the level of humor we'll have to
endure. It'll be, it'll be horrible. And it's,
John C Dvorak: I mean, even cussing, lot of cussing, oh,
Adam Curry: a lot of cussing. And then, and just to try and in
hopefulness, in hopefulness by the mainstream media without a
mean Morning Joe and
Unknown: fans of Saturday Night Live have a new role in mind for
actor Steve Martin. They want him to play the Democrats vice
presidential nominee Tim Walz in the upcoming season. It's
already confirmed that Maya Rudolph is returning this fall
to portray Kamala Harris. She won an Emmy for the role back in
2022 good. I do think that could work. Oh,
Adam Curry: he'd be fantastic, yeah, because you guys clearly,
clearly, are the party of humor. It's
John C Dvorak: amazing. So, yeah, well, he rejected the
idea, of
Adam Curry: course he did. So there was a very interesting
post on X from a woman named Laura Powell, and it's about the
money. And so Kamala Harris filed an updated Statement of
Candidacy, which is known as form two, to designate Tim waltz
as her running mate. But there's some things that have happened
here. She used Biden's personal candidate ID number instead of
her own, and the federal election committee records are
confusing at this point, her newly filed form two shows up on
Biden's personal FEC page. But if you look at the 2024,
election cycle, Biden is just erased and replaced with Harris,
as if he was never running for president in the first place. So
she has this whole rundown, and at a certain point, the 2324 FEC
record for Biden for president, aka Harris for president, is
linked to two presidential candidates. Both are named
Kamala Harris. So the synopsis of this and the whole rundown is
in the show notes. It's a win win for the for the Democrat
elites. Either way, if she somehow wins, then all of the
money, which you know, we know, is coming from very small
sources, but split up through act blue, we have some proof of
that keeps flowing to all of them, connected through the.
It's,
John C Dvorak: well, it's just to clarify, small number of
sorts, yeah,
Adam Curry: a small number, but, but a big but big, big numbers,
big,
John C Dvorak: big bucks, if you probably overseas so China. If
she wins,
Adam Curry: then all the money, of course, goes back to everyone
who donated win. You know, favors. That's how it works. If
she loses, then this $310 million they have, which was,
includes the campaign cash the original Biden for President
Horde, they can then dole out to themselves over time, however
they wish, and they don't have to deal with Biden anymore. So
they just get to keep all the money. It's it's it. I mean, I
don't really understand it, but that's why I put on the show
notes. Everybody can look at it,
John C Dvorak: yeah, I'd like to understand it better, yeah. I
Adam Curry: mean, it's boring for me to just read it to you.
So that's why I'm not gonna, right, uh,
John C Dvorak: Biden's got to get some VIG out of that.
Adam Curry: Well, you know, Trump is out there saying that
Biden is so let me do it. Maybe. Do I have a clip of that? Let me
see. I think I may have a clip. Let
Unknown: me see if this is it. Generally, we don't bother to
read the at former President Donald Trump's deranged social
Adam Curry: media. But this time, it's groovy. But
Unknown: this one is so unstable and so unhinged, it's important
that Americans maybe know just how imbalanced the Republican
nominee is. So here goes Trump writes in full quote, this is
the most radical left duo in American history. There has
never been anything like it, and there never will be again crazy.
Come up blah is indeed crazy. I hear there is a big movement to
bring back crooked Joe. What are the chances that crooked Joe
Biden, the worst president in the history of the US whose
presidency was unconstitutionally stolen from
him by come blah blah Barack Hussein, Obama, crazy, Nancy
Pelosi, shifty, Adam Schiff, crying. Chuck Schumer and others
on the lunatic left crashes the Democratic National Convention
and tries to take back the nomination, beginning with
challenging me to another debate he feels that he made a
historically tragic mistake by handing over the US presidency,
a coup to the people in the world he most hates, and he
wants it back now.
Adam Curry: Now that's not that crazy. I like that post. Can you
imagine Biden starting off the DNC by saying, I got robbed. I
got hairy legs. I got robbed. He
John C Dvorak: hasn't got the guts to do that, but it's a
funny idea, because there's some thought that, for example, this
came up in a recent one of these, one of these shows on TV,
the idea that Biden was put into the position long before the
convention to do the debate, knowing he was going to fail So
they get rid of him. It was all part of a grand scheme, maybe
orchestrated by Obama, because he wanted to, you know, gets
back in, in some sort of power position. And so you the idea
was to bring Biden out to debate Trump, and don't Jack him up,
because where was jacked up Joe, because we expected him to be
like he was at the at the State of the Union, State of the
Union, where he's all yelling and screaming and all jacked up.
He wasn't even close to that. They may have even given him a
set, you know, some sort of a donor, a barbiturate for all you
know. You know, here's your shot, Joe, huh? And the idea was
so he would have an epic fail so they could get rid of him, even
though he took a little while before he took took the hint. So
it's all within the realm of possibility. Well, we'll see.
He's been jobbed, is the theory he's been job was suckered,
because if they let this thing go, and that had the debate
until after Trump totally
Adam Curry: got suckered into that, yeah, well, and also,
look, I mean to say, No, I won't debate you before the
convention. It would have been a whole mess. I can see his
thinking. But yeah, they, they, that was a check, you know, not
checkmate, but check they
John C Dvorak: also make sense, if you think about that, with
that theory in mind, 40 to think about the way the CNN, the two
stooges at CNN, who are Trump haters, both of them, at some
point, I think, called Trump Hitler. They were so neutral
about the whole thing, and they just, did they do any fact
checking, nothing. They just let the thing go. It all
Adam Curry: go. Oh, what you mean? The media is in on it. Oh
no. Oh no, don't say it. Here's a, just a quick clip from
O'Keeffe media. OMG. O'Keefe Media Group proving back,
proving how this act blue scam works. It's, it's quite simple,
actually.
Unknown: Hello, everyone. I'm sitting here with my mother and
I decided to take a look at the election watch to see if my
mother's name was safe and secure. What her name. Being
used for contributions, and we found out that she was being her
name was being used over 30 times from Bernie Sanders
contributions, Mom, did you make any contributions to Bernie
Sanders Absolutely not.
Angie Jones, from Indiana, submitted a video of her mother,
Alberta Jones, who goes by Mrs. Robert Jones, saying she did not
donate to act blue or a Bernie Sanders pack, as the FEC records
show,
from 2019 to 2024 so
you're positive you didn't make any I'm very positive I have
bank records that show where my contributions went. Great. So
you would turn those records over to me to prove that you
didn't make these contributions. Yes, indeed.
Alberta Jones gave O'Keefe media her consent to show these bank
records proving during the time period of 2019 no donations were
given to act blue at all.
How does that make you feel that your name was used? I feel
violated.
Adam Curry: And by the way the Go Red or whatever Jared Kushner
is running, I'm sure they do the same thing. It would be crazy to
think they don't. It's, it's money laundering, yes, well, and
but we know that the Chi coms are doing that with Obama, with
the credit cards. This is an old, old scam.
John C Dvorak: But of course, it has. They've done nothing to
stop it. No,
Adam Curry: are you crazy? No, we're not gonna do that.
Everybody loves money. I only one more clip, and I want to
move off of camel and and waltz, because I'm very tired of it,
and it's all anyone seems to be talking about. But this is very
weak. This shows an incredible weakness by the Vice President
when she's heckled by some pro Palestine protesters during her
speech, she like Obama, I will say, although the media mainly
cut most of his protest, his his heckling out, we demonstrated
that throughout, throughout the years, that would never air the
Sometimes it went on for minutes. Yeah, no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no.
John C Dvorak: Like that. You're in my house. You take a drink.
You got a drink from here. You're
Adam Curry: my house. Wait, where is we? Have that clip
somewhere, don't
John C Dvorak: we? You're in my house. You're in my house. Let
Unknown: me see
John C Dvorak: drinking my booze.
Adam Curry: You're in my house. Obama in my house. Here it is,
hey,
Unknown: listen,
hey, you're in my house. Hey, game on you. You
shouldn't be doing this.
We have a lot of jingles with that.
Adam Curry: I think the Batman is even funnier. Here we go.
Hey,
Unknown: no,
I've told you that you're in my house. If you're eating the hors
d'oeuvres and drinking the booze, we'll have to take you
out to the Batmobile. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Atomic
batteries.
Adam Curry: Where? Are these guys who make this stuff all
right anyway? Comma, not as funny, but she cannot handle
hecklers tax
Unknown: breaks to billionaires and big corporations. He intends
to cut Social Security and Medicare. He intends to
surrender our fight against the climate crisis, and he intends
to end the Affordable Care Act. You know what? If you want
Donald Trump to win, then say that otherwise. I'm speaking,
okay,
Adam Curry: oh, no. So if you want Donald Trump to win, say
that otherwise, I'm speaking. I have the microphone.
John C Dvorak: What were they saying?
Adam Curry: They were saying, hey, hey, hey, ho, Kamala,
you're a ho. They were no, no. They were saying, you know,
what's the chant is, we see what you did. You know, it's
basically telling her that she doesn't care about Palestine.
Unknown: That's what. That's what. It's very typical,
John C Dvorak: very well. This is going to be a great
convention. It should be fun,
Adam Curry: yeah? But now, now that we've all seen that she
can't handle hecklers without going all school, Marm on it,
I'm pretty sure that that there will be all kinds of people in
in the crowd. Now, that's what I would do. You
John C Dvorak: know what I mean? Yeah, she doesn't have, yeah,
she doesn't have any heckler skills, because she hasn't had
to deal with them.
Adam Curry: Okay, I want to move to what I'm going to start
calling the social media wars, because that's what it's turning
into. And we need to switch over to the United Kingdom, where
it's unbelievable to Americans. It's unbelievable what is taking
place with these with these riots, with. Much depending on
where you stand, are anti immigration riots or far right
hooligans, more race riots, race riots. That's another good one.
And this is quite the challenge for the for the new government,
and issue, if you recall, they had a meeting. That's where we
left everything. And here is the prime minister after the
meeting, after the meeting which they were going to have, and
have a big meeting. And this is what came out of the big meeting
Unknown: this morning, which was an opportunity that I took to
thank the police for their work over the last few days to
express my support for the police officers who have been
injured and the communities impacted by this mindless
thuggery, for a number of actions that came out of the
meeting. The first is we will have a standing army of
specialist officers, public duty officers, so we'll have enough
officers to deal with this where we need them. The second is,
we'll ramp up criminal justice. There have already been hundreds
of arrests. Some have appeared in court. This morning, I have
asked for early consideration of the earliest naming and
identification of those involved in the process who will feel the
full force of the law. And thirdly, I've been absolutely
clear that the criminal law applies online as well as
offline, and I'm assured that that's the approach that is
being taken, whatever the apparent motivation. This is not
protest. It is pure violence, and we will not tolerate attacks
on mosques or our Muslim communities. So the full force
of the law will be visited on all those who are identified as
having taken part in these activities. In relation to the
police, I am absolutely clear that we will have the officers
we need, where we need them to deal with this disorder, and
that is why the standing army has been set up, specialist
standing army ready to be deployed to support communities
on the question of prisons. Firstly, we're monitoring it on
a daily basis. I'm appalled we've been put in this position
by the previous government. That is even a discussion. It's even
a question that you have to ask me, but we will make this work
and ensure that we've got the places that are needed to bring
the perpetrators swiftly to justice. So on both those
fronts, I'm confident that we can absolutely make sure that
those engaged in this activity do feel the full force of the
law. So
Adam Curry: there's a couple of things that really stand out
here. One is the term standing army. You know, this is what we
would call a violation of habeas corpus. In the United States, we
have constitutional laws against deploying army and even calling
it a standing army is quite severe, and they have indeed
been deployed
Unknown: in Plymouth on the southwest coast of England. Six
people were arrested and several officers injured by projectiles
and fireworks launched by far right crowds, police are warning
that anyone participating in the riots will face prison time. We
feel as community members deeply affronted by this completely
unnecessary violent disorder. A conviction for violent disorder
usually carries a hefty term of imprisonment. Prime
Minister Keir Starmer says a standing army of 6000 specialist
officers has been put on duty to confront the unrest. Officials
say much of it has been instigated by disinformation and
hate speech being spread online. It's
spread out across telegram channels, many of which were
actually created in the aftermath of covid 19, where you
saw anti lockdown and have really been repurposed in recent
years, in particular to target migrants. The
riots broke out last Tuesday in the town of South Court near
Liverpool, after internet users falsely blamed attack that
killed three young girls on a Muslim asylum seeker breaking
protocol. In a bid to counter the misinformation, a British
court identified the arrested suspect as a 17 year old citizen
born in the UK to Christian parents from Rwanda.
Adam Curry: So you see the move is that's being made here. Is
very, very clear. The move is, oh, you know, they're targeting
immigrants on social media. Oh no, oh no. They're hurting their
feelings on social media. Oh no. This is a very deliberate act
that is taking place here. This is the UK Director of Public
Prosecution. The
Unknown: offense of incitement to racial hatred involves
publishing or distributing material which is insulting or
abusive, which is intended to or likely to start racial hate. To
it. So if you retweet that, then you'll be publishing that, and
then potentially you're committing that offense. And we
do have dedicated police officers who are scouring social
media. Their job is to look for this material and then follow up
with identification, arrests and so forth. So it's a really,
really serious people might think they're not doing anything
harmful, they are, and the consequences will be visited
upon them. So,
Adam Curry: I mean, it's mind boggling, but they are taking
what's happening on the streets and people, you know, fighting
and throwing stuff and burning stuff and rioting, they're now
just completely focused on online, online, online, online,
and if you say something hateful or something that hurts
somebody's feelings and they complain about it, you will get
arrested. This is a Brit who got arrested for posting a comment
on Facebook
Unknown: the times 20 to 314, 40, arresting you on suspicion
of improper use of the electronics communications
network and seven Communications Act. Okay, so you do not have to
say that that main harmony one question second later on for
anything you do say, maybe given their evidence, do you
understand that? So I'm actually being arrested? Okay, that's a
police station, right? Okay, this is in relation to some
comments that you've made on the Facebook page,
Facebook, Prime Minister,
we need to ask you some questions about that.
You said I was going to be arrested under some more
information, but I'm going to be arrested for posting on Facebook
some comments that are offensive obscene, and people have made a
complaint about that, and it's, can you tell me what this
comment was? So
what am
I going to be locked up for tonight? Or,
Adam Curry: okay, so you just get arrested. They come to your
house, they arrest you. Now for some insight on this, on what
you can and cannot post, we turn to the black belt barrister, who
has a he's very famous in the UK. He's a YouTuber, and he has
a little rundown of the issues here, which is all based on the
UK communications law of 2003
Unknown: can you be prosecuted for just sharing content of
these riots online? I've been tagged a number of times now in
response to the Sky News article regarding the director pulley
prosecutions about sharing content of these riots. So let's
take a little bit of a look at that in follow up to my previous
videos. If it were just a recording of the overall event
and it wasn't one specific on one side or another, now that's
difficult these days, because some of these are very much one
sided. Then if it were just a general video of the overall
circumstances, then that is less likely to be stirring up any
kind of hatred. But if it was a very specific video with
specific wording which is deliberately intended within
that video to stir up hatred in the first place, and you're
sharing it, and it is likely to stir up that hatred in the same
way, then by redistributing republishing, you might well be
committing that offense, just as in a defamation case, if you
republish a statement that was originally defamatory, you are
republishing a defamatory statement. You can then be like
liable for that defamatory statement yourself. So this very
much is an offense, and there are, well, several offenses,
because under the section the use of words or behavior written
material, or publishing or distributing written material or
playing a recording or broadcast and so on. And so, as I said in
my previous videos, they are obviously taking all of this
very seriously. So my stark warning to you a couple of
videos ago was just refrain from commenting if you're not sure of
what you're saying. Refrain from reposting, retweeting,
republishing whatever videos that might well amount to this
kind of offense
Adam Curry: for people who come from the retweets are not
endorsement land that is not available to you as a defense in
the UK, this is the line in the communications law of 2003
electronic communications which are grossly offensive or
indecent, obscene or menacing or false for the purpose of causing
annoyance, inconvenience or needless anxiety to someone
else. I mean, you might as well just turn off your computer.
John C Dvorak: But Well, the word annoyance is the key here,
of course,
Adam Curry: but that's not even necessary, because this is how
far they're going. This is the conversation now in the UK, in
Britain, this is Good Morning Britain. Listen to this as the
Unknown: police brace themselves for more riots today, in the
coming days, the role social media has played is under the
spotlight with. Calls for the big tech giants to take action,
but should access be limited by government police? If rights
happening in a place, what would that even look like? Well,
the government could use what's called packet filtering. So
that's when access to sites and specific content is blocked by
Internet service providers. But if they did that, it would be
unprecedented here in the UK, with restrictions like this,
only seen in author authoritarian countries like
North Korea, Russia and China, France's President Macron raised
the idea as something that it might consider last year in
response to riots there, but it actually never materialized. So
is
it time to consider doing that? Here we're joined now by
broadcaster el Sala, he who thinks social media is vital to
freedom of speech, and entrepreneur Anna Veleta, who
says a temporary shutdown could stop the spread of information.
It might work. I think
so. I think so. I think we should stop it. It's only a
temporary measure in order to limit the spread of inflammatory
information, misinformation as well across the United Kingdom
at this point and this I think we should focus in keeping
people safe and communities safe as well. So my point is just to
stop it. And I think we consider that in 2011 when David Cameron
was a prime minister, he did consider imports of Parliament
at times when there's a need for it to further occur. And as you
mentioned before, France as well, last year, as recent as
July, last year, President Macron mentioned that we should
potentially consider that and for the protection of public,
you know.
Adam Curry: So they are massaging the British public
into accepting this. Yeah, we should just shut it down. We
should just shut down social media because it's dangerous.
You know, you're hurting people's feelings. You're being
an annoyance. And then Elon Musk uncloaks, and I'm starting to
see the Elon Musk that I always thought he is a man who wants
great power and and I think that he is moving a lot of people
think he's great. I don't think he's great at all. I don't like
what he's doing. He is riling it all up, and he's trying to be
Mr. Big man on campus. This is going to end in tears for us
here in America too,
Unknown: 1000s of additional police are flooding British
streets today after a week of race riots across the country,
far right
John C Dvorak: mobs have attacked people, mosques, even
immigration law offices. It's the biggest challenge today for
UK Prime Minister Kiir Starmer, who took office just a month
ago, already, he's in a standoff with Elon Musk about this issue.
Is
Unknown: there any sense that these riots are organized? Do
they appear to be organized in any way
the violence is organized in part by the English Defense
League or EDL? It's an anti Islam group that was thought to
be defunct, but clearly is not. They're tapping into existing
prejudices and amplifying them online. Elon Musk himself is
playing a role in this how? So
what's he been saying?
So musk, when he bought Twitter, he restored the accounts of some
far right figures who had been banned, including one of the
leaders of the English Defense League, a man who calls himself
Tommy Robinson. He's a fascist who's been in and out of prison.
He and musk have been interacting on X sharing
conspiracy theories. Mosque wrote to his nearly 200 million
followers that a UK civil war is inevitable, and he's also been
sort of taunting the prime minister here, Keir Starmer,
online accusing Starmer of having a two tier policing
system that treats white people unfairly. The UK government is
pleading with Musk to use his platform responsibly. Lives are
at stake here. He,
Adam Curry: I mean, he's, he's really, he's trying to make this
about him, which is, I think is troubling. Well,
John C Dvorak: I, I'm not buying this. I'm I hate this. Oh, I
said it, but you're taking uh, Kara swishers approach.
Adam Curry: You should be very ashamed, very ashamed of what
you're saying here. Not at all I'm not taking her approach.
That's, that's, you know what? That's really insulting, because
I'm not done with my presentation.
John C Dvorak: But if I I'm taking it from the point I have
to be I have to interrupt at some point. How, if the
presentation goes for another hour and you, you kind of
reverse course, maybe I would change my mind, but I, I'm not
completely into the idea that Elon is doing much more than
just supporting his own platform. Yes, because he's
younger, attack they're going to pull the plug on his platform,
and probably Facebook too in the UK, and he's not happy about
that, so he goes after the Prime Minister when
Adam Curry: I say it's a social media war. It's going to be
whose social media network runs in which country, if we look at
Turkey, although the. Good Morning Britain said, Oh, it's
like North Korea. No, it's like turkey. Elon Musk has been very,
very friendly to Erdogan, and Erdogan has allowed Twitter to
remain on this is what it's about to remain available in
Turkey because Elon has censored accounts that the Turkish
Government at Erdogan wants him to censor those who weren't on
board with Erdogan is the other social media company, Facebook,
digital
Unknown: fascism. That's what Turkey's president Recep Tayyip
Erdogan is calling Instagram's behavior after what he denounced
as censorship by the social media platform and implemented a
nationwide ban since Friday, while the government didn't
provide specific reasons, multiple Turkish media platforms
attributed the ban to Instagram removing images locals posted
paying homage to recently killed Hamas leader, Ismail hanier,
these companies, which promote all kinds of immorality,
prostitution and support for terrorist organizations under
the bracket of freedom, have openly declared war on the
glorious resistance of the Palestinian people
and their heroic sons in
the virtual world,
an estimated 50 to 60 million of Turkey's 85 million population
subscribe to Instagram, which serves as a platform for a wide
range of commercial activities, raising concerns for many
Turkish businesses. E commerce experts predict the ban could be
costing local businesses around 52 million Euros per day. So
Adam Curry: only Facebook is banned, and not Twitter. This is
the game that Elon's playing, and it's fine. You can say, oh,
Elon's great, until he until whatever interests him is not in
line with
John C Dvorak: you, what to what interests his his
Unknown: being, profitability being, no this. There's
John C Dvorak: money in this. There's money into getting rid
of Facebook. This
Adam Curry: is HL hunt. This is, this is, you know, HL Hunt had
600 radio stations. He didn't care if he lost money on that.
Elon. Elon's businesses, rockets. This is a power play.
He has a second piece from NPR here. What
Unknown: is the UK Government doing?
So, aside from deploying 1000s more police, speeding up court
appearances for suspects. The government has a special team
flagging social media posts that incite violence, and I've
actually seen this anecdotally. People here show me want to show
me something they saw on Facebook or Tiktok, and then
it's been removed. People are being arrested for hate speech
online. Hate crime laws are being used, and the government
is looking at officially banning groups like the EDL, just like
they do for terror groups abroad.
Adam Curry: So I think his whole play here is to get banned in
the UK for power here in the US. You know, he's doing a very
special interview with Donald Trump on on Monday, and Trump is
now even out there saying, Well, you know, Elon Musk, he's, he's,
he's now, he's now, for me, so I can't be against electronic
vehicles. What? What that? Where'd
John C Dvorak: he do that? Because the last time I heard
Trump's speech, he still had his anti electric car thing. He
said, he said the Tesla was great, but he doesn't like
electric cars. But so where, where's that? He
Adam Curry: literally said, he lit I'll tell you. You have a
clip. No, there's no clip. I have a article. He says, I have
no choice but to back EVs, because Elon is on my side. Now,
he literally, where did that? Where did that appear? Then the
Guardian, The Guardian, it's from one of his guardians. It's
one of his speeches. John, okay, would you like me to stop the
show and find it for you? Because
John C Dvorak: I'm telling you, I've been listening to his
material, and he's still anti EV.
Adam Curry: But my point is, he's getting into bed with Elon
Musk, and I just don't think that's a good idea.
John C Dvorak: I don't agree with that second part of this.
That's what I was just Yes, he is getting into bed with Elon
Musk, and
Adam Curry: that's not a good idea, because remember, freedom
of speech, not freedom of reach. You know, if you think that that
x is going to be any good as a publishing platform to get
anywhere, that's where you're mistaken. It's the Bozo filter,
that's what's going to be implemented, and I just don't
like it. I don't care if I'm for for an issue or not. It's that
is not a public that is not the town square that he keeps
touting. And you know, so and then he sued this garment
initiative, and they immediately disbanded. But that doesn't mean
it doesn't mean advertisers are coming back. They're not going
to advertise. He told them to f off. It's obvious, so I'm just
saying people are all people are all jacked up. Oh yeah, you know
it's good. I can post here. You are among them. Oh, it's by the
way. Do you. Or
John C Dvorak: else am I gonna post just a casual thought on a
thunder feta verse,
Adam Curry: write a sub stack? Man, anything? Anything?
John C Dvorak: I do that too? Yeah, well, I'm
Adam Curry: for that. I'm for your own blog. You know me, you
know I it's just it's going to be useless. People think they're
making a difference, and you're not. Now, I'm not saying you can
make a difference a mastodon. I'm against micro blogging in
general. You know, Elon is also removing retweet and like
counts. Why is he doing that? Do you think you only see how many?
How many impressions? Because you can easily, easily
manipulate that. That's why no one can see the impressions, but
you can go in and see who retweeted and who likes. The
like counts. He's removing them. This has been announced in your
favorite magazine, PC Magazine. So all of this is to say that
social media is now a war between who has the more power
in which country and for what reason. And it's just not good.
It's not good for our people, for the people listening
podcasts are still good. Now your your sub stack, I think, is
still good.
John C Dvorak: What do you mean? You think, Well, I
Adam Curry: have not investigated if, if they limit
that in any way.
John C Dvorak: Well, they have it so, I mean, medium, I know
they do for sure.
Unknown: Yeah, all
Adam Curry: of this stuff, all of this centralized stuff that's
owned by someone else is just no longer good as a place to to do,
you know, to publish, if you think you're publishing
something you're not.
John C Dvorak: Anyway, we have a rare Well, the reason, the
reason for using sub stack is this more than just, you know,
you could, you could put it on your own blog. Yeah, sub stack
will do promotions that you can't do with your own blog.
They will, they have a bigger they have a bigger base. They
have millions and millions of people. And if they you produce
something that they feel obliged to, because you say, of all of a
sudden, you've decided to monetize. They want to make
money off of your monetization, which is how they do it. They'll
blow out your stuff so you get some more follow it, followers
and readers. I'm you can't do that in an individual basis. You
need the leverage. Okay, fine,
Adam Curry: fine. My point is, these social media sites are
highly manipulated for reasons that you don't know and and your
what you think is happening, what you think you're publishing
your opinion somehow matters. It doesn't. It doesn't on on and a
lot of people truly believe it. They're sitting four or five
some eight hours a day thinking they're making a difference for
what you're seeing. What other people are seeing is
manipulated. Is manipulated. It's not good. It's not healthy
either. And I see you posting way too much. I'm concerned
about it.
John C Dvorak: I'm retweeting stuff that is, that's usually
funny stuff, legal tweet the humorous stuff that will be, I
don't think I'm making a difference. You're not deluded.
No, you
Adam Curry: aren't. You aren't. Most people on social media,
particularly X, who believe that that Elon Musk is the best thing
ever, and he's standing up for our rights. They are wrong.
We're going to get hate speech sanctions here you will. He is
forcing our own government here into making posting on x, not
anonymous. You watch, put it in the book. Now I'd like to move
to a counter narrative. Make a note a counter narrative. One of
our producers sent in a boots on the ground. He is a liberal from
the UK. His girlfriend, his partner, organizes anti protests
against the rioters and pro Palestine, and he is no agenda
listener. And I think it was interesting what he had to say,
and the audio wasn't bad, so I wanted to play it
Unknown: in the morning, although it's about five o'clock
here. I hope this gets to you in time. I listened to the last
show, and I've been listening forgot about 13 years now, and
I'm 27 and very thankful for everything that you guys have
done, you've made me who I am today. My girlfriend is an
organizer with Socialist Workers parties, the SWP, so a lot of
the Palestine demos, and increasingly, now a lot of the
mobilization against the far right. She's, you know, she's at
spearhead of a lot of that. She went up to Liverpool and a few
other demos in the north of England. And, you know,
honestly, the people that are there, you have a few people
that are obviously concerned about the immigration in this
country. I mean, I, you know, I'm a family of immigrants,
Jamaican I'm a descendant of a Jamaican immigrant family in the
40s, because it's. I got a, yeah, these, these people, they
have, you know, some of them valid concerns. But a lot of
those people that are there are, like, football hooligans. She
saw people with swastikas on one or two, people doing Nazi
salutes, people who, really, I do feel, have hatred in their in
their hearts, you know. So I think to claim that as a country
that you know that we're really sick and tired of this maybe
isn't true. I am based in London, in the metropolitan
elite, and, you know, I live in a very multicultural area, but a
lot of these people that are really up in arms and upset are
that way because of decades of, you know, disinvestment in their
communities, not enough schools, not enough hospitals, you know,
not any jobs because of how the Tories have treated this
country, how, you know, how labor fucked up a lot of things
as well. But I definitely don't think that it's the fault of
immigrants that
Adam Curry: I just thought that was an interesting take that,
and it's more like America than I thought. Yeah, we don't like
the borders being open, but the people in the North have just
been ignored by all political parties. I would say that makes
sense. I don't know about the swastikas and all that. I mean,
yeah, whatever. And calling Tommy Robinson a not that he
did, but calling Tommy Robinson a fascist is going a bit far. He
John C Dvorak: just Tommy Robinson, according to some of
the people that I have over there, is a part of an he's an
agent. He's an agent of the government. He's an OP.
Adam Curry: That's what I've heard too. Exactly
John C Dvorak: they bring him out when they need him. Well,
Adam Curry: we have Sir Brian of London, runs his blog and talks
him all the time. So maybe he can let us know what what he
thinks. I'm sure he will disagree that he's an OP, but I
can see why he would be seen that way for sure. So this is,
there's something much bigger happening here that is not
contained to the UK. In fact, I had we had a dinner. It was kind
of funny. This caterer in revel catering in in Fredericksburg,
the chef, Chef Max, he does these kind of, like secretive,
invite only dinners, and it'll do a, you know, a special menu.
And this there was a UT from Austin, professor of
neuroscience and math, tenured, although he's pretty young,
Tebow. He sat next to me, and he said, Oh man, he's French. He
says, You have no idea France zero freedom of speech. He says
if you step over the line, they will have unions come after you.
They'll have trade organizations. You can't say
anything, even as a professor, he says it's outrageous. You
can't do anything in France, and it's just, you know, it's like,
it's a big the all of Europe, he says, is is completely lost. I
believe it.
John C Dvorak: Well, this, everything that we've at least
brought up so far in this analysis of yours, including the
Elon stuff, is all related to freedom of speech. Yes, all of
it. And there has been, and in this, this guy, walls has come
out and said, and he's against freedom of speech. Yes,
Unknown: I think I have, uh, I have that clip. Actually. Do you
have that clip?
John C Dvorak: I do not have that clip. Um, let me see video
clip. I've seen it a number of times. Yeah, I retweeted it.
Adam Curry: I didn't get it from you. Okay, let me see. I
thought, Where was that? He literally said you don't have
freedom of speech, or you can't have freedom but maybe you don't
know you
John C Dvorak: shouldn't have freedom of speech. Yeah, if you
are expressing an opinion that's not proven to be true, Miss
Information. I'm sorry, which is what freedom of speech is really
all about. Yeah, I
Adam Curry: don't, I don't have that. I will get it for the next
show. Yes, but I'm seeing that. We're moving towards that here.
You're gonna see this, this. This is going to be, well,
John C Dvorak: we've been moving toward this with the liberal
governments, yes, the progressives in particular, yes,
the the CANS cancel culture is, is an element of it, big time,
and it's been going on. It's at the PC, the PC idea political
correctness. Political Correctness is, which goes back.
The first time I heard the term was in 1981 I believe. And it's
been, it's been in play for a long time, and and political
correctness is against free speech. This is not, not
something we discovered on this show in the last 20 years. No,
not at all. This is at least over. Or 40 years old as a
movement. And it's and it's like it eats away. Now in England,
it's, I guess, because they, they have their, I don't know
what, what's wrong with them. They've just taken it right to
the right to the to the edge, to the precipice, and then, and
like your friend from France said it's already taken place in
most of Europe. So free speech is is now you have to call it
quirky. It's unusual anywhere in the world. It's kooky. It's
kooky,
Unknown: and it will not last.
John C Dvorak: What free speech? You cannot control a population
if you have free speech. Oh, well, you actually need hate
speech to get anywhere. Yeah, well,
Adam Curry: I don't know if we've, we've been noticing,
noticing this here, that hate speech. You know, there's hate
speech. There's no actual law, but that's, oh man, I can't
believe we don't have that clip of
John C Dvorak: and funny, the hate speech. Most of the hate
speech I hear is people hating on Trump, but that does that's
okay. That's okay. So somehow that's okay hating on Trump or
JD Vance and and the phony couch anecdote is hating on him. For
some reason you can hate in one direction, in one direction
Unknown: only, yes, yes.
Adam Curry: President Biden is going to do a CBS interview.
You've got to wonder why I think it comes out on Monday. So right
before the wait, when is the that's not my when does the DNC
start?
John C Dvorak: See the seventh of the ninth? I think of what
can't be the seventh? NO to NO. That was yesterday.
Unknown: The ninth. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: no, it can't. No, I look it up.
Adam Curry: There we go. Let's see. Does anyone in the troll
room know these guys are no good? It starts
John C Dvorak: the 19th the 19th nine involved? Yeah, by the way,
it was Tony Blair, who was the Prime Minister when that 2003
law was put in play. Yes,
Adam Curry: and it's amazing that it really hasn't been used
until now. But they were very smart. They put in social media
right there. Said, here's all the things you can't do. This is
a teaser that was put out of this CBS interview with
President Biden, a gaffe of epic proportions. The US President
Joe Biden
Unknown: has said in an interview with CBS News that
he's not confident at all there
will be a peaceful transfer of power to Kamala Harris
if Donald Trump loses November's election. Now it's his first
interview since he pulled out of the race. They've released a
clip early ahead of the full interview, which is to come at
the weekend.
Are you confident
that there will be a peaceful transfer of power in january
2025
if Trump wins. No, I'm not confident at all. I
mean, Trump loses, I'm not confident.
Adam Curry: I mean, come on, it's like the truth wants to
come out. Joe, it's obvious if Trump wins, I agree, there's
going to be mayhem.
John C Dvorak: You know it now, why? The question is weird.
Because weird, weird. I used it. Yeah, you didn't say anything.
Adam Curry: I'm sorry. I barely had time. You caught yourself.
It's good.
John C Dvorak: The question is odd, because what are they
talking about? A peaceful transfer of power. Biden is the
one in office that has to be transferring the power. Yeah. So
why would you ask him that? In other words, Joe, are you going
to stay in power if whatever happens at the election is going
to be a peaceful transfer of power in 2025 that's pretty much
like a trick question. That's
Adam Curry: pretty much what he said. I mean, but why? Why is he
even doing an interview? This
John C Dvorak: is, yeah, there's something up with that you met
the thesis that he's going to, like, throw his hat back in the
ring at the in the first day of the convention, which he's
speaking of the first day. Is funny. I don't think it's going
to happen. I don't think he's got the nerve to do it, let
alone, I just don't think he has the strength of will at this
point. Oh, I have the but I like the idea.
Adam Curry: I have the waltz clip for you. There it is,
Walt's clip.
Unknown: I think we need to push back on this. There's, there's
no guarantee to free speech on misinformation or hate speech,
and especially around our democracy, I think we need
to you can't do that. You can't do misinformation
John C Dvorak: and hate speech. You put that in there, hate
speech in Yeah, hate speech is protected by the First
Amendment. Hello, yeah. Well. So you can't hate on anybody. They
can hate on Trump all they want, but I guess you can't hate on
anybody. You can't say that guy sucks, stinks, I can't wait.
Can't hate them. You can't hate a baseball team that that keeps
losing. You can't hate a football player that you don't
like. You can't hate your ex wife. You can't hate on it.
What? What? Let me ask
Adam Curry: you a question. Could you argue as a
constitutional lawyer, could you argue that hate speech is, of
course, allowed, but that when the Constitution was written?
Now this is one of those. You know, they didn't have AR
fifteens back in the day,
John C Dvorak: but you could own a canon. Hello.
Adam Curry: But can you argue that, when that was written,
that you know the right to free speech will not be infringed,
that that was never anonymous back in the day, because you
didn't have uh, anonymity in speech
John C Dvorak: you did if you were a pamphleteer. Okay? All
right, there you go. Well, that's bull crap. Okay. In fact,
if you look back in the in the era in the 1800s the amount of
hate speech back in the day when it came to political was great,
he's great, was off the rails compared to what we're doing.
Yeah, it's been tamped down
Adam Curry: before we take a break. This came out on Sunday,
when we were doing the show. This interview with with your
guy, Byron Donalds, yes. George Stephanopoulos, yeah. Did
Unknown: you see this?
John C Dvorak: I did. I think it was. I think Stephanopoulos,
personally, even though the media thinks, Oh, what a great
job of taking down by No, I think he made a fool out of
himself just bringing
Unknown: Republican congressman and Trump ally Byron Donald
Congressman. Thank you for joining us this morning. Why is
former President Trump question with Vice President's racial
identity?
Well, first George in Chicago, he was responding to a question
from I believe Rachel Scott, like, this is really a phony
controversy. I don't really care. Most people don't. But if
we're going to be accurate, when Kamala Harris went into the
United States Senate, it was AP that says she was the first
Indian American United States Senator. It was actually played
up a lot when she came into the Senate. Now she's running
nationally. Obviously, the campaign has shifted. They're
talking much more about about her father's heritage and her
black identity. But yes, he did mention it in Chicago in
response to a question from Rachel Scott,
and you just repeated the slur again. If it doesn't matter, why
you keep questioning
Adam Curry: slur, slur.
John C Dvorak: Being an Indian, American Indian heritage, is a
slur? Is that? What I think monopolist is saying,
Adam Curry: and he couldn't get off of it. He could not let it
get stuck on it.
Unknown: He just repeated the slur again. If it doesn't
matter, why do you all keep questioning her identity? She's
always identified as a black woman. She is biracial. She has
Jamaican father and Indian mother. She's always identified
as both. Why are you questioning that?
Well, George, first of all, this is something that's actually a
conversation throughout social media. Right now, there are a
lot of people who are trying to figure this out, but again,
that's a side issue, not the main issue. The main issue, Sir,
one second, you just did it. You just did it again.
Adam Curry: What did he do? I can't figure out. What is George
Stephanopoulos hearing that we're not hearing he just
John C Dvorak: same way when I heard this clip of the
Unknown: United States. Why? Why
do you, why do you insist on questioning her racial identity?
You want me to talk I want you to answer my question, yelling
at George. George, now that you're done yelling at me, let
me answer. Ooh,
Adam Curry: yeah, George is going to yell at the black man.
There's got to be a law against that. I
Unknown: know you guys like to glom on to this that he talks
about in jest or in a serious manner for about a minute or so.
But what you do not cover is the litany of failures of Kamala
Harris. That's what covering George.
So questioning somebody's racial identity, if you're a couple a
couple minutes, is okay,
George, I'm tell you, again, he brought it up. A P is the one
that wrote the headline when she first came in to the United
States Senate, didn't talk about her being black, talked about
her being the first Indian American senator. AP, brought
that up. I mean, George, we could have this conversation for
the entire segment, but none of this matters to the American
people. If it
doesn't matter, I don't understand why you keep on
repeating it, why the President keeps on repeating it. Why those
introducing the President? Yes, George, actually,
I'm not the one who keeps repeating it. George, you're the
one that's bringing it up. Now that's you've done interesting.
You've done it.
You've done it three times, every single answer you gave me.
Now let me finish, sir, every single answer you gave he
repeated.
George, that's why I'm pushing back on you. Now, George, you
right, and the question three times I responded, but and every
single time you repeat the slur, that is exactly my point. You
simply can't say that it's wrong. George,
so then what you're saying? So then what? And I want to get off
this topic, because it's not the only thing that's going on. But
George, now you're saying that AP is the one that slurred
Kamala Harris, because those are the facts. You can go to the
internet and look at the clips, George, if you want to. Two or
we can talk about this now. I prefer to talk about the future
of our country.
Adam Curry: It's amazing. What's amazing is, here's this tiny
white guy arguing with a black guy about a woman who claims
she's black when, and we should define black just say a DOS or
foundational black, or whatever. But, you know, but not, not what
he's doing. It's, it's, this is insanity on the airwaves.
Unknown: AP did not say that Kamala Harris is not black. She
is biracial. She is Indian, she is black. You continue to repeat
the fact that you continue to repeat the slur, I don't
understand why you and the President, it's clear you're not
going to say that. It's wrong, and you've now established that
for our audience. Trump also said at the convention that he
would already January 6, rioters, I
look for themselves. Let's move on.
I've already said that. Go ahead, everybody. Let's
move on. There we go. Go
on and repeat the slurs again. He
Adam Curry: repeats the didn't do anything. This is this is
people, humanity. Sanity is mental illness, by the way, I
made a big boo boo on the last show explaining the one drop
rule. I said it exactly the wrong way around the one drop
rule. I said, if you have one drop of whiteness, you're not
black. It was exactly the other way around the one drop rule. I
John C Dvorak: thought you said it right. No, it was the other
way, which is when I made the reference to the show to do to
the stage play, Show Boat. Yes, I switched. Punch line was that,
you know, there was a one drop of black blood. Yes, I
Adam Curry: I, but I explained it the wrong way. I went back.
Oh, I
John C Dvorak: didn't hear you. I've obviously zoned out. So
Adam Curry: why not? I'll just explain it properly. The one
drop rule was invented to declare that, legally, a person
was not white as long as they had one drop of black blood in
them. That's that's the correct way. That was part of the Jim
Crow laws, etc.
John C Dvorak: So anyway, I'm still fascinated by this
Stephanopoulos. It's dead that should be taken off the air.
It's, it's, what is this slur? What was the slur? You're not
black, so that's a slur. Yes, wait, so being, not being black
is a slur. Now, if, yeah,
Adam Curry: if you say you're not black, like, well, what
Byron should have said is, well, was it a slur? Then, when Joe
Biden said, If you don't fight for me, you aim, you don't vote
for me, you ain't black, that would have been a real slur.
Then, which I think it actually was
John C Dvorak: Byron. I'm sure I like this guy a lot. I think
he's terrific, but I think he was flat footed, because this
was out of the blue. It was you weren't prepared for this kind
of insanity. If you were, you would have had a million what,
you know, comebacks, but he didn't have any. He was just
trying to push the guy away. Yeah, it was weird, like a
madman coming at you. Very
Adam Curry: weird. Well, with that, I would like to thank you
for your courage and say in the morning to you, the man who put
the C in the Facebook crime, say hello to my friend on the other
end. He won the only Mr. John
John C Dvorak: C Devorah show's running too long in the morning
to you. Mr. Adam curry, tomorrow, ships, sea, boots on
ground, in the air, sub store Davis, nights out there.
Adam Curry: Let's count those. What? Oh, we're late. It's my
fault. We're late. We're late. We're 1917,
Unknown: it's down. Trolls are down,
Adam Curry: but there's still almost 2000 trolls, which I
always find amazing, 2000 trolls listening live, which you can do
at troll room.io. It's a brand new website. You can listen to
the live stream 24/7 you control along. You can log in, you can
post stuff, you can you don't have to log in, and it's all
pretty much anonymous. I mean, it's one of the last places
podcasts and troll rooms, that's all. The only place you can
still be a troll, say whatever you want. All freedom of speech
allowed here, as far as I know I can't, I can't even kick anybody
off anymore. I don't have the power. No, the power has been
removed for me. Why? I don't know. I used to be able to just
kick someone off and then, you know, and then they can come
back. You know, I wouldn't ban anybody, but, you know, I like
kick them off. Just funny. I don't know. I have to talk to
void zero, maybe, uh, maybe you overstep my powers. It's been
removed. Maybe I'm not doing it right, isn't it? Slash kick. And
then you do the name. I
John C Dvorak: don't know. I don't use that thing.
Adam Curry: You should, I know? You pop in from time to time.
You check out. You've said it on the last show you've been in
there,
John C Dvorak: check I have been in there, but it was usually
during somebody else's show.
Adam Curry: Yes, well, that makes sense. Darren, show,
probably, you're probably in there.
John C Dvorak: Oh yeah, Darren, I'm big fan. You can also check
out this will play enough AC, DC, that's the way I see it. You
Adam Curry: can also check out the troll room by using a modern
podcast app. There's many that you can use. The cool. Thing
about is you get an alert when we go live, so you get the bat
signal in your app, and then you can listen live. None of the
legacy apps can do this. And as as you see hate speech, maybe
not laws, but hate speech actions being taken. It happens
three or four times a day. There's a podcast kicked off of
Apple or off of, uh, Spotify. So, you know, do with it what
you want, but if you like your podcast that you listen to, no
matter what they say, the modern podcast apps are the way to go.
It's one of the last places it still can be done that and your
own blog and maybe sub stack. Um, even though Elon defeated
the the Garm on what, let me see what
John C Dvorak: Mark, I praise him for that. Mark separation
was a scam, yeah, but the American
Adam Curry: Federation of Advertisers still there. They're
not they haven't gone anywhere. They just disbanded Garm. He's
not going to get any advertising that's obvious. Why would he you
know, advertisers don't want controversy. That's why we never
What are you eating
John C Dvorak: a lozenge? Huh? That's why we
Adam Curry: never took advertising. We knew that it
would just result in meetings and annoyances, which is
technically illegal in the UK. You can't annoy me with your
meeting advertiser. So we knew wouldn't work. So we said, You
know what, why don't we just go for a value for value model. We
put it out on even Patreon. People think, oh, Patreon is
value for value. No, it isn't. Because if you do something
somewhere else, not even on your own podcast, and Patreon hears
about it, they will kick you off. They will kick you off, and
sometimes even hold on to your money, which is horrible, yeah?
Well, that's illegal, yeah? Well, they can give you 90 days
or something. There's something weird that they can do if they
have your money. It's not you can't fight it. It's hard to
fight the man in that way. So we decided, Hey, give us time,
talent, treasure, anything that adds up to something that helps
the show. And of course, yeah,
John C Dvorak: anything that's about 1/10 of what we would have
made if we were commercial.
Adam Curry: Well, yeah, that's true. That's true. We can always
go commercial. I mean, podcast one wants us.
Unknown: We could probably make more. I mean, we could make
more.
John C Dvorak: I think we can make more by syndicating on the
TV. I think that idea is something worth well, I see Mimi
insisted that we follow up. Well, I
Adam Curry: sent you a whole thing about it. He didn't even
respond to me.
John C Dvorak: I didn't see it. No,
Adam Curry: I respond because I'm I contacted the former
Disney guy about this, who I thought would be the perfect
guy. Yeah, what did he say? He hasn't gotten
John C Dvorak: back to me. Yes, thanks, no, but he set me up. He
Adam Curry: used to do the, all the deals for Disney. He would
do all the cable deals and, you know, and we happen to know that
the prices that you get per household, what? But we can't
talk, yeah, no,
John C Dvorak: we didn't. Yeah, oh
Adam Curry: yeah, no,
John C Dvorak: the price got a spreadsheet that has all the
money. And it's like, outrageous,
Adam Curry: I mean, Turner, classic movies, what do they get
per house? Buck and a half, 150 now, MTV gets a buck more than a
buck. There's some things like that. Are, you know, it goes
down only three cents. Yeah, I would say about we could
probably get about 30 cents per subscriber. And I got a lot of
people saying they would be more than willing to hike their
skirts to get clearances on these big cable cable outfits.
So we've got the we've got the bribes and Willie and I'll turn
on my camera when you
John C Dvorak: know what the interesting thing is, is that
for people, by the way, the guy, we got an anonymous spreadsheet
from somebody in the business, and the one that's the one
that's really stands out, like a sore thumb, is ESPN, oh, isn't
Adam Curry: it like, seven bucks or something crazy, $10 ahead?
Yeah, and, and whether you have it or not, I think,
John C Dvorak: no, I think you have to have it. And the funny
thing is, I think, is what's amusing to people who watch
ESPN, because people that on ESPN every, every so often, moan
about being on ESPN two. ESPN gets 10 bucks a head. And I
think ESPN two is like two or three, $3 or less. It's like,
oh, okay, it's the ESPN. Well, hold on, let
Adam Curry: me, let me bring up the spreadsheet for a second
this, this will blow people's mind. So just so you know, the
way it works is these cable company pays the networks. So
let's see, bravo, carriage, yeah, for carriage. So bravo. 58
cents per household, bravo, bravo. That's nothing the
cooking channel. 27 cents. You really think we could do 33
John C Dvorak: but we can do at least 27 Yeah.
Adam Curry: Well, let me say what's. Nickelodeon gets a buck
89 so all you need is a million people. We're swimming in dough.
We could, we could be, be given every we could give the trolls
money back. I know you don't like that idea, but I'm just
saying, I'm just saying, well,
John C Dvorak: if they hike their skirt, yeah, by the way,
only the, only the girls, not the men. If you hike your skirt,
you're hiking your skirt, you're
Adam Curry: in here. Oprah. Oprah makes 38 the Oprah own.
Oprah makes 3838 nobody watches own. No, of course. Magnolia, 27
cents.
John C Dvorak: Nobody watches these. These networks. Go to
some of the ones they watch. Look at it. Look at it. Look up.
ESPN. ESPN,
Adam Curry: ESP what? ESPN has multiple channels, which is kind
of the way to go. I can tell so ESPN HD, $10.35 ESPN to $1.97
and then ESPN news, no one cares about that. That's seven and a
half cents. ESPN and you, what is that?
John C Dvorak: What is you? I used to know what that is, but I
don't, I don't remember
Adam Curry: that's, uh, 29 see, the Food Network gets 65 cents.
So and, you know, and my whole thinking of when we can network,
yeah, 65 cents is not Kimber. With this idea is that
everyone's cutting the cutting cable. You know, people are
running away. They're going to the streamers. Now, I don't
think that cable, I mean, cable, will be around for a long time,
but it's diminishing decades. And if we say, Hey, we're the
we're the we're the hit podcast guys, we can do that's I sent
you V for VTV. That's what I sent you. You probably didn't
John C Dvorak: like it. No, I thought it was a nice it has a
nice ring to it. V
Adam Curry: for vtv.com, yeah, be perfect, yeah,
John C Dvorak: we'll talk about this more. Okay, because it's an
eye opener. It
Adam Curry: is an eye opener.
John C Dvorak: And what's funny about it, I want to I mentioned
I sent a note back to the guy with this comment, which is, I
remember the early days, the early days the cable was never
called cable. It was called CC. Yes,
Adam Curry: yes, indeed. I
John C Dvorak: remember community something television,
and people would set up these systems, and they would, they
would get, they would, in other words, if you're like a look,
you have three local stations and you wanted, but you got to
fringe areas where nobody, even with an antenna, could pick it
up. You'd put up a cable system up there, or CCTV, and you play
your local stations up there in the middle of nowhere, and
that's the stations would pay the cable operators, yeah, for
the for the extra coverage, because now they had more reach.
And so it was, they'd get to move their sell more ads and so
that. So in I don't know what year it changed, but at some
point it flipped, yeah, and I think it was the beginning with
HBO. HBO, who does? HBO said, you know, we're not going to be
broadcasting anything, but use a premium, and you could probably
lure more people into your system if you have our play our
movies, and you just have to give us a little bit of money. I
was HBO on that list, by the way, on the
Adam Curry: it's $10 but that was direct billing, so that you
have to pay extra. Yeah, different. But the question so I
think we can Pro, I can probably convince Joe we'll have to give
him millions. But, you know, it's all right, it'll be Joe.
You
John C Dvorak: get some piece of the action, stock, yeah, stock
Adam Curry: options, warrants. We'll
John C Dvorak: give them warrants. We'll give them stock.
We'll give him a
Adam Curry: straight he'll want money. We have to pay him money.
He
John C Dvorak: might like stock, he doesn't need. We'll give
extra money. He's not
Adam Curry: going to do it unless we give him money. Yeah,
you got to give him money. But, you know, we who else do you
want on the show? I mean, do you want to judge Knapp?
John C Dvorak: I don't know who judge Knapp is Napolitano. Oh,
maybe. Why not? Yeah, how
Adam Curry: about Brett Weinstein
John C Dvorak: and Heather? How you're stretching it? They
Adam Curry: can do overnights. There's
John C Dvorak: a lot of the selection is Hi, I'm Heather
Weinstein,
Adam Curry: welcome to our welcome to V for VT overnight.
Kevin the overnights. Tim pool, I think we said the pool boy on
he would rake him in. He would be right too, and then, But you
promised me we're gonna do we're gonna go video so we can be on
this too. We have to be on this. I think
John C Dvorak: we have to have, we have to have a version on
there's an hour show.
Adam Curry: Oh, that sounds like extra work. I didn't sign up for
that.
John C Dvorak: It could be part of the other show. We
Adam Curry: should just do this show. Just do it. Just go live
with camera. Just the camera. You can wear a mask. Think of
the money, John, think of the money. Until that time, we are
John C Dvorak: very grateful. Here's the other problem, we
can't chew up like, what was our last show time three and a half
hours.
Adam Curry: We can. People love that stuff. What do you mean? We
can't chew that up?
John C Dvorak: Yak, yak, yak. For three and a half. Hours.
Okay, maybe, yeah, but, but the idea overall is solid. Think of
them, and it doesn't get us off the air, because people always
worry about our our crazy ideas making us quit this way, we
can't quit.
Adam Curry: That's right, when that we can't quit because it'll
just be too good. They'll be too good. In the meantime,
John C Dvorak: we plausible anybody with ideas. We're open.
Adam Curry: We're open for business,
John C Dvorak: idea business. I did get a thing today from one
guy who's been in in the video business. Hey,
Adam Curry: all we need to do is get on one cable system and
we're good to go. I mean, what do we really need? We got
bumpers. We have people creating art. We can have, I mean, we we
have an entire and we can pay people. Hey, thanks, boom,
here's some money. Think about it. Don't get carried away.
Okay, I'm all jacked,
John C Dvorak: because the thing is, about this volunteerism that
we have is a big deal. There it is. No, I'm saying that because
I would some years ago. I give you this story, yeah,
Adam Curry: but if we're raking in dough, then people want a
piece
John C Dvorak: of the gonna be raking in that making a little
more we're making, we're
Unknown: gonna give him stock, stock, stock,
John C Dvorak: yes, definitely. Stock, yeah, stock, okay, but no
commercials. I don't want it incorporation, yeah, no. But a
bunch of shares out there and give people stock. And then when
it when somebody buys us, everybody will clean up. Yeah,
Unknown: now you're talking
Adam Curry: all right. In the meantime, we're only going to
thank our artists because we do love them, and they do great
work for us, and they upload every single show during the
live broadcast to no agenda, Art generator.com, and we chose
Francisco scaramangas artwork for Episode 1683, the rainbow of
rockets. It was the title. There was some dissent amongst the
ranks. People thought that shrimp deal would have been a
better, a better title. Now that I think about it might have been
funny one of those shrimp deals. It was fine. Yeah. And we chose
Joe Biden, President. Joe Biden, although we were not happy with
scaramongers, rendering of Biden wasn't, wasn't a great look, but
you could tell it was him, and he was on the airplane looking
for the bathroom. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: it was good. It's funny. It's like, you know, it
Adam Curry: was funny. Scara, manga, of course, Dutch Master,
they always reign supreme. Was there anything else that we can
Well, there were a lot of
John C Dvorak: rain like that Apple guy with the Macintosh on
his head talking to the girl. Yeah, he
Adam Curry: used that for the newsletter.
John C Dvorak: I did because I was, it was a good piece.
Adam Curry: I didn't like it as much as Biden. No, he
John C Dvorak: didn't like it at all. Let's face it, you tried to
call in a chit, which is either it was a Matthew drop go piece,
and it was very funny. It was AI, Hello, yeah,
Adam Curry: I kind of like
John C Dvorak: comics piece. Look like it might have been
hand done, yeah? It might be, I don't think so, but it might be,
well, he's an artist. He actually can crank stuff out.
But he also likes to use, he likes to use AI a lot. Yeah, so
Adam Curry: yeah for cheesecake stuff, dirty Jersey whore. Did I
want my no agenda? And I want my MTV logo? Nestworks also did a
cut the cable. A lot of people picked up on the idea of our own
cable channel with some of the artwork. Was there anything
else? I don't think anything else came close. We had the HHI
index by nestworks with Kamala coconut falling over with her
legs in the air. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: I think the show itself didn't lend itself to no
great art ideas like the chemicals crackers in the
previous episode, and I think today's show is going to be the
same. I can
Adam Curry: tell you right now that everything I see artwork
wise is not turning me on for today's show.
John C Dvorak: There's one piece I think is acceptable well. And
by the way, the folksy thing. This picture of Camelot, and
this is from America. Got American Gothic. It's an old
painting with the guy and his wife. Who's this guy? She's
standing next to, hey, drop, go. What is that? Who is that
person? Yeah,
Unknown: yeah.
John C Dvorak: I mean, the camera on the left, the left one
looks, does look like camel, but this guy looks like some I don't
know what that so accountant from Price Waterhouse. It
doesn't look like anything. Thank
Adam Curry: you to our artists. Thank you. Francisco Scara
manga. We appreciate the work that all of our artists do, and
we always look forward to it. It's a great way to end the
show. And I would say there's still opportunities for anybody
who wants to come in and swoop now we want to thank our
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It's incredibly important to keep the show going. We don't
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Anniversary in the newsletter, John suggested, the shows are
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message. No jingles, no karma. Just keep the greatness coming.
That's Mike, aka sir Shu of the six strings, and he says, iPhone
to blame for all the typos. Well, I didn't see any typos.
Thank you, brother. Appreciate it.
John C Dvorak: Blaming the iPhone. Blame the iPhone, sir.
Chris and Walnut Creek over here with $350.94 says, Thank you for
your courage and the excellent media deconstruction. Here's
what you John and Mimi, a happy 36th by the way, you know, if
you notice I said it was, I have to go inside stuff here, that's
okay. So I sent the newsletter to Adam to have him fix it, you
know, or check for typos. Did I do something weird?
Adam Curry: They do something weird? No, no.
John C Dvorak: I left out the anniversary stuff,
Adam Curry: I know you did, and I was so happy when I saw it,
because Tina said, Oh, it's, uh, John and Mimi's anniversary. I'm
like, Oh, crap, he didn't put it the newsletter. Then I saw the
newsletter come in, I was happy again.
John C Dvorak: What happened was, I was talking to Mimi
because she's coming down. Hey, by the way, I've done the
newsletter the night before. I said, Oh, what an idiot, because
that's what I don't need, right? We've dropped the ball on so we
me, yeah, dropped the ball on so many of these things. Yeah. It's
like, oh my God, because it's on the day too. Today is the day
eight, eight. Just without sending another copy to you, I
just filled, put it in there, and I dropped something from the
that section well,
Adam Curry: but leave it to the girls. Remember minute. Leave it
to the girls to remember, save the show. They had did it did
save the show.
John C Dvorak: Anyway, Sir Chris continues, the lovely Dame
Kristen and I are celebrating our 26th anniversary today as
well. Had a fight. Beautiful. She's my soul mate, best friend,
and I feel lucky to have her by my side every day. Love you,
bird. All the best sir. Chris of Carmel by the seas, although
he's in Carmel, but he's got Walnut Creek on his account.
Okay, sir.
Adam Curry: Digi is in Indianapolis, Indiana. Sends us
34567, first for your viewing pleasure, John, here's an
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look at that link? No, I didn't know. It's worth it. This game
was earlier in the season, but it's some of our best footage,
considering we had a professional crew, apparently,
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the show as you like. Please call out hBZ as a douche bag.
Always happy to do that. And then he says, jingle, shape
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John C Dvorak: Kyle keeps a constant in constant touch with
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me.
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John C Dvorak: You've already provided me with House jobs,
relationship and baby making karma over the last five years.
So I'm forever grateful. As an arborist in the Pacific
Northwest, I've always, I always get enjoyment over any tree talk
or wood talk at Hollywood tree company here in Nanaimo, BC we
let the stars shine through. Don't worry, John, you've been
saying it right all along. I've been saying Nanaimo.
Unknown: It's Nanaimo. It's although
John C Dvorak: that could be the right pronunciation, whatever
it's up there in BC they have a great garden, and that's a great
place for an arborist. It's very it's very green and woodsy. It's
a beautiful area. It's on the Victoria Island.
Unknown: All right, is that it?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that's all I got. Okay,
Adam Curry: then we move over to this is a note from surfer in
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please credit this executive producership to Neil Jones. Clip
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qualifies Neil for knighthood. Neil has provided massive value
to the podcast with his time and talent. However, peerage demands
treasure. Welcome to the round table, and thank you for your
courage, John and Adam. You guys are slick podcasters and great
comedians. Thank you for your comedy about that we should be
on that different we should be on a zoom call jingle requests,
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Unknown: E, s, p, i, C, T,
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karma.
John C Dvorak: Game Astrid. Is in here. She's from in Tokyo.
She's the arch Duchess, and also with Sir Mark. And so we have
the arch Duchess at Duke of Japan and all the disputed
islands of Japan, of the Japan Sea. Dear John and Mimi, ah,
you're now Mimi. There you go. Many congratulations on your
36th wedding anniversary. I listened to chuck magnet, John
and charming Adam twice a week, but it was really our chick
magnet. Oh, chick magnet, John, there you go. Chuck magnet, hey,
Chuck. I think you're a chuck magnet. Here comes Chuck. Hey,
Chuck and charming Adam twice a week. But I was really in awe
when I checked out Mimi, the author of too many eggs, what a
cool lady. Best wishes always. Now, I have to say, before we
finish with her, Dame Astra, this Sir Mark, she did send me a
personal note on some gorgeous paper, and I'm looking at it
Japan Jimmy, and I'm looking this handwriting is just
unbelievable. I'm thinking. And then I realized, Oh, she has the
she, it's architect lettering, yeah, how architects pick up a
ability to write beautifully on the page, right? Beautifully?
It's like, wow, this top drawer. And then she sent me a couple of
Sumo souvenirs, oh, which I greatly appreciated from how
nice again, a Tama Fuji and the other Tarana Fuji, the Great
yakuzuna. So thank
Unknown: you for that nice.
Adam Curry: Well, she's right. You get all the chucks on this
show.
John C Dvorak: Chuck a chuck
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And we wish john and Mimi. All the best in a very Happy
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John C Dvorak: Brendan wood in Chloe, Chloe, Chloe, Chloe,
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Adam Curry: that one of those shrimp deals,
John C Dvorak: the shrimp deal,
Adam Curry: I think it's a shrimp deal. Nice, sir. Brian
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Viscount of chiefs kingdom, John, do you think the chiefs
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Unknown: That's a question for you. What do you think
John C Dvorak: it's so hard to three peat in the NFL that I
just can't see it?
Adam Curry: Okay, there's your answer. Thanks. He says, and
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1684, formula
Unknown: is this, we go out. We hit people in the mouth. You
you might not
shut up,
Adam Curry: shut up slaps, just shut up. Never.
John C Dvorak: I have a presentation on Hamas. Oh, the
Unknown: Hamas guy.
Adam Curry: Yes, this is this is getting weirder by the day. It's
John C Dvorak: getting weirder by the day, and it's not going
to resolve itself anytime soon. From what I can tell what's
going on. There's a lot of noise. Just in time for the
Democratic National Convention. What's
Adam Curry: this noise in the background? Also, someone
vacuuming.
John C Dvorak: What that noise you're hearing? Yeah, garbage
truck,
Adam Curry: the street. All right, garbage truck. I
John C Dvorak: don't know why they have to make so much noise,
or why
Adam Curry: they have to do it on Thursday, every
John C Dvorak: Thursday. Okay, I don't know what that usually
earlier than this. I don't know what that truck's doing.
Adam Curry: Yeah, it sounds like a drone circling your house, by
the way.
John C Dvorak: This has to do with the new Hamas guy that took
over. And I have, uh, two clips, and then an analysis with four
more clips. Okay, so you have you'll know a lot when you're
done here. Let's start with the new Hamas guy. Is the old Hamas
guy. All right, turning
Unknown: our attention now to the Middle East, Hamas has the
name as its new political leader, and Turkey is seeking to
join South Africa's lawsuit against Israel and today's final
Ji has the latest updates and what they mean for the region.
Turkey has requested to join South Africa's lawsuit against
Israel in the International Court of Justice. The lawsuit
accuses Israel of genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. Turkey is
the latest nation seeking to join the lawsuit behind Spain,
Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua, Libya and Palestinian officials,
it is now waiting for the court's approval. Turkey's
leadership has been an outspoken critic against Israel's war in
Gaza, meanwhile, reactions to Yahya Sen's appointment as the
new Hamas today continue on Wednesday. White House National
Security Adviser John Kirby said, quote, The man is a
terrorist. He has an awful lot of blood on his hands. His
daughter is the architect of the seventh of October attacks in
Israel, and some of that blood on his hands is American blood.
A spokesperson for the State Department said, sewer has
always called the shots for Hamas, even before the death of
former leader Ismail Hania.
Ultimately, it was cinwar that had the final decision making
authority, as we could see throughout these negotiations on
whether to accept a ceasefire or not. So yes, cinwar Absolutely
ought to be brought to justice. We believe that for the his
significant acts of terrorism, and we also think he ought to
accept the ceasefire deal. All right,
Adam Curry: so, just so I understand, we're talking about
the guy that's replacing the guy that got blowed up in Iran,
right? Yes, okay, all right, yeah, yeah. His name, yeah,
yeah, is the new guy, yeah.
John C Dvorak: This is part two of that, because we should get
too misspelled as y, w, o, y, that's okay. I got you. I
Adam Curry: got you, bro.
Unknown: The Israeli military's chief of staff called sinwar A
murderer and said that Israel is ready to hurt its attackers. The
new Hamas leader is at the top of Israel's kill list. Some Gaza
residents are also disheartened by the news. News. Speaking to
CNN, they say there has been too much death and they just want
the war to end. Others rejoiced at the news. In Yemen,
university students rallied in support of sinwar Iran and the
Hezbollah terrorist group congratulated Hamas and sinwar
Experts say sinwar is more extreme than his predecessor,
and his appointment could point Hamas to a more hard line
stance. Hey,
Adam Curry: why does this is NTD I believe. Why do they not say
Turkey a? They not all in on that. They don't like saying
Turkey a.
John C Dvorak: That's a good point.
Adam Curry: I'm just kind of missing it.
John C Dvorak: I think a harsh note would be in order. Yes, you
Adam Curry: should send them one. All right, so that's
John C Dvorak: now we got this guy that I know he's worse. This
guy's worse. He's worse, but he's been running it all along.
That's the joke. So how's he worse? I see? So the other point
is, is that these guys are pretty, pretty blatant about no
trials. We kill him.
Adam Curry: We us. Our guys, dead man, dead man, walking the
John C Dvorak: theme. Now we have an analysis that I do. One
of the reasons like NTDs, because they really have good
and different analysts. Yeah, we come on,
Adam Curry: put them on a new cable channel.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, they have their own they've got their own
cable channel.
Adam Curry: How much money do they make per household?
John C Dvorak: That's a good question. You wonder if it's
even, oh, no, they actually, they don't do cable. They do
over the air, uh, losers, seconds. They don't know. Do
that too, by the way,
Adam Curry: they don't have one of our deals. Man, they don't
get it. Yeah, okay, all right. Most
John C Dvorak: favorite nations thing is this stupid rule about
cable doesn't let you do a lot of stuff. So here's New Hamas
guy analysis. One
Unknown: earlier, we spoke with Gabriel narona, a former State
Department adviser on Iran, about Hamas decision to name,
yeah, send more as its new political leader. Corona is also
the executive director of Polaris national security and a
fellow at the Jewish Institute for National Security of
America. Now, yeah, yes, in war was the architect of the October
7 terror attack on Israel. What does Hamas selecting him as the
new leader, political leader mean for the ongoing ceasefire
negotiations? Well,
this is a consolidation of power within Hamas into sinwar, he was
always the key decision maker for these ceasefires, for the
prisoner exchange deals, and so instead of having Hania
negotiate them and try to relay messages from sinwar, now it's
all concentrated in one person that is good in one sense, And
that it actually simplifies the decision making and negotiating
process. It also means that if and when I think cinema gets
killed by Israel, it's going to make it a lot more difficult for
Hamas to move on. They are again putting all the power in one
place. This isn't going to change too much, I think, in
terms of whether their policy changes, how they approach
things is different. It's just gonna make things a lot harder.
You have one person trying to do two jobs, if not more. Now, did
Adam Curry: we know that Yaya was the guy behind October 7?
Did we know that already?
John C Dvorak: I don't know that we did, and I don't get this
thing or when they kill him, and it's so cavalier, by the way,
yeah, yeah,
Adam Curry: if and when we kill him. I mean, Israel, if and when
we kill him. This is we're murderers, man, this is no good.
I don't like this.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I find it. I found it distressing. I
Adam Curry: mean, at least Trump goes, I'm gonna kill him. I take
him out, gonna kill him like a dog. That would be funnier. But,
if and when we kill him, you know, come on, spice it up,
people
John C Dvorak: so little to Cavaliers, here we go. Part two
Unknown: and some more. Is believed to be in the tunnels of
Gaza, surrounded by hostages. This factor into the ongoing
negotiations.
Well, those hostages are
John C Dvorak: good for a second, whatever happened, you
remember this? Whatever happened to they're gonna flood the
tunnels. Yeah, that was whatever happened to that idea.
Adam Curry: Well, I got shot down for some reason. They were
waiting for flood the tunnels. They're waiting for you. Well, I
think the international human rights groups came in and said,
Hey, man, that's kind of that's like rats. That's no good.
John C Dvorak: Yeah. Well, this, this idea we're gonna kill this
guy, which without London, you know, without a trial or
anything. No, just
Adam Curry: kill him. Kill him.
Unknown: Well, those hostages are policy, that he's not going
to get taken out by Israel tomorrow. But at the same, you
know, it's speculated that Israel knows exactly where he
is, or generally where he is, but again, that it's too
difficult to try to do a rescue operation, because most people
would assume the hostages would be booby trapped. So again,
Israel's force to me, wait a minute.
Adam Curry: This is the first I'm hearing of the hostages
being booby trapped. I.
John C Dvorak: This is mansion, being a hostage, and you got,
you'd like a stick of dynamite up your butt.
Adam Curry: Well, this is not good, rather insensitive way to
put it. But yes, well,
John C Dvorak: it will be joy. Okay, you got a bunch of
dynamite strapped around your chest. Yeah? Wow, that's the
windows go off your you know, your head flies up. Yeah, pop,
pop, we talked about that. But this is
Adam Curry: this is all this is new. I've never heard of the
hostage. They're basically saying we got to give up on the
hostages because they're booby trapped
Unknown: anyway. I guess most people would assume the hostages
would be booby trapped. So again, Israel is forced to
negotiate with them at some point. But again, there's an
expiration. There's no way that sin war makes it out of all this
alive,
and given his selection, how do you think this will change or
impact Hamas and its goals?
You know, one really interesting aspect is that Hania was able to
unite many of the various Palestinian factions he had been
in the political arena for for decades. Sin war is a bit more
of the fighter type. And so there are, you know, there was
an agreement recently in Beijing where the Chinese brought
together 12 or 14 different Palestinian factions that was
largely due to hania's particular role. Being able to
bring these groups together. Singapore does not have that.
Now, a lot of groups are still going to be deferential to him
as leader of Hamas, but he's coming from disadvantage. He's
coming from a place where he can't go out in the open and
negotiate and talk with others. He's literally bunkered down.
John C Dvorak: Okay, all right, but he can't do negotiations
because they're going to kill him.
Adam Curry: Yeah, it seems like not a great way to start
negotiations. Hey, we're going to kill you. But want to, do you
want to make a deal? Or maybe that is the deal, like we won't
kill you if you come to the table. I don't know.
Unknown: Now, on that hard line stance, a man who spent years
with a sin war in Israel, Israeli prisons told CNN that
quote, as far as Israel is concerned, this is not good news
regarding the deal. Because of seminars close relationship with
Iran. Help us understand the dynamics there.
You know, Hamas is an imperfect proxy of Iran. Hamas is Sunni
and the Iranian regime is Shia, and they actually split
relations for a number of years over Iran's activities in Syria.
So, and you know, Hamas gets a lot of military support,
financial support, certainly political support, from Iran.
But at the end of the day, Hamas also tries to advance its own
agenda, its own ideology, which is separate from that of Iran.
However, now I think that Hamas is on the front line of fighting
Israel, which is Iran's greatest enemy. You're seeing Iran go out
of their way to try to help Hamas more than they would have
before October 7.
This is, this is so cynical. Just, yeah, they're
Adam Curry: just like, oh, this is how it works. And, you know,
just like Iran is just one big blob, and it's just that, by the
way, they're two weeks away from a nuclear bomb. You should have
mentioned that there
John C Dvorak: always been two weeks away. I had a clip in a
couple of shows ago. Yeah, with actually, I still have this
clip, just to interrupt this flow. I think it's the if I
moved it over, it's Lindsey Graham. Yes, here he is.
Unknown: Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina is introducing
legislation that would allow the President to use military force
against Iran if it's determined Iran is using nuclear weapons.
If
we do not change course, Iran will, in the coming weeks or
months, coming weeks or months, coming weeks or months, possess
a nuclear weapon. It is time to end the charade that the world
is playing when it comes to Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran that
are one in the same.
Adam Curry: Did he have any plans like bomb them,
John C Dvorak: bomb them and bomb them again. All right, back
to the Hamas guy. Now I wanted to before we go to the last
clip, I should mention there's a couple clips here that I left
out a lot of stuff when they start about the United States
and its approach, which the guy kind of poo poos is, is
basically idiotic. So I'll leave that out, and we'll move to the
last clip. And
Unknown: what will some are leadership mean for the
Palestinian people in Gaza? Well,
I think we've sort of seen it over the last several decades.
It's failed leadership. It is leadership that is obsessed with
revolution within to Fauci of violence. This is leadership
that has been offered peace several times and has rejected
it at every turn. Cinema's goal for the Palestinian people,
frankly, if he could see them all dead, if that was what was
required to take out Israel along the way, it's something he
would probably sign up for. And frankly, that's really what he
did sign up for with October 7. It was designed so that Israel
would counter attack. It was designed and all their hostage
hostages have been designed so that more and more Palestine.
Indians are killed. That is in order policy. It is the only
time you have a military leader whose success, in fact, is
defined by how many of his own people can he have died in the
path of jihad? Oh, this
Adam Curry: is great. So by killing him, we're actually
saving Palestinians. That's fantastic. Wow. These guys are
so good. And who was this, again, who was speaking, What?
John C Dvorak: What? He's a guy. He's got a bunch of he was ex
State Department. He's, he worked for us, and he's working
for some, some Polaris or some company that does security work.
And then he's also a friend of he's a some, some Jewish
operation.
Adam Curry: We gotta stop this. We gotta stop
John C Dvorak: this. All this is nothing to stop.
Adam Curry: I have a clip here from, can't be done, from the
secrets and spies podcast, yes. Have you ever heard this
podcast? Yeah, I have. This is Philip Smith, who you'll hear
speaking. He's from the Washington Institute of the Near
East, which, of course, is some
Unknown: kind of, yeah, yeah, some front, some front
Adam Curry: group. And he's, he's talking about, I think, I
think what he's saying here is along the lines of our thinking,
which is, they wanted this old guy, the one who got blowed up.
They just wanted him out of the way.
Unknown: The New York Times that said, No, there was actually a
bomb planted inside of his room. And of course, there was some
other kind of more fluffy details that were in there.
Like, for instance, it was an AI controlled thing, and you throw
AI into it, that sounds advanced, but anyways, word of
the day, yeah. So, I mean, it was kind of stuff like that. But
you know, there's an AI controlled thing that also
detected when he was in the exact room. But what's
fascinating is you had other representatives and the
leadership of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad that were staying
in the same building. Now, Palestinian Islamic Jihad is
more directly controlled by the Iranians, very dangerous group,
but pij has been very, very big in terms of launching rockets,
kidnapping people, killing people, suicide bombings, you
name it, and they are markedly more beholden to the Iranians.
And interestingly, their reps who were there were not killed,
which, once again, it's another signal
yet on the call as the head
of Islamic Jihad, he
was in the room next door, it was reported in the in the ronin
Bergman article, yes, yeah, but, but again, that's the Okay, if
you think we can't hit anyone exactly when we want, that's
this is the thinking that goes behind it. I mean, I'm sure
there are, there are people out there like, why don't they just
kill them all in the building? Well, then that wouldn't send
quite the same signal, now, would it?
I think they took them out themselves. Just take this guy
possible. Just take this guy out.
John C Dvorak: It's probably the reason there hasn't used to this
moment. They still haven't started their retribution.
Adam Curry: So let's just stay on this for a second, because
there are a number of a number of Iran narratives going around,
even though it's like, is it Pakistan? Is it Iran? Is it
ISIS? Listen to this,
Unknown: the FBI arresting a Pakistani national in connection
with an alleged plot to assassinate former President
Donald Trump. Senior investigative correspondent
Aaron katersky joins me now. So what do we know about this man
and what he was playing our planet? Oops,
Adam Curry: truth wants to come out. What he was playing? Yeah,
he was playing a role, but okay, planning correspondent
Unknown: Aaron katersky joins me now. So what do we know about
this man and what he was playing?
Or Kira, his name is a safe merchant, and he entered the
United States, according to federal prosecutors, in Brooklyn
in April. And while he was here in the United States, he made
phone calls trying to hire hit men to carry out his alleged
scheme to assassinate government officials on U S soil. The
criminal complaint does not mention former President Trump
by name, but multiple sources familiar with this case say one
of the intended targets was former President Trump the hit
men that Asif merchant allegedly contacted ended up being
confidential sources of the FBI. So there was never any real
danger here, because it seems the Feds were onto this man from
the start. They followed him for several months and arrested him
July 12, just before he was about to board a flight and
leave the country. Kira the arrest, July 12, you'll note, is
one day before former President Trump's rally in Butler,
Pennsylvania, when there was an attempt on the former
president's life. Although these two things are not believed to
be connected, all right,
so no evidence in any way, shape or form. They could have shared
information or were connected in any way, two separate incidents
at this point.
So it seems curry The FBI has said they found no connection
between Thomas crooks, the 20 year old who took a shot at
Trump in Pennsylvania, and any foreign operatives. But. He did
learn, subsequent to the rally and the assassination attempt,
that the Secret Service had made adjustments to the security plan
for the rally because of thinking that Iran did have this
desire to go after former President Trump. Perhaps now we
know what gave them that indication. Perhaps this is one
of the reasons why those security adjustments were made.
This
Adam Curry: is such a convoluted story, so because they learned
about some threats from Iran, they made it even easier. Yeah,
I mean, what is going on? And then I know you have the clip
here. I'll play your clip. So now we have ISIS trying to
attack a Taylor Swift concert.
Unknown: An alleged terror plot targeting Taylor Swift concerts
in Austria has been foiled. The three swift concerts in Vienna
have now been canceled by the promoter. Two suspects were
arrested in connection with the alleged plot. Officials in
Austria said the main suspect is a 19 year old Austrian citizen.
They believe he had pledged an oath of allegiance to ISIS.
Authorities said they found chemical substances when he was
taken into custody. Investigators are working to
determine whether they could have been used to build a bomb
at a news conference, authorities said they believe
both men became radicalized on the internet and confirm that
they have detailed plans on how to carry out an attack.
Adam Curry: Now, there's a lot, I mean, this is, I mean, maybe
the Swift OP is just using Taylor Swift for whatever,
whatever we want to use her for. Because, you know, we had the
three kids who were killed in the UK, knifed to death. They
were at a Taylor Swift party. Then we've got ISIS wanting to
blow up people, young girls, supposedly, and their parents at
a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna. By the way, there's an
update breaking. We're getting
Unknown: some breaking news from Austria following the
cancelation of three Taylor Swift concerts in Vienna. Police
this morning are releasing new details about a terror plot that
targeted the stadium where the shows were scheduled this
weekend. Government officials confirmed the two men arrested
in connection to a planned attack. They say a 17 year old
suspect began working at the Austrian venue days before the
now canceled shows. The suspect sought to use knives or homemade
explosives in the attack outside the Swift concerts during a
press conference, fan as head of police said immediate danger had
been minimized and that an abstract danger remained in the
city. All tickets will be refunded with the next 10
business days. Swift's next set of airs tour concerts are still
scheduled in London from August 15 to the 20th. Yeah, that
Adam Curry: sounds like a great place to do a concert right now.
The Killing, they're killing your fans. Oh, man, there are
forces at work right now that and who don't care about human
life, clearly, who are really trying to set the stage for,
maybe for Trump, I'm not sure, but they're setting the stage.
They're set up underway and, well, let me just play the
before we get to that. No, maybe I should play this. Now, it
seems like this the latest that's happening in the world of
what WTF is also our doing. This is Bangladesh. Most people don't
understand it or care about it, but this is a report, an appeal
Unknown: for calm from the street. The army chief in
Bangladesh spoke to the nation in a televised address, general
Bucha Zaman announced an interim government would be formed,
while confirming report Sheik Hasina had resigned.
The honorable Prime Minister has resigned. Now we will form an
interim government and continue our work to lead the country
through the interim government, all the functioning of the
country will take place
out on the streets of the capital Dhaka. Jubilant crowds
waved flags and took pictures with Army personnel. This after
the Prime Minister's residence was stormed, after crowds grew
in numbers overwhelming security, demonstrators removed
articles of furniture and danced in celebration. The latest
development out of Bangladesh kept weeks of unrest. Student
led demonstrations kicked off last month over a controversial
quarter system on over half of government jobs reserved for
certain groups, including descendants of freedom fighters.
But that quickly spiraled into a campaign to oust the prime
minister, a heavy handed crackdown under Sheik Hasina
watch resulted in nearly 300 people killed, and the eventual
downfall of the Prime Minister herself.
Adam Curry: So you know, to us in the West, it's like some
people, brown people in some country, making a mess for
themselves, but if you look just a little bit deeper. So now this
general has come in, and he's not so that's what we call a
coup. And the Prime Minister, Sheik Hasina, who. Led the
country is now openly accusing the Biden regime of seeking to
top hole her government with a color revolution for her
refusing to allow the United States to establish a military
base in Bangladesh and for Bangladesh to cut ties with
Russia and China, I'm gonna say that sounds pretty true to me,
especially when you see this, uh, Walker uzama guy, let me
see, oh, he studied at the joint services Command and Staff
College in the UK and at King's College University in London,
also Known as the spook University. Come on, people come
it's so nasty, just nasty.
Unknown: And I believe that,
John C Dvorak: of course, you know, it's very believable. It's
the reason you believe it. You believe it because it's
believable. It's very and it makes, actually makes sense.
Yes, thank you. Because we try to do with Yeah, we we try to
make sense. We try well Now Sam saying, as a country, we don't
put up with any guff, guff, no guff, no
Adam Curry: guff, no
John C Dvorak: guff, no guff. Next the good show tile, no
guff, no
Adam Curry: guff. What is guff? Exactly,
John C Dvorak: you know guff. It's like grief, so we don't put
in any grief or guff or talk back
Adam Curry: kill bull crap.
John C Dvorak: Bull crap. No, both bull crap, word for bull
crap.
Adam Curry: Little update, we haven't talked about the
Olympics very much well
John C Dvorak: before you drove too far. I do want to play the
Pierce Morgan commentary on Taylor Swift. Oh,
Adam Curry: well, how could I even go to sleep tonight without
Pierce Morgan commentary on Taylor Swift? Oh, and the
John C Dvorak: only reason I'm playing this is because I have a
complaint about it. He's on Jordan Peterson's podcast, one
of the dull podcasts of the group. And so
Adam Curry: it looks like someone vomited on Peterson's
jackets. Is like, I can't it's hard to watch. He's always
John C Dvorak: wearing weird jackets. But anyway, he's
Peterson is bored stiff listening to this guy, and it's
and he's just going, okay, whatever. And so he But he goes
on and on. He's who knew that Piers Morgan, of all people, is
a Swifty, an alleged
Unknown: terror plot targeting Taylor Swift concerts in Austria
has been oiled the three swift
Adam Curry: This is not what you want. That's not it. It's, I'm
sorry.
John C Dvorak: Annoying Pierce on Taylor. Annoying.
Unknown: Feel comfortable with winners anymore, you know,
especially if they're a little bit self confident, and yet, I
think they're the best possible role models out there, people
that can perform in the cauldron of great sports or
entertainment,
Adam Curry: cauldron, cauldron, witchcraft. Anybody. People
Unknown: that can perform in the cauldron of great sports or
entertainment, whatever it may be. You know, I watched all this
sort of jealous sniping about Taylor Swift, for example, and
then I went to her concert at Wembley, absolutely mind blowing
experience. It's not because she's the best singer in the
world or the best dancer or the best actress or the best pianist
or the best guitarist, even though she does all those
things, it's just I've never seen an audience so at one with
the performer, where she gave them what they wanted. Three and
a half hours of banging hits on a massive stage with huge
theatrics. Every kid there, including my 12 year old
daughter, had a fantastic time, but the sniping. She doesn't
sing every song live. She's there. She's that. She's written
all these songs herself. She's grossing $2 billion on this
tool, pro rata, the biggest tour in the history of music, bigger
than the Beatles when they played Shea Stadium.
John C Dvorak: Well, this guy funny.
Unknown: I could have done without that.
John C Dvorak: I couldn't. And here we go. She has minimum of
62 different collaborators that write these songs. Yeah,
Adam Curry: that's clearly Pierce is wrong. On that one,
John C Dvorak: he says she writes all her own. Yeah, she
has written a few songs, but the songs, if you look at her hits
and look at who wrote him, she's not even on there. These songs,
collaborations at at best. And sometimes we have anything to
do. We call that collabs. We call that collabs in the
business, the collabs. So this is a lie, and he's he bought
into it.
Adam Curry: Wow. Pierce Morgan buying into a lie. What will we
what will happen next? What will happen next? All right, I
John C Dvorak: just thought it was an important Clip to play,
if nothing else, into here. Jordan, Peterson, go, okay,
Adam Curry: yeah. Well, Peterson, by him, he's not very
dynamic. Anyways, he's not dynamic.
John C Dvorak: No, he's actually a good guest with and if he has,
if he put him with a dynamic. Post and he's the guest, it
picks his energy up, but him being the host, it drops the
energy in the whole podcast. As they said, I'm surprised Pierce
even got this worked up, but he's big Taylor Swift Fan.
Adam Curry: I mean, you know, Darren and and Peter should get
together do a podcast
Unknown: the Tay Tay cast, yeah,
Adam Curry: we haven't spoken much about the Olympics. I do
want to give us an update. This is the turkey, turkey ish radio.
What is Turkey? Turkey a do we say Turkey? A ish turkey? A
turkey a radio and television, they have put the reporter on
the scene and come up with the 10 controversies of the 10 days
of the Olympics.
Unknown: Number one, more than $1.5 billion was spent cleaning
the sun since 2015 yet the glorified sewer is still
extremely polluted, and athletes who swam in the same well, let's
just say it was an unforgettable experience for them. Number two,
South Korea was wrongfully announced as the Democratic
People's Republic of Korea during the opening vote parade,
Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the Olympic Committee and
organizers would later apologize for their mistake. Number three,
in their Olympic basketball debut, the wrong national anthem
for South Sudan was played. Number four, Papa Smurf drag
queens and the mocking of the Last Supper, all this and more
at the opening ceremony. Number five, the athletes accommodation
has come under heavy criticism, from cardboard beds to lack of
air conditioning this extreme heat, some athletes even
resorted to leaving the Olympic village and relocating to nearby
hotels. Number six, espionage at the Olympics team Canada was
caught spying on New Zealand during their training session,
and as a result, received a six points penalty. Number seven,
they actually hoisted the Olympic flag the wrong way.
Congratulations, you had one job and you missed the cut. Number
eight, the handling of the weather conditions. It rained a
lot, and I mean a lot during the opening ceremony. Number nine,
the participation of Israel was one of the major talking points
going into Paris. 20 2024 Russia, who sent troops into
Ukraine in 2022 was banned from the Paris Olympics. Yet Israel,
who has killed more than 39,000 people in their assault on
Palestine, Gaza, was warmly welcomed to this year's games.
Number 10, Fauci job ban has been highlighted even more since
the Olympics began, we've spoken with world class athletes here
in Paris who are unable to compete for this nation because
of this pro law. And that's our list of all the controversies
that have happened at Paris 2024
John C Dvorak: Bah, what a list I should mention. The first
thing on his list about the sin being polluted, puking
everywhere they were. They were a bunch of these guys that were
in whatever competition required them swimming in this dreck shit
fill river. They got it. Ended up hospitalized. It was a big
scandal. You know, they were hospitalized. Oh, good, yes,
this, this broke yesterday that a bunch of them were
hospitalized with the
Adam Curry: E coli. Well, then there's the food.
Unknown: The Olympic Village isn't serving adequate food, and
some athletes aren't happy about it. It's such a problem that
team Great Britain has resorted to packed lunches and eating
meals away from the Olympic Village. Andy Anson, chief of
the British Olympic Association, told The Times that the quality
of the food needs to be improved dramatically, and said there
aren't enough eggs chicken and certain carbohydrates. He also
said that athletes have been served raw meat. Chefs have been
tasked with preparing over 13 million meals and snacks for
athletes. And the Paris 2024, committee has the goal of
reducing animal proteins and offering more plant based
options the
Adam Curry: raw meat, I think they just took it the wrong way.
That was sous vide. You missed. And
John C Dvorak: the other thing is that what they left out of
that clip. I had that clip too, but I was irked by the fact they
left out the worms. Yes, worms. They found worms in the fish,
live worms coming out of the fish. It. This is the this is a
disaster, even though they're making more money than ever.
Adam Curry: Well, yeah, of course, of course, we didn't
talk about it, but the Wall Street went crazy on Friday and
Monday. You guys talked about it on DH unplugged, and you put it
in the newsletter that we would talk about it. I don't know why
you did that.
John C Dvorak: I did yeah, I said. You said, yeah,
Adam Curry: we'll explain it.
Unknown: I said that, yes, yes, I
Adam Curry: saw it myself. I don't know if we need to explain
it, although
John C Dvorak: once in a while I put stuff in there that you
don't mean that. You don't mean, I didn't mean it. I was just a
joke. Well,
Adam Curry: you guys talked about mainly on DH unplug, which
is a great show. You should listen. You can listen to it
live on Tuesdays at streams live, they have some kind of
chat room which doesn't work. So they need donations. They need
help to work fine. They need help. They rag on Bitcoin. Yet
Horowitz is is interviewing Scaramucci today, so you know,
all right, whatever. But the the yen curry trade seems to be the
impetus, or the the catalyst, for this. Which I didn't really
know much about, but it makes a lot of sense that people were
basically borrowing a lot of money, because the Yen is you
can borrow that almost for free. And then they were buying all
kinds of tech stocks, The Magnificent Seven, and then
Japan said, Oh, we're going to raise our interest rates. And
everyone got in trouble. Is that, does that sum it up?
Basically it would cost it? Yeah. And now, in addition to
that,
John C Dvorak: that out of the blue because they had negative
interest rates, it was free money. Out of the blue, they
just go, we're talking about lowering interest rate. I don't
want to get into this too. No, no, we're talking about lowering
interest rates in this country, almost 50 basis points. We're
now talking and they out of the blue. They just raised, like
blew everybody's money. It was great. It caused a collapse.
Adam Curry: But along with that, and even though I think the
market rocketed back up today, who knows what's going on and so
every all of that is phony baloney, but my beat, AI is
taking a beating. Just a couple of headlines, and I have two
quick clips. The Guardian view on the tech bubble going pop. Ai
pays the price for inflated expectations. Is the AI bubble
about to burst? AI's two fundamental issues will lead to
a bubble pop. Goldman, Sachs in business. Insider, yep, it's all
happening. And here's Yahoo News. A lot of people who are
unsophisticated investors use Yahoo finance.yahoo.com,
Unknown: case in point, I really see
John C Dvorak: the easy way to look at charts, but a lot of
Adam Curry: unsophisticated investors views it for their
news and information. This is who is this? This dude, Patrick
Moore had an analyst. I really see, you know Patrick Moore
John C Dvorak: had used to be a very famous public relations guy
for AMD.
Unknown: Oh, interesting. Well, yeah,
he's now an analyst. I really see two major, actually, three,
three major buckets for for a I plays. The first one is this
infrastructure. Anybody who is related to building out these
massive data centers with GPUs in them, I think are very, I'm
very confident next 12 to 18 months that's going to be the
case. And we saw the capital expenditure commitments by
Microsoft and meta and Amazon. It is absolutely pedal to the
metal on that. And then there's the longer term, downstream
right the enterprise software providers that that there has to
be benefit in a large scale for all this to to interconnect,
because there is just, factually, an over investment in
the capability versus the downstream benefits at this
point and and if that gear doesn't connect, and let's say,
12 months, what's going to happen is the investors of these
enterprise software companies are going to be asking, you
know, where's the benefit? And have super pressure on these
companies to start scaling back. And that is when all bets are
off.
Adam Curry: This is gonna come apart so beautifully. Every
single day I receive emails from dudes named Ben like, oh man, we
had to implement one of these AI things. It's just a stupid chat
bot. Our customers hate it. We hate it. It doesn't work. 20%
25% 30% of the answers it gives us wrong. It's not it's not
working. Now this your buddy Patrick, did have a an
interesting side note here, but I think he's reading this the
tea leaves the wrong way.
Unknown: And then the final thing I want to add is I still
think there's this on tapped opportunity, which is the AI PC
and AI smartphones. You know, we saw a little bit on the AI
smartphones related to Apple. We saw a slight bump on that. But
when you consider there's only one generation of Apple
smartphones that can do all the AI tricks out there, and then
people are gonna have to buy new smartphones, new tablets and
even even new Macs. That's really, I think good news for
companies like Apple and Qualcomm and even AMD and Intel.
Adam Curry: I see it exactly the opposite. I don't think a single
person is going to want to buy a new phone that costs even more
because of AI tricks. I think it's going to hurt apple. My
God, I don't think I want this thing.
John C Dvorak: You have a you have a negative attitude. Of
course, this is very, very negative, and you are very
negative. My son, who works in AI, well,
Adam Curry: Jesus, he thinks it's the best thing. No,
John C Dvorak: no. He says, Okay. He says something that you
can put in the Red Book. And I. Think it's good. I think he
might be right. He thinks that it's got, it's got enough legs
to go two more years. Wow. In other words, no, yeah, not. Most
people that see bubbles like you do, or you know this, this idea
of being a bubble head, always are premature, and I'm guessing
he's probably right about the two years now, that means we'll
have our cable business in place. Yes, because it's only
going to take us about a year to do it.
Adam Curry: Oh, wow, that's good. Our exit strategy is,
strategy is on deck. I love it, and then maybe I'll be able to
afford a better supplier of my Dr Pepper. I got another flat
can.
John C Dvorak: Wow, the fact that you have, man,
Adam Curry: that was beautiful. I timed it beautifully,
John C Dvorak: I'm telling you, having been a can inspector,
yeah, yes, in more ways than one, I say yes, but having been
a can Inspector, I would say the likelihood of running into two
bad cans from the same company in your lifetime is remote.
Remote, very remote. I think in my whole life, I have run into
maybe one bad can ever besides the ones I was inspecting and I
saw. That's what weird, weird
Unknown: donation to no agenda. Imagine all the people who could
do that. Oh yeah, that'd
be fun. No agenda. It.
Adam Curry: So here I am trying to look at the batch number, and
of course, I spill it all over my that that was not good, that,
in fact, that is very bad, because this is sugar, and this
sugar water will get into my midi controller and will ruin
it. Would you spill it on the computer? No, the MIDI
controller mixer, which I use for,
John C Dvorak: oh, well, it's just said, yeah, there's
nothing. There's ways to do. Do
Adam Curry: you have any lube or something?
John C Dvorak: This is like the, no, I got no lube. This is like
the guy with the holding a can. He say, What time is it? He
dumps the can on himself.
Adam Curry: That's pretty much what I just did like a moron.
Anyway, I think I have a, I have a lawsuit on my hands. Two, two
cans in one batch is not good. It's not good, and it ruined,
ruined my equipment.
John C Dvorak: Anyway, from the same batch that you purchased, I
think so, yeah. Oh, it's like hard disks.
Adam Curry: Did you get my hard disk? By the way? Yes, I did.
Thank
John C Dvorak: you very much. I got the hard disk and
everything. And you scribble all over the hard disk, which is
funny,
Adam Curry: with a with a with a silver Magic Marker, with
John C Dvorak: a silver pin, yes, which everyone should have
it. That's a tip of the day is the silver sharpie. They're very
handy.
Adam Curry: Silver sharpies are great. Hey, let's thank some
people who came in $50 or above, John will read them off for you.
And of course, there'll be several congratulations for the
36 wedding anniversary of my partner and his lovely wife, who
also does a lot for the show, often unmentioned behind the
scenes, she does all of our tax accounting, which is very
annoying, and she for her, and she does the meetups and manages
all that. And we love her. Mimi is awesome. Clearly, you
John C Dvorak: married up and she she runs a kennel,
Adam Curry: and she runs again. She runs a kennel,
John C Dvorak: right? That start to ski starts us off in Kingman,
Arizona, 12324, Kyle tech, T, A, C, K, e, in Yankton, South
Dakota, one, one, 1.11, and he has anything here, we just
stopped. Oh, he wants to be he's, PS, stop being a douche
and donate on your own. He says to someone, one of his friends,
Adam Curry: oh, okay, the Bing or Newman, I guess,
John C Dvorak: I guess Rami in Norfolk, Virginia, one, one,
1.11, you can take a look at her note. She has a really nice
note. Take a look at it. See if there's anything we need to
read. Need to read now. She has nice handwriting to this.
Unknown: She says, this is this
Adam Curry: something should put me? Oh, to Dame status, really?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, and she's on the list. Oh, there
Adam Curry: you go. I would need to put this on hold since life
is in flux due to hobbies. Naval retirement in January. Sorry,
it's been so long between donations. So
John C Dvorak: her husband is retired from the Navy. Okay, but
Adam Curry: is she a dame? I don't, I don't have any, I think
she's got, she's I don't have Daming on the list today. So I
think that it's okay.
John C Dvorak: We're gonna have to wait, Ronnie just to send us
a note. What's your name and all the rest it wants to be. Please
do, and then we'll take care of it next show or the show after.
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John C Dvorak: you've been de douche Sorry, sorry, Jay, you're
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Affleck, sir. Kevin McLaughlin, another Kevin random number
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Adam Curry: it's, it's not boobs as usual. You just got a whole
bunch of eight. So that says it's very special. He's
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is a douche bag. Him a de douching.
Unknown: You've been deduced. He
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week. I bet he did. He probably did. He was trapped in a bush of
thorns, which is Albania. Sir Bucha vici. Bucha, Bucha in
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Unknown: Well done again. Thank
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douche bag. Call out for John and Jeff. All right, double
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you guys. You remind me and my mom. You remind me of me and my
mom. Okay, good natured bickering. Thank you for what
you do. Sir Scotty Pippin, in Inglewood, Florida, the
basketball player. No, he
Adam Curry: gets a sir Scotty Pippin, he'll be he's a title
change, sir, not Space Force is what he's. 5430
John C Dvorak: Dame Nancy, 5360 and with a happy anniversary.
Mary Hardwick in Alito, Texas. 5333 Stephanie Paul Lilo
paulillo in New York City. Jobs, karma, we'll put that at the end
for you. Michael gates, 5280 hack on Andreessen in Portland,
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Prague, Oklahoma, 5272 Brian G c, John by me saying Brian,
Brian Mickey already got him. John C gazer in New Milford,
Connecticut, 5271 Jackson Thornton in Dallas, Texas, 5103
Adam Curry: and he says, I'm 14, trying to get a shout out for my
mom and dad's birthdays, and they're on the list. Jackson,
Good work, good work. Son, you're a good son.
John C Dvorak: He's a good, good guy. Boy Josiah Thomas in
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5088 he was formerly known as Bobby brindle horse and LaBelle.
$50.50 Happy anniversary. I'm in Orange Beach, and hope the
meetup is still on for Saturday. No, no, we'll know later.
Michael LaBar in Williamston, Michigan, is 50, and the rest of
these are 50. I'm just gonna go name them and location. Alex
Zavala in Kyle, Texas, sir. Alex Zavala,
Adam Curry: just adding that so. Mitra
John C Dvorak: Saravana in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Fredericksburg, Virginia, I
Unknown: do. I did. That's true.
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home, Flint, Michigan, Edward Missouri, who is also a sir in
Memphis, Tennessee. Or Stephen ray in Spokane, Washington. Ray
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Carmen, there's another jobs car we got to put from Grand Rapids,
Michigan, and last on our list is Alex Smith in newborn
Georgia. No longer a douche. Bank needs a D douche.
Unknown: You've been deduced.
John C Dvorak: And that's our list of well wishers and Happy
Anniversary donations for show 1684, thank you very much. Yeah,
Adam Curry: thank you very nice. Everybody. Appreciate that. And
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Unknown: 699 dudes,
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Mandy Smith says Happy Birthday to her husband, sir Scott Smith,
a celebrate on the fourth, Brendan McClanahan celebrated on
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Happy Birthday to his parents. He's a good son. Happy birthday
for everybody here at the best podcast in the universe
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we do have a couple of title changes today, when it rains in
bore sir rope of spade, bits in the rafters, now barren North
Valley of foxes, Sir Brian Tobias and Baron of chiefs
kingdom. Now becomes Sir Brian Tobias and Viscount of chiefs
kingdom and Sir Scottie Pippen now sir not Space Force. Thank
you all for supporting the no agenda show with your upgrades
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from Charlie Boyd. He says in the morning, John and Adam, I
have faithfully recently completed my knighthood. Lay
away. I'm utterly confused as to how I'm to become an official
night of the Round Table. Was not that hard. It's working.
I've been listening for almost 10 years, and would think I
would be in tune with the system by now. I would like to ask for
relationship karma. Yeah, as I'm a half century old and living
alone with my tiny dog Patty in the little college town of San
Marcos, Texas. Hey, ladies, there's an eligible bachelor
with a little, tiny dog called Patty in San Marcos, which is a
nice little town between Austin and San Anton. There's a nice
little airport there too, as well. There aren't as many
keepers around that fit my age preference. So it's been slim
pickings. I would like to be called Sir, Call of the Void,
and would like to have a healthy heaping of red beans and rice
and a Shirley Temple. At the round table, red beans and rice
and a Shirley Temple. I don't think I had the did I do we have
some extra red beans and rice?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, we usually have that, but the Shirley
Temple's we need some grenadine syrup.
Adam Curry: Is that? What's in a Shirley Temple?
John C Dvorak: Yeah,
Unknown: great. Okay, let me see. I'll put that in here.
Adam Curry: Okay? And, and he wants a woman, all right, there
you go. So let me give him that's a relationship karma.
First off,
Unknown: you've got karma.
Adam Curry: And get yourself ready, sir. As we bring out the
blades, because we have a couple of people tonight, there is my
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Unknown: No one shut down.
Adam Curry: Happy, yes, indeed, like a party indeed. And we have
one meet up. Report, this is from the vault wine bar meetup.
ITM gents circumcision of the 10% off
Unknown: night of the fourth corner with our vault bistro
meet up. Report, it exceeded all expectations. Had a great time
talking with everybody, enjoying ourselves. And just want to say
support these guys. The value I received from this podcast on a
weekly basis exceeds all my contributions, including my
knighthood status mark
here at the vault Wine Bar and Bistro in Blaine, Washington on
the August 4 meetup in the morning.
Hashtag, live, laugh, love, Trump. Anna in the morning at
the vault, and Adam still wondering, What are you drinking
in the morning?
In the morning,
Adam Curry: well, I was drinking a very flat Dr Pepper. That's
just seems to be my lot in life these days. Hey, there's a meet
up taking place tomorrow, Saturday at the Treasure Valley.
Boise. Meet Up that'll be at three o'clock at the Heritage
social club in Garden City, Idaho, also on Saturday, the
surprise Orange Beach meet up, three o'clock at GTS on the bay.
Orange Beach, Alabama, the Fort Worth, monthly August meet up
starts at one o'clock on Saturday at flips Patio Grill.
Fort Worth. Texas, the margarita meet up, which is on Sunday, you
must RSVP for this, two o'clock at Lenora Alton, Palm Beach
Gardens Florida. And that must be something special if you have
to RSVP for it. We drink and we know things. The Soviet Sunday
edition is a meet up on Sunday at three br distillery, Keyport,
New Jersey, the save democracy and cat ladies meet up at 330 on
Sunday at St Joseph brewery and public house in Indianapolis,
Indiana. That's Sir Mark and de Maria organizing. That's always
a big one to hootenanny. And finally, on Sunday, the
knowledge in the southwest New Hampshire, meet up also, 3:33pm
keen New Hampshire, local burger in Keene, New Hampshire, many,
hey, there's a meet up in San Marcos. I see on the 17th of
August, that's one where our newly minted might night should
go to. This is the three events float meetup that sir Scott
Barron of the army is organized dude, chicks and bathing suits.
I'm just saying no agenda meetups. You can, you can meet
all kinds of people. Some of them might even be single. Go.
Give it a look. See at no agenda meetups.com. If you can't find
no one there, start one yourself. It's always easy and
always a party safe.
Where everybody feels no agenda meetups.com By the way, you
know, as ever since we finished Fraser and then cheers when
watching Veep. And we are now in season three, and it is
synchronous, almost synchronous, with Kamala Harris as vice
president Selina now has decided to run for president, and we're
all it's crazy. And I look at that show and I think, yeah,
that's exactly what's going on behind the scenes at the Harris
campaign.
John C Dvorak: Exactly the same script. Writer,
Adam Curry: no kidding. How about some misos? I have a think
four. So you have two. I'll start with yours, if you don't
mind,
Unknown: sure what you got. No, let's see. I've got a crazy That
was crazy.
Adam Curry: Not bad, not bad, not bad, not bad.
John C Dvorak: Well, then here's one that's not too bad, not too
bad. Really,
Unknown: I don't like the cutoff.
Adam Curry: All right, couple ones for me here. So I have
four. Let me see if you like any of these. But
Unknown: they, they, they serve no agenda.
No, you don't like that one. Okay, next one, folks don't be
pooping on the beach. Pooping on the beach
got to do with anything, nothing. And yes, I am weird.
Adam Curry: Okay, that's getting better. And I think this is the,
this is the winner, two
Unknown: Grumpy Old Men.
I think that's just,
yeah, that's
just the classic.
John C Dvorak: I think crazy is better than that, but I'll take
that. Okay, good. And now,
Adam Curry: ladies and gentlemen, to wind up the show.
It is time for Charles Tip of the Day. And
Unknown: sometimes
Adam Curry: I don't, yeah, we like to wind up the show with
the tip of the day, so you can go into the rest of your
weekend, into the weekend, in this case, with knowledge that
you cannot get from any other podcast. John, what's your tip
of the day? I
John C Dvorak: actually have two today, wow, a double header, or
I could have one, whatever, but I do have a clip that has a tip
in it. Oh, good that I thought would be worth playing, because
it has to do with the Olympics. Okay. What is it? And it is the
where are we rocking? Pin trading, pin trading,
Unknown: dozens of passionate pin traders and collectors were
fervently exchanging pins in the heart of Paris last week. Many
call it an unofficial Olympic sport.
A pin specialist from the US advises newcomers to prepare
their pins in advance. They can do that by purchasing them
online and bringing them to the Olympics. The best
thing to do if you want to trade pins is to come to the games or
come to an event with with pins that you have to trade. If you
buy them at stores here, they're very expensive, but if you can
buy them cheaper on eBay, people buy them in bulk and eBay older
pins and bring them and trade them. Reed
has been trading pins since the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. It's
the unofficial sport of the Olympics. There are 1000s of
people that fed trade. They're probably more pin traders than
their athletes, if you think of it that way. I mean, we set this
up today, and there was no advertising. We just put
something on Facebook and said, Come the
pin trading fair. Gathered. Traders from all around the
world, all drawn by the allure of the Olympics. This year, the
area was bustling with people eager to make a good trade. The
fact that a lot represent countries, so
you're you're kind of getting stuff
from all over the world, and that's really cool.
According to the first Olympics website, pin trading dates back
to the first modern games in 1896 when athletes work hard,
board badges, nearly 130 years later, the variety of pins has
significantly expanded.
Busy all day long. People love coming here and trading,
interacting, and it becomes very addictive.
National organizing committees, sporting federations, media
companies and sponsors all offer their enameled mementos.
Adam Curry: So this is a tip for dorks.
John C Dvorak: It's a tip for people who trade pins in this a
bigger group than you think.
Adam Curry: Yeah, of darks flare.
John C Dvorak: You. You? Your judgmental guy. I am
Adam Curry: who trades pins? I thought, when I saw that clip,
thought, pin numbers for your ATM, that's kind of cool to
trade that. Hey, I'll take yours. You take mine, but no pin
trading. So what is the tip? Then
John C Dvorak: the tip is to buy your pins in advance from eBay
and then take them there and wholesale and ramp up.
Adam Curry: Okay, great tip, John.
John C Dvorak: I have a second tip, or I can push the second
tip. No, no. Running out of time. I
Adam Curry: need to hear the tip. I need more tip. No,
John C Dvorak: you would. So I'm in Slovenia, floating around.
And they bring up interesting point up, and I'm going to this
is the tip they claim in Slovenia. They claim this, that
pumpkin seed oil if you if you ingest it, and they have it if
you go to, like, any restaurant there, and the salad bars always
have, like, the oil and vinegar, but they also have a big thing
of pumpkin seed oil that you put on the salad. And they claim
that pumpkin seed, you use pumpkin seed oil, and this is
not, I'm not giving medical advice, but they've sincerely
believed that pumpkin seed oil prevents prostate cancer. Wow.
They're, they're just a they're, they adhere to this belief that
pumpkin seed oil no prostate cancer. And so use it a lot. So
they use it on the salads. And I actually use it myself, kind of
believing this possibility I've, you know, got a healthy
Adam Curry: process. There's another butt tip from John C
Dvorak. And so
John C Dvorak: here is that. So you go to Amazon has it, and
there's a French company that that sells it, and by the way,
they sell it in a small can. You can just look up pumpkin seed
oil on Amazon, or you can find it at some stores.
Adam Curry: You can just eat pumpkin seeds. Will that do it
too? Or you won't get
John C Dvorak: as much oil as you do from these just you can
have to eat tons of me sick. The point is, is that this pumpkin
seed is quite good on a salad. It's very strong flavored oil,
and it's very nice raw on a salad. And the thing that's
irksome is that I looked into the idea of of importing pumpkin
seed oil, and they it's, it's like a it's like an industrial
waste. Yeah, I was gonna say it's sludge in Slovenia, and
it's like this. It's like you could get to your 10 gallons for
$1 kind of thing. But when the when the French make it in their
little cans, it's like 15 bucks for a small can. So it's, it's,
I think, a pretty pricey once
Adam Curry: again, considering what it's really used for. It's
another lube story. You can't get off a lube. That's what they
use it for. You.
John C Dvorak: She is lube.
Adam Curry: Everybody, good news.
Unknown: It's good advice.
Johnson, everybody,
Adam Curry: that's in Tip of the Day. I love it so. And you know,
I think people who miss the tip of the day because they like I'm
tuning out. They miss out on a lot of good stuff. I think
you're foolish to not
John C Dvorak: stay tuned. Foolish. Fell asleep by now.
You're kooky.
Adam Curry: You're kooky if you don't listen to the tip of the
day or the outstanding end of show mixes, which are end of
show mixers always put together as some valuable time and
talent. We have Mr. Kecta, once again, D's laughs and still
checking in almost every single show from China Professor Jay
Jones. We love them so much. Appreciate it. Send all those
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Coming to you from the heart of the Texas Hill Country, here in
Fredericksburg, Texas wine country, in the morning,
everybody. I'm Adam curry. And from
John C Dvorak: Northern Silicon Valley, where it's time for me
to go to Costco. I'm John C Dvorak. And Happy anniversary,
Adam Curry: John and Mimi we we love you, and we love our cable
network idea. Even more, coming up next, we have two good old
boys, sir Jean and the dude named Ben, named Ben till
Sunday, adios. Mofo is a hooey, hooey and such,
Unknown: what Kamala Harris is doing is amazing. It is a
testament to her charisma, but it's also a testament to the
team she's put together, including Tim Walton. It's
really interesting to see a vice presidential pick generate this
kind of extra energy for this you know, we all talk about do
no harm with the pick, or maybe have an impact on a particular
state.
The pairing is actually quite magical. How you feel about
Trump calling Kamala Harris alone she is. She's welcome as
career prosecutors and shoppers from character deficits. She's
one of these people that has absolutely no connection with
what the hell with going on? He's in her 20s, and Willie
Brown took her off in his mistress. He means what He says,
we can take him seriously. He means, it's mental happily, a
storm do now in the
local election district where people count the votes. In
the states where they're gonna
count the votes,
right? Are you confident
that there will be a peaceful
transfer of power january 2025
if Trump wins? No, I'm not confident
John C Dvorak: at all. What's that in your mouth? You think,
Unknown: John? Stop now family show,
running out of options. Who's watching constant surveillance
and data collection in the name of protection? Hey, what's that
in your mouth? Videos, listen, captures in secret. I mean, huh?
Figure it out. Repent. Get right. All done in plain sight,
captured by your vice, compromised and paid with a high
price, attending parties and events, thinking, look, no one
sees. What happens in the shadows is just dense. Sidle up
to someone who's been abused before, keeping a secret,
spilling your guts and saying, Tell me more rumors and threats,
abundance, you become numb. How much to buy your silence. I
mean, just don't be dumb. Whistle blowers dead in random
acts of violence, saying that it's suicide, just be silent.
You're in for a long ride, digging deeper, leading to
entangled relations, trying to hide digital guillotine, rarely
seen, canceling, hardly a culture suitable even for a
team. But parents excuse bad behavior as a new day, how they
play the bad music for their kids in the car every day. Used
to be a way we would talk to our old folks. Politics were not
serious. People knew it was just jokes. I mean, just jokes, huh?
It was just jokes. Folks saying, yeah, what's that in your mouth?
What's that in your mouth?
John C Dvorak: But I'll tell you the thesis, the current thesis,
What's
Adam Curry: that in your mouth?
Unknown: And try to flirt.
Then I know when I see
one never learn to read and write
like everybody needs to be woke
early onset dementia, and also some problems with menopausal
complications,
but just a more woke than less woke,
and no brains at all. You see, today is going to be tomorrow.
So since it's going to be tomorrow, today, we have
tomorrow, which is why we are now like, What did you say?
Short
change? By the Lord and dumped the jackass.
We have to stay woke.
Where'd you get your blackness from seeing you faking it again,
listening to her words silent in the way she talks, and the
brains are told
like, everybody needs to be woke,
she lacked professional competence, and she worked on it
by hiking up her hemline when she needed influence, rather
than research, changed
by the Lord and dumb as a jackass.
And then you get somebody that's easy to control because she's
laced, but just ain't more woke than less woke. Boo, what did
you just say? The worst human beings you will ever find are
career prosecutors. So they lied. She's still to win the
game and no brain at all. She's always tried to do the casting
couch like everybody
needs to be woke.org/n.
A two Grumpy Old Men. You.