Unknown: It's crazy talk.
Adam curry. John C Dvorak,
it's Thursday,
August 15, 2024
Adam Curry: this is your award winning Kimber nation. Media
assassination Episode 1686,
Unknown: this is no agenda, Mama.
Adam Curry: We're all crazy now, and we're broadcasting live from
the heart of the Texas Hill Country, here in FEMA Region,
number six in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry and
from
John C Dvorak: Northern Silicon Valley, where I see that brought
Matthew Perry's killers to justice. I'm John C Dvorak.
Adam Curry: Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. I thought he
drowned of of accidental MDMA sleeping in his pool,
John C Dvorak: ketamine overdose,
Adam Curry: right? Yeah, ketamine was ketamine. You're
right. We knew that. That's not news. They
John C Dvorak: brought the four they they charged five people,
oh, of his death, including two MDs, one of whom said, I wonder
how much more this moron is going to pay for this stuff?
Adam Curry: Do they have this on tape? They
John C Dvorak: have it all the text messages which they
scramble to to get rid of once they started getting busted left
and right. Oh, no. But unfortunately, nobody seems to
realize that text messages are stored here and
Adam Curry: there in certain places
John C Dvorak: and wow, no dummies, wow.
Adam Curry: Well, that's pretty amazing.
Unknown: Yeah, huh? Poor guy.
Adam Curry: So this, so the docs killed him. Now, this micro
dosing of Kevin,
John C Dvorak: the docs got him fully addicted. Yeah? And then,
then a ketamine queen of LA,
Adam Curry: who is the ketamine queen? Ketamine queen.
John C Dvorak: It's a very interesting I was watching it
this morning on Court TV press conference. That's
Adam Curry: what you're doing with your prep mornings. I see,
I see, really did
John C Dvorak: you see one of these things? What? What?
Adam Curry: There's a lot to discuss. My friend. Get the
bonus clip, by the way. Oh, wait, no, I did not get a bonus
clip. Let me see. Let me see what your bonus clip? He's got a
bonus clip. Hold on a second. Okay, let me put it into the
into the bin. All right. Bonus clip is in the bin, but there
is, there's some big news. Big news today. Big news. We have a
winner. Not bird flu, not covid, flirt, not sloth fever or
dengue, no, ladies and gentlemen, it
Unknown: is M box. The World Health Organization tonight is
declaring M pox, formerly known as monkey pox, a global public
health emergency, as a new form of the virus is now rapidly
spreading across Africa. Cases have been detected to more than
a dozen countries, more of them and the Democrat most of them,
rather, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with more
than 14,000 cases, there 524 deaths this year alone. Here at
home, the CDC is urging doctors and the public to be alert for
signs of the virus, including fever, muscle aches, swollen
lymph nodes. Dr ashkeal is joining us now.
Adam Curry: Oh man M pox to the rescue. Just in time for the
election, get your mail in, ballots ready. This is horrible.
Oh no, we can't go vote. No. Doctor, tell us.
Unknown: Doctor, how big of a threat is this in terms of a
global perspective, and what does this global health
emergency really do from a practical standpoint?
Hey, time. So this is actually the second time in three years
the who has declared a public health emergency over over m
pox. And what we're seeing now is, yes, the cases are largely
in in Africa, specifically in the DRC, the Democratic
Republic. But the reason they're calling this out now Tom is that
it's actually leaking. I think, by
Adam Curry: the way, the whole Democratic Republic of Congo is,
is subtle messaging, Democrats, Democrats, to your mass to the
mass mobile Democrat, Democrat, Republic of Congo, Republic
Unknown: of Congo. But the reason they're calling this out
now Tom, is that it's actually leaking out into neighboring
countries. This is a different strain than the impacts outbreak
we saw a few years ago, including here in the US. This
one has a fatality rate about 15 to 30 times higher,
significantly more deadly than the other ones. You can see the
WHO IS is acting quickly here in the Ph D, I see the public
health emergency really calls for nations to start sharing
resources, vaccines, treatments, research can be really, really
useful for those countries. And you can see really, even time we
just got in the last hour from HHS saying that, while the CDC
Yes, saying the public should be alert right now, the threat is
very low here in the United States. People should
nonetheless be on the lookout for this thing, for this, for
this virus, and into stay alert for those symptoms that you
mentioned earlier there. Tom, yes, they
Adam Curry: alert. Stay alert for these symptoms now. Before
we continue with Dr shy, she all, we must go, because he's
back as well. Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome back to the
ring. Dr Tedros, last week,
Unknown: I announced that I was convening an emergency committee
under the International Health Regulations to evaluate the
upsurge of mpox in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
and other countries in Africa. Today, the Emergency Committee
met and advised me that, in its view, the situation constitutes
a public health emergency of international concern. It is a
Adam Curry: public emergency, public emergency of
international concern. The
Unknown: situation constitutes a public health emergency of
international
Adam Curry: not sure what it is, but it sounds bad that it's
public and
Unknown: rapid spread of a new clade of M pox in eastern DRC.
It's detection in neighboring countries that had not
previously reported M pox, and the potential for further spread
within Africa and beyond is very worrying. Worry clear that a
coordinated international response is essential to stop
these outbreaks and save lives. We
Adam Curry: must save lives because there are many deaths.
Let's go back to Dr Akshay at NBC, Hey,
Unknown: doctor, talking about the symptoms, I thought, are we
missing one? In other words, I thought that one of the symptoms
with monkey pox anyway, was gayness, kind of a severe
blistering type of thing. Yes,
it was that rash bullet on there. You can see in the bottom
right that it's very It's very typical of M pox. When you when
you see it, you can't really miss it. But those are the
symptoms you mentioned, fever, chills, exhaustion. Odds are, if
you're having those things, it's probably something else,
including the flu or maybe even covid. But the rash really is
the hallmark symptom Tom that blistering rash you mentioned.
Yes.
Adam Curry: Okay, so before I have two more clips here,
there's a discrepancy here that is very odd. Looking at all of
the videos we're seeing, mainly kids looks like they have
chicken pox. They're walking into the tents. We've got once
again, we've got Africa, we've got tents, we got people in
hazmat suits. Oh no, oh no, it's the M pox. But we don't forget
easily here at the no agenda show. Thank you for accentuating
my point. We go back to the previous M pox outbreak here in
the United States, let us remember what that was all
about. Here's a supercut. Is a
Unknown: disease that the majority of people who have it
in this country are men who have sex with other men,
men who have sex with men, male
to male sexual contact, men who have sex with men, male to male
sexual contact, men who have sex with men, who have sex with men,
men who have sex
with men, men who
have sex with other men,
men who have sex with men, men who have sex with men, men
who've had sex with men,
men who have sex with men.
Adam Curry: Alright, so last time, it was only for men who
have sex with men, which confused us in general. And now
it seems to be everybody. It's a new strain. And the most
detailed information I could get came to us from the CBC,
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It's
Unknown: the second time now that the World Health
Organization has declared a public health emergency of
international concern for mpox, and we heard from them on this
just this past hour, and it follows outbreaks in Congo and
elsewhere in Africa, with cases seen among children adults in
more than a dozen countries. There. You can see in some of
those visuals, there the symptoms of this condition and
pox, which was known as monkey pox, known for causing painful
post filled lesions, also can cause severe illness or even
death as well. It was first in the headlines a few years ago,
the summer of 2022 after an explosion of illnesses then and
the last emergency, public health emergency like this was
declared by the WHO that lasted about 10 months, The Who, The
Who, part of me says that in this current outbreak, the cases
have actually exceeded the total number seen in all of Last 14
about 14,000 cases so far as well, 524 deaths. Who says that
it's working on the ground in affected countries with its
partners there, says it's supporting laboratories to see
sequence viral samples, health workers, supporting clinicians
to provide appropriate care, also supporting countries to
access, helping them with rolling out those vaccines. It
does say that it has developed a regional response plan here, and
it has released 1.5 million US dollars from fund that it has
but it is appealing to donors to provide more money as well. Says
that it's coordinate the global response, working closely with
those and leveraging its on the ground presence to treat those
infected, prevent transmission, and ultimately to save lives.
Oh, save
Adam Curry: lives. Gotta save lives.
John C Dvorak: That was much of a report. It's a guy. The guy
says at the end of a word,
Adam Curry: I got a note just in time from Dame Trish. Dame Trish
has been in the medical field for, I believe, up close to 20
years. And she says, I hope I know your time is valuable, but
I think this monkey pox data will interest you. This comes
from the National Vaccine Information Center, and luckily,
she has done some work for us. She has given us an excerpt.
Here come the mRNA smallpox and monkeypox vaccines amid
unanswered questions about why the monkeypox virus is suddenly
mutating and becoming more virulent, virulent and
transmissible among humans. It sure looks like the public
health Empire is gearing up for a global monkey pox pandemic. If
it does come to pass, the solution they will offer is to
make sure everyone gets an ortho pox virus vaccine, just like in
the old days, when every child was mandated to get the highly
reactive smallpox vaccine, without understanding just how
lethal the side effects were and how many infants, children and
adults would be injured or die from those side effects. The
difference between today and the old days is that people around
the world are suffering with broad based immune dysfunction
due to either infection with the lab mutated SARS cov virus,
covid two virus, or injection with the lethal mRNA biological,
or both. And that makes the addition of another mRNA
biological a potential prescription for disaster,
disaster, or disaster, that
John C Dvorak: disaster for the Democrat Party. Man,
Adam Curry: we took a trip, and there were a lot of Democrats at
the airport. I mean, mask wearers, is there a difference?
Oh, my goodness, since
John C Dvorak: you've been playing this, I want to play an
old mad ow clip, and it's under old. This is Jad Ow. I think
obviously get that correct. This is an old mad ow clip so we can
be reminded about how great the news is. Now
Unknown: we know that the vaccines work well enough that
the virus stops with every vaccinated person stop. I
John C Dvorak: got infected about two weeks ago. It was my
third infection, and I had been vaccinated and boosted a total
of six times. It's juxtaposition of clips.
Adam Curry: Yes, indeed. Fauci getting the getting the vacs and
the mask, and Yo, he's already saying, wear your mask again.
Wear your mask. Wear your mask. Ah, I mean this. I think they've
got something here, you know, they've been trying the bird flu
wouldn't fly. Covid, you know, no one cares.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, you know, I think they've got a vaccine or
something they want to sell. I'm not sure that this is what
you're looking for. These aren't the drones you're looking for. I
think the one that they're missing out on, they can still
pull it out, pull a rabbit out of the hat with the sloth, with
the sloth blue.
Adam Curry: Sloth fever, everything, no, it's called
sloth Fever,
John C Dvorak: fever slots. Fever also has a you can do, I
can see song parodies. Sloth fever has comes out of Brazil.
Comes out of Brazil. It's a Zika, oh, Zika variant, Zika
Zika. And it's went from straight from Brazil to Cuba to
Europe. It hasn't come over here yet. And it seems to me, because
of the Zika angle, and it causes birth defects, it's a better way
to go. I would have gone with that. Hmm, yeah.
Adam Curry: But you know, they're, they're not all that
smart. They really aren't. Hey, let me we have there's
John C Dvorak: kind of screwed up because this monkey pox
thing, like you played the super cut, yeah. I mean, that was the
whole scam. Was this all men having sex with men? But no one
remembers that. Watch this wide open.
Adam Curry: So to speak, we're the only ones who remember that
stuff. Man, come on. Now, I've just seen the news flow. I mean,
I don't know if they're going to make it with this. I agree. I
think sloth fever sounds better. It's a funnier name. It's a Zika
variant, but they're trying. They are. They need to do
something, and now is the time. Now is the moment they got to do
it. They got they got to lock them down. They got to lock them
down. So
John C Dvorak: have you seen the clips of the lockdown in
Minnesota when they had the cops are walking down the street,
shooting people, shooting
Adam Curry: people, yes, yeah, with
John C Dvorak: paintballs, yeah, although the now, were
Adam Curry: they really paintballs? Because they had
paintballs. Don't have an explosion in the gun.
John C Dvorak: They there was the sound effect was from the
paintballs hitting the house. No,
Adam Curry: but you saw a flash. You saw. A flash. I
John C Dvorak: never saw a flash. I saw flashes. Well, I
saw the person getting hit, but they had the one clip with a
girl got hit with the paintball, and she was then they showed her
maybe,
Adam Curry: maybe they were using the rubber bullet guns.
Just loaded them up with paint balls instead of rubber. Rubber
bullets can do some damage, yeah,
John C Dvorak: but I think it was, I don't think you can put a
paint. Paint balls aren't the same as a rubber bullet. You'd
have to get a paintball gun. They had paintball guns there.
Was pathetic. This was and I have the clip. The bonus clip,
which I gave to you is the clip of the think line that wall,
this walls, is a bad guy in every single way. I think that
more people that start to see he's creepy. He's a creepy guy,
and he put this line in so you call and think on your neighbors
if they left the house and they had cops walking around shooting
at you if you But meanwhile, of course, they could burn the City
of Minneapolis. Now that's no big deal, of course, but this is
what the think line. This is what it the recording I have it
once you want to play that.
Unknown: Hello, you have reached the Department of Public Safety
stay at home hotline. The information you leave is
considered public information. At the tone, please leave the
following information, your name, your callback number, how
the stay at home order is being violated and where the stay at
home order was violated.
Thank you.
Adam Curry: That's what you do, man, that's what you do that.
That is what you do in your neighborhood. It's a beautiful
day in your neighborhood. Rat on your neighbors. You know, he
knows the golden rule, mind your own damn business, and rat on
your neighbors. That is him.
John C Dvorak: So, yes, unavoidable, by the way, as we
speak, the Kamala Harris is going to have her first
interview right now on x Oh, being interviewed by walls. No,
no,
Adam Curry: that's fantastic. So John, let me ask you a few
questions about me, pretty much. Yeah, well, this comes amongst
severe pressure from the mainstream media, including CNN
Jim Acosta, who would have thought, here he is with the
Harris waltz comms director,
Unknown: would it kill you guys to have a press conference? Why
hasn't she had a press conference? Listen to the Vice
President, Governor Walz. Have Been busy criss crossing this
country, the launch of this campaign, and adding Governor
walls to the ticket. You saw the ways in which they went across
the battleground states last week, generating rallies of
1000s, 10,000 here, 15,000 there. But Michael, you know, a
campaign rally is not a press Do you mind if I cut in? I mean,
you know, a campaign rally is not a press conference. Why
isn't she at a press conference? She's
the vice president. She can handle the questions. Why not do
it? We absolutely are going to do it. You hear her take
questions as she's out on the stump, and she's she said last
week, we're going to be having a sit down interview here before
the end of the month. What she's going to be focused on, and what
this campaign is going to be focused on, is communicating
directly with the voters that are actually going to decide the
pathway to 270 electoral votes. That's why she press conference
last week this past week. That's why we're doing a bus tour in
Pennsylvania as we head into Chicago, and it's why we'll sit
down for an interview before the end of the month, to make sure
we can have a deep conversation about the vision that Kamala
Harris has for where she wants to take this country in the
contrast that we're going to have with Donald Trump. We're
going to have plenty of opportunities to do that
throughout the Michael but one interview by the end of the
month. This month, I don't, I don't want to, you know, belabor
this, but one, yeah, before the other month. I mean, that's,
that's not a lot. I mean, can you commit to a press conference
before
the end of the month? We
will commit to directly engage with the voters that are
actually going to decide this election. And that is going to
be a complete with rallies, with sit down interviews, with press
conferences, with all the digital assets that we have at
our disposal, all
Adam Curry: the digital assets, which means Walt's interviewing
on x. That's great. That's what a fantastic move. Their best
they are. You can't blame them. That's pretty good. Whatever
works, yeah. I mean, it's on x, so it's like, will it be a
spaces like that, like the the Elon, Trump spaces,
John C Dvorak: the Elon trying to get a word word in edgewise.
We trying to get a stammer in edgewise. We could
Adam Curry: have predicted that, that there would be some
technical issues that I feel kind of bad, and I didn't even
consider it was going to be a spaces. I thought it would be
video like, oh, it's space. Spaces suck. I've never liked
them, you know. And, and I think the curry Dvorak consulting
group would have warned for, you know, hey, set yourself. You
see, the problem with the space is you can't do it from a.
Computer. You can't do it with a pro unless you have a microphone
stuck into your phone, because you can only, you can only speak
on spaces if you're using the app. You can't do it on a web
browser. So you got Trump bent over his iPhone, you know, talk
and of course, Hey, man, Elon used AI to make him sound
slurry. No, no, no. It just, it sucks. It that's the if
anything, it was a bandwidth constraint. It stepped down to
lower, to a lower sample rate. I mean, I have a little example of
it here.
Unknown: Well, I think we will. I'm pretty sure we will. And
congratulations, because I see you broke every record in the
book with so many millions of people. And that's an honor. We
view that as an honor. And then you do want silencing of certain
voices. He
Adam Curry: sounds like Calacanis, because you don't
want Satan.
Unknown: Usually those are voices that
John C Dvorak: doesn't he sound like. Callaghan, you're not. You
mentioned it constructive,
Unknown: oftentimes constructive, and so we have to
consider it an honor. But congratulations and breaking
every record in the book.
Adam Curry: What record? Every record in the book. So we got a
million concurrent listeners. Whoop dee. Doo. I call that a
fail. That was, that was not, I mean, you know, he wanted 80
million or whatever. Apparently there was a denial of a
distributed denial of service attack, which I can believe now
and that that that makes that could be anybody, of course. But
the insinuation from this next clip is it was the Biden
administration. Elon Musk is slated to this is a guy from the
WaPo, journalist from the WaPo in the press brief briefing with
Jean Paul, Abdul Pierre Van Dam and and he it was quite
interesting that he even asked this question.
Unknown: Elon Musk is slated to interview Donald Trump tomorrow,
tonight on x I don't know if the President is going to feel free
to say if he is or
not, but I think that
misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign issue. It's a,
you know, it's an America issue,
American issue.
What role does the White House or the President
have in sort of stopping that, or stopping the spread of that,
sort of inter intervening in that? And
some of that was about campaign misinformation, but you know,
it's a wider thing, right? Yeah, no,
I know you've heard us talk about this many times here,
about the responsibilities that social media platforms have when
it comes to misinformation disinformation. Don't have
anything to read out from here about specific ways that we're
working on it, but we believe that that they have the
responsibility. These are private companies, so we're also
mindful of that too. But look it is, I think it is incredibly
important to call that out as you are you're doing. I just
don't have any specifics on what we have been doing internally as
as it relates to the interviews, and not something that I'm
tracking, and I'm sure the President is not
Adam Curry: tracking, so that you know that kind of
John C Dvorak: what she she's complimenting the guy for, for
for demanding a reporter, for demanding censorship,
Adam Curry: it's great.
John C Dvorak: What is wrong with these people? It's
Adam Curry: the season of reveal. All shall be made known
to
John C Dvorak: reveal the reveal. They're idiots. Yeah,
Adam Curry: for us, the reveal was already there. But for a lot
of people, they're like, oh, wait a minute. I think some
people are seeing it, not many. I
John C Dvorak: don't think so. I
Adam Curry: don't think the mask wears I saw in my travels over
the past few days really will know. I mean, just we still have
family members who believe that Trump was never hit by a bullet.
You know, Where'd you hear that? MSNBC, oh, okay,
John C Dvorak: gotcha. That's fine. I want to play while we're
on this side of things, I want to play the latest attempt by
the MSNBC CNN folk to promote Camelot. Okay, and this is the
use of the term vibe. Have you started hearing this? This is
from they've switched over from cuddly, all these different
kinds of super cuts that we hold
Adam Curry: on, hold on. I'll
Unknown: bring this guy. It's a bird
John C Dvorak: super cut. That's
Adam Curry: a super cut. The Super cuts are the best way to
show that the media is in lockstep. They're just they are
beautiful. I have not heard this one. Did you put it together.
You got it from from somewhere.
John C Dvorak: I stole it. Oh, good from people who steal from
us. Yeah, here we go. The way I see it. That's the way I see it.
Here's here. This is the vibe supercut.
Unknown: There is a vibe. There's a cultural shift going
on here. It's
heavy on vibes. And so far, it seems to be working. You. Tax
just aren't sticking. The bully's power starts to shrink,
and the new kid changes the vibe on the playground. You
now see Democrats smiling. There is joy in our party. This Harris
waltz ticket is like a moment of joy that allows us to heal the
trauma and get to a different space.
One of the great achievements of the Young Harris walls candidacy
is they popped that balloon and now he just looks like a boob.
Adam Curry: He's got a vibe.
John C Dvorak: Well, allow me so they continue this, the vibe
thing. Every time I run in one of these super casino, they had
this joy. There was vibe, there was cuddly. They've been using
these different terms. They always assign one of the anchors
to take it to the limit,
Adam Curry: yes, and it's always at the end of the super cut. The
last
John C Dvorak: time it was mad Owen, she was going on and on
about something. This is Katie Tur This is Katie to taking,
taking her cue. She's on MSNBC. She's terrible, she and by the
way, she's also a she's what I call and I've seen this with
other people. They can only get so far with this. By the way,
she's a Lunger. You have your complaints about people. You
know the, I can't remember the one you like to call him
something. Do you have a Puerto for this puker? Puker, yes,
puker, this girl's she's a Lunger. And so as she speaks,
she jumps, she moves toward the the camera. She lunges. She's
constantly lunging at the cameras, like, Hey, back off
lady. Yeah,
Adam Curry: that's a good point.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, she's a Lunger, and she, here she is.
She's going to go off the deep end with vibes, and then she's
going to just, she's going to talk about it, and then she's
going to talk about Trump, and she's literally going to lie.
It's all
Unknown: about the vibes, on the economy, crime, the future, the
politics of and politics itself. Weird vibes. Month, those vibes,
or a bummer for Democrats, says on we about the top of the
ballot was dragging down the rest of the ballot, but now that
President Biden stepped out and VP Kamala Harris has stepped in,
the vibes flipped. Now the Democrats are riding high, big
enthusiasm and big new numbers and all of the polls that
matter, including a brand new one. We'll bring you in a moment
the most significantly VP Harris has taken from Donald Trump, his
biggest political asset, his ability to ride on a wave of
personality over policy, relying on a magnetism that so bewitched
his voters it didn't matter to them what his positions were,
which was good because he kept flipping and then flopping and
then flipping again on a whole host of meaningful policy.
Adam Curry: What you kept flipping them flopping
John C Dvorak: on a whole host of flipping and flopping is
Harris.
Adam Curry: Here's what I'm seeing. Trump appears to be
zigging to their zag. So he is now slowed down, and he's doing
a lot of press conferences from Mar a Lago from the living room.
He keeps pointing that out by saying there used to be a big,
beautiful couch there. Now you are there. And he's doing policy
speeches with a low tone, low energy, low tone, talking about
economy and border consistently. He seems to have taken this,
this cue from them, like, Oh, you're going to do that. Okay,
I'm going to do this. And I think it's an interesting turn
of events, because now they are the say nothing, big crowd, wow,
which, by the way, it's working, because you just get on any
social network people like, man, they're all flipping out over
it. Like, who cares? Now, I know the M 5m chooses, likes to think
they choose our leaders, and this might have been the way to
do it, but, you know, it seems like Trump is not playing into
their card. I have it. I have a super cut as well, which plays
along with the vibe this one's a little more obvious,
Unknown: battleground momentum, new
numbers showing the Harris wall ticket is gaining ground. Vice
President Harris, gaining momentum,
momentum in some key states this
morning, Vice President Kamala Harris, gaining momentum,
gaining momentum, gaining momentum,
gaining momentum. But look this momentum, this
momentum, keeping the momentum. Harris
is momentum. Harris is momentum. You can't slow down the
momentum. This remarkable momentum. Mission
number one is create the momentum and then keep the
momentum. What does momentum look like in the polls?
Kamala Harris is doing two things here, number one,
momentum and number two, momentum. But take a look here.
Clear momentum,
momentum. It is
momentum. It is Democrats ride a wave of momentum. Have
that momentum the Democrats are riding. A wave of momentum,
generating
a kind of momentum.
The Harris team is going to want to keep this momentum, keep the
momentum going. They
want to keep that momentum. The momentum here is amazing. The
crowds are literally insane. This momentum,
it just seems day in and day out, to keep getting more
powerful by the day. The trend is
heavily towards Harris, and it's rushing towards Harrison. It's
rushing. This
Adam Curry: trend is momentum, unbelievable? No, it's very
believable. It's great. It's so
John C Dvorak: unbelievable then and we just believable, but it's
unbelievable that, yeah, you think that they could do better
than this? No,
Adam Curry: no, no. This is, this is what you call talking
points.
John C Dvorak: I have a super cut. Oh
Adam Curry: no, hold on
Unknown: for this guy, it's a bird
Adam Curry: super cut, another super cut. We're super cut
heavy, ladies and gentlemen, what's your super cut? This
John C Dvorak: is the cut the camel super cut from her
speeches.
Unknown: Good to be back in Pennsylvania. It really is good
to be back in Wisconsin. It is so good to be back in Michigan.
I am clear the path to the White House runs right through this
state. And listen, I am clear the path to the White House runs
right through this state. I took on perpetrators of all kinds. I
took on perpetrators of all kinds. I took on perpetrators of
all kinds. I know Donald Trump's type. I know Donald Trump's type
in this campaign, I proudly put my record against his any day of
the week. In this campaign, I'll tell you. I will proudly put my
record against his any day of the week,
are you ready
to make your voices heard? Ready to make your voices heard? Are
you ready to make your voices heard?
Adam Curry: Go, Team. Go. Beautiful. It's beautiful. I
it's a great time to be a podcaster and to be able to sit
back and just listen to it all it's I find it very enjoyable.
I'm having a great election season. How's your election
season been? John? Are you enjoying your election season?
Definitely
John C Dvorak: distressing.
Adam Curry: Now, of course, Miss Harris is she does have her
issues when she's speaking publicly, she comes up with fun
gaffs though
Unknown: Trump accusing Harris of stealing his proposal to end
taxes on tips, which he announced months ago and she
adopted over the weekend, eliminate
taxes on tips for service and hospitality
Adam Curry: workers. Hospital nobody
John C Dvorak: caught that. Hospitality workers. I heard
them that being clipped all all over the place, and nobody
picked up on I heard immediately, yeah, of course,
hospitality. I
Adam Curry: even looked it up, just to make sure that it wasn't
an actual word. It's hospitality. So I want to do a
few more Harris things, or Harris related things, before we
check out Trump, because he has been doing some interesting
stuff. First, ABC had a chat with Charlemagne, the god. This
is the if you ain't black, you ain't if you don't black, thank
you. With with Biden. Here he is talking about Tim waltz, the
vice presidential nominee pick for for nominee, what do
Unknown: you think of the Tim Walz pick? You didn't mention
his name just then.
I didn't know him. Yeah,
most of America didn't know I just found out about him for the
last couple of weeks. At first, I was a little bit disappointed,
like I knew she we we knew she needed a dei hire, right? We
know she that she needs so
Tim walls is the DEI hire on this ticket. We know diversity,
equity, inclusion. She
needed a white male to make America comfortable. It is what
it is. No need for us to, you
know, act crazy about it. You know what it
Adam Curry: is. Yeah, nice. Now, that's Charlemagne the God. Of
course we could go to let me see. No, let me do this first.
Let me go. Let's stick with ABC. Because the thing that is great
about JD Vance is, not only does he get asked to do interviews
under the under friendly fire, he does them. So he goes on CNN,
he goes on ABC, they invite him on, and I think he does a pretty
good job. We
John C Dvorak: commit to that. Yeah, I was just gonna say, I
was just gonna say. I think he relishes it.
Adam Curry: What do you mean?
John C Dvorak: I think he really enjoys taking Flack. He's almost
like a Marine in that way. Good
Adam Curry: point. Good point. Yeah, he does, and he stands,
he's
John C Dvorak: got a smile on his face, and he's goes after
him and he gives him grief. And I've
Adam Curry: got to add, you know, I need to ask some of our
makeup professionals, is he really wearing a mascara, or are
his his eyelashes just that dark? Because it's a very odd
look. I
John C Dvorak: you know that I had a guy, there was a guy in
high school that had that look and and he had because everyone
was always thinking, it's called, it's called guy liner,
by the way. He never wore eyeliner. He had two sets of eye
of eyelashes, two sets behind the scene so they reject double
eyelashes, and it made it may look like that. I think that's
what we're dealing with. Guys.
Adam Curry: Hey, man, he's just hairy. Okay,
Unknown: he's probably got back hair. We commit to this race to
kind of sticking to the facts. I mean, I heard Donald Trump Give,
give this speech in Montana. He just gave, and he said that Tim
Walz has signed a letter letting the state kidnap children to
change their their gender, that allowing pedophiles to claim,
you know, I
mean, it to be exempt from crimes. I mean,
this is not true. It's not remotely
well what President Trump said, and I haven't watched the whole
rally, what said was not true. What President Trump said, John
is that Tim waltz has supported taking children from their
parents if the parents don't consent to gender reassignment.
That is crazy. And by the way, Tim waltz gets on his high horse
about mind your own damn business. One way of minding
your own damn business John is to not try to take my children
away from me. State to kidnap, save of children, to change
them. How would you what I just explained to you, I would
describe as kidnapping John. He has absolutely done this stuff.
It's not crazy, John, come on, it's not. You should not. You
should not be able to take people's children away from
them, and if you disagree with decisions about gender
reassignment, yes, he has proposed that John, He
absolutely has.
Adam Curry: So this is an interesting role. If this is
exactly what Trump needs, he needs a translator. So when
Trump says he signed a law to kidnap children, which, of
course, everyone understands exactly what he's talking about.
But the mainstream has to the legacy media needs to feign
this. The legacy
John C Dvorak: media looks at it says, Where does it say that?
Where's the word kidnap in there, which
Adam Curry: I have to say, not as an insult, but you're a
little bit like that. If I say you bumped your mic, you say,
No, I bumped the stand.
John C Dvorak: You're right. Well, I'm from that, yeah, from
there. You just figured that
Adam Curry: out. Eureka, here's here. Now we go to Dana Bash,
who I think gets flustered.
John C Dvorak: Oh, she is so flustered. But this is a good
clip.
Adam Curry: This is on CNN State of the Union with J Eddie vans.
He's hairy, but I think
Unknown: Kamala Harris clearly owns the policies of the Biden
Harris administration, especially when we consider the
fact that, as we've all learned over the last few months, Joe
Biden clearly isn't capable of doing the job. And so I think
that drives home that Kamala Harris really has been the one
calling the shots. I mean, how could she not? I think Joe Biden
doesn't really know where he is. Kamala
Harris has been calling the shots. Says who? Well, I think
she has
to have been right, because if she's not calling the shot
standard than who is, and I do think it drives home something
that's fundamentally dishonest about the way that Vice
President Harris and also a lot of senior Democrats have
approached this, if you remember, for for months, even
years, the argument was that Joe Biden was sharp, he could
clearly do the job, and the minute that he performed poorly
in that debate and he became political dead weight, you have
Kamala Harris and everybody else trying to throw him overboard.
But I think the more troubling question is, why did so many
senior Democrats, including the Vice President, cover for him,
and if Joe Biden wasn't capable of doing the job, as even a lot
of Democrats say now, was Kamala Harris in charge, or was
somebody else in charge? And that's a real, real issue.
There's
no evidence that Kamala Harris threw him overboard.
Adam Curry: No, I'm sorry. There's no evidence. Just
saying, pulling out, no
John C Dvorak: evidence. Guy, he got a he's a little he's got a
law degree from Yale, if I'm not mistaken, yes, well, he's, so
he's got the chops to do this. He
Adam Curry: sounds like he sounds like a pundit. He is,
well, he's,
John C Dvorak: but he's doing it in a lawyerly ways. In other
words, he's making arguments that that are that the kind of
things that to get the jury, which is the audience. He's
working the audience, and as he works against the bash, was
flustered by him. Did
Adam Curry: he specialize in prosecutions or defense? What
kind of idea I have no idea was he let me see. I
John C Dvorak: should probably look into it. But he definitely
has the chops, and he's got different shops than than Trump,
but he's but he is also like Trump. He's a chatterbox. He
Adam Curry: was the editor of the Yale Law Journal with a
Juris Doctor degree. He wrote for David frums from Forum
website under the name JD Hamill, apparently, and of
course. He's a writer. He wrote Hillbilly Elegy,
John C Dvorak: Hebrew. He has the he's running
Adam Curry: circles around Dana Bash. That's what's happening.
John C Dvorak: He really is. I can see why they don't like this
guy. He's a little bit he's like Trump with a lot more going on.
Well, he
Adam Curry: keeps coming and still say, Yeah, I'll be there.
Yeah, no problem. I'll show up. Do you believe
Unknown: Kamala Harris is
black? I believe that Kamala Harris is whatever she says she
is, but I believe, importantly, that President Trump is right,
that she is a chameleon. She pretends to be one thing in
front of one audience. She pretends to be something
different in front of another audience. Look, Dana, she's not
running a political campaign. She's running a movie. She only
speaks to voters behind a teleprompter. Everything is
scripted. She doesn't have her policy positions out there. She
hasn't answered why she wanted to ban fracking, but now she
doesn't. She wanted to fund police, but now she doesn't. She
wanted to open the border, but now she doesn't. She should have
to answer for WHY. She presents a different set of policies to
one audience and a different set of policies to another audience.
And I think that's what President Trump is getting at.
This is a fundamentally fake person. She's different
depending on who she's in front of. Again,
Adam Curry: he's translating Trump. Yeah, this is, that's a
great strategy.
John C Dvorak: That's a good catch, too. Yeah, he simplifies
Trump, yes, for the for the weak mind when the feeble minded
don't get it before they don't have a sense of humor?
Adam Curry: No, no, of course. And he is, he does. He is
laughing when he says about Trump saying she's black, he
just laughs at it. It's It's beautiful to see. I think this
clip kind of shows the difference between what the
Harris campaign, Harris waltz campaign, is doing, versus
Trump. So she's out there. Look at my crowds. Now, he did fall
for it. He did fall for the it's aI he did that, or whoever's
running his truth social. They did fall for that. But then
quickly stop realizing, Wait, wait, this is not going to work.
We just we that we got to stop with someone said to Trump, stop
with the crowd sizes. Go back to mar a Lago. Go to Bedminster. Do
your slow, calm press conferences. Talk about issues
only, and
Unknown: former President Donald Trump will be in Bedminster New
Jersey to host another news conference following his rally
in North Carolina on Wednesday, the President and the Democratic
presidential nominee will be side by side on stage today in
their first appearance since Biden's re election bid ended.
Their focus will be on efforts to lower prescription drug
costs. Then tomorrow, Harris will be in the battleground
state of North Carolina to lay out her own economic agenda,
which is said to include a plan to tackle inflation and lower
costs for the middle class. Meanwhile, Trump will be back at
his golf club today to hold a news conference taking questions
from the media for the second time this week. This week, the
economy taking center stage in the race, as Trump also laid out
some of his plans for the economy and his North Carolina
rally on Wednesday saying there would be no tax on Social
Security and says his administration would slash
energy costs as it planned to alleviate inflation and ahead of
the Democratic National Convention next week, Trump's
campaign says It plans to offer some sort of counter
programming. Harris is presidential campaign is also
launching a $90 million advertising effort over the next
three weeks. It's her campaign's largest yet investment in
messaging to voters with just two and a half months until
election day, all
Adam Curry: they're salivating. 90 million bucks coming up.
People stand by. It's incoming.
John C Dvorak: May have a clip on this 90 million. The this 90
million, they're spending everyone nuts. There's a lot of
money. It's to get as much out there as you can, early enough
to get the because people are going to start the voting starts
like the, you know, next week,
Adam Curry: the early voting, yeah? So, yeah. So
John C Dvorak: they're gonna, they're pushing to get people to
stupidly early vote. Do you have before they find out anything
bad about but, you know, this is like the Hunter Biden laptop
situation, yeah. Do
Adam Curry: you have the 90, 90 million clip?
John C Dvorak: I don't know that. I do.
Adam Curry: I don't see it.
John C Dvorak: You have a, well, I do have a Trump Harris economy
clip that. Let's
Adam Curry: do that. Let's do that. Trump Harris economy,
gotcha, former President
Unknown: Trump today outlining his economic agenda in the
battleground state of North Carolina. This comes before vice
president Kamala Harris is set to lay out her economic plan.
Friday entities, Iris Tao has more from Asheville, North
Carolina, former
President Trump on Wednesday giving a speech about the
economy right here in the battleground state of North
Carolina, which he won in 2020 by just over one percentage
point. At the top of his agenda here is to lower inflation and
talk about how to end tax on tips. Yes,
on my first day back in the Oval Office, I will sign an executive
order directing every cabinet secretary and agency head to use
every tool and authority at their disposal to defeat
inflation and to bring consumer prices rapidly down. We'll do it
very rapidly. No tax on tips. Okay? No tax.
A Trump speech on Wednesday comes just before vice president
Kamala Harris is set to lay out her policy agenda on the economy
this upcoming Friday in Raleigh, North Carolina, the two are
already getting into an increasingly heated debate about
the economy. A new report on Wednesday shows that inflation
has now dropped to 2.9% the lowest level in about three
years. Kamala Harris's campaign is taking credit for that thing
that is the result of the work by President Biden and Kamala
Harris, adding that in her upcoming address, Harris will
address how to make the middle class be better economically,
and also how to take on greedy corporation.
Adam Curry: So this is what's interesting is, and I'm sure
that that Harris and waltz will also say no tax on Social
Security, which, by the way, is pretty outrageous, that Social
Security is taxed. So what, what they could get into is like,
well, and I'm already seeing articles similar to this saying,
well, there's really, there's not much sunlight between the
two. You know, Trump and Harris, they're kind of saying the same
thing about the economy. So why don't you go for the lady? Might
as well go for the happy person. There's no difference. They're
going to give you the same policies. There is a version of
that floating around. I can feel it. But the one thing she cannot
compete on is energy prices, because that's a fund unless,
well, she could. The fundamental difference is drill, baby drill
versus wind power. By contrast,
Unknown: I'm announcing today that, under my leadership, the
United States will commit to the ambitious goal of slashing
energy at electricity prices by half, at least half.
We intend to slash prices by half within 12 months, at a
maximum 18 months. And if it doesn't work out, you say, Oh,
well, I voted for him. I still got him down a lot, but we're
looking to do it. We're looking to cut him. And
John C Dvorak: what is that? What
Adam Curry: is that hedge? It's like, well, you know, I did say
I'll get it done by a lot, but maybe not everything, but you'll
still like it because you voted for me, and
Unknown: we think we'll be able to do better. And every single
thing that I promised, I produced, every single thing
drain
John C Dvorak: the swamp. The
Unknown: Swamp
John C Dvorak: Mexico, pay for the wall. He does never have
Unknown: had energy
so low, as you will, under a certain gentleman known as
Donald J Trump. Have you heard of it? He's
Adam Curry: uh, unfortunately, he came close. We have been
saying for months. We have been saying for months, the only name
fitting for Trump to use for vice president Harris is
cackling Camella. That is the name it would stick. It would
work because it's uncontrollable. She may have
PBA. Now that I think about it, remember that that illness? PBA,
we there's a there's
John C Dvorak: a bell, but I don't remember PBA. PBA, listen,
don't
Unknown: call it depression.
Call it by its real name.
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you'll learn the science behind PBA. So that was
Adam Curry: the laughing disease. PBA, I forget who?
John C Dvorak: I don't remember that at all.
Adam Curry: Oh yeah, yeah. Well, anyway, so he gets so close and
fumbles the ball on the one yard line. Just
Unknown: remember, she goes to work every morning in the West
Wing. Her desk is 10 steps from the Oval Office. She cast the
tie breaking votes that gave us record inflation, and for nearly
four years, Kamala has crackled as the American I haven't heard
that laugh at about they keep her off the stage. That's right,
she's disappeared. That's the laugh of a crazy person. I will
tell you, if you haven't done too crazy, she's crazy.
Adam Curry: Cackling. Come along, not crackling. Do we not
speak clearly enough?
John C Dvorak: Yes, it's a mystery. Do
Adam Curry: you think he'll, he'll correct it. He has to
correct this. He has to correct it. Something
John C Dvorak: about cackling camera that I have to say at
this point, because it's been going on for so long, and that's
what everybody calls or including the parody guys who do
His voice, they all use it. He must have something about it, it
personally that he doesn't like. Oh, that's the only thing I can
assume. No,
Adam Curry: I know. I think he's just slower. This is not Trump
from 2016 he's slower. He's slower on the ball. He's
clearly, there's a lot of distractions going on him. You
know, Trump's
John C Dvorak: getting shot. Someone tried to kill him. Other
stuff happened and help. And he's
Adam Curry: older. He's just older, and I think he's losing a
little bit of the touch. But then again, here he has JD Vance
coming into to translate the New York
Unknown: Times. I wanted to ask you about the latest economic
news from this morning with inflation now being under 3% the
lowest rate since mid 2021 what is your sort of reaction to that
news? Well, I think the crowd reaction says it all. Look when
they say that inflation is down, they mean from a baseline where
groceries are already 30% more expensive than they were when
Donald Trump was president. And they're not saying it's coming
down, they're just saying it's not going up as fast as it was
three years ago. That is not a reputation or a record to brag
on, that's a record to be ashamed of. Why did it take them
so long to get inflation to where it is, and why are prices
so high. It's because Kamala Harris failed to do her job. So
if they want to go around, and this is, you know, it's funny,
Kamala Harris, on the one hand, will say, Wow,
Adam Curry: he has a bit of Cruz in there too, a little bit of
Ted Cruz. Must say, you know, it's funny. That's, that's a Ted
Cruz ism right there. Their
Unknown: price is so high. It's
John C Dvorak: because, stop a second. Ted crew would not know
what school did Cruz go to Yale? We should look that up. But
because whatever school he went to, Ted, Cruz's was at the
school he went to was the debating champ part. You went to
Harvard, okay? He was the Harvard debating. She was the,
the best debater in the school. So he has techniques a
masturbator. He was a masturbator. And so he has
techniques that are, I think, are generally used by those
schools. And I think that it just was something that he
picked up. So it's not, he wasn't copy. He's not copying
Ted Cruz. He's copying the model? Yes. Well, Harris
Unknown: failed to do her job. So if they want to go around,
and this is, you know, it's funny, Kamala Harris on the one
hand, stop,
John C Dvorak: stop again, you got to back it up a little bit,
because right there not you mentioned Ted Cruz. That sounds
exactly like Ted Cruz stammering. Yeah, stop, stop
sign as much as funny, whenever you say, you know that that
whole, that patter that he just did, extremely Ted Cruz, their
Unknown: price is so high it's because Kamala Harris failed to
do her job. So if they want to go around and this is, you know,
it's funny, by
Adam Curry: the way, it's not funny that that's that's the
travesty of it. It's not funny. Kamala
Unknown: Harris, on the one hand, will say, on day one,
we're going to tackle the affordability crisis. And like I
said earlier, Kamala Harris has been the vice president for
three and a half years, and I think, ladies and gentlemen,
she's, in effect, been the acting president, because we all
know Joe Biden is at home. There it is. She's been the one
controlling government policy for three and a half years, she
says she wants to tackle the affordability crisis on day one,
and then on the other hand, she'll say, Well, we've already
got inflation under control. Well, which is it? Kamala? Which
is it? The simple truth is, American credit card debt is
getting higher. Americans are finding the basic necessities in
middle class life less affordable. Americans are
becoming especially young people are becoming poppers in their
own country. If we don't do better our young generation,
they're not going to own anything, they're not going to
have anything. They're going to be renters in the country that
their parents and grandparents built. Inflation is a disaster.
Kamala Harris does not have a leg to stand on.
Adam Curry: So now I'm now, I'm realizing this is very
interesting. I don't know if it was strategy, but Vance,
horrible pick. Oh, I'm sure Trump is hating it right now.
He's dumb. He's an elite he's an idiot. He has sex with the
couch. Bring him on. Bring him on. Well, we'll Whittle him down
to size. Oops, they can't, because he's he's good. He's
good at it. And speaking of the economy, fact, he's
John C Dvorak: better than imaginable. Yes, he's about as
good, I would say, listening to these clips at least, and then
comparing him to Cruz and debating style and. Fact that
he's a lawyer, I don't think you could do much better than that.
Adam Curry: And so to try and massage the economic numbers and
make it sound good, you know, don't get too excited. They
bring out Bernstein. Do you remember Bernstein, the chair of
the economic the Council of Economic Advisers, do you
remember that guy?
John C Dvorak: No, I don't this. You'll
Adam Curry: refresh your memory.
Unknown: The US government can't go bankrupt because we can print
our own money.
It obviously begs the question, Why exactly are we borrowing in
a currency that we print ourselves? I'm waiting for
someone to stand up and say, Why do we borrow our own currency in
the first place?
Like you said, they print the dollar. So why? Why does the
government even borrow?
Well,
the, so, the, I
mean, again, some of this stuff gets some of the Do you
Adam Curry: remember him now,
John C Dvorak: yeah, he didn't handle this very well.
Adam Curry: No, he didn't. But let's bring him out and talk to
the press. Does the White
Unknown: House at this point think that the inflation problem
is solved?
The momentum is certainly in the right direction. Inflation is
reliably coming down. We have a record of disinflation, meaning
slower inflation that is now 60% or a little bit more than that,
off of its peak. And so this is a consistent trend that's moving
in the right direction. No victory lapse, as I tried to
assert in my comments, our work is not done, because even as we
get inflation back down to pre pandemic levels, we still have
to be mindful that too many families are facing too many
high costs.
Adam Curry: Okay, blah, blah blah, so to bring the blah blah
guy out who doesn't know anything really can't explain
any of it, and then comes this Whopper, this. I loved this.
This is from Yahoo financial news. Turning
Unknown: to the presidential election here, former President
Trump saying at a press conference in Florida that the
President should have more say in the Federal Reserve's
decision making when it comes to interest rates,
I feel the president should have at least say in there? Yeah, I
feel that strongly. I think that, in my case, I made a lot
of money, I was very successful, and I think I have a better
instinct than, in many cases, people that would be on the
Federal Reserve or the chairman. So what could this
mean for the central bank moving forward? Yahoo
Finance, the senior columnist Rick Newman joins us with more.
Rick, help us make sense of this.
The concept fills me with dread. I don't know about anybody else,
but it sounds, frankly, like a terrible idea to President. Have
more say in the what the Federal Reserve decides. A
Adam Curry: question, doesn't the President appoint the the
the boss of the Federal Reserve? Isn't that a presidential
appointee? Yeah? So,
John C Dvorak: I mean, all is actually selected by Trump, yes.
Adam Curry: Isn't it stupid to think that the President doesn't
have a say?
John C Dvorak: I guess? Yeah, it's kind of dumb,
Adam Curry: yeah. But I think they're trying to launch and you
know he's gonna agree with you. Probably, oh, you know it's Oh,
Trump. He's trying to
John C Dvorak: dread, a sense of dread, yes, yes.
Adam Curry: So the only person they could bring out, and by the
way, Pete Buttigieg, don't look too closely at his lips. He
looks like he has the M pox. He's got these little bubbles on
like little white lesions on his lips. It's once his lips, yeah,
once you see, you can't see good. It's very, very it's not,
it's not pleasant to look at. But they bring him out, and he
launches into something new.
Unknown: There's something I think much bigger, not at the
beginning play here, which is I watched that interview and
watched JD Vance present himself as suddenly very particular
about precision in speech and very concerned about honesty.
He's running with Donald Trump, somebody who has set records for
lying in public life. He just gave a press conference where
fact checkers estimate that he told 162 distortions or lies
that, frankly, is just impressive in terms of being
able to physically do that. It's like the Olympics of lying. So
maybe just because it's Sunday morning, I can't stop thinking
about the scripture that says, How can you look at your brother
and say, let me take the speck out of your eye when you have a
plank in your own eye.
Adam Curry: Now this is this got my attention. Oh, now all of a
sudden we're quoting scripture, but Pete Bucha judge, and
indeed, if it wasn't enough to go after the the tax on tips,
and I'm sure the the. Big Pharma and I'm sure the tax on Social
Security. No, no, we need to go after the Christians get the
Evangelicals on our side. We begin
Unknown: tonight with Evangelicals group that, in a
surprising twist, is mobilizing support, surprising twist, for
the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. One group, evangelical
Christians for Kamala Harris, released a new ad highlighting
that time Donald Trump told the family leadership summit in Iowa
that he does not ask God for forgiveness.
Adam Curry: Oh, no, bad Trump. Have
Unknown: you ever asked God for forgiveness? That's a tough
question. I'm not sure I have. I just I don't bring God into that
picture. I don't
evangelical Christians for Kamala Harris was not on
anyone's bingo card for 2024 because most people assume
evangelical is synonymous with conservative. It's not. There
are plenty of evangelicals who reject the mean, selfish version
of the religion that follows Jesus the Christ. Red Letter
Christians think Bishop William Barber, friend of the show who
is wait for it, any evangelical Christian? Think of the
Christian pastors who led the civil rights movement. Think rev
Sharpton. Not all Christians are the evangelical white dudes with
main character energy from The Handmaid's Tale. Ah,
Adam Curry: hold on. This is new. The Christians are all
bringing
John C Dvorak: in the handmaids keys written by what's, what's
in that woman who is an atheist at what? Atwood, yes. But so
Unknown: it's Christians for Kamala. But this most surprising
election does keep delivering surprises. Even some white
evangelical Protestants are fed up with Trump.
Adam Curry: So it's, it's white versus black. Now, okay,
Unknown: that is a group that gave him 84% of their national
vote in 2020 they're not alone in tiring of his act. Wait
Adam Curry: a minute. I thought evangelicals and Christians
don't vote. What did she just say here? That
Unknown: is a group that gave him 84% of their national vote
in 2020
Adam Curry: I guess they guess they're voting now they're not
alone
Unknown: in tiring of his act. A separate group Christians, okay?
John C Dvorak: What kind of language is in time they're not
alone in tiring of his act. This is like that you ever get the
spam call where they they ask you to hang on because Comcast
has some sort of a deal and then the language is all botched. No,
she a native English speaker. You're
Adam Curry: racist. They're
Unknown: not alone in tiring of his act. A separate group,
Christians for Kamala, had a Zoom meeting last night that
included leaders from several progressive Christian groups
urging supporters to get behind Harrison walls. Call it divine
intervention, or perhaps lots of Christians are just getting fed
up with being associated with the hateful vision of Donald
Trump his Bible stunts and religious hypocrisy, and are
fighting back with a counter narrative to conservative
evangelicals overwhelming support for Trump. These groups
say the conversation on faith and spirituality has been
hijacked by the Christian right. Hijack
Adam Curry: been hijack. Jesus has been hijacked.
John C Dvorak: Everybody been hijacked by Christians,
bastards. Now, I
Adam Curry: didn't clip it. It was too long. Of six minutes.
Nobody
John C Dvorak: watches this show of hers. Why she even on the air
now, people say hateful, hateful, hateful person. She's
terrible. But
Adam Curry: what was interesting, and again, I didn't
clip it, but there's a six minute, I guess, kind of mega,
mega, super cut of black pastors going on and on about Harris
telling them to get on the Zoom calls. I mean separation of
church and state, anybody? I mean seriously, it's just like,
what? And they just go, oh yeah, oh yeah, we got to vote for
Kamala. What is this? Is okay now, it wasn't five minutes ago?
John C Dvorak: No, so, and that's the group that bitched
and moaned the most, yes.
Adam Curry: So there they are, really doing everything they
can, which, but, you know, it's the white evangelicals, the
white white we're the racists and the wrongies. We're the
baddies. It's it's the black ones who are good like rev Al.
Sure,
John C Dvorak: that's a nice try.
Adam Curry: I guess we should talk briefly about the the Trump
Elon spaces. We already talked about the slur change. Talked
about a little bit, yeah, but there's, there's some more to
talk about. MSNBC brought on some dude. Oh, he is, and it
seemed like the thing they're most worried about. And he just,
I mean, you'll hear him lie within two. 15 seconds, what
they're most worried about is Elon's reach. He's got such
reach and all his mis and disinformation, people will
start to believe it, unlike what anyone else is doing in legacy
median
John C Dvorak: BC
Unknown: Imran take us through what Elon Musk is doing and the
theories as to what his motives are.
Well, unfortunately, I can't tell you what's in the heart of
any individual, but I can tell you what our researchers have
been studying with Mr. Musk's own output on his platform x, we
examined posts about the US elections that he'd posted
between January the first and July the 31st identifying 50
posts that independent fact check is found to be false, 50
posted accrued 1.2
Adam Curry: billion views. And I just need to say, really, since
Do we really believe these view counts? Come on. I mean, view
counts for the advertisers are two seconds, which is what I
presume they're using for all view counts. YouTube does it,
I'm pretty sure X does it. And it's like, oh, it is 1.2 billion
views. Really, you really, really think it's that much. And
there were three main
John C Dvorak: actually, that funny thing is, if it was that
much, the polls wouldn't have a Camela and Trump neck and neck
like that, yeah, but
Adam Curry: that's for advertising. That's that's how
we get $90 million in advertising. It's a close race,
people. It's a horse race. Well, yes,
John C Dvorak: dude, no, that's our basic thesis. Is that the
whole thing is scam extract money from these dummies. It's
an accrued
Unknown: 1.2
billion views, and there were three main categories. There was
an AI generated fake video of the Democratic nominee Kamala
Harris. We had 100 million plus views, which
Adam Curry: was a parody. It was funny. Everyone's ever no one
thought it was real.
Unknown: There were claims that Democrats are importing voters,
the great replacement theory a really, really dangerous lie
that has led to bloodshed on American streets, at the Tree of
Life synagogue in Pittsburgh. It's the same conspiracy theory
that led to the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand.
Adam Curry: Okay, stop. You're telling me that because Elon
Musk tweets something about great replacement theory, which
I don't think he said that, but okay,
Unknown: no, I
Adam Curry: don't think he's ever brought it up. But okay,
that they're importing voters. Yeah, I think that's a valid
because I think there's no doubt about so that motivated the
Christ Church master, not the same thing? No, that was, that
was a Muslim.
John C Dvorak: It was completely different. So in a different
country, why would the great replacement theory, which
applies to the United States, have anything to do with what's
going on in New Zealand? It also applies to Europe, still not New
Zealand. Oh, yes, Europe, yeah, Europe and the US, but not New
Zealand
Adam Curry: in the vein of the truth, wants to come out. BBC
ready to kick off a story about the interview into the
conversation the space between Elon and Trump. This news model
says it all.
Unknown: The billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is due to
interfere interview the Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trump on the ex social media network. So
Adam Curry: what do you really feel? Interfere? Yes, interfere.
Yes. It's interfering with election. I mean, uh, interview.
It's so Wow. So clear. That's so obvious. Okay,
John C Dvorak: it's obvious to us.
Adam Curry: It is, I mean, yeah, let me see of that. Oh yeah,
this was the Iran hack. Yeah, we have someone Iran hacked,
Trump's systems. Do you know where this hack came from?
John C Dvorak: I never followed up on the hack.
Unknown: The former President's team is blaming Iran for hacking
their campaign in June, according to multiple sources,
the hackers compromised the personal email account of long
time Trump operative Roger Stone stealing sensitive documents
from the campaign.
Adam Curry: Are you kidding me? Now you're telling me that Roger
Stone has sensitive documents from the Trump campaign,
Unknown: please. That's peculiar.
Adam Curry: He probably sent it to them himself. That's that,
that right there. Just, okay, so that's bull crap. That's
meaningless. They're also, by the way, they're, they're really
going after RFK. Um, first we had,
John C Dvorak: there's a lot of misinformation about RFK too,
that I've noticed. Yeah. Yeah, so for just throwing stuff out
there. And then I guess he got kicked off the ballot. New No,
Adam Curry: no. Well, first he got kicked off the ballot, then
I thought he got kicked off, then he got back on. Yeah, got
kicked off again, yes. And then North Carolina, and he's back on
again. But what came out in the New York Times, I think, is a,
is a lie that RFK Jr reached out to Harris campaign about
administration role in exchange for endorsement. I don't believe
that first set.
John C Dvorak: I don't believe it either. It doesn't make
sense. They they are so worried about that guy.
Adam Curry: They're really, really worried about him. One of
our producers, by the way, works in one of the production houses
for the DNC, and he says he's creating Democrat delegate
shirts for the Chicago show. He says you will definitely notice
them. They chose red shirts with gold letters. He says All that's
missing is a Trump hat. It is the dumbest thing he's ever
seen.
John C Dvorak: But actually, it also sounds like the Chinese
Communist flag. But I think the idea was gonna look more like
that than the Trump hat.
Adam Curry: There you go.
John C Dvorak: Stars. What he should have said, a big star on
there. So it's just,
Adam Curry: it's great. I'm, I'm enjoying every single moment of
this. So the
John C Dvorak: Democratic Convention, which is starting
on, I guess, Monday or Tuesday, yes, I have going to be just a
laugh riot. I
Adam Curry: have some clips, and Riot is right. Hey, hey,
Chicago,
Unknown: while civic leaders are hoping for the best, they're
also preparing for the worst,
I'm confident that our plan will provide a safe and secure and
secure environment during the DNC,
the Department of Homeland Security has designated the
Democratic National Convention as a national special security
event, like the State of the Union address the Super Bowl, or
a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. The
designation means federal authorities believe it could be
a potential target for terrorism or other criminal activity like
a mass shooting, a bombing, a chemical attack, or a protest
that turns into a riot. United Center sits just across the
Eisenhower Expressway from one of the city's busiest hospitals.
Rush University Medical Center.
We are on the driveway of the United Center is one of the
closest hospitals, and we're preparing for anything, whether
it's a mass casualty attack, whether it's a stabbing, whether
it's an explosion.
Yeah, Dr Nicholas cozy is Rush University Medical Center's EMS
and disaster medicine director,
there'll be a nurse assigned to predate con triage, and he or
she has one question, decon, yes or no
since May, he's led 18 full scale disaster drills to be
ready for a catastrophe. In this drill, dividers drop from the
ceiling and nurses in protected gear use soap and water to
decontaminate those who have been exposed to the chemical
agents. We
have to be able to have an ability to quickly remove that
substance from their body.
The Chicago Police Department is assigning 2500 officers to the
DNC, an additional 500 officers from departments across Illinois
and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will assist the CPD and back at Rush.
Doctors and nurses say they know they're on the front lines and
are prepared, but they're hoping the worst case scenarios never
unfold.
Adam Curry: So I have two more clips in this series. How many
people? How many pro Palestinian demonstrators? Because that's
what's being talked about. Do you think they expect in
Chicago?
Unknown: 10,000 Yeah, four different Muslim organizations
based here in Chicago gave this press briefing this morning,
saying upwards of 100,000 protesters, demonstrators
expected in the streets of Chicago just a week from today.
These are three main protests we are talking about that are
planned next Monday as well as next Wednesday and Thursday, the
largest of the demonstrations, two of them, first on Monday the
19th and Thursday the 22nd that would be the first and last days
of the DNC, more than 150 organizations from around the
country say they have formed a collective to have these
protests be in large numbers, and while they represent a
number of different interests, they say their focus will be the
Israeli Palestinian war. They say there will also be meetings
with Democratic leaders inside of the convention about the US
response in the Middle East, their push is to get President
Biden to arrange a permanent cease fire and work toward a
Palestinian state before he leaves office. So
Adam Curry: they say 100,000 which sounds like a lot, but i i
no reason to doubt it just yet. And they are mad. They're mad.
They're already pre mad. So things could pre med Robin and
Larry,
Unknown: organizers with the coalition to march on the DNC
say their ability to share their message is being hindered.
They're speaking out again after getting a letter yesterday
denying some of their requests. Now the city granted. Organizers
the use of two parks for rallies with restrictions in place. The
letter reads in part, quote, no stages or platforms portable
restrooms or toilets, tents or canopies or sound equipment may
be installed by your organization. The city defended
its stance, giving several reasons, including the items
create a public safety risk. The permit office says tents and
port A potties can also be used to conceal illegal activities or
broken down to become weapons, and also says those pieces of
the structures, again could be broken down and used against
people or the police. The coalition predicts 10s of 1000s
to March next week for more than 200 organizations across the
country, its organizers feel the rules put in place make it
impossible to share their messages. Those include calling
for an end of US aid to Israel and showing their disdain with
the Democratic Party, specifically the Biden Harris
administration's handling for the Israel Hamas war.
Adam Curry: Okay, so they, they get a dumb route. They get no no
place to poop. That'll make you play. That'll make you pre mad,
that'll make you pre mad, that'll
John C Dvorak: make you mad. You know, the funny thing is, we,
months ago, we anticipated this, talking about the 68 convention
where they had a riot.
Adam Curry: I put a video in the show notes, like a 10, like 15
minute documentary of what happened, ma'am, that was harsh.
John C Dvorak: Yeah,
Adam Curry: that was harsh.
John C Dvorak: And they had, the key was, as we discussed months
ago, was they had to stretch this war out. In the Middle East
war, they couldn't have a cease fire, have anything going on
that was going to slow it down. So they had to get past the
Convention, which I am actually surprised they got that this
far. And they did. They did so it's going to be, it's going to
be riot, take all it's going to be very entertaining for people
who watch it on TV, which doesn't want to be the best
place to be the best places to be there, no, especially if you
saw that 68 documentary where they were clubbing, everybody
got a club, And
Adam Curry: it it got really bad. It was not good. So I want
to switch to Biden here for a second, because he will, of
course, be speaking on the first day, which is not the best spot,
unless you're going to do something radical. We still
don't know. We don't even know which Joe is going to show up.
Will it be Daddy Long Legs? Something I don't, I never
really put a lot of credence into, is, you know, they're
hiring social media influencers to do so well, of course they
are. Of course they are. So, you know, this is something that
goes viral. Everyone loses their their minds like, Oh, they're
paying everybody's paying influencers. Come on. Of course,
they're doing that. Here's an example. Just
Unknown: the other day, I received an email for a paid
promotion. Paid for me to make a video and post it on Tiktok,
talking about the Democratic side. At the end of this email,
it says, If you want to get things going, we'll send over an
NDA for you to sign, and we'll get started. I know a lot of
people get their views and their opinions and their beliefs based
off of what their favorite influencers are saying. Just
know they might have been paid to say the things they're
saying. Okay,
Adam Curry: right? Well, of course they're doing that. And
hello President vide. President Biden paid a visit to the White
House creator economy conference. No, it's not
evangelicals, it is the influencers, and I think they
were already given their NDAs, and he spoke to them, and I want
you to listen, because I'm hearing something new from this
Biden, and I'll stop it once. I've heard it a couple of times,
Unknown: and I think what you guys are doing, and it's not the
national press, they're good people. They don't they're not
that crazy about me.
John C Dvorak: What he's chuckled in this is the national
press, they're good people.
Adam Curry: No, that's, that's not what I'm what I'm going
after. Listen,
Unknown: they don't they're not that crazy about me, but I like
them. But they'll tell you I'm putting words in their mouth,
and they're going to write about how I'm wrong, but they'll tell
you how things are changed, how things have changed. There are
no editors anymore.
Adam Curry: I am hearing dentures. I'm hearing dentures
go. I'm hearing them clicking in his mouth. Never heard this
before, and once you hear it, it's hard not to hear it. And so
this will be a distinction between this Joe and any other
Joe. And I don't I'm not even sure if this is Daddy Long Legs
or not. There's
Unknown: no editors anymore. You want to get your new you want to
get your name in the news. You want to get a click. It's not
always best to get it by doing something positive. And by the
I'm not being facetious. These are really bright, smart, decent
people, but it's all to. Means, I hope you all thought about the
consequences of what you're about. You're undertaking what
it means, and what presumptuous may sound like a preacher, but
what obligations you have to do it on the level. Do it on the
level. So, for example, when I do this thing tomorrow. Hope a
couple of you show up, because it really matters. It's how we
explain to ordinary people who are busting their rear ends.
Adam Curry: This, to me, sounds like the real Joe. Yeah, it
John C Dvorak: does to me too, because he does a couple of
emphasis words he uses that very common. I want to say this on
the level thing. So you go in there, you sign an NDA Right,
right off the spot, right at the beginning. Once you sign an NDA,
you're not on the level, of course not. And they cannot
sign. If you're a journalist or even an influence or whatever,
you cannot sign one of these NDAs. You just don't do it. And
what was I think I saw, I think I've signed. What did I ever
sign? I may have signed. Yeah, I signed one when I quit me video,
really? Oh, we got you there, didn't we? Well, what was gonna
do? Anyway, it was just, it was not really. An NDA was a non
disparagement, yeah. Oh,
Adam Curry: sure, sure. Which you've not really held to.
John C Dvorak: Well, I was a non disparagement, thinking I got
money. Oh, more. I was gone by then, five grand or something.
Just wow,
Adam Curry: I was gone by then, crap. I
John C Dvorak: didn't get anybody. I
Adam Curry: didn't get any money. No, NDA, no, nothing. But
let me play the second clip, because this is the end of this
visit at the Creator economy conference, and he and Biden
says, Okay, I'll take any questions from you influencers,
from you creators, not a single one asks a question, no.
Instead, the M 5m who's apparently plastered all over
the place, just start yelling questions, and you can hear the
handlers going, Okay, thank you, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. It's,
it's, I found this to be entertaining. Now,
Unknown: my staff always told me this, any non press you're gonna
non press one ask me a question you can ask I may not answer it.
Adam Curry: This is so the original Joe. My staff always
tells me, any donated I can't take a question from a non press
only. I may not answer it, non press, but I
Unknown: like to stay on topic. I don't want to get into talking
about what's going on in foreign policy and the like right now,
but if anyone asked what I've said, I'm happy to touch others.
I'm not talking to you guys. Yes, yes, I'm not going to
answer your question. I'm talking to them first, the
audience not talking
Adam Curry: to you. Mainstreamers.
Unknown: Inflation,
Mr. President, yes, yes, yes. I told you to have a soft landing.
We're going to have a soft landing. My policies are
working. Start right that way.
Adam Curry: Joe is talking to the press. Get everybody out.
Unknown: Mr. President,
do you know your son reached out to a US Ambassador about
Burisma.
Thank you on this plan. Thank you so much.
Adam Curry: So what you heard there from one of the main
streamers, I believe, to be a pressure tactic on Biden that
they have now launched to keep him in line, because bro, bro,
Joe, Joe, bro, you better do what we tell you during the
convention, or we're going to go after your
Unknown: kid. There is new controversy surrounding Hunter
Biden this morning related to his business dealings when his
his father was vice president. The New York Times is reporting
that Hunter Biden asked for help from the U S ambassador to Italy
as he sought to make a business deal in 2016 The Times Cited
documents and interviews which referred to a deal Hunter
attempted to make for a Ukrainian gas company in Italy.
Hunter Biden's lawyer said his client asked various people to
introduce a company representative to the president
of the Tuscany region. It's unclear whether government
officials tried to help.
Adam Curry: Is a complete non story, but all sudden, oh Hunter
Biden, always in the news again. Oh no, Hunter. This is
messaging. This is Hey, hey, hey, hey, calm down everybody.
Yeah,
John C Dvorak: yeah. I think probably maybe, dude, the more
the stuff that comes out, about 100 the more I start to think
maybe he was a real player. You know, though, doing these deals
here and there, of course, he
Adam Curry: was a player. Of course, he
John C Dvorak: was like, you know, he's just a dumb guy
doesn't know. Anything, and meanwhile, he's doing these
deals left and right. Yeah,
Adam Curry: he had good deals. Yeah, of course, that's how it
works. Do you mind if I, if I, if I steal your three by three
and do a three by three? Oh,
John C Dvorak: is it? Did Steve send them three by three by
Unknown: three?
Adam Curry: He didn't realize it. Experiment, five, JC, D
Unknown: comparing stories from ABC,
CBS and NBC, the
Adam Curry: never ending three by three, he did. I don't think
he realized that he sent me a three by three, and maybe he
meant to send them to you.
John C Dvorak: I don't think so. I think I think he's, I think
he's, I've been kicked to the curb. Now you probably
complained, I think is what
Adam Curry: happened. No way. It wasn't even listed as a three by
three. And I said, Wait a minute, there's three clips on
the same topic. It's MSNBC, CNN and Ms. So it's actually not a
full It's Alex Wagner, that horrible woman on CNN with John
Bolton and then Morning Joe. This is the way, not No way. Did
you hear about this?
John C Dvorak: This is a, this is a, not a three by three at
all. This is a fringe three by three. Of anything fringe, it's
Adam Curry: a funny three by three. Trump
Unknown: made this very strange claim about a supposed
conversation he had with Russian President Putin about Putin's
desire to invade Ukraine
again. I said to Vladimir, Putin, I said, Don't do it. You
can't do it, Vladimir, you do it. It's going to be a bad day.
You cannot do it. And I told him things that what I do. And he
said no way. And I said way. He said
no way. And then I said way. And then I said party on Vlad, and
he said party on Don because this was actually an episode of
Wayne's World and not something that actually happened in
reality.
Adam Curry: So I guess this is from the from the call, yeah, I
totally believe that. He said to Putin, hey, no way you're gonna
do that. And Putin went, now, what do you mean? Is he No way?
Yeah, way. But this was much of much hilarity to everybody in
the mainstream. Trump
John C Dvorak: said, quote, yeah, when it's fringe, these
are not mainstream, okay,
Adam Curry: they're still fun to listen to.
John C Dvorak: It's not, I'm not complaining about that, but I
just think, you know, if it was ABC, CBS and NBC, okay,
Adam Curry: it's different. That's why you didn't get them.
Because he didn't, Steve, no, no, the
John C Dvorak: reason I didn't get him is because you scolded
the brothers. That's
Adam Curry: Oh, and that's how I talk really? Yeah, that's
exactly right. Resemblance is so good. In fact, I went, Hey, man,
you're giving Dvorak all the good stuff. Send some to me,
please.
Unknown: Trump said, I said to Putin, don't do the Vladimir.
And I told him things that what I would do. And he said, No way.
And I said, way. And Trump says it's the last time we had the
conversation. He would have never done I get along very well
with him, and I hope to get along well with him again. It's
a good thing, not a bad thing. What do you make of of one, just
that story, but also Trump, Trump's argue of how much
influence he has on the Russian leader? Well,
I think Trump's making that up. He certainly didn't have that
conversation with Putin when I was in the White House. I don't
believe he had it before. Then I can't really speak to what came
after. But this is another case of Trump making things up that
it's hard to prove or disprove. He can say he had some private
conversation at a dinner, at a g20 meeting, or something like
that. I don't think it happened, and I don't think that there was
really an occasion for Trump to have that conversation, but it
fits the persona that Trump thinks he has. It's an
incredibly
serious conversation, and obviously the Ukrainians are
doubly involved. But just to hear it, describing it as, I
mean, it sounds like, like two high school girls. I told him
things that what I would do, and he's
John C Dvorak: like a high school girl that add noise she's
got, she's tossed her adults at a funny kind of a way, she
sounds like a kid, way,
Unknown: no way, like two high school girls. I told him things
that what I would do, and he said, No way. And I said, way. I
mean, it's that how world leaders talk from No, it's
not even how Donald Trump talks. It's how he wished he talked,
and how he wished he could show that that he's the big alpha
guy.
Adam Curry: And then finally, morning, Joe,
Unknown: I know Putin very well. I
Adam Curry: got along. Don't be moaning. We put up with your
three by threes all the time.
John C Dvorak: Oh, now, there you go. Now it comes out. I knew
it. I
Unknown: know Putin very well. I got along with him very well. He
respected me. And it's just one of those things. And he would,
we would talk a lot about Ukraine. It was the apple of his
eye. It, but I said, Don't ever do it. Don't ever do it. You
can't do
Adam Curry: it. That was awesome. They I was that in the
original call, where he went all Satan like, don't ever do it,
don't ever do it.
Unknown: But I said, Don't ever do it. Don't ever do it. You
can't do it. Vladimir, you do it. Do
Adam Curry: you think that was that? Did they put that in on
purpose, or what
John C Dvorak: was I had no idea. Oh, yeah. I mean, it
wouldn't surprise me, but, yeah, say that was interesting. Don't
ever, I don't hear him do that voice that much, that's for
sure. No, but
Adam Curry: this is, this is an audio anomaly. This is not Trump
doing it, but it just, I don't recall that, but
Unknown: I said, Don't ever do it. Don't ever do it. That
sounds
John C Dvorak: like, you're right. Sounds like you're right.
Sounds like they doctored it. Yeah, Madam
Unknown: Mayor, you do it. It's going to be a bad day. You
cannot do it. And I told him things that what I do. And he
said, No way. And I said, way,
the highest level of diplomacy there. Come
on, little valley girl, way.
Wow. It was
apple with Zappa. Moon Unit. Zappa was belly girl, yeah,
I think so, yeah, yeah,
channeling Moon Unit. There
no way. And he's
so proud of his relationship with Vladimir Putin just won't
come off that position.
Adam Curry: Oh yes, really, oh yes,
John C Dvorak: it probably kind of those are all MSNBC clips,
weren't they? No,
Adam Curry: the second one was CNN with Bolton. That was the
only
John C Dvorak: reason I uh, Bolton, yeah. The only reason I
say this because I noticed this. This on Fox, on Fox, they, if
you watch the five, try not to. And I'm just saying, I'm just,
let me finish. If you watch the five, you're watching a warm up
show for the gut felt show. Yeah, he practices his gags, and
they have the same topics. You go from, you go from the five to
Laura Frau Ingraham, Yeah, same exact topics. Then you cut to
Hannity. What happened to waters? Water? I'm sorry. I'm
sorry. Wow, boy. Okay. Waters water, same topics, exact same
topics. You go to Hannity, exact same topics you go to the gut
felt show the same. It's just like they just keep pounding the
same topics the next day, same thing as repeat, rinse and
repeat. Yeah, and I sense that they do that. I don't listen to
all the MSNBC shows, but it's like, these guys, there's not
enough, you know, they say, oh, 24 hour news cycle, just,
there's just, like, two hours of news period that you can you do
over and over and over for a whole day, then you do the next
day. It's just
Adam Curry: pathetic. It's easy to fill 24 hours on the cable
channel. Janet.
Unknown: It's unbelievable. Janet
Adam Curry: told us we were crazy. Janet was Janet. Wasn't
Janet, I don't know. You guys are crazy. If you think you can
John C Dvorak: fill a case. Janet, yeah. Janet, yeah. We got
back and forth. Apologized that I shoot her out for apologizing,
Adam Curry: you don't apologize. We need this
John C Dvorak: before we're having nothing but fun. This is
good. It's very good vibe. Should we just do it? Should
Adam Curry: we just do Israel quickly? Just zoom Israel before
we before we move on.
John C Dvorak: Do I have anything on Israel?
Adam Curry: I don't know. I have a couple which I think there's,
there's some things amiss with what's being reported to us.
John C Dvorak: I think I have, like, one thing. Maybe I got it,
mostly Ukraine today. Yeah, we
Adam Curry: got Ukraine too, but what's your Israel thing? Where
is it?
Unknown: I'm looking for it.
Adam Curry: I don't see it. This is very professional, you're
supposed to say. And I have this thing about Israel and and then
I
John C Dvorak: saw, here it is. No, that's not it. Yeah, no,
here I got this. No, that's no. The problem is Harris. When I
put my glasses on it, Harris looks like hammers
Adam Curry: on the list. That can happen. It happens to the
best of us.
John C Dvorak: I'm going to change that to Harry ball, I
Adam Curry: don't care you. Go cease fire talks. I got it.
Unknown: It's been over eight months of negotiations for a
cease fire in the Gaza Strip and Israel and Hamas have yet to
make a deal. The US says it's urgent to make a deal now to
prevent a wider war. Entities. Jason Perry has the details.
Officials
are headed to Qatar for high stakes cease fire talks
beginning on Thursday. These talks are aimed at addressing
the Israel Hamas war in the Gaza Strip. Officials from Israel,
the United States, Egypt and Qatar are expected to be in
attendance and us, officials have said the time is urgent to
reach a deal to prevent a wider war from happening. President
Biden said that if a cease fire deal is reached, then Iran may
refrain from attacking Israel, according to Axios, Iran. Vowed
to attack Israel after Hamas political leader Ismail Hania
was recently killed in Tehran. Hania was previously involved in
the ceasefire talks, and his position as political leader of
Hamas has been filled by Hamas leader Yahya senoa, who some
believe to be located deep inside a tunnel in the Gaza
Strip. However, Hamas said on Wednesday that it would not take
part in the latest ceasefire negotiations in Qatar. Hamas
official, Osama Hamdan, said the only way Hamas will participate
in the talks is if they focus on implementing the proposal
detailed by President Biden in May. The US referred to it as an
Israeli proposal, and Hamas agreed to it in principle. But
Israel later said that Biden's speech was not entirely
consistent with the proposal itself, but how much progress
can be made without Hamas taking part in the talks? The West said
it expects indirect talks to go ahead as planned, and that a
cease fire is still possible. As of now, it's still unclear
whether Hamas will participate, but a State Department
spokesperson said Tuesday that representatives of Qatar have
assured the US they would
Adam Curry: so absent from this conversation is Trump. He's
absent from this conversation and remember he had BB over at
the house, yeah, they hung out for a bit, did a little press
hit there, and I'm sure some kind of deal was made, like,
bro, I got to be the one to solve this. You can't give this
to them. And I think there's a lot of shenanigans going on with
this. This
John C Dvorak: is the same thing it had with Reagan, yeah, the
Adam Curry: hostages, the October surprise, precisely. But
there was something in that clip about urgent. It's urgent. And
this is, I mean, I don't even know how this happened. Who
ordered the aircraft carrier, who ordered the nuclear
submarine, which normally we don't talk about, but, oh, now
we're announced. Yeah, I found
John C Dvorak: that peculiar, too, that it's sense
Adam Curry: of urgency is the key here. Well,
Unknown: there were two announcements in the statement
from the Pentagon. First, the deployment of the USS, Georgia.
That guy, what
Adam Curry: are you moaning about?
John C Dvorak: This woman, she's the from France, 20 years and
she talks up with a kind of a thing that goes like this. She
never there's, there's all. She's like a Hummer. She just
keeps yammering. And it's just a very annoying person. I think we
should ban her from any clips in the future. Okay, done.
Unknown: Deployment of the USS, Georgia, that guided missile
submarine that you mentioned. And it has to be noted that is
pretty rare for the Pentagon, for the US to actually publicly
state submarine movements. That, in itself, is pretty
significant. There was also another announcement in that
statement that Lloyd Austin had also ordered the Abraham Lincoln
strike group to accelerate its redeployment to the Middle East.
The Lincoln strike group had already been ordered to relocate
from the Asia Pacific region to the Middle East, but the Defense
Secretary asked for them to do that even faster. So it gives an
idea of the sense of urgency coming from the now, it wasn't
clear for either one of these groups how quickly they're going
to get to the Middle East, but the message of urgency was
definitely clear, and was clear in the statement that said that
the US was taking every possible step to defend Israel in light
of escalating regional tension. This was all announced in a
readout of a call between the US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
and his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant. And it comes as
there have been reports coming out of a new Israeli assessment
about the imminence of a possible response by the
Iranians, something that was communicated, it seems, by you a
Galant to Lloyd Austin.
Adam Curry: So hold on a second. Doesn't the President determine
when we go, you know, into a war zone in the region, is it just
Lloyd Austin who has a phone call says, oh, it's urgent. I
mean, do you know what this costs?
John C Dvorak: Can you imagine?
Adam Curry: Yeah, hundreds of millions of dollars is what this
costs. Oh, no, it's urgent. It's very urgent. Sense of Where's
Biden saying this, where's vice president Harris talking about
this? This is not normal. This is the your military industrial
base. Moving out of control. Yes, moving assets wherever they
want, do whatever. Yeah, we'll just, you know, we got need some
more money in the pipe. Money in the pipe people and then this
guy, the envoy.
Unknown: We continue to believe that a diplomatic resolution is
achievable, because we continue to believe that. No one truly
wants a full scale war between Lebanon and Israel, especially
not the Lebanese people and the Israeli people.
The US envoy Amos Hochstein met with Lebanese speaker Nabi berry
in Beirut on Wednesday, after nearly 10 months of cross fire
exchanges on the Israel Lebanon border and tensions which reach
boiling point recently after the killings of a top Hezbollah
commander and Hamas political leader. Senior Iranian officials
have said only a cease fire deal between Israel and Hamas could
halt a direct retaliation in Israel, a deal Hochstein hopes
to achieve. Speaker Barry
and I also talked about the framework agreement that's on
the table for a Gaza cease fire, and he and I agree there is no
more time to waste, and there's no more valid excuses from any
party for any further delay
that hopes for a cease fire dimmed once again on Wednesday
when Hamas said it would not take part in the discussions
slated to resume in Qatar on Thursday. So
Adam Curry: this guy, Hochstein, I look him up, I would be
thinking military guy, you know, CIA guy, no, he's an energy guy.
He was in Obama's administration, Assistant to the
President and senior advisor for energy and investment. That's
what he is under Joe Biden, I'm sorry he was in the Obama
administration. Served under Clinton and Kerry at State. He
was the Assistant Secretary of State for energy resources in
March 2017 he joined tellurin, a private, Houston based LNG
company. Of course, he's on the board of the Atlantic Council,
also on the Supervisory Board of Ukrainian NAFTA gas. This. This
is an energy guy. This is about oil. This is, and I think it's
about the price of oil. They want to either drive it up or
not drive it up. I don't know. But what is the energy guy doing
as the envoy? Well,
John C Dvorak: I was hoping, since you discovered this, that
you'd explain it. I have
Adam Curry: no idea, other than it has it has to do with, I
would believe he's trying to make sure that oil doesn't go
crazy, because that will, of course, increase inflation right
around the numbers for the for the third quarter, which would
be right around election time. I mean, we have seen oil inch up a
little bit, but
John C Dvorak: have the whole market collapse just before the
election, and
Adam Curry: that would be good. That would be fun. It doesn't
matter. It's all good for the show. And then the other thing
is that Egypt, turns out, is not a good actor in all of this, and
Unknown: that may mean, for example, on the disputes about
how to secure the Egyptian Gaza border, which, of course, was
we've now discovered, the main gateway for Hamas. That's where
all the arms and the materials and even the cars and and the
tents that went in and out of the country to train they went
through the Gaza Egyptian border. How is it going to be
secured? Well, the United States appears to be putting on the
table a plan where it would help Egypt seal those tunnels and
help and work with the United with Egypt and Israel to set up
technology and other ways to monitor that border. So I think
we're seeing, number one more a more aggressive position by the
United States and the mediators to solve the problems. And as I
said, this time, these Gaza cease fire talks are happening
in the context of a potential lot wider escalation, and that
danger has also created a kind of urgency may push these talks
forward.
Adam Curry: Yeah, there's something big happening,
something I what I do not expect is Iran to launch anything I
don't expect, I don't expect any of that. Just
John C Dvorak: more. Steve for Steve Forbes was on with Kudlow,
oh, and he predicted that, or said The possibility exists that
Biden is going to quit. Ooh,
Adam Curry: oh, this. But he can he do it on stage? He
John C Dvorak: might. He thinks it might happen at the
Democratic National Convention, which
Adam Curry: is what we've been discussing.
John C Dvorak: Well, we've been discussing that he's going to go
on and win his votes back.
Adam Curry: No, we had, I think we had three options. One, I
want my votes back. Two
John C Dvorak: keels over. Well, that's right, yeah, it feels
over. Or
Adam Curry: three, nothing, which would be the worst if he
doesn't
John C Dvorak: so the idea is that he's going to quit, oh man,
camel is going to become president. So she can be the
incumbent when she runs against Trump, and she's going to start
the war with Iran, because she's an idiot.
Adam Curry: No, no, it'll start, and then Trump will swoop in and
broker a deal and get the hostages back, whatever's left
of them. Apparently, they've blown a couple more up.
John C Dvorak: Well, yeah, there's a there's any hostages
left, it'll be a miracle.
Adam Curry: I mean, this is history. Is is rhyming. It
really is. It's, there's a lot of 68 in this. I mean, it would,
ha, we don't know, but we will be on the foreground. We'll be
on the forefront. We'll be right here, yeah,
John C Dvorak: and we'll be more objective in these media to be
the fringe or their mainstream. They're, they're all fully crap.
And with
Adam Curry: that, I'd like to thank you for your courage. Say
in the morning to you, the man who put the sea in public hole,
say hello to you, my friend on the other end, he won the only
Mr. Adam curry money
John C Dvorak: with ship sea, bus to the ground, feet in the
air, subs in the water, dames the nights out there. Yeah.
Let's
Adam Curry: take a look at our trolls here. Let
Unknown: me count them. Who's in?
Adam Curry: Yeah, we're late in the count, so they got bored.
1890 Yeah, I know, but I know. I'm sorry. We should we should
have stopped while we were on a high we can't be doing three by
threes that'll drive everyone away. Nah, I'm sorry, but that
is still almost 2000 trolls checking us out in the troll
room. It's not bad for a little old podcast on a Thursday when
people should be working. In fact, we got all and we got all
kinds of people working for us, which is nice, working for the
good of the show, which is phenomenal, be working. Yes,
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that at podcast apps.com. We operate value for value, which
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seen the stories, but Salem, Media Group, big group of radio
stations, their core business, fell by 5.2% even after they
sold off, I think eight of their local radio stations, 2 million,
nearly $2 million decline in local spot advertising, although
they did, the numbers were okay because they because of
political advertising, which was up 198%
John C Dvorak: No, yeah, now's the time to make the money. CBS
Adam Curry: News Radio, 88 out of business. Getting rid of it
in New York, it's gonna become ESPN Sports. So
John C Dvorak: how, of course, can we take Well, I
Adam Curry: mean, you know, they're all relying on garbage,
remnant advertising, but the one that is most relevant is people
who think that value for value, which is the model that we run
on, and value for value means we put it out the show. We expect
nothing. We hope you support us, otherwise, you can expect to
receive nothing. Eventually. There's no levels, no
memberships, no subscriptions. You can do whatever you want. No
premium content, zero premium content. You can send it to us
in time talent or treasure the
John C Dvorak: show itself is premium content.
Adam Curry: Patreon has now announced that Apple is going to
start taking its 30% App Store fee on top of their 8% for all
donations that are run through Patreon.
John C Dvorak: Effectively. How does that work? Well, Patreon
Adam Curry: is an app, and most people use the Patreon app to to
support shows, and Patreon has their own billing system. And
Apple said, you know, you've been running this for a while,
and we're not going to take that anymore, so now either.
John C Dvorak: So this is like Apple when they when you have
these apps that have collections, yes, payment,
payment systems within the app, outside of Apple, yep, that's
over. They don't like that.
Adam Curry: No, they say you're violating our terms of service.
Either you give us 30% or. Of everything that runs through
your app, or we kick you off the App Store, which is going to
affect a lot of podcasters, 40,000
John C Dvorak: interesting when did that happen? That
Adam Curry: happened yesterday. Wow. The news broke. Breaking.
The news broke. Breaking
John C Dvorak: alert. Yeah.
Adam Curry: Wow. Yeah, yeah. So what
John C Dvorak: is, what has Patreon said? Anything about
this? Yeah. Patreons crying,
Adam Curry: yeah? Like, hey, what? Yeah. Basically, they're
saying, Well, you know, either you eat it and we stay in the
App Store, or you don't eat it, meaning the creators, creators,
or the or the supporters, because it's subscription based.
You know, you subscribe for level to get your premium
content, premium content, premium content. That's right,
whereas we just give you premium content right there, up front,
no
John C Dvorak: level is.
Adam Curry: We are. We are no agenda. We are premium content,
exactly. So while I feel bad, I'm very happy we chose for this
model.
Unknown: I feel bad.
John C Dvorak: You'll feel bad at all. I
Adam Curry: don't, yeah, it just proves that we were right.
Almost 17 years ago, we said, you know, this is the only way
to do it, any other way you could put anybody else in in
between, and it's going to be a problem. That's why we have
PayPal. We have stripe. You know, we have multiple ways for
you to support the show, MX checks. I was just gonna watch
339.
John C Dvorak: Here. Let me just do that. Plug. You want, you
have a check. You want to send us a check? That's what you
wanted to do. Box three is to no agenda show. Box 339, you can
rewind this. Box 339, El Cerrito, El, C, E, R, R, i, t,
O, California, 94530,
Adam Curry: and it's a great way to do it, because there's only a
very small charge for handling the chain, cents total, and you
can send them directly from your bank account. In America, at
least. I don't know if you can do that from everywhere, but in
America, you can set it up and it'll just send a paper
checkout. And you can, you can schedule it, you can do whatever
you want. It works really, really well. So that's the
financial part of value for value, which clearly is needed
because we've got a lot of podcasters in peril. Podcasters
in peril, in peril, I tell you, and we're squeaking through once
again, thanks to our lovely supporters, which includes our
artists, who are diligently working on creating art for this
episode. They do it when they should be working now. They're
Dutch masters, so they're all, it's, you know, it's like, 8pm
9pm their time. So they are off duty. But there are some in the
United States and other territories who work, who are
also Dutch masters. They don't, just don't live in Holland,
because that's all we've got, is Masters of Fine Art. And we love
having a new piece for every single show. And it was, in
fact, Darren O'Neill, a non artist, a prompt jockey,
John C Dvorak: a prompt jockey, of high, of the highest order,
Adam Curry: I hesitate to tell you that you're banging
something.
John C Dvorak: It's the bot. Yeah, I am banging something. I
can feel it when I'm banging it,
Adam Curry: yeah, though we
John C Dvorak: can hear it, yeah, that's it's just, yeah.
Now there's a there's a couple lewd jokes in there. Just he's,
I don't think I can let us hear them properly. Just
Adam Curry: let it laugh.
John C Dvorak: I'm looking let her go.
Adam Curry: Darren O'Neill, uh, tickled our fancy with his
clown. Strike your data is not safe at all. Image, we did go
back and forth on this. We, in fact, discuss specifically
lawsuits. So we really don't want to get a lawsuit from
CrowdStrike, but we felt ultimately that the parity value
was large enough. Yeah, it
John C Dvorak: was a joke. We're kidding. Yeah. Nanu. Nanu,
Adam Curry: there was, once again, a lot of AI. You kind of
liked another Darren O'Neill piece, which was Kamala Harris
as a pig, to which I said, come on. Man, come on. Man, come on.
Man, we're not really gonna do that, are we? No, we can't do
that. That's not that
John C Dvorak: was funny. It was Animal Farm 2024 because we
talked about animal farm and then you so it made sense in the
context of the show, yeah, but a lot of people thought this art
was just junk. The the dare I say that it was because they
were discussing it. Yes, this particular one artist goes and
does a a kind of a rundown of all the events in order quality.
This
Adam Curry: is junk. Darren, junk. Well, what else was there?
I mean, keep me. Mean, go to jail. No, not funny. AOL, stuff,
which was, well, you
John C Dvorak: had the one you like was the toast clown. Did
you someone?
Adam Curry: I did and no, I said you're not gonna like that one.
Because gruesome, and you were right. And the other one, and we
discussed nestworks, wrong magazine, which you thought was
too simple, I think was the term you used. Where was that? This
the one up top there with wrong Wired Magazine, wrong magazine.
Oh,
John C Dvorak: right, right. The Wired Magazine, yeah, you didn't
like that one,
Adam Curry: and everything else was just either AI or no good. I
mean, stop with the camel AI already. Yeah, we don't.
Goodness gracious, no, just not gonna use it. So by the way,
bonus clip, CrowdStrike. EULA, the EU law of crowd strike we've
been discussing this is under attack. Did you hear the latest
news about EULAs? Yes, I did. You want to hear clip?
John C Dvorak: I got two clips here. Yeah, absolutely. The clip
Unknown: is fun. And NYU Langone, physician from plain
view, was vigilant, says her best friend when she dined out
her severe dairy and nut allergy always communicated it
would not only be her that would make the staff aware, it would
be whoever was with her, and when we would reiterate,
according to her husband's lawsuit, in October at the
Disney Springs restaurant Raglan road, the waiter guaranteed
certain foods could be made allergen free, and confirmed
several more times, she died soon after from anaphylactic due
to elevated levels of dairy and nuts in her system. Her cousin
attorney Peter guiltano calls Disney's response shocking and
absurd, because years earlier, her husband Jeffrey piccolo
signed up for Disney, plus he signed away his rights to sue.
Adam Curry: Now this was the most fascinating use of a EULA
I've ever heard. Here's the concluding clip.
Unknown: She was stolen from him, and now, in effect, what
Disney is doing is trying to steal his day in court, and
that's a fundamental right that we all
have. Disney cites fine print in the agreement, which requires
users to arbitrate all disputes with the company. It claims
piccolo also okayed a similar agreement more recently, when he
bought Epcot tickets online. This would create
just a horrific and horrible precedent. If you open up your
phone, look down at all the services and things that you
subscribe to, But legal
experts say we're signing consumer arbitration agreements
all the time, and courts have ruled them enforceable.
Arbitration must be fair and can be cheaper than a jury trial,
but
you're also less likely to get those big punitive damages that
you hear about. You're less likely to get the sympathy
factor. The
case could have implications for anyone who's ever signed a user
agreement. Usually just call it
a bottom and hit, OK.
I just like, hit the circle where you accept, and then I
just hit continue. I think
it's wrong. I
mean, people aren't going to be really fine print
Adam Curry: amazing, even if he bought the tickets and had
nothing to do with Disney plus and there was a EULA there. I
mean, all of this, look at the back of your ticket. If it's a
pay gotta go. It's gotta go. This has to stop. We need better
abuse.
John C Dvorak: This is abuse of the system. It is, it is. These
are, these are bull crap. Just have the your kids do the work
if you're signing up for Disney, plus have your kid do it because
they're under 21 or 18, or whatever the ages. If they're
16, 1514, that's legally not they can't sign a contract. Oh,
that's
Adam Curry: a good hack. Actually,
John C Dvorak: it is a hack. I didn't do it. My kid did. I
Adam Curry: think we should have some kind of EULA for this show.
John C Dvorak: There is one. It's the terms of there's a
Terms of Use, terms that we have in terms of endearment, that is
on the website that discusses this is quite unique, this
Adam Curry: type of insight and these life hacks you only get
from your no agenda show, Surely that is value that you'd like to
return and anonymous from Central Ohio definitely thought
so, and sent us $1,000 and says, gents, gents, this donation is
made in two parts, one of 667 to bring me to knighthood. This is
my birthday gift to myself, and I'd like to be known as dame of
raccoon Valley at the round table like a slice of key lime
pie. I cannot be a dame with a douche bag, but smoke but
smoking hot husband. So I'd like to do a switcheroo with the
remaining 333, and call him anonymous husband of Central
Ohio. And please de douche him.
Unknown: You've been de douched. I've enjoyed
Adam Curry: listening for several years, and hope this
keeps the sad puppies away for a while. So that means we add, I
guess, means we add him to the list as an executive producer.
Yeah, right. Okay, just want to make sure, and I have to put the
slice of key lime pie at the round table. So you got it. We
will take care of it. And. Make sure that he is on the list and
that you have your key lime pie
John C Dvorak: and mouse of the famous mouse family, big
supporters, Petrolia, Ontario Canada, 482 I'm not sure if this
is Canadian money. That is hard to say, but it's 42 so it
doesn't matter ITM gents is a switcheroo. This donation is for
Sir bird dog of Glen Ray. He has donated monthly for years since
his initial knighthood, while hitting many in the mouth. This
should definitely bring him to Baron status, maybe even
Viscount. Oh, the title changes in order. When he sorts out the
accounting, I think we're gonna boost him today.
Adam Curry: He's being boosted.
John C Dvorak: Happy 20th, a smoking hot hubby. Thanks for
all you do. Love you lots. Can you give him a rubbisher? He's
got rebel eyes, rubbish, yes, and all the karma you have. Keep
up the great deconstruction work. John and Adam
Unknown: India, hang out. Mike standby, 3333 33
you've got karma.
Adam Curry: Brad Fox checks in from press Presque Isle. Presky,
presky Isle. What do you think Press? Presky presque P, R, E,
S, Q, E, Prisk. Presque Isle. He's in Maine, and he sends $450
and he says, in the morning, gents, this donation brings me
to knighthood. Staff. Knighthood status. See accounting below. I
figured, instead of blowing more money betting on the Red Sox to
cover even just the money line, I donate to something that
always pays off the best podcast in the universe. And yes, yes,
we always pay off. And yes, like politics, there is gambling in
baseball. Please dub me sir, Waldo Chicken Caesar. Hopefully,
this sparks a rash of that. Mitchell and Webb Look number
Wang donations. For those in the know, that must be a gambling
thing, I'd like to request Bud Light and Brontosaurus at the
round table. Hey, random number theory. I'd also like to have a
rubbish jingle followed by a yak karma for everyone still
listening. Oh, there's plenty. Thanks for the comedy now and
forevermore, sir Waldo Chicken Caesar, India. Hang out. Mike
Unknown: standby, 3333 33
out you've got
John C Dvorak: to move on to Jason crutchman in Richmond,
Indiana, 333, dot, six, six. And he writes in
Adam Curry: remember middle format, almost, kinda,
John C Dvorak: almost, but not quite. In the morning.
Gentlemen, Adam, if you could be so kind as to chip in a penny,
yes, I have this donation will efficiently, effectively bring
me back to knighthood status, officially as your penny. I was
at a back to school orientation yesterday, and the principal was
giving her presentation on the coming school year. She started
talking about how our school was a strong community, okay?
Community, strong community, and how we must work together for it
to continue to grow and thrive. And the slide that appeared next
was community commitments, time, talent, treasure,
Adam Curry: yay. Did she hit you up for some donations?
John C Dvorak: I've seen the numbers begging me to donate,
but it never have I seen the words. There were a couple of
reasons this slide shocked me. What the donation was. It
shocked you because you it. We drills it into your brain.
That's right. Two, I talked about the value for value model
with some of the school leaders of the year, and they were
intrigued. I explained to them how the model worked and the no
agenda podcast that created it, and here, a year later, I didn't
even get credit. However, let this be proof the model is
growing and reaching more human resources all over the world.
But that said, may I be Knight is Sir Kretschmann of the White
Water Valley at the round table, uh, could I have a warped wing
brewery, gamma bomb beer, neon movie theater, popcorn and a box
of bunch of crunch, jeez, I need a Trump around. Was Trump
massive dumps and a shut up at science. Thank you for your
courage. Jason critchman in Richmond, Indiana, you know, I
think he sent a note in complaining this letter took
forever to get to us. Well, we got it it was
Unknown: hard to get it aroused, and it is hard to get it
aroused, but we got it aroused. They
did dumps.
They call them dumps, big, massive dumps. Shut
up, already. Science.
Adam Curry: Oh, classic, classic jingle there. Then we have. Tim,
what
John C Dvorak: was just I'm looking at the I needed to blow
that one up. I was having trouble reading it. Tim
Adam Curry: frick is next. He also sent in a note with 333
dot, 33 our favorite donation amount. And he says, in the
morning, gentlemen, thank you for your service, for keeping me
sane over the years. Thank you, Adam, for sharing your faith
journey. It has been an inspiration to so many and we
all, and we need all the god warriors we can get for this
spiritual battle upon us. Amen, my apologies for staying a
douche bag for so long, but no more. Please. Deduced.
Unknown: You've been deduced. Also,
Adam Curry: if you could give a quick plug for the cooking show,
I started recently with my dog, Nash, and he sent a picture of a
dog with Nash and an arrow handsome looking dog. It's
called Chaos kitchen. It's a fun show. We cook delicious stuff,
and it's been a fun hobby project that I'd love to share
with all. Maybe John has some wine pairing suggestions for
some of the recipes at chaos kitchen with Tim on YouTube, all
links and recipes on the website, Tim's chaos kitchen.com
if I could please get some sales and jobs karma for my day job
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do not see a note, no, I want to give Kelly a double up karma
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to his dark roast. So it takes a certain skill to do dark Do it?
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John C Dvorak: the pea Berry was filtered out. You know, they
have these grates, and they the big beans. Is the one. You want
to keep the little junky pea berries? They threw them out for
years. And then somebody, you know, I guess the staff or
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turns out that the little ones, just like, reminds me of wild
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smaller, better. It turns out that these berries are really
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to name it pea Berry, and then make a turn into a product. And
it's, I've never had bad pea Berry. Anyway, he says it's a
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Unknown: our formula is this, we go out. We hit people in the
mouth. You.
Adam Curry: You shut up. Slave. Do you know him? Yes,
John C Dvorak: I like to do the Ukraine stuff and get it out of
the way, good
Adam Curry: idea. Good idea this, by the way, if I can just
start us off with a little boots on the ground this 1000
kilometers from what I'm hearing is bull crap that I'm getting
videos of Ukraine Special Forces being annihilated on beaches,
being blown to smithereens that, yeah, maybe it was 10 kilometers
they got, but not 100,000 kilometers, square kilometers.
So that's what I'm getting from the inside.
John C Dvorak: I have three clips. One is incursion. One,
Unknown: incursion.
John C Dvorak: Is under Ukraine. Ukraine, I
Unknown: got you. I got you. Ukraine today claims is
advancing deeper into the curse region in Russia that says both
the White House and State Department continue voicing
support for Kyiv as the offensive continues,
I expect will continue to stand
shoulder to shoulder with our Ukrainian partners, the
State Department on Wednesday saying it will continue
supporting Ukraine to defend itself against Russia. This
comes a week after Ukraine launched a surprise incursion
into Russia's curse region. Russia's emergency ministry
released this video on Wednesday showing people being evacuated
from a town in cursed Ukraine. Meanwhile, published this video
saying it shows the moment its soldiers pulled down a Russian
flag and the incursion continues. Ukraine's army chief
gave this update when speaking to President Vladimir Zelinsky.
Since the start of today, troops have advanced around one mile in
various directions. Since the beginning of this day, we've
captured about 100 enemy soldiers. Newly released
satellite footage shows that Russia has dug trenches in the
region. Russia's foreign ministry accused Ukraine of
stalling potential progress in peace talks
with their terrorist actions in the course area, Ukraine has, at
minimum, put peace talks on pause for a long time. In my
opinion, they did this intentionally. Peace talks with
an absolutely inadequate enemy is unnatural,
but the White House says Peace doesn't depend on Ukraine.
This war can end today. It could if Russia would stop the war,
the war that they started.
Adam Curry: Okay, I love that. Every report has that flag being
taken down. Oh, there's proof. Look at the flag.
John C Dvorak: That's pretty lame. Pretend we have John
Pierre Van Dam making a conclusion that as if she knows
anything, let's go to part two of this clip.
Unknown: Meanwhile, the governor of the Russian bogorot region
says the situation continues to be extremely difficult and
tense. Bogorot is next to cursed where Ukraine launched a
surprise incursion last week,
there are daily shellings by the Ukrainian Armed Forces,
destroyed homes, injured and killed peaceful civilians.
Therefore, we have decided to declare a regional level state
of emergency.
The governor says the state of emergency will help to provide
more protection.
John C Dvorak: Okay? And now, okay, I did, went nowhere. So
let's go to the you, yeah. Then I think if I don't have a third
clip,
Adam Curry: well, I have two clips, what appears to me that
is happening here is the long show predicted demilitarized
zone is being created. And I think some of that is apparent
in this clip,
Unknown: keys incursion that's rattled the Kremlin marks the
largest attack on Russia since World War Two, and a significant
progress in the Ukrainian war effort. After months on the back
foot, progress, President Zelensky is pleased about
I thank all our warriors, every Sandra of ours, every sergeant,
every officer who defends our country. Our advance in the
Kursk Region is going well today. We are reaching our
strategic goal.
According to Ukrainian authorities, it aims to
establish a buffer zone in Kursk to protect its own border
communities from shelling, as well as building humanitarian
corridors to help Russian civilians, Kyiv says its troops
have advanced into 1000 square meters of the Kursk territory.
Adam Curry: Oh, now it's 1000 square meters.
John C Dvorak: Oh, that's always been 1000 square meters. I've
never heard
Adam Curry: I am so sure I heard 1000 kilometers. No, I've never
heard this. Oh, one. 1000. So that's literally a kilometer.
Yeah,
John C Dvorak: the previous report also said a mile. So it's
similar, no,
Adam Curry: but okay, and whilst Moscow has acknowledged the
Ukrainian, oh, a mile is 1.8 kilometers, it's not similar.
Unknown: That's similar. It's double.
Moscow has acknowledged Double. Double
John C Dvorak: be two, not 1.8 closer.
Adam Curry: It's closer to double. That is to similar.
Okay,
Unknown: ask territory. And whilst Moscow has acknowledged
the Ukrainian gains, they insist the advance is smaller than Kyiv
has claimed. Russia's Defense Ministry attests it had repelled
Ukraine's attempts to push deeper, and released images
purporting to show fighter jets at work, as well as footage that
it claims shows captured Ukrainian soldiers.
Adam Curry: So when you say this is our strategic goal, and it's
to create a buffer zone that, to me, says set up for
demilitarized zone, no one else seems to understand what they've
done other than this. Yo, Oh, wow. It's going well, it's
really good. It's fantastic. Good work. Vlad no
John C Dvorak: vlog, by the way. Just for your information, one
mile is 1.6
Adam Curry: 1.6 You're right. I was wrong,
John C Dvorak: still I was not right. I said one
Unknown: okay, but
Adam Curry: this is the big news, which has meaning. German
Unknown: media are reporting that prosecutors here have
issued an arrest warrant for a suspect behind the 2022
explosions on the Nord Stream gas pipeline. It is believed
that the Ukrainian man was one of the divers who allegedly
planted explosive devices. Two underwater explosions were
registered on the Nord Stream pipelines off the Danish island
of Bornholm in September 2022, months after the start of
Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The pipelines were supposed to
bring Russian gas into Europe, but were not in operation at the
time of the blast. So
Adam Curry: the story goes that private businessmen funded this
shoestring operation,
John C Dvorak: including this is just, this makes zero sense.
Adam Curry: Oh no, it doesn't but, but this line does. This
was funded on a shoestring, as a shoestring operation done from
that that stupid. They call it a yacht, but it's basically some
sailboat which was overseen by a top general president, Zelensky.
Reports say, approved the plan then tried unsuccessfully to
call it off. In May of 2022 a handful of senior Ukrainian
military officers and businessmen had gathered to
toast their country's remarkable success in halting the Russian
invasion. Buoyed by alcohol and patriotic fervor, somebody
suggested a radical next next step, destroying Nord Stream.
Now what is interesting is the Dutch newspaper. Newspapers are
reporting this morning that the Dutch Ministry miv, it's the
CIA. The Dutch CIA intelligence services knew that this was
taking place. And here's, here's, this is the giveaway.
After the downing of MH 17, they say the Dutch set up a very
sophisticated intelligence network in Ukraine and Russia
and and this is all from the Wall Street Journal reporting,
by the way. And so they knew that these guys were plotting
this and planning this. So all I can take away from what is being
reported here by Deutsche Bella, a direct line to US intelligence
is that they just want to pin it on Zelensky. Maybe they're
worried about something coming up in a debate or some other
place, but they needed to stop the story that it was the US. It
was Biden, literally Biden, who said that he was going to do it.
We haven't forgotten Biden. By we have the clip. He's Let me
see. Do we still have that clip?
John C Dvorak: What we do? We do, but Nord Stream,
Adam Curry: no Well, probably somewhere. He said that, no, the
Norse is not going to happen. We will make sure that that doesn't
happen. Not, not, not going to continue. So, you know, this is
pinning it on Zelensky, but he tried, he tried to stop it. Nah,
nah. I am, as you would say, not buying it. This is clearly
pinning it on Zelensky. So we have a demilitarized zone. We
have Zelensky being blamed. Stuffs on the move. Stuff is on
the move, on the move.
John C Dvorak: They I think that's that, yeah, that is that.
I have a couple of a clip I want. To play, okay, local news,
local news. This is the Democrats in action here in
California. And I just found this to be distressing, and I
found the rationale for it to be even more distressing. What do
you think it means when somebody, some murderer, is put
in jail? Yeah, and found guilty and put in for life without
possibility of parole. Okay, what does that mean to you?
Adam Curry: It? Well, it depends. Am I living in
California?
John C Dvorak: Just what does it mean to you? In general, means
Adam Curry: you're gonna rot in jail.
Unknown: Yeah? Well,
John C Dvorak: not in California. I want to play this
clip. Does the Cal bill? Meantime,
Unknown: lawmakers in the state assembly are reintroducing a
controversial bill that allows early release for some convicted
felons serving life without parole. The bill creates a
process to reduce sentences for offenders who have been
incarcerated for at least 25 years. Those convicted of murder
could be eligible, but not if they killed a police officer or
were a serial killer. SB 94 was moved back into assembly
circulation just yesterday without assembly discussion at
the request of San Jose State Senator Dave Cortese. Supporters
of the measure say it provides a process for criminals who were
convicted before many state criminal justice reforms were
enacted. Lovely.
John C Dvorak: What's it got to do with criminal justice reform?
Criminal justice reform is not to let murderers out who were
convicted given a life sentence, specifically without possibility
of parole, which is what it is. Yeah, what is wrong with these
people?
Adam Curry: It's California. Man, Hey, guys,
John C Dvorak: been in too long. Man, let's let him out. But he
said, no parole, none. Forget it, life without parole. No, no,
no, no, that's no good. Dare
Adam Curry: I ask what this guy look like? What guy, the guy who
was sentenced to life without parole?
John C Dvorak: No, no, they're not doing it's not for a guy.
It's this is in general. In general. This is a dissembly
bill that's been put forth to make it so everybody gets out.
Oh, cool. It's not for some guy. It's cool.
Adam Curry: So does that mean they'll be letting a whole bunch
of people out of jail soon? No. Well, the bill
John C Dvorak: hasn't passed, but it's a Democrat bill
sponsored by Democrats. They're not going to do anything with
this until after the election. Then they'll do it, and they
actually may not do it, because Newsom is taking a hard line.
Newsom seeing the writing on the wall, and he says to himself,
self, I don't think Ken was going to win this thing. Doesn't
win it. Yeah, I'm up in 28 I better clean up the state. I got
four years to do it,
Adam Curry: and I also learned that he needs to clean up the
state for the Olympics.
John C Dvorak: Yeah? La, yeah. In particular,
Adam Curry: yeah. It's going to be the Olympics in 2028 in Los
Angeles. They
John C Dvorak: do have events up here when they have the Olympics
in LA, I have been to an Olympic event.
Adam Curry: We have, we have the best producers in the universe.
There's no doubt about it. So I'd like to read if catches a
couple of brief boots on the ground. We also have a lot of
TSA agents who listen, and all good, yeah, that's very good.
And I just like to share what they said to us, because, and I
noticed this by the we were on a trip. We went through San
Antonio airport. They are so nice and so just calm and
relaxed about things. There's there's no more yelling. I don't
know if that's just San Antonio, but I also didn't probably just
San Antonio. It was the same in in Boston at Logan, they were
just nice. It's almost like, Hey everybody, here's a memo.
Everybody be nice.
Unknown: So that could be Adam and John
Adam Curry: just listen to the show. Heard about the anonymous
report from the airport and TSA a couple of things. One, we as
officers could care less if people opt out of this, about
the about the your picture being taken, which they just slipped
in there. I don't blame them, frankly, and would do the same.
They are not flagged for opting out. However, there are tons of
cameras all over the airport, the machine is just verifying if
your ID is real, because these days, you don't have to show a
boarding pass. You just have to show your ID. It connects it to
your travel document, so you're in the system two if you wear
baggy, saggy pants, a belt or leaf stuff in your pockets, the
machine highlights in the groin. It is especially unforgiving to
males get pre check. So baggy pants if you don't have TSA, pre
check will flag you because you've got something hanging at
three. We barely communicate with the airlines at a
checkpoint level, and we do not. Watch the people who make
complaints. I think you guys give us way too much credit.
Personal opinion after being here five plus years is, this is
just the government's job program. The pay is good for
what is expected, but most of us understand the show we are
putting on daily. Well, that's nice to know,
John C Dvorak: yeah, security theater. That's what we've
always called it. Yeah,
Adam Curry: it's good then, on the legals, on the legal note,
the
John C Dvorak: theater does work with dummies, by the way, so
it's not a bad thing, no
Adam Curry: and no, not at all. You had an interesting set of
clips on the last show about it was Ritter and Tulsi talking
about a chilling effect.
John C Dvorak: Chilling effect. Yes, this
Adam Curry: is a good note, and this is our producer saying, I
hope our constitutional lawyer already sent you a note, but in
case he is AWOL, the quote, chilling effect, language from
Ritter and Tulsi is a specific legal concept for First
Amendment cases. You can challenge government laws and
actions under the First Amendment, if you can prove it
has a chilling effect on your speech, ie, made your expression
of protected, protected speech difficult, I would assume
there's a lawsuit brewing, and that is the reason for the
coordinated mention of this legal term. And of course, our
constitutional lawyer Rob checked in. He says, yes, the
chilling effect language is all over the First Amendment
jurisprudence. Sometimes he says, I wish I could be like the
guy they keep at the booth during football games, who
explains the referees calls. We need a hotline. Well, you can
always hotline. Me, Rob, always. So that's, these are good
updates. This is good stuff to know. Then the oh, man, I love
your new the sound of your new mic, but poof, it's a banger. I
didn't even touch it. Well, you're banging something.
John C Dvorak: I picked up a piece of paper, but that banged.
So banging is a banging note.
Adam Curry: So we played a couple of pool boy clips of the
FBI whistleblower. No, that's right, and immediately concluded
that the Pakistani who wanted to kill Trump was one of these six
week cycle bonus deals. And wouldn't you know it, the
whistleblower calls into Beck and says exactly that. And
Unknown: then the last thing that I definitely want to get to
is this Pakistani national. Now this is what I like to call the
playbook that the FBI has been running the last two and a half
decades, particularly since 911 where essentially what they do
to justify their existence as a bureaucracy, as a self looking
ice cream cone, they will identify a vulnerable person in
a motion to serve, maybe someone with radical intentions but not
capable of carrying forward an actual attack without the
involvement of the FBI. They'll identify them, use confidential
human sources, use undercovers, and then groom them for as long
as it takes to engage, or at least agree, to engage, in an
activity that can be labeled as terrorism. And then they will
arrest them. And the added wrinkle here was that they
imported this Pakistani through the border. They sponsored him
arriving, arriving. The FBI Dallas office actually was
assignee on him arriving. And it wasn't just to slap the cuffs on
him. They followed him and orchestrated this plot that
could never have happened without the involvement of the
government for three months and then justify their existence
with this big dismantlement stack, which is also tied to
their quotas. This is just the eight the FBI version of death
and furious, but except with the exception of being guns with the
ATF we are now running terrorists so that we can
justify our existence as an agency.
Adam Curry: There you go. Those of you who have been listening
to the no agenda show for more than a decade will have already
known this. That's why Glenn Beck makes $100 million a year.
John C Dvorak: He's a hard working guy. He works
Adam Curry: very hard. He's got a great museum.
John C Dvorak: I'm going to play this this off the wall clip.
I've been wanting to play this clip for a while. This is the
especially here from in California, where our students
are all stupid. Now, this is a Mississippi reading has
increased dramatically in quality.
Unknown: 10 years ago, Mississippi's elementary
students ranked near the bottom in literacy today, the State
House soared to the 21st spot in the nation entities. Dana
Monahan speaks with the Mississippi Department of
Education literacy director about how the state achieved
those results.
Mississippi ranked 49th in the United States for elementary
school literacy. 10 years ago, fourth graders were essentially
an entire grade level behind the rest of the nation in 2023 85%
of third graders passed the state reading test thanks to a
shift from balanced literacy to the science of reading approach.
In balanced literacy, students are taught to use cues to guess
words and then memorize. Them. The science of reading approach
uses phonics so students understand how words look and
sound as they acquire vocabulary. The
systems of language is explicit. It's systematic. There's a scope
and sequence of foundational skills that have to be taught to
students that go from very easy skills to more complex skills.
And you know, so it's really like that, really direct type of
reading instruction, where we're not playing a guest and game.
Mississippi Department of Education literacy director
Kristen wells win says they created key strategies and an
early literacy policy that was very detailed to implement the
changes,
we had to go back and retrain all of our teachers. We had to
go back and retrain all of our leaders, retrain all of our IHL
professors. And so we opened up professional development
grounded in the science of reading at all stakeholder
levels. And so we offered that free to all educators from the
state level.
They also put coaching support in place to help classroom
teachers take those practices and implement them in their
classrooms.
Adam Curry: And it worked.
John C Dvorak: It worked. This is something from the 1800s This
is phonics. They implemented phonics, which is the way I
learned to read when I was a kid. Remember they all sound it
out, sound it out. What's the word? Sound it out, pH, you
know, is spelled pronounced like an F,
Adam Curry: hook down phonics. Remember that? Hook down
phonics? Yes,
John C Dvorak: phonics was all and so what they changed to some
other screwball methodology. In fact, I looked this up, and
there's a, there's a technique called Evidence Based re
reading. What is? What is evidence based reading? This is
all the weird crap that these guys, instead of the old
classics, like phonics, they've they've devolved into this
horrible methodologies that don't work, and then they wonder
why nobody can read is beyond me. Beyond me. There
Adam Curry: is a note here from the the millennial guys, the
millennial show in the troll room. Mississippian here, he
says the improvement in the numbers has to do with a change
in the assessment method, not an improvement on the scale. It's
touted to be, well, that wouldn't surprise me either.
They just changed the scale.
John C Dvorak: Well, I'd like to so in other words, nothing's
changed, is what he's saying. I
Adam Curry: find that hard to believe. I think if you go back
to the basics of phonics, that you will get a big improvement.
John C Dvorak: It seems logical as opposed to evidence based
reading. What
Adam Curry: happened to Common Core was
John C Dvorak: the Common Core guy still got in there, and is
it added all these complexities that don't work, and I have no
idea why they even began with
Adam Curry: it. Millennial media offensive says there was a small
improvement, okay, all right, despite the change. Well, that
is kind of the trick that the education has been using for
years. Is just change the scale, make it hey, my nephew, 18, he
just graduated. The whole family is like, That guy should not
have graduated. We love Joe we love Joey, by the way, but
there's no way he should have graduated. And he's in Indiana,
so we know that they just let him go. Let him go.
John C Dvorak: Well, on the topic of education, let's go to
how the British universities are all going broke.
Adam Curry: I was not aware of this.
Unknown: Nearly half of British universities are facing budget
deficits because of falling numbers of international
students. This poses risks to their future and has prompted
calls to restructure their business model. NTDs
INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT Malcolm Hudson has this report,
British universities are facing financial troubles. According to
the higher education regulator, the Office for Students, 40% of
universities are in a budget deficit. That means they're
spending more than they have coming in. James Tooley, Vice
Chancellor of the University of Buckingham, explains why. How
did
they get into this problem? They became their business model
became over reliant on international students. This is
the key thing, particularly from China, but from from many
countries
truly said. Recent visa policy changes have reduced the number
of international students coming to the UK. They used to be able
to bring their families with them, but the previous
administration toughened rules to stop this, in most cases, as
a way to lower immigration levels. And to Lee says the new
labor government doesn't look like it will change the policy
so
this, this really upset the universities. They were reliant
on the international students, because they charge
international students whatever they like for price. These are
typically fixed for homes to. Students for students from
England, and so their complete business model was thrown out of
kilter, and this is a severe problem for universities. A
report by the University of Warwick and consultancy firm
public first recommended creating a fund to provide state
backed loans to universities. This $3.2 billion fund would
help universities to restructure, to prevent
collapse. No,
Adam Curry: bring back the immigrants. There's your answer.
Bring them back. Bring back the money. They were all benefiting
from it,
John C Dvorak: yeah. Well, those days are over. They have the
same problem in the United States with these foreign
students, especially the Chinese, yeah, but the Chinese,
one of the little things that has to be understood is as the
Chinese students. And when I was a kid, there we go at Cal there
was a lot of Chinese students then, and they were all
nationals. Oh,
Adam Curry: man, and I've flown up there in the San Francisco
region, but I remember, I think I flew to camp curry. This is
years ago, from from San Francisco to camp curry
Yosemite, and you're flying around and you ends. A lot of
them are in aviation school, and you cannot understand what
they're saying. It's dangerous.
Whoa, even ATC is going like, Yeah, can you talk slower? I do
not understand what you're saying. Not trying to be racist,
but
John C Dvorak: a lot of the students, I think that graduated
from the even the British schools, Chinese in particular,
they've gone back and people their own universities to make
them very competitive. There's a lot of no reason for them to
necessarily come over here. I think at this point, well,
Adam Curry: there's probably no reason for anyone to go to
university at all. Anyway. I'm sure it's just as woke and
stupid as it is here. Well,
John C Dvorak: here we go with part two. Truly
Unknown: said he doesn't think the government will allow any of
the most prestigious universities to go out of
business, but they will encourage
mergers and acquisitions link ups so that there's a university
in town X looks as though it's suffering, then it might link up
with another university in Town Y and become the University of
x, y.
Tooley said British universities should start thinking about how
to manage their resources more effectively in the face of a
receding customer base, be it saving money in departments or
using their buildings more efficiently and attracting more
students too. And he added that universities themselves have
contingency plans,
so no foreign students if you're thinking about coming to the UK
to university, no foreign student should be deterred by
anything that I've said or anything they've heard, because
universities want you
to come. He said that if anything financially extreme
happens to a British university, students will still be taken
care of very well thanks to these contingency plans. Yeah,
Adam Curry: go ahead, taxpayers. Fantastic, beautiful. I would
like to update us on the latest going on in climate change,
because there has not really been room for climate change
news because of you know, obviously this existential
threat known as climate change is not as important as Trump and
Harris much more important, and it's local to you, California.
You probably didn't know this. New data shows that our state
had its hottest month ever, in July, ever. For environmental
information, published a report yesterday the average
temperature across our state last month was nearly 82
degrees. That was almost two degrees higher than the previous
record set back in July of 2021 the climate data for our state
goes back to 1895 researchers say the record high temps last
month here in our state further evidence of human caused climate
change. They warn we are likely to see above average temps this
month as well. All of this as we look ahead to the Olympics four
years from now, in the middle of July, cooking, cooking. It's
gonna be cooking, baby. Gonna be cooking, sure. And then, by the
John C Dvorak: way, the temperature here, seen
California, where I am, has been very 68 Yeah,
Adam Curry: yeah, 60. I know, but I look, I look it up, we've
had a beautiful summer. We haven't hit maybe two days above
100 It's been phenomenal. And then this NBC report, which was
just unbelievable, what a bunch of lies we're
Unknown: back with. Our series, climate challenge research
Adam Curry: is now the climate challenge. The climate
challenge.
Unknown: We're back with our series climate challenge
researchers along the California coast looking at Hawaii. An
alarming number of sea lions and at least two dolphins are
getting sick. Liz Kreutz has a closer look. Come on in Liz,
in California. An urgent race to save dozens of sea lions showing
up sick and disoriented on beaches along the central coast.
The
Marine Mammal Center is responding to multitude of calls
here and rescuing them.
So far, volunteers here have responded to nearly 150 sea
lions and at least two dolphins, all showing signs of poisoning
from domoic acid, a neurotoxin from algae, that gets into the
fish these animals eat, and can flare up during the summer. The
Marine Mammal Center says this outbreak has been longer and
more intense and to human health as well. Are humans at risk?
There's a risk right
now, currently, there isn't a warning for human consumption,
but sea lions are the first indicators of that toxin being
in the environment. Although
there's still much to learn about domoic acid outbreaks,
experts say a strong upwelling of cold water and our warming
climate are contributing factors.
These algae do well in warm environments, and so if we're
seeing more of that and an increase in that, then that's
definitely a factor for these events. Sea
lions, a sentinel for our Ocean's health.
Bullshit.
Adam Curry: It's called the Red Tide. They couldn't even bring
themselves to say it. It's the red tide. This happens all the
time, cyclical. Did you know this red tide? And on the
California coastline. It
John C Dvorak: wouldn't surprise me. Yeah, it's red tie. Also
have an urchin problem.
Adam Curry: I don't know about that purple urchins,
John C Dvorak: but there is a red because of climate change.
That's
Adam Curry: what bugs me. And then sad news, very, very sad
news from the Copernicus Institute. I can't believe they
even released the report. Stand by everybody. The pivot is here.
Unknown: Earth's run of record setting heat has finally ended
at 13 months. According to the European climate agency
Copernicus, temperatures in July just missed the record set last
year.
Adam Curry: What happened to hottest ever in California? Oh
no, oh no, oh no, oh no. Its switch is changed. The
Unknown: El Nino weather pattern, which normally warms
the Pacific Ocean, spurred the heat streak. Now that it's
passing, temperatures are cooling just a bit. Global
temperatures averaged 62.4 degrees Fahrenheit. What
happened
Adam Curry: to boiling earth?
John C Dvorak: You think the El Nino had something to do with
the red tide? Probably, well, they don't ever bring this up.
They never make the connections. But the
Adam Curry: global Earth temperature is 62 on average.
Where's the boiling
Unknown: full temperatures averaged 62.4 degrees Fahrenheit
in July 1.2 degrees above the 30 year average, but not enough to
break the previous record. July 22 and 23rd were the hottest
days ever recorded in Seattle. The record was set on June 28
2021 when the thermometer topped 108 degrees. Climate change has
driven severe weather events like flooding in South Africa, a
fatal landslide in Indonesia, and officials say more than 120
people died from record heat in Tokyo. Oh,
Adam Curry: please. I mean, anyone there's the recorder
again. Haven't heard that in a while. Does anyone does
John C Dvorak: is actually a cuckoo thing. It doesn't it's
only notes. It plays,
Adam Curry: oh, it's a cuckoo thing.
John C Dvorak: Doesn't play anything else.
Adam Curry: Okay? The only other clips I'd like to play, unless
you have something, is just like to update us on the AI bubble.
It is, after all, my beat. I cannot get off of it. I'm
waiting for it to all fall apart. What are you seeing in
the markets? What do you see in the markets? Nothing. Well, CBC,
the front burner podcast. Brought on this guy named Paris
marks, who, I guess, has a newsletter. There's business in
that newsletter stuff. And two clips here, he is talking about
the obvious AI bubble that people on the street, Wall
Street are starting to see. How
Unknown: prevalent is this bubble idea now? Like, how big
is this theory for people who are watching the tech world,
yeah, it's very common. You know, people like me have been
talking about it as a bubble for a long time, like me, but it's
interesting now, you know, Goldman Sachs had a report out
last month, the major investment bank, explicitly calling it a
bubble, and, you know, questioning the productivity
benefits that would come from it, and saying that, you know,
investors can make money from this, but we think it's very
inflated, and that these numbers are going to come down. Sequoia
Capital, which is one of the biggest venture capital firms in
Silicon Valley, also had a report out recently talking
about it as a bubble and saying that these tools need to
basically find $600 billion in revenue if they're going to be
profitable. The information in a major tech publication was.
Recently talking about how open AI could lose $5 billion this
year alone because it's making so little money. But what it's,
you know, what it's offering to the public is so expensive to
run. So this is becoming, like, a pretty common concern at this
point, and I think you've really seen it, you know, gain a lot
more traction over the past couple weeks, as we've seen
these, you know, challenges in the stock market after these
major drops that have somewhat recovered at this point, but
they're still concerned that, you know, these things could
drop a lot again very soon. Oh,
Adam Curry: concern, concerning the markets. And this is where I
need your feedback, because he now says, this is a playbook.
This is a playbook that Silicon Valley uses over and over again,
and takes us back to the the.com bubble of 2000
Unknown: How did we end up here? How did it get to this point?
Yeah,
that's that's a really great question. Oh,
you know,
I think it's always interesting to think back about the way that
the tech industry has structured itself for quite a long time,
right? You talked earlier about the.com bubble, and then you
know how that burst in the early 2000s and there's an author,
Malcolm Harris, who wrote this book, Palo Alto, where he
basically argues that the lesson the tech industry took from that
moment, right, that big installation of the values of
tech stocks and then their crash. Was not so much to never
do this again, but rather that it was a good model to keep
doing, you know, by hyping up a certain technology, getting the
values of certain stocks to really increase, and then
knowing when to get out at the exact precise moment before it
crashes again. And just to kind of keep doing that again and
again and again, and that is what we've seen with a lot of
technologies, right? You know, if we go back to the mid 2010s
there were a lot of promises about how self driving cars were
going to wipe out, you know, a ton of jobs in, say, trucking
and taxi driving and all this kind of stuff. And that never
really happened, right? We had this significant increase in
deliveries now, you know, Uber is still a very popular thing.
There's still a lot of people doing that work. Rather, you
know, just the conditions of their work changed because of
how the technologies were rolled out. And we've seen that time
and again, right? Crypto didn't transform the financial industry
in a really major way, and we're not, you know, living in the
metaverse now, as Mark Zuckerberg predicted,
John C Dvorak: he's full of crap. Guys, it's only full of
crap. What was the bubble with the with the self driving cars?
Where's the bubble?
Adam Curry: No, that's not what he's not what he's saying. He's
saying, what
John C Dvorak: he's saying? Yes, exactly what he's saying. As
soon as these bubbles, they come and they go and they get
exploited by
Adam Curry: Nvidia. Now, John is a guaranteed winner. Good thing.
Go for it. Closest to the pin. Go for it. Go for it. Yeah, I am
just waiting for this to happen.
John C Dvorak: I don't Well, you can wait. It's gonna happen. It
always does, but it's not gonna happen tomorrow.
Adam Curry: No, not tomorrow. It won't happen tomorrow. Final
clip for me. This was just the funniest clip that went viral.
This is Caitlin Collins from CNN. We're on the Colbert show.
Just loved it. Trump has kind
Unknown: of been thrown on his heels by this, and he's not
really sure how to go after vice president Harris. He knew his
attack lines on President Biden. He really has struggled with how
to how to go after someone who's 20 years younger than him, who
is a different gender, a different race, race. It's kind
of been this moment where he has not been able to coalesce around
a single attack line. I
know you guys are objective over there that you just report the
news as, oh, I know CNN makes that supposed to be a lab like
it wasn't supposed to be. But I guess it is
Adam Curry: the people know, the people are onto it, even
Colbert's audience.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that really surprised me. Colbert's audience
got a kick out of that line.
Adam Curry: That doesn't surprise me, nobody
John C Dvorak: analyzed and said, you know, Colbert wouldn't
have even said that if he ever watched. CNN,
Adam Curry: no, that's a good point.
Unknown: Yeah, go. Well,
John C Dvorak: he was just, you know, blathering away. Gotta
ended up with a laugh line.
Adam Curry: Yeah, I love the laugh line. Is that a laugh
line? Is that how they talk in cable news? I've got a great
laugh line. Everybody? John, you had some great laugh lines in
this show.
John C Dvorak: I have one last clip. Then, this is the walls.
Just get back to the walls of the balls. Balls guy,
Adam Curry: Harry balls,
John C Dvorak: this is a comment he makes, and I have it written
down as a kicker. So there's something funny in here. I'm
Adam Curry: looking for what it might be titled. It's not under
W for walls. Oh, it is W, l, Z,
Unknown: I'm sorry. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is economic
policies aim to direct. Help the working and middle class by
taxing businesses and the wealthy. It was
nurses, it was teachers, and it was state and local government
employees that built this station.
Minnesota has the sixth highest state tax rate in 2024 at around
6.875%
John C Dvorak: it was state workers that built this country.
That's right.
Adam Curry: Actually, I have a an additional tip of the day
that we'll talk about just that. So you will have a tip. And then
I also have a, I have a Travel Tip of the day that talks about
the workers who built this country. Yes, I was, but we'll
get to that after
Unknown: I'm gonna show my salon by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be
fabulous.
Adam Curry: And as you heard earlier, the tips of the day are
very valuable people even sending in donations thanking us
for these tips. So you might want
John C Dvorak: the irony is that my tip of the day is also travel
Adam Curry: related. Oh, that is ironic. No random number, random
number theory. We want to thank our producers with In fact, we
do thank all of them who come in $50 or above. Under $50 we don't
mention because that is the cutoff for anonymity. Many
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even multiple donations under 50 to take care of business. And as
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donations.com. John, please take us through to the 50s. We don't
John C Dvorak: have that many very short list, but let's start
with Lucas Williams in Roswell, New Mexico, another we have a
number of roswellians. We do $100 sir. Dude named Ralph in
Miami, Florida, 100 hold my beer. Sends in a Happy
Anniversary donation of 9272 Kevin McLaughlin's already there
with 808. He's the Archduke of Luna. Scott McAtee mcinty,
McEntee in Encinitas, California, 60 M Jill John T in
Omaha, Nebraska, 60 Matthew Martel, 5856 and he says he's
picking up the slack for Eli the coffee guy. Hey, this is Martel
hardware. Hardware.com use code black rifle. 10% off your order.
I
Unknown: Yeah, that's good.
John C Dvorak: I like it. Yeah. He's wants to drink, eat filet
mignon. Is sick of pork. Uh, Christopher dector, 5678 James
Moore is San Pablo California, right up here. Uh, 5623 now he
should come down to the meetup. We have a meet up on Saturday at
the mallard club in in Albany, California. Oh, it's going to
Adam Curry: be great. Well, let's hope, well, you're coming.
So that's great. I'm
John C Dvorak: going to this. I'll be at the meetup. So Be
there or be square. James Moore and San Pablo is 5623 he says
camera is not going to be good for the show because she's
boring. No,
Adam Curry: that's not true. No. Should be the way we see it.
She'll be funny.
John C Dvorak: Matt long and Carrie, North Carolina, 5342 and
then he needs a D douche.
Unknown: You've been deduced. Also
John C Dvorak: sending a nice note. Mark Hardwick in Aledo,
Texas, 5333 Cole dial in Farina, Illinois. 5325 Paul DuBois, 5272
and he's in curry. Honkson kerhunks in New York. Yep. So
economic hit man in tumble Texas. 5001 and we're already at
the 50s. There we go. Name and location, $50 donors, starting
with Stephen ng in Box Elder, South Dakota. Gary Mau in
Woodland Hills, California. Jared ya in Nashville,
Tennessee. Brandon Savoie in Port orchard, Washington. He
donates a lot. Dame Patricia Worthington does too, and she's
in Miami, Florida. Diane schwanabeck In johnsburg,
Illinois. Christian Freeman in San Marcos, Texas. Kevin dills
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sir. Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood Park, Alberta. Has been with the
show forever. Michael Thompson, new brown fells, Texas. Phillip
Baloo in Louisville, Kentucky. Easy landscapes. If you're in
North Stonington, Connecticut, check them out. And last on our
list is Wendy in Saginaw, Michigan. 50 bucks. Want to
thank these. People for making show 1686 a distinct reality,
since we're doing it.
Adam Curry: And thanks to everyone who came in under $50
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Unknown: You've got karma.
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John C Dvorak: you got the same blade, look at that thing. Look
Adam Curry: at the size that thing. Anonymous. Anonymous
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That's right. It is your companion to the show. It is
something you need to do. You have to go to a meet up,
especially if John or I are there. That's always good.
That's always groovy, man. John will be there. We're going to
mention that in a moment. And the fun thing about the meetups
is you can send in a report. Will play. It will let everybody
know how much fun you had, such as the kids at Orange Beach.
Unknown: All right, in the morning to get mo nation out
there. This is Sir spooky of the Elm streets coming to you live
from the Orange Beach, Alabama meet up. We've had a really nice
crowd here. I'm glad we can make this work. And we all just want
to say hello, hi. This
is Ann in Orange Beach.
Just The Tip John.
It makes me happy. This
is Craig in Orange Beach, and I think Phoebe is a black night
in the morning. It's sir Waldo of like of lower Alabama, and
thanks for Sir spooky for putting on the Orange Beach
meetup.
And he couldn't be here, but he wanted me to say this, Associate
Executive Producer John from bond secure says we need a
clothing optional pineapple. People meet up between mobile
and Pensacola, whatever that means
Adam Curry: in the morning, yes, whatever that means. Do not send
pictures of that one and the Fort Worth. I think it's the
Fort Worth meetup. There's a report.
Unknown: This is the Fort Worth meetup that flips patio and
grill. We have so many nights and days here. We're gonna wax
this ceiling so it shines on the top of the crash the building.
What is that?
This is Chris in Dallas, Tip of the Day.
Never pet a burning dog.
This is Brad,
Adam Curry: always pet a burning dog.
Unknown: This is for all the trusted advisors.
Never touch a hot stove. This dirty Jersey whore creeping in
on their feet up and don't touch anything.
Burn all right.
Adam Curry: Leave the humor up to professionals at least. Let's
try today, we have a couple of meetups taking place. We have
the anonymous goddess hosting the Deutsch bags in the USA at
five o'clock in Rockford, Illinois, at the Norwegian the
monsoon Dodgers summer meet up 630 at the Denver Museum of
Nature and Science Park in Denver. Today, the Charlotte
thirsty Third Thursday meet up seven o'clock tonight. Edge
Tavern in Charlotte, North Carolina, tomorrow, the put in
the sea and Cajun meet up seven o'clock at Blue Moon saloon.
Lafayette, Louisiana on Saturday. The Dallas Fort Worth
mid cities meet up 1130 in the morning. Bourbon Street Bar and
Grill bed for Texas, the shrunken amygdala support group
meets at two o'clock on Saturday at task reporium in Cincinnati,
Ohio club, 33 threat to democracy. Meet up 330 at Hill
halls Tavern and Coventry in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and on
Saturday, the get John out of the house. Meet up 4.03 33
pacific time club, Mallard, Albany, Albany, California, also
the fourth annual Central Texas float meet. That is Baron Scott
and Dame Christine. The float portion kicks off at 1030 in the
morning. That's the Texas State tubes in Martindale, east of San
Marcos. I even heard some single women are gonna go and float in
the river. Just saying, Go float in the river. Yeah, it's a float
meet. So you float in the river, and then at three o'clock after
you floated down the river, they all meet at Ivars river pub in
San Marcos. More details at no agenda meetups.com and
John C Dvorak: our next show today. Meet ups all wet, yeah.
Adam Curry: Well, that's what I'm saying. Single Girls float
in the river. You get the picture. On Sunday, the hidden
gem burger shack, edition of the meet up 330 at tays burger
shack, North Kansas City, Missouri, sir Spencer, The Wolf
of Kansas City, hosting that coming up this month in
September, northwest Arkansas, Monrovia, California,
Alexandria, Virginia, spookville, Spearfish, South
Dakota, London on the 25th keen New Hampshire, Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Alpharetta, Georgia, Sharpsburg, Maryland, Medford lakes, New
Jersey, Goleta, California, Aurora, Illinois, Garden City,
Idaho, St Augustine, Florida, Tucson, Arizona, and wind of
September now on the 21st North Charleston, South Carolina.
These are just some of the many meet ups available at the
website. Thank you, sir Daniel, for always keeping that site
running. Thank you to Mimi for organizing and reorganizing and
making sure everything is on the up and up. No agenda meetups. It
is a place where you can meet your fellow people. Connection
always gives you protection. No agenda meetups.com. If you can't
find one near you, start one yourself.
Unknown: You I would
Adam Curry: say, five minutes of you banging the drum is enough,
probably I'm done. Thank God. I
John C Dvorak: like the drummed in the background where you're
talking because it sounds like we're at a beatnik club in the
50s.
Adam Curry: Oh, that's what you're going for. Oh, well, in
that case, continue for the beatnik the beatnik club.
Beatnik club.
John C Dvorak: You just have to say, uh, certain beatnik terms
once in a while, groovy, man. Know if that's it, far out. All
right, would be good. Far out,
Adam Curry: man. Let's do some ISOs. I got two. I don't know if
they're any good. I'll play them, and you let me know if you
like them. Here's the first one, boomers in the house. That's too
muddled. He said. He said, boomers in the house. But no,
no, here's another one. I would say
Unknown: that's kooky, huh? That's not too bad
John C Dvorak: I have five.
Adam Curry: Oh, well, you're gonna win. Then obviously,
John C Dvorak: we'll start with the bet. The first one, which is
the backup, is always gonna win. This is the goodbye one.
Goodbye.
Unknown: It's too easy,
John C Dvorak: yeah, but that's the one that can always it's a
fallback, yes. Here's the kids saying, wow, wow.
Adam Curry: I kind of like that one. Okay, yeah, yeah.
John C Dvorak: Here's a girl saying, oh no, oh
Adam Curry: no. Ooh, ooh, contender, contender.
John C Dvorak: I have this one, I think is one that would be
very funny and ironic, which is, subscribe.
Unknown: Don't forget to subscribe.
Adam Curry: Smash that like button and subscribe. You can't.
Well, you can subscribe to the podcast. That's true. That's
true.
John C Dvorak: Good, that's true. Don't forget to I'm liking
it. I'm liking it. And then last is Woo. Woo.
Adam Curry: I think don't forget to subscribe. I think that's the
one. John, yeah, I
John C Dvorak: think that could be good. That's really good.
Well, with
Adam Curry: that out of the way, which means that will be the
very last thing you hear from us today. It's always the end of
show. ISO, now it is time for not one but a double Tip of the
Day.
Unknown: And sometimes Adam.
Adam Curry: Yeah, today is one of those sometimes Adam days.
This
John C Dvorak: was a producer, producer, Joe and I just a tip I
should use myself. Is a really good tip.
Adam Curry: Okay, May I May I mentioned, by the way, lots of
people love the the wire the wire line tip
John C Dvorak: was, Oh, yes, the wire line tip is the home, yeah,
working, yes. People, power line, network power line.
Adam Curry: People from all over the world were just so happy
with that tip. They really what's
John C Dvorak: funny about it is that it's an ignored technology
that is very efficient. Yes, somehow along the lines. I mean,
I remember when it first came out, it didn't work, and it was
causing all kinds of issues, and the years went by then, all of a
sudden, now it's working at two gigabits. I
Adam Curry: mean, he's crazy. It's crazy talk. Um,
John C Dvorak: okay, this guy is great. Tip, turn off fuel
efficient routes on Google Maps. Oh, you can look for a video on
it, because it's, it turns out that they'll just run you around
and fuel efficient that you don't want, that you want the
best route, not the fuel efficient route. No.
Adam Curry: So is that something you have to opt out of? Do they
automatically?
John C Dvorak: Because it's automatically turned on? Turns
out they turn it on and send you have to go to your settings and
find out you can look it up on a Google on a YouTube video.
There's plenty of them just say, how to turn off fuel efficient
route on Google Maps, wow, and turn it off. Wow,
Adam Curry: that's a good tip. That's That's right up there
with turn off the you know, on X you automatically opted into all
of your tweets being sucked into the grok. Ai.
Unknown: Grok, yeah. Did
Adam Curry: you know that? No, yeah, you might want to turn
that off in your settings. I will Elon stealing from you. Man
stealing. So here's a travel tip. We went to the Boston area
Monday for two reasons. One, we went to go see the Doobie
Brothers in concert, which was quite a good show, but Steve
Winwood opened up. Oh, that's cute. Steve Winwood, who is now
76 years old. This is the XFINITY center in was that
Foxborough? I think this 10 or 12,000 people is pretty big
amphitheater. He now, even though it was a little tough for
him to get up off the piano bench for playing the the
Hammond b3 he kicks absolute ass.
John C Dvorak: I mean, did he? Did he show up the Doobie
Brothers? Yes,
Adam Curry: we, even though he was, he was the opening act. He
does about an hour. He did Mr. Fantasy, which is a classic, uh,
classic, classic, with a third of that song is guitar solo. And
he did this, I didn't even know he played guitar, and he played
that solo. He was just, it was phenomenal. It was absolutely
stunning. And I think, I think he blew the doobies away. Now,
he blew the doobies away, man. Now, the other reason we went is
we had seen this documentary called monumental, and it's
about this, this monument in Plymouth. Plymouth, of course,
is best known for the Plymouth Rock. So everyone goes to
Plymouth, you can go see the Plymouth Rock, which, believe
me, is the biggest disappointment you've ever seen.
It's just a rock. And when you read the sign, when you read the
plaque about the rock, it's not even the rock. No, it's a phony
rock. It's a fake news rock. They got a big monument built
around it, and people look at it's like, that's a rock. People
throw pennies on it. Why you throw a penny on the rock? Well,
for good luck, this is dumb it's a dumb rock. Then we did take
the little visit on the Mayflower too, which is a
replica. It actually does sail. But what you want to see is the
National Monument to the forefathers. I had never heard
of this. They never taught me this in school, that it's, it's
about a mile away from the rock, and it is the biggest granite
structure in the United States. And it is, for all intents and
purposes, it is the true Georgia guidestone of the United States.
And. Coach, and they and the founders, the forefathers, not
the founders. The forefathers, came up with this idea. It was
completed in 1889 took them 50 years to build some war in the
Middle, or something. And it shows the elements of the United
States, morality, law, liberty and education. And when you see
this thing, you think, Why have I never learned about this mind?
I mean, it's, you know,
John C Dvorak: it's even more annoying what I'm the educated
one. And you told me you're gonna go see this thing, so I'm
looking it up too. I never heard of this thing. It's
Adam Curry: really cool. And it's, it's right in the middle
of of a residential area. There's no t shirt stand,
there's no IPO beard, no, there's nothing.
John C Dvorak: Now I'm gonna go see it. It is
Adam Curry: a travel tip that if, if you're gonna go see the
stupid rock, go do that, buy your T shirt, but then go to the
National Monument to the forefathers. It's an outstanding
educational moment.
John C Dvorak: Looks of it. It's, it
Adam Curry: is huge, and, and there's, you know, there's no
ropes. You can go up there, you can walk around, you can touch
it. There's almost, there's no one there.
John C Dvorak: There's no nobody knows about
Adam Curry: it. You gotta wonder,
John C Dvorak: what like a secret so you can keep the
public dumb down and vote for Camelot Yes,
Adam Curry: because everything about this says, Don't let
anybody know that these the four things that makes America great.
And then, just as a side note, we also went up to the like the
Lexington green, where the shot that was heard around the world
known as the birthplace of American liberty. I didn't know
about that either. Do you know about this? This is where Paul
Paul Revere, yeah, where Paul Revere rode. It
John C Dvorak: rode down the street, yeah. And
Adam Curry: then so it was 800 British soldiers against a
ragtag bunch of 30 guys and and that's when that was 1775 and
that's when we started to say, hey, you know what? British suck
it. It's
Unknown: not good news. It's good advice. John sees Tip of
the day,
Adam Curry: and sometimes Adam, that's right, sometimes,
sometimes, sometimes, oh, there you go. For the people who
didn't stay for the tip, sorry for you. I think this is a
winner. John, your tip of the day. And, you know, sometimes
mine, it's people like it.
John C Dvorak: They learned. Thank one of our producers for
coming up with the idea. Oh,
Adam Curry: yeah, there you go. That's right, yeah, that's
right. One of our producers, Brunetti, yeah, was it Brunetti?
John C Dvorak: It was Brunetti. Mega
Adam Curry: producer, Dana Brunetti, everybody that's
right. He's now retired. End of show mixes come to us from 60
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after this program ends. And I do recommend you stay tuned for
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episode 100 titled Phoebe fail, and we actually talk about our
trip. Thank I didn't realize that cotton gin, thanks for
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John C Dvorak: and from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain,
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Unknown: and Dr Jill,
he comes to search in general,
Lady lady lady.
That's the
kind of up.
That's the kind of First Lady, lady, lady, lady
who just killed Biden will be.
And then all this stuff about Dr Jill. Look, nobody in America
who's got a doctorate in education is called Doctor. It's
not done, ladies.
Time for her to keep calling herself doctor. Just point out
she's not a real doctor.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, so lady. And then he lost his train of
thought to pick it up, he said, Lady, at the end of thinking it
would happen, then he couldn't. Then they said it again and
again. It said it again three times, or four times. Lady,
lady, lady sounds like Jerry Lewis.
Unknown: There are certain professions that, yes, if you
have a doctor, you're called Doctor. For the rest of them,
you're not. That's the kind of
first lady who. Lady, lady, ladies. This Jill Biden will be
I want to ask you about a specific kind of gender
affirming care, and that is surgeries for minors,
surgeries, surgeries, surgeries, surgeries for minors. I don't
think the science is where a lot of people on the trans rights
universe say this puberty blocker stuff has real dramatic
consequences, and there's a lot of sort of social contagion
stuff involved in a lot of this. Five
Signs You might be gender fluid. At least they were for me.
25 states now have laws that bar transgender minors under 18 from
having gender affirming care such as puberty blockers or
hormones, or in rare cases, surgery, surgery, surgery for
minors,
the correct term of what I'm going to talk about is called a
total hysterectomy with a new correct Me.
You don't want to make permanent life changing surgical
alterations to people making it possible for them to have kids.
Total hysterectomy, which is correct to me,
surgeries for minors.
One can draw distinctions between life changing, permanent
surgical operation. But if a kid
wanted to have his arm cut off the state, we would
all agree the state should intervene now
that
you've had your gender affirming history. To me. What should you
expect? Well, in my practice, I perform the surgery with very
small incisions that's minimally invasive so that all of my
patients can go home the same day and again.
Look and again, look, this is preaching to the choir, but the
choir needs to sing. One person's socialism is another
person's neighborliness. Just do the damn work. Please. Please do
what you can. We're all in this. We're all undefeated. We got an
opportunity on this. And again, keep hammering on these guys.
Talk to your neighbors. This is transformational for several
generations, but we can get out there, reach out, make the case,
and for one thing, don't ever, don't ever shy away from our
progressive values. We have communities that are going to
pay the price because we don't address socialism. Damn plan.
And again, here's the great news, one person's socialism is
another person's neighborliness. Thanks,
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