John C Dvorak: Line up boys for your free vasectomies. Adam
curry. John C Dvorak, Sunday,
Adam Curry: August 18. 2024 this is your award winning. Keep our
nation media assassination. Episode 1687,
Unknown: this is no agenda. Stop
Adam Curry: texting me and start broadcasting live from the heart
of the Texas Hill Country, here in FEMA Region. Number six in
the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry
John C Dvorak: from Northern Silicon Valley, where I just got
back from a fabulous Mallard club meetup. I'm John C Dvorak.
It's
Unknown: Greg botton Buzzkill. In
the morning,
Adam Curry: I am so sick of these political text messages,
and I made a mistake weeks ago. It always says, type, stop. You
John C Dvorak: know you're mocking me for having a landline
and my cell phone in the drawer. I
Adam Curry: never mock you for that. I never mock you for that.
I think you're awesome for that,
John C Dvorak: and I don't have this issue well. So the worst
Hold on. One more thing, you know, for my texting, I use
Google Voice Yes,
Adam Curry: yeah, on the web browser, I presume Yeah,
John C Dvorak: but that's what I do. I use a web browser so well,
Adam Curry: let me just explain what's happening. Well,
John C Dvorak: I just want to mention that I never get these.
Why don't? Why don't I get this on Google?
Adam Curry: Because they know that you're a loser. They're not
interested in you. Not interested if you do that stuff.
No, they don't care. I don't care. No. So if you have a
regular, regular phone number, and somehow there's a cell phone
we're talking about, yeah, and so I get in the database. And
this, this happens every four years, but this year has been
particularly bad, and it's high. It's Donald Trump, hi, it's
Donald Trump Jr, hi. It's Ted Cruz, hi. It's Tulsi Gabbard. I
mean, and then if you, and it's always ends with type stop. And
if, and that's the big mistake, never, ever, ever, ever, type
stop, because then immediately, oh, we got a live one, boys. And
then you start getting messages from all these different phone
numbers, yep, yep. And it just never, ever. It's all
John C Dvorak: you did when you type stop, was confirm that
you're not just a dead number correct.
Adam Curry: And that was months ago, yeah. And it's just
ongoing, urgent, urgent
John C Dvorak: Democrat thing too. Well,
Adam Curry: I used to get the Democrat stuff, I guess they
determined me to be dead. But it's out of control. And it's
from. It's not like from a, you know, one of those short code
numbers, it's from. Oh, and here's a pig butcher. Hi. I'm
Anna. I'd like to discuss a potential job opportunity with
you. Would you be interested in receiving more information?
Diana,
John C Dvorak: you know pig butcher? Yeah, we talked about
pig dirt soliciting, pig butchers. John,
Adam Curry: don't pretend you don't remember what pig
butchering is. We went through this. We even got one of them on
the air. The Pig butcher is these starts with a text
message, something like Anna there, or, Hey, I have this
number, but I can't remember who this is, or want to go play
tennis. And, and then you answer pickleball, by the way, and,
yeah, and, and then they, you know, they, it's a long game.
You remember, they had like, 1000 of these people in Northern
Thailand or somewhere. They were all slaves in some encampment,
and they all had to do this
John C Dvorak: in the Philippines. But, yeah, no, no,
Adam Curry: no, it was. It was a big thing. It was, it was in, in
time should be stopped, by the way. Well, Elizabeth Warren
promised she would stop that, and she lied. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: she's and that was 10 years ago. Now,
Adam Curry: I'm sure you heard about that 2.9 billion records
hack. You heard about it, right? Yeah, so we obviously ignored
that because, like, okay, whatever. But someone actually,
sir, by His grace, he emailed me said, Are you purposely ignoring
this story? And I was like, Well, I don't like those
insinuations. I know if he meant it that way. No, that's what he
meant, but it stayed in the back of my mind. And an NBC version
of the story came by, and then, and it's like a double whammy.
It's like, oh, I think this is what it's about. And then, oh,
that's what it's about. This is an obvious PR, then I want to I
got a few short clips here to explain what's going on. Here's
the setup tonight.
Unknown: Fears a massive data breach may have impacted
billions of people across the globe, according to a new class
action lawsuit, which means so. Security numbers and other
sensitive information could now be up for sale on the dark web.
Dark Web, a company called Jericho pictures, which operates
as national public data, is a Florida based background check
company. NPD takes data from public record databases,
national and state databases and court records. It then sells
that data to a range of organizations like background
check, websites, investigators, app developers and data
resellers. So
Adam Curry: immediately I know what's going on here. This is
one of these. I would call it a microservices company that
provides these horrible websites with your address, you know, and
I've been to several that you're like, Oh, come on, man, you've
got all the same and they all get it from the same data
source, and so. And I'm like, okay, so this is it even says
you can, you can literally subscribe to it. Oh, big hack.
Okay, if you really want to do something with it, like those a
holes who text me, no doubt you just go subscribe and just say
hey, give me some information on Adam curry, or give me some
information on people in Texas. So this is not some fantastical
breach, but now we're taking it one step further. We have to
reiterate that it's everywhere. It's everywhere this day's
everywhere. And initially I thought, Oh, this is this is a
promo for other services listen.
Unknown: According to the lawsuit, in April of this year,
a hacking group called us DoD breached NPD systems and stole
private information. The suit goes on to say in a post on the
dark web on April 8, US DoD claim they stole 2.9 billion
records of personal data,
Adam Curry: and by the way, so obviously it's not going to be
all social security numbers, because there's not 2.9 billion
Americans. But what do they mean by records? Is that each line is
a record, so it's already very specious in
Unknown: records of personal data, and we're trying to sell
them for $3.5 million that's nothing that personal data
includes names, address, histories, relatives and social
security numbers. In a statement on their website, MPD
acknowledges the breach and says we cooperated with law
enforcement and governmental investigators and have
implemented additional security measures. We reached out to MPD,
but did not hear back. Since the information was posted for sale
in April, other hackers have released different copies of the
data, including a hacker known as finice, who posted the most
complete version for free in August, cyber security news site
bleeping computer. Some good news, the database does not
contain information from individuals who use opt out
services, according to the lawsuit. So
John C Dvorak: okay, so there we go. There's the gimmick. That's
what
Adam Curry: I thought and, and, you know, obviously this is of
no value. That's why, you know someone posted it for free. Oh,
okay, so all by the
John C Dvorak: way, I consider it a great compliment by you to
me for using the word specious. Oh, I heard you would never use
her entire life if it wasn't for me. I
Adam Curry: heard you chuckle.
John C Dvorak: I heard you chuckle. We're using it.
Adam Curry: I have, I have used it in normal parlance as well.
And people go, great. Word specious is a good word. And
then people go, Oh, I don't think I should argue with him.
He used a word that I barely understand. Okay, so I thought,
Yes, this is opt out services. But then it takes a twist. They
bring in influencers. This year
Unknown: has just been the year of the hackers,
but people on social media still panicking, biggest data breach
possibly in human history, as many
fear their private data is up for sale. So
Adam Curry: okay, why are they bringing in influencers who
usually get paid to talk about anything, and the payoff comes
in the final clip, as they bring in a cybersecurity expert who is
an obvious government shill because he himself was involved
in the OPM hack. Do you recall the OPM hack?
John C Dvorak: I'm sorry to say that I don't, but I if you
remind me, I'm sure I will. This
Adam Curry: was the database of government employees that got
housed, right? And it was a big problem.
John C Dvorak: It was that was a big deal. Yes, that was a big
deal. So the
Adam Curry: fact that this guy was in that data breach means
that he's a government chill and listen to what he has to sell
for on this concern. Remember, this is NBC, not some local
yokel.
Unknown: More on this concerning data breach and what it means
for you. I want to bring in cyber security expert David
Kennedy.
This is a background check checking company that basically
looks at, you know, making sure you don't have a record if you
go to a job employment. But they have access to all of these
national databases that can pull information on any US citizen.
And there's hundreds, if not 1000s, of these organizations,
you know, background check. Check facilities companies
around the country, we can pretty much assume that this is
the largest data breach we've ever seen around social security
numbers in the history. I mean, I was impacted by OPM, which was
the data breach around classified top secret folks are
contractors or folks that were in the military. I was part of
that as well. Two things that are really important to notice
that, you know, social security numbers in general are such a
legacy piece of data, we need to move to more of a digital
format. The government really needs to be pushing for more
digital ways of identifying individuals that are unique to
an individual. Social Security numbers are never designed to be
a security mechanism. I mean, they're designed like the 50s
and 40s, and I think a lot of has changed since then around
technology. So we need to do a better job around social
security numbers and how we actually protect people's
personal information. Personal Information, and
Adam Curry: that's what it's all about. There's a federal class
action lawsuit against this company, which, I don't know
what that means exactly, a federal class action lawsuit,
John C Dvorak: but What? What? Yeah, yeah. This makes no sense.
Yeah. It's
Adam Curry: they literally, I didn't have it in the clip,
literally called a federal class action lawsuit. So I guarantee
you that we are going to see someone who has been you know,
is some through some lobbying firm, no doubt, is going to be
touting that we need to upgrade this outdated, antiquated system
of using social security numbers as a way to identify yourself.
John C Dvorak: It's obvious. What do they you have? You
looked into this, whether you propose, well, they
Adam Curry: haven't pronoun. It's coming this. They're just
getting started. That's why they
John C Dvorak: it doesn't make sense. Whether you need to use a
bigger number,
Adam Curry: no, they're going to give us digital ID from the
government. And how
John C Dvorak: come that can't be stolen? Of course, it can.
Adam Curry: It's easy. The whole thing is bull crap. No, no, this
is a government move. It's a government move. It's obvious. I
mean, you hear what the guy says, Oh, this is antiquated. We
should be doing something else. Of course, they've been wanting
this. They want this. They want us all to have some kind of
newfangled government ID, just like Australia launched. They're
doing it now. This is, this is
John C Dvorak: unavoidable, Real ID in a sheep's clothing.
Adam Curry: Correct, correct. That's exactly what it is, Real
ID. But then digital. They want to be digital. And they want to
tie your vaccinations you
John C Dvorak: want to make it digital? Ai,
Adam Curry: they might, they might. So once I, once I saw
that guy come in, I'm like, oh, okay, I get it. I get it.
Everyone's running off to the to freeze their credit. Believe me,
I hear ice. Oh, I am all the ladies are going nuts on the
text groups. Oh,
John C Dvorak: there was, there's a commercial on TV that
actually exploits this, this fear. Crocker, stop my stop my
credit card. Oh, there I found, I found my card. It was in my
purse. Oh, Crocker, turned back on. Turn it back on. Have you
seen this commercial? No,
Unknown: I haven't. I haven't. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: well,
Adam Curry: the OP, I mean, the opt out service is just a
temporary thing, I mean, and that's exactly the point. Is,
all of our information is out in these databases. It's amazing
what they have on me, everything, every you know, and
the minute you buy a house, unless you and I, I should have
been smart and put it into a, you know, what is it? It's like
as a term for it, not a you can put it in escrow, not escrow,
some other term this goes where you just hold the money. No, you
can put it into some kind of entity. Yeah, probably
John C Dvorak: the thing is, these database, because I look
at these things all the time, a trust, that's right, trust,
thank you. Yeah, you can do a Trust's opinion, yes. So you
look at these things, you look at these things, and it's like
you look yourself up and these, they're these things are they
cross their cross referencing issues are really problematic.
This is why you get if you recall the people out there who
are longtime listeners, I remember Adam curry getting
pulled aside every time he came in out of the country because of
a guy in I guess it was North Dakota or
Adam Curry: Oklahoma, and he was also a pilot. And this was 2006
I think so it wasn't that long. After 911 I lit, I remember the
one time because it happened five, six times in a row, and I
recorded it once. Yeah, and, well, the time I remember most
is when, because, of course, this was me video days pod show.
So I flew virgin upper class, which was great. I mean, Richard
Branson man, he gave me bathrobes for Christmas. Those
days are over, long gone. And then I remember when media, when
I left me, whatever it was, like, all of a sudden, the
number I had to call for reservations wouldn't answer
anymore, like I was off the list very quickly. You don't have the
miles, you're no good. You. But one time I was so I'm sitting in
the front, and they say, Oh, Mr. Curry, could you come to the
front when we landed at San Francisco? And I went to the
front, and there's two agents, like, Oh, hey, and they
recognize me. And I thought, I literally thought they were
giving me some special service. Like, hey, you know, come with
us. And I'm walking like, Hey, this is really cool guys. And
you could see they were uncomfortable and embarrassed.
And it turns out I was going into, you know, special
screening, and they opened up my suitcases and like, what is
going on? And then the one time I said, Why can't I get into the
country? Well, you know, there's all kinds of issues. And I wave
my passport, does this not give me permission to come into my
own country. And then they, they held me for another two hours,
or you're one of those guys, well after the fourth time. And
then we complained about it endlessly on the show. And
John C Dvorak: yes, we did. We complained endlessly on the
show. I think somebody finally heard it, yeah? And
Adam Curry: they ended it. They ended, they ended the terror.
Yeah. It was a
John C Dvorak: Yeah. It was ridiculous. Actually, it was
Yeah. But if you look at your own databases, and sometimes
some people have gotten somehow you can manage to, most of these
guys will, will kind of cloak your stuff, your information, if
you, if you tell them to, they they have to, I think they do.
So they will. They'll take a lot of this information offline, but
there's too many. There's all these different companies doing
this. Yeah, and you start looking at it, you start
discovering that, well, that's interesting. I own property in
Covina, and, oh, well, that's That's funny. I seem to be have
money do me in Covina or whatever. I mean, there's just a
there's a lot of this is the problem with these databases,
and there's a problem with dossiers. Yes, they get you
this. Like the time I got a call from the IRS once, I think I've
told the story on the show, well, tell it again. I don't
remember if we, guy comes up and calls me, and there's not
supposed to do this, by the way, but they do it. And no matter
what they say, they do it, because it's been done. And so
the guy from the IRS calls me, says, we're waiting, we're
waiting for your payment. You always says this amount of
money, we don't understand why you haven't gotten back a hold
of us. And he's reading me the riot act. And I said, I don't
know what you're talking about. And you're going, well, you job
all. I said, Wait a minute. What's my social security
number? Ah, good one. And he said, and he gives me a number,
yeah, not
Adam Curry: your number.
John C Dvorak: I said, That's not my number. Where do I where
am I supposed to be living? He says, You're you're in Kansas
City. I said, I'm in all I'm in Albany, California right now. He
says, oh, and because I know there's a writer, this is funny.
There's a writer named John Dvorak that wrote for the Kansas
City Star in Kansas City, obviously, the IRS taxes, by the
way, this should not be public information, but I guess it is
now that I mentioned it. And so I said, No, no, no, I'm the you
went to John Dvorak. That's a writer for The Kansas City Star,
not me. You got the wrong guy. And the guy went into a massive
apology. Well,
Adam Curry: you know, John, if we just had government ID, none
of this would happen anymore. You'd be safe. You'd be safe.
Yeah.
John C Dvorak: Well, I have, we have, actually, for this show,
and personally, we have other numbers that we use for the IRS.
Yeah, we're running numbers. We don't use our social security
numbers anymore because of we actually had an issue. Mimi had
a problem with somebody filing associate a tax return with our
numbers and then getting a bunch of money. Now we have to
literally hand associate our tax filing. You don't have to do
this. No, no person where Mimi has to go into Silverdale and
she drops it off and, oh, hey,
Adam Curry: it's been a year,
John C Dvorak: and it's like, it's, this is the problem that
everyone because of this nonsense. Yeah,
Adam Curry: if only we had some kind of digital
John C Dvorak: anything. And you know it, and I know it, you have
to have a secret number that nobody knows, but it
Adam Curry: will give them so much more to connect to it. You
see, that's the point that and, and I'm sure it's Palantir or
some other company, it's going to surface. Just keep everybody,
keep your eyes open. There's going to be some company and
some Congress critter is going to say, Hey, I propose a bill,
and it will be, and it probably going to be Elizabeth Warren,
that'll be Senator, but that
John C Dvorak: would be ironic. No, not at all. She can't do
anything. What happened to Rachel? I mean, okay, Rachel's
gone. I guess she got rid of her. No, listen,
Adam Curry: Warren will say, I've been on this for 10 years.
No one has done anything about it. I have the final solution
now. It'll be Bose on one of her other benefactors, some tech
company is going to That's funny. It was Bose last time
with the hearing aids.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, Bose. Well, do you know the problem with
Bose? I will say, Oh, here we
Adam Curry: go. Here we go. Bose.
John C Dvorak: Bose is litigious. Oh, are they know,
yeah, they're very and so there's something when you're a
writer in working in especially trade magazines,
Adam Curry: bad Bo's, rocks, okay, gone.
John C Dvorak: You would be you, you there was a company. There's
a computer company. I can't remember the name of them, but
everybody knew that you would never they would just never get
mentioned. What happens? You just stop mentioning him as a
player. Uh, they're just they are blackballed, blacklisted
Bose. And you blacklist companies if you're a writer
writing about a product, oh, you blacklist price, and Bose is one
of them, because Bose sued is very well known. And once this
happened to Bose is blacklisted for being discussed. They sued
Consumer Reports. Of all people, really, this was years and years
ago. Wow. Bose had these, this weird speaker system. Is that
the 902 or something, somebody in the chat room might remember
it. It was
Adam Curry: 901 I'm looking at it. There's an actual wiki page
about it, the Bose one the review expressed skepticism of
the system's quality and recommended that consumers delay
purchase until they had investigated for themselves
whether the loudspeaker systems unusual attributes would suit
them.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, they were a I had given, been given a demo
of that I thought they sounded good, personally, and but they
did have a they had a kind of they didn't have a sound stage
that was easily defined for people who are audio files. You
know what I'm talking about, where, you know where the
saxophone is right there. You know exactly where it is that
stuff would be floating around a little bit. And so Bo sued him.
And once they did that, they got blacklisted by everybody who
heard about this, I'll bet. And by blacklisting, I mean, you
just wouldn't write about them. I'm not going to even compare.
And the funny thing was, they did make some tremendously good
speakers, not those, necessarily, but other speakers
that were quite good, but that Nope, they wouldn't get
Adam Curry: no I will say their noise canceling aviation
headsets are pretty much standard now. That they are by
far the best
John C Dvorak: that could be. Everybody sure they're, they're,
they're probably regretful that whoever the attorney was that,
because Consumer Reports is nuts.
Adam Curry: That's dumb. That's very dumb, especially
John C Dvorak: over something that you just read, which is
just minor. It's a minor complaint, yeah, basically it
was, yeah, check this out before you buy it.
Adam Curry: Oh God. And I remember back in the day when we
had our stereo towers, yeah, remember those stereo towers?
John C Dvorak: I still have a pair. Oh, my,
Adam Curry: oh my individual rack elements, Bose. You know,
if you had Bose speakers, it was, I mean, it wasn't quite B
and O, but, oh, you got Bose speakers. Oh, it's got to be
good. I wonder. I wonder if they really lost a lot of market
share.
John C Dvorak: I think they did. They just it was a bad idea.
Don't people out there in manufacturing or doing product,
do not be very careful about suing reviewers, especially, you
will never be reviewed again, ever. Consumer Reports, which is
Consumer Reports, of all of them, they, you know, Consumer
Reports doesn't. They're not. They don't, you know, they don't
review everything. So there's a lot of comparison reviews that
they could do. But when they're as honest as they can be. I'm
Adam Curry: going to move to another scam, another government
scam. They keep ramping it up, and it's just funny to listen to
Doctor
Unknown: John. I did want to ask about a breaking development
we're following. The World Health Organization has declared
the current M pox outbreak in Africa a global health
emergency. Sweden had the first reported case of the strain
outside of Africa. And pox outbreak
Adam Curry: an MPEG, she said, an MPEG outbreak. We didn't MPEG
outbreak.
John C Dvorak: We added an impact. Took place about 20
years ago.
Unknown: God, we had an impact pox outbreak here in the US, not
long ago. So
how concerned should we be about this resurgence, and at
this point, it's going to be rare outside of that area there,
although today, we were just notified that Sweden has their
first case of M pox, and it's this clay one variant they're
talking about, it tends to be more contagious and more
dangerous is from somebody who had gone to Africa, gotten it
and brought it back to Sweden so it could spread globally. We saw
that in 2022 we just need to be aware of that, and that means
doing the things that you need to stay safe, and that's
basically not touching anybody that has M box because it's a
contact related infection. And if you need to get vaccinated,
because your high risk factors get vaccinated. And
Adam Curry: just a reminder to everybody, when we have this in
2022 It was only men who have sex with men. It wasn't gay men.
It was men who have sex with men. That was it was baffling.
And men who have sex with men stood in line for hours to get
their M pox vaccine. Remind us again what this is. Doctor John.
People hear
Unknown: this and they go, Oh, covid. Can you just remind us
what M pox is, what
it entails, and pox is a virus is very closely related to
smallpox and the chickenpox, and so it's very contagious, and
unfortunately, this case, it can be deadly as well. Symptoms
right there, the biggest ones are the rash they get, which
looks like a chickenpox rash, and those swollen lymph nodes.
When they get to that stage, that's when they're infectious
as a contact infection. So if you touch them or touch
something they touched and maybe had gotten the virus on. You can
get it as well that way.
Adam Curry: So it's interesting, because this doesn't really have
the hallmarks. And what was great about covid is you
couldn't see if someone had it.
John C Dvorak: That was the best Yeah, asymptomatic transmission.
Asymptomatic transmission, which is bull crap, but that's what it
was, yeah.
Adam Curry: So, so it's nowhere near it, but I can see where a
lot of people the mask wears in the cars, they'll be, oh, monkey
pox, don't touch me. Stay away.
John C Dvorak: Monkeypox, you go to the voting machine and you do
touch the voting machine, you'll pass it on. You don't want that.
You want to mail in voting. Mail in voting. Yeah,
Adam Curry: here's a professor in London.
Unknown: It is inevitable that this strain of this new strain
of M parks,
Adam Curry: it's a new strain of impact. It's a Claude one that
started off in, sorry, the clade one. It's not Claude, but clade
balls
Unknown: and parks that started off in 2024, from the Democratic
Republic of Congo from the
Adam Curry: Democratic Party. I thought she was going to say,
wouldn't that have been funny? That's exactly right.
Unknown: In 2024 from the Democratic Republic of Congo.
But it's now spread to at least nine neighboring countries. Will
come to the UK because of international time. That doesn't
mean it will spread widely within the
Adam Curry: Why tell us? Well, just listen, it's almost done,
because
Unknown: in the UK, we have the ability to diagnose and do
contact tracing and also to provide vaccination to people
who've been exposed.
Adam Curry: Okay, so we're hearing the same things that we
like with our pandemics, contact tracing, testing, by the way,
the test for mpox is PCR, so everybody has it, the
Unknown: declaration of a public health emergency of
international concern is helpful because it allows the vaccine to
be emergency licensed in those countries. Oh,
Adam Curry: it's helpful if you have one of those W who major
concern classifications, because then you can do vaccines under
emergency use authorization, no testing of the vaccine needed.
Unknown: And there has been some promises of donations from
stockpiles, both in Europe and the US,
John C Dvorak: donations of mpox. Now vaccines
Adam Curry: now on German television, German television.
Dr Wolfgang vorda came out. EB said, and it's available in
German. Obviously. He said, This is nonsense. This is I'll
translate on the fly. This is so absurd, even that doctors would
parrot this information and let themselves be fooled, because
when there are local boils on the body with these monkey pox,
they come with strong pain. Well, my God, isn't that typical
of shingles as well diagnosing they should at least ask
themselves, what is this monkey pox? Just because of this test,
this PCR test, which they are marketing, the monkey, the mpox
test marketing for a lot of money. This is just another one
of these scams they're pushing. He says. He says, wait for it.
He says, this is shingles as a result of immune immune system
issues from people who have been vaccinated with the mRNA
vaccine.
John C Dvorak: Well, I do have one more anecdote. So a friend
of mine and his wife, famous guy and his wife live up the hill.
Both went and got the shingles.
Adam Curry: Her name's Jack, and Jill
John C Dvorak: went up the hill. She both got the shingles
vaccine. And she, within days, got shingles course. And so I
was over visiting, and then she shows she showed it. She got
this huge rash, I have painful rash on her arm, and it's like
it looks like hell. And I said, you just what? Yeah, we just got
the vaccine. We just got vaccinated because the doctor
chose we should get shingle, which I've been told to oh, you
should get shingles vaccine. No, oh, yeah. They're telling
everybody to do that. Yeah, yeah, because it's a money
maker. Somebody. This is vague. There's somebody's getting bit.
There's kickbacks involved here. This has gone out of control.
This should be illegal for vaccine companies or
pharmaceutical companies to kick back anything to doctors ever.
Should be. It should be a felony.
Adam Curry: But if you look at some of the pictures online,
they show now, remember, autoimmune blistering disease
was on the Pfizer list of adverse events of special
interest for their mRNA vaccine. No, that was in the Pfizer
documents. Remember the ones they wanted to lock down for 72
years? 75
John C Dvorak: Yes, 70 years. No, there's no reason anyone
should look at this.
Adam Curry: So it's very possible. And you know, now
we're a couple of years into it, and I mean, we're seeing all
kinds of amazing things, like prostate cancer, particularly in
younger people. More young people have the cancer than
older people now. And I'm not trying to scare anybody, but for
sure, don't get suckered into some mpox vaccine. And shingle
sucks, but it's, it's survivable, you know, I don't
know. I, you know, they have very small numbers of of kids in
Africa who have died. And you know, none of them look at that
healthy. They don't look very healthy to start with. But I, I
certainly would believe, just like they can't figure out. We
can't figure out these cancers. We have looked at everything
except
John C Dvorak: we can't figure out this. All of a sudden,
there's athletes dying on the field. We can't, well, that's
always been going on, yeah, yeah. We
Adam Curry: can't figure it being reported more, yeah. We
can't figure it out. And now this, and to me, it looks like
shingles. I've seen shingles, and shingle shows up in
different ways, but it's all these very painful blisters, and
the last thing you want to do is scratch it. You know, it just
gets
John C Dvorak: worse. Because what makes it makes my butt hurt
thinking about it,
Adam Curry: you know, there's your opening right there. Makes
my butt hurt thinking about that's not gonna be acceptable.
I'm still isoing it for prosperity. Yeah,
Unknown: prosperity,
Adam Curry: I glad you caught that, but I would hate to think
that they are lying to us about this being a side effect, which
was listed in the documentation.
John C Dvorak: That's an interesting I forgot about, that
could be listed in the in the documentation. Yeah,
Adam Curry: all right, I'll just get us started with some very
obvious media simple, simple media deconstruction, very, very
simple. And why is it simple? Well, it's simple because the
media lies, and is certainly in the United States, but I think
in general, most media comes from a Marxist propagandistic
background, even Fox News. Let's listen. Let's not kid ourselves
about it. And I'm sure we'll, we'll get into the the economic
report, economic suggestions, economic ideas from Democrat
apparent nominee, Kamala Harris. Or is it Kamala and she rolls
out an interesting extra tax credit. Under
Unknown: my plan, more than 100 million Americans will get a tax
cut, the Earned Income Tax Credit and the Child Tax Credit.
How?
Through which millions of Americans with children got to
keep more of their hard earned income. We know it works, so as
President, I'll not only restore that tax cut, but expand it. We
will provide $6,000 in tax relief to families during the
first year of a child's life, that is a vital, vital year of
critical development of a child, and the cost can really add up,
especially for young parents. We will do this while reducing the
deficit.
Adam Curry: So yeah, there is already a child tax credits. I
believe it's $3,500 for the first year, $2,500 subsequent
years. This is, of course, exactly what JD Vance proposed.
He proposed $5,000 for the first year. And if you recall what
they said right away is he wants to punish people who don't want
to have children. And it was it was Molly Jung fast and in
Louisiana, the Daily Advertiser reports that the United States
birth rate is down as fewer adults want to have kids. I
should have clipped this close for Hold on a second. Some older
adults say they don't have kids due to medical reasons or
because they have. Found the right partner and Molly is the
stats are there more and more Americans choosing not to have
kids, which
Unknown: again emphasizes why JD Vance's comments about childless
Americans, childless cat ladies could be so politically
damaging. Well. So
what's interesting is this, is this natalism That comes from an
authoritarian playbook, right? That there, there need to be
more white children,
Adam Curry: right? So, so when JD Vance proposes it, it's more
white children. Yeah, it's natalism, natalism. So there's
your phony baloney. Media.
John C Dvorak: It's unbelievable. Well, if
Adam Curry: we hadn't been doing this for almost 17 years, maybe,
but for us, it's like, oh, that's believable. Oh, there it
is. Actually have, let's just stick on this Harris economic
plan for a moment. I have a couple clips
Unknown: tonight. Vice President Kamala Harris in her first major
policy speech casting herself as a champion of the middle class.
Building up
the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency.
The
Adam Curry: NASDAQ, the nasality. Is that a word,
John C Dvorak: very hard. It's just adenoidal. Yes, of
Unknown: my presidency. Harris
acknowledging that even as inflation slows, middle class
families are still feeling the pinch. The vice president, she's
been there pinch,
Adam Curry: a pinch, the pinch. No, it's a slap. Later
Unknown: in college, I worked at McDonald's to earn spending
money. Uh huh, well, some of the people I worked with were
raising families on that paycheck. I
Adam Curry: would love to meet some of these people that you
work with at McDonald's during your college. Was that in
Ottawa? Was that in Canada? Where did she go to college? No,
no, that's right. Now she went. She was capital okay now, she
went to college at the historically backed black
university. They
Unknown: worked second or even third jobs to pay rent and buy
food. That only gets harder when the cost of living goes up.
HARRIS
zeroing in on pocketbook issues, proposing a ban on corporate
price gouging on food and groceries.
Adam Curry: What a what a beautiful gift to the
Republicans. I mean, it's as if, if I didn't know any better, and
maybe I do, this is planned like, let's just bring in price
controls. Every political historian in America knows that
it works. Every historian
John C Dvorak: of world power knows that it works. You said,
knows that it works, that
Adam Curry: it doesn't work. I'm sorry, knows it doesn't work.
Every world historian knows that this is the definition of
socialist price fixing, and it's it usually results in food lines
and less choice if any food are on the show, because you're not
John C Dvorak: going to make a product that that loses money by
government edict. So you stop making the product,
Adam Curry: making this, and stop putting it on shelves, up
to $25,000
Unknown: in down payment support for first time homeowners, a tax
credit of up to $6,000 for families with the newborn, and
capping the cost of insulin at $35 in out of pocket expenses
for prescription drugs at 2000
Adam Curry: it was really interesting to see the
Washington thing. The Washington Post opinion Harris's economic
plan is full of gimmicks that don't make sense. Like, whoa,
did Obama put in a call or something? And, and you look at
it, and it's like, you know, they're kind of like, oh well,
you know, yeah, the president opted for blaming big business,
and she vowed to go after price gouging. But it was so
interesting that the Washington Post is even crazier than
Kamala. They said here from this opinion piece, which I don't
think I saw anyone pick up on. She offers clever tax incentives
to help make it happen, but her proposed $25,000 in down payment
assistance for first time homebuyers stimulates the demand
side, which risks putting upward pressure on prices. I think
that's correct. That's
John C Dvorak: the first thing I thought when they when she
suggested 25,000 that well, there goes a yes, real estate is
going up.
Adam Curry: That's that's just like when, when Tesla got the
seven and a half $1,000 incentive, everyone just put
seven and a half $1,000 on top of the Tesla price. That's
exactly what happens. Yes, what you do. But then they go on such
a measure might make sense of Miss Harris paid for it, but Ms
interesting, isn't she married to Doug? Ms Harris paid for by
eliminating other demand side housing subsidies, such as
mortgage interest deduction. Are they insane? At the Washington
Post?
John C Dvorak: Read that again. I don't know what they said.
Such
Adam Curry: a measure the $25,000 down payment might make
sense if Ms Harris paid for by eliminating other demand side
housing subsidies such as the mortgage interest deduction. Oh,
my God, you're right, roughly $30 billion annual drain on
federal revenue that benefits.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, go for that and see how that gets your
votes, of
Adam Curry: course. So I don't understand. What the Washington
Post is thinking here?
John C Dvorak: Well, there that that is a communist statement,
correct? It's
Adam Curry: the one thing that actually makes, uh, buying a
home kind of affordable, even though Trump capped it at, what
is it, 10,000
John C Dvorak: Yeah, he kept it at 10, which was every Well, as
you know, on our show, we had the our our famous accountant,
to the to the rich and famous,
Adam Curry: yes, the anonymous gay accountant, yeah, he, uh,
John C Dvorak: pointed out that. And I'll remind everyone that
when they're always these, these rich guys are all hearing about
what the Democrats were saying, which, oh, there's a tax cuts
for the rich. And then when they got their tax bill, which went
way up, yeah, if you many of them million
Adam Curry: dollar, you know, $5 million mortgage,
John C Dvorak: because they have these, these, because they
capped the mortgage at $10,000 the write off at $10,000 and it
hurt, it hurt the rich. The rich weren't benefiting from the
Trump tax cuts at all because of this one little trick that he
pulled where so the whole idea that the rich are benefiting
from Trump's tax cuts is a blatant lie. Oh, I was
Adam Curry: going to say specious.
John C Dvorak: No, no, the difference being specious and a
blatant lie.
Adam Curry: What they really what somebody really should go
after, but they're all too afraid, is insurance companies
Hone owner insurance, I think ours went up 35% and that's,
that hurts. That's
John C Dvorak: a gouge.
Adam Curry: It's Oh, it's because of climate change. John,
they literally say, oh, no, I'm sorry. It's because of climate
change. And if you want to switch to another, cheaper
insurance, you'll never get insured after that again.
John C Dvorak: Yes, as and now you have another story. It's I
told this. I have told this story probably twice on the show
when I was taking driver's education so I can get out of a
ticket. You know
Adam Curry: the three hour class,
John C Dvorak: the three hour class. So I took this class in
Chinatown, Oakland, because it was the cheapest. And this guy
was given to see who had never talked about driver safe. He
was, he was lecturing us about the sleazeball insurance
companies. Yeah, and he's mentioned the fact that there's
a database that all insurance companies use. And if you start
swapping from one company to the next to the next, after you do
it like you just share done, you do it once, okay, you can do it
once. You do it again, you'll never get insurance. And he went
on and showed the evidence of anyone on. We went to lunch. I
came back, the guy was under arrest.
Adam Curry: Wow, I don't remember that story. He
John C Dvorak: was under arrest. Rest, that's great. And they
close the class and send us our money back. Wow, I never found
out what they arrested him for,
Adam Curry: probably hitting up on some cheekies.
John C Dvorak: He wasn't hitting up on anybody. The whole thing
was very suspicious. Here's the
Adam Curry: second part of this ABC report
Unknown: tonight. Many questions remain about how Harris would
get her plan through Congress and how it would be paid for.
But in North Carolina, the Vice President focused on drawing a
contrast with Donald Trump. He
plans to give billionaires massive tax cuts year after
year. You know, I think that if you want to know who someone
cares about, look who they fight for.
And she attacked Trump's proposal for tariffs on all
imports.
It will mean higher prices on just about every one of your
daily needs, a Trump tax on gas, a Trump tax on food, a Trump tax
on clothing, a Trump tax on over the counter, medication.
Tonight,
the Trump campaign firing back bashing Harris's economic plan
as extremely damaging and a massive expansion of government
control.
John C Dvorak: Just stop for a second again. I don't I didn't
notice it because I don't have a lot of Harris clips, but her
adenoidal that, which is kind of a California accent, I think
somebody describing was as a Berkeley accent, that
Adam Curry: she's not humming, she's not humming, she's not
humming. No, she's
John C Dvorak: not a Berkeley Hummer. That's different than
this accent she has. This is more typical. It is a nasally
deviated knowing and when you because when you watch her on
TV, it's not as noticeable as when you're playing these clips.
When you're playing these clips that ought just pure audio. It's
unacceptable.
Adam Curry: Yes, unacceptable.
John C Dvorak: So I think you'll see how anyone can listen to her
voice and vote for well, just that alone, just as
Adam Curry: a political consultant from the courage of
our consulting group, I would say the entire idea here is not
about truth, but about connecting tax to Trump
alliteration, tax, Trump tax, a Trump tax, a Trump tax. And of
course, it's ridiculous to say that it's going to be a Trump
tax on gas, because that's the one thing we know that will
definitely go. Down. So this is so bad that now people are
calling her kamu law, as in communists, which is very funny.
So this may be, is probably going to be Trump's new term.
We're going to miss out on the cackling combo, I'm afraid. But
it was so bad that CNN did the, I mean, just an outrageous
comparison on the economy between Trump and Harris. Listen
closely and
Unknown: what does the poll tell you about the different ways
that Harris and Trump are talking about the economy,
which, of course, is the issue Americans say they care about
the most.
Adam Curry: Okay, so it is a comparison between Trump and
Harris on the economy. That's what Americans care about most.
Come on in polling, kid, yeah,
Unknown: economy, economy, economy. So this is rather
interesting. All right. So this is the Harris versus Trump
margin in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina. Look at
this. Donald Trump holds an advantage in who voters trust
more on the economy. Look at that. He leads Harris by 12
points. But interestingly enough, this is a question that
I really don't think pollsters asked nearly enough. Which is,
who cares about people more? Like you look at this, Harris
holds a five point advantage on that. You go back to 2012 Mitt
Romney won on the economy.
Adam Curry: Do you see what they did? So they have two boxes. One
has Trump's head, plus five plus 12 for Trump on the economy and
play and Kamala leads Trump by five points on what people
people think that she'll care more about people like me, which
has nothing to do with the economy. It was, it's I've never
seen any witch or rude. I've never seen anything more
dystopian 1980 fours than this. But
Unknown: interestingly enough, this is a question that I really
don't think pollsters ask nearly enough, which is, who cares
about people more like you? Look at this, Harris holds a five
point advantage on that. You go back to 2012 Mitt Romney won on
the economy, but Barack Obama won that election because he won
on this question. Cares about people like you. And Harris
right now is leading on this, less of a lead than Trump has on
the economy. But right now, I think voters are balancing these
two thoughts in their head, and that's why we have such a close
race across the Sunbelt battleground so
Adam Curry: cares about people like you. That must mean black
people or people of so called color. What else could it mean?
Does it mean people who were attorney generals, people who
slept with Willie Brown, people who you know were Senators. What
does it mean? Women, no people who care about people like me.
It's racist, is what it is.
John C Dvorak: It's totally racist. Yeah, uh huh, you're
seeing, you know, I don't you know, CNN is lost. It's a lost
cause.
Adam Curry: They're all lost, John and be happy they're still
here. It's the only reason we still have a gig. So then final,
I think this is final for me. This 2019 clip popped up, and I
just wanted to deconstruct it a little bit, because there is
something interesting that no one really went bothered to go
into.
Unknown: I will snatch their patent, so that we will take
over. And yes, we
can do that. Yes, yes,
we can do that.
Yes, we can do that. It's the question is, do you have the
will to do it? I have the will to do it.
Adam Curry: So here she is talking about, this
John C Dvorak: is a great clip, by the way, and you have to,
kind of, I had to listen to it two or three times to hear it.
Yeah. So she's, she says, snatch your patent. Yes, they
Adam Curry: will snatch their patent. And of course, the the
comments on X are, you know how patent law works, baby. Well,
December 7 of 2023 the Biden administration announced a new
policy called march in rights. It has not been used yet march
in rights that will allow it to seize patents for medicines
developed with government funding if it believes their
prices are too high. The policy sets a roadmap for government,
so called march in rights which have never been used before.
They would allow government to grant additional licenses to
third parties for products developed using federal funds if
the original patent holder does not make them available to the
public on reasonable terms. Talk about a bunch of commies. Well,
John C Dvorak: this is actually not an a completely
unprecedented situation. Oh, dude, it's been written about,
talked about before the CIA and the intelligence state has been
snatching patents for years, really, yes, they do it because
it's national security. If you, if you come up with, like, a new
weapon that is a, that's just some sort of crazy thing, and
you, you try to patent it, you'll, you'll have the patent
pulled. They'll hold it aside. You won't even get paid. Wow. I
did not know about that. This has been going on for some time,
and every once in a while it gets written up. That seems
unconstitutional to me. It's totally unconstitutional, but
it's never been it's never been challenged. I don't know been
doing it. They've been doing it. Yes, there's a bunch of these,
these missing things that would be in in the they don't even
allow the patent to be published because of the national security
aspect to it. This is interesting. Just yeah, it's
been going on for some time. I've read about this for
probably these 10 years. So all of this, every once a while,
some guy will come out, some guy with the best you know, the
government screwed me out of my patent and blah, blah, blah, and
they bitch and moan about it, and then nothing comes of it.
Adam Curry: Well, this, of course, leads to much fodder for
Trump. Kamala went
Unknown: full communist. You heard that she went full
communist. She wants to destroy our country after causing
catastrophic inflation, comrade Kamala announced comrade
Institute, socialist price controls, you saw that never
worked before, never ever worked,
Adam Curry: didn't we? I thought we tested that in polling at the
at the consulting group, comrade comrade Kamala. I mean, it
didn't work, but now it works. She,
John C Dvorak: I don't think we did.
Adam Curry: John, this is what consultants do we lie about what
we did? Are you kidding? Oh,
John C Dvorak: yeah, yeah, we did. This
Unknown: is the Maduro plan, Venezuela. Maduro plan of like
the old Soviet Union. This is they tried it. How did the
Soviet Union work out? It became Russia, smaller versions. It was
a smaller version. It will cause rationing, hunger and
skyrocketing prices, just like their inflation Reduction Act
calls one of the great scams of all time. They got it approved
with a beautiful name, inflation reduction, because inflation
under their system has been so bad, it's gone up much more than
50% you know they say 3040, 50, much more people are being
devastated. They're being devastated.
Adam Curry: So he's got that going form, and then this day
one, day one. I mean, it's also obvious,
Unknown: yesterday, Kamala laid out her so called economic plan.
She says she's going to lower the cost of food and housing
starting on day one. But day one for Kamala was three and a half
years ago. So why didn't she do it then? So this is day 1305
we're at 1305 so why isn't she doing it now? I
Adam Curry: mean, it's almost like they called each other and
said, Hey, listen, get me out of this thing. I'm sick and tired
of it. I'm gonna do some communist crap, and then you
call me out on it. We're good to go. It'll work, Don it'll work.
It's fine. And and he still hasn't figured out our pet,
Mame, I mean, this test is
John C Dvorak: gonna happen. Now it's too late.
Unknown: This woman is nuts. Look, people say, be nice. Have
you heard her laugh? That is the laugh of a crazy person. That is
the laugh of a crazy, laugh of a lunatic. Have you heard you
know, they prohibited her. They prohibited her for laughing.
I've been waiting for her to laugh because as soon as she
laughs, the election's over.
Adam Curry: I think now, listen to what he's doing. He's putting
it in her head, if you laugh like that, which she can't help.
John C Dvorak: No, it's because and I, yeah, I've got second
thoughts about your earlier PBA, or whatever it was called, yeah.
PB, diagnosis. PBA, yes, I ever since you brought that back into
the conversation, I'm wondering. And of course, we have a, you
have a clip coming up that'll go ahead, go ahead. Yeah, do
whatever you need. Well, the clip I wanted to bring is the is
the Jordan Peterson clip that he was on kill me show over the
weekend, and he brought in this idea of, I didn't even know
about these things, Cluster B. Oh, we
Adam Curry: talked about Cluster B.
John C Dvorak: I don't remember talking about Cluster B
Adam Curry: the right let me just tell you why I know about
Cluster B is because of the disaffected podcast by Josh
Slocum. And Josh Slocum, this a great podcast. And he talks, and
he's, he's gay guy who is completely gone, against the
whole he was a Democrat. He's gone. I think he lives in
Washington, Washington, and he, he specifically talks about
clush to be and it's a medical term. And I didn't know about it
until I started listening to his pod. It's a great podcast, by
the way. Good podcast to listen to is, I have not heard this
Peterson bit.
John C Dvorak: Well, this play, this is about Kamala and and I
didn't know about, I knew about the. The variety of syndromes
within Cluster B, because they they're discussed on a
borderline, borderline personal borderline personality disorder
is one of them, and there's others, and
Adam Curry: which is serious, by the way, not making fun of that.
It's serious, it's
John C Dvorak: serious, but it's not a mental illness, that's the
thing, yeah, but
Adam Curry: you can't you either you decide to live with someone
who has border it was a borderliner, or you have to
leave them see my second marriage. The
John C Dvorak: we have a link in the show notes to a discussion
of Cluster B. It's a YouTube video. You can check it out.
It's very interesting. But here is Jordan Peterson discussing or
bringing it up on kill me's weekend show, and it was I just
caught my attention with
Unknown: a huge week ahead, the Democratic National Convention
is about to kick off and polls showing, but the Democratic
Republican nominee in a virtual dead heat in all the
battleground states, the Democratic party seems to be
coming to their senses, if we're to believe what they Say, almost
echoing what Republicans have been saying for years. We need a
stronger border. We need to tackle inflation. We need to
essentially abandon the woke initiatives, the green
initiatives, and have the Dems really come seen the light? Are
they really come to the senses, or they pretending to to get
elected, because they know, right? They know their ideas are
so unpopular. Let's ask one of the smartest people you'll ever
talk to or listen to, clinical psychologist and author of the
host of the Jordan Peterson podcast. Dr Jordan Peterson. Dr
Peterson, great blazer. Great to see you. First off,
Adam Curry: are we to believe with the debt, by the way, just
looking at that blazer makes me cluster be Krauts are saying now
that
Unknown: they're just getting off the wokeness?
No, I don't believe so. I think that this is a classic maneuver
by what would you say, a group of advisors and maybe the VP
herself, who show the pathology associated with what's known as
the Cluster B of personality disorders. And I really believe
this. And the strategy would be this, the radical leftist, and I
would put Kamala Harris in that category. Have provoked for
years, for years on the DEI racial division culture war
front, constantly prodding and poking, when the Conservatives
finally woke up enough to respond, the the manipulators at
the bottom of the Democrat organization said, Oh, we don't
even know what you're talking about, all this culture war
stuff. Where did you invent that? The real issue is the
economy. The real issue is health care. The real issue is
education. All you people are strange and weird for bringing
anything else up. We've been focusing on the important issues
all along. I don't know what you're imagining, and that's
classic cluster being manipulative behavior. And if we
think that this new messaging on the part of a candidate who's
using nothing but image to promote her views is reflects a
deeper reality than we're deluded beyond comprehension.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, it's a manipulative behavior, and
that's what's going on with the media. And the fact that Kamala
has not done a speech, she won't talk to anybody, she hasn't done
that, that crazy laugh, but she has actually, now and again, the
whole thing is a giant manipulation, which is a Cluster
B, part of the Cluster B, which is a group of erratic disorders.
I'll read what they are, the anti social behaviors, one of
them borderline personalities, another one, histrionic
personality disorder. We all know somebody like that, and
also the narcissistic personality disorder. All these
are in this one Cluster B, and they, and he says that the
Democrat Party is just using a bunch of people that have this,
these, this, this problem, or, if you want to call it a
problem, or, in fact, this looks like an advantage in so far as
the media is probably involved with this, it's unbelievable.
Well, it's not unbelievable. I just stopped me from saying I
just got
Adam Curry: a text message from President Trump. Yes, thank you,
President Trump. They want me in jail in one month before I'm
sentenced by a corrupt Democrat judge. Please read link. Stopped
opt out? Yeah, I don't think so. It's and it's in all stop, to
opt to stop, to opt out on this number, but we'll send you five
more. I swear to God, I'm going to do this just for the show,
because I love every because I love my truck, I'm going to do
stop, and let's see how long it takes me to get a new message.
Stop,
John C Dvorak: you'll get a new message before the end of the
show. I bought quicker
Adam Curry: than that. Okay, stop. So I'm alive, signaling
that I'm alive, we'll see how long it takes.
John C Dvorak: It's a, it's a on, I don't know what to say
about it. I like I said, That's Jared.
Adam Curry: That's jared's Big Red or whatever it is. It's the,
it's the counter to. Um, act blue. Act blue. Yeah, it's
horrible. It's, and it's, it's, it makes me hate them. It really
does. Like, do you think I'm an idiot? I know what that link is.
It's a link with chip in I know what it is. I'm not gonna fall
for that, but that's what they do every single time. It's
annoying, I get what must work? Obviously, it
John C Dvorak: must work. It must work, or they wouldn't be
doing it. They just figured you're gonna annoy one person,
but they get a lot of money from others, so, and there's probably
a lot of people that aren't you know that they this is like
their social interaction. They're getting all these cool
messages. Maybe,
Adam Curry: yeah, maybe some people like that now they, now
they, I did not get a message back saying you're opted out.
And I sometimes I think these are just people who have phone
numbers and they're just doing this. You know, they just can't,
it's not even, it's not even automated system. So President
Biden joined ms Harris in Maryland on their on the
campaign trail. And I have to say, not Biden. This was daddy
longlegs. His face looked different. I did not hear the
clicking clacking of the teeth, and it wasn't really jacked up,
Joe. Listen today, Vice
Unknown: President Kamala Harris standing side by side with
President Biden, her first official event together since
Biden dropped out of the race. Folks,
I'm an incredible partner. The progress we made, she can make
one hell of a president
Maryland announcing the lowering of prescription drug costs for
those using Medicare.
Adam Curry: So here's another clip of him, started in January.
Now this all of a sudden, he's jacked up. So, I mean, it's very
interesting. I don't know if this is jacked up Joe now, or
what I believe it to be his daddy, long legs with the mask.
Oh, you have successfully unsubscribed. Okay, let's see
what happens next, starting
Unknown: in January of this year, every senior in the United
States of America, no matter what their cost of drugs. And
like I said, some of these cancer drugs are 12,000 bucks a
year. Every single penny they spend. They never have to spend
more than $2,000 a year for all drugs. Surprise, surprise, Big
Pharma doesn't want this to happen at all. The
pharmaceutical industry last year, spent $400 million
lobbying to Congress to stop this.
Adam Curry: Now, does this sound like the actual Joe Biden to you
that we hear in all these interviews? No, I don't think
this is jacked up Joe anymore. I think this is a guy who's just
got the fumbling and bumbling down, and he doesn't look like
him, and the hair in the back is different. I look at hair, it
just it's not the same guy. The real Biden may be alive, but I
don't think he's on the campaign trail.
John C Dvorak: Well, the real Biden is going to have to be the
gut. Well, maybe this will be the Biden that comes up at the
at the DNC. That's what's going to be interesting. Yeah, which
Biden we're going to get? Yeah, I would like to see jacked up
Joe. Personally,
Adam Curry: I'm so afraid that there's just going to be a big
poop and it's going to be nothing, and he's not going to
do anything weird. I said it, that he's not going to do
anything outrageous, just going to be ho hum. You know, that's
John C Dvorak: probably right. Yeah, I might. My hope is that
the protesters, 100,000 strong, storm the place. Well, I
Adam Curry: have some updates tonight.
Unknown: Chicago's guard is already up. Fencing lining the
streets. Rose closed off to vehicles, a large protective
zone built around the United Center, where vice president
Harris is set to accept the Democratic nomination for
president, and just like at the Republican Convention in
Milwaukee, Secret Service responsible for everything
inside that hardened perimeter, local police taking the lead for
nearly everything else, is the Chicago Police Department ready
for the DNC
said it for a while. The Chicago Police Department is ready.
Chicago's
top cop says there are no specific, incredible threats,
but to expect a heavy police presence throughout the city.
It's
a huge project, but the Chicago Police Department and the city
as a whole, is used to working towards something this large.
Looming over the convention is the promise of large scale
protests just blocks from the United Center,
this is one of the streets we'll be on. Yes, despite
months of legal battles over the protest area, the largest
demonstration is expected to draw more than 20,000 people.
Hatem Abu dhaya is one of the lead organizers preparing to
voice his opposition to Israel's war in Gaza kefir wearing dude,
the. What's the main message for you guys?
Yeah, the main message is that the Democrats who are going to
be in that building are complicit in this war against
the Palestinian people.
Police Superintendent Larry Snelling says his officers
received special training focused on de escalation and
respecting constitutional rights, but warns violent scenes
reminiscent of Chicago's 1968 Democratic convention will not
be tolerated.
We want to have fights in the streets with people. Absolutely
not. But I want to make one thing clear. I want to make this
perfectly clear. We need to know the difference between rioting
and protesting that
says it's prepared for any situation.
Adam Curry: So you recall that there was some anger that they
weren't allowed to go where they wanted to go the route. And I
guess they did some negotiation with the city, and they have
reached an agreement.
Unknown: An agreement was reached Friday between the city
of Chicago and a coalition of demonstrators days before the
start of the Democratic National Convention, we announce
it all the time. We talk about how in the mass movements, power
can seize nothing without a demand. The city
will allow the coalition to march on the DNC, to use sound
equipment set up staging and bring in at least seven portable
toilets during their demonstrations. Earlier this
week, the city denied items in the group's permit application,
citing safety concerns, organizers felt the rules made
it impossible to share their message of calling for an end to
US aid to Israel and a ceasefire in Gaza. In response, the group
filed an emergency motion alleging the denial was
unconstitutional. Hours before a federal hearing, both sides got
back to the negotiating table.
We talked to the mayor himself, directly, one of the top leaders
of our coalition, spoke with the mayor, and we did the grassroots
organizing that we know how to do, and we won what we needed to
win. The group
says they are still fighting for a longer marching route. They
say the route they are approved for is too short. They also want
the city to approve the usage of tents in the parks for medical
staff and members of the press to use. The mayor addressed
negotiations earlier in the day.
It's fundamental to our democracy. Want to make sure
that these individuals have everything that they need, to
make sure that their voices are heard. The group
is approved to be in Union Park and park number 578, near
Washington and Damon, with restrictions, the city of
Chicago has released the schedule for permitted parades
and assemblies. The first is scheduled for Sunday evening,
tonight.
Adam Curry: Tonight. Kicks off tonight. And then I want to
John C Dvorak: note a couple of things, please. You noticed, of
all they all the reporting is the following, well, we're
prepared. Unlike in 1968 we're prepared in 1968 this the so
called lack of preparation involved. They didn't have the
Secret Service and the FBI. They had the National Guard out. Yes,
they had basically the army, plus every cop in Illinois was
out. There's this bullcrap that they're going to be more
prepared. There's no way the National Guard was guarding this
convention and it got out of control. There's that they're
going to, I think, if these guys can be kept from storming the
stage, not to mention the fact that people can get in, because
there's a audience
Adam Curry: there. Was fighting inside the the DNC in if you
John C Dvorak: can keep people, I don't see how they're going to
keep Democrats. If you've been to one of the ever been to a
convention, there is, there was the public is in there. It's,
you know, there's a convention floor, which has all the
delegates, but surrounding them are is the general public. You
get in the fact that there's going to be protesters inside,
right off the bat, because they're going to find their way,
and they're going to get a pass. I'm Oh, yeah, no, I'm okay.
They're going to get in. So the place this is not I. If they
can't really make a mess of this and cause nothing but chaos,
then they suck. In other words, hippies could do a better job in
1968 than you. You guys, a violent group, Hamas, you can't
do it better than that. I'd be I'd be stunned stop.
Adam Curry: President Trump texts me again. New number,
John C Dvorak: no already,
Adam Curry: oh yeah, from Trump, and it says, Adam. I had a
minute, so I wrote you a personal letter.
Unknown: Take,
Adam Curry: take a look. Stop to end. There you go. That's how
fast it goes.
John C Dvorak: So that was less than 10 minutes.
Adam Curry: Oh yeah. Oh yeah, here's Governor Pritzker on his
desire to bring the DNC to Chicago, and what he feels about
what might be just a few bad apples.
Unknown: Every time I saw President Biden, I literally
would shake his hand and the first thing I'd say to him is,
we're going to have the convention in Chicago, right?
And he would. Laugh after the third or fourth time Chicago
fashion, just promoting the city, you got to keep working.
You know what I mean. So anyway, that's one reason. I think
another is that, you know, we show off the values of the
Democratic Party, we have, literally, we've protected
people's freedoms here, the freedom to choose, the right to
read a book that you want to read.
Those rights often exercise in Chicago the right to protest,
but some of these groups, as we mentioned, are amping up their
rhetoric to cause disruption. One group saying, quote, f the
GNC the G for genocidal in an Instagram post, and another post
saying, quote, let's crash the party with a list of
demonstrations and rallies in Union Park. CPD superintendent
Larry Stelling has been training officers for a year for this
event, and has repeatedly said that his force is ready to allow
protesters to exercise their rights while keeping a peace.
Governor Pritzker says he has faith in that plan.
There may be some bad apples, usually they'll come from out of
town to do it. So there's been a lot of planning, I want to be
clear, every four years, and I've been to almost every
convention since I was able to vote every four years. At a
Democratic and Republican convention, there are protests,
and there will be protests this time. We're going to protect
people's freedom of speech, but we're also going to protect the
people who live here and the delegates that are coming to
visit.
Adam Curry: Did you guru in the troll room says I was there in
Grant Park for the 68 DNC convention. The cops were brutal
in beating the living daylights use a different word out of
anybody that was congregating around there, I had to run for
my life to escape the pandemonium at age 18, boots on
the ground.
John C Dvorak: The other thing they have to deal with, which
there's they're starting to talk about, is the hotels.
Adam Curry: Oh, yeah. Burnham,
John C Dvorak: this was a problem in 68 too. In fact, I
had a headline of front page of the sun times in the last
newsletter, which was an epic fail, by the way.
Adam Curry: Yeah, no kidding. Thank God for meetups.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, so the so the there's a fear that they're
going to track down the delegates as staying at the
various hotels around Chicago, and they're going to raid the
hotels, pester them.
Adam Curry: Now, that may be thwarted by the latest idea, as
DNC attendees, thanks to Planned Parenthood, and I would presume
the organizers, uh, will have opportunity to get free
abortions and free vasectomies on site. Yes, it's I'm not
kidding.
John C Dvorak: Sign up boys for your free vasectomies.
Adam Curry: They have a van, and they have a van. Uh, beep, beep.
Health care, no matter where it's actually an RV with a slide
out. That's that's where they do the vasectomy part. Chicago,
we're headed your way to provide free vasectomies and abortions
Planned Parenthood from great rivers. That's good idea.
John C Dvorak: Go. Might as well. The Democrat parties, they
notorious for having their balls cut off. Nice
Adam Curry: looking van, by the way, RV, it's nice got it's got
a slide out, everything. It's got to be a, goodness, great.
That's got to be a 47 footer, huh? Everyone's laughing about
that. Of course, what you do on, on X, laugh about that stuff.
Laugh about it,
Unknown: yeah. All right, all of this. I
John C Dvorak: got some, I got some Trump Harris stuff. Here. I
want to get back and forth from NPR. This is Harris Trump back
and forth discussion that took place this week,
Unknown: Vice President Kamala Harris and former President
Donald Trump outlined their plans to combat high prices. The
dueling proposals reflect just how important inflation and
economy are to voters and pierce Franco Ordonez has been looking
at both plans. Franco, thanks for being with us.
Thanks for having me,
Scott. Let's begin with the Harris plan. What can you tell
us? Well, I
mean, she's been facing some criticism for not offering her
own vision of the job, how she would distinguish herself from
Biden, from bidenomics. Frankly, in North Carolina yesterday, she
did acknowledge how tough it is for many middle income families,
because, look, the bills add up,
food, rent, gas,
back to school, clothes, prescription medication. After
all that, for many families, there's not much left at the end
of the month.
And while she didn't really get too specific, she did offer some
broad outlines of what she described as a more forward
looking economic plan. It includes assistance for
homeowners, caps on drug prices. There's a lot of attention on a
proposal for a federal ban on price gouging in the food
industry. And she also wants to raise the child tax credit more
and eliminate taxes on tips. Which those two things? Things,
by the way, are also being proposed by Trump as well.
Yeah. And so there is agreement between parts of the Harris and
Trump plan. No, huge contrast, aren't there?
Yeah, big contrast. And Trump also laid out parts of his plan
this week, again, not deep in specifics, but he plans to also
eliminate taxes on Social Security benefits. He also
talked a lot about boosting fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
He really wants to roll back many of Biden's efforts to fight
climate change, which he blames for rising energy costs.
Adam Curry: Tell me if you don't want me to do this anymore,
urgent, urgent. Ted Cruz's race was named one of the most likely
to flip Russian emergency $32.75 to provide critical support.
Stop to end. It's just so you flood
John C Dvorak: Well you can, you can hold off for a while. Okay,
all right. But so you got a message within 10 minutes of
your opting out and another one. And now you just got a second
message, different numbers, of course. And gee, everybody
wonders why I put my phone in a drawer. Yes, different number,
yeah, of course. This is, should be illegal. These are number
spoofers.
Adam Curry: Yes, it's time for a government ID so it can block
everyone who's sick. Okay, all right. So, and I've heard people
look at these two economic plans and say, there's almost no
daylight. You might as well go for the for the for the person
who's joyous,
John C Dvorak: yeah, the person who's a liar, who won't do any
of these things. Yeah, vote for them. That's the thing I've been
hearing, which is people who, who hear that the same basic
theory. You know, theoretical? Yes, why would? Why would the
Democrats, all of a sudden change course to such an extreme
and actually follow through? Does it make sense to anybody?
Well,
Adam Curry: unfortunately, there's a great documentary
called, it's James, I think James Lindsay. He's in it a lot.
I don't know if it's I think someone else did. It's called
beneath sheep's clothing, and it tracks the Marxist movement in
the United States back to, you know, basically World War One,
when the women had to go into the factories and government
schools came into play. And we've had 100 years of Marxist
teaching and ideology and the people, and I know some of them
who are in Chicago, they really, really believe in people like
Kamala Harris. They believe in the black lady. They believe in
the lady. They believe in you know that Trump will take away
your rights. They have extreme victim mentality. And of course,
you know, throughout the documentary, not atypical for
James Lindsay is, you know, obviously it's Christian
nationalism, which is the problem, which is, which is the
inverse of Marxism. It's, it's, I don't think it's available for
free. I paid for it 12 bucks, well worth watching for a bit of
history of education in American and no one's ever going to
convince these people differently. You're just not. I
mean, they are for there. It's a form of MK Ultra. It's
brainwashing. They have been brainwashed. Generation of
generations. Everyone who I know, who didn't go to school in
recent years, myself included, is okay. Everyone who went
through the program, not okay. I
John C Dvorak: went to the program. No, I went to the
program in the in the belly of the beast, University of
California, Berkeley, not
Adam Curry: as but it's progressively gotten worse with
media blanketing. I'm
John C Dvorak: looking back on it and I'm wondering, well, you
know,
Adam Curry: I do have my questions about you, to be quite
honest, you were a Democrat for a while, but, you know, you got
saved. Something happened?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I came to my senses. Yeah. Well, that
Adam Curry: does How old were you when you came to your sense?
John C Dvorak: It was a pretty late in the game.
Adam Curry: I think I was, there you go.
John C Dvorak: These are young. That is a problem, but, but it
after a while, you keep noticing that the Democrats, the way I
saw it, the Democrats, were going out of their way to to
kill me. They are. They were out to kill the baby boomers to get
ridden. They're they're very and the population control oriented
when the Vietnam War was killing the baby boomers. Yeah, the
situation that would Jimmy Carter, but
Adam Curry: hold on. But at least then television was
showing blown up guys on the battlefield that was new. You
don't see blown up guys in Iraq, Afghanistan, any you know,
Syria, you don't see that. You don't see the horrors of war. By
the way, we finally know what the C in John C Dvorak stands
for, communist. That's right, commie. I mean, that was unfair.
That was unfair.
John C Dvorak: It was unfair. I'm not a communist. I never had
been. In fact, even when I was a little kid, we, there was a lot
of anti communist stuff taught to us,
Adam Curry: well, yeah, you went through, you went through the
Red Scare and all that. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: we and it was always it was, it was it was
probably good. It probably had some long yes effect, yes.
Adam Curry: This is why it's good. And I think we're going
through a cycle where Kamala is being called communists,
communists, whatever you know they're doing with the K to tie
it into common communist Yeah. And is good. We need another Red
Scare. We need to be afraid of communism is Marxism
specifically, but Kamala communists, it goes well
together. We need that with that is what's necessary to wake
people up again and that they want. I
John C Dvorak: think the house on America, un American
Activities Committee would be a useful tool. Yeah, that's been
disbanded in the 70s.
Adam Curry: John for Congress. There you go.
John C Dvorak: There's a there's a that I wrote about this. Yes,
you brought me in. You did. You did,
Adam Curry: all right. Clip two,
John C Dvorak: part two. Clip two. And
Unknown: I gather they also included some sharp attacks on
vice president terrorists.
They certainly did. I mean, Trump's been under pressure from
Republicans to tone down the personal attacks, and I've
spoken with allies who say Trump should really stick to his
winning message, which is, are you better off now with Harris
and Biden than you were with Trump? I mean, the election is
less than three months away, and they say that he's wasting
precious opportunities to highlight the contrast high
issues like the economy and the border, but it doesn't look like
he's going to hold back from criticizing Harris, and not just
on policy.
I think I'm entitled to personal attacks. I don't have a lot of
respect for I don't have a lot of respect for her intelligence,
and I think she'll be a terrible president, and I think it's very
important that we win, and whether the personal attacks are
good bad. I mean, she certainly attacks me personally. She
actually called me weird. He's weird.
Yeah, that weird line has really gotten under his skin,
apparently, and ultimately, though, what he made clear at
his press conference was that he's the candidate, and he needs
to do it his own way.
Adam Curry: He's so lucky he has Vance to go out there and
translate him. What a genius choice.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, and he keeps saying that he's regretful
that he picked Vance. I see the media says that I have seen no
evidence of this.
Adam Curry: Did you see the latest Vanity Fair?
John C Dvorak: They know I did. Oh, they did a real hit job on
who, non
Adam Curry: Trump, Trump. Donald Trump has watched a video clip
of the attempt on his life at a Pennsylvania rally, quote over
and over again, leading to fears that he may be suffering from
PTSD. This is, according to people familiar with the
campaign. The forms were
John C Dvorak: that I Okay. I heard this. I heard about this.
And this, this idea that Trump has PTSD. Here
Adam Curry: it is. He's been watching that seven second clip
of how close he was to getting shot right in the head. Over and
over again, the Republican close to the campaign told Vanity
Fair, the Republican close to the Trump campaign, I just love
that the Republican, some dude who voted Republican once, who's
sweeping the floor, told Vanity Fair that the former president's
recent run of appearances and subsequent gaffes felt like he
was choosing to lose allies of Trump see His conspiratorial
messages and insults based on race as anything but productive.
This comes back to your clip. They want him to focus on his
attacks on policy issues such as immigration and the economy,
rather than personal attacks against Harris. This is
literally what the NPR guy just said. So it's the same. It's
messaging. This
John C Dvorak: is, this is a schema? Yes, a schema. And I
think the mistake they're making is that when they brought the
PTSD thing up, and this has come up in the conversation around
the house, they're getting a sympathy vote for Trump. He's so
Adam Curry: stupid. They all they do all they do with
everything. Was a huge I think it's a blunder. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: I agree if you think that Trump is suffering
from PTSD because they shot at him, that which is possible,
yeah, but then you feel sorry for Trump. Oh, that's terrible.
He's suffering from the horrible attempt on his life. I feel bad
about that. Yeah, this is not what you're trying to do here,
to get him voted out. But
Adam Curry: you're right. It's, it's a schema. It's the same,
same messaging in Vanity Fair of all places as NPR, brought to
you by any Liebowitz,
John C Dvorak: yeah, this is, well, this is all coordinated,
yes,
Adam Curry: yes. It's great. Hello. Four more. You. Years. So
done with this nonsense. All right. Final clip, Franco, what
Unknown: will you be looking for at the Democratic National
Convention next week?
Well, I mean, the economy isn't the strongest issue for
Democrats, so I'm not so sure how much they're going to be
talking about that. You were just talking about the protests
over Gaza. Are they going to find their way into the arena? I
mean, there is going to be a lot of attention on Harris next week
for good and bad. So I will want to see the contrast with the
Republican convention in Milwaukee from just a few weeks
ago, where there really was this kind of sense of inevitability
among Republicans that Trump was going to win. I mean, the change
the race has changed so much. The dynamics have changed so
much. I'm also, of course, focusing a lot on the Trump
campaign. So I will be watching how they respond and try to take
back some of the spotlight. Next week, I expect Trump will be
pretty busy as well. Yeah,
Adam Curry: counter programming, of course, he's already, he's
already signaled that he's gonna do something big. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: he does that all the time. Yeah, that's a smart
idea
Adam Curry: that we done with Trump Harris.
John C Dvorak: Yeah. I think so. Well
Adam Curry: with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage.
Say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in schema, say
hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only Mr. John
C,
John C Dvorak: D, radio, Mr. Adam curry and Maria ship C
Woodson, brown fee near subs, award games. Nice out there.
Hello,
Adam Curry: trolls. Very helpful today, trying to count you
trolls. Okay, there we go. 2418, nice, up, up from last week. The
closer we get to the election, the more it looks like a horse
race, the more the trolls want to tune in and hear about the
schemas that are going on. And there in the darkness is the
shining light of curry and Dvorak to help you understand
something like that, to help you understand what's going on in
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Unknown: Don't use the word weird.
John C Dvorak: Thank you. So I wanted to compliment. I wanted
to compliment Darren for doing a call out for poor old Greg kin
who died? Yes, my life's in general. Local boys like lives
in Berkeley, my
Adam Curry: life's in jeopardy. Baby only had one hit,
John C Dvorak: one, yeah, and that wasn't his best song. No,
he was a, basically a bar band. Did you know him? I didn't know.
I'm never met him, but he was, you'd see him around town. He
was just one of the locals.
Adam Curry: Pick up one of those modern podcast apps at podcast
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Every one of the modern podcast Apps has a donate button for the
show, and so when you're listening to it on the app,
you're like, you know, I should support these guys, because the
value I'm getting out of it. You just look at the top, and
there's a little little button that some say support. Some say
someone has a little dollar sign, or a euro sign. You tap it
goes right to no agenda donations.com. That is also an
innovation we put into podcasting, 2.0 you can't do
that on Apple. Can't do it on Spotify. Just a little little
added bonus, which I think is good, is handy. Same for DH. Oh,
I'm sorry, dH, unplugged is still on. What's that stupid
feed burner? You got to talk to Horowitz about that.
John C Dvorak: Well, he listens to the show. You can tell him
right
Adam Curry: now, he's on feed burner. It will only be a few
weeks before you know Google turns Google owns it. They can
turn it off at any minute.
John C Dvorak: I'll tell I'll talk to him about moving it.
Yes,
Adam Curry: we have to. We have to move it. It's ridiculous.
Feed burner. I actually got a call back from, you know, before
we get into thanking some of our executive and Associate
Executive producers, I had the ex Disney guy call me back about
our about our cable idea. He likes it. He likes it a lot,
actually. And I said, you want to be CEO, and let me see, did
he text me after that?
John C Dvorak: He ghosted you after that? No, he didn't.
Adam Curry: Actually, he's no, he said that he was going to,
let me tell you what he was going to reach out to. He was
going to reach out to some people for us. Now he had some
he, first of all, he's working at some FinTech company. So I'm
sure he'd be happy to to get back into something sexy. He
says he knows. Who does he know here? Friend of mine in LA was
number two at Hulu, then ran HBO Max. I'll ask him. And I know a
strategy guy at NBC who was really involved in peacock. So
he's gonna, you know, we got real people on it, man,
John C Dvorak: that's real people. That's,
Adam Curry: that's some real people. Yeah, I met, but I said,
I said to him, I said, Dude, you need to run this. You'd be
great. Because, you know, Adam and John are not going to do
anything. We're
Unknown: not going to run anything.
Adam Curry: In the meantime, we are still value for value, and
we love it to
John C Dvorak: do anything. We didn't do a lot of work. We do
some we thought we were big thinkers. Well,
Adam Curry: just look at the landscape paramount. Television
Studios shutting down. So, I mean, they're shutting down. You
know, are you? Did we talk about to be? You know what to be is.
Do you have to?
John C Dvorak: I know what to be is, but we didn't talk about it.
No.
Adam Curry: So Tubi is they have the largest catalog of old
movies and TV shows, old, old stuff, you know, Hogan's Heroes
level, because it's very cheap for them to have. They're
completely ad based. Word on the street is they were going to
report 50% drop in advertising, five, zero. And there's a this
is your recession coming. And the funniest news of all was
crooked media. These are the guys who do pod save America.
John C Dvorak: Yeah. And why? Why would you call yourself
crooked media.
Adam Curry: You know, who cares?
John C Dvorak: It's ironic, maybe. Or it's like, hahaha,
it's funny. So
Adam Curry: they have, I think they have 70 or 80 people
working on these shows. I mean, I know pod save America, pod
save the UK, uh, love it, or leave it. Never heard that one,
and they now signed with the Writers Guild of America East.
Yeah, and listen to this. Starting salary, $80,000.49 days
paid time off. You imagine that? Wouldn't that be nice? 49
John C Dvorak: days paid time off is like. What are these?
This is a European idea, even only the French. They don't even
have 45 the French take the rich French take off on Bastille Day,
and then they take off the entire month of August.
Everybody takes but that's only 45 days,
Adam Curry: if, um, maternity leave, 20 weeks, 20 weeks,
John C Dvorak: and it has to be paid for. Yes,
Adam Curry: they're gonna go they're gonna go out of
business. That's impossible to do in podcasting. I just don't
believe that they can
John C Dvorak: make especially with the staffs that they have,
they have way too many people producing these shows. They got
writers and producers and engineers, and they'll pay $955
Adam Curry: a month towards health insurance, which is low
minimum, 13 weeks of severance, guaranteed, 12 hour minimum rest
time between end of work and Next day start cell phone
stipend, commuting reimbursement. Yes. Hello, hi.
We want to join crooked media. Instead. We don't really want to
do that. We love what we do, and we love our trucks, and we love
our artists. That's one of the primary time and talent measures
that we look at of people supporting the show. We have
many professional artists. Many of them are, I think all of them
are Dutch masters. You always think about all the AI art, and
I realize that, you know, AI creates, it can create art. But
I'd like someone to type into the prompt create a funny image
based on this exchange from the show. See, that is what is
missing from Ai. It can't make up funny stuff yet. No, please.
You know how many people send me end of show mixes. Listen to
this great song I made, and I look at him like, Okay, you
listen. Like, right away. It's a professional sounding song. It's
AI. It's not funny, if it's not a cover, if it's not a parody,
it's almost never funny. It's just a song. And you fed it some
lyrics, and you hear the auto tune. It's like, Yeah, okay.
It's never a hit. It's never a hit yet. Well, when it gets to
that point, I had to love nothing more to not have to show
up, John, I'm telling you, but I just don't believe it's true. I
don't think that AI understand your position, and do you think
that it AI can't do what we do yet. Yeah, exactly.
John C Dvorak: Well, I'd say 1000 years from now. Okay,
Adam Curry: we want to thank sir Shug, aka faux Diddley, for
bringing us the artwork for Episode 1686, we titled that
publical Something our dear friend, Dr Tedros said it was, I
think, a veterinarian. And this was kamalas cackle. Now with
more PBA, it's the candy that all the kids are crazy about.
Camels cackle. It was good. It was a typical no agenda packet
shot 333, calorie. Calories. It had it all in there. And I don't
know if I don't think this was AI, it looks like Photoshop to
me. I can see the anomalies in the cackle. So actual work was
done, which we do always appreciate. Let's take a look at
some of the other artwork that was submitted. We did talk for a
second about Darren O'Neill's no agenda airport. Everybody be
nice again. Stop with the Biden and the and the Kamala heads.
We're not going to choose it, especially
John C Dvorak: when it doesn't even look like them. I like
Adam Curry: sloth fever, but we didn't really talk about sloth
fever. Yeah, we did. I didn't like it. No, we didn't talk
about sloth fever on the show. That was uh Ness works. God, no,
we
John C Dvorak: did. We did briefly, very briefly, we
mentioned it. It was a very short bit,
Adam Curry: you know, and you get like, Matthew dropco
Uploading a whole bunch of waltz, interviewing Harris. No,
no. It's just, it's just slick art because AI did it. But this
is no comedy to it. There's no comedy. This is, this is the
problem and, and I think that that a lot of artists, good
artists, become gun shy, like, oh, well, I could never create
something that good looking. We put poop looking art up there.
If it's funny, it doesn't have to be perfectly slickly done.
Back me up here.
John C Dvorak: I totally agree with it. We don't. If it's a
sketch done by hand that is funny, yeah, and has some it has
dimensionality, which is my thing, which is you got to have
some references to 33 and all the other stuff that goes on on
the show in general. ITM Yeah, then we're good to go with it.
But yeah, the slick stuff is all AI created, but it's, it's we
said it before. It's soulless, mostly, and
Adam Curry: that's why Darren O'Neill often wins with AI
because Darren understands comedy. He understands what's
funny well.
John C Dvorak: Also we asked Darren for to show us his
prompts on one of the art pieces he did. He sent us an email
showing every prompt he did, every piece that came out of it
and went on and on, he spends as much time prompt prompting the
AI art generator to produce what he wants than if he did it by
hand, which
Adam Curry: actually means that we should have a lot more really
good art, because we have a lot of funny producers out there who
can't do art at all, but No, instead, It's like Kamala eating
an ice cream cone. Okay,
Unknown: no.
Adam Curry: And this and dropco. Dropco is funny. He has humor,
and then he brings us this. I mean, I love dropco. He's won
recently, but yeah, Tim Rogers Neighborhood, no, no. It's just
not funny. It's hard. Humor is hard,
Unknown: very hard
Adam Curry: and and right now I can tell you, I see nothing.
John C Dvorak: I see nothing, correct.
Adam Curry: But we thank you very much, foe diddly, sir Shug,
for your contribution, your wonderful value that you have
provided us. You can provide value in time, talent and
treasure. If you're confused about the concept, value number
four, value, dot info, it's pretty good. Write up. Been
doing this for a long, long time, so long in fact, that
other people think they've come up with it. Yeah. It's amazing
how often I hear that, yeah, man, it's a Bitcoin thing. No,
no, it's not. It's from this show. And it did. I went back
and listened to some of our early shows, and I think I did
know that we, we came up with a model very early on of just send
us whatever it's worth to you. That's how we positioned it.
You're listening to the show. You're getting some value out of
it. If you like more of it, then provide that value back. That's
how simple it is. But it was, in fact, around Episode 160 I think
that I had read Atlas Shrugged. Took a month and
John C Dvorak: read Atlas, shrugged less shrug, and that's
where it
Adam Curry: and that's where the value for value came from, from
something in that book. So if anything, I and Rand gets some
credit, but the model itself and the feedback loop of thanking
people for the for producing the show, not calling you listeners
or fans, insulting you with that instead calling you producers,
which you really are. I mean, here's an example. Rob the
constitutional lawyer. He sent me a note. He said he loved, he
loved your EULA. Idea of having a minor sign a EULA, and he
added to it, I'll read it for the day. Jcds legal hack with
minors is gold in most jurisdictions. It's even better
than he knows. Miners can indeed sign contracts, but only the
miners can enforce them. So if Disney were to try to enforce a
EULA signed by a miner, the miner can walk away. But if
Disney were to breach a provision in the EULA, the miner
can pounce with both feet. In other words, the contract isn't
void, per se, but voidable at the miner's sole option. How
about that? Yeah,
John C Dvorak: learn something new every day. That's a good
one. Yeah,
Adam Curry: exactly. Production. Producers. We have more than we
have more than crooked media. Make
John C Dvorak: sure your kids sign those EULAs. That's right.
Adam Curry: We have more producers than crooked media,
but don't you dare get pregnant before
John C Dvorak: paramount.
Adam Curry: Don't you doubt you dare get pregnant because you're
not getting 20 weeks paid off at all. And now we'd like to thank
our executive and Associate Executive producers. Now these
are the producers who come in and really save the day. In
fact, many of them were at the Albany meetup. Otherwise, sad
puppy would have been crawling all over this thing today.
John C Dvorak: Well, the sad puppy should have been out
anyway, but the meetup did save the day. But I will. I want to
compliment Steve, the recalcitrant night. He organized
it. Who organizes? He does all the meetups over on the East
Bay, and he did a tremendous job. And then I was talking to
Mimi about it, because we had about, oh, at least 40 people,
maybe more, considering the last time we did the mallard Club was
like 12 people, nobody showed up. Was very low. And so then I
noticed that Mimi read his his plea, and he used the guilt
sales pitch. Oh, really, good job. What do you do to guilt
everybody? He didn't know. I don't think he knew what he was
up to. He was just doing it naturally. He was he does a
great job. I like this guy. And so he guilted everyone, saying
John, and nobody showed up last time, and Adams getting hundreds
of people, and we love John, and everyone looks like they hate
him. He goes, and I mean, wow. And I'm thinking, and so that we
had a big crowd. And not only that, but they were generous.
This was not a minor amount of money. This is
Adam Curry: probably the one of the, the most
John C Dvorak: per head, I think, is probably the highest
we've ever done, one of the most generous meetups in a while. So
that was a big deal, the way it works. Go ahead. Well, I'm just
saying that. I just wanted to thank Steven. I hope you got his
ball of Pinot Noir out of this. There's that the guy didn't
forget to give it to him.
Adam Curry: So the way it works is, if you donate $200 to an
episode of the show or above, you become an Associate
Executive Producer, it's a real credit. You can use this
anywhere show business. Credits are recognized. You can use it
anywhere you want, but it will be accepted anywhere, including
imdb.com, if you don't have an a production account, that you can
open one up and go ahead and go search for no agenda, see how
many executive and Associate Executive Producers are. There
are also, we'll read your notes, $300 or above. We'll read your
note, and you are an executive producer, and that at the top of
the list, we have Ben nidus from San Francisco, who came in with
$622 equivalent, I believe he gave you gold and silver. He
had,
John C Dvorak: well, a little piece of gold, but it was a
chunk. He bought this from a Metal Exchange. And. A big
piece, a giant piece
Adam Curry: of silver. Nice, five ounces.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I was a big chunk of silver. And so you have
to, I don't know what we're gonna do. How are we gonna get
that into the bank? But I have it.
Adam Curry: What? The bank won't accept silver. What is this
nonsense? Yeah,
John C Dvorak: it's California. They don't accept, they will
accept gold. I think they have a little scale there. You can drop
it off.
Adam Curry: Well, he gave us five grams of gold and five
ounces of silver to make him the Duke of San Francisco and and I
appreciate that. I often have to correct people about the value
for value model. And if you use PayPal stripe, you abuse voter
book, no people send us check. Was it 40% checks? Because that
high? Is that too high?
John C Dvorak: That's way too high. Oh,
Adam Curry: I thought it was up there.
John C Dvorak: No, it's, well, I don't do the calculation in my
head, and I will tell you that it is probably, it's close to
3030,
Adam Curry: 25, to 30% and it's, it's almost no fee, 15 cents.
Processing for us. You can send them directly from your bank
account in the US, of course, and it's appreciated. I mean,
some of these processing fees are getting pretty high.
John C Dvorak: That's four or five, six bucks. Thanks. Biden,
no processing fees with a silver ingot No.
Adam Curry: All right, so Ben, you will be up to Duke of San
Francisco. Thank you, sir.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, in fact, I he sent me a note about that
because I got confused who gave me the silver, and I was gonna
almost credit Steve with it. Oh no. Oh no, Steve did give me a
book, though, sir. Etima quive quivel, quivi. Quivel quievi,
queve eterna Laredo, Texas, eternas quievi in Laredo, he's
350 uh, Why does nobody talk about American Airlines and
their relationship to an immigration surge? We've talked
about it a lot, a lot. Not against it, but there's a
distinction in nationalities that benefit from the shadow
program versus people who travel with infants at times by foot
train horrific conditions. If we need to expand the labor force,
let's put it all on the table. Mexico's new president speaks
English fluently. Can we work together toward a future that
actually makes sense. Why does our neighbor and trade partner
continue to have such a large wealth gap? 3050 bucks. Thank
you very much for that donation and message.
Adam Curry: Dr Don marata Cupertino, California, came to
the meetup. 333, dot 69 Dame Audra and I love giving and
receiving, value for value this. That's all that it is, giving,
receiving. Thank you. Beautiful beautiful note, beautiful
donation. Appreciate it.
John C Dvorak: I will mention that a lot of people came to the
meetup and they either handed off some money, they didn't have
the envelope with the note or anything, so they're not going
to get any credit because I didn't, couldn't keep track of
who they were, but everybody else is on the spreadsheet. So I
want to thank everybody for helping us out there in that
meetup. That was a good meetup, uh. TK, Gustafson in Wasilla,
Alaska, 333. 33 greetings, gents, uh. TK, Gustafson.
Gustafson. Gustafson. Gustav. Gustafson, I've hit every show
since the first Rogan and thought it was time to bring my
douchebaggery to an end. I think we can deduce him.
Unknown: You've been deduced
John C Dvorak: for the last month or so, y'all been
tiptoeing around the name I think you've been looking for
with Harris, and I just can't believe it hasn't come out yet.
I do believe the name you're looking for is kakala. I hope
this helps. Please deduce me, which we just did, and it's not
too much trouble. Uh, hassle. Bugs, I like the bugs jingle and
Reverend Al of your choosing and a rubbilizer for jingles.
Keeping an eye on those pesky Ruskies with Sarah.
Adam Curry: TK, yeah. TK, oh, wait, that's not the right one.
Unknown: Why is that? Hmm, bugs, maybe
John C Dvorak: he wants ants.
Adam Curry: No, he wants bugs. But no, that's not it. Oh, here
it is. I got it there. Oh, I feel better
Unknown: now. R E, s, p, i, C,
T, India. Hang out. Mike standby, 3333 33 barbaliser,
out.
Adam Curry: All right. Michael polling, San Francisco, Cal.
California, 333, dot, 33 from the Albany meetup. Albany
meetup, I don't see any note.
John C Dvorak: No, I don't think he had a note. It's just
probably in an envelope. Okay, well, thank
Adam Curry: you very much. Appreciate it. I'm
John C Dvorak: guessing he has a note you can send in a future
date. Can in El Sobrante, California, three, three, 3.33.
They're John and Adam, my smoking hot wife, Jamie, and I
started listening to no agenda show after hearing Adam's first
appearance on the Rogan probably get some you have some late
bloomers. Yes, we do. From the old Rogan podcast from the
Austin studio. The Albany meetup was my first ever, and it was
great. Yeah, a fine group of friendly, outgoing and
intelligent listeners. I am looking forward to the next no
jingles. Next one's going to be at a restaurant so we can bring
in some people that have kids. They've moaned about this being
at a bar. So he's going to set it up at a restaurant so we can
see violet and see how she's grown, the trap baby from a
couple years back.
Adam Curry: So I was about to put Dr Don and Dame Audra
together as executive producer, because of the 333 dot 69 but
what do we see here? Dame Audra comes in with her own donation
of $300.33 and says, Keep it up, gents also from the Albany
meetup. So together, they came in as top, top donors. Thank you
so much. It's beautiful.
John C Dvorak: Lawrence wolf in Oakland 300 he actually wrote a
note. He did the note thing. And I have it, and you can tell it's
a real because it's
Adam Curry: paper on paper. Uh, it's a little long.
John C Dvorak: It's too long, so I'm going to just read the first
paragraph. I wish to thank you for your amygdala shrinking.
Media deconstruction. I have been listening to the best
podcast in the Universe since early 2023 after listening to
Adam once again on the Joe Rogan podcast, another late bloomer.
This is, this is a classic brand of numbers. Thing
Adam Curry: today is now, I wish I will. I will add his second
paragraph. All I can say is, I wish I had known about you guys
during the scam demic as it was, I had to survive on Twitter,
verse ramblings, and was able to get through it without the jab.
It would have been better with you and the connection that you
get from the meetups. Well, we're going through all kinds of
dystopia right now. In fact, he wants to be knighted today as
Sir Lawrence of dystopia, and wants Malbec and Mallow Mars at
the round table. And also wants a biscuit for his birthday. They
always give me a biscuit on my birthday, which he celebrated a
day after John's 38th wedding anniversary. He turned 20 a day
after they were wed so he's 58 then I guess thanks again. May
you never find an exit strategy. Adios, mofos, Lawrence F Wolf,
kilo, Oscar six, Echo, Juliet, Echo, well. 7373 kilo, five,
alpha, Charlie. Charlie,
John C Dvorak: uh, okay. I think onward to Sir
Adam Curry: Robert Montoya, Black Knight of Pleasant Hill,
in Pleasant Hill, California, from the Albany meetup, $300
Thank you, Sir Robert.
John C Dvorak: Uh, onward to Ron Norin in Holland, in the town.
It looks like Luton.
Adam Curry: Well, it's sir Ron Norton. Ron in floating, in
floating. I'll read it so you can do the next one. A small
donation, returning some treasure. After all the value
received. Keep up the great work, boys, that's how it works.
Whatever, whatever you get out of the show, no matter what the
value is, to send it back, we can't determine your size of
your pocketbook. In this case, $200 is perfect for Sir Ron
Norton. And he says, No jingles, no karma. Warm regard, sir Ron
Norton. And thank you very much.
John C Dvorak: Linda lupatkin, there she is, Lakewood,
Colorado. That's why he's having me read it, because I seem to be
the one that gets this every time, and because you know why
she asked for jobs karma every time. And then she mentions your
premium content is the best, because all the contents
premium, speaking of premium content, she goes on Go to Image
makers. Inc.com, for all your executive resume and job search
needs as image makers. Inc, with a K and work with Linda Lou
Duchess of jobs, and writer of resumes,
Unknown: jobs, jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's go for
Adam Curry: jobs. And Sir seven up partridge and Dame wind
chimes partridge. We're also at the Albany meetup, and they
kicked in $200 Associate Executive producers for them.
Thank you. Thank you both.
John C Dvorak: And so John Siebert in Auburn came down from
Auburn to go to the Albany meetup, and he came in with 200
bucks too. Very nice. Craig, thanks for the best podcast in
university rights.
Adam Curry: Craig Clifford closes us out as the final
associate. Executive producer from Uxbridge, Ontario, $200
Canadian bucks, I don't know. Doesn't matter. We count them
equal, because we're not a holes Adam and John Craig Clifford
from communist Canada. Here, it's been some time since my
last donation on August the 18th. It'll be my 63rd trip
around the sun. This donation is a switcheroo to credit our
beloved grand sir grandson, Remy Clifford. Remy Remy. What do you
think? Remy Remy Remy Remy Clifford. Let me just switch a
rue that Remy Clifford, who will be 10 months old. Remy won't
care how I pronounce it. 10 months old on the 23rd of
August, stardom, early on his way to knighthood. Yes, we think
this is good for all kids. Also, I've been neglecting to claim my
knighthood, dating back to show 1500 he sent his accounting.
Could I please be titled sir Craig, Knight of the rolling
hills of Uxbridge? Of course, at the round table, a bottle of
2019 Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon. Is that any good? The Caymus?
Oh,
John C Dvorak: yeah, it would be better. Yeah, it is good. But
I'd say the 2012 and 2013 would be better, by the way, this I
Adam Curry: didn't clip it, but ABC this weekend did a whole
special on wine country of America and highlighted the
Texas Hill Country right here, right in the back backyard, as
one of the up and coming fantastic wine regions of
America. Yeah, you laugh. All you want a rib steak cooked
medium rare as well, and garlic mashed potatoes. Thank you for
your courage. If you could please play pigs in human
clothing, that'd be great. Kind Regards from Craig, fear is
Unknown: freedom. Subjugation is liberation. Contradiction.
Those are the facts
of this. You will all surrender to them.
You pigs in human
Adam Curry: clothing. Ah, their favorite pigs in human clothing.
That's right. Vote for Kamala. And you'll hear that a lot.
You'll hear it a lot every just go to school, go to go to your
government, shul, everything will be fine. Thank you, Shula,
thank you to all these executive and Associate Executive
producers. We appreciate every single value donation that you
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You can set your own frequency of repeating. You know, it's not
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For doing that, and thank you again for supporting us for
Episode 1687 of the no agenda show, our
Unknown: formula is this, we go
out, we hit people in the mouth. You
Adam Curry: I wanted to do a little presentation, because
I've seen this guy before. Cali means he was, do you remember
when RFK Jr announced his horrible vice president pick the
socialite? Oh, right, the woman and this guy. And I think I
played clips from then, Callie means, and he used to be a
lobbyist in in DC. And his sister, I forget what her name
is. She was a doctor. I think she was a surgeon. And she quit
the medical industry in disgust, in true disgust over basically
she was being educated to diagnose, prescribe, that was
it, and all the things that she was told to do to people she
might have been an ear, nose, throat surgeon, she said they
really didn't help anybody. And the two of them got together,
and they actually wrote a book about the food industry and how
they are that work together with the healthcare industry, and
they were on Tucker show. And I have to say, Tucker has done a
good job of emulating Rogan. He's got the big the big table.
He's got the same mics, you know, he's got one person on
this one side, one person on the other side. He has a different
style. What do you think of Tucker as his his style.
John C Dvorak: Well, Tucker has an aghast style.
Unknown: Aghast,
John C Dvorak: yeah, he's aghast. A, G, H, A, S, T, I
think is, I
Adam Curry: think it's genuine.
John C Dvorak: I'm not saying it's not genuine. I'm just
saying he's aghast. And it's and to the point where it's almost a
parody of itself. He's, you know, the mouth is slightly
open. It's like, I can't believe what I'm hearing, as opposed
Rogan's a little more aggressive. He's more like a
like a UFC fighter. He's actually a different style of
interviewer, to say the least. And he's not aghast, please,
necessarily. They're
Adam Curry: both conversationalists more than
interviewers. I wanted to click. He had Peter Thiel on impossible
to clip. I'll do Peter Thiel.
John C Dvorak: No, Peter Thiel is impossible to clip. I saw
that He's worse than musk. It must be some milieu. Yeah,
Adam Curry: it's the difficult talk. It's a difficult talking
California tech people. Let me steel man, that for you. Steel
man, what is this? When did this become a thing? Let me steel
man, that for you?
John C Dvorak: No, it's another new one. It's quite irritating.
Oh, you mean, you were all irritating.
Adam Curry: So Peter, how much you've been spying on everybody
with your Palantir outfit. So what was most interesting and
is, oh, now I'm starting to sound like him is Callie's
experience as a lobbyist in Washington, DC, and he starts
off with a history of food, which I guess, if I think about
it, yeah, I could have known, but no one has ever said it
quite this. Clearly, I wanted
Unknown: to be contributing to politics from an early age, and
went to Stanford to go back into politics, studied economics,
political science, went straight back to campaigns after school.
What I learned quickly is that in campaigns over you work for
the biggest spenders in DC, and I found myself across the desks
from food industry in the farm industry, the farm industry
spends five times more in DC than the oil industry, by far
the biggest spender bipartisan. You're working for Pharma. But
starting with food, I learned early on the food industry and
the processed food industry was created by the cigarette
industry. And I think this is very telling. It's something I
learned. So in the 1990s the two largest food companies in the
world were RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris. What happened is,
when the surgeons enter way too late in the 1980s said
cigarettes were maybe problematic. These were some of
the largest companies in the world with the largest cash
piles of any company in the world. So they, what they did is
they used their cash piles to buy food companies. You know, we
think about the 80s as the Wall Street era, M and A. You know, a
lot of deals, the two biggest M and A deals up until 1990 in
world history were cigarette companies buying food companies.
So you had, in the 90s, these two cigarette companies, very
strategically, do two things. They shifted their 1000s of
scientists who were experts at making cigarettes addictive to
the food department. So we had the rise of ultra processed
food, where our food now it's a science experiment.
Adam Curry: I of course it makes sense. RJR, Nabisco, I never
realized that that it was actually the cigarette guys who
went, Oh, okay, we can't do that. We'll do this. Have you
ever thought about it that way?
John C Dvorak: No, and I wouldn't think about it that way
after listening to this guy blather on, these companies
don't operate that way. It makes it sound like a giant
conspiracy. It's not when RJR button to say they own Nabisco
that they all of a sudden change the way Shredded Wheat is
manufactured because of some tobacco idea. I'm not buying
this guy. I don't like him. I don't like the way he talks. I
don't like his patter.
Adam Curry: I'm hearing a buzz in the microphone at Tucker's
not here, Tucker's place. Well, now, now I'm after that
outburst. I'm apprehensive to play anymore. I don't think I
want to.
John C Dvorak: Well, the problem is, I'm hearing a guy who is,
like, seeing, you know, ghosts in the closet kind of thing.
Adam Curry: Well, he was there. He was a lobbyist, yeah. Well,
I'm sure that
John C Dvorak: the food industry does have a lot of lobbyists and
and they're probably not doing us any favors, generally
speaking, but it's not as though this idea of processed food just
came along because of tobacco companies,
Adam Curry: no, but they started lobbying big with their with
their powerful cash lobby.
John C Dvorak: And then the
Unknown: second thing they did is they shifted their lobbying.
So the cigarette industry, of course, was the biggest, you
know, lobbying spenders, and very had a good playbook. They
shifted their playbook on lobbying and rigging
institutions of trust to food. So they created the food
pyramid. So the cigarette industry, through the food and
companies they bought, paid off the FDA, the USDA Harvard to
create reports saying sugars and cos obesity, and they lobbied
for the food pyramid in the 1990s we all remember, which
said, you know, animal based fats or bad carbs are good.
Remember, carbs and sugar were basically the base of the
pyramid. So the American diet because of that, because we
trust our medical institutions would stay in. Oh, we shifted
our diet significantly to ultra processed food. It was very
intentional. The food pyramid that was a ultra processed food
marketing document that carbs were fine, Sugar was fine, and
that shifted. And you look at dietary patterns today, kids, a
child diet is 70% Ultra processed food. Now, what does
that mean? Those are literally foods invented by the cigarette
industry to addict kids. You know, obviously we've got sugar,
but there's 1000s of different ingredients and science
concoctions that scientists work in a lab to make it more
palatable, to make it more addictive. No, you
Adam Curry: don't believe that, so I might as well stop.
John C Dvorak: No, I don't. And the food pyramid, which first
appeared in 1972 came out of Scandinavia, had these same
issues with the carbs being too, too high. Of course, in
Scandinavia probably need more carbs. No, I'm not. No, I don't
think they're. They're trying to make food more addictive. You
don't? I think there's, I think there are issues with sugar,
there's issue with with there's issues with the way wheats
processed and aged. There's all kinds of issues. But he makes it
sound like it's some sort of a, you know, all because of to the
tobacco industry is the only people behind it all some sort
of a scheme, because they knew how to addict people to
cigarettes. They figured they can do the same thing with food.
This has been going on a lot longer than they when they start
buying up food companies. This did not start in 1990
Adam Curry: I'll agree with you on that. Well, I'll just, I'll
just skip to the last bit. Then the overall point, and that's
why he's there with his sister, is that you often see pharma and
food, and this is what we see on television, pharma and food
lobbying together. And that's why, if you look at television,
you get fast food, fast food, fast food, diabetes drug,
diabetes drug, ozempic heart drug. I mean, I think there's
something to it that there that this is what he calls the he has
a name for it, the criminal Devil's bargain. Yeah, the
criminal Devil's bargain is what he calls it, is that it's highly
tied
Unknown: to the healthcare industry. And as Casey said, the
fastest growing industry in America right now isn't AI. It's
not tech, it's healthcare. It's the largest and fastest growing
industry, and just as a statement of economic fact, the
best thing for that industry is a child getting sick. When a
child gets sick, or any American gets sick with a chronic
condition, with diabetes, obesity, kidney disease, heart
disease, whatever, they go on a lifetime medication, they go on
the Metformin, they go on the statin, they have lifetime
treatments, and they keep racking up more comorbidities.
If you're diabetic, you have an average of four other
comorbidities. So you keep racking up, but you don't die.
You just suffer. You inevitably get infertility, depression, you
start racking them up. So that's very good for the medical system
to have these chronic conditions that need to be managed. Just
from a pure economic standpoint, that's how the system's set up.
The criminal part, the devil's bargain, is that the healthcare
system you'd expect to be speaking out about why we're
getting so sick. They're silent enough, they're actually
complicit. Working for Coke, I helped steer money to the
American Coca Cola. Yeah, working for Coca Cola, they
actually pay money to the American Diabetes Association.
Anyway. I
Adam Curry: think it's just good to hear it from time to time,
we're not eating real food, you and I don't have that issue. We
eat good food. A lot of people don't,
John C Dvorak: and most people don't,
Adam Curry: particularly in America, although I've seen it,
John C Dvorak: but I would say again, what I brought up earlier
that the physician, it was it felony to accept money, a direct
payments for prescribing drugs. Yes, I think that would have a
bigger impact than when he's, you know, him. And is this a
conspiracy kind of a thing that? Well, of course, and he brought
tobacco in as you know, as the tobacco guys are just these evil
villains that are finding ways to addict people to poison the
food supply in this country is toxic. There's no question about
it. You go
Adam Curry: more seed oils, sludge.
John C Dvorak: Yeah. All right, that's all. That's all well,
then let's play as something a little lighter. I've got light
to lighten things up. I'm
Adam Curry: gonna pull it no matter what you know, I'm gonna
do that to you. Now this
John C Dvorak: is going to be a little discussion on this NPR.
So important to discuss brat summer.
Adam Curry: I thought that already came and went. Brat
John C Dvorak: summer is morphing into something new. Oh,
brat summer
Unknown: this viral trend that took its name from the latest
Charlie XCX album titled brat. But as summer starts to wind
down, we're also seeing a new trend start to emerge on social
media here to tell us about it is. Is USA Today. Health and
wellness reporter Charles trepone, wait, okay, stop
John C Dvorak: the clip. This
Adam Curry: isn't just a Kamala commercial.
John C Dvorak: No, no. You think it would be. I mean, I have
undertones in the commercial by anti Trump stuff, but this is
the health and wellness reporter for USA Today. Okay? And he's
talking about breath. This is a this is National Public Radio,
their treasure with the most inane conversation. I'm going to
say before you do the most inane stupid conversation, plugging
this record and and talking about Brad summer that nobody
cares about except some kids out and on tick tock. I found this
to be the most offensive series. This is two parter. It's
offensive to me. You're
Adam Curry: gonna offend us with this offensive nonsense. I think
John C Dvorak: people should be aware that this is this sort of
thing. Is what the national public treasure is plays on the
weekends.
Unknown: Charles, welcome to all things considered, hi. Thank
you so much for having me worth it already.
Adam Curry: What was that?
John C Dvorak: Oh, I did sweeten it a bit. Oh, okay, I'll
Unknown: shut up. Charles trepone, Charles, welcome to all
things considered, hi. Thank
you so much for having me.
Thank you
for being here. And First things first, for anyone who missed
brat summer, can you just tell us what was this all about?
So having a brat summer basically means embracing chaos,
embracing your messy side, embracing your wild side. It's
about clubbing, partying. When Charlie XCX sort of described
what a brat means to her. She said that it can include luxury.
It can include trashiness. There's no one right way to be a
brat, as long as you're sort of living your life and you just
don't care what other people think. Okay,
so this meme has gotten a lot of mileage this summer, but we're
even starting to see kind of a new trend. Challenge, brat
summers throne. Can you tell us about what this thing demure
fall is all about? Yes.
So in response to brat, there is a new trend afoot called being
demure. People online are declaring it demure
fall. So pretty, pretty different vibes.
Yes, completely different vibes. It's brother. I'd say demure is
almost embracing like a quiet confidence. It's going through
your life with calmness, with gentility, with consideration
for others. It's not making waves. It's not drawing
attention to yourself, and in a way that not drawing attention
to yourself is the power and being demure. A lot of it is
sort of the very basics of just living your day to day life. But
it casts it in a more graceful, kind of elegant mindset and
attitude, basically.
Oh,
Adam Curry: so I know about this. You know, we still have
the millennial from Brooklyn staying with us. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: okay, why don't you give us a little
enlightenment here? Because I found this to be for one thing,
this extremely, maybe not gay health and wellness reporter
from USA Today to be like, What? What has this got to do with
anything, especially your job? But he's, I guess, a social I
don't know. No,
Adam Curry: that's a big part of it. This is the the the American
communism has resulted in a complete withdrawal from
society. In other words, we're just going to all get blue
collar jobs, work at bars, work in restaurants, live on tips. Go
Trump, no tax on Oh, go Kamala, no tax. What doesn't matter.
We're not going to vote. We're only going to take care of our
own community. We barter, we live a quiet life, we smoke
weed, we just chill. And yes, I'm telling you, and have and we
have no actual care about our future. They have completely
withdraw. Yes, that is the brat summer. Yes, that is exactly
what it is. It is our communism is a little different because it
has seed oils, and we just don't care. That's what it's become.
They are. We don't, we don't look at Twitter anymore. We
don't, you know, we do Doom scroll on tick tock for the
last, for the dogs, for the dancing, completely withdrawn
from, uh, economic future, political future. Don't want to
have kids. That's, that's what, I think this is an accurate
report.
John C Dvorak: You're making me sick.
Unknown: So these are both kind of delightful in very opposite
ways. Right? Like Brad is, yes, childish and immature, demure is
poised and grown up, but both of these memes are sort of taking
up space in the online hive mind. What do you make of that,
even though they're both very opposite, I think they're kind
of reacting to the same sort of theme. Feeling in the culture
that people are experiencing this year. I think people in
general are just feeling a lot of chaos. And what's interesting
to me about brat and demure is that both of them are sort of
different ways of coping or moving through chaos and
uncertainty. Brat is embracing it, fully embracing the mess,
embracing the wildness and then demure. In a way, it's like a
more calming way of moving through life. It's really sort
of, I think, tuning out the big noise and just focusing on the
small things.
So this raises an important question on the spectrum of brat
to demure. Where are you right now?
Oh, my gosh. I go up and down. I think I'm ready for demure fall,
but I think you have to go through a brat era before you
can truly appreciate demure. Oh, okay,
I love it.
Yes. What about you? Adrian,
oh, man.
I mean, it depends on how much sleep I've gotten.
Listen eight hours of sleep a night is very demure.
Well, I think we have our answer. I've been speaking with
USA Today health and wellness reporter Charles trepany,
Charles, thanks again.
Thank you,
elitist. Voices of America.
This is NPR,
Adam Curry: but I think I described it
John C Dvorak: perfectly. Yeah, you might be right onto
something. It's beyond me. That's for
Adam Curry: sure. Well, that's not our producers, that's not
our trolls. Don't think so at all. Okay, I have a series of
very quick clips, very quick clips and a clip Blitz, ooh,
well, I don't know if I can do it is kind of a clip Blitz, but
I won't be able to as too many as too many clips for me to it's
literally like 10 seconds, 12 seconds, eight seconds, six
seconds, this. This pissed me off. Because, what? Well, I was
pissed off.
John C Dvorak: You got irked. Now, I
Adam Curry: was pissed off on the last show, okay, on the last
show, you played a Ukraine clip, and they talked about this, you
know, one quarter acre that Ukraine had, uh, invaded Russia,
and it was 1000
John C Dvorak: meters square kilometers,
Adam Curry: kilometers. And I said, I heard him talk about
1000 and you said, No, and I'm not saying that you weren't
pushing against
John C Dvorak: no use the way I heard it. You said that they
moved into Russia, 1000 kilometers? Well, 1000
Adam Curry: square kilometers is 400 is 427,000 acres.
John C Dvorak: Okay? So, yes, but going in 1000 if you went in
1000 and you had 1000 square that you'd only be in by 1000
kilometers, by one kilometer. Why? So, the point
Adam Curry: of the clips here is that they're all full of crap.
So this is five days ago.
Unknown: Tony. How much do we know about Ukraine's operations
inside Russia? You put it in that historical context for us,
yesterday, the first foreign incursion, military incursion,
into Russia since World War Two. Yes,
I mean, that tells
you the significance of it and how embarrassing in many ways,
it is for the Kremlin to have to confront this. And yesterday,
Ukrainian officials met with President Zelensky, and the
military told him that they had control of 1000 square
kilometers of Russian territory. That's about 386 square miles.
So that was Bloomberg. Here's Deutsche Bella. Ukraine says it
now controls around 1000 square kilometers of Russian territory.
Prize offensive, the biggest attack on Russian soil since the
Second World War.
Adam Curry: And now we go to,
John C Dvorak: what was that? What was that? That was a
misreport. Yeah, it's Deutsche Bella.
Adam Curry: But now we're going to go to just two days ago, and
now you hear this. Ukraine's
Unknown: army chief gave this update when speaking to
President Volodymyr Zelensky. Since the start of today, troops
have advanced around one mile in various directions. Okay,
Adam Curry: one mile now went from 1000 square kilometers to
one mile. Now we go to the BBC after
Unknown: advancing up to 10 kilometers into korsk, Ukrainian
troops have now posted video showing them inside the
neighboring Russian region of Belgorod. Okay, let's
Adam Curry: go to the CBC. Reports
Unknown: suggest Ukrainian troops have advanced more than
10 kilometers inside Russian territory.
Adam Curry: Let's go to France. 24
Unknown: Well, those are the declarations of the Commander in
Chief, Alexandre sisky, on the size of the territory currently
under Ukrainian control. So of course, this is what Kyiv is
saying, that there's 1150 square meters of territory Russian
territory currently under Ukrainian. Control.
Adam Curry: And then finally, today's report,
Unknown: Ukraine says it does not want to permanently occupy
Russia's Kursk Region after launching a major offensive into
the territory last week, Ukraine says its intention is to thwart
Russian attacks on its territory and to pull Russian military
resources away from the Ukrainian frontline. Russia's
Defense Ministry's released footage of what it says are
operations against Ukrainian forces operating inside the
Kursk Region, close to the Ukrainian border. Analysts say
Ukrainian troops have advanced up to 25 kilometers into Russian
territory. Russians displaced by the fighting are arriving in the
capital Moscow. More than 130,000
people have been, already been forced from their homes, with
another 60,000 in the process of leaving on Tuesday.
Adam Curry: So if I mean, no one has the story straight.
Everybody has different numbers, different summer, measuring
distance. Some are measuring area. Okay, they're all full of
crap. But what I think we're looking at here. But by
John C Dvorak: the we should back up and mention that we
since day one of this Ukraine, Russia fiasco, yeah, we have
been saying that these reports are all boat. We can't trust
anybody saying anything about anything is the same thing with
the Israel and and Hamas. You can't believe anybody on either
side. Which takes us right back to your earlier point, which is
that we don't get to see the mangled bodies anymore. The
reporting stinks.
Adam Curry: The only thing I hear out of this final report
that I just played is we have a demilitarized zone in the
making, and it's being determined partially by the
press, by the media Russia taking citizens out, that is
pretty consistent, although, again, different numbers
everywhere. I think we're looking at a DMZ, and that means
and they're talking about bargaining chips, and we're
getting very close to some kind of negotiation, and now we're
just jockeying for position. We're calling different areas or
different distances. There's a demilitarized zone in the making
here. That's my conclusion.
John C Dvorak: Well, it looks like there, I get the sense that
the Ukrainians are panicking, feeling that Trump could win,
and they know that once that happens, there's
Adam Curry: no more money. He has no more money. I did get an
awesome clip.
John C Dvorak: I do have some Ukrainian. This is a shorty.
Adam Curry: Is just light hearted, new word. So Ukraine
apparently has an ombudsman, an ombudsman. What does the
ombudsman do? What is an ombudsman?
John C Dvorak: Yes, he is the he is a person that's usually set
up as a neutral party within a corporation or a government that
is supposed to be beholding to nobody that actually hired him.
And he is, he or she is supposed to be a middle man for
complaints.
Adam Curry: Well, this middleman for complaints in Ukraine came
out with a report about the Russians torturing Ukrainians,
and he had an interesting word, yes.
Unknown: So the the Human Rights Commissioner here, ombudsman
here in Ukraine, opened an investigation following this
video, which has been circulating on social media. It
hasn't been identified yet, but it is in line of previews. I
Adam Curry: love this new word authentic.
John C Dvorak: Well, it's not a word as authenticated as what
we're supposed to be. I know, but I love identified. I love
it. There's another show title for us, which
Unknown: has been circulating on social media. It hasn't been
identified yet, but it is in line
John C Dvorak: of it's groovy. We have to look it up to make
sure it's not a word. I
Adam Curry: looked it up. There's no it's not a word.
There's no word authentic. Well, natalism also didn't show up.
Let me see. So natalism is a word. Well, now what was the
other word that didn't it was another word that didn't show
up. Apparently, uh, publical is a word somewhere. Wait,
authentic. Oh, no. Wait, identified. What is this?
Wictionary, Wiktionary, simple past and past part participle of
authentic, really,
John C Dvorak: that doesn't sound right to me. Doesn't sound
right to me either,
Adam Curry: to authentic. Let me see, can you authentic?
Unknown: That's crazy.
John C Dvorak: We're mocking people for using correct
language. That's great. No, no,
Adam Curry: there is no, there is no word authentic in the in
the online dictionaries, but there will be soon identified.
Please use identified in a sentence. Yeah.
John C Dvorak: All right, okay, get my Ukraine. Uh, odd report,
Ukraine. It's about this is just up. It says, odd report. For a
reason,
Unknown: Ukrainian military forces continue to control
hundreds of square miles of land in the Russian territory of
Kursk. Well, now it's hundreds of square miles. That's more
than a week after they launched an invasion that took Russia by
surprise. Now, few reporters have gotten right up to the
front lines of the fighting, but one who's gotten close is Nick
Connolly from the German outlet DW news. Earlier today, I
reached Conley in Sumy, which is a city on the Ukrainian side of
the border where Ukraine's military is staging equipment
for the operation. I asked him what the scene was like in a
city just 20 miles away from the front line. So
it's around 6pm local time here on Saturday evening, and people
are out walking with a conspicuous number of children.
This is really not something we're used to seeing in Ukraine
cities so close to the Russian border. It's a lot more alive
than places like Kharkiv. I can't really explain it, because
it's a city that constantly gets hit. Just this morning, there
was an Iskander ballistic missile hit less than a mile
from where I'm sitting now, in downtown. And you really
wouldn't tell by seeing all the people out. We saw a wedding
earlier, people taking pictures now, people out with coffees,
with drinks. It feels pretty idyllic. It's a really jarring
kind of feeling. Just two hours ago, we were close, we were
close to the border, and there were Russian glide bombs coming
in, which are these kind of devastating, very cheap weapons
that are kind of half a ton heavy and can just take houses
apart in a few moments. And here in SUNY, it kind of seems like
the war is pretty far away, if you kind of ignore the military
vehicles that you see passing through pretty much all the
time,
and I can hear some children in the background there. Also,
it's really weird, because, you know, you've seen so many
families in Ukraine, for Europe, anyone who had small children,
especially in Kyiv, which actually is much safer than
Sunni, where we are now, and we're less than about 20 miles
direct line to Russian border. This is a city that gets
attacked with cruise missiles, with ballistic missiles, with
drones, and yet it seems very alive. And it is strange. It is
fact that Sumi is a bit less on the radar, maybe, than Kharkiv.
It has less symbolic importance for the Russians, so they really
have focused on Kharkiv, which is not very far away, but it is,
it is, you know, something we weren't expecting, even though
we're in Ukraine all the
Adam Curry: time. Okay, what was weird about it? What was odd
about it? Who
John C Dvorak: was strange about it? Well, his comment was that
it's like as if nothing is going on, and he's got their kids out
there. They're playing in the playgrounds. There's no it's not
a war no zone, even though it's right there,
Adam Curry: by the way, the minute they start talking about
the 33 square miles or kilometers, will know it's over.
It's coming. It's coming. So, yeah, so they're just hanging
out there with the kids and the playground. Everything's groovy,
John C Dvorak: yeah. And he found this is a Deutsche Valley
guy, so, you know, that's CIA, so we, so I just found the
report to be odd, and that's why I called it this, because and
everyone, the guy himself, the DW guy, is kind of befuddled,
and so is the reporter that's taking the story in. So here we
go. So what
Unknown: do you make of this shift in the mood? I think
people
are really happy to have something else to talk about, to
have some grounds for optimism. There is a real sense of kind of
pride that, you know, the Russians are now having to feel
what war, isn't it? This isn't just going all in one direction.
There's a hope that maybe ordinary Russians will put
pressure on their government to end this war, if they see the
real cost of this war, if it stops being this kind of
colonial war that Russia can basically just carry out on
someone else's territory, far away. But there is also a lot of
worry about if this goes wrong, if the Ukraine troops there were
to be encircled or to get into Russian captivity. But for now,
it really reminds us of, kind of the 30 of the war, that late
summer, autumn of 22 when the Ukrainians were taking back
territory and really pushing the Russians back. There's a real
sense about him.
And I'm curious about Russians who live in the area. I
understand that some Russian locals to get away from the
fighting have actually crossed into Ukraine, rather than
fleeing further into Russia. Why is that?
So we spoke to a mother and son who were here in swimming
yesterday. They are joint Russian American citizens us in
the 90s, and got citizenship and had come back for some family
reasons, and so they were keen to leave Kursk Region Russia to
get to their family left in the US. So that was a kind of fairly
unusual case, but there are now reports coming in more people
trying to come to Ukraine because they decide that it's
actually worth it, that crossing the front lines between
Ukrainian Russian troops to get to Russian territory is just too
unsafe. But for now, the number's pretty small. Most
people we're seeing coming into Sumi are Ukrainians from
villages along the border who are seeing the Russians upping
their aerial bombing campaign and trying to get away from
Adam Curry: that where's the war?
John C Dvorak: That's what makes this, these clips, so odd. Now I
there's something else that's kind of odd, this Kursk thing,
mainly because I was watching some documentaries about. World
War Two, and Kursk was the last place that the Nazis attacked
after they got driven out of Stalingrad. They got driven out
of Russia and regrouped in Kursk. To no they regrouped
outside of Kursk, probably in Ukraine, because which was a
Nazi it was a Nazi state for all practical purposes. It still is.
And they attacked Russia. They figured they're going to do a
second attack, and they're going to attack Kursk, the city, not
the area. The area is called curse, but it's city itself, and
the Russians got wind of it, and set up a and booby trapped
everything and and set up a kind of a ambush, and ambushed the
Germans before they could get get their plan underway. And
that was actually the moment when World War Two, really
that's when the Russians took it over at that point, and it was,
and it involved Kursk, and so I might think, man, you know, this
is kind of an interesting coincidence that nobody's
mentioning.
Adam Curry: Well, when I think of Kursk, I think of that sub
that all those guys died when they sank. Remember that it was
at
John C Dvorak: the bottom the Kursk submarine disaster. I
think it was in the year 2000 something like that. Yeah, now
we'll play this last clip, and that'll be the end of
Unknown: it. Are you seeing any signs that make you think that
the Ukrainian military is thinking of moving on or or
potentially giving up some of this territory? Actually, quite
the opposite. We've
had news in the last few days of them setting up these military
authorities. So basically, this kind of administrations to deal
with Russian civilians left there. We've also seen them
blowing up bridges across some strategic rivers, which would
allow them to defend the territory more easily and
prevent the Russians coming back in. So it seems, I don't think
there's any sense the Ukrainians want to annex this territory,
like the Russians have done with bits occupied Ukraine, but they
want to hold on to it for a while to then trade it for other
territory that Russia has seized in Ukraine. Hmm,
John C Dvorak: something's up, yeah. Well, Russians don't seem
to be caring that much about it, no, which makes it even more
strange.
Adam Curry: The whole thing is lame. It's lame, really, it's
lame before we go to war torn Israel, which I'm sure we have
to talk about briefly. I would just go, like to go to war torn
UK for a moment.
John C Dvorak: I should get more clips from this. You the UK
thing is completely, it's, it's like, it's like propaganda wars
in some funny ways. Oh, very much we have, we have no idea of
what the truth is.
Adam Curry: Some headlines mi five could scrutinize Tommy
Robinson funding and checks, and it may extend to Farage. So here
comes the political hit jobs. So Tommy Robinson, who founded and
left the EDL, but apparently the EDL is responsible for all of
this and Elon Musk, according to the Guardian, inciting rioters
in Britain, was just a test run for Elon Musk, just see what he
plans for America.
John C Dvorak: Oh man, here's the guardian.
Adam Curry: Oh yeah, here's a BBC hit piece on Farage. Newly
published figures suggest the leader of reform UK, Nigel
Farage, has the highest earnings outside parliament of any MP in
the latest register of members financial interests, Mr. Farage
declared earnings of more than a million pounds a year over and
above his MP salary. More details from our political
correspondent Damian grammaticus,
Unknown: as the MP for Clacton Nigel, Farage earns an annual
salary of 91,000 pounds a year. It's now emerged that he is, in
addition, paid more than that every month by GB news, 97,900 a
month, to be exact, to present on its TV channel, all MPs have
to declare their outside earnings. The newly published
register shows Mr. Farage also earns 4000 pounds a month
writing for The Telegraph newspaper, and he's been paid
more than 16,000 pounds for recording short, personalized
video messages individuals can purchase online. The website
that sells the service says Mr. Farage is often asked to
reference his political views on Brexit, immigration and the
Reform Party. His total earnings outside parliament are almost
one and a quarter million pounds a year, comfortably, more, it's
thought, than any other MP. Mr. Farros declares that his extra
parliamentary work takes the equivalent of around nine work
days a month. Boris Johnson's government had following a
scandal about second jobs, said it was in favor of capping both
the amount of time MPs could spend on outside. Work and the
amount of money they could earn, but later said restrictions
would be impractical. Labor in its last manifesto, promised it
would bring in rules to prevent MPs taking up roles that stopped
them serving their constituents and the country. Oh, come
Adam Curry: on. After Nigel, making plans for Nigel over
there is this
John C Dvorak: like peanuts compared to what our congress
people make on insider trading, on insider trading and
everything in between, is public speaking and the rest of it? Oh,
yeah, they're going after him for some what's he doing,
though? Yeah, we haven't gotten any clips from about him. He
hasn't spoke at Question time that I can find. So he did
Adam Curry: one question time. It was boring and long, and
everyone left, and there was no oohing and eyeing or booing,
yeah. And then just thought this was rather interesting. The
Church of England is going to rebrand. They're rebranding to
drop the word church.
John C Dvorak: They're just going to call themselves
England.
Adam Curry: The Church of England looks set to undergo a
rebrand by dropping the word church in favor of relevant and
modern sounding descriptions such as community,
John C Dvorak: the community of England. Yeah, yeah. What it is?
A church. Hello, yeah, no, no,
Adam Curry: we can't have that. A spokesman for the church
claim, one reason why the word church appears less often in
descriptions of new worshiping communities is that these forms
of worship can exist outside traditional brick and mortar
churches. Oh, okay,
John C Dvorak: so what?
Adam Curry: England has fallen. They've fallen. It's over with
at least for a couple years, until we get
John C Dvorak: a big apologist for religions or churches. But a
church is a church. It looks like a church, it acts like a
church, and there are services that are convened within the
church. You think, Why would you call it what? Why don't you just
call it what it is? What's the point of this? Is like the 1984
Adam Curry: No, it is 1984 it's 2024 it's 1984 all over again.
You can't do anything in the UK. You can't annoy anyone on social
media. I, you know, I live there. I like the Brits.
John C Dvorak: What good is social media if you can't annoy
people?
Adam Curry: That's the whole point of social media, I know.
And then we cannot let an episode go by without the latest
very, very scary temperature rise,
John C Dvorak: climate change. Curiously, I got some climate
chips. The chips, climate chips. Well, here's
Adam Curry: my climate chip. Spanish beachgoers
Unknown: seeking cool reprieve from the summer's heat, may have
been surprised when they dipped their feet in the water on
Friday. All right,
Adam Curry: so the Spanish beachgoers were surprised when
they dip their toe in the water. Let's find out why they might
have been surprised.
Unknown: The Mediterranean Sea hit a new heat record, topping
its highest ever temperature for the second year running, the
daily median water surface temperature reached 28.9 degrees
Celsius compared with 28.7 degrees Celsius last year,
Adam Curry: it's two tenths of a degree warmer, and people were
surprised, oh, oh my, this is so warm, two tenths of a degree
warmer. Wait
John C Dvorak: a minute, this. So this report claims that
people can sense two tenths of a degree to the point where it
becomes a news story. What's
Adam Curry: wrong with you? You can't sense that you don't you.
You anti climate change conspiracy theorists. You
Unknown: the daily median water surface temperature reached 28.9
degrees Celsius compared with 28.7 degrees Celsius last year.
The Record comes on the heels of a scorching July over large
parts of the basin, and for experts, the news is concerning.
Overheating of the sea prevents the air from cooling at night
and encourages heat waves.
Adam Curry: It encourages heat waves. Hey, hey, hey, hey, heat
climate. This is the ocean talking. How about a heat wave.
Warmer
Unknown: water also leads to higher mortality rates among
many fish species. Experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change, long classified the Mediterranean as a hotspot
for global warming, they say it is particularly vulnerable to
rising sea surface temperatures and faces significant risks due
to climate change. Due
Adam Curry: to climate change. There it is due to climate
change. Everything is due to climate change. I think we we
should just keep that. We should just keep that in we should just
say, Oh, I'm not feeling well
Unknown: due to climate change, yeah, oh,
John C Dvorak: I have a headache. Definitely make that a
sub clip.
Unknown: I have a headache due to climate change, yeah,
Adam Curry: just, we just got to keep it in there due to climate
change. Oh. Oh no, I missed the bus due to
Unknown: climate change.
John C Dvorak: I think you're onto something. Okay, good. I
got a climate change in SoCal Southern California and the
water crisis,
Unknown: cities and suburbs in Southern California rely on the
Colorado River for about a third of their water supplies. Now,
the
biggest user of that water is set to receive more than a half
billion dollars from the federal government to use less. Alex
Hager, with member station K UNC, has more. The Imperial
Irrigation District in Southern California agreed to leave a
portion of its Colorado River water in Lake Mead over each of
the next three years. That'll boost the nation's largest
reservoir, which has been sapped by decades of steady demand and
dry conditions fueled
by climate change,
the federal government will pay the farm district with money
from the inflation Reduction Act. Some opponents of the new
water saving deal say it was rushed and didn't leave time for
public comment.
They also say sending less water through the river could hurt
wildlife habitats and air quality, lower flows could dry
out a nearby lake bed and send windblown dust towards some
cities
due to climate change,
dust,
Adam Curry: it's gonna get dusty. Brother, oh man, you
know, and it's still a punchline for us, but it's really going
one of these days, they're going to clamp down, and we're all
going to be sad that we only laughed about it. Yeah. Well,
there's
John C Dvorak: nothing else we can do but laugh about it.
Here's climate change and hurricane Debbie, which is funny
name for hurricane in Georgia,
Unknown: a crew is hauling away a makeshift road block outside
Statesboro, Georgia, a large pile of dirt heaped on the road
to keep people from crossing a bridge that flooded in the
storm.
We done this because people have been running the barricades.
Dink Butler
is the public works director for Bullock County, about 50 miles
northwest of Savannah and an hour and a half from the beach.
Heavy rainfall from Tropical Storm Debbie overflowed. Stream
banks burst through dams and washed away dirt roads here,
some neighborhoods were stranded by water, especially
along the rivers, the dead end roads that go into the river.
Butler
says the county is hauling in rock to fully rebuild some
roads. We're
addressing the limited access or the no access locations. We're
prioritizing those for so that we'll be able to get emergency
services to them if they need it
beyond emergency repairs, the county has a long recovery
ahead. Bullitt County has around 700 miles of dirt roads, the
most in the state. Butler says, and the storm washed away a lot
of them. We
probably lost an average of a foot of dirt across most of
these roads, like many of the
areas hardest hit by tropical storm, Debbie Bullitt county is
pretty far inland. The path of the storm has a lot to do with
that. Debbie came from the Gulf of Mexico across Florida into
South Georgia, rather than traveling up the Atlantic coast.
But Debbie also caused those heavy inland impacts because it
moved slowly while dumping a lot of rain. University of Georgia
meteorologist Marshall Shepherd says storms like that are
getting more common. We know
that climate change is juicing precipitating systems in general
due to climate change.
Adam Curry: Juicing climate change is, hey, I thought we
were gonna get a whole bunch of hurricanes. Where's the big
hurricane season? Oh, I'm sorry. Talking about, oh, I'm sorry.
We're only a, we're only at D for Debbie,
John C Dvorak: yeah, it's not that many. We should be at
Adam Curry: Samantha by now, according to the earlier
reports, didn't we have reports about that storms?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, there was a bunch of reports, because they
had one early and they said, Oh, this will be the worst, because
it goes till November, so we can catch up. There's plenty of
time.
Adam Curry: Let me see, it was hurricane. Hurricane. Gotta
John C Dvorak: get the Zelda,
Adam Curry: yes, hurricane, wasn't it. This old
Unknown: report and now with back to back to back natural
disasters, Biden is asking Congress to boost emergency
funding to $16 billion
Adam Curry: I don't know when that was from. When is that
that's from last year, and we were supposed to get big
hurricanes. I don't understand. Okay. Anyway, due to climate
change, you
John C Dvorak: have a part two to this. Okay.
Unknown: Shepherd says the intense rainfall fits the
overall trend.
The data has been very clear for several years now that when it
rains, it rains with greater intensity, even in just sort of
heavy afternoon thunderstorms, not just hurricanes, it's
not just more rain. The warming ocean is also making hurricanes
more powerful. Hurricanes have historically lost steam as they
move over land, but Shepherd says that's not as true anymore
as
the. Storms are more juiced, and as their I think impacts further
inland will be significant. Officials
are trying to adjust to this new reality of hurricane impacts
outside typical coastal areas. Jill Nagel with the Georgia
Department of Transportation, says the agency learns from each
storm, with
this one being different, we will put this in our plan, our
statewide plan, and looking at the future. If we have another
event like this, what's our best course of action? Like,
what roads and bridges should they monitor for flooding? Local
leaders like Butler say they've also learned lessons. I
just hope that we don't have to face using them again. No time
soon,
hurricane season continues through November and usually
gets more active in the fall. Yeah, I just
Adam Curry: got a note from Sir by His grace, who is in Florida.
He said, No, no, September, September. September is when
it's all supposed to happen, okay, but I hope it doesn't for
him and his family, yeah, for everyone, it's no good. I have
two clips just of some things that are actually this. You
know, you had a 4.4 magnitude momentum scale earthquake
John C Dvorak: last week, Southern California. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. And
Adam Curry: listening to this clip, I'm like, Oh, I see what
you're doing. This is a real estate scam.
Unknown: Angelenos felt the jolt, the shaking, of a 4.4
magnitude earthquake this week. It felt like a basketball some
put their earthquake drills to good use and sheltered
underneath kitchen tables. This latest one originated from the
Puente Hills fault, which is 25 miles long and runs from
Glendale to Pasadena to Puente Hills. It's been really active
in recent months, much more so than in past years. In its
location near apartment buildings, homes and businesses,
is concerning.
Has the potential for a very large earthquake. It's been
modeled up to magnitude seven and a half.
The issue retrofitting is coming back to the forefront. In 2015
the LA City Council voted to require certain older buildings
to undergo retrofits to make them more resilient. Owners had
until 2023 to make those changes. According to analysis
from the LA Times, there are currently 6000 buildings
potentially in need of earthquake updates in LA County.
KTLA consumer expert David Lazarus says, luckily,
technology and infrastructure has improved enormously over the
decades.
Buildings that go up now will simply be safer than buildings
that went up, say, 2030, years ago. So that's an element to all
of this at the same time. Make no mistake, it's a roll of the
dice. If you're planning to spend millions or billions of
dollars on a new project, you know full well there could be a
catastrophe around the corner.
Adam Curry: No, I think what's happening here is 6000
homeowners are going to get a knock on the door. It's going to
be up. If you don't want to upgrade, we're going to tear it
down and we're going to put a new building here. Smells like a
real estate scam to me.
John C Dvorak: Well, you know that earlier report about the
water, they cut the water off, seems like a real estate scam
too. I mean, when you drive down Highway five over the last few
years and you get down to maybe 100 miles north of Los Angeles,
everything is all dried up, and there's sign there's billboards
up, people saying they've taken they're screwing us over. They
won't give us water, so we're farmers are going out of
business left and right, and there's a bunch of dead. You see
dead trees all over the place, orchards that are just dried up
and dead.
Adam Curry: Oh, you know? Why you know? Why don't you know?
Why don't you
Unknown: climate change? Due to climate change,
Adam Curry: exactly due to climate change. Man, get out of
there. Get out of there. You're never going to leave. Are you?
You want? You want to? I love it here. You're going down with the
ship. All right. Final clip. This is just one of those little
revealing things that you didn't hear much about in the
headlines. The voting
Unknown: technology company suing right wing media outlets
over 2020 Election coverage is now embroiled in its own
controversy. The US Justice Department indicted three
current and former executives from Smartmatic on charges
connected to a bribery scheme. Prosecutors say the executives
use a slush fund to bribe the former top election official in
the Philippines, Andy Bautista, in exchange providing voting
machines and services for the country's 2016 elections. The
alleged bribes amount to at least $1 million Bautista, who
was indicted in another case in the US, is currently in hiding,
though he responded to the indictment on X saying he's
innocent and the charges are politically motive. Debated by
Philippine officials, Smartmatic responded, saying the current
employees indicted have been placed on leave but remain
innocent until proven guilty. The company maintains the
indictment does not involve voter fraud and the business
itself is not included in the indictment. Smartmatic is
currently suing several media personalities and news outlets,
including Fox News and Newsmax, in a nearly $3 billion
defamation lawsuit over commentary falsely accusing the
company of helping to steal the 2020, election from former
President Donald Trump,
Adam Curry: there you go. Bunch of corrupt, corrupt people in
that company. Sounds like he's in hiding, but he posts on X,
yeah, and we can't find out where you are. No,
John C Dvorak: you can't find out anything. Can't find out
who's calling me and telling me that. Hey, Mr. Davok, Yo, you
got a call wreck recently. Why you are in call wreck? Do you
have? Did you got good insurance for a car wreck you had just
recently
Adam Curry: or like I got due tonight? GOP petitioned to
require ID to vote in all 50 states. We were just 15
signatures away. Just 15 don't cost us this sign now stop.
Equals, end. That's the third one. Just
John C Dvorak: read another one of these things. That's the
third. Have there been any other ones that you kind of passed
over and No,
Adam Curry: no, so
John C Dvorak: you've gotten three? Three,
Adam Curry: yes. Well, okay, the night is young. Anyway, I'm
happy that you're in California. You are boots on the ground in
California. Yeah, that's good. I'm
John C Dvorak: boots on the ground. One of the guys that was
coming to the meetup says, you know, I don't know you guys a
safe place to park my Tesla. And I'm saying I'm in the East Bay.
That's all the car you park it, you won't find your Tesla.
That's the problem, because there's this Tesla, Tesla,
Tesla, Tesla. You know, he's and his thought was that, well, you
know, people hate Elon Musk now, so they're gonna break my Tesla
windows.
Unknown: Imagine all the people who could do, oh, yeah, that'd
be
Adam Curry: fun. No, we're gonna thank you donors who came in $50
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John C Dvorak: with Erie. Kira Kira Kira Augi. Kiragi, karagi,
baby. Prague Oklahoma, okay? Prague, Oklahoma. James Watson
in concord township, Ohio, 105 35 he's on his way to
knighthood. It looks like then we have Angela Garcia in San
Francisco, Adam Reimer in Napa, and light Chow and Sophie nuyen
in parts unknown, but also in California, because they all
went to the Albany meetup, each one of them dropped in $100
nice. That's nice. Robin Tolbert in Topeka eight, and it's got
too many eggs.com. Mentioned too many eggs.com. Beautiful sir
Dave of the clay pits in East North port. Pert, I'm sorry,
East North port, New York, eight, 888. Baroness knight in
Edmonds, Washington, 88 Tyler Darrington in Las Vegas, las
wages, Nevada, 808. And guess who's missing?
Unknown: Oh,
Adam Curry: no, this.
John C Dvorak: This may be the reason that there was numbers
were so low off the mailing.
Adam Curry: We need to we need a health check. We need a wellness
check.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, so Kevin, we have to assume Kevin
McLaughlin sent it in and didn't go through this is this was an
issue, I think, which caused the low numbers. What kind of issue?
Kevin O'Brien, Chicago, like a paper issue. We had a PayPal
issue. I had. It has to be Kevin O'Brien in Chicago, Illinois,
606. James Edmondson in South Plainfield, New Jersey, 5510
Dean Roker, 5510 sir. Robertson of two sticks in DOS palos,
California. Yeah. He came in from dos Paulos, $55 at the
Albany meetup. Mark Hardwick in Alito, Alito, Texas, 5533 sir,
recalcitrant. This is crazy. Steve Yes from Santa Rosa. Uh,
5150, uh. He also, I think he's the one who gave me the book. He
gave me a book, kind of, what kind of book it was, one of
these, you know, anti fed, where the government's screwing us.
Economics, the kind
Adam Curry: of book you get on a list, a pile of them you get on
a list for having that book. Well, maybe
John C Dvorak: us anyway. That's recalci, and he did the meetup.
So he's, I can't good guy. Compliment him enough. Dean, a
carrier in Laval, Quebec, $50 long time. Douchebag needs a D
douche
Unknown: you've been D douched. So that's
John C Dvorak: 50 these. Rest of these are all 50s. This came in
the short list today. Hopefully I'll do better next Thursday.
Scott lavender in Montgomery, Texas. Luke Olson in Alexandria
of Virginia. Andrew Alexander in Fredericksburg, Texas. Hey,
Cory. Hey, who Frederick Andrew Alexander,
Adam Curry: I don't I don't know. Andrew. Andrew, let's hang
out at Java Ranch,
John C Dvorak: Corey Bennett in Denver College. There's 5000
people in that town, 11,000 there's a lot. Well, there's
five that doesn't mean there's not 5000
Adam Curry: Oh, there's no evidence there. There's 5000
John C Dvorak: there's 5000 that you know, there is 5000 there's
there's one. Corey Bennett in Denver College, just this is
what you call parsing four more years. Corey Bennett in Denver,
Colorado. Leanne Shipley in Covington, Covington, Covington,
Washington. Sir Jerry wing and Roth in Saugus, California. Ah,
Dame Abigail, the weird poet who was spelled with a Y. She was at
the Albany meetup and $50 and Paul best in Bedford UK, 50 and
he says, enjoyed your banter since discovering you again on
the Joe another Joe Rogan, laggard
Adam Curry: man, Joe's got to have me back on the show.
John C Dvorak: If the lag time is what this is like, what's the
last time you run a year ago? No
Adam Curry: longer. It's been, it's been, oh, man, it'll be
coming up three years, two years, two years, I think. And
John C Dvorak: now we're getting these, these guys coming in
late. That's, I find it very strange. Well, it could be just
random numbers. Thanks for the entertainment and analysis. He
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We love hearing from our grand dukes. Haven't heard from a
couple of them. And I'm very concerned about Sir Kevin
McLaughlin, Archduke of Luna and lover of America, and boobs. I'm
concerned about him. This is not like him. I want a wellness
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John C Dvorak: Want to make sure that I'm sure he has friends who
listen to the show that can check in on him. Please do it.
So make sure he's okay. That's all could have been the could
have been, Debbie, well, we just want
Adam Curry: to make sure, Debbie, so I want to make sure
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Adam Curry: on the mutton.
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I unfortunately, I was prepping yesterday until like 435
o'clock, so there was no way I could get to the float meet
which Baron Scott did in San Marcos. But I know that a lot of
people went, and I'm sure they had a very good time. Hopefully
we'll have a meet up report from him for the next show on
Thursday. In the meantime, we have a report from Rockford,
Illinois. This is the Deutsch bags meetup. Dame
Unknown: anonymous got us. Here is the Rockford meetup. Deutsche
bags in the USA. Is a successful time with good friends, good
drinks. Here we
go and small amygdalas. This is former douchebag ray in the
morning, Adam and John, we got kicked out by some spooks, and
we're sitting outside. But have a nice little hooey. Hooey. It's
great, people. Great food.
Kyle Baron of the north of North Valley of foxes. John, get the
Cadillac plan. Adam, I
love you, brother.
This is John the UN deducible.
This is Dame Julie bunny here in the morning. In the morning,
Adam Curry: a nice little mix. There some good people, the
Deutsch Deutsch bags in the USA. Meet Up. Only one meet up taking
place today, the hidden gem burger shack edition in tays
burger shack that's North Kansas City, Missouri, that is underway
as we speak. Sir Spencer, The Wolf of Kansas, who doesn't know
him, will be hosting that coming up in the month of August.
What's left we have Rogers, Arkansas, Monrovia, California,
Alexandria, Virginia, spooksville, Spearfish, South
Dakota, London, UK, in the 25th Keene, New Hampshire, Tulsa,
Oklahoma. Alpharetta, Georgia, Sharpsburg, Maryland, Medford
lakes, New Jersey, Goleta, California, Raleigh, North
Carolina, Aurora, Illinois, Garden City, Idaho, St
Augustine, Florida, Tucson, Arizona, Bedford, Texas, North
Charleston. Now into September, North Charleston, South
Carolina, Sacramento, California is on the list for November. So
many meetups. Tina and I were talking about doing a meetup
somewhere. I got to think about, we were, there was some
traveling. Oh, I, you know, I, I didn't know that cotton gin
actually lives in Plymouth. And we were there, and he didn't, he
didn't tell me, yeah, we could have done a little mini meetup.
It would have been great. He could have, it was fun driving
through, uh, Plymouth and saying, We're in Massachusetts,
nuts, and boy, were we ever even cotton gin says, Yeah, we're
crazy over here, that's the no agenda meetups. You can go to
any one of these on the list. There's no entry fee. Usually
it's in a bar, some cool hangout, sometimes a pizza
restaurant. Sometimes it's somebody's home. You will meet
people and children from other lands that you never have would
have encountered otherwise. We all have one thing in common.
You were all part of no agenda nation. It's a good time
guaranteed. Never had a negative report, ever a fight has never
broken out at a no agenda meetup that I'm aware of. So that's
something to say. Go to no agenda meetups.com. Go search
for a town near you, if you can't find one, here's a
thought. Start your own meetup. No agenda. Meetups.com. Easy and
always a party.
Unknown: Gonna be where everybody feels the same,
it's like a party.
Adam Curry: There's like a party, okay? ISOs, we always
like to select our end of show. ISO. Do it out in the open. Show
you how the i. How the sausages. Sausages is made. Sausages is
made. I have 123, I have five, five,
John C Dvorak: then you go first. None
Adam Curry: of them good, probably,
Unknown: it's hard to explain.
Adam Curry: Okay, I'm on the Biden tip here. Nothing,
Unknown: nothing, nothing
Adam Curry: kind of like that, or
Unknown: its counterpart, economy, economy, economy, no.
Adam Curry: And then we always have,
Unknown: due to climate change,
Adam Curry: there's that one, there's that one. You guess you
have better ones, huh?
John C Dvorak: I think so. Okay, so let's start with a I had to
do one of these because you do them all the time. So I did.
Mine is 100
Unknown: 100%
John C Dvorak: okay, it's out of the way. Now, you got a little
laughing thing here, he, he, a little
Adam Curry: he, he, okay, ah, you cut it off. That's too bad.
John C Dvorak: That was no problem. Okay, we got, here's an
oh my gosh,
Unknown: oh my gosh, yo, good one. Yeah, I'm
Adam Curry: liking that.
John C Dvorak: That's a good one. And then this one, which I
think is interesting, because it kind of applies to the show. Oh,
thank you both. It
Unknown: was so fun.
Adam Curry: I don't like the music. I like,
Unknown: Oh my gosh.
Adam Curry: I think, I think that that's a clear winner. Oh
my gosh, is the winner we'll be playing at the end of the show.
But first, it is time once again, for John's last
Unknown: for you and me.
Just kidding, with JCD. And
sometimes I don't,
Adam Curry: yeah, time for the tip of the day. People love this
item. They learn something. It's often it's a tip that improves
your life. It really is something that you can only get
here the best podcast in the universe.
John C Dvorak: Well, this is a screwball one. This one's
actually Mimi's,
Adam Curry: unlike all the other ones, really.
John C Dvorak: And she reminded me of this, because I've gotten
into these things too. It's a product that you get it on
Amazon, you can get it all over the place, but it's a product.
It's a sponge substitute, because it's not a sponge, but
it looks like it acts like a sponge, but it's not a sponge.
It's a scrubber scrubbing device called, and you could look them
up there. I think they're a little overpriced. I think
they're like, three or four bucks each, but they, they
don't, you know, you buy these, these different kinds of
scrubbing devices, and the sponge on one side and scrubber
on the and they A week later, they stink to something. They
they make them so they go bad, they go rotten. That doesn't
happen with these devices.
Adam Curry: Lessons,
John C Dvorak: yeah, stinker. Lessons,
Adam Curry: scrub daddy. Scrub daddy.
John C Dvorak: Get the scrub daddy and see what you think
these scrub daddies are killer, especially if you have nonstick
pots and pans or anything, actually, any sort of ceramic
wear. These things are terrific. This is an amazing product,
scrub daddy. And they're about three or four bucks a pop.
Adam Curry: You know what? I have a lot of things to scrub. I
think I'll try a scrub. Daddy myself.
John C Dvorak: You won't regret it. The
Unknown: world's gone mad. But don't you worry, it's time for
Tip of the Day with Helen curry,
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Unknown: It happens.
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Unknown: foremost. Let's just start from the beginning. How
exactly is monkeypox spread?
According to the CDC, 98% of monkeypox cases are in men. 93%
among men who reported recent sexual contact with other
men. Look The CDC says the vast
majority of cases have involved men having sex with other men.
But it. Late Friday night, Illinois officials reported that
a daycare worker tested positive.
CBC, the warning
over the weekend about children under the age of eight now to
the
monkeypox outbreak spreading in the US. A seventh child has now
been infected for
a suspected case of human to dog monkeypox transmission. It
happened in France. First and foremost, let's just start from
the beginning, how exactly is monkeypox spread? Spread
well, as much as many people don't want to accept this. It is
primarily a sexually transmitted infection. When
we first get it, we started to get those reports. And then it
wasn't just cats. It wasn't just dogs. We saw it with other
animals as well. We have
an outbreak that has spread around the world, rapidly
growing concern over the global spread of monkeypox
spreading. Spreading.
The nation's monkeypox outbreak is spreading.
A lot. A loaf of bread cost 50% more today than it did before
the pandemic. Ground beef is up almost 50%
I'm Donald Trump and I have Ruth
as best. This is the Maduro plant, Venezuela. Maduro plant.
It will cause rationing, hunger skyrocketing, and we got the
best
John C Dvorak: commercial of the week, and we didn't do anything.
Unknown: We just played her. But here's the problem, the things
that she said yesterday don't work. They have never worked.
They've never been used many times before in many other
countries, they've never worked. They've just never worked. It's
a communist. It's what her father a Marxist. He was a
Marxist. It's what her father taught her.
When I am elected president, I will make it a top priority to
bring down costs and increase economic security for all
Americans. As President, I will take on the high costs that
matter most to most Americans, Like the cost of food You you're
really
proud of
brain policies.
Want to say you don't
have a brain. You
don't have a brain. You
have a brain.org/n
a, oh, my gosh. I.