John C Dvorak: It's hot. Adam curry.
Unknown: John C Dvorak, it's Thursday,
Adam Curry: August 29 2024 this is your award winning give our
nation media assassination Episode 1690
Unknown: This is no agenda, very
Adam Curry: demure, very mindful, and broadcasting live
from the heart of the Texas new country here in FEMA Region,
number six in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry from
John C Dvorak: Northern Silicon Valley, where we're all
wondering what the hell Kamala said in the interview that's
been taped and edited. I'm Johnson black.
Adam Curry: You barely made it through it. It was hard. It was
hard. When is that? Air Tonight?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, airs tonight at nine Eastern. It'll
be groovy. It'll suck. It'll be all edited down. And you, CNN, a
bunch of journalists are going along with the program. Oh,
whatever you say, we'll cut this out. We'll cut that out. We'll
take the this and that. It's gonna be
Adam Curry: who just who says those who says they won't
sabotage her. You never know. We don't know who's playing what
these days.
John C Dvorak: Do I agree with that theory? Yeah, anything. In
fact, the latest thing with Kennedy, I do have a Kennedy, a
quick, quick Kennedy thing that nobody seems to want to point
out. And I'm going to point it out on on Jen Psaki show, Carrie
Kennedy came out to bitch about her brother. Yeah, she
Adam Curry: has the same voice.
John C Dvorak: Well, that was the joke I was,
Adam Curry: yeah, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. You said. No one wants to
talk about it. Everyone
John C Dvorak: was a hint.
Adam Curry: Is that? Now, is that genetic? I thought that he
had some kind of,
John C Dvorak: well, the Yeah, it's a just, it's called a
spasmodic dysphoria or something has got some crazy name, but
it's play Kerry Kennedy. First I got a clip here. Yep, I can't
understand a word of her. By the way,
Unknown: I completely out and separate and dissociate myself
from from Robert Kennedy Jr, and this flagrant and inexplicable
effort to desecrate and trampled set by her tonight, my father's
memory.
Adam Curry: We shouldn't be laughing.
John C Dvorak: She can't help it. No, I'm not laughing at the
fact that we're laughing that she can't get what she's trying
to get out. She couldn't say it. But nobody has pointed this out,
except you just now, oh, she has this same disorder and and it, I
looked into it, so I read about it. Dr Dvorak is all kinds of
different things. One out of 50,000 people have
Adam Curry: it. How about this? Is it caused by inbreeding? No,
John C Dvorak: that's the thing. There is no evidence that
there's anything genetic about it. So wow, what are the odds
that somebody else in the family would have it, unless it is
genetic, and they've got it all wrong? No,
Adam Curry: stay away from Miami sport. I guess there's something
in the water up there that's
John C Dvorak: screwy about the fact that she has the same
ailment. But anyway, but back to the other thesis. What so start
looking into it. I think it was Breitbart or a Daily Caller. I
think maybe Daily Caller that brought out the fact that it was
Cheryl Hines that told Bobby to talk to Trump.
Adam Curry: Yeah, the daily call. Well, try. He also talked
about it on Tucker's interview, which was a good interview,
John C Dvorak: yeah,
Adam Curry: did you see it? Did you see the whole thing?
John C Dvorak: No, I did not. But I know about the situation,
and since she's she's already bitched about the fact that he's
joined forces with Trump. What's going on here?
Adam Curry: What do you mean? Well, she's
John C Dvorak: first. She says that she told him that, you
know, he didn't want to talk to Trump because it would upset
her. She's no, no, no, go ahead talk to him. So he talks to
Trump, and they make a deal. And next thing you know, he's he's
on the Trump you know,
Adam Curry: this position, this is so interesting. We had a
dinner last night with some of the some of our friends who who
now actually think that the part of RFK is played by JFK. JR,
yeah, but, but they said the first thing because, you know,
we sit down. We haven't seen him for a couple weeks. Sit down
there. He's a plant. He's a plant. RFK, Jr's a plant. He's
there to ruin everything, as is Tulsi. So, which is what you're
implying? Well, okay, you're implying that he's a, you know,
I know he's
John C Dvorak: not, but he's not a plan. He's, I think Cheryl,
I've, we've felt that he, she may be his handler, he, we know
it's a daughter in law. I think that's a CIA person.
Adam Curry: Oh, yeah,
John C Dvorak: Tulsi is, I think she's in the 321 or she's in
some group, which is a intelligence intelligence
operation. Well,
Adam Curry: let's recall that RFK Jr said he wanted to clean.
Not the CIA. And so we have the uncle Don old school CIA, and
then we have the woke nut job CIA. But I think it goes much
deeper. I mean, much much deeper. Just, you know, I've
been reflecting on this, and you know, the title of the show is
no agenda. But at this point, all the wickedness and these,
these nasty, horrible people, just they're, they're
narcissistic psychopaths. They really are psychopaths,
psychopaths, and they've turned our country into a robber's den.
I mean, the whole everything here, just this is how it works,
all the way down the line. So my, my other stepdaughter, is
coming in for my birthday, which is very nice. She's coming in
from Chicago. And so she texts Tina this morning. Says, Oh man,
the TSA is now looking you know, you have, you get that picture
taken in the TSA line. Now you can opt out of it, but of
course, most people don't, and if you're if the picture that
they take of you does not match the picture on your ID, you're
taken out of the line. This is new, and people are freaking out
about it, even though it's supposed to be a test, and you
don't have to do it. And this is and by the way, I hate the game,
not the players, because we have plenty of TSA agents, and I'm
sure they're just as annoyed by this. TSA just tweeted the other
day randomly because it hasn't come up for at least nine or 10
months. The tweet reads, peanut butter is a liquid. We said what
we said? It
John C Dvorak: was a whole segment on the on the gut felt
show about this
Adam Curry: screw, these people Screw this, all of it, but
there's a liquid screw, the higher rationale, yeah, okay,
yeah. I mean, yes, I've seen the rationale for but it's beyond
this. Beside the point. This stems back to 2007 when a couple
of nut jobs had some things that they never actually mixed and
never exploded on the
John C Dvorak: plane, yeah, well, that's like the shoe
bomber, same thing, yeah, from
Adam Curry: firecrackers in his heel. You know. Meanwhile you
got people fighting on airplanes, beating on each other
and punches beating on each other. It's, it's time to clean
this up. And I, I choose to believe RFK Jr. I choose to
believe that he is 70 years old. And he says, Hey, I think I can
save some kids. And I'm all for it, because in 10 years, I'm
going to be 70, there's going to be no one left for Social
Security and Medicare is going to be done. There'll be no one
working that will have no more kids. I know you may not care
anymore, but I care. I don't care
John C Dvorak: anymore. Close the hatch.
Unknown: Close the hatch behind us.
John C Dvorak: So the that's funny. So the possibility that
the two of them coming in, two strong characters with a fan
base,
Adam Curry: and at Tulsi, I think she's Yeah, no,
John C Dvorak: I say the two of them. Oh, yeah, okay.
Adam Curry: I said
John C Dvorak: the two of them coming in, Tulsi and and
Kennedy, both with some sort of intelligence connections, may be
there to keep Trump from doing the screw ups that he's done in
the past, which like hallelujah, yes, exactly, hiring Your your
buddy Burks,
Adam Curry: my buddy. Oh, now it's my buddy. Okay, oh, Fauci
John C Dvorak: and people and people like John Kelly. And I
was looking into John Kelly, it's like, Bolton. How about
Bolton? Oh, Bolton. Late in the game, God, Bolton. By the time
Bolton came around, you think he'd have a clue. So
Adam Curry: this whole op, that is Kamala Harris, which it is.
And of course, the media loves this. Look at all the polls,
neck and neck. She's a little above Trump. We've got a horse
race. People advertise now. It's like, oh, okay,
John C Dvorak: advertise now spend your money. We don't want
to see anything left in the coffers. We're the media,
Adam Curry: and you can't all of it. All media is now no good,
and we'll get to telegram in a moment. But I need some of your
historic knowledge for this. Eric PP, who's one of the
developers on podcasting 2.0 he sent me a documentary, and it's
called, Let me see. It's called the ball of confusion, and it's
about the 1968 DNC. And of
John C Dvorak: course, now there's a lot of a lot I may
have seen this documentary Well, brings about. These
Adam Curry: are very short clips, but I just want to get
your historic knowledge, because Hubert Humphreys was, of course,
there at the DNC in. And where's Hubert Humphrey where was Hubert
Humphreys from Minnesota? Exactly. So listen to what
Hubert Humphrey was talking about back then in 1968 at the
DNC, he was
Unknown: a real optimist in politics, and he called it the
politics of joy. And if ever there was a phrase that didn't
fit 1968 it was that here
we are the way politics ought to be in America, the politics of
happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.
And that's the way it's going to be to all the way from here on
out.
He believed in the Johnson domestic policies. His conundrum
was Vietnam.
Adam Curry: So very similar. You know, this is history not
repeating, but rhyming right down to, well, this blew me
away. So of course, we had Nixon in, not at the DNC, obviously,
but Nixon in the race. Let's just replace Nixon right now for
Trump in this clip,
Unknown: the charge against Nixon was he couldn't win.
George Romney withdrew before the first primary in New
Hampshire. Rockefeller didn't amount to much, so he was really
running against himself. One of the things that now is almost an
accepted fact is that Nixon had a quote, secret plan to end the
Vietnam War. That he had uttered these words, he never said them.
The story, as I understand it, is that Rockefeller told a
reporter that Nixon's running around saying he has a secret
plan, and the reporter reported it in Nixon's mouth. And for
years, Nixon sought to dispel that, said he never said it. Now
that sounds
Adam Curry: a lot like Judy Woodruff saying, oh, Trump told
Netanyahu to keep it going so that he could stop the war.
John C Dvorak: Right? Which he had to walk back, which he
Adam Curry: had to walk back. But then this clip makes it even
more interesting. In the context of Trump and Bibi Netanyahu,
Unknown: we now know that Richard Nixon had asked Anna
Chennault, who was the chairman of the Republican women, for
Nixon to be a back channel to the South Vietnamese to
encourage them not to participate in peace talks in
Paris under the Lyndon Johnson administration, because they
would get a better deal with the Richard Nixon administration if,
in fact, Richard Nixon played a hand in curtailing the peace
talks in Paris. There's no doubt that that's a violation of the
Logan Act. And the Logan Act essentially prevents American
citizens from getting in the way of American foreign policy.
It is essentially treason. Now, Nixon, even though he was a
former vice president, was a private citizen at that time, so
he would have been covered by the Logan Act. LBJ was furious.
Contacting
a foreign power in the middle of war,
and it's a damn bad mistake.
When he heard what Nixon's people at least were doing and
what Mrs. Chenault was doing, he was deeply angry. He wanted to
expose Nixon, but realized that if he did so would be obvious
that he knew because of illegal wiretapped.
Adam Curry: I just love this. So that's exactly what
Unknown: I think about a den of thieves.
Adam Curry: Yes, yeah. So you know, perhaps Trump is being
wiretapped at Mar a Lago. Judy Woodruff hears about it, you
know, she thinks it's from Axios, because the old bag can't
remember. Sorry to be ageist about it. And everyone's like,
Oh, we can't let anybody know that we actually know what's
going on. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: well, they wiretapped him at Trump Tower,
and they made a big fuss about the fact that only we didn't,
even though it turned out that they did, and it was discovered
that they did, but they denied it. This is ridiculous.
Adam Curry: And then this, this one, of course, this is what LBJ
did seven days before the election.
Unknown: I have now ordered that all air, naval and artillery
bombardment of North Vietnam cease.
Adam Curry: Yeah, that would be perfect for just say, sounds
like Joe, even you ordered Israel stop bombing. And my,
how, think this is the last one. My, how things have changed
since the DNC of 1968 when reporters were actually there,
reporting on protests and what was going on. And this is a
famous clip. I'd forgotten all about it. This is Dan, rather,
who was trying to report on protests inside the DNC Mayor
Unknown: Daley really did have. Wounds in that convention hall,
and any delegate who got out of line or started indicating that
he or she was going to dissent, generally speaking, was either
shown the door or was beaten up.
Take your hands off of me unless you intend to arrest me. Don't.
Don't push me, please. But don't push me. Take your hands off
him, even unless you in arrest me. Wait a minute. Wait a
minute. Walter, as you can see, I'm sorry
to be out of bed, but somebody belt him in his stomach doing
that. What happened is a Georgia delegate, at least he had a
Georgia delegate sign on. Was being hauled out of the hall. We
tried to talk to him to see why, who he was, and what the
situation was, and at that instant, the security people,
well, as you can see, put me on the deck. I didn't do very
well. I think
we've got a bunch of thugs here. Dan,
Adam Curry: so you know, contrast that with the 2024 DNC,
where people hold up aside, there's no reporting on it from
the mainstream, only someone who happened to have a cell phone
and because they got the thugs in there, everyone's under
control. Shut up, shut up and play along. This is the game.
We're all in. It joy. It's joy, people, the politics of joy.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, you know, John chancellor was also beat up
at the at the who was John Chancellor. He was a very famous
correspondent. I think he was on NBC. There was a good, yeah,
there were that report of from what, rather, was one of many.
And they were out there reporting, and they were
actually doing a real job of it, as opposed to today, where you
just have a bunch of, in fact, what they what the Democrats did
in this convention was bring in a bunch of influencers, yes,
yes, crawling with them, yes,
Adam Curry: yeah. It's, it's modern political warfare. So I
kept looking for joy. And there is a joy, yeah, because
John C Dvorak: she's on MSNBC.
Adam Curry: Oh, joy. Joy now kept looking for the politics of
joy, and this, these things just happened in the past four
months.
Unknown: Kamala Harris's 2024 presidential campaign is being
propelled by the Black joy movement, which emphasizes
celebrating Black humanity beyond trauma and oppression,
and this has resonated deeply with her supporters in the face
of political challenges and racial identity debates. Yes,
Adam Curry: this is the black joy. There's even an exhibit in
Tennessee. We only
Unknown: seem to truly focus on black people's trauma, and while
that is valid, while that is important, and while that needs
to be studied, so does our joy, highlighting and showcasing our
ability and our audacity to find joy in spite of everything that
has been thrown at us, is something that we should not
only celebrate but honor.
Adam Curry: And of course, we had a black joy Parade, which
you and I missed. What is black joy?
Unknown: Black joy is the joy of not only being black, but just
the culture that comes with this black joy, to me, means the
ability to express yourself authentically. Us. Being
able to come here is super important for the children, for
the seniors, for everybody
in between. We're
bringing Oakland to the world. This is what we're like on
everyday basis. But we want everybody to see
the black joy that we have
we don't spend enough time celebrating ourselves. We don't
spend enough time just like basking in our own glory, if you
will.
John C Dvorak: So it's all subversive. We should all be
basking in our own glory.
Unknown: It's all subversive.
John C Dvorak: These people don't spend enough time. Adam,
basking glory. No, we
Adam Curry: should do that more often on weekends? Oh, no, we
work on weekends. This is this whole campaign, the media, the
entire administration, all of all of the agencies. I mean, I
don't know if we can ever, if we can ever reset all of this, but
man, what a bunch of jag offs, all of them. It's all just
corrupt and narcissists and sociopaths, psychopaths and
sociopaths, they're crazy and crazy, I tell you,
John C Dvorak: and it's being seems to be being. It's
encouraged by social media.
Adam Curry: Yes, yes, it is. And
John C Dvorak: I and I'm part of it. You are. I mean, I admit to
it, yeah. I mean, I'll take a look at these, these tick tock,
mainly, yes, these psychos that are on tick tock with their, you
know, guys that pretend to be women or want to be women, or
think they're women or whatever, and they're all made up and
they're ugly. It's not like they're attractive women.
They're very genuine, they're very demure. They're not even
demure, they're psychotic. And there's something compelling
about watching a psychotic person rant about something I
don't know what it is. It's like I. Why is this person even
available to to do this? Is they should be, literally, it's
locked up. They should be in an institution. Well,
Adam Curry: it's, it's, it's part of the program, though. I
mean, the fact that it's all out there to such a degree, and the
algos are bringing it to you clearly, because the only time I
see any of this stuff is when you post it. So the algos are
tuned they're fine tuned into you. They
John C Dvorak: got it, man. Look at this guy. He's gonna push all
this crazy stuff. He's nuts. They're
Adam Curry: completely tuned into you now. So, and I think
I'm gonna change my thinking
John C Dvorak: before you continue with this thesis,
they're not tuned into me so much because I don't even have
an account. It's people sending them to me. I link to I look at
that, and then once I'm on that, looking at one psycho, the
algorithm then gives me another psycho. Well, I'm just, I'm just
talking about, but I'm not part I'm not being targeted. But
Adam Curry: on X, I think you are, and you have an account on
X, your post, you're reposting this stuff on X, I don't know
what you're doing on tick tock. I mean, tick tock. I mean, I
can't get on to I just, I refuse, because I know what will
happen. Oh, this is great. Sucked in. Get sucked in. It
gets sucked in. So I think I'm going to change my opinion, or
my my original thesis on this telegram thing. And I know you
have two clips. Let me just do this. Do this background or see
if it lines up with you.
Unknown: Telegram Founder Pavel Durov has been put under formal
investigation and released under judicial supervision of
allegations his messaging service is being used for
illegal activities. Allegations include that the platform is
being used for child sexual abuse, material, drug
trafficking, fraud and abetting organized crime transactions.
Earlier this week, President Emmanuel Macron denied political
motivations were at play.
It is up to the judiciary and full independence to enforce the
law. The arrest of the President of telegram on French soil took
place as part of an ongoing judicial investigation. It is in
no way a political decision. It is up to the judges to rule on
the matter,
but the Kremlin claims otherwise, saying Durov
detention caused shock throughout the world
so media, but it
seems to me that, well, it would not be an exaggeration to say
that the whole world experienced a greater shock than ever before
from the actions of representatives of the
collective West
following durovs arrests. Telegram said in a statement
that it abides by EU laws and its moderation is within
industry standards. Jorov is banned from leaving France due
to the investigation, so
Adam Curry: whenever a statement comes out saying this is not
political, it's political, but why? Pavlov is not a politician.
So, and I admit freely, I'm somewhat influenced by the
interview that Mike Benz did with Tucker, which I which I
watched yesterday. Are you familiar with Mike Benz?
John C Dvorak: We've familiar with Mike Benz, but I did not
see this interview. You have a clip, I don't
Adam Curry: have a clip, and I have a question. What does Mike
bends do for a living? That's my question, because he seems to be
everywhere, telling everybody exactly how the State Department
works and how the blob works. But how does he make money? He's
everywhere, but, you know, he, does he have a lot of ads? Or,
you know, does he I just, that's just the question that no one
seems to be asking. So you just asked it. We should find out?
Yeah, I hope to find out. So the thinking, and by the way, it's
also influenced by this email from one of our producers, who
talks about the privacy features of Telegram, which turns out, is
not as great as I thought it was. Aha, yeah. So the early I'm
going to read verbatim here, the early team, I felt that it was
always full of holes. But, oh, it's worse than you think. The
early team behind the start of Telegram, led by Nikolai Durov,
that's pablo's Brother, I think, consists of six ACM champions,
half of them PhDs in math, but they're not cryptographers. Of
course, there's only a handful of really good cryptographers in
the world, probably instead of using known standards like PGP
or GPG that are well tested, they created their own
encryption standard. Here we go, and our boots on the ground.
Dude named Ben says there are weak parts in it that will not
surprise you if some three letter agency might have
compromised the telegram security. Another big red flag
is that, by default, the encryption of messages is not
on. Turning it on is only possible in a chat to another
person. You have to you have to actively select that you want
this encrypted. So there's no encryption in channels or
groups, which is the main use of telegram. There's no encrypt.
Impossible in channels or groups only, the secret chats are
encrypted. And of course, most people start, I think they've
changed it now, but most people have started their account with
your own mobile phone number, which is why you don't which is
why you don't have a telegram account, and all of the photos
and files you share are all stored on their closed source
servers for an unlimited time, also unencrypted. So this is a
beautiful system, and I think it's very possible this is what
Mike Benz was saying that the Russians, either they have
access to the encrypted stuff, or, you know, they have some
other access. And this is hurting the use of telegram by
Ukrainians, which is, you know, almost everybody in Ukraine is
using telegram because telegram is what you use, or used to use
when you started some kind of color revolution. Pay, a couple
of guys in Germany, we saw that. But was it the Belarus uprising?
I think the two guys in Germany are managing the telegram
channel well, that's suspicious, and that this is why they want
to try and get to Pavel, because this is one of the last systems
that the agencies and the State Department have to control
revolutions and get people all riled up, not by subverting
their messages necessarily, but by using it as the main it comes
across as trustworthy. So I think this is where we need to
have a hard look at Elon Musk, not Elon himself. I mean, I've
never liked him. You know, he's like, Oh, freedom, freedom of
speech, freedom of speech. But he isn't actually running X,
that's Linda yacorino.
John C Dvorak: Well, before you continue, let's play my two door
off clips. Okay, just about the arrest. These are generalized.
There's not anything just I just want to get him out of the way.
Unknown: In France, I'm sorry. In France, authorities have
issued preliminary charges against telegram CEO Pavel dura
for allegedly allowing illegal activities on his social media
platform. He's been released from custody on bail, but is not
allowed to leave France. Durov was arrested on Saturday at a
Paris airport as part of an investigation that opened last
month. Russia, born dorave, is also a French citizen.
Allegations against him include allowing his platform to be used
in connection with child sexual abuse, drug trafficking, fraud
and organized criminal activities. French prosecutors
also alleged that telegram refused to share information or
documents with investigators when required by law. French
media, AFP reports that Durov is also under investigation for,
quote, serious violence against one of his children in Paris.
Oh,
Adam Curry: I hadn't heard this part that's interesting. A
little twist, serious. Oh, so that so that's the that's the
leverage. Pavel, you serious violence against one of your
kids. Pavel, look at this picture. Pavel, What's that in
your mouth? Pavel, part two,
Unknown: After durovs arrest, Telegram issued a statement
saying, quote, It is absurd to claim that a platform or its
owner are responsible for abuse of that platform. Elon Musk, the
billionaire owner of x, who has called himself a free speech
absolutist, has been speaking out in support of Durov and
posted hashtag free. Pavel,
Adam Curry: yeah, you know. So it seems to me that a guy whose
main source of income is the US government could possibly be
compromised to create a great free speech platform that now
can be used instead of telegram. And I'm not saying that Elon
himself is behind it, because if anyone is running that place,
not for advertising success, because we know that's not
working, it's yakarino, who is a total mainstream Insider. NBC
Universal, started the peacocks, was part of the peacock
streaming service team Ad Council. She actually was in the
Trump administration didn't know this, the President's Council on
sports, fitness and nutrition. Why? Why?
John C Dvorak: Why I know that either that's kind of obscure,
and
Adam Curry: this is the best part. She has a twin sister, the
old twin sister bit now she's the one that keeps saying,
freedom of speech, not freedom of reach, so maybe she has her
fingers on the dial, you know. And amidst all of this, all of a
sudden we got Zuckerberg going
Unknown: Facebook. CEO Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged
being pressured by the Biden administration to censor content
during the pandemic in a letter to the House Judiciary. Jury
committee, Zuckerberg says senior administration officials
pushed the company to censor certain posts about covid on
Facebook and Instagram. Zuckerberg saying, I feel
strongly that we should not compromise our content standards
due to pressure from any administration in either
direction, and we're ready to push back if something like this
happens again. Zuckerberg also said he regrets hiding content
about Hunter Biden before the 2020 election, including
information about Biden's laptop after the FBI warned it may have
been Russian disinformation, and
Adam Curry: we just need to play a nice little supercut reminding
us how the M 5m treated us, the citizens, their customers, or
really were their product about the Hunter Biden laptop. Never
forget.
Unknown: Obviously we're not going with the New York Post
story
right now on Hunter Biden.
This is really one of the stupidest October surprises I've
ever seen. It helps to really view this as storytelling, not
so much as news coverage, but as political entertainment. NPR
explained, we don't want to waste our time on stories that
are not really stories. Who even thought to make that story up,
a story that many intelligence experts say has all the
hallmarks of a foreign interference campaign looks like
it's
tied to Vladimir Putin in Moscow. This
is a Russian intelligence disinformation campaign, foreign
intelligence operation,
foreign intelligence operation, Russian intelligence. Rudy
Giuliani was not fed passively Russian disinformation. He
ordered off the menu. This
is a classic example of the right
wing media machine, and
he's in the midst of a scandal. He's not taking
we should note Hunter Biden isn't running for president.
That argument has been debunked.
There is no evidence that Joe Biden did anything wrong. For
all we
know these emails are made up. It just lacks credibility. Okay,
start doing that. Bearing No, we're
not going to do your work for you. Sorry.
John C Dvorak: The main player in there was Stelter at least
three times. And then, of course, Morning Joe jumps in.
These guys, of course, stelters out. But these guys are so
corrupt at MSNBC, CNN, all of them. John, all of them, yes,
but not to the extreme. Come on. The extreme that you get when
you go to MSNBC is off the scale, at least they fake it a
little bit. At the other networks, again, I blame Brian
Right Blane Roberts, the guy who runs Comcast. He's the guy
behind the whole thing. Anyway,
Adam Curry: it appears to me that Elon may not have his
fingers on the knobs, and that yakarino is the one we need to
be looking at. I'll give I'll give Elon the benefit of the
doubt. But you know, he did buy Twitter for $44 billion banks
can't unload this debt. They've got $17 billion worth of debt,
which they want to sell for 30 cents on the dollar, because
that's what the debt is now valued at. So you know why? Oh,
just because you have money and you believe in free speech.
Maybe, maybe. Well,
John C Dvorak: another thing is, I wonder how much of Elon's
money, this is because there's a lot of Saudi money. It's
Adam Curry: not that's the point everybody has influence in this
thing.
John C Dvorak: That's my that would account for the fact you'd
have somebody else come in and actually Elon being a front man,
Adam Curry: yes, yeah. And, and it's always great. It's always
great when they're making fun of the other team until it
switches. You know? I mean, it's like, it's always great when
they censor the bad guy stuff, but when they turn around and
use the same tools on you, then it's not going to be so good. So
I'm just saying we need to be wary of that, and that the only
place left for true free speech is podcasting. I knew you were
no I was getting there and and listen to and so now they're
this is the psyop that's been going on for a long time, and
came to a head again this week, pod is dead. Podcasting evolved
away from Apple towards YouTube. Oh, it's the everyone watches
podcasts on YouTube. It's only YouTube. They are trying so
hard, and to a degree, succeeding, at convincing
everybody that podcasting is dead. It's only YouTube. Now, I
haven't heard this at all. Well, I'm in the business. I'm in the
business. Well, I'm
John C Dvorak: in the business too,
Adam Curry: but you're not in the business. No,
John C Dvorak: I'm not running a whole
Adam Curry: infrastructure system.
John C Dvorak: But yes,
Adam Curry: and, and, you know, and I would be okay if they, I
mean, they should at least offer to compromise me. I'm a little
disappointed by that. Yeah, where's the money? I don't know.
The podcast index is, is truly an, oh, man, so many these, a
lot of these hosting companies are in on it. I Not a lot, some
of them.
John C Dvorak: I mean, it's, it's, you know, in the
corruption, yeah,
Adam Curry: I believe so, yeah. Yeah, I
John C Dvorak: believe so you're probably right. You, like you
said, you take it down,
Adam Curry: take it down. Take it down. Oh yeah, there's some
taken down going on. They've already got, you know, Spotify,
for sure, because, you know Spotify, they've got section 230
This is why Zuckerberg, I think, is trying to cut bait and like,
oh, well, you know, Trump's gonna get in, so I might as well
say hey, you know, because they cleared his letter clearly says
they coerced us under a, you know, threat of Section 230 cue
the ex Facebook people going out and doing interviews.
Unknown: It was peak covid and peak debate about what was right
or wrong information, and the White House openly pressured
tech companies to moderate the conversation. We don't
take anything down. We don't block anything. Our point is
that there is information that is leading to people not taking
the vaccine, and people are dying as a result, and we have a
responsibility as a public health matter to raise that
issue. Zuckerberg says he now believes the government pressure
was wrong, and he's ready to push back if it happens again.
Do you believe that Facebook is trying to suppress certain types
of information? No, I don't. Katie horbath is Facebook's
former Director of Public Policy and left in the spring of 21 is
this a former censorship what he described, he makes clear
that they made their own decisions about this content. I
think that's really important. All
of the platforms did.
She argues that Zuckerberg admission is an example of
walking a fine line at a time of court challenges to tech
companies over content moderation and regulation
threats. I think this
is consistent with meta wanting to pull back from politics and
news overall, and very much trying to stay out of this
political fray this time, meaning
while the letter may say one thing, social media's
relationship status with Congress remains complicated,
Adam Curry: let me clarify on the hosting companies. What I
learned is that a lot of these so called platforms, like
Spotify, Apple as well, Amazon and iHeart, tune in if you want
your podcast there. It's not just like you put out your RSS
feed and then they say, Oh, I'm going to put this in. No, your
hosting company automatically opts you into their terms of
service, which is exactly why we're not on Spotify, because
they had Terms of Service like, I'm not going to sign any terms
of service. So that's how the minute something happens that
that is not liked by the system. They cannot just go to the
hosting company and say, pull the plug Terms of Service.
Violation done, you're out by per episode or per feed itself.
John C Dvorak: So there's and the problem, of course, is that
with something like Spotify, and people started saying, listening
to our podcast on Spotify idiots, idiots, but you don't,
but, but let's say that we're a Spotify podcast. And what would
happen is that there'd be so many people gravitating toward
that. Then once they pull the plug on us, they would have
they'd be like fish out of the water, you know, flapping
around. Where are we going to go? I don't know. And then you'd
forget about the podcast, you'd never find it someplace else,
and then you're done, it's done, and you're done, the podcast is
ruined. Yeah, yeah. You have to have do your own it has to have
a home base that's outside of these systems,
Adam Curry: you know? And now, when I signed up, I don't hate
even I don't think my login even works anymore on Apple, but the
Apple also had Terms of Service. I don't know if that. I'm sure
it has changed since covid. A lot changed during covid. So to
bring it all back around, there's not a lot of places, if
any, that we can really trust for freedom of speech, because
you may think that you're, you know, you're in the Bozo filter.
You know, Linda yakarino may be dialing you down, isn't and
certainly YouTube, oh yeah, get everybody on YouTube. That's
where podcasts are great. Use a modern podcast app, people, one
that uses the index podcast apps.com so we will see what
happens to Pavel, but, but I would say that the longer they
keep him, although he's out on 5 million euro bail, can't leave
France, I would say that it's going to become less trustworthy
for everybody. And then where do you go? Signal literally takes
money from the US government. Us well, NGOs that are funded by
the US government. So no, you know WhatsApp, which is a
Facebook product or, yeah, a meta product? No. So the control
system is closing in on us, and meanwhile, we're just. Here live
in Val living the value for value, life with no impact
whatsoever. We have no impact just we have
John C Dvorak: no impact. We have we don't have impact in a
in a threatening sense. And why is that? We do have impact in a
subversive sense. Ooh,
Adam Curry: I like that explain.
John C Dvorak: Well, in other words, we are. We have a subtext
to everything we do, which is truth, yes, and kind of truth
and understanding, which is a big deal. In other words,
figuring out what the news really means, who's behind it,
what you just broke down with the yakarino woman and the twin.
Yeah,
Adam Curry: Elon may not know. Elon may think that he's talking
to yakarino, but it's the twin.
John C Dvorak: And so that sort of thing gets into the public
subconscious, and that has a subversive effect on the way
people think about things, because they have some sort of
realization that you wouldn't normally have, and it's nothing
you can put really stamp out. It's just, it's subtle. And so
that's what we do. That's why there's nobody really, that's
where you like we don't appear to have influence. So
Adam Curry: we're kind of like the Paul Revere of podcasting,
we're just ringing the just ringing the bell. British are
coming. We're just ringing the bell. We're the Minutemen. Okay,
well, I'm happy. I'm happy that we're doing it. For sure, I'm
happy and,
John C Dvorak: well this people are happy that we're doing
Adam Curry: it, yeah, oh, yeah. And they, I don't care, and they
do meetups. And, you know, people in the meetups like, what
are they? What are they? Were these people may go stand over,
what are they talking about? And they learn things. So we're a
slow role. We're like, the molasses of influence,
John C Dvorak: molasses of subversion. Exactly,
Adam Curry: I think I've figured out what. This is actually quite
good. And it was predicted. It was we it was all over the place
during covid, and we never really followed through on it.
And I think that we're finally getting there. I'll start with
this clip, just because you understand what the what the
true evil is in our world. It's not viruses anymore. No, no,
it's mosquitoes. Listen,
Unknown: there's a lot going on, especially here in South
Florida, where we already have experienced West Nile and dengue
and Zika, and now we have this illness to concern ourselves
with sloth fever, or sloth flu, is what it's sometimes called.
Decades ago, researchers first investigating the virus found it
in a sloth, and it was thought the animals helped spread the
disease.
You might have gotten it from a sloth
that had been bitten by a Midge. You might not have you might
have gotten it from a Midge and bitten somebody else. Okay,
Adam Curry: so mosquitoes, they add in midges because it's just
funny, because it makes you think about So mosquitoes, and
what creates mosquitoes, and this is the part that we stop
thinking about
Unknown: and to Healthwatch this morning, the mosquitoes are bad
out there, and we're looking at new concerns over diseases
spread by those mosquitoes. A New Hampshire man recently died
from Eastern equine SF encephalitis I knew is going to
screw that one up. It's a rare illness, no vaccine, no
treatment. In Massachusetts, some towns, in response, are now
spraying for mosquitoes and also urging people to stay inside in
the evening and nighttime when the mosquitoes are out. CBS News
Medical contributor Dr Celine gounder asked the CDC director
Mandy Cohen if climate change is affecting these kinds of
outgrowths.
You know, the impact of heat on our health and climate change is
not only impacting us as humans, but it's changing where
mosquitoes and ticks live, and thus what diseases are moving
around in different regions. We're just seeing more bugs, and
some of those bugs are becoming resistant to our control methods
due
to climate change. That's
Adam Curry: right, dude. We forgot all about this. They kept
saying, Oh no, the next pandemic will come from climate change.
Unknown: Eastern Equine Encephalitis. Equine means
horses. We're not horses. What can you tell us about it? Why is
it hurting people? Well,
this is something that we see with many infectious diseases,
that the host might be another animal, maybe a bat, which is
what we suspect with covid, for example, or with Ebola. But in
this case, what we think is happening is horses. Perhaps
other animals are the host. Mosquitoes are biting them and
then transmitting that infection to humans. And
Adam Curry: what's better than mosquitoes? Because it's just as
scary. I walked outside and saw mosquito I've got I've got to
wear a hazmat suit to my pickleball game. Oh no, and it's
all because of climate change. So
Unknown: the CDC director Cohen talked about. Out the big factor
of heat playing a significant role, and we know the CDC has
said mosquitoes are the world's deadliest animal. What more can
be done when it comes to addressing these issues, finding
treatments and vaccines?
Well, climate change is creating the right breeding ground for
mosquitoes, so you have hotter, more humid, longer summers,
which means people are coming into contact with mosquitoes
that much more and so therefore mosquito borne infections. What
can we be doing? Well, the really most important thing is
to be controlling the mosquitoes. So there are some
traditional ways of doing that. You want to drain your standing
water. You want to be spraying and there are some newer
technologies there to control mosquitoes that don't involve
pesticides. Some of those are being piloted in place like the
places like the Florida Keys, where you have lots of
mosquitoes, but we still have a lot to go in terms of developing
treatments or vaccines. Now,
Adam Curry: let us all remind ourselves that it is Bill Gates,
because, of course, wherever there's something nasty, there's
the nasty man himself, Bill Gates, who was genetically
modifying mosquitoes so they wouldn't reproduce. They don't
talk about that right now, at least, I haven't found any
clips. And in 2007 he was already talking about
mosquitoes. Remember when he released mosquitoes into the TED
conference illegally? Yes, and was like, arrested
John C Dvorak: on the spot. So
Adam Curry: put all of that together, climate change bill
gates, mosquitoes, and, you know, like that gets the in
Massachusetts, and we played that clip on the last show,
like, oh, you might want to stay inside, because, you know,
climate change mosquitoes, Oh, no. And right.
John C Dvorak: Just as an aside, before you continue, there has
been less and less mosquitoes in this area. We
Adam Curry: have none ever. Yeah, I know
John C Dvorak: like and there's two things going on that have to
be addressed with the mosquitoes. One, it's windier
than usual, and when it's windier, the mosquitoes, once
they get it, they are not a bug, that is, that can fly around in
a wind. They just get blown to someplace else. They get blown
away, and there's the end of them. And so we've had more wind
than usual, which is that you could say, Well, climate change
is causing winds. And if climate change is causing winds. The
winds are blowing away the mosquitoes. So there can't be
more mosquitoes. There is a problem. That's a conundrum in
in logic.
Adam Curry: You drive these mosquitoes. You drive on the
freeway right from time to I do drive, of course, I drive what?
When's the you Well,
John C Dvorak: I can't get on the freeway. What are you
talking about? Course I drive on the freeway, just
Adam Curry: asking, because now the next the follow up question
is, when's the last time you had to scrape bugs off of your
windshield?
John C Dvorak: Excellent point. When I was a kid, we would drive
down 99 or whatever to say to LA, we were doing, we're just
driving anywhere. All you. Well, there's two things here. I've
talked I thought about this too. Is they used to get so many just
get the windshield be filled with bugs and so but, but the
cars aerodynamics have changed so much that the bugs, like
don't hit the windshield anymore. They go up and over.
That's one supposed reason. But, well,
Adam Curry: you have a 30 year old Lexus,
John C Dvorak: very aerodynamic car, but, but besides that, but
it doesn't excuse the fact that the grills, right, which aren't
as aerodynamic, don't have the bugs either, right? So there's
something we don't have the flying insect problem we had,
I'd say 50 years ago. No.
Adam Curry: But even though this morning, it was 72 degrees in
August in Texas, where my lawn is green, for the first time
that I've lived in Texas for 15 years, somehow it's the hottest
year on record. This
Unknown: morning, record breaking heat spreading across
more of the US.
It's warmer than I like. It's a little hard to breathe. The
higher
temperatures a growing concern. As a new study shows, the number
of related deaths in the US skyrocketed by 117% between 1999
and 2023,
we saw more heat related deaths. Wait,
John C Dvorak: wait, yes, stop the clip. Do they give us actual
numbers just went up 100% from one to two, but
Adam Curry: we also have 100% more people homeless on the
streets who may just be frying and dying.
John C Dvorak: There's that teen percent
Unknown: between 1999 and 2023 we
saw more heat related deaths in 2023 than we ever have in the 20
some years of records. And that's definitely still an
undercount. More than
21,000 heat related deaths were reported over the last two
decades. Scientists citing climate change. Wait, so what?
Again,
John C Dvorak: it gets better at the end, if you're going to play
this kind of garbage, and you get stopped. ABC says she if
you're going to play a always becoming climate change. So if
you're going to play this stuff, I have to interrupt. She said
something very peculiar in there. She says, we have, don't
get these numbers, but it's and we have this numbers more than
ever before, and it's under counted. Yeah, how do you know
it's under counted? If you never have these numbers? Because
Adam Curry: it's a lie. This is all psychological warfare, and
we're propagating it for free for them?
John C Dvorak: Well, no, we're actually, I think we're counter
propagating. We are, we are, we are. But this, this, this notion
that it's under counted. Wait until
Adam Curry: you hear what she says, what he says at the end 20
Unknown: some years of records, and that's definitely still an
undercount.
Adam Curry: Definitely. It's not just definitely, definitely
under it's definitely
John C Dvorak: that give us the real count? Lady, more than 20?
No, it's an undercount. It's definitely an undercount. What
is the real number? Then you should be able to do it.
Adam Curry: She's not going to tell you. It's not interactive
that way. She can't hear by
John C Dvorak: the way, did she ever give actual numbers?
Percentages? 117%
Unknown: more than 21,000. Heat related deaths were reported
over the last two decades. Scientists citing climate
change, the weather so hot after starting their first day of
school yesterday, students at 63 public schools in Philadelphia
will be sent home early today and tomorrow. Do not
have air in our cafeteria, in our auditorium. Schools,
also,
Adam Curry: there's no air, there's
Unknown: no air, no air. I
Adam Curry: think she means air conditioning, but yeah, we'll do
the Dvorak. What? No oxygen, no air. Here, in
Unknown: our cafeteria, in our auditorium, some schools
in Iowa also dismissed early due to high temps and no AC. At
seven
o'clock, it
John C Dvorak: was already 86 or 87 degrees. Oh no, by the time I
leave at one, it'll be in the 90s. Why this is considered good
weather 87 it's beautiful. If people go to Hawaii just to be
in 87 degree weather. It's called, now you're dying from
it. It's called Summer
Unknown: in Detroit, students will be sent home early again
today, frustrating parents. They
knew the weather was going to be rather hot, and they know they
don't have accommodations in a school to where they're
providing AC, the heat
fueling more calls to invest federal funds and outfitting
more schools with AC. The extreme heat continues for
several days. Triple digits are possible in Nashville today, and
Chicago could set a record. I've
Adam Curry: been to Chicago before this climate change, and
it could set
John C Dvorak: a wet record, but it's not going to but wait, it
gets better. I lived in Chicago. Yeah, it's hot and humid. It's
terrible in the summer. Listen
Adam Curry: to listen to the the last numerical statistics.
You'll love it with
Unknown: feel like temperatures in parts of the Midwest,
reaching one. Did you hear it?
John C Dvorak: I, you know, I was watching this with Jay the
other day. Feels like, feels like now. Feels like, it feels
like
Adam Curry: now. It's just feels like temperature. Yeah, it feels
John C Dvorak: like temperature. It feels like, oh. And then they
here's the worst part, they put a map up and they put all these
temperatures up, but they weren't temperatures at all.
They were all feels like, yes, so you had 115 110, and it was
just a map of all these very high temperatures, but none of
them were real. They're all feels like yes, and you could
feel well right now. Let me think right here in the in the
podcasting room, it feels like 200 degrees. Well, maybe I
should take this shirt off. It feels like 200 degrees. No,
Adam Curry: don't take the shirt off. Whatever you
Unknown: do people? Digits are possible. In Nashville today and
Chicago could set a record with feel like temperatures in parts
of the Midwest reaching 115 degrees. As for that study on
heat related deaths, researchers say the uptick has been
especially high in the last seven years, which scientists
say proves the impact of climate change.
Climate change.
Adam Curry: It's all due to climate change. Oh,
John C Dvorak: the last seven years. And by because it's
happened in the last seven years, not the last 1 million
years, by the way, but the last seven years proves it. Proves it
because it's gone on for seven years, supposedly gone on for
seven years, you don't even know that to be true. Yeah.
Adam Curry: So the got the hot weather, it's moisture. We also
have corn sweat. I didn't pull the clip, but that's another new
one. What's corn sweat? Corn sweat is, you know, when it gets
warm, then every every living plant exudes moisture. Her. And
so they show a map and like, Oh, look at this in the in the corn
region, it's various very bad mosquitoes because of corn
sweat.
John C Dvorak: You guys, you blew it. Didn't get that clip?
Adam Curry: Well, I can actually find it for you. No, don't
John C Dvorak: worry about it. I already gave away the punchline
here, corn
Adam Curry: sweat. Let me say Scientific American. Here we go,
corn sweat and climate change brings sweltering weather to the
Mideast. A heat wave is
John C Dvorak: sweat. So it's corn sweat that's bringing the
weather. Is that what it said? Yeah,
Unknown: there's a reason why this map of corn production
looks so similar to this map of heat risk in the US today. And
the answer heat risk, another
Adam Curry: good one, John,
John C Dvorak: that's a show title, heat risk
Unknown: in the US today. And the answer is, corn sweat. Yes,
corn sweat. Corn sweat is a truly excellent term for
something that's really known as evapotranspiration. It's
something that, oh,
Adam Curry: evapotranspiration. This is why I didn't pull the
clip, because it's not a news clip. It's some, some peachy
thing talking inspiration.
Unknown: It's something that all plants do. It's releasing water
into the atmosphere when it grows to regulate temperature.
But corn does this especially well, and where there's lots and
lots and lots of corn grown, like in the Midwest, it actually
has a measurable impact on the humidity of the area.
Adam Curry: Corn sweat. I think that's the show title right
there. Corn sweat. I'm agreeing. Corn sweat. So man, we just just
making it up as we go along. What can what can we sigh up
these idiots with now on a corn sweat? Oh, good one. And you
know what comes from corn sweat mosquitoes, and what comes from
mosquitoes, sloth fever and Zika and dengue and dengue, yeah, and
sloth fever and Equine Encephalitis. Yeah, which way,
there's
John C Dvorak: 11 cases a year on average, every year, year in
and year out. There's one so far, which I think is, let's
just get that out of the
Adam Curry: way, which I think is treatable with ivermectin, I
believe could be Yeah. So it's weird, and they're just, it's
building it's a strategy of tension. Just build it up. Build
it up. Build it up. Oh, think of the children there. Why don't
the children? Why do the schools not have air conditioning? We
spend hundreds of billions of dollars a year on stupid books
and and stupid books, stupid books, really stupid books that
go into the schools, dumb books. Oh, my first blow job at 12. But
we don't have AC for these children, by Bill Clinton, by
the way. Oh, we need to stop this.
John C Dvorak: Schools have AC. Yes,
Adam Curry: not the ones in the report, not in Chicago,
apparently, not in Chicago. Did you go to school when you lived
in Chicago?
John C Dvorak: I did, of course. Did
Adam Curry: they have air conditioning? I don't remember.
Did they have heating in the winter? You'd hope they would.
Boy, you
John C Dvorak: have to have heating in the winter. Yeah,
it's cold too. Yeah, Chicago's got is, got extreme climate,
yes, always has, though, it gets super cold in the winter, yeah,
and miserable. And it get and miserable, yeah, and, and it
gets extremely hot and muggy in the summer, and there's a good
period of time, there's probably, uh, four months out of
the year just before summer, and just after summer works. Really
super nice. It's so nice, yeah,
Adam Curry: oh the so nice. That's it. You get 44
John C Dvorak: months out of the year that comes from Chicago.
Ridiculously Nice. Yeah,
Adam Curry: there's always been, but she didn't hear about corn
sweat because she grew up in Indiana. Never heard of corn
sweat, strangely enough. Yeah, yeah. Well, there we go. All
right. Back to you, Bob.
John C Dvorak: Well, what else we got here? You know, I want to
get this out of the way. I didn't want to get these clips,
but I'm going to do them. This is about Jack Smith and re
rejiggering. Oh, good, yeah, yeah. This is good. I didn't
want to get them, but it turns out that there's interesting
material in here. This is I got four it's four parter. It was an
analysis. So it turns out to be a lot more than I wanted. But
it's all short. I mean, I wanted eclipses 13 seconds, so it's not
gonna kill anybody. Good. So let's go with Jax. And this is
all from NTD. This is mt d, so the Democratic
Unknown: Congressman Jamie Raskin called the superseding
indictment against former President Donald Trump
heroic and something quietly heroic about Jack Smith
insisting on going forward to make sure that this plot come to
light, Donald Trump tried to interfere with the peaceful
transfer of power. So Jack Smith is trying to make the law work
in the way it was intended to,
Adam Curry: wow, that's exactly right. He's trying to make the
law work,
John C Dvorak: trying to trying to make the law work.
Adam Curry: He just admits it. He's just finagling everything
to try and squeeze it into the law to make it work. All right.
John C Dvorak: Jamie Raskin is a dick.
Adam Curry: Jamie Raskin is a problem. He's, he's a he is, I'd
say, top of the list of people we need to get out of there.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, he's a terrible person. He's a Yeah,
and he looks evil. If you look at him. He's just an evil
looking guy. Yeah, and, and he's like, all in he has this theory
that it is, I don't have the clip on this list, but he came
out with saying we're gonna not let Trump take office if he
wins. Yes, yeah. He said
Adam Curry: we're gonna have to have a Secret Service protection
for everybody in Congress, because we're gonna get him out
and, you know, basically saying we'll have a civil war, but
we'll be protected.
John C Dvorak: Yes, I heard that clip. Basically, is what he
said, exactly. Yeah, that's what he said. He is a very horrible
he's a horrible man. Okay, part two,
Unknown: Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson posted on social
media that Donald Trump continues to be the most
persecuted politician in the history of the US. Speaker
Johnson added that special counsel Jack Smith has brought
yet another bogus indictment, and that Americans are sick of
his corruption and shameless law fair, Democratic Congresswoman
soy lovbren from California aimed her criticism at the
Supreme Court's ruling last month on presidential immunity
and blamed former President Donald Trump for the events of
January 6
Supreme Court made really a radical decision granting Trump
immunity. Bizarre case, the judge has to have an evidentiary
hearing to find out what is the evidence supporting the slimmed
down indictment. But I mean, one thing is abundantly clear, the
former president summoned a mob to Washington.
Adam Curry: Who was that speaking?
John C Dvorak: Our local idiot, Zoe Lofgren,
Adam Curry: oh, Zoe is still around. Isn't? Was wasn't Zoe a
trans
John C Dvorak: No, no.
Adam Curry: I think of someone. Else. She
John C Dvorak: just looks child. She's an ugly woman. Oh, they're
Adam Curry: so judgmental.
Unknown: Well, well,
Adam Curry: we're handsome, luckily. Well,
John C Dvorak: that's what we do for this. No, we're not.
Adam Curry: Yes, we are. You
John C Dvorak: can make a judgment about somebody being
ugly when they're ugly. I mean, I don't think there's any reason
not to make this judgment.
Adam Curry: I'm with you. I'm glad you said it.
John C Dvorak: You know, I've never been condemned for that.
Adam Curry: People are afraid of you, and they can't spell your
last name, so they don't know how to email you. They email me
instead. Okay, so
John C Dvorak: we go, we now we get to hear something that you
may have heard elsewhere. Let's go to clip three. Senator
Unknown: and vice presidential candidate JD Vance defended the
Supreme Court's ruling regarding presidential immunity and
dismissed the superseding indictment against former
President Donald Trump as election interference. The
way that I think about it is try to make this nonpartisan Barack
Obama ordered drones to strike an American citizen in Yemen.
That's like the definition of murder, unless you recognize the
President has some immunity in conducting his official act.
Adam Curry: There's Vance doing the translation, doing his job,
John C Dvorak: but he does, does it well. And the fact is that
nobody keep he's the first guy noticed that really brought it
up, which is that Obama, if you didn't have this immunity
decision by the Supreme Court would be Obama would be liable
for murder. And the only thing Vance didn't do is bring up the
fact that, after murdering the American citizen, he murdered
his son a few days later. Yeah. Well, you know that innocent 16
year old kid drinking a coffee, drinking a coffee mind his own
business, but no, that's okay. That's good. That's good. All
right, I'm onward. It
Unknown: is important to note that despite criticism against
Special Counsel investigations against former President Donald
Trump, House Republican leadership has decided not to
pursue the strategy of defunding the Department of Justice
through the appropriations process. What
John C Dvorak: Wait, this is the reason I ended with this clip
was, this is the typical Republicans, and they've been
doing this, and they do it and do it. Holly just did it with a
by bringing on one
Adam Curry: showboat, and then nothing happens,
John C Dvorak: yeah? Showboat, in fact, she he actually, for
all practical purpose. He had gray, I don't have the clip, but
he had Granholm, yeah, and he's get lecturing her about how she
lied. Wait a minute, she lied to Congress. Where is the
indictment for lying to now, if it was a Republican in. In the
olden days, and a Democrat was the Democrats are running
Congress. They indict them. Yeah, they're lying to Congress.
They're much
Adam Curry: better at that stuff. More to do. You just send
John C Dvorak: the indictment through. They won't do it. They
just keep harassing them, haranguing them and making them
looking good by being a showboat or like Holly, and then you do
nothing. You do absolutely nothing. These Republicans are
ridiculous. I would have
Adam Curry: more respect for Holly if you just said, Hey,
Grant home, you're ugly and you got big ears. I'd have respect
for him if you said that. No, she's
John C Dvorak: not. She's not. I wouldn't call her ugly. No.
Okay, so
Adam Curry: I have tried, and I have some stuff here on this?
Well, I
John C Dvorak: want to do this the last clip. This is the
analysis just it was a long analysis. I only took I have
part one, but I didn't clip anything else. Earlier,
Unknown: we spoke with Zach Smith, senior legal fellow at
the Heritage Foundation, and former federal prosecutor, about
the superseding indictment. Zach Smith, thank you so much for
joining us. Great to have you back on the show. Now to begin
what changes were made to this newest indictment, the original
four charges haven't changed. So what's different here?
Yeah, this is a little bit of an unusual situation for a
superseding indictment. A superseding indictment typically
means that prosecutors are adding additional charges
against a defendant, but that's not what Jack Smith did in this
case, as you mentioned, Jack Smith left before original
charges intact, but he essentially changed the factual
predicates underlying those charges. For instance, he
removed references to Donald Trump's conversations with
Justice Department officials in the wake of the 2020 election.
He added some language to make clear that, in his view certain
actions Donald Trump took in his private or political capacities
rather than in his official capacity. And he also added some
additional language relevant to some of the other charges,
again, trying to emphasize that those were private rather than
official acts. And the reason Jack Smith took these actions,
the reason he made these amendments is to try to get
around the immunity that the US Supreme Court recently released,
where the Court said that presidents, including Donald
Trump, are immune from prosecution for actually taking
their official capacity while in office.
Adam Curry: So I have an analysis from our constitutional
lawyer, Rob Rob, who read, who read everything, and I shall
read this for us right now. It's relatively short. Under the
SCOTUS ruling, the charges can't go forward unless Smith can show
that the alleged conduct is either one, an unofficial Act,
or two, an official act that doesn't fall within the outer
perimeter of the President's official responsibility and is
not manifestly or palpably beyond his authority. This is a
difficult burden for Smith to satisfy. The outer perimeter
beyond his authority. Language captures a vast range of
presidential conduct. This is all as per the Supreme Court, so
it will be very likely, so it will very likely encompass the
conduct alleged in the new indictment. To the extent it
does, the courts must presume that Trump is immune, and Smith
will have to overcome that presumption, according to rob, a
very tall order. And remember, there's still the lingering
issue raised by Justice Thomas that Jack Smith appointment is
invalid under Article two appointments clause, because
there's no law that establishes Smith's office. If Trump wins
the election, this case will die. DOJ doesn't prosecute
sitting presidents as a matter of policy. And one thing he
says, Would you keep in mind, if the M 5m and Dames and Dems
claim that this is a nail in Trump's coffin, they will have
to simultaneously retreat from their incompatible claim that
SCOTUS gave Trump total freedom to do whatever he does or
whatever he wants to do. So this is really all this is. Is just a
setup for questions during the debate. That's all that this is.
That's why Trump immediately started fundraising off of it,
as witnessed by another 8 million text messages. Yeah,
it's really just
John C Dvorak: so late. Yes, these are on a phone that you
carry with you. For summary, you're carrying a phone around
wherever you go.
Adam Curry: It's just, it's just a text number. Yeah, so this is
it's all just about this debate.
John C Dvorak: Can you call back, by the way, when they send
you one of these messages? Let me see that's very calling. I
would call them back. Say hello. You keep sending me these
messages. You want to talk? That's
Adam Curry: a very good question. Let me see this is an
alert from Donald Trump. Okay, I was just indicted again. Please
read my response to Special Counsel. No, I'm not going to
read them to call him back. Let's see if I'm going to call
and not in
Unknown: service. Please check the number and dial again. Oh,
it's
Adam Curry: not a service. Let's try another one. Let's because I
have a lot from President Trump. This is Donald Trump Jr. Let's
call Junior. Let's see what Junior give
John C Dvorak: him a call, see what he says. To say,
Adam Curry: oh, disconnected right away. Let me see from
Trump, who's asking for $10 let's see and invalid number.
Now this is all, wait a minute, it's a 213, number two. You're
John C Dvorak: giving getting phone calls, a message, phone
calls, in other words, the message through a phone, and you
call the number, and the number is bogus. Wait, here's this is.
This is no different than a number from Taiwan, China,
Philippines, India. Bombay, hey,
Adam Curry: let's call Rand Paul. Let's see what he has to
say. He's in Virginia. Oh, no. Oh, invalid number. Okay. Oh,
gee. Isn't that crazy? Well, I can't even hang if
John C Dvorak: you can't call him back, why would you send him
money? It sounds like you don't know who it is you're sending
to. Could be anybody? Could be anybody?
Adam Curry: Ah, yes, yes,
John C Dvorak: yes. Well, yeah, welcome to the modern era.
Adam Curry: Yes, Hey, um, I got a interesting clip here from our
from our buddy, Becky Worley, have you spoken to Becky
recently?
John C Dvorak: No, I should have lunch with her. I usually, I
used to have lunch with her once a year. Yeah, but she's in LA,
isn't she? No, she used the peninsula, as far as I know, and
then she moved. You
Adam Curry: need to go up there. You need to go visit her and the
kids.
John C Dvorak: It's not up, is down? Oh,
Adam Curry: she go down there. Go down to Becky Worley, I've
always liked Becky Worley. I mean, I, I always feel sad
because she is nothing like the stupid reports they make her do.
But she, you know, she's playing the game. She got kids and a
wife and, you know, she's got a, yeah, she
John C Dvorak: is a She's a hard worker. She's good at what she
does. She's always was behind. She was a producer. Originally,
always behind. I first met her when she was MSNBC, when it was
a different kind of network, and she was always the producer of
shows. And then she but she had the look and feel of a person
who had front of camera. She was good looking on camera. She's
photo telegenic. She
Adam Curry: is she's a little harsh in person, little more
well, what is the that's not the right word harsh? Maybe it is
the right word.
John C Dvorak: She's a good looking woman in person. Yes,
Adam Curry: he's not like Jamie Raskin now,
John C Dvorak: but she's telegenic, and she's very good
on the on the on the camera. I guess she's always felt that
way. So she once she got then the other side of the camera.
She stopped doing producing, from what I can tell, and she's
she's good. I think she's very talented. She's personable.
Adam Curry: Well, I think she is adding something to the hair and
hookers report for the economy, and it's something I have not
yet asked the Zoomer about. But I take this to be very credible
luxury or
Unknown: affordability, right? But what if you could have them
both? That's the premise fueling a rise in Gen Z and millennials
shopping for so called dupes instead of brand name goods. But
what's the downside? As we all search for value this morning,
influencers are touting so called dupes with pride. Don't
go
buy leggings for that much money when you can get these for half
the price. It's
the same product. It's the same it's the same thing.
It's always really fun to find a really great, affordable
alternative to something, because you're helping your
friends out, and you can tell them, like, hey, you've been
using this, here's this. And then they can put more money
towards bills instead of foundation
and a path here has a series on our socials where she breaks
down the active ingredients in high end products and shows less
expensive options with the same components. So
is everything that's highlighted in yellow here is also
highlighted in yellow here. Saving
money on items is now becoming something that's a little bit in
vogue. It's cool to be wearing something that is less
expensive, but looks
like the expensive brand. And Herzog, who wrote a book on
counterfeit, says these so called do products are different
from illegal knockoffs.
A do product doesn't necessarily mean counterfeit. What it does
mean is that it is a similar product, but less expensive than
the original product. When you're talking about a
counterfeit item, you're talking about an item that's pretending
to be like the original item, down to the name of the item.
But
experts do say buying these products brings up other issues
worth considering. Dupes
do not come with extended warranties. You have a very
specific time that you need to return that in. This
Adam Curry: is, this is what the shop influencers are doing. And
let's just face it, everything comes from China here,
everything we buy in America, pretty much. Everything comes
from China, and you can get the exact same product, and they're
not talking about brands like Gucci, but everything else from
the from the makeup products, which I looked it up the Amazon
influencer program. Number one is games, online games. You can
get 20% VIG on the games. Right after that, it's beauty and
makeup products, which is a big deal on the Instagram, as you
know, all the makeup tip influencers. And I think that
this is an interesting development, and it goes right
along with the lab grown diamonds. It's all part of the
same thing. We got a note from Jessica who used to work in the
diamond industry, and she says, lab grown diamonds are a great
way to sell jewelry to people who cannot afford the price tag
of natural diamonds. They're also a good way for jewelers to
make money, as you can slap a huge markup to a lab grown and
it will still still come out cheaper than the real thing. She
says, however people discover when they get divorced and try
to sell their lab grown diamond back to a jewelry shop, it's
basically worthless. It makes nothing but sense. Makes nothing
but sense. So we're just living in this fantasy land of
expensive products, which you don't really need to buy. The
expense. You're the king of this. We should do tips on
dupes. A dupe tip. Well, I've
John C Dvorak: always been a fan of these things. Of course,
you're a frugal man, and I have, well, for good reason, yeah, and
I've always had been a fan of the Canal Street counterfeit
watch business. Is not what it once was gone. It's gone. It's
gone. But my favorite counterfeit watch, and I became
pretty good at spotting other people who have counterfeit
watches. I've gone out to dinner with Bishop. Do you think you
know you're kind of an expert on this? Is this watch that my my
mother in law gave me? Is this a real Rolex?
Adam Curry: Well, that's counterfeit. That's not a dupe.
That's a counterfeit.
John C Dvorak: Yes, it counterfeits. It counterfeits
are a part of the I see. But say poo, poo counterfeits. No,
Adam Curry: no, it's it. I believe, I think, like you, that
a lot of especially when it comes to bags, handbags, for
sure, it's all from the same factory. It's stuff.
John C Dvorak: I went to Korea one year, and I just areas where
you can get these, what use, bags, bags. And they had Eddie
Bauer bags for that. I know that well. There's a blast from the
past. It was, it was a while ago, is Eddie Bowers, these
Eddie Bower bags, and they were beautiful, and they had the
logo. Everything was there. And I realized a lot of this stuff
that you get from these counterfeiters is not really
counterfeit. It's end of run 10 run, yes, they over produce.
They over produce. They get an order for for 10,000 they crank
it up, and then they can't stop the line fast enough, and
there's an extra 1000 to fall off the back. What do we do with
these? So they sell them at cost or twice cost, like so instead
of 50 bucks for the bag, is 10 or $8 but
Adam Curry: now you're seeing that the brands, the the
companies that advertise on television, they have a problem.
I'm surprised that Becky even was allowed to do this, this
particular item that she did, because it's going to cut into
these huge, luxurious brands the
John C Dvorak: margins. Yeah, yes, those guys make mar the
margin is their game. Oh, man,
Adam Curry: you know, when my first wife had had a cosmetics
company, the only reason I agreed to it is one to shut her
up, and the second, well, there's two reasons. The second
was the margins were incredible. It's just goop. You know, you
like eyebrow pencils. It all comes from one factory in
Germany, or at least back in the day, I don't know if Germany
produces anything anymore, the men Schwan pencils. This where
you get all your pencils, including your H, 2h b2, pencil,
everything. It all comes from one factory, and it's all about
the packaging. It's all about packaging. That's where the
that's where you mark it up. We're living in a fake world.
John, we are. It's fake. It's phony, and it's only it's only a
matter of time until they call compounded GLP ones dupes.
They're already trying to make it look like it's counterfeit
because, oh, we can't cut. It's the same thing. We
John C Dvorak: can't cut into the margin. Chemical. A chemical
is a chemical. Yes, sodium chloride is salt. No matter how
you cut it, that's right, no matter how you make it, no
matter how you let it evaporate from the water, no matter how
you get get sodium chloride, it's still sodium chloride.
Adam Curry: It. I'm laughing at the troll room. The world is
fake and gay. Okay, well, you summed it up. There you go. And
And just to prove these margins how crazy it is and the fake
world we're living in which you can opt out of, Eli Lilly made a
nice, interesting move the other day.
Unknown: Tonight, the drug
maker Eli Lilly is making its popular weight loss drug,
zeppbound more affordable for anyone whose insurance won't
cover it. Zeppbound will now be sold on the ELI Willy website
with a prescription. The cost is about half of the retail price.
Adam Curry: This half. Why is it half? This,
John C Dvorak: of course, is not for still making money. Yes,
this
Adam Curry: is not for people with insurance. This is for
people who whose insurance won't cover it, and all of a sudden
it's half but okay, let's put it on Medicare so everybody else
can pay for it at full price, price, full markup. Maybe one
day people will catch on, I don't know. No, no, no. That's
John C Dvorak: not gonna work. That's not even possible if they
listen to this podcast. Well, we'll have a million people that
kind of catch on. But even so, we've noticed, even though
listeners to our podcast, the producers, every so often they
come up with some note that they send us, that they've they've
locked they've been hook, line and sinker, into some scam of
some sort that you know, you hope that they were would be
immune to, based on what we keep saying. Do you have an example?
No, do
Adam Curry: you have an example? I
John C Dvorak: don't have one off the top of my head, but it
happens all the time.
Unknown: It's sad.
John C Dvorak: It's just not you, you can't beat you can't
beat back mainstream media and its brow beating of the public.
Well,
Adam Curry: it is slowly, slowly disintegrate. No, it's
John C Dvorak: not you. You're a dreamer. You're a you're the
idealist.
Adam Curry: I have hope. I have at least 10 more years of hope
on you. That's why I'm still in that hope phase. Good luck. And
with that, I'd like to thank you for your courage. Say in the
morning to you, the man who put the sea in corn sweat, say hello
to my friend on the other end, the one and only. Mr. Jones,
good
John C Dvorak: morning. You. Mr. M curry, in the morning, all
ships and sea blues from the ground, feeding the air subs in
the water, and all the Dames and nights out there. Oh, let
Adam Curry: me check this out. This is very odd. The troll
Unknown: count seems to be low. Count. We
Adam Curry: must have the corn sweat has devoured them. 1870
seems low for a Thursday, don't we usually have more on a
Thursday?
John C Dvorak: No, we usually have 1700
Adam Curry: Let me see. Oh, you, I'm sorry, you're right. Let me
see now the last the last Thursday, was 1889 Oh, you're
right. No, it's about right. I'm sorry, you're right. 1870 so
we're on par. Hey, trolls. How you doing? Are you corn sweating
in that troll room? You can join them, by the way. But going to
trollroom.io. You can listen to the no agenda stream, 24/7 live,
huh? So some you know, we're on tune in. You know the app tune
in? No, I don't it's a streaming radio app, and you can use tune
in to listen to radio streams from radio stations. And the no
agenda stream is on there. It's been on there. That's good for a
long, long time. Yeah, that's good. But when you tap on it,
because I have it in the car, this for some reason, and that
it has it, you can get Sirius XM and tune in. Okay, so I listened
to tune in, and it starts off with two ads. Oh, they're just
jacking ads in front of stuff.
John C Dvorak: Yeah,
Adam Curry: that's lame. All right? This, this, it's a
ripoff, so don't use tune in to rip off or Spotify. It's a
ripple. What?
John C Dvorak: What is the best way to listen to the no agenda
show in the car? Well, you're dreaming.
Adam Curry: You could. There's two ways. I would suggest you
get a modern podcast app, because not only will you be
driving in the car and all sudden, bloop, it'll alert you
through your Android Auto or your car play, or if you just
have your phone with you and it's connected to Bluetooth, and
the modern podcast app will say, hey, no agenda. Show is live.
You tap on it's the same place you get your podcast, and it
starts playing. Now, we do not recommend you enter the troll
room while driving. You can, but, you know, we don't
recommend it, but you can use trollroom.io, to get in, log in,
make an account, and everything and and that's where the trolls
are. Podcast apps.com, you know, if you want to continue to
listen to your favorite podcasts before they get jacked and you
get all those great new features, unlike everybody else,
like the Kelsey brothers. Holy Mo. Did you hear this nonsense?
This, this promotional bull crap? I'm going to play it for
you. New
Unknown: f1 32 Kelsey brothers are taking their new heights
podcast to new heights financially. Jason and Travis
Kelsey signed a new deal with Amazon's wondery. That is.
Worth, reportedly, $100 million over three years. The brothers
said they are excited about the partnership and are thrilled to
start season three. The podcast has been around since 2022 and
has won multiple awards, including podcast of the Year at
the 2024 I heart Podcast Awards.
Adam Curry: We need an award.
John C Dvorak: We've gotten awards. We don't
Adam Curry: pay to enter anymore. So we don't get awards,
because every award show, no, you have to pay to enter. Yes,
John C Dvorak: this is a this is a fact of awards you have to
pay. Yeah,
Adam Curry: so we don't do that. What the iHeart Awards? Please.
I
John C Dvorak: heard awards for people that are on I Heart. Yes,
exactly. Well, also, I never heard of this podcast, by the
way, and I like sports. Well,
Adam Curry: this, if you read the release carefully, it's the
same as call her daddy. What they're saying is,
John C Dvorak: it's so it's all about blow jobs. It's, it's a
distribution
Adam Curry: deal. And wondery, which was purchased by Amazon,
they will be able to sell ads. So the deal can be worth up to
$100 million advertising Exactly. So they're getting a
minimum guarantee, and I'm not discounting that most
advertising money on television and streaming goes into football
specifically. So there's a lot, there's a lot of money that that
people will put into this, but it's this. Oh, it's 100 million.
Oh, podcasting is still doing great. No, well, podcasting is a
vow of poverty. People
John C Dvorak: more, more power to them a and it's no sweat off
my balls. There
Adam Curry: you go. So instead of paying to enter awards and
getting beat up on the football pitch, John and I decided we'll
just do podcasts twice a week, and we'll ask people to support
us if they think what we do is worth anything, if we have
improved your life in any way. Some people say it helps them.
Some people say, You know what, I feel better listening to the
no agenda show because we're light hearted. We're not so
serious. I literally saw Megyn Kelly, boy, I like Megyn Kelly,
and don't get me wrong, but she was yelling at Caitlyn, the CNN
lady, yelling.
John C Dvorak: She was, she was all emotional on that thing, but
Adam Curry: she was, she was yelling, Caitlin, here's a tip,
smile from time to time. And this whole rant, she does
exactly, and she has a beautiful smile. But will she smile? No,
it's like Pot, kettle. Hello. Everyone's unhinged. We're not
unhinged. We're just poor. But today, value came in in multiple
ways. The first thing we want to do is thank our artists, who
always support us with their time and their talent. It's part
of the trifecta time, talents and treasure, and they support
us by making artwork that fits with the show. They're doing it
during the live show. It's amazing. They do this in this
case, in the evening, hours after dinner, for the Dutch
masters who were working on things. And Dutch master, who
lives in Chicago, brought us the artwork for Episode 1689, and
that was Darren O'Neill with the ozempic ice cream, which was a
classic, no agenda product, comic strip. Blogger right away.
It's like, this is you can do this. This is not fair use. Yes,
it
John C Dvorak: is Fair Use about what did that art be stolen?
Adam Curry: No, he says, because you're using the brand name,
ozempic. No, no, no, exactly. Tell him. Tell him, John,
John C Dvorak: this is a as a parody or a humor, and not for
the purposes of of cloning a product. This is totally legal,
yes,
Adam Curry: and, and, by the way, when comic strip blogger
freaks out is really good art, then you know it's good art.
John C Dvorak: Well, he had a good piece that I thought was
good, but you hated it, which was his jazz queen, but I did,
Adam Curry: no,
John C Dvorak: I do not hella pigeus ass.
Adam Curry: I did not hate it. I said to you, I would be all for
it if the letters actually look like they were on the jeans, and
they just didn't. And you agreed with me in my hate I
John C Dvorak: did, yeah, exactly
Adam Curry: see with other pieces are, oh, we haven't said
the W word yet. There was a tip jar for that. I don't think
we're doing quite well. What else was there? Oh, that's yeah,
the right. There was a lot of yes queens, a lot of yes queens,
yeah. But we're like, yeah. It was a little overplayed at that
point. We had kind of done that. I did like the very demure, very
mindful cheesecake, but you thought it was too simple and
also same. That was a comics or Blogger piece. But again, the
the letters didn't look they like they were really on the t
John C Dvorak: shirt. Weren't mapped, mapped. Thank they
weren't surface mapped. No,
Adam Curry: no, and that's, that's the
John C Dvorak: which you. Can do with Photoshop. I mean, it's
very easy, but AI, this is all can't figure it out. How did,
Adam Curry: how are the earnings for the for our favorite AI
company yesterday, all I saw, yeah, all day. Oh, this.
Everyone's waiting. Oh, it's down. It's down five and a half
percent. I guess they didn't do do so, no, they actually, they
beat expectations, and people are still selling.
John C Dvorak: There's something going on. Yes, it's
Adam Curry: called the blow up of AI nonsense, have you? You
don't, you don't have chat, GPT, do you?
John C Dvorak: I know. I just do it. If I'm ever going to use it.
I use it online. Well,
Adam Curry: here's what you want to type in and it. I think Elon
Musk has corrected grok on this one. But if you type in how many
Rs are in the word strawberry, every ai i have used, including
the ones I run here at home, say there are two Rs in strawberry,
even though there's clearly three,
John C Dvorak: isn't that? What's the point of this
exercise to prove the AI sucks? Yes,
Adam Curry: yes, of course it is. That means there's no
intelligence. It's just splitting
John C Dvorak: the tool that grok was fixed just by hand. Oh,
yeah, of course, it was how you do it.
Adam Curry: They will all be fixed by hand. You have to go
tweak it, yeah. Where did I learn about this? On X so, of
course, you know this is, this is what you do. You launch,
John C Dvorak: brought it. You launched your hand, tweak it,
and then you point out everyone else's screw, yeah, exactly,
exactly called Marketing.
Unknown: Yes, it's good.
John C Dvorak: It's good because good marketing.
Adam Curry: Was there anything else that we liked? I don't
think there was much. I don't think there was anything else
John C Dvorak: actually was pretty was pretty lame. It was
demure. I did use, I'm not using that word that should be banned.
I did use one piece that was the girls whispering to each other
from scaramonga as the
Adam Curry: Oh, yeah, but that was a good piece for the
newsletter, because, yeah, it wasn't, you know, wasn't. Yeah,
I'm passing some news on. It's good for a newsletter. Hey,
listen to this. It's like Betty and Veronica. These two, the
scarabanga piece. That's good.
John C Dvorak: Well, thank you. Veronica's a brunette and this
girl's a red details,
Adam Curry: details, white, details. Thank you very much.
Darren O'Neill for bringing us the artwork for Episode 1689, we
appreciate it. We appreciate the work that all of our Dutch
masters do. You guys are awesome that I don't use that word
lightly. Anybody can upload art to no agenda, artgenerator.com,
it's simple. Go ahead. Try it out, then you too can be
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countries do not value of lives as Americans us, military is
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Adam Curry: gonna, I'm gonna give him ours. He just did one.
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Night Z. Listening to you two keeps me sane. And are you're
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Adam. It says, Here it says, Johan, Johan. Yeah. Hello,
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Unknown: You've got karma.
John C Dvorak: T, see all these complaints of mine always pay
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Guelph. So could be Guelph 350 58 No, no, no, nothing. So he
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Adam Curry: he does indeed.
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John C Dvorak: speaking of the devil, rob the constitutional
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Adam Curry: chicken wing. Maybe he's
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think it's iOS only. He told me about this. I have not seen it,
but I'm excited about it because, you know, more
independent podcast apps the better. Thank you very much,
sir. Not Space Force here, yeah,
John C Dvorak: I will say that we have one more we do Associate
Executive Producer, because he came in as Australian dollary
dues, which is well over $200 Okay. Thomas Weaver, with a I
doing this reluctantly, because of the length of the note, yes.
But Thomas Weaver from Blackwall, New South Wales,
comes in, and the numbers probably around 210, I'm
guessing, yeah, always good to first time donation. So a
deuceing would be a wonderful thank you. You've been deduced
also a birthday. Birthday shout out for myself. He's got that
we're on. You're on the list. I first came across you via
hearing Adam just over a year ago on the tftc with Marty bent.
Adam Curry: Marty bent, he's, he's got a huge podcast, and
he's my friend
John C Dvorak: who, who's, I don't know anything about this.
Oh,
Adam Curry: Marty bent is in Austin. It's the tftc podcast.
He used to be in finance and finance, and he left finance and
went into Bitcoin mining and all he's a it. He is a cool dude.
He, I think he has now two young kids moved from Florida. Was he
in Florida? No, he's in Pennsylvania. I think was in
Philly. Moved to Austin a couple years we've had dinner with him
and his wife. Lovely couple. A young, young, John Young, half
our age, well my age. Thomas
John C Dvorak: Weaver continues. So here I am swapping some of my
Aussie dollar dollary dues for your American cookbooks, as
Marty would say. And let me tell you, the Australia to USD
turnaround is terrible. We are truly the land down under, yes,
but on the plus side, I'm a regenerative farm worker, and
I've had the pleasure to have met Texas slim. Oh, there you
go, in person and converse with him. Get grass finished, meats
as at will, and listen to the best podcast in the universe.
Well, whilst on my daily chores of feeding the animals, you
know, Texas slim was on some, some TV show recently I saw him.
Oh yeah, he
Adam Curry: gets around. He's trying to very, very
John C Dvorak: skinny guy with a big Texas hat, you
Adam Curry: know, I told him, because he would do interviews
and he put on a baseball cap, I said, bro, no, you need to
always have the hat on when you're doing an interview.
Otherwise, he's just a skinny dude with a hat. Now you're
Texas slim. You see, Texas Slim is perfect. He gets around well,
he took your advice, yes, and he's trying to, he's trying
John C Dvorak: to very erudite. He's character. He
Adam Curry: is erudite is the correct word. And
John C Dvorak: I won't anyway, continuing, and I won't use this
donation to shamelessly plug the business I work for. No instead,
I will plug my smoking hot girlfriend's business meals for
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Adam Curry: act is sent Central, uh, yeah, something, yeah,
John C Dvorak: somewhere, sorry, everyone only in Australia, go
to meals. That
Adam Curry: should be a four. I think, I think he mistyped that
four mamas, not, not dollar sign. Meals, number four mamas,
John C Dvorak: I think you're probably right. Meals,
mamas.com.au, for delivering more as for you, Adam and John,
a grass finished steak straight from the farm and a brilliant
Aussie Shiraz or cap Sauvignon for John, two will be here
waiting for you if you ever decide to visit. Thanks again
for all the stellar work you guys do. Thomas, well, I
Adam Curry: hear you guys. We'll see. Even be our 51st state so
it'll be easy. You know, we pretty much, we pretty much own
them now, don't we, with our, what was the military
John C Dvorak: boys there? Oh
Adam Curry: yeah, we take all over. Take it over. Hey, that's
anyway, that's our,
John C Dvorak: that's our group of, uh, well wishers and
producers, Associate Executive and executive producers for show
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Unknown: our formula is this, we go out. We hit people in the
mouth, shut
Adam Curry: up. Mistakenly says 1680 did I say 1680 I meant 1690
No. I said 600. Wow, yeah. Well, that's why I do all the
production,
John C Dvorak: yes, right? So I could screw it, so I could screw
it up,
Adam Curry: which I do from time to time. It does happen. All
right, I said we got lots of clips, so lay it on now, let's
see
John C Dvorak: what we got. You want some funny clips? You want
to give me some funny clips? Well, let's, well,
Adam Curry: oh, well, I don't have any funny clips. He said,
Oh, okay. Let's
John C Dvorak: talk a little bit about, let's catch up with the
Middle East with an update. This is, I can do a clip blitz Middle
Adam Curry: East. Really, it's everyone's just okay. Look,
they're killing each other over there. Here's a good one. Here's
John C Dvorak: a good one. Did you know this was going on to
sag after strike?
Adam Curry: Wait, I thought we already had a SAG after strike.
Oh,
John C Dvorak: how wrong you are. There's still another one.
They just keep coming. The
Unknown: Video Game actors have remained on strike since July.
This follows months of negotiations with major gaming
companies. The strike aims to ensure equal protection for
union voice actors and motion capture performers against what
they say is unregulated use of artificial intelligence.
Kristina Corona reports from Southern California.
We're here in the city of Burbank outside Warner Brothers
Studios, where members of sag aktra are picketing as part of
their strike against major video game studios.
The video game companies are rightly isolated. When you look
at the studios, the streamers, the record labels, we've been
able to achieve the necessary protections for our members with
all of those companies, and yet, for some reason, the video game
companies refuse to make the same fair deal.
Several video game actors and voice actors said they are
striking for fair contracts, primarily to oppose unregulated
use of artificial intelligence,
something where we know that we have something in writing, that
when we go into one session, that doesn't mean they can just
reuse, digitally reproduce our voice for future needs. It's
ensuring that we can still do what we love to do for people
and moving forward, and we're not phased out by robots.
Voice Actor Sam kwasman mentioned many actors have
worked their entire career for only a modest return.
We're fighting for our lives. Basically, we spend all this
time learning our lives and taking acting lessons, singing
lessons, dancing. I mean, you train for your career and then
you wind up with a couple 100 bucks
Adam Curry: start a podcast, listen. I have a I have a
question, guys. So the nanny spent all this time setting up
this. No, AI for what I thought was sag after, but they didn't
think to include the video game industry. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: seems so, because way I'm in close the hatch, huh?
Adam Curry: And are all act is, are we going to see Angelina
Jolie go on strike for the video game actors? Are they lesser
than do they not count, even though their industry is 10
times as big as the movie industry? Yeah, that's
John C Dvorak: the irony. Will they go on irony is, the
industry is huge compared to the film entertainment side of it.
So
Adam Curry: will they go on strike? These scabs? Are this
going to continue to work? They don't care about their brothers
and sisters, who also had to learn how to act and sing and
read lines and whatever else they were doing.
John C Dvorak: I think you can figure it out. No one
Unknown: voice actor raised concerns the AI is costing them
jobs as AI generated voices can be manipulated to say
inappropriate or offensive things, which then are falsely
attributed to them causing issues with their agencies and
the
actors over here. Like, no, wait, that was not me. Someone
cloned my voice through some program and like, I would never
say any of this stuff, so the AI protections. Are definitely what
is worth fighting for more livelihoods.
AI is not coming. It's already here.
Adam Curry: I have never heard that guy in a video game,
John C Dvorak: and he might be a voice guy that you know changes
his voice. Well,
Adam Curry: I will tell you right now, if AI could take over
this podcast, and we could be on the beach chilling like Bob
Dylan, I'm all in, but it can't, can't it, can't it can't even
count the R's in strawberry.
John C Dvorak: The thing that's kind of interesting when you
think about this particular complaint is Mel Blanc. Oh, Mel
Blanc was a notorious prick that did all the voices for every
character in Warner Brothers cartoons. He did Bugs Bunny,
right? He did Porky Pig. He did all the character, every
character, in fact, it was all the vocalizations and all the
commercials and all the comic cartoons, yes, that Warner
Brothers came out with, and he it was the voice by Mel Blanc.
And Mel Blanc would make a fuss, according to the rumors, that
Who knew he'd make a huge fuss if they brought in one single
guy to do one single voice in any of the cartoons he was
involved in, which was all of Warner Brothers cartoons, all
the Bugs Bunny, all the Daffy Duck, all that stuff.
Adam Curry: Are you sure he did Elmer Fudd? Because people are
saying that's not true. I
John C Dvorak: believe so. He had. He was a man of one of
these I run in, ran into one of these guys I was doing when I
was doing a radio show. I ran into the guy who took over
tigger's voice, which Tigger used to be done by Paul Winchell
in the Winnie the Pooh series. And Tigger was done by Paul
Winchell. He was the one who developed the voice. And Paul
Winchell died, and they were still doing these Winnie the
Pooh movies. And this guy who was on the show, he was a voice
guy, and he took over. And I didn't know anything that this
even happened, and he did a bunch of voices for me,
including Tigger. And he sounded he was one of those guys who
could just mimic voices like, you know, like an impressionist,
or even better, and he could do, he's had about 12 or 13 very
distinctive voices that he could do, but Tigger was one of them.
And
Adam Curry: I could be wrong about breaking, breaking news,
breaking news, breaking Steve Webb og godcaster Text me. We
text as a voice actor. I can confirm Mel Blanc, blank did
Elmer Fudd. Doesn't mean it is voice. He might have just done
it, but okay, he did Elmer Fudd.
John C Dvorak: He did all the voices and Warner Brothers
cartoons. If you look at because they give credit on there,
there's only one guy's name, but, yes, but So, so what was
the difference between, you know, AI doing some voices, or
for these cartoons, or one guy doing all the voices, not
letting anybody else work. Where's the strike then? I mean,
it seems to me that that was unfair.
Adam Curry: By the way, okay, by the way, no, this is good.
Leanne Webb sent me an email. She is the much better half of
Steve Webb regarding John Tesh,
John C Dvorak: I have wondered what happened to John Tesh.
Well,
Adam Curry: couple years ago she saw him at the coach house. Is
in Florida, no Arizona. I think he's surviving a very rare form
of cancer, but still performing. He performed, of course, on
Entertainment Tonight with Mary Hart. He's still around. And
then I got a note from the boys from Mercy Me are who are
knights at this point, and they had some John Tesh trivia. Did
you know that he wrote the NBA theme song?
John C Dvorak: No, I did not know that. That's pretty that's
trivia. That is that stream trivia News
Adam Curry: You Can Use right
John C Dvorak: there. Yes, that's a lifetime of that
Adam Curry: you can retire. You can retire on something that was
like Paul
John C Dvorak: Anka when he wrote, he wrote the Johnny
Carson I show, yep, Tonight Show theme. And since the show went
up for 30 years, yeah, he was just gold. You know, you just
make money every show. But
Adam Curry: Can you hum the NBA theme song? No, I cannot,
neither. And and they and so the Mercy boys, Mercy Me. Boys said
that they met him on a cruise. They were performing on a
cruise, and they said, you and John should do a no agenda
cruise.
John C Dvorak: Yes, that's that. Let me look on my list of things
I want to do.
Adam Curry: I can hear Horowitz already going, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, let's do a cruise.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, yeah. Oh, there it is. Is that number? Oh,
it's been dexed out. No, it doesn't seem to be. No, it's
not, yeah, I
Adam Curry: have a feeling it's not in the cards a cruise. Ruse,
oh, boy. And then someone else emailed me saying, Hey, we
should do a no agenda con, you know, like, which we do that
twice a week. No, no agenda con, like, a big where everyone, all
producers from all over the world, can come in and hang out
together, the world's largest meetup. And I thought about, I
said, I think this has popped up in the past, and the reason why
we always say no is because people always want the same
thing, and then you can do a live show on stage. Yeah, and
like no, we though it would be great. Everyone could hang out
together, have a drink. But what are we gonna do? You know, we
have, there's no tricks, there's no, uh, no act. There's nothing
with, you know, there's we need to do sessions.
John C Dvorak: We'd have to work on a on a comedy act, a routine
like Rowan and Martin laugh in routine.
Adam Curry: Who's on First? It's
John C Dvorak: not again, not in the cards. No, it's, is that you
what we're what we've been doing, is what we're doing, and
that's about it. You know? We don't have, we have a microphone
company coming.
Adam Curry: I'm not allowed to promote it anymore, you know?
And you know
John C Dvorak: how many we have to hold off on promotion until
we actually get the microphones done. And then we have, what is
there anything else that we gonna do down the side? Not
really, I
Adam Curry: think. No, that's about it. We gotta. I
John C Dvorak: mean, I have the publishing company and, yeah,
you've got a bunch of other podcasts, and podcasting 2.0
that keeps you busy. We're doing work. I mean, we don't, but
we're not doing a cruise and we're not doing a podcast
Adam Curry: 2.0 is zero income. That's just to keep this show
going. I'm doing it for the show. And anyone else who wants
to do a show, well,
John C Dvorak: it's actually very philanthropic. That's what
it is.
Adam Curry: Yes, where's my Nobel Peace Prize?
John C Dvorak: Do get it?
Adam Curry: Sure. Well, if Obama could get one. So we're still
awaiting the return of the astronauts on that failed Boeing
Starliner. Thing is that the Starliner, yeah, was the
Starliner. You
John C Dvorak: know, I have a clip I want to play before you
get to that which has got, this is similar. This is, this is
like a thing that makes me cringe. This is the Space X,
flip, and it is the private thing they're going to do. And
you know, you know, Elon has not gone up in the space yet that I
know he's smart, because it's and I think, by the way, this is
just, I don't know if it's a red book prediction, but we've lost
astronauts when we had the billions of dollars. And, you
know, you send them up and something goes wrong, and it
kills these guys, although
Adam Curry: they happen when they're all alive in different
places in the country. But, yeah,
John C Dvorak: well, that could be the one that came in and the
tiles were falling off the bottom, and the thing blew up,
and everyone got to see it, and the Challenger went up and they
blew up. I mean, people. And then the guys who sat on the on
the launch pad, they burned up in the pit. Yeah, three of them.
That was bad. And, of course, that's suspicious that one. But
the something's gonna happen on one of these things, and it's
gonna be, it's gonna really destroy
Adam Curry: in the business. It's gonna be a day wrecker.
John C Dvorak: It's gonna destroy, yes, I agree. It's
gonna end the business a day record. But this one, this
particular one, this is they're gonna send up people higher than
ever before, maybe through a radiation belt. I'm not even
sure, belts really. We're gonna make them go outside and roam
around. I mean, this does not sound like a good thing. Space
Unknown: X's historical Aristotle mission is delayed
once again, this time it's because of bad weather. Four
private astronauts were set to be launched into space this
morning, but SpaceX said bad offshore weather is predicted in
the area where the crew will eventually splash down at the
end of the mission. During the mission, SpaceX plans to conduct
the first ever private spacewalk as well as gather data from
dozens of experiments. The mission commander said the crew
must be absolutely sure of reentry weather before
launching. That's because the supplies they are carrying are
limited. The mission had already been postponed from yesterday
after engineers discovered a helium leak in one of the
rockets components.
Adam Curry: Oh, he's also got a helium leak.
Unknown: Yeah, helium
Adam Curry: Yeah. I'm all for sending up satellites, you know,
it's fine, but yeah, going up into space, sure, yeah, KLM has
just enough. So we have the Boeing astronauts on the
International Space Station. They won't come back until
February. Is now reported, and they're going to send their
Boeing capsule back down. Watch that thing you want to take over
under on this where there's that thing like explodes on the way
down, or will it? Be safe.
John C Dvorak: I'm like, Oh, well, that's not really an over
and under. And over and under has a plus or minus, either
gonna blow up or not. Well, I would, I would say it's gonna
come back. Okay?
Adam Curry: I think so too, not that I'd risk my life on it.
Well,
John C Dvorak: that's why they're not risking their life
on it, because the fact that you'd even discuss it as blowing
up doesn't seem very not
Adam Curry: great, not great. So KLM has now said they are
switching from Boeing to Airbus, and KLM is, you know, Air
France, that's a big order. They're losing. Airbus is
cleaner, quieter, more economical, and doesn't have the
doors popping off. That was not in the press release, but I'm
just going to add that. And in China, we have another
competitor doing much better than Boeing, is
Unknown: Air China. And China Southern Airlines will become
the second and third Chinese carriers to fly China's
homegrown c9 online passenger jet. The two carriers took
delivery of the aircraft at Chinese planemaker Comac space
in Shanghai. These
are the eighth and ninth planes that Comac has delivered China.
Eastern Airlines has already been flying seven of these
aircraft
Adam Curry: since May last year. There you go.
John C Dvorak: No, what's a? C, 919,
Adam Curry: it looks like a 737 I think it's going to be a
competitor that big. Oh, yeah, it's, it's a dupe. It's a it's a
dupe of the 737
John C Dvorak: Yeah, they look nice. The commax. C9, 19, they
look nice. It looks like a 737, you're right. It probably is a
copy of an old one. It's a
Adam Curry: dupe. It's a dupe. It's a dupe. Yes, now I'm not
sure if this was a Boeing aircraft, so I have not received
so
John C Dvorak: we're doomed once the Chinese get into this. This
Adam Curry: is a very sad thing that took place. People don't
really this could be a maintenance issue. It could be
an aircraft issue. Again. I don't know if it was Boeing or
Airbus, but this is sad thing that happened this
Unknown: morning. Delta Airlines searching for answers after two
employees were killed on the job inside the airlines maintenance
facility on the Atlanta airport grounds. A third worker is being
treated for serious injuries. 1775
Mayor Jackson, Junior Boulevard, Delta, TLC, three
emergency crews rushing to the Delta wheel and Brake Shop early
Tuesday morning. The airline says employees were working on a
tire when the wheel component suddenly ruptured. Delta
describing it as a heartbreaking accident, it killed 58 year old
Merkel Marwick and 37 year old Luis Aldo Rondo, it
was away from the main airplanes had this high pressure, big
piece of metal, big piece of rubber, and if it fails, for
some reason catastrophically, can cause damage and injury to
people nearby.
A delta employee describing the chilling scene to first
responders, saying, quote, I walked toward where the
explosion occurred, and saw a body lying face down, not
moving, with blood all around the
accident. Investigators will probably look at the two metal
rims around that tire and look for some sort of a fatigue
failure. Was that airplane old? Was that tire old? Or was it
somehow, some part of the way that the tire was put together
that caused this mishap.
Adam Curry: Doesn't Delta, Delta fly Boeing's,
John C Dvorak: yeah, but this is probably, this is component.
It's like, it's like, certain trucks have these types of
tires.
Adam Curry: They're still blame Boeing.
John C Dvorak: Well, yeah. Well, that's the idea, blame them.
Yeah. Sorry about Boeing's got issues. I see there's a comeback
919 there's a 929 oh, so they're building big jets. Yeah, um, I'd
probably honeywell's involved with them. Oh, really, Americans
have, you know, help
Adam Curry: really,
John C Dvorak: yeah, but
Adam Curry: probably fly it. I wouldn't, I'm not too afraid. I
wouldn't go, Well, go on a spaceship, but
John C Dvorak: I'm taking a rocket, here's a rocket, and
shoot it up there, and I'll be on it and floating around for a
few minutes.
Adam Curry: This is a story trending everywhere. It's not
rage, it's crazy. It's no good California. I mean, it's just
California story so, but it was doing the rounds, so we might as
well discuss it, since one of us is in California
Unknown: now, to a live look at the state capitol. Right now,
California lawmakers have about three days to pass new laws for
the year. The deadline is Saturday, at midnight. Lawmakers
today saying Governor Newsom a bill that would allow
undocumented people to apply for the state's first time home
buyers program. That program has no money for the foreseeable
future, but that didn't stop lawmakers in the state assembly
from approving it in a 45 to 15 party line vote, the proposal
specifically prohibits the California Housing Finance
Authority from rejecting a person's actions. Application
based on their immigration status. The bill made national
headlines as California is facing a housing crisis with
some of the highest costs in the nation to own a home, we
need to remind ourselves that we are a nation of immigrants, and
here in our state, we remind ourselves all the time of the
value of those who are continuing to come here and to
make our economy better. So for those who are paying their
taxes, who are doing things right, who have a good credit
score and who can qualify for a loan, we are saying that we want
you to set roots here in our great state. If you qualify,
Governor Newsom will have until September 30 to sign or veto
this bill.
John C Dvorak: Apparently, that's not the that's not the
way the story is told on this clip. Oh,
Adam Curry: hold on. Can I just say something that Governor
Abbott of Texas, he is now commissioned signs to be put up
in Mexico that says, free homes that way. Point him towards the
north.
John C Dvorak: Yes. Smart move free homes in California. Is the
clip free?
Adam Curry: Oh, is that literally the clip name? Oh, I
see a
Unknown: California proposal could make illegal immigrants
eligible for housing aid. People could get up to $150,000 in
loans to help buy a home paid for by the state entities. David
lamb reports,
a new proposal would expand home buying loans to illegal
immigrants. On Tuesday, the Senate passed a bill in a 25 to
14 vote, California's home purchase assistance program
would cover up to a 20% down payment or closing costs capped
at $150,000 it's called Assembly Bill 1840 which was introduced
by Assemblyman Joaquin arumbula, and it prevents the state's home
purchase assistance program from disqualifying an applicant based
on their immigration status. Applicants would need to be
first time home buyers, and at least one borrower needs to be a
first generation home buyer, such as someone whose parents
don't own a home, or they've been through foster care, the
homebuyer would have to repay the down payment loan, plus a
portion of the profits if the house is sold later on. So
that's the increased value of the home. Now, as of Wednesday,
it's in the assembly before going to Governor Gavin Newsom's
desk. Well, it
Adam Curry: wasn't that different?
John C Dvorak: Well, they emphasize the fact that this for
illegal immigrants, mainly,
Adam Curry: yes, well, of course, that's what California
is all about. It's to improve your economy now so that so 20%
John C Dvorak: 150,000 so much of 2008 written all over it
does.
Adam Curry: That's a $750,000 home, which, at today's interest
rates, pretty steep price,
John C Dvorak: you know? Yeah, it might not be workable. You
mean, but Newsom, if he's smart, he'll veto it so he can keep on
his you know, because otherwise he's going to get everything
Newsom does from now on is assuming that Trump's going to
be president, and he has to be very careful that he's not going
to have this stuff thrown in his face. Hey, but
Adam Curry: wait a minute, this would work great for your favela
idea. Free favelas. You can get a down payment on a favela.
John C Dvorak: This idea of the favela itself is self free. It's
free,
Adam Curry: it's free, free. I love that idea. Well, let's
continue to stay in California with the cleanup operation just
in time for the Olympics, just in time for the 2020, 2028,
election. This is rousting the homeless. We're back
Unknown: now with our homeless in America series. Earlier this
summer, the US Supreme Court ruled that cities can find or
even jail people for sleeping outside. Seen as Nick watt went
to San Francisco, a city with a notorious homeless problem,
which is now aggressively sweeping homeless encampments
from its
streets. You got to go. But you know where you're gonna go,
yeah. Okay,
Adam Curry: okay, okay,
Unknown: we're in the Mission District. It's a little after
7am Is this the first time you've been involved in one of
these sweeps? No, no, no. This is the first time they've been
so quiet and nice you'll
be in a shelter tonight. Well, this covid? Yes, the Supreme
Court ruled that cities can now cite fine or jail these people,
even if they have nowhere else to go. We
have the ability to now enforce the law. Mayor
London breed introduced what she calls a very aggressive
strategy. They issued around 25 citations in the first two
weeks, you're criminalizing something that a lot of people
can't help. They have no other choice,
and that would be the case if we weren't offering people a place
to go inside. They
haven't offered your shelter.
They said there's no opening for shelter right now. There's no
beds or anything for trash. The
city says
no one this. Morning sweep ended up in a shelter, not one. This
is the afternoon sweep we're in so much South of Market. The
issue is, this is the 34th time the city has swept this area
this year alone.
Adam Curry: 34th time. That's
John C Dvorak: a little twist on the story. Doesn't
Adam Curry: seem to be working very well.
John C Dvorak: Well, I know whatever they're doing in San
Francisco, a lot of it's housing has an impact, and the homeless
are moving, probably wisely, to Oakland, right
Adam Curry: across the road from you.
John C Dvorak: Well, it's far enough away. I'm not worried
about it. But, okay, I wasn't open the other day driving
around. Yeah, and it's worse than ever. In a homeless
situation, there's encampments under every Overpass, which
seems like ever there's a you won't find a freeway overpass
where there aren't a bunch of tents. And there's a huge park
on the corner of MacArthur and Broadway for people who want to
check it out. And there's just Tent City. The whole park isn't
completely filled, but it's a borderline favela, but not the
right kind. The right kind needs a view. Yes, yeah, it's a view
formula. And I don't see anybody doing anything about anything in
Oakland.
Adam Curry: I have a second part to this report, more than 4000
Unknown: people live on San Francisco streets. There are
fewer than 4000 shelter beds, and most nights, they're near
full, with a wait list of over 100 he's offering your shelter
bed. Yeah, so what are you going to do? Are you going to
take it? Yeah, I'm going to take it. But you know what? It's
something where it's typical, like, I won't do it, man, I want
to do it because I stayed in prison 2022 years. Do you really
think I want to be closed up in a room with bars? No, I don't
think so. I'd rather sleep outside. Since
the Supreme Court's decision, cities and towns and states
across the country are now proposing passing and enforcing
anti camping laws across California, state authorities
have started sweeping in camps. I'm
here on behalf of 40 million Californians that are fed up.
I'm here because I'm one of them, but
more than 50 academics told the Supreme Court there's no
evidence that criminalizing homelessness works. In fact,
there's a lot of evidence that it's counterproductive. It's
Adam Curry: all Brits, by the way, who are representing your
news
Unknown: well, what we want to be able to do is use the
penalties as a way to get people to commit to going indoors. You
spent
a lot of money from the city sweeping that same street. To
me, that is the definition of matter. But
what I'm saying to you is the next option that we have for
people who are refusing what we're offering is we will be
citing, and you'll maybe, in the next couple months, take a look
at our data and see whether or not this is working, and if it's
working, we'll continue. If it's not, we need to pivot and to try
something else. Pivot, pivot.
Adam Curry: Gonna pivot and try something else, like
flamethrowers or something.
Unknown: This is, this is
John C Dvorak: what is citing somebody that homeless or living
in a tent, they got no income, they got no job, they got
nothing and you're gonna give them a ticket there. Yeah,
there's a $20
Adam Curry: ticket. They have no strategy. This is just, just
sweep them up, sweep under the rug. It's no strategy. There's
no strategy. Turn Oakland into a big, big park. It's not a
strategy. It's very sad. It is. Well, they
John C Dvorak: let it, they let it fester. That's the problem.
Well, it could have been solved if they had stopped it a decade.
They let
Adam Curry: it fester for political reasons.
John C Dvorak: That's what they did. Democrats,
Adam Curry: yes, yes, yes. The robbers den, you know, you
remember the knife attack and souling in Germany.
John C Dvorak: Yes, in fact, I have a clip that references it.
Oh, well, let
Adam Curry: me play the clip and I can tell you some. Have some
interesting details. What is the name of this clip?
John C Dvorak: That's a good question.
Adam Curry: Well, you're the you brought it up. Well,
John C Dvorak: I mean, you tricked me.
Adam Curry: I did not trick you into anything. Oh, here it is.
No, no. Do you have I don't see a knives clip?
John C Dvorak: No, it's, it's under it came at either my maybe
the UK NEWS it. Oh yeah, I think it came out of here. This is
when I think this, yes, it's in here. It's a two parter. It's UK
NEWS. It's about Starmer, oh
Adam Curry: yeah, hanging out with the German dude. Yeah? Here
British
Unknown: Prime Minister Keir Starmer is seeking to reset
relations with the European Union as he meets in Berlin with
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. The two leaders have agreed to
work on a treaty covering issues from defense to trade. Yeah,
let's
Adam Curry: just say defense.
Unknown: I'm absolutely. Clear that we do want a reset. I've
been able to repeat that here today, a reset with Europe, a
reset with the EU. But that does not mean reversing Brexit or
reentering the single market or the Customs Union. Scholes
said Germany wanted to take this outstretched hand.
The United Kingdom
has always been an indispensable part of the solution to the
major issues affecting the whole of Europe. This has not changed
since the UK left the European Union. The
new Cooperation Treaty would deepen collaboration in science,
technology, business and culture, while increasing trade
and guns. Britain and Germany said they hoped to sign the
Cooperation Treaty by early next year, at the heart of
this treaty will be a new defense agreement. There it is
an agreement that builds upon our already formidable defense
cooperation.
The deepening defense cooperation comes ahead of a
possible scaling back of us support for NATO if FORMER
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP returns to the White House early next
year, Trump has said he would not defend allies if they do not
increase their defense budgets.
Adam Curry: He don't think he said that. Well, indirectly, he
says if you don't pay your fair share, is what he said. But
yeah, it's a fair share thing. Yeah. So where's the knife stuff
in the second clip? Here's the second clip.
Unknown: Starmer also highlighted cooperation on the
shared European challenge of illegal immigration. The issue
is a hot topic in Germany at the moment, following a knife attack
in zollingen that killed three people and wounded eight more,
allegedly carried out by suspected Islamic extremists
from Syria, Starmer reiterated his plan to tackle the people
smuggling gangs behind the UK's small boat crisis, which charged
migrants 1000s of dollars to cross the sea from France to
Britain. He suggested the joint action plan could involve
authorities intercepting boats in transit across Europe to stop
them reaching the northern French coast.
John C Dvorak: Have you ever taken the before the Chunnel,
this very boat ferries across the English Channel. It's
Adam Curry: called the vomit Express.
John C Dvorak: It's unbelievable. I don't do not
understand how a small boat can make that trip. Well, a lot
Adam Curry: of them don't. I guess a lot of them don't make
it. Well, back to the knife attack, which was referenced in
that clip. I thought I remembered the name Solingen. I
couldn't. I couldn't put my finger on it. Do you know the
nickname of solingan, or what they call it? No, the city of
knives, the Solingen knife company comes from,
John C Dvorak: oh, that's there is a nice Yes. It's
Adam Curry: called the city of knives. Leave it to the city of
knives. Ironic, yes, the irony is nuts. And now the the Berlin
police commissioner came out with some tips and tricks to
employ if this happens and you're around and someone is
going crazy, stabbing people. The the police commissioner
said, Do something unexpected, like making a phone call or
singing very loudly. This is, this is the brilliant idea how
to thwart yourself from being stabbed to death by a knife
attack. Just sing loudly. Oh yes. And then this very sad news
from NPR regarding knives. All right, here's
Unknown: a question, what is a knife without a blade? That is
not a riddle or a Zen Buddhist paradox? It's a question that
the maker of the Swiss Army Knife has just answered in the
form of a new line of pocket knives without blades, they
will still have the screwdriver fear, not also the nail file,
the bottle opener, but not the classic flip out blade.
Victorinox, the company behind the ubiquitous multitool, has
made hundreds of millions of Swiss Army knives since the late
19th century. But this is a first. The
company's CEO told Swiss media this week that the decision was
made because some countries have increased the regulation of
knives in response to violent crime.
Yeah, this is not the first time Victoria Knox has had to pivot
based on current events when sharp objects like pocket knives
were banned from planes after 911 the company leaned into
watches and luggage and leisure wear and even fragrances. The
new bladeless pocket knives are in development now, and
aficionados will still be able to purchase the classic swiss
army knife.
Adam Curry: I love this story. We should do hammers that are
just a piece of wood with no head on it. It's a screwdriver
without a shaft. And what is a Swiss Army Knife without a
blade?
Unknown: Dumb, yes.
Adam Curry: What I mean? What is the world? And I remember we
used to say, hey, they're banning knives in England. No.
Not true. There's no knife crime, yes, meanwhile, we're
running around with nine mils everywhere. Yeah, it's
John C Dvorak: a better idea, you know, because when you shoot
somebody, everybody notices, because it makes a lot of noise.
It's very loud, it's very noticeable. Yes, yeah. So you
can get out. You can run out of the way with some of the knife
and people left it right? You scatter? Yes,
Adam Curry: you can scatter. Yeah, unless, of course, you're
President Trump and you know, and you're just walking around
with a with an AR 15, and you're hanging out. Did you hear the
latest details? You see they had pictures of the gun, and
John C Dvorak: I have the FBI investigate shooting NTD, which
details what they did. Well,
Adam Curry: let me play mine first, because NTD is such a
John C Dvorak: doom. Yeah, there they do to complete a job of
actually giving you the information.
Adam Curry: Well, this is there's only one little bit in
here that I think is good.
Unknown: The FBI giving an update this afternoon on its
investigation into the assassination attempt a former
President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, that
update, including the release of some new pictures showing the
gun backpack and undetonated explosive device belonging to
the shooter, Thomas crooks investigators saying that they
have been able to conduct an extensive analysis into the
research he conducted before the attack. However, they say no
clear motive has emerged. Investigators say crooks
searched the dates and locations of campaign rallies for both
Trump and President Joe Biden today, the FBI also saying that
crooks was on the roof for just six minutes before he fired
eight rounds at the former president. Trump's ear was
injured in that shooting, one rally, goer was killed, two
others were injured.
Adam Curry: Oh, it was only six minutes. Six minutes. Are you
kidding me? And listen to how that was reported. Oh, it was
only six minutes. What he was on the roof for six minutes. That's
outrageous. Six
John C Dvorak: minutes is a if we stop talking right now for
six minutes, everyone would stop tuning it did. Six minutes is a
long time, I agree, of especially dead air. But so the
guy gets up on the roof. He's up there for six minutes, I would
say, over five minutes before anybody
Adam Curry: even saw him. No, you just say only six is how you
report on it. Well,
John C Dvorak: that's the way to report only six. But six is you
got all these guys, spotters, guys, you know? Yeah,
Adam Curry: I mean, people do a, you know, mechanical bull for
eight seconds. If that do I want to play your NTD report or
didn't mind cover it? I
John C Dvorak: think it's pretty much the same story. It's a
little longer. No,
Adam Curry: it's the same length, 46 seconds.
John C Dvorak: No, it was the same, basically the same story.
Okay, let's go to this catch up with some campaigning news. Oh,
okay, what painting?
Adam Curry: Oh, they were I missed the queue. I'm queue
Unknown: you look queueless. Vice President Harris is in
Georgia. Former President Donald Trump is holding campaign events
in battleground states this week, the very states that could
decide the election. NTDs Washington correspondent Jack
Bradley has an update on Trump's campaign. Former
President Trump is holding campaign events this week in key
battleground states. Nothing is scheduled for the former
president but his running mate, Ohio Senator JD Vance, has two
rallies today. He's speaking in Erie, Pennsylvania and in De
Pere, Wisconsin. Tomorrow, Trump is holding a town hall in La
Crosse, Wisconsin, and on Friday, a rally in johnsontown,
Pennsylvania, Trump said he'll be attending the scheduled
presidential debate hosted by ABC on September 10 in
Philadelphia. He initially wanted to ensure the same rules
as the debate with CNN with President Biden, rules,
including that candidates microphones should be muted
while the other is speaking, and they will be standing and they
cannot bring notes. RFK, Jr, who recently dropped out of the
presidential race and endorsed Trump, has pulled his name off
the ballots in several states. He remains on the ballots in
Michigan and Wisconsin, both of them swing states, even though
Kennedy tried to remove his name, state laws don't allow it.
It will be interesting to see if that actually impacts the votes.
Now this all comes as Trump's campaign added Kennedy and Tulsi
Gabbard to his presidential transition team. Gabbard is a
former Democratic Congresswoman from Hawaii who ran for
president in 2020
Adam Curry: Okay, a couple things. One, I think we should
analyze and think for a moment about the next person who will
join the Trump campaign? There has to be more. They can't be
shooting their all their wad on RFK Jr in Tulsa. We've got to
have more coming in.
John C Dvorak: Oh, don't you think that I never considered
this?
Adam Curry: Oh, there's got to be another big name that joins.
It has to be a surprise, like Alfred. Lincoln. That'll never
happen, but someone, someone of great stature. Could there be
anyone who is not a complete
John C Dvorak: for it to be, which is rare in that party, but
it has to be a disaffected person uh, who sees it. It'll
reveal. It's the reveal will take place after the debate, and
it will depend on how the performance of Kamala goes. You
know, they kept trying to force the idea that she could have
notes, and you know what that means? She'd have a big binder
with tabs, a big, giant binder with tabs, and she'd be flipping
it over and reading from these notes.
Adam Curry: We, but we, I think we need someone from show
business like Clooney, which will never happen, but he's out
no but that level, someone, someone big, maybe not. I mean,
this
John C Dvorak: show business doesn't really have a I mean,
has no cash. I don't think this is impactful, and it's and these
people are all pathetic, yeah, I don't know. I don't see anybody
on the horizon. It'd be, it's a good I like the idea, oh, he
Adam Curry: needs it. He needs to do it. It has to be seen. How
about, how about Mike Rowe? Mike Rowe would be a good one.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, but Mike Rose already voting for him. Is
he, far as I can tell, he's a Republican, yeah,
Adam Curry: okay, Mike Rowe won't work. How about Bill
Maher?
John C Dvorak: That would be interesting. I'll give you that
one. Bill Maher, but he hates Trump so much that for him to
change, to change at this point. Would it would be incredible,
yeah, I just don't see it. I mean, it would be great, but I
he's such, he's such a ideologue, yeah, and he really
hates Trump. He says, Yeah, hates Trump, yeah,
Adam Curry: yeah, visceral well, but he can still say, I hate
him, but he's got the right ideas.
John C Dvorak: He could do that.
Adam Curry: And I saw this. I saw an ad for this on X or it
wasn't an ad, because I have premium free.
John C Dvorak: Oh, you paid. No, I
Adam Curry: got it for free because I you'd say I got the
blue check mark. You have the blue check mark too. You don't
get to leave. You don't get ads. I don't get any ads. You get
John C Dvorak: ads. I mean, once in a while I think there's an ad
in there. No, I think
Adam Curry: it's just, I think it's just a post. And I thought
it was a joke, but it wasn't. Hello, everyone.
Unknown: This is your favorite president, Donald J Trump, with
some very exciting news, by popular demand, I'm doing a new
series of Trump digital trading cards. You all know what they
are. We've had a lot of fun with them. It's called the America
first collection, 50 all new, Stunning Digital trading cards.
It's really something. These cards show me dancing and even
me holding some bitcoins. Here's the best part, I'm doing great
things for my trump digital card collectors. First, there's the
real physical trump cards. Purchase 15 or more of my trump
digital trading cards and we'll mail you a beautiful physical
trading card. It's really, I think, quite something. Each
physical trading card has an authentic piece of my suit that
I wore for the presidential debate, and people are calling
it the knockout suit. I don't know about that, but that's what
they're calling it. So we'll cut up the knockout suit, and you're
going to get a piece of it, and we'll be randomly autographing
five of them, a true collector's item. This is something to give
your family, your kids, your grandchildren. Number two is to
purchase 75 of my trump digital trading cards, and you will also
be invited to join me for a gala dinner at my beautiful country
club in Jupiter, Florida. We really have tremendous dinners
with my collectors. Have a lot of fun together. We're gonna
have a good time.
Adam Curry: Okay, so I need to say a
John C Dvorak: few things about this unbelievable. First of all,
this definitely tops the Bible, by the way,
Adam Curry: yeah, well, the Bible, he was just endorsing. He
wasn't actually selling it, but this, he's selling and so these
are nfts, which is exactly the opposite of what the Bitcoin
people want, which is just dumb. And then they say, Oh, I even
got some bitcoins or whatever, but these are nfts. Gary Gensler
has just come out and said nfts are securities, so he can expect
another lawsuit. Oh, yep, they're unregistered securities.
You watch. He came out with it yesterday, and and it's true. Of
course, they are, they are unregistered securities because
you can trade them. Hello. They're called trading cards. So
John C Dvorak: Pokemon card is like, NFT is now going to be
subject to, uh, Securities Exchange Commission. Are you
telling me that?
Adam Curry: No, because the. The Those are real cards. This is
the digit. It's an NFT. It's a little different than a Pokemon
Trading Card. It's the same with, with all these cryptos,
they're all, they're all, they've all been deemed not
commodities. But they except for Bitcoin, they've been deemed
securities. I'm just, I'm just analyzing. It's obvious what's
going to happen. Yeah, they're
John C Dvorak: gonna sue him. He's gonna make a fuss. And
maybe it was designed for that, but
Adam Curry: it's dumb and so and they cost $99 Yes, $7,500 you
get invited to the gala. Okay, well, you can just donate $7,500
John C Dvorak: I don't think so. Well, maybe he just said it. I
know what the price? Oh yeah, well, there'll be a bit. That
means there'll be a the place will be packed with people, and
you'll never get to meet him.
Adam Curry: Yeah, no, no, that's 75,000 to meet him for a
picture.
Unknown: Oh yeah,
Adam Curry: he knows what he's doing. Um, poll Paul came out
according to Axios, more Americans embrace covid Vax
untruths, which is an interesting choice of words,
John C Dvorak: untruths. Yeah. Big picture the finding they
don't, so they say they don't embrace covid lies. Yes, the big
Adam Curry: picture, says Axios. The findings from the University
of Pennsylvania's Annenberg Public Policy Center are further
evidence of how intense backlash to the government's at times
muddled covid response eroded trust in public health,
jeopardizing preparedness efforts to address future crises
of mosquitoes. What they found, 28% of respondents to the survey
incorrectly believed that covid 19 vaccines have been
responsible for 1000s of deaths. Wait,
John C Dvorak: how can you incorrectly believe?
Adam Curry: Thank you. I'm glad you caught that they incorrectly
you believe
John C Dvorak: something. You just believe it. You believe it.
I believe that the sky is green. You're incorrectly would go like
this. I believe he believes the sky is green, although he's
incorrect. They
Adam Curry: should have said Believe, without evidence,
John C Dvorak: my favorite phrase, it turns out this is
Adam Curry: up from 22% in June. 2021 the percentage, oh, who
know this is falling? Okay, so the percentage who know this is
false declined to 55% from 66% 22% believe the false idea that
it's false idea, listen to this, that it's safer to get a covid
infection than to get the vaccine. Up from 10% in April
2021, months after the covid shots were rolled out, the
percentage of those incorrectly believing that the covid 19
vaccine changes dn people's DNA nearly doubled to 15% from 8%
Wow, you stupid Americans. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Meanwhile, I'd like to get some confirmation on this, because it
comes from a sub stack in August 3333 nurses died suddenly.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that's what's his name? There's one guy
I can't remember his name off hand. Who? Dark Mark Crispin
Miller. Mark Crispin, yeah, yeah. Miller, is
Adam Curry: he full of crap?
John C Dvorak: All this is all he does. No, he's not full of
crap. Okay? He just documents every buddy he can find who died
before the age of 70, even though he does it goes beyond
that too, uh, who they don't have a cause of death, and he
just lists them all as as people who died from the VAX. Well,
he's
Adam Curry: not saying that. He's not, no,
John C Dvorak: it's what he No, well, I'm
Adam Curry: implying, implying it. Was implying it, yes, with
died. So
John C Dvorak: he's not saying it, but he's, that's what he's
saying. Well,
Adam Curry: we have a lot of nurses and doctors who are
producers. I'd love to hear if they, if they are seeing similar
numbers of of their their colleagues dying suddenly. I
John C Dvorak: know a lot of these colleagues have quit the
business because they wouldn't get this shot. Because what they
saw from people who did get this shot, and the next thing you
know, they had to get the shot, they said, No, I'm not going to
get the shot. I'm out of here. And that's caused the problem,
same as in the military, with people who quit Baron sir
Adam Curry: spud the mighty says that x apparently still banning.
The hashtag died suddenly, what I thought it was free speech
over there as Linda, Linda the knob twiddler Can't trust Linda.
And then our Surgeon General came out with an interesting
statement this week, as summarized in this clip,
Unknown: I don't think it's a surprise that parenthood is
stressful. I
think Desiree Terry is the mother of three children.
I think we've all been feeling it for a really long time, and
it's wonderful to actually have some numbers to back it up.
Terry is talking about the findings in a new surgeon
general advice. Three. Dr Vivek Murthy says 48% of parents feel
completely overwhelmed. That tells us we've got a real
challenge, and there's a lot that's driving that. You know,
parents are they're not only contending with the usual
stressors that come with being a parent, worrying about finances
and safety, but they're also worried about how to manage
social media and phones for their kids. Associate
Professor of child psychiatry at the University of Chicago, Dr
Holland. F Zell says parents' well being is crucial when it
comes to a child's well being. F Zell also says the finding about
the role of social media in a parent's life was very
revealing. Murthy also says employers should provide more
paid leave for parents and access to affordable childcare
and have policies in place that support parents and their mental
health.
Adam Curry: What kind of psychological warfare is this? I
don't know so well. Don't Have Kids. What it sounds like to me?
Oh, if you weren't worried enough about the cost and social
media. It's going to stress you out. Yes, my daughter just
turned 34 I'm still stressed out. That's what you do as a
parent. It's one of the joys. That's why I want them all to
have kids, to get back at them
Unknown: and laugh. What do you think it is?
John C Dvorak: I have no idea. Psychological Warfare nuts. Cut
off. There you go.
Adam Curry: Oh, okay, that'll do it. Do you want to play one more
clip or so? Just go straight into the
John C Dvorak: just from a gut felt show. This is a I'm
wondering, if you can guess, this is Tom Chalu was the host.
He's a funny comic who does Biden as an imitation. He's very
good at it. This is hobbies that turn off women. Oh, but before
we play it, what? What would you guess? Podcaster
Adam Curry: and day trader, let's listen.
John C Dvorak: Those aren't hobbies. Those are vocations.
The Internet gets reactive to hobbies deemed unattractive.
Tonight, we
Unknown: examine a viral social media post purportedly ranking
men's hobbies by how attractive they're perceived by women. And
much to my dismay, wait a minute.
Adam Curry: Let me think. Let me think collecting Star Wars
figurines. Is that on the list? Yes,
John C Dvorak: ah, I
Adam Curry: got one another one would be Star Wars figurines,
video gaming. Video gaming. Oh, you, you
John C Dvorak: saw this? No, no, I
Adam Curry: did not. I'm just thinking of what I find
detestable. Hosting
Unknown: Gutfeld is near the bottom of the list. Now, we
couldn't verify the scientific authenticity of this poll, but
when has that stopped us? According to the chicks of this
chart, playing video games is the number one fast track to the
friend zone, followed by things like collecting figurines, doing
magic, gambling and even building model trains.
Adam Curry: You're four for four, don't you have model
trains? I know you've got a model train set. So, yeah,
you've got when
John C Dvorak: I was a kid collecting, I like trains a lot.
I didn't build model trains, necessarily, but I do have, have
kept an engine from the 50s that probably is worth something, but
I haven't sold it, so it doesn't, can't prove anything,
but I know guys as adults that do trains, and I do, and I do
enjoy seeing a good train layout. It's very fascinating.
There's a
Adam Curry: very famous used to be disc jockey in Holland, Eric
gsvart, and he came up a little bit before me, and he wound up
being co owner of a very big, very popular radio station. Once
commercial stations were radio 538, and he is all he, I mean,
he has a train in his backyard that he can sit on.
John C Dvorak: Oh, that that's Walt. Disney had one
Adam Curry: of those and and so now he's, I think he's obviously
still a shareholder, but I don't think he works necessarily
anymore in the radio business. He's probably about five years
older than me, and now he drives the tram. He's a tram conductor
in, I think, in, I don't know if it's Rotterdam or Amsterdam, and
he's always posting pictures. Well, going to work today, gonna
drive the tram.
John C Dvorak: Wow, that's a guy who's dedicated to much
something about it. Yeah, train, you know, train and pushing the
lever and making it go, yeah, there's
Adam Curry: no evidence. He hangs out with hot chicks.
Unknown: Oh, my God, listen
to that horn. I'm gonna show my sword by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh, yeah. Be fun well,
Adam Curry: we have a lot of fun things to talk about. We have a
nice, stacked birthday list. We have a number of of produced
meetup reports. Which are, I like them. I like it when people
produce them, but we've had a lot of very successful meetups.
And of course, we have the tip of the day and our end of show
mixes. But first we're going to thank our producers who came in
above $50 below. We don't mention for reasons of
anonymity, and as always, we have people on there who are on
the sustaining donations program, which can get you to
knighthood. It happens all the time. John, would you please
read us through down to the 50s?
John C Dvorak: I'll read a few before you have to read one
which is starting with Curtis Richie and sure burn New York
came in with 100 bucks, and right away, right at the top is
Kevin McLaughlin in Concord, North Carolina, 808. Is the
Archduke of Luna. Now we have a night, and we we will read these
notes when they come in at these low levels. And this is
Christian rule ish In Winter Haven Florida, 808 he says,
Adam Curry: Hey fellas, so many puppies to feed this week, I've
sent my donation of 808 through the usual method. And after some
careful accounting, I'm a Knight of the no agenda show. Very
exciting, much, muchly happy, and accounting is below. If it's
okay with the peerage committee, I wish to be referred to as Sir
loin of the Winter Haven from here on. That's fine for the
round table. I would like Skyline chili, four way bean and
Jamison, Blackberry whiskey, black barrel whiskey. We have
both of those for you lined up at the table. It's been a
genuine pleasure listening to John and his various
interpretations of pronunciation of my last name to aid John with
future donations, he may just refer to me as sir loin of
Winterhaven on my way to becoming a Duke. Well, please
mention that in your future donations so we get that right.
God bless you both. You are true patriots of our great country,
Sincerely and respectfully Christian grulich Sirloin of
Winterhaven. PS, and for a winning resume that'll get you
noticed, contact the lovely Lyndon lupatkin at imagemakers,
inc.com That's imagemakers.com inc.com with a K and enter code
Bongino to see what happens next.
John C Dvorak: Ah, uh, Bart Hendricks is next. Uh, he's in
part, heritan Holland, $75 Hareton, that's good. Uh, Dana
Carroll in Laughlin, Nevada, 7227 Borge Alvarez in Ponte.
Verdra Beach, Florida, 7171 Craig Kohler in Evansville,
Indiana, 6502 and these are the following. Lindy, well, we got
Gaucho woodworking, of course. Look them up. They're listed on
the Google Gaucho woodworking. They make great cutting boards
and such. Redondo Beach, California, 6352 this is a karma
for Adam's birthday. And it says my birthday, plus my right knee
replacement on Adam's birthday. Guy. Now I'm just going to read
these are 6229 and 60s. These are all birthday shout out. So
I'm just going to go read the name of the individuals, and if
there's a location, for some reason, the location only shows
up a few times. But mansuor rod, uh, prison O'Leary. The guy's
name is prison, I don't think so. Yeah, I
Adam Curry: hope so. Maybe he's from the prison in O'Leary.
John C Dvorak: Uh, Michael Belcher, Kevin McLaughlin, once
again, thank you. Kevin, yeah. Alan shaft, shaft, shaft chef,
uh. Steve Niles in Santa Cruz. Trevor Hoagland, William Baker,
B, A, k, k, e, r bucker, Maria Rickard Hong, nutritional
healing, okay, all right. Kelly Hubbard, sir Job. Job, one of my
favorite names, Night Of The Night of the jiggly bits. That's
right, sir. Jub job, uh. Derek Tipton, Jamie Buell, a Baronet,
Benjamin Ritter's Angela Pickering Dan King, Cameron
Adam Curry: Dan King also asked for a deduced for his free, free
loading. Brother, Matt King, from central point, Oregon,
you've been deduced. Caught it. Caught it. Good. Catch.
John C Dvorak: Uh, Cameron Linga, Brian, Belen Brian, mass
uh, Walter hilbeck, um, very long. Thank you. Note there.
Yancey summer. Gerald Preston, Schuman, Roy, sir, B boop. And
that ends the well, which is now the next the next show will be
your official birthday show on Sunday. Yes,
Adam Curry: this is my birthday week. Is what we're celebrating
here, and I will be working on my birthday. Well, no,
John C Dvorak: no, your birthday is Tuesday. Well, you might be
working, but no, my show my
Adam Curry: birthday is Wednesday. No, that was Tuesday.
The third It's Wednesday, and then I'll be working Thursday,
while on a so called vacation, uh, and Sunday, the Sunday after
that, because Tina's taking me to Mexico. So that's my birthday
present. So I will be was, what day is the what? The third of
September, that's Tuesday. Well, I'll be celebrating it on
Wednesday. Okay, it's Tuesday. I'm sorry. Tuesday is like, I
don't really want to know about it. It's too late. So cheer me
up, everybody with a donation.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, yeah. $60 donation to Adam for his
birthday. Sunday show. Let's try to boost the Sunday show with
congratulate and you get 600 would be cool.
Adam Curry: Yeah, that would be cool. It's all right.
John C Dvorak: Steve banstric comes to his 5993 eggs. Donation
over easy. 5993 backwards. Oh, that is, yeah, that's cool if
you flip it over, yep, but that's interesting. Eggs
Adam Curry: over easy and too many eggs.com.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, too many eggs.com. Geek rolling in Coeur
d'Alene, Idaho, 5856 Nicholas, Oman in Dilworth, Minnesota,
5856 I don't know what that number coming no, he
Adam Curry: needs something travel karma. We'll give it
John C Dvorak: to you. Yes, put some travel karma at the end for
him. Joshua Stewart and Bowling Green, 55 he says
Adam Curry: he's been listening for over a decade, and now he
requests the deduching is the first time that he's donated
trace from Bowling Green, Kentucky. He's from the summer
ozempics of Bowling Green. I'll deduce him for that
Unknown: you've been deduced.
John C Dvorak: Here's a William Edelen in Jacksonville, Florida,
which came in with 55 which is the 20% cut of the David Dana
Brunetti unclaimed property donation drive, an excellent
idea, I might add, as far which was one of our tips of the day?
Yes, surprise of astonishment in UConn, Oklahoma. 5444 another
missing name, Mark, oh no, it's Mark Hardwick in Alito, Texas,
5333 Kyle tack in Yankton, South Dakota, 5272 and as a happy
birthday, call out a might for himself, yep, for Willa. Michael
Willa Willa Willa Willa, Michael Friedel. Friedel in Kansas City,
5272 Scott Nelson, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 5001 and now the
rest are 50s. And we're going to go through them, name and
location if I have a location, starting with Brian emmon Heiser
in Lancaster. Michael Elmore in Gastonia, North Carolina. John
Taylor in Florida, fluorescent Colorado. Aaron wise Gerber in
Bend, Oregon. Richard Gardner, who I believe is in New York
City, but doesn't say ZEV green in Teaneck, New Jersey. Hockey,
Esparza, Ella ragia in Mexico City. I think. David Steele in
Mobile, Alabama, we need more Mexico city people. We do leave.
They got to 13 million people or plus living there. Leave.
Thompson in Meridian, Idaho. Justin Kaler in Bluffton,
Indiana. Ed Edwin Torres in San Antonio. Ryan wicker wickenhagen
in town. Send Georgia and last uh, Baron Allen bean in
Beaverton, Oregon, who's been with us since almost the very,
very beginning, who once said a $50 check in, and says, As long
as you guys are good, I'm going to send a $50 check in once a
month, and he has been giving this money ever since
Adam Curry: it does he have a title,
John C Dvorak: he's a baron. Oh, okay, well,
Adam Curry: then he has a title. He might, he
John C Dvorak: probably higher than that, but he still goes by
Baron. Oh, well, that's it. He used to live in Oakland.
Adam Curry: Well, thank you very much, Baron. And thank you to
everyone who supported Episode 1690, of the best podcast in the
universe, because we have the best producers in the podcast.
It's easy to check. You can ask anybody someone was saying the
other day, you know that this one podcast, the dire of a CEO,
has 65 people working on the pod. Podcast. And I said, so
what? We've got 10s of 1000s of producers working on the
podcast.
John C Dvorak: Does he pay those 65 people? He does. Are they
volunteers? No,
Adam Curry: no, he'll No, I think he pays him. Yeah, they go
to an office and everything, what? Yeah, no, he'll be poor
soon. Don't worry. He does all kinds of but what do
John C Dvorak: you need that may I mean, if you're going to be
paying people to work full time, he also
Adam Curry: has, this was the big news at Podcast Movement,
which was in Washington, DC, on a Wednesday, a Thursday and a
Friday, which doesn't sound like a great you know, when school's
back. I mean, I don't know how many people showed up. Well,
this guy, this, I forget his name, Bartlett. I think his name
is he's very famous, very famous podcaster. When he does
interviews with people, he has a CO two monitor in the studio,
and when it hits 1000 parts per million, then he stops the
interview, because he says, then people won't be thinking
straight. That was the big news that came out of the podcast
world this past week.
Unknown: What?
Adam Curry: Yes, yeah. 1000 parts per million, then you
can't think straight. He claims, is that true?
John C Dvorak: Well, I don't know if it's true or not, but
What? What? Why don't you just open up window, dude?
Adam Curry: Thank you all very much, especially those who came
in under $50 for reasons of anonymity, or if you're on one
of our many, many possibilities for your own sustaining
donation, please remember us. Support us. Send us some value
back. Go to no agenda donations.com. Here's the goat
karma for those who want, including sir CB, who needs some
garage sale karma?
Unknown: You've got
Adam Curry: karma. No agenda donations.com.
Unknown: Here's the birthday list. We've
Adam Curry: got Tim Kimbrough turn 55 on the 25th Kyle tack
wishes Willa happy one turn 13 on the 25th as well. Andrew,
Andrew Andre Mackey turned 17 today. How about that? Sean
O'Connor turning 41 today. Thomas Weaver turned 38 today.
Dame four and lady before turn 76 one day before me. I'll be
60, but she turned 76 on September 2, and Gaucho
woodworking shares a birthday with me on September 3. Happy
birthday from everybody here at the best podcast in the
universe. She
well, not only does she turn 76 on September 2, but today she
becomes a vis Countess Dame foreign lady before now becomes
vi Countess Dame a foreign lady before. Protectorate for her is
the old town of Grayson in northeast Georgia, a classy Dame
indeed, a vis Countess no less. Congratulations. Two nights,
finally got some nice to bring up here to the round table. So
get out your blade, John, there you go. Don't bring out your
nice army knife, because it doesn't have a blade.
John C Dvorak: It's just a corkscrew.
Adam Curry: Saren Denzil, Christian grillik, step on up.
Gentlemen, both of you have supported the no agenda show in
the amount of $1,000 or more that qualifies you for a
knighthood. It's just as good as one of those that the King of
England gives away, only we actually give you something cool
that you can wear every single day. So I'm very proud hereby to
pronounce Kate Diaz, Sir Knight Z and Sir loin of Winter Haven
for you gentlemen, we have hookers and blow. That's
something the king won't give you either. Red boys and
Chardonnay, Skyline chili, four way bean and Jamison. Black
barrel whiskey along with that Bong. It's bourbon, sparkling
cider escorts, ginger ale and gerbils, breast milk and pablum.
And of course, we always have the effervescent mutton and
Mead, and when you're done snacking on that, go to no
agenda rings.com. Check out the beautiful rings. We have the
Signet rings for knights and for dames, and we deliver that to
you with a certificate of authenticity and wax, which you
can melt down on seal your important correspondence with.
Thank you both for supporting the no agenda show, and welcome
to the round table of the no agenda nights and days.
Unknown: Yeah, baby.
Adam Curry: So we may not do anything big, centralized like a
no agenda con, but we love our meetups, and everyone else in
the all the other producers seem to love it. These are producer
organized meetups. You go to no agenda meetups.com. You can
register your Meetup, or you can find one near you. And people
like telling us how much they enjoyed it. Here is the report
from Keene, New Hampshire.
Unknown: Hey there. This is the new agenda meetup in Keene at
John C Dvorak: the Jamaica. Restaurant, and
Unknown: we had a lot of fun. There was four of us, three of
us Reapers, and one person got hit in the mountain in the
morning, John and Adam. This is crypto Duke. Maybe sometime
you'll come out here. You know, it's not too far from a Plymouth
Mouse. Oh, but
we'll never get the grumpy gun to come here.
Adam Curry: Okay, bye, bye. All right, the tip is to record an
acquired location. Let's see how Tulsa did. Hey, shmiri,
Unknown: what? Where do I find the wildest and weirdest
conversational threads in Oklahoma? The Tulsa, no agenda.
Don't be a douchebag. Meetup.
Hey, John and Adam. This is Alan in Tulsa. I called this meetup
together to let everyone know that I'm ending my campaign and
I'm endorsing the curry Dvorak ticket. Four more years. It's
Hallie Howdy, John and Adam. We're just here at this white
Christian nationalist meetup looking to repeal the 19th Hey,
John, Adam. This is David. You guys. Podcast is so informative.
But what is Aleppo
in the morning? Guys, this year I'm
voting Linda lapatkin
Adam Curry: Aleppo, that's in Syria. You know what Aleppo is?
Spearfish, South Dakota. Come on in with your report.
Unknown: Good. Evening. This is Jessica. We interrupt this
broadcast to bring you breaking news from the cow peak. No
agenda. Meetup of the Black Hills. Our very own Juan Miguel
is on the scene. Let's go to him now live for more details.
Hey Jessica, thank you. I'm here at the crows beat brewery here
in Spearfish, South Dakota. It's an incredible scene. Lots of
energy, lots of activity. I think we even have midgets. I'm
not sure they may also be small children. Over here, we have a
table of people for the no agenda. Meet up. Let's see if we
can get some comments from them
in the morning. This is Jessica. The company is great, and the
green kombucha tastes better than it looks. In the
morning, Adam and John. This is Caitlin coming to you from the
cows peak meet up in Spearfish, South Dakota. I saw a guy
wearing a t shirt that said, Put a hog between her legs.
Everybody. This is John Dale having a good time here at the
crow peak brewery here in Spearfish, South Dakota, in the
morning,
in the morning, this is Casey, and we're at the first ever snow
peas. No agenda, meet up in Spearfish, South Dakota, at the
crow peak brewery.
Hey, my name is say I come down here to Fortune get some beers
after working on the roof all day, and they have some beers.
So I got a beard. I'm not sure what is the no agenda's thing
though.
I just wanna know my social pet store in the morning.
Back to you, Jessica.
Adam Curry: Wait What John Dale actually emailed me, is it okay
if we say midgets in the meetup report like you do? You bro,
whatever you want. Now we go over to London, merry old
England. Here is guof and his report from his meetup
Unknown: from the Gitmo nation, the UK in the morning.
Who's my favorite look.
I do believe it's that John, John C. I
think it's called John c1,
100% I'm Elliot from Croydon, and I am the douchebag
in the morning. John and Adam, this pop quiz is rigged like
your elections.
This is Woof the carcap, the London no agenda meet hub,
longest standing member, part two, and I'm affecting my pitch
for the V for VTV channel. Yeah, hi,
John, Hi Adam seven. Freeze from g7 LH, I can listen later on the
airwaves, and I've enjoyed every member of it. So take
care. Bye, John and Adam, please. Out. So thank you for
your
courage. Steve at the London meet up in Fitzrovia, awesome
experience. Lovely ice gone off.
This is Sue from Melbourne, Australia, reporting from meet
up at sump pub called the law of the land. And I encourage you
all to come to this meet up with Gregory and everyone else called
no agenda. And if we could come back again next year, we would.
And John agrees,
I may have a bit of a hangover tomorrow due to climate change.
Adam Curry: Okay? And a happy birthday song. Thank you very
much. Well, sounds like everyone had a good time there in the UK.
Time for us to visit John, we got a lot of people out of
producers. Oops, a lot of producers over there. Yeah, we
do having a good time. Obviously. Here's what's coming
up today. The North Georgia monthly kicks off at six o'clock
at Cherry brewing, Cherry Street brewing in Alpharetta, Georgia
On Sunday, the first annual no agenda, anti anti tam
battlefield meetup. Anti Tam, anti Tam, that's at 10 o'clock
in the morning at anti tam National Battlefield. Oh, that's
a Maryland, Sharpsburg, Maryland and on. Also, that's
John C Dvorak: mispronouncing it. How
Adam Curry: do i pronounce it?
John C Dvorak: Because you mispronounce it, I can't. It's
antimony or something. It's,
Adam Curry: you literally spelled A, N, T, I, E, T, A, M
and T, a tam and Tia and to, hey, it's charming. The National
Battlefield of that place in Sharpsburg, Maryland, very go
there.
John C Dvorak: Civil War battle, yes, go there.
Adam Curry: And the annual South Jersey pig roast meetup, five
o'clock at Medford Lake, New Jersey. Oh, that's dame, one of
the lakes. You've got to contact her for details. It's probably
at her house. So go to no nogen to meetups.com. For that. Coming
up on September. This is gonna cook a pig, I think so it's the
annual South Jersey pig roast meetup. So yes, they're gonna
cook a pig. Cooking up a pig. This is an interesting one
Plymouth, Massachusetts. I was just there. I would have loved
to have been in a meetup. Instead. They're doing one post
visit, and they sent a promo
Unknown: in a world on the brink of war, it took 80 years to
build, where whispers of rebellion echoed through the
colonies, one of his right on the water, based on a true
story,
Adam Curry: it symbolizes The America, it really does, of
Unknown: love, romance and Adam and Tina's visit last month,
the British will be here. Soon. We shall stand our ground and
fight them to the death.
This is America. You dumb, some of it. Okay, this Labor Day,
James winters, Massachusetts, the 81
Adam Curry: foot tall monument was commissioned by the
Unknown: pilgrim society at the National Monument to the
forefathers in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the anarchists,
the agitators, the looters and people who, in many instances,
have absolutely no clue
what they are doing, find out what it really means an
entire nation founded on saying one thing and doing another
to be an American, and we will
call that country
the United States of America.
The adamantino were here meet up coming Monday, September 2, at
the National Monument to the forefathers Massachusetts.
Adam Curry: That's pretty cool. Too long. Yes, too long.
John C Dvorak: But by the way, it's pronounced Antietam.
Antietam. Okay, that's
Adam Curry: pretty cool, though. So finally, we're going to put
the National Monument to the forefathers on the map. Can you
imagine the no agenda? Meet up there. It's in a cul de sac.
It'll be interesting with see what the neighbors have to say
John C Dvorak: about y'all. I'm sure they won't be pleased. One
Adam Curry: more promo for North Florida.
Unknown: Ahoy Florida producers, you are quarterly invited to a
summoning of the seas at our September meetup in Saint
Augustine on Sunday, September 15, at 2pm join us for a round
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Ah, there
Adam Curry: you go. And we have many more to mention. I'm going
to skip them, since this was a very long meetup segment, but I
do want everyone to know, October 18, Matt long. Matt
Long, who was a well known person here in in
Fredericksburg, Texas, is organizing a meetup right here
in Fredericksburg. Curry and the keeper will be there. Many more,
I'm sure, who are in the Texas region will be coming to
Fredericksburg. Come to our lovely town, book an Airbnb. You
don't want to stay at the motel, six and come join the meetup. I
think that's on Friday, I think October 18, Fredericksburg,
Texas. Those are the meetups. Many more you can can be
found@noadgendameups.com if you can't find one near you, like
Fredericksburg, Texas, then start one yourself at no agenda
meetups.com. It's easy and always a party triggered all
Unknown: you to be where you won't be triggered or, hell,
everybody feels the same.
Adam Curry: It's like a party. It's like a party, yes, indeed,
just like a party. I only have one. One ISO, so why don't you
do yours, and then I'll play mine, which I think is gonna
win?
John C Dvorak: Okay, we start with the podcast is so good. Oh,
that
Adam Curry: one might win. Let's see. The podcast is so good.
Wow, it's really a low level. You didn't make that yourself.
Someone else did that for you. Let me try that again.
Unknown: The podcast is so good.
Adam Curry: That has no dynamics
Unknown: sexism. This is blatant sexism.
Adam Curry: Well, that would be appropriate for this show. Who
was that? Megyn Kelly, exactly,
John C Dvorak: and for our last celebrity entry, nailed it,
nailed
Unknown: it, nailed it.
Adam Curry: Who was that?
Unknown: Who does that? Who said that
John C Dvorak: he has an adenoid an adenoidal voice, and he's
podcasting all the time. Scott Adams, who that was Scott
Adam Curry: Scott Adams. Oh no, no. Can't do Scott Adams. Here's
my I only have one entry
Unknown: breaking
crazy.
What freaking crazy?
Adam Curry: You don't like freaking crazy. It
John C Dvorak: sounds like he's saying breaking No, freaking
Adam Curry: All right. Well, I think we go with Megan. This
Unknown: is blatant sexism. I
Adam Curry: think that's the one we go with. I think so, yeah, I
think that's a good one. Now, everybody, it's time before we
wind up the show. It is John's Tip of the Day.
Unknown: And sometimes Adam.
John C Dvorak: So there's a really good book. I'm going to
plug a book come
Adam Curry: into the mic.
John C Dvorak: I can't come in any closer without banging my
nose. I'm going to plug a book called might of the chain. I
don't like the title, but the book is fantastic. Might of the
chain. Might, might the chain, forging leaders of iron
integrity, another subtitle. I don't like that either, but the
book itself is fabulous. It's from is by Mike studeman, a Rear
Admiral, former retired who is actually something of a of a
spook. He's now working for miter as a national security
fellow. And this book is it's outrageously interesting. In
fact, it's got a blurb by Henry Kissinger, that says thoughtful
and engaging. When I read the blurb, I said, one of those
blurbs that you just write. I used to be an associate with
John Brockman, the New York agent. And he told me very early
on, he says, you know Alan watt, the guy who wrote all the books
on Zen Buddhism. He said that guy, if somebody mentioned
blurb, he says, I'm in and he would write the blurb. He would
write any blurb for anybody. And I've taken that same I felt the
same way, always weirded out, but by people who say, Oh no, I
have to read it first. I have to do this. So I read this
thoughtful and engaging by Kissinger, I said he's one of
those guys just writes phony blurbs. No, this book is the
most thoughtful book I've ever run into, at least for a couple
of years. It's just loaded with information. If you are a
business manager, a guy who wants to get into management, or
if you're in the military, it's about leadership, and it's,
it's, it's it's just so full of tips. It's, it's great. It's a
meta tip. It's really a good book. So it's called might, I
don't like the title. It could have been called a lot of
different things, but might of the chain by stood studeman, s,
s, t, u, d, e, M, a, n, uh. Get a copy if you can. If you want
to have something
Adam Curry: good to read. Wow. A Reading Tip that doesn't happen
often. Now,
John C Dvorak: I think once a month I'm going to try to do a
book. No
Unknown: commercials. More content.
Your no agenda. Tip of the Day.
Adam Curry: There it is. Your no agenda. Tip of the Day.
Everybody. Beautiful. And that concludes our broadcast time.
Let's see, yep, it's time end of show mixes, Professor Jay Jones,
we got Dee's laughs and David kecta all coming in with end of
show mixes, good to have you boys on board as usual. End of
show. Let's see. That means we have something coming up next?
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Everybody. I'm Adam curry,
John C Dvorak: and from Northern Silicon Valley, where I remain,
I'm John C Dvorak.
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adios, mofos, a hooey, hooey and such. I don't
Unknown: know what's wrong with you, young
people. You think you just fell off a coconut tree.
I think that sounds pretty good.
Every single day,
pick up the kids and pay your bills,
look lost and confused, so she'd lower everyone's income. Yes,
I think that sounds pretty good.
Is that a good thing?
That is a good thing.
You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?
Who the hell is in charge? I
don't know what's wrong with you young people, because she is
smart and she is more reliable. Who
the hell is in charge? What
do you think about Donald Trump?
He started World war three?
Yeah, yeah. That's just not true.
You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?
I think that sounds pretty good. The leader, who's
tough, tested,
yeah, yeah, that's
just not true. A total badass, Sam, you
think you just fell out of a
coconut tree?
Look lost and confused,
so she lowered everyone's income. Everything is in
context.
Adam Curry: Is that a good thing?
Unknown: That is a good thing. You think
you just fell out of the coconut tree. They
don't care about me at all, at all, at all.
Who the hell is in charge
because she is smart and she's more reliable. They don't want
a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don't
want well informed, well educated people capable of
critical thinking. They're not interested in that. That doesn't
help them.
That's against their interest. That's great.
I don't know what's wrong with you young people.
The leader who's tough. Hey, this
scorching heat is is happening globally, in Canada, and it's
unrelenting.
And one climate scientist at Berkeley, you may have read
this, Dave said that this is absolutely Gob, smackingly
bananas. And that's coming
Adam Curry: from a scientist. Oh no, a scientist used the word
gobsmack.
Unknown: Yeah, malicious malaria, mosquitoes are back.
Another gates invention with this theory a mental attack
stick a thermometer in this Jacuzzi. Planet scorching,
torrential roti. I think I know who planned it. Gobsmackingly
bananas. Ocean's a hot tub, and now they want to cancel winter
in Canada. It's pretty chilly here all year. Survey everything
and stop almost nothing. Old is the new fear. What's the cost
for you? Citizenship, my boss,
Adam Curry: it's a Jacuzzi planet. I'm
Unknown: so cross claiming privacy is necessary to protect
the neck only real way to keep the masses really in check,
because they don't really rally, distracted with the day to day,
the grind. I mean, the dreck. They don't really rally.
Distracted with the day to day, the grind and the dreck, global
citizen, never made sense to me. You can only live your life as a
private, sovereign entity. Can we all agree collectivism over
your individuality is a hell of a schism if
John C Dvorak: you're going to stick a thermometer in the
planet, yeah, to get an accurate temperature, wouldn't you stick
it into into the planet's butthole, or Toronto, as it
were,
Adam Curry: I already made, sorry.
Unknown: I think that, listen, we today is actually, I believe,
an anniversary, in terms of Dr King, right? And, and we, I was
just in Selma, and we celebrated, to acknowledge the
59th anniversary of the Bloody Sunday. I think it's really
important that we as Americans always embrace our history, the
parts that we're proud of, and the parts that we're not proud
of, but that we can't forget. And we should all agree that we
should teach history. We should learn history if we're to ever
have an accurate idea of where we want to go and where we don't
want to go in the future, and that means also acknowledging
the importance of diversity. It means acknowledging the
importance of the fact that everyone should have an equal
opportunity to compete and equity. And of course, includes,
you know, hey, let's look around the room and see who's not here.
And. Did we leave the door open?
Kamala, you've done a horrible job. You've been the worst vice
president in the history of our country. Kamala,
you're fired. You're
fired. Get out.
Get out. Yes. Queen, yes. Queen,
this podcast is on
universe. Podcast.org/n, a,
this is blatant
sexism. I.