Unknown: Where's my Twinkies?
Adam curry. John C Dvorak, yes. Thursday,
Adam Curry: September 5, 2024 this is your award winning
gimlination. Media assassination Episode 1692,
Unknown: this is no agenda,
Adam Curry: spreading Russian disinformation and broadcasting
live from the cruise ship, capital of Mexico, just north of
Puerto Vallarta. In the morning, everybody? I'm Adam curry and
John C Dvorak: from Northern Silicon Valley, where we're
wondering why you're on the run. I'm John C Dvorak.
Unknown: It's Greg von Buzzkill. In the morning, on the
John C Dvorak: run, you're on the run, on the border. I'm
Adam Curry: on the land, man,
John C Dvorak: I'm on Mexico. Way.
Adam Curry: Yeah, indeed. Excuse me, yes. Tina, this was what I
thought was my only present was this
John C Dvorak: short press. You got a shotgun, yeah, I
Adam Curry: know shot. Maybe I got a lot of cool things,
completely unexpected. 60 was a great birthday. I had no effing
hands and hope this thing pass. Ah, you want
John C Dvorak: to be 60 again next year?
Adam Curry: Yeah, sure. No, I don't care. Okay, I still feel
15. That's, that's Dvorak laugh for Yeah, you just wait. You
just wait anyway. So we got it all set up. It's all working. We
got good bandwidth. This is the
John C Dvorak: new rig. Sounds Okay. Sounds good. That
Adam Curry: sounds good. It sounds like it always sounds
John C Dvorak: the stream didn't sound good, though. Oh, really,
no. I
Adam Curry: haven't gotten any complaints about that. Stream
didn't sound well.
John C Dvorak: I mean, from my perspective, getting it through
the system here, it was breaking up a lot. Oh,
Adam Curry: but you hear me? Okay, hello, yeah,
John C Dvorak: I'm actually shocked the difference. Okay,
Adam Curry: hey, this was really something interesting that
happened last night, and I didn't even really pay much
attention to it until Tina alerted me to a whole side
thread about this particular occurrence, and I will start it
with a short background or clip. The Justice Department
Unknown: says it has moved aggressively to shut down what
it says are Russian efforts to influence the 2024 US
presidential election. The DOJ says it sees 32 Kremlin run
websites that were used to spread Disinformation and
Propaganda. Officials say Russian argued operatives used
AI to target us voters and generate kind generate content,
sharing false narratives to Russian nationals who are media
executives at a Russian state news site. Have also been
charged with violating the foreign Agents Registration Act.
They're accused of spending almost 10 million on the scheme,
using an American based company to create and post hundreds of
English language videos. The FBI field office will continue in
Philadelphia, will continue to investigate the case.
Adam Curry: Now, were you following this at all? Yeah,
Unknown: of course. Eclipse,
Adam Curry: okay, what do you have?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, right. RT, busted one,
Adam Curry: okay. RT, busted one.
Unknown: Russia is allegedly meddling in this year's
presidential election. Federal us departments are now pressing
charges against Russian individuals while trying to
seize dozens of internet domains and TVs. INTERNATIONAL
CORRESPONDENT Aryan pastor has the story,
the government of Russia continued to use RT to direct
Disinformation and Propaganda
multiple us departments on Wednesday alleging that Russia
is meddling in this year's presidential elections. The
Department of Justice indicted two editors in chief for the
Russian state owned media outlet, RT, RT and
its employees, including the defendants, implemented a nearly
ten million scheme to fund and direct a Tennessee based company
to publish and disseminate content deemed favorable to the
Russian government.
The Department alleges that the two individuals violated the
foreign Agents Registration Act in return for the money, the
Tennessee company allegedly created English content, which
it then posted on Instagram, YouTube, X and other platforms.
The Treasury Department also sanctioned the two editors plus
nine others over the alleged meddling in the elections. RT
responded with ridicule, saying three things are certain in
life, death, taxes and RTS interference in the US
elections, and separately from the actions against RT the FBI
and the Justice Department are also seeking court permission to
seize 32 websites, so called Cyber squadron domains. These
websites were designed to appear to American readers as if they
were major US news sites like the Washington Post or Fox News,
but in fact, they were fake sites. All right,
Adam Curry: couple things before we before we move on. First of
all, the foreign agent Registration Act is this. Does
this really qualify if someone is paying someone to. Have set
up, you know, whether it's a fake news site or just a news
site. I mean, this is not they're not lobbying Congress.
Does Farrah really qualify for this?
John C Dvorak: This is a good question. I can't answer they.
They like to throw that. I mean, how come Hunter Biden hasn't
been charged with that? Well,
Adam Curry: so if so, if I look@justice.gov and there's,
here's the Farah foreign Agents Registration Act was enacted in
1938 requires certain agents of foreign principles who are
engaged in political activities or other activities specified
under the statute to make periodic public disclosure of
their relationship with the foreign principle, which I think
RT is kind of disclosed that, as well as activities, receipts and
disbursements in support of those activities. I mean, it
doesn't, first of all, we're the kings of this. You know, hello,
Voice of America. Hello, voice
John C Dvorak: I got some clips coming up. I
Adam Curry: mean, this, this is same thing. This is obviously
complete crud. But the thing that got really interesting is
the Tennessee company that's mentioned in these clips.
John C Dvorak: Well, let's play the second part of this and then
even talk about that. Okay,
Unknown: the DOJ published examples of such sites. For
example, this one, which appears to be a Washington Post article
stating, Middle East coalition of US allies, crumbles like a
house of cards. Or another fake article reading, no more money.
Kremlin will solve Ukraine's problem. The FBI is now working
to take these sites down. The two indicted editors for RT
remain at large.
Adam Curry: I know you have a Kirby clip. I have a real short
one here, Rear Admiral Kirby, with a little bit of details,
Unknown: as you saw today, the Department of Justice,
Department of Treasury and State Department a series of
coordinated actions against foreign actors associated with
the Russian government who are attempting to covertly influence
our elections. Specifically, all these federal agencies revealed
activities directed and funded by RT, formerly known as Russia
today, to covertly spread Russian government propaganda
with the aim of reducing international support for
Ukraine, bolstering pro Russian policies and interests and
influencing voters here in the US and in foreign elections as
well. For their part, the Treasury Department is
sanctioning six executives and officials affiliated with RT,
three executives associated with other Kremlin controlled
organizations. And additionally, the Treasury Department is
designating a n o dialog, a Russian government funded, I'm
sorry, a Russian government founded nonprofit that uses
artificial intelligence to create and distribute online
Russian disinformation for use against election campaigns.
Adam Curry: Okay, so we have a lot of by the way, yeah,
John C Dvorak: why is he so breathless, he sounds like he's
hyperventilating. Well, the whole little thing, well,
Unknown: I would say, what
John C Dvorak: is going on with him? Well, I
Adam Curry: would say the the main reason that he is out here,
and I have, you have
John C Dvorak: clips, I have other clips. I don't know if the
clip's any different than that one. Well,
Adam Curry: this is military industrial complex. This is Hey,
hey, hey, hey, we've got people speaking against Ukraine, and
he's, you know, he's the rear admiral. So they bring in the
military, the ex military guide, to say, oh, no, we can't have
this. We can't have sites out there and AI generated content
that goes against the narrative of Russia. Bad Ukraine, good.
But what? And this is funny, because Tina, she unrelated,
said, have you seen what's going on with Tim pool? Now this is
the part of the story where it gets interesting. The Nashville
or the Tennessee based company that received $9.7 million to
create 2000 different YouTube videos is tenant media, yeah,
tenant media, I'll just read from their website, fearless
voices live here and the talent. Meet the talent. Lauren
Southern, Tim pool, Taylor Hanson, Matt Christianson, Dave
Rubin, Benny Johnson, so it turns out that any show and the
Benny show, well, there's a couple of things to focus on.
Turns out that, you know, Tim pool has his his regular pool
boy show, right with everyone at the desk and yelling back and
forth. But there was another one, beanie, Beanie boy show,
another one, which is the the culture war show. Now check this
out. It turns out that he was receiving to produce one episode
a week. They're about two hours, $100,000 an episode for a two
hour basic, you know, just podcast and I. I've always
wondered, like, he's always flying guests in and, you know,
he's got that, you know, swanky studio in West Virginia has a
lot going on, and he's got just, it seems to be good budget. And
now, like, okay, so he was making about $5 million a year
for producing one episode a week, and this was a show that
they had licensed, so he wasn't necessarily doing it. It wasn't
like he was talking to the Kremlin, but he was making the
show. It was licensed to tenant media. And so this has put Tim
pool, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin, in a very precarious situation,
I'd say, I'll read his statement, my statement, Tim
pool statement, my statement regarding allegations in the DOJ
indictment. Should these allegations prove true, I, as
well as the other personalities and commentators, were deceived,
and we are victims. I cannot speak for anyone else at the
company as to what they do or what they are instructed. The
culture war podcast was licensed by tenant now, by the way, this
was not mentioned anywhere in the indictment. I read I read
the indictment. Yeah, I read it too. I didn't hear any of this.
So he's telling us that it was about the culture war podcast
was licensed by tenant media. It existed well before any license
agreement with Tenet, and it will continue to exist after
such agreement expires. The only expires. The only change where
the agreement was the location of the live broadcast move to
tenants YouTube channel. I and TCW never produce any content
for tenant media. Now I'm thinking that tenant media
probably also you get these emails suggested guests. Hey,
you should have this guy on as a guest, you know what? I mean?
You get those emails for no agendas. Of those, yeah, and no
agenda. This would be a great guest for no agenda. You have
never listened, you dope. Because we don't have guests.
Never at any point did anyone other than I have full editorial
control the show, and the contents of the show are often
apolitical. Examples include discussing spirituality, dating
and video games. The show is produced and it's entirely by
our local team, blah blah That being said, we still do not know
what is true, as these are only allegations. Putin is a scumbag.
Russia sucks donkey balls. And to the
John C Dvorak: that doesn't work,
Adam Curry: she protested too much. Me thinketh, and to the
journalists who wish to jump the gun create their own narrative
or lie about what is currently going on. You can eat my Irish
ass. Okay? So then Benny Johnson, that's
John C Dvorak: actually in this statement, yes, which is not
good, no.
Adam Curry: And then Benny Johnson a statement on the leak
DOJ indictment today, a year ago, a media startup pitched my
company to provide content as an independent contractor. Our
lawyers negotiated a standard, arm's length deal, which was
later terminated. We are disturbed by the allegations in
today's indictment, which makes clear that myself and other
influences were victims in this alleged scheme. So there's the
victim meme. My lawyers will handle anyone who states or
suggests otherwise. Oh boy, and then Dave Rubin, who doesn't
know him? Statement
John C Dvorak: on Ruben was working for Glenn Beck.
Adam Curry: I'm just I don't know statement on the DOJ
indictment, these allegations clearly show that I and other
commentators were the victims of this scheme. So seems like they
had some, uh, victims.
John C Dvorak: Seems to be the common advice. You nailed that
Adam Curry: I knew absolutely nothing about any of this
fraudulent activity, period. People of the internet was a
silly show. So nowhere did I see this mentioned. But he knows
what it's about. They know what that what is going on here.
People of the internet was a silly show covering viral
videos, which ended four months ago. The DOJ has never contacted
me regarding this matter, and I have no intent, intention to
come to comment further. This screenshot directly from the
indictment, speaks for itself. So there was a lot of money
flowing around, and you know, so of course, what is happening is
people are saying, Hey, you're getting $100,000 for a two hour
episode podcast. Didn't you think something might have been
up with that. And then people are pulling clips from old Tim
pool shows, and this is a 45 second one, and they're saying,
Oh yeah, you traitor. You took Russian money. But I don't know
Unknown: that it matters anymore. This is psychotic.
Ukraine is the enemy of this country. Ukraine is our enemy
being funded by the Democrats. I will stress again, one of the
greatest enemies of our nation right now is Ukraine. They are
expanding this war now. Don't get me wrong. I know you've got
criminal elements of the US government, pushing them and
guiding them and telling them what to do. Ukraine is now
accused a German warrant issued for blowing up the Nord Stream
pipeline in triggering this conflict. Ukraine is the
greatest threat to this nation and to the world. We should
rescind all funding and financing, pull out all military
support, and we should apologize to Russia.
Adam Curry: So. Little different than his. You know, can suck
donkey balls. Quote, so. So I think what's going on here is
the just Department of Justice, which obviously all Democrats,
Biden Obama operatives, they're, they're doing some kind of mega
sweep here where, first of all, we bring back in Russia's trying
to get Trump elected. And then they bring in anyone who's ever
been positive about Trump or or positive about Russia and and
implicating them where they're actually, you know, they were
licensing content. It seems, I don't think that they were
necessarily knowledgeable about what happened, but this
discredits a lot of alternative media. Makes people very
suspicious. Yeah, it's kind of good, I mean, as in, it's a,
it's a good op that they've pulled here. Well,
John C Dvorak: I think that the OP, of course, is done, is being
done by the Justice Department, yes, in conjunction with the
military industrial complex, yes, as a preemptive strike
against Trump, yes. So when Trump gets in, if he does which
we they're not absolutely sure they can pull off getting
calmly, and if they even want to, right, they have this all
set up. So everything now that if you, if you pull the plug on
Ukraine. You're part of this op, of the supposed op? Yes, so
Trump had so Trump has to tread lightly when he gets he can't
just pull a you know, who is it? Kennedy or, or I get? No, I
guess it's Tulsa. You know, they want to just pull the plug on
Ukraine, just right. Drop of a hat. But what Trump has to do,
because he now he's screwed. This is a pre screw job, again,
aimed at Trump, and what he has to do is end the war
immediately. Ah, by going over there, right? Because that's the
only thing you can do. Can't stop funding, yeah.
Adam Curry: So, yeah, it's, it's a mill. That's the first thing I
thought, is, like he got Kirby out and he did a interview with
PBS. You want to hear some of that? Sure, yeah, because when
PBS gets involved, oh, now it's, this is ten million what is ten
million in the in the realm of disinformation? Is that, like,
some huge amount that I'm unaware of? And okay, it funded
pool boy and Benny boy and Dave boy, who were probably oblivious
to it and were just thinking, I'm that good.
John C Dvorak: That's exactly right. And
Adam Curry: by the way, we would be like, yeah, we're that good.
We deserve this kind of money to license our content. You know,
Spotify license Joe Rogan's content for millions. I can see
where you get I don't want to implicate any of these people,
but they, they certainly got wrapped up in something. So
here's PBS on this story. Now
Unknown: to the day's other top story, foreign efforts to
interfere with the US presidential election in a press
conference this afternoon us, Attorney General Merrick Garland
outlined what he called sophisticated disinformation
campaigns undertaken by Russia and other adversaries,
sophisticated
Adam Curry: 2000 YouTube videos that sophisticated
Unknown: promoting lies via fake news outlets And real social
media influencers. And garland issued this warning.
The Justice Department's message is clear, we have no tolerance
for attempts by authoritarian regimes to exploit our
demographic our democratic system of
Adam Curry: government, because that's our job. That's what we
do.
Unknown: We will be relentlessly aggressive, encountering and
disrupting attempts by Russia and Iran as China or any other
foreign malign actor to interfere in our elections and
undermine our democracy. Oh,
Adam Curry: our democracy is being undermined by propaganda.
Look at the M 5m bro. Anyway,
John C Dvorak: the thing about this is another aspect which
makes me think this was a preemptive strike, and it all
has to do with Ukraine. It's got nothing to do with the elections
Ukraine. I complain, that's right. And to balance that, that
argument, they brought in Iran as the foil to say, well, Iran
was interfering with Trump, because they were going after
Trump in different ways. We're going to assassinate him.
They're going to do this and that. So they so they keep the
balance. So it was like it wasn't they were trying to get
Trump in or trying to get Kamala in. It was they're trying to
mess with the election, kind of in general. But in fact, it's
got nothing to do with the elections. It has only to do
with Ukraine. Yes, it's very well done. I think so now
Adam Curry: they bring and of course, because if you listen
to, I mean, listen to our show, we know what went down in
Ukraine. We know how it happened. Everyone knows the
backstory. We've been following that since 2014 and. We know you
cookies, my Don, we saw it all happening. The expansion of NATO
John C Dvorak: Brennan was there. Cookies was there. The
enemy CIA is there. And I think the giveaway
Adam Curry: is bringing in retired Rear Admiral John Kirby,
because he is the military industrial complex spokes hole,
and he will explain how this interferencelessly,
John C Dvorak: I might add, with his hyperventilating, because he
knows that. He knows, he knows if he's really good at he's not
as good an actor as he should be.
Adam Curry: No but he's all they got. So they'll, they'll just
say he does the job, but gets the job done. So and also, PBS
immediately doing this big story. You know that's that's
not typical for some phony websites and some domain names
they didn't like, which they don't mention, never really
John C Dvorak: did much about the Macedonian kids who did a
lot more damage.
Unknown: All right, here's Kirby Joining us now from the White
House. Is National Security Council spokesman, retired Rear
Admiral John Kirby. Admiral Kirby, welcome back. Thanks for
joining us. Thank you so much for having so these efforts. I
think it's safe to say her a long way Oh, she
Adam Curry: Oh, she's she's already laugh telling Oh, safe
to say, oh no, oh my goodness.
Unknown: So these efforts, I think it's safe to say her a
long way from Russian intelligence packing and dumping
emails like they did with the DNC back in 2016
Adam Curry: Yeah, right, you are, because it's not about the
election lady. Just before
Unknown: we dig into some of the specifics today, big picture and
briefly, what does all of this say to you about how Russian
election interference has evolved over the years? They've
gotten more sophisticated. They've gotten more organized.
And quite frankly, if they
John C Dvorak: were more sophisticated, they wouldn't
have gotten caught.
Unknown: It's organized. They've
Adam Curry: got pool boy, yeah, it's sophisticated and
organized. More
Unknown: sophisticated, they've gotten more organized. And quite
frankly, they've gotten more more funding. Wait,
John C Dvorak: stop a second. I got to put this in there. It's
gonna be interrupted a lot. That's all right. That's all
right. It's
Unknown: good. It's good stuff.
John C Dvorak: When you say, quite frankly, are you lying the
rest of the time? Well, of course, to tell you the truth.
Adam,
Adam Curry: yes,
Unknown: what?
Adam Curry: I'm not lying honestly. There's another
honestly. I'd like to say, yeah,
Unknown: all of these more organized and, quite frankly,
they've gotten more, more funding support right at the top
of the Kremlin, we believe Mr. Putin, what's 10 million?
John C Dvorak: What's he comparing that funding to the
$100,000 they spent on Facebook ads back in 2020 2016 was, it
good? Was a scandal? Or
Adam Curry: the 400 million Zuckerberg pumped into
everything? Yeah, exactly.
John C Dvorak: Compare that to 400 million Zuckerberg pumped
into Wisconsin alone getting of
Unknown: this scheme, or these schemes, I should say there's
more than one, but they've gotten a lot more clever. And
unfortunately for them, we've gotten pretty clever too. We got
pretty strong. Well, we were able to detect and monitor these
threats, and as you said today, take action to hold them
accountable. Oh
Adam Curry: yeah, we were able to detect these threats. It's a
website.
John C Dvorak: Oh no, the phony story. It's a website. We were
good able to detect this threat
Adam Curry: and notice how they say Washington Post and Fox
News, let's get both sides of the spectrum. Again.
John C Dvorak: That brings us back to the bringing in Iran, so
we have the balance over. So it's not really about the
elections. Is about Ukraine and the money we're spending. So
Unknown: one of these schemes, as you put it, let's kind of
break it down here. The Department of Justice has
charged two employees of a Russian state controlled media
outlet RT saying that they poured ten million into, poured
an effort to distribute, poured
Adam Curry: all its 10 million at all. Man, they poured it in
to influencers. They didn't call them podcasters. They're calling
them influencers. They
Unknown: poured in dollars into an effort to distribute content
with hidden Russian government messaging.
Adam Curry: What hidden messaging?
John C Dvorak: How hidden is it? Ukraine's
Adam Curry: no good. That's hidden messaging. Oh, it's
subliminal. It's the subliminal frames. Kind
Unknown: of messaging, old, yeah, are we talking about and
where might people have seen that? Well,
a great example of the messaging, for instance, was
blaming Ukraine and the United States for the terrorist attack
that happened in Moscow several months ago.
This one that's interesting. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: this I just, I almost had this clip that he
they've been harping on this particular this. And one other
example is Kirby's main thing, which was this switcheroo about
this attack in Russia that's
Unknown: we all know was conducted by ISIS. Even ISIS
acknowledged that they conducted that attack on that concert hall
we all know.
Adam Curry: We all know ISIS tweeted it, man, they put a
statement on x
Unknown: so that. Is one example. Another example was
continuing to put out information to undermine
Ukraine's fight for its own democracy and for its
sovereignty. So it's messaging and just another
Adam Curry: laugh tell, by the way,
John C Dvorak: yeah, good point. Ukraine's
Unknown: fight for its own democracy. Very laughing because
John C Dvorak: he's joking, because he knows no democracy.
This guy's cancel elections, shut down, the press out of
control. What this guy's doing for its own
Unknown: democracy and for his sovereignty. So it's messaging
and disinformation. It's propaganda that that tries to
undermine public support for what Ukraine is trying to do to
defend itself and a range of other things Russia wants to do
to sort of portray the United States as some sort of evil
actor in the world. So there's a series of initiatives that
they're undertaking, again, to undermine faith and confidence
in democracy. Writ large, certainly undermine faith and
confidence in America's democracy.
Adam Curry: America's demand. We're going to be talking a lot
about America's democracy today. So now we go to the other
schemes. Let's go to those, those, those sneaky websites.
One of
Unknown: the other schemes laid out was related to the
Department of Justice seizing 32 internet domains that they say
were used to spread Russian propaganda with the aim of
influencing voters in the US and foreign elections, including the
US 2024, presidential election, I just want to show for viewers
here, the websites were designed to look like us, information and
news sites like these that you're seeing right now that
look exactly like Washington Post articles, but they are not.
Can these kinds of sites be taken down faster than they can
keep going up? Is it safe to assume this information still
out there?
Well, we're certainly going to keep having conversations with
tech companies about about making sure they're aware of
these threats. And
Adam Curry: what tech companies what? What are they going to
talking to godaddy for domain names? Or does it when he said
we'll be talking to is this another one of those? Don't
worry about Section 230 we won't take it away from you
conversations. I don't like this.
John C Dvorak: We'll be talking to tech companies.
Adam Curry: Let's listen. What else you
Unknown: have to say here, because with tech companies
about about making sure they're aware of these threats and these
these actors out there, we have actors, you know, rely on them
to take the decisions that that they deem are appropriate to
their own policies and procedures. But we're certainly
going to keep having that conversation with tech
companies. But I think what you're seeing here, and I'm glad
you mentioned that the social design agency and what they've
been doing, as well as
Adam Curry: that social design agency that's tenant media.
They're talking about with the fearless voices who live here.
You
Unknown: know, on one hand, you've got them using RT, a
former propaganda outlet now just a full on covert influence
organization. RT,
Adam Curry: covert. How is RT covert?
John C Dvorak: It's not covert. It's always over.
Unknown: It's over just a full on covert influence organization
to work through funding companies, even a company here
in the United States, to get them to push information out in
the vein of a legitimate media outlet, and they also working at
a tactical level with social media influencers. Many of them,
as the attorney general laid out, are simply made up their
fictional persona, but they're going at it from a media outlet
perspective, and they're going at it from an individual social
media user perspective, wow.
Adam Curry: I mean, first of all, I don't see what the
Justice Department the I mean, you can pull if you can police
anything you want, if this is okay, like, Oh no, the onion. Oh
the onion. Making jokes. No, we gotta seize their domain name.
Good
John C Dvorak: point. Seize their domain Well, let's go.
Babylon B, the onions,
Adam Curry: right? Babylon B, well, exactly right. You know
what I'm talking about. All right. Let's go with the Oh yes.
What is the preferred outcome? Yes. But
Unknown: when it comes to influencing, especially the
2024, presidential election, Attorney General garland said
that they're they're seeking a preferred outcome. Here
Adam Curry: it includes not Trump. That's the preferred
outcome.
Unknown: What is that preferred outcome? What do you see this
Russian propaganda working towards
Adam Curry: boy leading the witness? They
Unknown: are working towards undermining us, policies the
kinds of us that this administration has been laboring
so hard to pursue around the world, shoring up alliances and
partnerships in the Indo Pacific, supporting Ukraine,
obviously, is that to say
that they're working to undermine the Democratic
candidate, in this case, Kamala Harris.
I don't have specific evidence that I can speak to about
undermining a particular candidate, but we have seen in
the past where Mr. Putin certainly has shown up.
Proclivity for one particular candidate. But again, I don't
want to get where we are right now. Where we are right now is
we know that they are using these tools, these vehicles,
this funding, discord and try to try to increase here in the
United States,
Adam Curry: he is falling apart. Witness this next shorter clip.
Unknown: Wouldn't it help people though to spot some of this
disinformation if they knew if it tends to lean one way or the
other?
Well, look, that's what we did today.
John C Dvorak: What ask Alexa.
Unknown: That's what we did today.
Adam Curry: Ask Alexa. Alexa, is this misinformation? Look,
that's
Unknown: one of the things that we did today, why the Attorney
General went public. That's why we here at the White House laid
it out. The State Department, the Treasury. I mean, part of
the aim of educating the American people is to disclose
what we're seeing out there and the kinds of content that
they're putting out there. And as I said in my opening
statement today in the briefing room, we can't just be the
government doing this. We need the help of American citizens to
bear a hand here and to carefully and scrupulously take
a look at what you're digesting, the news, information that
you're getting online or elsewhere, to try to make sure
that you're getting the absolute best, credible, most accurate
information you can
Adam Curry: get, it from the good sources, not those crazy
alt media guys, no poll boy, Tucker, none of them are good.
Let's wrap it up. It
Unknown: is also worth pointing out, people start voting in this
election very soon, within days, and the last day of voting,
election day is just over 60 days away. A lot of this content
has already been out there for a while, has had millions of
views. Are these steps and actions coming too late to have
an impact? Too late? Well, we
certainly hope not. I mean, I would just tell you that the
timing today was driven by the scope of the investigation that
the Attorney General talked about, and he made it clear,
it's an ongoing investigation. So there may be additional
actions here coming, I don't know, but it was driven really
by the status of the investigation. That was what was
really on our minds. And as soon as we could package all that
information up and get it out into the public domain, we
wanted to do that.
Adam Curry: Yeah, this is completely about Ukraine, and it
is no coincidence of the timing. It's nothing about all the
timing was just we were ready. We had all the evidence. No the
timing is the forthcoming visit by Zelensky with his victory
plan.
Unknown: President Zelensky sat down with NBC News in his first
interview since that surprise move,
Adam Curry: by the way, Richard Engel here doing the reporting.
Now you've
Unknown: captured this territory in Russia. So the big question
is,
what do you plan to do with it?
We don't need the Russian territory.
Our operation is aimed to restore our territorial
integrity.
We don't need their land. Is
the plan to take more territory? I
will not tell you, sorry I can't speak about it. It's like the
beginning of our discourse operation. I didn't communicate
anything clearly. With all respect, I can't speak about it.
I think that the success is very close to surprise. But
conceptually,
you have this territory. Now you say you don't want to keep it
long conceptually,
we will hold it conceptually. We will hold it well, there's been
Adam Curry: what is this conceptually? We'll hold this
land. What was in your mind talking about, they're
John C Dvorak: both going on and on about conceptually? Yeah,
what
Adam Curry: does that mean? It doesn't mean it. It's
John C Dvorak: bull. See, conceptually, we're going to do
a podcast today.
Adam Curry: Yeah, all right, but I'm staying in bed for this
conceptual podcast. Yeah, exactly. Conceptually. We
Unknown: will hold it. Conceptually. We will hold it.
Well, there's been another government shake up here in
Ukraine. This time, the foreign minister tendering his
resignation, and Craig, it's all related. I spoke to President
zelenskyy said what he's preparing right now is to
present what he describes as his victory plan to President Biden,
to Vice President Harris, and to Donald Trump in the United
States later this month. And he wants to arrive with some
military success after the ongoing military campaign inside
Russia and with a new, revitalized government. So he
wants to go in with a full head of steam as he goes to to
Washington, it goes to the United States later this
John C Dvorak: month. Yeah, it's a new hand picked government.
Yeah.
Adam Curry: Well, I don't know if, if rats are jumping the ship
or exact I mean, it seems like a whole bunch of people said,
Okay, I'm out. I don't want any part of this. But the victory
plan is coming.
John C Dvorak: The victory plan so these guys are scammers,
yeah, well,
Adam Curry: concluding of the highest order. I feel bad for
these, for these podcasters. But on the other hand, Dude, did you
not think this was odd?
John C Dvorak: No, I think your original um analysis absolutely
on the money, I'm
Adam Curry: that good,
John C Dvorak: I'm great,
Unknown: I'm that good,
John C Dvorak: I am fabulous, and I whatever they throw out, I
expected this surprise. It took that long that damn Joe Rogan's
making all the money. That's
Adam Curry: right, that's right. Well, yeah, anyway, oh man, I
just, I just, it was like, Wow. This all fell into my lap. Like,
this is, this is crazy.
John C Dvorak: So did you miss the Alexa stuff? No,
Adam Curry: I did. Yeah, I don't know about the Alexa stuff. Oh,
I
John C Dvorak: would. I was gonna get a clip, but I figured
you'd either have the clip or knew about it. Or no, you
probably did look it up real quick, quick someone. This was
about four days ago. I'm surprised you didn't catch
Adam Curry: it. Oh, yeah, but she's saying, Alexa, give me
who's going to win the elections. Is that the tell
John C Dvorak: me why I should vote for Donald Trump. And Alexa
says, We can't tell you anything like that. This is a this is
politics. No, no, no, no, no. You can't ask a question like
that. She says, Hey, tell me why I should vote for Kamala Harris.
Kamala Harris is great. She's in all these terrific things. She's
a perfect candidate. She should, you should vote for her?
Adam Curry: Yeah, you know, I'm, honestly, I did see the clip.
I'm so jaded by that stuff. It's like, it's like, that's standard
operating procedure these days, we know, but you Mimi sent,
John C Dvorak: sent a copy to me, and she says, late, you
know, it was just last night, and she says, Can you believe
this? What you're behind on? Really, days ago? Really,
Unknown: yeah, she's
John C Dvorak: all worked up about it, so I figure, well,
maybe some, you know, somebody we should have, probably, I
should have, probably clipped it, but that's my but I ever I'm
doubting that. I think 90% of our audience has heard this over
and over. Yeah, yeah, done it every if you watch anybody watch
this fox, every single Fox show has played this
Adam Curry: Well, that would be the main reason I didn't clip
it.
John C Dvorak: I don't know if that's the main reason clip it.
You just didn't clip it. I didn't clip it either. No,
Adam Curry: but it's just like all this. It's out. The auto
completes on Google Search come, but
John C Dvorak: this is, this is nothing new. It's all part of
the same bull crap.
Adam Curry: It's nothing new. And you know that you're getting
different results than I'm getting based upon your location
or anything. Go, yeah, I use, well, what's that thing I use?
John C Dvorak: I think Duck Duck go, does you know, I go to
Google once for one purpose and one purpose only, maps, yeah,
I'll put an address and I'll do it through Google, because the
best mapping stuff that you like around you can get directions
is, is great you like for everything else, I use Duck Duck
go. Duck Duck go does a better job of showing images, which I
use for the newsletter occasionally, and it organizes
them better it. I just think the results are better with that
product. They don't track you, but I don't believe.
Adam Curry: No, they try. I use cog, E, K, A, G, I
John C Dvorak: and I pay for it. Yeah, yeah, you do. And
Adam Curry: it's, I would say, for 98% of all my searches, cog
E is good, some of the historical stuff, like really
old stuff, they may not have. So let's just talk about American
democracy for a moment. And I put together this series of
clips because I here's an example of some of the emails
I've received. Please don't let your disfavor or hatred of Elon
get the best of you.
John C Dvorak: This that's just Adam, by the way, I think Elon's
Great.
Adam Curry: This judge is an absolute tyrant who tells people
to censor people he just doesn't like and tells them it's illegal
for them to say the order came from him. It really feels like
you just don't like Elon so badly that you're ignoring a
huge story and mock must for saying he's standing up for free
speech, as if everything he does has to be disingenuous. So first
of all
John C Dvorak: is that the same tone of voice that get probably
sounds like a guy would say that, you
Adam Curry: know, those guys? Yeah, so. But I get a lot of
these, and I just, and here's my my turn. No, why
John C Dvorak: they you know, I don't have the issue with Musk
at all. But at the same time, I don't see why everyone's
defending into such an extreme as if the guy can't defend
himself. Or is it? Well, it just doesn't make sense to me that
people were all well, also crazy about this.
Adam Curry: Also, there's two of us. There's Adam and John. And
aren't you happy that someone is looking over his shoulder? Just
in case, that's what I've been trained to do throughout almost
17 years, when everyone's all goo goo, Gaga. I'm not gonna.
Same thing.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I'm with you. I'm looking at your
religious, religious, religiosity.
Adam Curry: I have no religiosity. Okay, I all right,
what? I don't know. I don't know what that statement was about.
Well,
John C Dvorak: I'm just saying it's not as though that you're
looking, you know, making sure I don't foul up. And I'm always
looking at your
Adam Curry: foibles, of course. But this is not about you. This
is about Elon. So I just want to the here's the reason is why i i
saw that he brought in electric vehicles and kicked off an
entire climate change based
John C Dvorak: narrative three. Now this part of that about the
complaint I'm all in on and because it did cause a
Adam Curry: problem. And he's all in on climate tax, or carbon
tax and carbon credits. In fact, he lives off of it. He is one.
He is one of the biggest exploitative Is he a word?
You're looking for one of the biggest military contractors for
lots of spooky stuff, including the National Reconnaissance
Office and Space Force and, you know, but we're all like, Oh,
he's so great. He's Tony Stark's he's Oh, he's the best. Well,
that's a bit and I have, well, that's out there. I mean, just
look at the pictures of him in that, you know, that red
Halloween suit. And he's always like, Oh, he looks so dapper
with his hair plugs, so and I don't, I mean, I've met the guy.
I was there at the launch of Tesla, which he didn't invent.
He bought it. You know, he supposedly spends 80% of his
time doing engineering. Seems like he spends 80% of his time
on X shit posting nowadays, yeah, for sure. So you know. And
you can see the woman who really runs SpaceX. She's a former, I
think, NRO lady. I mean, you know, he's got people in all
these different places doing the work. He's flying around. He's
doing whatever he needs to do, which is fine, but
John C Dvorak: when the one thing he does, which is not easy
to do, in my opinion, it's the hardest thing to do, is he hires
the right people to do this job. That makes it look like he's
doing it. Yeah, well,
Adam Curry: I'm, I'm a little more skeptical about who's
running, who's hiring, but doesn't, doesn't really matter.
Um, but when, when everyone's all jacked up about Yeah? Free
speech, yeah, it's great. X is great. That's what I'm like.
Yeah. It's always great when someone's on your team, but it's
the same with de platforming. It's always great when someone
else gets the platform, who you don't like, who you disagree
with, but these tools can be turned around on a dime and be
focused at you
John C Dvorak: one in fact, Twitter proves that
Adam Curry: so this, well, yes, in fact, I got another note from
a guy I'll read
John C Dvorak: this, turned around on a dime, and now it's
going out the other direction. This is
Adam Curry: from coconut Pete. I've been on Twitter since the
beginning in 2007 I've experimented with different
accounts for various projects, sometimes just playing around
with random accounts. From my experience using Twitter under
Jack and Elon, I think I can say with certainty that the free
speech in quotes under Elon is definitely worse. Under Jack,
there are always lots of crazy tweets flying around, perhaps
the worst case scenario, what might get shadow banned, but at
least you could keep your account and vent to yourself
thinking you are changing the world. Most people think that
Elon is the Savior free speech, and he loves to brand himself
this way, but they don't see the many other layers of censorship
right in front of their face, such as unpaid peasant accounts
get little to no visibility. I agree, paid accounts get more
visibility. Ex Premium accounts get more exposure. Remember the
whole mantra was freedom of speech, not of reach. Then, if
you're a well known celebrity or public figure that has the max
account on X, you probably have more free speech and leeway than
anyone else. He goes on to say, one of my accounts, I just got
suspended, I believe, for applying to someone saying they
were an idiot. If you do get suspended, if you do get
suspended, there's no explanation why. So you know
there's and I believe this to be true. So anyway, we're back to
democracy and free speech in America. And this brings me to x
and Brazil, which I have some thoughts on. And we'll start
with a backgrounder from Fox live, who bring us up to speed
on where we are with x being banned in Brazil, the social
media platform, by the way, these guys have some click in
their audio, which is not me, but it's in there. The social
Unknown: media platform, formerly known as Twitter,
remains offline in one of South America's largest countries.
Brazil's Supreme Court unanimously upheld a ban of the
site x by its top judge on Monday, the ruling blocks access
station wide for some 40 million users in mandates, ex founder
Elon Musk pay more than $3 million in fines and nominate a
legal representative within the country. I
don't know how far we can go. I'm going to say strange how far
we're getting in terms of information and the limitations
they're trying to put on the population. The
court's top judge, Alexander de Maria suspended X last week,
claiming it allows the spread of misinformation. He also said a
daily fine of nearly $9,000 for anyone using virtual private
networks to access the platform. Musk said the ruling is
destroying free speech. Adding the current Brazilian
administration likes to wear the cloak of a free democracy while
crushing the people under its boot. Brazil's President issuing
this warning,
having a lot of money does not allow you to disrespect it. He
is not a citizen of the world, President, Congressman, Senate
or the Supreme Court.
In addition to the ban on x, the court has also frozen satellite
internet provider starlinks financial accounts in Brazil,
which is owned by musk.
Adam Curry: Okay, so that's kind of the backgrounder. And I found
this Brazil professor of Brazilian studies on France 24
who was commenting on it, and it kind of gave me like, Oh, yeah.
This makes total sense, because this is about, remember, we have
a First Amendment. We have freedom of speech. You know, for
some reason, Elon is very troubled about the freedom of
speech in Brazil, which, of course, doesn't exist in any
other country, to my knowledge, documented in the Constitution,
but the United States. And everyone's like, yeah, freedom
of speech, yeah. Freedom
Unknown: of speech is an American concept. It has no
place in European democracy. It's important, but it's not
central. It's not the first amendment so, and the same
situation is in Brazil. So this is clearly the American values
being exported worldwide. It's a problem. It should be taken like
this. It's the United States, the old way of seeing the United
States, the First Amendment of the American Constitution being
exported worldwide. And been like that since the very
beginning of Twitter, since the Green Revolution in Iran, since
the Arab Spring, the Americans has been, have been exporting
the First Amendment worldwide using social network. It's still
like that, and Musk is doing exactly the same thing. The
value of the First Amendment is very different. Now, the
Republicans are still very keen on preserving the First
Amendment, but the Democrats are not that keen on preserving the
First Amendment. So things are changing in the United States,
and therefore they're changing worldwide.
Adam Curry: So when I hear this, I'm reminded that, yes, Arab
Spring, all of these things set up by techno experts, Hillary
Clinton's little State Department outfit there, Elon
Musk, is stirring up trouble and sentiment in Brazil for so I
believe, for some kind of people's revolution, and it's
probably working quite well. And there's a new administration
possibly coming in. He used to be a Trump hater. I think he was
a Trump hater. He switched on Elon,
Unknown: oh yeah, he
Adam Curry: switched on a dime. And now, boys, he's going to be
in the administration, because there's something about Brazil
that we all want to be have a part of. We'll get to that. But
first, he is that professor for a short clip, right
Unknown: and now the finances of a second Musk business, the
SpaceX Starlink, satellite internet service, has also been
frozen. Could you tell us a bit about this and what kind of
implications it may have for Brazil? Well, the Brazilian
military rely on Starlink to communicate, just like
Ukrainian, just like many military worldwide, they need
stalling to establish communication. So Matt could
theoretically stop every means of communication for the army in
Brazil. Nobody knows it is going to go that far, but he could
play this game.
Adam Curry: There's a lot of leverage Elon Musk has with
this. You don't want your military to communicate. I can
just turn all of that off. No problem. So what is the big deal
about Brazil? What do we care? Why would we want regime change?
Why would we want a revolution? Kevin O'Leary shows up on I
think Fox Business, talking about Brazil. He's the, you
know, he's, was he, Mr. Wonderful, the super investor
from Shark Tank. But he
John C Dvorak: kind of, he's on Fox a lot, well,
Adam Curry: because he has business dealings
Unknown: Shark Tank investor, Kevin O'Leary is here. Kevin,
great to see. Well, we'll talk about us in just a second. But
Brazil, I used to cover it at the Wall Street Journal. It's a
modern economy. A lot of us businesses deal with Brazil, but
its president, a guy named his nickname is Lula, is a Marxist,
and like most Marxists, one of the first things he's done is
essentially taken over the judiciary, including the.
Supreme Court. I just wonder who what business in their right
mind would want to do business in a country where this sort of
thing happens? Everybody
wants to do business in Brazil because of growth, the growth
ethics there, the population, demand on goods and services,
whether it's technology or anything else, is just straight
up, almost double digits. So there's a lot of interest,
including me, this latest tussle, if you want to call it
that, and let me, let me be put out, you know, let me be
transparent about how I feel about it. As far as I'm
concerned, Elon Musk is a modern day Bruce Wayne. I mean, he this
guy has been so successful in so many sectors. So I'm a huge fan.
And what I really love about him is his executional skills. But
he's also got another trait, which I find very endearing, and
you may or may not like this. He's a real poopoo disturber, if
you know what I mean. He just doesn't give a poopoo. And I
love that about him. He doesn't care what country, what
dictator, what leader, what judiciary. If they don't want
his technology over the Amazon where they need high speed
internet, he's happy to shut it off. He doesn't care if he
doesn't get free speech, which is why he bought that, paid 42
million or billion dollars for Twitter in the beginning.
Really, he owns it. He controls it. It's private. He can do
whatever he likes. If I were the Lulu, as they call him, I think
about that little bit. You got a lot of people that like internet
and like social media. Be careful on the egg shows you
walking on Lulu baby.
Adam Curry: So $44 billion which didn't come out of his own
pocket, it came from banks who have all kinds of interest,
where Saudi but also US banks who are trying to sell to get
money for 30 cents on the dollar. And then O'Leary winds
it up, he would just explain exactly what's going on. Yeah,
Unknown: it's Lou love, but that's that's all right, but,
but the real question I have for you, you brought you mentioned
that you're still involved there, and it does have this
upward trajectory. But how long can that continue if you have,
if you have a Marxist leader who's controlling to the
judiciary, who, at any whim, can decide that you're no good and
just take over what you what you built there?
Well, if you look at the history of those kinds of situations,
the outcomes are not good for the lulas. And thank you for
correcting me, of the world, because it's what the people
want, and musk knows that, and people want technology, and they
want to communicate with each other, and this is one of the
services they like using. I think this thing will be
resolved, because when you start shutting down commerce in where
there's so much productivity and opportunity in the Amazon that
hurts the country. And I think this, and look, as I said
before, I just love the way he does it. He doesn't give
Adam Curry: No, he doesn't so I'm just saying beware. He seems
to be acting. Everyone has a master, and Musk is not
masterless. He's doing stuff for for for different parties or
interests. It's not just, it's not just for free speech. I just
don't believe it.
John C Dvorak: Well, you're gonna have to come up with
something a little better than these vague generalities to I'm
not going to argue that he's not maybe working for the CIA or who
knows who, and this whole thing may be some sort of a CRA
Adam Curry: Is he already? Is he's already working for these
agencies? What
John C Dvorak: we heard from Larry was useless information.
No, it's about, I don't know what? No, listen, that was worth
a shit there. Said the Poopoo thing. He has to keep saying it.
It's
Adam Curry: about, he's saying that people were will revolt.
This is to get rile people up in Brazil and have a change in
regime. They don't want the Marxist there, because there's
lots of good resources in Brazil, and there's growth and
etc, etc. There's business to be done. This is the same as
exporting American democracy. It's exporting American freedom
of speech, which I like, of course, but it's suspicious to
me.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, well, that's Brazilians don't think
like Americans think at all. And they they'd like Mark, not yet,
not yet. Oh, there never will change. There's a saying about
Brazil, and I've been there dozens of times. There's a
saying about Brazil, which is, Brazil's the country of the
future, and always will be, which is, pretty much summarizes
everything going on there. And they have their mentality is
they've gone through these cycles of these Marxists, then
go to the radical other guy, the right winger, than the Marxist
and the right winger back and forth forever, and they just
don't seem to ever get it together. I don't know what
Leary Leary's thinking, or is it O'Leary O'Leary at all? And this
whole thing with with Musk is, is probably some other thing
altogether we don't know anything about, maybe some
something, some scammers, thing going on that we don't know
about. Who knows. I think who the guy was good was that
France, 24 character that you played that clip of that guy who
had some analysis, I thought was more interesting, which is that
we are the only country that has enshrined in our Constitution
the right to free speech, and nobody else cares. They're not
that jacked up about it, like we are correct. And I think that's
the one thing we never we just do not have at the top of our
mind. We don't think like that. We think, well, everybody wants
free speech, but they don't necessarily.
Adam Curry: Well, the government certainly don't. And the
Brazilian professor,
John C Dvorak: sure, the government here does it either.
Adam Curry: The Brazilian Professor guy brought up one
other thing which kind of stuck in my brain, like, oh, yeah,
that's right. Another Elon hater was Glenn Greenwald. Glenn
Greenwald did not like did not like Elon, but there was this
whole thing kicked off with Glenn Greenwald, who, I might
add, is politically active and lives in Brazil.
Unknown: Well, it all began when Elon Musk, right after having
taken control of Twitter. Released some internal
communication within Twitter and gave them to Glenn Griswold, who
is well known for being behind the Snowden affair. And those
communications showed that during President bolsonaro's
legacy, the legal system in Brazil censored many, many
Bolsonaro militants and fan and was doing some interference,
clearly, in Brazil's democratic system. And it ended up by, well
as of today, censorship of Twitter in Brazil.
Adam Curry: So we can't, on one hand, say, Oh, poor Tim pool, he
got duped by the Russian money. Not think that anyone else is in
that that happens to except us.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, where's our Russian money? Our Russian
millions, 100,000
Adam Curry: per episode. If that's what I'm less or I'm
waiting for, I'll be all in Ruski Uber Alice, good to go.
John C Dvorak: There's a good one. Ruski Uber Alice, kind of
mixed metaphor, if there ever was, I
Adam Curry: don't know where it came from anyway, so Well, the
John C Dvorak: problem is that we're too damned objective. I
Adam Curry: have no hate for Elon Musk, but I just keep my
eye on it, and I do it for you, for you people, I'm just keeping
my eye on it. I just you, just, you can.
John C Dvorak: I like the fact that you're you're adamant,
yeah, I like it. Yeah. You should give me as a
counterpoint. I can, yes, looking for flaws in your logic.
Adam Curry: I'm very happy. I'm very happy the Brazilian
John C Dvorak: thing, there's more, there's more to it than
we're getting. There's info, there's missing information. I'm
totally convinced of that. I
Adam Curry: agree. I agree. We don't, we don't have everything
yet. But for a guy who spent $44 billion of other people's money,
you know, has completely blown all advertising away. No one
wants to advertise there anymore, you know. And
everyone's running, oh, Elon's the best, you know, with, with,
you know,
John C Dvorak: you know, I had, I think it was Horowitz who
brought it up. So, just a success pool, Twitter's bad. And
when it just said something minor. I feel just the opposite.
As far as I'm concerned, after Elon took over Twitter, it is
hilarious, as you always bitch about I broke too much reposting
too many things. I think Twitter is funnier than it's ever been.
It's got more nut balls, even though a lot of it's derivative,
because they steal tick tock clips and put them on Twitter.
Yeah, lot of the best stuff is tick tock. Yes, still, but I
think talk is just,
Adam Curry: just so we know, I've never said I don't like
what, what x is. I mean, I think it's funny too. It's better than
me funny. Yeah, no, I'm they
John C Dvorak: have a lot of phony baloney, AI stuff that's
really, have you seen the one with the fly on his forehead?
Adam Curry: Hold on. There's another thing Elon Musk started
open. Ai started it yes to for to warn everybody and to keep
the dangers, the danger of artificial intelligence in
check. And now he's got the most outrageous grok thing running
which does anything crazy you want it to. So how does that
work? What is his actual modus operandi? You know, it's not to
make money on x, because that we know is not happening unless he
gets his all of his money. Offset. Or he's
John C Dvorak: definitely, he's definitely posting too much on
Twitter, yeah, with commentary. He's either post or reposting
with commentary. He's always been the thing, wow, I put,
he'll put that a lot, yeah, and look at this. Or, Oh, this is
bad. And seems to spend more time on Twitter than Trump used
to, yes, and which makes you wonder.
Adam Curry: And I follow and I follow that. You know, the his
jet account is,
John C Dvorak: uh oh, I've never followed the jet account, yeah,
it's still on
Adam Curry: Mastodon the guy, because he got kicked off of
Twitter for doing that, and the guy still posts on Mastodon, so
I follow him there. And Musk is flying every day. So he's
flying, he's in the air. He's
John C Dvorak: tweeting when he's in the sky. Yeah, of
Adam Curry: course, of course. But you know, so is he really
running companies?
John C Dvorak: I'm wondering about that, which, again, brings
you back to my original point, which is, I think he knows how
to hire people well, and he seems so good at it.
Adam Curry: Or he's been put installed to run Kleiner
John C Dvorak: party. Have he's just, he's a front man, yes, for
the intel community.
Adam Curry: Probably, I mean, when I saw him with rulov Bota,
who is now the CEO of Sequoia Capital, he was his handler,
clearly, during the Tesla launch. You know, the guys at
PayPal kicked him out. They hated him. So, you know, look,
John C Dvorak: I don't see him hanging around with Peter Thiel
or any of the guys, no, because they
Adam Curry: hate him. They thought he was kooky, didn't
like him, didn't like what he was doing, thought he was not a
minor player. I mean, there's lots of, lots of evidence they
don't the PayPal Mafia doesn't like him, so, you know, like
each other, possibly so. But I have no hatred towards Elon. I
think it's phenomenally funny, but I am definitely keeping my
eyes open for humanity. Yeah, not me. You're just retweeting,
like, look at this nut ball. You are all in on it. You love it.
John C Dvorak: It's great.
Adam Curry: I know, I know you think it's great, but you know,
you know some of us care about the world.
John C Dvorak: Well, at some point you get over that, yeah.
Well, I'm
Adam Curry: not there yet.
Unknown: You're getting there. You get no, no, no, I
Adam Curry: have at least another 10 years before I become
like that. No. And
John C Dvorak: let's do, uh, let's do the three by three and
talk about this
Adam Curry: all right. Now it's time for three by three. Yeah,
baby experiment by JC D comparing stories from ABC, CBS
and NBC, the never endings. So the jonesboy syndicator back in
action for you, huh? They
John C Dvorak: or Steve? Yeah, it fits here because I had a
series of three clips on China spies. Ah, yes, okay, first, so
I wanted to play the three by three to see what the network
was doing. Then we'll go to NTD and have better stories, because
it gets as we know, NTD hates China, yes,
Adam Curry: yes, exactly. All right. Where
Unknown: do we start?
Adam Curry: This is ABC, CBS, NBC, the spies in America. We
have several of them. It turns out,
John C Dvorak: yeah, I think, well, there's a lot of spies.
Let's face it, yeah, there's everyone's all shocked. And my
favorite stuff is coming up with the discovery that there's spies
in the Chinese embassies. Oh, no, we don't do that ever. No,
no, no, nothing we would ever do.
Adam Curry: No way. So
John C Dvorak: let's start with the short one and start with
NBC. Okay,
Unknown: before we top aide to New York Governor Kathy Hochul
was arrested today on charges of acting as a secret agent of the
Chinese government. Chief Justice contributor Jonathan
Deans is following this and John According to prosecutors, how
did this work?
Yeah, well, prosecutors
say Linda Sun betrayed her official office by instead
acting on requests of Chinese communist government officials.
Son is charged with acting as an unregistered foreign agent. Her
husband was also arrested today. He's accused of laundering
millions of dollars from China into the US. The couple pleaded
not guilty in federal court. According to the indictment, the
scheme went on for years. In return, son and her husband were
allegedly given business opportunities in China and
luxury gifts. The FBI says the pair used that money to buy a $4
million home on Long Island and a $2 million condo in Hawaii.
Governor Hochul office says Son was fired last year after
evidence of misconduct was discovered. Lester
Adam Curry: misconduct that's not classified as
John C Dvorak: buying ducks, and she also worked for Cuomo. And
the thing that's funny, interesting is that she, or she
is an assistant, you know, working in the government,
driving a Ferrari, and nobody's suspicious of this.
Adam Curry: Hey, Kathy, you. So what, I'm what I missed in all
of these news reports. And I don't know if, because you have
two other ones here. Did Hochul come out and talk to anybody
about this? Has anyone asked her to speak on camera? Oh,
John C Dvorak: no. Hochul claims that she's responsible for them
for kicking her out. Oh, okay. Oh, smart move. That's what. No,
she came out and said, Yeah. She says she was suspicious. I don't
think the Ferrari as for a government worker, was much to
evidence. But okay, and
Adam Curry: How stupid are you as a spy to be rolling around in
a Ferrari? Yeah,
John C Dvorak: there you go. That's actually a good point
that why would a spot good spies don't go around driving around
Ferraris in the Emmy James Bond might. But you know, we're
talking about real spies? Well,
Adam Curry: you know, there's so much there's so much corruption.
You see all these like that Mayor, all of these people who
get into government places, a lot of them women, actually, and
then they just go nuts on spending and buying cars and
taking trips, and think that no one will figure it out, because
I think the corruption is so deep and the money has been
flowing for so long, I'm talking decades, they're
John C Dvorak: delusional. Yes,
Adam Curry: yes,
John C Dvorak: they're totally delusional. Let's go to a B C's
report
Unknown: tonight. A former aide to two New York Governors has
been arrested and charged with spying for China authorities
searching the Long Island Home of Linda sun and her husband,
Chris who, federal prosecutors say the couple received,
Adam Curry: who, who spying husband
Unknown: Chris who, federal prosecutors say the couple
received millions in kickbacks from China and laundered the
monetary proceeds to buy the mansion and then Hassett New
York for three and a half million dollars a condominium in
Honolulu, Hawaii for nearly 2 million in various luxury
automobiles including a Ferrari Sun worked for former Governor
Andrew Cuomo and his successor, Governor Kathy Hochul for more
than a decade, and never disclosed any benefits she
received. Instead, prosecutors say she acted as an undisclosed
agent of China, allegedly blocking representatives of the
Taiwanese government from having access to the New York State
Governor's office, and changing the governor's messaging
regarding issues of importance to the Chinese Sun traveled to
China, as seen in this photo included in the indictment,
where prosecutors say she met with officials from the Chinese
Communist Party. She and her family also allegedly received
gifts from China, including tickets to shows, concerts and
events, as well as salted ducks prepared by a Chinese settlement
official's personal chef. Sun is a naturalized US citizen who was
born in China and rose to become hokul is Deputy Chief of Staff
late today, Hochul responding,
I'm curious, and I'm outraged, absolutely shocked at how brazen
her behavior was. It was a betrayal of trust, the trust of
government, the trust of the people. And I'll tell you this,
the second we discovered some levels of misconduct, we
fired her and a
representative for former Governor Cuomo, saying that
while he was in office, son had little to no interaction with
the governor.
Adam Curry: You know, it's kind of funny in the parallel
universe. Before we left for for our quote, unquote vacation, we
finished up Veep.
John C Dvorak: And oh, you finally finished Veep. Yeah. And
so in
Adam Curry: the last season, where they kind of compress
everything and get it done, they didn't even have a full season.
It seemed like she's running for president again. Selena Meyer
and she hires a campaign manager, and it's, it's the
wrong guy. She thought it was some other guy. And this dork,
like a total dork, oh, he comes in, and they keep shutting him
out of meetings, everything, and and, you know, because actually,
if someone, she has someone else running the campaign, and then
it turns out that guy is actually a Chinese operative.
And then he's in, he turns around and starts threatening
her, like, oh, no, you if you don't do that, we're gonna want
to, you know, we'll never let you become president. She says,
you know, you got to take care of my husband. They blow her
that guy calls the Chinese. They blow up her ex husband on his
boat. You know, it's just like, it's Wow. It's like this has
been going on, and that's why they parody it. You know, these
spies and the ones you never expect, except the Ferrari might
have been a clue. Ferrari. Ferrari, you know,
John C Dvorak: she, when you look at she also did a speech.
She gave a speech on dei and how important it was. Oh, yeah,
Unknown: there you go.
John C Dvorak: I've seen that this, when you see her, she's
one of those. She has a certain look that you see when you when
you go to China and you're escorted by Chinese escort
nationals who who speak no guys. It was just like a guy in this
case, perfect English. Perfect English. Yeah, red flag. Well,
besides that, the sense of humor, they, it's weird because
they they can't do, they can't deal. You have this theory about
a sarcasm in certain uh, cultures, those cultures, but
the. Chinese, perfect speaking English, speaking Chinese, in
Chinese, Chinese. We're talking about the Nationals. Their sense
of humor is not there. They don't have it. And they you can
I remember this one. We were on this bus, and there was this guy
from uh, giving us a lectures as we're driving around the bus, a
bunch of us, and I'm in the front, and I'm making my doing
one liners, just one thing after. And I noticed this guy
was he looked at me like, funny. Like, what? Why is he was saying
that, and it would and I realized he has zero sense of
humor, which encouraged me to do this even more well. So I would
say something that was incredibly funny. We have guy
was oblivious. This girl looks like
Adam Curry: that guy. We have a clip that accentuates that lack
of humor.
Unknown: Don't laugh. Why you are laughing? Shut up.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, exactly so onward, now that we moved to the
CBS clip. Slip the CIA says, Linda, what do you have to say
to the allegations?
Unknown: Linda's son and her husband had nothing to say as
they walked out of a Brooklyn federal court Tuesday, the
former high ranking aide to New York Governor Kathy Hochul and
her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo, pleaded not guilty to several
charges accusing her of a brazen scheme to serve as a secret
agent of China, a
lot of the allegations.
FBI agents raided Sun's Long Island Home back in July. At the
time, the reason was not disclosed. Now, the Justice
Department alleges she shaped New York State messaging to
align with Chinese priorities, blocked references to Taiwan and
government documents and stopped meetings between state and
Taiwanese representatives. In return, Prosecutors allege sun
and her husband received millions of dollars in business
in China, along with personal benefits, such as paid travel,
event tickets and a job for a family member. Federal
investigators also claim the couple laundered the profits to
purchase several multimillion dollar properties and luxury
cars. Nice hochul's office said son's employment was terminated
in March of 2023 after evidence of misconduct. And a
spokesperson for Andrew Cuomo said son had little interaction
with the then governor in her roles under his administration.
Tony, all right. Trika, thank
you very much.
Adam Curry: You know Cuomo is going to have to come before the
I think it's a Senate committee about, you know the 15,000 old
people he indirect, indirectly killed. But I wonder if she was,
you know, any, I don't know this. You get China, you got
Yeah, and why don't we do what? What they do with our agents,
kill them.
John C Dvorak: I find this whole thing that the one aspect of
this that I find baffling is that they fired her in March,
and then they raided her place in July, and she's still here.
Why didn't her, she and her husband pull up stakes and head
out?
Adam Curry: And is it interesting that if you look at
the known Chinese spy stories, it's hokel Democrat, it's well,
well, Democrat, oh, well, and, and, what's the the old bag?
What's her name? From Feinstein? Feinstein, 20 years you know
Democrats,
John C Dvorak: Democrats keeping an eye on her. I know it's this.
It's Yeah, well, let's go to what NCD has to say. In place,
China spy is one. This is in D, D, the State
Unknown: Department confirmed today that China's counsel
general in New York is no longer in office. The department said
diplomat Huang Ping was not expelled and left after
completing his scheduled rotation. The clarification came
after New York Governor Kathy Hochul had said she asked for
the Chinese diplomat to be expelled to send a message to
the Chinese officials who worked with one of her former aides,
Linda sun. Sun was charged yesterday with being an
unregistered agent of the Chinese regime. Here's State
Department spokesperson Matthew Miller addressing the issue
today
foreign interference, including attempts to influence by through
covert activities that should be registered under the Foreign
Agents Registration Act and are not registered. Are things that
we take serious, very seriously, as you saw by the action
Department of Justice took yesterday.
Adam Curry: Where's the Chinese influencer, cash? You know, what
are those guys? Dumb? You got to get some of those podcasters.
Hint, hint, you got to get some podcasters on the payroll if you
really want to influence anyone in America. And by the way, this
timeline, which is bothersome, March 2023, and now it's coming
out, this has got to be a ramp up towards the the Pacific.
John C Dvorak: There's something go. You're right. This is a ramp
that's too that is suspicious. Yeah,
Adam Curry: we got to go out, start going after China. Pretty
soon it's been in the man,
John C Dvorak: I think this is all part of the, yeah, we have
to keep the money going to Ukraine or fix that problem. So
we, let's set this, do this bull crap with the election
interference and RT of all play places. Yeah? And now, let's
ramp this Chinese thing up, even though I think your original
point, which is, why don't we just kill them like they do to
our people in China? Yeah. Okay. Onward.
Unknown: This comes after Linda sun, a former Deputy Chief of
Staff a to Governor Hochul and former Governor Cuomo, was
charged with conspiring to violate the foreign Agents
Registration Act that's on top of other charges like alien
smuggling, money laundering and visa fraud. While working for
state government, Sun influenced the messaging of high level
state officials. In the indictment, Prosecutors allege
that sun blocked Taiwanese government representatives from
communicating with officials, as well as obtained official New
York State proclamations for Chinese state representatives
without authorization. So
Adam Curry: here's a commonality. So we have Farah
act in the news today in two separate cases, one, Russia,
two, China. But you know who's not registered under the Farah
act APEC? Why? Because their money comes from the military
industrial complex. So as long as you're in that camp, you're
good to go influence all you want. Yeah, this is like, come
on. Okay, so, well, this is interesting. I didn't expect
this, actually, but 60 minutes, did a profile of Gina Raimondo.
Oh,
John C Dvorak: God, I saw that. Yes,
Adam Curry: I got a couple clips, because she goes, let's
finish the spy. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were done with the
spies. No, no, you
John C Dvorak: did you play clip? Dude? Did you play clip?
Adam Curry: That was that was clear to clip three, I'm sorry.
Clip three,
Unknown: I missed that one. And joining us now to explore how
Chinese consulates are involved in CCP spy operations on
American soil. Are two guests. Nan Su is a senior investigative
reporter with The epic times, and Jimmy Quinn is a national
security correspondent for The National Review. Thank you both
so much for joining us. Great to see you both again. And so I
want to start with you from your research, what is the role of
Chinese consulates when it comes to the Chinese regime's overseas
operations?
Well, first of all, thank you, Tiffany, for having me. Now the
Chinese Consulate for long, long time, many years, they have been
reaching out local different Chinese group like oversee
Chinese alum alumni groups, Chinese student groups, local
culture groups, for example, certain peoples from certain
region, They will have speak different dialects, and so they
form some of the local cultural groups. And what they have done
is they will have this group after these groups of form, they
will keep the tight connection with only three or four,
basically, very small group of top leaders. You know, we they
know the true relation between their group and Chinese
Consulate, and how, that's how the Chinese Consulate control
all different all these different groups.
And expanding on that, Jimmy we saw in 2020 when the Chinese
Consulate in Houston shut down, video showing personnel burning
papers or documents in the back from a national security
perspective, what is your reaction to those videos?
Well, it's important to know that the Chinese Communist
Party's long arm reaches right into American cities, and the
Chinese consulates are directing the hand of CCP repression. So
the role that they play is that they are engaging with community
members, as Nan said, and exerting the party's malign
influence over politics, over community organizations. It's
all part of the party's united front strategy.
Adam Curry: This is a Red Scare. Repeat
John C Dvorak: a little bit. They definitely this went on and
on. I stopped it there, because it goes on and on with holy, you
know, the different groups and the different kinds of way they
do the spying, and then the phony baloney police
departments, including the one they set up in New York City.
It's kind of fascinating. They do a decent job, but they get
caught. So, so do we?
Adam Curry: So let me now that you've said that the 60 Minutes
interview with Gina Raimondo, where did she come from? Gina
Raimondo, did she just she was
John C Dvorak: the governor of Rhode Island, I believe, really.
Yeah.
Adam Curry: Gina Raimondo. I will consult the book of
knowledge. Briefly, she, she looks spooky, by the way.
John C Dvorak: She's creepy. Yeah, she
Adam Curry: is kind of creepy. Let me see, well, it doesn't say
where she comes. I need the Wikipedia. So she was
interviewed. Why? You know, well, there's, there's a couple
of reasons. Probably, when you think about this, oh, she was in
here it is. Oh, she began her career in venture capital.
John C Dvorak: Ah, yes, she was point VC Judith capital,
Adam Curry: Rhode Island's first venture capital firm. Then she
was the general treasurer of Rhode Island, where she
prioritized reforming Rhode Island's public employee pension
system, money, money, money. Okay, so she's, she's a, she's
been around. She's a mover and shaker. So
John C Dvorak: she, she seems dumb, though, well, you
Adam Curry: got to be careful with the dumb ones, the most
dangerous. So she pivots from Russia to China in this
interview. And we started off because, well, you'll hear what
what she her whole thing, and she's the What is this? What
does the Department of Commerce really do? What is their job?
John C Dvorak: Became an issue, a point that she explained in
this interview, because she didn't know what it did either
when she took the job. Let's see
Adam Curry: if she explains it here.
Unknown: What does the Secretary of Commerce do until now? Mainly
promote US businesses abroad. It had not been a high profile job
till Gina Raimondo turned the second tier agency into a center
of job creation, manufacturing and national security. Once the
governor of Rhode Island, Raimondo, at 53 seems to have
come out of nowhere to become a rising star of the Democratic
Party.
Adam Curry: Got to be careful of those rising stars that come out
of nowhere and
Unknown: of the Biden administration as Commerce
Secretary, she's running new projects that, as we first
reported in April, could touch the lives of every American, and
she's helping lead the expanding cold war with China and confront
Russia's aggression in Ukraine. The battlefield for both
John C Dvorak: do with Russia and Ukraine? Well, it's
Unknown: coming up is technology. Technology,
if you think about national security today, in 2024 it's not
just tanks and missiles. It's technology, it's semiconductors,
it's AI, it's drones, and the Commerce Department is at the
Red Hot center of technology,
Adam Curry: the red hot center. Okay, so she This is making more
sense. She's placed firmly in all of these issues with Russia
and China
Unknown: and at the Red Hot center, a global chip war ramped
up, says Gina Raimondo, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the
Commerce
Department stopped all semiconductor chips from being
sold to Russia. Every drone, every missile, every tank, has
semiconductors in them. And you know Leslie, you know we're
being effective, because shortly after we started that work, we
heard stories of the Russians taking semiconductors out of
refrigerators, out of dishwashers, out of breasts.
John C Dvorak: By the way, you should stop for a second. I
heard this. This is bull crap, of course. How many refer I have
a big refrigerator. I got dishwashers. I've there's no
semiconductors in any of the gear I have. And I'm in the
United States with high end gear, yeah,
Adam Curry: but, but she says, here they took them. They took
semiconductors out of breast pumps. Yeah, come on.
John C Dvorak: And they just can't take random semiconductor
and then all of a sudden put it in a drone. I mean, is this a
chip? You can do any bull, yeah, it's a chip. That's exactly
right. That's the way she it's a chip. It's a chip. Just is so
much nonsense. She's the same woman that we had a clip. I
don't know if we actually played it, but we had the clip of her
being called out on the fact that there was this job, the
jobs report was off. And she says, Well, Trump's a liar. Oh,
was this Bureau statistics that said this? And then she says, I
never heard of him.
Adam Curry: Hold on a second, liar,
John C Dvorak: it would be a good we just played
Adam Curry: ramondo, yeah, unfortunately, I don't have
John C Dvorak: he was she Anyway, she's, she's a dummy.
That was just the other day. It was just the other day. It was
recently. Yes,
Adam Curry: jobs report, let me see. Well, I'll look for it
while we continue with this clip,
Unknown: out of refrigerators, out of dishwashers, out of
breast pumps, getting the chips to put them into their military
equipment. However,
the Russians are now working their way around this. They are
successfully and they're doing better in the war. Probably.
Because of this, you are
right in what you say, but she says it's absolutely the case
that our export controls have hurt their ability to conduct
the war, made it harder, and we are enforcing this every minute
of every day, doing everything we can now.
Adam Curry: Do you hear her speaking there? Does she sound
like Kamala Harris, or what
John C Dvorak: she sounds a little BS, is a milieu? Yes,
Adam Curry: listen to it again, that
Unknown: our export controls have hurt their ability to
conduct the war. Made it harder, and we are enforcing this every
minute of every day, doing everything right there, right
Adam Curry: there every minute of every day. All right. So
Unknown: talk about this enforcement. These are some of
the enforcers. We should talk about our controls on Russia.
Raimondo, team at Commerce that monitors and polices the ban on
any company in the world from selling products with American
chips in them to Russia, China, but not just Russia.
I've made sure that the most advanced American technology
can't be used in China. The
Chinese warn that these export controls could trigger an
escalating trade war. Trade with China accounts for 150,000 US
jobs, and if trade ends, we lose our jobs.
We want to trade with China on the vast majority of goods and
services, but on those technologies that affect our
national security. No, no, no.
Those advanced chips are in consumer goods. Banks use them
hospitals. This is going toward products that are made for
civilian use, yeah,
well, they also go into nuclear weapons surveillance systems.
And we know they want these chips and our sophisticated
technology to advance their military, just so
Adam Curry: you know, breast pump chips are spying on you.
She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an
Aspen Institute Rodel fellow. So here so now she's gone to the
Chinese and this is what it's all about.
Unknown: Her toughness has made her a target in China, where
fake ads have her promoting the new Chinese made smartphones.
Last year, the government in Beijing hacked her email, and
when she was in China,
Adam Curry: what they hacked her email? This would have been a
pretty big story, of the Chinese are hacking
John C Dvorak: whole story of this whole presentation is bull
crap for the fact that the Chinese are putting they
developing. Here's what a lot of people believe is happening when
they would, would Biden put the kibosh on sending certain kinds
of chips to China that they that are made in Taiwan anyway, as if
they can't get a back door from Taiwan. But that's
Adam Curry: coming up. That's coming up, yeah, is that
John C Dvorak: the Chinese are going to start doing their own
fabs and they'll catch up? Well,
Adam Curry: this is the story her
Unknown: email. And when she was in China on a trip, ironically,
to improve relations, the tech company Huawei introduced that
new smartphone with an advanced Chinese made chip. It was kind
of in your face, as if to say, look at the chip, and it was a
pretty good high level chip.
Adam Curry: Leslie Stahl knows all about high level chips.
Unknown: I have their attention clearly, and they've gotten
yours. Well, what tells me is the export controls are working
because that chip is not nearly as good. It's years behind. What
we have.
Adam Curry: How does she know all this is years behind? Yeah,
what
John C Dvorak: is years behind? Mean, I mean, the reason for the
newer chips is because they're cheaper and faster, but the old
ships. I mean, you can use a phone that's five years old and
is still dynamite. Yes, this is near old crap.
Unknown: Really is good. It's years behind what we have in the
United States. We have the most sophisticated semiconductors in
the world. China, doesn't we've out innovated China. Well,
we, you mean, Taiwan, fair while American companies design the
world's most advanced chips, none are actually made in the
US. 90% of them come from Taiwan, and they are key to the
future of us, military weaponry and China, from time to time,
threatens, you know, the wolf to invade Taiwan, and some people
say the whole reason is to get their hands on those chips.
That's a problem. It's
a risk. It makes us vulnerable. There
Adam Curry: it is. We have to protect our chips made in Taiwan
from the Chinese.
John C Dvorak: That's that's as we can. Come here and the chips
Act's doing nothing. Nope. The tmsc guy, the TSMC guy, came
over here and you can't set up shop because of the labor laws
and whatever, he says, screw that. And then recently, since
they gave a billions to Intel because they have a couple of
fabs, and they're going to build some out, and then Intel made
this announcement. I think it was in the last couple of weeks
that, you know maybe we're going to get out of the ship, making
business, the stock skyrocketed. So, I mean, what is going on
here? These guys are just bumblers.
Adam Curry: What does Intel do besides chips? Nothing. So
they're just going to become a VC or something. No,
John C Dvorak: well, if they don't, I mean, they can,
they're, most of their designs are, I think I don't know where
they're making their chips at, but they can make them in
Taiwan, just like anybody else does, right? Or any other fab
someplace
Adam Curry: else, getting out your fab business is what they
see. Yeah, they were thinking of
John C Dvorak: getting at, thinking of getting out of the
fat business, even though there was some rumor going around that
they were going to start making Nvidia chips, which is very
humorous, yeah, because they can't sell enough of their own
chips, but they were thinking of making Nvidia but once. But the
thing that's the kicker is when they said they might get out of
the fab business, the stock went skyrocketing. That's funny. So
some things so these guys that are running things are but and
with Raimondo at the at the top of it, are bumbling idiots.
Adam Curry: Well, since you brought up Nvidia, I might as
well play it.
Unknown: He's AI's top dog being brought to heal. Nvidia has
reportedly been issued a subpoena by the US Justice
Department amid a deepening probe, Bloomberg reporting that
the DOJ suspects the chip making giant of using monopolistic
practices to keep clients from switching to other suppliers and
penalizing those that don't use its chips exclusively, the
company defending itself in a statement
in video, wins on merit, as reflected in our benchmark
results and value to customers who can choose whatever solution
is best for them.
The recent boom in artificial intelligence applications like
chatgpt has put Nvidia's specialized processors in high
demand, with sales more than doubling each quarter, its
annual revenues have skyrocketed from 16 billion in 2020 to more
than 120 billion expected this year. Regulators are reportedly
focusing on Nvidia's recent acquisition of run AI, which
makes software that manages AI computing sales practices that
favor clients who run Nvidia products exclusively are also
said to be under the microscope, led by CEO Jensen Huang.
Nvidia's blockbuster performance has seen its share price more
than double this year, briefly becoming the world's most
valuable company. The probe comes at a pivotal moment for
the industry, though, as the AI boom has been losing steam on
markets over fears that its hype has far outpaced its actual
economic benefits.
Adam Curry: I did not have on my bingo card the Department of
Justice kicking off the AI downturn. That was pretty
interesting. Nvidia beat their numbers, but yet the stock
dropped by 10%
John C Dvorak: Yeah, kind of nuttiness goes on constantly,
Adam Curry: yeah. Well, you heard it there. It's like, well,
we're not so sure that. See, yeah, I'm, I am bearish on AI.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that's that. There's a nice story that
came out saying, so far AI has lost half a trillion dollars. I
had to look twice at it, half a trillion, trillion. Wow.
Adam Curry: Hey, with that, I'd like to thank you for your
courage. In morning. The in the morning to you, the man who put
the sea in the chip roar. Say hello to my friend on the other
end, the one the only Mr. John
John C Dvorak: C divorce, well, well, in the morning to you, or
Mr. Adam curry. In the morning, all ships the sea boosted the
ground, feet in the air, substance in the water and all
the days.
Adam Curry: All right, let's see we have in the troll room, 1733
which I think is kind of on par. Where's my where's my peak
number? Cotton, oh, the peak was 1862 Thank you, cotton gin. All
right, for Thursday, makes sense, especially on this, this
kind of holiday week which are still in, I don't know if people
did people even go back to work anymore.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, why bother? Yeah, just,
Adam Curry: it's just stay home. And of course, we have the, you
know, right to not be disturbed. We should have that's good.
That's good. That's coming in America too. We have the right
to not be disturbed. You're disturbing me. Just disturbing
me. It's horrible. Those trolls are in the troll room.
Trollroom.io. Is where you can listen to the no agenda stream,
which is 24 hours a day. There's always something fun playing on
it. In addition. To that when we send out the bad signal, you can
go on there, you control around. You can listen live and say
whatever you want. There's no moderation here. It's freedom of
speech and very limited freedom of reach. Obviously not that
many people there compared to x, but we, we also like it if you
use the modern podcast app, which will alert you when we
send out the bat signal. And you use the same app you'll use for
your podcast, you can then use for for listening to the live
stream, getting into the troll room. And also most of these
modern podcast apps, you see a little, a little donate button
or support this show. Sometimes it's a little dollar sign you
click on that, it takes you right to no agenda donations.com
or whatever value for value website your favorite podcast
uses. So we have been operating on value for value, no Russian
money here. We have no Russian money. Instead, we have producer
money. Because we have producers, we don't have
listeners. They're out there providing time, talent and
treasure, many different things that you can be doing to support
the show, hitting people in the mouth, letting them know about
it. I see people are always slashing the X about the show
and saying, Hey, you should listen to no agenda. I think
those things really help. Oh, I know those things help, slashing
the X, yeah, I made that up myself. Well, you used to tweet.
So what do you do on x? You slash an X? I don't know.
John C Dvorak: I'm just that's an interesting phrase. They
might catch on.
Adam Curry: I've only been using it for six months,
John C Dvorak: I haven't heard it.
Adam Curry: I say it every single morning when we start the
show, I said, boost the two, retweet the tweets and slash the
X.
John C Dvorak: I don't remember this. Okay? And you say it every
single morning,
Adam Curry: every show morning, yes, as we go into
John C Dvorak: the No, as I was every morning, just wake up. I
Adam Curry: just wake up. That's right. I said good morning.
Slash the X baby. Let's go, boom. And Tina's All right, hold
on a second. By the way, Tina got put in comment jail. But for
she doesn't know she
John C Dvorak: What does she say? Does she know what she's no
no, but she doesn't know what she said,
Adam Curry: No. So this is on Instagram. And so she posts, she
can post. She posted, you know, picture, video of the surprise
party, and she says, Hey, I can't comment. And says, You
can't comment for a week.
John C Dvorak: I said, Well, when she says something, she
doesn't, She's not the type of person that says the cool, nasty
stuff. No,
Adam Curry: she must have hurt somebody's feelings.
John C Dvorak: I mean, how else does it? That's not the kind of
that's not the way. No, well, she must have said, used a rot,
you used the word weird or something. Again, that doesn't
count.
Adam Curry: Okay, we'll let you slide. Doesn't count. Well, let
John C Dvorak: you say I'm quoting that. She may have said
that because I know that some wordage, just casual wordage
that people would normally use, gets you put in these, these
prisons. I know
Adam Curry: you can't say kill that's why people are saying
unalive. The unalive can't kill it. No, you're killing it. Lady.
No, you unilate it. You can't say rape. You can't say
pedophile. Say you say PDF file. There's all kinds of yeah, oh
yeah. There's on the ground that's also on X, on x,
John C Dvorak: if you do that, you can't say pedophile on x.
Adam Curry: Go ahead, try it.
John C Dvorak: Oh my god, you mentioned I won't. I never said
it.
Adam Curry: Yeah, you can't. You can't do that. It's No, I just
pedo, maybe I don't know. No, she does, and she, you know, and
she's like, What did I do? And you can't find out, which is,
makes no, yeah, that's ridiculous. Makes no sense. How
John C Dvorak: you not going to do it again if you don't know
what it was you did in the first place. I know all these
platforms do this because they don't have anybody working
there. It's all done by machines. They're lazy. This is
like, the customer service, like, I'll have some issues with
my YouTube TV. No, you tried to contact there's no customer
service. You can't use this. Whatever it is. You tried
Adam Curry: to contact someone at Google. That's No, you can't,
like trying to contact someone at Apple. It's like, no, not
possible. No, no. It's not unless
John C Dvorak: having difficulty getting YouTube TV to work on on
the you'd think one of my browsers, well,
Adam Curry: hold on a second. You'd think that with all the AI
that Google is involved with, there'd be an just say, and I'm
going to use the word an awesome AI chat bot,
John C Dvorak: who could, oh, there is, there's an AI chat
bot. And don't know anything, go here. Did that Was that helpful?
Yes, no, go here. Was that helpful? Yes, no. It's always
no, because it's not helpful
Adam Curry: at all. No, where. I have a problem with my USB. You
know, I'm looking up all kinds of AI and search engines. And
no, I
John C Dvorak: have, you need Darren. Darren O'Neill,
Adam Curry: that's right, you need Darren. That's exactly what
it is. Darren is one of our Dutch masters who create artwork
for the show. We use new art for every single episode. It helps a
lot. It grabs attention. You know, you throw it on your on
your timelines, people like, whoa, what's that? And it's and
it also entertains us. We like, we like. It entertains
everybody. Really good artists is always entertaining. Ai
generated or not good art is good art. So for Episode 1691 we
titled that joy boy. Oh, by the way, you remember we were
talking about the word joy, yeah, and I said it had
something to do with Nazis. We thought we could have Joy
Division, Joy Division, so, but a lot of people said, yes, these
were brothel camp brothels in the concentration camps that
service the Nazi officers to boost morale, as well as a form
of sex therapy for those with homosexual tendencies who needed
to be shown the joy of the opposite sex. And these sex
slaves in the brothels were typically female Jewish
prisoners, and if they expired, they just replaced it with more.
But they that was known as the Joy Division of the Nazis. And
it kind of makes sense the Joy Division in at NPR, they have a
joy czar. Well, yeah, it's
John C Dvorak: to keep it's got to be a whore. Yeah,
Adam Curry: there you go. You nailed it. Uh, thank you to Sir
net Ned, who brought us the artwork for Episode 1691 was
pretty good. We were looking at different pieces. This was the
vibe meter, where we had, on the left, joy and hope, a nice green
colors, and on the right, fear, anger and then just Trump's
head. Yeah, for the for the for the vibe meter. And let me see
what other artwork was there that we were looking
John C Dvorak: much. It was a few Joy boy pieces that we
didn't like. We you know, they were usable, but now we were
going to use that for the title. And that was pretty obvious,
yeah. And people should recognize. We usually spot the
title the show.
Adam Curry: Here's what's funny. You were like, Hey, I like that
pack of cigarettes. I said it says fags keep pubs alive. Do
you think that will be understood everywhere?
John C Dvorak: Well, yeah, you got me on that one. And then it
was by tanta Neil, and the title of the art was fags. It was
probably a bad idea. Sorry. That was out I did like sweepers
pieces.
Adam Curry: Yes, I use new newsletter. Sweepers new. I
think he's
John C Dvorak: new or she is new. And they do. They're doing
evergreen that is usable to me. So Evergreens are always
welcome. Yeah,
Adam Curry: let's see what else was there.
John C Dvorak: They had a picture your head with joy boy.
That was a bit much rather disturbing,
Adam Curry: disturbing piece of art. More AI stuff, of course,
some 60th I kind of like the joy czar that Darren did, which was,
again, AI, but it was this just dour looking clown who has a joy
czar button on. It's a funny piece, but I think you thought
it was too gruesome.
John C Dvorak: No, you're the one that thought it was
gruesome. I kind of liked it. What I said we should use it.
Oh, no, no, I don't think, whereas I keep looking for it,
I'm not seeing it. It's
Adam Curry: next to this on the row with the bottom, yeah, yeah.
I
John C Dvorak: never said it was too gruesome. I didn't like it.
No, you just said you liked it. Well, I mean, I liked I didn't
like it enough to pick it. Okay? It's a cute piece in the funny
way, because it's, you know, it's essentially
Unknown: waltz, yes,
Adam Curry: yes. Is that waltz dancing? That video everyone's
sending around the one
John C Dvorak: that he's wearing his halter top, yeah, that one
that's a, like, a Texas gay convention somewhere, Austin,
yeah, is
Adam Curry: that wall? No,
John C Dvorak: it doesn't. I mean, I think somebody did a
walls head on it, but, no, I liked it, but it might as well
be. His
Adam Curry: whole family hates him. All of all of Minnesota
hates him. They have, like, Walt's dunk tanks and shoot the
waltz head at the at the county fairs, they don't like
John C Dvorak: him. He didn't do a very good job of picking that
guy.
Adam Curry: Or did they? It all dwells. There you go. It all
depends. It all depends. Well, thank you, sir net Ned for
bringing us the artwork for 1691 we appreciate the work that all
of our artists do. You are you are treasured. You are cherished
here at the no agenda show you. No agenda. Art generator.com,
another beautiful piece of time and talent, the strap Paul
couture put together for us. So many people work on this
podcast. We have so many good producers. We don't need your
Russian money. We've got enough producers good to go. Now. Let's
thank if
John C Dvorak: you're gonna send it in. Send it in anonymously.
Adam Curry: Well, there you go. Let's thank Hey. Where'd my
spreadsheet go? Oh, there it is. Let's thank our executive and
Associate Executive producers for Episode 1692 we appreciate
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Associate Executive Producer title, credit, and we read your
note, 300 and above, executive producer, and we read your note,
and we kick it off with Anonymous from North Carolina,
who comes in with 1692, which I'm thinking, should it? Should
be some coded number show? It's
John C Dvorak: a show donation.
Adam Curry: Oh, it Oh, it's da. That's how long has it been
since you've had a show number donation?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, at least the months. And
Adam Curry: anonymous says no jingles, no karma, and I'm
skipping the knighting and peerage. Wow. I mean, that's
okay. That came in
John C Dvorak: from stripe. Nice. Well, thank
Adam Curry: you very much anonymous, and you are top of
the list, with the top executive producership and the show number
donation, which has been quite a while. Thank you. We appreciate
it.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, very interesting to say the least.
Fryer Freyja from The Hague that comes in, is that right? Yeah.
With 343, 75 Hi John and Adam. Adam and John, this is my first
time donation. So please deduce me.
Unknown: You've been deduced
John C Dvorak: me. Blow out my speech.
Adam Curry: Sorry about that. Yeah, sorry, sorry. I'll try and
I'll dial it. This is my
John C Dvorak: first time donation. Uh, greetings from
fryah in Don hog. Future Dame mooseton. Muston is moose town,
moustane in bull dyke. Lowlandia,
Adam Curry: future Dame moose town, which is vegetable garden
in pool dyke. Lowlandia, yeah, bull dyke, that's
John C Dvorak: what I said,
Unknown: okay, yeah,
John C Dvorak: I got hit in the mouth by Dame tuttola And Iris.
A big shout out to Iris. I call out Dame to Tola for being a
douchebag.
Adam Curry: Uh oh, she's calling her out now. Okay, yeah,
John C Dvorak: she's in the in the Bucky buddies, yes, the
Bucky not a code here. I don't understand, but it's funny. It's
funny in Dutch, but something to do with lesbians. I could, could
you add me to the birthday list tomorrow? Friday, the sixth is
my 55th birthday. So the three, three, 3.33, added up exactly on
my birthday. 9669, can I have a biscuit for my birthday?
Unknown: They always give me a biscuit on my birthday.
John C Dvorak: On the last show I heard that there's another
Dutch listener who are Carano, who has his birthday tomorrow, a
biscuit for him, too. They always give me a biscuit on my
birthday, not a birthday biscuit, and I hope to meet him
one day in a meetup, because connection is protection. I
really love the meetup. So they love the meetups in Holland,
that's for sure. They sure do. So sorry that I didn't have a
chance to chat with you at the meetup in Amsterdam because it
was so damn crowded. Thought I got every time a blast, though.
Thank you for being there, and congrats on your 60th birthday
on this oh, well, before I forget, a big shout out to Arno
from ampstelveen, oh, for being a fellow zip warrior, and Sir
Hendrick for his awesome T shirts. Thank you so much for
the shows, for it is keeping me sane. I always listen to the
show when I'm working in my vegetable garden. Hence her name
and me laughing out loud because of your jokes on this show. Keep
the others befuddled. Ha, ha, thank you for your courage.
Adam Curry: We go to Dan from Epping New Hampshire. S.
Switcheroo. He says, Hello, John and Adam. I'm writing to wish a
happy birthday, and as her birthday gift, a final
switcheroo donation for Angie to finally claim her Dame hoods. He
attached to county, I request that she be named Dame little
Anne of Where the Red Fern Grows. Angie is my beautiful
wife, and we were recently married. Congratulations. She
hit me in the mouth over a year ago, and we started dating, and
I've slowly come to love listening to the show together
and overjoyed to give her a well deserved title. I'd like to Yes.
I'd like to request that she be deduced.
Unknown: You've been deduced.
Adam Curry: What? It's too
John C Dvorak: loud. I
Adam Curry: keep turning it down. It's still too loud. I
don't understand, by the way, that's only on your mix. It's
not that bad in the final but the rest of the stuff is normal.
John C Dvorak: It's there's
Adam Curry: reasons. I'd like to request that she'll be deduced
and have some baby making karma for the round table. May she
have salmon nigiri and a plate of 12 lengua tacos. Thank you,
Dan. PS. Special thanks to T who started the process of her no
agenda Daming and contributed greatly in her becoming,
becoming the dame that she is. Well, of course, we'll do that.
Unknown: You've got karma.
John C Dvorak: Those are Tonga tacos, by the way. Oh,
Adam Curry: you wanted to know? I'm happy to know. And
John C Dvorak: they typically are delicious, because if you
know how to cook tongue, Dame, a mama Susan's in Escondido,
California, 333, Hi, I'd like to deduce my daughter, Julia beats
you've been deduced Julia Beals the birthday switcheroo. So she
gets credit. Her birthday was September 1, and mine is this
Saturday. Hopefully they're both on the list. Please send us both
birthday karma and add mariachi music. Love and kisses. There we
Unknown: go.
Here we go. You've got karma.
Adam Curry: You ask, we deliver. Michiel Buren is in flissingen
in the Netherlands, 333, dot 33 here's my long overduination.
This isn't my first one, but I haven't asked for a deducing. So
if you could do this on this one, that'd be nice.
Unknown: You've been deduced,
Adam Curry: and the show has been valuable as always. The
last show, I especially like the part about the strength through
joy. As a car guy, I also recognize the term because the
Volkswagen Beetle was originally named Kraft dur freudewagen,
strength through joy car.
John C Dvorak: That's that's a little obscure I didn't know.
Well,
Adam Curry: of course, Hitler did create the Volkswagen, as
the people's car, also known as the KDF wagon, and part of the
KDF program used by the NSDAP to make Nazis more joyful. So, yes,
the Nazis, those in Germany 33 to 45 did use the term
extensively, just so, you know, I thought others might find that
interesting. NPR, thank you for your courage and four more
years. Best wishes from me. He'll buden, PS, good. L, sharp
and jingle always makes me chuckle.
Unknown: R, E, s, p, i, C, T,
John C Dvorak: sir. Walkman. Walkman in Louisville, or
Louisville, hard to say. I don't know it's in Ohio, so I don't
know how to pronounce it necessarily to pronounce it
anyway, 333, and keeping it short and sweet, he writes, uh,
happy birthday. Adam, no jingles, uh, Jace, GK, something
was that mean karma,
Adam Curry: no jingles, just goat karma.
John C Dvorak: Jah, goat karma. Duh, sir, welcome Duke of
Buckeye or Ohio. You've got
Adam Curry: karma. That's right, we decode your messages on site.
Genevieve. Genevieve Wimberly is in Liberty Lake, Washington,
313, 46 she says this is a row of ducks plus today's show date
222, dot, 22 plus 91 dot, 24 to celebrate the marriage of two
slaves, Kyle toig and Genevieve Wemberly Wimberly getting
hitched on last Sunday's show day is time for these newlyweds
to claim our seat at the round table on our wedding day. Yes,
it's a four ring day. Big thanks the best man, Brian Maloney, for
hitting us both in the mouth and sending us on a path toward
knighthood to proudly be a couple that no agendas together
and stays together. Of course, we never had a fight. A quick
plug for sustaining donations their surefire path from slave
to royalty. We'll be celebrating our nuptials as well as becoming
a night in a dame by staying in a castle on the mountain, as one
should baby making karma, please, and a smokin hot wife
jingle followed by, it's true for the bride and for the bride
and groom. And Kyle would like to be dubbed sir spook of
Spokane, protector of infrastructure. And Jen would
like to be Dame Jen with a G protector of women's vaginas.
She is at OB, GYN, no, dude, pussy please. Okay, at the round
table, we'd like patagong. Oh, what is this? Did I order this?
We'd like Patagonian toothfish, toothfish, French crepes and
champagne, please. Well, I don't have any champagne here because
they can't legally do that. So they give you a what Cava. That
what they do here in, uh, outside of the Champagne region,
cava, uh,
John C Dvorak: cava, Spanish, yes. Well, this Cava still
imported. Adam
Adam Curry: question, where are you in Mexico for your birthday,
just north of Puerto Vallarta, where the love boat docks? We
leave for Sayulita on Thursday's show the fifth producers comment
thinking about Trump's fall endorsement. What about Dave
Chappelle? No, I don't think that. I don't think Dave
Chappelle will will move the needle that much. Thank you very
much for your donations. Congratulations. You will be at
the round table for your knighting and Daming, and here's
what you're requesting.
Unknown: You've got Parma,
John C Dvorak: that's true. Now we have Dame Astrid, the art
Dame Astrid, oh, the arch Duchess and Archduke of Japan,
and all the disputed islands in the Japan Sea. I think it's
coming in from both of them in Tokyo. Dear Adam, happy
birthday. The nice thing about turning 60 is that one can
finally say, Get off my lawn with a smile, great confidence
and with no regret. Much Love Dame Astrid plus Sir Mark, yes,
the arch
Adam Curry: 6260 of Japan and all the disputed islands in the
Japan Sea. Next, Associate Executive Producer 250 the
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long, it is my husband and I never miss an episode. The
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thank you. Get the hell out of California. Yes. Go to go to
Tennessee, for sure. Thank you. Harper team.
John C Dvorak: Eli, the coffee guy's up. He's in bensonville,
Illinois, 20905 Eli says, over the weekend, we visited the
Bristol Wisconsin Renaissance Fair, and a lot of people had
some really cool medieval garb. There were jousts, jugglers,
acrobats, magicians and furries, yay. This seems to be the most
popular with the teenagers. There costumes, yes, but not
very period authentic. All performers operate on the value
for value system, which made me think it was it got a cup out,
which made me think of the show, especially with so many dressed
as nights for producers who support value for value in all
his forms, visit gig, gigawatt Coffee roasters.com use code ITM
for 20% off your order stay caffeinated. Eli the coffee guy,
Adam Curry: ITM 20 is the code ITM 20. Pat Eckert in Rochester,
you said ITM No. Pat Eckert in Rochester, Minnesota, $200
Associate Executive producership This. Oh, it's a switcheroo.
This donation is for Alex Eckert. Let me change that right
away. Alex, okay, taken care of who is leaving this year to go
to school in La Crosse, Wisconsin for the firefighting
program. There you go. That's a young guy I'm talking I can't
believe it's been 18 years already. We are proud of you.
Can you give all the no agenda kids leaving home this year? Can
you give all the no agenda kids leaving home this year? Make it
Oh, make a ton of money and buy your parents cool crap karma. I.
We all As parents, we all wish for that. We all hope our our
kids are able to go off and be so successful they can give us
cool crap. So for, oh, for three, thank you, John and Adam.
And here's the karma.
Unknown: You've got karma
Adam Curry: by your parents, cool crap.
John C Dvorak: And last on the list is Linda Lou patkin in
Lakewood, Colorado, 200 bucks, and she asked for jobs karma,
and says that for competitive edge, go to imagemakers,
inc.com, for all your executive resume and job search needs,
that's image makers. Inc, with a k.com or just find Linda Lou
Dutchess of jobs and writer of resumes on the pod producer
list, jobs,
Unknown: jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs.
Adam Curry: And that concludes our executive and Associate
Executive producers for Episode 1692, thank you all so much.
We'll be thanking the rest of our producers, $50 and above in
our second segment. As always, we really would appreciate it if
you in addition to these great donations, if you consider a
sustaining donation, if that's all you that you feel is
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show. Go to no agenda. Donations.com support the show,
because we don't have any Russian money here. And thank
you for producing 1692 our formula
Unknown: is this, we go out, we get people in the mouth.
Us, shut
Adam Curry: up. All right, I have, well, there's, I have
different stuff, just a just a quickie, because this has been
one of our staples for so long on the show, then maybe we'll
try one more time, one more time to see if the Department of
Homeland Security will consider licensing our excellent Jeff
Smith jingle DHS has
Unknown: designated September 25 as if you see something, say
something Awareness Day, also known as hashtag seesay day on
September 25 and year round, stay prepared to identify the
signs. Report suspicious activity to local authorities
and help prevent terrorism related crime. One tip could
make the difference. Learn more by visiting dhs.gov/see say
Adam Curry: something. It's so good.
John C Dvorak: I know it's crazy, giving it away. Yes, yes,
you just want some credit here a couple of clips that backs up
your thesis that you always like to bring out, where the New York
banker thinks that all this immigration is working out.
Adam Curry: Oh well, it's not just the New York banker. It's
all the New York Bankers.
John C Dvorak: It's all the bankers. So here's New York
banker. I got two clips that kind of just goes along that
line of thinking. The US
Unknown: is experiencing the largest immigration surged since
the great wave of the late 1800s the Congressional Budget Office
says an overwhelming majority, around 6.5 million, are illegal
immigrants. There were fewer
babies born in the United States last year, less than 3.6
million. Then there were illegal immigrants coming into this
country. Population
researcher Steve Mosher says 10% of those babies are the babies
of illegal immigrants.
I'm all in favor of more children. All right, I'm all in
favor of population growth. I think a population decline leads
to economic collapse. It leads to societal collapse.
Mosher says this immigration may help the US with its
historically low fertility rate, but he says it's better for
citizens to have more babies than illegal immigrants. Census
Bureau data suggests most illegal immigrants are young,
have a low level of education and are ready to work. These
immigrants compete with native foreign Americans for low paying
jobs, and this is likely to keep wages relatively low.
Adam Curry: Yes, that's the whole idea. It's working,
John C Dvorak: from the sounds of this report, it sure is. Of
course, it would be nice if we have babies, but nobody wants to
do that. No. So here we go with part two.
Unknown: The jobs most commonly worked by illegal immigrants are
as construction workers, housekeepers, cooks and
janitors. The overwhelming majority come from Latin
American countries like Venezuela, Mexico and Honduras.
Many are also from China, Russia, India or Africa. Their
top destinations are California, Texas, New York, New Jersey and
Florida. The Congressional Budget. Office estimates the
migrant surge will boost federal revenues by 1.2 trillion over a
decade. It says the surge will boost economic activity and the
migrants themselves will pay taxes.
Adam Curry: Don't worry, they'll pay taxes. Well, this brings me
to I should mention
John C Dvorak: that they left out the other job opportunities
for them, which is apartment
Adam Curry: management, managing apartments. Yeah, if that's now
spread to Chicago, isn't she, the Venezuelans, supposedly,
John C Dvorak: but there's, you know, well, yes, I had a clip
about some guy threatening them with, yeah, the black guy, the
black guy in the car, yeah, the black guy with the switches,
which is a rigged Glock, yeah, and yes, there's been, you know,
the the actual evidence of this is, is scant.
Adam Curry: Well, just That's, oh, there you go, producers, we
need the evidence. Get into those apartment buildings, let
us know what's going on. Now, this baby thing is a is a point
of propaganda, anti propaganda, from the from the Democrat run
mainstream media, which is all of it. And sorry to do this, but
I do need to bring in joy Reid, because she's, of course, still
the spokes hole for MSNBC. She's so good at it. And you know,
whenever you're talking about babies, if you're talking about
American babies, then you're a dick basically, then you're just
a douchebag. And she actually has a name for it, and it's not
just the people. Obviously, she's talking about JD Vance,
because He's weird. But also about the
John C Dvorak: count, no,
Adam Curry: it doesn't count. Also about the podcasts that the
President is going on. You know, he's been on Theo Vaughn, I like
John C Dvorak: everything he was freed
Adam Curry: megs, Freedman. Friedman, yeah. And, and here
you go. Listen to this. Well,
Unknown: if it's a day that ends in why, that means yet another
clip of Donald Trump's running mate, Senator JD Vance, has
resurfaced. And folks, if you thought it couldn't get any
weirder. Think again. There it is. Take a listen to comments
that he made back in September 2021 when asked about where he
thinks gender and racial resentment come from.
To me, what it is is sort of a value system to replace the fact
that they're all fundamentally atheist or agnostic. They have
no real value system. Their only value system is achieve in a
very conventional way, and so the idea that somehow they're
pursuing racial or gender equity is like the value system that
gives their life meaning. Well, of course, they all find that
that value system leads to misery, leads to unhappiness.
Clearly, this value set has made me a miserable person who can't
have kids because I already, you know, passed the biological
period when it was possible, and I live in a 1200 square foot
apartment in New York, and I pay $5,000 a month for it, but I'm
really better than these other people. What I'm gonna do is
project my like, racial and gender sensitivities on the rest
of them. I mean,
what? Seriously?
I mean, did anybody, anybody from the Trump camp, met this
guy? But I guess it isn't too surprising.
Adam Curry: So then she introduces a term, which I think
we need to be on top of, What
John C Dvorak: is her problem? To what he said,
Adam Curry: she's just laughing for laughing sake, but it's a
setup to discredit men. Hello, and not just men, but the
manosphere. Wait, manosphere. Where's the manosphere? The
Unknown: trove of unearthed comments from Vance, all seem to
have one thing in common. They all vilify women who don't have
kids, specifically biological kids, which may sound odd to
those of us on earth one, but it's actually a popular
sentiment in something called the manosphere. The manosphere
is basically a network of online communities, websites, blogs,
forums and podcasts, podcasts that all promote masculinity,
misogyny and anti feminism, they are obsessed with birth rates
and the idea that women should be nothing more than baby
makers. Only job should be taking care of the home and
raising children. Praised a 2017 report on families written by
the architects of project 2025 the introduction to this report,
calling it admirable, and should trump and Vance win the White
House, these ideas as long with the along with those of the
manosphere, could become a reality for the rest of us,
something we know because their buddies wrote it all down in
Project 2025 the.
Man, the
Adam Curry: manosphere, baby. I
John C Dvorak: didn't remember that word being in the project
2025, manuscript. It
Adam Curry: is now the manosphere. We are part of the
manosphere. It used to be toxic masculinity, yeah. Are you a man
John C Dvorak: or toxic masculinity? Are we toxically
masculine? The two of us, I would hope so kind of old to be
toxically masculine, and I'm catching up. Does that count?
I'm
Adam Curry: catching up the manosphere. The manosphere,
yeah, that's it. It's it's Tim pool, the Joe Rogan, no agenda
show. I'm just inserting us into the big names. Theo Vaughn with
the manosphere. Man, we got podcasts. They're coming for
podcasts, by the way. Have you noticed there's ever since Trump
started going on all these podcasts? They're coming for
podcasters. Podcast, no good man. Oh, sphere, oh, wait,
here's Alex. Alex Wagner, MSNBC, again tonight.
Unknown: JD Vance spoke at an event for the conservative group
turning points USA, which supports Donald Trump. Trump,
meanwhile, is sitting for a town hall this evening on his
preferred network, Fox News. And even though Trump speaks almost
exclusively to friendly outlets, he has broadened his horizons
this election cycle, the New York Times reports this week on
Trump's new strategy to court what is being called the man
overseer.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,
hey,
Adam Curry: hold on a second. I like manosphere now it's man
overseer. Consolation
Unknown: of YouTubers, pranksters and streamers with
massive online followings.
Adam Curry: If you're a podcaster, it's manosphere. If
you're a streamer, it's manoverse.
Unknown: The aim here is to target young men and to exploit
and deepen the existing gender divide between Trump supporters
and Harris supporters. And these streamers in the man overseer
all of whom are young white men. They have hosted Trump on their
online channels for what might technically be called
interviews, but really defy any sort of journalistic
characteristics. Oh,
Adam Curry: they're not really interviews. They defy any
journalistic integrity or whatever. So
John C Dvorak: yeah, Donna Bash is much better at the hard
questions than some podcaster.
Adam Curry: So I have one clip from Lex Fridman with Trump.
Have you noticed that Trump does mirroring in these podcasts?
Yes,
John C Dvorak: he does mirroring a lot. So it was brought up by
Tyrus on the guy I wish should taking the clip, because it was
quite good, right?
Adam Curry: Tyrus part of the manoverse, because obvious, he's
not white, and
John C Dvorak: you know, he says he's not, he's honorary,
honorary man. He's honorary white, uh, Trump lover, yeah, he
goes off on Lex Freeman is saying, How can this guy talk
any slower? I wanted to, yeah, kill him, you know. And went on
and on about, it's quite funny, yeah, and
Adam Curry: so you saw it with Theo Vaughn, Trump was totally
mirroring Theo Vaughn and with Lex Friedman, it was Trump was
almost, you know, was he breathing? Wow, it was we got
really slow. And this is the one clip I pulled. But
Unknown: a lot of big people went to that island, but
fortunately, I was not one of them. It's
just very strange for a lot of people that the list of clients
that went to the island has not been made public.
Yeah, it's, it's very interesting, isn't it probably
will be, by the
way, so if you're able to, you'll be,
yeah, certainly take a look at it now. Kennedy is interesting
because it's so many years ago. You know, they do that for
danger too, because, you know, endangering certain people, etc,
etc. So Kennedy is very different from the Epstein
thing. But, yeah, I'd be inclined to do the Epstein. I'd
have no problem with it.
Yeah,
Adam Curry: no problem. All right, yeah, another reason to
vote for Trump. Answer, there another reason to vote for
Trump. He's gonna release the alien
John C Dvorak: files. Yeah, Kennedy files, yeah, everything,
yeah. I, where
Adam Curry: have I heard that before?
John C Dvorak: We'll see that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I have the
because you bring Trump in just to balance things off. I do have
Harris's Small Business speech, which I want to play. Yes. This
was I have a question to ask you about. This is a two parter.
Here she is in part one.
Adam Curry: Make sure I have the right one. Yeah, this is kind of
her whole economic policy that she announced with this. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: right. In a nutshell,
Unknown: yeah. Vice President Kamala Harris spoke in New
Hampshire. Wednesday afternoon, she revealed a new part of her
economic plan focusing on small businesses. Jason Blair brings
us the latest
in Portsmouth. Vice President Kamala Harris proposed her new
plan to quote support small businesses and invest in
entrepreneurs.
Part of my plan is we will. Expand the tax deduction for
startups to $50,000 second, my plan will help existing small
businesses grow. We will provide low and no interest loans to
small businesses that want to expand. She
says she wants to make it easier to open a small business by
removing hurdles and creating support. And her campaign says
Harris has the goal of creating 25 million new business
applications in her first term as president, if elected.
John C Dvorak: All right, well, so she's going to do throw some
money in tax benefits. It's not like you're gonna actually get
any cash. No,
Adam Curry: you actually have to be a small business that is
making profit to take
John C Dvorak: any benefit, any benefit. Yeah, but here's the
part that gets me as a part two, there's a thing in here that
just, I just befuddled by, I'm gonna ask you. Okay,
Unknown: according to AP, since Biden took office, about 19
million of those applications have been filed, and the Granite
State is how many 19 million of those applications have been
filed, and the Granite State is a bit of a deviation from her
recent focus on battleground states such as Michigan,
Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. Poll averages for New Hampshire are
showing Harris up by 5% over former President Trump. The
Trump campaign responded to Harris's announcement to help
small businesses, saying in a statement, quote, why hasn't she
done it during her four years as Vice President? After the
Portsmouth event, Harris will travel to Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, where she is expected to stay until the
debate between her and Trump on September 10. Trump is also
visiting Pennsylvania this week. On Wednesday, he'll be appearing
at a Fox News Town Hall in Harrisburg. Okay,
Adam Curry: what's your question?
John C Dvorak: What is this application they're talking
about? I
Adam Curry: looked for that's funny. You say that. I'm like,
Hey, how can I get in on this? Do you need an application?
John C Dvorak: You just either do it or you don't. Don't. Yeah,
you
Adam Curry: just hang out a shingle. You're good to go reply
to
John C Dvorak: anybody the Small Business Administration to start
a small business? Yeah, she makes it sound like you got to
go through jump through hoops to start a small business. You
Adam Curry: don't. That's America. That's the beauty of
it. You just say, here I am. Adam curry,
John C Dvorak: how does she know that? As far as she's concerned,
everything goes through the government. Well, that's what
she wants.
Adam Curry: Exactly what she had a similar clip, but also I had
the name of her economic policy. Did you not catch the names
she's branding it?
John C Dvorak: You know what? Night I did not catch it. I'll
just play a little bit of this
Unknown: as a late comer to the race. Kamala Harris has been
rolling out her agenda piece by piece, focused on what she's
branded the opportunity economy. There
Adam Curry: it is, the opportunity, the opportunity
economy, okay? So
John C Dvorak: the opportunity economy, so the regulations, so
Kamala an opportunity to fill out more forms.
Adam Curry: Kamala went to Pennsylvania, and a couple
things happened. First, President Biden was there as a
surrogate to to help her out.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, yeah, and,
Adam Curry: and, I don't know if this
Unknown: helped you no longer be the manufacturing capital world.
Where the hell is that written? We are the greatest
manufacturing city or county in the world, state in the world.
Remain that way. Eric dean of the ironworker,
Adam Curry: I love that the people are just clapping.
Bricklayer, yeah. Bricklayer.
Unknown: SEIU, his dad was great. And Jimmy Williams, the
painters Allied Trades. And then his dad, his dad's a really good
man.
Holy crap.
John C Dvorak: Jimmy Williams, who has
Adam Curry: the nuclear codes, who has them? And now I have a
question for you. There's
John C Dvorak: more stuff into you. I mean, I'm glad you got
that clip. I didn't get any, but he was just off the rails. It
Adam Curry: was the real Biden. I mean, he's still he's the real
Biden is out there trying to get something done to show that he's
still alive, which is all that he is. I mean, this guy, this
this person, cannot be, uh, running our government. You
know, do you think that that there's still, let's say, how
about this? What if Trump wins the election, Kamala could still
pull a quick switcheroo? Do the 25th amendment be the first
female black president for two months?
John C Dvorak: That would be funny. Like, why
Adam Curry: not? She could be in the history but she's crazy
enough to do it. I mean, what does she have to lose? Well,
John C Dvorak: at that now, I didn't, you know, I didn't
consider that. I've always thought about her pulling that
stunt so she'd be the president. She can't do it before the
election, because then it would look like she was trying to, you
know, get some it looked cheesy, but I never thought about it
after the election, yeah, or maybe two months, I think it's
the whole of December, she'd be the president. Yeah, she could
do almost November and part of January.
Adam Curry: She could start a nuclear war in Ukraine, do
anything she wants. Now, this is a very well known clip, and I
have a question about this clip for you. Everywhere
Unknown: I go, I tell people, Look, you may not be a union
member, you better. Thank a union member for the five day
work week, you better. Thank a union member for sick leave you
better. Thank a union member for paid leave you better. Thank a
union member for vacation time.
Adam Curry: So of course, everyone focused on her code
switch. There her southern drawl, which came out. But is
that true? Did the unions create the five day work week, the sick
the paid sick days and vacation. Was that the unions who did
that,
John C Dvorak: I think this needs looking into. It was,
Adam Curry: in fact, Henry Ford.
John C Dvorak: Oh, yes, right, because Henry Ford this. There
was a special on Henry Ford on the BIOS channel, and they
discussed this. And it was the problem with what Henry Ford ran
into. He invented the assembly line, yep, because the the I'll
just run down it, you know, to watch it. But he was the demand
for the Model T Ford, which took him five years to develop. And
he had a bunch of the Dodge Brothers, included investors he
had to pay back. Eventually he got the thing out, and because
it was cheaper than anything else, and it was, it was
reliable and rugged, and the demand went through the ceiling.
And so he by looking at a meat packing plant, he decided to
invent the assembly line, the modern assembly line for
automobiles, so he could keep up with the demand for the car. And
then what it turned out, as he did this, the jobs were so
repetitive and boring that people were quitting left and
right. He had a huge employment problem. He couldn't keep
anybody working there because they were quitting left and
right. It was because it was dull. And that's when he
invented these things.
Adam Curry: So it was not a socialist union member. It was,
in fact, the capitalist industrialist Henry Ford who you
need to thank. Just a little point of contention, yes, on
your agenda. Yes, she's
John C Dvorak: full of shit. Let's face it.
Adam Curry: All right, this is a day late, a day short. These
Unknown: actions will not be our last.
Attorney General Merrick Garland announced terrorism charges
against senior leaders of Hamas. The charges relate to their
roles in the atrocities committed in Israel. On October
7,
the Justice Department unsealed charges against Yahya senoa and
other senior leaders of Hamas for financing and directing a
decades long campaign to murder American citizens and endanger
the security of the United States.
The charges come after Israel said it recovered the bodies of
six hostages who were killed by militants in captivity, that
included Israeli American Hirsch Goldberg Poland. We
are investigating Hershey's murder, and each and every one
of the brutal murders of Americans as acts of terrorism.
Goldberg
Poland's parents are Chicago natives who became international
icons in the struggle to free hostages. They said they hope
their son's murder becomes a turning point in the
negotiations. So
Adam Curry: okay, there
John C Dvorak: were hot. Here we are the world's police. Yep,
Adam Curry: we were hot. There were hostages since October 7 of
last year, and now all of a sudden, we're going to engage
the military industrial complex to go bomb them further.
Because, well, we got our arrest warrants out for you. You know
what? This is, how this gets interpreted by the nut jobs in
our Congress. And when I say the nut jobs leading the pack.
Lindsey Graham,
Unknown: sinwar, your days are numbered, pal. We're not gonna
indict you. We're gonna kill you. We're
Adam Curry: gonna kill you. Just send Lindsey Graham over to get
a tough talker. Send him over. Send him over. There
John C Dvorak: you go. Now you're talking to him. Do
Adam Curry: it. Let him do it.
John C Dvorak: Now I'm going to play, I would like to play a
controversial clip, because we've had people thinking that
we, you know, we are on the side of Israel or in on the side of
Palestine, depending on who you are. We're getting them. You
don't take sides on this thing mosaics,
Adam Curry: but
John C Dvorak: we, you. We share, Where's our money? So we
have, we know that the Palestinians, or mainly the
Hamas people, are genocidal. They want to end Israel and kill
all Jews. And we have to realize that this is a two way street.
And I'm going to play a clip from a podcast called Two nice
Jewish boys that is out of Israel, and it's everybody's all
bent out of shape, because these guys expressed what I think is
not necessarily a not necessarily a singular thought,
because I think the Jewish population of Israel is hates
the Palestinians. We've talked about this to the to an extreme,
and is, and it goes both ways. And I just think we should get
this out of the way so we can at least be on the record for for
acknowledging this thing. Here's the two nice Jewish boys,
Unknown: if you gave me a button to just erase Gaza, every single
living being in Gaza would no longer be living tomorrow. I
would press it in a second. That's just, I think, I mean, I
think most Israelis, if that's the choice, yeah, yeah, no, even
if it's not like right now, yeah. And I would press it right
now, yeah. Same with the territories. I would press it
right now. No choice, no. I'm
saying for the chance, yeah,
yeah.
I would press
it right now. Give me that button and press it right now.
There you go. And I think most Israelis would, yeah, most
Jewish, they wouldn't post. They wouldn't talk about it like I
have. They wouldn't post. They wouldn't say, I pressed it.
Yeah, but they don't have balls of steel like you. But they
would press it right, like if they were in a closet alone.
They wouldn't even hesitate. Someone came to them and said,
no one will know you press this. All the Palestinians are gone.
You'd be like, is there another one?
Adam Curry: Well, I think this is true. I know Sir Brian of
London would be all in on that. And I think these two nice
Jewish
John C Dvorak: boys, by the way, I want, I want to thank Sir
Brian of London for sending me a bunch of books. Yeah.
Adam Curry: She sent everybody books. Yeah. I think the two
nice Jewish boys, I have a recommendation for a guest for
their podcast,
Unknown: sinwar. Your days are numbered, pal. We're not gonna
indict you. We're gonna kill you. Better kill you.
Adam Curry: Yeah, I was reading Lindsey
John C Dvorak: Graham.
Adam Curry: I was reading I just
John C Dvorak: wanted to point out that the genocidal maniacs
in the Middle East are everywhere on both sides of
these arguments. It's not just the Palestinians, one to kill
all Jews, all the Jews. And I had a clip before. I don't know
if I ever played it, but it was just somebody in the some one, a
woman, talking about the only good Arab is a dead Arab. And
it's just as these people are out of control on all sides, and
it's just something we need to at least recognize
Adam Curry: and sad, because ultimately, the whole dispute is
just over. Who makes better hummus?
John C Dvorak: There is a there is a moment of that. That's the
sad the best hummus ever had was in Jaffa. Yeah, there you go.
Name Dropper. So
Adam Curry: I was reading the AP report about the large scale
polio vaccinations, beginning in war ravaged Gaza after the first
case in 25 years. You had a report on that the last show.
But what was interesting is this one little line in this report
from the Associated Press, the polio virus that triggered this
latest outbreak is a mutated virus from an oral polio
vaccine. The oral polio vaccine contains weakened, live virus,
and in very rare cases, that virus is shed by those who are
vaccinated and can evolve into a new form capable of starting new
epidemics. So in fact, this outbreak comes from previous
vaccination could
Unknown: be, yeah,
Adam Curry: I mean, I'm pretty sure it is
John C Dvorak: out of control.
Adam Curry: Yeah, it's just the world we live in. Man, it's just
the world we live in. Um, let me see. Well, let's
John C Dvorak: see. I got some other stuff here that could be
get gotten out of the way I would since we talked about
immigration the United States and how great it is for us,
let's talk about UK, because they have a different opinion
about everything. Yeah, and this is the UK immigration update.
Britain
Unknown: has rejected calls for an asylum treaty with the
European Union. This a day after 12 migrants died trying to make
a perilous ocean journey from France to England. NTDs
INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT Malcolm Hudson has more for us.
Britain has rejected proposals to be part of a European Union
plan on asylum instead, Britain. Reiterated its own plans to
tackle the criminal gangs behind the UK's illegal immigration
crisis. This comes after the French interior minister Gerard
dominin called for a treaty following the deaths of 12
migrants who tried to cross the English Channel on Tuesday. I
was
Adam Curry: a little confused by this story, because I also saw
it, are they trying to make a treaty where they pay France
more money to keep them, or it's
John C Dvorak: hard, it's not made clear, but the British
aren't going for any of these agreements with the EU regarding
immigration, because they think they're taking the brunt of it,
because people are going through Europe and saying, We don't want
to be here. We want to go and it's explained In
Adam Curry: these clips, why only valve the French say, go
ahead, go. Let's go. We go. Get in the boat. Yeah,
Unknown: okay, next Dominion's proposal could see migrants
claim UK asylum from within the EU without needing to make the
dangerous journey. But this is unlikely to happen. Other Prime
Minister Keir Starmer has indicated he'd prefer to send
illegal immigrants back to the EU despite the deaths of
Tuesday. Wednesday morning saw several dozen more migrants
board a crowded boat on the French coast of wimaru. French
patrol boats watched as the flimsy boat labored through the
seas. The Coastal town's mayor Jean Luc Dubai is also calling
for French and British officials to do more to stem the number of
migrants attempting the journey. He asked, Why do they want to go
to Britain? They can ask for asylum in France, but he said
they want to go to Britain instead. So Dubai says something
is drawing them to choose the UK over France. It echoes dominance
remarks, dominant condemned the people smugglers, but he pointed
to what he sees as Britain's loosely regulated job market. He
said migrants are attracted to Britain because they can often
work without papers and are rarely deported. Yeah,
Adam Curry: and the bankers love it.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, same as here.
Adam Curry: Sure, it's the exact same issue we need. We need this
cheap labor to come on in suppress wages across the
country. Yes,
John C Dvorak: suppressed wages is the key. Yeah. Well, here we
go.
Unknown: Thomas said that in the first two months in power, the
government supported over 400 people who have no right to be
in Britain. However, UK Government figures show that in
the last seven days alone, more than 2000 people have arrived in
Britain on small boats. So far this year, nearly 22,000 people
have made the dangerous journey. I
Adam Curry: think it's more than that that seems low. That seems
low. Follow up to Chris,
John C Dvorak: we're comparing to our just walk over and take
it Yes, although, if you recall, during the show era, there were
these guys sneaking on the channel trains, yes, and going
through the channel, which has got to be a better way to get
into England. Yes,
Adam Curry: it's less wet. For sure, it's
John C Dvorak: less wet net. That's a terrible crossing.
Follow
Adam Curry: up on the femicide story we did so when a when a
man kills a woman. Now the term is femicide. I mean, used to be
homicide, and I have to call it femicide. And producer, Joe
says, you know, I was listening to that. And he was, he was
talking to an ER doctor from Detroit. And this ER doctor
says, you know, I get patients in the ER multiple times a week
who've been shot in the crotch men. And of course, the question
was, well, is that because they're putting the gun in their
waistband? Says, Yeah, you do get that, but the vast majority
is their female partner who shot them in the crotch, mainly for
cheating.
John C Dvorak: That's pretty gotta be a term for that.
Adam Curry: Well, I don't know if there's a term for that, but
I think tranicide is on deck. That's coming.
Unknown: Trane site.
Adam Curry: Oh, speaking of Did you see the full Nashville
shooters, unredacted journal that was released? I
John C Dvorak: haven't read it, but I am aware of the fact that
it was released. Oh, oh, man, it's horrible. We had a
policeman that was involved in this who had seen it when he
reported to us that it's horrible, and when it first
happened, he said they wouldn't release it because it was so
gross. Well,
Adam Curry: it's clearly them this. This kid was on SSRIs and
is just going through just a roller coaster of emotions. It's
really, it's really nuts. And now I'm wondering, we haven't
heard about it yet, but this, this recent shooting in this
Georgia school, you know, 14 year old kid you know. Do we
know if, if this kid. Was on SSRIs.
John C Dvorak: They never tell us anything. They just say it's
because of guns.
Adam Curry: Producer sir Lane Hart sent me a note. He says, I
just want to let you know that a lot of things have happened in
Georgia this year, the lake and Riley murder, illegal immigrant
murder in Athens, Georgia, about an hour away from Fulton County.
Fannie Willis. Now this this shooting in Georgia, and this
was almost like a gift for the for Harris for the upcoming and
I'm sure there'll be questions about it for the upcoming
debate. Then, of course, the FBI knew about this kid and talked
to him, and oh, well, sorry, couldn't do anything, right?
This is true. Seems, seems like almost a gift for the debate.
You know what I mean? Not a good people see, not a gift for the
dead kids. But you know what was going on with this kid? We don't
know any we have a name, and
John C Dvorak: it was just the beginning of the school year.
Wasn't like a build up. And he's from another area, so it's not
like a build up of frustrations, you know that he's picked up
halfway through the school year. This just started, yeah, so
there was something else going on, again, not reported to us.
We don't have a clue. I
Adam Curry: do have a clip about this.
Unknown: Here, a community is in mourning after another
unspeakable American Tragedy America day just before 10:30am
Police say a 14 year old student carrying an AR style rifle
opened fire at Appalachia High School, located just about an
hour outside of Atlanta.
The gunshots were so close to me, like my ears started ringing
real bad. Like,
Adam Curry: by the way, this kid, this, this kid with the
dreads was on every it was like there was one press conference,
and this kid was the only one talking. I just found that
interesting. Every single report I saw of this was this kid High
School
Unknown: located just about an hour outside of Atlanta.
The gunshots were so close to me, like my ears started ringing
real bad, like the whole classroom was smoking. I had saw
one of my classmates on the ground bleeding so bad, students
and
teachers barricaded themselves in classrooms. You could hear
gunshots just ringing out to the school, and you're just
wondering which one of those is going to be somebody that you're
like, best friends with, or somebody that you love. The
suspected shooter, identified as Colt Gray, was taken into
custody alive. Later, ruffling 1900 students were escorted out
of the school and on to the football field, where they
reunited with their families. The FBI says the suspect and his
father were both questioned by Jackson County Sheriff's
officials last year after they received anonymous online tips
about a school shooting threat, but at that point they did not
have probable cause to make an arrest,
John C Dvorak: to make an arrested keep an eye on him.
Yeah, this also people think that this may be one of those
cases where the parent, I guess there's only one, right?
Arrested, arrested,
Adam Curry: yeah, where was that other one was that was Oklahoma.
It was
John C Dvorak: another,
Adam Curry: I can't remember the name case fans. Time to expand
John C Dvorak: arrest parents. Rest these parents. I
Adam Curry: think there's a big Bonanza going on now with
advertising and native ads in the big pharmaceutical space on
network television, because now, now it's on, we've, we've been,
I've been following this, you know, GLP one drugs they want to
get it on Medicare that keep popping up, you know, these,
these very awkward and somewhat devastating side effects. Now
they're just saying, Oh, it's not the GLP one. It could be
this one. It could be that one. And I think we're seeing a brand
war now, who's going to discredit the other one as not
being the good one? And CBS, CBS is in on this. Millions
Unknown: of Americans have turned to prescription
medications to treat diabetes and lose weight these GLP one
drugs better known by brand names like ozempic with govi and
others, are very popular. According to Gallup, about 15
million US adults say they've used these injectable drugs to
reduce their body weight,
Adam Curry: and notice we have Pfizer with a pill. So these are
the injectables. Some say
Unknown: those drugs can have serious, negative health
effects. Our senior investigative correspondent Anna
Warner has been looking into that part of the story. And a
good morning. Good
morning. Tony, yeah, you know, many doctors say these, GLP one
medications can offer dramatic benefits for patients, but some
patients say they've had serious side effects, ranging from
nausea and vomiting to needing emergency surgery. Even doctors
admit they can't always know who might experience these rare
complications, like one woman from Pennsylvania, and
Adam Curry: then we get the one from Pennsylvania with a heart
wrenching report.
Unknown: Diabetes is rampant in my family, and I knew that that
all plays with weight. Juanita
Gantz struggled with her weight at age 62 she weighed 242
pounds, yet the most she could lose trying various diets, she
says, was about 20 pounds.
I almost felt defeated and humiliated. I mean, why couldn't
I lose this weight? Then she
saw ads for drugs, including ozempic.
Adam Curry: Her doctor, pretty obvious, who they slamming here.
Read that
Unknown: because of her diabetes risk, she was a good candidate
for one of those drugs and prescribed her, we go V and
later, ozempic, both GOP one drugs made by Novo Nordisk. How
are you feeling? Were
you I was feeling fine. I
Adam Curry: This seems so obvious. It just me that this is
an obvious hit job on Novo Nordisk and not on other
manufacturers,
John C Dvorak: while the ad where they play the jingle that
seems to me to be just a promotion, one
Unknown: drugs made by Novo Nordisk. How are you feeling?
Were
you I was feeling fine. I
enjoyed the days that I didn't have to worry about my appetite.
I didn't, have cravings. I just felt like I was doing something
positive for myself. And then,
but several months later, in october 2023 gantt's husband
found her on the floor unconscious. This photo was
taken by her daughter, a nurse at the hospital where Gant was
taken. I had no idea what had happened to me. Doctors found
parts of her large intestine had died. It had to be removed.
Then, while recovering from surgery, she went into cardiac
arrest, prompting the hospital to call her daughter to warn
her, her mother could die. This
Adam Curry: stuff will kill you. Underneath. Here is Gant. Wanted
to
Unknown: show us how she lives now, with her colon gone, she
has a bag called an ileostomy bag attached to her abdomen at
all times to collect waste. I had
no warning that this was even a possibility. She's
now suing drug maker Novo Nordisk, claiming its drug
labels do not adequately warn patients and doctors about
potentially serious side effects, including gastroparesis
or stomach paralysis and bowel obstruction against attorney
Parvin amino Roya
always put a lot of resources into marketing the drug,
hundreds of millions of dollars to expand the market, get new
patients for the drug, but it hasn't spent that money on
warning patients the risk of gastroparesis, alias, small
bowel obstruction, and the fact that these injuries can be
severe, even if it's in a rare case.
Novo Nordisk declined to do an on camera interview, but in a
statement, said the known risks and benefits of the medicines
are described in their FDA approved product labeling. The
company wrote that the allegations in these lawsuits
are without merit, and the company intends to vigorously
defend against these claims, I
Adam Curry: don't know, but I'm thinking the pill is the way to
go. You don't want these injectables from Novo Nordisk.
John C Dvorak: I Well, there's two things going on at the same
time, and you have to acknowledge your attitude about
one of them, which is that you scare people. They use it. This
is the thing with the tobacco warnings, agreed. So that could
be going on, because when they play the jingle, yeah, that is a
trigger that is bothersome, yeah?
Adam Curry: So people, you can stop emailing me saying these
drugs are great, because I say stuff like, you know this. This
was misunderstood. When I say you can eat whatever crap you
want, people say it's not true because you lose your appetite.
No, no. What I'm saying is you can continue to eat the crap
food that most Americans certainly eat, processed junk,
which has little health benefit, if anything, the adverse the
reverse is true. And then you get fat from all these horrible
ingredients, and you get just, you just start to wither away in
your lard. And But then here's a drug that will fix it. You have
to fix the root problem. The root cause is, is not eating
actual food. No one's talking about that. That's why you're
still with us. You're still alive because you eat good food
you cook for yourself.
Unknown: What?
John C Dvorak: Where's my Twinkies? We had a letter from a
doctor who because we played that ad and all of side effects
that were just horrible. You know, you break your bones, your
head falls off, your this sort of thing. He says he'd been
giving his prizes. These are all new to him. These, these side
effects. He's now seeing nothing to indicate this, but he
couldn't explain where they came from. But I have a couple more.
I don't have them in this series of clips of more drugs with
screwball side effects. I mean, why would you take a pill that
gives you tuberculosis? I mean, how does that even work? You
notice this, or anal, more than one drug that they ought to be
careful when you take this drug and get tuberculosis. What?
Yeah,
Adam Curry: anal leakage. No good. No good.
John C Dvorak: Um, I have a Trump clip, okay? Just to, just
to balance things off, a little bit, we played clips of Harris
yacking away, yeah, Trump. A little bit with the LEX budget.
This, this is a classic. This is the mosquitoes. Yes, the
Unknown: Democrats who there was a mosquito. I don't want
mosquitoes around me. I don't like mosquitoes. I don't like
those mosquitoes. I never did. Okay. Speaking of mosquitoes,
hello, Hillary, how are you doing?
John C Dvorak: It's just this material.
Adam Curry: Man, oh, man, oh man. You know, I've been
following what's happening in Germany with the alternative
feud Deutschland party right wingers, which is fantastic
because, you know, Schultz came out and said, Hey, let's just
block them. Don't give them. Don't do whatever you do. Don't
enter into a coalition with them, which seems kind of
undemocratic, totally and then it turns out that they went back
and checked the voting machines, and in order to have to sit in
the minority, they actually were one vote short, which was caused
by a computer glitch. Can you believe it?
John C Dvorak: Well, yeah, I can believe it.
Adam Curry: And I have one example. This is just an intro
to a roundtable conversation, but throughout Europe, this is
it's the same message over and over again, which I found just
disturbing to hear. You'll you'll notice it right away.
Unknown: Germany is reckoning with the results of regional
elections that have left many questioning whether German
history is rearing its ugly head. For the first time since
Nazi rule, right wing extremists have won a regional election in
Germany in the state of syringe. This
Adam Curry: is what you hear all day long. For the first time
since the Nazis, the far right, have, now, you know, garnered
votes. So it's just this. They were hammering on this, far
right, far right, far right. Now they just, they equated, equate
it to Nazis. And it's a bunch of basically old German people who
are sick of the immigration. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: that's all it is. And they're nationalists. They
want to protect the border and make it Germany for Germans and
the devil forbid, and they're
Adam Curry: just being called Nazis. This is, this is not
good. It's really It's so this just bad. Props to you, Mr.
Dvorak, you are right. Thank you. Amazon was not going to
stand for this team you and all these Chinese dropship companies
that are practically given the products away, and Amazon PR and
lobbyists are on the case.
Unknown: Federal regulators are now calling for an investigation
into websites sheen and temu over potentially deadly baby and
toddler products. Two Consumer Product Safety commissioners are
behind the new calls, citing a recent article online in the
information that makes accusations alleging the foreign
owned bargain sides might be selling products that don't
comply with us safety regulations. Timu and sheen have
not commented on the article or the possible investigation.
Yeah,
Adam Curry: they're killing babies just we're going to ban
them on that reason. What's happening to Tiktok, by the way,
isn't that supposed to be over pretty soon? Aren't they
supposed to be
John C Dvorak: key? I wish I had this clip. I'll get, I'll try
to, maybe I go back and get this clip for Sunday, the Vivek was
on hair or fraud Ingraham show, and he was mentioning that this
idea, he was pushing the Free Speech notions, and he and he
mentioned tick tock as being just basically a free speech
vehicle. And she jumped all over him with, oh, no, you're wrong.
This is dead at all. These guys are this Chinese spying on us?
And she went on off the deep end about this, and she said, called
him ignorant for thinking this way, and all the rest of his
quite unique issues really bent out of shape about Tiktok and
how it should go. Well, there
Adam Curry: was a viral sensation that took place with
Tiktok, which was a real head scratcher, and Tiktok is being
blamed for it.
Unknown: Chase Bank is issuing a warning about a viral Tiktok
trend. A number of videos show people depositing checks for
large sums of money at Chase ATMs and then making a
withdrawal for a smaller amount. Many believe they got free cash
from those ATMs, but Chase Bank says that wasn't a glitch. It
was check fraud a crime.
Adam Curry: Did you see any of this in your tick tock? Travels.
So there were just oodles, I said it oodles of videos. It's
actually a good word, saying, Oh, look, if you deposit this
check, you know, people putting in a $31,000 check, and then,
right away, you could then in the you can deposit that into
the ATM, and you could say, Okay, now I want $20,000 and
they were showing, I don't know if it's true, they were showing
the machine spitting out $20,000 and somehow these morons thought
that this was free money. People don't the youngins these days
don't even understand the basics of banking.
John C Dvorak: So the other thing is, the other thing is
that's not it doesn't work that way. You can't necessarily put
the money in and take it out immediately, and you can only
take out $400 that's pretty good size checking account that has a
lot of money in it. And you could trying to get more than
400 out, it doesn't spit out $20,000 in whatever bills.
That's like, I didn't have that much money in the damn thing.
That's
Adam Curry: why, when I heard tick tock, I'm like, Okay, this
is an anti tick tock thing. What else could it be? What else
could it be? It has to be something like that.
John C Dvorak: Well, they people, of course, you
identified it before I did, which is that the anti tick tock
stuff is not it's is done by the other social media companies.
Yeah,
Adam Curry: now they got it away. There you go. Sorry,
John C Dvorak: let's work on that. I've I do have a tick tock
Clip to play though, which I think is a good one. Okay, this
might tick tock clip of the guy. This guy floats around, does a
lot. He's on the street interviews, and he's got some
woman on there who thinks Trump should have been shot. Talk,
Unknown: talk, tick tock.
So Donald Trump was recently shot at one of his rallies. How
do you feel about that?
I wish he would've gotten shot in the forehead. Oh, this one,
really? Yeah. I mean, he's basically like, teaching our
country, like, what communism is like, so what? So you wish death
upon someone him, Yeah, unfortunately, I hate to say
that, because I don't have hatred in my soul at all, but I
think the way that our country has divided families, marriages,
all of it about politics alone, like it all really started with
him. So So
do you think wishing someone death is not hateful?
I would say, yeah, absolutely. I would say, obviously, I don't
wish death upon him. I wish that he would be in jail for the
insurrection, which he should be
okay, yeah, but you just said you wish that he would get hit
in the forehead.
Would have made things a little easier on our country, but
actually really probably won it, because the proud boys would
come out and start probably shooting other people. So
the proud boys, yeah. Do you think that, like, 60% of the
country are the proud boys that support Trump? No,
I think a lot of it is, you know, wealthy people that only
care about the finances. And, you know, there's, there's a lot
of ignorance, I think in this country, yeah, a lot of fake
news. And a lot of just unhealthy like bias and
political propaganda, I don't think we have a good. We're
fought essentially as a country. We don't have a good we don't
have a good runner at all. So,
Adam Curry: yeah, this was, I saw this clip, and I didn't want
to clip it, because I just like, but I'm glad you did. What is
going on here? Is she has all the right information. She's
just focused on the wrong party. It's, it's the wicked, evil
Democrat party who is doing, and I don't like being partisan, but
that is them. Everything she said is what you say, being
yourself.
John C Dvorak: Hateful. Totally. I said that twice today, but I
Yeah, 300% hate. I said 100%
Adam Curry: and, she's pretty much an NPC. And the clue, by
the way, was those earthy, open shoe sandals she was wearing. Do
you see a woman like that? You need to walk the other side,
other direction. I'm gonna show
Unknown: my salad by donating to no agenda. Imagine all the
people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fun. Oh, me we
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John C Dvorak: yes. And I'm going to throw it to you. We get
to the birthday donation. Sure, sure, sure. Benjamin nites in
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Adam Curry: he sent a note in, but, oh, he's our he's the
writer, right? He's our writer. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: he does fantasy fiction, which is not easy to
write, and he's sending his new book out. It's in the note.
Adam Curry: What's it called? What's it called?
John C Dvorak: Look at the note. I think I opened it. No, I
didn't know, but the
Adam Curry: book is called, let me see clocking in at a hefty
160,000 words. It's called uh under huge under oblara. Yeah,
under oblara, this chunky book took over seven years to produce
and continues the adventure of krigal Bear duvante As he tracks
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batch of
Adam Curry: them, yes, the final batch, and I think these are all
60. Some have some fees added, so I'll just say they're all 60,
and I will read the fan the Happy Birthday Wishes, surplus
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happy birthday, and I thank you all very much. It's been a very
happy birthday. It was nice turning 60, accentuated by I
mean, it was I feel good. I feel good about this age, and I'm
good for another four more years at least. Brian
John C Dvorak: Furley is up next, and he's at 5510, it's.
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celebrate on the first Dan says, Happy Birthday with his wife,
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September 7. Happy birthday for everybody here at the best
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two Dames and one night to bring up, so we'll bring out why to
John C Dvorak: Dame one night.
Adam Curry: Very nice play. Thank you very much. Up on the
podium, Angie Genevieve, Wimberly, Kyle towig, all of you
are gonna get that shiny, nice ring and an official knighting
or Daming ceremony. I'm very proud to pronounce the KB as
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G, protector of women's vaginas and Sir spook of Spokane,
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authenticity. Thank you all for supporting the show and welcome
new knights, new knights and new dames to the no agenda
roundtable. No agenda
yes, those no agenda meetups are always like a party. People like
coming together. The people that part that no agenda together
stay together, and often party together, as is the case with
the North Idaho sanity brigade. Here's their meetup report. Hey,
it's sir
Unknown: Scott the Jew here at the nuptials, the celebration of
the wedding of Kyle, the spook from Spokane, and Jen with a G,
these two have both found their last best spouse, and unlike
their first marriages, this wedding was no cheap fake
in the morning. Here's your spook from Spokane, celebrating
the Daming and the knighting of Jen with a G and the spook of
Spokane. We couldn't be happier. In fact, we're just gonna go
stay in the castle tonight, because I just locked down the
total keeper, smoking hot wife material all the way. I love
you, Jen.
I am Brian. Also spook. Congratulations to spook of
Spokane and Jen with the G love you guys so excited. You're no
Jenning together. Stay. Stand together and live a life
together, ride all the trails and find the powder turns baby.
This
is Jen with the gene. We're gonna prove better than anybody
else in the whole world, than those who know agenda together,
stand together and in honor of our Daming. And today, we are
gonna stay in a castle, and we will send pictures.
So raise your glasses as high as you can, and let's toast Kyle
and Jen May your love continue to grow on every trail. May
every day together be a powder day, and may Uber Kyle with
Jenna the G away into the sunset forever.
Adam Curry: That's the kind of fun you want to be at. I'm
telling you, these meetups are off the hook, and sometimes
they're in historical places, like the monument to the
forefathers in Plymouth. In the morning.
Unknown: This is Hey citizen at the Adam and Tino we're here
meetup.
Dame de Lorian
was here. Mr. Spencer Wolf, Kansas City. We're here in
beautiful Plymouth. It's right on the water
in the morning. This is kanjin, happy birthday, Adam.
I'm John Winston. Hi, John and Adam. This is who I am. In the
morning, I am, coincidentally, visiting the monuments today.
And then I hear no agenda, that there's a meet up up here. So I
stop by and say hi in the morning. In the morning. In the
morning,
Adam Curry: very nice. There's a couple of meetups taking place.
In fact, today, the 805 rooftop Meetup is underway at Goleta HGI
rooftop in Goleta, California. The northern wake public slave
gathering kicks off at six at happy endings in Raleigh, North
Carolina. Get on and get in the car, go and visit them. The
Denver back to the bar. Meet up 830 tonight at Lincoln's
Roadhouse in Denver, Colorado, tomorrow. The Go pack go at HQ.
630 at headquarters bar in Oregon, Wisconsin on Saturday.
The tiny amygdala, amygdalay of Anchorage rain dance. That's two
o'clock in the afternoon. This is an Anchorage Alaska at sir
Lane's house, so you need to RSVP, do a quick if you want to
go there for Saturday, the real Fox Valley number four. 330 at
two brothers Roadhouse in Aurora, Illinois. That is the
Chirac central meetup locale on Sunday, the the annual, the
monthly in the NA tribal September Shindig. 330 at
prodigy Burger Bar, Indianapolis, Indiana, Marco
Marie of the Greenwood, of course, organizing that as
always and on Sunday as well the too many eggs.com. Meet up. 333
at yasho Jamaica grill in Keene, New Hampshire. Many more to
find, many more to see, many more to take part in. And a
reminder, October 18 is a Fredericksburg Texas meetup. I'm
very excited about that we will be attending. But every single
meetup has people you've heard of before on the show you've
heard them in the meetup reports maybe that you recognize them as
nights and days, people come out, wear their rings, and you
all get together, and there's never, ever been a fight, never
been any kind of bad vibes at a no agenda. Meet up, because
connection brings protection, no agenda. Meetups.com. If you
can't find one near you, start one yourself. Always guaranteed
a party.
Unknown: Sometimes you wanna go hang out with all the nights and
days you wanna be a hell lame gonna be where everybody feels
the same. It's like a
Adam Curry: party. Always a party, Party Party Party Party.
It's a good party. I have, let me see, I have two ISOs. We'd
like to pick them before we end the show, and this will be our
end of show, ISO. I have, do you have any ISOs at all?
John C Dvorak: I have one. Okay, well,
Adam Curry: let's see. I'm looking for it. Oh, here it is.
Okay. I'm gonna play yours.
Unknown: I don't like mosquitoes,
Adam Curry: not bad, but I have this one, sir,
Unknown: pick a hole.
Mm hmm.
Oh,
John C Dvorak: just gross. Or
Adam Curry: this one, hey, that actually wasn't so bad.
John C Dvorak: I like that one. I
Adam Curry: thought you'd like that one. I liked it too. All
right, everybody, end of the show. That means it's time for
the famous Tip of the day,
Unknown: green fast for you and me. You and me, just a tip with
JCD
and sometimes Adam, we
Adam Curry: are very excited as always, to hear about John's Tip
of the Day. What do you have for us? John, okay,
John C Dvorak: and this is a call back to the About two weeks
ago I talked about a foaming device you could put in your
hose, and you can also buy more expensive ones for your pressure
washer. This was,
Adam Curry: this was to foam up your car. Lot of people were
happy, including me. I like this foaming tip. Well,
John C Dvorak: here's the follow up to it, which is, and this is,
Mimi turned me on to this stuff. Now I had washed my car a few.
Days before that tip, and this is like two weeks ago, for two
and a half weeks at least, my car, and I've washed it before.
I haven't washed. I washed. I do that. Not one speck of dust or
dirt has stuck to the car for I've never seen anything like
this for two and a half weeks and it, and I have to credit it.
To wait a minute. Did
Adam Curry: it wash the wax off?
John C Dvorak: No, the white. No. It's shiny. Or shiny. I have
a I have a ceramic coated car. But and as shiny as can be, it's
unbelievable, and it's all due to this product, which Mimi
says, you know, you got to start looking at these guys. It's
called Chemical Guys. Chemical Guys, and the one I used in this
case was the watermelon snow foam auto wash, pH neutral. It
was foaming agents, and it's got the list of ingredients. Is
outrageous, but there's obviously something in here.
These guys know what they're doing for a washing products and
cleaning products. And you can they are available on Amazon,
but they're all over the place. But the company is Chemical
Guys, and I would recommend looking at what they they're
making. They obviously are chemists that are high order
chemists that know what they're doing. And do you think they
have a product? No idea how. Sorry, well, do
Adam Curry: you think they have a product that can clean metal
roofs, like the kind we have in Texas, that
John C Dvorak: gets, I think if you got a hold of you could
Adam Curry: ask got all the tree sap on it. It's a dusk,
John C Dvorak: quite possible. They do. They have a they guy
was going over the products with the Jay, was looking at this
stuff too, and I and it has stuff on it, like it has some
chemicals in here that are kind of interesting, including
benzene. Oh, okay, for a car wash is very unusual, but it
does take off. The benzene itself will take off. What
you're bitching about, it's not a healthy item. Benzene is,
don't drink it. Wash your car. You know, I'm not drinking this
stuff. I'm sure if you drank this, this wash, you would be
dead in in minutes. But I'm telling you, it's I'm still
stunned the car at this point. I don't know how that mood there'd
be months before I have to wash the car again. There's something
in here. They're doing. They're doing something special. And so
the company's Chemical Guys look for their products.
Adam Curry: Check your local legislation, for products that
may be banned in your state. There it is another great tip in
the middle,
Unknown: guys, show us your tips. I'm sorry.
Adam Curry: I'm sorry I got startled by that jingle. Thank
you. Keep the tips coming. We show your tips every single
show. We do it for you. That's right. And that concludes your
no agenda show in its 16th year. Episode 1692 we do have some end
of show mixes. We got Leo le puke with a classic. We have a
David kecta bringing us the backbeat, and Professor Jay
Jones returns from China with with another one of his mixes.
This time, it's about joy. So you know that's going to be good
coming up right after the no agenda show on the stream. If
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Kyron from Australia. He'll be see he's reviewing. It's helpful
to question everything, the problems of philosophy. Well,
that'll keep you awake. Love Kyron. And I am coming to you
from the cruise ship capital of Mexico, right here, a little bit
north of Puerta Vallarta in the morning. Everybody. I'm Adam
curry and
John C Dvorak: from Northern Silicon Valley, where I'm not on
the run in Mexico. I'm John C Dvorak. Remember
Adam Curry: us at no agenda, donations.com, we'll see on
Sunday, I'll still be here till then, adios, mofos, a hooey,
hooey and such.
Unknown: I'm talking about dishwashers. I'm talking about
dishwashers, sinks, toilets, sinks, toilets and showers. You
don't get any water. Try going and buying the new faucet. You
turn it on, no water comes out. We won't talk about toilets, but
how about the shower? I have this beautiful head of hair. I
need a lot of water. You turn on the water, drip, drip, drip,
drop. It's a very unpleasant experience. You areas Trump,
situation where we're looking very slowly at sinks and showers
and other elements and bathrooms. I'm talking about
dishwashers, sinks, toilets. Since people are flushing
bullets 10 times, 15 times,
why does the Vice President have what sounds like a Southern
accent?
No, I knew what you're talking about. Well, she was talking
about
unions in Detroit, one
tone of voice, five southern I mean, do you
take Americans seriously? Think that this is an important
question. They care you want. They care about, they care about
the economy. The
Biden administration taking a series of actions to target what
they allege are attempts by Russian backed actors to
manipulate public opinion here in the US
ahead of the presidential election,
according to two senior US officials joining us, NBC, Ken
dilang and Ken, what more have we learned? Jose, this is being
described by our sources as a whole of government action
designed to target Russian propaganda and disinformation
aimed at interfering in the 2024 election. It is set to include
sanctions by the Treasury Department, law enforcement
action by the Justice Department, and one of the
focuses on RT, formerly known as Russia today,
Adam Curry: in her infinite wisdom, to do her bit for the
party, NPR has appointed a joy czar.
Unknown: No, yes,
Adam Curry: that's right. I love that black joy. There's only two
types of vibes man.
Unknown: One is hope and joy. Most elections are vibes
elections.
Adam Curry: Who wants to be the joy czar? No, hands go up.
John C Dvorak: Is it joy? Behar,
Unknown: the politics of joy vibes election that we're all
feeling right now. Talk about
Adam Curry: your disinformation. Ratchet up our joy quotients.
Unknown: Joy czar, yes,
it already felt like a vibe selection before.
Adam Curry: No one wants to hear that insinuating he had sex with
his couch.
John C Dvorak: I like that piece.
Adam Curry: We have the joy department, Joy Division. That
should be a donation.
Unknown: JD Vance said,
uplifting stories.
Adam Curry: He hates women.
Unknown: Vibes, man vibes.
John C Dvorak: It was pathetic politics
Adam Curry: of joy and your joy quotient for the party.
Unknown: Isn't that a Nazi thing. Most selections provide
selections because it
John C Dvorak: took them two days to edit it down.
Adam Curry: Black joy on screen. Live Joy Division, Nazis. A lot
of corn, sweat stuff. Stating your policy is a very dumb move.
Ratchet up our joy quotient,
Unknown: distraction.org/n.
A, hey, that actually wasn't so bad. You.