John C Dvorak: Hey babe, just give me a call on my page. I'll
meet you.
Unknown: Adam curry. John C Dvorak, it's Thursday,
Adam Curry: September 19, 2024 this year, award winning. Give
our nation media assassination Episode 1696,
Unknown: this is no agenda,
Adam Curry: finding our freakoff and broadcasting live from the
heart of the Texas. No country here in FEMA Region, number six
in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry.
John C Dvorak: And for Northern Silicon Valley, where everybody
agrees it's Trump's fault. I'm John C Dvorak
Unknown: buzzkill in the morning.
Adam Curry: I love the the nose blow was pretty good. Well.
Timed, yeah.
John C Dvorak: Timed. Well,
Adam Curry: hey. I've got good news and bad news.
Unknown: Yeah,
Adam Curry: yeah. Shall I give you the bad news first?
John C Dvorak: As long as the good news isn't quote, that's
all the bad news. There is no no.
Adam Curry: The bad news is World War Three is underway. The
good news, it's asymmetrical warfare. It's drones and
devices. This is a no one expected this. We all thought
nukes like, oh, it's going to be nuclear. No, no. This is, I
mean, it's, first of all, it's humorous. Second, it's obviously
John C Dvorak: very, very sick, very sick way. It's a very sick
way is humorous. It's very sad, of course.
Adam Curry: I wonder how many people really want to still
upgrade to the iPhone 16 at this point. It gives you, gives you
some things to think about
John C Dvorak: not feeling really good about the phone in
the drawer. Or,
Adam Curry: how about your Icom or bell Fang, you know, these
are not good devices to have anymore. Or, apparently your
solar installation. This is here's TRT, who I think have
been doing the best reporting on this.
Unknown: Lebanon has been rocked by a second wave of blasts, this
time linked to handheld radios. Smoke rises in Ceylon in South
Lebanon. It's just one of multiple blasts in different
parts of the country, including here at this phone shop. The new
wave of explosions comes a day after 1000s of pages used by
Hezbollah members exploded, killing a dozen people and
wounding 1000s. At least one of the blasts took place near a
funeral held for several people who were killed on Tuesday in
Beirut. Here, ambulance forced to break up mourners. Two solar
panel systems have reportedly exploded, leading to small fires
that were extinguished. Hospitals are inundated, and the
public have been called on to give blood.
Adam Curry: This is incredible. Solar installations, handheld
radios, pagers. This is this is some this is new. This was not
expected.
John C Dvorak: It wasn't expected, but it hasn't been
tested. Well, in 96 they actually killed some guy with a
cell phone.
Adam Curry: Well, we've had that actually. I went back and looked
in our archives. It wasn't quite the same, but we we were joking
about it. Then, if you remember, do you remember this jingle? I
Unknown: The
Adam Curry: laptop of doom. You remember that? No, I don't. It
was a it was, let me see episode 797, I think this was goodness.
This is a long time ago. I pulled the clip, but they also
found the laptop that was responsible for it. Very, very
worried
Unknown: is that the device that investigators believe was the
explosive device was actually a laptop.
Adam Curry: You know, as you know what's coming an
Unknown: explosive device either
inside the laptop, or it was needed a laptop, so
Adam Curry: it was inside the laptop. But this, this is like
mi six CIA Mossad level
Unknown: stuff, definitely.
Adam Curry: France 24 had I found the best report of tracing
back the pagers. I really looked around and everybody had
something. And, you know, I love
John C Dvorak: where they take it to oh, well,
Unknown: listen the simultaneous
explosions of 1000s of Hezbollah pagers and other communication
devices raised many questions, and some of those are starting
to get answers on the method used. A Lebanese security
official told the AFP that explosives were inserted in the
devices, P, E, N T, this material is very powerful yet
relatively easy to conceal. It's believed a few grams of Petn
were integrated along with a circuit board into the pager.
The model used is an AR nine to four from Taiwanese brand Golda
Polo. The company immediately denied being involved. It says.
A factory based in Budapest. BAC consulting was authorized to
manufacture the pagers, but there is no factory nor
warehouse at the company's address. The Hungarian
government confirms BAC is a trading intermediary with no
manufacturing or operational site in Hungary the quote
reference devices have never been in Hungary, the company
created two years ago, has one employee, its general manager.
The walkie talkies that were targeted on Wednesday had the
logo of a Japanese brand, I come but the company said it stopped
producing the model 10 years ago. As far as who is behind
these attacks, the operating mode and the target point to one
country, Israel, although it has not claimed responsibility. Now,
Adam Curry: that's pretty deep, man, well,
John C Dvorak: I've heard all that, but I still don't see why
it all points to Israel. Well, because, I mean, I think it was
real too. But where's the evidence the
Adam Curry: Jews are responsible for everything? What are you
talking about? We know this.
John C Dvorak: I think I'm just not saying unless they come up
with something a little more substantial than these, you
know, non existent factory. I have two clips from NTD on this
that might be doesn't really add anymore, but it's a different
perspective slightly for
Unknown: the second day,
John C Dvorak: I'm sorry
Unknown: for the second day in a row, explosions ripped across
Lebanon as Hezbollah's handheld radios exploded. At least 14
people were killed and hundreds were injured. Entity's Jason
Perry has city tells,
chaos filled the streets of Lebanon for a second day in a
row as another wave of electronic devices exploded
throughout the country. This time, Hezbollah two way radios
exploded, killing at least 14 people and injuring more than
450 according to Lebanon's health ministry, a Lebanese
Doctor shared his experience taking care of the injured.
Adam Curry: Of course, since patients began arriving
Yesterday, we saw the extent of the damage and wounds. We were
working nonstop. I took my first break after 5am here in the
office, and now I came back in the morning,
Unknown: and an electronic store owner in Lebanon shared his
concerns about not knowing what could happen next.
We had some devices
here that we believed were 100% safe, but out of caution, we
removed them from the store because we got worried.
A Lebanese woman said she was not shaken by the second day of
explosions throughout the country.
For sure, we are not afraid. We are devoted to the leader of
Hezbollah in Lebanon, and we stand with the resistance.
Everything happening now is nothing compared to what we are
willing to endure for him, my family, my children and my
husband
are all devoted to him.
Israel has not claimed responsibility, but many think
it's behind the recent explosions in Lebanon, Israel's
defense minister said this on Wednesday, you'll do I think
that when you look at the current picture, the Israel
Defense Forces have made excellent achievements together
with the Shin Bet Security Service and the Mossad with all
Their units and organizations, and the results are very
impressive.
Adam Curry: I think that kind of implies that they did it or
taking credit for it,
John C Dvorak: that, you know,
Unknown: but I don't know about it. I
John C Dvorak: don't see this being much of a problem. And
then there's this woman going on about the dedication to the head
of Hezbollah is always a God, which is something screwy. Yeah.
This is a very interesting development, I have to say, this
played part two of this. He also
Unknown: said the war is entering a new phase, and that
Israel is now shifting its focus to the Lebanese border. Also, on
Wednesday, the Israeli Air Force struck several Hezbollah targets
in southern Lebanon. Nearly 100,000 residents in northern
Israel have been displaced from their homes because of the
attacks from the Iran backed Hezbollah terrorist group. On
Wednesday, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said
Israel will return the citizens of the North to their home
safely.
Oh, hmm,
Adam Curry: I doubt that this will end anything and notice
we've would it? No, we've completely shifted away from
Gaza. Gaza just is no longer important. Now it's Lebanon. You
know that, of course, is the is the shifting of the focus,
because there's nothing left to do in Gaza. I think everyone's
dead and everything's bombed out. Nothing left. You know,
good luck with the hostages,
John C Dvorak: the hell of them.
Adam Curry: So. So the next thing that, when you know, if
everyone's interested in is, so where did this conversion take
place? Which, you know, is somewhere along. A very vast
supply chain
Unknown: in Taipei, reporters and TV crews piled into the
office of gold Apollo, the Taiwanese tech company first
linked to those pagers. The company's president su Qing Quan
insists his firm didn't supply the devices he pointed instead
to a Hungarian company licensed to use the gold Apollo brand.
Hungarian officials say the pagers were never in that
country, as for those walkie talkies that blew up today, the
radios were reportedly marked made in Japan. But some experts
caution you should
look at the entire chain of the vendors Oleg brought
is a cyber security researcher at Israel's Ben Gurion
University. He says electronics manufacturing involves several
components, and the vendor of any one part could have been
infiltrated. Look at every
stage of the chain, and think about who can get compromised,
whether it's the battery manufacturer, whether it's the
assembly facility, whether it's the shipping Israel's
defense minister didn't claim responsibility, but praised the
country's army and security agencies, saying their results
are very impressive.
Adam Curry: So you know more about this than I do, but these
supply chains, they can be quite vast for one device, right?
John C Dvorak: Well, the way it's been set up, you can thank
various people in the tech industry for this. They've set
up, you know, the just in time sort of manufacturing that was
developed by HP, I think, and then affected by Apple, yeah,
you get stuff from all over the place. It all comes in just in
time, and you put the device together, you want to inventory
anything, and you can't keep track of stuff. And so if
somebody could do a man in the middle exploit, as it were, kind
of symbolically, where you just take over one of the one of the
aspects of the supply chain, and you can, but this, these were
old products, like the that I that radio hasn't been made for
time is old, yeah, yeah. So there's something, there's
something more sinister, where they somehow, I think they got a
bunch of gear, put it in some, some warehouse in the UK, or who
knows where, and then slipped it through the some sort of
channel, because it was best price. Obviously, there's a best
price aspect about it is
Adam Curry: I got, I got it fell off the back of the truck,
John C Dvorak: so the Hezbollah guys, there's maybe even a mole
in Hezbollah itself that installed these, or installed,
well, I heard it
Adam Curry: recorded somewhere. I didn't capture it that someone
had figured it out, and so they blew that guy up first. I mean,
I have no no evidence of this report, but I recall it like
they blew that guy up. But what no one's really talking about is
a guy
John C Dvorak: figured it out. He wouldn't be carrying the
device. So I question that story, but yeah,
Adam Curry: so I wonder, did they use I mean, the way these,
these, these pages, are not like on a on a national pager
network, you know, they're on a thing. It's a 400 megahertz, and
it's more like for hospitals which use them. So you you have
a central transmitter which can reach quite far, maybe even with
some repeaters, to be able to read all, you know, reach all of
the area. So it, it seems to me, the easiest way to trigger these
devices would be having your own transmitter. Wouldn't be it
would just be a burst of transmission. And that would
kind of explain the Icom radios too, because they can also
operate on those frequencies, certainly if they were, and most
icons, I think, are software defined radios, even 10 year old
ones. So it's, it's just mind blowing that that, you know,
Hezbollah was going, oh, man, we can't, we can't have everybody
tracking our cell phones. So we'll go to this solution. And
that was the thing that did them in it's crazy to think. And now
I also have to wonder about the numbers. You know, how many we
don't really know how many pagers hit, I mean, so there's
over, like 2700 people were injured, obviously, within the
blast radius of these pagers, I don't know it's, it's baffling.
For sure. We don't know anything about it. We have nothing,
nothing. Oh, good information.
John C Dvorak: Here's
Adam Curry: a rear I don't here's Rear Admiral Kirby
Unknown: Admiral. What's the White House response to the
exploding walkie talkies
in Lebanon today? I know Karine addressed the pagers yesterday.
But
what's the latest US assessment, and
does the US consider this a justifiable escalation?
I can tell you is we were not involved
in yesterday's incidents or today's in any way, and I don't
have anything more to share.
John C Dvorak: So he jumps to that. Inclusion real quickly.
Adam Curry: We're not involved. Very
John C Dvorak: suspicious. We're
Adam Curry: not involved. That's the Hey, Adam,
John C Dvorak: how you doing? I didn't do it. Hey.
Adam Curry: We're not involved. We're not involved in
yesterday's incidents
Unknown: or today's in any way. And I don't have anything more
to share. As the US as
the Israelis let you
know about these operations, I
don't have anything more to share today. Confirm that it's
the US assessment that the Israelis were
behind all this year.
Adam Curry: You know that shouldn't not be acceptable to
the press corps. I have nothing to share, nothing. So you have
something. You just can't share it. They okay. I found this,
this clip from t, R t, where they they say, The United
Nations says one thing about this, because, of course, they
condemn it. But then the head of the United United Nations, the
Secretary General, Guterres, says something completely
different, and quite smugly, I might say, the
Unknown: first of its kind, calculated and precise attack
has compromised Hezbollah's communications. It's being
described as unprecedented and an act of digital warfare. The
UN says civilian objects should not be weaponized and warns of
escalation.
Obviously, the
logic of making all these devices explode is to do it as a
preemptive strike before a major military operation. Measure. So
as important as the event in itself, is the indication that
this event confirms that there is a serious risk of a dramatic
escalation in Lebanon, and everything must be done to avoid
that escalation.
Adam Curry: So we didn't really condemn it. In that clip,
John C Dvorak: they just said, Oh, they were about to begin, I
should mention it. They
Adam Curry: were about to undertake a measure, measure,
measure, uh, whatever.
John C Dvorak: There was also a comment in there I thought was
screwy, which was civilian devices should not be
weaponized. Tell that to car bombers, yeah, they've been
weaponized forever. Civilian devices are always weaponized,
just a new, creative way.
Adam Curry: Well, what I take away from this is, this is the
new this is like the sixth generation of warfare, the fifth
being psychological operations. And this is, by itself, a cycle
psychological operation, because really, nobody can now know if
your device is safe or not.
John C Dvorak: The good news, yes,
Adam Curry: you don't have one.
John C Dvorak: Besides the good news for me, because my devices
are all in a drawer downstairs, but it did blow up the dining
room. The good news is maybe they'll force manufacturers of
these devices to make sure you can open them up and take the
battery out. Yeah, that's not going to happen. It's got to
happen because you don't know what's in these things. A little
small piece of explosive material, some Semtech with a
tray.
Adam Curry: This is in the EULA. Your device may explode. We
have, we
John C Dvorak: will be in the EULA next, the next EULA will
say this, if
Adam Curry: your device explodes, we have no
responsibility. Yeah, wow, but it really, it's, everything has
come down. I mean, we're all talking about, oh, long range
missiles, no, nuclear war, no, no. If I was, if I was like
Zelensky or Putin or anybody, even Trump. Trump shouldn't be
using a phone anymore. Keep it away from them, and think of all
that we could have, exploding, televisions, exploding, well,
the laptop, anything, anything could, this was undetectable.
The there's blah, you know, they have, there's blood. They have
dog, you know, they have dogs that sniff out explosives.
They're pretty good at protecting themselves. No, this
was, this was next level, thinking, completely unexpected.
So, and, you know, and how about you don't even need one of those
bigger Iranian drones anymore. Just get one of those, you know,
those little consumer jobbies, fly down, blow up in your face.
This is the next level. So, so, as I said, is I'm kind of happy
because, you know, I just don't see nuclear being necessary
anymore. And you know, if you look at Ukraine, Russia doesn't
want to blow up Ukraine. They don't want to nuke it. They
don't want to radiate it. They want it. They want whatever
pieces they're interested in or believe belongs to them. They
want to keep it pure, just like even minds are. Dumb now. Now
this is, this is this is next. How about your Starlink blowing
up next? Anything? I don't want to freak people out, but I'm
glad I have my Pixel six running graphene. Os six running
grapheneos, I bet it is. I'm
Unknown: not on the battery blows up by itself. No, well,
Adam Curry: there's that. Can I actually take the battery out of
this thing? I think I can.
John C Dvorak: I think I can the early Google phones. You could
easily get the battery out and replace it,
Adam Curry: yeah, I think I can take it out of the pixel six,
Unknown: yeah. Well,
Adam Curry: other than boots on the ground from Lebanon. One of
our producer's brother is living in Beirut, trying to sell off
all his stuff and get out
Unknown: big Good luck.
Adam Curry: He says that actually, he says it's so bad in
Lebanon, particularly the banking we don't want to hear
much about that anymore, but he said a lot of the younger
Lebanese wish that Israel would just take over so it would have
financial stability. It's really the older generation that are
the warmongers. You're only allowed to withdraw a certain
amount of money from your bank account each day. One woman's
sister had cancer. I'm not quite sure how it fits into the story,
but she got a gun. I guess she wanted treatment, got a gun,
went to her bank, withdrew as much as they would give her, and
then fled the country. He says, you look at the banks, there's
bullet holes in the walls everywhere. People are just
trying to get their money. It's crazy. Street lights are off.
Potholes. They got big potholes. Potholes, really big potholes.
That's the biggest, that's the biggest gripe they have. They
got potholes everywhere. So, you know what's next? What what will
be the next thing to go? I mean, you know that they've got it in
some cell phones. Now, it'll be crazy not to do that. This is
the the Castro exploding cigar Gambit
Unknown: taken to the next level. Yeah. So I don't know
what in the Middle
John C Dvorak: East is, just like it is here. These people
are walking around with a phone in their hand. Even more so they
walk down the street,
Adam Curry: yeah, even more. So well, I'm telling you, You
should be glad you've got that old crappy Android, which you
never use. I mean, you'll just never use it now, and I'm sure
you have a pager somewhere.
John C Dvorak: No, I, you know, I've never had a pager in my
life. Oh, I
Adam Curry: do. You remember when I had the two way pager and
I was abusing that instead of, no, I've tried every I've had
aprs, you know, text messages go to aprs on ham radio. It's all
very complicated. It's not, it's not gonna know why you do not a
great way, not a great way, to date. Honestly, it was kind of
hard date. Yeah, back in the day you
John C Dvorak: used a pager. Hey, babe, just give me a call
on my page or I'll meet you. No,
Adam Curry: no, the text messages would go to the pager,
and then I could reply from the pager. It was, I don't know. I
was just doing stuff, okay, yeah, I was trying, you know,
trying to catch a hot chick like Tina, Hey, baby.
John C Dvorak: Hey, check out my pager, look, it's on my belt.
Yeah,
Adam Curry: they're cool. Pages are still kind of cool.
John C Dvorak: They're never been cool,
Adam Curry: yeah, they Yeah, kind
John C Dvorak: of cool. Yeah, they
Adam Curry: are, bro, I think it is, yeah. Well, not anymore. No,
no, the pager just become very literally hot, not cool. So,
John C Dvorak: so there's a stink going on out here in the
West Coast. I want to get this out of the way. This is, yeah,
Adam Curry: it's called Los Angeles or San Francisco, a
different kind
John C Dvorak: of stink. Oh, okay, so Newsom signed a bill,
yeah,
Adam Curry: yeah. Is this the AI bill?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, he signed some stupid bill saying it's
illegal. You're gonna try to trick people with AI even
though, you know it's like, okay, yeah. So immediately, and
I have the clip here. It's the AI clip. It's immediately the
Babylon B does an ad violating this, the Newsom. Newsom's law,
his law, Newsom's law, which is unconstitutional. There's no
doubt about it. And it's and stupid. I mean, it's like
desperate because it's over. I mean, you're gonna have these
things going on, these, these, you know, they're funny, yeah,
Harris saying something dumb, and all the rest. But play this
Hi.
Unknown: I'm Gavin Newsom, the governor of California. This is
a message for the people of America given in my
authentically recorded non AI voice. Thanks to my leadership
over the last several years, California has. Become a world
leader in extremist left wing governance. My policies were so
effective that almost 1 million people are now fleeing the state
every year. We even ran out of U hauls during the covid pandemic.
I locked everyone in their homes and shut down businesses for
months, not the French Laundry, though that's my favorite
restaurant. Last year, I cleaned up the dangerous, messy Streets
of San Francisco, you know, because Chinese communist
President Xi was coming, and I really wanted to impress him.
He's my boss. After all this year, I signed legislation that
allows me to take custody of your kid if you refuse to give
him artificial hormones and chop off his genitals, because if you
don't do that, you're a bigot, and bigots shouldn't be allowed
to have kids. I've also led the way in green energy by banning
all cars that don't run on electricity. Then I banned
almost all the electricity. This is smart leadership. On my
watch, the cost of living and homelessness have skyrocketed.
Schools are failing, drug dealers and human traffickers
are pouring across the border, and poop has covered the
sidewalks of San Francisco. This is the positive, joyful vision
we offer as Democrats. That's why I'm enthusiastically
endorsing Kamala Harris for President in 2024 she'll do to
the country everything I did in California. Anyway, I'm
California Governor Gavin Newsom, and I approve this 100%
real message, which is a recording of my voice without
the assistance of any AI whatsoever. This isn't a deep
fake, and you can rest assured that it isn't, because I just
signed an unconstitutional law outlawing deep fakes. No one
would dare violate it. Thank you and science, bless America.
Adam Curry: Have you? Have you looked at the text of the bill?
John C Dvorak: I only glanced at it. You? Have you? Yeah,
Adam Curry: so it's, it's a b2, 839, which really accelerated a
previous bill, a, b2, 655, which requires large online platforms
to remove or remove or label deceptive and digitally altered
or created content related to elections during specific
periods, and requires them to provide mechanisms to report
such content. It also authorizes candidates, elected officials,
elected elections officials, the Attorney General and a district
attorney or city attorney to seek injunctive relief against a
large online platform for non compliance with the act. So
it's, it's a little different than B is being portrayed. I of
course, it's should still be deemed unconstitutional, but
he's trying to shoehorn this in to protect our democracy, or
something of the like,
John C Dvorak: which, well, of course, and immediately this
reminds me of the idiot Prime Minister and Elmer Fudd
character down in Australia. Oh, yeah. Well, this is all who
tried to ban memes, and the first thing that happens, of
course, is a million memes. Yeah, targeting him,
Adam Curry: yeah. Can we agree that this type of work with
video and audio, that that is not AI, but it is, in fact, CGI,
that's a that's a more it's like computer generated imagery with
text input. And this is, this is not artificial, and it doesn't
even have anything to do with intelligence. I think that
should be made clear.
John C Dvorak: I think that's a good point. It's, it's CG, and
I'm not going to argue with it. I think you're right. Most of
it, you know, there's just the moniker that showed up, and now
everyone's just attaching it to everything. But you could have
done this. It's just a bunch of very interesting algorithms.
Yeah. I mean, what's the, what's the AI part of it?
Adam Curry: No, there's zero AI part. But, oh, you know, AI,
that's all very, very, very impressive. Very, very
impressive. I think that this is the only thing it should be used
for. AI is great for this. It is great for parody and humor. And
you can't, I mean, you can't, you're gonna see even songs that
are made with it has to be labeled as all as parody. Well,
John C Dvorak: here, here's the other thing about that
particular bit, that the Newsom phony ad, you can get a good
comedic image mimicker. There's or that woman a couple, there's
a couple of women that do, Kamala Harrison, she could just
do the voice, is that going to be illegal? Because, you know,
there is an intelligence involved there. Well, this is an
illegal to now mock somebody by, you know, sounding like them.
Adam Curry: Well, if you're a politician during an election
year. Large platform, which I don't think includes podcasts,
needs to include a label. You know, it doesn't say that you
it's mandatory to take it down. It says it has to be labeled as
as parody or fake or CGI, yeah, because,
John C Dvorak: heaven forbid the public can't spot this stuff.
Well, you know, that's a genuine Gavin Newsom commercial. Yes,
Adam Curry: that sounds pretty real to me. No, you know, from
the party of joy, they really are taking the joy out of
everything,
John C Dvorak: aren't they? Party of crazy, party of joy.
Behar,
Adam Curry: taking everything out. All the joy is going out.
Do you mind if I do a little diddy Stein stuff for a moment?
Who did he Stein? You know, maybe I should say Diddy Steen.
John C Dvorak: Yeah. We talking about, did he daddy?
Adam Curry: Yeah, we got Diddy, Diddy Epstein, did he Steen?
John C Dvorak: Oh, did oh, you're trying to be, oh, that's,
that's cute, yeah. Well, well, I would be interested. I'm, I'm,
I'll listen to this for sure, because I've been very
suspicious about the whole thing from the get go. Well, the
Adam Curry: timing is what's suspicious. The timing is before
the election, and I don't think it's, it is related to trying to
get rid of Trump and to shut people up about certain things.
This has been brewing for a long, long time. And you know,
Diddy Steen himself has been out there naming off names. This
whole freak off thing has been the subject of YouTube videos
for months. There's all kinds of people have been talking about
it, so starting to come to a head. And here's a backgrounder
that I got this
Unknown: morning. Sean Diddy Combs is behind bars, locked up
on racketeering and sex trafficking charges that make
the music mogul sound like a monster between
at least 2008 and the present combs abuse threatened and
coerced victims to fulfill his sexual desires, protect his
reputation and conceal his conduct.
Home seen here smiling with his children the day before his
arrest is being held without bail, with several of his
children watching in court, combs pleaded not guilty to
charges he led a criminal enterprise that subjected young
women to violence, use of firearms, threats, coercion and
verbal, emotional, physical and sexual abuse. The 14 page
indictment alleging combs manipulated women to participate
in highly orchestrated performances of sexual activity
with male prostitutes called freakoffs. He
used the embarrassing and sensitive recordings he made of
the freakoffs as collateral against the victims.
Prosecutors said authorities seized the records along with
firearms, drugs and more than 1000 bottles of baby oil and
lubricant during raids last month in Miami and Los Angeles,
the indictment describes aggressive, open, violent,
hedonistic abuse that you say was recurrent and widely known.
Why did it take law enforcement so long to intervene? How many
women were victimized by Sean Combs and how many others were
involved?
Look, our investigation is ongoing. We are committed to
bringing justice everyone who's been victimized by the
defendant. I can't tell you why it took so long. I think the
better focus is on the fact that we are here today, and we are
committed to making sure that justice is
done. His attorney, promising a vigorous defense, saying those
freakoffs were nothing more than consenting adults experiencing
intimacy.
Adam Curry: So you laughed at it too, when I when I heard the
when they heard the words of the of the prosecution, like, oh,
okay, so you, you really don't have that much. And of course,
we have the the indictment, which is now unsealed because it
was one of 1000s that are still sealed, but the main thing we
need to do with our M 5m media is just focus on the show
business aspect. Focus on the show business aspect. TMZ, help
us out. You know, good morning, Brian
Unknown: and Natalie. I got to tell you my thoughts reading the
14 page indictment yesterday were that there is going to be,
there are a lot of people in Hollywood. We're probably
worried about which Diddy parties they were at and what
was going on. That's not to say that they were necessarily even
involved in any of the things that are alleged by the US
Attorney's Office. But if you're at that party, and it turns out
that that's when he set up one of these freakoff sex parties,
or that it was going on in another room and you didn't know
about it. There's a good chance that you're going to be called
by the U S attorney's office if you're and certainly if you were
involved, you would get a call, because they're going to want to
know everything you want to. Ellen may even want you to be a
witness. I just think, you know, we're just starting to scratch
the surface of what this case, who is this case, is going to
touch and involve. And the feds have said that this remains an
open investigation. There could be more charges for Diddy, there
could be more charges for other people involved. And usually the
way this works is, once they find out other people are
involved or were witnesses, they bring them in, and they sort of
lean on them, and it's sort of like you're going to cooperate
with us, or there's a possibility that you could face
charges. So this is going to be a slow developing case here,
because we're just getting started, and I don't see how
this trial begins anytime before next year, yeah,
Adam Curry: until after the election. Yeah, exactly. That's
that's the reason for doing this all now, because and the people
who are involved in this, and by the way, Diddy, Diddy Steen
being gay, is like, Okay, this is, like the oldest news ever.
Who is Diddy Steen's boss? He has a boss. You know? It's Clive
Davis. Clive Davis, who, during his I think third or fourth
marriage, said, You know, I'm really kind of gay, and I'm
having a good time over here with all the gay guys. So I'm
going to call myself bi or whatever. There is what's Rick
Ross. I mean all these guys, there's a lot of gay and hip
hop, and there is such a an injection, infusion of all kinds
of businesses, with the music business, which, if you think
it's a perfect racket, I mean, it really is a gangster racket,
because I've learned with even just with value for value music,
if you have a good song and you can play it for someone, and you
they hear it three times, you can make it a hit. I mean, it's
just a fact. That's how it works. So if you have control,
that's how payola used to work out. Oh, yeah, totally. Now you
don't need payola because the record companies are the literal
owners of Spotify. I mean, some of them sold their stock when
they kind of did that weird public off. I did it. I did it.
It's now 10 nine.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, it's 10 nine. They did
Adam Curry: that strange public offering, which wasn't really a
public offering, was a liquidity event for the insider, the
inside holders. And if you know how Spotify works, it's all
based upon playlists that you have to pay to get on. And these
playlists are operated by the record companies. I mean, the
whole thing is it just pushes music to the forefront
continuously. There's also an interesting connection between,
if you remember this, I think it's the Malaysian one MBD Fund,
which it had the guy, I think the whole bunch of musicians
were involved in this. I think also the guy from Black Eyed
Peas and money went to Pharrell Williams, and, you know, a
couple million went to Kim Kardashian. And it was, you
know, stolen money is, I mean, it's all, all crazy kinds of
money that's floating around. Oh, yeah. Now this, this
diddystein, these freak offs, which is just a perfect name for
it. They were all videotaped, so they're sitting on videotapes.
But please don't, don't think about that. You don't hear too
much about it. Even his lawyer, who was by himself, a very
interesting character, Mark ignifio. Now, what is Mark
agnifio done previously? He defended Keith Rainier, the
founder of Nexium. You remember that the sex, sex cult, sex cult
with the Bronfman girls? Was it mom and daughter, if I remember
correctly, he also, he also, oh, here you go. He also represented
Roger ng of Goldman Sachs, who was convicted in 2022, of
bribery and corruption involving the Malaysian sovereign wealth
fund. So there's a lot of things that tie. I don't have all the
answers. A lot of things that tie together, but this arrest is
untimely for the crimes or whatever you know the it's all
allegations from a grand jury and agnifico and niflco appeared
on CNN with Caitlin. Do you know what the Caitlyn used to be a
blogger for the daily wire. She used to go on Fox News all the
time. Caitlin, who Collins, the CNN, the new CNN girl who with
the with the unfriendly face. Oh, that one. Yeah. She used to
work for the, she used to be a, like a right, a right wing
blogger for daily wire. You know,
John C Dvorak: these? People. It really annoying. This reminds me
of, remember that that guy was, I can't remember that gruff
character who was like a right winger, then he went to work for
CNN. He was a left winger, and he was Ed Schultz. And then
Schultz went to RT, where he became and he died. And then he
died. Yeah, he went to RT. Then he became a kind of a Russian
asset, and then he died. Flipping around. These guys are
not they have no allegiance whatsoever. They just, you know,
oh, you're telling me. Oh, I how much you gonna pay me to be a
right winger? How much you gonna pay me to spew left wing
propaganda? It's really pathetic. I don't really have a
lot of respect for those folk
Adam Curry: well, and she has that Joker mouth, like she has
kind of those high corners of her mouth, notice in Joker
mouth. Anyway, here she is with, with Diddy's lawyer, of the guy
who was, who was intimately familiar with all kinds of
shenanigans. And he has it makes a very interesting point about
what the indictment really says.
Unknown: When you read through the indictment, they say that
there's not just one victim. They say there's multiple
victims here today. And what I heard described was they said
they have 50 witnesses or victims. Yeah, I
think it's 49 witnesses and one victim. I think if you broke it
down, and I say that because count two, which is a sex
trafficking count, has victim number one, and there is no
victim number two anywhere in the indictment.
So you're saying that there are not other women. Because what
they were essentially arguing here is that he coerced and
forced women into sex acts by using physical force, financial
pressure, emotional abuse and narcotics for what they
described as these freak off sessions. They say that he self
described them as that.
Yeah, there's one victim in the indictment. That's that the
charging victim does count, right? No, no, of course, but
I'm just not it's not 50. I mean, what they did is a little
too cute. Is, is 50 witnesses or victims? Well, it's, it's one
victim. That's all that's in the indictment. Our
reporter, who was in the courtroom today, said that he
appeared to have a stunned expression on his face. Was he
surprised that he was arrested last night?
No, he definitely was not. I mean, I told him myself in early
September, you are going to be arrested soon, and you're going
to be charged with racketeering and charged with sex
trafficking. So come to New York. There wasn't a long
conversation. He agreed. So we knew this was coming, and in
fact, we offered that he would turn himself in.
Adam Curry: So there was really only if I understand it, and
I've read it as from what I can understand from the legalese.
I'm sure rob the constitutional lawyer will check it out. He
loves this kind of stuff. There was one victim. And the victim,
quote, unquote, was a male prostitute who was trafficked
across state lines, which is kind of this, very reminiscent
of Epstein. And everyone else was like, Well, we were kind of
there having a good time at the freakoff and, you know, so you
make 14 pages of,
Unknown: well, you know, he
Adam Curry: had guns and you had lube, lots of lube, which, you
know, no one can no one get past the 1000 bottles of lube. I
mean, that's just crazy. What kind of free costs were you
doing? The women who were not happy, they're not listed as
victims in the in the indictment, as it stands, they
have civil suits against him. They've all been trying to get
money out of him, but still only one victim that's pretty
Unknown: powerful, though, to have that many people who have
if they go to court and argue that they that they witnessed
this behavior by your client. Well, defensive against
so my defense is very well established. I interviewed
myself to different men who were being brought, sort of into Mr.
Combs and this person's, you know, intimate situation. I've
flown around the country. I've interviewed a large number of
them. There's not the slightest inkling, according to the
interviews that I've done, of anything that's coercive, non
consensual. Nobody was too drunk, nobody was too high.
These were adults in a relationship. This is a 10 year
relationship. We can't forget that this is a 10 year
relationship, and it was adults and consensual, and everybody
who was there wanted to be there. So I feel very
confident in our position. You said you interviewed the men,
but what about the women I haven't interviewed
the one, the woman's not available to me. She's
presumably a grand jury witness. And we would not, we cannot try
to interview a grand jury witness. And
you don't think that there are any other women who are going to
say that they were coerced into this, given drugs. And
essentially, as prosecutors were saying that, that's what kept
them compliant.
So there are a lot of women in these civil cases. There's been
a there's been a mountain of civil cases ever since the civil
case that was filed in November. I don't see them as victims in
the indictment. That's my point.
Adam Curry: So once you get to. Clive Davis, you know, who was
definitely been at the freak offs. I mean, come on, this is
the whole reason he left his wife is because he wanted to be
in this scene, in this gay hip hop scene. Before you know what?
You're Jeffrey Katzenberg. You're Jeffrey Katzenberg,
you're at the upper echelons of the Democrat Party. And
definitely you're at Kamala Harris. There's lots of pictures
of her in her nightie. You know that? You know this goes back to
the Montel William days, when she was kind of trolling around,
hanging out at the parties. Willie Brown days, no, this
video is damning. The videos are the problem, and they had to get
Diddy out of the limelight before he did anything rash,
like tell people, and I don't know, this doesn't look good for
his health. Can I? Can we be the first to say, did he didn't kill
himself?
John C Dvorak: Well, that's interesting. The also, yes,
well, these videos are probably not a good thing to have, no to
have released. And
Adam Curry: as a side note, Diddy was from the reports I've
seen, one of the investors who put money in to help Elon Musk
buy Twitter and turn it into x. So there's, there's all kinds of
connections. This went on for far too long. And you can just
go to YouTube and put in freakoff, and you'll see all
kinds of people talking about these parties right up to what's
his face. LeBron James, ain't no party like a Diddy party, uh
huh. Now there's a lot of money at play here, a lot of lot of
assets, as it were,
John C Dvorak: yes in the blackmail game, yes.
Adam Curry: So you know this, this will be very, very
unfortunate for a lot of people, and it's the videos. It's always
look now, will we ever see these videos? Doubtful, no, like,
we're
John C Dvorak: still, it's like seeing the day Epstein. Yes, you
had a room full of them. Does not. In fact, they won't even
give us a list of names. I mean, they these. It's the government.
This is a government cover up. Yes.
Adam Curry: Oh, big time. Big time.
John C Dvorak: Yeah. Let's grab this guy, you know, put him on
ice, literally, yep, and it may be permanently and
Adam Curry: and shut him up from whatever he has. And it's, it's
not, is not going to be pretty
John C Dvorak: well, they've done a good job, but it's weak.
Adam Curry: But it's weak. You know, the indictment is weak and
then not given, not letting him out on bail. He said, hey, I'll
do $50 million bail. Nope. Oh, okay. He was ready to give
himself up to say, Okay, let's just, let's just discuss this,
like, like men and take care of this. You know, there's just
some videotapes. No, there's, there's something very damning
going on. And I don't it's, somehow it feels like it's not,
it's not, it's it this Latin most recent attack on Trump,
which I have to say, I'm a little disappointed in our
trolls. There are trolls who have my signal, my telegram,
myself. Yes, not a this happened. This. This happened
John C Dvorak: during the show. Any of this at least two hours,
yeah, before the show end. And
Adam Curry: email doesn't count. I'm not looking at email during
the show. There's so many people who could have just said, hey,
hey, hey, show day, hello. This is what's happening.
John C Dvorak: And yeah, the trolls missed this completely.
It was a complete fail of the troll
Adam Curry: room. Complete. Fail, yes, yes. Fail, yeah. We
John C Dvorak: both do at the end of the show, we closed the
show, and then we first thing we noticed, he opened the, you
know, some browsers up and jump. Well, they said assassination.
So the trolls
Adam Curry: are saying that they were talking about it during the
during the show, but you can send me a DM in the troll room,
and it's, it fires up an alert. Anyway, it was just
disappointing to me, like, oh, we
John C Dvorak: were talking about before we get into that.
Since we're on the music business, I do have to play this
clip. Oh,
Adam Curry: you got some music business stuff, huh? Well, this
John C Dvorak: is Taylor Swift. Have you seen this?
Adam Curry: If do, I need to tell you. This is from 2015
John C Dvorak: Okay, don't I you? You
Adam Curry: need to tell me that that video that that everyone
has been sending me is an old video from, from this is, she's
talking about Blackburn in in Tennessee. This is not a recent
video of Taylor Swift talking about Trump.
John C Dvorak: How come it starts off with the discussion
of Trump, because it was 2015
Adam Curry: this very video,
John C Dvorak: I'm not going to play it then, yeah, no, I'm
Adam Curry: sorry. We. Get duped all the time, and I had to look
at it. Well,
John C Dvorak: I didn't get duped. I found it myself. Oh, I
duped myself. If people
Adam Curry: sent it to me like, Oh, look at this. Taylor Swift
is mental. You know, this is 2015 and it was on some
documentary that she was doing at the time. So
John C Dvorak: here's what my takeaway from it was, even
though, if you want, we can play it. No, no, it's not necessary,
because it actually makes sense that it was about Blackburn, but
because she keeps referring to the her she Yeah, is that Taylor
Swift? That's what the thing that's interesting is, because
her dad's there, and we never get to see much of him, and
she's like a little tween.
Adam Curry: Well, yeah, she was 10 years younger.
John C Dvorak: Well, she was 24 if she was 10 years younger, she
wasn't.
Adam Curry: She's 34 now, is that how old she is? Yes,
John C Dvorak: she's 34 holy
Adam Curry: crap. Grow up girl.
John C Dvorak: And she's like a in this thing, she's 24 Well,
it's not even 10 years ago, 25 it said nine years ago. She's
Adam Curry: 20 she's 34 you're right, she's 34
Unknown: so
John C Dvorak: she's like a tween. She's like, she's like a
little kid, in terms of the way she responds to everything.
She's I, I wonder how cloistered some of these who you would know
better than me, how cloistered some of these artists become to
the point where they don't really have a clue about
anything going on.
Adam Curry: Well, I would say many of them. Well, okay, how
about another just taking it back to diddystein, Justin
Bieber. Justin Bieber was literally taken under Diddy's
wing for like, a weekend, if there's all kinds of weird
stuff. I
Unknown: mean, yeah,
Adam Curry: those kids are on YouTube. Yeah. Now he fired his
Tristar agent Lou Taylor, just like this week, who was also
behind Britney Spears conservatorship. This goes much
deeper than than we think. Much deeper. I'm thinking
presidential models, if you know what I'm saying, yeah.
John C Dvorak: MK, Ultra, yes, yes. Thinking yes, absolutely.
Adam Curry: Hey, come on. I mean, Taylor Swift, go look at
the at the credits on her songs. There's sometimes 15 people on
there. There's entire Swedish Writing teams that jump in on
this stuff. They
Unknown: have a lot of writers. Yeah, it's it's manufactured.
Still aren't that good. It's
Adam Curry: formulaic. And just keep repeating it. Keep
repeating it. And look at how, look at the effect that has on
the children.
Unknown: You know, it works
Adam Curry: now. I love that she's doing witchcraft on stage.
And please, Swifties don't email me and say it's just it's just
like a theater. It's just theatrics.
John C Dvorak: What Swifties email you? What Swifties listen
to this show. Well, it
Adam Curry: starts with a D
Darren gets my face. Hey, man, hey, Mandy,
John C Dvorak: I'm on it today.
Adam Curry: Hey, man, that's no good so and Well, since we're
talking about it, I would say that just looking at this guy's
background, this Ryan Wesley, Roth, Ruth, Roth,
John C Dvorak: yeah, three. They got the three names too, which
is always
Adam Curry: a classic without a doubt, MK, Ultra, whether he was
triggered by a trigger word or would, I would be very likely to
believe is some special agent was jacking this guy up.
John C Dvorak: I'm reminded of the movie Manchurian Candidate,
where this play, let's play a game of cards. I think it was
right. That was the trigger word, yes. And because this guy
is just this guy, it's, it's ludicrous, this character, yeah,
I mean his shack in Hawaii, and the fact that he did a long, I
It's been posted. We're not playing any clips from it
because it's idiotic. But he goes on and not he's in Ukraine.
The show goes on for a news week,
Adam Curry: the Newsweek interview. But it is, yeah,
yeah. So this was what's so if you look at the machine as it
is, you know, just remove politics and parties and
ideologies and just look at the machine of companies and turf,
because that's really what the world is. Trump, by the way,
sees this, and he's the problem because he wants to protect the
USA Inc. He believes in USA Inc, and he wants to keep it, and
that's he was right about the trade balance. I mean, the only
problem. He has with China's, they were ripping us off by
debasing their currency. And the trade, the money flow was was
imbalanced, and the money was flowing out of our country. He
sees it. It's very simple, if you really look at stealing
John C Dvorak: our money, yeah, and,
Adam Curry: you know, and that's been going on for a long time,
and he wanted to stop it, and he knows the things that have to
happen. But at a top level, especially Ukraine, I mean, you
know, who owns Newsweek, who owns the New York Times? These
are all big entities, entities that are tied to big money, and
it's all, it's a game. It's just a game, and it's a roll up. It's
a everyone's rolling up turf. The EU was a roll up of sorts,
and Ukraine is the acquisition target. It's like, who gets
Lindsey Graham is an idiot because he keeps saying, well,
there's trillions of dollars of minerals. Uh huh. Shut up,
Lindsay. We know it, and the EU wants it to be theirs. Make no
mistake, they're not our friends. They want it to be
theirs. And we're being duped. The American public, at least,
is being duped into, Oh yeah, well, it's NATO, okay, yeah,
we'll help you out. Here's all we're paying for it. Democracy,
for democracy. Yeah, it's one big shell game. It's the College
of corporations. It's already been the grain and all the
farmlands have already been sold and divvied up. That was the
first step as BlackRock. And it's easy to make Blackrock the
bad guy of everything, by the way. You know that video is
going around. Oh, he was in a Blackrock commercial. No, that
wasn't a Blackrock commercial. That was. That was my favorite.
Everyone just sends me this video and says, A Blackrock
commercial. Did you look at the video? No, it was a promotion
for the military industrial complex, and which Blackrock has
as a share in. I mean, no doubt about it, but they've already
loaned Ukraine half a trillion dollars for the rebuilding. You
know, it's just, it's just a game of companies and money and
turf. That's all that it is. I'm
John C Dvorak: reminded, if you it's kind of a small version of
what you just described, is the way the hotel business operates.
Okay? You know, we have a hotel. They open up a and then next
thing, you know, it's owned by Hilton, and then they sell it to
Sheraton. And Sheraton does, and it's just like a bunch of cars,
like guys playing cards. So, you know, I think we should open a
couple, let's get a couple places in London. From there,
Sheraton wants to get out of London. I think we should try
it. And every time they do that, there's a bunch of financial
possibilities. You can write off this and that, and you can do
this shell game Exactly. It changes how you spend your money
and how you can the investment
Adam Curry: you put in, and what you can write off of the
remodeling, all of that, absolutely. And it
John C Dvorak: takes, and it takes a little bit, but that
does take a lot of work.
Adam Curry: Well, but that's the only work. That is the only
look, the
John C Dvorak: only work. It's just handling with numbers. I
mean, the military,
Adam Curry: corporate industrial base, they give money to the
lobbyists. The lobbyists give it to the politicians, the
politicians, they pass legislation. You know, it's
like, it's all, all part of the same system. And for the love of
money, is the root of all evil. It is truly, always the root of
all evil. So you get this, Ryan Wesley, Roth, dude, and he's
being, he's a, he's like a drop of oil underneath the cracked
engine block. We just don't know that where the crack and, you
know, the cylinder head is cracked because stuff is
starting to be revealed to us because of just the vast amount
of communications. And you put this guy, you know, the New York
Times interviews him. Then when the New York Times comes to
interview, you be like, Oh, I'm pretty special. How about the
NGOs? All of our money goes into not all, but significant,
billions of dollars goes into USA ID, National Endowment for
Democracy, and they give money to the NGOs. That's why the
immigrants are still coming in, because the NGOs are getting
paid, people getting million dollar salaries, a lot of them
faith based. I got to add that, because it's really disgusting.
What's happening, same thing with this guy. You know, every
Roland Martin went over to Ukraine. Oh, yeah, you know who
pays for that? The NGOs. The NGOs are sitting there. They've
got money. He even went to the Netherlands, Helsinki Institute
in Holland. Rouse, yes, they did. Yes. They posted, well, we
had a chat with Mr. Ruth. He wasn't said he was in Washington
to meet with the US commission on security incorporation in
Europe, known as the Helsinki Commission, for two hours to
help push more support for Ukraine. And that commission is
led by members of Congress. Is staffed by congressional aides,
very influential on matters of democracy and security, and
they've been very vocal for support for Ukraine. So, you
know, if people just throw money at you, any we could have, we
could have said, hey, you know what? I want to go help the
Ukrainians. You land in Kyiv International, there's somebody
there. Hey, here's some money. Here's an apartment. Do your
videos? I mean, it's, this has been, this is a much bigger
operation than just what we're seeing. And we're not really
seeing anything, because we don't see anyone being maimed
and killed or the tanks being blown up continuously? No, we're
just seeing little bits and pieces of information. So it's
everywhere he went, every institution, Institute, every
NGO, every magazine, every newspaper that interviewed him,
they probably said, Man, Trump's a problem. You know, Trump's a
problem. So, yeah, does it? You know? And then if, if you read
in the same newspapers and magazines that came to interview
you, he's Hitler, he's gonna remove our democracy. What else
do you expect? Now, suspicious is the is the assault style
rifle that had the serial number obliterated, you know? So
please, M, 5m. Stop saying, Well, how could he, how could he
buy an assault rifle every convicted felon from, by the
way, if you are convicted of having a machine gun without the
proper documentation, you're going to jail. You don't just
walk around after that. You go to jail. That is a federal
offense, that is a felony. So this guy was a ticking time
bomb, and whether he was MK Ultra and they had a code word,
someone got him to Florida, someone told him to be there.
There's no doubt about it, and that's why I'm a little
suspicious of a six week cycle type event, maybe not intended
to actually assassinate the president, but they and they
sure knew. And then, how can you you see that? You see the gun,
you you spring into action, you start firing, and you miss, huh?
What kind of secret service are you? God? Ashley Babbitt was
spot on. It's like, it doesn't make sense. And my favorite
piece is Sean Hannity, who
John C Dvorak: was, before you go on, I do want to mention
something. It was in Trump was on. I don't have any clips from
it because it was a little tedious, but I maybe go back and
watch the rest of it. But Trump was on Gutfeld as a guest. I
have a clip. And the thing at the very beginning, he's, you
know, they, they pretty much give him the show. So he's
yakking away. He mentions that the woman, it was a woman who
saw the guy running from the scene and got his license plate
and sent it to send it on to the law enforcement and and one of
the other guests said at the time, and I agreed, it's like,
why we were never told it was a woman, which was a fact. It was
always some helpful citizen, or they never would say it was a
woman. For some reason, I found that very peculiar. Trump said
it was a woman. But they went out of their way to assiduously.
Suggested was, I was under the impression with some dude, hmm.
So I just found that to be fascinating.
Adam Curry: And how, and how does he know there's a woman? I
mean, can you, Trump, said it was, can you tell me what is a
woman? Okay, I'm just saying, yeah. Okay, so Hannity was
supposed to be out on the golf course with him. He makes a very
unfortunate statement in explaining his experience that
day, where he had breakfast with the President's golf partner. So
Unknown: I got a lot of details. I'm very aware of the New York
Post report that said that it was outside of the what's called
Trump International in West Palm Beach, which is where, actually
where I am. And anyway, so long story short, is President Trump.
They were on the fifth hole. They were about to go up to putt
and the way Steve Witkoff. Now, just as a little bit of
background arthal, I happened to go to breakfast with Steve
Witkoff and another friend of mine this morning, and I was
invited to play golf. They happen to be really good
golfers. I don't have a lot of time to play golf, so I didn't.
I said, Thank you, but I'm not going to go. A lot on the golf
course and get killed out there. But long story short,
oops
Adam Curry: Sean, think about what you're saying that looks
bad. Don't say these things.
John C Dvorak: And by the way, that guy who's something who's
got some mental issues because, and I say that because he can't
stop talking. He doesn't have time. I've never seen anybody
just he does it. He does a three hour radio show every day of the
week, and then does an hour every day of the week on Fox, a
TV show. Nobody that is the hardest working man in show
while
Adam Curry: writing books.
John C Dvorak: Well, he's probably got some help there,
but it's like, how I it's beyond me. Yeah,
Adam Curry: he's got a four hour workday. It's
John C Dvorak: crazy. You want to go golfing? No, I
Adam Curry: don't think so. So this ties into,
John C Dvorak: well, it's not just, yeah, it's a four hour
work week, work day, work day. I mean, no, it's four hours on the
air. Yeah,
Adam Curry: I know. We know. We know what that really means. I
mean, you're continuously doing stuff, no doubt. But he also
wears 18 pins from all of the agencies. I got an NSA pin. I
got a CIA pin.
John C Dvorak: Yes, he's
Adam Curry: got all kinds and a flag, and I got a flag, yeah,
John C Dvorak: so yeah, well, he's he's wrong.
Adam Curry: Meanwhile, Holly's got his panties in a bunch,
because he has a whistleblower. Now, when Holly says
whistleblower, I think that's a little more believable than the
whistleblower at ABC who you know, died breaking the
whistleblower is already dead. We didn't, never. Nothing ever
came of that. Oh, she got the questions in advance. He was on
waters. Well, what we've heard Jesse from new whistleblowers
who've come forward about this second assassination attempt on
Donald Trump's Life. And here's what they have told us that golf
course that the President was playing Secret Service have
guarded that course many, many times. And what the
whistleblower says is protocol calls for Secret Service to
station agents along the places in the course that are known
vulnerabilities. I want to emphasize, the service has
guarded this course many times. They know where there are
vulnerable vulnerabilities. They normally station agents there
ahead of Trump's appearance on the course, but they apparently
did not do that this last weekend. And the whistleblowers
tell me that's strange. That's out of protocol. It's not even
clear Secret Service swept the perimeter before Trump took to
the course. Also a brooch, a breach, rather a protocol. And
they want to know why, and so do I. I think the Secret Service
deserves to give us answers. Yeah, it's even worse than that,
because they still don't have any answers on requested
documents from Butler, Pennsylvania. Do you know that
the Secret Service still has not given congressional
investigators the documented evidence we have been asking for
for two months, two months since Trump was shot in the face. Now
he has been shot at or nearly so again, and still, Secret Service
is stonewalling right down to this hour. I mean, what is going
on here? What is happening? Yeah, yeah,
John C Dvorak: he dramatizes it.
Adam Curry: I do have one clip of Trump on Gutfeld. I didn't
watch the whole thing actually. I figured you would have clips.
I'm kind of surprised you didn't. But, well,
John C Dvorak: you know, it's like, it's trying. I could have
gotten a rally clip. It's, I listen as I listen. It's just
Trump going on and on. He talks a lot. And so I had, and I
didn't watch the whole thing. I watched the beginning, and I
thought it was going to be kind of boring. And so not, I mean,
it's always kind of interesting with Trump, and you had, you had
campagno there, and she's laughing at everything. She's
just, who is hysterical, who's companion Emily, the ex Raiders
cheerleader, who's also one of the smartest women you run into.
And she used to be a, she's the dark complected girl that's
sitting there with the dark hair. She was a light complected
blonde head of the cheerleader issues that really cheerleader
for the Oakland Raiders, and thinks everything is hilarious.
So she laughs a lot. She and Gutfeld loves to have her on the
show because she laughs laughing last time well and, and you had
Tyrus and and what's her name, the timf, Tim cat. Tim.
Adam Curry: So here it is, here's, here's the clip. You
Unknown: bring up God and you've almost been killed twice. Do you
think more about your own mortality and
what happens after you go move on? Yeah,
not about mortality, but I do think more about God, because,
okay, Butler was really the greatest of all miracle. If I'm
not looking over there, and I mean a full turn exactly 90
degrees, I wouldn't be here right now, and your ratings
would be a little bit lower. Perhaps
kill me there, but you. Hear something
about that, because I said, bring down the chart. And the
chart drops down. And I go look at those numbers, and I look
over to the right, I ping, and that was that I knew something
was definitely wrong, and it was a mess I touched. I said, That's
unusual. Remember when
you showed it to me? I showed it, yeah, you showed it to me.
Said, I
know people aren't going to believe this. So Gutfeld, take a
look at my ear.
That's right. You know, I met, we met in at the convention,
yeah. And I said, Who am I going to show it to? You know, we have
a lot of guys. They'll say it didn't exist. And I actually did
have such confidence in him, and he's really a very special guy,
talented guy, good guy, great guy. And I said, you know, if
I'm going to show it, let's do it with Gutfeld.
That's amazing,
because it happened right after.
How did you get him to see the top of your ear?
I sat in a low chair
Adam Curry: this funny. This he's, he's, he's, he's quick,
John C Dvorak: yeah, I know. But it was that was not atypical. It
was, I didn't get any clips for that. That was, you proved my
point. Well,
Adam Curry: I like that one. I'd like the ear story that was
pretty funny.
John C Dvorak: Oh, the years. Yeah, it's the Gutfeld story.
Let me get back. I was only five foot five, which is a joke that
was in there. Let me get back to the
Adam Curry: to this character, this actor, by the way, he also
wrote a book,
John C Dvorak: this guy, and we know how that yeah, they said
they wrote a book, but where is this book? Now?
Adam Curry: Let me see if I got the name of it.
John C Dvorak: They keep talking about this book, and in the
Adam Curry: book my war, he wrote, wrote big air quotes this
book. He says, while I was instructed to describe the
events of my trip, you know, as all these like he was being told
what to do, I've been instructed that some sort of background and
backstory is required. So this guy is such a product of this
machine, and even CBS Holly Williams had talked to him, and
here
Unknown: he is. This is the suspect, Ryan Wesley Ruth was in
his late 50s. He spent time as a volunteer in Ukraine after the
Russian invasion, and our holly Williams was in touch with him
when he was overseas, and she joins us now. Holly, good
morning. What else can
you tell us about this man? Hey,
there. Nate. Look When I woke up this morning in London to the
news that Ryan Ruth was the suspect in an alleged
assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, I was
stunned to recognize the name, because I had been in touch with
Ryan Ruth for over a year in the early stages of the war in
Ukraine, like 1000s of other international volunteers, he
apparently went to Ukraine to help. I do not believe he was
fighting himself, but he had put signs up in Kyiv, Ukraine's
capital, offering to help other foreigners find places in
Ukrainian battalions. And that's how I initially came across him.
I spoke with him, I think, once on the phone and texted
frequently, and he put me in touch with several foreign
fighters. Now, he seemed very genuine and passionate about
supporting Ukraine. He mentioned plans to bring in 1000s of
Afghan and Syrian fighters, which I took, frankly, with a
grain of salt. In an interview with the news website semaphore,
he claimed he had been unable to get visas for those Afghan
fighters, but we don't know if he was actually in touch with
any Ukrainian officials at all. Now, I've met American
volunteers everywhere from Syria to Ukraine. Some are experienced
soldiers and very clear about the dangers they're facing.
Others seem less well informed, and their motivations can be
quite confused. To be honest, Ryan Ruth did, at times, seem
fairly naive. At one point, he sent me an audio track of a song
he'd apparently recorded about the carnage caused by the war in
Ukraine. In November of last year, he told me he was back in
the US in Hawaii, and that was the last time I heard from him.
What
Adam Curry: do you want to bet this guy was at one of Diddy's
freak off parties?
John C Dvorak: I bet no,
Adam Curry: anything's possible. So the M 5m is taking this to a
different place, of course, because, you know, we have to,
we have to blame it on Trump himself. Somehow. I have a
couple of examples
John C Dvorak: before you go there. I do have a clip to
interrupt you with, okay, because I don't think that just
that this guy's just propagandized, but the public
itself has been you're going to get into this so ridiculously
propagandized to make Trump think it was his fault that he
did everything. I want to play this C span guy who calls in, oh
yes,
Unknown: this is great glide, Louisiana. Willie. Democrat,
good morning. Good morning.
I just want to say I'm a very patriotic American. I did 20 of
the military, two to the Vietnam only 1966 when back in 68 and I
look at myself and think. About we as a military man. We pull
the clothing, kill capital, destroy the enemy by all means
available. And I see we let this man, Trump, destroy America. And
I look at and say, well, these two people had to step up and
take that shot. I made it through.
I'm sorry, Willie, you're not advocating violence, are you
not violence. I'm talking about defending my country. All right,
Dan in Louisville, Kentucky, independent. Oh, yeah, yeah,
boom.
Adam Curry: That's what happens, of course. And so think about
how, how easy it is for this weak brother, this Ruth
character, who is clearly not right in the head. You just look
at him like now, and all you have to say is, you know, Trump
is the source of all problems. Trump is the reason why Russia
is is gaining ground and is going to get hold of Ukraine and
democracy, of course, of course. But the mainstream, oh no, let's
just blame it on each other. This is NBC
Unknown: tonight, former President Trump thanking
officers who caught the suspect in the apparent assassination
attempt against him, and describing the alarming moments
on his golf course.
All of a sudden, we heard shots being fired in the air, and I
guess probably four or five Secret Service knew immediately
it was bullets, and they grabbed me an agent
had fired on the armed suspect who was able to hide in the
bushes undetected by Secret Service for nearly 12 hours.
This is the second attempt on Trump's life in nine weeks.
Trump blames democratic rhetoric against him, and so does his
running mate. No
one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last couple of
months, and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in
the last couple of months. I'd say that's pretty strong
evidence that the left needs to tone down the rhetoric and needs
to cut this crap out
the Trump campaign pointing to comments like these as stoking
fear, Donald
Trump is an existential threat to our democracy and our most
fundamental freedoms.
Well, Democrats argued Trump's rhetoric sparked the January 6
attack, and that he's used heated language against them. If
we don't win on november 5, I think our country is going to
cease to exist.
And Garrett, the former president, about to take the
stage now this will be his first rally since the apparent
assassination attempt.
That's right. Lester, this crowd has been chanting Fight, fight,
fight. Mr. Trump's rallying cry after that first assassination
attempt. But unlike then, when he briefly spoke of unity, his
campaign is rejecting the premise that he needs to do
anything else to lower the rhetorical temperature in this
country.
Adam Curry: So that's where it has to go is, well, it's Trump
doing this. Well, it's Kamala doing this. And what are we all
doing? We're all on. Elon's ex arguing about it. Here's CNN,
Unknown: a few days ago, we had an incident. I have to say,
Secret Service did a hell of a job. This guy was all set. He
was all set to do his number, and there was no talk. He didn't
say, Hello. What are you doing here? Please. And he ends up
getting shot himself. No. Took his gun, started shooting him,
and this guy ran
Sunday's events, reignited debate in Washington over Secret
Service shortcomings and over the relationship between heated
rhetoric and political violence. Trump's opponent Kamala Harris
called him yesterday to check on him. Here's what she told the
National Association of Black Journalists about their
conversation,
I told him what I have said publicly, there is no place for
political violence in our country. We can and should have
healthy debates and discussion and disagreements, but not
resort to violence to to resolve those issues.
Harris's running mate echoed her message yesterday.
JD Vance Trump's running mate told a crowd in Michigan that
calls to lower the temperature on the trail could actually lead
to violence. Do you
have we don't solve our differences in
this country's violence. We
condemn all its forms. We solve our differences
at the ballot box. Don't lecture Donald Trump, about softening
his rhetoric after two people tried to kill him. It's
ridiculous. Don't try to censor your political opponents,
because censorship will eventually lead to political
violence. We've seen that now twice in the last couple of
months, and I hope Democrats learn the lesson. Censorship
Adam Curry: leads to political violence. That's interesting.
Not quite sure what he means by that. Then there was this, you
know, they've got this. Scott Jennings now on CNN, have you
noticed this guy? No, not at all. He's he's a Republican.
They brought him in. Actually, the first time I really noticed
him is during the Democrat national convention. And he's
kind of like the foil. He's there to say, Well, I do know
this. You see this guy, so he really he was trolling in this
roundtable discussion with Abby Phillip and Tim Naftali, and I
have a couple clips from it. Good evening. I'm
Unknown: Abby Phillip in New York. Let's get right to what
America is. Talking about an apparent
second No, we're
Adam Curry: talking about Diddy. We're not talking about anything
else.
Unknown: Assassination attempt on Donald Trump. And this
country is incapable of talking about this five alarm fire,
instead of focusing on the crisis of violence in our
politics. Or, by
Adam Curry: the way, whatever happened to words are violence.
Unknown: Remember that? Yeah, words
Adam Curry: of violence. I guess that went out the window.
Unknown: How better to protect these candidates? This is being
treated like any other political incident along partisan lines.
Trump himself is blaming the rhetoric of President Biden and
vice president Kamala Harris, despite zero evidence to back
that up.
Rhetoric going on. A lot of people think that the Democrats,
when they talk about threat to democracy and all of this, and
it seems that both of these people were radical left,
and Trump's running mate is doing the same.
You know, the big difference between conservatives and
liberals, is that we no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris.
Oops,
Adam Curry: little flub there. We haven't. I mean, no one has
tried to kill Kamala Harris in
Unknown: the last couple of months, and two people now have
tried to kill Donald Trump in the last couple of months. I'd
say that's pretty strong evidence that the left needs to
tone down the rhetoric and needs to cut this crap out. Somebody
is going to get hurt by it, and it's going to destroy this
country.
Adam Curry: Yes, tears will come. These are all pretty short
from this roundtable. Here's now we add one more bit from Abby.
Here, you and
Unknown: I, Tim, were sitting on the set the day that Donald
Trump was attacked that first time, terrible, and we talked
about the sickness in this country that assassination
attempts represent. It's not about the politics of the
individual. I mean, look at these people. The thing that
they have in common is their complete lack of mental
stability. Why is that not the conversation? Why are we in this
place of who's to blame is that the Democrats or the
Republicans? The Republicans the Republicans aren't trying to
assassinate the Democrats. And a lot of talk of they and they,
it's just a person. It's, it's an individual.
Adam Curry: Yeah, well, because if we talk about what's really
going on, then we expose the whole game of NGOs and military
and money and bull crap. So of course, send everybody off to
the weapons grade military machine known as x to go argue
with the algos. I
Unknown: remember so well, July 13,
John C Dvorak: what you brought twice now. The number of people
that use twitter is really inconsequential.
Adam Curry: That's what do you mean? The very people who watch
this stuff watch it on Twitter. No one's watching CNN. It's a
loop. It's a closed loop. You don't get these clips by
watching CNN. You get these clips by seeing them on Twitter.
Would you like Twitter? That's what? Yes, I would say I get
almost every single clip from Twitter. If people send me a
link, it's to Twitter. Sure people are not watching. Look at
the numbers. People not watching. CNN, they're not
watching the cable channel. People don't even have cable
anymore. That's what this this is a closed loop. You can add
Facebook if you want
John C Dvorak: finish this clip, I'd be interested. And
Unknown: I remember the conversations in the days that
followed. I remember President Biden's speech about toning down
the rhetoric. And I saw the rhetoric toned down on both
sides, and then 20 minutes into his acceptance speech, Donald
Trump turned up the volume. I'm not blaming him for what
happened. Of course, in our country, you do not decide
political disputes through violence. But the problem is
that we have too much hate speech right now.
Adam Curry: So So the whole point of a Scott Jennings is so
then you can get people saying, Yeah, Scott Jennings, yeah, he's
great. Look at him. Here's the clip, share. Give me an example.
What
Unknown: do you mean by hate speech? Because I
want to, because I want to specifically know, because I
think I know what it is. But I'm interested in what you think
about this, because I agree with you. I do think we have too much
hate speech. But give me an example,
I would say when you use the term vermin to describe your
political opponents, so
you think it's Trump's fault that he got shot or got
shot. Thank you, Scott. I won't, I won't step in that trap.
That's not what I said. There is no place in this country for for
violence, but let's be honest about why we have so much
tension in this country. When you dehumanize people, you are
using the rhetoric of the 30s. I'm not using I'm not going to
say which country in the 30s, but when. You dehumanize people,
you make it easier for disturbed minds to do the wrong thing. And
let me just remind you of something in 2019 Donald Trump
said that the internet is a dangerous Avenue okay to
radicalize disturbed minds. He was right, yeah. And he said,
remind us.
John C Dvorak: By the way, this is, this is why nobody listens
to CNN, yeah, it's just, like a big it's so juvenile. It's
Adam Curry: just trolling. That's my point.
John C Dvorak: Well, let's get to real trolling. Then, because
I have some clips, can
Adam Curry: I just say one thing? Can you say that
everything you want? Yeah, before you get to your clip,
what's the next piece of my sentence? Why did X take down
this guy's Twitter account? Who's this? Ryan Wesley, Roth,
guy. Why? I
John C Dvorak: didn't know you had an account. Oh
Adam Curry: yeah, he had a Facebook account that was taken
down, but he also had a Twitter account. Why? Why? Why don't we?
Why don't we get to
John C Dvorak: stuff up on Facebook too so the public can
examine it because
Adam Curry: someone told them to take it down. Yeah, so, but
isn't Elon all for I'm not taking down that tweet. No
Brazil. I'm not taking that down. Why does he? Why does this
taken down?
John C Dvorak: Gun to the head. Okay?
Adam Curry: Then he's not in control of it. That answers my
question.
John C Dvorak: Of course, he's gonna take it down. No. Why? Of
course, stuff's taken down. And you'd think, no,
Adam Curry: I know there's a lot more taken down, but that's not
the image he's portraying. You know, I have a Yeah, no, I don't
have jihad against him. Jihad, jihad, because it's it's okay.
John C Dvorak: These are musk donations.
Adam Curry: I don't care. I do. I do not care. I'd rather be
right than rich. And by the way, Dev,
John C Dvorak: you are. You got to the point, did you? Did you
throw away your Skylink connection. I've given money to
musk. You're actually paying him money, serious money. Do
Adam Curry: you know that the that the Starlink was the
Starlink star Do you know that it was out almost all day,
yesterday and and I couldn't figure it out. I mean, because I
have a monitor on it, like, why is this thing going down? What
is happening? What it it would come up. It would go down, come
up. I don't know. Yesterday,
John C Dvorak: okay?
Adam Curry: I have the answer.
John C Dvorak: Well, I, I would, if I was going to guess, I'd say
because we had some solar flare activity that was pretty nasty.
A
Unknown: powerful solar flare erupted from the sun, causing
radio blackouts across North America and the Pacific Ocean.
The flare was classified as an X 1.5 on the solar flare scale. An
X 1.5 flare can emit energy equivalent to billions of
hydrogen bombs. The flare caused radio communications to be
disrupted in the western United States and the Pacific Ocean,
yeah, yeah.
Adam Curry: And when I saw this, like, Oh, of course. But it
really, I mean, it had that thing going up and down all day.
I only have my bitcoin miners on it, so I lost money. Musk, but,
yeah, it's, it doesn't do well with solar flares. Nothing does,
yeah, but that also, that
John C Dvorak: particular one you're talking that this guy's
talking about, he has a Twitter feed talking about, yeah, yeah,
that it works. Basically a weather report
Adam Curry: on solar players, space weather, yeah, it's great,
and
John C Dvorak: it's really interesting, yeah, yeah. This
was, he predicted this was going to happen last a week ago. Yeah.
Oh, Sunday, yeah, yeah, Sunday was the big and he had photos.
It's actually fascinating, well, but it also screws up cell
service, everything,
Adam Curry: yeah, including setting off pagers,
Unknown: just saying,
John C Dvorak: you know, that's kind of interesting.
Unknown: You never know. Hey, man, I
John C Dvorak: can't get this thing to no one has suggested
that. That's the first time. I wouldn't have even thought of
it. But why not? Anything's possible. You got a bunch of
bombs walking around there and just boom, there to go.
Accidentally. We didn't mean to do it today. Man, nobody,
Adam Curry: all right, you had some trolling clips you wanted
to play. So we
John C Dvorak: have Hillary. I don't have the all of it, but
Hillary comes on Maddow show no
Adam Curry: for promoting her book, no doubt,
John C Dvorak: her 10th memoir. And so. And it's so pathetic to
listen to these two, and it's an annoying and so I managed to do
it
Unknown: good for you,
John C Dvorak: please. So I start off with this matter 37
seconds of her asking, begin asking a question. Leading the
witness and going on and on and on, but Hillary is a hateful
person that is just beyond the pale. But sorry, I'm sorry.
Let's listen to these clips. I wanted to
Unknown: ask you, as somebody who has a little bit of
experience in these things, you write extensively in the book
about not just not the experience of running against
Trump, but how you have felt since, and what you think about
where we are as a country in what is now, sort of the end of
this decade of Trump's influence in our politics. You sounded a
very, very hopeful note at the Democratic Convention. Do you
feel like Democrats and Americans in general, are
getting any better at sort of resisting his tricks, or
understanding what you see as the threat of his ascending to
power again.
Adam Curry: Oh, threat, threat, tricks, tricks, tricks and
threats, threats, tricks. So
John C Dvorak: this came at this whole interview you have to
remember, showed up on the air after the assassination, or the
Ruth guy showed up, and it was just tasteless, completely
tasteless. And here's Hillary coming back with her little
ditty. I think
Unknown: many Americans are Rachel, and I'm particularly
impressed by the many, many Republicans, people who served
in other Republican administrations, and especially
people who served in Trump's term as well, who are just
sounding the alarm. They're making their voices heard as
loudly as they can above the den, above all the distraction
and diversion that goes on in our political discourse right
now. So I do think many, many more people are being given the
opportunity to reject what Trump offers, what he represents, not
as many. The race is still too close. The electoral college is
still the big hurdle that has to be overcome. But I am very
hopeful and even optimistic that Americans who do not want to see
a continuation of this politics of hate and division will reject
Trump, and maybe some Republicans who know that they
can't vote for Trump will end up voting for the Harris waltz
ticket as well. You
Adam Curry: know, I, I have, I'm not going to play him, because
you have some that's tedious enough. I have MSNBC Morning Joe
clips with Hillary. I could not tell you. A, what the title of
her book is, or B, what's what it's about. All she's talking
about is Trump.
John C Dvorak: Well, the book is not about, well, I don't know
what the book see exactly.
Adam Curry: She's not promoting a book. Good point, yeah. Uh,
here
John C Dvorak: she continues. I think this is still her.
Unknown: I am struck by the fact that as his campaign, no, sorry,
what?
John C Dvorak: No, it's not this is mad out going on and on
again.
Unknown: I am struck by the fact that as his campaign careens
into very, very offensive terror, the association with
Holocaust deniers and the outrages at Arlington. Hello,
Adam Curry: 2015 what's the Holocaust denier thing? What is
that about? Do you even remember this? They
John C Dvorak: she tends to use stuff from 2015 2016 Lacoste
Unknown: deniers and the outrages at Arlington National
Cemetery of all places, the insults to recipients of the
Medal of Honor, the recent incredibly racist and dangerous
lies about specific groups of immigrants, Haitians in this
case, and Venezuelans in The case of Colorado. I am struck by
the fact that as much as we thought we might have been
inoculated against sort of outrage tactics like that, where
everything else gets thrown by the wayside and everybody starts
responding to his outrage du jour, it's a way of sort of
yanking everybody's chain. I sort of feel like we haven't
learned, and he's he's still being taught, especially by the
media, that the more offensive he is, the more he can dominate
the media space entirely. And I feel like you've, you've been a
good diagnosis of that, not only from when you were up against
him, but from what others have done. So do you have a an
antidote for that, or a way that people can talk themselves out
of taking that bait.
Adam Curry: Oh, oh, okay. Well, I'm sure Hillary has some great
advice for us.
John C Dvorak: This is considered, this is to be the
nut. This is the good clip. And it's like, this is, I think the
definition of insanity is to listen to this. I. And thank
Adam Curry: you for your courage.
Unknown: I think that's really a critical question, and I think
there's a couple of things going on here. You mentioned the
press, and sadly, the press is still not able to cover trump
the way that they should. They careen from one outrage.
Adam Curry: Why is Kareem now the word again,
Unknown: the impressions
John C Dvorak: bouncing out of control.
Unknown: Karine not able to cover trump the way that they
should. They careen from one outrage to the
Adam Curry: next the way that they should. Don't you know how
to cover the news. What was
Unknown: outrageous three days ago is no longer on the front
pages, even though it threatens the physical safety of so many
people, particularly as you point out, immigrants that he
and Vance have decided to demonize, yeah,
Adam Curry: because you were so, so good to the Haitians,
Hillary, you and Bill were You were great with Haiti. And
Unknown: I don't understand why it's so different
John C Dvorak: stealing their money. They stole their money,
stole
Adam Curry: their money, stole their money. That's it. Stole
their money. And
Unknown: I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press
to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is,
you know, the late, great journalist, Harry Evans.
Adam Curry: Uh huh, who was Harry Evans? Okay, so
John C Dvorak: I was going to take this out to try to tighten
this clip up, but
Adam Curry: it's important, I
John C Dvorak: guess. Well, Harry Evans is, no it's because
she because what she uses as an example is reminds me of the old
Deepak Chopra nonsense where he once says or the responsibility
is the ability to have a response. He said that once.
Adam Curry: But that's a Kamala Harris thing, and it's
John C Dvorak: a kind of idiotic, kind of deconstruction
of words that just is ridiculous. And so Terry Evans,
who was the kicked out as the editor in chief of The Times of
London once Rupert Murdoch bought it, was somewhat famous
in certain hoity toity circles. And here we go. Trump
Unknown: is, you know, the late, great journalist, Terry Evans,
you know, one time said that, you know journalists should, you
know, really try to achieve objectivity. And by that, he
said, I mean, they should cover the object. Well, the object, in
this case, is Donald Trump his demagoguery, his danger to our
country and the world and stick with it. You know, they were
merciless about what they saw as President Biden's, you know,
problems in the debate and calling for him to withdraw. I
believe Donald Trump has disqualified himself over and
over and over again to be a presidential candidate, let
alone a president.
Adam Curry: I'm disqualifying you from running for president.
John C Dvorak: She's an insane woman. Yeah, she is. Now I have
two more clips that really have nothing to do with that, but
they're more about how propaganda works and how the
left likes to, you know, notoriously, likes to change
language and meaning, yeah, and I just want to get these two out
of the way. The first one is the short shorty, and it reminds me,
if you remember I was on, on the on my high horse, about
Buttigieg when he said the same thing. This is the matto Clinton
clip five. Listen to this. Is only nine seconds, but listen to
this. They
Unknown: have to take Trump, both seriously and literally. He
has said what he wants to do he and his allies with Project
2025.
Adam Curry: Wow. Yeah, Buttigieg said the same thing, seriously
and literally.
John C Dvorak: Well, you have to take him both seriously and
literally, which is redundant,
Adam Curry: ah, but it's milieu speak.
John C Dvorak: I don't get it. And then then there's this. And
this is a matt This is the last clip. This is Matt o discussing.
This is, to me, a jaw dropper. You Why you before you play this
clip, we can all go online and look up the definition of
fascism, and we can look at letting, let's look at that
definition after we play this clip, which is another,
completely different definition of fascism that they're
promoting, and if you listen to it carefully, it's kind of a
subtext. As a Republicans, our
Unknown: next guest appears on page 27 of Secretary Clinton's
new book, where she cites his explanation of. Fascism. Quote
fascism, as Yale history professor Timothy Snyder put it.
Quote is, might over right, conspiracy over reality, fiction
over fact, pain over law, blood over love, Doom over hope.
Wow,
Adam Curry: wow. Okay, from Merriam Webster, fascism, a
political philosophy movement or regime that exalts nation and
often race above the individual, and that stands for a
centralized, autocratic government headed by a
dictatorial leader severe economic and social
regimentation and forcible suppression of opposition.
Sounds like we're living under that already, but for some
reason, for some reason, let me get that back fascism, as
Unknown: Yale history professor Timothy Snyder put it. Quote is,
might over right, conspiracy over reality, fiction over fact,
pain over law, blood over love, Doom over hope. You know
Adam Curry: what that reminds me of? Fear
Unknown: is freedom. Subjugation is liberation. Contradiction is
truth. Those are the facts of this world, and you will all
surrender to them. You kids in
Adam Curry: human clothing? Yes, there you go, pigs and human
clothing. That's how Rachel thinks of us. Wow.
John C Dvorak: Well, I can, and this is what Hillary quoted in
her book. Yeah, I think I might. This is unbelievable to me. This
is so communist. It's it's over the top. Well,
Adam Curry: while we're on definitions, this will be my
last clip before we do something different. Because, wow, this is
harsh for for everyone's ears, a definition of a stochastic
terrorism. I'd never, I'd never heard of the
John C Dvorak: term. I have it's, I've seen this term
stochastic terrorism,
Adam Curry: yeah, can you want to give it a shot?
John C Dvorak: I know. Okay. I every time I see it, I have to
look it up. Well,
Adam Curry: whenever I want to know the definition of
something, I of course go to joy Reid because, you know, I She's
a professor, clearly, in in all kinds of arts and humanities.
This is the best example of what you said. Ben yourself. Magic.
Copdur de heft,
Unknown: stochastic terrorism. Stochastic terrorism is when the
public demonization of a person or group of people through
ideologically driven hate speech increases the likelihood that
those people will be violently attacked and targeted because of
those vicious claims. It's when attacks on drag queens claiming
that they are grooming and sexualizing children lead to
drag shows being canceled because of bomb threats. It's
the right demonization of Speaker Nancy Pelosi that leads
to a deranged man breaking into a San Francisco home searching
for her so he can, quote, put her on trial and instead bashing
her husband's head in and of course, it's what JD Vance has
done to Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio.
Adam Curry: Isn't that amazing? She can't see what's really
going on with assassination attempts on a former president,
but oh, it's JD Vance, and she has another term for this,
Unknown: because, also a second term you need to know to
understand what these people are doing. And I promise you, I
promise you, I'm not making it up. It's called Dead catting,
making a shocking, dramatic and usually false claim to distract
from a more damaging story. It's like if a comedian threw a dead
cat onto the stage to divert attention from the fact that
he's
Adam Curry: bombing. How meta is this clip, she is literally dead
catting to distract from the fact that stochastic terrorism
is being exhorted on the former president by saying JD Vance
talking about cats is the real problem. What is going on? This
is some deep, deep psychological warfare this lady is doing, and
she doesn't even know it.
John C Dvorak: I don't think she does either. It's
Adam Curry: great, though. It's like, wow, wow. Meanwhile and
this and we got to take a break, but residents of Chicago. Thank
god they're not watching CNN, thank God they're not watching
MSNBC, thank God they're not on Twitter. For all I care, they've
got it straight when their ward what's the what's the ward
president? What you call that the ward master? What's his
name?
John C Dvorak: The war is the ward master. The
Adam Curry: ward the ward master. The ward master said,
hey, guess what, kids, we're gonna have a shelter here for
immigrants. You know, the irregular kind.
Unknown: We're going to have a shelter at this particular
location.
Adam Curry: Can. Comes the chant,
yeah, there you go. Finally, you work for us. This is the chant
that needs to be going on everywhere. Don't you think
people have forgotten this you work for us. It's that simple.
And with that, as we're working for you, members of no agenda
nation, I'd like to thank you for your courage. Say in the
morning to you, the man who put the sea in the careening all
over the place, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one
and only. Mr. John C demoraz,
John C Dvorak: tomorrow. In the morning, you Mr. Adam curry. In
the morning, all the ships at sea, boots on the ground,
ourselves in the water, the Dames and the nights out there.
Adam Curry: Hello, hello, hello, trolls.
Unknown: Don't move.
Adam Curry: All right. Our peak today was 2056 trolls in the
troll room. This is where you say low.
Unknown: That's super high.
Adam Curry: Oh, I'm so lost. I have no idea. Is that high? 2056
John C Dvorak: it would be, it would be normal for Sunday. This
is Thursday. Yeah, right now. Or at work, they have things to do.
Adam Curry: Oh, you know what they have to do. They're like,
what are the boys saying? Help me calm down. What's Diddy
Steen? I don't know. What's happening with with the shooter.
What's going on? Everybody exploding pagers. That's why
we're here. We're here to keep your amygdalas in check and to
bring you a little bit of humor from time to time, and those
massive amounts of trolls who, that's right, who are not doing
anything at work. Obviously, they're listening
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segment, seeing as we have exactly one executive producer.
I'm not sure exactly what happens, but this is probably
something happened. This is probably the lowest amount of
donations we've seen in Thursday
John C Dvorak: for, I'd say five years,
Adam Curry: for five years, really, for a Thursday, hmm?
John C Dvorak: And you know, what's interesting is there's
not one, which is, I don't know if it's got, what has to do with
it, but there's not one stripe donation in the whole pile, hmm.
Does it still work? Well, I
Adam Curry: think it will. We don't know. We don't know. I
mean, maybe we've been deplatformed, debanked.
John C Dvorak: It's possible, you think could happen.
Adam Curry: So we run it on value for value. It was actually
kind of funny. We're talking about it the other day. You
know, we have Linda Lou patkin, who, who, every single show, she
donates, I think, $200 and and she's she always thanks us for
the show, and she says, Hey, I've got a business here. Now,
do you know what that would cost with the amount of listeners we
have if you were to buy a spot, a commercial, an
John C Dvorak: ad? I mean, in so far as CPM is concerned, yes,
Adam Curry: the cost per mil, as it were, yes, yes, 4000 Yeah. So
at today's rates, that would be $2,000
Unknown: that's pretty incredible.
Adam Curry: It's a steal, and I'm sure she's there again
today. We'll find out. But first in our value for value, which is
time, talent and treasure, we want to thank people who
contribute to the show in other ways. What? What? No, what,
John C Dvorak: what? It's just that she's there, and so is Eli,
and that's it, plus our one guy. This is like three people total,
Adam Curry: yeah, yeah. Well, I guess we screwed up. What did we
do wrong? Well,
John C Dvorak: I. I'm saying there's something amiss,
Adam Curry: obviously. No, well, I don't know. I mean, it's hey,
if, if people get value out of the show, they will send value
back. And if there's other things going on their life or
whatever, maybe they're all, uh, on Twitter. Got other thing? I
gotta be on Twitter. Yeah, I gotta, we gotta tell someone
they're wrong.
Unknown: Go Elon.
Adam Curry: We love the time, talents and treasure that people
offer back to the show. Just telling someone to listen to, I
do see that a lot on on Twitter, people say, Hey, you should
listen to no agenda show. And from time to time, I see someone
say, Okay, I'll check it out, usually followed by, oh, man.
And then they try it again, and they come back. And then they
start to like it, because we know, we know for almost 17
years, Episode, 1700s coming up, our 17th anniversary in October,
four more years help us get through it. We have artists who
are hands down, all of them Dutch masters, and many of them
are using CGI. I'm just going to keep using that. Many of them
using CGI to create artwork. I'm not so sure about the one that
we chose for Sunday's Show, Episode 1695, we titled it
pronoun journey. Carter came in first time. Artist wins. Right
off the bat. This
John C Dvorak: is the only second time in the history of
the show that at one shot, artist won right out of the
chute. Yes, and you
Adam Curry: can see at no agenda, Art generator.com you
can see all the submissions, and you can see what what each
artist has done. And thank you, Sir Paul couture, for
maintaining that as part of your value. Back to the show. Now we
were, of course, thinking of naming the show transcestor,
because it came up and, like, that's a great title. You even
said show title. But then when this art came up, which was
George Washington trans with the with the word transcessor in it,
it was just too good to pass up. And do you think this, this has
to be computer generated, don't you think? Oh,
John C Dvorak: absolutely, yeah. I mean, because I would say
that, because Carter, although it seems to be a guy who can
really do the trick, this would take too long to render by hand
in the time allotted, allotted this. This was done at the end
of the show.
Adam Curry: Now, data tried it, but he just, he just had, you
know, some rando,
John C Dvorak: Yeah, isn't that the guy who won the Euros Song
Contest? Might be
Adam Curry: it was too, too random.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, George Washington was the way to go.
Abe Lincoln. It
Adam Curry: was great. Hey, I bet you you couldn't have done
it with Martin Luther King. I bet you the the computer would
have rejected it.
John C Dvorak: Good point. I bet you 10 bucks. Yeah, probably
Adam Curry: Oh, he can't do that. That's no good. What was
cute is we had a couple of people picking up on your your
hitchhiking story. So a lot of Ford Mustangs with the with
cheesecake girls hitchhiking by the side of the road. Yeah.
Those were cute.
John C Dvorak: Those were cute. There was, there was one on what
we were gonna mention, sir shugs Loomer screwball Curry was
rejected. It was a nice piece, but we stopped accepting
crackpot and buzzkill solely. Yeah, have that if you had
Dvorak and curry, but not just straight up. Crackpot and
buzzkill is not acceptable.
Adam Curry: Yeah, yeah. Kind of broke the rules. And then comic
strip blogger had some lewd stuff that was never going to
make it, but I guess he just thought that was funny, and lots
more computer generated imagery. I think that was, it wasn't it.
Think that was, yeah, pretty much about it. There was a
pillow silence. Nestworks was a decent try, but I don't think
anyone got it. My pillow guy being shut up. Oh man, I can
already see what the theme of the show is for the art the that
we're gonna have to choose from lot of pagers, okay, we
appreciate the work that every single one of these artists do.
You can be one of them, and we'll gladly tell you why we
didn't pick you, or we might pick you. You never know. I it
was great to see this brand new guy coming. Let me just check
if, if Carter has done anything since then. Let me see I look at
his artist profile. Oh, yeah, he's tired. No, no, he he has
another piece.
John C Dvorak: I have to say something about the hitchhiking,
yes, which I observed, yes, uh, because correct a record has a
AI hitchhiker with their thumb up in the air, sticking straight
up. There was something during that era that was always
interesting, is that Americans, when they hitchhike and use
their thumb, they point in the direction that they're going.
Yes, that's true, and Europeans always point in the direction of
the. Oncoming car with the thumb is that they point that they
pointed the thumb in the wrong direction.
Adam Curry: Hitchhiking was never a thing in Europe. In
Europe, well, if it was, then you just have a sign it was.
That's probably why it was a Berlin.
John C Dvorak: You got the thumb in the wrong direction,
Adam Curry: no, and I'm talking 70s, maybe when I saw that maybe
once or twice, but it was always Berlin, you know, and that would
be it. Hitchhiking was not a thing, because we have trains,
you know, we have this service in Europe. Didn't need to
hitchhike
John C Dvorak: anyway. It was just, it was a it was a fad.
Adam Curry: It was until, uh, there must have been some movie
where maybe I was in a movie, or, I mean, it fell out of favor
because it got deemed as very dangerous, if I can recall, and,
and I'm thinking, was it some movie about a hitchhiker that
got horribly killed? Or
John C Dvorak: this somebody in the in the troll room might
know,
Adam Curry: I can kind of remember, there was some, some
movie that, Oh, you shouldn't be hitchhiking. Is very dangerous.
Anyway. It's time to thank some of our producers. We appreciate
anybody who sends anything back to the show, because obviously
it helps us pay well, it doesn't help. It pays our bills. So
anything that that you can afford that equals the value
that you receive from our show. Maybe we just calmed you down.
Maybe you got a business idea. Some people somehow, oddly
enough, get stock tips, even though we rarely even talk about
anything, but just from the meta, macro perspective of
things, and we'd like to thank our executive and Associate
Executive producers in a special segment, just like Hollywood
does, usually at the opening credits or certainly before the
end credits come into play. And we have one executive producer,
the deal is $200 and above. Associate Executive Producer, we
read your note, $300 and above. Executive Producer, Adam
Frederick from Orange Vermont comes in with 333 33 and he has
a note which is written on when holds Texaco service. Looks like
a receipt. Do you think this is like a receipt that you get at
the gas
John C Dvorak: station, or a notepad from this garage at
third and walnut streets, and he also has a different attribution
of where he's from. Yeah, per
Adam Curry: Cassie. So he says, Thank you for the news,
deconstruction and analysis. If I think of a more clever letter,
I'll send it later to notes at no agenda show.net.net,
John C Dvorak: best regards. And I'm not sure if he's promoting
when holds Texaco service on third and Walnut Street or not,
Adam Curry: I'm not sure, because he's now of pocassey and
not orange, so he probably just had that laying around and
thought it was cute, which is good, and we appreciate it. So
John C Dvorak: yeah, but they're also the Texaco services in per
Cassie.
Adam Curry: Oh, it is, yeah, look at this. Oh, you're right.
You're right, bro. So maybe it is, hey, if you're in perca
Vermont, go check out when holds Texaco service at third and
walnut streets. Thank you. Adam Frederick, our sole executive
producer, Episode 1696
John C Dvorak: Yes, I find that peculiar. I'm gonna go jump to
Linda lupatkin, because she's already up there, because we
only have three people in this segment for whatever reason. And
she wants jobs karma. And for a resume that gets results, go to
imagemakers inc.com, the go to for all your executive resume
and job search needs is a $2,000 worth of publicity. That's image
makers Inc with the k.com with Linda. Or get a whole Linda Lou
Duchess of jobs and a writer of resumes. Yeah,
Adam Curry: and work with Linda Lou Duchess of jobs and writers.
Unknown: Jobs, jobs and jobs, let's vote for jobs,
Adam Curry: and our final Associate Executive producer is
Eli the coffee guy, bensonville, Illinois, 209. 19. He says the
newsletter mentions of a gas stove made me laugh. One of my
friends who was all in on the narrative recently, you want to
explain what you want to explain? What you put in the
newsletter about the gas stoves? I
John C Dvorak: put a headline that because California is going
to try to propagandize the public to hating gas stoves. Of
course, this is the sell more electricity, which we which has
already put those big there's already a burden on the electric
grid because of the cars, electric cars, but now they want
to get rid of gas. And I think it's just, I don't know who's
behind it, but the idea, I think, is so when they do
subdivisions, they don't have to dig the trenches for the gas
lines. That, I think is the real reason behind it, not because
it's killing anybody. I mean, everyone would be dead in
restaurants. They have nothing but. Gas stoves running full
tilt all over the place. By the by this argument, is this carbon
monoxide? Well, again, a carbon monoxide detector. I've never
had an issue.
Adam Curry: Eli goes on to say, one of my friends who was all in
on the narrative, recently argued that outlawing outlawing
gas stoves would help fight climate change and that I was
slowly poisoning my family with carbon monoxide by cooking with
one. I guess it's cumulative, ironic, since she also has a gas
stove. And although I love my gas stove when it comes to
coffee roasting, electric is the way to go. Coffee roasted on
electric air roaster tastes better using convection heat
overconduction. Visit gigawatt Coffee roasters.com, and taste
the air roasted difference and use discount code. ITM 20 for
20% off your order and stay caffeinated. Says Eli, the
coffee guy, I'm surprised you don't have Diddy's lube supply
as an Associate Executive Producer today, because that's
it. That is yes, one exec to associate executives, we will be
thanking more people. It was, it was just very few. In general,
is you're right? I don't see any stripe donations, hmm, I don't
know lots to see what
John C Dvorak: happens come in. Who knows possible?
Adam Curry: Any big anything is possible. Anything is possible
is
John C Dvorak: anything could have been the solar flare? Yeah,
there you
Adam Curry: go. Blame it on the flare and the boogie. We'll be
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And thank you for being supporters of episode 1696
Unknown: our formula is this. We go out, we hit people in the
mouth.
Adam Curry: I did one of those on the curry and the keeper, and
then Tina was listening to the show later, she said, Hey, you
didn't edit that out. I said, Of course not. That's the whole
thing. People love hearing how this is made. Yeah, that's how
the sausage is made. Now in any other podcast, oh no, I didn't
sound very professional there. Let me go back and fix the
John C Dvorak: head as I had a moment where I said, um, that
out,
Adam Curry: take out the ums. Yes, indeed. Um, can I move to
John C Dvorak: I'm gonna, you gotta request. Yes, you gotta
stop. I have a request, request of you in particular. Uh oh, I
like that fake podcast so much in terms of his laughable
qualities that I think we should make a make it doesn't have to
be every show, but I think every so often to play one of these
fake AI podcasts would be kind of funny. Okay, mentioning to
you, because I don't even know where you got those
Adam Curry: things. Well, the way you make it is notebook, LM,
anybody this is what we should ask for our producers, because
you're asking me something. I'm like, work. No, not extra work.
Anybody who uses notebook LM, which, I don't know if that's
free or not. I don't have it. You just drag a couple of text
files in there and, say, make a podcast. In fact, comics, your
blogger, this is your chance, man. Because I agree. It sounded
so hokey. It was it was great. It was cute. Yes, I got Clip of
the Day. Didn't I get Clip of the Day for it? Yes, you did.
That's good. That's good. Yes, I wanted to move to Europe for a
moment because there's been a shake up.
Unknown: A shake up.
Adam Curry: Let me see the shake up is now, this is very
interesting. So Ursula von der Leyen, known as Queen Ursula, in
circles of no agenda, was reelected to be the queen of the
European Union for another five years. And somehow the. Because,
you know, it's a democracy, she just decides to change the whole
structure of the Starfleet Command. There's no more vice
presidents in each different area. It's just, you know, it's
just, they're not ministers, but they're managers. I guess, of
certain areas, she's reshuffled the areas, and she just decided
who should be in those spots based upon gender. Europe,
you're in trouble. Listen to this,
Unknown: the European Wait, yeah.
John C Dvorak: Wait before you now, she was a famous politician
that's been elected over and over by the general public.
Before she got these, these jobs at the she was
Adam Curry: basically kicked out of the, I think she wasn't she
defend economics or something.
John C Dvorak: She's never been elected to anything. No, no. Oh,
she's just a Yeah, okay.
Adam Curry: She's the queen, though, think
Unknown: of the European Commission, like the EU's civil
service, or the executive with three main jobs to put forward
policies and legislation, to make sure the legislation is
followed and to manage the EU's budget. That
Adam Curry: seems like a job elected officials should do, but
for some reason, she just gets to appoint them, and then the
representatives of the people get to say, Okay, it's
Unknown: led by this woman, the president Ursula von der Leyen,
who's starting another five year term in office. On Tuesday, she
announced her top team of commissioners and vice
presidents, 27 in total, each nominated by an EU country and
what jobs they're doing. First thing to note, 40% of the new
commissioners are women. That's up significantly after the
president forced some member states to nominate them. Instead
of men, six executive
vice presidents, I assigned four women and two men. So you
recall, the share of the college is 40% women, 60% men. We flip
this.
Secondly, the most influential jobs went to Italy, Spain and
France, overseeing industrial strategy, competition policy and
the green transition, plus the single market for
that, we want to build a competitive, decarbonised and
structural economy.
Adam Curry: Competitive decarbonized and circular sounds
like a tasty vegan donut. For
Unknown: that, we want to build a competitive, decarbonized and
circular economy with a fair transition for all, we will only
be able to do that when, if we design a bold industrial
strategy with innovation and investment at its heart.
Adam Curry: Now, this was so egregious. This just determining
that she wanted to have certain roles played by women and other
roles by men that Thierry Breton, he's the guy who was
threatening Elon Musk to, you know, hey, you get you getting
in trouble if you don't stop that election interference or
whatever it was. He resigned. He rage quit. He says you're doing
this for your personal, you know, personal agendas. And
you've told my country, France, you told them to, you know, that
you want a woman. He didn't. I didn't think he said woman, but
it was clear, and he rage quit over it. And of course, no one
cares. So here's the second part of this announcement.
Unknown: Finally, there's a new role. Lithuania's Andreas
Kubilius will be in charge of Defense and Space. It's his job
to persuade EU countries to pull their defense spending and get
more bang for their buck. Very first step, that's
Adam Curry: kind of funny, defense spending more bang for
your buck. His
Unknown: job to persuade EU countries to pull their defense
spending and get more bang for their buck.
The very first step that we did is deducted from the political
guidelines to define our core priorities, and they are built
as you know, and it's no ranking around prosperity, security,
democracy. This is the overarching these are the
overarching topics. All of
the nominees need final approval from the European Parliament,
which will take weeks the President von der Leyen
selection mirrors a difficult juggling act, providing support
to Ukraine, improving European defense and reshaping the EU's
economy to compete with China and the US, while at the same
time presiding over a bloc that is more right wing and more
skeptical about Brussels power. I'm
Adam Curry: telling you, the people of Europe should revolt
over this. This is an outrage today. It's an outrage. Yeah,
and just I pulled a 44 second clip of her trying to convince
everybody that now more security, which is basically it.
A war machine. More war machine is good for the climate. The
treaty says
Unknown: very clearly, each member of the college is equal,
and each commissioner has an equal responsibility to deliver
on our priorities. That means that all commissioners must work
together, and it is in this spirit that each Executive Vice
President will also have a portfolio to focus on, for which
they will have to work with other commissioners. So
Adam Curry: she just changed the way it works. Not a problem.
It's a democracy. So
Unknown: in simple words, what affects security also affects
the economy. What affects climate or environment also
affects people, and vice versa, the business community. And you
can can go on with that.
Adam Curry: Run for the hills Europe. Run for run to Hungary.
Do something. Man, she is crazy. Absolutely, I don't understand
how. I mean, clearly it's, it must be legal. But it just
doesn't make any sense.
Unknown: These people.
John C Dvorak: Oh, they do. They like to fall into this sort of
kind of one man rule, one woman rules thing. I have a couple of
clips from China. Actually, we've just stay in Europe. Did I
have I thought had a Ukrainian keeping the
Adam Curry: mic, John, you're drifting.
John C Dvorak: Let's go to China, because the China economy
is tanking. Whoops, the
Unknown: Chinese Communist Party's economy is tanking. But
how is that offset by their nonmarket business practices,
and what will happen if it's left unchecked? Entity's
Washington correspondent Jack Bradley has more from Capitol
Hill
countering the Chinese Communist Party's technology sector. This
was a topic of discussion at a panel on Capitol Hill on
Wednesday. They discussed what would happen if the Chinese
regime's unfair business practices were left unchecked,
the US
John C Dvorak: economic thinking is really oriented around one
thing, and that's allocation efficiency. The Chinese system
is not oriented. They don't care about that. What they care about
first and foremost, is dominating advanced industries
that
Unknown: are global and lead to power.
The event was hosted by the Washington based think tank,
Information Technology and Innovation foundation. One of
the panelists, Rick Switzer, the former director of the State
Department, said, the US needs to create industrial policy that
is self reliant, rather than sourcing globally or being out
competed by China's highly subsidized products. And so if
we wait for a world where a Taiwan invasion happens and that
hoping that that will break us out of our stupor,
it will have already been too late. But war over Taiwan will
will mean the collapse of the US industrial ecosystem.
I agree with that. I
John C Dvorak: Yeah. But of course, if the ecosystem
collapses, the US industrial ecosystem collapses, so does
China's Yeah, we're so
Adam Curry: integrally, intimately intertwined, yeah,
what when they say it's on the verge of collapse? What does
that really mean? I mean, what does that thing? It's just
words. It's just
John C Dvorak: words. Okay, there's part two.
Unknown: Keynote speaker, Congressman John Molinar, who's
the Chair of the House Select Committee on the CCP, said he
used to think that economic engagement with the Chinese
regime will lead to more freedom in the country, but it turned
out the opposite was true, and
from the militarization of the South China Sea to unabashed
economic coercion and market manipulation flooding our
communities with fentanyl, the Chinese Communist Party has
shown its true colors.
The bipartisan House Select Committee on the CCP has
released over 150 recommendations on how to
counter the Chinese Communist Party. This may be one of the
few areas of bipartisan agreement that we see in
Congress.
Adam Curry: Well, so they agree on something, yeah, hmm. I mean,
I'm sorry, I
John C Dvorak: was just gonna say before you ask me, why don't
you play this clip, which is from NHK about the China real
estate collapse?
Adam Curry: Yeah, that have been following. New
Unknown: home prices are down in over 95% of major Chinese cities
surveyed. China's National Bureau of Statistics said on
Saturday, the prices fell in August from the previous month
in 67 of 70 major cities. That's one more than the 66 saw
declines in July. Prices rose month on month in two cities and
remained unchanged in one. Looking at the biggest cities,
prices edged up by 0.6% in Shanghai, but dropped in
Shenzhen by 0.8% and by 0.5% in. Jin and Guangzhou, smaller
regional cities, saw an average decline of 0.8% steps taken by
the government, such as purchasing unsold homes have
failed to reverse the property slump. Observers are waiting to
see if the government takes further action. All
Adam Curry: right, so now compare that to us. We just had
a 50 basis point cut. I have not heard the latest DH unplugged. I
don't know what if you guys predicted 50
John C Dvorak: bits? No, we both kind of pushed toward 25
Adam Curry: so what does this mean? Does that mean the economy
is in worse shape than than being lied about? Or
John C Dvorak: is it being lied about.
Adam Curry: Or is it to create more money? Or what is that?
What is it about that's what
John C Dvorak: kind of the market is thinking. Is thinking,
well, 25 Wait a minute. Why are they doing we kind of thought
they were gonna lie. The consensus
Adam Curry: was 25 was 25 right? No, that
John C Dvorak: that flipped. Oh, like days before. No, it was, it
was most people thought was going to be 50. Oh, yes, I was
kind of a surprise to me too. And so, so the market goes, Oh,
great, we get this cheaper money. Oh, wait a minute, that's
set telling us that this bidenomics isn't working and the
economy's going down the tubes. I don't know. What should I buy?
Should I sell? It's caused a dilemma,
Adam Curry: and I guess was it four more cuts before the end of
the year being announced,
John C Dvorak: this mystery, black magic.
Adam Curry: BlackRock magic is what that is. BlackRock magic.
Meanwhile, as we suspected, the Save act did not pass, and
therefore neither did the continuing resolution, oh no, 13
days until the lights go out. Just over
Unknown: an hour ago, Republicans killed their own
bill to fund the government. House Speaker Mike Johnson tied
the funding to the Save act requiring citizenship to vote,
which is, of course, already law of the land punishable by
felony,
Adam Curry: and he did so at the back. I never heard that. What
is that nonsense? What
John C Dvorak: this is the Democrats talking point. It goes
the following, why do we need that law? Because we already,
it's already a law that you can't do that. We only it. So
I'm not going to vote for it. The Democrats pull this stunt
all the time. They always throw in these gratuitous laws about
usually involving abortion, and they put something in some
document, and the Republicans rebuke it. This is just
gamesmanship, but politicking as usual, yeah, oh no, it's hard.
Nobody's my the two talking points I keep hearing over and
over again is, oh, it's already against the law. You have to be
a citizen to vote, so I don't see what the problem is. And the
other one is, oh, the number of fraud, the amount of fraud and
the national elections, is so minuscule you can barely count
it.
Adam Curry: It's not a grand scale at all. Well, when these
types of issues come to light, we need to bring out the Crypt
Keeper
Unknown: House Speaker Mike Johnson tied the funding to the
Save act requiring citizenship to vote, which is, of course,
already law of the land punishable by felony. And he did
so at the behest of Donald Trump, who totally replicans
agree to a continued
resolution. Yeah. Sorry,
John C Dvorak: punishable by felony.
Adam Curry: Is that what he said, Yeah,
John C Dvorak: I said it's punishable by felony. That's
right. No, it's a felony and it's punishable, but it's not
punishable by felony.
Unknown: Of course, already law the land punishable by felony.
Adam Curry: Yeah, this Chris Matthews being Come on. He's
excited because
John C Dvorak: that's not Chris Matthews. That's
Adam Curry: no Chris, Chris Hayes. Hayes, yes, he's excited
because the crypt keepers on the line,
Unknown: and he did so at the behest of Donald Trump, who told
Republicans not to agree to a continuing resolution to fund
the government without it, but enough Republicans voted against
it anyway, defeating their own plan for a short term funding
bill 13 days before government shutdown. I'm joined now by
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, democratic California.
Adam Curry: Emerita, please. Speaker Emerita, we can't say
emeritus anymore, because you know, that's misgendering.
Speaker Emerita join now,
Unknown: by the way, when
John C Dvorak: did this ever happen? Anyone ever called this
anyway? I've never heard it. There's all kinds of ex speakers
here and there. They don't call them on merit our America.
Adam Curry: No, they usually say former Speaker of the House.
Yeah,
John C Dvorak: that would be more, yes, gender neutral. It
would be white, poloy bullcrap. We've
Adam Curry: already been through this. I'm Adam curry. VJ
emeritus. We've already been through this. This is our titles
now. John C Dvorak, columnist Emeritus, 13
Unknown: days before Governor shutdown, I'm joined now by
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, democratic California. We. What?
What do you make of today's vote? Well,
I think it's an example of ineptitude, but it's also an
example of the President, former president, being a puppeteer,
telling the Republicans in the House that they must shut down
government.
Adam Curry: The people don't control the representatives
Trump controls them.
John C Dvorak: It's all Trump, and
Unknown: that's usually does shiny lights on his puppet
strings, so they really look bad. But the fact is, I'm an
appropriator, and that's where a budget bill comes from. The
preparations committee, Laura was our leader on the House
side, and we've always said, left to their own devices, the
Democrats and Republicans on the Appropriations Committee can
find a compromise, a solution. You just have to want to do
that. Apparently, the Republican leadership in the House has
decided they don't want to leave it up to the appropriators, who
know the legislation very well, and they want to leave it up to
Donald Trump, who doesn't, but who wants to shut down
government, which would be a tragedy?
Adam Curry: Yeah, because, of course, everyone
John C Dvorak: wants a horrible tragedy. Well, what never
happened before? We've been doing this show for almost 17
years, even though we still don't get any money. Apparently,
we've been doing the show for almost where's your
appropriations? And this has not happened, like, over and over
and over again. Yeah.
Adam Curry: Now Trump did post on truth social. Truth social,
he posted, we can't let them get away with it. We can't let them
have illegals like this law is going to stop anything. I don't
see how this bill will stop anything. You know, the the
people who have, uh, come out, well,
John C Dvorak: I'll protect the elections. The bill's not
designed to stop anything. It's designed to get the Democrats to
vote no on it. So you can point the finger. Look, they want
illegals to vote
Adam Curry: yes. Yeah, correct, correct. And it was Massey who
said, this is a stupid he says, I'm not going to be a thespian
in this theater. I mean, this seems like
Unknown: a situation which there's broad bipartisan
consensus to pass a continuing resolution fund the government
and avoid a shutdown. And
Adam Curry: by the way, Massey's right. We shouldn't be doing
these continuing resolutions. It's there were 12 bills they
should have voted on, maybe more. They should have just
voted on them instead of horsing around.
Unknown: But Donald Trump is obsessed with this piece of
legislation, which essentially is a kind of
institutionalization of The Big Lie rant on his social media,
including many things that they don't have to get the Save act.
He accuses Democrats falsely of registering illegal voters by
the 10s of 1000s as we speak, and he calls the shutdown so
this, this is both. He wants them to shut the government down
so that they could promote the big lie, basically,
well,
the big lie?
John C Dvorak: What is the big lie
Adam Curry: that the election was stolen?
John C Dvorak: What's that got to do is shutting down the
government? Hey,
Adam Curry: we got to fill air time. It's Nancy Pelosi on the
line. His
Unknown: lips were moving. He was lying, and that's just the
way it is. He sometimes doesn't even know what he's talking
about, and other times he just makes it up as he goes along.
But it's really a tragedy, and I just only wish they would leave
it up to the Congress to pass the legislation that is
necessary to keep government open. He's not even in the
government, and yet he wants to shut it down.
Adam Curry: He wants to she's not even in the government. He
wants to shut it down. This man is no good. Unfortunately, it
turns out that Kamala Harris is also no good. We have to choose
between the worst of two. No goods, even Dana Bash is tired
of it. When
Unknown: you listen to Kamala Harris and what she will do, you
can almost start a drinking game every time she says, small
businesses. Let
me let me give you an example. Part of
my plan under my economic opportunity plan going forward,
is that, right now, startup entrepreneurs, small businesses,
only get a tax deduction of $5,000 nobody can start small
business with $5,000 so I'm expanding that to $50,000
understanding again, that when people have the opportunity to
have the resources to get started, they're going to put
the good ideas, they're going to put the hard work into it.
Describe the
politics of that. She says that she also talks about being a
middle class kid. That's also the front of her answers. If you
look at the interviews they've been doing local media, and
they've opened up a bit more since the debate. The first
question is often, what are you going to do to lower prices,
which is a very hard question for an incumbent party to
answer, and it has implicate implications that are very
Trumpian. It is. Trump says he's going to do mass deportation
that will decrease demand. Trump says he'll explore more energy
that'll decrease energy costs. Democrats can point to the fact
that inflation is actually it was bad two years ago. It's not
now good. People want to hear is, how do you make the prices
go down? So everything she says is something realistic that
could survive a fact check that answers a very hard question.
There is not a plan to say, to say that we're going to lower
the cost of your grocery bill to what it was in 2019 there was a
pandemic, there was a money, money supply inflation. You
can't hit the button that makes that go away. But Trump has an
answer that gets them through these questions. And Harris, I
think, with a different set of incentives and a different
relationship to something she can back up in the policy paper.
She doesn't have an answer, so she goes to a larger Well,
imagine a future where there are more businesses and this starts
to ameliorate.
Adam Curry: Yes, imagine a future so it's not good when CNN
is talking about drinking games on your talking points, and
Martha Raddatz, oh, man, she got mad, and she got mad and she
didn't have Kamala there to get mad at, because, you know,
that's obviously sacrilegious, but Massachusetts governor Maura
Healey got the full frontal assault from a mad Martha.
Unknown: I want to ask you about her comments about the military.
She said during the debate this about the US military, let's
listen,
as of today, there is not one member of the United States
military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war
zone around the world. The first time this century, our
fact checkers found that to be false, and I have a lot of
experience in that area as well. There are currently 900 US
military personnel in Syria. 2500 US troops in Iraq, all have
been under regular threat from drones and missiles for months.
We also have action in the Red Sea. We also, every single day,
the Navy SEALs, Delta forces, special operators can be part of
it.
Adam Curry: Sounds like her son is in the special ops or
something. She's getting worked up over this,
Unknown: any sort of deadly raid. So why would she make that
claim?
Adam Curry: What say you
Unknown: I think what's important here, Martha is that
Kamala Harris, in contrast to Donald Trump, demonstrated
herself to be commander in chief. We are in a world where
there are all sorts of conflicts. What reason we
somebody who serious and who supports the military? Just
remember,
Governor, excuse me, but she said there is not one member of
the United States military who is an active duty in a combat
zone. That is not true. You say she demonstrated her ability to
be commander in chief. But did she not know about these people
in Syria and Iraq? Why would she say that? Look, that
was a comment. That was a comment in a debate. I think the
point that she was trying to make was a broader point. And of
course, we have military in place all around this country.
You're not a
Adam Curry: very good surrogate. Get out
John C Dvorak: of here. Get off and then she says all around
this country, yes, this
Adam Curry: is the best that's us. Yeah, may have this
military,
John C Dvorak: have you? So we're an active Yes, we
Adam Curry: are correct. We are a war zone. There was this great
video I saw on telegram. Then it's being filmed the debate. So
it's shot from behind some heads. You probably saw it,
yeah. And then she says, Oh, there's no one in active
military. And then they flip the camera around. It's all these
dudes sitting in a tent, in some in some desert somewhere, going,
wow. What about us? Yeah, but that, but, you know, that's
Martha Raddatz, ABC. The debate was on ABC, no fact checking
there.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that's kind of interesting. And
Adam Curry: you know this, I think it was Dan or bash, you
know, talking about the
Unknown: future, something's up.
Adam Curry: Oh yeah, no. Well, Trump needs to win. Trump needs
to win. That's why, 50 basis points. Because let's
John C Dvorak: go back to the Ruth guy. How about this? Oh
guys, MK, Ultra, he was never meant to shoot. And the reason
that the, oh, the super observant, uh, Secret Service
guy, because they was just they let they knew he was there. As
soon as he stuck the gun out, they took a couple of pot shots.
The whole thing was a setup, just to make it look like
another assassination attempt. And the whole thing was just to
get more attention to Trump.
Adam Curry: I think it's very plausible. It's plausible
because the
John C Dvorak: guy's an idiot, this Ruth guy, yeah, we've seen
his interviews in the after the fact, and he's apparently, when
they took him into court, he's laughing, yucking it up, like
he's got it made or something, or he did the right thing or
something, that he felt like
Adam Curry: the Manchurian Candidate who was also totally
and when they arrested him, Manchurian Candidate, I wonder
what His trigger word was. Maybe, maybe we could use a
trigger word and might activate some MK Ultra people,
John C Dvorak: yeah, and tell them to donate.
Adam Curry: That's the trigger word, Donate.
Unknown: Donate.
Adam Curry: Um, I picked this up from. A the guy on Tiktok, Chad
o Jackson, and I was thinking of just telling you this story, but
he put it together so well. It's only a minute and a half that I
figured I'd just use his audio. Because this one, I mean, we've,
we know about the Joy Division and the, you know, the although
never used, the whole concept of joy, is kind of a Goebbels esque
type of, yeah, and what was the other one? Strength through joy,
although they never used it, it's all implied and just the
joy word. But there's other things she says which come
directly from the Communist Party, and Chatto Jackson puts
it together, and
Unknown: we are not going back.
America is ready for a new way forward. We are not going back.
We together will chart a new way forward. We're not going back
together. We'll move forward.
We're not going back forward together, folks, this has
literally been the slogan of the Communist Party for the past 10
years. I'm not even joking. If you go to the Communist Party
USA website, three years ago, communist co chair Rosanna
Cambron literally wrote an article titled, we're not going
back forward together. Rosanna is a communist to and through
and she's unashamed of it. That's
how we communists work. This is how you build that movement
that's going to be the massive movement that we need to topple
capitalism. It's
not a coincidence that this just so happens to be Kamala Harris's
campaign slogan, nor did she plagiarize it from the Communist
Party. Communists have long acted as the kind of ideological
undergird of the Democrat party here in the United States, and
Kamala Harris is just a continuation of that.
Together, together,
we'll move forward again. For the past decade, communists have
been given speeches all over the country where they have the
banner we're not going back, plastered behind them. Chicago
has produced more outstanding
communist leaders, maybe than any other place around in a lot
of ways. So
this begs the question, do you continue to pretend that Kamala
Harris is not influenced by communist ideology, choosing
instead to blindly accept the Marxian policies that she's
pushing forward, or do you choose not to be the idiot they
think you are?
Adam Curry: I thought that was quite good. Well, there's
John C Dvorak: a there was an analysis that's similar to that
about the unburdened by comment that she used to make, yes, and
that's communist too, yes.
Adam Curry: And, you know, commune, you either have
communism or you have a system such as was determined by our
founding fathers, who say that the laws don't come from
government, but the laws come from our Creator. And so it's
really, we really are at a either this laws, the rights,
the I'm sorry, the lights, the rights you're correct in alien
is it inalienable or unalienable?
John C Dvorak: I think both are proper, but I think inalienable,
inalienable is what they like to use.
Adam Curry: So it's either that or communism, because communism
definitely doesn't is not on board with that train. No, so
that's
John C Dvorak: also mean, anti capitalist.
Adam Curry: Oh, yeah,
John C Dvorak: no good, because it benefits the people that
actually put a lot of effort into
Adam Curry: it. You see that video where there's one, this is
a famous the YouTuber dude, and he goes on to college campuses,
and you say, you know, what do you think about socialism? Yeah,
I think it's really good, you know. And so why don't we take
some of your grade point average and give it to someone who has a
lower grade point average? Have you seen this? They all go like,
well, that's not fair. No, I worked really hard, say, but
people who work really hard and make more money, why should they
give their money away? Well, but, and they all get brain
freeze.
John C Dvorak: Well, you have to always go back to the the basic
phrase of the whole system, which is, uh, give to each
according to their needs and take from each according from
according to their abilities. Yeah, from each according to
their abilities to each according to their needs. So
people that need more and are enabled to do anything, yeah, we
have a little bit of that for people that are disabled, but
for the normal person, you don't want to do that. But okay, and
so do you redistribute things? And that's what equity is all
about, and that's why equity is so important to the Democrats
equity. So
Adam Curry: I have two similar but contrasting clips, because
the Christian nationalists are, of course, the problem. They are
the ones that are going to elect Donald Trump. Know they've never
come out to vote.
John C Dvorak: They never vote, yeah, but this is a vote. They
don't care. Yes,
Adam Curry: but you don't understand the networks. The
networks, the pastor network is, in effect, they
Unknown: call themselves God's soldiers, fighting to save the
soul of America. Their weapon, the Bible. These Christian
nationalists believe that religion should define us laws
and set the country back on track. Around
this church, you can get out. Get out.
You demon from Donald
Trump, they might even help him return to the White House.
President
Trump is the man that will be bring righteousness the rule of
law and the Judeo Christian values to our civilization.
Many stormed the capitol in january 2021 and could have a
drastic impact on American democracy. For many Christian
nationalists, Donald Trump is a hero. Donald Trump also relies
on preachers to rally his evangelical base, like Jackson
lawmaker, founder of pastors for Trump, officially, pastors are
not allowed to tell people who to vote for, but Jackson
lawmaker has found another way to influence voters.
You could target them one by one, cost you a lot of money,
take a lot of time, or you could go and you could influence
pastors to encourage their churches to register to vote, to
vote their value system. And if Christians vote their value
system, they will vote for Donald Trump.
According to religious experts, radical Christian nationalism is
on the rise,
if you are talking about spiritual warfare all the time.
It's a very small jump to get to actual warfare. We see more
threats to poll workers, to candidates, to our democracy as
a whole.
About a third of Americans say they support Christian
nationalism, and they could sway the upcoming election in
November.
Adam Curry: That's from France 24 by the way. And there are
definitely, definitely networks who are encouraging pastors to
have people vote for biblical values. And I think this next
pastor who was from the world, what is this? Called the world
overcomers. Church is probably one of them. There's just one
problem. He's not white.
Unknown: I can't do it. I can't do it. I don't care what
President what color he is. If you ain't in line with God, I
can't stand with you. You're getting off with God because
you're trying to stand with black I can't vote for a party
that is for all kind of sexual perversions. I can't do it. I
can't go with a party that says you can be a boy today and a
girl tomorrow. I can't do it. I can't do it. I can't support a
party that wants to remove God from its party platform. You in
trouble when the nation forgets God. Y'all got to make a
decision, I gotta be with my color. I gotta stand with my
color, meaning I'll reject Christ. Color going to get you
in trouble. It's either God or the devil. But when you vote for
people with these convictions, and they get in office, and they
start doing these things you got a responsibility for. You can't
separate your politics from your biblical worldview. It's my
biblical worldview that determines my politics you vote
for whoever you want, but you're gonna have to stand before God.
No.
It's a big problem. Big
John C Dvorak: problem that guy brought up to Saint Peter to
give you hell for voting for Camelot. I have to play a
counter clip. Okay? Tick tock. This is a talk clip. Republicans
hate women.
Unknown: I'm having flashbacks to 2016 when all I heard was, I
don't have an issue with a woman being president, just not that
woman, not that woman. How many times do we hear that in 2016
and it's all coming back, it's all coming back, not that woman.
So the people who are saying not that woman, I'm sure, said that
about Hillary as well. And my question is, Which woman, woman
would it take for you to vote for? Would have to be a
Republican Woman? Because I don't think that's ever going to
happen. Because Republicans hate women, regardless of whether you
agree or not. It's just a fact they hate women. They picked a
convicted felon, wannabe dictator, over a woman to
represent them. So keep waiting. Yeah,
Adam Curry: whoever that was, not a woman.
John C Dvorak: I don't know that was a
Unknown: woman, not telling me that was a woman.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, there's your counter programming, right
there. So
Adam Curry: the 50 basis point, uh, cut immediately sent Bitcoin
up the chart,
John C Dvorak: yes, which makes no sense. Well, I guess it does
make sense. It also gold went up and silver went to $31 which is
unbelievable, out
Adam Curry: of control. And
John C Dvorak: yeah, and the market went up, whereas the
market went down to but America went up and down. I talked about
that since you mentioned the Fed, I do have a
Adam Curry: clip I was leading into something else, but as long
as you bring me back to Bitcoin, then I'll then it's okay, you
John C Dvorak: can go back to Bitcoin real easy, because this
was a clip I got from a bunch of commentary on the Fed and how
they did this and that. And this was just some off the wall
comment research that sorry on the rate cut
Adam Curry: research, actually from the sound money project,
has seen the Fed increased discussion of things like
climate change and income inequality over the past 10
years, which has shown that mission creep is affecting the
Fed just as it's affecting every other institution, and
regardless of how viewers feel about those issues, the Fed has
no business doing that. The Fed's main focus should be on
stable monetary policy, and the only way to get politics out of
the Fed is to tie it down with a constitutional monetary rule,
not the discretionary policy that it has now,
John C Dvorak: climate change. Climate change, of course,
Adam Curry: well, I'm sure that the white paper from Blackrock
helped Bitcoin by Blackrock saying, hey, you know, in times
of instability, Bitcoin is a good place to put your money
that, I'm paraphrasing to extreme. But maybe this little,
this little Gambit that President Trump pulled might
might have helped this was kind of funny.
Unknown: In the meantime, we're keeping an eye on Donald Trump.
He is in a bar, I believe, in downtown New York, called the
pub key in downtown Manhattan. Maybe we can play up some sound
here, guys and see if he says anything.
Fantastic. It went through all right. We're done. Perfect.
First transaction
by a president on the Bitcoin protocol.
Adam Curry: He's at a burger joint, and he just bought some
burgers.
Unknown: Hello, everybody.
Yeah, crypto
Adam Curry: burger. This is a crypto burger, okay? The only
pay with Bitcoin, yeah, pay with Bitcoin for the crypto burger,
which, of course, I like. I think they're making a big
mistake, though, the the Trump Organization, they came out with
the World Financial, some kind of, like, token, uh, based on
Ethereum, and it's a, it's like a lending protocol. I foresee
bad things in the future for that. It's like, what are they
doing? Like,
John C Dvorak: Trump stakes, yeah, exactly the University of
Trump. The kids got
Adam Curry: suckered into it. Trump's like, oh, there's
crypto. Sounds good. I don't think that's a very good idea.
But anyway, he's
John C Dvorak: just the non stop.
Adam Curry: But go Bitcoin. Thanks, Trump. Then we'll take
meanwhile,
John C Dvorak: talking about Trump, there was an, I
personally think an energy weapon was deployed. Yes, I
Adam Curry: heard about this. Porter is
Unknown: a former President Donald Trump, that were allowed
to sit behind his stage at his Tucson rally last week tell the
news four Tucson investigators, they left with mysterious
injuries to their eyes. News for Tucson chief investigative
reporter, course, Nylander is live outside the Tucson Music
Hall downtown. Course, what are we learning about their
situation? Monica,
this is where 1000s of people came out to hear former
President Donald Trump speak. Last week, there was a group of
48 people allowed to sit on stage behind Trump throughout
the event, they were split into two groups on each side of the
stage. One side seemed to walk away without any issues, but
multiple people seated near each other on the other side tell me
that they had to go to the emergency room after they left
the event here tonight, for the first time, the Trump campaign
is confirming that they're investigating this situation.
Yeah,
Adam Curry: that was wild. People. Uh, going to the
hospital, and the hospital saying, Are you sure you didn't
get sprayed with some kind of chemical? Yeah. And
John C Dvorak: one woman claims she's now blind, at least
temporarily, yeah? And it sounds like, and there's a bunch of
them, they're all on one side, and they think that's we were
unusual, yeah, I'm gonna make sure that get upset at word
unusual. Yes, is that this, these audiences were split in
two, instead of right behind him, like normal, yeah, there
was this, this bifurcation of the of the background, and I
don't understand it. There was this whole thing was, you know,
it's unusual. It was a small audience overall, yeah,
Adam Curry: well, speaking of speaking of eye problems, this
happened
Unknown: this morning, new details of the terrifying
moments 140 passengers faced just minutes after takeoff on a
flight from Salt Lake City to Portland on Sunday, we're Boeing
737, 900 forced to make an emergency landing back in Salt
Lake. The problem Delta tells NBC News, the aircraft was
unable to pressurize above 10,000 feet. One passenger
speaking out to our affiliate KSL TV, it felt like somebody
was stabbing me in the ear. Passengers say they knew
something was wrong, but the oxygen masks did not deploy. The
plane would go higher, and then it would drop down, and then it
would go higher, and it kind of dropped down, and you could tell
something wasn't right, but they weren't saying anything. Some
on board began bleeding from their ears and noses Salt Lake
before making that emergency landing with medical teams
treating 10 passengers on the ground. In a statement to NBC
News, Delta says it sincerely apologizes to its customers for
the experience adding the flight crew followed procedures and
supported passengers with their immediate needs. Tom
I feel like there's so many safeguards on planes that
prevent them from taking off. So how did this plane take off
without the cabin being
pressurized?
Well, by the way, this only happens when half a dozen times
a year. It is very rare. Bottom line, you can lose
pressurization if you've got a bad seal around the window or
door or a valve, even valves in the restrooms, for example, if
they're not properly closing up that can create this kind of a
pressurization issue. We mentioned 10,000 feet is the
magic number. Planes are supposed to be pressurized to
8000 feet or below. You get above 10,000 if you don't have
pressurization, people can start feeling the effects pretty
quickly.
Adam Curry: Now, what I was missing from the report is
Boeing. I mean, they mentioned it was a 737 900 but this
doesn't, this seem like an obvious aircraft issue, but yet
they don't mention that. Well, they
John C Dvorak: did say it was a 730 Yeah, but, but they it was
so, you know, he's talking about emphasize Boeing. Boeing,
Boeing, yeah, leaky
Adam Curry: doors, leaky windows, even the toilet. You
know, can't we just say Hey? Is that another door about to blow
off the Boeing? I don't know why they didn't say, maybe
John C Dvorak: the word has gotten out to stop.
Adam Curry: Well, it's going to stop by itself, because, you
know, I think I got boots on the ground from one of our producers
about the Boeing strike. Update from work. Initially, our senior
managers arrogantly, didn't believe the strike would last
beyond the weekend. On Friday morning, they essentially told
the entire supply chain management division it was
business as usual. However, by the end of the day, they started
to consider what to do in case the union continued striking for
an extended period, given the tactics they want us to go with,
it's absurd to see how unprepared our leadership is to
handle a crisis like this. Apparently, during the 2008
strike, corporate employees who had previously trained as
machinists returned to the factory floor to continue
building planes. However, given Boeing's recent blunders, I
doubt they'll want to entertain that idea with the FAA. FAA
breathing down their neck. I mean, this is so they weren't
they didn't even think this strike would last very long. Our
producer says he thinks it'll last into the new year. Ooh,
yeah, there's, there's some you can trade on them. Short Boeing,
not advice. Um, let me see what else he says here. Yeah, they
don't plan to return until the new year. From what I've heard
about the contract clauses. Boeing has about 50 days after
the delivery date to submit the plane before penalties start
kicking in. There are also strike clauses for protection.
Now he's going to reconfirm that. And we have the best
producers, man, we have producers everywhere. You can't
escape. Can't escape. No agenda, nation,
John C Dvorak: um, let's talk to him. I have a note from someone
that should be looked at. This is a kind of interesting I
thought this is from our producer, W I work at the hub in
Memphis. He works at FedEx. Yeah. Yeah, it's what's called a
material handler, which is means I drive a cargo thing, or,
anyway, says, he says that they're, they lost their
contract with United Postal Service, and they're going to
go, they're going to have issues. And so they're starting
to treat their employees like crap, uh oh,
Unknown: and
John C Dvorak: and the work. And he discusses the workforce,
which is 50% black, 30% white and 20% Hispanic, and he says
that everyone gets along just fine, but there's their issues
ahead.
Adam Curry: Yeah, if you I didn't know they lost the USPS,
uh, contract,
Unknown: I guess so. Man.
Adam Curry: I mean, what's going on with Tupperware filed for
bankruptcy? I mean, the world is ending.
John C Dvorak: Then I have a bunch of bunch of weird stuff
going on with
Adam Curry: these. There it is, 1010, Oh, I gotcha. I got you. I
got you. 1010. All right, I got one final clip before we take a
break here. One final clip because finally, finally, we
have a group that's doing some good.
Unknown: The first ever national urban rat summit kicked off in
New York City today. The summit is bringing together a range of
experts like researchers and academic institutions and
municipal pest control managers, the groups are collaborating on
ideas for best practices, on rodent mitigation, advancing
science. Of it all, rat sightings are down in New York
after businesses switch to use covered containers for trash
instead of just putting out plastic bags. But Mayor Adams
says that he would like to see more progress in the fight
against rats. He says it's a quality of life issue.
Could only imagine, you know, lifting up your toilet seat in
the morning and seeing a road come out your garbage bag. You
take the garbage you put outside, and you see a rat run
across your feet. You think about that all day. The
Summit continues tomorrow. It comes as New York City continues
to focus on identifying rat hot spots and removing conditions
that allow them
to thrive. I'm
Adam Curry: glad they have a rat summit going on that tells you
about the state of America, doesn't it? It's so bad, we need
a rat summit
Unknown: there's rats in New York, yeah,
Adam Curry: but this was from all over the country, yeah,
John C Dvorak: I guess those rats. Rats are a problem. I'm
Unknown: gonna show my salad by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be
fab. On,
Adam Curry: and we'd like to thank our producers once again,
who supported us today, those who made it through whatever
firewall we're dealing with. We appreciate you very much. Under
$50 we never mentioned for reasons of anonymity, and those
are the sustaining donations, which you don't get credit per
se on the show, but you should have a good feeling that you are
helping the show out. You can do a sustaining donation by go by
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will take us through to the 50s right now. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: we're starting with Nathan Cochran and
Franklin, Tennessee, okay, from Mercy Me, our boy. Nathan, yeah,
Mercy Me. Guy, yeah. We have, we have musicians. We do that.
Listen to the
Adam Curry: show. They understand the value for value
concept, because they all started off value for value, one
way or the other. 12345,
John C Dvorak: thank you. Nathan, which is a favorite
donation of mine anyway, Keith Stevens in South Bend, Indiana,
12121, um, he says, Don't send your blankets and water. Just
send your cats. Okay, all right, they're eating the dogs. Sheila
Ryan in Paris, France, we got a
Adam Curry: Parisian lady. Ah, Sheila in Paris. Hello, Sheila.
Uh.
John C Dvorak: She says, Uh, thank you for all the pleasure
and laughs. Both bring in regards from pari Yes, merci.
Mark Stokes, bury in Centennial, Colorado, 8438 This is a
knighting, I think. And so you can read this as we read these
Knight notes. Yes, ITM
Adam Curry: heroes. Today, I'm writing to claim my knighthood
with a boobs donation of 808, plus an additional amount to
cover transaction fees. We appreciate it. I could have
claimed my knighthood on 615 of this year, the last time I
donated. But apparently I cannot add and I'm not smart, that's
night material, right there. I'm still in Colorado, the gayest
state, east of John Dvorak, but will soon be moving to the
fatter, less though less gay pencil tucky. For this reason,
I'd like to be, hey, we have gay listeners. Easy bro. For this
reason, I'd like to be knighted, sir. No skid mark of the pencil.
Tucky lowlands, all right, at the round table, I would like
anthrax lines, obviously, and Aardvark blessing, blessings to
Adam the believer and John the heathen. I love my truck and I
love what I do. Says Mark stokesbury from Centennial,
Colorado, I
John C Dvorak: love my truck and I love what I do. Kevin
McLaughlin's coming up from Concord, North Carolina, and he
is keeping up the pace with his 808 boob donation. He is the
Archduke of Luna. He's the lover of American boobs. He is Timothy
White in Elburn, Illinois, 6969 he wants to stop the hammering.
Eventually you'll play that, I think the Sir Chris Abraham,
Abraham in Arlington, Virginia, 6707 not a spooky claims. Uh,
sir. Kevin O'Brien in Chicago, 606, small booze. Brian Brad
Brinkley, or Binkley. Binkley in Snellville, Georgia, he is a
deduction. Yeah. He's
Adam Curry: of the propaganda report
Unknown: you've been deduced.
John C Dvorak: Is that a podcast? I think so. Oh, we
should listen to it. Dame Denise, Queen of the cobalt
cobalt.
Adam Curry: I remember her.
John C Dvorak: There used to be a device called the cobalt. You
had one? Yes,
Adam Curry: the cobalt cube. I still have it. I still am
possess and collectible. I should fire that thing up.
Unknown: See, oh, yeah,
Adam Curry: I bet it works. It's
John C Dvorak: maybe use it as firewall. Danny, she's in damned
in Ohio, uh, 16 who has a birthday call out for Emma and
Adam Curry: also wishes her smoking hot husband, Fred, a
happy 24th anniversary. Oh, a
John C Dvorak: couple baronetta, salty ketchup in Manchester, New
Hampshire. Um, 5555 lets us know that EXO semiconductor sales are
in the toilet. That's always good to know. James Edmondson in
South Plainfield, New Jersey, 5110 Dean Roker also 5110
Michael Van der horn, 55 with the these health karma for sure.
Andre actually put that, yeah,
Adam Curry: let me read this, because this came in from
several people who sent messages to me, Sir Andre Knight of the
empty paypal account currently night with the broken brain
Natalia writing on behalf of Sir Andre to kindly request some
health karma, since he's not capable of doing so himself, he
suffered a cerebral infarction, and his left side is paralyzed.
The recovery, if possible, will take many months, and he lives
day by day. Sir Andre hopes that the requested health karma could
be given to him without a donation from his part, while
people donated for him, as this is currently not possible.
Operating his phone is very difficult, and apparently when
he was knighted, he was omitted or forgot to ask what he would
like to have at the round table. So he feels some health karma
could be granted to him to make up, you didn't have to do any of
that. We do that we we give karma, certainly to anyone who
needs emergency medical karma. So sir, Andre, you are loved by
many, and we have I'm gonna throw in a goat, and I'm praying
for you as well, brother,
Unknown: you've got karma.
John C Dvorak: Well, insofar as throwing some karma out. I would
request some for Mimi. Uh oh, she has shingles again. No,
she's only had him once
Adam Curry: again. I thought she already had it once.
Unknown: No, not that I know of
Adam Curry: that's horrible. Yeah, she's
John C Dvorak: complains a lot.
Unknown: You thought card
Adam Curry: complains a lot from your loving husband, John, stop
complaining about your shingles. That's horrible. That's
horrible.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, well, likely she doesn't have the one
on her head, no, but I don't want to know where it is that's
everywhere else, goodness. James Moore in San Pablo, California,
5445 he does have a note. He says, great podcast. Thanks. Sir
loin In Winter Haven, Florida, 5430 Matthew boi there were
there in Edmonton, Alberta. 5272 is switcheroo to D douche,
birthday boy, Timothy, sailor,
Unknown: you've been deduced.
John C Dvorak: Shannon in Citra, Florida, 5272 Aaron. Aaron.
Aaron, anonymous, cop, Oh, that's good. Jay got that. Yep,
got it. Got it. Uh, he's in Redwood City. He's down in the
peninsula. 5150 also a fellow ham Darcy Midland in Midland.
Darcy in Midland, Michigan. 51 is the switcheroo. Call out for
Keith Johnson's got a birthday coming up.
Adam Curry: He's sir Beavis of the Saginaw Valley. It's from
his smoking hot wife, Darcy Yes. Lisa mikalski,
John C Dvorak: 5033 and she wants some house selling Carmen.
We'll put that at the end. And now we got the $50 donors. Scott
lavender in Montgomery, Texas. Luke Olson in Alexandria,
Virginia. Andrew Alexander in Fredericksburg, Texas. Hello.
Just on the street from you. Yeah, I guess. Corey Bennett in
Denver, Colorado. Andrew gusik in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Michael Golob in Glen, Burnie, Maryland. And last on our list,
a short list, I might add a very short list, Alan being the Baron
Allen being in Beaverton, Oregon. Want to thank these
people for making shows 1696, closer to 1700 Yes,
Adam Curry: and of course, 1700s coming up and our 17th
anniversary. Thank you all for supporting the best podcast in
the universe. You are the best producers in the universe. And
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Here they are in a row. Dame Denise, wishes. Beth Cox, a
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Hence the 314 then I began paying from PayPal under two
accounts. One is titled Jared. I don't know if he wants this
mention. The other is ot fam photography. I've has a whole
accounting here, so I guess we figured out. Put it all
together, his total is well enough for a knighthood. He
would like to be the Duke of Tatanka bison run into the storm
to get to the other side. And that's what I need to do. In the
years since I was an associate, my 25 year marriage ended in my
house burned down, it's time to get to the other side. Damn
cancer. He says, Well, I'm gonna give you an F cancer. You've got
karma, and we'd like to welcome you, Jared, along with Mark
stokesberry, if you can get out your blade, John, we'll Knight
these two gentlemen properly. Ah, here
Unknown: you go. Oh,
Adam Curry: oh, wow, a long one. So Mark stokesbury, Jared, hop
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Unknown: like a
me, it's
Adam Curry: like a party. I'm looking over your list. Is this
the second week in a row you do not have an end of show? ISO,
John C Dvorak: no, where's the second show in a row? Um,
Adam Curry: okay, what's up with that? I
John C Dvorak: just forgot. I just, for some reason I've lost
my train of thought when it came to the getting a good ISO. I'm
always on the lookout for him, but I didn't have buying any
Well, I
Adam Curry: mean, I had, I hope one of my two ISOs suffices. We
always like, No, I'm listening. Well, here I go. That
Unknown: was some weird shit.
Adam Curry: There's that one that's.
John C Dvorak: A
Adam Curry: faint it is, but it's Hillary, and she says the W
word, she said that, yes, it's in her book. Want to hear it
again? That
Unknown: was some weird shit. Yeah.
Okay, next, oh,
Adam Curry: this is the only other one I have
Unknown: really shocking,
Adam Curry: that neither, neither one is great.
John C Dvorak: Well, the weird one is okay, I didn't say that
word no, no
Adam Curry: doesn't count. Okay, we'll use the W word. I mean,
who cares about shit? I mean, it's the W word we have to be
careful of. And now, ladies and gentlemen, time to end the show
with John's famous Tip of the Day. JC,
Unknown: me just
JC, and if I, and
John C Dvorak: sometimes had to start documenting these
Adam Curry: chips. Yes, hello. We've been talking about
documenting these and trying to get into a giblet. It needs to
be a giblet. It needs to be a giblet. Giblet.
John C Dvorak: What have I plugged Irfan view.
Adam Curry: I, what is it sounds familiar. Perfect
John C Dvorak: view is the the troll room would know if I
plugged this before Earth fan. View is the is the image viewer
that yes, everybody should be no, you did I have Yep, you're
good. Okay. Then we moved to,
Adam Curry: but can I just say something for a moment, sure,
the previous tip of the crate of Bordeaux at Costco. First of
all, I think Costco stock is up. It's now sold out everywhere.
All Costco team members have been alerted. There's a weird
podcast that sends people to their store. Tina went to Costco
in San Anton, could not find there was they're out curiously,
Costco also was out of eggs. So eggs out of eggs, too many
eggs.com. They're out of eggs, no eggs, no Bordeaux crates.
What is happening? Well, the
John C Dvorak: Costco here has yet to have this Bordeaux mini
pack in stock, and so I'm still waiting to get my couple of
batches. But yes, it's people are buying two or three of these
things. It's Yes, sucking them up. They
Adam Curry: should have done limit to per customer. But all
right, do you have a different tip for Yes?
John C Dvorak: Kurt, I go back to Costco. Since you brought it
up. Kirkland, I should people should know this one little
factoid, the cheap Kirkland vodka in the 1.75 liter bottle,
which goes for 25 bucks or so. It's cheap, huh? It's in a big,
very attractive bottle, and it says very carefully, and it says
Made in France, that's that is actually gray goose.
Adam Curry: No, so it's a liter and a half gray goose, no, 1.75
1.75 liters of gray goose for 25
John C Dvorak: bucks or so. Yeah, it depends on your Costco
at prices. But how did you find out about this, about it being
gray goose, from some industry insider, huh?
Adam Curry: So they're just white labeling gray goose now.
Well,
John C Dvorak: not only that, but if you compare it to the
gray goose bottle, it's one of the most spectacular bottles
that Costco has, and it's all his Kirkland lineup. It's a
beauty. It's like a big, beautiful crystal bottle is
huge. And, I mean, it's not useful for anything else, but
wow.
Adam Curry: What is it called? Again,
John C Dvorak: Kirkland vodka, but it's, but it's important.
It's, there's two of them. There's a cheap American
Kirkland vodka, which is like nothing. They basically here.
Have it for free. And then they have this one, which is the
imported one. And it says, mate, you can find it if it says, Made
in France, is made in France. Is a beautiful bottle, terrific
product.
Adam Curry: Long Costco, we're gonna put we're gonna man.
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Unknown: You take on the intelligence community. They
have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you and boosting
Trump back in 2016 but I also think there are Americans who
are engaged in this kind of propaganda, and whether they
should be civilly or even in some cases, criminally charged,
is something that would be a
better deterrent. Right now, I feel like Maga in general, they
are threats to us domestically.
I just don't even know why there aren't uprisings all over the
country. Maybe there will be.
You know what Maga hates the most about of us, our joy. We
are the party of fun
and giving everybody a life. Man, this is an unbelievable
thing. Man, like we all made everybody know ain't no party
like a Diddy party.
Everybody know ain't over party like a
Diddy party,
we are the party of it's
like
John C Dvorak: stamp collecting
Adam Curry: podcasting. Just like stamp collecting, yeah,
another thing chicks think is really hot.
Unknown: Oh yeah, the
John C Dvorak: chicks we all know from the podcasters and the
stamp collectors, stamp collectors and figurines, Star
Trek, action figures, chick magnet.
Unknown: Yup, yummy, yummy, yummy. I've got cats in my
tummy, and I feel like a kitty stew. A cat is such a sweet
thing, good enough to eat, and it's just what I'm gonna do, put
you on the stove. Ooh, you're Sweeter, sweeter the sugar
kitty, I won't let you go.
Yummy, yummy, yummy. I've got dogs in my tummy. And as silly
as it may seem, I want some dog chili or a kitty sandwich, maybe
ducks and geese. Add a little sugar, add a little spices, add
a little kitty roast. Kinda sounds funny. I love it. I love
you so.
And any idiot that runs some like podcasts, they're begging
Adam Curry: smash the subscribe button.
John C Dvorak: Smash that like Smash begging, smash, smash.
Adam Curry: Listen to my hands begging
Unknown: Adios, moforat.org/ vorac.org/n,
a that was some weird shit. You.