Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. Yeah, it's time for number 105.
It is your Gitmo nation audio publication on once again this
is no agenda. Well, you never guessed that the location is
still the same because oh the connection kind of blows but
we've got the paper towel microphone holder. My name is
Adam curry.
And from a northern Silicon Valley once again, even though
I'm sure I'm gonna sound like crap on this particular show,
I'm John C. Dvorak. Raglan Buzzkill. Yeah,
it's morning in Gitmo nation East I guess in Europe. That's
where it truly is morning.
So let's give a shout out to copper can Jim shaggy can the
stove please? Nestea? Dave G. Patrick Murphy and Brandon
manque. Why don't we why don't they want to shout out Aman says
we're sounding great. Which doesn't make any sense.
No, because I'm still in the we're not.
We're no no, no.
I'm still in the under undisclosed hotel location. And,
and somewhere once again, someone is downloading porn. And
I have to say, I'm angry about this connection is the hour to
do it. Yep. But if I was actually wanting to download
porn, I'd really be angry with this connection. You know, it's
one thing that the show can it sounds horrible, but
nerdy dudes off on the list. But anyway, so yeah, I just got back
from New York, which is why we're doing them I just why
we're doing in my arms are tired.
Can I Can I just say something that actually is kind of weird.
Now that I think about it. The reason why we're doing the show
right now this evening is because I have a board meeting
tomorrow. Actually, things went so well, early in the week that
we don't even have a board meeting tomorrow. I don't know
why we're doing the show. This hour anymore. I forgot to tell
you. Sorry.
What? Are you telling me the board meeting has been
cancelled?
Well, no, we did that we'd had such such great meetings earlier
in the week. There was no need for a board meeting. So but I
just realised that now like, oh, boy, that was kind of dumb.
That you're chewing me out for my lousy connection for the last
half hour. You now just realise them us. And if we're doing it
now,
if that wasn't streaming didn't really happen. Did I really say
it?
It was streaming because nerdy dude said Twitter whore.
Oh, that's right. Well, I guess I guess I did say it then.
Anyway, it's no agenda number 105. And thank you, John, for
doing the show after flying back from New York, because I know
that you know, I of course, I'm the one that sacrifices usually
in this case, it's you and I know what it takes. It's very,
very difficult. Boohoo.
But I gotta stop it now. Tomorrow.
Tomorrow, I'm moving. I'm moving tomorrow. I'll be happy not to
have to deal with you. Unless you want to come over and help
me with a U haul.
You disconnection is really bad.
So I there, yeah. So I had it. We had a great day at the
office. And I came back and I was like, you know, I'm just
gonna, because I didn't sleep a lot last night first. Because I
walked into a door in this crappy place, I have a bump on
my head that is actually blue. In the end, so not into a closed
door, but in you know, when there was open and I walked
right into this into the side of the door. Now, I saw some actual
stars. It was like, you know, Midnight is i Oh my god. But
then I had a I walked across the street to this Mexican place,
which one of the I had a driver who was
a Mexican, Mexican.
And I said, Oh, look at this, because I'm in a very
interesting neighbourhood here. And I said, Oh, wow, look at
this wonderful place across the street. He said No, actually,
I've eaten there's not bad and I kind of had a whole huge burrito
and oh my god, and I fell asleep after the burrito. It's just not
good.
You know, the problem with it. The problem with Mexican food,
especially in burritos, which by the way for people out there
that if you look it up on Wikipedia, they have a good
discussion of what's called a mission burrito. These are not
oh man are connections of San Francisco on John. Let the
connection catch up. I mean, your laugh came like Oh, only
six seconds after my my burrito story. So
do other burritos. Okay. All right. People should go to
Wikipedia look up burrito and mission burrito in particular,
which is an invention in San Francisco of this style of
burrito, which is it has become a it's actually a fat, fantastic
product. But they're very heavy and the problem is are so take
easy, especially if you can find a good provider have a mission
burrito. You loaded up it especially at the Super burrito.
They're so tasty that you can't stop
eating stop eating it. That's right. You get nauseous you get
really bloggie
after you do it and you regret it
yes, no that's they didn't advertise it as a mission
burrito but it surely and I had it with Karoly Berea we have and
I only burritos eat and I drank a Corona with it, you know, and
I'm not a drinker. I was like, I'm gonna start speaking Mexican
and walking backwards in a minute watch up.
I'm not getting the backwards joke, but okay.
So let me say that we are John in the middle, right smack in
the middle of the largest mainstream media hoax in
history.
All right, go. And let
me just ask you Who owns the Wall Street Journal these days?
Is that Rupert Murdoch? As far as I know, well, that makes
sense. Then, this Iran story, that, Oh, there's all these
protests. And we have amateur video. And Anderson Cooper is
telling me that Iran is slowing down the net. We can barely get
any video out. And if you're on YouTube, where Green Bull Shit,
I'm calling it bull shit. People have no idea what Iran even
looks like. This could be downtown Egypt. And this, oh,
there's a guy who a protester and look, he has a welt on his
shoulder because he was struck. Yeah. I mean, have you ever seen
a protest at the G 20. Protests in London, we're 50 times more
violent than this. What is going on other than to set us all up
for some action that is going to be taken because all this
horrible guy I'm adeno John and it's, it's that didn't counted
properly. And ooh, this is I can't believe it up to the Wall
Street Journal, the front page, recount set Iran seeds. The only
thing I can see that this may have been done for that it is
paying off is to get the oil price up to the Whisper number
of $75. This is bull. This is bull. arann is a modern country,
they have iPods, and they speak Farsi. But you know, it's huge
country. And you're seeing like a couple of guys on motorcycles.
Like, oh my gosh, and they're killing the net, even killing
protesters. They're like driving around on mopeds.
Let's borrow money. 20 debt, at least. Oh,
you must have read the Wall Street Journal. No, no,
I didn't get it from the journal. I got it from one of
the other sources.
i This is just not
your show. You see, the whole thing is a bogus protest even
though I think there might be some concern because you know,
this protest. This is grotesque.
I'm not saying that the protest may not be real or that there's
a real protest but the way this is being brought, it's like this
horrible scary country is you know, it's it's it's in complete
disarray, because there was a complete Banana Republic
election. Bull. Hope you're still there.
Yeah, no, although somebody lost the stream out there. Okay. I
mean, let's, let's let let it ride out and see what he has. I
think you could be right. There's no question about it. It
means
we don't have any journalists there. Now there's no
journalists, kick them all out with The Daily Show had had Jon
Stewart had a guy on the back of a moped. And they were riding
through the streets of Tehran, and they were recording it like
one big joke. It's not that hard at all. But now, we can't even
get amateur video because the evil government has shocked that
they're slowing down the net. Dude, I can't even get a
connection out of San Francisco. It proved
positive training and slowing down the net. Oh,
my goodness. It's just it's so painfully obvious and that we
don't actually have a journalist there yet every single
mainstream outlet is, is propagating this BS based upon
some amateur video footage. Okay. And I've seen protests all
over the world that looked like that. You know, and by the way,
is police in Iranian or Farsi is that police? Do you spell it the
same way? Because I see guys with police on the back of their
jacket is that how it's spelled a farsi
well, they have to put that that that will be considered American
TV Okay, so the Set Decoration
exactly spelling entertainment issued in their uniforms you
know
even the you know, there's no poli sci or anything it's got to
go into the USA okay put on your American police.
Exactly. This is so a setup it's so painfully obvious to me and
and it's so obvious that the CIA controls all of the mainstream
media every single guy and gal who's who's on television. It's
it's it's blowing me away. It really really, really is and the
fact that people are buying this. If you're oh my gosh, it's
really bad if you've been watching the news about Iran,
yeah, it's a YouTube video of a guy on a moped driving through a
crowd of people. You know, would you at least show me put a cat
on his head? That's peeing, and then you know, there'll be some
humour to the thing
that you but if you're gonna take this tact, and by the way,
we will be talking about flying saucers shortly. Yes. If we're
gonna take this tact, then we have the first dead guy, the one
guy that was found dead to meet, you know, early on, I think
there's a bunch of other dead people. We don't really have any
clue.
In other news, 1000 people died in traffic in the United States.
Yeah. So they haven't been gunning them down. And that's
No, they haven't. I haven't seen I've seen more violence in
Oakland.
Hey, by the way, she did it any day, by the way, you know,
there's at least one data day.
Speaking of which, John, I had quite an experience. And I'd
like to share this with you. And I have a question at the same
time. Hold on, I have to get my prop for this. Hold on. Don't
move. You move.
I'm not moving. In fact, out. Let me let me read from the
Bible.
All right, here we go. I have my props. So we were in Palo Alto.
We were visiting with a couple of our board of directors. And
for a number of reasons. There was no one Oh, God, I need I
need an antacid. Hold on, the burrito is acting up. Alright.
For a number of reasons. I'm like, You better you want them
refried beans, beans, refried. Again, for a number of reasons.
No one was going back. So I had a choice. Either call a car
service. Or buy which by the way, we just had this whole
meeting about how great our burn rate is. And burn rate, for
those of you who don't know, is, is basically the money that
you're burning in the air, kind of like flying. So is the
difference between what profit you're not making, and money
you're spending and money that you're receiving. And it's
actually quite low because we're doing very well as a company
certainly in this economy and we're on the path to
profitability. So our fine friend Lawrence marks of the
Marx Brothers decides that I will take Caltrain back to the
city and I'm like Oh, that's interesting. I'll do that you
know that's kind of cool six bucks you can it's good for
it's good to prices right? Yeah. And it's a nice bumpy ride
it forever Oh, you know, doesn't took 35 minutes from Paulo while
it was the baby bullet
by the way. Oh, the baby bullet. Yeah.
That takes 35 minutes and you meet lots of interesting
friends. But here's what here's what really killed me so I go up
to the machine to buy my ticket. Now I've never been on the
Caltrain I typically don't do public transport. And so for
some like my car you know the machine is like not reading any
of my cards Okay, so I stick a 10 bucks in and six bucks for
the ticket and then you know your change in ticket will come
below and I hear this and I'm like, like a shift I got like
four quarters you got four quarters know what I got? That's
what I thought what I got I have
those those dollars. What are you doing you're shining like
George Walker Bush when he went to the grocery store and was
done the scanners
while I was done because I've never held in my hand a $1 coin
which by the way it feels like guilt you know that that
chocolate money that yeah the Jewish kids get in the holidays
piece of crap. What is this it can you spend this anywhere? Can
I walk into any store and buy like smokes with it? And they'll
accept this? Oh yeah, but how come I've never held it
just wants you to get the silver ones Yeah, got the Indian on
him. Okay, now
George. George Washington is on them. I got George Why I gotta
George Washington. I can remember I got a hold on I
didn't know the differences. I got a I got a George Washington
I got you know, this is a
who's this driven trying to foist this on the United States
for years. By the way I got a story from a guy in London once
when they did London when In Britain they dropped at one
pound note and they went to coin
Yeah, which which weighs a tonne. Dude, listen, I've got
like the whole of check this out. Are you still there? Oh man
maybe Oh, I actually lost them. Hold on. Let me see if I call
him back
hello oh boy. This is not good. Oh boy. Yeah. Okay. So this is
always what happens with my wonderful setup and then Skype
actually crashes. Okay, and see if we can reconnect here. Those
of you on the stream enjoy in fact, I may actually just leave
this leave this in the show it's kind of authentic, don't you
think? Excuse me I'm very quite nauseous now. Ah this is painful
ah so I do this entire show in this awesome routing manner on
my Mac so it actually like is pretty professional setup, but
if the audio connection crashes well then you're pretty screwed.
Witness what's happening? Kelsey, we can get Johnny way
back on. On. Yeah, hold on. I gotta reconnect. I gotta read
Jackie and hold on though. Move. This will be interesting. Don't
jinx it. Be quiet.
Okay, you there? Yeah. Okay, nice and sweet.
Don't say that. Don't say those things. You're John. Ma. You
invite your boogey man in it for flying in my plane. Don't ever
say wow, engines running great. Don't say these things.
So just what a superstitious nerd.
Okay, so listen, before you get into your I don't want to talk
about the pound so I've got these dollar coins on one of
them. I've got George Washington. It's even sounds
fake of one of them got James Monroe. Then on the other one I
have this like a chick like it's like what's her name?
Pocahontas. She looks like Pocahontas. They don't even have
a name Liberty. Oh, that's her name.
Is that a silver coin or gold coin? They're all gold.
No one is I have a silver liberty.
They all died Susan B. Anthony Could
I also have a gold liberty? Well, how can I say Susan B.
Anthony she looks like Pocahontas.
I don't know what the Pocahontas that that was on a gold one.
Anyway, so white. Well,
I had never seen one and you don't typically get these I
guess unless you take a post office
and buy stamps and a machine you get them if you go to the moods
parking lot over and Mission Street and you give them well
actually no you won't you get dollars there now. Well, here it
is a bunch of places where you get here.
Well, there you go. I live the champagne life. That's why I
never do these things live the
life of a hermit. Don't drink champagne.
Yes, I do. And it makes me violent.
So anyway, I wanted to also call out to Natalie Brown who sent us
a whole bunch of notes we missed. But meanwhile Anna Mae
animate bites, says Adam is great. Your sound John is bad.
Yeah, exactly. It's your connection as always. Right. So
we got a lot of email with great stories this week. And of
course, you know, I can't actually bring up links, etc.
The irony don't yet you should have a little printer and you
should print them out in advance.
Yeah, but you know, I was too busy like sleeping past out of
just a burrito. But the most exciting one and I have just not
been able to do the homework because there is some Dutch
video that I have to watch came from. Excuse me. I need a cough
button. Chris Madden. Hey guys, as an American married to a
Dutch girl living in Holland, the haimo underwear and bear
with me okay, because there's not going to be a whole nother
underwear story. The haimo Underwear is quite familiar to
me. Tonight. I was watching radar, which I'm familiar with.
It's a great show. It's a journalistically fantastic show
in in Holland. This Dutch language consumer report show,
they had a segment about nanotechnology and how it has
not been tested or regulated yet and the opportunities and
potential threats that we might learn about it in the future.
Anyway, they're running through a few products, you feel it come
and wait for it. few products that have nanotechnology and lo
and behold they say, oh, Condi, so all the blue from the hammer
but thought nano Dale cheese or in English. Also in these
underwear from the hammer, you will find nano particles. And
I'm like, wow, we've got nanotechnology in the haimo
underwear that you and I were John and you know this could be
detrimental to our health.
What is his nano particles supposed to do?
It's hanging between your legs for 47 years for Christ's sakes.
I'm saying what is the nanoparticle? What is the point
of
it? Well, nanotechnology is like you know nanotechnology
so scared. Well, you
don't know me that this is what the whole broadcast was about
you know, it could like give you it could be the equivalent of
this is asbestos, you know,
that nano thing. Yeah. Sounds like a like either a hoax or
what's the point of it? Where is it? Where is it exists? Is it in
the label? Is it stitched into the?
If I had been able to watch the show, then we would know,
wouldn't we?
So basically, it's just a teaser for the next show. We do.
Exactly. Now you're on to me baby. Great show on that PBS
that I did see Last Night Live. A lot of people have sent me the
link on the pbs.org website. Frontline had a special on
called breaking the bank. I actually wanted to call you and
tell you to watch it. And of course, I realise you are New
York. I didn't want to disturb you with your hookers.
But they Blaze decision.
Yes. Great show. And they really I like what frontline does. They
really showed all the inside bits of the Merrill Lynch Bank
of America transaction and how Paulson was a part of that and
it you know what, you don't need a burrito to throw up in your
mouth. After that show, you're just like, oh my god, this this
whole thing. The whole system is so corrupt. It's so buddy,
buddy, you know and of course today, President Obama announces
this new sweeping changes and regulations for the financial
industry to protect the little guy. Nice timing president and
now we're gonna get one agency now we get one agency that will
be the regulator for everything. Gee, that's going to rock
Well, you know, the thing is Devo I'll get to see that
frontline. Maybe I should watch it and we can talk about it. But
that frontline is a great show. Yeah,
I don't understand why do you think it's the same producer?
That does all these shows because someone's gonna get shot
over there? I mean, I'm sorry someone's gonna commit suicide
they lose you again. This is this is this is not good Yep,
crap. Oh my God. John, your connection sucks
cry I'm telling you what's his connection? It is not my I am
I'm receiving Skypes from all over the world. Everything works
fine. But he's blaming on my stuff. Let's try it again. Okay,
he's he's not even online. Did he just go off? He'd see. This
is what I mean. And I get blamed for it. Ah, maybe I should play
a little bit of music for you all while we're while we're
getting that set up.
Set up and poured out this stage. We've travelled this land
back tight mini fan the fan girl on the screen with this come off
he is actually offline
level without a call back with the beaver hats and Ben Davis
slash like
Waiting for Godot. 30 We're waiting for the real for
them with the gift from the city and a champion staff and not
critics back then I started with a setback loss selling rise
seven times still they want to see us but that's because only
God knows why. Why why why a single with Black See what you?
I like AC DC sec. For CPS PCs in the king. Standard Seger live
star David Aliko. With no show Joe's got the rock from Detroit
soul from Motown the crowd so with tracks that matches that by
the way I don't play with but watch the bride with Liberace
flat rock band with Johnny Cash and Grandmaster Flash.
Oh Hold on, man. You were offline dude. Yeah, exactly.
Hold on a second. Let me Jack in. Let me Jack in. I told you
it is your connection. It's not my connection. This is my whole
point the entire show and you're blaming me and my crappy
asshole. Tada. All right. That was pretty funny.
What was I talking about?
Nothing important, though besides that? I don't know. We
had fun. The audience and I. Yeah, we got it. Yeah, we had a
good time, because it is clearly your connection. That is the
problem this evening. I'm telling you this. You don't want
to believe me, but it is your problem.
Yeah, well, it's not my problem is Comcast.
They know what they care. Are you still there?
I'm still here. Good. Can you hear me now? Yes. You keep
telling me not to be yakking at you. And you know, when you're
not, you're doing it.
I'm good. Now. Hey, a lot of different theories coming
through the pipeline about the Airbus crash F hauls for cutter
cutter set.
Yeah, what now?
Well, the the one I saw just before the burrito put me made
me comatose. Now the thing. Now they're saying, Oh, well,
there's clear evidence there was a mid air breakup? Yeah. Well,
let me tell you something. If there was a mid air breakup at
40,000 feet, you're not going to be fine. And everything and
everybody in nice, you know, oh, he had a broken leg? If
Oh, yeah. No, that'd be that'd be it'd be scattered.
To turn. 1000 miles, of course, the one that I liked the best
guy and I hated all of course, because it's horrible. What's
happened is, well, there's two actually and a lot of aviators
are sending me email. And I'm collecting them and and we are
going to do like a eventually a full blown overview of all these
different theories from people who actually fly these aircraft
who do maintenance. Here's one, an Airbus engineer. And I'm not
going to read the whole thing. But there are, you know, the,
the initial theory was the pito tubes froze up. And the pito
tubes are those tubes that stick out that indicate airspeed. And,
you know, it's like, no, okay, this stuff is it's just not, it
just doesn't make sense all these dumb theories. But the one
I do like, was written by a fellow aviator, and let me see
if I can find it because it was a great article. And of course,
I will put that in the show notes that no agenda.me veoh.com
was, I can't find it right off the bat. But you know, the
rudder was found relatively intact. Now the rudder is in
flight. The rudder is actually not used that much. But of
course, it's a very important piece of the aircraft. You'll
recall over New York City and an Airbus crashed, and it was
because the rudder broke, it broke off. This was I'm gonna
say 90, crap. I don't know.
Yeah, no, I read Oberoi? Definitely, the plane is
notorious for the rudder.
Yeah, maybe it was 2002. Two, it was about 10 years ago. And it
was because the, the pilots or one of the pilots with the crew
had to use so much excessive force during takeoff, because
you basically use this during crosswind situations, or if
there's a lot of so typically when landing, so you need it and
you know, you can do a couple things, you can land completely
sideways and then correct just before you land. Or, if there's
not too much crosswind component, you can correct that
by stepping on these pedals and then the plane will correct in
one load when we will be low, but you put one wheel down, and
then you put the other one down, and you're good to go. If the
crosswind component is too much, you know, then you either have
to go around and find another place to land or in the air
buses case, apparently this thing snaps off and then it's
not good. It's a plastic aeroplane, what can I tell you?
So the thinking and I kind of like this theory is that they
may have been in a very, very windy situation during in this
storm, which for some reason they flew into not not the kind
of you know, not the kind of thing airmen do typically. And
that they may have applied such excessive force, or the forces
of the wind may have been so excessive that the thing snapped
off. And then it would make sense that this plane could have
gone into just, you know, spiral down, gone to a spin, a number
of things can happen and it just went straight down to the
bottom. Another thing by the way, if it breaks up in flight,
the bodies and debris would be at the surface, you wouldn't be
you know, five miles down. You know, there'd be all kinds of
bits and pieces floating all over the place and they haven't
found all that much yet. So,
right. So what do you think? And
I'm thinking that this is still the ongoing war between Airbus
and Boeing, and they're sabotaging each other and
they're just blowing each other to bits you know, and This all
kind of came to a head which by the way, frontline did not
mention any of the bankers on board the Airbus that did to the
Hudson which of course was enroute to Bank of America's
headquarters on the same day that they had one of these huge
meetings with Paulson where you know the government was
basically controlling the entire banking system and threatening
that these guys how to run their business and what they had to do
to save the financial system and I think it's an I think it's a
huge wars as big businesses one of the last huge industries
that's left and it's between Europe and the United States and
and this is an ongoing war it's actual out and out war and it's
unfortunate if you have to fly on a on a Boeing aircraft in the
next couple of months because Boeing is next mark my words and
John's Comcast connection once again is down. There you go. The
war is ongoing. These guys are so Skype is gonna crash again.
Show is actually quite entertaining for me. I don't
know what the audience thinks. But this is totally John's
connection. So each time that I have to redial I have to set the
output back to set he's Yeah, he's completely offline. Well, I
don't I don't want to play Kid Rock again. That would be kind
of lame Marino. So let's see. What can I play for you all here
we go. Just grab a song here and play something nice. While we're
waiting for John to come back online Could someone please
Twitter Comcast cares. And tell them that we care that this shit
doesn't work
I'm gonna pack my bag down the
mountain see the bright sunshine inside the glow
I want to go to a place where nothing in between
SAP has no consequences
I want to go to beautiful
All right. Looks like he's back
Don't say a dad. Don't say anything because the audience
can't hear you until you're connected in Hold on. Don't say
anything. la de da de da de da de da de da. You know, I gotta
do all that routing thing again? Turn. Okay, almost there. Okay,
the only thing I want to hear you say right now is I'm sorry,
Adam. It is my connection. Not yours. No, it's
It's Comcast fault to my router. I know. It's three set twice
now.
Yeah. But so the whole problem with the entire show has been
your connection.
Your connection sucks at that place. And you know it. Yeah.
But it's your connection. All right. So it's my connection.
Thank you get used to it. You're gonna have to edit the show a
little bit. I'm not
going to edit a single thing out of this show. I
just bore people stiff with the dead air. No, it's not. Are
you kidding? dead air. I've had a lot of fun with you. The fact
that the best part of the show was when you're not on it.
Okay, well, you know, anyway, and then the thing that
I said is that when you dropped off is that it's it's
unfortunate if you have to take a Boeing flight in the next two
months because Boeing is next. This is all about war between
Airbus and Boeing. It's sheet metal and rivets versus plastic
aeroplanes the where they call it. Scare the scare bus There
you go. Are you still there? Yeah. Okay. Hey, what do you got
Johnny? I mean, I got plenty of good stories.
Now I'll keep going because you'd like you said, you know,
it's more interesting with the Youjizz yabbering by yourself
okay, well, I know I've got a way out there story if you want
one.
Okay, here we go.
Scientist in Russia. You know what it starts off like that
it's going to be a zinger.
All right, saying they've discovered a critical link
between the h1 and one influenza, known as the swine
flu in the United States, but known as the Mexican flu, and
the rest of the world can't even get that branding straight. We
should consult those guys. Yep. They say that there's a link
between the h1 and one flu and genetically modified amulet
pectin potatoes, better known as French fries.
And what does this mean?
Well, according to the reports, the protease enzyme genetically
modified into potatoes being sold throughout the western fast
food restaurants as French fries, which of course mean it
will be the it'll be the French swine flu causes an end quote
explosive replication of the h1 N one virus by increasing the
acidic conditions of the end zone, and causing the
hemagglutinin protein to rapidly fuse the viral envelope with the
veiculos membrane, thus causing the m two ion channel to allow
protons to move through the viral envelope, and acidify the
core of the virus, which causes the core to disassemble and
release the h1 and ones RNA and core proteins into the host
cells.
So the way these things work, so what's new?
What do you mean? What's new? That was new to me? So you're
saying, so Okay, so if you
have RNA works, yeah. Yeah, right virus, so retrovirus
so basically, the more French fries,
got to do a potato. Oh, I see what you're saying. Oh, so it's
a trigger. So what they're trying to say which apparently
they are not doing very well, is they're trying to say that the
the genetically modified french fries have some aspect to them
the RET which is a triggering mechanism, yes. To make this
virus work better or propagate. So you can do well, you could
target it. So in other words, what you're developing is a is a
genetically modified kind of a key that if you are ingesting
this stuff, and you come across this virus, boom, you get you
get it because I bet if you don't eat these crappy french
fries made from these phoney baloney potatoes? Which by the
way, I didn't realise that fast food restaurants are using GMO
potatoes. Oh,
you know, I think I wouldn't, I would think that could be a
possibility.
Maybe it could be a big possibility. And
burritos they'll kill you a slower, the burritos will
not kill you. They just make you low GI.
Yes. That's the word low GI. Yeah, I thought that was a very
interesting bit of data there. And I like it.
There is a lot of thought. I mean, in most of the writing
community for writing stories where you have a tort, you know,
these ideas are having these two elements at one. If you're if
you're doing one thing and then you match up with something
else, you get another as you can literally kill off a huge
percentage of the population. If you can find like, like an
ethnic group you want to get rid of,
like the ethnic group of Americans who eat french fries,
which is pretty much it is pretty much the entire
population.
Yeah, well, it's those French fries, if you get go by your own
russets near, you know, at the store, you're not going to have
this problem or use some other potato you. Maybe that's the
reason, by the way, that there has been for the foodies and the
people who are more higher up in the who can afford these things.
They they either are now using a Yukon gold, or a Finns.
Well, let me give you let me give you some choice. Let me
give you some more data points before we go into the foodie
vibe. What other country outside of the United States Canada,
United Kingdom and Australia has had a high high level of swine
flu cases do you know the country Mexico? Chile and Chile?
Yeah, so important turned on your speakers, you dork.
You know you just surely today she was getting a little
annoying.
It's the burrito The South American nation of Chile is the
only country in the world outside of the United States,
Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia to allow the planting
of genetically modified potatoes. That's weird. So and
they are reporting 1694 cases of h one n one this is this is a
this is not a bad little report here, John.
Here's what's weird about it. I mean about the chilli thing?
Why? What do you mean? Potatoes came from this area in Peru? You
can go to Peruvian mountains and they grow like 1000 over 1000
varieties of really interesting potatoes. So why would say well?
I don't know. I'm just saying.
So you have that you're gonna have shownotes a document that
Chile uses genetically modified potatoes.
Yeah, I have a link to the it's because of the free trade pact
hold on like, Oh, this is not very smart probably of me to go
to a well actually it's not my connection is breaking up.
Anything bring up that webpage a little while earlier is the
office of the
United States Trade Representative after 13 years of
bilateral conversations and to have negotiations the US chilli
a free trade agreement entered into force January 1 2004. And
this is where this shows that they are allowed to grow these
genetically or create these genetically modified potatoes.
So there's there's some data, this is a pretty good, pretty
good little report that has some good links in it. All right,
well, yeah, that's a possibility. But there's more of
the 5000 of the 5000 confirmed and more than 100,000 probable
cases of swine flu. The average age of infected people is 15.
Two thirds are younger than 18 Makes total sense young people
take those potatoes, potatoes, right? Yeah, young people eating
lots of French fries. So hey, if ever there was a reason not to
eat french fries, besides the fact that the French fries will
just kill you by themselves without the swine flu, and
you'll lay off listen to no agenda, eat less fries live
longer.
I wonder if it's maybe maybe the whole thing was dreamed up by by
a competitor in the fast food business that doesn't shell
french fries.
There was a whole documentary on CNBC about McDonald's the other
night, you know, coincidence? Maybe. Maybe.
McDonald's makes a lot of money from those French fries. Oh,
yeah.
So now it's your turn. That was my home right turn
you're like kicking butt according to yourself.
Okay, then South Park had a great Tourette episode, which I
hadn't seen. That was kind of cool.
Have you seen that one? No, I don't watch South Park unless
somebody sends me a video where Eric.
Eric decides that it's cool to have Tourette because then you
can say all these horrible things to the teacher. Now I
know someone who had suffers mildly from Tourette syndrome
that was huge and find this offensive. No, I thought it was
hilarious. I loved it. I love those so it's great.
So guess they were protesting out in front of David
Letterman's late shows he's the
dork so they still going on about the Palin thing which I
didn't never actually saw what he said
he won't say
I haven't seen the apology either because I guess he won't
give anyone the rights to show it so it's only talking about it
it's ridiculous. I'm losing a lot of respect for the
Republicans on this deal. And of course Bill O'Reilly is all over
it you know with his we've got a couple of demos that come on the
show occasionally and
who are hot by the way they're pretty Yeah, now they're hot.
They're info bimbos.
how hot they are they don't never stand up they could have
the biggest behind
the way but before you continue Erin Burnett has been doing a
lot of remote stuff because you know of course I'm on the
Pacific Time Zone so now I'm and I'm seeing a whole different I'm
not seeing all of the day programme programming for CNBC.
I'm seeing a lot of the nighttime specials. And now I'm
let me say again, besides the fact that she is Council of
Foreign Relations, a total shill for the for the evil overlords
who run the world. I choose an extremely beautiful woman she's
talented, she's highly Yeah, get to the point she's got
saddlebags that won't quit. Oh, really? Yeah. Disappointing.
Actually.
Trump sitting down at too much. Yeah,
of course it is.
So we'll play the real news jingle. I'll give you some
Okay. Well, you kind of caught me off guard. I'm sorry. Let's
hit it. There we go. And now back to real.
So appears Have you actually looked at the front page of the
post? And apparently this this thing is really continuing as
Lindsay Lohan stealing this $200,000 worth of jewels they
think or 400,000 if you read the story, the
story no John, I have not read the Lindsay Lohan story. That's
your job. I'm the one that tries to show
you the story. Yeah, to Cosmopolitan down here's let me
just read you a parent.
Give us the background what's happened and this is real news.
This is important to our lives. Forget french fries that will
kill you. What is your
photo shoot for Elle Magazine and they draped her in some
$400,000 jewels? And she kept thinking it was gonna be a
freebie for her. It's a no no, no, we went to Jules back where
you're getting paid for this gig? And she said, You're sure I
can't get him? No, it's like the you know, give them you know,
when she's given to me that she went on and on about this
apparently and she kept harping on it even though they said no,
no, no. And then next thing you know, they turned up missing.
And now that you know everyone's like worried sick about it now.
Apparently, she has a history of this kind of thing. And let me
just read you a section of this. Of this article in the post. But
the incident recalls another allegedly larcenous Lohan
incident. Last year, a Manhattan model accused a star of swiping
her prized mink jacket. After the two crossed paths at the
Chelsea club, one oak. Maria Masha mark of us said she saw a
low hand sporting her $11,000 jacket around town after it was
stolen. Her lawyer called Low hands handlers, and then the
coat was mysteriously returned.
Okay, John. Now, I gotta give you some background because as
you know, I'm an expert in media and media. sexpert is what I am.
So what you need to remember is that when Lindsay Lohan was
completely strung out, she was drunk she might have been on
coke before she came out as a as a lesbian, she was caught
shoplifting, okay and she was she had some kind of kleptomania
issues. Now you have to combine that with a very typical media
story because these photo shoots these big fashion photo shoots
always occur with huge amounts of jewellery which are always
supplied by you know cardi a or someone else who do this for the
for the credit and the photos and for you know, they appear in
in Elle or Vogue magazine and then rich women look at it and
say, Oh, does not look great. I want to go buy these and 90% of
these photo shoots, they make up some bull about the the star not
returning the pit the the the jewels just to get the attention
and the focus on the jewellery. It's alive. Now combine those
two together with the journalistic integrity of the
post in the UI the stupid story
and I can't believe I can't believe this is real. Can't
believe
you're insulting me with this shit. And now back to real when
she came out that she was lesbian that was kind of hot.
Well, apparently I'm not gonna get anywhere with you since
you're being an asshole tonight.
Okay, I'm sorry. I'm just telling you. I'm not being an
asshole.
Oh, yeah, totally.
So could you please Twitter if you think I'm an asshole?
There's our audience. Yes, you're an asshole. All right,
what else we got here? So I here's my complaint for the
week. Okay? Why do people go on aeroplanes and then drag their
rolly bag down the aisle when it clearly doesn't fit? And how do
they get away with this off to one side to the other Bang, Bang
Bang they can't get it down the other always looking back into
the hit you if you happen to be, you know, your foots in the way
or something. And you see this constantly be you have to pick
the bag up and carry it down side which fits. Why does this
continue forever? People always try to run they never get to the
one mile an hour to they keep banging into the seats with this
thing. Now worse than that. Why do people wear a carrier instead
of carrying them on? They're wearing these huge backpacks?
Wait, can I respond to the rolly thing first and then that that
goes right along with the backpack? Whenever I then I you
know the Tumi bag that I had, which was the one that I usually
slept around to the office which was reasonably large it's too
big bag. Yeah. So at least four or five times at multiple
airports. I'm the guy because I'm an asshole apparently who is
pulled out I'm sorry sir. That bag does not fit in our little
rack which is big enough for like an A note pad. You know the
one that is in front of every single check encounter before
you get on to every single plane your bag must fit into this
rack. How can these people get away with it? That's what I
don't understand. I don't get away with it. They always do. So
I'm sorry. You have to check that bag sir. It's way too big.
And then I see all these do ARKS walking on with your right with
these huge rolly bags and the backpack it should be a Federal
Aviation Authority regulation you cannot wear the backpack
when boarding the plane because these people then turn around
you're sitting there you're reading your magazine and and
cool you get this backpack in your face.
Why do oh, let's take it to another extreme if we're going
to complain about this. When did we all start wearing backpacks?
Like Pack Mules? Yeah, guys are like ever seen these guys what
they look like they're going into somebody's to spend a
month.
Really? What's wrong with your hands? Carry it dammit. I miss
these all that shit for on the plane for what do you need that
for? What's in there? I think we should. You know, there's if
they're checking for liquids, it should be like, do you need this
on the plane? No, I'll be we have to throw it out. I'm sorry.
You can't have this on the plane. You don't need it. We
should throw it out. You're right, John, I think that you
know, it's the reason why is because people want to travel
lightly. So they don't have to wait Who horrible wait for their
luggage. You know, if you're gonna go somewhere, pack a bag,
pack a nice, you know, a good looking bag and put it you know,
check the bag and put it on the aircraft where
then we have the one other situation where you have these
guys have these big dorky backpacks on and then they
they're too big to stuffed into the overhead. So everybody gets
hung up as these guys are trying to force it in. And it's like
the stewardesses come over. They're all pushing and pushing
and pushing on this thing. And they're trying, you know, I've
seen him where they can't get it in, they have to bring the thing
down, take a few things out and then shove it in there. Yeah.
How does that fit into that racks and you get caught called?
Well, because you know, I'm an asshole. Well, that's beside the
point, which is why I love flying first class if available,
because when you know, invariably, there's always some
guy who's trying to shove his his commoner steerage backpack
into the first class rack, and the stewardess says, I'm sorry,
sir, this is reserved for first class passengers, you'll have to
shove that up your ass somewhere else I love that makes me feel
very good and powerful.
So anyway, so I flew JetBlue. Yeah, by the way, have you seen
the new terminal?
No, I love JetBlue though big fan. Well, they've got
a new terminal, they used to be in terminal six was used to be
the TWA terminal, then it became the United terminal, then it
became the JetBlue terminal. And then they just very simple, it
looks like they're just tearing it down or doing something else
because they've created a whole new terminal, terminal five. And
it's like, it's like being in Las Vegas. It's like being in
the Las Vegas hotel room. There's about five or six or
seven gourmet restaurants in there. And that you can get
stuff to go there, there's actually a sushi bar.
Cool, which is, which is good, right? It's good.
But it's ridiculously good. And the guy these old Japanese guys
in their offices, they did by the way to go to the sushi bar
is called Deep Blue or something like that. If anybody goes to
the sushi bar, get the Dragon roll. It is the Moses like it's,
it's a work of art. It's amazing. I'm sorry, the sushi
bars really good. But they have a steakhouse, they got a French
restaurant, they got all these things and they have then on the
other side, there's like a food court with a whole bunch of
like, you know, like lower end places you can buy stuff to take
on the plane. And the whole thing is like, jazzy and as I
you know, that's just like we're at that diner where their
money's going if they're losing money, and now they're flying
all over the place. I think Hold
on a second. You know, that's concessions, you know, these
these guys don't JetBlue is just making the terminal they're not
they're not running the sushi joint. You know, the gym that
just renting out the space I think is brilliant. I think the
concept of EasyJet is is equally as good, I love JetBlue I love
the space they provide I love the fact that you can sit there
and zone out on satellite television, which is better than
sleeping pills. And you know, I can't wait to try out their
terminal. I really love the whole concept of these one class
airlines. The only thing they should do is they should you
know the people who tried to stuff the backpacks and the big
wheelie bags, they should eliminate them and then it would
be absolutely perfect.
I like the the TV on the JetBlue too. It's knocked me out three
times on the flight over.
It's it's better than Hypno I mean, it's great. You fall
asleep like I'm so bored. I'm going out. I'm going under
change the channel. And by the way, you notice that Virgin
America who whenever I have to go to LA I fly and they have a
Virgin America they have a first class which is ridiculous to
even purchase that ticket but when you cheer when you buy your
ticket and it's kind of a low, you know, low cost airline and
first of all, they cast their flight attendants. They're
beautiful, they're sexy, and then the euros are cute too. You
can actually purchase for an additional $30 An extra leg
space with complimentary food and drinks. The only problem on
Virgin America is the licence for the TV channels JetBlue
covered all of that. So Virgin has really poor selection of
NCAA live video because I guess they couldn't get the Direct TV
or whatever it is they wanted to get.
Well, you know, if you if you check in when you check in with
Virgin America at they'll let you go to the gate the last
minute or you go to the front counter and you say, Are there
any first class seat upgrades? And they're 50 bucks flat rate?
Oh, really?
They only have for first class seats, don't they?
Yeah, but often there's one open five guys go hit that upgrade
two or three times.
Cool. Cool. Hey, John. Speaking of such 50 bucks is a perfect
amount of money. I think it's a great use of funds that people
send to the show because we work very, very hard. We fly JetBlue
we fly Virgin America, we fly along with the backpackers. If
you donate some money to the show, then we can get an upgrade
and that would be highly appreciated. Do we have any
people who have donated this week?
Well, I just got in I just flew in so I don't have my list. So
I'm about to go to the the list on Sunday.
Would you please actually do with them? Because this is what
you said last Sunday?
i Well, yeah, no, I realised that I made a mistake here and
also teased a couple of things we didn't never got to because I
can't remember what they are. I just walked in the door. So
anyway, yeah. If anybody wants to by the way, we're getting a
lot of people not a lot but a few that are sending a they're
cancelling their $2 subscription and they're sending an apology
note and sending actual more money. It as a one shot
donation. I guess that's good. It was better. Yeah. Because
they really Nick us. For those $2 Yeah, your pay, pal. You
mean? Yeah, Pay Pal.
Right. Okay, so that's good
to find some alternative money collections, you but anyway, go
to no agenda library.com or divorce.org/in A divorce
act.org/in. A, and give us a hand. So because this is a
publicly supported show, and I know a lot of people listen to
it. And they liked it one hour, you know, because it's a
drivetime thing. They like to get more of it. And we will do
more if we get you know more income. Yeah, because it is time
consuming. And you know, you're I had to wake you up to a
burrito Can I have your burrito?
comatose? And the microphone stand is still the paper towel
holder. What's kind of interesting to note is that I'm
down to the last three or four sheets. So now it's really
desperate. The microphone stand is wilting away before my very
eyes. Please say you're telling
me this is an active paper towel holder? Yes.
Yes, yeah. In fact, all. Now I have one sheet left. And I'm
using it for Yeah, I closed the mic. Well, I
did that. No, you didn't. Well, I
faded it down. So you could get a little bit of the effect.
Because I still have swine flu.
Yeah, swine flu. Blood stop eating french fries. Do I? By
the way, I'm buying into the French fry theory. Yeah, I'm
with you. And I'm going to stop eating french fries. I think
it's and I let's let's do a test of the couple 100,000 people who
listen to the show. Let's stop eating french fries. Let's see,
you know, we
should do an A B comparison. We should have some people yes, do
lots of French fries, see if they get sick, and see if they
get sick. And they should report back.
So we should have three groups. Because we need a control group
we'll have to have people who eat french fries people who
don't and people who had burritos and let's see who gets
sicker
we couldn't do an A B comparison because I don't think all the
potatoes like for example I'm not sure that the In and Out
Burger uses these. Yeah, Manny because you know that because
there's the you know the potatoes you know the potatoes
that you get in a real place that actually makes french fries
from real potatoes there's there's always the occasionally
that you have to just black things and there's all kinds of
eyes and things you gotta be.
Yeah, this round potatoes. Yeah. So the title of the show should
be the French fry connection, I guess.
The French fry connection that's a good one. Good,
isn't it? We always forget we always forget to name the title
of the show and John and I talk for five or 10 minutes after the
show and then we hang up and then of course John immediately
is off offline doing something much more important I could ever
find him to bed. Yeah. What do we call this show? What should
we call this show? And I'm waiting for hours for him to
confirm.
Because I try connection is a good good good title. Okay,
we'll name it that. Although no no if it's SEO friendly. Yeah,
well doesn't I think if you titled The show Lindsay Lohan
you'd get more hits.
Gee, you think All right, we are kind of at the 60 minute mark so
if you want to be our Yeah, man, well, yeah,
well I t something the last time what was it? I can't remember.
Let me see because I'm taking notes I have seven and not you
know people get hooked it because I know they wait and
wait and wait to tune in for the to
write down now first of all we're gonna do French fry
connection. I do have some one last story. Because I have I'm
now taking notes as part of the new me. French fry connection a
B group and I'm going to write down donated donation lists
because you'll forget again and you'll tease it again. You won't
do it. I will. I had an email conversation. And I'm going to
bring it up right now with one of our producers, Martin. I'm
going to presume he's Dutch it's fine Dutch name. And where is
it? No agenda bet reminder. Okay, what's the bet? Adam, I'm
sending this email to remind you and John about a bet you guys
made in a previous no agenda show. I don't remember the
episode number. He, by the way is now looking for it. You made
a bet that the world would look how the world would look a half
year after the Obama White House Administration. The 10th of June
was the deadline of this bet. I'm pretty curious how you and
John will decide who won this bet and why. So I went back and
forth and I did some searching the bet was disgusting. No
agenda number 61. Titled one big Ponzi scheme around 59 minutes
into the show in short, John believes that the world would be
pretty happy under the Obama regime. And you thought it
wouldn't exactly be a quote happy time because of
Afghanistan economics and so on. So you want to call it Johnny
Boy? Yeah, one
another French fry. People are the Dow was at 8400 everyone's
freaking out. We've got Iran exploding and in complete
disarray. We've got french fries killing us. We've got health
care being cut by $300 billion people are happy, happier. I
missed. No, I'm just a realist. You lose the bet you lose. I
can't remember what we bet for but you lose you come on in a
minute. Don't lose the bed. You lose the bed admitted
the what I described Well, Jack Welch situation in which we are
in your wheelchair on the bed. I can't believe you not watching
on any bed. I won the bet. How can you how can you say that
people
are happier right now. They've never been so messed up and
angry and afraid.
The way everyone I see is happy as a clam. No, right? You're
happy? You're a happy guy. You had a burrito?
So how do we how do we determine
I want to hear the show you get a clip from it and it will
listen to and they will let the users decide. You
mean the listeners and producers. They're not users.
They're not on crack. users, users. You're such we had an
investor in the office today. This was really funny, John,
this is Jonathan Oh, I wish I had his card I left at the
office one of these guys who made like a billion dollars on
eBay or something like that. And you know very very nice guy. You
know, soft spoken you know kind of very extremely intelligent
kind of wish I remember his last Yeah, what story? Well, I'm
gonna look for his name. I have it in my in my calendar and I'll
tell you exactly what was it was Jonathan fram you heard of him?
I think he does oil filters.
He's the firm he's written. That was mavar on LLC. Great, nice
guy, you know, and he's invested in a couple things. And it was
an introduction through Jennifer Cooper who was working with us
now let me disguise Interesting.
Yeah, we I don't know all the details. I'm just a story.
Okay. And I forgot what I was gonna say. I really did. What
was it a reference to? I got it. I remember. I remember I
remember. And, and so we showed him. It was showing him some
stuff and it showed the tech five top five. He's like, Why
the hell does Devora hack on this on your network? Why does
he want to work for you? I know John Dvorak. Sure I know him.
Why? Well, how did you get him? Why would he want to be on this
plays? I was like, Hey, Jonathan, thanks for coming.
That's cute. Yeah, uh huh. Huh. Well, anyway, I think we should
end on a high note.
Yeah, well, I'm sure he'll appreciate this anecdote. I
can't think of anything else. No, that's good. We're in New
York. We're a little surly.
Once again, prove I win the bet.
No, no, Jim, just just New Yorkers is the way they are
okay. And they are, but it shouldn't have lost their sense
of humour in that town. And I don't know that I found it. The
whole New York thing is I think New York is over. Well,
there you go. I was there. I'm going there Thursday. Excited.
Yeah. Yeah. I'll bet you're arriving at Liberty airport.
That's Newark to you and I and there'll be sign saying,
divorce. Get out of here.
I'm probably more likely to say Letterman quit or something like
that. But
hey, coming to you from this crappy bandwidth situation for
the last time in San Francisco. I'm Adam regroup.
And from the dark confines of Northern Silicon Valley. I'm
John C. Dvorak.
We'll talk to you again on Sunday right here on no agenda.