You don't have to be a chicken to spot a bad egg. Adam curry,
John C. Dvorak.
It's September 3 2009. Time for your gizmo nation audio
publication episode 127.
This is no agenda coming to you from the
17th century canal house crackpot command centre in
Amsterdam get my nation east, where the years are creeping up
on me. I'm Adam curry.
And from Northern Silicon Valley indeed it is number 127. I'm
John C. Dvorak. Hill.
Yeah, but what's the most important thing about today,
John?
It's thanks a happy birthday. Yeah, birthday. Yeah. It's my
birthday. Today is your birthday. Yeah. Is that right?
Tonight cropping up in my Google Calendar?
Because you're I'm not really your friend. Aren't. We're not
friends on Facebook, you know? Otherwise you would have known
doesn't Facebook doesn't Skype. Skype is supposed to alert you
to that. Look at your Skype alerts, Skype. Skype is how I
always figure out and by the way, that is what I know that
I'm not a member of Plaxo, please. So that's why I don't
know it's your birthday. Yeah, but look at your Skype alerts.
It should have a little birthday present and with my name for me
look. Yeah, that's that I think alone is worth the $2 billion
they paid for it. The birthday alerts on Skype actually work.
One new event it says no, it's your your little DJ. I know what
this looks like the little gifts I've sent him before. No,
nothing. You're kidding me. No, that's just the reason you can't
blame me on a second. Let me just see what happens when you
rely when you rely on technology too much.
Where's my my profiles filled out online? We check account my
profile. Oops. Oh, wrong. Don't do that. Edit Profile. I thought
you had to fill out your age when you when you register for
Skype. Or your birthdate or something like that. I don't
actually see it in there now.
Yeah, that's my waiting. It's a little gift. Damn. Bummer.
I didn't even check, but I presume people can hear us. Let
me just see. Oh, good idea that goes to paintball again.
Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. People can hear stream is going to Dave T.
And
let me just see. Yeah, okay, good. Hey, John, how are you my
friend?
It's boiling hot yesterday, and it's gonna be hot. Again. today.
We're finally in September. So that means the weather gets nice
and warm in California with Northern silicon
fires. California is burning down.
It happens every year. Everyone's always stunned by it.
Well, it's whenever the fire
this time we were talking about the same thing. We're talking
about the fires. Yeah,
no, you're right. But we didn't talk about the the Craigslist
and eBay sales by the state of California. That was pretty
cool. Did you know you must
know, I mean, they had a big auction that was gonna go to it.
And then I realised that I have a house full of junk already. I
don't need any more crap.
But you could have picked up a Ferrari or a Rolex,
cheap. I don't think they were that cheap, or they?
I have no idea. I just thought it was kind of funny. That was a
real a real news story, of course. But I picked that up
while I was in Chicago for a couple of days. And I picked
that actually it was even before Chicago, but they were still
talking about it. Like a Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger,
you know, put all the state assets, you know, and it was
like a salami shop and all kinds of weird stuff. They had all
these repossessed items that would have been selling for you.
By the way, the salami shop.
Yeah, had been some salami. Salami doesn't keep forever. So
what were you doing in Chicago?
It was the ad tech conference.
And I understand you gave a speech.
Actually, I was on a panel. And I typically tend to shy away
from from these types of events with good reason. Because it's
just a bunch of advertising jerk offs jerking off together. Hi,
everybody, how are you? Thanks for coming. Thanks for coming to
my panel.
jerking off,
but this was in a big media buying agency in Chicago was
Star calm. And so I was invited by their their new chief
something officer, Sean Finnegan. Who's been around
who's who's you know, he's a pretty well known guy in the
media buying business. And so he of course, promised and
delivered on putting us in front of a couple of their clients.
You know, it's like it's it's typical go out there and suck
some advertiser dick. That's basically what it is. I'm just
gonna lay it out for Are you? And then until you're
actually so instead of being your normal self, you're
actually kind of pleasant and charming. No,
I was on a panel, which I forget the title of the panel. But was
the Senate the equivalent of Olympia have a
it was a panel, it wasn't a stand up.
No, no, I was just asked to do to do this panel. Let
me say, hey, panels,
it well, this one was kind of funny the panel was here it is I
have the browser window still open. It was a really long
title. what's wrong and what's right with digital display
advertising, advancing digital media to drive business results.
And on the panel was VP and general manager of display
advertising from Yahoo, Inc, Dave Zinman. And group creative
director with digit toss Kevin McElroy. And, and these, what
people don't understand. And so display is basically banners, I
guess, although
for us display that big block thing to this in the middle of a
page.
For years now, people have neural network that they don't
even see banners, you know, and, of course, the IAB, the Internet
Advertising Bureau standard of like, 300 by 250. He's like,
Thanks, now, now. Now, your brain really knows what to
ignore. Oh, there's that size block. Again, I'm not going to
look at that. And of course, you know, how can you think that you
can be a brand advertiser with a banner when someone with a
credit card can show up at Google and buy the same space
with cellulite, you know, which, and the guy from Yahoo was
pretty funny. He was like, Well, you know, our best performing
banner is the is the, what was it? The mortgage calculator is
like, yeah, of course. You know, it's direct marketing. The
classifieds have moved to the front of the magazine, dude,
forget about it. It's over the internet. Just great for direct
marketing.
Yeah, anyway, it's kind of pathetic, but true. And then I
that but that mortgage calculator added those guys. Ron
is highly it's got it's just it's enough to make me nauseous.
If you me, it's got a lot of motion. It's got like,
the dancing cowboys. Yeah. So you know it. That's interesting.
No, yeah, no, I've seen that ad. And it's like the most I show
that I hit the button as fast. Like, I hate that ad. They also
had to start off at that dancing girl doing some a three step
thing. And then it was in some Melson, some woman shaking her
head in a car or something. And it was just, it's just the most
annoying, I would never, ever I mean, I reject that ad because
of its annoyance factor.
I'm amazed that you actually know about these ads, you can
actually tell me what was going on in them. I've never even you
know, I never I'm one of those guys,
what's going on. But I can't tell you that what the company
was and I can I can tell you for a fact, I've never clicked on
it.
And that of course, is because it's a direct marketing effort.
It's not a brand advertising efforts over you're not supposed
to know unless you actually are looking for a mortgage, which
apparently you're not. Now I'm always looking for something.
Anyway, it was kind of fun. There were a couple of people
there from our old company think new ideas. Why hadn't seen a 10
or 12 years that was kind of cool. Bumping a couple of old
the old buddies, one of them who I had fired at one point
have been pleasant. I said, Hey, dude, Carrie,
I'm really sorry, man. I'm sorry for firing you. 12 years ago.
Yeah, no problem. Man. I had a job three days later. That was
funny. At a job before I found this one.
Can I start off with a little fun? A fun little clip, John.
If you play the real news thing? No, it's
not a real I'll play the real news thing for you if you want
that. And I mean,
I'm happy to get real news. You're not?
It's not it's no, it's well, yeah, it's from a real new show.
Morning meeting. Oh, hold on a second thing. I'll play the Real
News. Play.
I think you had these things I thought was just like, boom,
yeah, I'm hitting it, but it's not playing. Back to real. So
this is back to real news real and this is from MSNBC. And it's
the morning meeting from August 27. And this is about the swine
flu pandemic. And they have on this programme, they have the
MSNBC in house, Dr. Don't let me see if I can find what her name
is here. When it pops up on the screen, I'll tell you anyway, so
she, of course is advocating that you get the the swine flu
shot. And you know, it's going going back and forth. And of
course, well you know, it was really going to be bad and Wawa,
but I just want you to hear what this real doctor Well, that's
what we should we should have. Now a real doctor talking. Just
listen to how she actually winds up the segment by telling you
that you really should get the swine flu vaccination
paper it might be working
Trouble. You do know what we do now as a country in deployment
of the vaccine and in hand washing and covering your cough.
And luckily,
this is one time forget the conspiracy. Listen to our
government agencies. These guys are telling the truth. You know,
there's no conspiracy here, folks. Just get your damn
vaccine.
You go get your damn vaccine woman sounded
coked up. She's probably gonna she's just gonna fast talk and
see if I can find her name. Yeah,
don't give me your name. Hey, good. Play the clip by Nancy
Snyderman. There you go. That's really I know, Nancy Snyderman.
I've actually sat on a plane
with coke with her. Don't you remember?
If anybody would do coke, it wouldn't be her.
Well, she wants you to get your damn vaccine, Johnny Boy.
Yeah, well, she has a she's actually a specialist in nose,
throat and other forms of weird cancer that people get from
doing coke and doing cocaine.
Before we before we get to your clip, John, just a quick moment
to remind you what this programme is all about.
Our formula is this. We go out. We get people in the mouth.
Right. That's our for me.
It's it's an easy formula. That's what
I like about it. We're sticking to it.
So I have a clip there that has a flu related one. It's just a
news item. It was this is what we're where they think this is
headed. It's a straight news item that was done on a local
station. And it's and now it's become instead of having
snyderman yell and scream, you know people should just get the
damn shot. Now it's presented as so matter of fact that I think I
think this is the most effective sales pitch. You can have the
way they do this one you see Sonoma
County Health officials today reported that a teenager has
become the latest person to die from the h1 and one flu the
adolescents name and gender were not released. Official say the
teen had a pre existing medical condition. The deaths of five
other Sinhala residents have been linked to the h1 Edwin
virus. And 36 have been hospitalised with the flu
vaccine is expected by October.
Oh yeah, of course. And then you know, what they're going to do?
Of course, we already seen over here.
I was just gonna say, Isn't that just a slick way to do it?
Easy way to do it. And the next thing we're going to do, and
we've already seen it happen here in Europe, where I am right
now is, well, you know, you're gonna have to wait in line. You
can't be first we have to we're prioritising and these are the
people who are going first it's going to be healthcare workers
is going to be first first responders. So they're going to
create this false urgency
and right and this is the Nintendo marketing approach.
It's the it's the we shot, you know, so I was in Chicago with
the two gents. Jennifer White, Jennifer Cooper, winter,
whatever. Yes. And so we're having dinner and I'm, of course
you have dinner with me. Eventually, I'm going to say,
hey, they're out to kill you. And you definitely should. And
she has two kids and say, hey, you know, whatever you do, don't
don't let your kids get this swine flu vaccine. This is
bullshit. And then I said actually, on the previous no
agenda, we were talking about Gardasil, and you know, and how,
you know, hundreds of girls have died, if not 1000s have died
from this and all these horrible things. And I see Jennifer
Cooper just go white as a sheet. And she says, Are you all right?
She says, I just had my my daughter just had her first
Gardasil shot. I'm like, do Don't let her get the second
one. Okay, and not the third one either. Just stop right now. Is
she okay? Does she have a fever? No, no, she's okay. But her
doctor was really really pushing this said the kids 12 Jennifer,
she's not having sex. He's not gonna you know, there's no risk
of cervical cancer until she's having sex. Yeah, but the doctor
was really pushing it and she she totally freaked out man. She
was like, Oh my God. And then Jennifer why it was like oh, it
could who has a new baby, new baby boy Oh, yeah, no, I did all
my research my kid and get any of that stuff. All right. It's
it's like wow, you know, you just see how really intelligent
people get hoodwinked. hudway
Yeah, well nine out but I think the doctors at fault here what's
why you know, yeah, what is he getting a piece of the action?
Of course, he's getting a piece of the action that seems and
even Jennifer Cooper said, Oh, my God, he's like he's the on
the on the payrolls, da da. Yeah. So we may see a chart show
the better off we may have saved another life.
That's why we're here. People in the mouth. Play it again.
Have you heard of Have you ever heard of Pastor Manning?
No, I have not heard of Pastor Manning. So I
think he has a radio show. It's a an African American. Pastor,
and there's a YouTube clip of him that I just vowed that I
could play the whole thing. But let's just listen to a couple of
minutes here or just a minute or two of what he said.
And they can take it no, no, he's talking about white people
and who can blame them? I mean, who can blame them to build this
nation? And then haven't given away just given away? Just throw
it away? I'm zooming away by lonely and half breed usurper
illegal alien man who isn't even a citizen in the Congress knows
that he's not a citizen. I love it. Cheney knows he's not I'm
telling you why. Yes.
This guy's awesome. White folks are ready to riot.
I haven't noticed that so much. Well, listen, he No, he has. I'm
telling you.
Y'all gonna talk to the long the long legged magmatic and then
all these people John McCain, Hillary Clinton, Michael Comey,
Dick Cheney, George Bush all need to stand on a platform and
then bring the nine Supreme Court justices and apologise to
God fearing God loving patriotic Americans ought to have an
individual apology from every one of these principles I just
named that have allowed this LOLing and Matt down in this to
Tom Leia. This quasi Muslim socialist communist Marxist
freak
this guy's got an awesome show. I'm really like, you would
think so. Ronnie. Now what's up now this is good interesting
because I'm not sure what did you look up mac daddy to see
what the reference was? Because that's I'm
sure race racial slur. Let's see long legged Mac. Daddy. Let me
see. Of course I get our Urban Dictionary mack daddy Here we
go.
I'm just being a pimp or something.
Yeah, the pimp meister the king of the streetwalkers possessor
of the bleakest of bling bling. The mack daddy is the man who
means everything to his ladies of the night. Oh babe here
quote. Oh, baby, you my mack daddy. mack daddy is a term used
to describe a man with an unusual power over women, and is
derived from the French and later Louisiana Creole patois
term. MakerBot which means pimp There you go. Interesting.
Baghdad. So
yeah, well, we should keep up with that guy just to see what
just for entertainment value alone.
I think what? I ran into a blog the other day from some x,
little green footballs and one of these another right wing
black guy. And I'm noticing them starting to come out of the
woodwork and this guy's got a blog. I have to get the name of
it and we'll bring it up in a future show. But he's apparently
a professor someplace. And he is with me. He's doesn't have this
guy's vitriol, but he has the he has some of the most offensive
jobs on Obama imaginable. I mean, they're just in
everything. He's got the same kind of negative attitude. And
he went on and on about how it turns out if you start reading
between the lines, it turns out that he was a jilted hillary
supporter that has lost interest in the party because Hillary was
screwed. Yeah. But now he's a crazy Republican.
I don't even think this guy's a Republican He's just mad as hell
he's not but if you listen to this whole thing, you know, he's
like white Pete white folks and come up from Alabama from
Mississippi, they're gonna come up and then all of a sudden and
then from Oregon, I don't know quite why he says Oregon all of
a sudden, and same thing and they're gonna riot he said, You
think South Central Los Angeles was bad wait till white people
riot was like, whoa. And that's it. There may be something to
it, you know, these these crazy we really don't know what's
going on. Really what the pulse of the nation is because there
is no real news. There is no national outlet that can really
give you a feeling for what's happening. You know, you see
little clips and bits and it's really hard to to put it into
context and know if it's just a small local thing of this really
is happening nationwide. It's I don't know, you know, it's like
today I'm looking at all the different news stories I have
and I'm really depressed I'm like, oh, man, this is this just
we're all gonna die. That's I'm in one of those moods today. I
mean, in the meantime, that to dingbats from Current TV Laura
Ling and Euna Lee are now pushing their
story there. Of course it's is it sweeps week yet? Are we
coming up on sweeps? Well,
I'm seeing it in print so far so I don't know. No sweeps. We
usually they did harp on talking about it, so I don't think so.
Let me see when
it sweeps week
isn't it coming up? I think sweeps is coming up, dude. The
season begins. It's not gonna come up on reruns.
Well, no, but the season begins. Doesn't start like next week or
something.
I think about the 14th because that's when Leno shows up.
Right? Exactly.
Well, so there you go. So they're harping it now and and
then they're going to put it out and sweets.
The whole thing was he cares about these two this is like a
negative sweep. This is like suck your suck your ratings into
the toilet if you have these two women on? Well, that's what you
think the one is like this and show. She was talking about how
the John was seen in some stores CNN, oh, we had to eat our notes
and destroy the tapes to protect everyone. Oh, really? I didn't
know they ate their notes. Well, that's a noose. Yeah, that's a
new twist. They ate their notes.
We ate our notes. We should do that. John, we need to eat our
notes after you can't even find your notes for the show, let
alone eat them. You're still looking at the notes from last
week show that you forgot.
It's It's part it's part of the charm of the show
notes. But there is a note that I kept for myself from last
week, which was out of you something that you probably
would have blogged. There's a disturbing trend in the
picturesque Swiss village of Lauterbrunnen where dozens of
alpine cows appeared to me committing suicide by throwing
themselves off of a cliff.
Yeah, we did blog this the cow suicide dilemma. Yeah, that's,
that's freaky it that's one of those Darwinian type things you
go, huh? Any thoughts? Whoa, what's going on there,
a garbage truck just went by your buddies, just garbage day.
They're parking. And what's cool about this little town is that
we have like, they give us like two extra cans in a recycling
bin that you can mix stuff in, you don't really you don't have
to separate the bottom
there. And that's your Berkeley aren't choosing that kind of
No, Berkeley, just a Berkeley is the worst Berkeley, they don't
let you take too much garbage. They don't let you have garbage
disposals because it's against the environment. And they want
you to separate everything out for them. So they don't have to
do any work whatsoever. It's Berkeley is the worst time in
the world for for people who are recycling or doing anything,
because it's just like they make you they make you do all the
work just like when you go into a Macy's. And they sit and the
woman that's the cashier, she, she doesn't just ring up your
bill. She's she's typing in and scanning and typing in and start
scanning it basically bookkeeper data. So it goes into the
computer and they don't need to have a bookkeeper.
There was an article in the Financial Times I think about
people complaining about the length of receipts. And I have
noticed this myself if you if you go into a Walgreens or, or
any other store, really in the United States, when you even at
RadioShack if you buy a pack of batteries, the receipt is like
three feet long. That comes out and it's got bonus coupons and
advertising. And all you really want is just a receipt, you
know, in case whatever you bought is bogus, or you have to
return it. But have you noticed this trend?
Yeah, it started some years ago, there's been a dip and put into,
you know, their print too much, you know, they just coupon thing
is out of control. And they're putting them on a receipt and
they put them in days to have this little device which I get
the biggest kick out because I ran into the guy who, who
somehow sold the stores on this, um, years and years ago, they
finally took these things out. But in the grocery stores used
to, maybe they still have in some places, but most of them
are gone. Because I think there was a maintenance fee that was
just too high. But you'd go into the store and then they ring up
your bill. And then a little coupon would come out of a
little special printer that was sitting near the end of the
thing that returned change or somewhere around here that the
guy would give you the coupon after you rang up the if they
gave you your groceries and when you left you had this coupon and
typically, the coupon deal went like this. If you bought a six
pack a cola, a Coca Cola, a coupon would come out for a six
pack of Pepsi really? Yeah, just say you know try Pepsi instead.
And then what happened was so then the sales deal was looking
at six guys are buying coke you sell and Pepsi would get the
coupon come out and as you know and then they sold Pepsi on
this. Once Pepsi was sold on it, they could sell coke on it. So
if you bought a six pack pack of Pepsi, a coke coupon would come
out. Do you
think people actually look at all of those those those three
do I think they're but anyway some Buddy along the line got
wet, you know, figured out this is just basically a scam, you
know, playing one company off against another and they I think
they got sued for like unfair trade practices or something
because you know, they were like spying on the bill and says
privacy issues you know, you shouldn't be giving out a coupon
if you know why you know that it just became a fiasco and that
thing disappeared.
Just Just going back to your your garbage men. Something I
noticed in in Chicago, which of course is
sanitary engineers, I'm sorry, a garbage man.
Well, of course, we all know that, you know, the, the mom
pretty much controls the garbage industry, which is fine,
because, you know, garbage is usually well taken care of I
think that runs well. Yeah, absolutely. It works. I'm happy.
Chicago, of course, is the the centre of the universe. That is
where our president is from and of course, Mayor Daley pretty
much controls the president and and runs the world. There are so
many Russians in Chicago right now. And they're all like they
actually, they all look like they're adult film stars. And
they're when the guy have American passports, I might add,
I noticed this at the airport at the at the check in was like
there was must have been 50 Russians with American passports
all you know, going from Chicago back to Moscow or whatever. And
I'm like, do you think that because, you know, of course,
Moscow is famous for it's the mob running everything there.
And I think that there's probably a global thing going on
here.
You know, the other place where there's a lot of Russians that
that you know, just I mean, basically don't
want to imply that all Russians are mobsters, but these
certainly were
is Boston. Boston and Chicago are both you know, kind of mob
towns.
If we don't mind just generalising
now they know it. Sounds like we're shocking. Oh, what? I've
never heard of such.
There's mobsters in Chicago.
Anyway, so what's your point?
No, I got no real point. Yeah, of
course not. So I do have an interesting thing here.
Apparently, Rachel Maddow went on to one of the talk shows and
said she Yeah, I think I get the swine flu. Which is like you
when you came into the office, I had the swine flu. I know.
Wandering around, you know, and coughing on people and licking
their
No, I stayed in my hotel room in the Marriott courtyard. I might
add for six full days when I had the swine flu.
Okay, so anyway, so then now everybody, you know, nobody
thought much about it at the time, but now everybody's all up
in arms and how she may have infected 30 Rock and a whole
bunch of good people that have children and oh my gosh,
good. Let them all get swine flu. They need it. And she
should be the she should be the front of the line for the shots.
Yeah, she should. She should have priority. I think we should
start a viral campaign. Get Rachel Maddow to to the arm.
I have one request of readers out there. Apparently this came
out in August. I was gonna blog it but it's a little old. So I
didn't do it. But my wife pointed this out she found these
things. The headline here is Peta terrifies children with
unhappy meals. Yesterday at a McDonald's and Albany New York
PETA terrified children by handing out unhappy meals inside
the box a bloodied rubber chicken Oh pack of ketchup
blood, a MC cruelty t shirt wrapped in a blood spattered
chicken sandwich box and a cardboard cutout of a knife
wheeled in Ronald McDonald
How do they do this? They just handed them out in
front of the patient we're handing out these meals. You
know so so called meals if anybody has one of these things.
Oh yeah. They have photos here that things are little works of
art. They got this Ronald McDonald with a maniacal look on
his face with a big knife. And then they got this the inside of
the of the hamburger hold the thing that would hold the meal
is all spattered with you know it looks like blood it's really
uh I consider it I was thinking Banksy you know one of these you
know these street artists did this but no Peters apparently
they got some artists in the company now.
I'm gonna see if I can find a picture. Totally collectible. We
knit Wednesday on hat look got oh yeah, I see. Oh, my God is
the chicken is all of the little chickadee blooded chickity Oh my
god. tell you,
these catch up with the times make cruelty.
So on the kids topic, something that I find personally kind of
creepy, particularly because we don't know exactly what he's
going to say on September the eighth so that will be what does
that Wednesday night Whatever September 8, knows, maybe it's
Tuesday, President Obama will be addressing all students across
America. Yeah. In a live web telecast, and they've sent out
documents to, to teachers, with the things that teachers should
do not gain points, talking points exactly before the
speech. Teachers can build background knowledge about the
President of the United States in his speech by reading books
about presidents and Barack Obama and motivate students by
asking the following questions. Who is the President of the
United States? Who What do you think it takes to be president?
To whom do you think the President is going to be
speaking? Why do you think he wants to speak to you? What do
you think he will say to you? I mean, they're making this big
mystery. And I find it honestly, I find it offensive, that the
President is going to be speaking with a non published
agenda, and is expecting teachers nationwide to just flip
it on. It's creepy.
Yeah, you know, when the story first appeared, I didn't bother
me so much. It was just like, you know, I don't think it's
necessarily a bad idea to have the president speaking to class
keeps the teachers around to do any work. But I think if they're
going to do that, they should also play a clip from that crazy
minister that you just ran earlier.
The magmatic you can just see little kindergarteners going
home. Daddy, what is it mack daddy?
What's a long legged magnetic? long leg. Magnetic.
You gotta take some with some some specific little clips out
of that. That guy's pretty funny. It's the
whole thing is a clip. It's one big clip, you just you just
start it. You don't want to stop it. Right goals on coloured
index cards or pre cut designs to post around the classroom.
What do you think is going to be?
This is the kind of cornball stuff they do anyway in the
schools? Was he going to be it's going to be I know what it's
going to be. It's going to be a very sincere talk in his you
know, off of a teleprompter about why, you know, like more
like one of those weekend things he does. And he's going to be
why, well, why it's important to go to school, why it's important
to get a good education and what that gives you what it means to
the future that country is just going to be, it's going to be,
it's going to be a rah, rah cheerleader thing. It's not
going to be any big deal.
You don't think it's going to be about getting your swine flu
shot and
like, no, it shouldn't be. And when you get home little kids,
go to your daddy's wallet and take out 50 bucks in mail and
they'll come to me ask your Mommy why she's not supporting
the President's health health care
plan. Oh, yeah.
Just asked her say to her. Mommy, do you want me to die?
Well, you know now that the government has teamed up with
Sesame Street, oh, yeah, Elmo with? Well, they've got a Sesame
Street character named Gordon. And of course, Elmo, Yahoo will
explain the importance of healthy habits, including, of
course, all the things you need to know about the swine flu. The
H one n one, the new H one n one swine flu, which dude, there are
posters everywhere at the airports. It's just outrageous.
You know, if you have a fever, and you're sneezing, you
probably have swine flu, huh?
Yeah, no such thing as allergies.
I went through the humiliation tunnel again, O'Hare is just the
worst. And I just detest it when the TSA agents are yelling at
you. Oh, God, it makes me so I really have to call myself.
Three ounces, three ounces. Shows take
off your shoes laptops out of the bag laptops out of the bag,
laptops out of the bag, take off your shoes, as well. But along
moving along, like I just want to strangle someone just like
hey, you fuckwad I have a great entering the country story for
you. Oh, yes. It's been a while. Yeah. So
we have that. That's been over a year that you've told one of
these tales. Yes. Well,
it's time for a new one of the humours variety. So I I landed
at O'Hare. And I go to the Customs and Border Patrol agent
in the citizens line. And there's no guy like my age,
maybe a year or two older. Turns out he was two years older. And
I handed my passport as a good afternoon. And he says, Hey,
you're the MTV Adam curry, aren't you? And I start to say
why Yes officer and I look at his name tag because I want to
say you know his name and his name tag read but M A N I'm like
why Yes officer, the officer. Maybe it was boot mine or
something because there was only one boot bond to you. cuz, like
I'm not gonna mispronounce this guy's name was like, Well, yes,
Officer Buttman that's me. I could just see myself retained
with with with with the rectal examination I'm like, Oh my God.
And yeah I remember watching you Yes officer Buttman sure you
enjoyed it Birdman. Oh geez.
If you let me know that was good. Yeah, well, you're on the
list now. Oh, totally. I think it's because of this show. By
the way.
Let me actually let me give you some real news. This is even in
the Financial Times. This is news that you'll be interested
in John Gordon Ramsay standing in the culinary firmament has
taken yet another hit with a number of his restaurants
drugged as overpriced and disappointing. Even his flagship
restaurant, Gordon Ramsay and Chelsea, which was considered
the best gastronomic experience in London last year has suffered
quote, an unprecedented slide. According to the latest edition
of hardens, London restaurants there now saying Here it is.
Seven Course Menu. Prestige is not a three star Michelin
experience. For 120 pounds, I might point out,
which is not a bad price, by the way for seven courses. For seven
quarts in a three star restaurant. That's pretty,
pretty low. But if it if it sucks, yeah, if it if it sucks,
this is part of the never ending smear that began when his visit,
you know, people have to realise when they're watching any of
this stuff, that his that he essentially stepped out on his
wife.
Yeah, that's where it really started, which by the way, he is
still not admitted, and still has not really been proven. I
don't think,
well, whatever it he stepped out on his wife. And he ended and
then they fly in the ointment is the fact that his wife's father
was his manager and running
a major investment investor. Yeah, there's like 40% of the
business, I think,
right? And so this is not the guy you want to piss off, you
know, by, you know, messing with his daughter. And that's when it
all began. And it seems like no coincidence to me that it's
continuing because he refuses to make amends. And he's the, you
know, that probably, him in the in the, I mean, the guy's
obviously the, who is the wife's father is obviously no slouch,
because he's the one who built up this empire. And he can, you
know, can tear it down just as fast. And he's likely, you know,
he's probably got connections everywhere.
Well, but he's still actually he's still the running the
company. It makes no sense for him to tear it down. Right. And,
you know, while he's still a major shareholder,
I don't know what the politics are, but I can just tell you,
that just seems like a no coincidence, as far as I'm
concerned that this stuff keeps happening to Ramsey
I think it's it's just typical, the way the media works and the
way kind of life works, you know, it's a roller coaster,
particularly if you're in the public eye. You built up, you're
knocked down and you know, I can predict right now in a year or
two, if we're still alive, he'll have an amazing comeback, you
know, he'll fight his way back up to the top and he'll he'll
read though
maybe it's just shut down some of his restaurants in the
process and concentrate on why
I think that'll just happen all by itself. And that seems to be
the trend of him closing his restaurants.
Yeah, what anyway, ya know, his flag. I haven't been to that
place. Gordon Ramsay's insurance for Yeah. I'm sure it's fine.
I'm sure it's not as horrible as these guys are making it out to
be. I mean, because he's, if nothing else, he's got to keep
that one ship with his name on it at the top of the heap.
But of course, while everyone is talking about that, somewhere
buried on page 18, is the record criminal, fine. Criminal fine. I
might add, that Pfizer has had to pay for sue for false claims
false advertising, basically selling you shit. There wasn't
like $1.2 billion.
It was in a billion so it's unbelievable find find this
combination civil and criminal settlement, Pfizer has agreed to
pay $2.3 billion, the largest healthcare fraud settlement in
the history of the Department of Justice. Within that $2.3
billion is a criminal fine of $1.195 billion, which makes it
the largest criminal fine in history. Combating healthcare
fraud is one of this administration's top law
enforcement priorities. By all accounts every year, we lose
billions of dollars to Medicare and Medicaid, Medicare and
Medicaid funds
from there it is So that of course is why this is why
they're trying to play this one out is about the so called fraud
and we need health care reform because these guys are stealing
our money.
Those billions represent healthcare dollars that could be
spent on medicine and
reform. They'll stop stealing our money right?
Yeah, right. Right away
immediately
it doesn't actually say in the in the article exactly what they
did, which is I always find disturbing
I there was some they were doing some the salesmen were doing
some bribes. And there was there was a whole bunch of different
brands.
Don't tell me they were they were paying off. Doctors,
doctors,
there were there were there there were encouraging. Miss
Miss woods. I don't know what the term is. But I'm saying
gonna say Miss prescriptions. In other words, there's drugs that
are recommended for this, that and the other, but you're not
supposed to recommend him for these other things. And they're
recommending him for these other things to move more product. And
there was a there's a whole laundry list of stuff they were
doing, but it seems to me that all these guys do that. I mean,
Pfizer is just the tip of the iceberg. Yeah, people want to
know why health care so expensive. They just had need to
look at these drug companies.
And where does that $3 billion go? Who gets that?
They probably never even given the money. I mean, I don't know
they probably they'll fight that for so long. It's gonna be
ridiculous. I don't know it goes into the treasury.
Oh, Timmy, Timmy Geico. Another fine upstanding citizen.
Yeah, it goes right to buy cars right to the banks.
So one of the big things going on out here, which I find
testable is well, actually what clips do I have there? Let's
play a clip. Yeah, you
got a couple of clips you got I don't have any great cowboys.
Anyone poison to shooting at school? Six.
Oh, yeah. The Shooting School is kind of interesting. We had a
shooting here give you the background on it was up in this
skyline of colleges didn't even know what that was, was a little
junior college, I guess. And the hills. And I guess there was a
couple of gangs or some kids. There were two Black groups, and
they got into a they're in the parking lot. And then they got
into a screaming match. And one of them Yes, kerfluffle. And,
and one of them pull out a gun and shot one of the other kids
in the butt. And then they all scramble out of there as fast as
they could. But meanwhile, of course, everybody's preoccupied
with the thing. And it's Virginia Tech all over again. So
they text message everybody and then they do this. But there's a
couple of punch lines in this story. You have to play the
whole thing. That just to me, it's just the eye roller. And
the the main one you'll usually hear you're gonna go What, what,
but anyway, but there's also the naivete of the of the kids, that
it's just kind of weird to play it play
weapons drawn, they form lines, then carefully walk the room to
room looking for the gunman. Meanwhile, the schools send text
messages to students telling them to shelter in place.
I gotta stop it right there. What happened to the PA system?
Remember that when we were in school, John, I was like, Hey,
kids, get in a safe place? No, we're gonna send text messages.
Does the school have everyone's mobile number is that now
they might have determined that they'd done that at Virginia
Tech where they don't have a big giant PHS because it's an actual
university. Text messaging probably would have saved some
people but the point is, is that these kids were in the parking
lot and they all raced out of there as soon as this happened,
so they weren't there were they looking for
stay in your rooms and lock all the doors there was an
altercation between two groups of African American males in the
parking lot number six, and during that altercation one
subject was shot as police
that by the way was the cop who looked very displeased by
everything and he just said look, there's all occasion that
guy was shot, you know, get out of my face. It was just
apparently was just a simple episode. But anyway, go back
each classroom they helped 3000 Students calmly evacuate,
pop, pop, pop pop, and then I was like, what was that
these two students say? They heard the shots, looked up and
saw a group of men sprinting toward them.
They just started like yelling they're like, Oh, crap, dude,
run, run run.
That guy got shot.
Police say the men got away in a fluorescent purple Ford Escort
with a paper licence plate as you
saw the gun and I was like, Oh my gosh, I've never seen
anything like that before it was impossible to find this vehicle
trouble
was was literally fluorescent
purple with spinning rims and all kinds of I could never find
those guys no way.
I mean, it's this thing was like so it was beyond it was almost
lavender was just as Gardius purple thing you've ever seen
with paper. Blades Yeah, like that makes a difference this
thing this these lights up the road. What boneheads Oh man
that's our local news. That's the hot stuff going on around
you that in the fires.
Yeah there's there's different stories going on oh man and
people are just calling me all day because it's my birthday of
course.
Happy birthday to you.
Some of the biggest supermarkets in Britain have held secret
talks because they're running out of non GMO food suppliers.
So they literally cannot find
please, why don't you just take the phone off the hook that
would do the trick.
It's kind of hard with a cell phone. How do you take a cell
phone off the hook? Oh, you
call it's called Turning it off? Okay, yeah, I could do that.
But what if something somewhat important calls? Tesco
Sainsbury's Morrison Marks and Spencer Co Op Summerfield and
Aldi met with civil servants to discuss their problems and
finding traditional food suppliers. So they can no longer
find food that is non GMO. Ie created, you know, laboratory
created Franken food. And by who? What is
enough sleep or what's the deal?
Yeah, let me see. I did I did I fly on the red eye from Chicago
to be here on time for the show? Yeah, I think so. Okay. But
that's, that's disturbing.
Yeah, that's pretty disturbing. I agree.
They cannot find suppliers who are not GMO. I mean, that's Wow.
And of course, there was a bunch of things in the EU that
prevented all this GMO food from being sold and bought and sold
in Britain.
But then you're missing the point. So European rules state
that GM food has to be labelled. The point is they can't find
suppliers who sell non GMO food. Everyone's using this shit. It's
everywhere. It's We're doomed.
I don't know what to tell you. I think it's just I don't know. I
mean, I mean, it wouldn't have been Washington state where we
shop at the little grower who grows his own food means a
farmer. He's got a whole lot of land. He doesn't. There's no GMO
stuff up there. We have the raw milk from the Dungeness
Creamery. And of course, we just we get get to buy a cow on the
off the hook, you know,
yeah, but you Yeah, but you off the cliff. You mean you can't
there's not enough of those guys to go around. And particularly
in the United Kingdom where there really are no small shops
anymore. Everyone shops at these big box supermarkets. You know
that? If they're not if they're not buying their food, they're
the buying it at the gas station. This is another very
disturbing trend in Europe. all gas stations are effectively
mini marts where you go and you know, pick up your food people
actually eat in the gas station these days. Ever seen that? Way?
I
mean, they, they there's their tables in there.
Yeah, they've got like stand up tables, and you walk in and so
you know,
one of those reheated hammers it's been forever and yeah,
yeah, mustard on it and choke it down with a Slurpee.
Now, we don't know the concept of Slurpee. We have just
aspartame tainted Diet Coke. Another trend I've noticed. If
you don't specifically ask for it. You get a Diet Coke.
No, they're not here.
I tell you.
Too much high fructose corn syrup for that kind of scam to
get any leg swell. This
is the aspartame scam. And boy, I'll tell you if you don't even
on the aeroplane. If you don't specifically say I want a
regular Coke. You're getting the Diet Coke. People are hooked on
the taste of this shit. People are really really hooked on it.
And that's a good thing to avoid drinking. Yeah, well, in
general, I
think Coke is a good thing to avoid.
Well, here's a headline for you. This is a real news. Yeah, might
as well be armless man denied check cashing at Bank of America
for not giving thumbprint. Ah, yeah. Seems like real news to
me.
Yeah, this is just wrong with my, my my every single time I
hit the button. It's slow. Or it's not firing. I don't know
what's going on. I'm too tired to figure it
out. Sounds like you haven't need an upgrade.
Let me know. I can probably I don't know. I don't know. I
really don't know. I'm sorry.
Let's see Michelle Bachman is in the news again. She's gotten
crazy. My girlfriend.
I love her. What's she doing now?
Now she's deciding that we all need to take a blood oath of
some sort. Really? So we had to slit our wrists blood brothers
and
that. What's What's the dealio?
It's about the health care deal. I mean, it's everybody's taking
these ridiculous sides. I mean, on an issue that is. I mean, I
don't get why the Democrats didn't just ramrod this thing
through they, everybody they needed. They should have just
pushed this through in the dead of night. What's the problem?
Now they don't have the votes. I guess not anymore. Here is freed
us journalists suspected. This is by the way, one of the other
stories about these these dingbat Ling and Li, Ling, Li
Ling and Li. This was the CNN story, and then now they suspect
they were lured into a trap.
Oh, right, while they were conveniently wandering into
North Korea.
And she did this is a funny line here acquainted. The writer,
Ling and Lee didn't want to do Ling and Lee didn't go into much
more detail about their experiences in captivity, saying
there are, quote, things that are still too painful to visit,
like eating our notes. It's been painful for me to talk about
eating mice. We should do that every show. We should eat some
notes. Would you like some notes with your beer?
Here's a story about laying the beat those notes. Mash it up
really good.
Dateline September 1 2009, the State Department has extended a
contract with Blackwater. They were banned. No, no, no, no, no,
no sources say the department has agreed to temporarily
continue using the subsidiary known as presidential airways.
These are the guys that smuggled guns in dog food to provide
helicopter transport for embassy employees around Iraq until a
new contract with another security company dine Corp
International. Alia is fully implemented. Presidential
airways is an arm of us Training Centre, which is a subsidiary of
C, formally and still commonly known as Blackwater. Of course,
dine Corp says we're not going to be fully staffed and
certified in order to assume the responsibilities immediately.
So, you know, we need these guys to continue. I think. In fact, I
have had an article wasn't this one of our Secretary of State's
promises bring it up.
There's a promises couple promises website with Hillary
Clinton. These guys are not performing very well.
Hillary Clinton as a candidate for president pledged to ban
Blackwater in February 2008, she announced that she would sign on
as the co sponsor of a little known Bill put forward in the
House of Representatives. The stop outsourcing security or s.
O 's act? Oh, yes, we've got an acronym sought to end the use of
armed mercenaries in US war zones. Hey, Hillary. What's up
with that? Maybe we should ask Bill.
Just like all Roseanne, Roseanna Danna, people can remember that,
you know, yes.
These private security contractors have been reckless
and have compromised our mission in Iraq, Clinton set in February
28 2008. Statement on the campaign trail, the time to show
these contractors The door is long past do we need to stop
filling the coffers of contractors in Iraq, and make
sure that armed personnel in Iraq are fully accountable to
the US government and follow the chain of command? Well, I'm sure
you've seen how well that's working in our embassy in
Afghanistan. I hope you blog this.
Yeah, we did. We blogged it about the dogs that are running
the thing. Well, it's
like Lord of the Flies. We've got here's Afghan national
employed as a food service worker, and so that these guys
like walking around naked, there's pictures of them eating
potato chips out of each other's butts. Which, by the way, thanks
for that. It's not recommended behaviour anywhere. Simulated
anal intercourse. It's like, frat boys. And I'm sure that
they are they're hired, I'm sure that
we need to get out of that country. That's stupid that
we're there.
You know, this is a couple of interesting things about
Afghanistan and our being there. So one, this is what President
Obama keeps calling the necessary war. And I think we
should stop and evaluate that because I don't know what's so
necessary about it. And Returning now to the vernacular.
Thanks to bonehead Robert Gibbs, the White House spokesperson.
He's brought back the War on Terror quote. Now that's back. I
thought we were getting rid of that. I thought the President
said we're not going to say that anymore. And now he's saying it
All over the place, war on terror, war on terror.
It must have tested well in a focus group. You can't
under resource because of course they want 200,000 extra troops
to go in. And by the way, it doesn't have to be, you know,
like reservists it can just be Blackwater dudes. You can't
under resource, the most important part of our war on
terror. You can't under resource that for five or six or seven
years. Oh, really, whether it's under resource with troops,
whether it's under resource with civilian manpower, whether it's
under resource with economic development funding, what
war monger said this, this is Robert Gibbs.
And just basically,
another Vietnam in the Democrats did it again.
But no one's no one's questioning this. No one's going
to
question it because they're all you know, liberals can't
question the President of the United States, by the way, got
the name with that blogger. That's, that's got an anti Obama
blog, who's a black guy? Typical. I mean, they just got
to go crazy with some of the most offensive to me some of the
most offensive imagery, but I'll mention it anyway. Afro city
blog AFR, oh, cit y blog.wordpress.com. And this guy
says he's in the same league as that preacher that you were
playing earlier.
Well, it's a trend, John, it's a trend. And maybe it's a really
good one
might be unless we get out of Afghanistan and actually start
focusing on this country.
Well, it would be an idea. You know, we all know that the
Taliban oh, by the way, what happened to al Qaeda when we
after those guys, I'm confused. But they're in Pakistan that
they're not in Afghanistan. An Afghan national employed as a
food service worker at the guard corpse base at Camp Sullivan,
submitted a signed statement August 16, attesting that a
guard force supervisor and four others entered a dining facility
on August 1. Of course, these were not actual US troops. These
were probably Blackwater type guys, wearing only short
underwear and brandishing bottles of alcohol upon leaving
the facility. The guard force supervisor allegedly grabbed the
Afghan National by the face and began abusing him with foul
language saying you're very good for fucking the Afghan National
reporter that he was quote too afraid of them. I could not tell
them anything yet. No shit. This is from Mother Jones, by the way
that I'm reading this from Mother Jones has to report on
this.
Yeah, well, you gotta kind of get Yeah, I think it's pathetic
when you have to read news in Mother Jones.
And it's so that's just thugs everywhere. John was just thugs
everywhere running. scurrying. It's big time thuggery. And the
TSA thugs are very close behind to this type of behaviour. And
by the way, why are they all 300 pounds? Why is that
I ran into a skinny guy in Texas, well, he was screaming
about, you're gonna have more than three ounces, if it's not
three ounces is not allowed, you should throw it in the garbage,
if it's a jar that says six ounces on it, but there's only
three ounces inside, it will be confiscated. If it says six
ounces, if there's nothing inside, it will be confiscated.
It should be three has to be three ounces in a container that
says three ounces. And it goes on and on like that just
forever. I mean, it's like the guy never stopped talking
to settle my anger in these moments in the TSA line. I've
now taken to evaluating and studying the X ray operator and
they rotate you know, so they all take their little turn and
half of these guys just like sitting there
you know, I know most of this guy's smart money just you know,
but then I love watching my bad go through because you have the
multiple colours that turn it orange, blue, and you can see
all these different things now, I wish I had the balls because I
know I can't do it. I wish I had the balls to take a picture of
what my bag looks like. Because my bag is essentially a big
bundle of wires and batteries. You know if anything, when a bag
full of wires and batteries, it goes to the X ray machine. You
might want to just check it. They never ever do. But if you
got some water in that bag, oh the alarm bells go off. Oh, I
was water Water Water Water. Yeah, and I know that you just
like to run it
can find that water and they can also find it too but toothpaste
or whatever. And I would just
like to remind people one more time we've discussed it on the
show. But the reason for this liquids limitation was because
there was a so called bust of so called terrorists at Heathrow or
who were intending it wasn't even at Heathrow who were
intending according to the bus asked to take liquids onto
American aircraft to mix them up and explode these aircraft mid
air and bring them down. All of these so called terrorists were
acquitted. They were not convicted. They were that was
thrown out there. Not only could they not prove that they were
planning on doing this, these guys had no passports had no
tickets. And they didn't really even have the right chemicals to
do this. They acquitted all of them. And still, we have to do
this we have to go through this humiliation
they came up with a good idea and possibly somebody else
didn't come up with that idea. And they can do it. Now. It's
too late now no is for retail because the minute you go
through, you can get yourself a nice knife in first class, and
you can buy yourself a $7 bottle of water.
Well there's that
it's a retail scam.
So if you tell me you are you're telling me that we've hired all
these TSA people for the millions and millions of dollars
it cost to keep this thing staffed just so they can sell
more bottled water,
amongst other things. Yeah. Yeah, that's possible. That's
something that
you never know.
It's another one of your clips John.
Yeah, just play these two clips the poison one and poison two
and then that's just something that bothers me when I said I'm
getting to the point now where it's getting annoying to watch
these, these cop shows where they come up with these. I mean,
it's just as if police work involved any of this play clip
one,
because we're missing a big piece of the puzzle here.
All this noise you have Stopstopstop Oh, this is this is
the these are the machines that calculate DNA within seconds.
No, no, no, that's no this is a this is the facial recognition.
She Si, right Si, si. Miami, and they and of course the the cops
are all standing around this most high tech projector in the
world where they've wave their arms and the pictures are
changing. And then you know, they say Well, I think that
guy's got something to do with it. Run the facial recognition
and they hear all this but they have all the sound effects. It
is cool.
I can almost see the faces change. Oh, shoot. That's how it
sounds like cool when we go
back. That's Zoey bells trainer. Right. So what are you doing
with Patrick Garrity? Is he in any of that pictures? Use of
facial recognition software now? Yeah. Okay. He's one of the
burglarized houses. He's the one. He's the common denominator
not making a Hamilton. Yeah, those are really good
sound effects. And he was a stage of recognition.
Semi shoom. I love it.
Now. Okay, now we go on to an even more weird one that this is
a little longer. But this is on CSI New York. And they're trying
to figure out if some guy had actually done something or not.
And the guy had already been there. The real story, the way
they handle is the guy had already been convicted. He's
already served time. But for some reason, they're going to
spend the police resources trying to prove he's innocent
after he's already out of jail, just to clear his name. And this
is what the cops do. And they go put this kind of effort into it
and you mess up, play this
get away Stop stop. What they're doing there is I was in a car
wreck. So they've so the police department apparently has bought
a copy of his car. And they've hooked it up to some rig that
the big automakers use to slam the car over and over again into
a poll wrecking it of course, just to see whereas to explain
why a cell phone was sitting in the front seat this is the kind
of effort the police do by the way with every small accident go
on. So they're wrecking a car John,
John, you do realise it's not it's make believe
nine oh, but that's not my point is to make believe product get
greater the reported speed of
the car and simulate the object of impact and placement of the
phone and not once to the cell and on the front passenger side
floor where you recover it. And it Nevels vehicle the power
adjustment gears under the seat are too bulky for an object just
to slide forward. But that doesn't definitively eliminate
the possibility that the driver was holding the phone
but it makes it more plausible to someone in the passenger seat
is that Belzer
No, no, no. This is CSI New York. That's Gary Sinise and
someone's goodness. Which
brings us to the prince now. Nevels left thumbprint was on
both the driver and passenger seatbelt release button.
We certainly could have been a passenger in his own cars and at
the time other than the accident. Yes, he
could and I thought about that but this is Talmage that was
some friends lifted from the Drivers so released are based on
the position of the apex and the Delta points it appears that
never released
a John, how's your apex and delta points? Minor feeling
pretty good right now
the belt from the passengers.
But there is another possibility he could have used his left hand
from the drivers.
Doc I thought about that too. But why would he reach all the
way across his body and turn his thumb 180 degrees to release the
button?
How can we can't find bin Laden? I mean, we clearly have the
technology I mean, we could really do some amazing shit but
we just can't find this guy can we
eat can play the rest of that
natural action,
but easily accomplished from the passenger seat. These minute
concluded Neville release that bell to let someone else out.
So anyway, the point is, is that this friend of mine who's a pre
law, and who does a lot of work for the public defenders, and
he's starting to see this already. The jeweller jury pool
of the United States of America is being corrupted by these
shows. Because people watch this crap pleat fiction and and they
think that cops are doing this kind of work on a day to day
basis. So when a cop goes up there on the stand and says bla
bla, bla bla bla, the COP is telling the truth based on all
kinds of work that they've put into this case.
Oh, yeah. And also it's a great way to get more technology
companies you know, building more crap and and tax dollars
and pounds and yen and euros being spent on more cameras and
more sophisticated shit that doesn't actually work.
Right Money, Money scam scam, big scam.
I was, I was surprised. I think it was Tuesday morning. I saw
the same story in some high end publications, ie, Wall Street
Journal Financial Times, and I'm reading it here on Bloomberg,
Afghan opium prices dropped to eight year low. And I'm thinking
how do they know this? Is there an index or something that I'm
unaware of? Is there like some open market that these guys have
access to? It must be on a Bloomberg terminal. I mean, they
literally know. opium poppy cultivation fell 20 to 20 knots,
not 20 22% to 123,000 hectares. So they they know how big it is.
They know where it is, how come they can't just stop this. I
mean, all of this, of course really backs up my theory that
that the reason why Afghanistan is to get the drugs and to bring
it into the country. It's a huge industry of which Bloomberg
reports on Afghan growers made $438 million from OPM this year.
How do they know that? How do they know that? Not not? 500?
Not 400? No $438 million.
Yeah, a little too specific to be numbers out of their ass.
I mean, it just blows me away, I don't understand. And of course,
Afghan farmers who produce more than 90% of the opium used to
make the world's heroin slash poppy cultivation, but it's
like, it's like the commodity let's the like there's talking
about oil. Well, there's less of the poppy output to raise the
prices because your heroine your smack is just too cheap. It's
the mat long legged mack daddy Making the smack too cheap on
the streets. That's what's happening.
I gotta use the long legged legged mack
daddy. This is a 42 page. They've got analysts on this
shit, John here, lower opium prices in Afghanistan reflect
the continuing high levels of opium production, which is
thought to exceed global demand for opium and its derivatives.
According to the 42 page report issued today, annual world
demand for illicit opium has never exceeded 5000 tonnes. They
know everything. And there's a picture of these dudes with
like, you know, with with beards sitting into poppy field. It was
like, No way, man. No way. This is a completely known industry.
They've got it down to percentages to the exact dollar
amounts. I mean, come on. And oh, okay. I guess so. And, and
of course, Monsanto. There's something about Monsanto. I
should actually play the Roundup Ready opium? Yes. You got
that story to know you make no Roundup ready. Oh,
you're making a joke. No, that's true. I was I was making a joke.
No, no, no, no, no, it's really true. Let me find the Roundup
Ready. It is this roundup ready opium? Yes, from the start of
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Afghanistan. OCA
has been tracking the opportunities for Monsanto. A
well known war profiteer thing Agent Orange to take advantage
of the current and occupations. These include pushing
glyphosate, which is the Roundup herbicide for Poppy eradication.
Well it turns out they've now made Roundup Ready Poppy. And of
course they not sure how this exactly happened. I mean, could
it maybe the the growers have just been mutating this stuff,
but yep, sure enough, they've got Roundup Ready, Poppy. Wow.
In fact
was the idea. Okay, so here's the idea. So here's the plan.
You bring Monsanto into the picture so they can help
eradicate quote unquote, the poppy fields. And in fact, what
they're really doing is testing. The roundup ready poppies and
that's why they're they're spraying roundup all over
everything. And the by the way, the people who don't use the
roundup already poppy seeds, their fields are wiped out. Yep.
As reported last genius. Yeah, as
reported last year in Iraq, the groundwork has been laid to
protect the patents of Monsanto and other GM seed companies. One
of Paul Bremmer is last acts as head of the global the Coalition
Provisional Authority, ie the guys who handed out cold hard
cash by the pallet load was an order stipulating that farmers
shall be prohibited from reusing seeds of protected varieties. So
these guys, I've heard, they've already got Poppy seeds. I'm
telling you, they've got Poppy seeds. Unbelievable. And we just
sit here like schmucks. We really do. Let me
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So I just have two quick stories. You have laughed at me
in the past about this but thank goodness for for Boeing. They
have announced they had a successful test of the ATL the
Advanced Tactical laser, which was able to nuke an unoccupied
stationary vehicle from the air
yeah you got this is this actually happened about a month
or so ago didn't it? Because not New Story
No well that the story isn't gonna blog it
I was gonna log in I said brother you know I just another
who knows, ya know, they shot a laser from a Boeing Boeing jet
and
now they can melt shit.
Already majority melt the meals they serve on these planes.
But it's this is serious business. And I would just like
to say that I believe before the end of the year we're going to
see the next phase of the financial crisis. And it really
ended and now Beijing is starting to wield its its ugly
head. State China. Any state owned companies will be allowed
to walk away from loss making commodity of a commodity
derivative trades. The we haven't talked about derivatives
in a long time. But the the total derivative exposure that's
out there is estimated to be like $500 trillion.
Get some ridiculous number. And so
once that shit starts to unwind, then hold onto your hats and
grab your gold.
So what do I have another clip left? Yes, you do? Yes. But what
does it say?
six cents.
Oh, six cents. Yeah, yeah. Oh, this is interesting. This is
more propaganda that came out. This was from a show called lie
to me, which I think is actually quite well written. And they
says nobody learns anything at school anymore. They, they throw
this this random information into the shows. And I'm not
absolutely sure what the point of this one was. But it's just
like it was kind of a jaw dropper when I heard I'm
thinking what are what is the point of telling us this? And
with the with the reference to the to the to the source
material, play it? Let's take a look at our victim.
More good sound effects, by the way? Yeah, I love these.
Which group does Dante look like the man on the left and then on
the right. Men on the left? Oh, you have a sixth sense. by that?
I mean, you see gay people. Gay. All the men on the left are gay.
A new study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology showed
that most people can identify gay men by face alone. It has to
do with the pattern of muscle tension in the face.
It is true whenever a man's face is in my crotch. I usually think
he's gay. That's usually when
when it has to do with the muscle tensions in the face.
That is such
such bullshit that is that's like dangerous show. Is that lie
to me. That's like, that's dangerous, man. That shit
shouldn't be on television.
Just like you know what, uh, you know, the only thing that would
really nail it is just somebody brought up this point. You know?
You can when you see you can tell a Jew when you see him.
That's next. I'm telling you that's next. It's the nose
that's Hey, it's that easy.
It was like that's what you know they had these posters in Nazi
Germany you know it here's what it you know, with a major mince
in the skull and it's not with with Jews. And so, but anyway, I
just I'm telling you, I was just taken aback by that one. And it
was also kind of pointless, but it was
it was it's dangerous and it's disturbing and it's flat out
wrong and Patrick Henry style in America and this is what we
should have our kids watching
red blooded God fearing Jesus loving Americans are going to
stand up say we're not gonna take it no more. We're just not
gonna take it. So I have one more story.
You don't want to the mack daddy
No, I think that we'd have you got to clip that guy down a
little bit so we can use him as a more concentrated
okay, we're moving to new and improved more concentrated long
legged man. Send me a link to that gout clip clips in the show
notes no agenda show.com
So I find something to kind of disturbing. And this has to do
with two of our nights by the way are members of one of the
Tea Party Alliance and I call this the 4x Yeah, my it's gonna
be as close as you get. So there's a thing that started off
the guy this guy Mackey, John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods wrote
a rather tame anti Obamacare editorial in the Wall Street
Journal all of a sudden of number of I don't know fringe
groups decided they're going to boycott Whole Foods which is
going to be highly unlikely considering the market that
people who go to Whole Whole Foods and by the way there have
been stories they talked about they've been interviewing people
out in front of Whole Foods about this and of shoppers who
are all left wingers usually are hippies never heard of it. I
don't care. I don't care. I just want some granola I want some
granola man. But anyway so they tried to make a boycott happen
as but it's a very sketchy situation. In fact, there are
some press on his on a company called C T w investments that
we're going to they said they should fire John Mackey C TW
investments. So and I'm thinking TTW investments just like some
of venture capitalists want to fire the CEO because he wrote a
blame editorial in the Wall Street Journal. So I basically
looked up there just took their address and ran it through
Google and came up with who these people really are. Si t w
investments is actually a I think a fibre once we see one of
those things, it's it's an operation coach mange to win and
the the head of it and many of the members but the head woman
who runs it, it's a also an executive at the S E IU. Okay.
And meanwhile I think they became the C TW and or CT W
investments in the T is small by the way it's seek small teak
capital W, which is changed to win if you don't figure that
out. They also for some unknown reason have posted or somehow
somebody posted their form 8872 on the internet, which was came
from 2006. And back then they took in $1.5 million from well,
just from donors. But they doled out a they dole I didn't say who
it came from. But that's the kind of money by the way,
compare that to the two or 300 bucks a week we
get to know exactly, thank you,
I want to mention that the people know, uh, you know,
divorce.org/na I mean, these guys are getting 1.5 million.
And they're only spending about 400,000. And mostly two
different parties, the Florida Democratic Party got 50,000, the
Ohio Senate Democrats got 15,000 on and on. So they think they've
sucked up so much money, that they've had to start an
investment company to put it somewhere, which is the only
reason that these guys are even having an investment company.
Meanwhile, the Tea Party people have decided to create something
called a bike caught a bike caught. Yeah, this was the this
was to reverse the damaging effects of this bogus boycott is
doing nothing. And now this is not this is a very interesting
situation, because the Tea Party people apparently, you know,
they've all become friends, because they, you know, they
didn't know each other before that Tea Party incident that,
you know, was a tax revolt or whatever, against the bo bomb in
general. And now they've got to do something with their spare
time. And instead of doing something productive, they're
going out of their way. And there's new stories all over the
place to shop. And we're talking about a bunch of, you know, like
right wingers and old people and you know, retirees shopping at
Whole Foods, which is funny in itself. But why? Let me get this
you can imagine I mean, I think the whole thing is a publicity
stunt done by Whole Foods. The Whole Foods, by the way, is a
company that does almost $8 billion a year in revenues, 2.71
and profit, the highest margins of all the foods stores. In
other words, they say, well, our stock is more expensive, because
it's you know better. It's also marked up more because they have
a 34% margin, as opposed to every other Grocery Outlet. In
fact, the average for the industry is 26. So they're eight
points above everybody else. So why MIT may ask you
conservatives out there and you you crazy radicals, Republican
radicals, led by one or two, there's a writer now that's got
a couple of books out on the topic, who's the guy from
Harvard? Why are you spending your time going to shop at Whole
Foods, although it may be educational for you, when
there's other things to do it? This is bogus. This is stupid.
John Cena for accent diva day,
I'd like to remind you that we have a motto here at no agenda.
You know what redo
our formula is this. We go out. We hit people in the mouth.
And we do it twice a week. And if you would take a little bit
of that money that you're spending in Whole Foods. We
could do it three times a week.
overspending in Whole Foods Yes. They don't need your help.
34% margin rages Hey, I'm I gotta go I gotta check my puppy
stocks on Yahoo. Okay, good idea. Make sure it makes sure my
my, my commodity futures are okay.
Probably the best investment you can make.
No kidding. Coming to you from the 17th century canal house in
Gitmo nation East's in the centre of Amsterdam, where I'll
be for a Sunday show as well. I'm Adam curry,
and from Northern Silicon Valley, where it's actually
going to be another hot day because our summers are always
after summer's over. I'm John C. Dvorak.
Happy birthday to me. Talk to you again on Sunday right here
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