If you never can know exactly what to expect, because well,
quite frankly, we have no agenda and it's time once again for the
programme. It is this week's no agenda coming to you from the
curry manor in United Kingdom. I'm Adam curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak up here in northern California.
And we've got a new, this is something new for us, John
little tasks, we've reversed the roles for once.
Yeah, I'm up late. It's like one in the morning as we're doing
this. And you're just, I guess you just got up recently. Yeah,
I've been up for a couple hours, but it's about 10 past nine in
the morning. And it just worked out this way. I think we might
as well tell. Tell the audience right off the bat that we're
doing this on? What is it today? Say Thursday? Yeah, Thursday. So
we'll probably won't get this out until Friday. So it's one
day earlier. But if you're wondering why some of the topics
may be about older news, 24 hours old. That's the reason
we don't really talk about the news as much as we do about
trends. Well, that's
true. Okay, then let me start right off the bat with a trend,
which is huge protests in Europe over the price of gasoline, and
in particular Diesel. Have you followed this at all? Heard
about,
but the diesel thing has fascinated me because even at
the even here, for It started about a year ago, I noticed
this. And I used to work as a petroleum chemist. So you have
to, you know,
you have to understand these things. Well, I
mean, I kind of get part of it. But this, there's a baffling
aspect to it. Because this is not a normal situation. But
about a year ago, the price of diesel started sneaking up and
it became the same price as premium right, gasoline, I
will I've made a study and I know why at least in Europe, I
know why it's happening. All right, go. So first of all, you
have a regular increase just in the in the raw materials. So the
price of a barrel of oil is going up. But what all these
governments have done, and there was a big protest in the UK two
days ago, the French fishermen are protesting they're cutting
off the Atlantic or whatever the hell is that all these
governments have put extra tax co2 emission tax on diesel and
and it's an extra tax because of course, I don't think this is
true. Because they say well, diesel engines, you know, they
spew out much more co2, which of course is related directly back
to this global warming meme that is out there. And I think that I
don't know if that's the same in the States but in Europe, that's
exactly what's happened and that's why that price has been
driven up so far.
I don't know of any increased tax on diesel fuel in the US the
prices snuck up to the price of premium and then it started
creeping above it and now it's like 10 or 20 cents higher than
premium gasoline and it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever
and and so far as the carbon footprint of diesel which have
been horses was
probably not true. I think
a lot of particulate from diesel fuel more than anything, but it
tends to be I don't see that as just producing more co2 to be I
mean, just don't see it. I get this i don't know i have to I'm
gonna have to do a little reading and see what the heck's
going on because it doesn't make any sense.
Well, what is happening is it's making everyone's livelihood
kind of hard because you know when you get an increase like
that in your in your basic you know the basics of your business
if you're if you're a trucker or if you if you need diesel for
any other reason then you know, that's that's a real big problem
that's straight to your bottom line.
Well that's past often the customers and so it's a really
issue I think the only people that benefit from this I'm
starting to notice this now. And this is kind of weird to there
might be some connection I saw an ad the other day yesterday as
a matter of fact for for the railroads they've been
advertising on the radio for a while but now I'm seeing TV ads
bragging about how much you know they can carry like tonnes of
stuff for a nickel you know and this like I'm seeing why is it
I've never seen I have never seen in my life that I can think
of ads for railway transportation for you know for
products that just watching this going huh
yeah in fact if anything is only been commercials for transport
of people
well yeah, here actually we don't see that even that I guess
there's some Amtrak occasional Amtrak commercials but then no,
this was transporting cars in particular but you could tell it
what they were getting that they were talking about Tom, what is
it cost per mile to move a tonne? And it's like a lot
cheaper than it is with a truck. So I don't know there's
something screwy going on. I'm sure it will come out
eventually.
It's interesting that that that price of diesel though as you
say that you don't think it has anything to do with with carbon
emission taxes but you know, Gordon Brown of course the prime
minister in the UK is already under severe pressure. People
are calling for his head almost literally And in thing was
yesterday's Financial Times actually the Labour government
here is saying you know, we just made back off of that to two
pence raise in in gas taxes that's coming up in July because
the truckers literally blocked off the West End I mean within
set almost 100 miles outside of London traffic was messed up
they did a great job.
Good for them. Yeah and final French Yeah,
exactly. Finally finally and everyone's behind them you know
everyone's because everyone else has these do their own issue
with the price of gas. I'm just waiting for this to happen in
the states
Well, you know that it just hasn't happened I mean, we ever
I think everyone's complaining about but I think it's gotten to
the end it is expensive it's amazing. I feel sorry for the
people who bought this diesel cars you know, thinking that
we're going to do exactly exactly in fact it may be a ploy
to eliminate the possibility of diesel cars becoming successful
you know we need John you know, we need a rubber duck member
this
fan come on yeah, unfortunately I do.
On boy.
So talking about you know, the craziness over there. I'm
looking at this entry on the blog that we have here, which I
put up every adult in Britain should be forced to carry carbon
ration cards. Say MPs. carvery read this door No, no
carbon rations. What's that?
Yeah, this guy is perfect. This one guy in particular one of
your one of your crackpot MPs Member of Parliament. I'm gonna
tell you who it is we have his picture up. I forgot to put his
name I
don't want to serve today because the bandwidth is little.
I'm gonna tell you who it is. It said Tim me II Oh, even though
he sounds like a Chinese guys, white MPs led by Tory Tim Yeo
why
conservatives. So he's, he's in the opposition. Say this
scheme should be more effective at cutting greenhouse gas gas
emissions, then green taxes.
I'm tired of this man. governments all over the world
are using this co2 emissions thing to tax the living
daylights out of everything.
It's just an excuse. They've jumped on the bandwagon when
they somebody came up with the idea, hey, we can now tax
people. And then of course, at the end of this article is semi
rigid how the scheme would work. I'm going to list off that crap.
Every adult in the UK would be given an annual carbon dioxide
allowance, kilogrammes and a special carbon card. The scheme
would cover road fuel flights and energy bills. Every time
someone paid for road fuel flights or energy their carbon
account would be docked. A litre of petrol would use up to 2.3
kilogrammes in carbon while every 1.3 miles of airline
flight would use another one kilogramme. By the way, you'd be
paying a lot for your legit private plane hell. When paying
for patches only three more of these, when paying for petrol
that card would need to be swiped at the till it would be a
legal offence to buy petrol without using a card when paying
either against the generator, which is like rationing during
World War Two. When paying online or by direct debit, the
carbon account would be debited directly. And anyone who doesn't
use up their credit, this is the kicker here. Anyone who doesn't
use up their credits in a year can sell them to someone who
wants more credits, trading would be done through specialist
companies.
And you know what this is? I think this is two things. First
of all, no, it's three things. First of all, it's fucking
stupid. Excuse my language, because it's just not enough
proof or the
Al Gore. Exactly. This is this is all runs one of these
companies that trades carbon credits. It's a crock of Crap
Scam, it's a scam. It's like trying to create a new
investment market or something. So you can make money on trading
carbon credits. And I think it's also an underhand way of there's
another big debate going on here about the National ID Card,
which, you know, no, I don't think the public wants it.
Labour has been trying to bring that in so that you know,
basically all of your information is on a card. So it
just starts with carbon emissions, I guess. And then you
can attach anything to that card that you swipe through. And
that's just a matter of adding another database to it.
To unbelievable. So anyway, that's the kind of weird that me
this thing is getting out of control. I mean, it's not doing
anything to stop anything. And now you know, there's a who's
going to set these limits. It's just the whole thing is it's
just become, I mean, they're completely blowing any, you
know, possibility that we could actually cut emissions at all by
just being jerks.
I can just see what's happening. You go to a public restroom, you
have to swipe your card, because of course, you know, if you're
doing a number two, well, you know that's gonna that's going
to be a couple of carbon credits there because you're emitting
co2 in a big way. I
think every cow is going to have to have a barcode.
Oh man Oh, well, that's a that's a trend. I'm not liking
somebody. I'm looking at the blog and somebody named grim Bo
has a comment. Got a bunch of comments on this posting. He's
he says he's obviously in the UK or Europe. He says, Isn't there
anything happening in the USA worth writing about? Because
I'm, you know, we haven't gotten to this corny thing yet. I'm
just trying to stave it off. Yeah, really?
Here's a book I want to read many. I'm sure you've heard
about Scott McClellan's book.
Yeah, there's a lot of controversy. Yeah. All the fact
all the right wing talk show guys are all worked up about
this. Oh, tell me
about let's just explain to the listeners. Maybe not everyone
knows Scott McClellan was the the White House Press Secretary,
I believe.
Yeah, but the first one and he was the most nervous looking one
up there. And he was always like, you know,
sweaty, sweaty lip guy. That's
what I always call it. Uh, yeah. And so he comes out with this
tell all I mean, what is he? What is he? What's the there's
something fishy about this.
He's making money. First of all, he made money telling the lies.
Now he's making money telling the truth. I guess I don't know
what I want other way to look and explain to people what the
books about. So the book is about his his tenure as press
secretary between 2003 2006. And in particular, he talks about,
I'd haven't read the book, obviously, about how Condoleezza
Rice is kind of like the Teflon, Dame like she everything just
glides right off of her, she deflects things to other people.
That, you know, the importance of rove how Dick Cheney is
pulling on the strings behind the screens. And then in
particular, how the Bush administration lied to the
American public to get into Iraq. Paraphrasing, of course,
haven't read the book, but I think that's kind of what it is.
Yeah, that's what everybody says it is. And everybody's upset
about the fact that this guy, not because he's telling the
truth, but it's like, Where were you, you know, when you needed
to be telling the truth? I mean, why would you be such a stooge
that you would, you know, go along with the programme for
such a long time? And then because you need some money
doing a book, now you're doing this?
Well, I would say there's one other reason to do this. I'd say
the other reason is protection. You know, to protect himself to
go public with it.
protect himself from what from
getting killed? by who? By evil by evil forces, you know? Yeah.
I mean, no one wants this information out there. And if
everyone knows that, that he's kind of on the fence or
whatever, you know, it could be one of these. Oops, he committed
suicide type things.
You know, brother? Well, I think that's a bit much.
I don't know, man. I mean, look, you know, what's the difference
between often one guy who might want to tell the truth about the
lies about getting us into Iraq and actually lying and getting
us into Iraq? You know, which one is worse?
I don't know. All I know is I don't know anyone who's been
killed yet.
Well, there was one member and this kind of died in the in the
press. Remember the guy if this was in the UK? wasn't in the UK?
The science, I think was the UK, the scientist who actually
wasn't great
at that scientists who had some something to say about the fact
that the report was a crock of crap. Right, right. And he ended
up dead in a field or something while hiking or some crazy. One
of those I don't think that just died. I mean, they harped on
that thing as some sort of a screwy situation for months on
end. And they and then it just died. And then it just went
away. Yeah, because people get sick and listen to this stuff. I
mean, there's a bunch of connections, Jimmy, like
coincidental connections between Clinton and a bunch of damage.
There was a whole website devoted to crazy people that had
died because a foster that had died, you know, during the
Clinton administration with implications that he was had
somebody killing them.
Right. Whitewater stuff, wasn't it? Yeah, a lot of that. But,
you know, I believe that happens. I believe in that kind
of cloak and dagger stuff. I think that absolutely happens.
I think it's funny that you would say that not because maybe
it does happen or doesn't happen. But because of the fact
that when I mentioned that I thought it was a scam that Marie
Osmond fell to the deck on national TV as a publicity
stunt. You are completely no, that couldn't possibly be the
case. May
I point out that I changed my position on that later after I
thought about it.
Yeah, no, I Yeah, you did. I'm just saying no, you're you're
normal. You're normally kind of conservative with these kinds of
thoughts. And I've never heard you come off the wall with some
of these. You
wrote the book that protect himself from being killed. Well,
there's quite a jump John between way by the way.
It was a mob deal. You write that book, then you will be
killed.
Well, at least he got it open. Yeah. Marie Osmond. I saw her
faint, and I thought it looked pretty realistic, but I
ritualised separately
except for the back of the hand. And to the top of the forehead
and and the twisting fall.
They were goon
they were on Jonathan Ross, which is our big weekly, Friday
night talk show here in the UK. They're, like, seven of the
Azzaman. So it was and there's there's like two there's a
million Osmonds, of course, but you have Donnie Jimmy and Marie.
And then you have the three older guys and those brothers
are like in their, like mid 60s. And they're on tour now and and
they're selling out everywhere.
Oh god, yeah. In England are touring England.
They they're doing it started in they did one small gig and now
they're doing the oh two arena and now they're set up a world
tour. It's pandemonium is selling out the old to arena for
Crazy Horses. But think about it. You have Donnie dad a lot of
hits John, you can laugh about him. But Donnie and Marie had
massive hits. And of course, there's the one name one. Oh,
okay, Donny Osmond, puppy love. Put your head on my shoulder,
which of course Paul Anka classic Donny and Marie had
several I can't, I can't name those off off the top of my
head. But then you've got one probably love. The big one here
in the UK, which was never hit in the States, I don't think was
Jimmy Osmond. Who had this song called I'll be your long haired
liver lover from Liverpool now and it was a number one in all
over Europe, particularly in the UK for months on end. And, you
know, so all these and he was 13 at the time, so his audience is
now my age. And this nostalgia. You know, these chicks love it.
Brother. I'm telling. I'll be your long haired lover from
Liverpool.
You know, I don't mind. You know, I think there is something
cool about seeing an old act. I mean, I went to see when they
had the Venetian room here in San Francisco. Until recently. I
would myself, my wife, and sometimes one of our kids would
go to see these classic acts because it was a small venue. It
was a little expensive, but it was worth going to. So I got to
see Lou Raul was in a small venue. I got to see James Brown
in a small venue. And actually, we went up to see Cab Calloway.
In the same room with his band, it was actually is he still
alive? He's dead now. But he was alive then. In fact, we actually
had drinks with him afterwards. Curiously enough, he gave me his
tips on horse race betting. And also cooking corn as a barbecue
anyway.
Here it is Cab Calloway Cobb recipe.
No, there you have it. Okay. So but anyway, the point is, I
don't mind that kind of a situation. I mean, it seems like
a logical thing to do, if you want to see.
Oh, hold on a second. John. I think I just lost you. There.
You there.
Now? Am I there?
Yet? You're back. Okay. You know, there's been some problems
with this. I just want to say there's been some problems with
Skype over the past couple of days. I noticed. And I don't
think it's just my bandwidth. I think it's, there's some kind of
problem going on, particularly if you talk really loudly and
not you because you've got a compressor and limiter setup.
But it just seems to drop out. I've been seeing this a lot.
I haven't noticed it over here, but I don't use it that much. I
mean, this is that it makes sense to me that you would go
see some of these acts if you have an opportunity, especially
if you get the same close up. But to go to a big, giant venue
to listen to the Osmonds, you know, do nostalgia doing your
dinosaur act from 25 years ago doesn't make any sense it all to
me.
It's actually 30 years ago, maybe even 35. But I will say
the culture in the United Kingdom of big concerts and
festivals is is huge. So it's you know, and it's a it's almost
like a football match. And they all go there and they all sing
the songs together and they drink beer, which of course is
worse. No, please. No, no, you're just being cranky.
No, I'm just saying it said I don't want to go out with a
bunch of old drunks. Listen is
40 years old is not give me a break. 40 is not old.
Man. So the drunks in the audience probably are that's
unbelievable. Yeah, I don't know. It just doesn't sound
right. That
makes people happy then it's right John, come on. We need
some happiness. God what did you love her from Liverpool? Yes
once in a while. Look, I can bitch about carbon credits, but
I do love Jimmy Osman. I'm sorry.
So what else weird is going on over there? We have Sharon Stone
over here telling the Chinese that there's bad karma. That's
the reason they had their earthquake which cracks me up.
Oh
really? What an idiot. She's a total idiot had karma? Is that
what you say? What did she say? She made a big
stink about it. She says she was at some event where she was
actually talking to a Chinese delegation in public He made a
big stink about his bad karma when you do bad things, bad
things happen to you like she's some sort of a like a 12 year
old.
Speaking of drunks. Really, that's, that's, that's pretty
messed up. I'm trying to think, well, there is there is a Euro
there's a European Parliament thing that they're getting into
now is there's discussions about banning import into Europe of
products that are a derivative of child labour. And so there's
several countries that are saying, you know, yeah, we think
we should warn him that we don't actually think we should stop
the import of these products. So there's, there's something weird
going on there, which I'm sure is China related, probably India
related. Who knows maybe the old BRIC countries that's going on
in the European Well, there
was a there was a new United started watching news night,
which I recommend to Americans, if they get BBC America, it
comes on Friday nights. And it's I think they repeated on a great
show, great show prize from BBC Two. And so I quoted something
from it on a blog and somebody, I don't know, I guess we were
talking about something on no agenda, and somebody sent me an
email saying, hey, you know, you shouldn't note that this is the
most reputable show on the produce air. And so I started
watching it, it's actually quite good. It's like, it's like, it's
actually like a jazzed up or dramatised 60 minutes it's
actually better in many ways, but they had a thing on it was
either last week or the week before that was me they took
these they took these people and these these women and that were
fashion East fashion oriented British girls that didn't think
much about wearing something once and thrown it away and took
them to China.
Oh and show them how the ship was made.
Well they made him work there oh yeah, it was part of the job is
like they had to do this some of these things had to do some
sewing they had to do some this and that and the other thing and
all of them came back they were so I mean amazingly
disillusioned with the whole situation that it was actually
quite entertaining to watch
well that's a that's a good thing and quite topical because
at this very moment you know what the number one movie is
going to be this weekend if it isn't already in the states it's
going to be a Sex in the City which of course is filled with
nothing but brand name overpriced shoes, handbags and
clothing
I hope it's not number one
Oh, it's it's gonna be box office Bonanza this is this is
the equivalent of for guys. You know that like Debbie does
Dallas in the 2008 version would be released in theatres. You
know that we love porn. Most guys love porn. This is female
porn. That's plain and simple. Have you I don't know about your
wife. My wife has certainly she likes the porn but she can't
stand paying the prices for it but in general I think I see
women who are who absolutely worship Blahnik whatever the
What the hell is name those shoes? Milan no Mahalo. The
worship these shoes is like $400 shoes. Which two slabs of
leather with a stick.
It's crazy. You know? Luckily, my wife's not a shoe nut.
Yeah, how about handbags? That's another one that's just crazy.
Handbags. Well, there's actually good websites dedicated to the
handbags. Yeah, you know, your Sex in the City will have tonnes
of that stuff. But the thing is, it's like a such a chick flick
from the get go. That it's almost like a parody of itself.
Right from the beginning. I don't even know if I'd watch it.
I'm definitely not going to go see it. But I don't know if I'd
even bother watching it on on a DVD. Because, you know, I
watched the series on and off. And it was kind of interesting,
because it was structured similarly to the Seinfeld show
where they had gotten themselves into these kinds of situations.
Yeah, situations that were kind of amusing at you know, and it
was well written and it was you know, it but it was again, you
know, I think the parody of it done on The Simpsons. Were one
of the people in the Simpsons that Oh, you mean, that show
where those those four women sit are sitting around the table
acting like gay men.
It's written by it's written by gay men the show I don't know
what the mood but the show was written by I think the writers
are gay men.
Okay, well, that made that makes sense. Makes sense, doesn't it?
Yeah. But what's you know, my
my daughter wanted to go last night so that was a Wednesday
night it was sold out. I do have a theory though. Why there's
there's very little criticism of this. And it's kind of the Obama
theory. I think that because Carrie, whatever her name is,
Carrie so their characters Carrie. So just Sarah Jessica
Parker, I believe because she is living the dream of many
journalists you know, living your life writing about it for
for a newspaper like the New York Times, you know, be kind of
a celebrated journalist. I have a feeling that for some reason
longer
Longer
yeah so maybe that's why there's no criticism I think people envy
that type of lifestyle I don't know there's something it's you
know what commercially speaking great frickin idea
congratulations power to you guys
whatever I actually doubt that I was even bother to watch it I
mean it's just got its I would I just needed to know what the
ending is and I've done well look I think most of Mr Big get
killed or cares all I know I would like to know because it's
good wraps it up tonight I guess I can have I don't have to deal
with it. Okay, so we'll
get a spoiler out there but for the for the men listening to the
show without a doubt is a guaranteed you'll get laid chick
flick.
I'm not sure of that.
Well, let's do a poll.
Okay, well, we will Yeah, well, I just not sure that it's a get
laid chick flick flick. I think it's just you.
You take your girlfriend to this movie, you're getting laid.
All right. Let's do a test. Anybody out there listen to this
show. Email Adam. results of the test?
Yes. I'll put up on one of those. Google Docs spreadsheets.
No cheating.
We're gonna come and check on you.
No cheating, none of this, you know, get her drunk and then get
lay I you know, no, it has to be you go to the movie. And then
the next thing you know, you're just having more sex than you
could imagine. Okay, and I think it only counts if it's like
somebody who hasn't had sex with the person before.
Oh, okay. Well, now you're putting all kinds of parameters
and I think it's much
okay, let's do it. Let's make it any sort of sex but I want to
hear the details. Okay. In other words, is it your wife? You
know, or is it some someone else's wife? Somebody else's
wife is somebody that you have sex with every night anyway.
I know. Now you're putting too many parameters in for the night
I just want to know that you know, you just said yes and no
things not gonna work for me. I just don't think it's effective.
I think that whole thing's a myth change them in the olden
days when I was a kid used to go to the drive in theatre and you
get watched these ended the movies that was supposedly you
get some action is a little real scary films. Not somebody that
break not a movie that brings the male to tears. Because it's
gotten you know, tear jerker elements that are designed to
make anyone who watches it cry, which is like this pathetic. You
know, I mean, come on. Well, look
how many people got laid after watching Schindler's List. Okay.
You know, it's like, I think you got more chance with Sex in the
City. That's what I'm just saying. Well, yeah, well, maybe
I just, here's one for your John. Someone sent me You know,
I've been using this drop.io I know I showed it to you. Have
you actually started using that?
No, I've looked. I've been watching it though. Okay, so
there's still
an alpha these guys gave me like because I was out of my one gig
or whatever, within a week and they gave me 20 gigs. And so if
people just been stacking stuff up, but there's this a link to a
YouTube clip. It's Mary cap tour. She's representative
Democratic Representative from Ohio. It's about seven minutes.
And in it she she even holds up charge. She's talking about this
super NAFTA thing which has been kind of rumoured about for a
while, where apparently the Bush administration is quiet about
the the highway Yeah, the highway. Yeah, she showed the
highway we blogged about that highway over a year ago. That's
NASSCO. You have to look it up as it's like NASSCO highway or
NASSCO, something that you know to find the information if you
look it up on the blog if you type in NASSCO, I think you'd
find it there. But we haven't the maps and all the rest of it
is not even a secret. But the thing that's really cool is this
is this this video that's floating around YouTube where
the Manitoba guy who runs Manitoba and what they what is
the governor I'm not sure. But anyway, he was talking about it
in great detail. And then meanwhile, they're excoriating
Lou Dobbs because he calls it the NAFTA IWAY when it's really
I think he's just referring to in a generic sense instead of
NASSCO. The North American super corridor, whatever it is
organisation and it's this is not a secret by any means. But
the fact that they're trying to pretend that it is is ridiculous
and we've been documenting this thing for you know, over a year
I'm sure of it has been affected whole projects been going on for
15 years
or so the recent developments and this is what it kind of came
down to is that so Ford is opening up a huge plant in
Mexico. So you know a lot of jobs are going to be going to
Mexico and then there's these Mexican can numbers and Mexican
billionaire who owns the like the Chicago Skyway, which is a
part of this of this superhighway project Uh, the
there's another
guy looking at the map, I don't see it going through Chicago.
But anyway, go ahead.
Well, it was it was one branch if you have to see the video and
you know, I'm sure Baba Baba, we'll put, we'll put a link to
it in the show links. Okay. Yeah. But it was just
interesting, because the way she brought it, it was like, you
know, she had some really good points, I thought, I mean, I
agree with you. It's not a secret, but it kind of hasn't
really been admitted to or not talked
about, and they kind of pretend it's no big deal when it is a
big deal. Because essentially, the Manitoba guy had to put a
link to this thing. I'm doing a piece on how they're trying to,
they haven't really had to take me a while to because it's
actually you may not elaborate piece on how I think the powers
that be are trying to ruin Lou Dobbs because he has, he's just
not toeing the line. And. And anyway, so there's the Manitoba
guy goes on about how what they're setting up is a port, a
sea port, essentially, in Manitoba, that has pre
clearances for the actual docking of the ships, which will
be in Mexico. And then it gets to get cleared down there. And
then they're pre cleared, and then they go off to super
corridor, and then they get dropped off in Canada, as though
they were coming in off of the ship. Ah, okay, I got it. And
and if you start really looking into it, this has a lot to do
with the fact that the Seattle, Oakland and Long Beach harbours
that taken most of the stuff from China, are going to either
start charging too much, or they can get a better deal by
dropping the stuff off down in Mexico on the super tankers, and
a lot of them can't take some of these bigger boats. I mean,
there's some huge ships being manufactured now that are so
monstrous is unbelievable. And so they're so this is part of
that too, because you can save money if you go to Mexico, to
that one of their ports.
So let me ask you a question. Outside of perhaps, you know,
40 50,000 jobs being eliminated in the US and, and moving down
to Mexico? Is there anything bad about this idea?
Well, there's there. Yeah, there's a couple Well, depending
on what you what you think is bad, or what do you think is one
you know, bypassing? I mean, this for one thing, it's kind of
weird that the EU have to drop stuff off in Mexico to get it to
Canada when they have ports up in Vancouver, which they could
take the stuff but apparently, you know, there's taxes or who
knows?
Maybe he's quicker routes. That could be a number of reasons,
but I still don't see why that's necessarily bad. If we're a part
of it, and we're making money from it.
I don't know that we're making any money from it, except for
the taxes on this big worry highway that's going to be going
up and down is also going to, you know, you it's just I mean,
it's just they have this, this, it's almost like having an
easement is the way I see it. And I don't like you know, if
you have some property, and for some reason or another, somebody
wants to get this other property behind your property, they
decided they want to run a two lane road right through your
property to get there an easement as it would be called
here. It's annoying. I mean, it's like, you know, now all of
a sudden, your property is cut in half. Right. So when why are
we volunteering for this? It did the whole and why, you know, why
don't we? I don't know. There's a lot of issues. I think it
needs to be discussed more, but it's not being discussed at all.
So we don't have any good arguments one way or the other.
When you know that we're having a bunch of Mexican trucks going
up and down this road bringing in the illegals could be a drug
trafficking the problem. Does a job loss thing and a white you
know, the Canadians used to have car plants up there. Why are we
making cars in Mexico to shipping to Canada? I mean, just
go Okay, great. I guess it makes them cheaper. There's a lot of
job loss issues. I don't know. It's really all about China's
really not that much to do with Mexico and the billionaires down
there. It's about China finding a cheaper way to bring their
cheap stuff over even cheaper.
Through the mean through Mexico. Yeah, for Canada,
that is not for us. I mean, we there's no benefit to us that I
can see. We just lose a bunch of business in our some of our
ports. And the we're just routing everything in a awkward
way to Canada, which somehow is cheaper according to the way to
do the numbers. I don't know. It's weird. But the thing that's
weirder about is the fact that there's so much kind of do all
we want to talk about it. Let's cover our ears. Bah bah, bah,
bah, I can't hear you I can't hear you you know kind of thing
and it's like you know, somebody like Lou Dobbs brings it up and
they you know, calls it the NAFTA highway or whatever he
calls it and then they just jump all over him and people with
it's interesting to read the criticism it's there is no such
thing as a NAFTA superhighway there is no NAFTA corridor
there. He's full of crap. He's a liar who's saying going on and
honest like he's like He used a different term than the real
term NASSCO and as CEO,
so that's why they're debunking it or Yeah, using as a debunk is
saying there's nothing
right. They're saying he's full of crap. He doesn't know what
he's talking about. He's a liar. And it's like really weird. And
then in the skin, it's all these and the weird thing is, is
mostly left wing media, people that are doing this not even the
Republicans. I mean, it's that's the strangest thing about this,
like you'd expect exactly the opposite. Yeah, I know. It's
like media matters. And people like that, who are all really
pretty much left of centre by a lot, that are all over this
thing. And it's just like, Okay, I don't know, there's something
screwy going on is all I know, it's like somebody sent out the
word. And then you have like hit pieces that have come out in
both the Washington Post. And there's this writer, Joe Klein,
who's come out with some negative piece, it's almost
looks like it was planted. And, you know, just a hit, you know,
hit dogs with this kind of information with this criticism,
and linking to all the other people that were criticising it.
And a lot of it started with an article in salon magazine, the
online salon, and, and they had a kind of a kind of an academic
nasty piece. It's really it's just like, it all happened at
once as though somebody said, Okay, let's get him.
Which is probably exactly what happened. Yeah, no, that's
what I'm thinking. I have a thing that I like to do. And I
think people should all do this, you have to assume and the funny
thing was, I mentioned this to you before, and I think I talked
about on the show, but a friend of mine, we will keep her name
out of it for the moment, mentioned to me that she was,
you know, offered a job with one of the major intelligence
agencies when she got out of college, and her job was to be
to work at a newspaper, and they'd get her a good position.
And she'd moved up the ladder over the years. And every so
often, she would be asked to drop in at least some
disinformation or a phoney story or some something. Not often,
but once in a while.
Well, that's what the CIA does they have that's, that's one of
the main things their agents do is and I am reasonably reliably
informed is that, you know, they put people in, they give them a
front. So you get like, maybe it could even be a PR agency as an
example in your inner country and you're working as PR or you
may be a journalist, and you're essentially you're on the
payroll and you're meant to influence the press.
Right? Well, it's usually you don't think the press itself is
part of this, by the way. And I think this lesson, my wife, I
said, we should start like some sort of a this will really get
everybody worked up, by the way, start some sort of a movement,
where members of the press need to take a lie detector test, to
assure the public that they're not working for an intelligence
agency.
And we could do that with Jerry Springer with that new show of
his to tell the truth. That's a perfect combination. We put them
on that. Okay, do your work for an intelligence agency, while
the detector test it would be funny.
Anyway, so even
even just to say to a journalist, will you submit to a
lie detector test could be quite telling what the answer is,
oh, they go crazy. But anyway, the point is, is that one of the
things I like to do is to try to figure out and I have my little
lists of guys that I, I suspect are working for an intelligence
agency, but based on the kind of articles they write and what
they put out. But one of the things you can do is you can
reverse engineer a lot of this and one, one specific way is
that that book, Confessions of an economic hitman, which I
don't think went over well, with, you know, anybody that was
involved in Daesil loves it,
I love the book.
Well, what you want to do is you want to look at everyone, you
want to look at all the reviews of the book and find the people
who criticise Right, yeah, good point. And then you find out
what they said in in their critique. And then now that
gives you a, you know, kind of a top list that you can now check
these people on, what you do is you look at each one of their
records in terms of what else have they written about. And you
can quickly see which of the group and it's not all of them,
but it's a good number of them, are obviously working for an
intelligence agency, because they putting out this kind of
weird propaganda every so often. And it's and they do it
consistently. And they're there, there are people that you should
know who they are, and you have to make your own lists. And you
should take what they say with a grain of salt, or you could even
go further and you should read what they write to see what the
you know, official line is, because you can kind of you can
kind of determine it, you can kind of reverse engineer it by
just reading them. So you've done this work and you have to
do it all the time. I mean, I do that constantly. And when I,
when I'm suspicious of somebody else, I'll do this, because I
have to as a writer myself, I have to I don't mind, you know,
putting out the party line when I'm in agreement with it or when
I think it's a good thing without being told, which is
typically what everybody does. If you're working for a magazine
and you're a writer for like time life you don't go writing
negative piece is about your own company, for example. So that's
pretty typical. And that's why you don't see you know, you
know, pieces on on television, like on one of the networks,
like on ABC, for example, that go into Disney hiring practices.
That's just never gonna you're not gonna see it on that
network. And you won't see it on the other networks, either.
Because these are all run by giant corporations. And if
you're at NBC, which is owned by General Electric, and you do a
hit piece on Disney hiring practices, they're going to do a
hit piece on you. And so this, but it's a gentleman's
agreement, nobody does it. So the corporations have taken over
the media and no up here nothing.
So I had to I had this in a smaller version at MTV, it's
like you could not say anything critical, bad or even make an
off colour joke about any artist whatsoever. The only people
that's what's interesting
about that's what's interesting about the Lou Dobbs thing. It's
actually his own company. Yeah, coming after him. Yeah, yeah.
And when you see that, then you get really suspicious. Yeah. And
that would be G. No, no, that's CNN time, life. Oh, time Time
Warner. Time Warner, I'm sorry, Time Warner Time Life. I'm
living in the past. He had Time Warner. They own CNN. And one of
the pieces I saw against him was in time.
So when I when I came when I came to MTV, so it was 1986 87.
And I hadn't even gone on the air yet. This was sort of the
first week I'm staying in a hotel I was supposed to go on to
Halloween is when I did my first appearance on MTV. And so the
and I had no I was very, I was young for 22 or whatever, but
also very, very green in this type of corporate us
environment. And they set me up with an interview with TV Guide,
which of course, at the time, was the largest publication, you
can't do much better than to have a full page even though
it's small, but a full page and TV Guide. And the reporter was
asking me questions, and said, Well, have you ever met
Madonna's yeah, I've met her a couple times, you know, back in
the early 80s. And we did hash under a glass. I didn't say
that. But I'm telling the no agenda audience. What do you
think of it? Well, I didn't really like her. You know, I
didn't think she was really nice. She wasn't a very nice
person. Boy, did the shit hit the fan over that one. And the
press department hated me from that day on because I had ruined
it. I had ruined their relationship with Madonna. And
now she may never perform on the Video Music Awards again. Damn
it.
Yep. Yeah. Well, that's the way it is.
Yeah, well, you know, the infamous Michael Jackson thing,
right? No. Well, he was supposed to appear on the Video Music
Awards. At the you know, in his big heyday and we were doing a
as typically do a promotion around that. So we had to the
deal was we would debut his new video also get the exclusive if
we did a Michael Jackson weekend. And we so an MTV is
taped is not some some programmes are live but most of
them are tape. So on. We do is on Thursday, you taped for
Saturday and Sunday. And on Friday, you tape for Monday. So
on Thursday, we did what we call a 48. That meant a long day. And
we did this whole weekend. It was the Michael Jackson weekend.
We all had to come back Friday and retake the entire weekend
because we did not specify as was agreed to with the Michael
Jackson organisation. Every single time you said Michael
Jackson had had to be followed by the words the King of Pop.
That's hilarious. It was
it was disgusting. So we all had to come back and we had to
retake every single segment. And when it was Michael Jackson, the
King of Pop, it was obligated. By contrast, you agreed to that
idiocy at probably an economist who later went on to run
Maverick records for Madonna or maybe Judah McGrath. You know,
who knows? A whole bunch of people but that's how it worked.
MTV was totally the record companies
bitch. So meanwhile, you know, I did that reminds me of we when I
was doing silicon spin in years a decade ago. We were gonna get
Richard Stallman on the open source dude. Open a free
software basic free site. Yeah. So he wouldn't he you know, I
knew I've known I know the guy may have run into him a live
chat with him. He's interesting. And he would have been a good
guest because he he has things to say that are unique, but he
wouldn't do the show. In less. Anytime we refer to Linux, we
had to say good new Linux. So we couldn't say Linux Yeah, Linux
or anything like that. We'd have to be good GNU Linux and he
wouldn't do the show unless we agreed to that. And you weren't
I tell him to screw himself.
Yeah. Richard Stallman, the king of canoe.
You know, he did
writes Emacs, didn't he? Didn't he write Emacs?
I don't know what he wrote anymore. I mean, he's mostly
just a guy who complains a lot.
I like him though.
He's a sponsor. Most of the newest aspects of the GE general
public licence and its owner is characteristics
but still you need guys like that and Every industry you need
colourful people like that it's important.
Well, you know, I'm surprised that he's so picky about like,
you know, you don't see him on doing a lot of TV or anything,
because he's got all these requirements. He's like, he's
like a diva. He's like somebody that thinks they're a Hollywood
star, they can make all these demands, I'm surprised he's not
asking for special kinds of bottled
water. And maybe he is,
and maybe is, we never got that far. I
just sticking with the internet for a second. This is this, this
story pops up from time to time and just the nouns what some
numbers were put to it. And I have no idea if it's true, it
comes from the register, you know, your buddies over here,
which I kind of I must have been pretty high regard. That now the
European Commission is pushing very hard to switch at least 25%
of the IP blocks that they either have indirect or direct
control over to IP v six, because and here comes. They're
saying that only 16% of the total IP v4 numbers remain
available. That seems pretty low. That elusive John?
No, I'm trying to think about this. Because my understanding
was they were running out of IP for numbers like a decade ago.
And then when they came up with this idea of rotating numbers,
you know, in other words, you go into one of the services and you
don't have a number you get one. So you get assigned numbers as
you as they're needed. That kind of staved off the problem with
IP four in the limit a limited number of numbers, which you can
figure out by just looking at an IP address. It's like what? I
don't know. Anyway, the
it's actually not even IP address, I think, isn't it the
MAC addresses? Isn't it one level lower than
the IP addresses or promises? What is the 73242424? So you
have like one, two, you got? I guess there's 100 million, I
guess possible, something like that.
4.3 billion total IP, the four numbers remain available for
16,000,000,016% of the 4.3 billion total? Yeah,
let down. No, it's probably right.
So Vivian Redding is the EU's combative Commissioner for
information and society, which boy, I want that business card.
She says in the short term businesses and public
authorities might be tempted to try to squeeze their needs into
the straitjacket of the old system. But this would mean
Europe is badly placed to take advantage of the latest internet
technology and could face a crisis when the old system runs
out of addresses and what this smells this smells like bullshit
to me?
Smells like it smells like it to me too.
When you got to bullshit title like combative Commissioner for
information and society. Either she's poorly informed, or
there's some lobby behind it.
Yeah, there's gotta be some some behind. Yeah, the Cisco. Can
Cisco money and all the rest of these guys? I mean, where are
you? Where are you? You know, where are they gonna go? They
get there. Do you know the older, everyone's got their
routers and everything else. And now they got to go to IP six and
have to breed? Equip everything. It'd be like it'd be worse than
y2k in terms of like dropping all this money into the system.
So yeah, it's got to be a router company, or all of them.
The growth of the internet and China's router company soul
group. It's just the growth of the internet in China and India
is pressing the need to switch has to be done by 2010. Wow,
I'll look into it. Yes, you're probably right doesn't
have to be done. But why does it have to be? What's the rush?
Well, because we're running out
with the how many percentage word you said we're left
16 16% 16%. Okay, so let's see, the internet's been really
inactive since about 1995, even though it goes back before that.
But with the web and all I think 9095 would be a good jumping off
point. So we're talking about in 1920, what 23 years. It's chewed
up like 80% of the numbers and 23 years, how many is that
percentage? On a year to year basis? Why would this thing all
of a sudden show up? 16% in the next year, when it's only chewed
up? 80% in 23 years? Does that make sense to anybody? No.
Sounds like a scam.
Cisco. I think you're right. I'll look into that. It's just
stuff that I know it's just another trend.
So 100 nations have reached an agreement on a treaty which
would ban the current designs of cluster bombs.
You know, this thing this kills me. This is all over the news in
in Europe, and everyone's so proud. You know, it's like we've
done a good thing here. I'm like, You got cluster bomb? What
the hell is that we've got enough bombs and shit to nuke
out the whole world and now we're all patting ourselves on
the back because these inhumane bombs have been banned. What the
hell is that?
To have they banned landmines.
No, of course not. Have they banned to any other kind of a
cluster bombs you know all evening last night on the news
here you see cluster bombs going off and it looks like reverse
firecrackers right you know like reverse fireworks it drops and
then you see boom boom boom boom all these little explosions
within the area of where the bomb lets the Obama militia you
know it's like to hell Jake Yeah good stuff
I'm looking at the BBC they get like pictures of how the cluster
bomb were Russian
What's that such a big deal I don't get it is that is
that cluster bomb week
i That's right hey everybody is cluster bomb week
congratulations you've got 35% off your milk in the supermarket
cluster bomb we you're right let's ban the landmines that
would be a better start than cluster bombs landmines are
killing children worldwide. On a
regular basis. Nobody no there's you know, at least these things
when they go off, you're dead or you're not good. It's not like
five years later by accident, you step on one. Whatever the
case is, Britain's accused of cluster bones Britain bands,
dumb cluster bombs. We can only have the smart kind, tackling to
Gica stands cluster bombs. Hezbollah denies cluster bomb
use, let it click cluster bombs in the news. I wonder why. I
mean, when I start seeing, like a flurry of one story. I point
this out when I do tech five, by the way.
I know you do it all the time, which is a tech five Dagny
veoh.com. And I have learned, here's how it works. And you
know, I'm doing this radio stuff over in. In the Netherlands.
It's a very, very small country, very small community. But it's
really made me first of all, it made me really sharp because I'm
talking early every morning. But I'm taking a lot of what I've
learned on this show and on daily source code, daily source
code.com. And I'm applying that to a whole Thank you, I've
learned that from you, John, I'm applying that to a yes to
Grasshopper, this time to snatch the pebbles from my hand. I'm
applying this to, you know, to these formats. And what I'm
seeing is that here's how it basically works. You the
journalists of all the newspapers, what they do, and by
the way, RSS has been fantastic in this regard. They they
subscribe or they they visit the European Union website. In this
case, it would be like the Dutch, the Dutch government
website, and they have all these huge commitments to publish
everything. So everything you can imagine is online. And at
the EU website, everything is online in you know, 26 different
languages. And so you know, so when these reports come out, or
these initiatives, and then what happens is, you know,
journalists will pick it up, you know, that's, that's their
primary news source, they'll basically make an abstraction of
whatever the story is, and then of course, gets copied by other
things down the line and before it, and then it's the evening
news, but it all kind of stems from this stuff that is coming
out on websites at the governmental level. And then
it's just copy paste as far as I'm concerned. So I think that
that's the way the flow is these days, every single thing you see
like these cluster bombs, I guarantee let me let me go to
the EU website. I guarantee you there's like some initiative,
some committee that came out with a report or something like
that, and then all of a sudden it's top of the news.
While you're doing that, I want to bring up another story that
came out, which I kind of ended tech five with the other day
even though I didn't go into any details, which seems to be
another hot story. monkey's brain controls a robot arm
monkeys have been able to control robotic limbs using only
their thoughts scientists report
well yeah, of course. And I'm sure we could do the same what
we can
do how do you think you move your hand now? Oh, yeah. But
this is a little more elaborate than that. I don't know. They
got the probe is a probe in his brain or something it's like
something disgusting about the stories
okay, I'm at the it's europa.eu By the way if you want to go to
the European Union's website europa.eu And then you get to
choose your I just did a search on cluster bombs or cluster bomb
41 matched see Commission's conflict prevention policy case
study you x Oh, and does
look at all the languages they have to put on this menu.
Yeah, it's a lot, isn't it? Well, yeah, it's the line
actions. I don't see anything off that
dole site. Looks like it was done in like the late 90s.
Well, yeah, that's when they started. The EU has been around
for a while, John.
Yeah, but they could upgrade this site. I mean, it looks like
something from I've seen better. So It's in local they actually
had this looks like something you'd find in a small Iowa town
with a crate with a little
Oh hold on go to the EU was fun.
Oh, I see. Well I've got the one says Europe is fun
to spawn yet you get a little sound effect plays a set of
brand new games on the Euro the hell was that? If you have the
Euro the Euro Kids Corner Yeah, you're hearing all the sounds
now. Oh please stop. You're killing me was terrible. Yeah.
Do you have one yellow one? Or is your one blue euro note? How
many Euros Do you have? I don't know.
A yellow note is 50. And what was the other one?
An orange. Wait a minute orange, and a blue.
Oh shit. Let me take a look. I've got what do I have here? I
got some euros. So blue is 20 oranges. 50. What's the yellow?
Red is 10
What's the yellow is B 1000 Is something
now there's no I don't think there's only a 500 note. By the
way, you can't spend anything over 50 euros in a shop anymore.
Why? Because of counterfeit. The shops will not accept 100 euro
notes or the 500 for that matter.
Because really, yeah, that those seeds are impossible to
counterfeit. They're pretty elaborate.
Oh, you'd be amazed this is new money you know there's there's a
lot of counterfeiting going on. New Money is always subject to
all kinds of counterfeit shit. So but I can't find anything
about cluster bombs right off the bat, unfortunately, but I'm
sure there's something there that it just it's just to
cluster bombs.
Or maybe the BBC is behind it all.
No, no because I'm see I'm seeing the same thing in
Holland, Germany, Belgium, Belgium, by the way. I don't you
probably caught that. The Belgian Where the hell is it?
Do we blogged
about that woman? No, no, no, not about that way that
what crazy, crazy terrorist, you know, promoting woman in
Belgium. We have a blog entry on her. And it's like the Belgians
and then the Belgians are suing the beaches are not suing
Google. That's the what I wanted. They're suing Google
because they because they're getting unwanted links. Yeah,
you know, people are going to their websites because a Google
and they don't want that they don't want anyone showing up
apparently. Why are they even on the internet? I complained about
this bitterly on the on the Wednesday tech five.
You know, look at Belgium has quite a number of problems of
its own John.
The fact that it's not a real country. And
right now that you know, there's well there's been a decade long
rift between the French speaking part and the Flemish speaking
part. And now they're really really splitting apart. In fact,
there was the Dutch even this is a story a couple of weeks ago
said that hey, why don't you you guys want to join back up with
us and you can be a part of us.
To the Flemish Yeah.
And the Flemish said No, thanks.
Why not? I think that's a good idea. Well, why don't like the
Dutch.
I don't think they liked the way the Dutch country is being run.
Probably
any conservative enough?
You think there's a lot of animosity, you know, between
between the two. So you think it's
gonna do you think Belgium is gonna split in two? I don't
think the EU would put up with that. It's embarrassing.
I think well, it's effectively it kind of already is. Yeah, I
think they're gonna split into Yeah, for sure. Not that anyone
cares, other than the fact that InBev is about to buy Budweiser.
Did you know that? I'm sorry. InBev. I N v v is a huge beer
manufacturer. They own Stella Artois. They own Duvel they own
a whole bunch of Belgian beers. And now they're looking at I
think a $50 billion acquisition of Anheuser Busch.
You're kidding me? No, no, I haven't heard this. You're
shitting me, John.
Come on. Take a look. Take a look at I'm sure you can that'll
be a Google News. Hold on just do Anheuser Busch.
Wow, that's a big deal.
That's not news in the States.
Actually. I think I would have noticed I mean, maybe it is but
not in. I'm not so I'm looking at Google News is not like any
headlined anywhere. I usually keep up with the beverage
industry. So you can see this $40 billion $50 billion Yep.
Well, you know, the funny thing is a probably improved the beer.
Because I stopped making it with rice.
The one you know, I'm always reminded of the story I heard
years and years ago when the German Brewer, I guess his
German that had low and brow and low and Brown was introduced to
the United States, as a as an important it was and it got
really popular. That takes us like in the late 70s, or
something like that. And so one of the Brewers I think was
either Miller or Budweiser, one of the two, probably Miller
decided to licence it, which happens a lot with quality
products from Europe, jumbo Navy, for example, if you buy in
the United States is not really made in France, it's made in the
Central Valley created under states anything like Dubeau
name, it's like Coca Cola. But Coca Cola at least sticks with
pretty much the same formula. You can't do that with wine,
right? So anyway, so they, they decided that licence did low and
brow brand and we're gonna make it here. And so the loan route
people said to them, Well, would you like to, you know, work with
our brew masters so you can get get it? So it's just the same?
And then the American company says, No, we know how to make
beer. And that was the end of it. So what you ended up with
was just a bottle of American beer with a low morale label on
it and went in eventually just got taken. I never saw it after,
you know, after about five years of that crap. You know, people
say, What am I paying extra for? I should just buy the cheap
stuff.
So I think this deal will happen. And I'll tell you why. I
know the Anheuser Busch company pretty well, they were one of
our extract, they were our first client in our previous business.
And we built budweiser.com did a whole bunch of stuff for them
really quite a bit of work and, and worked with Woody and
Grinder as they're known, which would be Woody is Auguste Bush,
the fourth and grinders, the third. And before
he go on, I did find the story. And the best headline is the
following Budweiser to be remarketed, as a paint remover.
Anyway, go ahead.
So I spoke to my buddy over there, we were starting up nibio
At the time pod show, when we actually got a nice note from
the Robert McCauley, who was our guy, our main contact at the
time, he's moved up and in a different part of the
organisation. He was really running a lot of the marketing.
And he said, you know, this was before they launched that, that
failed project, Bud TV. And he said, you know, we're really in
trouble. Well, he didn't actually say in trouble, and I
don't want to get him in trouble for saying what he said. But it
was clear what he was getting at because of all these Alko pops.
It's just not cool anymore to drink beer. If you go look at
their sales go look at their stock price. I think it's
absolutely the right time for it. I don't know if the price is
right, but I think it's the right time for them to sell
because the beer market in general is just not as cool for
young kids anymore to drink beer. It's all about you know,
the Bacardi Breezers and you know all these vodka drinks and
that's what kids are turned on to is no longer beer.
David Prosser is outlook in the independent says his den that
ran on May 29, which is Thursday. Do not pay to eat he
thinks the whole thing is a crock.
Just to maybe the pump up the stock price. Now this
bukem says InBev might like the idea of spooking Anheuser with
talk of a deal to leave the Budweiser on out in the cold.
This is another word for them to do something they're going to
buy anhydrous you're better now. It's just a very interesting
story. But it sounds like it's not going to happen from his
perspective. But as it is a speculation is an interesting
idea.
What's amazes me is that this isn't all over the US press.
It's like
I you know I'm just telling you. The thing is it is it apparently
is because I'm looking at the I think it's just buried though.
But I'm looking at all most of these are international
articles, but the number of articles that show up on the
Google News site 791 redundant articles about this. So this it
is floating around but I did hear Chicago Tribune has a story
on it. And let's see, and it's just full and here's the image
that is downplayed. It just ran today on March 29. Flat beer
sales lead, which in other words is just now starting to be
picked up, which is a little late in the game. And highs are
dumb sorry, flat beer sales lead to talk of mergers. Anheuser
Busch faces pressure it is just a boring story doesn't only have
it you know, slow growth of beer market and beer in key markets
coupled with an insatiable need to slash costs is sparking
speculation about a new wave of brewing industry consolidation.
Blah, blah, blah. So no, it's not. It's not a big story here.
It's the wave of the future consolidation.
Yeah, what is the big my favourite company in that regard
is got the right name constellation. The big alcohol
company. Yeah.
Well, the other big one over here, of course, is Diageo. They
own know, a lot of the spirits their UK company.
This is an interesting article, actually, it's, McGann is Pooh
poohing the concept. Now I hate to say that sorry. I like I like
it when you say poo poo. I'm
okay with that. Yeah, no,
but I kind of tried to cut it back because of the complaints.
So But anyway, this guy is throwing a wet blanket on the
story. Let's put it that way.
Yeah, there was a really good conversation on twit last week
we I listened to that religiously. It was one of the
best shows I've ever heard
and just listened to it because you complain. You thought that
last week's show was one of the best I really enjoyed that show.
Yeah, the one with Brewster.
I liked the orphan copyrights. Yeah, I thought that was the
interesting part of it. But of course was it was a letter he
got the ball. Yeah, that was interesting. It was interesting.
That was,
well I admire him. I mean, I've known him for a while. But I
admire him for sticking up for the you know, most of us I
think, you know, in this situation. So what do you need,
you know, you give them the guys knew whatever it was some guy's
name. I'd be interested in you know, I figured out who it was,
by the way, though rarely am curry guy up in Iowa,
Nebraska. Nebraska. That guy,
though here's, here's, here's what I've been interested in.
And maybe you can ask Leo did what kind of a What kind of
reaction did he get to last week show in comparison to other
ones? And or was it listened to more or downloaded more? Because
I'll bet you that it had a much lower rating with the typical
twit audience because, you know, I think people really tune into
that to hear kind of the gossipy
news and news tech news.
Well, it's like no, I'm sure like the Jason Calacanis shows
are the ones that ever will well that was a fantastic show and
actually when you get I think it's when Kevin Rose comes on
the show you really get the you get the dig
audience Sure. Yeah. I Kevin Rose pretty smart guy. He's
pretty intelius Yeah. Anyway, I just want to say I thought that
was a good show you didn't mention me That's too bad.
I'm sorry about that. You're now you're acting like Bubba
and I love it how Leo always always and I'm sure he's doing
this on purpose always mispronounce his all your shows.
So you've got the take five and you've got this
right. Yeah. Take five don't mind.
Of course he's doing it on purpose is fucking me. Oh, man.
It's what happens when you do 25 hours a week of stuff. You start
to talk gibberish.
He's doing too much work.
I think so. As you started those video things yet. I'm waiting
for that to happen. I'm so curious to
see really boy you need to see. So go watch the Chris Pirillo
show, that's what I recommend.
Because that's gonna be Chris Pirillo. Only with Leo,
essentially, I mean, it's like, you know, Chris, sitting at the
computer, just there he is he still there as he moved now.
Yeah, he's typing something. Okay, I'm noticing. If you look
at the screen, it says there's 300 people watching you go, why?
Exactly. So I'm seeing this trend, this whole Ustream trend,
which is more and you know, and it's in conjunction with
Twitter. And so I'll see you like, you know, hey, I'm
streaming live, you know, I'm streaming live and like, Who
gives a shit?
I've watched these things. Every once in a while you see it on
Twitter. Somebody says, I'm gonna I'm streaming live and I
have a link and it's the link to one of these streaming things
comes off of a phone and get Kelly Lewis did one in Texas and
she says we're having a meeting of some sort of a meet up, as
they like to say, a meet up or a mash up or whatever of WordPress
users in some, I guess it was like a barbecue place in Texas.
And so I clicked on it, and it's just a bunch of guys sitting
around a table with their computers Oh, meeting up,
they're meeting up they're not doing anything for a contest.
They're just trying to liven it up by floating around you know
saying stuff to them and they're like nonplussed about it this
stuff is
is ruining things there's this this this this is this is blog
is called girl with a one track mind look at a girl with a one
track mind.com And this girl was writing on her blog for several
years, every single one of her sexual experiences and we really
in graphic detail, but not in a in an in a in a dirty way. But
really from her perspective, and she's kind of like a guy you
know, just wants to fuck all the time. And she got outed because
you wrote a book. Yeah, her blog was published as a book, big
head here in the UK. I'm not quite sure how it did in the
States. And so she kind of got outed and everyone figured out
what her real name was. Now when I followed her blog I thought it
was really fascinating to read. And now she's kind of fallen
into this so it's like well I'm doing a photo shoot tomorrow
I'll be streaming it through quick and make sure you check it
unlike stop your fucking ruining it does write about sex again
I'm not interested.
Ruin so girl with a one track mind.com comes up as a Parker
site now hold on. So it has to be something else. I'm
looking at Abby Lee I think is her pseudonym Abby Lee see if
subscribe to it so
but you're like a fan fan boy fan boy Adam Yeah yeah Abby Lee
girl with I'll give it the whole do the Google thing
I thought it was grow maybe it's dot co.uk Maybe that's why I'm
messing it up grow the one track my shares should be grow the one
grow the one track mind.com
on well it's not specific it's a pipe they're wrong let me go
look at my subscriptions which of course is I don't see it
coming up anywhere Well the one is love reading.co.uk She's got
that site
Okay, hold on John. I'm gonna find this
one
track not just about her book.
Hold on I'll get it for you. This is a thing with it's almost
like you don't know any phone numbers anymore because
girl with a one track mind.blogspot.com
Crap. Okay, that's it. Yeah, there you go girl with a one
track mind. Yeah. dot blogspot
areas. Here's what you're complaining about Tuesday, May
27. I thought it might be fun to try live streaming some video
clips to explore what goes on behind the scenes that my photo
shoot today. I'm off there shortly. Follow me on Twitter
for updates or bookmark Mike Quick. She's like got all caught
up in this crap.
I'm telling and she's in Second Life as she has an avatar and
she's doing and actually, I'm just looking at the I'm going
back to October. Going back to October now almost. And a white.
Okay, so the one was, alright, march 11 of 2008. You know, this
is from South by Southwest, which is another thing that's
ruining everything. You know how you're at the tumbler party,
drunkenly caning the free whiskey like there's no tomorrow
and then a six sexy Geek Boy sits down and starts chatting to
you. And before you know it, your legs are up in the air like
so that's, you know, that's the last sexy thing she talked
about, you know, and now it's just all this blah, blah, blah,
I'm streaming come look at me. It's ruining everything. It
really is. For you know what I mean? Look, I mean, I'm just
giving you one example. Right. But this is this is rampant. And
I don't understand these companies are clearly going to
go out of business. I mean, there's no no business model
unless that you know, people have to pay for it. I don't see
how that's sustainable at all.
So last time, I had Scoble on the cranky geek show cranky
geeks.com. He comes on and first thing he does is he sticks. He
sticks his phone in my face and tells me he's streaming. Right?
Well, and I'm thinking yeah, well, that might be but and it
is probably like, it's just annoying. Because one thing is
you should ask anyways, like rude to be streaming somebody.
But the other thing is, who the heck is watching it anyway? That
five people five really bored guy?
I mean, 500, maybe 1000? Maybe 2000. But still, I mean, what is
the value of that? It's just, you know, it's reducing our
productivity as an economy as far as I'm concerned?
Well, I think there's something wrong with
me all the time, Hey, man, you should put up a Ustream feed of
when you do the daily source code, like daily source
code.com, you don't understand, this is all about theatre of the
mind, I want you to think that I'm in you know, I want you to
imagine where I am, I don't want you to actually see the frickin
piece of metal sticking out of my face that I'm talking into.
That's not cool. You know, it's about the soundscape. It's about
the imagination. And you know, and, in fact, my dad used to
tell me the story about his his father, my grandfather, took him
to see one of these radio plays when he was a kid took him to
the radio station. And it was Neil Green Hornet, or whatever
the hell it was. And he said he, he never got over the
disappointment of seeing how that was put together, because
he had this whole thing in his mind about, you know, the actors
and the situations and the scenarios. And it was just a
bunch of ugly guys stand in front of mics, banging on pots
and pans.
Yeah, no, I know. In fact, you stared at our movies of those.
Many of those productions. But the weird thing to me about that
the radio play, which are available in download a lot of
them under usually, the key word by the way that you want to look
for if you're going to try to download stuff is ot R, which is
the it's not a word. It's a it's a three letters, and it means
old time radio, right? And you can find a lot of stuff. If you
Google something and then type O TR, and I
just put a little plug in here. If you go to vvo.com right there
on the homepage, you'll see the old time radio network, which is
guy named Dennis puts together and it's it's just collections
and collections of CDs, a
lot of there's a lot of good stuff. They're, and I'll second
that. But anyway, they would show these things. And they in
these these, these shows, many of them would have an audience
that would like what your apparently your grandfather was
watching, and then they would pack them in. But it's just like
why I mean, it's just like there's no action. It's just
all, you know, just people going up to microphones and reading
usually had a sheet of paper in their hands. It's not like they
even memorise these lines. They were just good at reading. Yeah.
And I don't know, I guess it was entertaining at the time. Well,
this kind
of brings me to another rant that I'm on, because I'm just
really noticing it, you know, this. This, I call it I wrote a
blog post about this 100 years ago, which is probably no longer
on a server probably confined on the wayback machine called the
copy paste culture. And, and, you know, I get a lot of
comments from people voicemail comments that I play on my show.
And what happens is, you know, people will read it, this is
what the internet has become, as far as I'm concerned, people
read an article that's online, of course, you know, what the
sourcing of the article is, is probably dubious to start with.
And then people just start commenting on it in their blogs.
And it just propagates on and on and on and becomes a game of
telephone and becomes completely worthless shit. And things
become truth. At the end of the day, it's it's bad when we're
not being very responsible. One way or the other is just pissing
me off.
Well, it sounds like it's been pissing you off for a while. The
it's just yeah, there were things are, you know, it's it's
a It's all new. You know, this is not do we, you know,
Gutenberg was around for a long time before they figured out how
to make books work, you know, besides just the Bible, I mean,
what are we selling originally, but, you know, the publishing
business didn't really begin right away. It was, you know, so
we just never was just playing around. But I have to say, some
of these things are duds, or bad ideas or dead ends right from
the get go. And I would say this streaming, everything you do
from your cell phone is one of them. It's just this, it's like,
you know, I don't need this.
But of course, it's in ways it's kind of training wheels for
something else, I do think that we'll be able to that there are
things that this can be useful for. I'm not quite sure what
yet. And maybe I'm wrong. But this is all just trying stuff
out. All of this stuff is this Twitter, like
this thing on the blog, which I've done a number of. I started
doing it with the rollout of the iPhone wishes call it but just a
walk through, I'd have these little cameras that I have these
little Kodak's is 705, or seven or three or whatever they are.
Anyway, they're just little bitty cameras that have really
good video and a good microphone, but they look like a
little bitty just a little dinky camera. They don't look like a
video camera at all the flip. Is that what you're talking about?
Like the flip? No, no, it's not. So the dual dual lens ones. But
anyway, the thing is, I turn the video recorder on and then I'll
just go wandering, I'll walk with it. And then I'll just do
some scene like a trade show or down an aisle or something is
shoot about two to three minutes of this just walking around. And
I get a lot of positive comments. I got did one on Korea
recently, I just walked down some street and curry up to some
place that somebody mentioned was where all the hookers were.
And I kind of missed that. And, and it's just like, they're just
actually sent I look at it myself, I go, that's kind of
interesting, because you get kind of a feeling for the place
and it's slightly educational. So I mean, I don't know, I just
saw there's something to some of this, you know, kind of content
Lester's who wouldn't say it's content less, but it's, it's
just kind of random video. The ones I don't like, it's just
where you just there's nothing really interesting. I mean, I've
done a lot of these things. I don't post every one of them.
Because most of them aren't very good. And and the problem with
these things like quick is that, you know, there's you put you
start to think of it as doing a live stream. You're, it's gonna
you know, as you don't have that you can edit it. So I don't
know, I think
that's what you're what you're saying. Well, you're saying
they're like this little quick bits of of Korea so that can
that comes back to something we talked about last week, which by
the way, a lot of people misunderstood I got so much
email from people saying that we're idiots and that all this
stuff already exists. What we actually were specking out as a
system was not quite the same as Oh, I have a camera that can
geotag pictures yet da, you know, I know that's out there.
But the idea that I could be in Korea, and I could pick up or I
could not be in Korea, I could plan a trip I'm gonna make and I
could then from somewhere in the magical cloud, pick up some of
your videos. You know, that would be interesting. If we had
stuff geotag like that,
right? Yeah. Because you would know where you were and all this
other stuff. So you got complaints about what? I didn't
get any email? No, I got your audiences different in mind.
Thank God.
So what did they say to you? What did your crazy audiences A
oh well
you know what what rocker you guys live in under? This has
been around for years you know you don't have to wait around
for years. Well they misunderstood they think that
we've
been around for years GPS chips inside cameras what camera has
that
and now geo tagging the geo tagging. We're talking about GPS
inside the cameras when you take a picture, you get the geo
tagging built into the into the file
that's been around for at least two years. What myself Microsoft
mobile phone
what camera can I go by right now that's a cheap little camera
I can take movies with and look normal that has that GPS built
into a camera
or cell phone camera. Oh, I know I'm talking about cell phones
with cameras.
We were talking about cameras when we're talking about GPS. I
mean, I don't want to go to Korea and take a bunch of
pictures with a cell phone. I mean, I want to take I bring a
good camera with a good lens and I shoot pictures that are you
know, professional grade in terms of at least the megapixels
and the quality going around Europe or anywhere for that
matter and taking pictures with my cell phone like an idiot.
Yeah, maybe there's some GPS stuff in some cell phones and
there is but that's not what we're talking about. I'm talking
about having my collection of good photos being geotagged
automatically with the GPS built into the camera that's was the
premise of the discussion
right even I misunderstood it then there are there are cameras
with GPS but their high end their high end stuff there's
nothing really cheap there are a couple Rico has a has one. I
think Canon has one but those are more high end than not
they're not cheap, cheap cameras. But of course you know
a lot of these I have to say a lot of these cell phones now you
know they got five megapixel cameras yeah
but it's still it there's no zoom lands you can't you know,
it doesn't have any kind of really fancy processing in it.
The quality of the pictures are always mediocre. I mean, if you
want to make a you know, Wall precise print, you know by
doubling the lines with some software to get a big printout
of it you can't do it I mean it's not going to look very
good. Let me know depth of field there's no contrast. I mean,
this is a joke.
Let me look at my my Gmail. Let me see if I can find some of
that. Probably not. GPS camera. I must say that 10 or 15 emails
that doesn't matter.
I just think it's ridiculous that people complain me. I'm we
were just talking here. I mean, if we wanted to, it's not a
report
that there's a lot of misunderstanding about what
we're doing John belief.
Yeah, I know. There's a couple of guys that moan about it a lot
for some reason. So anyway, the point I still want to make is
that if I had a camera that had Deadwood geotag automatically,
like a good quality camera, or one of these things like the
little video camera, I would think it'd be a cool thing to
have. Yeah, by the way, I did get nine mesh I did get a couple
of notes for people but they said that they were in agreement
with me about the idea being a good one again, you're right. I
was always thinking that was a bad idea. And I thought was just
a waste of money to put a circuit in a camera that would
have GPS capability.
The Ricoh Pro G three digital camera. This came out in 2005
Actually, I'm just Googling some shit here. Digi cam so that does
video and and pictures. And it
has a GPS in it. Yeah.
Codec had went out ages ago. It even says in this article.
So I guess it's lost favour.
It's gone out of style. So much for my theory.
It's funny what time you gotta get up, man. It's
mostly a marketing thing. You know? These things have to be
marketed properly. It's getting late. At 230 where you are?
Yeah, it's 230 in the morning.
Oh shit, man. Listen the show Hold on. Let me get the music
and that's that's too late. You need your beauty sleep, John.
Yes, I do. Yeah. And I actually I was going to fly it one I'm
taking my wife's bags over again to Holland because she refuses
to fly with me. And I gotta go because there's a one storm
front over the North Sea now and that will end the round. Around
12 o'clock, so I gotta get flying because there's another
one coming up from France. I don't want to take the channel
but okay, dude, you'd be doing it all day to take the channel.
You do not want to take the channel. Okay, hey, I think I'm
coming over in a couple of weeks again. I can't wait we've got a
got to set up another dinner date.
I hope you're not going to be over here when I'm in Holland.
Oh crap. No when you're in August, aren't you? Oh yeah,
right. Now we got June we got July. No, no, we're gonna hook
up an Amsterdam for sure. You're bringing your family over,
right.
We're hope we're hoping to it depends on what the schedule
History my daughter, she's got all these projects,
theatre projects.
Now that and whatever. Oh well, you're
busy. Good to hear how involved you are and your children. It's
always nice to hear a parent's being proud of all the whatever
the heck the kids are doing.
I don't know what their kids are doing all kinds of stuff.
All right, everybody. This was no agenda for this week. Thank
you very much for listening. Don't send us any email. We're
just not interested in coming to you from the curry manor in the
United Kingdom. I'm Adam curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak here in Northern California.
We'll talk to you again next week right here on no agenda.