Once again, it's time for that international roadshow of sheer
intellect. It is no agenda. I'm Adam curry coming to you from a
blustery and wet United Kingdom.
In I'm John C. Dvorak up here in the Pacific Northwest, home with
Microsoft, Nintendo USA and Sega
and John's Deli.
Right there Spicers delicatessen
Spicers Spicers, delicatessen you sound you have a cold.
I'm congested because it rained for some unknown reason here in
the Pacific Northwest. Yeah, I know I got I got to congested
for some. God knows what reason. So I sound terrible.
Let me ask you a very important question. John. Right off the
bat. You ready? Yeah. Do you have the Olympic fever yet?
John?
The Olympics. When did they start?
Your Orval? Did you see the opening ceremony?
You know, I turned it on last night to see what the heck was
going on. And I saw some of it it was very dull. That opening
ceremony really had to get every I thought so.
I mean, I watched it live I mean, you must have been
watching repeat now wait a minute it was it live or was
that a repeat?
I did. I think it was probably on tape. Yeah, but then that you
know one of the channels had the you know these guys have walked
walking around sluggishly around the thing holding their flags
and
now that's that's after the whole opening ceremony me. So
you didn't see the fireworks and the Oh no, I'm
sure. No, I didn't.
Oh, my Oh my god, man. It was amazing. You're the director who
did? What are all those movies? Like? What was that Flying
Dragon movie helped me out?
Flying Dragon Flying Daggers
Crouching Tiger Flying Tiger.
Yeah. Okay. I want that guy.
So he did it all John, I swear to God, they had fireworks. of
footsteps of giant footsteps walking towards the stadium. It
was It was unbelievable. The way they did that.
Well, you know, the Chinese invented fireworks and so they
do a pretty good bang up job as it were.
And I found out they also invented the compass.
So they say,
Oh, this is one of these disputed who invented things.
Anyway, so they did I missed that. So I suppose I missed
probably the best part because if the rest of its gonna be like
what else they were showing like, two person one women's
volleyball between you know, some Yugoslavian team in
Australia or something like that. And one of the women know
that. I think is the Australian volleyball team you I just hard
to believe it's not actually a guy kind of wearing a bikini. It
looks like Jim Carrey. First that bikini top.
Like I like my favourite Olympic sport is field hockey, women's
field hockey. I just love those skirts. You know what I mean?
Like when when they run and then the skirts just kind of flop
off.
You know, that reminds me you know, something I saw recently
in one of these track and field events. There was this this I
took some pictures of it offers some screen captures I was going
to blog and I never got around to it but there was this woman
who was a pole vaulter and I noticed a couple other ones too.
wearing the shoes essentially wearing a thong Yeah, it
was for speed that flexibility and for ratings John it's all
about ratings dude.
Anyway she had a pretty nice figure two and she had this
thong on Anna just a you know tight fitting top bikini top and
I'm looking at this saying what is you know I can also use when
she goes up on the pole then you can immediately imagine a pole
dancer and then she flips over into the thing bounces around
and you're going wow, this is like borderline lewd but that's
but
it's an it's an interesting thought you know? Yeah, I'm sure
there's all kinds of aerodynamics and and all kinds
of technology involved but at the same time I'm really
thinking television ratings, there's just no no two ways
about it.
Well, I'm thinking that too because the guys aren't so
scantily dressed I mean if it's going to give that was all it
was about you know the guys would I mean the guys are
wearing a you know a full t shirt you know level top it's
tight fitting, Speedo top whatever and then and you know
pretty good size pants. And when they're doing the same sports
Why was this woman wearing a song and a bikini top?
Well I think I think I think basically because guys and
thongs is just not a good look, perhaps.
Well, I'm just saying if you really have to win Well, no, I
mean, I know lots of women who love the way those guys look has
nothing to do with what they're wearing managers so
superficially stupid that you know, we have to be thinking
Scrooge all the time. Otherwise, you know, we don't get excited.
Well, all I know is that This is a trend that somebody's got to
know. It just seems distracting. These girls are obviously doing
it for just I think you're right. It's for ratings right
for getting a modelling contract or something. Boy,
you never hear how much money is actually involved in the
Olympics. But you know, besides just what China's spent on, on
infrastructure, and you know, what they'll hopefully bring in
and in new business, you know, the the television rights
worldwide for the Olympics is just outrageous. Now, it's
billions of dollars.
I think the White, I'm not a big fan of the Olympics, or the
Olympic Committee, or the nascent corruption that takes
place. Ditto.
But the one thing that you know, China, it's going to be
interesting to see because we haven't seen any good. At least
I haven't done I haven't really started watching. I'm sure it's
going on as we speak. Proceed the how exactly how much they
managed to clean up the air.
Oh, no, there's no remember, we were joking about it. We were
joking about about the smog. It was I watched the BBC from
yesterday, I don't know for like 10 in the morning until, until
the boring part of the opening ceremony where all the athletes
come in carrying the flags. And every single time they were
talking about it, you know, it's like now let's go take a look at
you know, here's a repeat of the Olympic flame coming down the
Great Wall of China. Well, at least we think that's the Great
Wall of China. And the official word was it's missed. It's not
small gets missed, John, that's what it is.
Blanche had been to the Great Wall of China and it probably
may have been missed, because it's a very that areas. Some
reason it's got a lot of missed you party pooper.
But also around this around the stadium, I mean, it's clear that
they've got some kind of some kind of issue in the air.
Pretty funny. All I know is when they were doing all the early
reports, they have a guy standing there, you might have
been in the studio, because it was just a guy standing there
and just as grey mass Yeah, vaguely, you know, visible.
It's funny because it reminds me of what Holland used to look
like in in the mid 70s. And that the climate has changed since
then. But Holland used to be just like that, and you'll
really, really grey overcast mist in the morning very
depressing. Hopefully, most of China isn't like that
will chant you know, if you look at paintings that go back even
before they industrialised, you know, people who do art in
China, in fact, I've got a few pieces I've collected. They
never show a blue sky. The skies are always white, which makes it
easier to paint a painting I suppose.
There was a shortcut. You know, let's just not do that this guy
should is too hard.
But but you know, it's like there's a big contrast between
the art that comes out of China because rarely see any you know,
interesting skies as opposed to you go to Southeast Asia. And so
I when it first time I visited Vietnam, I go with it. The first
thing you notice is like, oh my god, what is going on with this
guy? It's got all kinds of cloud formations. It's got big sky
look like you know, Montana would have it's got, you know,
stormy, like, it's got all kinds of looks and they paint
fantastic clouds scenes, all the artists down there because you
don't even need to paint anything else. You just look up
and start going going at is quite interesting. And friend
of mine has been taken, he's going he's doing a world tour.
That's like second or third time he's done it. He was just, he
went through manga and he sent pictures. He sends pictures now
of course, you know, because we've got digital and you can
get Wi Fi even in Mongolia. And he actually went to it. So some
of the pictures just been astounding. But he also was in I
think was in Mongolia for the most recent Eclipse, which
looked pretty spectacular.
I haven't been to Mongolia. So are to better have those
planned? Probably never get those places are kind of off the
beaten track.
You'll meet my friend. He's in San Francisco this week, and I'm
out there as well. I'm
coming out tomorrow. Oh, really? Yeah. So
you know what that means? It's time for another Customs Border
Patrol agency trip.
Yeah, you're gonna Yeah, take notes.
I do want to say one thing. Actually, I heard you guys on
Twitter talking about it as well. And I'm not quite sure
what the what the big hoopla is because I think you and I even
found out chat I must have been months ago that, you know, if
you're not on if you're not officially in the country yet,
then the US Border and Customs patrol agency, Inc. Limited has
has the absolute authority to search anything and everything
about you. You don't have your first amendment rights yet. And
I don't know what the big hoopla is all of a sudden about this.
Oh, they can check your laptop's like that. They've been able to
do that. And I've been doing that for a long time as far as I
know.
Well, I noticed a lot better than years and years ago before
actually before 911 Or they made your boot the laptop. Yeah,
remember that? Yeah, you have to. I'm like, Why do they want
me to start it up and potentially bring it to an
explosion in their face? You know, it's like, why do you want
that if you don't trust it, you want me to really start it in
front of you here. I'll point the screen towards you, my
friend.
I know that's what's so funny. But then of course, there was
this practical joke floating around that you slip onto
somebody's laptop, which they booted it would have come up
with a countdown to explosion file. No. Bad idea. I always
thought that was one gag. And then the other one that gag
which I've never done, but I've always thought it would be
humorous. is you get a some lead foil, which is a you know, it's
like aluminium foil on his lead. And then you would cut out the
silhouette of a gun. And then it's slipping into one if
they're gifted packing a book or something, you slip it into the
book.
Oh, wait not so fast yarn. I got to take notes from my upcoming
trip on
slips a bit into a book as a bookmark. Yeah, they wouldn't
write something and then do as it was the X ray. You could just
imagine I was
listening to what was it? Either on the media? No, it's probably
fresh air earlier this week and they have this guy on Have you
heard about this book I forgot the author's name is like, like
a whistleblower about this. It has been in the news about the
letter that came from who Bush who Bill bush or whatever his
name is the security guy for Saddam Hussein and was in you
know, he was there was a backdated letter that came to
the White House because this guy had already said hey, you know,
we don't have any weapons of mass destruction. Did you hear
any of that at all?
I don't know does not been suppressed or I missed it.
Oh, okay. I'll find out the author's name. And of course, I
haven't read the book either. But that what has been in the
news and I've seen a couple of reports about it. So apparently
this there was contact between he was uh, he must have been
CIA. This guy. There was contact between the CIA and Saddam
Hussein's you know, Chief of intelligence who bush I think
his name is something like Boo Boo, boo, boo, boo boo boo. And
so booboo said, you know, look, this was before we before we
went into Iraq, her boo boo, she's saying,
you know, look like saying that. Bush Bush said,
we don't have any weapons of mass destruction. And so, you
know, this was all back and forth. And you know, the essence
of the story is, of course, that the White House ignored it. And
then they had some documents falsified, which of course, this
is a truly impeachable offence, etc, etc. But what really caught
my attention about the story, you know, besides the fact that,
you know, the president lied, and we went into a country
illegally false pretences, etc. That, so the English had been
following these 25 guys who had the idea of mixing liquids on
the plane and blowing up all these us bound planes from the
UK, right. And this is what eventually has resulted in us
not being able to carry more than 100 millilitres of urine in
your carry on bag. And what happened was, is that, you know,
the English really wanted to take it easy. They had all these
guys on a 24/7 surveillance. And, you know, they wanted to
get some real hard evidence, you know, that even said in
conversations, look, you know, here in England, we take things
a little slower, we make sure we've got all the evidence we
need. So there's no no mess up. And, but don't worry, because
they can't make a move without us. And then what the White
House did, either bush or Cheney or whomever, you know, they
basically like, you know, blew the whistle on this who boo boos
guy, or, you know, who was in contact now with one of the
informants so that the 25 people being watched in the UK, of
course, were immediately alerted, and the, and the Brits
then had to scramble in the middle of the night and run all
over the freaking place. And I remember how weird this was when
this arrest came down, and like what the hell is going on with
this, it already felt really strange. And now we know the
backstory that the US blew the whistle. And, and that was
because Bush had such a low approval rating at the time, and
everything was all messed up. You know, that he needed some
kind of new, like mini event to chalk something up for
terrorism. And so they blew the whistle so that then the
Scotland Yard had to, you know, Rush and go and apprehend all
these guys, and then having to let them go now one by one
because they really have no hard hard evidence on it. It's a
fascinating story.
Well, how did her interesting let me see if I can find it.
It's around I guess. I guess it means that Scotland Yard in the
bridge Shouldn't have shared so much.
Well, I think they were working together but they were like, you
know, according to this guy, Haley who boo boosh, let me see
if somehow that doesn't seem like that's the right spelling.
No.
I think you're just making up the name who Bucha. Maybe it's
who Bush who bash,
man? Crap. I don't know. I'll find it and I'll send you a link
to the to that show. It was good. Okay, is the answer. Yes.
Good story. Oh, and John, when I listen to what I have here, you
can't hit you can't tell of course. Can you hear? It's for
DVDs. And what did these DVDs contain? They contain all of the
curry family home albums, home movies, which were transferred
from Super Eight millimetre film to DVD of atto. When it When did
you finally do that? But actually, it's so my sister
heard us talking about? And she says no, no, Bob doesn't have
them. I had them because my mom wanted to throw them out. And so
she basically rescued them. She's had them sitting around
the house forever. And I said, Well, you know, let's have
someone put them on the DVD. And it turns out that her husband,
one of her one of his friends was able to do he did it for
free and made everyone a copy. Got like Super Eight, Super
Eight millimetre. Yeah, from 67 to 75, I think and there's some
pretty amazing stuff on there. It's not it's not just Africa.
Turns out there's me at
the other places you you were at with a give you a knockout
pills.
It's really weird watching this because you see things like, oh,
wow, I know, because I don't really don't remember that much
of Africa because I was three years old. But seeing all of
these images of like, yeah, yeah, I totally remember that.
You know, and then all this stuff just starts popping in and
you know, we're, we're fishing for, you know, big game fish.
And I remember that. And I certainly remember the the the
lions having sex when we had to wait for like half an hour until
they were done. But it's great, because my dad really got some
awesome footage. Just pray. It's really amazing. When you see the
sex sequence, it's hard baby. And I see there was also we were
in, in different parts of Asia, all of a sudden, there I am at
the Taj Mahal. There's me at the Acropolis. I mean, it's really
priceless footage. I mean, you know, and things that look quite
differently now than, you know, than they did then. But here's
what was funny. There was some code, I was trying to figure out
what what country we were in, I saw something. It was called the
Three Sisters in. And I thought it might be Japan. And so I
googled the three sisters in the first hip. It was the exact same
sign the the building was a little more modern. And it was
in Kyoto. And it was like, wow, you know, it was just the it's a
pretty amazing experience. I bring him with me. So if you're
interested, we'll make copies this.
There's some sounds like good Travel Log footage.
Well, there's this really good close up footage of a president
a bowtie and, you know, all kinds of ceremonies. I have no
idea what it's all about. But it's, it's cool to watch.
Yeah, it was at the Super Eight, there was a Super Eight format
that had a soundtrack on it. It was just a soundtrack
unfortunately,
now this is before that, in fact, when you look at it, it
has a very high Zapruder kind of vibe to it. It really does. Kind
of the rounded edges on the screen because it doesn't quite
scan all the way through, you know, and the colours and the
flash of, you know, like a bad bad frame. It's, it's pretty
awesome. Yeah, it's 1968 Man. Now, that's like was that 40
years ago? Yeah. 40 years ago?
Yeah, it's amazing. Any of these old people have to find these
old films and transcode them?
Because they'll lose them. Right? Eventually, they'll
just they're all stating. I mean, one of the problems is the
you know, that they're just turning, they're all the colours
aren't aren't going to be there. In fact, there's already a lot.
It's a miracle. Yeah. Although I think you can probably run it
through eventually a computer programme to
be enhanced. Oh, sure. Yeah. Well, of course. So now I've got
it on DVD. Now I have to worry about the lifespan of the DVD,
you know, so I was like, Well, you know, we're gonna put
another backup of this. You know, I find I wind up in my
life with a couple of these 100 gig hard drives these firewire
drives, and they're labelled stuff like photo archive. And
it's just like, it's like, and you just have to slip that
along, you know, for fear of eventually losing everything.
Well, you know, it's, yeah, well, I mean, you have the
modern phenomenon of media dying, and then you can't use it
ever again. I mean, I still probably have some backup
cassettes that or, you know, dat tapes or whatever that no data
can read. Just but the I don't think it's that much different,
though than having a cache of negatives that you might have
around the house that your mom would just chuck. You have
to go out, right.
I mean, we have like, my mother probably throughout 90% of that
kind of thing. I mean, it's it finally, no. scrounge. Did you
know when I was younger? Oh, that's horrible. Well, I'm my
wife's mom was worse. And a bunch of our do.
By definition, that would be your mom in law. Yeah. Okay.
They're always we're actually
actually my mother laws. I got along with her famously. But she
was cheap, apparently, throughout everything that you
know, that was worth I was just talking about, we're talking
about 18th century, you know, oil paintings. Now that the
family collected you just like give a boy.
Oh, here we go. I'm sorry. I was wrong. It was it was Pulitzer
Prize winning journalist Ronsis kind. That's the guy who wrote
the book. Iran. Well, who
would you say it was?
I thought it was some CIA dude. It's called the way of the
world. That doesn't
mean you're not necessarily contradicting yourself. It could
be a CIA.
Good. Good point. Well, he worked for the New York Times.
Yeah, you're right. It could have been. I keep proving Jonah.
Here we go. In his, in his new book, The way of the world a
story of truth and hope in a new age of extremism. Crikey who
wants a title like that? Author Ron says kinda alleges that the
Bush administration knew Iraq had no weapons of mass
destruction, and eventually fabricated intelligence assets
to support its case for war. Both the White House and the CIA
deny his claim. So he's, oh, that's it. So he's got the CIA
guy on record on tape. Anyhow, he has everything. He's a
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. He says, Look, I've
got everything on tape. I've got you know, signed affidavits. You
know, the fact that these people are denying it now. It's like,
yeah, da.
It sounds like good stuff to read. Yeah. So what else is
going on over there? So I'm drinking this tea this morning.
By the way? Is this a trend over in England? Because I you know,
some one of our British friends sent this tea over. And it's
tetley's. Earl Grey with vanilla.
Oh, God, man, that should start over here. You know what's next?
This is somewhere somehow some point in time someone decided
that all the teas now have to be fruity teas and and flavoured
teas and I don't know how they why this is happening. But it's
infiltrating everywhere. And I don't like it.
No, I mean, you can add your own flavour if you want to add
flavour seems to me, that's my point. But I must be some
marketing guy out over there convincing these people. Yeah,
yeah. When I see PG Tips, you know, chocolate flavoured or
something. And I'll know it's the end is near. Yeah.
There in the supermarkets now, there. This is so cool. They're
all really enthusiastic. Some trials. So you can buy booze in
in the supermarkets here. But of course, you have to be at least
16. And so they they're now they've got the new project that
has been, I think convene. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, we'd like
to get our kids started young here. And it's working quite
frankly. So in the Superman was in the supermarket, they'll
actually have a camera at the checkout, because there's always
these arguments, right. You know, you're over age under age.
And then you have kids on the weekends who are actually at
the, at the, at the, at the register, and they can't
actually sell it unless you know, some other adult at
another register, sees and approves, and there's all kinds
of it's a hassle, or at least that's what they're saying. So
now there's going to be a camera hooked up to a central network.
And there will be official screeners who will be sitting
there watching the monitors looking at, at who wants to
purchase booze, and you know, they'll either approve it or
they won't. And that's going to be like a central kind of
central command that's going to do that for all the supermarkets
and the government's excited about it and they want to
subsidise part of it like, like you're
excited about this kind of just proactive monitoring of people
going through the checkout line. They're excited.
They're excited. They literally said this is very exciting. This
is really fantastic. You know, we it was funny, but Christina
has had a little bit of a flu. And she was this concert she
wants to go to of course she's sitting out in the rain right
now as I look outside. So she's like, No, daddy gotta get me
some happy, happy drugs or I gotta get better in a couple
days. So I go off to boots, and if they you know, pick her up
something because they don't have NyQuil or anything like
that. God forbid.
I figured all beliefs, of course is the pharmacy
pharmacy chains. And so I figured Pick up a leg with
something like Night Nurse day nurse or whatever with
paracetamol in it, and then I grab a box of paracetamol,
aspirin. And the register literally would not accept the
sale because you can't have two products that can that contains
paracetamol. And I was like, wow, why? That? Well, you know,
because there's so many overdoses. I've never heard of
this ever to an except for except, of course for Bruce.
Ivan's the scientist who killed himself on aspirin that I've
never in my life heard of someone overdosing on
paracetamol. And I figure if anyone knows about this chemical
John, it's you.
Yeah, I don't know anything about it, actually. But I think
it's weird that they would have this kind of thing built into
the registers now that that country over there is like,
become fascist state.
It is, man. Now we have to use a new word. It's not good enough
fascist state.
Yeah, I know that, you know, everyone's come up with we we
said this plea out, I guess a few weeks ago. Two or three
shows ago. Yeah. No one has come up with anything. I mean, one
guy came up with Neo fascist. I said, What are you kidding me?
That's not new. And that oligarchy is does the same
thing. It's not the same thing now?
I don't know. We just call it I don't know. UK ism. I have no
idea.
But people are feeling it here. They really are. And then you
know, it's it's starting to it's really starting to piss people
off. I can tell
it's about time that you're tolerant.
Well, they're mainly they're tolerant because there's so many
rules against protest. You can't actually protest legally in
Britain anymore. You all that should have been taken away. And
it's true.
They almost have it. They kind of have the same thing here. I
mean, like they now that they have free speech zones. Yeah.
Right.
If you want to protest, then you can do that at 10 miles south.
You can almost and they in the free speech zones. They're
usually their fenced in. So it's almost like you know, if they
wanted to, they could probably just say, well, we got them
locked up already. Let's just put a you know, a couple
padlocks on the gates and that's Gasim
I've never heard anyone say that the gates thing the camps. Yeah.
I don't know about the gassing. Well, I'm
telling you, they've been the way they've got it. I mean, and
the thing that's funny about is that everybody goes they walk
right in there. I mean, isn't that amazing? That they actually
do that they walk into an enclosure of the setup by
apparently the enemy the man with a with a big padlock on it.
Yeah, it doesn't make a lot of sense.
You know, anyway, said it's just ridiculous. And then he can't
find any politicians that you know, you could vote in I mean,
I guess Ron Paul comes to closest but yeah, people guys
are much,
much more important is is you know, we have to have an in
depth discussion about John Edwards. Extra extramarital
affairs that that's what that's what's important.
Well, you know, what's interesting about that is that
that's more important apparently in the UK than it is in the US
because it's not being covered at all by major media at all.
You're kidding me? No, it's like a big scandal amongst all the
right wing talk show guys. They say how come nobody is like, you
won't fight you know, it's like so page 10 thing. There's no
buddy main me major media here that is covering it. They're all
global. I don't know what to do about this. Really?
Oh, no, it's I mean, the Brits love a good sex scandal. So ya
know, they're all over that.
Yeah, no, this is very you won't find it on the front page. In
fact, if you go, I mean, I know the telegraph and all the
British papers are covering it to an extreme, but here now.
Well, since since we last spoke last week, Obama is now being
booed. Well, he's being booed. Yeah, he's being booed in places
where he shows up. Paris Hilton, thank god Paris Hilton has been
pulled into politics. We were waiting for it. It was going to
either be Amy Winehouse or Paris but it's clearly as Paris Hilton
now involved in our politics.
Now, this is the news you get over there because we have I
have seen no coverage. I'm looking at the New York Times.
You haven't seen the Paris Hilton video.
I know everyone's seen the Paris Hilton video. Okay, but But
nobody's talking about Obama being booed. Ah, okay.
This is this is a this is a talking points thing. And you
know, I hear we talked about last week and it was is Obama
now getting arrogant. And there's all this anti Obama type
news and they're showing clips here at least I saw it on now I
saw it on Fox News as well and and sky News, what essentially
is the same thing? And there's clips of him getting getting
booed. And he's like, No, oh, hold on, let's be respectful.
And it of course, it's taken out, he may be booed because he
has poop on his shoe. I mean, it's taken out of context, I
have no idea why he's being booed.
That's the question. Why is he being blue?
I don't know. That they're not going to tell me. But that
doesn't matter. I'm interested in the positioning. That's more
that's more interesting. And then, then fact.
Let's see, here's abama. The end of black politics is New York
Times my beautiful London, the tall, cool drink of sewage. This
is in a magazine, which has all these kinds of
you're looking for Obama stories about him being booed? I can't
find
anything. I can't find it. John Edwards is definitely not on the
front page of anything. Let me do a search in the times I
was just presuming about John Edwards. And like, that must be
front page news, because it's talked about here.
Yeah, no, everybody. I'm telling you, this is one of the points
of interest here's the New York Times search you got there's the
top stories not even about this. Did you go down a couple ABC
News, they point to saying Edwards admits to extramarital
affair, and that's the end of that.
I think I know, I think I think I know what the problem is. I
figured it out. Okay, let me just let me just because I saw
it on my mobile phone this morning. And I just want to make
sure before i Here we go. Real Hunter. See, the problem is
she's not hot. That's the problem. That's why it's that's
why it's not a good news story. She's not she's not hot. In
fact, his wife is hotter than she is, you know, what's he
doing? If you're gonna mess around, man, get someone who's
hot. That's the problem.
I'm looking at here's the story that ran into the times by
Katherine Seeley or CLO I can't even pronounce her name. Oh,
here she is. Is it reality Hunter? Yeah, really? Hunter
here to me. i You know what? She's? She's not hot. Yeah, no,
she actually looks at you looks British actually.
Yeah, that's the problem. She's not photogenic so that no one
wants her.
She's not very photogenic at all. She has. She looks like
she's got a horse face as well. I'm just saying I'm not saying
it in a bad way. But she has kind of a horse face and she's
got like this grungy hair and she has a kind of a kind of a
Carly Fiorina smile. Yeah. You know, why she whenever she had,
like, this picture that I'm looking at is like, she's posing
for something she's proud of herself.
That's a mug shot from extra or whatever.
Anyway, yeah, no, it's not. It's like, you might be right. That
actually could be the whole thing. If she was like, you
know,
that's got John the media. Kevin, if
there was a Hollywood actress, you know, it makes things
interesting.
I was watching, I was watching Fox. There was this great, you
know, so I watched Fox News because I have to get my shot of
reptilian motion. And so they have the live press conference
where the officials at the White House are now going to lay out
all the evidence for Bruce Ivan's. This is the researcher
who was about to be indicted for, for sending the anthrax
letters, and mysteriously killed himself on massive quantities of
Tylenol. You know, this is a great story. So, I mean, they
couldn't even pin the patent angle to him, which I thought
was actually quite, you know, when you're looking for a motive
is like he had a patent for the vaccine and like, okay, you
know, wow, what a stretch, but you know, I'll buy it if you
guys can, can stick it to him. They couldn't even do that. But
then question started again, this must have been like, you
know, like, not the most about like the south wing or
something. I've no idea where this was because I let fucking
anybody into this press conference. So they're carrying
it live on Fox News. And then I hear she was, she was not on
camera. So I can hear an African American female voice. And she's
saying, you know, so what are you going to do about the
family's people who are affected by I am, you know, by the
anthrax that was so some question kind of like that. It's
kind of like a weird question. So like, Trump the volume and
listening and then she launches into this like, because because
I'm one of the affected you know, and then within seconds,
John within seconds, boom. Shep Smith, or whoever it was, you
know, came in with a voiceover and immediately, you know, it's
like, okay, we'll come back to the previous like, it's also
like, now it's getting interesting. Now something cool
is gonna happen. Boom. You could just you could almost hear the
cue on cameras like we're going back to ship ship cupboard. Just
amazing. Just amazing.
Let's shut that woman out. I'm sure they're pounding here with
batons
taser, Taser and her on the spot because we laugh but it's not
that funny.
We do laugh Yeah,
yeah, I figured I figured it all out if you know all my research
all my conspiracy theories I finally figured it out John, it
was so easy and I'm enlightened today I feel great. No more No
more reptiles no more UFOs no more nothing for me I've been
able to rationalise everything
to reptiles. Well, you were never into that hope.
Well, I mean, if you believe the, if you believe in that
Nibiru Planet X and you know there are reptilian origins,
then you gotta kind of believe in it. Yeah, I know you're like
now but I figured it out the whole thing actually, where it
started for me is I just started reading a lot about Nikola
Tesla. And yes, what an amazing guy this was I mean, let's let's
just list his inventions Niagara Falls power plant alternating
current, you know the I guess the electric generator in
general radio wave transmission and this guy was into a lot of
stuff and and then you you see a lot of this free energy concept
and this of course you could see as a as as a huge hoax
conspiracy, etc. We're not that I've actually had some results
with some of this with like the hydroxy booster. But I've really
until I've met a lot of these people, I've been talking to him
over the past week and you know, guys we're making Joe cells and
and then this concept of zero point energy. And I think you
know, really, at the bottom and or the bottom line if and if you
believe a Christ of all things as a resource wiki pedia the JP,
the JP Morgan was that Well, I have seen it in other places.
But who knows, JP Morgan was one of Tesla's original investors.
And I believe he acquired a lot of his patents. And Tesla, of
course, never got around to making his, you know, his free
energy device. And I think probably, that, you know, that
whatever, whenever the decision was made to have a petroleum
based power society, though, of course, there was no chance left
for anyone 100 years ago, when Tesla live, you know, to
continue with these experiments, because you you actually need
money to get these things going and to create them and to know,
you need labs and materials and tools and die and you name it.
And I think that probably that is really the reason why we're
in this messed up world right now is because actual science
was actually stifled at that point in time. And it's carried
on for quite a while. But now, of course now was we're in 2008,
there's a lot more resources to build and test things. And if
you see what people are doing right now, with this free energy
concept, and how far they've gotten, you've got to believe
that there's, there is certainly a different dimension to our
world that, you know, that we're not seeing or not able to see.
But it does consist of movement energy. And, you know, we are
figuring out ways to harness this. I mean, I know you've,
you've had you have some expertise and in some of these
fields, but clearly there's, there's something that we're
that we're latching on to but at this point, you have this
classic kind of conundrum, I guess, where, you know, no one
believes anyone you know, because of course, it's been
hammered into our brains, there's no perpetual motion,
there's no machine, there's no creating energy without, you
know, without any other loss of energy, or, you know, it has to
equal up etc. And then of course,
that's by the way, that's called physics, but go ahead. Well,
yeah,
absolutely. And, but there are a lot of physicists who are now
saying, hey, you know, we have to perhaps look at rewriting the
laws of physics because there are some there's something here
that is definitely new. I mean, you've never heard of this.
So your approach to this your own you know, obsession with
kind of a crackpot ideology is to dig a deeper hole
No, not yet. Wait, bear with me so I wouldn't say man but bear
with me. Because at the the absence of that we frantically
the people who really own the world have to keep everything
running on energy that they can control because of course you
know, there's there is some definite control in the oil
market. And a part of the whole scam and actually money come
come secondary to this whole scam is keeping us away from
finding the free energy because if you actually have energy that
anyone can create for free and you don't have to buy anything.
And you can pretty much make it out of magnets or whatever it
is, then really the whole structure of everything falls
apart. You don't need a whole bunch of things, because they're
based on energy that costs money. And that's kind of at the
basis of our entire society. So you think I'm digging a deeper
hole by following this trail.
But there's a couple of things here that need to be addressed.
Besides the fact that you're digging a deeper hole.
Yeah, let's see. But I like explaining these things to you.
Because then you really helped me evolve my thinking, so please
shoot away. I
bet I've had my actually my influence on you in this regard
seems to have the opposite effect. I mean, if it's like,
married to two people, that you know, they make each other's
life worse. Okay, so, so that's not so that's nonsense, but I
love you for it. Yeah. So first of all, you're advocating, I
mean, it seems to be a base hope that something ridiculously
impossible could happen to destroy society. So So I think
the basis for this kind of thinking, What are you talking
about? I'm not waiting for some stuff. You know, the whole thing
is a mechanism to hold society to mechanisms based on this, you
know, this need to buy oil or gas and oil economy. You
disagree with that move? No, it isn't oil economy, but that's
just the way it is. evolved that way. It was decided by JP
Morgan. I know what we'll do. No, no, I'm
not. No, no, hold on a second. I didn't say that. I said that.
No, no, no, here's what I'm applying. He's one of the
several names that we spoken about put Rockefeller in there,
you know, and I definitely think that there there was an option
to people who already had a lot of money at the time to say hey,
you know what, this this shit works pretty good. This oil
stuff, you know, let's let's get into this business. Let's
control it all. I mean, that's pretty much proven that that's
what's happened. And then we'll be rich beyond our wildest
dreams. I mean, that isn't all of society is based upon that
and that's why those guys will do whatever it takes to continue
themselves to get richer, you know, and upon upon the
shoulders of this oil idea came the whole banking system and all
this money and then this is all they're all behind that. I mean,
you got to agree with some of
that. I need to the banking system was pretty evolved by the
1800s. But anyway, yeah,
derivatives and subprime mortgage lending
now, but that's just recent. Yeah, exactly. So let me ask
this question. Just change change the subject slightly. Do
you think that in England, it's you know, because there's, the
British are known for eccentrics and eccentricities you think is
maybe like in the water? Or the kind of tea that you drink or
they poison people specifically to make them wacky? No,
I'm not wacky dude.
Don't not stand by you. I'm just talking in general. No, I
don't think so. I think
you're getting more eccentric as you
know, I think it's more like cabin fever because you're on an
island you know, it's like Gilligan's Island. There's 60
million plus people on it so we were a couple of us are bound to
go nuts after a while.
You know that there is a thing called Island fever that people
who moved to Hawaii suffer from often not used to
Yeah, I think I should go try that sickness. I'll go there for
a while.
But But I always wonder about the British Isles because when
I'm over there you never feel that you're on an island at all.
I don't know I don't know how that people like maybe yourself
get to the island you know Island fever kind of state
right? Well it's a big ass Island first of all so you feel
more like you're going to the coast of course it was
originally connect connected to France then you know there was
land there in fact that still there's just it's a roads
underwater now. But it used to be a part of the mainland. I
mean, it was connected there was an actual road I was I've
dumbfounded you now. Yeah. You didn't know that there was it?
Yeah. I
mean, what was the when when did the road go away?
When when the water beat it. It just I realised that we were
talking about the year I believe the road was a Roman period.
So the Roman state drove to welcome British Isles.
Um, I'm based in New York. Ben Hur. Ben. Ben Hur went there and
conquered England. Now I was watching a documentary about
early English man and where he came from and it was a BBC
documentary so I'll I have that in pretty high regard. And then
they said okay, and so this and they actually showed and they
showed geological surveys and said this is this was a road it
went off to, to like the middle part of France and it was actual
landmass that was just connected. Oh, you know, I can
find out for you. I'll go, I'll go and do the research and find
out when it was built or what when there was a road there
maybe was just it was it actually a road? Yeah, it was
probably dirt. It was, it was a it was two ditches, okay. It was
one ditch going that way the other does go on the other way.
But it was connected. So that's maybe that's a psychological and
maybe that's something still makes it feel like it's
attached. You know, it's not really, it was probably
connected a million years ago. I mean, it's like, it's like the,
you know, the Bering Strait or the you know, they, the Koreans
and the Asians wat waltzed over to North America and became the
Eskimos and Indians. There's a while back. Go back even
further, when the whole earth was just one big giant landmass
is split apart. Hey,
okay, now now back to my free energy dude.
Brother. Go on.
Well, have you seen any of the ends? Have you seen any of these
experiments with or, you know, actual working models of
generators that are based on magnets? And that actually work?
No, I haven't seen anything in this regard that actually works.
Well, there's a lot of examples and a lot of different versions.
And all Enya there's a lot of there's still a lot of hydrogen
type stuff that people are doing. But I've kind of figured
out what the problem is, first of all, anyone who's into this
stuff, and is actually going to spend time in his garage
building it is of course, kooky. And then people like you, of
course, ridicule them, and we all will all we're already kind
of weak to start with. And we're kind of introverted, and then,
you know,
I like the way you're citing with these people totally, we,
we got a mouse in your pocket, we,
we were totally, we're totally introverted. And then you push
us back into the garages. But here's, here's the big problem
is all these guys are trying to get patents. And you know,
they're trying to make money. And then of course, investors
rip them off, because it's not, they're not really investors,
that just people who are, you know, trying to grab stuff to go
figure out patents themselves and all this stuff, which is,
basically if we're talking about something that that is easy
enough to be made in your garage, well, that no one's ever
gonna make any money on it. And that's kind of why it never gets
off the ground. And then you know, and by the way, they used
to just kill the guys who came out and said, Oh, I've got some
free energy, they stopped doing that about 1520 years ago. So
now they just ridicule with the John Devorah talking slash blog
army, who just want to, you know, stop the world from being
saved by having free energy.
Right, the, to kill them. I know that guy who did appeal, you
dropped into a 55 gallon drum of water was appealing and boom,
fuel. They killed that guy. They stole his invention. And then,
by the way, they just kill him. They first they beat him up.
They killed him.
John, this is I'm telling you. So I'm off of the aliens that
UFOs in the reptiles. But I think this is where the real
problem of the universities and if we understand this, and we
see the change in physics, in the in the laws of physics as we
know them, we're going to end that's when we're going to
really unlock our true potential. We're going to create
some amazing stuff.
I do, apparently. But again, you know, I don't know what it is or
drinking over there. But But let's take a you know, anyone
who wants to deal with this can go to YouTube, and type in zero
point energy, and look for some videos and you'll find plenty of
guys on there. And all you have to do is watch any one of dozens
of these guys pontificate for the hour and a half that he
feels like chatting with that crazy Comic Book Guy style of
talk. And it's like, whack job concepts. You just know that guy
should be you know, it's just like one step away from the
loony bin. I mean, you are the big net you,
you are given. Thank you for giving me the perfect example of
why civilization cannot progress. It is exactly that
attitude that you just just sent out. That is it. How can you be
so how can you ridicule? Have you ever seen yourself? I want
to give you a frickin dime on the street dude. And if you can
answer Oh, look, I've got zero point energy, you know, you
wouldn't be laughed at right out of Silicon Valley. I mean, this
is the problem. We've got to stop.
I would be laughed at a Silicon Valley. This is true.
This is the problem though. This is this is why we're not getting
what our birthright man free energy. All right. All right. As
long as I was able to entertain you, yeah,
well, the hole is deeper as all I can tell you,
right. Well keep your eye on that hole. Because,
you know, oh, wait a minute. I think you're next transition.
Let me predict it. i Okay, I'm visualising where am I going?
They're kind of just coming. anti gravity. Oh, it's all a
part of
it. Now those it's definitely a part of it. The the zero point
energy is mixed in with anti gravity. Absolutely.
Okay, dude, that's fine. You can laugh.
Yeah. Hey, you know, if you get that free energy, let me know. I
mean, I'll take a piece of it.
Yeah, well, of course, it has to be made for all mankind, and no
one can own it. It just has to be out there. So you can say oh,
I need a little energy right now and just the pick up a rock and
some gaffer tape and make a battery. Yeah, have a couple
stream couple magnets together, put it onto your your Nikes and
you get your wheels and you're off to the races. I mean, why
not?
I would recommend anybody out there. Just go to YouTube and
decide for yourself.
Yes, very good. Please do this. Yeah, don't look for now look
for what was the one of the first ones I saw.
Don't listen to me. Don't listen to your college professors.
Now, go look at the Race to Zero Point Energy. That's the one you
want to watch on YouTube. That's a good starting point.
I have one that I blogged some couple years ago. This guy. Now
anyway, I'll look it up. I'll put it up. Put it up. reblog it
okay. Actually, or anybody out there who has some of the more
wacky ones I'd be interested in.
It's not wacky once you say challenging or interesting just
because you don't understand that doesn't mean it has to be
wacky.
I don't know somebody sent me an email saying there's something
that you need help you know that I need help. You said you know,
poor Adam is getting worse. Yeah, help a man.
Baba didn't send us any any stuff to follow up on. I thought
it was I don't think we wouldn't have anything to follow up on
No, we didn't have any teasers. Okay, just ended
it. Someone really said that. Adam needs help.
Yeah, seriously.
All right. Then let me switch gears for a second. Freddie Mac
Fannie Mae
Hello. Yeah, well, you know, it's just the way it goes.
Hello,
come on man. And now Royal Bank of
Scotland closes we get to zero point energy. I'm trying to get
a bank bankrupt operation and get bailed out.
Now we were talking about that last week. I said that the whole
system is coming crashing down you're like oh, I don't think
so. Dude, this is bad. I mean it's hit the UK is literally
bankrupt. You know they've they've got their
own Dell we did it worked successfully get all these
overseas investors suckered into this is what amazes me. Yeah.
Yeah, it was the Royal Bank of Scotland thing is it's three
banks now is the Fortis bank which is French and Belgian. I
think. Then you have ABN so Fortis and Royal Bank of
Scotland they bought ABN AMRO for $50 billion oops. And they
bought it just before the the subprime crisis hit and so you
know, these guys like really hurt Royal Bank of Scotland.
It's the second largest loss reported by a UK bank in
history. And it's what's interesting is the news reports
don't tell us what the biggest loss was, but I'm pretty sure it
was Northern Rock
Well, you know, these guys, apparently they're not very good
at their business.
Yeah, but but look at what's happening now in the States,
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac who's going to pay for tax taxpayers
are gonna pay for that.
Yeah, well, you know, they always find some sucker. Yeah,
it seems like these numbers are getting kind of Big John and
it's not over yet. I mean, come on. Give us some professional
prognostication here. I think it's I think it's just a sign at
the bottom okay, once you invest now let me know how that goes.
Okay.
About I would say that right after the elections is an ideal
time to invest and then I'll let you know how it goes until the
elections you know, it's going to be like this.
And then what and then as you predict the stock market's gonna
go crazy. It's gonna go up if if McCain is elected,
actually, I think either one of them but I don't think Obama's
gonna win. Even though you know, everyone goes home. How could he
not win? He's already won somehow.
But I don't see that. I don't see he's won already.
Nowadays, most of the people here do. Yeah. Which I think is
part of the scheme of course, is to push that image out there
because then it because the public is so fickle, especially
the you As public, they're going to start saying, Well, you know,
it's guys thought he had it wrapped up, you know, that was
arrogant thing. It's the whole thing when you do a Truman, you
know, all over again. Well,
interesting. I think that it seems like this is a total media
manipulation, you know, the word is out, okay? Now let's call the
guy arrogant. Now let's make them look funny. And I'm
actually I'm still kind of with the, with Lyndon LaRouche on
that he may not even make the nomination at all.
Well, you know, they're still, you know, now they're right wing
talk show guys are revealing that Hillary had a meeting,
right? Yeah, I heard about Cisco. And she, she wouldn't
ever mean she says, You know, it's not over until she didn't
say this. But she's the kind of message was it's not over till
it's over. And maybe somebody should place my name and you
know, nomination, at least symbolically, so we can all walk
away as a united party, and blah, blah, blah. But it looks
according to course, this could all be bold to you know, just to
stir up things, but the to create fear, uncertainty and
doubt. Supposedly, Hillary's folks are calling all those
super delegates who can do whatever they want when they
finally get it right.
Right now we gotta you gotta make somebody and so this is
what we talked about man, that they that that could they could
always go back to the super delegates and make them change
your mind. And anything could happen. Anything that Obama
does, could make those super delegates change their mind
easily.
Right. And there's another month ago, or almost a month,
of which he's, he's going on vacation for a week or two. And
by the way, yeah, Clinton, Clinton never actually stopped
her campaign. She suspended it, remember?
Yeah, no, she never fully Right. Right. She's still playing the
game somehow. And I guess this is their strategy, which added
this to the argument she'd make. She'd say, look, I never really
quit. I never said idea. I just said that. You know, what, I
know, she'll have some parsing theme. This is Bill's old thing.
You know, you say one thing and mean, another. And then, you
know, say this is was the strategy all along, because the
way it was going, you know, it looks like this was the way we
could because our job was to get the nomination any way we could.
That was legitimate. And this is why we went and if you know,
this guy thought he was the winner all along. It's not my
fault. Yeah, exactly. It wasn't anointing him.
Yeah. Now he's been doing some kind of wacky interviews to
Samsung, kind of suggestive stuff.
Well, he's at the point where there is a See, I still have one
of the problems I haven't I think it's going to the public
eventually is going to go is this guy ever actually held a
job? Oh, seriously? Well, I mean, what does that mean? He
was a college professor for a while. But essentially, he's,
you're talking about your professional politician. This
guy was a politician from the get go, Clinton? No, I'm talking
about Obama. Okay. I don't know if Clinton's held a job either,
to be honest about it. But it's like me there was ever a
paperboy? Did he ever sell lemonade on the corner? Did he
ever work in a factory? Did you ever work in a gas station? Do
you ever work in a supermarket? Did he ever was he ever in the
union? Was he a union man or z or ever a member of some local
union? I don't know. And is he ever done anything? And so now
he's going to direct a, you know, biggest country or that
the biggest country in the world with no work experience, except,
you know, lecturing about law. IBC. Kind of I think that's kind
of frightening.
Well, let me see them as good as there must be a bio on his
website that says what he did hasn't I mean, that wouldn't
surprise me that no one's ever just bothered to look at his at
his bio,
community organiser, which is a volunteer job. You know, that's
what, you know, women in the Hamptons, do that kind of stuff.
Meet the
candidate. Let me say, born in Hawaii, August 4 1961. Through
college years, oh, man, he went straight from Let me see. Yeah,
here we go. He went on to earn his law degree from Harvard and
91, where he became the first African American president of
Harvard Law Review soon after he returned to Chicago to practice
as a civil rights lawyer and teach constitutional law. What
does that mean? Like an internship?
I don't know.
Finally, his advocacy advocacy work led him to run for the
Illinois State Senate. No, it doesn't. I mean, there's nothing
about paper routes that's for sure.
Now, as far as I can tell, he's never worked. So okay, we gotta
go has never worked for a living. I mean, they can't free
great. So we need
they're all chipped. They're all robots. They can't help it.
So Anyway, I think that's going to at some point, people are
gonna go wait a minute. I've got more experience in this guy, why
am I voting for him? And so the vote for the old man?
Really? You think so?
Yeah. All right, hey. Well, my wife has another theory kind of
way that we're gonna vote for the old man, because the last
two presidents we've had have both been baby boomers. Right.
And they both been fuck ups. And we want to find the figure that
once I'm old, you know somebody with, you know, yeah. Somebody
is just not in that generation. Yeah, could be.
I don't know, man. He doesn't he I mean that.
Again, rationale, if you look at the rationale, people have to
vote for Ms. Mayes well spoken that.
Really well spoken. That's what they say about Well,
no, the thing that they say is, well, he represents this he
represents that, you know, he represents change, and he
represents, you know, the kind of forward thinking that I, you
know, agree with, but fine. I mean, you can represent that all
you want. I mean, it just doesn't mean it gets you to do
something about it. You know, it's like, okay, you know, fine.
I mean, I have to admire the symbolism of the guy, the fact
that he is symbolic of this, and that, but, and I think a lot of
Democrats would love to get the you know, I mean, both parties,
as far as I'm concerned, would love to be the party that has
the first woman president and the first or the first black
president. Sure, sure. Because they get bragging rights. You
know, it's like Nixon going to China, you know, how come the
Democrats couldn't pull that off? You know, they're the big,
you know, socialists, they couldn't, you know, do any deal
with China. And but So Nixon did it. So the Republicans had
bragging rights, and, you know, they both parties would like to
have, you know, the first black president. So the Democrats are,
you know, putting everything they can into this guy, but you
know, their backup strategy is to have the Hillary run, so they
either either gonna get the first black or the first woman,
if either one of them can win. Yeah.
I think Hillary has a real shot. If I look, if I looked at the
landscape, who was Hillary Clinton, against? McCain? I
think she'd have a real shot. I mean, forgetting forgetting, of
course, the the rig Diebold voting machines, etc.
The direct machines helps the Republicans let's face it, yes.
Now. But let's take another look at that assertion. I think that
if Hillary, I think either one of them is going to have
trouble, I think they're both on electable personally. But if
Hillary ran, and by the way, I think it'd be really funny if
she could talk Obama into being the VP was the initial.
That was your initial theory. Right. Right. Right, that that
is completely unelectable
to complete completely, but let's just say that it's her and
somebody else, or whoever. I think that if they bamboozled a
party and and somehow screw Obama, out of the nomination,
they're gonna lose all the black voters period. In fact, I think
a lot of them might even vote Republican. And then they're
also going to lose all these young people that are right and
half of them are middle aged, actually, idealists who are all
for Obama because of what he represents and symbolises and
they're going to be really irked. Right. I just think
there's, you know, they're gonna just get a poor turnout.
You saw Jesse Jackson's thing right there was that they caught
up him
all right, that was expel Yeah. Yeah, no, he's, but Jackson is,
you know, nobody's. He's out of the picture. And I think that
he's not relevant anymore. Yeah, I think that even blew over
really fast. It just showed, you know, what, uh, you know, what
he's become, which is, you know, a, you know, you know, he did
that on purpose. You think, guys a media whore? I mean, he knows
exactly what he's doing. Yes, true. I mean, you know, sit
there, at that level, sitting there, miked up, you know, and
then put your hand slightly over the mic. Gently cupping
your voice into it there. Can you hear me now? Sound Engineer?
Here we go. Alright.
Yeah, you know, it may even tip somebody off to say, hey, you
know, you might want to be recording these off, you know,
off air comments,
just a thought there.
You know, who knows, but whatever the case was, it was
pretty funny. But it didn't it blew over.
Anyway, just so for people who didn't see it, Jesse Jackson
says, I'd like to cut Obama's nuts off for the way he talks
down to black people. I think that's pretty much exactly what
he said.
Like that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you know, it was it was staged,
I think.
Oh, man, there's so much going on.
What are just in general, we just ran out of material when he
said,
No, don't know all that stuff. I mean, there's it's the way that
you Media is I mean it's just fascinating by the
way here's the thing that's going on I think that people are
have to pay attention to a few people who listen to the show
will enjoy this tip over the last number of years McCain used
to go on the Jon Stewart show a lot I think he probably would
still comes out he probably more than any other politician and
exchanges. gags Yeah, the Republicans are more likely to
hire and I think McCain was trying to figure out how he
could hire some some joke writers. Ronald Reagan had like
a couple of joke writers on staff and so he could do
essentially material I don't think the Democrats I think they
rarely do this that because they're so humourless, generally
speaking. And so McCain, obviously has somebody working
for him now because he came up with one the other day, which is
obviously professionally written, very funny seemed like
an ad lib. But it was you know, he was starting to do the talk
show. Now, yeah, he's showing up here and there on the radio talk
shows the right wing ones. And and so Obama has but
there are no other radio talk shows except right wing wings,
except for this one. And this is such an undirected piece of
garbage and zero energy. No one will show up on this show.
Well, Ron Paul would be that would be interesting. Okay,
anyway, maybe we can get Lyndon LaRouche that's that's what
fitted with our theme. Correct. But not all
crackpots? Don't Don't talk like that. That's Didn't your mom
teach you anything?
No. So anyway, let's go. Okay, so So the latest gay going
around? So they had you know, Obama comes out with this. We
could save the X billions of dollars in gas if everyone kept
her tires inflated properly.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Right. This is the the pressure gauge thing.
Yeah.
Yeah. So then the next thing that Democrats or the
Republicans come out with is apparently is, is a pressure
gauge that has on the side of it emblazoned Obama's energy
policy. They were handing this out to people, right. And so, so
Obama comes back on the caribou, zero, they're criticising me for
and then he says this stupid tire pressure gauge thing. I'm,
you know, it's only part of this, that and the other thing,
and he was like, a little annoyed by it, but he was
handling it with some humour. And so the but the McCain line,
which which is showing up sense, which is, McCain said the line
is as follows. He says, Well, you know, he talks about tire
pressure gauges and this kind of thing and that kind of thing. He
says, This is not an energy policy. It's a public service
announcement.
Well, I heard about I went back and I listened to the original
speech that Obama gave, he did that a couple of times. So it
was one of the one of the speeches, but this was presented
as the speech that it came from, and he didn't what didn't come
across very well to begin with, you know, the tire gauge. Yeah,
you know, it's like get get your car tuned at regular interval.
And basically what he was saying,
Well, this Yeah, okay, whatever. But he was combating
the Republican McCain's energy policy by saying, you know, the,
the amount of energy that McCain's plan will save can be
achieved by just keeping your tire pressure in check. You
know, that's what he was. It was not well thought out to start
with it was it was almost, you'd almost think someone set Obama
up without one. I mean, how easy is it to see that? That's a
great one for a gag. Yeah,
well, anyway, so when as soon as I heard the line about this
public service announcement, I immediately said McCain's got
some joke writers now. Yeah. So we're gonna hear some good news
one.
Yeah, some good thoughts. Well, so I think, you know, this is
the thing that no journalist as far as I can tell, is actually
investigated. So we have this Paris Hilton response to
McCain's use of Paris Hilton and Britney Spears in No, no in an
anti Obama ad, but who made that it was on Funny or Die, but who
actually produced that? I mean, that was well written, that was
well produced. And quite honestly, it was completely what
Paris Hilton suggested was completely what President Bush
said in his weekly radio address, and it's completely the
Republican plan.
Yeah, I know, it looked like the whole thing was, you know,
supposedly a criticism of McCain.
Nobody wasn't. It was it was a Republican ad, as far as I could
tell.
You know, I feel exactly the same way even though the
Democrats seem to have missed the point on this. For one
thing, if you look at the entire process, first, it was the
original ad with Brittany and Paris. And equating Obama was
some sort of like a dimwit
by then we had the next piece. The next piece was the Hilton's
were really pissed off because they had given money to McCain.
Right?
Right. So they get all bent out of shape, supposedly complaining
about how they gave money to McCain, but they didn't expect
your daughter to be ridiculed in the process and blah blah, blah
blah so they get there's more publicity for both the ad and by
the way, you know McCain doesn't have the budget Obama has. So
he's doing a lot of the kind of really grassroots fake
grassroots astroturf type promotions that get you free for
you don't need to pay for these ads. No, it's viral. Seek them
out. Totally. It's yeah, they're viral. And it's like the it's
like the Apple Macintosh 1984 ad that only ran once and was
muscle is still being watched. I
still must, must see copied everywhere. I think you're
absolutely right on that, John. And, and what just amazing
amazes me is that because Paris Hilton is perceived as to be
rich, everyone, everyone automatically assumes Oh, man,
Paris is so funny. What a great read. Great, great way to
respond. But no one's actually saying, you know, who fucking
produced this thing? Who paid for it? Who wrote it? It's
brilliant. And by the way, it's the because I listened to the
presidential radio address each week. It's a podcast, it is
exactly the same words that Bush used in saying to Congress, the
Democratic Congress has gone on vacation. You know, without
without signing this our energy bill and any he's used the exact
same words that Paris Hilton use, this is the way we should
do it. You know, we should you know, whatever, later tax
credits and, you know, we'll use that
was extremely well thought out, you know, as a policy. And so it
was written by somebody else. She, she doesn't look like she
was using a prompter. Now,
she's a little actress, she
She's good. She can act? Yeah. So she can memorise her lines.
And they probably did it in about three or four takes. And
you know, the hot thing she keeps throwing in there was
fine. Yeah, it was funny. It was very funny. It was very
endearing. Ben, you're right. I'm totally convinced the whole
thing is part of his grand scheme to stretch the
advertising budget. And it just, it gets more attention than
anything. And I mean, what, you know, what is Obama done? That's
even remotely that
I'm just I'm especially interested because as far as I
can tell, this thing was launched on Funny or die.com
which is coming, you know, really Mark Kwame is baby Mark
Kwame is of Sequoia Capital. And I don't know, I don't know
anything about the other people in funding or die. But I'm just
thinking there's all kinds of interesting connections to be
made there. You know, who who actually came up with this? Who
did it? I mean, why, why don't we just find out? No interest,
though. It's
like, it's just like the zero point energy.
I want to know, Paris Hilton and zero pain energy.
That New York Times article that ran about lols that we talked
Oh, I
heard that. I thought that was pretty good. I heard that was a
kid
in the article. And they don't tell you who he is. It's just
like,
it's an old photo. They took it off a Facebook, they just leave
it just take this picture. Hey, use this one.
It's like, you know, I mean, we're not these guys aren't
doing any I mean, you're right, exactly. I mean, actually, I
didn't think it that far along. But yeah, where is the
reporting? Who wrote this? By the way, now, somebody will
eventually do that. But it'd be dead. You have to do this
immediately. There's something
there's something else that's happening is that all kinds I
mean, there's all kinds of plagiarism going on. Where
smaller newspapers that have a website, you know, they're
literally stealing entire reviews and copies a copy from
other like the guardian in the UK, you know, and they're and
they're reprinting that in the US as as news actually putting
it into the papers now.
Cuz I think that's licenced though. Don't
you think? Oh, no, no, no, no, I've heard a couple stories of
it was not like it happened to us, you know, games weasel?
Yeah. So Matt cuddle, does games weasel its, which is a great
video games video show. There's also an audio version. And so he
does an audio version, a video version. And he also publishes
on on the on his blog, he was shownotes he publishes the you
know, the, the the text of the script, you know, he scripts
that he writes it and then he records it. And so we found out
that the Scotsman which is not a really small publication, but
they've been reprinting his exact text for like the past
three months as as their video as their weekly video game
review.
Kidding No, no,
no and it's a well so they hired some some chick I forget what
her name is. You know to write video game reviews because she
looked the part you know, it's one of these pieces where it's a
weekly column and there's a picture of her she looks like
she's cool and have been would totally know everything about
video games. And she apparently has just been copying it every
week off of our site and Scotsman has just been printing
it
That's pretty funny. Yeah. I guess I don't know anything
about the law or, you know,
check in that. Yeah, this is this is my point is you know,
there's all Well,
I mean, I play by the girl and she right? I mean, she has to
steal somebody else's material. No, no, of
course she can't. Hey, what are you going to do about her?
Right? So, you know, of course we send off a letter, but you
know, I don't want to go through a lawsuit. You know, even even
if we're right I mean, what point you know, the only people
gonna win are the lawyers.
I know that you know, typically the problem with these but you
could stop it at least
Oh, no, no, we always stop now. I stopped Believe me it stopped.
But you know, you really want to ridicule them and shame them and
MIT this, there's not much you can do. Now, give us some free
ads in the Scotsman. Thanks.
Why not? Well, yeah, well, that's I think, the blogging
mentality thing is which, you know, it's I think it's
critical. I think a lot of people don't know, you know,
what an excerpt is what fair use is, and they don't, you know, I,
I always have to tell my guys blog from yet devora.org/blog
That, you know, there's sometimes overdoing the
excerpting. You know, you can't just take the whole damn thing.
And you know, the AP is concerned about and Reuters is
or two
main thing that I've heard, and I think this came from AP, what
they really hate is like the headline if you steal the
headline, because you know, the news they consider as the news
and you should be able to, to copy a portion link to the
original etcetera, but they really don't like you taking
their headlines. They want you to come up with your own
headline.
Well, generally speaking, your own head lunch should be an
improvement. I don't think their heads are that great.
No, but you know, I'm saying I can understand where they're
coming from on that.
Yeah. Yeah. Well, I think is probably a better I think, you
know, I think if you're a blogger in particular, you know,
your headlines which get end up in the RSS feed, they have to be
compelled to be
great. Yeah. Well, the people don't understand this is like,
there are still people in my life. Who send me email with an
empty subject. I mean, how stupid is that? And that's
you've got to be marketing for anyone you send email to the
subject line has got to say at all, that's what's gonna get
your email clicked on because increasingly Of course, your
email was scrolling off the screen.
Yeah, effect I have like two or three days of email i i Still I
mean, I looked through for one thing the oldest spam gets moved
over so this is not spam. It's generally you know, some press
releases and people are you know, have something to tell me
and I'll scroll through I just look look look look look you
know, there's curry said when some see what he said bounce
click on our scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll over. Now
in every email I send you is going to have a subject zero
point energy. So I'm assured you're going to open it up.
Without keep me from opening it. That's what my doing it free
energy, exclamation point.
That'll get the data probably end up getting thrown in the
spam box. Go down and find something else. That's like some
reader I've never heard of, and he's got some interesting
subject line. I guess he wants to tell me something. So I click
on it and might be a link to a story that can blog or something
I should be reading or some correction to our show, which is
pretty common. And you know, you guys got that wrong to
you. Oh, we forgot to say that. By the way. We don't know
anything about anything.
That's our new. That's got to be our new subline Oh,
agenda. We don't know anything about nothing. That's a t shirt.
And we like it that way. Dammit. All right, John. I'll cut you
loose. I can tell you not feeling too well. No, I'm fine.
We haven't had any rants from you have been pushing you all
throughout the whole show that just can't get you to rant
by you. But you've basically buried me. Dirt you've been
thrown out of that hole you're digging.
Just give yourself a day and think about it. John. Are you
doing it already?
Yeah, I'm zoning out as we speak listening to the fine. Bones of
the
Yes, art Marriott jazz quartet? You in town next week. We're
gonna have dinner. Yeah. Okay, cool. I have to be home before
nine though, because I'm doing my Dutch radio show. And that
means I have to. It starts at 9pm San Francisco time.
Oh, okay. Well, every night. Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, we'll just
do some early.
Yeah. Or we could do Friday because then I can I can stay
late on Friday, we can play. Hey, say hi to the family. John.
Will do. All right. That's it for this week, coming to you
from the United Kingdom.
I'm Adam curry. And John C. Dvorak here in the Pacific
Northwest,
and we'll talk to you again next week. Right here on no agenda
where we don't know anything about nothing.