Once again, it's time for the programme that emanates to you
from two separate corners of Gitmo nation. It's Sunday
afternoon. It's time once again for no agenda in the United
Kingdom. I'm Adam curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak here in Northern Silicon Valley, a place
that doesn't exist also known as get mo nation. West. Yes, I'm
getting getting Gitmo nation east, your Gitmo nation West,
which is our new mantra.
Yeah, and it makes nothing but sense that all my Twitter
followers have all agreed it's not not a bad term and probably
a propos
right this is the this is the word that we've been looking for
for the fascist state. Instead of using fascism, we're just
going to use get mo nation.
Yeah. Or nouveau fascism
or now gizmo nation is Gitmo nation. Let's keep it at that. I
love it.
Anyway, so what's going on? Yeah, well, you came into the US
and then you left again. Yeah. That means you get got to you
get to give us another one of your fabulous Tales from the
TSA. Yes, I do. So we need a like a bumper for that.
Like a jingle? Yeah. Okay, folks out there. Oh, wait, actually,
before before I tell you that listen to this, this is kind of
funny.
Isn't mark up here in the creek and just got finished listening
to Episode 42 have no agenda. And I just loved it. And getting
better and better. Every time. I think it can't get any better.
Something happens. And in this case, along comes conspiracy
theory, Adam. Now we have the prospect of listening to DeVore
at playing Scully to Adams Mulder, and it's just
tremendously funny in the last episode cracked me up. So keep
up the good work, guys. And remember, John, even the
reptilians they work for us.
How much do you love that?
Yeah, unfortunately, the people out there don't realise how
close to reality.
It is completely true. Yeah, so coming into the states. This was
a week ago on Sunday. Yeah, cuz I'm now back in the UK. I just
got in a couple hours ago. Coming in hand off the passport,
I did not. I, you know, I'd sit on the daily source code, maybe
I should disable my RFID chip and see what happens. And people
strongly advised against that. Why? Because it's a it's a
crime. Oh, you're not allowed to destroy any part of your
passport. Although I do know how to do it. I do know the best
ways, obviously. Anyway, so I didn't do that. So I'm a went
into the RFID scanner flip the screen comes up, I looked at the
agent, female agent. And she's tapping away. And I said, you
know, you might just want to call the team leader or so I
just go straight down that now. Now I got an attitude, right?
Kill it just go straight on the secondary know where the little
room is. Hold on a sec. And I can't actually do this from here
is what she said. So she picks up the phone calls another agent
comes over male agent. And they're both looking at the
screen. And they mark an M on my landing coordinates. And you
have to go to secondary now you can just go through to to the
regular secondary, which would normally be my tertiary
screening. So that was sorry,
I'm sorry. So the process is there's actually two secondaries
and one of them you are going through two different
secondaries before and now you wanted to go to one Yeah, well,
when you enter the United States, you always go through
customs, then you pick up your bag, and then you have to
actually leave. And that's really the checkpoint, right?
That's where they have all those counters and they pick people
out and they go through the bags and see if they have dairy
products or other contraband. So that's normally kind of a
secondary for everybody. That's really where the, you know,
whatever, whatever at that point has been marked on your landing
card, if there's any action that needs to be taken appropriately,
or they can just fish you out. Right. Okay. But there's a there
is an actual secondary, which is a little room all the way off to
the left in the corner, which is kind of like kind of like a
waiting room at the at your high school infirmary. You know what
I mean? Where you got like, yeah, the nurse Yeah, the nerdy
kind of like folding chairs, and there's a little, a little
square there, and a couple agents sit there and they're
going through shit and you just sit there and you feel like a
horrible person. So I didn't have to go through that. But of
course, I had a had a marking on my, on my, on my landing cards.
So I showed it to the agent and you know, and the agent picks up
the little blue pouch. I know the whole drill and I walk
straight on and, and this this agent was really nice, you know?
And he's like, Yeah, well, John, you know, then they know me by
now they know the story. They know me. And so I just asked him
I'm just asking him shit, you know, point blank. I'm saying
what's the M Ford? Is that for like money? My favourite. No,
no, no, no. I said, Well, what is it? Master said I know stands
for match. Okay, this is the Adam curry from Nebraska I've
been hearing about and now he's smiling, right? Because he's
looking at the terminal. He says, Yeah, and so he's actually
letting a little bit more through than I think he probably
should. Yeah. And I said, Well look, you know, can't you guys
like just take me off the list says well here's the problem.
The problem is this other Adam curry is on the watch of the you
know, on our list to you know if he tries to enter through this
port. And I guess he's I don't know if he's in Nebraska or not.
So if we take Adam all Adam Curry's off, then we'll never
you know, have a match. But yeah, you know, it's a different
birthday. Now. Apparently, their systems just aren't
sophisticated enough or they don't want to take any risks
that there could be a different birthdate used and some kind of,
you know, like, the evil Adam could kill me and then use my
passport. Evil Adam. So I said, Well, why did you arrest this
guy already? We know he's in Nebraska. You know, we know he
has my name. We know that he's younger than I am. arrest the
guy already. And he's like, he's like, Well, you know, the, the
agency that's interested in him. doesn't actually want to arrest
him. They they assume most of the watching him. They want to
see what he does. He says Yeah, something like that. So there
you go.
Well, I guess that's never gonna end.
Not until they grab this guy. And what the hell is he doing?
He's probably not doing anything when we should started doing it.
Why don't we do it?
Let's just find him. Let's just find him
and find out who he is. Yeah. Maybe he's just some schmuck.
Well, I heard that he was driving a red pickup truck. In
Nebraska. That was the latest report. I have. I agree. I think
we should crank this up a little bit because it's just too
interesting. Let's find out what he's done.
I mean, are they gonna let this guy float around forever? I
mean, if they're interested in him for how many years? Is this
gonna go on before they either pick him up? Or what? Are they
waiting for him to do? punch somebody? Oh, my goodness. I
don't know. Well,
they're clearly they're waiting him to for him to commit some
kind of felony. They're. They're snooping on him.
I guess. What did he do before that he'd be on this list in the
first place that they see a protester? Is he like a guy in
the world's workers prop party? I don't know. I really my
curiosity is getting the best demand.
All right, we need our we need our audience to help us with
that one. If you're in Nebraska, look for this guy.
Now, are we sure he was in Nebraska was in North Dakota?
No, I'm pretty sure it was Nebraska. Couldn't Nebraska is
going to be whatever
it does, it does of course, uncover an inherent flaw in the
system. You know, so Adam curry is not a very common name.
Although there was a there's a window basketball player named
Adam curry. There was some 17 year old kid who died of
leukaemia recently named Adam curry. I know that because you
know, that shows up in my personal ego filter. But you
know, almost any name you can think of, is going to have a
whole bunch of people who have the same name. And that just
barely exposes the whole problem is like, okay, they can't take
the one name off. Because, you know, they're not mashing on
anything else. But the name first name, last name.
Yeah, so that means that guy if he wants to sneak out of the
country, all they have to do is get you know, go down to Los
Angeles, get a phoney passport, where they sell them on the
streets, change his name to Fred Schmuck, and then walk through
customs. We can just walk across the border in Canada or
whatever. But his driver's licence? I don't know.
Speaking of Canada, do you know that we signed an agreement with
Canada? An arms and an arms a military agreement.
But what does it say? I'm gonna look
at this right now. This was in the times over here. Shit,
that's not it. You just find it. Wow, why the hell is it now I'd
sit and you know, I'd done all this prep work. There you go
shows me right. We're trying to prep something. Now, apparently,
in February, some kind of agreement was signed between the
US and Canada that should we have any any problems that will
help each other out kind of like a NATO type deal, I guess that
our armed forces would then fight with with each other
they're calling it
maybe that's just for military you know, if they didn't martial
law,
only if that happens, and we need some extra troops. Exactly.
And just thought it was interesting. You didn't hear
about that anywhere.
We don't hear about anything. Let's face it. In fact, it took
a while before the that Russia would by the way. We were remiss
last week not to discuss
the Georgia Yeah, that was really dumb. That was really
stupid of us. Not to miss that. You actually I want to talk
about that. You want to talk about that. Now we want to talk
about Clinton because Clinton's kind of hot on my list.
Let's talk about the other thing first, because the Clinton thing
is, you know, okay, it gets too nutty to start the show off with
too many people.
All right. So I guess when we're talking about Georgia, and I
have found a couple of really cool other cool things to look
at, and to read.
Well, I've been listening to the right wing talk radio shows, and
it started off as you know, Russia is the bad guy, Russia is
the bad guy. That's the litany. That's what the talking points
are, you know, they came in, they're trying to assert
themselves or trying to, you know, make sure that none of
these countries that used to be allied with them, or are part of
the Soviet Union, are going to join NATO. And this is all
blaming Russia. And I noticed that about halfway through the
week, the the tone was softened as if we're going to start to
change our tune, officially. And, and, of course, if you
follow it, it seems, in fact, I had a really good post on the
blog, you have to go back aways but it's asked, it's called the
Look Up search for reader challenge, and is a bunch of
people that chimed in about the timeline about what really
happened here. And it is really, Georgia, that is the aggressor
trying to shut down the sections and that whole area from because
they wanted to become their own country. Now what, anyway, so
that's not that's not entirely true. I mean, they're already
their own country. But the
officially they're part of Georgia.
Oh, I'm sorry. You mean? Oh, sedia. Okay, I'm sorry. I
misunderstood what you're saying. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. In
fact, they were just given a lot of the Citians were given
Russian passports in the past month or so.
Yeah. Well, here's the story I got from a friend. My daughter's
friend is a Russian and her mom's are Georgian. So I went
over there and I decided to do an interrogation. I asked her,
interrogated her. Here's what she said. They've been get
somebody's got to do it. Exactly. So that Russian
passport thing for a couple of weeks or whatever it says bogus.
They've been they've had Russian passports for two years. Okay,
good or longer. And she gave me the rundown on this. She says
that the whole Georgian border thing was set up by Stalin
originally, she takes the whole story back to the 40s. Wow,
okay. And she says this one group, this this was never felt
that they're part of Georgia, they were always felt more
connected to Russia. And somewhere along the line, they
made a lot of noise about being either independent or joining
Russia and having the borders wrapped around them rather than
being in Georgia. And this is this that area, the sets, yeah,
and there's actually two, there's not just a setting of
there's another one that I can't barely pronounce which one she
kept referring to. And she said the Russians long ago decided
that they will support this break off group, the splinter
group or whatever they want to call. They did give them
passports, they'll have Russian passports, most speak Russian.
And they said that Russia said they would support them if they
want to become part of Russia, or if they want to become their
own standalone country. But but there was some indication that
Russia might not support them being fully incorporated, and
Georgia. Now a couple things that came out, one of them is
the deal. Oil runs through that area. But she mentioned
something that's never been brought up in the press, which
is this one area. And the reason the Russians like are wanting to
be part or they want to be tight. It's the number it
essentially produces all the citrus fruits for everybody. The
citrus fruits, you said, Yeah, Oranges and lemons and
everything that's got vitamin C, and it comes from this area. And
I've guessed it feeds the whole of Russia and everyplace else.
It's like this huge, it's the Florida of the ex Soviet Union.
So I never heard that before. And there's also that port to
which the Russians want to get a hold up. And she said just a
couple of things. One is that the President of Georgia has a
spiel that he gets about how they ended all corruption. Yeah.
She's got she knows lots of people that would say That's
bogus. It's just a public relations stunt. There's plenty
of corruption.
Well, if there's Saakashvili is also credited and credits
himself with bringing new economic growth and wealth which
of course is all fed in by the US.
Right so our money Yeah. So anyway, He showed up about this
during the week, which is that in Holland, they follow the
psychopy guide closely and you might want to explain why.
Because he is married to Sandra Roelofs, who is a Dutch girl.
And there's it's goes a little bit further an RTL news
cameraman was killed a Dutch cameraman was killed during one
of the shellings. And so, you know, that's, that's been kind
of the the front, you know, the front pages of the news, of
course. And the So, the Sondra rulerships has announced that
she's going to be attending his funeral and wake, which, from
what I've read the family has responded to with mixed
feelings. Hell, yeah. I mean, what a political move regardless
of whether she's Dutch or whether she cares. And yeah,
that's another challenge
with the Shelley's did it when she was the apparently this guy
was killed by the Georgia shelling.
That I don't know.
Well, there seems to be a lot of evidence and most of people
killed in that area were killed by Georgia is not by Russians.
But anyway, follow this guy very carefully in in Holland. And so
then you pointed out to me some of the stories running over
there that nobody in other Western media is picking up.
Especially the part of this guy being some sort of a sex weirdo.
Yeah,
there's a couple of things. So the first one, actually, I'm
gonna Skype you a link right now, which you have to watch,
you can just turn the sound off. It's from the BBC, I just want
you to watch for two things. This is Saakashvili. And he's,
you know, there's a little bit of actually some good combat
footage, which I haven't seen anywhere in this news, you see
actual, you know, like rockets and nano, not just a couple of
them.
But as soon as I turn it down, I can turn it down.
So anyway, so you see him sitting behind his desk, he's on
the phone, and the guy is eating his tie. Okay, he's literally
eating it. And to the right, you'll see actually, he's
sitting in between two flags. One is what I presume is the
Georgian flag, and to the right of him is the flag of the
European Union. And, you know, guess what? Georgia is not in
the European Union. They're not NATO either. But just look at
this guy. And
then there's cm meeting is tied to blog this, and then there's
fleshy people out there who don't want to deal with my blog,
they go to a Saska villi eats his tie.
And there's a couple more clips of him. I'm sure you've seen the
footage when he's outside and then all of a sudden the plane
comes it comes overhead and he goes running and link starts
crying like a little baby and they're covering him up. And
with all kinds of flak jackets in the den, just look at the
guy's demeanour. Just look at him. And you'll like, very
suspect. And so indeed, one of the stories that I've picked up
on from the Dutch Alternative Press is apparently this
Saakashvili, which makes total sense, you know, if he's a tool
of of the bush Cheney clan, that, you know, he's a sex
maniac and just, you know, insatiable appetite for sex.
They've actually confronted his wife because she was in Holland
for like six months. And they said, you know, well, is it true
that your husband's a sex maniac, which is kind of the
most straightforward way
forward when you press did this? Right, yeah, Alternative Press?
And she said, No, no, I'm just No, that's not true. I'm glad
you asked me to my face. I'm just here because I have another
child on the way and I want the child to be born in in a
peaceful surroundings. But that's a that is some of the
word out there. But just when you look at the guy and you look
at his demeanour, and you know, he just looks not
so I asked the so i With that in mind, I asked this woman I was
who I was interrogating. Sabine as mom. I said she used to be, I
think a swimmer for the Russians are some positive
effects it Uh huh. One of those? I think
they let him leave or so I'm not sure. But anyway, I mentioned
the sex thing to her. And she said, Oh, well, that doesn't
surprise me now. Well, it wasn't even it wasn't even like a
Yeah, it was like a big revelation. Yeah. Do you have a
read provde the English version of Providence. Not often. You
might in these days because they got some really good or the
article you might like is is Condoleezza Rice stupid? It's
pretty funny. It really it really shows you how to think
well, you know, she's
supposed to be That's the joke of this whole event. She's
supposed to be the big Russian expert. Oh,
yeah. Here it even says something about that here is con
so every paragraph starts with is Condoleezza Rice stupid.
Here's another one. She claims to be a Russian expert, but her
command of the language was recently exposed as being basic
slash elementary level on a Russian radio programme, just as
her grasp of what is going on in Russia Today seems beneath the
informed blogger level. That's an improv the that's pretty
funny. Yeah,
well, province has become it's not like a state institution
anymore. It's become almost like a, like the National Enquirer
kind of thing. They have a lot of really funny stories.
And, you know, ever since I've been talking about this, I've
been talking about on the daily source code as well, you know,
basically, you know, the point being, look, Georgia started
with, they had 3000 US security consultants on the ground before
this happened, which, of course, is another word for mercenaries.
You know, there are Georgians in US combat fatigues, in all this
report is it's all in the news. And there is some good
reporting, but as usual, you know, the real overtones is just
completely dominated by the talking points, which is, you
know, Russia back off Russia, the aggressor, and that's being
fed by Bush and McCain. You know, just even just the way the
media is writing the story.
And what's even funnier with Obama, because he initially
seems to have found the right explanation. And then because it
was so you know, power the the blame Russia thing was pounded
so hard in the press that Obama switched, right seems to go on
to the other side. Now, if he has to switch back, he's gonna
talk about it. You know, flip flopper. I mean, it's going to
be embarrassing. He doesn't know why it may he just, I don't
know, I just can't hold his ground. I think of course,
consultants, his masters are telling him to do that.
Apparently.
So anyway, so this story seems to be that we're not getting the
story. That's the way I Well, that's
what that's what I think is the most interesting at this point
is okay, here we have and, um, if you haven't, I'm sure you can
just please go to devorah.org/blog. And take a
look at this 12 year old kid and her mom who were on Fox News.
Yeah, but hilarious, you know, and
what just amazes me is to see how it actually works, you know,
to see how we do know the actual truth. And at the end of the
day, Russian No, no real nice guys, right? I mean, they all
have, you know, the Russians, the Chinese, the Americans were
all they're all thugs, metal thugs, running, running, running
the show. So I'm not I'm not trying to say anyone's, you
know, good. But in this case, we clearly know what happened. We
clearly know it was a US and Israeli backed aggression from
Georgia, First Blood first fire, whatever. And that's being
completely turned around. And Russia is being made to look
like they started at all. And it's just amazing to me to watch
that actually happened and see it, you know, it's already
cemented you know, the, it's already that it's what happened
is what it'll go down in history.
Yes, a meme. So it reminds me of the, you know, if you're, if you
if you pull the American public today, after all these years,
you will still get the fact that, you know, Iraq are the
ones who brought down to Trade Towers, you know, kind of thing.
Oh, yeah. Yeah, of course. So, it's a hopeless situation. I
mean, the Russians, for the propaganda artists that they
once were, I suppose. I think they, they don't do a very good
job of
manipulating the media,
manipulating the media. Now,
they're horrible, but they don't own it. That's the problem. If
you own it, it's a lot easier. Yeah,
I think that's true.
I mean, just just look at Fox News, man, it's fantastic. It's
fantastic to see when the minute something happens that isn't,
you can almost hear someone in the control room go.
Well, they really blurred with that mom and her daughter
because they couldn't, you know, she, because the daughter, you
know, they had obviously had them on some sort of a track to
say this and that. And then the daughter just interrupts and
says, Hey, before we go on, I want to thank Russia for saving
my life,
which was scripted. I mean, you could tell that they that they
was like, here's what we're gonna here's what we're really
going to do when we get on you know, you could you could tell
that that was set up, but what a great setup.
Yeah, no, it was pretty funny. I really enjoyed it. And then the
fox guys are all nervous about it cracked me up. You know, Fox
doesn't have to be quite so uptight with, you know, the
countervailing opinions about anything. It's just you know,
they just they draw attention to themselves with some of this
stuff.
And that my favourite is Fox and Friends. Have you ever watched
that? No. You really should. That's where they they kind of
like you know, it's like a like a morning news show and they sit
around they drink coffee and laugh about the news. And this
shit that comes out of their faces is just so incredible.
They dismissed stuff.
Well, you know, there was a report, somebody had worked at
Fudd. Fox, forget what the story was. I'd had to think about it
for a minute. But apparently there was some election some
place and Republicans were losing and apparently brought
the staff and the whole studio. Actually, they were visibly
sobbing and crying. What was that for? It? was just like,
apparently, these guys are so caught up in the politics of it
all. That I mean, that the idea of fair and balanced is just a
joke.
Hey, you know, I keep hearing more and more about
although I have to say the other side is just as bad off course.
What's the fairness? Doctrine?
Yeah. the Fairness Doctrine. Yeah,
man. That's there's a I hear that more and more these days. I
know it comes back around elections every single time, but
I'm just hearing it a lot.
Yeah, it's not going to get anywhere. There's just no way at
this point. I mean, the Supreme Court would strike it down. I
mean, it's ridiculous. The And besides that, you know, but
either side can take advantage of the situation as it now
exists. This is just just an anti Rush Limbaugh thing is
really what it amounts to. Well, I can't take that.
But I hear it used more in the context of blogs.
Oh, yeah. That's the Yeah, that's right. Well, actually,
there was a we blogged this, the FCC made it out. Now it's
commented, you know, if we if the Fairness Doctrine is re
installed, it may actually apply to the internet. Oh, please. Oh,
my God. I mean, you could probably go along, but you know,
what you'd end up with, I think because of the bloggers being so
subversive, generally speaking, you'd end up with boilerplate.
So you'd make your comment, whether you're a right wing
blog, or a left wing wing blog, you'd make your, you know, anti
bush or pro Bush comment, and then you'd have a piece of
boilerplate, that dissent, which was just the opposite opinion
would always be exactly the same.
We could write a script, that would just be exactly the
opposite. Yeah, you're
right. And would you whatever you said, then you have exactly
the opposite. And you'd make it sound stupid. I mean, if you
have a bunch of things to say that are, you know, well
reasoned, you could do put in just the opposite and make it
sound like a blithering idiot, but it's the opposite. This
isn't like this is not gonna go anywhere.
Did you speak? Canada? Did you hear somewhere that we're not
here about this, that some ISP or like big cable network, maybe
the CEO, God, I wish I had the story in front of me said that
looks like they were going to, you know, have like only a
sanction website list that you could go to, and be like,
approved portals that you could then jump off from, but you
wouldn't be able to just get to any website anymore. Had you
heard about this?
No. That will fly? Well, you wouldn't
think it would. But it was kind of interesting. It's just one of
those things is floating out there.
It's probably done by one of the CEOs who's never been on the
web. Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, I don't see how that could ever happen.
So anyway, so let's go back to our or back to our Georgia
Russia thing. Yeah. And take it up a notch because you pointed
this out to me. We had dinner the other night, which we'll
talk about in a minute. But you pointed out to me while all this
was going on, strangeness was taking place in Africa. Nobody
paid any attention to
and it's still I even picked up the Financial Times at the
airport and there was nothing in it. You know, Mauritania, there
was a coup in Mauritania, which is, for those who don't know, is
a large portion of West Africa. It's almost all of West Africa,
actually. And I'd never I'd never even heard of this before
until I came across this little little blurb. And the reason why
it caught my eye is because the coup had actually taken place,
but like 10 days ago now, which is almost simultaneous with the
with what happened in Georgia. But they announced they
installed a former European Union ambassador as either the
prime minister or the temporary Prime Minister. It was a
bloodless coup, so they say the military took over. But what's
interesting about Mauritania is that about 30% of China's oil
comes from Mauritania. That's where they import it from a
large portion of their minerals comes from Mauritania, even I
believe 20% of the US is imported oil comes from
Mauritania.
And you know, that's not possible. Most of our oil comes
from Alberta, Canada.
Let me see. Granted, it was a probably a Wikipedia article.
I think they could probably no, I think what you're reading is
that 20% of the oil produced by them may go to us but that's I
mean, that's our, you know, it could be 2% What percent spit in
the bucket for us?
Well, who knows, I mean, I'm not actually counting that shit. I'm
not counting the barrels. Okay, so then, of course, I can also
question if the 30% was all of China's oil or 30% of their oil
went to
China. I think it's the other way. Yeah. So
it's not unimportant. Let's put it that way. You
know, China is LinkedIn, I was doing some research about this.
And you discover that most of the action took place just
within the last year or so. That then you know, the Chinese were
doing more and more deals down there. The Chinese of course,
are all over Africa trying to get everything they can out of
there and then instal like, like a lot of their own people.
There's something that obviously broke the camel's back here that
resulted in this bloodless coup which took place coincidentally,
right during the Georgia Russia, Georgia thing, which makes me
wonder how who's in bed with who on these things, including us
with the Russians? Because, you know, I don't it's possible that
Putin and Bush actually do like each
other and they just said, let's, let's just get rid of this
asshole. Yeah. Hey, that coked out sex Fein. I'm tired.
It could be because the you know, the whole thing is a lot
of sabre rattling, you know, the US oil this the Russians? did.
You know I mean, it's possible that this guy that's running
Georgia just gotta go. And so
let me just say two things about Saakashvili. So the two things
that are just really, really, that just show some really weird
and a lot of weirdness there is the European Union flags
everywhere. Although George is not a member of the European
Union. That's weird. Okay, that's just fucking weird. And
this whole George Bush Avenue and that picture you sent me if
George Bush waving to you at the airport? I mean,
LISI? Yeah,
I mean, but there is an actual George Bush Avenue, and leads to
the airport.
Okay, that's possible. But you know, by the way, why did they
have to go kill 2000 or 3000 people to get rid of this guy is
beyond me.
Well, here's the other thing that's interesting. You should
people that you know, I didn't realise this until I started. I
found that photo, by the way on Flickr. And there's, if you go
to look up Tbilisi, on Flickr, there's a lot of photos taken
from people in this area. And they've posted them on Flickr,
there's hundreds and hundreds of them. And that's including the
some new modernization projects that they have going on that are
just spectacular, but I'd recommend look, I started
looking at these photos. I think I like to visit this places. It
looks like a photographer's dream come true, which is really
photogenic.
Yeah, I'm looking at it right now. That is pretty amazing,
isn't it? Wow.
Mix of architecture. Yeah. And then you can go on and on and on
and keep clicking away. And you'll see more and more stuff.
You want it to you and just wish you were there taking photos of
you like taking photos. Meanwhile, there's one other
thing that happened during this era. Well, there's a couple of
things. Well, the other thing that you may have not noticed is
that Nigeria seems to be under some sort of guerrilla attack.
It's oil. No, I
haven't seen that. Yeah, it is. So it's still in a guerrilla
attack phase. There's there's no one's been in snow puppet has
been put in place yet?
Not yet. No. But this is like the thought of not action. Well,
the other thing I'm thinking why do they think and maybe it's a
Nigerian scam, but I could come up with the right joke for this.
I
understand where you're going though. Dear George Bush, I
would like to send you $5 billion all I need is your bank
account. Well, of course, Russia, Russia, the United
States installed nuclear missiles or at least made the
agreement to instal nuclear missiles in Poland that was the
other thing that that you know, that really came together
nicely. Yeah, in this in the same way that would piss off the
Russians. Yeah, of course.
So you know, you don't think it's a coincidence though that
they made this announcement even though they really haven't put
any missiles in yet. After it was noted Russia wants to get
closer to Cuba
will have no I think it actually was the other way around. I
heard though okay. Yeah, yeah, this whole Poland thing has been
going on for a while. And and then Russia the Russian General
said well, we might be considering Cuba and now that
now Okay, let's take it one step further perhaps our intelligence
agencies discovered that they were going to do something with
Cuba so we preempted I possible Poland thing possible to kick
you know,
okay, let me let me take it to the highest level and then we
got to get off it. Okay, here, here comes your moulder moment.
All what's happening here is we want to get the Russians all
riled up America, and we want to get the Chinese all riled up.
That's why we're messing with them in Africa, because we
actually want China to invade Russia. Yeah, man, come on. It
may So much sense we want you know, it's like you want your
minerals once you go get them in Russia, you want some oil, go
get it in Russia, get out of here. Go make war with Russia
because Russia is angry Anyway, you've you've strike on him,
they'll they'll fire on you think about it. It's not crazy.
You know, it's an interesting, calm. I mean, there's always
been a fear. I mean, when Nixon opened China up. It was, it was
there's apparently some something going on in Mao's head
about, you know, fear of Russia. I mean, the Chinese and the
Russians are right there. They're on each other's border.
I mean, it's like, gotta be like, a moment of consideration
for that, of course. Okay, well, that
that slide that one. No, come on. I'm sticking with this one.
I think I like it. No, I like China and Russia to get to get
all pissed off. Where's Indonesia? Indonesia has got to
be a part of this somehow.
Well, in the middle of nowhere, Southeast Asia. They're down in,
you know, now with Singapore and those guys. Yeah. Okay. Dude,
have you seen the pictures of bush at the Olympics? This
isn't. I saw him. I saw him on the TV a couple of times. I
haven't seen any photo the
ones where it looks drunk. Oh, yeah.
Well, there. Yeah. We blogged one of them.
How about the video, he has a big scrape on his on his right
forearm. And of course, everyone's now saying, whoop,
did he fall down that he, you know, hurt himself while
hammered?
I think this is the first time he's ever been to China or am I
wrong? I don't know. I don't know. You know, when he was a
kid, he never left the country even though his dad? I think
I've told this story before, but I might as well tell it again.
He is. And I got this outstanding authority from a
friend who was in school with him at Yale. His dad was
ambassador to China. Do you have to remember George Bush, we
hiked we made this guy President United States again, his name.
With the time he was elected president. He had never left the
country except possibly to wander into Mexico for a taco.
France, he never went to Europe. He never went to Africa, South
America to go to Jamaica. And so maybe so anyway, so his dad was
the ambassador to China. And why you kind of poopoo the whole
thing because you're you have people in foreign service in
your background, but he apparently his dad sent a note.
They're gonna have some big shindig in Beijing, you know,
the embassy was going to put on and invited George and give me
you know, gave him a ticket to go to China to have to party,
which seems like a logical thing for him to do. And he refused to
go because he didn't want to leave the country. I don't know.
I will. I'm not Pooh poohing that. What are you talking
about? Pooh poohing
what you told me that you get sick of these parties? Oh, me?
Yeah. Well, you know, you mean it that way? Sure. But that's a
good one. I'll I'll corroborate that with that with Don. I think
it was already in the bush camp at the time.
Yeah, he didn't go to China when his dad was the ambassador.
They're talking about I mean, the opportunity for fun.
Yeah. Now that's not his idea of fun.
Apparently not. He's a puppet. So anyway, on to a different
topic. So we had dinner. We had to do a one of our rare
restaurant reviews.
Yeah. Now this was interesting, because this is the first
restaurant that I've been to the we actually entered the
restaurant to a shopping mall. That was Bloomingdale's. No
less. That was That was interesting.
Yeah, I found that it's an unusual place to have a
restaurant it high or, you know, a fairly high end restaurant
that you have to go through a shopping mall to get there.
Although I've seen other similar things. There's a couple of
restaurants in Atlanta, Georgia that are positioned like this.
What was the name of it again? larks per Steakhouse. All right.
Yeah. And it's a Bradley Ogden place. Anyone who's familiar
with the chef's in the West Coast, usually is heard of
Bradley Ogden. And he this is only steakhouse that I know of.
And he has of his place in Las Vegas for a while was the top
rated restaurant and it was called Bradley organians. But in
San Francisco, he's, he runs one market, which is the place you
were reminded of
Bryce, it has, right? Yeah, you're right. You're right.
That's what it was.
And he always but his claim to fame is a thing called the
larkspur Inn, which is actually in Larkspur. And I've known the
guy for a while I've run into a few times. He's a very
interesting character because I think he's one of the guys even
though I didn't see any evidence of it at the steakhouse.
Generally speaking, his food has exaggerated flavours. And the
only other guy that that manages to pull this off, is Bulli in
New York City who you know, had bullies and then bully bakery
and I think he's run in some other place.
By exaggerated flavour. Exactly.
Well, it's like you It's like they do something, I think they
cheat.
It's MSG, that's what it is.
For example, Bulli one time I was at one of his places and he
had this banana dish, and the banana flavour was so intense
that there had to be some banana extract. Bananas, there was
something going on. And it was delicious. I'm not complaining.
But, but Bradley manages to get these so the flavours are low,
they're heightened, they're more intense than they would normally
be for whatever dish you're talking about. And, and one of
the things I've always noticed with his cooking is even though
some of the his presentations aren't absolutely, you know,
French style spectacular. The food usually will out if you had
a bunch of different plates and he was doing the same dishes
everyone else his would taste better.
So let me let me give you a top line review and then you can
jump in. First of all so placement interesting. I really
liked the booths. I'd actually didn't even notice if the whole
restaurant was that way but I like the kind of three by three
booths we can you know, it's most comfortable if it's either
just two or four people. Right? That was really good. The music
was three decibels too loud at least the sax it was like you
know very typical almost Kenny G like music that
was it didn't like the music that
was That was unfortunate. I very much appreciate our our server
saying would you like regular ice water instead of forcing a
bottle of some expensive shit on us?
Right and everyone out there should know that amongst the
foodies right now. Tap water is in awe when you go especially
for the always ask for tap water. Don't buy the bottled
waters of their decisions. number of articles in the trades
about this about how what did you turn into a rebel quit
in the foodie trades. Yeah. Oh, what foodie trade would that be
food and
raw tasting panel magazine for one tasting
panel magazine. Do you have that? Don't you have it used?
Yeah. Okay, there's food and driver, tasting cattle tastes
I'm just saying you're
gonna see you're here. If you read anything written by the
insiders are going to talk about this. And the thing is, it's
cool. And I've noticed that everyone's just doing it
naturally. Because almost like people are fed up with bottled
water.
Well, they charge a four and a half bucks. Why? Of course, of
course we're fed up with it. That's stupid.
Right? You always go through two bottles of source $10 For
nothing. Exactly.
So that was nice. Our server was a little overzealous. He came he
came back a little too often but that's okay. Let me see. You had
so we both had salad. I had the iceberg lettuce Waldorf
dressing, which the chef is apparently quote famous for a
that's what these that's what he said, Yeah, no dressing. And you
had actually us something you didn't like your salad was not
what you want. Well, they
had this. They had this blue cheese dressing on some other
salads, because I have that dressing on the regular cheap
salad. And just the greens is what I usually get anyway. And
so they say, oh, yeah, sure, no problem. So I tried this
dressing. It was so ammoniated that I just said, you know, I
can't eat this. It's just terrible. And so they took it
back and gave me the salad in his in his more common form,
which was had the normal vinegar at on it, which wasn't that
great either. I've had better
but mine was mine was good, wasn't it? Because it you had
you had some of my salad. I was really good.
You're yours was outstanding. That's what I would get if I
went back. Yeah.
Yeah. And that was presented. All right. It was and it was it
was presented nicely and still manageable. You could kind of
cut through it. And it wasn't like falling apart. Right. There
was some thought went into that. And and then we had, let's see,
main course I had the rib steak of the eighth rib. Whatever the
hell that means. Yeah, who
knows? And you had the what you have. I had in the Hearst ranch
grass fed New York Strip,
right? Actually, yeah, mine was actually it wasn't at the eel.
The eel steak. Yeah, the eel steak a thread. That's what it
was. eel. Eel River river. River. Yes. What did you break
here? Whatever. So you know, there's still the best steak
I've had is still in place in Berkeley called downtown.
I was gonna say the steak was good, but it didn't blow me
away.
Now it didn't blow me away either. I mean, I've had better
meat here. So they didn't do it. It's not
it wasn't bad. It wasn't bad. It's just like it was it was
like okay, I've had this I've had steak before this was good
steak. And I know and I had the their famous horseradish mixed
in with a little bit of a one steak sauce upon recommendation,
which was a good recommendation, by the way. That's a that's a
good combo.
Yeah, you ordered a one steak sauce.
And he brought it out. He said you should try and mix it with
our famous horseradish And I did it it's worse right? I didn't
tell I didn't pour it over the steak. I just know I dipped it
in a little bit. That was great. But the steak was you know, and
I had a couple pieces with with nothing on it and was like, man,
yeah, it was a little bland. Honestly, there was no no taste
enhancement there like your banana story.
Right? Right. No, I'd say that's five felt the same way could
have been a little more pumped up. I think they'd need to
resource their beef.
Yeah, I was just gonna say that because that you'll you'll river
shit. Who cares?
They want you to just find some guys got to you know the good
stuff out of Iowa. And screw it you know, steak house for God's
sake.
However, all of that was completely put right by your
choice of wine.
Oh, yes, we had a for people out there who like wine we had a
Caymus which by the way in the in the 70s used to be pronounced
Caymus. Bye. The owner but anyway Caymus if you pronounce
it that way people think you're nuts. That came is 2005
Cabernet, which was absolutely
outstanding, perfect, outstanding. And they served it
in very appropriate classes. I really like the big thin walled
glass is just nice. You could really look at the wine that was
was good.
Now so our discovery during the process even though there's a
lot of side dishes there and they're all pretty decent. And
we
had the corn and I had the mashed potato both fantastic.
You had the chips or french fries as you would call them you
you American swine. That was it. And you didn't have any any
other vegetables
for your stuff. Right? So
that was all good. But then you're right dessert french
fries were a little bland. Sad thing it was our the corn was
excellent.
Yeah, the corn was good. But the French fries were bland. They
needed to be kinda know what they could have done Salt,
salt on salt. You're like, Hey, can I ask them catch up? Give me
some candy.
Served with a Hollandaise sauce which tasted more like a baron
A's to me. And it didn't really work. And I don't know why it
was it was too watery. wouldn't stick to the French fries
though. So that was like not good. And then they Bryce I
wanted to catch up anyway. So they brought these little
containers of ketchup these little, little mini bowls with
the ketchup and and the ketchup that they chose. seemed to be a
mediocre one. Yeah,
it wasn't no Heinz 57 label man.
Well, whatever it was, it was I don't think it was homemade
either. So anyway, but the big discovery we made I think at the
end of the meal you ordered some sorbets?
Yes. Three flavours one was kind of peachy I think one was like a
I don't remember the third was that was the one that was the
most spectacular was candle candle. Oh, yeah.
And I had ordered some CalVet OSA to both of us had some some
gold Calvados and it turns out that a bite of the cantaloupe
sorbet with this sip of the cow the dose is unbelievably tasty.
We
should put that shit in a bottle and sell it to teenagers John
add some sugar and we're done. Now it was unbelievably Nice.
That was really good. To work with you the CNC the cantaloupe
and Calvados. CNC CNC trying to
check it out if anyone can get a hold of some cantaloupes sorbet.
Get some calibre dose and see what
my mouth is actually just watering thinking about it. That
was
yeah, it was it's I have to say it was pretty spectacular.
Meanwhile, you should mention that all the while, of course,
at least at the beginning, before the meal began, you were
fretting about the fact your daughter.
Yeah, so Christina, this was great. Around five o'clock in
the afternoon, and we had dinner, dinner was early, like
637 o'clock. So at five I got a text from my daughter and it so
five in the afternoon by then it was it was like 1am She texts me
because she I won this trip at a charity auction to Disneyland.
It was by the way it was sponsored by Thomas Cook, which
is a famous tour operator, certainly here in the UK, I
think it's worldwide. And we had a lot of problems with this to
start off with because we weren't and we're never gonna
get to Disney. So Christina said, can I take my my my
friends and we'll use the trip. So yeah, that's cool. So, you
know, they call up and it was like in a nice gift bag. And so
Christina called up and they said, Well, you know, there's
it's only it's on it's off season blackout dates, and
they're like, you know, and I'm like, What the fuck is that?
That's Do you what kind of gift is this? So you know, and and
I'm just ranting about it. And then of course, Patricia she she
was with me at the end. I spent some good money at this charity
auction you know, I was it was all shishi poopoo it was a piece
of shit and I would have known as piece of shit and I wouldn't
feel bad but I felt like it The Annoying, it was just annoying.
So Patricia gets into it. And she calls him up. And so finally
all this is arranged and so it works out. Interestingly, I'm in
San Francisco, Patricia is in Holland, she's doing another.
Now she's doing popstars, she's another another jury gig judge
for one of these reality shows. And so Christina was gonna go
off to Disneyland Paris with a friend. And so it turns out, you
know, two of them couldn't make it or whatever. So it's just her
and this other girl, by the way, two beautiful children of the
sun, you know, just the 1718 year olds, actually, at both 18
Now, or Christina is almost 18. And so they decided, fuck, that
is neat. Let's go off to Paris. So they had done the Louvre and
then all these new grownup girl things. And they were good in
Paris, and then they got on the train to go back. And then they
wind up at one o'clock in the morning at the end of the line,
in boissy, sent Luxaire which, if you look at a map is kind of
halfway between the centre of Paris and Disneyland only to the
south. So it's, it's like a it's like the province. And it's
dark. And so I get a text message France, really, and I
get a text message. Christina says, Daddy, I'm a little bit
worried. And so I call her up. And, and she's there and there's
like, you know, guys yapping in French is like the conductor
trying to tell her she needs to take a bus back to Paris,
because this is, you know, everyone's asleep in this town.
And so I'm Meanwhile, I'm zooming in on Google Earth,
right? I can see the station, I can see what the bus station is.
So it's almost like a matrix. You know, I'm like, okay, Neo,
take the third door on the right, you know, so I'm like,
trying to help these kids find a taxi cab or anything. And then
of course, her. Her phone dies, her battery's dead. And she'd
also called her mom. So it's like, 130 in the morning now and
her mom's over there. And she's tired. And, you know, and so
she's freaking out, because that's what moms do. You know,
the umbilical cord is still virtually connected. And so
she's so Patricia is texting me calling me I'm trying to figure
it out. And so then the other girl, Didn't she have a phone?
No, of course not. Her phone was charging back at the hotel. So
you know, strike too. And so now it's like 2am. And I don't know
where they are. And I'm like, Okay, I'm getting ready to call
some people that I know, in France, you know, like, Okay, I
gotta gotta gotta figure this out, because it's just
worrisome. And, but then I call her back. And all of a sudden,
she picks up because she met up with this kind of middle age
couple, like 30s, I guess. And that she'd put her SIM card in
their phone. So that was kind of smart. And but then I'm like,
you know, all I want is I want to talk to these people. And I
just want to say, could you please, you know, put them on
the right bus or whatever. And my daughter say, now we're on
the bus with them. We're going to Paris and then from there,
we're going to take a cab to Disney. So I'm like, Oh, she's
going back to Paris is up there. Three in the morning. Two girls.
God knows how they're dressed. You know, I know what they look
like. They're just there to beautiful, but to be walking
around Paris at 3am. And it looked like a couple of hookers.
Thank you. And like, you know, like transsexuals walking
around. So, which, by the way, is a big thing in Paris on all
the street corners of the shops, at least a even. So I'm really
Yeah, so I'm like, let me talk to let me talk to these people.
And you know, my French, low mediocre. I mean, my French is
worse than Condoleezza Rice is Russian. And then this woman
should, but I'm like, oh, okay, so then I'm, yeah, I'm at the
office, right? I'm yelling, does anybody here speak French. And I
forget who it was one of our Russian guys says that I can try
and get away with this, or we're like, in a three way, you know,
and I'll and I'm like, Could you please, when you get off the
bus, take him to the hotel, and make sure they get in a cab?
Because, you know, that would be right, I would really appreciate
that. Anyway, so, you know, at a certain point, there was no more
contact for about an hour or so. Maybe, and we're in fact, we're
about to walk into the restaurant. And you know, and
you and I had agreed that you know, this is going to be a
great life experience a great learning lesson for these kids.
And you know, they're 18 and, and I mean, the logical part of
my brain is saying, absolutely, but on the but of course, all
the death scenarios and doom are running through the other. And
Patricia keeps calling and texting and it's for now four in
the morning, and she's you know, she's just just freaking out.
Four in the morning Europe time of Europe time. Yeah. And then
as we sat down to dinner, and you know, I was like, Man, this
really is ruining the vibe for this dinner and everything. And
then I get a text message from Christina. She says we're back
at the hotel we're safe. So that that enabled me to fully enjoy
the bland meat.
Yeah. So there's a couple of things that came up in the
conversation which I wanted to go over one is your experience
with Virgin America virgin Virgin Atlantic, you went into a
rant that I think needs to be reproduced for the public at
large. Well, this was when they won't let you into the, into the
little lounge,
it's really more of an issue. My personal issue with with Virgin
Atlantic by Ron and I took this was early, it only just
launched, we took Virgin America to New York. And actually, we
couldn't even we couldn't upgrade your first class, which
was kind of a bummer at the time. But, you know, so I have
my I think I would rather travel JetBlue just for the for the
seat spacing and the the angle of bank that you get on your on
your seat back. But that's, that's not related to the story
necessarily. But on the way back, we're flying from JFK,
back to San Francisco, San Francisco. And they don't have a
lounge for Virgin America. You know, it's a it's a budget
airlines. So that makes sense. And like, hey, you know, I've
got like, superduper Gold Card with diamond and crusted status
and Virgin Atlantic, let's go to their lounge. So we go over to
the lounges. Hey, you know, we're just we're we're on Virgin
America. So we just like to sit in the lounge now. I'm sorry,
we, uh, you can't? What do you mean, I can't? Well, no, that's
a separate company. And it's not tied into us. And by the way,
the air of the miles are also not combined, as far as I know,
yet either. The rewards programme. And, and I could huff
and puff all I wanted, but they would not let me sit there if I
wasn't flying on Virgin Atlantic.
You know what I was thinking about this? It's about it.
Because,
well, Virgin Atlantic is at fault there. I feel. Yeah, but
here's what I'm thinking. There is a protectionist thing that
goes on that doesn't allow international carriers to carry
domestic travel in the US. In other words, Singapore could
totally why it was done.
Now let me finish. Okay. Singapore, for example, can't
you know, even though they might stop in San Francisco, and then
go on to New York, from from Singapore from Hong Kong, they
can't pick anybody up in San Francisco and take him to New
York, which I think is idiotic. But that's the way it is because
of the way we have restrictive laws, you know, so our free
market are a fantastic free market where there's no
regulation, apparently, isn't that free? I think that they
probably have some sort of a memo that we have to keep these
two companies so separate. Yet no matter what, that if you even
mentioned Virginia, you probably could have gotten into that
lounge if you had never seen
Virgin America. Yep. Well, so you may recall that Virgin
America had a tough time launching and they they
literally had planes sitting in the desert for I think about a
year. And it was exactly that reason. And then Arnold
Schwarzenegger pulled the trigger on some law that allowed
them to operate. So I think there's there's even a law that
you can't operate as a foreign owner of a foreign airline, you
can't operate a domestic US airline. And I think they split
it up into two companies for that very reason. Then
Schwarzenegger changed some law or approved some thing that
essentially let them let them operate. But you're absolutely
right. There's no carry on. And that's part of the Open Skies
agreement. There's all kinds of shady stuff that will shady I
wouldn't say that maybe shady. But yeah, I think you're
absolutely right. There's they probably can't even talk about
each other.
Yeah, which is the joke. I mean, the fact of the matter is the
you know, I've flown Virgin America a couple of times now to
Seattle. And it's it's a 10 time is 10 times better than anything
else right now to go back and forth. I don't
like blue better. Does Jet Blue fly up to Seattle?
No, not, not from here. They fly. They think they fly to
Seattle from Long Beach or something like that. But I'd
like to fly to Long Beach and then fly up there. There's no
direct flight, but no JetBlue I like a lot too. But there's
something about the you know, they do these auctions at the
end of the day, if there's any first class seats, they'll sell
them for nothing. So I upgrade for 50 bucks to first class and
I get like his five course meal. I mean, they really it's like,
it's like I've never had so much food on such a short flight.
Except on a foreign carrier like one time I flew from Taiwan to I
think it was an hour flight from Taiwan to someplace like Taiwan
or Hong Kong or something. Or Japan not sure. But anyway, it
was like an hour, but meanwhile they serve to like a 20 course
meal. Unbelievable.
Well, when when I actually arrived part of the story didn't
tell when I arrived last Sunday is my bag didn't show up with
me. And it was going to come on the on the flight the next day.
And I was I was pissed off like you know, this is very
expensive. In fact, it's gotten, it's the price of my ticket has
gone up another 20 or 25%, since I last flew, so that's only in
four or five months time. And I'm like, and I said, What do
you do for people who paid this amount of money and their bank
doesn't show up? What what do you do about that? Well, this
woman at the back counter she obviously wasn't she there's
nothing she could do. So I just let it go. But it
will wait before it. Can you prefaces? Will you did the
flight leave early? Or did you check in late? Is that why the
bag was delayed? No, in fact,
the No, I mean, because the Virgin picks you up. So you
know, it's all door to door service, everything's taken care
of, and they take your bag, they do all the checking in
everything. The flight was actually even delayed by two
hours, which is probably the reason cuz it was probably
sitting around somewhere and then, you know, gotten mixed up
as shit happens. unfortunate, but you know, I do know that
with British Airways, they immediately come out with all
kinds of compensation. And I'm just saying, Listen, you know,
I'm thinking three days Necker Island, I'm like, okay, Branson,
I'm gonna get you for this. So I fire off an email to my personal
travel assistance at Virgin, the Pam's personal advance Travel
Management System, whatever the hell it is. And I say the same
thing. It's like, you know, here's what happened, you know,
what do you guys do for this? Well, Oh, I'm so sorry. We're
sending it off to Richard Branson's executive assistant.
And, and when I got home, there was indeed a letter from Richard
Branson's office that said we're so sorry. And by the way, they
totally knew because from the minute I set foot in the
airport, they were all over me. You know, how the, you know, if
you're, if your gold card on some of these international
flights and the flight services director, so basically, the, the
chief steward or stewardess will who runs all the cabin
personnel, they'll come up and they'll say, how you doing Mr.
Curry? And you know, they'll make give a little personal
touch to it. Right. And, but so this so the flight services
director sits down and you know, is there anything we can do for
you, Mr. Curry and out of my mouth comes? Yeah, some pole
dancers perhaps. A and without blinking. She says, I'll have
Naomi come over in a minute. I swear to God and Nomi was very
cute stewardess
when I was like, give you a pole dance. No.
But that, but I just thought it was so funny. I was like, Ah,
okay. And now me over. So, anyway, so give me 10,000 miles
and I think 200 pounds.
Not bad. It's better to poke an eye with a sharp stick.
Yeah, but I just wanted someone to apologise. Just you know,
come on in. There's a lot of money goes into that company.
Well, now now I know that to finish the story, you told me
that the bag was maybe not going to be shipped to you?
Oh, if Yeah, so then they wanted me to come to the airport.
Because there were some issues with that didn't really want to
put my bag on the aircraft on accompanied because it was quote
filled with equipment and wires. So yeah, I can tell you exactly
what it is each item I know it well. Do you have a CarNet for
that, which is like an international document of like a
customs thing? Is it? No, it's just, you know, just some shit
that I use, you know, it's like I'm, I'm a podcast or leave me
alone. You know,
I remember back back in the 70s. The showing my age, of course.
But when you travel, even with a camera, yeah, you had to have
customs forms for it, you had to have a form for it. Because if
you went took the camera out of the country took it back in,
they don't know if you're gonna sell it over there. If you
bought it new and you bought it and you're trying to get it in
without paying duty. And there was this big event which we had
to go with a bunch of documentation and flyer if that
was still in play today with all the crap that people carry
around the iPods and laptops and this into that they would just
be walking around with a binder full of stuff for bakwin.
Let's see. This is probably it maybe 18 years ago I remember
maybe even a little bit longer I remember leaving the air I
leaving the Netherlands and I had my watch on it was still new
and shiny then and they said here's this form so what's that
for? Well, you need to write down your watch and and declared
because a it has to come back into the country and when you've
come back to the country, they'll certainly want to try
and charge you import duty on it. Like it's on my fucking
wrist. Yeah, but it looks new.
Well, they just Yeah, and there was a lot of smuggling going on
people you know, women would go there's always the story but you
know, they go to Europe and buy a fur coat and a bunch of
diamonds and they walked waltz through customs on the way back
as though it's their you know that they walked out with it. So
here's
here's my question with all of that, you know, tightness on
smuggling with all of the I mean, look at what I'm going
through with the border. Look at all the the border security and
War on Terror Homeland Security protectionism, how is it
possible that all these drugs from Afghanistan and places of
this nature makes it into the To the west, into Europe into
England into the United States. And it's cheap
by the tonne hockey by the tonnes.
I mean, how does that work?
I know it's good to kick out as somebody who always discovers a
five tonnes of some drug and you're thinking that's obviously
must be a spit in the bucket because it doesn't affect the
prices on the street the stuff still coming in
now here in the UK all the nasty shit like cocaine and heroin is
cheaper than marijuana. Yeah. Now it makes you wonder what the
Brits are doing there in Afghanistan.
Obviously, they're setting up conduits to move tonnes of drugs
Well, you can't bring your watch in
well and this is that whole Iran Contra thing that's exactly what
this was about. It's like they'd send the dope back the dope
would be sold the dope would then be used to buy weapons and
the weapons would go back. I mean, seems like a perfect scam.
Well, it's a it's a, let's say a grey market. Very grey.
Which I think brings us to my favourite topic. Now wait a
minute. I got something else. This is great. The Spanish
government all came back for an emergency meeting yesterday
because the economy is collapsing.
It is economy of Spain is collapsing.
Yes. This is Italy Yeah, this is an art well they've the they've
been really you know, Spain was in this huge overdevelopment
mode of new buildings based based, you know, second homes
for a lot of Europeans. And there's just you know, so much
money and all the all the, you know, the big art and
architecture, all the big building firms, all these
gangster guys, they're all there in Marbella, and they're all
hanging out and so Zapatero, who was I think, Zapatero is the
Spanish Prime Minister had his entire cabinet come back
yesterday from vacation he came back from vacation as well
well, there's story after story here Spanish government cut
short holiday as economy collapses you go socialist
Spain's economic collapse blog, August, global economic collapse
begins. First one to pop is Spain.
And it's going to happen all over Europe.
Well, that'll bring the dollar back up to snuff.
Well, that's it I'd read an interesting theory on that the
theory is that that this is actually it's it's a scam Yeah,
it's gonna the dollar geek it's a
scam. It is a scam everything. That's what we that's all we
That's the theme of our show. It's a
scam get mo nation. It's a scam. Come on Georgia. Yes, you can
see if I can find that. I saw some was a really good article
about it. Really, really showing in depth how, you know, this,
the, the problem is, the US has now and I don't have proof of
this. But it's starting to default on some of these loans.
Near like, the 9 trillion or so that we have. And it's all about
pegging the external currencies. Once you know, this is about the
pegging. I don't really understand it, honestly. But the
it's about the all these other currencies being pegged to the
dollar. But that it's still going to it's going to be but
yes in the short term dollar up. Absolutely.
Good. So I'm looking here at a article from March 9 2008 With
this new Spain goes to poll this is somewhat a while ago, Spain
goes to polls in shadow of financial woes and terror
threats so this has started this started a while back I guess it
is now coming to a head i It's all based on these you know on
buildings You're right.
And and I also didn't notice it kind of happened this week was
in the states the pound just took a beating against the
dollar. I mean, I mean, I'm we're talking massive, like 15
cents or something.
Bout time. Yeah.
I agree. Being paid in dollars. I totally agree. I think it's
way over. We're way overdue for that correction.
Yeah, we'll get back to buck 50 which is really what is
traditionally has been over the aeons. Although it's you know,
approached a one to one thing a couple of times never quite made
it that I did, at least in my lifetime. But
I'm not sure what I'm what do you mean?
Well, I mean, the dollar to pound ratio traditionally is
about a buck and a half for a pound has usually been about
that. Yeah. And but it one time, I think it was in the 70s just
sort of sort of No, it was in the 70s It must have been the
80s I'm not sure. But it was get going. So I think it was like a
buck 25 I got that low. Oh, when I'm thinking, wow, this thing
could go to a one to one and be kind of cool. But that was the
end of that. So anyway, it looks like it is the construction
industry that's triggered this whole thing which is interesting
and sadly, with a glut of this is back in March again, with a
glut of around 500,000 new flats nationwide. Yeah, and the credit
squeeze sales have dropped 50% It's
always the building industries and in Europe, the all these
builders, they're, I mean, it's all they're all in cartels,
they're you know, once in a while they get slapped on the
wrist. But you know, they're all really heavily tied into
government because all development of course, as
approved by government, it's all connected to each other. So, you
know, when that shit unravels, I mean, that's going to be really
messy.
Particularly interesting when we read this one to this same
article, but Francisco Fernando village, a mammoth development
of 13,000 Flats beside the motorway. 20 miles south of
Madrid is the most dramatic example of the worry that looms
largest with the voters as you approach this gleaming new town
outside Senia you glimpse sky through unglazed Windows blocks
remain unfinished cranes soar into the brazen scanning of
Connecticut and carry with the writing and close up their
silence. There's no roaring building site but a ghost town
chills by winds that whip the bleak Castilian plain, writing
this thing.
We just heard the wind endings.
Elizabeth Nash, she has to be she wants to be a novelist, I
guess.
Oh, man. This is uh, this is a fun one. Last week I mentioned
something that you said was getting snowing. Now of course,
the John Edward story is everywhere. Right. But there's
there is an interesting, interesting little link to this
what I which I just found out when I got back the this
afternoon that Fred Baron who is the I guess either was or is I
guess was Edwards, finance director. He's a lawyer, a
prominent Texas lawyer. Now, of course, this kind of fits into
the blog o sphere, where, you know, Robert Scoble had a
picture of because he was on the plane on the campaign plane when
a couple of bloggers were invited to go along with
Edwards. And Scoble had a picture of Edwards in this
girlfriend of his.
And so that really Oh, Scoble takes pictures of everything.
Right.
So I mean, you know, eventually Scoble is going to have a
picture of everything exactly. But also on the plane was rocket
boom, rocket boom. And now all these things click together. Now
I know where this guy is such an arrogant little prick. That's
Andrew Baron who was Fred Baron son. So now suddenly puts rocket
boom in a very different perspective. And very interest
just get bought by somebody. No, the they sold the, quote,
distribution rights to Sony. But what's interesting is that Fred
Barron, he's invested hundreds of 1000s of dollars in rocket
boom, up to $800,000. And so essentially, you know, by by
letting rocket boom, come on the plane, you know, there's all
kinds of conflicts of interest there. It's, it's helping a
business interest of his getting more exposure. I mean, there's
all kinds of stuff there. That's a little little fishy. I just
thought it was very interesting, because I always wondered how
the hell they do it. Like, where are they getting their money
from? Who's Who's paying for all that? They can't all be working
for free.
Yeah, well, apparently there. It's, I don't know. Actually
Andrews there. I've always kind of. I've never disliked a guy.
But I don't know how he makes any money either. I've always
been baffled by
it. Well, he doesn't he his dad pays for it. Yeah, well, that's.
That's okay. It's just the
it's a model. accurately, right. So what's your business model?
My dad, my dad.
My dad pays for it. Funny. Looks like this was another good one
that I've picked up. Growing deaths from New York Times
growing doubts from scientists about the strength of the
government's case against the late Bruce E. Ivan's, the
military researcher named as the anthrax killer are forcing the
Justice Department to begin disclosing more fully the
scientific evidence it used to implicate him. And I'll just
remind you that they used new scientific methods. So you Yeah,
remember, don't remember that. It was like they had some new
way to trace back these spores to this flask.
Yeah, to the one flask that he had the only one had total
control over the flask, no matter that he was working for
other people, but he had the total control and that must be
it and that's why he committed suicide somehow, so he committed
to to say bye bye eating Tylenol much Tylenol.
And actually we were talking about that because we had a
discussion about paracetamol. A lot of people said, hey, you
know, it's paracetamol. If you take too much of it, you
actually, you know, you can get your liver can fail, and you can
die. And so Okay, and so and then we're thinking, Well, wait
a minute, that's what's in Tylenol. So. So if he took
massive quantities of Tylenol, which could actually be deadly,
it would probably take a couple days.
Yeah, I don't think it kills you very quickly. But the thing is,
that's what I think we brought this up to it to dinner, which
was that it's become like, and I hate to use the word overused
the word meme. But the idea that you would go to a counter and
buy two bottles, and then the cash register would say, No, you
can't buy this much out of the blue, because that's never
happened before. Maybe just a way of getting it into the
public's consciousness that this stuff is toxic, so no one's
going to question his crazy suicide, which may have not been
a suicide at all.
But you know, I've gotten a lot of email from people saying that
you really don't want to OD on paracetamol,
right or Tylenol? You don't want to use tylenol. If you drink
alcohol, you don't
you don't really need that at all. In fact, you know, often
the reason your headache goes away when you have an aspirin is
because you're drinking water.
Seriously, yeah, it's probably some truth to that.
So anyway, so it looks like they're gonna have to come out
with new with with backing, they have to backup all of their so
called evidence this week. So that's good. I'll be looking out
for that. That's kind of cool. Okay, I got to talk about
Clinton.
Go. I was hoping we just forget about it. No, no, no, no, no,
because I haven't I have another piece of the puzzle. I've got
another piece. It's all happening. It's unfolding. Okay.
So amidst all this, I missed all the shit we just talked about
for the past. Well, Can
Can I draw a premise? And just to add a little spice before you
begin with?
Adam is not so that was that the premise? No, that I think this
was
all triggered by the fact that we are both of a slightly
suspicious of Hillary's intentions at the convention.
Yes, in more ways than one. And that, of course, started with
her not cancelling her campaign, but a suspension of her
campaign. I've never forgotten that. So this guy, the leader of
the Democratic Party in Arkansas, I'm sorry, I'm just
saying this guy. That's kind of disrespectful because he's dead.
Bill, gwatney Chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party, and
personal friend of the Clintons was murdered last Wednesday.
And, you know, it was one it was one of those crazy murders. And
so I started you know, I can't remember exactly why but, but
I'm sure something flashed somewhere on a website. And I'm
like, Clinton, body count. Hey, that's interesting. So I started
looking at how many people who are friends acquaintances or
business partners of the Clintons have wound up dead?
Holy crap. I mean, this list is I mean, what do you think John?
50 people maybe?
Yeah, and that's probably good. I'm sure there's others that we
don't know about.
I mean, I'm talking his personal bodyguards is envoy as of course
we all know about the whitewater affair and I mean, just and it's
all either suicide or Vince Foster didn't foster That's
right. And it's it's all either a suicide but it's all death by
gunshot even no Tylenol involved, you know, shot in the
face and then this whole Mina, which was, you know, goes back
to our drug smuggling things, just me and there's actually, I
put, I put this documentary, which is, did you watch that
documentary? I send you the link to it yet. It's well done. Man.
This thing is a couple of years old, but it's really well done.
And it goes through all of the Clintons background, but it
really accelerates when it gets to the to the list of dead
people. It's just, it's crazy. And um, and then we were at
dinner, and oh, maybe it was still at the office. I'm like,
you know, was this guy superdelegate? Well, yes, lo and
behold, he was actually
we were at lunch at fried garland services going in. You
were telling me the story. And I'm thinking oh, this Adam going
off the deep end again. I said, Well, he's the guy.
superdelegate you brought out your phone, he started looking
it up by googling superdelegate and the guy's name, it turns out
he was he was a super
delegate. Right. So now I'm thinking, Well, you know, this,
this is kind of interesting. Let's start to put all these
pieces of the puzzle together. So simultaneously in this week,
the Obama camp consider the DNC I guess, concedes that there
will be a roll call vote at the convention. Now, the way I
understand that, you know, they're saying it's, you know,
it's a way to involve Hillary or maybe it's a way to get her in
the vice presidential slot, but the way I understand a roll call
vault a vote at at the at the convention, is they're actually
going to count the votes. Instead of just saying Obama as
the man, they're going to do a ceremonious reading of the
votes. Is that the way you understand that?
No, they will go California, California casts 45 votes for
blah, blah, blah, can 45 votes for the next president United
States? You know, that kind of thing. So
in my mind, in my Mulder theory, theory is my CT mode as we've we
have another abbreviation conspiracy theorist is now CT
mode. I'm thinking well, wait a minute, maybe the maybe they've
been taught because, you know, the super delegates basically,
for those of you don't know, and this is, and I've learned from
John, that this is only something that happens with the
Democratic Party of the super, super delegates, and regardless
of what is decided in a caucus, the super delegate is the one
who actually calls the shots that,
ya know, you can, for example, they're out here in California,
where I think Hillary won the state, there was a couple of
super delegates in Marin County says I don't care. Actually, I
think they were gonna vote for Hillary and she died. She the
super delegate, who was a representative of the state
government, she says, I don't care how the vote goes, I'm
voting for blah, blah, blah, I think she's gonna vote for
Hillary win no matter what, I don't care what they vote, we're
voting for this.
So I immediately say, Well, this is a message. This is the
message to all the super delegates, because this guy in
some reports, I found this bill gwatney, when Hillary started to
wane, or when she had suspended, you know, the timing of that is
not entirely clear. But then he switched over to Obama, which of
course, is toeing the party line. But for me, you know, in
my CTE mode, I'm like, this is this is a total message to the
super delegates, that you know, now we're going to have a roll
call vote. And you know, you better be voting for Hillary
hirsute. Her campaign is suspended. She could still,
maybe she actually believes that it could happen. Now, here's
what I find today. And this is what blew me away. Lady de
Rothschild. Rothschild, of course, one of the families that
are the true owners of our Earth, along with, yes, they own
our Earth,
that she's good wine, so I don't care. Yes. Okay.
And the Rockefellers make good clauses. So she's on Fox News.
And she's plugging this thing together for us.com. That's
together numeral for us.com. And I'll just and I don't have to
tell you what she was saying on Fox News. Because basically
right here on the homepage, it says we stand together with
Hillary's 18 million voters in pursuit all of the following
bring us together by honouring Hillary Clinton and her
supporters at the Democratic National Convention in Denver by
a placing her name into nomination following traditional
protocols be ensuring a roll call vote, and see inviting her
to speak during primetime on August 26, the 88th anniversary
of women's suffrage and as a whole bunch of other ones, and
I'm like, dude, they're totally gonna pull it off. She is going
to win the nomination, by intimidation and by the huge
power, so the intimidation of bullets, and the huge power that
the Rothschilds wield who obviously got this roll call
vote implemented. I don't know how that works. But that I guess
that can also be only be totally intimidation. I'm telling you
that the Clintons are not done.
Well, I'm not gonna argue that they're not done. But you know,
the thing is, that came up with this guy getting assassinated,
murdered in Arkansas, was the fact that the way it would have
played out is that he was a super delegate and then he
decided he was with Hillary and then he's changed his vote to
Obama, they must have gone to and said, Look, when the when
the thing comes up for the roll call vote, we're gonna have that
happen. You're gonna like Hillary Hillary to get says, No,
I'm not gonna do that already said, I'm taking Obama
dead. Exactly. That's the message though. That's the
message. Because everyone knows it. Everyone who switched is not
going to say oh, crap, I better be saying Hillary and they're
all getting that phone call. As we speak. You know what, John,
this is scary. You're not pushing back.
I'm not I'm not totally uncomfortable. I know for a fact
that they're sneaky. These these two. And it seems to me that
would be an interesting kind of a thing to try to pull off to
get actually get the nomination because the fact of the matter
is Hillary still sees herself as the true winner, because she has
the most popular vote with the popular votes. You know, Obama
won most of his stuff on the caucuses. The one on ones he
kind of snuck his way in. If they can find one scandalous
thing I think the next couple of weeks is telling or
should be the end isn't isn't Wednesday. Isn't this coming
Wednesday? Was it next Wednesday?
I think it's a Wednesday after. Anyways, I think it's the last
week.
This is the week where we're gonna have Obama in all kinds of
compromising situations. They should probably really hit hard
on Michelle. They should hit hard on Michelle Oh, I think
you're right I think it's all gonna happen this week that just
gonna have to
be orchestrated so it looks as though the Republicans are doing
it so Hillary King you know, so Hillary go on Oh, that's
terrible that they would do this but I guess we can have to pick
me. So they're gonna, they're gonna have to
well it's so understandable the events and the news that has
surfaced in the past week that the super delegates have clearly
seen the error of their ways and they have chosen me as the as
the perfect person to lead this party and to lead the New
America that was that
and you know, his and her argument can be which is all
American it's not over till it's over. That's right.
And that's why she that's why she suspended her campaign. It
makes so much easier what I thought those Clinton's went
away way too easy. I really did. And when you see this if you
have a chance, watch this documentary. I'd say it is as
good as any 911 video you've ever seen it I mean, it's that
enthralling. It is totally exciting. You just sit there you
go like, Oh my God, you know, this Bill Clinton is just it all
just just snort coke all day and go after checks and mail and
it's not much it's like no news footage with a voiceover. I
mean, there's interviews there's, there's troopers, you
know, Texas Rangers, and there's all kinds of people on the
record, you know, saying these things.
You guys send me a link and I'll blog it
it's curry.com it's right there on the homepage. Okay. Look,
hurry dot you don't have to do a slash blog just to curry.com
Real easy to remember.
And I'm Baba will pick it up and put it in the show notes.
Oh, wait. I mean, Baba had stuff for us to look at Disney. Oh,
you know what, actually, I have a follow up on something. Here
we go. Just it actually fits in perfectly with right now.
Hi, guys, I just finished listening to new agenda 42. And
there was something about Obama being booed. I think that the
clip you saw was out of context. What had happened there was
there were some hecklers, and they were African Americans.
They say it Obama, you don't support African Americans enough
and the crowd was booing the hecklers. And Obama say no, no,
let's let's be civil. Let's let's pull this back together.
And he actually did a question answer period with them for a
couple minutes. And they ended up just sitting down and being
quiet. So the boos weren't so much for Obama, they were
actually directed at the people. heckling Obama, and Obama
handled that heckling situation very well. This is Eric from
Portland signing off. Goodbye, guys.
Out there you go. Exactly as we thought it.
Yep. So now Bubba had the thing about the land bridge. You
thought the Romans walked in England even though that bridge
was 100,000 years ago.
Okay, so who was it? It wasn't the Romans was the but there
were there was land there wasn't there? Yeah, 100,000 years ago.
That's what I meant. 100,000 years ago.
Well, the Romans were there a couple of 1000 years ago.
You got your time? I already said I don't know what the hell
I'm talking about. That's true. It's one of our themes. We don't
know nothing. Anything about nothing.
We don't know nothing about about nothing about anything.
Don't shoot us.
Please. Okay, let me see. Anyway, so yeah, take a look at
that documentary. It'll just blow you away.
Yeah, I will. I've seen these things before I mean,
this one I haven't seen I you know, I've never been interested
honestly you know, I never really thought about it but it
you know, they do take this and and I remember all these
individual things happening I even went back and looked at
some waco stuff which is also there's some connections to
Clinton there and
that handle you mentioned is apparently couple of his
bodyguards were killed in this action or something with
four of his bodyguards were killed in Waco, Texas and of
course, Clinton's Hillary Clinton's Chief of Staff her
White House Secretary whatever later took a box from the Waco
files and there was like, you know, there was like some
whitewater stuff. I mean, it's just so many connections so many
ties, but the the fact that four of Bill Clinton's former
security detail were killed at Waco was just interesting. But
my point is, you know, how that kind of passed me by in you
know, kind of wide awake and Dreamland. And now to see how it
actually works with this Georgian thing is just
fascinating, you know, and it's and it's, it's amazing, the only
then people say to me all the time, well, how do we what do we
do? How do we stop the insanity and just, I guess, just try to
help people become aware and the internet is really good about it
because everything is written about insanity no but but all
this stuff that the truth really or good journalism is being
performed. It's just because there's so much that you're
hammered with over and over and over again by most corporate
media, that it never really becomes the meme as you would
call it, John, it just kind of stays out there. And so when
once you start to aggregate all the pieces, it's really
interesting like this such soccers volley V guy. I mean,
he's, you know, there's a nutcase, eatin his tie, you
know, anything is hilarious in front of EU flags, you know,
driving down George Bush Avenue, I mean, when you start to put
all that together as like, okay. And again, that's really what
what's kind of cool, like, you know, I'm digging that.
Yeah. Well, that's the that's the public service that we
provide. With the show. No agenda. Hell yeah.
All right, you guys, you must have something nothing
was done. I mean, I just wanted to talk about the debriefing. I
got from the Georgia and Georgia, the mom from Georgia.
Yeah. Now all of that stuff. About Georgia is so blatantly
clear. I didn't even bring up my my Tom Clancy, game thing. You,
you kind of poo pooed that when I showed it to you, so I'm a
little afraid
now. It's interesting. I was just sceptical. And but yeah,
Clancy apparently had predicted this in some game.
It's, well, it's, it's the I was called something Ghost Recon is
what it's called. It's a it's a video game. Apparently very,
very popular one that you would have a Ghost Recon to. But the
trailer was pointed out to me the training are they these
things are of such high budget and such quality. They do
trailers and get get kids really hyped up and excited about it.
It's a big deal when something new comes out, but I don't
really follow the shoot 'em up death games. And see, I think I
blogged this as well. I've actually let you hear it. So the
the setting of this video game is in Georgia, Russia has you
know, the ultra nationalist. As they call him, the ultra
nationalist is building up forces. It's 2008. By that, by
the way that trailers from 2002. Well, actually, he just listened
to it. Oh, it'd be even better. Here we go. It's only a couple.
It's only like a minute for the year to
2008 and the world teeters on the brink of war. Radical Ultra
nationalist power in Moscow. Their goal to reestablish the
old Soviet empire. Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, one by one
nearby independent republic slipped back into the Russian
army. Russian tanks sit in balance and the Bolton forest is
poised to strike to the southeast world holds its breath
and waits. For one small group of elite soldiers your has
already begun. US special forces route five first battalion the
company deployed on peacekeeping duties Republic of Georgia.
This that's kind of what I wanted to. I don't know if you
could hear that at all. But anyway, so
I could do it. Chris, I just have to swap out the special
forces for Blackwater. Which by the way, a great name for a game
of Blackwater. I'm sure I'm sure they so they have it or they're
gonna make it
so around the office by the way around San Francisco there's
these little posters that have been stapled all over the place
for a protest I think it's going to take place next week unless
it took place already around the OB soft which is in the area
that's
that's the company that's the company that makes Ghost Recon
is Ubisoft
Yeah, well, it will be soft also has a game they make for the
army that you can download. The protesters are saying that the
idea is of this game is to get this to trick him and
preconditioner kids. Exactly. Yeah. 12 and 13 year old kids
because the game is free you can download it from the army. To my
sorry to my son about it. The game is free and apparently you
know it sees you can see it so reminds me a little bit like the
last star fighter which is a movie where you know some kids
playing a video game. And it turns out that the game was a
training vehicle for interstellar war. And once you
beat the game, you're like, you're solicited to join the
forces. I just thought it was kind of interesting. Well, maybe
it will be soft as a front for somebody I don't know.
So if you if you go look at all these ties, um, I haven't looked
at Ubisoft but okay, so this this is very interesting that
indeed the exact thing that happened US Special Delta forces
called them security consultants, if you will. You
know, they're they're in they're in Georgia, they attack the it
literally says Asendia in the caucuses. I mean, the whole
thing is there. It even says 2008 Now look at Tom Clancy's
connections. Have you ever looked at who he's related to?
While I was studying was a shoe salesman.
Oh man. Oh, you're gonna love this. He is I'm just looking it
up because I looked up the other day.
But while you're looking at that, by the way, anyone out
there wants to go you go to true soldier game.com And you can
find the download and information about this army
game. It's called True soldiers game. Plural true soldiers.
game.com I'm,
I'm still looking for this. I think his wife's father is like,
a big way get the was the Organisation for the
Organisation for Economic Development, the OECD or
whatever, that horrible Yeah,
right.
I think you know, that's,
it's like, oh, Ed, I think
now it's like, oh, ECD maybe. But, you know, there's
interesting interesting ties there. Oh, I'm gonna say now
there's a when you if you do Tom Clancy OECD, you get a lot of
good Google hits. Anyway,
French businessman joins Ubisoft board. French businessman joins
Ubisoft board outgoing director Yvette Guillermo makes way for
incoming mark. Fiorentino, a specialist in business markets
and banking. So it will be such a French game publishers are
even though they're in are they? Are they are they public? I'm
not seeing that they are yet. I don't know. We'll look into it.
It was on their board. Could be
an interesting time. But so really so when is this? This
demonstrates a demonstration or what is it? Well, I
guess it was over maybe let's see. I'm looking at this
shit, man. We could have been keynote speakers.
You could anti war group protests, Ubisoft and America's
Army which is the game anti war group targets. That's it.
there's anything going on here. You can find it just type in
Ubisoft
army and you get worn some further investigation. Yeah,
we'll look into it. Well, you haven't called me crackpot one
so far. John. The show doesn't feel like it's over yet.
I do. You haven't gone? Well, you know you. Yeah. I'm
Clint Clinton. There's a lot there, man. Oh,
and by the way, people out there listening to us. Eavesdropping I
probably didn't call him a crackpot today because after
having dinner with him now I realise what he's actually this
is mild. I have no idea.
Well, the thing that we talked about at dinner I think it's
happening next Saturday. So no, let that be a tease for some
cool. Nutter theory coming up.
Yeah, definitely be nutter.
All right, so Well, can't wait to see what happens. In this
week. As everything unfolds. I think we've given you you
listeners out there some good info. And by the way, if you
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Hey, that's funny, because I was gonna suggest the same thing.
People should make one other person listen to the show. Yeah.
Yeah, we we've done no marketing for this show. We've got, you
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So let's get some people listen. This is a good show. It's it's
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I mean, it's it's it's a good digging to the Yang that's out
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Not really. But yeah. And remember,
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