It's Saturday time once again for the highlight of the week
for at least two people I know of coming to you from Gitmo
nation east from the United Kingdom in the affluent suburb
of Surrey known as Guilford. I'm Adam curry,
and I am here in Gitmo nation west as we like to call it,
actually these northern Silicon Valley. Also San Francisco Bay
Area, also California. I'm John C. Dvorak. Hey,
hey, now, Omar. Hey, John. Hey, how you doing?
I'm doing better than those guys who invested with that. That
Ponzi scheme guy who's been apparently in business for 40
years. Isn't
that fantastic? I love that story. And you know, it's like,
yeah, this is the only guy this is the only guy doing it.
The only guy has done it that long and managed to do it to the
tune of $50 billion. This guy if anyone hasn't followed the
story, you should know Bernard Madoff.
He was he was the SEC chairman. Wasn't he at one point?
No, I think it was headed NASDAQ. Oh, NASDAQ. That's
right. Yeah. And he, but he was notorious. He was just a lot of
people consider him the father, the father of modern Wall
Street.
Yeah. Well, my case in point. Yeah, there's the
there it is summarised. And but if you talk to these guys in the
business, this is essentially and I mentioned this on the
blog. This is almost the same thing as in terms of what a
letdown this was. This is kind of like people discovering that
Mother Teresa was a hooker.
I love that analogy. Spot on. That's exactly right. Or that
Obama was involved with Chicago mobsters. I mean that kind of
stuff. It could just set you off you know really disappointed.
Really, really disappoint yet.
Yeah. So while we're on that tight we I mean, anyway,
apparently everybody you know, there's a bunch of people just
it looks like they're gonna lose their shirt
with the hat. What happened though is the guys conscience
got the better of him and he gave himself up.
We're, here's what we're here's what some people are thinking.
Okay. They were closing in on him because he was getting too
many redemptions because of the economic situation explain
what the EXPLAIN redemption how that works with the hedge fund
because not everybody knows
you have that you're cashing out right? But it takes what you
can't cash so you can't just go up and say hey, I want my money.
The is there is a process involved and
you can if you have a Senate seat for sale
so anyway, so you get your get you can only if he doesn't at
some point, he's essentially going to run out of money
because he's old game was to nobody redeemed because he
always had these great returns. So you kept accumulating more
money, which never really exists. Let me
just explain that part really quick. So he would take like,
Just give him make it simple a million dollars from someone and
then he would return maybe $200,000 profit at the end of
the year, but it wasn't actually because of his investments. It's
because he got another 200 people to join up and give him
200 million he was Ponzi scheme Ponzi scheme, right. So he's
taking them taking the new money and paying it off as if he was
being successful.
By the way let's delve into just as an aside here. Before I go
into the theory about this guy, I want to read you a paragraph
from the big money which was published in its from Slate
Magazine and and I just I'm wondering is there any editors
or is this guy know what he's talking about? From big
money? Is that a column what is that
it's it's a website called The Big Money Oh, calm
All right.
Let me just read this. This is Mark kind of can't pronounce his
name Gmail or g i m e im anyway. And this is the first graph
Bernard Madoff one of Wall Street's best known brokers and
money managers was arrested blah, blah, blah. The whole
thing was, as the criminal complaint quotes Madoff himself
saying basically a giant Ponzi scheme and then he didn't then
he finishes the sentence and with this in which investors who
wanted their money back got paid with earlier investors money no
that would be later investors money. Yeah, I mean, that's a
Ponzi scheme. As you know, you pay with newer people coming in,
it's how it works. You don't pay with earlier investment. That's
a note that's legitimate business.
Yeah, that's exactly that would that would be like an investment
business, right?
So it's like, okay, so I'm starting off with the first
paragraph of this analysis and this is what you define as a
Ponzi scheme. I'm thinking do we have you know, does he know or
did you know anything? Yeah, I think it may have been just an
you know kind of a stumble give writers you know, you do to
some, you know, we've been the I thought to be an editor or
somebody picked this up and been changed by now. Anyway, so this
this thinking goes as follows. There was gonna it was gonna
just think was going to collapse because of the economy right
now, and he couldn't possibly redeem. I think he had 17
billion. Yeah, because everyone
wanted their money back and they were waiting, so he knew there
was no way he could do it. He couldn't get any more Capital
indeed and pretend.
So supposedly, he told his two sons that it was a Ponzi scheme.
And he was going to not he's going to turn himself in in a
week after he gave us equity give what little money was left
to some of his employees who could use a Christmas bonus or
something like that, like 100 100
million he was going to give his last 100 million to his
employees and family.
Yeah. So the two boys at all. This is unbelievable. So they
turned him in. Now, the thinking is, of course, is that the boys
were in on it. Potentially, allegedly, perhaps. Right. And
some, and this whole thing was a gambit to get them off the hook.
Right? He wasn't intending and giving anybody any money
whatsoever. I mean, whatever money's been, you know,
squirrelled away for people as long since, you know, in
Switzerland. And so perhaps the idea was to save, you know, just
son's from getting caught up in what's gonna happen to hitting
next. Yeah, gonna get better. I mean, it's gonna be jail. And
for him for sure what they did to Martha Stewart.
You watch it, you just watch. Yeah.
Well, so yeah, that was front page of the Financial Times,
obviously for this weekend. So everyone's all over that. You're
right. It's you should pick up a copy of Barron's this weekend.
I'm sure it's filled with all kinds of fun facts. That's kind
of the National Enquirer of the financial industry. Barron's
Magazine comes out on the weekend. Fun Facts.
Fun Facts You got burned Fun Fact Friday, a lot of endowment
and a lot of hedge funds and there I mean, there's just
apparently just an endless number of rich people in Palm
Beach, Florida.
Here's one for you, John. And we just got back from the terrace
house. The new the new place. And we we had spent some time
with the with our new handyman. It's good. If you can get one of
those. This guy well, yeah,
no, I've had a handyman. Yeah. And you had actually have a name
for this place. The terraced house curry
terrace is what it is. Okay, it's a terrace house. Are you
familiar with the concept?
No. I mean, I've heard of it. I never thought much about it.
Tell us what a terrace house well, it's
your very typical English house, which stands in a row with other
terrace houses and you step up like five or six steps to go
into the front door that you can also go down to the left and
around in the front that you can go into the basement level. And
it's Victorian is what it
is. Are they are the houses stuck next to each other? Yes,
yes, no, it's one long row really big. So that maybe like
six in a row or something like that. And it's called, it's
called a terrace house. And we have the coveted end of terrace
house, which means you're on one end of it. So you only have
neighbours on one side. And which means you have a view out
of the front and out of the back or certainly out of the back.
Anyway, so the handyman he's been with this house for many,
many years, which is good. You know, because it's his house.
Exactly. And he and he did the most recent remodelling, with
all the new plumbing and everything. So now, he knows how
everything works. He's got you know, all the bugs. He knows
where it is. So that's great. And he says something to me
that, that I was like, really. And here it is on page two, the
inside way at the bottom and find small tiny print of the
Financial Times. The United Kingdom has experienced its
coldest start to winter in more than 30 years. Experts said
yesterday. There you go my friend, global warming at its
finest.
Actually, I'm supposed to be in Washington today. But I'm not
because the the coldest front ever to hit the state that I
know, are predicted to be the coldest days ever in Washington
State or today. And there's
an ice storm on the East Coast. That's global warming for you.
We're all going to die.
And it's snowing in Houston. It was snowing in New Orleans.
So of course, that's where they spun it into into climate
change. But you know that but you know, it's very important
and very relevant to this very moment, Thursday and Friday, in
Europe. The the ministers all got together and they had their
big powwow. And, you know, they've essentially built up the
the next phase of regulation that will have around finance
and environment. They are now linked with these carbon
credits. Yep. I told you it was common. So I know you and this
carbon credits. Everything is gonna be linked to carbon
credit. I'm
told Yeah, because carbon credits are a guilt free version
of tax. Yeah, exactly. And you're paying taxes and you're
supposed to feel good about it.
Well know what the analogy is paying paying a thin person
monies so you don't have to go on a diet. It's stupid. Because
there's all that anyone ever talks about is is you know the
credits you buy the credits you buy the credits, but it doesn't
actually reduce anything because somewhere some One has to
produce less carbon emissions to fulfil the credit that you've
purchased. Everyone's just buying the credits. That's what
it's all about. And they've got it all tricked out, man. Yeah,
Eastern. Yeah, couldn't we're not doing this. How can we don't
have some sort of a deal with the
US? No, no, you and me a carbon deal?
Why aren't we selling credits? I
mean, I'm telling you, this is total, we should totally be
doing this. Because these credit these carbon credit exchanges
are popping up everywhere like the It reminds me a lot in the
mid 90s of we at the time we had Mae east and Mae West. Remember,
everyone was I built a knock, I built a knock in Amsterdam, for
Christ's sake, it was the thing to do to have an exchange of
bandwidth. This is the next, the next thing, you got to have an
exchange of carbon credits. We can run it on an Excel
spreadsheet, Google, Google Spreadsheet, something like
that.
And what kills me is I was on a website the other day says would
you like to, to buy carbon credits to visit this site or
something?
So So while this is taking place, this sort of just took
place this two day meeting, where they decide, okay, they're
gonna put 200 billion euros into the European economy, even
though that's only half of what Germany has to put in and is
failing with in its own country by itself. But then they have
all these carbon credits, which is essentially about a 30
billion euro tax, which is going to be levied on on corporations
new tax. And there are over 600 scientists who are preparing now
to sue Al Gore over and the IPCC over their bogus climate check
global warming report, which of course, almost gets zero press
anywhere, but 600 PhDs, dude, I mean, this is this is serious
business.
Well, you know, you know what the reason is, is because I
think they have been making this claim. And you and I run into it
all the time. And people are everything when we talked about
on the show somebody right away, you don't know the IPCC said
this and that, and why are you even making these assertions?
Yeah, and I think a lot of people a lot of signs.
Are you telling me that people in our artists actually use the
word assertions?
Well, that those particular people
just want to make sure.
I very rarely use the word.
I like it, though. We should use that more often,
as we should. Anyway, so. So I think there's a lot of people
out there who are, you know, probably, you know, the the
climatologist, or they're experts in some way, shape or
form about, and they have been put into the same sack because
of this notion that everybody agrees. Everybody agrees,
they discussion is over, we have consensus.
Everybody's more than consensus, everybody, everybody, nobody
disagrees with this not one single person. So you're a PhD,
who maybe has some thoughts on it, and you have some other
kinds of data. And your friends come up to you at the cocktail
party. And they go on about putting you pigeon holing you
with this,
but it's even worse. It's even worse. If you do that as a PhD
or researcher, your research funding gets pulled. That's why
people are so quiet about it, because you know, they're afraid
that their money is going to go away.
When the lawsuits diverge, I think the more people should
join the lawsuit, there's I'm sure there's more than 600
debtor irked about this.
In fact, there's about 30,000, I believe, but that's not all
PhDs. These are just the PhDs, the business and Media
Institute, I have no idea who they are. But this is a story I
just got, oh, we'll
get to know who they are. They're a bunch of right wing
nuts that don't believe in any of this stuff. Okay. Is that
true? I don't know. No, I'm just gonna tell you, that's what they
that's what they
have. Well, they have data, they have data, so I'm just gonna
presume the data is right for the sake of argument, the
business and Media Institute analysed 205 network news
stories about global warming or climate change. Between July
1 2007 and December 31 2007. They found that only 20% of the
stories even mentioned there were any alternative opinions to
the so called consensus on the issues. And this just goes on
and on and on. About how you know, it's pretty much the media
just jumped on and said, Okay, we're all gonna die. Hey, roll
some of those polar bear footage. Come on. Let's head
out. That's good shit.
If it bleeds, it leads. Exactly. So CBS was
the worst. Has 151 People used by the network to promote global
warming hysteria. And since 28 people who even questioned it
somewhat
as So watch
that. It's not a
question that someone will you know, it's bullshit. Yeah.
And it's amazing what's taking place. Our financial system is
going to be based on this lie. And granted, I'm all for saving
the Earth. I'm all for less pollution, no doubt about it.
But you know,
about China, they're polluting California from a distance.
Yeah.
Yeah, there's plenty we can do and should be doing but this
whole idea of buying credits so that you can continue to pollute
that somewhere. Someone down the line, like my children's
children's children will then apparently have to produce less.
They're talking about Atlanta tree. The talk talking about a
20% reduction promised by all of all of the EU in carbon
emissions 20%
That's good ol screw. As long as we don't get too involved in
unfortunately, we got a president now it's probably
going to jump on
Italy. No, totally. You're totally you're already involved,
then.
Well, you know, wasn't gonna do any good to get McCain. McCain
was just on Letterman last night or the night
Oh, really? Oh, shit. I didn't know that.
It was it was he was just on the same bandwagon. It would have
been the same thing with
him. Well, because they're run by the same people. John, how
often do I have to tell you that? Here we go. Okay, okay.
Well, actually, this is funny. I think you blog this. You blog,
the Gideon Rachman story in the Financial Times. He's a
columnist and he said he was talking about the possibility
of, you know, tongue in cheek article about the New World
Order, etc. All right, that guy? Yeah, that guy? There's a follow
up to that. I was wondering like your
power. Don't you know him?
No, no, no, no. You've got to read his follow up that he
posted on his blog. I'll just I'll just read you the
conclusion. Because what happened is he says I couldn't
believe the amount of email that he got. From you know, from from
out there. He says, you know, hundreds of pieces of email.
Here's his conclusions. There's an undeniable amount of anger
and hatred out there directed everything from the United
Nation to Knight United Nations to big business to Barack Obama.
These people can't read can read, but they cannot think he
says so. He's not my buddy dude gets worse. The End of Days
crowd is very strong. I would say that about a third of the
emails I got referred me to the book of Revelation, in which
apparently all it is all foretold. Three, there's a lot
of people who believe not only that global warming is a hoax,
but that it is actually a conspiracy. The fact that the
most influential reports on climate change had been produced
by an intergovernmental panel, the IPCC, sponsored by the UN
fuels this theory. The idea is that the UN is perpetuating a
climate change hoax to provide an excuse to impose a world
government on America. I am a part of it. Apparently, he says,
totally. Totally. Anyway, so he winds up he does have a funny
line at the end here. Something positive has come out of this
experience. If the newspaper industry really goes down the
pan, I now have a business plan. I will claim to be a former
member of the Bilderberg Illuminati Council on Foreign
Relations, un Zionist establishment and write a book
revealing the inside story of a plot to form a world government.
It will sell millions. Funny. So sad though that's actually true.
Both for this you'll Matador trick. The old Matador trick.
Yeah, yeah, you go in one direction. And then you've just
Oh, like,
oh, like you did with Mac a couple years ago. Did you do
something with Mac? Yeah, I remember you did something like
that Matador trick,
Matador trick, so Okay, so he's not your friend. I can see Oh,
of
course not. He's a stooge for
the whatever
the New World Order. Which by the way is if you look at Time
Magazine in there, it says Obama's new world order.
No, I haven't seen that. That's phenomenal, dude. Well, you
know, the problem is there's too many people in the United States
that cling to their religion and guns to the point that they're
not going to put up with this so good for them. Yes, keep keep
clinging. I got nothing against at least uh, you know, still
shoot the New World Order. first and ask questions later. I hope
so. Hey, by the way, so we have a guy who gave us a his his use
of his
girlfriend's likes, oh, sling. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I've been
checking it out of you.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And there's the Canadian channels are on
there. And then, you know, there's local news in Detroit.
And it's actually kind of interesting because it's like a
holding, you know, and then, you know, I was thinking about that
gonna probably write a column on this from MarketWatch. You know,
the EchoStar bought the Slingbox.
Oh, in addition, yeah, I
didn't know that. Yeah, that we're going to integrate it,
weren't they?
Well, I don't know if they're going to integrate it or not.
But it gets them around a certain problem that I was
saying, why would they buy this? And what's it got to do with
anything? Right? And then I realised that one of the things
that I believe that irks both DirecTV and the Dish Network,
folks, is the fact that if I'm here in the San Francisco Bay
area, I use the Dish Network, by the way, I'm very happy with it.
But one of the things I can't do is I can't sit here in the San
Francisco Bay Area and watch the local news in Seattle, right?
Have a house right? Right in the area, right? Because of some
guesses, some copyright,
copyright region laws, all kinds of syndications. Right. It's
impossible to figure it out. Right, it's
impossible to figure it out. In fact, there's even something
called most favoured Nations was you got nothing to do with
broadcasting but it's in there from means that you can't do
this and that
it really has to do with you know, when television series are
released, in which countries I mean, it's a it's a marketing
Yeah, it totally it's a marketing problem. Yeah.
So I can't get this thing and I'm sure that I'm not one of the
only people that say why can't I get my sciatic? Yeah, you would
you like local channels on your dish network, because you can
get local channels. And I just go over the air, so I don't even
bother with it. But if I wasn't gonna get local channels, I'd
say yeah, I like the local channels. I like to get the
Seattle channels. Yeah. Oh, no, no, can't do that. Because we
can't it's against the law. Now with this, so they buy sling
box, and I'm sure they're not happy about they'd love to sell
me, wouldn't you? I mean, if you're running a business, and
you got some sucker me that says, hey, I want to get local
channels in New York los
Morley sell them a sling box in a sling catcher, right.
I mean, I would like to get these local channels on the Dish
Network over the satellite when I know they have them, but they
can't sell them to me. So there's money they're losing. So
now you got this. Well, here's your solution. You get a sling
box and you put it up if you got two houses, you put one in the
other house and you can watch your local channels that way.
And you can and it works really well. So we're watching Detroit.
Yeah. And I've been of course I've been watching more than
just by the way astonishing and what works astonishingly well.
The VPN only requires 384 Yeah, and
you know, it takes a second or two for for to optimise the
stream so actually switching through the channels is just
like IPTV it's a it's a huge problem because it takes a
while.
It doesn't take that long maybe for you. Yeah, but anyway, yeah,
well, dude, I've got 26 megabits of bandwidth coming at the new
place who I'm like I'm bro I want everything I got Virgin
Media I got what are you gonna pay for that? The total bit so I
got the BT full on XL package with I'd said give me everything
Give me your obviously phone service but give me your your
your they have a BT Vision? Which is their their ICT, which
really truly is IPTV? Yeah, I got that shit
doesn't work, but go ahead. Yeah.
It's not it works in the UK, but it's on BTS network. It's not
running across the internet.
Yeah, well, IPTV doesn't require it running across the internet
if
you want to see protocol TV. Yeah, but if you want to see
alright, I don't want to get into this discussion again.
Okay. Yeah, I have IPTV now coming. And that is it's not
that bad. I think we're the full on package is like 28 pounds a
month. What? Yeah, it's not too bad, then no, that's megabits.
No, no, that's, that's six megabits. Then on top of that, I
got Virgin Media who have fibre optic cable running right up to
the house. Of course you don't you don't actually get fibre in
your hand, but then they convert okay. Yeah, exactly. So that's
20 megabits.
How much does that cost?
That is also I didn't get the phone service. And of course,
that's cable TV at the same time. So this package is in
there with movies and all that shit. That's probably about 48 a
month but that's that's that's going to be the main television
package that has a whole bunch of steel Of course, it's fine.
Well, that's the way it should be. And we're, you know, we're
in a metropolis now. So you shouldn't be paying crazy
amounts for for bandwidth
and shifts how the connection is
and exactly and in both cases, I said and they say you have
unlimited download, I said, Okay, unlimited means like shit
as much as I can eat right? No Asterix no unlimited. Okay. said
how about upload? You have unlimited I said unless mitad
upload said and I said I'm recording this because you're
recording the conversation as well. Which they tell you up
front. I said, I'm just going to ask you one more time I have
unlimited upload and download capacity is anything anything
you want to do, sir? Unlimited. Okay. And, and I'm sure I'm
gonna have to use that recording sometime in the next six months
on your cut off.
We'll see. We'll see.
Well, good. That's that good. I liked it. I think everyone out
there should document the BS because you know, they when it
comes down to it is is that in writing? You haven't got a
recording? You that You announced that you were
recording it, which was nothing illegal?
No. Well, they announced that recording me. Yeah. And so you
can record
them and show the whole thing now you can give that to a
magistrate?
Yes. And my solicitor, my solicitor will go to the
magistrate.
And bingo Yeah. Pro you won't get your connection back.
I'll never get a connection to the other day. Now. Of course,
this isn't you know, I'm so not used to it. This was, you know,
southwest London. This is a nice neighbourhood. And so you've got
parking for residents with parking permit only and then of
which I haven't gotten yet because you have to like show a
bill or something or whatever. It's just pain in the ass.
haven't done it yet. And so I park off to the side, and this
maximum of four hour parking, whatever. So I throw whatever
money in there. And I come back and it's like 20 minutes
overdue. They have a hand gripper almost on my car, John.
You know, like they park a truck next to it and Boston boot? Is
that what it's called? But just call a tow truck? No, no, it's
like one of those machines you see at the carnival where you
put the money and you stared and then it grabs something and then
shakes it and then you never you never get the prize.
What's it what's the purpose? So they actually
in they don't they pick your car up out of its spot in the air
and then put it on the truck?
Oh, you're gonna get towed away,
not towed away. This is what I'm trying to say. It's a big arm.
And it comes down on top of the car and, and picks it up. puts
it on the truck. I'm sure there's a name for it. Yeah,
it's outrageous. After the after 20 minutes, they were already
there with the with the with the hook.
Jig and you must have cameras or they have cameras everywhere. He
went. They have
3737 cameras. I looked it up on the website 37 cameras dedicated
specifically to your hard law, parking control. Yeah, my block,
all pointed at my window.
Now there turns out that these cameras are pointed at the
metres
I'll make it even better. We have a metre on John Street. So
we have we had the delivery come from Holland early on Tuesday.
Patricia had bought some stuff there. And she had one of our
moving companies we work with before he's gonna just when you
guys come on over next trip, bring that shit for us. Okay. So
we know they, they roll up, they double park to open up the
truck, you know the gun and it's a square, all right? It's not a
thruway, it's, you can you can drive past on either side. It's
a square. And so there loads of stuff out and the traffic warden
comes over. And you know, and what they always do, they take a
picture, right for proof digital picture. So they have your
licence plate and the situation at hand. And they write out a
ticket for him. And Patricia goes out and Patricia is great
at this and she's immediately she's like, I'm gonna make
friends with this guy. And, and she's talking and she says, So,
you know, they're just stopping unload some stuff. Yeah, he
says, but you're not allowed to do that. So what is the
procedure? Because we have other trucks coming you know, we're
moving what is the procedure? He said? I don't know. He literally
could not tell you what to do. Is I just not allowed to stand
there with your truck. I have no idea how you can get a permit to
stand there.
How do you move from house to house?
Thank you. Thank you. It's crazy. However, you will, you
will love it and you've got to come over in the new year.
Because obviously, to test out the AGA oven, but we have in our
neighbourhood within like three minutes walking distance, we
have a in an independent wine store. Which I'm excited about.
Because I need I need some advice from you. You need to ask
me if they have X, Y or Z and I'll go see if they're any good.
They look really slick.
Did you ever go to Berry brothers and red and get me
bottles? Oh
no, no, no. Dude, I don't even have time to scratch my ass. But
we also have an Italian it's kind of like an Italian butcher
slash deli and ah and it's just they've got fruits and vegetable
and unbelievable assortment of meats. It's just It looks so
good and inviting. And so non big box
sounds French now it's Italian. I mean in style.
You wouldn't have all these little stores. I mean, you know
they subsidise. You know they make they don't let big stores
crop up everywhere.
Oh no, no, they got they got plenty of well, this is London
you know you walk 10 minutes and there's a Starbucks anywhere.
And there's Tescos and there's all kinds of stuff aren't as
usual.
So what's the third one? You should there were three.
I thought that No, I said there were three I thought they were
no the AGA All right, the wine, the wine store. Yeah, the wine
store looks really happening, man. It's called wines of the
world
will go in there with your candidate. Well,
send me an email with a couple things that should go live. I
don't want to go taking pictures like that. Not until I know.
Well, you will go into you could also you could just stream geeky
Hey, John, you got up to take a look at my stream my quick mag
got my quick camera and it's really cool. Did check out my
wine store.
Yeah, you're right. Yeah, let's get that get that
people always are sending me email asking us to put this on
video. And I'm like, what is the appeal? And as always, when
you're in San Francisco together, how can we don't do
the show together? Well, because it would suck. It has to be I
can't look at you when we're doing this.
No, because I'm always mugging or rolling my eyes doesn't work.
So oh, here we go. I get more eyeball exercise my action my
gut. My prescription is getting closer and closer to 2020.
Because of the eye ball roll. I get to talking to Adam curry.
Hey, M E. Amy, a London based startup with an API, which has
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Why can't structure one of these deals because there's
actual work and we're lazy bastards. That's, that would be
the basic problem we have. You don't actually want to do any of
the work. Like our T shirts. Let's mention the T shirts early
today.
No agenda.ng t shirts.com. Please buy a t shirt to support
this show. Well, I get to do these for one shot and we're
gonna go to a different design. So you get to get them where you
can. You know, the guy's moaning we're just not we're not selling
enough T shirts
did he sell and he's it did anything. You hardly had
enough to pay for the cost of admission? Yeah, it's no agenda
dot angry shirts.com. And here's one of the problems. So I got
two notes from people saying well, I know they cost too much
to ship them to Europe. And yeah, it costs too much to ship
them.
Do you love this show or not? I mean, what is that about? Well,
they don't think it's worth paying $25 Total to get a t
shirt. Apparently they what we need is like we need a vendor in
Europe that can you know ship. Yeah, robbery in England, at
least or something? Right on right, there must be somebody
there.
And I still think that we can do even better designs. I like what
the angry shirts guy did, but you know, the really well in
that case to
get some out there so we can see what the mechanisms going to
look like. So we'll do some fancy shirts.
Hey, Zazzle I've been asked to do something with Zazzle Yeah.
How's their stuff? Is that any good?
It's very it's just the same as as it's similar to Cafe press
was it's not really a silkscreen shirt. It's like a press on.
Okay. Yeah, I think we want to stick with silk screen because
we're not gonna make that many of them. And you know, this guy
still can't he does the whole thing. Last. I mean, we. So I
was looking at this. I was right, Randy. I was digging
around. I ran into this weird article about how girls are
dominating the internet. With some interesting numbers, a Pew
Research people did this and this came out in January. I
think this 32% of the 12 to 17 girls started a website as
opposed to 27% of adult of boys and 14% of adults. So I'm
looking at all this data and I'm thinking at the same time
there's a scandal a story that came out last week that saying
these kids are taking nude pictures of each other and
swapping them over the phones you know, because a phone you
can send a photo from what your phone My phone or whatever
it's called multi multimedia messaging. It's been around for
10 years.
Right. But it's never been convenient or cheap
in Europe has been used quite a lot.
So I never use it.
I do it all the time.
I mean, I do a lot of SMS. I mean, I do a lot of typing on a
little t 71, which is, I liked it. You know, I was looking at
the specs on that phone, I didn't realise it had an FM
radio,
you just stick your headphones in and it works. Unbelievable.
Which is something by the way, radios, it's
got. It's got it's got GSM radios, it's got that, you know,
Bluetooth, Wi Fi, Wi Fi, it's
got a receiver for this GPS satellite. What?
You know what, yeah, GPS, satellite receiver, you know,
the thing that bothers me is that, and I've never Oh, I
understand why, you know, they say you gotta plug your
headphones in, because then the headphones become the antenna.
But I've always that's always been a bummer to me because I
like listening to the radio from time to time, but I want to use
my Bluetooth headset. I don't want to have to plug in wires.
That's the whole point.
That's the problem with FM. If it was an am tune, you could
probably get away with it. Right? But who wants to have a
right has to have some length? Yeah,
I heard you talking about it on twit. You are that show, by the
way, when you're on that show was really good.
Well, it's actually when I'm on when I'm at Leo studio. That was
yeah, that really made a big difference. And I'll tell you
why. It's because, you know, unlike you and me. Leo and I
have worked together and radio for so long that we you know, we
actually can cue off each other and make a radio show, you know,
kind of good old fashioned way. And so the timing is changes a
lot. And and there's other people involved so the timing is
important any lelio even notice that he says you know, it's just
because you're doing stuff over Skype has its moments but you
know, if you're writing in studio with especially with
somebody you have worked a lot with on the air. It makes a
difference. Yeah,
the timing. It's very difficult because we're always struggling
with the timing and the delay that you the automatic we have
on Skype. Yes, inherent.
Now, I was using those countrymen headphones. And you
told me that said they sounded like crap or something?
No, because I heard it and I didn't even know you were in the
studio because I only I didn't watch the live feed. And I
immediately I heard the difference. I knew you were
using something different than of course, I heard that you were
in the studio. And then you send me a text message. So I figure
you using the country man. And it sounds good. But the esses
are a little bit slippy a little slushy. Yeah, go listen to it
again. Maybe it's just because of the mp3 transcode. But of
course, you know, that's the same result. It sounded a little
slushy. Just just the SS. But
check it out. Do it now he bought an AMI we're doing now
for anyone out there listening. We're
we've only done this a million times.
We talk about these mics because we're both looking for mics. But
the country man, which is us and churches. That was the he bought
the omni directional and everybody who sent me a note
says just buy the unit directional. Maybe that'll make
you there's been I here's what my problem is. I've used these
before and I realise they go around the ear.
That's my question. Is there an earpiece on that as well? No.
Okay, good.
It goes around the outside of the ear, like like a pair of
glasses and then it hangs there and you bend it around until
it's just you know, 50 words in front of your mouth and not
quite. The thing is always flopping around. I can't get it
to be tight. I'm wondering whether it's even usable for me
because it just doesn't fit around my ear. Right? I find
that thing to you and then if you move your head a little bit,
the thing goes out of whack and it's laying against your skin.
Do you use headphones? You don't use headphones do you know okay,
because the headphones of course will squeeze it on. Or we could
use gaffer tape on your head. Just like a big slab of grey
gaffer tape right there. Just sticking it in place. Usually
black,
so I have enjoyed the whole that's called duct tape, I think
Oh, you're right. Okay. Okay. Yes, that's called duct tape.
Gaffer tape is black Euro.
gaffers gaff and I hate to keep correcting it just makes
me feel bad just think like that. Yeah,
so by the way, they have clear duct tape now.
Oh, but no grey.
No, they have the greatest silver duct tape. That's the
classic
that's what I'm saying. And you call them
I call that guy I'm just saying they have clear that just it's
weird but there's a clear duct tape out there. Maybe
we can put some of the clear across your lips across the
front that would be good.
Yeah. So anyway, so the idea is is that you know when you wait
when you use country man, it's like you're supposed to be on
stage is something a lot of singers use them. And a lot of
preachers use them and you know friend and friend of mine wants
to do stand up comedy with one and you put the you put the
Country man on your face. And then you have the, you know,
back radio on the back, but you're not going to be wearing
headphones. So these things are supposed to fit without a pair
of headphones, crimping them on. So I'm wondering whether, you
know, maybe my I don't know, I don't think my ears any weirder
than anybody else's, but I don't know, I'm having second thoughts
about they're so expensive, these Countryman mics, and I'm
having second thoughts about using one really, what's it
called for when I travel?
Yeah, what do they call?
It cost about 400 bucks.
So that's pretty steep. But they're great. But
you know, I just for travelling, I mean, I could throw it in the
suitcases, they weighed nothing. So I don't have to go, you know,
and when you travel nowadays, you want to travel light, and
you don't want to check luggage. And so I you know, rather than
carrying around a big clunky microphone or something like I
did last time when I went to Portugal, Ohio, too much, you
know, too agonising.
So what else is going on in your neck of the woods, Ron John has
drawn, why do I say that from time to time that's not used?
And means you it means you lost it, it means you're losing
interest in the conversation, correct?
Yeah, that was yeah, there you go. We figured it out. Whenever
I start calling you, Ron, that means What's your name? Whenever
I start calling you, Ron, you, you know that I'm losing
interest?
Yeah. Well, I just just to get Yeah, well, I suppose you are
because you know, you're not going to get the countryman. So
I'm
not I'm very happy with with my with my new discovery with a lav
microphone. It's faster. Which one is it you're using, it's the
electro UHF you m 110. And I've had these for seven years. And I
carry them with me everywhere. And just in case they want I
need a good sound recording because it's a lav microphone,
but I just I just hooked it right on my windscreen here and
it works fine. People love the sound. So why am I going to
argue?
Are you talking directly into it? Yeah. Yeah, I don't have to,
because you have a wind screen in front of it.
It has its own little windscreen on it. So I've clipped it
literally onto the windscreen, which is still hanging in front
of the Heil microphone, as we discussed earlier, because I
liked the idea of a microphone. I can't I can't get into this.
Anyway, hold on a second. Let me just try to visualise what
you're just described. Alright,
I'm here. I have a mic stand and a boom. And then I have on the
end of that I have a Heil, you know, the pro 40. Right, the pro
40 in it's that cool, professional looking wire hanger
thing.
You know what I mean? Looks like a cat's cradle cradle right.
And then and then I have a windscreen in front of that. Now
the windscreens previously was turned the other way around, and
my joint burned a hole in one and one side of it. So I've
flipped it around and I put the atika just kind of squeezed the
microphone, the love in between the two screens. And I fold it
down in front of the mic. And so now it feels like I'm talking
into a real microphone.
But you actually have a lot of a layer mic hanging there by this
wire is between it's clicking real microphone.
Yes. It's clipped onto the windscreen. Yes. Could you could
you turn on your speakers just a little bit for me, John. Oh,
sure. Because when I get excited I hear myself.
Yeah, well, I think you do that anyway. So now that sounds
pretty cockamamie.
Well, what else? I mean, what am I going to do with it like to
tape it on my forehead or? Or hold it with a pencil? You know?
It's got to be hanging somehow.
Yeah, no, I mean, it's just like having a Ferrari pulled by a
donkey. It sounds like to me,
Well, this was an expensive set. This was like 700 bucks. This is
this is a real a real set for the Lavalier Yeah, and and it's
with rivets. And so I literally had
Johnny Mike Thank you. But I thought you'd have it. Go to
yourself to maybe some wireless and you'd be walking around the
house. I can but then I can
just that I couldn't hear you because I don't have the return
wireless so I guess I could put on put Bluetooth Bluetooth
headset on
or something. But anyway, it's people have commented that you
sound better on this lavalier than you do on the PR 40 Yep.
You I think you I think it's maybe because you're so
naturally bassy that you don't need a lot of you don't need to
overdo it because a PR 40 I think emphasises the low end
Yeah.
And it becomes a little woolly on my voice. But anyway.
Yeah, you need what you need is a notch filter. On knotch
filter. Yeah. What's that?
You want to this thing that notch Do you have one of the
sound guys I used to work with explained it to me that most
people have a little goose called Mud down at the low end
of their voice and they viewed notch it out and I think the
knotch you want to not just from 200 to 400 Hertz. You just want
to take that just want to take that out and you just notch it
out with a notch filter and then you get it cleans up your it
makes you Much more. You understand, you know, you're
just more crystal clear.
I do filter my microphone and I have taken some of that out. But
you know, it's just an EQ. I don't call it a notch filter.
Yeah. But
notching is better because he could pull it exact frequencies
and yield they're gone. They're never they don't come through at
all. It's not like they're they're rolled off or anything
that like any, you know, equalised roll, he kind of turns
things into a curve and pushes it down, but it's still there.
I'm looking at in my,
in my sound filters, I don't see anything called a knotch filter,
though.
No, I'm shooting get one.
I mean, I'm kind of torn because at the new place, I want to go
really minimalistic. So all I want is 119 inch rack, I don't
have to have all this 19 inch gear but not in a rack. So I'm
going to you know, there's like five or six things I just want,
you know, great compressors and things not not using them now.
And then I want really just you know, it's my laptop. I've got
my fader Fox MIDI controller, you know, a microphone and
that's it and everything, no more wires, you know, just get
rid of all this shit. Well, you
need the wire hooked to the lead. Here's what I would,
here's what I would recommend visually, for the minimalistic
studio that you're looking for. Get yourself a mannequin like a
good looking one and have her seated in a chair in the middle
of the room, which it has to be stocked bear. And she's got
nothing on. And then the mannequin is holding a fishing
reel, Rod rod and reel. And out of the at the end of the real is
a wire hanging down with the lab at the bottom. And you have just
a folding chair that you sit in front of the lab at the end of
the reel and you just tuck into it. Okay, that would be cool.
Yeah, yeah, people don't know. But you know, John sits in a lot
of programming meetings at WME VO and whenever, whenever
there's a brainstorming session, John always resorts to Yeah,
let's do auditions with hookers. It's always the same with you.
Yeah, let's do I got an idea. A show with hookers. It's always
hookers with you
never
know, the thing is, is what is that delighting up any meeting
and I recommend this anybody out there has the balls to do it. To
lighten up any meeting and some of these meetings are pretty
dull. Just you you have to you have to use the word hookers.
Because it's funny, it always gets a big laugh you have to
admit brings into the house. It
was only like 10 minutes after that you text me say Hey, call
me so I can leave this meeting. Which of course I dutifully did.
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Thanks for mentioning that. So make sure
everyone knows luckily nobody in that meeting will be listening
to this show. Probably we we have one fan at the at the
company, which is Andrew.
Oh grommet. Yeah, Andrew Romer listens to everything he does,
but this is the stuff that well this is why Andrew started
unsung hero by the way of the Podcast Movement in my opinion,
Andrew Gromit because he really was the team leader and the end
the catalyst behind iPod or lemon which later became juiced
and juice and and he and he got into it because he liked he
liked the whole idea of the programming and so he wanted to
essentially build the receiver side and yeah Hey Andrew, shout
out
Yeah, well he'll come up G The thing is always listening to
listen to these shows with a timely manner not like you know
everyone's well again, you know, I listened that no agenda show
from five months ago on you know, you guys said about blah,
blah, blah. You're talking about
you and I don't remember we're talking about five minutes ago.
So that's true. That's how you do it. So what else is going on
in the news over there? You said the weather was cold.
Oh yeah, it's well as I said, it's been it's the coldest since
1976. We already went through that flooding today massive
flooding and the rains are you know, the heavens have opened up
flooding. Yeah, flooding the country is not not equipped for
this kind of weather for the global warming. So yeah, the
minute it really starts to rain then you get massive flooding
and people are stuck on motorways for hours on end. It's
every time I've been in London where it's really has a big
rainstorm like that the tubes flood Yeah, yeah, the subways
you can't get around town because the subway line such and
such beggars
Yeah, Amarillo is the Bakerloo line. Yeah, everything's
everything's crippled. It's it's a mess. But I gotta say, John,
it's it is romantic and fun. The city I'm excited about the move.
I really am just a walker city in general. I like just a city
to be able to walk and get places and get stuff quickly.
Not drive and park
After your car is towed away for the umpteenth time
getting rid of getting rid of all the car I don't need the car
anymore getting rid of it
don't want it to you're not going to have any vehicle yeah
one just
my daughter's Twingo cuz we bought that we just bought that
one is his brand. What do you what would you keep it? You
don't have a garage? No, you have a no the garage is
converted to the teenager apartment. cleverly. So just
keep it on the street right up front.
I don't care. What but you need to be and you
need a permit. You get a resident permit. Okay. Yeah,
yeah. Yeah, there's Yes. There's always parking. Yeah. Always
parking in our neighbourhood. Yeah, it's beautiful.
Check it out.
Let me see. Actually, I was reading a BBC article here about
Obama. Robert Gates, who is of course the Defence Secretary, or
the US equivalent of the Minister of Defence in the
United States, who's been that ever since Donald Rumsfeld
resigned. So he's the guy mainly responsible for the surge. And
of course, he's staying on for the Obama administration. Gee,
that's some change. He says the new president security team is
ready to defend us national interest from the moment he
takes office next month. Mr. Gates, who was staying in his
post said Middle East and Gulf security would remain a key
issue for the US. And he said he's warning foes of America of
testing Obama, this is a throwback to the infamous Biden
ban. Yeah, be tested and you're not gonna like what he does.
Yeah.
So the guy is saying anyone who thought that the upcoming months
might present opportunities to test the new administration
would be sorely mistaken. Who them's fightin words.
sorely mistaken.
That's what he says a quote.
Let me surely miss you will
be. So that's what my parents used to say, you know, if you
don't come in, by eight o'clock. He'll be if those street lights
are on and you're asked isn't in this house, Adam Clark curry.
Yeah. That's kind of this kind of freaky. You good things he
knows.
I don't know, I guess they're gonna, you know, they're
expecting something. Precisely. I mean, they must know. And, you
know, I don't know why they just don't tell the public what they
know. They know something. Because I you know, I mean, a
lot of times I think they, when they reveal, I mean, every once
in a while, they say, well, there's going to be a terrible
thing happening, you know, and it's going to go down this way.
It usually sorts the plot, but they'd rather they rather see
these plots unfold, you know, at the risk of public, you know,
death. And, well, why Well,
I think there's a number of things one is first of all, a
lot of them are just idiots, you know, like he needed a degree to
become a politician. So they just don't know any better you
know, their actual senators who who think that the US dollar is
still backed by gold. I mean, this is how dumb some of these
people are. You can't say all of them are because they're not
clearly so they they just don't know be there. They're under
severe threat that the whole financial bailout the economic
stability act, you know, Paulson literally went to went to to the
Senate and the Congress and said, hey, you know, if we don't
pass this, it's all going to come crashing down. We're gonna
have martial law in the United States. That's what he was
telling he was threatening them almost. So they don't know.
Okay? So they don't understand. They don't they don't know.
And you don't know they don't know.
You know, me. I'm, I'm pretty sure it's all planned.
So let's get back to this sling box. When you're going to hook
us up when we get in the new place. And what should I buy?
Why I should have mine hooked up I have five real life I'm gonna
give you virgin you're gonna have virgin cable, which is
stacked every channel is able to access it because yeah, I have
my own private cable box. That no no,
I'm saying what because I've just noticed he had downloaded
the newest software from sling and they said well, you know,
it's only good in the US you can't use even though you did
you download the same stuff. Oh,
no, I have a sling box here. So So I use my Slingbox my UK
software to look at the at the Detroit the Detroit one.
Okay, it wasn't a problem. No, they will look at my box easy.
You will do you have a box yet?
Yeah, I know. I've got two I'm gonna put one on the Send me
your ID man. Well, I haven't hooked it up. I'm gonna hook it
up to what I realised is that I have a Comcast, my you know, my
internet connection is Comcast. But to get the deal I got for
the high speed. I also had to get the cable but I don't you
Use the cable because I use the Dish Network. What would I use?
You know, the cable for? And so, but I realised I can just hook
the sling box onto the cable directly. So listen, you got the
software right there. You have the software on the box. Yeah.
It's on. No, it's not on this machine. It's on another
machine. Okay, because because I have a
Slingbox here.
Is it working? Yeah,
that's what I hear. There's my number. There's my ID. Okay, you
can
pick it up. Your ID is PNG. I don't think so.
No, it would be the what came right after that.
Okay, I'll give it a shot later. But anyway, the point is, I'm
just gonna hook this sling box onto this Comcast cable, and
you'll be just dedicated just like yours. Yeah. To be looked
at when you feel like
Yeah, exactly. Yeah.
So I was looking at my I do have a bandwidth metre on because you
can only with Comcast, you can tell and I'm using Comcast,
your upload limit.
Not that I know there's a there's like 250 gigabyte,
monthly limit. And I've been monitoring it to see you because
they never tell you how much you use. So for people out there
want to know I mean, general usage of just general internet
surfing and doing stuff like this once in a while. And these
other things are amounts to about, you know, usually about a
half a gigabyte, a half a gigabyte a day. Which gives you
a lot of leeway if you have 250 a month to play with. Yeah. When
you use the when I was hitting the Slingbox a lot in Detroit. I
ended up pushing about two gigabyte, two gigabytes a day.
Yeah. So that's what I'm thinking is probably what you're
going to spend which is about 62. Maybe you could push it to
100 Giga Bytes a month. Maybe if you were doing a lot of a lot of
walking around that just simple surfing. So it is still It seems
that they still give you a lot of headroom.
Well, I have unlimited yoga, dude.
I'm not worried. I have unlimited.
Yeah, fine. Well, I have to be because when you tack hit my
sling box and you just have to leave it on all night because
you don't care. I want your unlimited.
I don't care. Hey, dude, let's just talk for one second about
black black Blagojevich, whatever his name is.
The governor from Illinois. Yeah,
I can't pronounce his name either. Blagojevich I think it
is like go do whatever. I
mean, is it just me or does anyone see this as like a sign?
Does anyone get the you know, this is the the nest where Obama
comes from?
Well, you know, somebody pointed this out, interestingly enough.
Yeah. No
one's talking about that. Wait,
wait. It seems you know, they sit they believe that Obama rose
so quickly in Chicago politics that he never really became that
much of the machine. And in fact, when he was talking about
the overheard conversations with the FBI, where they were calling
him and, you know, cussing about him, because he wasn't going to
play ball. Obama gave up. I don't know if you saw it, but
when he came out, and when you saw him giving his talk about
well, you know, these guys, I got nothing to do with it. You
can tell by the conversations. I didn't. He had a real smug look
on his face. Like yeah, didn't catch me didn't catch me. Touch
me on this one. This is not that. Yeah.
But it's just amazing. You know, just just to read some of the
transcripts. And and what this guy and his wife to what looks
like a real bitch.
Now Oh.
Well, I'm just kind of bad. You know, Jesse Jackson, Jr. I guess
caught got caught up in it most recently because somebody is I
guess we wanted to collect a million dollars to get him the
job. And I've met him. He's really a nice guy. You know, you
maybe I don't know what part of the machine he is. But I sure
got screwed in this deal. He'll never get anything like that now
and now under the cloud of suspicion, even though he
probably had nothing to do with it.
But but you know, the whole fact that That's literally how this
shit is done. You know, you know, that's the way it goes is
that these seats are traded that way. That's not the way
government works. So that is almost proof that fascism
Fascism is rape is rampant in the US political system, because
it's corporatism interwoven with government done. Yes. Corporate
corporatism for sure and of I don't know, bad Patricia's
point.
My point is is that you know, everyone's like, Oh, well, okay.
Yeah, well, that's because we're getting jaded I mean, this good.
They're gonna hound this guy. I mean, it's interesting that this
guy, you know that you have the collapse of that $50 billion
Ponzi scheme guy. And then you had this happened at about the
same time and it's like people don't you know that what should
we be talking about with Darien near the Obamas in the mix
somehow? Just a lot of bad news. It seems just like one thing
after another.
We have we have someone at the at the office to go on named,
who is a massive, massive Obama supporter. And I can know who
that is. Well, you do. And at a recent company meeting she was
talking about how excited she was that were you there? Were
you at the at the at the all hands meeting? Yeah, he was so
excited because she has front row seats to the inauguration.
Yeah. But I mean, she's a huge fan.
She's gonna be so disappointed. I feel so bad for what
you mean. She's gonna be disappointed in the two or three
years from now.
Six months from now, dude. Two or three years, please.
I would say and I'll put this down as a as a Okay, here it
comes gentleman's bet. Okay. Six months from now. She's not going
to be disappointed. And Obama's going to look like the greatest
thing since sliced bread.
Okay, I'll take that one. You got it? Well, okay, well hold on
a second, will it because she's been hypnotised into believing
because it because a lot of you know, it'd be a very positive
time.
In general you think is going to be so we will not be at war?
Well, I'm not saying that we're at war now. And I don't think
he's gonna pull out although he could. I think I just know, six
months out, I'm gonna make this assertion that six months from
now, things are gonna be really he's gonna be everyone's gonna
be very happy with Obama. Okay, you're gonna have a high rating
and all the rest of it.
Okay, well, that you got that bed, my friend. Now, but you
don't think so. Now, of course, first of all 20,000 troops are
going to go to Afghanistan, we're going to have a whole
bunch of crap going down in Pakistan, India is going to be
on our side, there's going to be the question is how well it will
be reported. If you even know what's happening. I believe that
we're really going to be in a in a in some kind of quagmire with
this EU regulation both because you know, you can't you can,
maybe the US could separate on climate and say, Okay, we want
to do climate this way or that way. You know, Bush declined to
ratify the Kyoto Protocol. But when it comes to economics, and
now that they're intertwined, I don't think the US can get away
with not being a part of the whole carbon credit scheme. And
that is going to affect us. It really will or the US it will it
will severely affect that. I don't think it's going to be a
happy time in six months from now. Now.
No right now. We'll go over it in six months. What would that
date been? Do we have it? June let's make it June 30. June
30. Okay. That's good. When I'm bringing you food.
We have a deli. Yeah, that's true. You got
plenty of pepper,
deli and he has a lot of cured and eat
cured meats. So you could go on Letterman and actually know your
cuts of meat.
I could, yeah, I'm one of the few. So So I brought back from
Portugal a very strange piece of meat cured meat. In Portugal,
they make this this sausage called the end, which is
generically in the United States called Ling Louisa and all the
linguistic providers around here and I told the story when I was
over there, by the way, and everyone was kind of interested
in the story. We when I was a kid, I was lived most of my
childhood youth in Newark, California. And Newark,
California was a I didn't realise it at the time. I'm
looking back on it. Now, I obviously was kind of a
settlement at one point for the Portuguese expats from the 30s
or 40s, or something. And so the Tao was mostly Portuguese
everyone who was named, you know, fritas or Silva Silva or
bogus and there's a bunch of different PLGA is bogus, bogus.
And anyway, there's all these ports and they're all
Portuguese. And so one of the things that was I was raised,
because they just have these events on Saturday, were dances
and whatever at this big hall, they when they would cook
outside, they would cook the sausage, which was this exact
linguica sausage. And instead of hot dogs ate these things, and
there's about six factories, or maybe as many as 20 at one time
in the area that made this sausage just Ling Lisa over the
year is a lost favour. It's too expensive. And it also is
difficult to make because part of the process is has to be a
kind of a wine cured meat that's in the sausage and And so
anyway, they, these places became less and less and it was
one left in San Leandro. That was the best called Santos. And
Santos made a turn. One of the great it was one of the lat it
was the last great California Ling Lisa. But because of the
process for making it, which goes back in time, it was
illegal to do the process by Health Department standards.
What was so illegal about it? I don't know. Not enough, Melanie,
I'd have to
go back and find the records. But I think it had to do with
the curing or leaving the meat out or
you need to you need to put more melamine in it.
Right. Yeah, that would be okay. Anyway, so. So the guy kept
getting harassed by the Health Department. And one day he
flipped out and killed two of them.
Excellent. That's what everybody in Portugal.
Excellent. Yeah, of course. People are crazy.
So they drew the guy in jail as a murderer. And then he bad
time, like a year or two ago, and I never got the recipe.
Oh, shit. Now that really sucks.
Well, then when I go to Portugal, it turns out that this
recipe, which I thought was just because lingua means sausage,
it's
like the pancakes of Portugal. Yeah. Every I
mean, this sausage is everywhere. I mean, it's not
like a secret how to make this stuff is complicated. There's a
place up in Oregon for anyone out there wants to try googling
Guiza called tailors. And you can look it up and to and tailor
chips. And they and they have a credible linguist that in fact,
when I'm in Washington, I usually stop at one of the
stores that carries it and buy stock up on this stuff, and then
bring it down to California where I should be able to get
good Ling WESA, but I can't, it's either too grainy or it
doesn't have that right soaked meat taste or whatever, where
it's not chunky, there's a lot of gristle in a good language.
So anyway, so But meanwhile, I'm going to the store and this
woman is taking me around from the Commerce Department of the
country, because I had to stop at a store wherever I travel,
and she I'm looking for some sausages to bring back or
something. And she points out this strange thing, which is
kind of like, the ultimate is not a linguist. It's a big like
a salami, but it's, it's made in the same way. So it's
essentially and there's nothing else in there. But the beat, but
the meat itself, which is obviously cured in some way,
because the stuff is not even refrigerated doesn't have to be
just, it is unbelievably delicious. But you have to kind
of you have to boil it or cook. I mean, it's just I haven't
figured out how to prepare it properly. But it's like a, it's
this flavour. So my wife who has the spice store, she's doing a
lot of research, and she is working on a book on spices, she
makes the assertion using that word again, that most of these
cured meats and Salamis and all these things that have been that
had been perfected over the years. Spices weren't used
necessarily for adding flavour. Oh,
it was for preservation of food. Right, right.
And almost every one of these crazy spices has some specific
characteristic dioxin kills some sort of bacteria. Yes,
I love this. John, you have to come out with that book. Because
this is what people are going to need. We have to get away from
this crap that we call food that has nothing to do with food.
It's either chemicals posing as protein, like melamine, which by
the way, is now accepted acceptable at 2.5 parts per
million by the Federal Food and Drug Administration. Or it said
Jim, genetically modified, and God knows what that's doing to
us.
Yeah, I know, you never know. So anyway, so they so you end up
with these characteristics that can't be duplicated unless you
follow the process. And so when the health department by the
way, this is going to hit the EU harder than it hits us and I
talked about this when I was in Portugal, what do you what
happens when some guy from Brussels comes into Portugal and
say you can't make sausage that way?
It's already happening. It's called the Codex Alimentarius.
Yeah, you and that, I got to start reading that, you know
what, you will never get through it because it well, maybe you
because of course, you are a chemical engineer and a health
inspector and coin collector and all kinds of incredible careers
that you've had a coin. It's very, very, very, very
technical. But they're out there basically outlawing anything
good for you.
Well, or anything like these, these classic old recipes, which
were designed to keep you from getting SAS? Exactly, and maybe
points out and this is also in the book, which is especially
during the Middle Ages, where you'd have one you know, feudal
Empire takeover and other the first thing they do is they
steal the cooks. The cooks would be the first guys and they'd
have to work for the new guy. And if they poisoned him, he was
dead. The cook so you know, they had so these recipes in these
developments. These these procedures for making preserved
meat because it didn't have refrigeration. And all these
things were designed not to make you sick. They're designed to
keep you
alive. Yeah. And those processes are being that this
guy Santos was using to make this delicious delicious
linguica sausage we ate for decades and never got sick. You
know, they wanted to mess with it. It actually may have been a
threat to the public health itself. Yes. Right, don't you
think?
Of course me look now you're in my camp, you know? Are you
kidding me? I'm just rolling my eyes thinking yeah. Oh, welcome
to the world of the of the awakened John.
And if anyway, this reminds me of the French who are
complaining bitterly especially the guys who make various kinds
of goat cheese. And if you go to France, anyone goes to the
French countryside did the last thing you get at the end of your
meal and in any decent restaurant or probably every
restaurant in France, at least anyone that's a restaurant as
opposed to a bistro is a bro out. Usually a platter filled
with local cheeses. And there none of them are almost like
they just bought them out for you. And there's like within
that group, there's always about tangy goat cheeses which are
always marked by a funny shape and
dusted with a pungent smell. Well, the goat cheeses Yeah,
well the smells like some of them. Some are pretty pungent.
Anyway, they have all these goat cheeses and the way they make
the goat cheese in these places is same thing they've been doing
it you know from handing it down from father to son for a reason
and they use it they put the cheese on a certain kind of wood
when they cure it and they do this and they do that and they
have to fight they fall over. Oh
yeah, but that word isn't clean. Oh no that can't.
Brussels inspectors come in. They're sitting there telling
all the goat cheese makers in France to get rid of the wood.
They do use plastic. Oh, of
course with melamine. There you go. We're back to the melamine
now it's not right. It's just
It's just I find it kind of depressing. You seem to be you
know, a mind that they think they can beat the system. See,
that's
why I was so excited about this about this Italian shop, you'll
see because they've got all kinds of sausages and and, and
all different kinds of cuts of meat. You know, it's real stuff.
It's not you know, they they source it themselves.
Oh, great. Yeah, no, I'm sure that's dynamite. You should just
shop no place else.
That's what I'm Thank you. That's what I was trying to say
is, you know, I don't need to go anywhere else. Everything they
have there is homemade. They've got jars of stuff of you know,
any from horseradish. That's homemade to you name it. Oh, no,
I'm very excited about it. There's mine. Yeah, yeah, there
is indeed no reason to go shop anywhere else right there as
fine. They don't sell cat food. That's about it. They they sell
cattle they do not they did not.
So the thing is, I'm always surprised by people there'll be
somebody that lives in that block. That won't shop there.
Because rustic or something.
Bow because they're, they're hooked on the shit.
It's always surprising to me that you could be in some
neighbourhood and you can have like the world's greatest little
store. And you won't support the store you rather go to you know,
Safeway or something. Because you just didn't know, I'd be
just baffling. And I think more people get like that. And even
in the country, where they should know better. They will
shop they won't shop in the appropriate place when they have
the opportunity if you don't have a choice. Yeah, great. But
when you have a choice, and when you have a choice like that
little meet Mark,
no brainer. It's a no brainer. And we have the farmers market
that comes once a week into the high street. No, let's good.
Yeah. So Formula One is in trouble.
Yeah, and that's funny. That's funny. Did the math I mean, just
losing their pants and they cost like,
three 300 million a year for a team just to just to
participate? Yeah, with all costs pounds by by the way, if
you're a million pounds so Honda's out what else was out
there was another like every team is now saying I don't know
man. And what do you do if you're a Formula One driver in
Formula One falls apart? What your what do you what can you
really go and do as a car? On NASCAR? I want to turn right I
want to turn right.
You know NASCAR is pretty exciting. Have you ever driven
will have been in one of those cars or get taken hot laps or
anything but it's pretty I
think I've driven just about every not Formula One but I've
driven Indy NASCAR formula 2000 Haven't done rally rally doesn't
I was rally looks dangerous me.
So shall I do they guys on top gear which is really probably
one of the best auto shows ever. Yeah, you know, they got into a
fire I guess one of them drove a Formula One car or something. In
a process of driving a Formula One car, it's ridiculous. It's
fact it's not even like driving. It's like every million push
buttons is like computer programming. Well, they also
call
it they don't call you a driver. They call you a pilot. Your
Formula One's
pilot ants. Yeah. Yeah. The
trying to think I think
these guys would like to go into NASCAR. Because in NASCAR, you
know, they do bump each other quite a bit.
These guys like to swear to God, if you talk to a Formula One
driver, they'll say, No, I like to turn right once in a while.
That's what they all say. Yeah, they say
that they're moaning and groaning so what? No, you will
you'd like to turn right where there's a bank? No. Would you
like to turn right where there's like, you know, the poor house.
Well, there you go. That's a good point. IndyCar was cool,
though. I drove IndyCar at the end.
That was cool.
How fast did you get it up?
To speed that is
it didn't have a speedometer. So I really don't know. If it's it
didn't that was but the night yeah, that was that time. Yeah.
There's no like speedometer on the Indy car.
They must they had a tack. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, you
know, I was I was specifically told not to read more than
10,000
Okay, well, then you could have made the calculation find out
what the ratio of the rear end and the van to gearbox and I was
number of PMS. You could have figured out your speed.
Yeah, I was too busy looking at the chicks and pit lane. had no
patience for that. But the bailout for the car industry
hasn't happened. You know, this is a worldwide thing. This is
not just the US. They're they're big and they're big and over
here to the car companies.
Yeah, I heard that. I don't know. I mean, you know, maybe if
they
Well, it's really interesting because here's what I've seen.
So the
cars were such a commodity that they would just have one hiccup
and the next thing you know, these guys are all going out of
business.
Why? You know, there's there's a lot of people tied in you know,
they're talking about the supplies also, if the US
companies go down then the supplies of certain raw
materials goes up so becomes a real problem for everybody but
you know, parts and you know, a lot of different manufacturers
in different countries make parts for you know, for a lot of
auto companies so you know, there's a fear that they could
go under of course dealerships are huge so I I understand where
the fear comes from. But what's kind of funny is that the the
Treasury who of course has this, this tarp this, you know, this
700 billion little sliver compared to what they've
actually spent of our money. And they're saying, No, we don't
want to give any of that money to the to the car companies, you
know, that's for our friends, and you go find your own money.
We've got our supply right here. We're not going to give it to
those guys, not to Detroit, no way. But here was
a website that documented the amount of money given to
Congress by both the banks and the banking interests and the
car companies and it was like something like 100 times more
money came from the banking interests the bankers get barely
gave like a you know, anything to Congress because they didn't
have a lot of money to give
but they're regretting that now. Oh, yeah. Man we should have
been on was a K Street what is that what is called street
Avenue K whatever. We're all the lobbyists live
yeah, there's I don't know the name of the street. But yeah,
there's some street as in notorious, but, ya know,
obviously, the whole thing was mismanage Do
you think they're still gonna get some money? Do you think
they're
gonna get some everything make him suffer first? You know, why,
if you gotta you got these guys on the ropes and you're kind of
sadists you know, let's, let's make them suffer, you know? And
then this will teach them a lesson about not giving us
enough money for our campaigns. Let's teach him a lesson that
was to make him suffer to the last second. Oh, that's a good
idea, Jim. Okay.
It's our money though. Dude.
Our money? Yeah.
It's not it's our it was our money.
You asked me last week about the Lisbon Treaty. Right. So here's
the headline from the Daily Mail. EU leaders agree on bribes
to convince Irish voters to vote yes to treaty at second
referendum. Does that kind of sum it up for you? Well, the
Daily Mail, yeah,
but, you know, it's essentially what so they're gonna do another
referendum. It's like,
yeah, they're gonna tell you what up. My experience has
always been always reminds me of a guy who used to be a gas
station owner in Niles, California. And as I George Warm
Springs, one of these old little Berg's who used to run for
office all the time, and you'd see his name on every ballot. He
just gets soundly whipped. Because he was is a dud and so
one day he ran for the board of the BART thing before they built
a BART rat barrier rapid transit and in for some reason or other
he got in and it was just like my I mean whether he was any
good as a BART director I don't know I can't remember like
probably not but but the point is is that he just kept going
over and over you keep putting it in there putting it in there.
If you keep you can review Rand as the Irish were refused to
vote this in 20 times in a row they were 21 Yes, it's like you
know that's flipped for it now let's do two out of three No,
no, no, let's do five three out of five. No, no, no, no. You
give you do this for in an infinite period of time. It will
get through it's just as basic corruption.
Yeah, well, thank you. That's why the headline says it all
bribes corruption. Thank you. Meanwhile, that that check guy
that's going to be funny when he takes over because little known
fact, the Czech Republic has also not ratified the then they
don't have a referendum but they haven't ratified it. The Lisbon
Treaty, and this guy is a very strong opponent, or at least
that's the way he's been speaking as of late. And if any
big he will become president of the EU very soon, I believe.
Oh, maybe he'll stave off or push away the you know this the
grander scheme? Maybe he'll get fascinated seems fine to me.
Now. He's gonna get killed.
Out. Okay.
Do you think by June 30, they
have put it down put me down for a dead check by June 30. Okay.
What did you have by June 3 I Obama, everybody happy? And I'm
saying Anyway, happy. I'm saying nobody happy. And we got a dead
dead check.
I'm not gonna argue well, no, actually, I'll argue against a
dead check. I think Did he though? Keep them alive. Keep
them alive. Yeah. Okay. But what they'll do is they'll persuade
him to see the error of his ways. Yeah,
I hear that the Saakashvili the the Georgian Prime Minister is
getting kicked out though.
It's about time. Yeah. Well,
and and and, you know, they've all agreed now that yeah, we
started it. Of course, no one gives a shit. Okay.
They all agree that we started it the GA and
started it. Yeah, they're the minister. They're now in the
parliament saying, Well, yeah, we kind of started bombing
first. But the Russians were ready for us.
So meanwhile, of course, me, I didn't know this, by the way. So
meanwhile, our media, nobody picks up on this because we
still think Russia is the bad guy in this thing. And they are
they just admitted guilt. But nobody cares. Is that what
you're saying?
That's what I'm saying. Great.
That's what I'm saying.
Another moment of enlightenment. Because if people followed our
show, they would know they would
know all this stuff. Yeah. Well, that's why we got to 200,000
people listening by the way, it's not enough. We need more
and we'd like you. Yes, you. We'd like you to tell a friend.
Turn them on to our show.
Give them a copy. Yeah, burn a copy. Burn a copy and give it to
a friend say listen to these two idiots. Maybe they you're either
on to something. Yeah, you'd like
wind. Here. Listen to the Wind. You got the right play like wind
pepper. Do you like do you like sausage? This is the show for
you?
Yeah, we're, we're Yeah, let's see we have we haven't. By the
way. You don't want to give the show to a vegan?
No, please. Bad idea. Or Canadian? Apparently, man. We
pissed off a lot of Canadians last week. What from from what?
Well, everyone's like you don't know shit about Canada. You
don't know how it works. This was not
a thing they're doing up there. We don't know anything was yeah,
that's why we got to Detroit. Let's explain. That's how we got
the Detroit sling bird toys. That's right. Yes. He gets to
Canadian channels. He gets the CBC and something else. And
we're gonna watch Canadian television and catch up. This is
how we're responsible. We are as to podcasters.
Yeah, we're actually taking time out of our day to get on the
crappy sling box, which has been kindly offered to us by a no
agenda listener whose name I'm looking up as we speak. You
better keep talking because at Gmail, I
just I just wondering, I'm still trying to say why you'd call it
a crappy Yes. device. When earlier in the show you praised
it. That's
what I'm saying is it's extra effort. extra effort. We are
taking the effort. Okay. Andrew Thompson. There you go. Yeah.
Thank you so much. We have, we're using his Slingbox. And by
the way, if anybody out there is in some remote part of the
world, and they have a sling box. Yeah, send us the ID, send
us the ID and we'll watch your shows locally. And then we'll
make some comments about you don't have, in fact, a new sling
box software, which is really impressive. By the way, this
stuff you can download in any way, by the way out there can do
this. If you get an account. It actually maintains a database of
all the sling boxes that you're talking to go down, right? Yep,
it's great. He says go down the list and you click Detroit and
boom Hey, Amanda, Detroit Slingbox. So we've got. They
should be sponsoring this show. There you go.
Now that's that's a good segue. I'll go after that. Yeah, let's
have Lauren's column up. Tell him we,
because we're using an international show, we got two
one guys in different parts of the hemisphere. We are
a we are the target audience, right that we will not check.
But otherwise, we're the perfect target audience for this device.
Right.
And I think a lot of people that listen to this show would
probably use it, you know, if they thought about it. So cheap
device, but it's not expensive.
So we now have access to CBC Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation out of Windsor, and something called Global
or something. I don't know, whatever the thing is, it's like
some station in Windsor.
And I know that you've been watching it because because you
left it on channel 99. Oh, I did. Yeah. Because it was I was
surfing through right. And I also have the software
downstairs in the kitchen on Patricia's MacBook, and I'm
switching through and you know it, it's it stops on TMZ. Holmen
and then also I went to make a cup of tea and then like the
laptops gone. Patricia sitting there watching it. You know, I
can't get it back. She's watching stupid celebrity gossip
on TMZ.
Yeah, that's pretty bad. Yeah, the but anyway, the other
device. Again, oh, I don't want to keep giving him all this free
publicity. Is the sling catcher.
Yeah, this is the thing that I need because this is the is the
other side of it. Right? Then you use hooked that up and then
you can put a sling box stream on your television.
Right? Cool. So you don't have to just do everything on the
computer most. I mean, when the sling box first came out, I
thought it was kind of a hokey idea. But you know, until I
started realising the, especially with having two
different houses, that how advantageous it would be
especially since I can't get to local stations up in Seattle on
my dish network because of some legal thing. And and then when
we started Dennett, having used it and realise how we're
actually very powerful gives you the local stations. He has his
own guide you can change the channels effortlessly. It's
amazing.
Yeah, it is it really is. So I hope someone made some money on
that.
Well, I think the guy I've read it I was doing it I said at
dinner recently and somebody mentioned that the Slingbox
founders are really sharp character and uh, yeah, I'm sure
they did. Unfortunately, if it was if it wasn't for Sarbanes
Oxley company like that would have gone public and they would
have made some serious money.
Yeah, it'd be huge. I agree. Oh, well. Soon as soon as we get the
new the new bandwidth. Get it all set up.
Alright, me well check out the when you have hooked up now.
Yeah, you should try it. But don't stay on it too long.
Because I have like some pathetic, like, like 300 kilobit
per second upload or something. It's really fucking sad.
Boo, you have a cap.
That's just the speed. I get one megabit down and 300k Speed up.
So if you're watching this Slingbox is like you know, then
the internet comes falling crashing to its knees here.
I'll only do it at midnight in New York time.
Hey, no, that's cool. That's cool. Any anytime after
midnight, here is no problem at all.
All right, good. Now I'll get mine hooked up in the next week
or so I need to find the power supply for the one of them.
It helps I've heard if you have one of those that putting the
power on makes it better.
It actually works. Yeah.
What else happen with Joomla?
I think that's about it. The weather here is actually quite
good. But a little chilly. Then we had a big full moon and it's
raining up in Seattle. So I'm down here and not much.
So another weekend at home.
Yeah, well, next weekend, I'm going up for sure. Because I'm
gonna spend the whole week up, you know, for Christmas. And
well, that's, that's kind of interesting. So next weekend, so
are you going to call in or when do you want to do it?
I'm leaving on Sunday. So we can do it. Just do it the regular
time and then the next Saturday. I think I'm up there. But I'm
going to bring some gear up there. And I'm going to hook up
because I got you here what happened to change is that we
had this local provider but then my son Eric down the hill is
sitting on top of a fibre optic cable and so he had it was
actually this string and so it's actually strung on the telephone
poles. And so he did a deal with a guy who apparently has the
legal rights to this fibre and so he bought up five Meg up and
down. Fibre connection which is straight shot, no sharing, and I
think we're actually getting 1010 megabits per second fibre
nice And then he's still he's got a one watt Wi Fi, a one watt
Wi Fi directional antenna thing shooting up to my house. And so
I'm picking up you know about 100 megabits per second on that
network. And then then taking the taking the, the fibre in and
it is so much faster even though you know I have a fast
connection here on the Comcast but it has that that sense that
like you wouldn't call it a delay, it's just like every once
in a while goes. Can you hold on just one second before I give
you that data? Because I am a little busy over here now. Okay,
here it comes. The with the with the fibre just just wow,
boom. Yeah, I love that. I love the way they market it because I
did some research and you look at Virgin Media, which we're on
the five because we've got a fibre fibre optic network, and
they say okay, you get the 20 megabits, it'll take you 1.7
seconds to download an mp3 track. Like what kind of
measurement is that? You know, that's not a Pink Floyd track.
Okay. It's like the taking averages and but the way they
market that is so misleading.
I hate that kind of marketing. Yeah, I want to just tell you
what your megabits per second is going to be? Well they do they
do this at the big some people don't they just go on with a
bunch of oil. You can load a book and so on. You can download
a movie in an hour. You know, whatever.
They even say that with that tone of voice don't say well,
you could do the book. That's real marketing for you. Hey, can
you get Comcast you can even download mp3 Like that's exactly
the voice they use. Here's one. Here's one, John. We're not done
yet. Goldman predicts oil to hit $30 A barrel awkward, awkward U
turn after $200 warning or awkward, awkward U turn. You
should see this picture.
Go you have to assume once they made the statement that the oil
downturn is
over, it's gonna shoot up like a rocket. It's you after
they made that statement that did go up a little bit. You know
a lot of people think it's gonna stabilise it 30 Some people
think is gonna stabilise it 50
When they're ready, when they're ready to crush us as per plan,
which will probably be around June 25, then it's going to
skyrocket
on that see in it.
The supply and demand problem, they they got a serious problem.
They can't, you know, we cut back on our oil usage. And with
Obama coming in and pushing all this other stuff. I think oil
has got serious problems maintain these prices. I think
it's I think they're probably right about 30
All right. The guy
who's running Iran says that they're planning their whole
economy on $30 barrel oil. And the guy from Saudi Arabia came
out and said out and you know, I wanted on 60 minutes last week,
he came out and said, Well, you know, out of the out of the
ground is costing us two bucks to produce this stuff.
I think I'm hearing a lot more but okay,
he's just two bucks. I'm telling you go look at the 60 minutes on
Hulu. It's like two bucks. He says that's what it costs and
then they have hard to get oil. It's not like their oil is just
oozing out like it was.
I'm telling you I got a friend of mine works at Halliburton
company. And he is an oil support services. And he says
it's it's really it's 20 bucks a barrel to get it out and onto
the container. I'm just
telling you what the guy said at least fourchette lowball himself
I don't know to make it sound like to help continue to
bankrupt the Middle East. I don't know.
It sounds like you didn't want to do that.
You know the story whatever. Do you know the story behind the
name Ponzi scheme just to bring the show for full circle
upon a guy named Ponzi Yeah, Charles
Ponzi. Yeah, and his original Ponzi scheme in 1920, estimated
lost $10 million.
And it was the same thing you just you know, right. That's
what a lot of people think a lot of these multi level marketing
things are Ponzi schemes of some sort. I don't see
it as is I think that's a misnomer. When you call an MLM a
Ponzi scheme. That's not true.
It is when you're when your orientation is more to selling
franchises than it is to selling products. Okay, yeah, yeah,
true. And I have run into those, you know, it's like, you know,
just sell it you want to sell product now and you should sell
more people to be under your umbrella and then they can do
yours and and they've had to actually change a bunch of
they've actually had laws against overdoing that so you
can't have a huge pyramid schemes. The other word for it.
That's yeah, that's the word. They change the the loss of the
pyramid can only go so far, you can't have an infinite pyramid,
which is how you you know, you made the big bucks.
Right? Nor can you have an infinite bubble, which is
exactly what happened here.
Right are an infinite Ponzi scheme. But the fact that he
could take it to 50 billion, that's amazing.
And for so many years 40 Just based on reputation Can I guess?
Yeah, no, that shows you what reputation can do for you didn't
work? Yeah, no. Reputation. I mean, people who thought highly
of his reputation guts were mistaken. There was a bunch of
I've gotten a couple papers from people that did it show that
this guy was under suspicion, like a decade ago, because there
there were these writers that would come and say, I don't know
how, how does he do it? How does he do it? It can't be done. And
then they always have them coded at the end. So well, you know, a
lot of people don't take it into consideration, that I'm a great
trader, and I know what I'm doing, maybe when you realise
that you'll see how I did it. Yeah.
Well, so we'll be talking about this guy. It'll be it's great.
And it makes fantastic headlines. And meanwhile, $8.4
trillion has been stolen from us by Goldman Sachs effectively by
accident by extension, with Paulson by extension, stolen,
just stolen. You know? You don't care.
I do care. I wish I was working for him.
John, would a lot of money make you happy?
No, but it would allow me in some time to go, you know, float
around Europe more. I mean, I have to work all the time. Or
I'm always around here podcasting or doing something
trying to clean the office fixing things. It's ridiculous.
When's the last time you move?
I haven't moved. Well, we we've had we have different
properties. And I haven't moved from this house for like 15
years. It's a long I think it's time. It's yeah, it's well, it's
well beyond time. But the problem that we have we have the
same problem that Port Angeles house is that if you don't
follow the every move every four years move and move and move.
You fall off the ladder. cumulate so much crap. What do I
mean? It's like a nightmare. Yeah.
Well, that's us, man. This is for years. It's time to move.
We're done. And it feels great. It's exciting. I really like it
and we enjoy moving. I mean, the actual process kind of sucks,
but you know, the throwing out the reboot. It's cool. I like
it. There's a lot of Bill a lot of bills you don't have to
change you know, you just don't don't tell them and you don't
see him anymore.
More power to you. Ya know,
it's like junk mail ends for a while I like that. That's kind
of cool. You consider it it's a buyers market. I hear
I'm trying to go as I well. I'm gonna wait for the market to
source I know what the market works in a wave anyway. So you
have a
you were telling you were telling me half a year ago now
is the time to buy.
Yeah, no, now's the time to buy but now's not the time to sell.
That's the difference. True true. So what I want to do is I
want to get into the California is going to make a comeback.
Probably that same June period that we're talking about next
year California properties prices should stabilise and
start to go up to the point where I can sell at a at a
decent amount of money that I need to sell that and but it's
but it will not have happened in other parts of the country
namely Washington State or some of these other places. Because
it because everything you know happens what happens in bulges
and so that I should be able to get the timing just right to get
out. And then get in within a good time to sell good time to
buy. Says it's just like a straddle and where are you gonna
go? Washington,
Oh, you want to go live there? You just want to sell this place
and sell up and be gone.
I want to get out of California because I think this place is
it's doomed me is bankrupt. You know, the bank robber got some
money on a stick it to us?
Yeah, probably on Oh, I know. Capital gains on how sales,
that's how they'll stick it to you?
Well, no, they're not going to get away with that. But the
they're going to stick it to us in other ways. They're going to
have a value added tax, I'm convinced to that. And then
they're going to do two or three other things. They're going to
raise property about property taxes and everything they can
do. Oh, that you know,
that's really funny. The the big stimulus package here in the
United Kingdom was the reduction of the value added tax from 17
and a half percent to 15%, which is a huge amount. But what's
interesting, what they don't tell you is that on the very
same day that they lowered the VAT tax, they increased the
alcohol, the liquor tax by 8%. And no one wrote a single line
about it is like booze is 8% more expensive, but everyone's
talking about oh, they lowered the VAT by two and a half giving
you a net five and a half point five increase on the number one
substance the Brits put into their bodies.
They like to drink over there. Yeah,
yeah, they do. But it's cool, man. We got like five pubs in
our neighbourhood. I gotta find my local gotta find out
find a good one. Make sure they have Adnan's that's kind of one
of the keys. Beer. Yeah, AD and ans add an Enzo ale okay is
considered
probably just a nice atmosphere and cool people are should be
looking at
the addenda and still have the wrestle come with it.
Cool people could come included with the deal.
Yeah, you watch.
I'm going to send you a link John and we should talk about it
next week. It's from a Colorado. What's the university out there,
Colorado,
University of Colorado Buffaloes.
Boulder. Boulder. Boulder was involved in
Boulder. Yeah. Okay. So as he pronounced it up there, boda
boda.
It's a university professor in a in his classroom, and it's about
20 minutes. And he's talking about and he's, he's kind of an
old Kook, which is obviously why I liked him. And he's talking
about the inability of human beings to understand the concept
of exponential growth. And he goes through a whole number of
examples, how exponential growth works. And then he draws
parallels between global population and oil use. And it's
kind of like the old story, if you saved a penny a day, every
single day, you know, you'd be a millionaire, or like, you'd have
100 million within 20 years or whatever it was compounded
interest. And it's quite frightening when, when you see
the numbers on and forget about, you know, basically the numbers
double every 10 years, like the population is, you know, and it
goes very, very quickly. And then when you get exponential
growth, it's this hockey stick curve that just goes straight up
after a certain point. And what he's basically saying is where
it's two minutes to 12, and the next, you know, the next
doubling of everything is essentially going to kill us.
And what he goes into, is He literally says here, the
options, war disease, he says, he's going through the all the
all the options, yeah, famine. Exactly. Yeah, those are the
classics. And I well, I mean, so you obviously know what I'm
talking about. I mean, this is not just nutball stuff. This is
kind of realistic.
Yeah, it's been discussed a lot. In fact, probably more or less
true.
Well, Carter, used at Carter tried to explain how exponential
growth works. And he was right. You know, he said, we'll we'll
have tapped out our resources in four decades from now. Yeah,
I mean, it's
an even even if you're signed to find two more huge oil fields
like Alaska, and what is it, Indonesia or whatever,
you know, we got there's a, there's a lot and you know, what
the one No one wants to talk about, because it would like
change everybody's attitude. There's a whopper sitting
underneath Nebraska, as big as Saudi Arabia.
The evidence with this is the whole point, it doesn't matter
when you're looking at these exponential numbers where usage
increases continuously at like 6% per year.
Of course, that's too much to handle, you know, it popped,
apparently your pop the pop up, what he was saying is the
population growth of Boulder is at 3%. No, was it 6%. And they
brought it down like 4.8%. And his point was that we actually
send humanitarian aid into countries that have a population
growth over 2% Because it can actually it can kill you within
you wind up very quickly at the end of that curve with you each
got a square metre and that's it. I'm gonna send you that
link. I looked at it now. She's like, wow, this
freaking me out? Yeah, send it out, blog it and it will talk
about it next week.
That's a good idea. Because if that if that if it really holds
true, and the numbers certainly make sense. But if the
underlying data he's comparing it to if it makes sense then
chip, man, who cares? Don't pay your mortgage. Don't move just
hang out. Tomorrow? Well, it's it could it's a lot of this
could be in our lifetime. 20 to 35. Nia
list 20
newlist. Was that?
NIH look
it up? No, no. Explain. It's a
person who just has a gloomy outlook.
Yeah. Oh, you mean a realist? I'm sorry. I misunderstood.
Neil is that's what that's what a Neil is would say
exactly. Well, that's me. I'm gonna get business cards printed
up. Yeah. abuse
it as your title. How do I spell it? And I ah, I think Niha LIS T
i think and
i H L. L i s t i think is in annihilation.
Phil, I wasn't thinking in those terms. Bugs. Maybe there's a
route there.
Okay. All right, John. Well, good talking to you. As usual,
yes. And well, coming to you from Gitmo nation east over here
in the United Kingdom, where climate change is indeed in
effect. It's getting colder. I'm Adam curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak in Silicon Valley north. Get mo
nation USA and it's getting it's kind of warmer here but it's
cold everyplace else. So I don't know.
We'll talk to you guys next week right here. Uh, no agenda