1 00:00:03,360 --> 00:00:07,350 Adam curry, John C. Dvorak from opposite corners of Gitmo nation 2 00:00:07,350 --> 00:00:12,660 Time again for no agenda on this Thursday, February 26 2000. Nice 3 00:00:12,720 --> 00:00:17,280 is no agenda streaming from Gitmo nation east from the 4 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:20,370 crackpot command center in southwest London. I'm Adam 5 00:00:20,370 --> 00:00:20,940 curry. 6 00:00:21,390 --> 00:00:24,630 And I'm John C. Dvorak here in Silicon Valley north where it's 7 00:00:24,630 --> 00:00:25,350 raining. 8 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:30,960 And it's nice and cloudy here in London as well. Yes, important 9 00:00:30,960 --> 00:00:36,750 music means important stuff coming your way. And Buzzkill? 10 00:00:40,050 --> 00:00:42,000 Hey, John, how you doing? 11 00:00:42,540 --> 00:00:43,530 It's good. Yeah, 12 00:00:43,559 --> 00:00:47,729 I miss you, man. We haven't we haven't actually, we haven't 13 00:00:47,729 --> 00:00:50,699 spoken since the last show. Have we? No, 14 00:00:50,730 --> 00:00:52,590 no, you've been in meetings? No, I 15 00:00:52,590 --> 00:00:57,390 have not. I tried to stay away from them. I love the meetings 16 00:00:57,390 --> 00:01:00,690 we have because I've got Scott, you know, I use the same Skype 17 00:01:00,690 --> 00:01:04,200 connection that we're using for the show. And so I can 18 00:01:04,200 --> 00:01:08,070 completely control everything. I can mix all audio levels. So you 19 00:01:08,070 --> 00:01:12,270 know, I'm usually editing during the meetings. Keep an eye out of 20 00:01:12,270 --> 00:01:14,820 what is Oh my name. Yeah, I'm here. 21 00:01:16,950 --> 00:01:19,860 Do you ever put a sound effect in? 22 00:01:20,580 --> 00:01:25,770 Absolutely. Usually it's it's like a reverb or something. Do 23 00:01:25,770 --> 00:01:30,270 something funny, but anyway, I try to stay away from too many 24 00:01:30,270 --> 00:01:33,570 meetings. I do have one after the show today. 25 00:01:34,950 --> 00:01:41,220 up new word out on the street. A new word. Octomom. 26 00:01:44,100 --> 00:01:51,030 Octomom didn't didn't someone offer her money $2 To be in a 27 00:01:51,030 --> 00:01:54,300 porn. Yeah, who wants to see that? 28 00:01:55,890 --> 00:01:58,710 Who knows that is I take the money. 29 00:01:59,790 --> 00:02:04,020 Octomom who fits in the octave box. You know what the octave 30 00:02:04,020 --> 00:02:04,710 boxes 31 00:02:06,270 --> 00:02:07,200 I used to. 32 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:12,420 The Octave box is what they use on CNBC when they have 33 00:02:12,449 --> 00:02:15,749 eight people. All right, the octave box right eight people on 34 00:02:15,749 --> 00:02:16,739 the screen. I've actually 35 00:02:16,740 --> 00:02:19,740 seen the Decca box where they had 10 people on the screen 36 00:02:19,770 --> 00:02:21,960 phenomenal and then you know, it's really important, right? 37 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:23,820 And he's like, Oh, stop everything. And we turn up the 38 00:02:23,820 --> 00:02:26,160 volume. They've got the octave box on each 39 00:02:26,939 --> 00:02:33,149 the octave box that's bad enough. So I'm the news. I'm 40 00:02:33,149 --> 00:02:36,299 gonna get to the story beats breaking as we speak. Those who 41 00:02:36,299 --> 00:02:37,439 come in one after another. 42 00:02:37,439 --> 00:02:40,379 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What breaking news this is no 43 00:02:40,379 --> 00:02:45,839 agenda. We have breaking news. John C. Dvorak with breaking 44 00:02:45,839 --> 00:02:46,319 news. 45 00:02:46,740 --> 00:02:53,250 Breaking breaking news in this case, is the no pun intended 46 00:02:53,250 --> 00:02:58,740 because we're talking about cow flatulence again. And sheep 47 00:02:58,740 --> 00:03:02,190 belching so there's a breaking aspect to it. Okay, hit me 48 00:03:02,190 --> 00:03:04,470 apparently, according to all these articles have just showed 49 00:03:04,470 --> 00:03:06,930 up. In fact, in today's Wall Street Journal, it turns out 50 00:03:06,930 --> 00:03:12,600 that sheep belching may account for 12% of manmade global 51 00:03:12,600 --> 00:03:13,200 warming. 52 00:03:14,759 --> 00:03:17,099 Okay, this isn't the Wall Street Journal, you say? 53 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:19,500 Yeah, today's Wall Street Journal big story on sheep 54 00:03:19,530 --> 00:03:23,310 belching because the sheep apparently belch methane. And 55 00:03:23,310 --> 00:03:25,950 then if I was looking this up a little bit, and it looked at 56 00:03:25,980 --> 00:03:33,150 according to one story 12% of Australian greenhouse gases come 57 00:03:33,150 --> 00:03:38,610 from livestock flatulence. Again, another breaking story. 58 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:41,820 Meanwhile, as I'm looking at all these different the stories that 59 00:03:41,820 --> 00:03:44,970 I write in you if you start scratching the surface of global 60 00:03:44,970 --> 00:03:49,380 warming, or as they now call it climate change, because they did 61 00:03:49,380 --> 00:03:51,780 the other word is was getting worried. It wasn't it wasn't 62 00:03:51,780 --> 00:03:54,960 working anymore. It wasn't working. But I like it. I still 63 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:59,220 like it global warming, it sounds better. So if you scratch 64 00:03:59,220 --> 00:04:02,250 the surface of it, you keep coming up with the same thing. 65 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:07,440 Vegans with an agenda and vegetarians is though somebody 66 00:04:07,440 --> 00:04:10,710 came up with this neat idea some years ago that if you blame, you 67 00:04:10,710 --> 00:04:13,260 know, if you get on this global warming kick, then you can 68 00:04:13,260 --> 00:04:16,530 attack the livestock because at some point, you know, because of 69 00:04:16,530 --> 00:04:20,910 their belching and farting, there's you could tribute global 70 00:04:20,910 --> 00:04:25,890 warming to them. And so I run into the newspaper in Ontario 71 00:04:25,890 --> 00:04:29,010 called the standard St. Catharines. The town St. 72 00:04:29,010 --> 00:04:32,460 Catharines standard. And I think the headline kind of like says 73 00:04:32,460 --> 00:04:35,880 it all and it's about global warming, but the headline is, we 74 00:04:35,880 --> 00:04:41,400 need to solve the now quote marks meat problem. 75 00:04:41,430 --> 00:04:47,070 Ah, yes, I have a meat problem that I need solving to and you 76 00:04:47,070 --> 00:04:52,860 can email me This is unbelievable, but it makes so 77 00:04:52,860 --> 00:04:56,280 much sense. Because, you know, we know that this satellite 78 00:04:56,280 --> 00:04:59,970 failed to separate from the payload from the cone however, 79 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:02,850 Ronnie, yeah, this was the big fail. This was the satellite 80 00:05:02,850 --> 00:05:07,050 that was actually going to measure the sheep belching and 81 00:05:07,050 --> 00:05:11,970 cow flatulence as a part of manmade climate change from 82 00:05:11,970 --> 00:05:17,310 space. You know, it's out of control. 83 00:05:18,690 --> 00:05:21,660 I wonder what was going on during the era where the entire 84 00:05:21,660 --> 00:05:25,140 western plains are covered with millions and millions and 85 00:05:25,140 --> 00:05:28,590 millions of bison? Well, they 86 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:31,290 surely you know that bison, they must have fired you know, they 87 00:05:31,290 --> 00:05:34,980 don't fart man. Now, by the way, I have done a quite a bit of 88 00:05:35,040 --> 00:05:39,480 sheep shearing. In my day, when I was much younger, we lived 89 00:05:39,810 --> 00:05:42,870 just south of Amsterdam, and a small farming village. And it 90 00:05:42,870 --> 00:05:45,300 was a lot of fun, really, you know, the old fashioned way, 91 00:05:45,720 --> 00:05:51,000 with shears. And I have held many sheep between my legs. 92 00:05:52,170 --> 00:05:55,440 There's a great drop for you, and held many sheep between my 93 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:57,900 legs. But I've never heard one belt ever. 94 00:05:59,610 --> 00:06:04,440 Have you? Well, no, actually, we have a sheep. And does he belt? 95 00:06:05,310 --> 00:06:09,840 I have never noticed it. Maybe when they go by? That's actually 96 00:06:09,840 --> 00:06:11,490 a belch? Well, I 97 00:06:11,490 --> 00:06:14,130 think I can tie a couple of things together. Sounds like a 98 00:06:14,130 --> 00:06:17,940 belt, the meat problem. I like that, that you've latched on to 99 00:06:17,940 --> 00:06:23,700 that, because I've it hit me earlier this week. That the 100 00:06:23,700 --> 00:06:30,090 smart grid. It has it of course it has to do with energy power. 101 00:06:30,360 --> 00:06:34,530 But it has to do with a lot more. And I started looking into 102 00:06:34,530 --> 00:06:39,150 it into the smart grid. Now a lot of the money for the smart 103 00:06:39,150 --> 00:06:42,810 grid will be dished out by an outfit called I'm sure you've 104 00:06:42,810 --> 00:06:45,900 heard of them the western area Power Administration. 105 00:06:47,130 --> 00:06:49,830 Have you heard of them? No, actually, they haven't heard of 106 00:06:49,830 --> 00:06:50,010 them. 107 00:06:50,100 --> 00:06:54,480 Oh, okay. Wow. Well, the Western Power a western area Power 108 00:06:54,480 --> 00:06:58,890 Administration. I'll read I'm just reading from their website 109 00:06:58,890 --> 00:07:08,310 wapa.gov part of the government. The part of the Recovery and 110 00:07:08,310 --> 00:07:13,380 Reinvestment Act of 2009, which, of course is the the big 111 00:07:13,380 --> 00:07:17,070 stimulus package. It grants the western area Power 112 00:07:17,070 --> 00:07:20,940 Administration, the authority to borrow up to 3.2 5 billion from 113 00:07:20,940 --> 00:07:24,630 the US Treasury has a whole bunch of basically, they hand 114 00:07:24,630 --> 00:07:30,150 out the grants. And so as I'm looking through, you know, just 115 00:07:30,180 --> 00:07:32,190 going down as deep as I can write 116 00:07:32,760 --> 00:07:34,020 any grants we can get? 117 00:07:35,100 --> 00:07:39,870 Well, interesting. So they, they're handing out a lot of 118 00:07:39,870 --> 00:07:44,370 money to GE, and IBM, these are the two corporations who are 119 00:07:44,370 --> 00:07:52,020 going to receive most of this Smart Grid money. And IBM writes 120 00:07:52,020 --> 00:07:54,420 about, well, here's a little piece from IBM as, as it 121 00:07:54,960 --> 00:07:59,430 pertains to their grant. The world is becoming instrumented 122 00:07:59,430 --> 00:08:03,990 by 2010, there will be a billion trends, transistors per human, 123 00:08:04,020 --> 00:08:08,070 each one costing one 10,000,000th of a cent. The 124 00:08:08,070 --> 00:08:11,430 world is becoming interconnected with a trillion network things 125 00:08:11,430 --> 00:08:15,630 cars, roadways, pipelines, appliances, pharmaceuticals, and 126 00:08:15,660 --> 00:08:19,380 even livestock. The amount of information created by those 127 00:08:19,410 --> 00:08:22,680 interactions grows exponentially. And as you look 128 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:28,380 through it, a part of this smart grid will be tracking livestock. 129 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:34,680 Ah, so of course, how do you track lives and also livestock 130 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:37,950 feed, I'm sure it's going to be a part of it. So when you track 131 00:08:37,980 --> 00:08:40,560 livestock is very simple, because even my pets are 132 00:08:40,560 --> 00:08:43,950 chipped. They all have a little chip inserted, and it's an RFID 133 00:08:44,010 --> 00:08:48,090 RFID chip. And they can they can track each individual piece of 134 00:08:48,090 --> 00:08:54,300 meat all a part of the meat problem. That is not far from 135 00:08:54,330 --> 00:08:58,020 embedding it into humans, John, then we're very, very close to a 136 00:08:58,020 --> 00:09:02,760 complete global matrix that just hovers around us being tracked 137 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:06,870 everywhere. So this smart grid, I think needs Oh, you already 138 00:09:06,870 --> 00:09:09,570 have that with you. But it's being done through your phone. 139 00:09:09,570 --> 00:09:09,870 Yeah, 140 00:09:09,900 --> 00:09:13,320 exactly. Well, yeah. Because we talked about that about my my 141 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:17,220 Nokia and I installed Google Maps with latitude. And by the 142 00:09:17,220 --> 00:09:19,890 way, after the show, battery has not run down. 143 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,400 It stopped. Oh, they probably disconnected it remotely. 144 00:09:23,820 --> 00:09:28,170 And then I'm reading about Nokia. Yeah, no, I got I got a 145 00:09:28,170 --> 00:09:31,620 lot of time between meetings. So I'm reading about Nokia. The 146 00:09:31,620 --> 00:09:39,600 other day got a half a half a trillion was a 500 Sorry, maybe 147 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:43,650 right? It was 500 million, half a billion. Yeah, they got a half 148 00:09:43,650 --> 00:09:50,820 a million. Half a billion euro loan from the EIB the European 149 00:09:50,820 --> 00:09:53,970 Investment Bank who by the way, whose charter is to help out 150 00:09:53,970 --> 00:09:56,910 small and medium enterprises. I don't think Nokia quite 151 00:09:56,910 --> 00:09:59,700 qualifies as a small and medium enterprise. 152 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:02,670 Got I wouldn't think so by the way, EIB also stands for the 153 00:10:02,670 --> 00:10:06,120 Excellence in broadcasting. Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh. 154 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,770 So the EIB, which, you know, God knows it's a part of the 155 00:10:10,770 --> 00:10:13,500 European Union, they're a shareholder in this bank, you 156 00:10:13,500 --> 00:10:16,650 know, so they're just, they just hand out this money to Nokia or 157 00:10:16,650 --> 00:10:21,540 not handing out it's a loan. But you know, the implications, I 158 00:10:21,540 --> 00:10:23,880 think, are pretty severe when you think about, you know, so 159 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:26,730 what if, what if the EU says, Hey, Nokia, you know, here's 160 00:10:26,730 --> 00:10:29,670 this money, but you know, put this chip in, instead of that 161 00:10:29,670 --> 00:10:33,300 one, you know, use our souped up version? I mean, who protects 162 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:35,880 the US from that? Who checks on that stuff? Is there a way to 163 00:10:35,880 --> 00:10:39,990 check? Can you log? Can you see what your phone is doing? I have 164 00:10:39,990 --> 00:10:42,180 serious security concerns about this. 165 00:10:43,530 --> 00:10:45,720 I think in your case, you should yeah. But in 166 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:48,660 general, it's not just me. Look, I'm not I'm sorry for saying 167 00:10:48,660 --> 00:10:53,550 that. I'm not worried. Let's be clear. It's my new one. I say to 168 00:10:53,550 --> 00:10:56,970 my wife. No, no, no, it's, I want to be very clear. Let's be 169 00:10:56,970 --> 00:10:57,600 clear. Now. 170 00:10:58,050 --> 00:11:00,720 He said that the number of times he also said by the way that he 171 00:11:00,720 --> 00:11:03,030 one time during the speech, which we're gonna get into 172 00:11:03,030 --> 00:11:07,590 later, Obama did go off camera off script. And when he did his 173 00:11:07,590 --> 00:11:10,200 little ad lib was like one sentence ad lib about something. 174 00:11:11,490 --> 00:11:14,550 But she did it twice. There was a joke about Joe Lieberman or 175 00:11:14,550 --> 00:11:21,390 joke about Joe Biden. He said, Look. One time, he went off 176 00:11:21,420 --> 00:11:23,250 JavaScript, he had to say, look, 177 00:11:23,429 --> 00:11:27,119 I'm pretty sure that the Joe Biden quip was written in there. 178 00:11:27,629 --> 00:11:30,719 They could have been Yeah, cuz I read the transcript, which I 179 00:11:30,719 --> 00:11:33,299 think came out almost simultaneously. Is that what 180 00:11:33,329 --> 00:11:35,849 does he hand the speech to the Speaker of the House and the 181 00:11:35,849 --> 00:11:38,399 vice president when he comes in what's in the manila envelopes? 182 00:11:38,879 --> 00:11:39,869 But he hands to them? 183 00:11:40,500 --> 00:11:43,230 Check for a million dollars to shut up? 184 00:11:45,179 --> 00:11:50,759 One of those big phony checks that unfolds here, Joe? I'm 185 00:11:50,759 --> 00:11:53,519 sorry. It's not just Joe Biden, the Vice President it is our 186 00:11:53,579 --> 00:11:54,989 stimulus czar. 187 00:11:55,559 --> 00:11:58,319 Yeah, stimulus formula. The guy who doesn't who doesn't know 188 00:11:58,319 --> 00:12:00,719 what the how the internet works? Apparently, we've discovered 189 00:12:00,719 --> 00:12:04,979 that Joe Biden, I love doesn't know what a website is. They 190 00:12:04,979 --> 00:12:07,469 were taught we know if this was a Republican administration. 191 00:12:07,469 --> 00:12:08,939 They would be all over this. 192 00:12:08,970 --> 00:12:13,140 I have it for you. Hold on. I saved it. I saw you put it on. 193 00:12:14,610 --> 00:12:18,240 On Divorce Act. In fact, I just cut it into a media today for 194 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:21,120 tomorrow. It's so funny. Here it comes. This is Joe Biden being 195 00:12:21,120 --> 00:12:26,460 interviewed on CBS Early Show about Rick, but by the way, the 196 00:12:26,460 --> 00:12:29,820 journalist is, is a douchebag is a douche. I mean, listen to her. 197 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:31,560 It's so stupid. By the way. Do you 198 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:35,159 know the website? You know, I'm embarrassed, you know, the 199 00:12:35,159 --> 00:12:38,339 website number. I know I should have it in front of me. And I 200 00:12:38,339 --> 00:12:42,809 don't. I'm actually embarrassed. I'm gonna call your office to 201 00:12:42,809 --> 00:12:48,689 get it later. It is recovery.gov recovery.gov. Is 202 00:12:48,689 --> 00:12:49,889 that up and running already? 203 00:12:49,980 --> 00:12:53,640 So a couple observations here. First of all, maybe Joe is 204 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:55,950 really smart. And he's saying he's actually needs the IP 205 00:12:55,950 --> 00:13:01,320 address. Maybe he was just you know, the IP address of that 206 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:05,220 website? Because he is a command line hacker, obviously. But then 207 00:13:05,220 --> 00:13:10,650 to have the interviewer say, is that up and running on any? Is 208 00:13:10,650 --> 00:13:15,330 she under a frickin rock? Is that up and running on any 209 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:18,960 host? Well, maybe she was trying to maybe she wasn't doing her 210 00:13:18,960 --> 00:13:22,680 job trying to catch him saying I don't know, when the fact of 211 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:23,910 course has been running forever. 212 00:13:23,940 --> 00:13:26,640 Well, as well, and it's still stagnant. How long have I been 213 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:31,170 looking at this thing for three weeks? No change announcements. 214 00:13:31,170 --> 00:13:34,650 last announcement was still February 18. 215 00:13:35,460 --> 00:13:37,590 It reflects the recovery itself, but he 216 00:13:37,590 --> 00:13:41,820 keeps keeps using this and it keeps being said and um, and 217 00:13:41,820 --> 00:13:44,790 showing up in conversations with people particularly on Twitter. 218 00:13:45,330 --> 00:13:47,550 Say well, you know, Hey, man, that's transparency. We got 219 00:13:47,550 --> 00:13:50,580 recovery.gov Yeah, but they actually have to put something 220 00:13:50,580 --> 00:13:51,210 on it 221 00:13:55,530 --> 00:13:58,890 so yeah, anyway, so Biden, by the way, I saw you used another 222 00:13:58,890 --> 00:14:00,780 thing that was kind of weird because I saw you use this on 223 00:14:00,780 --> 00:14:04,620 the show the like it yesterday or whenever there's the is the 224 00:14:04,740 --> 00:14:06,570 the new Broadway play. 225 00:14:08,790 --> 00:14:12,000 About Shrek Shrek the Musical Director 226 00:14:12,030 --> 00:14:14,880 musical where it's just a lot of belching and farting. Talking 227 00:14:14,880 --> 00:14:20,580 about being dramatic for today's show, apparently. What are they 228 00:14:20,580 --> 00:14:24,990 thinking? Do I want to go to a Broadway play to watch some 229 00:14:25,740 --> 00:14:28,830 weird looking fat guy farting with his girlfriend? It just 230 00:14:28,830 --> 00:14:32,070 doesn't sound like entertainment to me. I think kids like it 231 00:14:35,940 --> 00:14:38,520 yeah, I don't know. Be encouraged to like that crap. 232 00:14:38,520 --> 00:14:41,520 It was it was cute. It was funny. Wasn't it wasn't 233 00:14:41,520 --> 00:14:42,150 funny at all. Yeah, 234 00:14:42,150 --> 00:14:46,680 you're a grumpy old man. And maybe you don't like us? Yes. 235 00:14:46,710 --> 00:14:47,760 Like you don't fart. 236 00:14:49,710 --> 00:14:51,660 Man, my friend. He's got nothing to do with I'm not gonna go do 237 00:14:51,660 --> 00:14:52,830 it on stage. 238 00:14:53,280 --> 00:15:01,290 It depends on how much they pay you so much Now, hold on a 239 00:15:01,290 --> 00:15:03,210 second. Yeah, and Kerry's gonna do something here. 240 00:15:05,130 --> 00:15:07,590 So let's go over this speech unless you got something else to 241 00:15:07,590 --> 00:15:08,160 say, No, I 242 00:15:08,160 --> 00:15:10,440 got tons of stuff. But I'd love to go over the speech with you 243 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:11,160 this one. Okay, well, I 244 00:15:11,160 --> 00:15:13,530 got the speech play by play, I want to bore people stiff. So 245 00:15:13,530 --> 00:15:15,480 I'm going to put my give myself a 10 minute time limit. 246 00:15:15,510 --> 00:15:18,450 Okay, let me let me just set it up for you. Because we have to 247 00:15:18,480 --> 00:15:21,660 know a little bit of background. It is highly unusual for a new 248 00:15:21,660 --> 00:15:27,480 president to address. Congress this session. Yeah. Joint 249 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:28,950 Session isn't as Norway everybody 250 00:15:28,950 --> 00:15:31,680 call this State of the Union speech? What is with everybody? 251 00:15:31,770 --> 00:15:34,860 It was a it wasn't a state of aging. And no, it was. It was an 252 00:15:34,860 --> 00:15:37,860 address the joint sessions of Congress, but everybody 253 00:15:37,860 --> 00:15:42,180 newspapers and bloggers and everyone between they're in 254 00:15:42,180 --> 00:15:44,550 there. Yeah. Yeah. And it wasn't. 255 00:15:44,609 --> 00:15:49,319 And when I look at this through my European eyes, man, it's no 256 00:15:49,319 --> 00:15:54,149 wonder people think we're dicks. And this This is it's absolutely 257 00:15:54,899 --> 00:16:00,749 atrocious. Show. I mean, all it is, is oh, let's stand up and 258 00:16:00,749 --> 00:16:03,809 clap again. Oh, let's stand up and clap again. We're gonna 259 00:16:03,809 --> 00:16:08,189 lead. Oh, let's turn up. Oh, yes. It's just like, I mean, 260 00:16:08,219 --> 00:16:10,439 don't you feel that? 261 00:16:11,040 --> 00:16:16,680 Oh, do it starts off. I thought I was watching an NFL game. For 262 00:16:16,680 --> 00:16:20,070 one thing, it began late. He was 15 minutes late in his delivery. 263 00:16:20,070 --> 00:16:22,740 But that's beside the point. It starts off and by the way that I 264 00:16:22,740 --> 00:16:26,130 was watching on Fox initially and I could barely take looking 265 00:16:26,130 --> 00:16:29,070 at Shepard Smith because that guy has, if anybody has 266 00:16:29,070 --> 00:16:31,500 reptilian eyes as this Jeff Smith chips 267 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:34,170 mill Studio B. That's right. We're going down to New Orleans. 268 00:16:35,160 --> 00:16:38,910 By the way, consumer confidence down to 25%. Lower since 1967 269 00:16:38,910 --> 00:16:42,900 When the index was invented. Okay, so Nancy Pelosi is up 270 00:16:42,900 --> 00:16:44,550 there. She looks like share. 271 00:16:46,980 --> 00:16:51,510 Her hair is definitely somewhat out of control. And she's got a 272 00:16:51,540 --> 00:16:54,930 huge chest to at least in that outfit she had on? 273 00:16:55,380 --> 00:16:58,650 Yeah, well, it's probably stuffed with Kleenex. Anyway, 274 00:16:59,220 --> 00:16:59,670 money 275 00:17:01,140 --> 00:17:04,740 was money. So anyway, so it starts off and they bring in 276 00:17:04,740 --> 00:17:06,660 these these guys and make an announcement and they bring in 277 00:17:06,660 --> 00:17:09,720 the Supreme Court, who it looks like they're bringing in a 278 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:13,230 football team, in teams with a bunch of people on either side, 279 00:17:13,290 --> 00:17:17,160 leaning over high fiving sink pointings Jada and they come 280 00:17:17,160 --> 00:17:20,010 through, you know, these guys, and they're applauding arm and 281 00:17:20,010 --> 00:17:22,440 they sit down and then they go on and on and on. And then they 282 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,880 bring in Obama who comes in like a football quarterback. And 283 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:29,970 there's all these guys leaning over, shaking his hand patting 284 00:17:29,970 --> 00:17:33,270 him on the back, high fives, you know, knuckle punches, the whole 285 00:17:33,270 --> 00:17:37,650 thing is costing. It's unbelievable. And so they 286 00:17:37,650 --> 00:17:40,350 finally get in. He's pointing by the way he's pointing, 287 00:17:40,770 --> 00:17:43,470 like like Arsenio Hall, kind of like, Hey, man, I see you over 288 00:17:43,470 --> 00:17:44,220 there. How you doing? 289 00:17:44,220 --> 00:17:46,770 Hey, he's pointing his point. He's pointing I'm thinking, 290 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,760 That's okay. I'm okay with that. I mean, it's okay to have a 291 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:54,780 president who's kind of in this century, 292 00:17:56,310 --> 00:17:58,950 pointing is in the century and coming in high five and you 293 00:17:58,950 --> 00:18:02,220 didn't to give a speech. So he goes up and he does standing 294 00:18:02,220 --> 00:18:05,970 ovation, big standing ovation. He's up there. It begins he gets 295 00:18:05,970 --> 00:18:08,370 up to about 610 It goes on for about five minutes before 296 00:18:08,370 --> 00:18:11,850 actually gets started. 615 Everyone's standing Oh, standing 297 00:18:11,850 --> 00:18:15,990 Oh, so they every now he starts to he just makes it starts to 298 00:18:15,990 --> 00:18:18,690 make his intro. And everybody jumps back up and gives them 299 00:18:18,690 --> 00:18:21,300 another standing Oh, then they go down and then he said any 300 00:18:21,300 --> 00:18:24,450 mentions Michelle up in the audience, and they give her a 301 00:18:24,450 --> 00:18:25,410 standing ovation. 302 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:29,250 So it was Speaker of the House vice president members of 303 00:18:29,250 --> 00:18:31,830 Congress and I believe the First Lady is around here somewhere. I 304 00:18:31,830 --> 00:18:34,080 mean, it was slick, dude, come on. That was slick. 305 00:18:34,560 --> 00:18:38,520 Why does she get a standing ovation? What did she do? 306 00:18:39,450 --> 00:18:44,640 She's, well, I'm not even gonna say it. She's doing plenty. 307 00:18:45,810 --> 00:18:49,020 So she had Okay, so you think she deserves a standing ovation 308 00:18:49,020 --> 00:18:50,010 from Congress? 309 00:18:50,790 --> 00:18:53,250 Well, just ghost it. No, it just goes to show how 310 00:18:53,910 --> 00:18:56,640 they all sit down again. And he's a he uses the word we will 311 00:18:56,640 --> 00:19:00,930 rebuild standing ovation, rebuild what 312 00:19:01,410 --> 00:19:04,140 our leadership of the world. That's what that's the message 313 00:19:04,140 --> 00:19:07,950 we will lead. We will lead you the rest of the world. We are in 314 00:19:07,950 --> 00:19:09,030 charge of you. 315 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:14,040 He makes mention as he goes on, he makes mentioned about how 316 00:19:14,040 --> 00:19:18,600 regulations were gutted. Implying that it had to do with 317 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:24,240 the Bush administration. Most of the banking crisis stems from 318 00:19:24,240 --> 00:19:27,000 the Clinton administration when my first office the first thing 319 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:30,210 he did, what the first thing that clicked first thing Clinton 320 00:19:30,210 --> 00:19:33,660 did when he got elected, was he changed the regulation against 321 00:19:33,660 --> 00:19:36,780 interstate banking. We used to have it No, it was there was a 322 00:19:37,140 --> 00:19:39,780 provision to Bank of America. If it was in California, it had to 323 00:19:39,780 --> 00:19:42,390 stay in California. You didn't have these national banks, 324 00:19:42,420 --> 00:19:44,850 right? You didn't have these competitive banks that were 325 00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:47,790 every city around the country buying each other up because 326 00:19:47,790 --> 00:19:51,720 supposedly according to Clinton, we needed this to be more 327 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:55,590 competitive in the world banking work market. The fact of the 328 00:19:55,590 --> 00:19:58,620 matter is we had three of the biggest banks in the world with 329 00:19:58,620 --> 00:20:02,700 that old system in place. then by the end of Clinton's term, he 330 00:20:02,700 --> 00:20:06,420 repealed the Glass Steagall Act, which was put in place by the 331 00:20:06,420 --> 00:20:09,450 Roosevelt administration to Prevent an economic meltdown. 332 00:20:10,950 --> 00:20:15,330 Anyway. And then, of course, the bankruptcy laws were changed. 333 00:20:15,330 --> 00:20:19,320 thanks to Joe Biden, he was one of the main guys on that. So but 334 00:20:19,320 --> 00:20:22,740 that's okay. Blame bush for this. It's fine. The Republicans 335 00:20:22,740 --> 00:20:26,130 didn't do a very good job. Let's face it. So if it goes on, and I 336 00:20:26,130 --> 00:20:28,860 was standing, oh, after standing, oh, up and down, up 337 00:20:28,860 --> 00:20:30,900 and down, you think you're in a Catholic church at midnight 338 00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:36,600 mass. So the next thing that happens is that finally he 339 00:20:36,600 --> 00:20:39,210 starts to get into some partisan stuff. And so Dow less and he 340 00:20:39,210 --> 00:20:42,240 only gets a half a standing, oh, the Republicans stay seated. 341 00:20:43,230 --> 00:20:45,870 Which I thought was kind of interesting. He brings up to 342 00:20:45,900 --> 00:20:50,430 save or create 3.5 million jobs, you know, with this. Bogus by 343 00:20:50,430 --> 00:20:53,670 the way, that number keeps changing. Now it's 3.5 million. 344 00:20:53,700 --> 00:20:56,940 Well, it was it was three, it was four. And then at the end, 345 00:20:57,360 --> 00:20:57,600 it was 346 00:20:57,600 --> 00:21:00,780 fine. It was 2.5. Anyway, but the BBC 347 00:21:01,289 --> 00:21:06,089 on their their news ticker, forgot to add the Create part. 348 00:21:06,719 --> 00:21:12,239 So they were just saying Obama, colon, save 3 million jobs. So 349 00:21:12,239 --> 00:21:13,079 it's already morphing. 350 00:21:14,190 --> 00:21:18,090 It's morphing, then he's good distribution keeps going Yes. 351 00:21:18,090 --> 00:21:20,820 The same pretty much as standard speech. I was very good. I mean, 352 00:21:20,820 --> 00:21:23,310 the guy's a great speaker, especially compared to Bush, I 353 00:21:23,310 --> 00:21:23,940 heard the, 354 00:21:23,970 --> 00:21:26,820 you know, the, the kid who writes his speech, I read in 355 00:21:26,820 --> 00:21:29,880 Financial Times, that he was standing in the corner with his 356 00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,670 BlackBerry and he was literally mouthing the words, you know, 357 00:21:32,670 --> 00:21:36,960 like he was lip syncing along with Obama. Because of course, 358 00:21:36,960 --> 00:21:37,530 he wrote it. 359 00:21:38,370 --> 00:21:40,710 As always reminds me when you get when you do a TV shoot, and 360 00:21:40,710 --> 00:21:42,840 you got two people, one of them is an amateur and you're walking 361 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:45,990 off a prompter and one person is talking and the other one's loud 362 00:21:46,530 --> 00:21:47,310 mouthing along 363 00:21:47,310 --> 00:21:51,300 with the words I know. That was kind of what it was in fact, 364 00:21:51,540 --> 00:21:53,670 once reading off the teleprompter and the other ones 365 00:21:53,670 --> 00:21:55,020 not and he's mouthing along 366 00:21:55,470 --> 00:21:58,170 Yeah, well you wrote it so then they will also have the says 367 00:21:58,170 --> 00:22:02,370 something about Nobody messes with Joe and he gets a standing 368 00:22:02,370 --> 00:22:07,770 ovation and then which I just like why and so you know, can't 369 00:22:07,770 --> 00:22:10,350 you idiots sit down for a minute just listen to the speech 370 00:22:10,380 --> 00:22:14,460 because is is a mafia don man he's he's a big big man on 371 00:22:14,460 --> 00:22:17,460 campus everyone wants to go to shows respect to the dumb kiss 372 00:22:17,460 --> 00:22:18,000 the ring 373 00:22:18,930 --> 00:22:23,010 lending he got it standing over for saying lending fund whatever 374 00:22:23,010 --> 00:22:26,010 that means being me well, they put a camera shot on Joe 375 00:22:26,010 --> 00:22:28,410 Lieberman who was kind of rolling his eyes throughout the 376 00:22:28,410 --> 00:22:32,490 speech. It was kind of humorous. I'm I was reminded right about 377 00:22:32,490 --> 00:22:34,740 this point of the you know, this, this thing where we're 378 00:22:34,740 --> 00:22:37,950 going to do this, we're going to you know, they all these kinds 379 00:22:37,950 --> 00:22:40,320 of threats against the executives. 380 00:22:40,860 --> 00:22:45,510 Go Yeah, you can't get a nice little wash room. No makeover, 381 00:22:45,510 --> 00:22:48,870 forget you forget your fancy jet, because it doesn't compare 382 00:22:48,870 --> 00:22:50,850 to an $11 billion helicopter fleet. 383 00:22:51,809 --> 00:22:57,509 And so I was reminded of the Jimmy Carter banishment of the 384 00:22:57,509 --> 00:23:02,699 three Martini lunch. Similar kind of, you know, what are 385 00:23:02,699 --> 00:23:04,799 these people doing? They're drinking martinis at lunch. My 386 00:23:04,799 --> 00:23:09,269 God. By the way, Hillary Clinton was wearing hot fuchsia. 387 00:23:11,279 --> 00:23:13,679 Somebody mentioned this before that once Hillary stopped 388 00:23:13,679 --> 00:23:16,259 running for office, she could go back to the way she likes to 389 00:23:16,259 --> 00:23:19,889 dress, which apparently is more like a neon sign and anything 390 00:23:19,889 --> 00:23:24,029 else. And so she's wearing this hot fuchsia dress, which is 391 00:23:24,029 --> 00:23:27,599 enough to blind and I think was actually illegal for NTSC. 392 00:23:28,259 --> 00:23:29,549 Intelligence. It's, it's 393 00:23:30,630 --> 00:23:33,360 sort of the color scale the spectrum of this switch, you 394 00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:36,300 know, where she wears it. I mean, you know, politics show 395 00:23:36,300 --> 00:23:38,520 business for Ugly people, she that's why she wants to make 396 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,520 sure that you see or that your eye is drawn to her. It's one of 397 00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:43,680 the oldest tricks in the book. It's like the red tie or the 398 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:44,280 blue tie. 399 00:23:44,999 --> 00:23:48,299 Exactly. So she's doing the pull back the camera you can see in 400 00:23:48,299 --> 00:23:51,089 the Congress, there was her in the front with this fuchsia 401 00:23:51,119 --> 00:23:55,139 dress, but you can see at least one other person possibly to 402 00:23:55,169 --> 00:23:58,919 also wearing the same Gosh, awful color. And then a third 403 00:23:58,919 --> 00:24:03,059 and fourth person wearing like red, you know, in the middle of 404 00:24:03,059 --> 00:24:07,169 this kind of very dour looking group. 405 00:24:07,860 --> 00:24:09,150 All right, what else anywhere else? 406 00:24:10,170 --> 00:24:13,140 Well, I got the impression watching. You know, I would like 407 00:24:13,140 --> 00:24:16,590 to re cut the speech and instead of having all the standing 408 00:24:16,590 --> 00:24:21,120 ovations, you cut to a clip from a Betty Boop cartoon of that 409 00:24:21,150 --> 00:24:25,230 audience that that clapping and going crazy with the you know, 410 00:24:25,230 --> 00:24:27,900 the hippo in the front and the elephant and all this because I 411 00:24:27,900 --> 00:24:30,360 think it would fit right right in there. He didn't mention the 412 00:24:30,360 --> 00:24:31,470 carbon cap. 413 00:24:32,039 --> 00:24:35,549 Yeah, the cat the cap and trade scheme, right? 414 00:24:35,670 --> 00:24:39,090 Yeah, cap and trade some bullshit and then that got a 415 00:24:39,090 --> 00:24:42,000 double standing ovation. And Biden got out well, but it 416 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:42,390 started 417 00:24:42,570 --> 00:24:46,140 with the cap and trade is essentially attacks. I did some 418 00:24:46,140 --> 00:24:49,860 reading on him, see if I can find the link for it. But But 419 00:24:49,860 --> 00:24:55,320 essentially, they expect it to fund a lot of the budget. So 420 00:24:55,350 --> 00:24:57,780 that means it's a form of attacks. 421 00:24:58,440 --> 00:25:00,840 Yeah, well, everything's a form of attack. axe to just come up 422 00:25:00,840 --> 00:25:03,300 with a new way of making it, you know, sneaking it in on the 423 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:08,490 stupid public. Somehow though I got a kick out of this. He snuck 424 00:25:08,490 --> 00:25:12,150 in the Word. And I think this was, you know, this was a little 425 00:25:12,150 --> 00:25:13,560 bit of Nobody. Nobody 426 00:25:13,560 --> 00:25:15,090 didn't sneak in Octomom Diddy. 427 00:25:15,719 --> 00:25:21,809 And no, he snuck into the term clean coal. Hmm. Yeah, I did 428 00:25:21,809 --> 00:25:25,049 hear that. Yeah, he snuck that in. And then of course, he 429 00:25:25,049 --> 00:25:29,729 caught everybody off guard with the bogus pronouncement that we 430 00:25:29,759 --> 00:25:36,149 somehow invented the automobile. I love that. What? Why would I 431 00:25:36,149 --> 00:25:37,049 say what he said? 432 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:40,470 But you'd be amazed John, how many people believe that? 433 00:25:41,099 --> 00:25:45,269 Oh, I'm sure whereas I'm sure even more believe it now that he 434 00:25:45,269 --> 00:25:45,809 said it 435 00:25:45,929 --> 00:25:50,579 with the claim, of course is that Henry Ford invented the 436 00:25:50,609 --> 00:25:54,509 production assembly line. Yeah, and really the mass produced 437 00:25:54,509 --> 00:25:55,709 vehicle but of course it 438 00:25:55,710 --> 00:25:59,190 was a Jeep Junker. Yeah, it was you know what we're still known 439 00:25:59,190 --> 00:26:00,630 for it to this day. Of course, 440 00:26:00,630 --> 00:26:06,480 it was German guys like Benz and Daimler and Maybach who invented 441 00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:07,230 the automobile 442 00:26:08,070 --> 00:26:09,990 ya know, the Germans were way ahead of us on that 443 00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:11,880 they I think they still are actually 444 00:26:14,070 --> 00:26:18,540 think the Japanese are ahead of everybody. Sorry to tell you to 445 00:26:18,570 --> 00:26:21,090 bad news for the Germans but I don't think anybody makes a 446 00:26:21,090 --> 00:26:27,090 better car than the Japanese and you know, they got the hybrids 447 00:26:27,090 --> 00:26:28,710 out and all this other stuff. I just 448 00:26:29,910 --> 00:26:31,740 rolled out the hybrids. Well, 449 00:26:32,370 --> 00:26:35,130 I still make V eight engines that are that are unbelievable. 450 00:26:35,130 --> 00:26:39,300 I mean, that engine and Alexis a VA that thing has got when I was 451 00:26:39,300 --> 00:26:43,440 a kid, we used VH used to be the big deal. You had to have a VA 452 00:26:43,440 --> 00:26:45,810 but you'd need your soup them up as best you can. But you could 453 00:26:45,810 --> 00:26:51,090 never to get one to get one horsepower per cubic inch was 454 00:26:51,090 --> 00:26:54,090 like you had a race car, essentially. I mean, to get to 455 00:26:54,090 --> 00:26:58,620 that. Comprehend level. Yeah. Yeah, well, these, these 456 00:26:58,650 --> 00:27:02,100 Japanese have gone way beyond that. And it's in the car and 457 00:27:02,100 --> 00:27:04,770 the engines run smooth as glass. It's just like, how does that 458 00:27:04,770 --> 00:27:08,880 work? I mean, you have a four liter engine with 250 459 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:12,420 horsepower, 300 horsepower in the newer versions, and 460 00:27:14,130 --> 00:27:16,080 they're using Wankel engines. That's why 461 00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:20,520 using nobody use the only that one crappy wangling, at least he 462 00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:20,910 tried it. 463 00:27:20,940 --> 00:27:25,200 I once had a model that I built of a Wankel engine, a plastic 464 00:27:25,230 --> 00:27:28,200 kit model. Yeah, it was cool. And it was a little battery. So 465 00:27:28,260 --> 00:27:30,660 it actually ran, you could understand the principle of the 466 00:27:30,660 --> 00:27:35,070 Wankel, but I just like saying it rankle Yeah, baby, sure you 467 00:27:35,070 --> 00:27:35,700 do touch my 468 00:27:35,820 --> 00:27:39,090 ankle. By the way, I got a meme out of this, which I think 469 00:27:39,090 --> 00:27:41,640 you're gonna run into it here and again, yeah, there's, by the 470 00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:45,390 way, a game called Obama. Bingo. Now, how many times is he gonna 471 00:27:45,390 --> 00:27:49,680 say this and that. But this is the meme. It's not a Democrat 472 00:27:49,680 --> 00:27:52,950 issue. It's not a Republican issue. It's an American issue. 473 00:27:53,070 --> 00:27:55,350 Yeah. I thought that was a good one. 474 00:27:55,590 --> 00:28:00,750 Yeah. And then it's the men and women who sent me here. Not the 475 00:28:00,750 --> 00:28:05,460 Americans, not the people. No, this was a good speech. I didn't 476 00:28:05,460 --> 00:28:08,670 hear anything new. I mean, I'd like to get down to the numbers. 477 00:28:08,820 --> 00:28:14,340 Most interesting, of course, is that a amidst all of what has 478 00:28:14,340 --> 00:28:19,680 happened this week, a bill was introduced that I think it's 479 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:26,340 voted on today or tomorrow, the omnibus bill, which is kind of 480 00:28:26,340 --> 00:28:29,580 under the radar, of course, it's only $410 billion. 481 00:28:30,030 --> 00:28:32,940 So it's hardly worth mentioning nothing nothing. 482 00:28:32,970 --> 00:28:36,930 Are you familiar with the with the omnibus bill? Now tell me 483 00:28:36,990 --> 00:28:42,660 the omnibus bill which is is just being rammed right through 484 00:28:42,690 --> 00:28:48,990 no pro blamer is what Pelosi calls it all the stuff we had 485 00:28:48,990 --> 00:28:53,160 leftover from the previous administration says like eight 486 00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,660 and a half 1000 basically earmarks all jammed into one 487 00:28:57,960 --> 00:29:02,700 bill, which they call the honest report this this is all the pork 488 00:29:02,700 --> 00:29:07,980 is here. And it's just outrageous when you read the 489 00:29:07,980 --> 00:29:12,540 stuff that's in here. Hold on, I just have to bring it up. I 490 00:29:12,540 --> 00:29:15,990 mean, what's nice about all the transparency of course that we 491 00:29:15,990 --> 00:29:18,570 have these days is you can actually get all these documents 492 00:29:18,570 --> 00:29:20,250 and and download them. 493 00:29:22,290 --> 00:29:25,140 So it's like people who do that. David Obey 494 00:29:25,140 --> 00:29:28,260 House Appropriations Chair wants to rebuild Carnegie Library 495 00:29:28,260 --> 00:29:33,930 building in Medford reconstruct historic lighthouses, the sea 496 00:29:33,930 --> 00:29:38,820 perimeter fence around Roundtree airport and Alabama. But you 497 00:29:38,820 --> 00:29:44,310 know, $410 billion worth and no one's talking about it. Call his 498 00:29:44,310 --> 00:29:50,280 tie even has a cool name omnibus. It's now the news is 499 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:53,250 not covering it. It's an it gets a vote, I believe today or 500 00:29:53,250 --> 00:29:58,050 tomorrow. So now we've just completely lost track. Other 501 00:29:58,050 --> 00:30:00,360 than the total number which actually was just the announced 502 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:06,780 the total. The President, this administration's budget $1.75 503 00:30:06,780 --> 00:30:14,670 trillion. Yes. Is the the total budget. And I'm sure the 410 504 00:30:14,670 --> 00:30:17,160 billion is a part of it. But it's just mind boggling. You 505 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,620 know, it's just stuff that we don't need. I mean, yeah, I 506 00:30:19,620 --> 00:30:24,210 mean, come on. Do the historic lighthouses and five years, 507 00:30:24,390 --> 00:30:25,620 they'll still be historic. 508 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:29,070 Yeah, and they'll still be lighthouses. And I don't think 509 00:30:29,070 --> 00:30:31,290 we need another fence. But anyway, I'm sure there's some 510 00:30:31,290 --> 00:30:33,390 really good stuff in there. I should plow through that myself. 511 00:30:33,420 --> 00:30:35,940 I'll have the links will be in the show notes. I've got the 512 00:30:35,940 --> 00:30:40,890 links for it. Okay, as a part of this whole week was just amazing 513 00:30:40,890 --> 00:30:44,850 to watch. Not to be outdone by the G 20. Which of course, over 514 00:30:44,850 --> 00:30:49,500 here, there's a lot of stuff going on. In regards to to the 515 00:30:49,500 --> 00:30:54,150 financial crisis. Europe is, you know, totally preparing to 516 00:30:54,180 --> 00:30:58,140 launch something big. They're all in cahoots in there. And 517 00:30:58,140 --> 00:31:00,990 that being real, you know, real hush hush about when you're 518 00:31:00,990 --> 00:31:05,880 coming out with dumb statements. But not to be outdone, the Obama 519 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,550 administration had their own financial Summit, which just 520 00:31:08,550 --> 00:31:13,140 like appeared out of nowhere. And I, I've been twittering, 521 00:31:13,140 --> 00:31:16,740 I've been searching. Nowhere could I find it? But again, in 522 00:31:16,740 --> 00:31:20,040 the Financial Times, there was a fantastic little piece there 523 00:31:20,040 --> 00:31:23,580 that said that Lauren Summers, who, of course, is the head of 524 00:31:23,580 --> 00:31:27,480 the President's economic advisory board that he fell 525 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:32,640 asleep on the podium. And and I you know, kind of like the the 526 00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,250 Japanese finance minister, like wouldn't it be great to have 527 00:31:35,250 --> 00:31:37,680 those two guys, you know, in a video next to each other, but I 528 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:40,650 just couldn't no one has it apparently. Or it's been, you 529 00:31:40,650 --> 00:31:46,230 know, embargoed, but this guy apparently falls asleep a lot. 530 00:31:46,770 --> 00:31:49,440 And he's probably got narcolepsy. Yeah, they call him 531 00:31:49,440 --> 00:31:52,980 Lawrence have absurd idea. But 532 00:31:53,700 --> 00:31:55,950 yeah, well, let me just finish my little rundown here. Sure. 533 00:31:55,980 --> 00:31:58,740 Sure, we can get out of it. So anyway, I'm just this is a point 534 00:31:58,740 --> 00:32:01,140 where there's I think about two thirds of the way through all of 535 00:32:01,140 --> 00:32:03,870 a sudden narratives here we come. We're gonna do some, like 536 00:32:03,870 --> 00:32:06,750 make people feel good. There's Solly. 537 00:32:07,080 --> 00:32:12,870 Oh, right. Yeah, yeah. Oh, my goodness. Yep. But he was mostly 538 00:32:12,870 --> 00:32:15,900 invited him. Yeah. Well, I you know what, there is a reason 539 00:32:15,900 --> 00:32:20,190 John, I'm so glad you brought this up. So Sullenberger and the 540 00:32:20,190 --> 00:32:25,620 copilot, his name evades me for a moment, I'll get to that. 541 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:32,640 We're at the house on this. Yeah. On a on a special FAA 542 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:38,100 meeting. And it's just it's amazing the things that came out 543 00:32:38,100 --> 00:32:41,400 of that out of that meeting, which was on C span, 544 00:32:42,180 --> 00:32:46,380 essentially, Sullenberger, Sally's message was he know if 545 00:32:46,380 --> 00:32:50,460 we don't take care of the pilots union and and all the other 546 00:32:50,460 --> 00:32:53,580 unions if you know, if we don't, you know, put our money where 547 00:32:53,580 --> 00:32:56,940 our mouth is and keep these people happily gainfully and 548 00:32:56,940 --> 00:33:01,200 properly employed and properly compensated, you know, we just 549 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,110 can't promise your safety that was essentially the message he's 550 00:33:04,110 --> 00:33:06,870 literally saying here Well, there's going to be new pilots 551 00:33:06,870 --> 00:33:09,570 who are less experienced and have been rushed to the system 552 00:33:09,570 --> 00:33:14,670 and basically you know, I guess he's on the this was a ploy for 553 00:33:14,670 --> 00:33:18,360 the for the unions, basically was saying you got to pay up or 554 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:20,790 forget about it, or you'll just have no safety. 555 00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,410 And of course, then they can point to that flight in that one 556 00:33:25,410 --> 00:33:32,160 that was mysteriously crashed with that. 911 woman aboard 557 00:33:33,570 --> 00:33:36,510 what what was funny my mental flight? Yeah, yeah. What was 558 00:33:36,510 --> 00:33:44,310 funny though, is the copilot was also there. I'm looking for the 559 00:33:45,810 --> 00:33:48,750 the exact code also the air traffic controller was there. I 560 00:33:48,750 --> 00:33:52,860 mean, though, the whole trifecta. And so they're talking 561 00:33:52,860 --> 00:33:55,800 about this, this bird strike now, I promised I wouldn't talk 562 00:33:55,800 --> 00:33:59,520 about it anymore, but it's highly unusual. Let's put it 563 00:33:59,520 --> 00:34:03,060 that way for both engines to be snuffed out by birds. You can 564 00:34:03,060 --> 00:34:05,850 google both look on YouTube. You can see how they test these 565 00:34:05,850 --> 00:34:08,910 engines they actually shoot frozen turkeys into the engines 566 00:34:08,910 --> 00:34:11,970 and the engines are fine. They don't stop you know frozen 567 00:34:11,970 --> 00:34:16,080 turkeys. Okay, it's like these, these engines can handle some 568 00:34:16,110 --> 00:34:20,130 some bird strike edge. But normally you'd it particularly 569 00:34:20,130 --> 00:34:23,040 if you went through a flock of geese which were so large that 570 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,130 they snuffed out both engines, there would have been other hull 571 00:34:26,130 --> 00:34:29,190 damage and you don't see any damage at all. And then the 572 00:34:29,190 --> 00:34:34,470 copilot says, this was the biggest bird I've ever seen. He 573 00:34:34,470 --> 00:34:37,650 says that a mistake like what is this big bird from Sesame Street 574 00:34:37,650 --> 00:34:40,590 flying through the air. You know, if you're flying and when 575 00:34:40,590 --> 00:34:42,720 you're driving along, you might have had a bird hit your 576 00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:47,850 windshield. It's really hard to assess the size of the bird when 577 00:34:47,850 --> 00:34:51,060 it hits your windshield going 50 or 60 miles and miles an hour. 578 00:34:51,060 --> 00:34:54,510 So imagine imagine going 150 And it's not against your 579 00:34:54,510 --> 00:34:57,090 windshield. It's apparently to have these big birds in your 580 00:34:57,090 --> 00:34:59,970 engines. I mean, the whole thing just smells and it doesn't smell 581 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,490 rotting bird flats, which is what they also claim they could 582 00:35:02,490 --> 00:35:03,000 smell. 583 00:35:03,540 --> 00:35:07,200 Well, it's possible that they hit a flock of Tara Daniels. 584 00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:10,410 I'm thinking this is a war. There's a war going on between 585 00:35:10,410 --> 00:35:13,860 Airbus and Boeing. And they're just bringing each other's 586 00:35:13,860 --> 00:35:17,070 planes down red random, just to prove that they the other ones. 587 00:35:17,400 --> 00:35:19,980 You heard about this Turkish Air flight that crashed at Schiphol 588 00:35:19,980 --> 00:35:20,910 airport yesterday. 589 00:35:21,150 --> 00:35:23,730 Yeah, I heard about that nine people dead at least now 590 00:35:23,730 --> 00:35:26,310 horrible, horrible scene. But of course, 591 00:35:26,910 --> 00:35:30,990 there's there's two interesting things about this mishap this 592 00:35:31,500 --> 00:35:36,000 accident, one that I found out about it on Twitter before 593 00:35:36,000 --> 00:35:39,810 anything else hit. And it was, you know, the all the pictures 594 00:35:39,810 --> 00:35:42,930 that the new the cable outlets were showing were all Twit pics. 595 00:35:42,930 --> 00:35:47,730 And so it kind of shows that we've built our own news network 596 00:35:47,760 --> 00:35:51,360 around the established media. Which is interesting, because 597 00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,520 you know, literally just Twitter when crazy, you know, there's 598 00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,790 enough interconnections with people, you follow that and 599 00:35:56,790 --> 00:36:00,420 retweeting going on that it works. And it was definitely 600 00:36:00,450 --> 00:36:03,690 well known to lots of people before it hit the mainstream 601 00:36:03,690 --> 00:36:08,760 media. And so 10 minutes after this, this crash takes place, 602 00:36:08,940 --> 00:36:13,920 I'm already over at a live ATC dotnet, because they they record 603 00:36:13,950 --> 00:36:18,990 all three frequencies of people air traffic control. So they've 604 00:36:18,990 --> 00:36:23,160 got ground delivery, they've got approach, and then they have the 605 00:36:23,160 --> 00:36:27,420 tower. And so I'd start downloading, and they do it by 606 00:36:27,420 --> 00:36:29,760 half hour. So you can just say, Oh, give me this half hour 607 00:36:29,760 --> 00:36:32,610 archive. So it's em, one, two, and three, and I get one and 608 00:36:32,610 --> 00:36:35,760 two. And so that's approach and ground. This is what you've been 609 00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,640 hearing on television, you know, where the guy says, Oh, we have 610 00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:42,330 a major emergency here, airplane down, etc. And you also hear the 611 00:36:42,330 --> 00:36:47,160 handoff from approach to the tower. But the tower recordings 612 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:50,940 offline, 10 minutes after the incident, not available. I've 613 00:36:50,940 --> 00:36:53,430 been following all the news conferences. They say no, no, 614 00:36:53,430 --> 00:36:56,880 that's not going to be released until already and, and just 615 00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:02,820 looking at this accident, John, there's very, I can rule out a 616 00:37:02,820 --> 00:37:05,010 lot of stuff. And I can tell you what I think it is. And I 617 00:37:05,010 --> 00:37:09,060 actually I blogged about it. But once again, you know, why did 618 00:37:09,060 --> 00:37:13,380 these authorities always withhold certain bits of 619 00:37:13,380 --> 00:37:15,900 information? You know, it's public, it was out it's public 620 00:37:15,900 --> 00:37:19,080 airwaves, just let us hear it. Why don't you want Why won't you 621 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,410 let us hear what the tower said what was said, you know, between 622 00:37:22,410 --> 00:37:28,500 the 10 mind the 10 miles out and and the 2000 feet from the from 623 00:37:28,500 --> 00:37:32,310 the threshold? Why won't they let us hear it? It just really 624 00:37:32,310 --> 00:37:33,150 irritates me. 625 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,830 i We noticed. So what is the what is your take on it? 626 00:37:38,009 --> 00:37:39,119 fuel starvation, 627 00:37:40,260 --> 00:37:41,670 fuel starvation. Yeah. 628 00:37:43,590 --> 00:37:50,250 So that means that they were out of fuel on up on their final 629 00:37:50,250 --> 00:37:55,260 approach. Now this is I'm only saying this because I've heard 630 00:37:55,260 --> 00:38:00,180 this from sources who really would are in the position to 631 00:38:00,180 --> 00:38:07,080 know who work at PayPal. And, and it's consistent with a lot 632 00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:12,030 of things like it and didn't know no fire, you know, upon 633 00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,950 upon impact, and then a whole whole bunch of things. And also, 634 00:38:16,950 --> 00:38:19,080 these guys were really they were really booked and they were 635 00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:23,250 going very, very fast. Even he hear the approach controller say 636 00:38:23,250 --> 00:38:25,350 well, you'd gone pretty fast with that approach. But within 637 00:38:25,350 --> 00:38:28,350 limits, go ahead and you know, turn to two zero to one eight. 638 00:38:28,350 --> 00:38:35,100 Right. And that's the last we have a recording of it. But and 639 00:38:35,130 --> 00:38:37,650 but you know, it's a big deal because Turkish Airlines is a 640 00:38:37,650 --> 00:38:40,740 state run company, you can't just go around making 641 00:38:40,740 --> 00:38:46,020 accusations obviously. Right? But it's just Oh, no antenna. 642 00:38:46,020 --> 00:38:48,840 Why? Why would they pull that offline? And what what are they 643 00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,480 going to? What are they going to say? The reason is, you know, 644 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,000 will they give us any reasonable explanation already to saying 645 00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:57,000 well, it could take a year to figure it out? Let's just hear 646 00:38:57,000 --> 00:38:59,490 that one piece of audio maybe maybe there's something in 647 00:38:59,490 --> 00:38:59,790 there. 648 00:39:00,210 --> 00:39:05,430 Yeah, like we're out of fuel. Yeah, yeah. So what is it what 649 00:39:05,430 --> 00:39:06,330 kind of plane was it 650 00:39:06,690 --> 00:39:09,750 seven through seven Boeing seven through seven 800 relatively new 651 00:39:09,750 --> 00:39:10,410 aircraft. 652 00:39:11,159 --> 00:39:15,089 So we have our Boeing down Airbus down so it'll be an 653 00:39:15,089 --> 00:39:15,659 Airbus will be 654 00:39:16,139 --> 00:39:19,829 the next I will say that you know very much like the Airbus 655 00:39:19,829 --> 00:39:24,809 which had problems the previous day or or two days before this 656 00:39:24,809 --> 00:39:29,249 aircraft also had actually had they aborted a takeoff a day 657 00:39:29,249 --> 00:39:31,319 before with this aircraft because something that 658 00:39:31,349 --> 00:39:36,959 unspecified as of yet what was wrong so anyway, I 659 00:39:37,380 --> 00:39:40,590 was anybody interesting aboard that? Well, there were a couple 660 00:39:40,590 --> 00:39:46,680 of Boeing engineers. But I don't think that well of 661 00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:50,640 course every single person is interesting. Yeah, I know. Life 662 00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:52,620 is interesting. And that's a horrible if 663 00:39:54,179 --> 00:39:58,019 you're a banker on there was yes. There was a banker on board 664 00:39:59,999 --> 00:40:05,279 I saw the couple of reports be banker on board. The next slide. 665 00:40:07,799 --> 00:40:11,339 Excuse me, sir? Are you a banker? Miss Miss? Could I leave 666 00:40:11,339 --> 00:40:18,059 the aircraft? Oh, my goodness, I had a horrible accident, but 667 00:40:18,809 --> 00:40:21,419 just really irritating that they are and you still can't get to 668 00:40:21,419 --> 00:40:26,459 any of the tower archives for the entire day. So, you know, 669 00:40:26,459 --> 00:40:29,369 it's like, and I don't know who runs like I don't think it's the 670 00:40:29,369 --> 00:40:34,289 FAA or anybody who runs a live ATC dotnet. I'm not quite sure 671 00:40:34,289 --> 00:40:37,169 who runs it, you know, but someone's taken something off 672 00:40:37,169 --> 00:40:37,859 for a reason. 673 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,600 Yeah, well, just, it just makes people more suspicious. I don't 674 00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:43,200 know why they bother. 675 00:40:44,130 --> 00:40:46,980 And when they're in the do this press conference, of course I 676 00:40:46,980 --> 00:40:51,960 speak Dutch. So I can, you know, follow a lot of the, you know, I 677 00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:54,630 can read the body language and the tone of voice and they're 678 00:40:54,630 --> 00:40:59,040 irritated that the journalists are saying, Hey, when are you 679 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:01,380 going to release the tower audio? Well, it's a part of an 680 00:41:01,380 --> 00:41:05,160 ongoing investigation. All right. All right. 681 00:41:09,449 --> 00:41:12,719 All right. So back to the let me finish up my rundown of this 682 00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:13,169 speech. 683 00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:15,900 I'm just injecting some color into it. So it doesn't get too 684 00:41:15,900 --> 00:41:16,650 boring. No, that's, I 685 00:41:16,650 --> 00:41:18,690 think it's a great thing. Because I did just if I just did 686 00:41:18,690 --> 00:41:23,730 the straight up, it would suck. I've come up with the wood. 687 00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:26,340 Because at this point, now we're getting to the end of the speech 688 00:41:26,340 --> 00:41:29,370 where he pulls the Ronald Reagan and starts pointing people out 689 00:41:29,370 --> 00:41:33,810 in the audience. They Solly did this and that you didn't do the 690 00:41:33,810 --> 00:41:37,410 solid one, but he did this black girl and some marine and some 691 00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:38,250 somebody else. 692 00:41:39,150 --> 00:41:41,520 The girl whose school was falling apart. 693 00:41:41,940 --> 00:41:44,610 Yeah. And she said we're not quitters. And you know, she was 694 00:41:44,610 --> 00:41:47,730 sitting there and I've decided that you know, since she's 695 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,370 supposedly this is supposed to be his Reagan like speech and 696 00:41:50,370 --> 00:41:53,400 then they're gonna you know, there's the I get the sense that 697 00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,610 he's kind of I think he's going to become the Steven Spielberg 698 00:41:56,640 --> 00:41:59,280 of presidents where he like keeps stealing, you know, other 699 00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:05,340 people's ideas to you know, way presents this stuff. Then at the 700 00:42:05,340 --> 00:42:10,020 end, which is the we're It's over now. The at the end, he 701 00:42:10,020 --> 00:42:12,210 says it takes him forever to get out of the hall because all 702 00:42:12,210 --> 00:42:16,050 these people want his autograph, including all these members of 703 00:42:16,050 --> 00:42:19,020 Congress. And I'm thinking if you're a member of Congress, 704 00:42:19,020 --> 00:42:22,230 don't you see the president once maybe in two years? I mean, at 705 00:42:22,230 --> 00:42:26,070 least for two seconds. Can't you get the autograph then? Yeah, I 706 00:42:26,070 --> 00:42:28,200 mean, it was like he looked like a rock star leaving the place 707 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,960 with all these autographs and of course they left that on for a 708 00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:34,320 while on a couple of these networks and then we got the the 709 00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:38,520 Republican the blame and pathetic Republican response to 710 00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:44,100 all this by who I have to now consider a an idiot. Bobby 711 00:42:44,100 --> 00:42:47,970 Jindal, the governor of Louisiana who comes out and 712 00:42:47,970 --> 00:42:52,290 basically sucks reads from a teleprompter doesn't sound like 713 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:55,260 even listen to Obama's speech because he's saying stuff in 714 00:42:55,260 --> 00:42:57,450 there. We're not going to do that with Bama never said this 715 00:42:57,450 --> 00:43:01,200 stuff. He never even said it was like a comedy acted was a 716 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:03,810 complete humiliation that they would have him be the 717 00:43:03,810 --> 00:43:06,060 representative of the Republican Party. He's supposed to be the 718 00:43:06,060 --> 00:43:10,140 future of the party. I don't think so. This guy, you know, 719 00:43:10,140 --> 00:43:14,160 can't read from a prompter. He was nervous. He reminded his his 720 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:18,450 cadence was exactly like the beaver on Leave It to Beaver. 721 00:43:19,170 --> 00:43:24,780 Wally me it was the same kind of weird, you know, a natural 722 00:43:24,780 --> 00:43:27,660 cadence because he does apparently can't read very well. 723 00:43:28,140 --> 00:43:31,230 And and he had to read from this piece of crap speech that 724 00:43:31,260 --> 00:43:38,010 somebody wrote for him. I even said Baton Rouge. No real Yeah, 725 00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:45,630 I wrote letters Baton Rouge. That's funny. He also talked 726 00:43:45,630 --> 00:43:48,930 about government failures at Katrina and now that then some 727 00:43:48,930 --> 00:43:51,000 right now but he should have said Katrina that would have 728 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:51,660 been even better. 729 00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:55,470 Well, actually Obama made a mistake on the off the prompter 730 00:43:55,470 --> 00:43:57,930 which indicates a typical prompter where he let's see if I 731 00:43:57,930 --> 00:44:01,650 have it. He there's certain things that you will do if 732 00:44:01,650 --> 00:44:05,010 you're reading off a prompter. You read words wrong that you 733 00:44:05,010 --> 00:44:06,390 would never actually say wrong. 734 00:44:06,420 --> 00:44:08,910 Yeah. Yeah, your cadence will be wrong. 735 00:44:09,630 --> 00:44:13,110 And it's just too Anyway, it's somewhere. So he goes on about 736 00:44:13,110 --> 00:44:17,460 this. So So meanwhile, I switch around. And I go to MSNBC where 737 00:44:17,460 --> 00:44:20,970 they have the you know, the great, you know, apologists for 738 00:44:21,150 --> 00:44:27,540 all things Democrat. Keith Olbermann, Rachel Maddow, and 739 00:44:28,020 --> 00:44:32,640 Chris Matthews. After the after the Jin doll speech, they 740 00:44:32,640 --> 00:44:36,120 couldn't even attack him. They basically their their jaws 741 00:44:36,749 --> 00:44:42,089 dropped open, right? They just rerun and just rerun it. That's 742 00:44:42,089 --> 00:44:43,499 better than any commentary. 743 00:44:43,650 --> 00:44:48,900 Seriously, they Oh, here's the one for Obama said sand and said 744 00:44:48,930 --> 00:44:50,190 instead of spend. 745 00:44:51,119 --> 00:44:53,639 Oh, really? Did he correct himself? Yeah, no, I 746 00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:59,520 did it. Meanwhile, so then I switched to CNN, who apparently 747 00:44:59,550 --> 00:45:05,610 are now By using Facebook as their polling mechanism. And 748 00:45:05,610 --> 00:45:10,860 they so they pulled 700,000 According to Erica Hill, 700,000 749 00:45:11,430 --> 00:45:15,180 Facebook users about whether this is makes them more hopeful 750 00:45:15,180 --> 00:45:18,660 or whatever. But what I thought was cool was they they brought 751 00:45:18,660 --> 00:45:23,580 one of the analysts on who was really good. And he he brought 752 00:45:23,700 --> 00:45:26,520 found the mistakes that Obama made and what is wrong with 753 00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:28,980 these guys that don't they have the fact checkers and he brought 754 00:45:28,980 --> 00:45:33,000 up the car, invention of the car, which I said on CNN rocks, 755 00:45:33,000 --> 00:45:35,010 because they you know, they brought it up, nobody else did. 756 00:45:35,550 --> 00:45:39,180 And then he also said that Obama made this comment that we are 757 00:45:39,180 --> 00:45:43,920 now pumping more foreign oil than ever. Which is not true. 758 00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:48,660 That's not true. In fact, in the 70s, we had a spike that was 759 00:45:48,660 --> 00:45:50,160 much more than we're pumping today. 760 00:45:50,489 --> 00:45:56,969 Well, but and consistent themes seems to be the reminder, and it 761 00:45:56,969 --> 00:46:00,509 really seems like a reinforced reminder the way it's delivered 762 00:46:00,509 --> 00:46:03,959 every single time. You know, our reliance on foreign oil. This is 763 00:46:03,959 --> 00:46:07,079 just got to stop. We need cars that drive on batteries, you 764 00:46:07,079 --> 00:46:10,829 know, this reliance on foreign oil reliance on foreign oil. Do 765 00:46:10,829 --> 00:46:12,839 you get any of that? Does it feel like that to you? 766 00:46:13,020 --> 00:46:14,820 Oh, yeah, absolutely. The infected joke of it is, of 767 00:46:14,820 --> 00:46:19,680 course, most of our foreign oil comes from Alberta, Canada. So, 768 00:46:20,190 --> 00:46:20,850 anyway, well, 769 00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,250 you know what? That's right. We just wouldn't need to stop doing 770 00:46:23,250 --> 00:46:25,500 business with Canada. Oh, wait a minute. I'm sorry. 771 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,340 So anyway, that's the end of that. That's my rundown. I just 772 00:46:29,340 --> 00:46:34,140 thought the thing was weird. Because Jen doll he like, 773 00:46:34,290 --> 00:46:39,390 whatever Obama did wrong, this idiot Jin doll comes out and 774 00:46:39,390 --> 00:46:42,780 botches the and just response to such an extreme, non 775 00:46:42,780 --> 00:46:47,160 conversational, just to be you know, just everything was it was 776 00:46:47,160 --> 00:46:51,720 just it was rude. Ridiculous, it was stupid. He looked like a 777 00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:55,230 fool. The Republicans look like idiots for choosing him. And if 778 00:46:55,230 --> 00:46:57,300 they think he's the future of their party, they're in for a 779 00:46:57,300 --> 00:47:00,870 surprise. Or maybe not. And 780 00:47:02,489 --> 00:47:07,649 they're setting up the fall guy for the 2012 so that that guy 781 00:47:07,649 --> 00:47:10,859 can lose and Obama can continue. I mean, it's logical, isn't it? 782 00:47:11,369 --> 00:47:13,769 Well, from the perspective that is all fixed, 783 00:47:13,770 --> 00:47:17,670 yeah, from my perspective from from my walk of life 784 00:47:19,469 --> 00:47:26,129 so on February 25, they had on the on the junk news show extra 785 00:47:27,419 --> 00:47:30,449 they had a Michelle Obama interview, she's gonna obviously 786 00:47:30,449 --> 00:47:36,329 start doing stuff with the junk news media. You know, extra, the 787 00:47:36,329 --> 00:47:37,889 Insider. Oh, really? She's 788 00:47:37,890 --> 00:47:39,180 doing all that. Okay. Yeah, 789 00:47:39,270 --> 00:47:43,080 I miss what looks like yeah, so they did a thing with her and 790 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:49,590 interviewed or some softball thing wasn't very good. But she 791 00:47:49,590 --> 00:47:54,270 did reveal that she has a she she wants she's starstruck over 792 00:47:54,270 --> 00:47:59,940 Will Smith and his girlfriend, Jane, they want to meet them. So 793 00:47:59,940 --> 00:48:03,180 I guess they'll be in the White House in no time. So, 794 00:48:03,929 --> 00:48:08,009 dude, if I was in the White House, I will be partying it up 795 00:48:08,009 --> 00:48:10,889 now. I'm Erin Burnett over every day. 796 00:48:12,719 --> 00:48:14,609 Talking about the Council on Foreign Relations. Yeah, of 797 00:48:14,609 --> 00:48:15,209 course. Why? 798 00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:17,789 What do you mean I'd be a card carrying member you could me 799 00:48:18,900 --> 00:48:22,080 and then we'd have to be everyone get in? So the and then 800 00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,020 they want apparently a Portuguese water dog for there. 801 00:48:25,050 --> 00:48:29,010 Yeah, I heard about that. Yeah, that's that'll be that'll be 802 00:48:29,010 --> 00:48:33,510 important news. that'll that'll keep the the slaves happy. As we 803 00:48:33,510 --> 00:48:38,100 just stare mindlessly at programs like Access Hollywood. 804 00:48:41,610 --> 00:48:44,700 Access Hollywood. So you don't realize that those stories are 805 00:48:44,700 --> 00:48:46,560 mostly bought and paid for by publicists? 806 00:48:47,100 --> 00:48:50,160 Well, some of them are even pre edited and delivered on tape. 807 00:48:50,850 --> 00:48:53,640 Yeah, yeah. You don't have to do anything. Just drop it right in. 808 00:48:54,180 --> 00:48:56,940 So I don't have a jingle yet. For the I think what should we 809 00:48:56,940 --> 00:48:59,820 call like the old boys club or the golden boys club, someone 810 00:48:59,820 --> 00:49:06,990 else suggested. Gold member. It's basically the new people 811 00:49:06,990 --> 00:49:10,230 who are being brought into the administration who have 812 00:49:10,260 --> 00:49:16,500 interesting backgrounds. And we have a new Assistant Attorney 813 00:49:16,500 --> 00:49:20,670 General, who will be in charge of anti trust at the United 814 00:49:20,670 --> 00:49:24,720 States Department of Justice. And she she qualifies as a good 815 00:49:24,720 --> 00:49:28,320 old boy. Christine varney. Are you familiar with Christine 816 00:49:28,320 --> 00:49:28,830 varney? 817 00:49:29,159 --> 00:49:30,629 I have heard her name. Yeah. 818 00:49:32,250 --> 00:49:34,440 Probably in the context of Google is where you heard her 819 00:49:34,440 --> 00:49:34,860 name. 820 00:49:35,250 --> 00:49:36,090 Is she from Google? 821 00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:40,830 No. There was a little little kind of wave meme out there 822 00:49:40,830 --> 00:49:44,640 earlier in the week about that she hates Google. Oh, this 823 00:49:44,639 --> 00:49:45,809 is the Google hating woman. 824 00:49:45,810 --> 00:49:49,920 Yes. That that would be the one that yes, that is Christine 825 00:49:49,920 --> 00:49:53,310 varney. And if you look at her a good launching point, although 826 00:49:53,310 --> 00:49:57,840 rarely ever true, completely and Wikipedia. The I love the first 827 00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:00,690 sentence pristine a Varney, isn't it? American lawyer 828 00:50:00,690 --> 00:50:04,680 lobbyist. Internet policy expert. Oh, 829 00:50:04,680 --> 00:50:07,740 wait, hold on a second. Yeah, that'd be the case. I don't know 830 00:50:07,740 --> 00:50:11,520 Obama is not going to put lobbyists in his administration. 831 00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:20,879 So she has lobbied on behalf of Netscape versus Microsoft. She's 832 00:50:20,879 --> 00:50:23,249 Chitwood, she's board of Chairman of the Board of 833 00:50:23,249 --> 00:50:26,639 Directors at trust II, but I guess she might have to resign 834 00:50:26,639 --> 00:50:29,429 that. But in the past, her clients have included eBay, 835 00:50:29,429 --> 00:50:35,069 doubleclick, AOL, Netscape, essentially, in, you know, all 836 00:50:35,099 --> 00:50:40,949 enemies of Google. And she's bringing that lobbyist past with 837 00:50:40,949 --> 00:50:45,179 her, and she's in charge of anti trust. I mean, that seems to be 838 00:50:45,179 --> 00:50:46,949 kind of a conflict, doesn't it? 839 00:50:47,310 --> 00:50:50,160 I don't know. You're gonna have to ask Eric Schmidt, who happens 840 00:50:50,160 --> 00:50:53,880 to be kind of in the periphery of the administration? And what 841 00:50:53,880 --> 00:50:54,810 does he thinking this? 842 00:50:55,530 --> 00:50:57,810 We should call him that you got his number? Surely? 843 00:50:59,100 --> 00:51:03,270 My name is not surely and I don't necessarily. So while 844 00:51:03,269 --> 00:51:06,209 I was doing this, some of that research, you know, the Rahm 845 00:51:06,209 --> 00:51:10,499 Emanuel has an interesting family. Which, and I'm sure 846 00:51:10,559 --> 00:51:12,869 people have heard of this, but it's just kind of fun to bring 847 00:51:12,869 --> 00:51:18,479 it up from time to time. So Rahm Emanuel, of course, his, uh, he 848 00:51:18,479 --> 00:51:27,419 was the what do you call it? The the inspiration for that guy on 849 00:51:27,479 --> 00:51:33,389 the West Wing. Oh, really? Yeah. This is pretty well known. I'm 850 00:51:33,389 --> 00:51:34,379 looking it up now. 851 00:51:34,679 --> 00:51:37,619 And I never liked watching West Wing. I kind of 852 00:51:37,620 --> 00:51:40,560 liked it. Also, I liked commander in chief when? What's 853 00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:43,110 her face was president that was? That was kind of hot. Geez, 854 00:51:43,110 --> 00:51:43,410 another 855 00:51:43,410 --> 00:51:46,320 movie. Another series. I didn't care much for theirs. They're 856 00:51:46,320 --> 00:51:49,170 all just propagandistic crap. 857 00:51:49,409 --> 00:51:54,689 So he was the the inspiration for Josh on the West Wing. Now 858 00:51:54,689 --> 00:52:00,929 his brother, Ari Emanuel. Do you know who he is? No. Ari Emanuel 859 00:52:01,199 --> 00:52:09,029 is the founder of the hottest talent agency in Hollywood. Who 860 00:52:09,029 --> 00:52:12,989 was the model for Ari Gold on HBOs? entourage? 861 00:52:13,800 --> 00:52:15,060 No, interesting. Yeah. 862 00:52:15,630 --> 00:52:19,560 And then you have Zeke. And this guy's awesome. I'm sorry. 863 00:52:19,590 --> 00:52:22,680 So the what you're saying to me as you as you continue on with 864 00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,770 this break that with this deconstruction of the family, is 865 00:52:25,770 --> 00:52:28,980 that this is a family of people who don't sit around on their 866 00:52:28,980 --> 00:52:30,210 ass watching TV all day. 867 00:52:30,900 --> 00:52:34,170 No, they make television man. It's just it's really 868 00:52:34,170 --> 00:52:34,860 interesting. 869 00:52:35,429 --> 00:52:38,279 And then what's the last one do what is the last one do? Okay, 870 00:52:38,309 --> 00:52:39,089 Zeke. 871 00:52:39,750 --> 00:52:41,910 Now, they always they always say that he's bringing the family 872 00:52:41,910 --> 00:52:44,580 down because there's no no TV character has been modeled on 873 00:52:44,580 --> 00:52:47,550 him yet. He is chair He's. 874 00:52:48,090 --> 00:52:51,300 He's the the bomb. Yeah, really. He's the 875 00:52:51,300 --> 00:52:54,750 chair of Department of bioethics at the National Institute of 876 00:52:54,750 --> 00:52:56,370 Health Clinical Center. 877 00:52:57,090 --> 00:52:59,970 Oh, she's, it's lame. And yeah. 878 00:53:00,540 --> 00:53:03,240 Just it's interesting how, you know, because, you know, Rahm 879 00:53:03,240 --> 00:53:06,420 Emanuel. I never heard of the guy ever, you know, who knew 880 00:53:06,420 --> 00:53:10,560 that Josh was based on him? It's just, it's 881 00:53:12,869 --> 00:53:16,169 interesting. Yeah. Well, the whole thing is getting more 882 00:53:16,169 --> 00:53:19,619 interesting by the minute and our new comments. Go ahead. I'm 883 00:53:19,619 --> 00:53:22,979 just saying it hasn't. What have we accomplished? You know, but 884 00:53:22,979 --> 00:53:25,289 he's only been, you know, the thing that people that gets me 885 00:53:25,319 --> 00:53:27,449 by the way is that, you know, he's only been in office 30 886 00:53:27,449 --> 00:53:30,599 days. And you have you have two things going on simultaneously. 887 00:53:30,599 --> 00:53:33,929 One is that the Democrats and the Republicans, Hey, give the 888 00:53:33,929 --> 00:53:36,779 guy a break. He's only been in office 30 days. Yeah. And then 889 00:53:36,779 --> 00:53:38,699 you have the Democrats themselves giving this guy 890 00:53:38,699 --> 00:53:41,999 standing ovations like he's done so much. So much good for the 891 00:53:41,999 --> 00:53:44,609 country. All what ready? Which is it? 892 00:53:45,420 --> 00:53:51,210 Save or create? You pick? Anyway, go on. Now we have a new 893 00:53:51,210 --> 00:53:55,620 Commerce Secretary, which I just love it. So this is the third 894 00:53:55,620 --> 00:53:56,700 guy, right? This is 895 00:53:58,260 --> 00:54:02,100 a woman, isn't it? No, no, no, no, no. Was the woman that just 896 00:54:02,100 --> 00:54:05,940 showed up in the radar? Now that's the antitrust woman. know 897 00:54:05,940 --> 00:54:09,390 somebody else to know. Okay. It was so Gary Locke. Gary Locke. 898 00:54:09,419 --> 00:54:12,299 You should know him. He's from Washington. Yeah. Gary Locke, 899 00:54:12,329 --> 00:54:16,409 Governor from Washington, former Governor, former governor. So 900 00:54:16,439 --> 00:54:20,429 you know, it's, I love this choice. So you need a guy for 901 00:54:20,429 --> 00:54:23,729 commerce, Secretary of Commerce. Now, of course, you have to 902 00:54:23,729 --> 00:54:29,699 think what does the Secretary of Commerce do? His job is to 903 00:54:29,699 --> 00:54:33,209 foster promote and develop the foreign and domestic commerce. 904 00:54:33,479 --> 00:54:36,809 So it only makes sense. You know, I can just see him sitting 905 00:54:36,809 --> 00:54:39,059 around like crap, man, all the guys. We want to don't want to 906 00:54:39,059 --> 00:54:43,379 do it and tax evaders, and you know what, let's get a Chinese 907 00:54:43,379 --> 00:54:47,429 American guy. Yeah. Because we need to do commerce with China. 908 00:54:47,459 --> 00:54:51,089 Let's get that guy in. It seems like the perfect choice. 909 00:54:52,469 --> 00:54:56,759 Yeah, actually does seem kind of like the perfect choice. Doesn't 910 00:54:56,759 --> 00:55:01,439 mean he knows what he's doing. No, I don't remember his Um, how 911 00:55:01,439 --> 00:55:05,099 he did his Governor wasn't too bad. I don't think. No, he seems 912 00:55:05,099 --> 00:55:07,349 to have a pretty good governor in there. Now that's just 913 00:55:08,039 --> 00:55:09,239 horrible. Some woman. 914 00:55:09,659 --> 00:55:13,319 All right, from Gitmo nation East then a couple of line items 915 00:55:13,319 --> 00:55:18,449 we should go through. In the telegraph, there's now talk of 916 00:55:18,479 --> 00:55:22,859 remote controlled planes that are typically used in warfare. 917 00:55:22,949 --> 00:55:25,679 If you've ever seen these, they actually launch them by hand. 918 00:55:26,639 --> 00:55:29,369 From the field. Those are those little ones. 919 00:55:29,670 --> 00:55:32,100 Yeah, little ones and they're completely remote controlled and 920 00:55:32,220 --> 00:55:35,670 they have heatsink big ones. So it does bit these big, it's not 921 00:55:35,670 --> 00:55:39,570 a big drone. Now, it's not a UAV it is a UAV, but not doesn't 922 00:55:39,570 --> 00:55:40,500 have a huge payload. 923 00:55:40,980 --> 00:55:44,160 So actually, I saw a bunch of these on display at some trade 924 00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:46,380 show these little ones you're talking about. They're actually 925 00:55:46,380 --> 00:55:47,310 quite interesting. Yeah, 926 00:55:47,309 --> 00:55:50,369 it's like a remote controlled airplane only. Supercharged. 927 00:55:50,789 --> 00:55:51,179 Right. 928 00:55:51,209 --> 00:55:54,869 So binge ended they go hundreds of miles are pretty amazing. 929 00:55:55,050 --> 00:55:58,350 So wacky Jackie, our home office secretary here in the UK has 930 00:55:58,350 --> 00:56:01,050 suggested that hey, you know what, this is cheaper than 931 00:56:01,050 --> 00:56:03,750 helicopters. Police could use these to gather evidence and 932 00:56:03,750 --> 00:56:06,930 track criminals without putting officers at risk. So we're gonna 933 00:56:06,930 --> 00:56:08,760 have these planes buzzing overhead 934 00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:12,750 you know, of course in the United States, that wouldn't 935 00:56:12,750 --> 00:56:15,360 work because we're armed to the teeth and we shoot them out of 936 00:56:15,360 --> 00:56:18,450 the sky. Exactly. Shoot him out of the sky and without worrying 937 00:56:18,450 --> 00:56:20,250 about it. But the arm 938 00:56:20,250 --> 00:56:23,550 for the teeth long though my friend. It's coming down. You 939 00:56:23,550 --> 00:56:26,010 know, I'm sure you've heard about all these bills to take 940 00:56:26,010 --> 00:56:30,780 away guns. But we'll see. And so I love it when you say that 941 00:56:30,780 --> 00:56:34,320 could you just say it more like pry this from my cold dead hands 942 00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:35,880 way like we'll see. 943 00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:39,930 Now the other thing is is that it seems to me that if you're 944 00:56:39,930 --> 00:56:42,270 going to use his remote control planes that these things would 945 00:56:42,270 --> 00:56:47,460 be ripe for hobbyists or anyone who you know would if you could 946 00:56:47,460 --> 00:56:54,420 like throw a net over one Capture One capture stripped the 947 00:56:54,420 --> 00:56:58,350 radio and camera out and turn it into a device for your own use. 948 00:56:59,250 --> 00:57:01,290 I like the idea of target practice that I was like it 949 00:57:01,290 --> 00:57:06,450 comes up on pull I must say the helicopter traffic is pretty 950 00:57:06,450 --> 00:57:09,510 annoying over the city. There is quite a bit of it 951 00:57:11,280 --> 00:57:13,950 is why would kind of crime to that that they have cameras 952 00:57:13,950 --> 00:57:15,750 everywhere. What do you need helicopters for 953 00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:18,270 and all that so that they get the infrared and they want the 954 00:57:18,270 --> 00:57:21,810 other tracking people down there will show on it called heli cops 955 00:57:21,810 --> 00:57:25,200 or sky cops or something like that. All men to condition you 956 00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:29,070 into thinking it's just fine and dandy. I guess 957 00:57:34,380 --> 00:57:39,570 also, you know, there's it's almost impossible to keep track 958 00:57:39,570 --> 00:57:43,920 of all the deals. Oh, we do have our own. We're on website here 959 00:57:43,920 --> 00:57:46,800 that Gordon Brown launched. So in the states of course we have 960 00:57:47,190 --> 00:57:50,340 when you were a little bit more advanced. In the UK, we're a 961 00:57:50,340 --> 00:57:53,760 little bit further the agenda has been is probably five years 962 00:57:53,760 --> 00:57:57,060 ahead of the US in many areas. So whereas in the US we have 963 00:57:57,060 --> 00:58:05,700 recovery.gov here we have Get real help.co.org.gov.uk And it's 964 00:58:05,700 --> 00:58:07,110 amazing. You should go to it. 965 00:58:07,710 --> 00:58:11,070 Get real help.co.uk You're going to have a link to that. Yeah, 966 00:58:11,100 --> 00:58:13,890 I think it's good isn't real? No real help now I think it is 967 00:58:13,890 --> 00:58:18,510 yeah, I'm sorry, real help. now.gov.uk and so on the home of 968 00:58:18,510 --> 00:58:21,750 course we'll have links in the show notes on the home page. You 969 00:58:21,750 --> 00:58:24,420 know, this is all about help. So real help for business, real 970 00:58:24,420 --> 00:58:28,260 health for people, okay, keeping your home and so you go to that 971 00:58:28,260 --> 00:58:32,280 link on keeping your home so it's a one click away from the 972 00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:38,520 homepage and it then gives you a link to housing advice from 973 00:58:38,520 --> 00:58:46,140 shelter. So that's like here here's how you can try and 974 00:58:46,170 --> 00:58:49,230 refinance your mortgage and here's a link to the shelter 975 00:58:49,230 --> 00:58:51,660 service. It's like there's nothing there's nothing in 976 00:58:51,660 --> 00:58:56,070 between homelessness find out where to go to help and check 977 00:58:56,070 --> 00:58:59,280 whether the council has to house you finding a place to live 978 00:58:59,280 --> 00:59:01,710 understanding the pros and cons of both temporary and permanent 979 00:59:01,710 --> 00:59:02,460 options. 980 00:59:02,820 --> 00:59:05,940 So you're telling me some way mate for starters a guy on the 981 00:59:05,940 --> 00:59:09,120 street is now homeless somehow he's going to find his way to 982 00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:09,660 real help 983 00:59:09,659 --> 00:59:12,239 now.to The website of course 984 00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:17,760 shirt because he went on it because he took his Wi Fi laptop 985 00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:20,970 with him when he got kicked out of his house which is shopping 986 00:59:20,970 --> 00:59:22,560 cart around it's 987 00:59:22,560 --> 00:59:28,110 really It's so sad and it's and so many the media buys into this 988 00:59:28,140 --> 00:59:30,030 a well but you know what, it's okay because we created a 989 00:59:30,030 --> 00:59:34,800 website for it and then they for some reasons like okay, well as 990 00:59:34,800 --> 00:59:37,230 a website well then this was done and I go and look at the 991 00:59:37,230 --> 00:59:40,620 website and I'm looking at the website I got some stuff here on 992 00:59:40,620 --> 00:59:43,740 the website. It's just it's 993 00:59:44,310 --> 00:59:47,070 it is stupid. Yeah, no, don't worry, we fixed the problem. We 994 00:59:47,070 --> 00:59:51,960 have a website. I love that. Oh, yeah, no, I That problem has 995 00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:59,310 been resolved. We have got a website. Yeah, no problem. What 996 00:59:59,310 --> 01:00:04,080 else you got? Um, what else is on? Well, 997 01:00:04,620 --> 01:00:08,280 I'll give you another one, just for the UK stuff. Because we are 998 01:00:08,370 --> 01:00:11,940 again, we're, it's amazing I can almost predict what's going to 999 01:00:11,940 --> 01:00:14,340 happen in the United States, just to have a habit having 1000 01:00:14,370 --> 01:00:19,350 observed four and a half years of the acid test center. So it 1001 01:00:19,350 --> 01:00:27,750 really is Yeah, it really is. This is from I don't know if 1002 01:00:27,750 --> 01:00:31,860 this is from beaten. This is Reuters Yahoo. Press 1003 01:00:31,860 --> 01:00:36,630 Association. They're talking here in the UK of the summer of 1004 01:00:36,630 --> 01:00:40,560 rage. According to a poll, more than a third of voters believe 1005 01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:44,100 the army will have to be brought in to deal with a summer of rage 1006 01:00:44,100 --> 01:00:46,620 on British streets as the recession bites. 1007 01:00:47,940 --> 01:00:52,800 this coming summer. Yeah. Summer vacation. In other words, what 1008 01:00:52,980 --> 01:00:56,010 what you can interpret here you can say that, because they're 1009 01:00:56,010 --> 01:00:58,320 already preconditioning people with this bullshit 1010 01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:00,810 exactly what it is. Yeah, you re are, 1011 01:01:01,020 --> 01:01:04,680 they are actually going to because they want to test they 1012 01:01:04,680 --> 01:01:10,170 are actually going to make create a situation that that 1013 01:01:10,260 --> 01:01:14,580 makes the summer of rage actually has to happen. So they 1014 01:01:14,580 --> 01:01:18,450 can see what they're how they can respond to it. And it'll be 1015 01:01:18,480 --> 01:01:23,010 like a real world test of the of the of the domestic security 1016 01:01:23,010 --> 01:01:23,910 apparatus so 1017 01:01:23,910 --> 01:01:27,060 that you then in the United States can look know what to 1018 01:01:27,060 --> 01:01:27,930 look forward to. 1019 01:01:28,679 --> 01:01:31,709 Now if that's if they actually have some sort of riots or 1020 01:01:31,709 --> 01:01:34,949 whatever they're going to do for the summer of rage. You know, 1021 01:01:34,949 --> 01:01:35,189 they, 1022 01:01:35,880 --> 01:01:40,050 I gotta make, I feel I gotta go. Hey, John, we gotta make jingles 1023 01:01:40,050 --> 01:01:44,730 here like, like, but really like love FM like coming to you from 1024 01:01:44,730 --> 01:01:49,860 Gitmo nation east. It's the summer of rage. Get your foot on 1025 01:01:49,860 --> 01:01:54,450 the street for the summer of rage. Summer of rage. Hey, 1026 01:01:54,450 --> 01:01:57,840 everybody, it's no agenda. It's AC DC and AC in the morning, we 1027 01:01:57,840 --> 01:02:01,560 got some tickets here for the summer rains. Come on free 1028 01:02:01,560 --> 01:02:04,080 ticket to the summer of rage up close and personal. 1029 01:02:05,730 --> 01:02:08,040 They won't do much for the tourist business if they pull 1030 01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:12,090 this stunt off. Unless it's I mean, they're gonna have to deal 1031 01:02:12,090 --> 01:02:15,510 with the backlash. They're probably not considering that 1032 01:02:15,540 --> 01:02:17,580 Gordon Brown that much of the tourists anyway, they don't want 1033 01:02:17,580 --> 01:02:19,170 people taking pictures anymore. 1034 01:02:19,200 --> 01:02:21,900 Oh, no, please. Gordon Brown spokesman said the Prime 1035 01:02:21,900 --> 01:02:26,250 Minister's view on this. So this is all yours. So Right. So 1036 01:02:26,250 --> 01:02:29,310 preconditioning is that of course he understands people's 1037 01:02:29,310 --> 01:02:31,920 concerns. And he also understands that people are 1038 01:02:31,920 --> 01:02:35,790 angry, for example, about the behavior of some of the banks. 1039 01:02:36,060 --> 01:02:39,150 That's why he's absolutely determined that the government 1040 01:02:39,150 --> 01:02:42,780 does everything possible to deal with those concerns, and help 1041 01:02:42,780 --> 01:02:45,660 people and businesses get through what is a global 1042 01:02:45,660 --> 01:02:50,520 recession. And remember, we've got a website, which has just 1043 01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:53,700 reached the end of every press release. And we solved this 1044 01:02:53,700 --> 01:02:57,810 problem already with a website called real health now.gov.uk. 1045 01:03:00,150 --> 01:03:04,740 It's just despicable. It really I throw up in my mouth every 1046 01:03:04,740 --> 01:03:06,150 morning just reading the news. 1047 01:03:06,690 --> 01:03:10,200 So yeah, when I say stuff over there, they're really funny. 1048 01:03:10,230 --> 01:03:10,980 You've been around 1049 01:03:10,979 --> 01:03:14,429 John, have you ever witnessed anything like this in, in 1050 01:03:14,429 --> 01:03:17,459 political history or in just in your lifetime? You know, you've 1051 01:03:17,459 --> 01:03:22,739 been through 123 a two year cycle. Hey, so you've been 1052 01:03:22,739 --> 01:03:27,839 through a couple a couple a couple of downturns. Geez. I 1053 01:03:27,839 --> 01:03:28,649 mean, I think 1054 01:03:28,650 --> 01:03:31,500 this 70s had a lot of elements of this. I think this you know, 1055 01:03:31,500 --> 01:03:34,920 it's always a little different perspective on this fascism 1056 01:03:35,940 --> 01:03:42,000 because the last time there was a fascist thread was in the late 1057 01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:47,910 20s and early 30s, which then of course, evolved into Hitler. And 1058 01:03:47,940 --> 01:03:53,100 but you know, fascism was became as a kind of a was a good thing. 1059 01:03:53,490 --> 01:03:56,220 If you really study it, it was like a good thing I mean, not to 1060 01:03:56,220 --> 01:04:00,930 me, but to the you know, the the intellectuals the intellectual 1061 01:04:00,930 --> 01:04:08,790 class, it was considered like the way to go and the fascist 1062 01:04:08,790 --> 01:04:11,580 the out of Italy, you know, they managed to you know, they got 1063 01:04:11,580 --> 01:04:14,010 the trains going on time, people were happier and all this kind 1064 01:04:14,010 --> 01:04:16,560 of thing, by the way, talking about this kind of thing. There 1065 01:04:16,560 --> 01:04:22,620 is a read this is fascinated me there is a re invigoration of 1066 01:04:22,620 --> 01:04:28,500 Stalinism in Russia with a number of events that are 1067 01:04:28,500 --> 01:04:33,000 bringing Stalin back into the fold as a famous Russian now 1068 01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:38,160 considered by some of the pro Stalinist types to be one of the 1069 01:04:38,160 --> 01:04:41,550 greatest Russians who ever lived. And, and there's all 1070 01:04:41,550 --> 01:04:44,340 these speeches and they having all these events and the Stalin 1071 01:04:44,340 --> 01:04:46,440 conferences, they're all over the place. You have all these 1072 01:04:46,650 --> 01:04:49,950 old generals who come on I was never anybody as good as Stalin. 1073 01:04:49,950 --> 01:04:53,010 Yeah, it was tough, but they had to be tough. And then they hit 1074 01:04:53,010 --> 01:04:56,010 Yeah, and then all these youth, these young women and all these, 1075 01:04:56,010 --> 01:04:59,970 you know, micro gorks, or whatever they call them, rich 1076 01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:03,060 People saying, you know, the way I saw Stalin couldn't have been 1077 01:05:03,060 --> 01:05:05,880 that bad of a guy we'd needed someone tough, or he wouldn't 1078 01:05:05,880 --> 01:05:09,240 have gotten through World War Two anyway. And yeah, he was 1079 01:05:09,270 --> 01:05:12,360 brutal, but it was brutal brutality that was necessary. 1080 01:05:12,360 --> 01:05:15,330 And it was all his rationale. And it's like, there. It's like, 1081 01:05:15,450 --> 01:05:20,370 a whole load of crap about Stalin. That's almost obviously 1082 01:05:20,370 --> 01:05:23,580 a prelude to letting Putin become the next Stalin. 1083 01:05:23,880 --> 01:05:26,820 You know what the good news is, though, they've got a website 1084 01:05:26,820 --> 01:05:33,630 called Stalin is back.ru. And I'll give you some more this, 1085 01:05:33,660 --> 01:05:36,450 this is this was really the big news over here in the UK, 1086 01:05:36,450 --> 01:05:39,060 although it's already been buried, because and it's really 1087 01:05:39,060 --> 01:05:44,310 sad. But David Cameron, conservative leader, the leader 1088 01:05:44,310 --> 01:05:47,580 of the shadow governments of the opposition, his six year old son 1089 01:05:47,580 --> 01:05:51,150 died, he had cerebral palsy, and it's pretty messed up. And so, 1090 01:05:51,180 --> 01:05:54,330 you know, government actually shut down yesterday in in 1091 01:05:54,360 --> 01:05:58,800 observation of this happening. But it came one day on the heels 1092 01:05:58,830 --> 01:06:08,700 of Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary. Now, in, I think, a 1093 01:06:08,700 --> 01:06:12,930 year ago, he was like a year ago, the House of Lords or I'm 1094 01:06:12,930 --> 01:06:15,570 sorry, I'm not too familiar with the whole system or the Commons 1095 01:06:15,570 --> 01:06:18,060 or the Lords but they decided there had to be your freedom for 1096 01:06:18,060 --> 01:06:21,930 Information Policy, and that they were going to open up 1097 01:06:21,930 --> 01:06:24,930 transparency, you know, the putting up a website so that you 1098 01:06:24,930 --> 01:06:27,780 couldn't, you know, the Freedom of Information Act was a was a 1099 01:06:27,780 --> 01:06:35,520 big deal. And so, of course, what the Freedom of Information 1100 01:06:36,870 --> 01:06:42,570 sleuths wanted is the cabinet minutes relating to the decision 1101 01:06:42,570 --> 01:06:48,210 to invade Iraq. And Jack Straw comes out and says, Well, we're 1102 01:06:48,210 --> 01:06:52,020 not going to release that says we're not going to tell you that 1103 01:06:52,020 --> 01:06:56,040 because the public interest in disclosure of the minutes could 1104 01:06:56,040 --> 01:07:00,030 not supplant the public interest in maintaining the integrity of 1105 01:07:00,030 --> 01:07:05,520 our system of government. It is necessary it is a necessary 1106 01:07:05,520 --> 01:07:08,910 decision to protect the public interest in effective cabinet 1107 01:07:08,910 --> 01:07:14,760 government. And it's just it's blown everybody away. So 1108 01:07:14,910 --> 01:07:17,910 whatever it is that what however, this decision came 1109 01:07:17,910 --> 01:07:22,020 down, either it was so lame that they would all be beheaded 1110 01:07:22,020 --> 01:07:26,400 because people would find out under what stupid reasoning. We 1111 01:07:26,490 --> 01:07:32,040 they joined the coalition to go into Iraq or the way he says it. 1112 01:07:32,400 --> 01:07:35,400 Perhaps we're under such enormous incredible threat that 1113 01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:38,160 if we knew how severe it was, we'd all be freaking out. 1114 01:07:39,810 --> 01:07:42,000 One way or the other? 1115 01:07:42,299 --> 01:07:46,049 I mean, how can it be in between? Right, that has to be 1116 01:07:46,049 --> 01:07:53,729 the two. I just want to read that again for myself. Okay, 1117 01:07:53,729 --> 01:08:00,269 I've read it out loud. Thanks. Nobody's like I it just blows me 1118 01:08:00,269 --> 01:08:03,779 a way that he's saying. The public interest in disclosure 1119 01:08:03,779 --> 01:08:06,899 minutes could not supplant the public interest in maintaining 1120 01:08:06,899 --> 01:08:11,249 the integrity of our system of government. It's just weird man. 1121 01:08:12,750 --> 01:08:15,330 The integrity of the system of government it did this makes me 1122 01:08:15,540 --> 01:08:17,940 this makes me think that it was something lame, 1123 01:08:18,149 --> 01:08:21,089 like illegal or some illegal move or, 1124 01:08:22,110 --> 01:08:24,450 or something. Yeah, something negative and something that 1125 01:08:24,480 --> 01:08:27,570 wasn't protecting the public from freaking out. 1126 01:08:28,830 --> 01:08:32,370 I'm freaking freaking out. Yeah, because it was a lame ass move. 1127 01:08:32,370 --> 01:08:32,760 Right? 1128 01:08:32,910 --> 01:08:35,250 Yeah. Or is or there's some corruption involved of some 1129 01:08:35,250 --> 01:08:37,530 sort, you know? Who knows? 1130 01:08:37,860 --> 01:08:40,590 So but that's an actual veto from the Freedom of Information 1131 01:08:40,590 --> 01:08:42,870 Act that he pulled first time he's pulled it and of course, 1132 01:08:42,870 --> 01:08:44,730 it's on the one thing that everybody really would like to 1133 01:08:44,730 --> 01:08:47,850 know. I mean, you know, the scientist who couldn't find the 1134 01:08:47,850 --> 01:08:54,450 weapons of mass destruction, he he suicided himself. Remember 1135 01:08:54,450 --> 01:08:54,780 that? 1136 01:08:55,259 --> 01:09:00,869 Yeah. Yeah, he felt a C shot himself 10 times in the suicide, 1137 01:09:00,959 --> 01:09:02,639 something like that shot himself twice. 1138 01:09:04,889 --> 01:09:10,619 And let me see I want to do some more, isn't it Oh, Jackie Chan 1139 01:09:10,619 --> 01:09:16,589 has pissed off. About what? Well apparently the they auctioned 1140 01:09:16,589 --> 01:09:22,439 off the contents of Yves Saint Laurent French digs. He saw Ron 1141 01:09:22,439 --> 01:09:27,659 a famous couturier fashion designer who passed away 1142 01:09:27,659 --> 01:09:30,869 recently so they auctioned off all his stuff and included in 1143 01:09:30,869 --> 01:09:37,979 his stuff were a bronze rat and a bronze rabbit which the 1144 01:09:37,979 --> 01:09:43,859 Chinese government says was stolen and should be returned 1145 01:09:43,889 --> 01:09:46,889 but they were sold anyway and the French and out you know the 1146 01:09:46,889 --> 01:09:49,919 for the French said screw it we're protecting it. This can be 1147 01:09:49,919 --> 01:09:52,829 sold as turning into a minor international flap and Jackie 1148 01:09:52,829 --> 01:09:56,369 Chan has come out. Like when your Jackie Chan comes out, you 1149 01:09:56,369 --> 01:10:01,649 know a website has to be next. Oh yeah, but it's Yes. You know, 1150 01:10:01,829 --> 01:10:05,489 I don't understand, you know, the Western world relies heavily 1151 01:10:05,489 --> 01:10:08,879 on China. Like, I'd be delivering that, you know, with 1152 01:10:08,909 --> 01:10:12,749 the naked chicks here. Here's here's your sculptures man, no 1153 01:10:12,749 --> 01:10:16,049 problem. Sorry about that, hey, no hard feelings unless 1154 01:10:16,050 --> 01:10:18,900 it is stolen art is pretty well documented either. And the 1155 01:10:18,900 --> 01:10:22,980 French are pretty pretty, you know, into like returning stolen 1156 01:10:22,980 --> 01:10:25,230 art, I don't understand why they wouldn't return this unless the 1157 01:10:25,230 --> 01:10:28,890 documentation was either BS. Somebody's just trying to make 1158 01:10:28,890 --> 01:10:33,300 off with the things cheap. Or something. There's some 1159 01:10:33,390 --> 01:10:37,740 backstory here we don't know about. Maybe we should look into 1160 01:10:37,740 --> 01:10:38,340 Yeah, 1161 01:10:38,850 --> 01:10:41,190 I mean, I kind of glossed over the article, I just thought it 1162 01:10:41,190 --> 01:10:44,700 was interesting to Jackie Chan was was piping up there. But 1163 01:10:45,510 --> 01:10:48,330 talking about piping up, by the way, we do need some more people 1164 01:10:48,330 --> 01:10:53,880 to donate to our library. So I can write, and I'll have the 1165 01:10:53,880 --> 01:10:59,070 slash library thing done this week. But the point is, is that 1166 01:10:59,100 --> 01:11:02,010 it doesn't, you know, if you if you listen to this thing, we do 1167 01:11:02,010 --> 01:11:05,400 an hour and a half, you know, twice a week, so it's three 1168 01:11:05,400 --> 01:11:09,360 hours. So doing $2 a month. 1169 01:11:09,780 --> 01:11:14,100 And notice. There's there's no commercials, there's no ads in 1170 01:11:14,100 --> 01:11:18,210 here, it's all we don't dense, it's very dense. 1171 01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:23,610 So I don't think it would hurt go to divorce.org/n. A, 1172 01:11:23,790 --> 01:11:27,750 and don't answer the curry divorce library project. Right, 1173 01:11:27,750 --> 01:11:27,960 which 1174 01:11:27,960 --> 01:11:34,290 is just fund our publicly funded this publicly funded, we're 1175 01:11:34,290 --> 01:11:38,340 testing the idea, we don't want to do ads, they interrupt the 1176 01:11:38,340 --> 01:11:42,330 flow of, of our thoughts. And I think it interrupts and I don't 1177 01:11:42,330 --> 01:11:45,600 want to do these promotions anymore, I'd like to stop doing 1178 01:11:45,600 --> 01:11:47,580 them. But it's not going to, we're not going to for a while 1179 01:11:47,580 --> 01:11:51,150 because we need to get a lot more people involved. And we 1180 01:11:51,150 --> 01:11:53,310 have a lot of listeners and you know, it's just a matter. But 1181 01:11:53,340 --> 01:11:55,020 again, you know, somebody's listening to this, and they're 1182 01:11:55,020 --> 01:11:58,680 not necessarily at the computer might be listening on iTunes on 1183 01:11:59,280 --> 01:12:02,310 iPod, and then they forget, because I've never, I've always 1184 01:12:02,310 --> 01:12:06,480 found it very difficult to get anyone to, to connect a like a 1185 01:12:06,480 --> 01:12:11,280 TV show to a website or podcast to a website. If they're not 1186 01:12:11,280 --> 01:12:14,220 actually on the computer at the time, you just forget to go to 1187 01:12:14,220 --> 01:12:16,530 divorce.org/and. A. 1188 01:12:17,100 --> 01:12:20,730 And if you can't afford it, if you you know, if we don't feel 1189 01:12:20,730 --> 01:12:23,400 like it yet, you know, we'll be happy with some link, love. Give 1190 01:12:23,400 --> 01:12:26,880 us a link that also helps. Yeah, something that you've found that 1191 01:12:26,880 --> 01:12:30,060 is weird, or just link to us just linked to the show. That 1192 01:12:30,060 --> 01:12:32,400 also helps. Right? But yeah, LinkedIn does actually have some 1193 01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:35,880 great little Google link juice, baby. Hey, that let me just 1194 01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:38,460 touch on that briefly. Because I know you're so anti cloud. And 1195 01:12:38,460 --> 01:12:42,150 boy, I was on your side the other the other morning when 1196 01:12:42,750 --> 01:12:47,370 Gmail became G fail. And it went down for about three hours. 1197 01:12:47,940 --> 01:12:48,450 Yeah. 1198 01:12:49,530 --> 01:12:52,020 And I was yeah, they're there. These are the experts. I mean, 1199 01:12:52,020 --> 01:12:55,620 if you give G if Google can't maintain a cloud resource, I 1200 01:12:55,620 --> 01:12:58,380 mean, how is the how these other kind of, you know, these these 1201 01:12:58,380 --> 01:13:01,380 other sketchy companies, let's say like Microsoft, who, you 1202 01:13:01,380 --> 01:13:04,680 know, fails all the time, going to do it. I will 1203 01:13:04,680 --> 01:13:07,500 say that, you know, I do have a pretty good backup system, 1204 01:13:07,500 --> 01:13:10,830 because I don't actually just have a Gmail address. I have 1205 01:13:10,830 --> 01:13:14,730 Google Apps. And that went down as well. But of course, in my 1206 01:13:14,730 --> 01:13:18,900 head, yeah. In fact, Gmail proper was coming up before the 1207 01:13:18,900 --> 01:13:22,470 apps, they didn't, they didn't know they gave me a 15 hour. 1208 01:13:24,360 --> 01:13:30,300 Would they call that SLA credit or something like that. So 1209 01:13:30,300 --> 01:13:33,390 essentially, getting money back. They're trying to make up it was 1210 01:13:33,390 --> 01:13:38,940 a, they did a good job on the, to the SLA bit, which I was kind 1211 01:13:38,940 --> 01:13:41,970 of concerned about. But of course, you know, what you 1212 01:13:41,970 --> 01:13:44,910 really need to do is as long as you own your domain name, and 1213 01:13:44,910 --> 01:13:49,020 can access like, you know, like a GoDaddy account. I have two 1214 01:13:49,050 --> 01:13:53,760 mail records in there. So if the first one fails, then it'll go 1215 01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:56,640 to a secondary, and then I can pick it up from there. So you 1216 01:13:56,640 --> 01:13:59,250 know, there's a lot of there's a lot of ways to get around being 1217 01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:02,010 snuffed out by the cloud. But boy, you know, there was, like 1218 01:14:02,010 --> 01:14:04,860 100 million people were just not able to access their email. 1219 01:14:04,860 --> 01:14:09,630 That's, that's interesting problems, which got it got some 1220 01:14:09,660 --> 01:14:12,480 ink here and there, but no one's really thinking about what that 1221 01:14:12,480 --> 01:14:15,690 really means. I bet you there was a lot of productivity lost. 1222 01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:23,370 Yeah, I'm sure. And this is I think, the sixth time, the thing 1223 01:14:23,370 --> 01:14:24,300 is crapped out. 1224 01:14:24,930 --> 01:14:27,690 This was one of the bigger ones though. Yeah, notice it 1225 01:14:27,690 --> 01:14:30,990 lasted way too long. That's kind of baffling that they can't get 1226 01:14:30,990 --> 01:14:33,810 this back up. When it was at some, 1227 01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:37,950 no, I read Yeah, I read through whatever it was, but it was 1228 01:14:38,550 --> 01:14:41,670 somehow they they did something new and it activated the what 1229 01:14:41,670 --> 01:14:44,280 they call the dormant bug and they didn't, you know, 1230 01:14:44,280 --> 01:14:46,620 essentially overloaded their servers. And I don't know it 1231 01:14:46,620 --> 01:14:48,900 doesn't matter. You know, that's a mumbo jumbo and the people who 1232 01:14:48,900 --> 01:14:53,730 do that shit, man, they're amazing. Who fix that stuff. You 1233 01:14:53,730 --> 01:14:56,040 know, like our guys ever called one of our guys in the 1234 01:14:56,040 --> 01:14:59,100 middle of the night. Yeah, no, it's unbelievable. Yeah. 1235 01:14:59,400 --> 01:15:03,510 Then they come out Have a dead sleep pillow. Like hey man, I'm 1236 01:15:03,510 --> 01:15:06,390 sorry to wake you up nomads okay, what's it? I'm online What 1237 01:15:06,390 --> 01:15:13,800 do I do? Poor guys to Bank of Scotland that was the other big 1238 01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:20,400 one had fourth quarter 10 billion pound loss. Of course 1239 01:15:20,400 --> 01:15:23,880 the Royal Bank of Scotland is now completely nationalized. But 1240 01:15:23,880 --> 01:15:28,410 what was interesting is that RBS and this would kind of make 1241 01:15:28,410 --> 01:15:32,430 sense if you think of all the connections won the tender for 1242 01:15:32,430 --> 01:15:40,140 doing all of the Dutch government's banking wow so all 1243 01:15:40,140 --> 01:15:43,590 the all the Internal Revenue banking everything they do is a 1244 01:15:43,590 --> 01:15:46,410 smallest country but they do a lot they do 66 million 1245 01:15:46,410 --> 01:15:50,220 transactions the state and and Royal Bank of Scotland is going 1246 01:15:50,220 --> 01:15:53,550 to be doing it it's it's very confusing how all these things 1247 01:15:53,550 --> 01:15:54,480 fit together. And 1248 01:15:56,700 --> 01:15:58,950 what are the Dutch think of this? Can't they do their own 1249 01:15:58,980 --> 01:15:59,550 banking? You 1250 01:15:59,550 --> 01:16:04,500 don't know about it that they go to the Swiss? No, everyone's 1251 01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:07,440 everyone's pulling out of the Swiss No, no one wants a Swiss 1252 01:16:07,440 --> 01:16:12,570 bank account anymore. UBS is in deep deep kimchi. 1253 01:16:13,530 --> 01:16:16,260 Well, they screwed up. But no, it's not the Swiss were the most 1254 01:16:16,260 --> 01:16:18,720 conservative of bankers, but guess not. 1255 01:16:18,810 --> 01:16:21,360 But the Netherlands really is another three years ahead of the 1256 01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:24,810 UK, except for the camera part, although that's gathering speed 1257 01:16:24,810 --> 01:16:28,950 very quickly. And those people are I mean, I love them dearly. 1258 01:16:28,980 --> 01:16:31,170 And I lived there a long time, but they're so hypnotized. 1259 01:16:31,170 --> 01:16:34,290 They've got a voucher Boss, he's the finance minister. And he 1260 01:16:34,290 --> 01:16:37,860 just keeps saying he's like, baby is fine. No, no ing it's 1261 01:16:37,860 --> 01:16:41,400 not a problem. Now this bank, meanwhile, ing is had to like 1262 01:16:41,760 --> 01:16:47,370 sell warrants to the state, no one would buy any of their bonds 1263 01:16:47,370 --> 01:16:49,830 or anything. They're completely falling apart. You got guys in 1264 01:16:49,830 --> 01:16:54,120 the financial channel, literally saying that the finance the 1265 01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:57,420 Dutch Finance Minister, he would he would call a terminal cancer 1266 01:16:57,420 --> 01:17:01,020 patient completely healthy. I mean, that's a pretty, pretty, 1267 01:17:01,020 --> 01:17:05,820 pretty hefty little quote there. But people that disbelieve in 1268 01:17:05,820 --> 01:17:07,740 anyone talk to him, how's it going? Well, yeah, we got the 1269 01:17:07,740 --> 01:17:10,440 crisis. But we're okay. We're gonna be okay. It's like, Damn, 1270 01:17:10,440 --> 01:17:14,250 man, you guys really don't know. He was so screwed. The whole 1271 01:17:14,250 --> 01:17:18,210 country bought kitchens and patio furniture on second 1272 01:17:18,210 --> 01:17:20,490 mortgages. Oh, I feel so bad for him. 1273 01:17:22,140 --> 01:17:25,050 So somebody brought up the point at which I blogged by the way I 1274 01:17:25,080 --> 01:17:28,470 did to ask you about what you think about the TSA trying to 1275 01:17:28,470 --> 01:17:31,920 get involved in private aviation? 1276 01:17:32,249 --> 01:17:36,299 Oh, yeah. Where they want to have the same rules where you 1277 01:17:36,299 --> 01:17:39,209 have to you can't have more than 100 milliliters of liquid on a 1278 01:17:39,209 --> 01:17:42,479 private plane on your own on your own plane, because all of 1279 01:17:42,479 --> 01:17:45,749 you could be you could be when we just talking about this the 1280 01:17:45,749 --> 01:17:49,409 other day? It's so easy. I mean, of course, you know, I could 1281 01:17:49,409 --> 01:17:52,889 pack up my plane with explosives and fly right into the heart of 1282 01:17:52,889 --> 01:17:55,109 London. You know, I'd be in there before they could even 1283 01:17:55,139 --> 01:17:58,529 scramble a jet, of course. I mean, it's simple. But the end 1284 01:17:58,529 --> 01:18:02,099 of the day with the threat is just not as big as it's made out 1285 01:18:02,099 --> 01:18:04,979 to be and this is, this could never flow. This will I think 1286 01:18:04,979 --> 01:18:07,919 you even wrote the quote, this will go away the minute any of 1287 01:18:07,919 --> 01:18:09,959 these guys gets into their private plane, they got to go 1288 01:18:09,959 --> 01:18:13,019 through security and you know, all this crap, they'll end it 1289 01:18:13,499 --> 01:18:15,359 unless they get special exemptions. 1290 01:18:16,320 --> 01:18:18,810 Well, that wouldn't be good, because then you'd have a fuss. 1291 01:18:19,050 --> 01:18:22,050 So we ran we ran something on the blog that makes us even more 1292 01:18:22,050 --> 01:18:27,900 ludicrous. The TSA dismisses DoD today by the way, TSA says mule 1293 01:18:27,900 --> 01:18:32,790 Skinner's need background checks to mule skip. A federal anti 1294 01:18:32,790 --> 01:18:35,490 terror law that requires longshoremen, truckers and 1295 01:18:35,490 --> 01:18:38,580 others to submit to criminal background checks has ensnared 1296 01:18:38,580 --> 01:18:43,620 another class of transportation worker, the mule driver which is 1297 01:18:43,650 --> 01:18:46,140 which is what a mule skinner is called. They must abide by 1298 01:18:46,140 --> 01:18:48,750 federal law and apply for transportation worker 1299 01:18:48,750 --> 01:18:53,340 identification credentials. TSA says yes the so called mule 1300 01:18:53,340 --> 01:18:56,610 Skinner's, in this case seasonal workers who dress in colonial 1301 01:18:56,610 --> 01:19:01,080 garb at a historic park. Sylvania must apply for a 1302 01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:05,370 biometric transportation worker identification credentials. I 1303 01:19:05,370 --> 01:19:08,880 guess you could drive one of these mules into the Twin Towers 1304 01:19:09,300 --> 01:19:15,030 and detonate and detonate your mule cart this clearly is 1305 01:19:15,120 --> 01:19:17,370 they're just trying to get at the Amish man that's what it's 1306 01:19:17,370 --> 01:19:20,760 all about. Damn Amish man they're dangerous 1307 01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:24,810 crazy I'm how the vegans are behind this I'm sure of it. 1308 01:19:25,529 --> 01:19:28,559 Are we just way tuned into this stuff? Or is everyone else just 1309 01:19:28,559 --> 01:19:33,569 way tuned out or is this is nuts man what kind of world we live 1310 01:19:33,569 --> 01:19:34,679 in what's going on? 1311 01:19:35,489 --> 01:19:37,529 I don't know. I mean, somebody's obviously this you know, these 1312 01:19:37,529 --> 01:19:40,769 are these these this thing is interesting about the internet 1313 01:19:40,799 --> 01:19:46,229 is that you know this actually showed up on cnn.com is just you 1314 01:19:46,229 --> 01:19:49,889 know, one of the many stories unfortunately because you know, 1315 01:19:49,889 --> 01:19:52,289 we don't have the newspapers are dying. The San Francisco 1316 01:19:52,289 --> 01:19:56,219 Chronicle by the ways lost $50 million, or using losing a 1317 01:19:56,219 --> 01:19:58,949 million dollars a week. They can't seem to stop bleeding 1318 01:19:58,979 --> 01:20:02,009 didn't her say never gonna Shut it down. They said if they don't 1319 01:20:02,009 --> 01:20:05,579 sell it, and they actually on January 9, this, I think was the 1320 01:20:05,579 --> 01:20:09,479 ninth or the sixth of January. They said that if they don't get 1321 01:20:09,479 --> 01:20:13,469 the Seattle post Intelligencer, which is their other paper sold 1322 01:20:13,469 --> 01:20:16,469 in 60 days, they're just going to shut it down 1323 01:20:16,740 --> 01:20:19,950 to know how long does that paper been around 200 years, 1324 01:20:20,610 --> 01:20:24,480 a long time. And the Chronicle, which is, you know, been around 1325 01:20:24,480 --> 01:20:31,020 since the 1800s. They bought down from the other family, 1326 01:20:31,770 --> 01:20:34,470 because their examiner wasn't doing very well, to say the 1327 01:20:34,470 --> 01:20:37,200 least, and it was losing money. And then they buffered this the 1328 01:20:37,200 --> 01:20:39,330 other day, I can't remember the name of the family that owned 1329 01:20:39,330 --> 01:20:42,390 it, but it was a privately held, they bought, I think spent $600 1330 01:20:42,390 --> 01:20:48,060 million for the paper, which of course, and now it's costing 50 1331 01:20:48,060 --> 01:20:51,360 million a year more just to keep the thing alive. I don't 1332 01:20:51,360 --> 01:20:57,870 understand how you can what, where's this money going? I'd 1333 01:20:57,870 --> 01:21:00,090 like to be interesting. I wish these people would open the 1334 01:21:00,090 --> 01:21:03,390 books to the public. So we could examine this to just to see 1335 01:21:03,390 --> 01:21:08,340 what, what's all the expense. I mean, where's $50 million? And a 1336 01:21:08,340 --> 01:21:09,210 newspaper? First of 1337 01:21:09,210 --> 01:21:11,820 all, the paper is pretty outrageous when I mean, you've 1338 01:21:11,820 --> 01:21:13,920 seen these, you've seen the rolls of the printer. I mean, 1339 01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:16,170 you look at that. And then the guy will say, Oh, that's just 1340 01:21:16,170 --> 01:21:19,650 for today's run you like what this entire forest I see before 1341 01:21:19,650 --> 01:21:22,530 me, it's just for today's run. So I think the papers are huge. 1342 01:21:22,530 --> 01:21:26,640 And because a huge expense and, and of course, people but the 1343 01:21:26,670 --> 01:21:30,630 the real problem is on the income side. Because this was 1344 01:21:30,630 --> 01:21:35,070 basically a business that was being subsidized by classifieds. 1345 01:21:35,100 --> 01:21:37,350 And that's what the internet really you surf the internet 1346 01:21:37,380 --> 01:21:41,520 doesn't necessarily have better news capabilities or 1347 01:21:42,660 --> 01:21:45,150 is good. I think that that which I think this mule skinner store 1348 01:21:45,150 --> 01:21:48,660 is a good example. I don't think that the internet serves the 1349 01:21:48,660 --> 01:21:51,630 public as well as the newspaper because there was no, there is 1350 01:21:51,630 --> 01:21:55,320 no way of seeing the you know, the the stories aren't put in 1351 01:21:55,320 --> 01:22:00,120 perspective. They're just a million stories. And so with our 1352 01:22:00,120 --> 01:22:02,370 blog, we can take, you know, some of the stories that are 1353 01:22:02,370 --> 01:22:05,730 more, you know, we do mostly kind of weird little stories 1354 01:22:05,730 --> 01:22:10,140 like this. And we can kind of focus on that. But, you know, if 1355 01:22:10,140 --> 01:22:13,110 you're just going to just run news news feeds from Associated 1356 01:22:13,110 --> 01:22:18,900 Press, and just and not in a non hierarchical manner. I mean, 1357 01:22:18,900 --> 01:22:21,570 some of the best stories are bare. Some of them all the 1358 01:22:21,570 --> 01:22:22,560 stories are buried, 1359 01:22:23,400 --> 01:22:26,850 which is exactly why this type of program is on fire, because 1360 01:22:26,850 --> 01:22:29,880 we're bringing up the buried stories, trying to put some 1361 01:22:29,880 --> 01:22:33,180 context around them. Just like two guys who've been around and 1362 01:22:33,180 --> 01:22:36,990 don't know, really anything. We don't know nothing about much. 1363 01:22:38,310 --> 01:22:42,540 But that elbow, we've seen a lot. But but you can also spot 1364 01:22:42,540 --> 01:22:46,050 the BS when because, you know, we're working in an industry 1365 01:22:46,050 --> 01:22:46,890 that's filled with it. 1366 01:22:46,980 --> 01:22:50,100 Was there another paper that that filed for Chapter 11? 1367 01:22:50,970 --> 01:22:56,280 Or some other paper folded? And I'm sure that there it may be 1368 01:22:56,280 --> 01:23:00,180 the Enquirer or possibly but the we need, there's got to be a 1369 01:23:00,180 --> 01:23:03,360 website and somebody could probably Twitter it to us. Or, 1370 01:23:03,600 --> 01:23:06,450 you know, there's got to be a website that has a newspaper 1371 01:23:06,450 --> 01:23:10,710 Deathwatch. Yeah. I mean, there has to be I mean, there's, you 1372 01:23:10,710 --> 01:23:13,290 know, there's a job or journalist out there, I know 1373 01:23:13,290 --> 01:23:17,430 what these people are gonna do for work. Or journalist who has 1374 01:23:17,430 --> 01:23:21,270 put up a you know, Deathwatch cite for all the different 1375 01:23:21,270 --> 01:23:23,760 newspapers around the country, because they're all doomed. I 1376 01:23:23,760 --> 01:23:26,460 mean, I was looking at the New York Times today, as I was 1377 01:23:26,460 --> 01:23:30,030 researching the sheep, a belching story, which started 1378 01:23:30,060 --> 01:23:34,170 the show with, and I'm looking at the, at this one page, they 1379 01:23:34,170 --> 01:23:37,950 had a thing on Brooklyn foodies, and how there's a big trend in 1380 01:23:37,950 --> 01:23:40,590 Brooklyn right now to do, you know, make just a bunch of 1381 01:23:40,890 --> 01:23:43,110 people that are in Brooklyn doing you know, the foodie 1382 01:23:43,110 --> 01:23:45,450 thing, you know, they got special little restaurants and 1383 01:23:45,660 --> 01:23:48,750 cool this and, you know, butcheries that are on site at 1384 01:23:48,750 --> 01:23:51,300 the, at the actual place and stuff like that. And they had 1385 01:23:51,300 --> 01:23:54,300 this picture of all these famous, you know, I guess the 1386 01:23:54,300 --> 01:23:59,190 superstar chefs and food people in Brooklyn. And there's a photo 1387 01:23:59,220 --> 01:24:01,980 big photo at the top of the story. Great story very 1388 01:24:01,980 --> 01:24:05,610 interesting if you're into this. And but instead of just having a 1389 01:24:05,610 --> 01:24:07,860 list, here's the left to right, you know, they had a picture do 1390 01:24:07,860 --> 01:24:11,280 I 10 People you moused over the picture. Yeah. And every time 1391 01:24:11,280 --> 01:24:14,880 the mouse hit the person's head, it would light up their name. 1392 01:24:16,830 --> 01:24:20,100 Which is fine, good, good. Good. There's nothing wrong with it. 1393 01:24:20,520 --> 01:24:24,090 But if you're a newspaper trying to cut costs, what is the point 1394 01:24:24,090 --> 01:24:28,950 of this that there is no way that this isn't hand coded waste 1395 01:24:28,950 --> 01:24:34,380 of time? There's nothing I know of no automated system that 1396 01:24:34,380 --> 01:24:41,640 could do this. Yeah, it's Ajax. And so somebody had to map these 1397 01:24:41,760 --> 01:24:45,390 little figures by hand with you know, I mean, sure, maybe not 1398 01:24:45,390 --> 01:24:48,450 taking a lot of time if you do a lot, but it's still time time 1399 01:24:48,510 --> 01:24:51,600 consuming and it is pointless. You could just have the lead. 1400 01:24:51,600 --> 01:24:53,850 Here's the picture left to right. There's blah, blah, blah, 1401 01:24:53,850 --> 01:24:55,290 and blah, blah, blah. And it's actually kind of more 1402 01:24:55,290 --> 01:24:57,390 interesting because you can cut and paste that if you wanted to 1403 01:24:57,570 --> 01:25:00,000 save these people's names. You can't do that with this little 1404 01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:01,500 Ajax Rolesor 1405 01:25:01,500 --> 01:25:04,050 the fancy stuff for us people putting show notes together, 1406 01:25:04,050 --> 01:25:04,560 please. 1407 01:25:05,010 --> 01:25:07,860 Exactly. But the point is, is that here's a paper that's 1408 01:25:07,860 --> 01:25:10,830 whining another paper by the New York Times is whining and 1409 01:25:10,830 --> 01:25:13,500 moaning. And they want to do this. They want to go all online 1410 01:25:13,500 --> 01:25:18,390 and yeah, they and then they do this crap, which is needless 1411 01:25:18,390 --> 01:25:22,410 Yeah. It's really neat. I had to say it is cool. But it's it's a 1412 01:25:22,410 --> 01:25:24,450 stupid waste of time. This cost money. 1413 01:25:25,200 --> 01:25:29,370 So, newspaper deathwatch.com, would you believe it? Is that 1414 01:25:29,370 --> 01:25:32,250 the name of it? Yep. Yeah. You'll like it. This is a really 1415 01:25:32,250 --> 01:25:36,510 detailed site. That's got it. Yeah. It's got all kinds of it's 1416 01:25:36,510 --> 01:25:41,160 got the latest news, the rumors. SF Chronicle on life support. 1417 01:25:42,180 --> 01:25:46,110 Very funny. They have Obama with we will recover on the on the 1418 01:25:46,110 --> 01:25:52,050 cover. That's funny. That's pretty good. Take a look. We 1419 01:25:52,050 --> 01:25:54,540 just got a couple more minutes, John. So I'll just run through 1420 01:25:54,780 --> 01:25:56,880 the last bit of notes. I don't have any more notes. Do you 1421 01:25:57,120 --> 01:25:57,480 know, but 1422 01:25:57,480 --> 01:25:58,470 I'm done. Okay. 1423 01:25:58,680 --> 01:26:02,520 So I was kind of amazed, as the President said, you know, I've 1424 01:26:02,520 --> 01:26:04,830 never had a helicopter before you know, maybe I've been 1425 01:26:04,830 --> 01:26:11,730 deprived. And I didn't know it. Boyle boy, man. I know a bit 1426 01:26:11,730 --> 01:26:16,050 about helicopters. But if you if you have a budget, and of course 1427 01:26:16,050 --> 01:26:18,630 this will be removed or changed or whatever, or may be hidden 1428 01:26:18,630 --> 01:26:21,780 and still go through I don't know. But for fleet of 1429 01:26:21,780 --> 01:26:26,220 helicopters. Okay, so there was originally 28 helicopters, the 1430 01:26:26,220 --> 01:26:30,900 original costs that bush set up was 6 billion. The project is 1431 01:26:30,900 --> 01:26:37,470 now at $11.2 billion. You know, I just can't make the numbers 1432 01:26:37,470 --> 01:26:41,910 work, John for 28 helicopters. I just can't make it work. I mean, 1433 01:26:41,910 --> 01:26:46,740 even if it was 100 million per helicopter you still can't get 1434 01:26:46,740 --> 01:26:49,950 to 11 billion $11 billion 1435 01:26:51,090 --> 01:26:54,720 maybe it did some of that money for the infrastructure or for 1436 01:26:54,720 --> 01:26:59,820 the world? Well, usually that includes maybe that includes all 1437 01:26:59,820 --> 01:27:02,880 the salaries of all the pilots you know, pushed out five years 1438 01:27:02,880 --> 01:27:03,210 who knows? 1439 01:27:04,079 --> 01:27:08,639 Well, usually what this is, is it's a greatness. Maintenance 1440 01:27:09,269 --> 01:27:13,469 filler up. Usually it means that they're essentially designing a 1441 01:27:13,469 --> 01:27:16,529 whole new helicopter. You know, designing a new helicopter could 1442 01:27:16,529 --> 01:27:21,329 easily cost a billion dollars. But there's still 11 billion and 1443 01:27:24,450 --> 01:27:27,840 it sounds like a cover for some money's gonna be 1444 01:27:28,020 --> 01:27:30,840 you know, 11 billion. I want some stick time on that bad boy 1445 01:27:30,840 --> 01:27:33,300 when it's done. That's what I want. I want give me a little 1446 01:27:33,300 --> 01:27:37,170 bit of stick time. This one caught my eye. I thought it was 1447 01:27:37,170 --> 01:27:41,520 pretty interesting. Antibodies protect against bird flu and 1448 01:27:41,520 --> 01:27:44,340 more. Did you hear about this reacher researchers have 1449 01:27:44,340 --> 01:27:49,170 discovered human antibodies that neutralize not only h five n one 1450 01:27:49,170 --> 01:27:52,890 bird flu but other strains of influenza as well. And they hope 1451 01:27:52,890 --> 01:27:55,200 to develop them into life saving treatments. So what they're 1452 01:27:55,200 --> 01:27:59,040 saying is, you know what, it could be one shot that fixes all 1453 01:27:59,040 --> 01:28:05,430 flu including bird flu. Yeah, you believe in that. But yeah, 1454 01:28:05,430 --> 01:28:09,900 I read the most of the briefings on this instance. They've 1455 01:28:09,930 --> 01:28:15,720 discovered the apparently over the years the the the flu 1456 01:28:15,720 --> 01:28:19,050 vaccines are based on there's a there's I guess a sheath around 1457 01:28:19,050 --> 01:28:22,920 the virus that keeps mutating every year. And they you know, 1458 01:28:22,920 --> 01:28:28,680 they can target that as a something that device that they 1459 01:28:28,740 --> 01:28:31,590 can make a vaccine for and and kill the viruses that have the 1460 01:28:31,620 --> 01:28:34,440 whatever the mutation isn't it kind of predicted which ones are 1461 01:28:34,440 --> 01:28:39,570 going to be successful which for they see the way I read it 1462 01:28:39,570 --> 01:28:42,870 there's something else that that discovered within the virus that 1463 01:28:42,870 --> 01:28:49,140 is doesn't mutate it is a it's fixed. It's it makes the bird 1464 01:28:49,170 --> 01:28:53,670 flu what it is and it's nothing that that changes with each 1465 01:28:53,700 --> 01:28:57,900 iteration of the of the flu tick as it comes around. And they now 1466 01:28:57,900 --> 01:29:03,150 think they can target that with a vaccine of some sort. And 1467 01:29:03,150 --> 01:29:05,940 they've they've said early successes right away and if 1468 01:29:05,940 --> 01:29:09,090 that's the case, then the flu can be eradicated. And that 1469 01:29:09,090 --> 01:29:09,870 would include bird 1470 01:29:09,870 --> 01:29:15,600 flu. Fascinating Okay, well you know me I'm not taking any shots 1471 01:29:15,600 --> 01:29:16,830 yet not for long 1472 01:29:18,120 --> 01:29:21,000 if they have that shot and it's up and it comes through I mean 1473 01:29:21,000 --> 01:29:23,040 that shot I'd be lined up for 1474 01:29:23,310 --> 01:29:26,340 you're also going to be lined up for the FEMA camps John you know 1475 01:29:26,370 --> 01:29:26,970 live 1476 01:29:28,470 --> 01:29:31,500 you know, I will have fair warning because you know, 1477 01:29:32,760 --> 01:29:36,000 I'll be sending postcards is that we're gonna be calling 1478 01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:39,030 in Sunday morning and it's like you know, maybe your wife will 1479 01:29:39,030 --> 01:29:43,590 come on and say they took him away last night. I don't know 1480 01:29:43,590 --> 01:29:46,680 that I can did scurry up to Washington or I can do something 1481 01:29:46,710 --> 01:29:51,060 or I can I got up you got a taxi that goes on the other side is 1482 01:29:51,060 --> 01:29:54,420 like a mine under the house that takes me out and drops me off on 1483 01:29:54,420 --> 01:29:56,040 your Berkeley sewer system. I can 1484 01:29:56,100 --> 01:29:59,310 well you you may want to leave sooner than you think ma'am 1485 01:29:59,310 --> 01:30:02,820 because I'm just looking at the state of California. The drought 1486 01:30:02,820 --> 01:30:05,340 which of course no one talks about anymore. I'm sure it's 1487 01:30:05,370 --> 01:30:05,820 they still 1488 01:30:06,360 --> 01:30:11,070 because the rain stars we had over the last week or two have 1489 01:30:11,100 --> 01:30:14,100 pretty much negated the drought. The drought is gone. Yeah. Is it 1490 01:30:14,100 --> 01:30:19,740 gone for good. Now I have a huge one of these huge it's like a 1491 01:30:19,740 --> 01:30:23,310 big galvanized thing that you put tons of ice in and you put 1492 01:30:23,310 --> 01:30:26,370 beer in. It's a big giant galvanized thing. It's about two 1493 01:30:26,370 --> 01:30:31,230 feet high. And or maybe about a foot and a half. I went up to 1494 01:30:31,230 --> 01:30:34,200 Washington, I came back to sting was dead empty. When I left and 1495 01:30:34,200 --> 01:30:36,210 we had this big storm last week, and we're having another one 1496 01:30:36,210 --> 01:30:40,320 this weekend. It was full. I mean, that's about a foot and a 1497 01:30:40,320 --> 01:30:43,080 half of rain, even though they said whatever I mean, eight 1498 01:30:43,080 --> 01:30:44,160 inches, they said or something 1499 01:30:44,160 --> 01:30:47,310 like China, they do all this cloud seeding and they make it 1500 01:30:47,310 --> 01:30:48,600 rain rain. How come they used to 1501 01:30:48,600 --> 01:30:51,480 do that? To do that? Well, yeah, then of environmentalists, they 1502 01:30:51,480 --> 01:30:53,850 got bent out of shape and some some silver salts and aren't 1503 01:30:53,880 --> 01:30:55,200 very good for you, apparently. 1504 01:30:55,890 --> 01:30:58,980 And then, depending on how this how the budget now plays out, 1505 01:30:59,010 --> 01:31:03,330 and how much bailout money California gets. The los angeles 1506 01:31:03,330 --> 01:31:06,690 sheriff is now saying, Hey, I might have let 4000 inmates go. 1507 01:31:09,360 --> 01:31:12,090 I like that one. There's a threat. Well, now the other 1508 01:31:12,090 --> 01:31:14,370 thing going on, which I think applies to California, more than 1509 01:31:14,370 --> 01:31:17,760 anything else is the attempt by Tom amiano. And he was ridiculed 1510 01:31:17,760 --> 01:31:20,700 by you know, I don't quite understand the libertarian 1511 01:31:20,700 --> 01:31:24,750 Republicans who who are all less government less this less that 1512 01:31:24,750 --> 01:31:27,960 more freedom, there are so against this, the guy is trying 1513 01:31:27,960 --> 01:31:30,720 to legalize marijuana in the state of California, and it's 1514 01:31:30,720 --> 01:31:34,440 actually being considered. And the reason for the consideration 1515 01:31:34,440 --> 01:31:37,290 is because it could bring in a billion dollars in taxes right 1516 01:31:37,290 --> 01:31:41,340 into the coffers, it could just changes the rate the way we do 1517 01:31:41,850 --> 01:31:45,780 incarceration, it change, it saves billions that way, it 1518 01:31:45,780 --> 01:31:48,210 changes the way we do law enforcement changes a whole 1519 01:31:48,210 --> 01:31:50,880 bunch of things. If you just legalize marijuana and all 1520 01:31:50,880 --> 01:31:53,040 everyone's up in arms, you know, the right wing is up and all you 1521 01:31:53,040 --> 01:31:55,860 can't do that, because it would be terrible. And you know, they 1522 01:31:55,860 --> 01:31:59,640 did it in Amsterdam, and now it would never happen in Amsterdam. 1523 01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:00,210 They don't even know 1524 01:32:00,210 --> 01:32:02,370 if it's being pulled away. Well, they're not going to legalize 1525 01:32:02,370 --> 01:32:05,760 it. John, I'll tell you why. Because the drug trade if it 1526 01:32:05,760 --> 01:32:08,820 were completely illegal drug trade, which of course just 1527 01:32:08,820 --> 01:32:11,970 look, you're not sorry about that. Gosh, I hate it. When I 1528 01:32:11,970 --> 01:32:18,660 say that. Let me be clear. By making by making, let me be 1529 01:32:18,660 --> 01:32:22,380 clear, very clear, by making marijuana legal, the price will 1530 01:32:22,380 --> 01:32:27,000 have to come down considerably. And the US government, and I'll 1531 01:32:27,000 --> 01:32:30,210 just say it is in the drug trafficking trade. That's what 1532 01:32:30,210 --> 01:32:34,500 Afghanistan is all about. You know, they they're complicit in 1533 01:32:34,500 --> 01:32:39,630 all of this stuff. They do not want you on free or cheap drugs. 1534 01:32:39,930 --> 01:32:43,350 They want to get this big money. That's what Wall Street was 1535 01:32:43,350 --> 01:32:47,160 running on. Look at Stanford, I mean, this is all drug money. I 1536 01:32:47,160 --> 01:32:52,020 was I had a lunch yesterday with a number of people with a very 1537 01:32:52,020 --> 01:32:56,160 proper English lunch and I was dressed in my pinstripes. And it 1538 01:32:56,160 --> 01:32:58,830 was at a real fancy restaurant right behind Harrods, and a 1539 01:32:58,830 --> 01:33:03,210 couple of the guys are money managers for Saudi royal family 1540 01:33:03,210 --> 01:33:07,260 members. And, you know, like princes and stuff, and, you 1541 01:33:07,260 --> 01:33:09,510 know, they manage billions of dollars. And a couple of 1542 01:33:09,510 --> 01:33:12,540 interesting things came out of that. The first one was the 1543 01:33:12,570 --> 01:33:15,870 complete agreement within seconds of the topic being 1544 01:33:15,870 --> 01:33:18,780 broached about what we're really doing in Afghanistan, these guys 1545 01:33:18,780 --> 01:33:21,390 said, oh, yeah, it's all for the drugs. That's why, like, they 1546 01:33:21,390 --> 01:33:25,080 knew they're onto it immediately. And then, the other 1547 01:33:25,080 --> 01:33:32,070 thing is, they have hundreds of lawsuits right now hundreds, 1548 01:33:32,430 --> 01:33:36,450 because all these banks, that are the insurance companies that 1549 01:33:36,450 --> 01:33:40,080 provide an insurance, you know, basically a hedge on on an 1550 01:33:40,080 --> 01:33:43,140 investment. So you take an investment in something and you 1551 01:33:43,680 --> 01:33:46,770 buy insurance. Again, this is a lot of what these credit default 1552 01:33:47,010 --> 01:33:52,830 options were swapped, I'm sorry. And so if that if it doesn't pay 1553 01:33:52,830 --> 01:33:55,230 off the way you expected it, then you've you've paid a little 1554 01:33:55,230 --> 01:33:57,510 bit each month relative of course, with a little bit is and 1555 01:33:57,510 --> 01:34:00,300 then you get a payout. So you never really lose your your 1556 01:34:00,300 --> 01:34:03,630 principal investment. That's kind of the idea of hedging your 1557 01:34:03,630 --> 01:34:07,650 bets. And the banks won't, they won't pay out the insurers. And 1558 01:34:07,650 --> 01:34:09,210 what they're doing is they're just waiting. They're just 1559 01:34:09,210 --> 01:34:11,880 sitting on it, they just go into the court system, letting the 1560 01:34:11,880 --> 01:34:14,670 lawyers deal with it, they're just dragging it all out, 1561 01:34:14,790 --> 01:34:17,130 because they know that you're gonna get bailed out or 1562 01:34:17,130 --> 01:34:20,190 something else is going to happen. They are not paying. And 1563 01:34:20,190 --> 01:34:23,220 it's you know, when you see these guys at that level, and 1564 01:34:23,220 --> 01:34:25,560 we're talking hundreds of millions, if not billions of 1565 01:34:25,560 --> 01:34:29,280 dollars, no wonder the system is all messed up the American 1566 01:34:29,280 --> 01:34:31,770 public and the British public and the Europeans they can't 1567 01:34:32,190 --> 01:34:35,430 they can't even print enough money to fix all of that 1568 01:34:35,430 --> 01:34:38,460 problem. This whole thing has to go down it has to change. 1569 01:34:40,650 --> 01:34:42,360 Well, that's what I probably would have been a good idea. 1570 01:34:42,360 --> 01:34:46,800 Just let the insurance companies go bankrupt. And, you know, 1571 01:34:46,800 --> 01:34:51,450 these guys do so much for the credit default swaps. Yeah. So I 1572 01:34:51,450 --> 01:34:54,630 don't know. Okay. Well, I think we have another enlightening 1573 01:34:54,630 --> 01:34:58,170 show, but don't forget to vorak.org/n a go and help us out 1574 01:34:58,170 --> 01:35:00,780 here and we'll be back And on Sunday. 1575 01:35:00,840 --> 01:35:04,590 Yes. And I want to thank Rick revolution on Twitter, who has 1576 01:35:04,800 --> 01:35:07,590 yet again put together a beautiful piece of album art for 1577 01:35:07,590 --> 01:35:12,870 us for this show, you'll love this one, John. It's great. I 1578 01:35:12,870 --> 01:35:16,380 look forward to it. It's in the same theme. And this is the one 1579 01:35:16,380 --> 01:35:22,260 this one's hot. So, yes, Devorah rock.org/na for the donations to 1580 01:35:22,260 --> 01:35:26,460 the curry Dvorak library, we're looking to build some kind of 1581 01:35:26,460 --> 01:35:31,350 like what Clinton has. Yeah. And Bush doesn't have a library he's 1582 01:35:31,350 --> 01:35:32,160 putting together too. 1583 01:35:33,090 --> 01:35:36,480 It's only because it's just comic books. I understand. Oh, 1584 01:35:36,480 --> 01:35:36,660 where's 1585 01:35:36,660 --> 01:35:37,440 my rim shot? 1586 01:35:39,420 --> 01:35:44,550 All right, man. So papa, papa Sunday. 1587 01:35:45,600 --> 01:35:46,860 Yes, Sunday looks good. 1588 01:35:47,249 --> 01:35:50,069 Okay. Hey, thanks for coming prepared. That was kind of fun. 1589 01:35:50,970 --> 01:35:54,270 Yeah, I got my new I bought got one of these, you know, marble 1590 01:35:54,270 --> 01:35:59,400 covered, wide rule, composition notebook. You carry it over by 1591 01:35:59,400 --> 01:36:02,130 the television. So if I ever turn the TV on, I have this 1592 01:36:02,130 --> 01:36:04,740 thing ready to go. And I write the notes that says no agenda on 1593 01:36:04,740 --> 01:36:08,340 the front. And that's all it's for. And I'll keep doing that. 1594 01:36:08,340 --> 01:36:10,980 And that should keep the show. Megan that unfortunately made 1595 01:36:10,980 --> 01:36:12,270 the show a little long today. 1596 01:36:12,419 --> 01:36:15,029 No, that's all right. I like I liked the fact that you you did 1597 01:36:15,029 --> 01:36:19,859 the notes on the joint test session. So we will talk to you 1598 01:36:19,859 --> 01:36:22,499 again on Sunday coming to you from the crackpot command center 1599 01:36:22,499 --> 01:36:25,679 in southwest London located in Gitmo nation east. I'm Adam 1600 01:36:25,679 --> 01:36:26,159 curry, 1601 01:36:26,910 --> 01:36:31,440 and I am here in the buzzkill center in northern Silicon 1602 01:36:31,440 --> 01:36:33,750 Valley. I am John C. Dvorak. 1603 01:36:33,810 --> 01:36:35,700 It's a buzzkill bunker actually, 1604 01:36:36,360 --> 01:36:37,560 I liked that Buzzkill. 1605 01:36:38,580 --> 01:36:41,790 We'll talk to you right here. I know agenda. Bye bye, everybody.