Hey, Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. I didn't prepare an opening
because I'm on vacation, dude. Happy Easter, everybody. This is
no agenda. Coming to you from the temporary crackpot command
center located in the sunny in southeastern part of the Algarve
in Portugal. I'm Adam curry.
And from the Pacific Northwest, also known as get mo nation,
Pacific Northwest. How creative I'm John C. Dvorak. dragline.
Buzzkill.
I realize I haven't even set up my in the morning jingles or
anything like that on the mobile set. So lame.
Sounded good. Yeah,
no, but I don't have now I can't trigger an in the morning
because they don't have those setup.
No one else okay. I don't think getting killed is a horrible
problem. So Shan you ad lib the opening and I think it worked
out fine. Yeah, I
can do it when I need to. You know, that's the old the old DJ
comes back.
Ad Lib the opening. Sunny Portugal. I'm here in rainy
Pacific Northwest.
Yes. Well, first of all, happy Easter, John. Happy
resurrection.
And
what? Isn't it? Isn't that what Easter is? The resurrection?
Resurrection resurrection? Yeah.
erection.
You're breaking up. So anyway, yeah. Same to you. Happy Easter
to everybody out there listening to us, even though most of them
won't be listening on Easter.
I don't know. We've got a lot of people on the stream. But yeah,
I'm in the eastern Algarve, which is about as far off the
beaten track as you can get in the the touristy part of
Portugal.
wears it? I don't know. We'll see. You
know where Fido is. Down in the South.
I've seen you Oh, right. Right. Well, you're way down there.
Yeah. So if you looked at the map, and you know, our listeners
might actually consider doing that from time to time, you'll
see that Portugal kind of goes down into a point down in the
south. And it's of course, it's embedded right next to Spain. So
we are we're really only maybe 50 kilometers from Spain from
where we are right now. And so most people, most tourists all
go to the west of Fatah, which is where the airport is. And
that's where all the resorts are, etc. We rented a house.
Yeah, kind of in the sticks. But it's awesome. We got to you
know, we got a pool, we got a fantastic view. It's, it's like
a huge place. Which downside is I couldn't find a place to set
up other than in a living room because the wireless won't reach
throughout, you know, to all the different rooms in this house.
And it's been awesome. It's been really cool.
So reasonably good connection. It sounds like, yeah,
you know, it's, I'm worried about it, because we've been
getting three megabits down, you know, the typical 500 kilobits
up. But it has been just like going down or the router has
been rebooting from time to time at least once a day. So I pray
for it not to happen right now. Well,
if it does, you know, at least we got this much of the show
done. Hi, everybody. Hey,
good talking to you. So, yeah, what, what's your plans?
I'm going to cook a leg of lamb.
Why does that not surprise me? Who's come? Where are you?
You're in San Francisco. You're Washington still?
No, I'm in Washington. You should listen. Yeah, no, I'm up
here. And the same thing you know, the older that's why I got
the br 40. And yeah, legal lamb yesterday, we cooked some
delicious baby back ribs in celebration of Easter.
Do you celebrate Easter? Are you a religious man?
I'm not anti religious. But we celebrate Easter by having
dinner. Right. But my wife always makes up you know, she
used to always hide eggs. And then also she makes a big
basket. Traditionally, every
year so what is the deal with Easter in the eggs? I don't
think I actually know the story behind that.
Well, not sure you've caught me off guard. I have no idea.
Really? You don't know the why the eggs relate to Easter.
That's surprising. I don't like you know, I don't have to google
that. I'll just ask
John. Yeah, well, you should have Googled it. Wherever the
buddy The other thing is, what about Easter bunnies with the
price of bread?
What's up with that one? What's the why do we have eggs with
Easter? No idea. She doesn't know. And you should know being
a good Catholic. As she throws a knife in my general direction.
Well, she didn't hit you. So what's in the top of the news
for you? Well, this is going on in part to Gaul.
Yeah, there's Well, obviously you know, the news is kind of
sparse. I haven't haven't been haven't even bought a news feed
over there. That's more important. What is great. We're
right next door to a real fancy hotel and they have a well known
restaurant. I don't think they're rated with any stars but
they're in all the all the books and magazines that I've read.
And I have to say it was outstanding. And you know,
Christina is with us and she brought her boyfriend Dexter who
is Oh, god, oh, shock. Oh, horror, he's a vegetarian. I
know. It's like God is punishing me. He's like, Oh, you want to
make fun of those guys here have one.
Geryon. And we're what's the name of the restaurant for God's
sake?
Well, if I want it doesn't matter if I say it, then people
know where I am. But that's okay. Laundry.
Oh, well, there's That's an unusual name for a restaurant
never heard of such a place. So many could
there be in the world of laundry haze?
So So you took your, your, your potential son in law's to the
restaurant? And they of course have no vegetarian dishes there?
Right. Actually,
they had a special vegetarian menu. Could you believe it? I
was blown away.
Yeah. Well, that's because you know why? Because Portugal is
like one of the great spots for the Brits to hang out. Exactly.
And then Brits and or they have a lot of odd balls in Britain
and most of the vegetarian movements have all begun their
guy
and you know, the big if you want to see what what happens in
a credit crunch, come to Portugal because you know, two
things have happened eight people just don't have the money
or they're holding back on spending. But secondarily, the
pound is almost equal to the euro. So the so the Brits and
you hear this all the time? Well, you know, what's, why have
a pound if we can't, you know, use our leverage to go places
cheap on vacation and drink until we puke. So attendances,
you know, it's like 30 or 40%. Down, there's occupancy rates
are just, you know, the lowest ever, people are booking at the
very, very last minute. So it's, it's a big problem here. Yeah,
because it is. So
without getting too nosy. What do you pay for the place you
have? And how big is it?
I'll tell you exactly, I don't mind. Because what you do is,
you have these, what here's what happened. Throughout the past 10
years in Britain, we had just tons of television programs, a
place in the sun, a home in a way foreign abroad. In and out
my ass, I had all these different shows. And they were
on in primetime, and was basically helping you select the
right country as a Brit, to go take your take the money that
was invested in or the value that had increased in your home
in the United Kingdom, and purchase a cheap, you know,
relatively cheap real estate in any of these sunny countries.
And so it was a it talked about a Ponzi scheme. And you know,
all these developments were going on all this EU money came
into all these countries here in Portugal, they put a road
between I guess it's Lisbon. It probably goes further than
Lisbon. But Lisbon, you can go all the way too deep into Spain.
It's a brand new highway. It's like driving on a Formula One
track. It's so beautiful. It used to take five or six hours
to get from Lisbon to Faro. Now, you could do it in two and a
half. I mean, it's just fantastic. So all this
infrastructure, all these buildings start to come about.
And everyone had all this value in their homes, because they
just kept going up and up and up, particularly in the United
Kingdom, all enticed by this television, and you know, these
programs, you have to do this and you got to jump on the
bandwagon and was completely targeted at dinks dual income,
no kids. And so everyone bought these places. Now, of course, it
was like oh shit, you know, in the UK every single day, now you
read it, banks are actually telling people, Hey, you know,
the value of your home dropped, you have to pay us 200,000
pounds right now. You know, and apparently it's in these in
these mortgage contracts, they can do that. So people are
freaking out. So now these new agencies have cropped up. And
their entire job is to market these homes, either on or off
season to rent them out to you know, to individual party, so
and they're really good and they're really professional and
they they get you your rental car and take care of your it's
almost like a personal concierge service. So for this place, six
bedrooms, it'll sleep 12 comfortably every bedroom has
its own ensuite bathroom. Nice size heated swimming pool, 1500
pounds for the week.
That's a good deal.
That's an awesome deal.
I mean, you can stand in New York hotel and it cost you that
much. Two nights two
nights. Exactly. And so if you actually if you had 12 people
here, I mean, can you you know, then it's like 100 pounds a
person for the entire week. Now
granted Yeah, it's got a pool. I saw the pictures of it. The
thing is, it's huge. It's not like tastic a jet Yeah. And is
in the middle of you know, there's no name. I mean, you're
like in a kind of secluded roosted. It looks like a resort
place it'd be a good place to own.
Oh, the beautiful Ben. So that's exactly these people they've had
it for four years now they start renting it out but it's nice you
know, it's nice because everything is here everything
you need of course you have to cook your own food. But that's
why I like having the the hotel on the restaurant, you know,
around the corner basically. But it is separate. It's not it's
not in a resort. So it's in fact as a farm next door with with
goats. Sounds like goats he by the way.
Goats are noisy.
Oh my goodness.
And they said they have a guttural sound it makes them
sound like they're talking. Yeah. Go
so i i woke this morning to some disturbing news. Go figure.
Apparently, the CDC, the United States Centers for Disease
Control has discovered in a study that every single brand of
baby formula on the market but in particular, of course, the
bovine based formula contain. Wait for it perchlorate and
they're now calling a major alert saying well, you know,
there's also plenty of perchlorate in the water in the
in the United States in about 35 states for sure, but probably
everywhere. And the combination of making the formula with you
know, sometimes this formula you Yeah, add water to it, its
powder form could be dangerous to the health of children. And
of course, even though you can't tell me what eggs and the bunny
has to do with Easter, I'm thinking from my buddy John
certainly can tell me about perchlorate and what the hell it
is and why it's in our water. Our baby formula.
No, I haven't got a clue.
I thought you'd say that. So I took a liberty. Hey. Now
perchlorate is actually a main ingredient in rocket fuel.
Oh, yeah. Well, I do know that rocket fuels like rich
Maclaurin, it's an oxygen booster.
Yeah, exactly. And as you know, it's it's found in Fireworks,
which is how it gets gets into a lot of the drinking water
supplies because people light off these huge firework displays
in the middle of rivers, apparently drinking river
drinking reservoirs. But you know, so the FDA, of course, and
the EPA, together are saying, well, you know, it's okay to
have a little bit of perchlorate milk, I just don't understand
it. How can anything be okay in the milk? Shouldn't it just be
milk?
I don't understand why it can't just be milk. I mean, if they're
at where they're adding water, they're not sure how the pork
perchlorate getting into the milk. And that's what's so
frustrating, whether it's whether it's what let's just put
it this way, whether it's harmful or not. How's it getting
in there?
So no one has the answer for that, but I presume it could it
be another one of these things that's being used to up the
protein content? Or is it maybe what it's, it's used? I can't
understand how it's used in the process or how it would be crit
because it
want to get a food chemist just send us some notes, somebody out
there knows, send us a note
please, Twitter us or do something.
I wanted to make a point emails good
and wonderful and make a quick mention of a new way to access a
lot of the functionality of this program in our community is no
agenda dot mobi. branded as the iPhone app for the rest of us,
which I like very much. If you go to no agenda dot m Ovi M no
agenda dot mobi, you'll see their nice little menu, you can
get the latest podcast the latest show notes, you can send
a tweet to the stream. You can see the latest tweets that John
and I've sent is really quite nice.
We're going to have a bunch of stuff like that when we get our
our big site up and running.
Yeah, I'm sure you haven't spoken to those guys yet.
Have you know our seats is a holiday. Okay. I'm just asked
just in passing. Tuesday,
I got some people were very angry at me John gets his news.
They said that the Stop the presses.
They say you know, Hey, man, you were rude to me, me in there,
and you should apologize. And they even actually they were
angry YouTube for the last show, which I thought was kind of
funny.
Well, good. I need to get more attention. Did Mimi say
anything? No. She said she was kind of caught off guard because
she's normally snarky er than you. And she didn't quite know
what to make of the fact that you were so fun to follow and I
will say this by the way, finally flip Reading, which is
not what you do. I mean, you separate as a goof. And so she
knows that next time she'll you know, she's not gonna she's
gonna give you crap. She says,
like this, Adam and John, I just finished No, I didn't know
agenda 87 and heard you refer you to your listeners as
producers? I was thinking at the time, that probably wasn't a
good idea, actually. Well, I'm happy to be your producer. How
entertaining is a PBS fun drive? How that's how entertaining and
no agenda 87 was going forward. The amount of time spent asking
for donations will not exceed two minutes per show. Do it all
at once or in two pieces, but do not exceed two minutes and do
not mention it more than twice. Adam. There was nothing
entertaining about you being disrespectful to John's wife and
their marriage. You sounded like a total total douchebag when you
talked about hooking up with me. Don't be a dick. Yeah, wait,
wait for John. When Adams being a dick and disrespecting your
wife and you don't offend her, you come across like a total
plus.
Yeah, well, here's the problem. I should mention to him. I had
no idea since she had the headphones on what Adam was
saying. So what am I supposed to do be a mind reader? Yeah. Okay.
See, I got the defense here. If it was the normal date to thing
where you turn your speakers down, which would be in the
other studio, then yeah, I would have heard that. And it wouldn't
have gone very far. But I didn't know what the heck was No, I or
was maybe going huh, wha, huh. And you're jacking away. So I
don't know. So there you go. You can't be critical if somebody is
completely out of the loop. Anyway, so don't do that again.
I'm sorry. Good. So, so the big news. You know, when I'm up
here, by the way, I kind of just watch Canadian news.
Yeah, sure. I mean, why bother? Why bother with Amy Winehouse in
the US when you can get real news? Or somebody
mentioned Amy Winehouse on this hour has 22 Really, in which
context? Somebody in some kind of similar context that we
mentioned her does, you know, non news of phony news, that
kind of thing. So they had this weird thing. They have these the
this Rs 22. Minister, if anybody ever gets a chance to see watch
this show, you should. And occasionally they come into the
United States. And they do these. They like to have this
one guy in particular, loves to get people I mean, he just has
some most insulting questions, and then he answers them for
them. The person never gets to say anything. And it's fine to
watch Americans who have obviously never seen the show.
Respond is you know, indignantly Yeah. But they also had these
there's two characters that are they play these two characters
who are foppish Canadian radio announcers, the who do the
classical music show, the stupid, extremely pretentious
jerks. They play ever just ragging on some poor guy had
looks like he had Down syndrome or something. It was just, it
was weird. But anyway, so the big news is the Billy Bob
Thornton story. I don't know about this. Yeah, I don't think
that the US knows much about it either. So in fact, I'm gonna
have to read you the story, because it's actually it's one
of the funniest things going on it's part it's a real news. So
Billy, Billy Bob, I don't have the jingle. So Billy Bob, of
course, famously married married to Angelina Jolie into all kinds
of kinky sex, which is, of course cool if you're with
Angelina Jolie. And I think one of the better American actors
excuse me while I eat my grapefruit,
that's, people hate that when you do.
I'm hungry. I just got up. Okay. So yeah. So he goes up to Canada
with his band. His band, you know? Yes. It's called Billy
Bob's band, box masters. And I'm gonna read you the article after
explain kind of what I what I saw. And they were showing this
all over again. I mean, this is just top of the news. He comes
into an interview with somebody because he's wants to do a
Canadian Tour. So he's up on this tour. And he goes in and he
just, apparently, never show it. It's on YouTube. He blows up at
this guy because the guy made the mistake of mentioning that
he's an actor.
Instead of what what are you supposed to call him a rock
star? He's Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, yes, my faux PA.
So he blew up at the guy and he just getting chewed out again.
He's shoot at the Canadian audience. And he said the
Canadians this is just before he starts the tour. By the way, he
makes the comment that the Canadians are mashed potatoes
with no gravy.
And that way he's performing in Canada. Yeah. All right, this is
this is not the way to start the show.
So, so his first concert in Toronto right after this
comment, the Canadians go crazy and they start yelling at him
booing him in the yelling here's your gravy. booing you get off
the stage. So, so the next day, here's the headline. Billy Bob
Thornton band cancels Canadian shows, supposedly because they
all have the flu.
EV Avian Bird flow,
the guts to do anything so let me just read this. This is a CNN
story. It flew is forced and early and to Billy Bob
Thornton's musical tour of Canada. his publicist said
Saturday because he can't even say it. The news was reportedly
greeted with loud applause at a Friday night show in Montreal,
have J called Canadian concert goers mashed potatoes with no
gravy in a radio interview Wednesday the box masters final
Canadian dates in Montreal in London, Ontario were cancelled
because one of the band members and several of the crew have the
flu. Then it goes on He says they need a few days to
recuperate. Now here's where it gets weird. There's some really
weird stuff in this story. When we tend to plan pace Oh yeah, he
says that it's mashed potatoes with no gravy. Thorin told CBC
host Gian Gamos Ghomeshi we tend to play in places where people
throw things at each other and here they just sort of sit there
he said the audience said Thursday show Valley booed the
box matches with some shots of here's the gray hair comes with
the gravy the Toronto Star reported then he said then this
is thing it goes on and on he says because he didn't want to
talk about being an actress is Thorton promotes a mythology
that his cosmic cowboy music came together years ago after a
fight over cold slaw at a Los Angeles chicken restaurant. What
is long and successful career as an actor, director and
screenwriter does not fit with his struggling musician story he
tells in interviews about the box Masters is in that just kind
of
off field, the people who are are very successful at one thing
so like acting, and then they you know, they they very
typically want to go into singing this happens all the
time, and it just won't work. It becomes an obsession for them.
And I think quite a actually quite an unhealthy one. I was
watching that I told you about that show. It's called Living
with a half. All right, this the English DJ is fantastic show. I
mean, there's only two you bring that up in the show last week,
which I don't remember if I did but it is something that bring
it up again. Yeah, it has to be seen to believe so this this UK
DJ, who apparently they're on kind of like a lark got got
Hasselhoff record in the charts, one of his early ones around the
Berlin Wall time, I guess, which of course he claims. He claims
responsibility that he brought down the wall. And so now
they're doing this show where the guy goes out to Bel Air and
lives with him for like a week and is with David Hasselhoff and
it's a reality based show. So it's this English, white pasty
DJ, with the Hoff and the Hoffs life is phenomenal man. And by
the way, I think David Hasselhoff is severely
underestimated.
I think as what
as a singer, as a performer as a as a as the half. I mean, what
you know, he can solve any problems in the world, John, the
Hoth can do all
so does the DJ or hot or the half dead coined the phrase the
Hof?
I don't know who coined it. It's kind of universally known. I
never heard it before. It's like there's God and then there's the
Hoff
and like when he was crawling around for the hamburger on the
YouTube
video, but that's part of the beauty of the half man. That's
part of what makes him so wonderful.
And when he's on that show that he does the America's Got
Talent. Yeah, he's just seems like he's
no no he's drunk during the whole show. He's He's completely
drunk. The guy is always slurring his words and then he
gets on like wave runners and and then he you know he's got
like guys who and I've seen this before with with rich guys rich
single guys are divorced but as long as they got tons of money
they'll have like a man servant and the man servants job is
basically to keep them alive. You know, I'm sure you know guys
like this. And no, actually I don't really Oh, it's like you
know, in the manservant drives their car. He makes sure that
when they get drunk and fall down, he picks him up and takes
him home. I mean, it's it's it's sad. It
keeps him from good. You're ready yeah key UI well
just keeps him from dying or killing someone else. And the
HOFs got two of those dudes if it's amazing one for each arm.
It's amazing. coming through on Twitter. The egg for Easter is
the symbol of life and rebirth. And the rabbit Of course, the
symbol of fertility. We could have known that. We could have
guessed. Yes. That's from unlucky dip. And I don't make it
up man. And macro. Ron says perchlorate kills germs. It's a
corporate food preservative.
Hmm Let's see it on too many packages. Anyway, I'll look into
the pork glory
thanks they don't put it on the packages.
No you have to in the US so if there's if it's put in as an
additive why wouldn't you what difference does it make who
knows what it is people don't read those things anyway so
would this get back to the Hoff The Real News
Yeah, the office much more interesting. I agree. No, I
think the half can be he can be a symbol of hope. If the off
we're running let's
give it away Hold on. A second. I want to say this guy is like
underrated as a singer.
Not as a singer performer the all rounder hey you have to
Google this video you know the was it blue suede hooked on the
feeling
I don't know yet you know that song Who good Chaka who good
Chaka song but I don't know the video.
Yeah, well, so the half did it. And so if you see this video,
you will poop yourself. I guarantee it is
a wise is a bad. I mean, you're not making yourself there. You
have to make it sound like he's an underrated superstar talent.
But then he says a drunk that needs constant attendance. No,
no.
As an entertainer he's underrated Of course. Because
he's extremely entertaining. Yeah, but
is he entertaining as a campy figure that is just like
laughable. And it's so entertaining. I mean, it's Amy
Winehouse is a little like that. Or is he entertaining? Because
wow, this guy can really belt the songs out.
No, no, he's entertaining because he is the Hoff. Okay,
you have to see it like the Google the video.
Okay, well, I'm gonna do it now. Because I don't want to kill the
band without checking later. So anyway, so this guy is living
with the Hoff. And in what's in, you know, is he, what's he doing
there? I mean, what is he does he
know he's literally living in and around the half and the
half, you know, he's running around. It's like, it's like one
of these typical hyperactive drunk guys. And he's, and he's
like, oh, let's take let's, let's, let's, let's jump into
the let's jump into the the Hummer. And we're going to drive
off to the studio because his daughters are doing. They know,
he's trying to help his daughters into a singing career.
And, you know, they're all upset about their hair. And, you know,
and then it's like, you know, back to back to the Hof cave.
And then we're gonna go ride some wave runners. And then, you
know, it's just, it's, it's nonstop. It's constant. And but
his music career, the guy is obsessed. He's absolutely
obsessed. That's why this radio DJ, he said, Come and live with
me. The guy wants to chart with his records. And he has his
whole half Museum in his house. He's like, Yeah, these gold
records on the wall, these platinum ones. That's because
people never believe I actually sold records here. You know,
Germany, Poland, Lithuania. You know, it's like pointing them
all out. It's fantastic. I think that they've that video could be
the new Rick Roll. You've been asked.
So what do you think could happen? So what is so what do
you think this up where this, this obsession come from? With
actors deciding to be rock and roll stars? Especially, I mean,
looking to Billy Bob store, think the guy the guy's not at
let's put it this way, a spring chicken. You know, I mean, it's
the same if this was singing old blues songs or something, you
know, with the you know, with any could actually play the
guitar? Because these guys don't play. I mean, they're not
playing, you know, some hot licks or anything. They're just
up there. Singing and, you know, most actors and actresses have
had singing lessons, they can do that. What did they want to you
know, do this on the stage like that?
I think it has something to do with maybe it's people who can't
really do or are not into stage would that live in? Because you
know, the the live audience? Of course, you know, and you hear
this all the time. Ah, the love of the audience's that came over
me like a warm blanket. Oh, I love the audience.
You think that these guys you think it's possible? I mean,
because I know a lot of actors, they like to get the you know,
practice in front of a live audience but doing a Broadway
play for about a year. You know, they don't make the big dough,
but they make good TV and they do that because they
watch the audience feedback. It's also a highly addictive
thing. You know, even doing live television shows what manner you
stand on the stage and you say something and the audience
reacts. It's awesome.
Right? It changes Do we have to do your timing? Because of that?
You have to pause if you're in the middle of a joke.
Yes. It sharpens your skills as they say, but I think I just
can't do you know the stage, but it's one of these guys. It's
Woody Allen famously
Keanu Reeves, Bruce Willis. You know, I'm sure we could go on
and on. But yeah, there's a slew of them that you mentioned.
And lots of singers want to become actors. Don't you see
that all the time? Who's the number one failure at trying to
make that transition is Madonna. You know, she's had the best
actors, the best directors. I think, unfortunately, boring
scripts that probably didn't help.
Just to pick the script. You know, people like Madonna when
they're starting off, and then people want them to put them in
movies. They have a lot of scripts to look at. Yeah, yeah,
I'm just saying, and she's so if you pick the dog script, I mean,
who you gonna blame?
Well, that's hard to say, you know, when the movie is great.
Everyone responds one way when the movie doesn't do great, it's
another way. But all of a sudden, there's all of that's
going to come to an end all those movies are going away.
It's going to be the last final Bastion because at the end of
the day, people finance movies to get laid with good looking
actresses that's always been the same. This or at least have
dinner with them. And all that's coming to an end. You know,
newspapers are coming to an end. The radio is going out of
business television is going down the tubes that that's
basically just become television, the United States is
absolutely unwatchable. You know, it's all commercials, the
United Kingdom, ITV, a billion pounds in the hole, they're
broke, they're all broke. They're all going out of
business. It's all going away. It's all changing. It's just
some things, you know, taking a little bit longer, but look at
look at the newspapers. It's gotten even worse since we last
spoke about it.
And yeah, let's get the numbers.
It's abysmal.
Yeah, Boston Globe's like losing a million a week the San
Francisco Chronicle is losing a bit a million a week. And I'm
thinking a million a week in a newspaper. And then they're
complaining about was the thing that somebody was complaining
about the was listening to a couple of different people that,
you know, there's a lot of pundits coming out floating
around, that are usually newspaper guys who still don't
get it. And they're moaning about the latest thing
everyone's moaning about as well, you know, without the
newspapers, we're not going to, you know, the bloggers will have
nothing to do, they won't be able to write about anything,
because everything they do is derivative, they've never done
an original thing in their life, which is not true in any way.
Absolutely.
It's completely untrue. And in fact, that's what we've talked
about this, that's what Twitter is doing right now, there's new,
there's new born news agencies who are using this medium, bi
directionally. And, of course, there's no I mean, just because
it's not about, you know, some financial Ponzi scheme, which
Yeah, you know, and there will be PM, people like Horowitz
will, will dig into stuff like that, and they'll get pretty
far. But you know, and so, I do other things, you do other
things. It's really one big news organization. The trick is, you
know, who's going to kind of aggregate that or becomes the
believable brand. And I don't even know if that's gonna happen
anymore. I don't know if we need it.
Well, now this guy who has the Associated Press, and I have to
take his name. He used to be the publisher of USA Today. And he's
really never actually far as I can tell. It's never been a news
guy in terms of being a writer a journalist. Yeah. But it could
be wrong. But anyway, he's been now he's threatening. This is
the big news. He's threatening the bloggers. They're gonna
everyone's who's who's republishing. And now, yeah,
I've been seeing all kinds of new organizations cropping up,
like, you know, in order to reproduce your, your newspaper,
legally inside your company, you pay us an annual fee, and then
you can make as many copies as you like, I mean, it's all it's
all just trying to grab money, and it's completely out of
control. It's just the end is nine, my friends.
Well, this Associated Press thinks gonna be interesting to
follow, because they still provide probably 90% of all the
photos to the newspapers themselves, and some original
content, but mostly just shared content.
So at the end of the day, John, I mean, we all we all understand
that the distribution game has changed so many industries, so
many businesses, and I totally believe in people getting paid
one way or the other for what they do or what they have
created intellectually, etc. But what is the model? I mean, this
program, I think, is one you know, is one model where we ask
for donations. But, I mean, what are we going to do? I mean, how
Will it work that that's if you can solve that one? Wow.
Well, it's everything's up in the air.
words wisely spoken.
But you know, the thing is bother, don't think it should
bother people, including myself. And it does is that everything's
up in the air, but everything has been up in the air since
about 1998 You know, the web, first hit the, you know, hit the
street, I think 9293 And then it started to get some momentum.
And then by 98, you know, five years into it or so when, you
know, people started saying, Well, you know, there's money to
be made. Let's do IPOs and everything's gonna be
disintermediated which is still with this, by the way,
disintermediation for anybody out there. So the only term I
know of done during web 1.0 That was never redefined in the web.
2.0 list of
intermediation? I think
they disinterred it. But whatever the case. People don't
talk much about disintermediation. But that is
what's what's been going on ever since 98, which is another
words, this channels are all different. And there's like, you
know, I remember having a conversation with somebody about
during the Napster era. And they were, you know, they were
adamant about well, you know, it's just no good, you know,
it's gonna ruin everything can't do that. So just you have to
adapt to it, because there's nothing that's ever going to
stop, you know, people doing file change, you know, moving
files around like this, right? And, and it's gonna get worse
and affecting every all evidence is is that the amount of traffic
that's involved with file sharing is just dominates the
internet. Right? Anyway,
maybe it's just over. But I recall those days very well,
even 9094 95. We were saying that, Oh, this is going to
change everything. And we were like, No, it's all over. It's
all going to it's, you know, I was experimenting with streaming
audio, and, you know, on 28.8k modems, you know, and it's like,
oh, it's all over. It's, and of course, it took 15 years, and
it'll take another 10 Maybe, for a lot for all these businesses
to be dead and gone. But maybe it's just all over. That's just
it. You know, you sit around, there's just no money to be
made. And
for our TV shows,
yeah, I mean, you know, now I'm sure they'll still be you know,
there's still going to be the high bandwidth that people are
going to pay for. So IE, you know, television HD, you're,
maybe you'll just wind up paying for bandwidth, I don't know.
Well, anyway, things are definitely a fluid. Let's put it
that way. And then the models have have yet the models for
actually making money doing what we do, for example, is just
still up in the air. I mean, it could be everything could be
foundation base rowing, I've had a lot of that. When you watch
these guys doing these roundtables about the future of
journalism. There's actually came up with the conversation
Well, I think the future of journalism is we're going to
have you know founding foundations are going to give
you know these investigative reporters money to go
investigate stuff except the foundation don't investigate
them. Yeah, don't
investigate the foundation.
Let's say in the Netherlands, same thing, the telecom concern,
which is the the largest newspaper, it's totally broke,
there are hundreds of millions in the hole. It's just dead. You
know, give it up, guys. I mean, I don't I like newspapers, but
it just doesn't work anymore. It's just gonna end.
Anyway, you know, the one they did what they've done out here
at that, I don't think they've done it at the Chronicle. But
they did it. On the first day with the Seattle post
Intelligencer, which was losing money, they just fold it they
just basically close it's gone.
And I thought they were keeping a little bit for the well, yeah,
no, they keeping the online but I'm just saying them that which
is a joke. I mean, anyone's? This is ridiculous. These online
newspapers, they don't get their overhead, they don't have the
structure, right. I mean, it's just like the way when
microcomputers which were they originally called the 9075 76
came onto the scene, the personal computer, which became
the desktop computer, and the workstation, whatever. When
those things came on the scene, they were all wow, you know,
this is just a toy, it's not going to be good for anything.
And it was but it's but the whole structure of the business
was, was such that if it wants to get more and more powerful,
which they did naturally, because of microprocessor
technology, they kind of, they kind of ate away from the bottom
up. And, you know, the old companies were just top heavy. I
mean, a mainframe operation is just not a it's not efficient.
And that's what's happening with these newspapers that they still
have the old, you know, top heavy model too many editors,
you know, too many middlemen too many, you know, reporters that
really don't do that much because they're, you know, the
union lets them get away with only doing X number of inches,
usually around 75 a week, which is about one app What a blogger
produces. So I'm,
I'm just gonna go, I'm going out, I'm going balls to the
wall, I'm supporting anyone who's doing anything. And
there's a couple of people doing some interesting stuff on
Twitter with headlines, which is, of course, what people want,
you know, give me 140 characters worth of headlines, and then
maybe I'll click on a link and go see what it is. And it's just
like RSS, it's no different. It's all the same stuff just
presented a different way. In fact, I'll bet Dave whiners
thinking themselves shit, this is what RSS should have been.
Because it's really simple. You know, it's like, Alright, here's
the basics. Here's your parameters. Here's what you can
do. It's almost like a basic computer format. But breaking
news and the ah, en alternative headline news. And there's a
third one that I haven't added to the stream yet. You know,
these are on Twitter, right? Yeah, these
are on I think, well, they have websites, but they're they're
really publishing their headlines on Twitter and with
amazing consistency and accuracy, and okay, they have
dorky stuff, but they are getting their own exclusives.
For instance, did you know that I'm very relevant to the last
week so our last conversation that the biggest hit this year
for Passover is kosher coke. Did you know that?
Kosher coke
kosher Coke, is it baby?
No, I never did. I did not know that it existed.
No. But now, the boy that Cessna 172, the Canadian who wanted to
get who says he wanted to get shot down by my fighter jets.
That happened earlier in the week. Did you follow that at
all? No, that wasn't on the news. I didn't see it. Oh, it's
funny that some guy stole a Cessna 172. And he flew across
the border, of course, entered airspace without a flight plan
or etc. And, and they they forced him down and get shut
that they weren't. And he said, Well, this is the the quote. I
mean, I didn't hear him say but the quote is you wanted you
wanted to get shot down? You know, big terror alert. But
yeah, so these guys are on it. Yeah, it's still kind of crude.
But the cool thing is, if you see someone twittering about
something, then you just Twitter and back. And then you know,
then you've got a dialogue, and you've got your news. There you
go, you can be a one man operation.
So you're scraping these things, and then you're putting him on
the stream, right?
I'm not scraping,
what are you doing it?
Oh, I just access the Twitter API download the most the 20
most recent tweets from one of these news organizations, you
know, make some decisions on how many to repeat and keep in
there, and then transcoded into a voice and mp3 file and put it
up on the stream. And that just, you know, cycles every 15
minutes.
Now, is that done audit in an automated fashion? Yes,
that's done automatically. Unfortunately, it's done
automatically from my laptop still. So you kind of got to
keep the laptop on?
No, okay. But you're gonna fix that. Piano?
Yeah. Now, second week of May after I get back from San
Francisco, then I'm going to have more time to dedicate to a
lot of these things. I got a list of shit that I want to do.
So Goldman Sachs is looking to sue this guy who registered the
website, Goldman sachs.com.
It's over, we think we should have registered that. For the
last
we're getting so slow, aren't we? We're super obvious. We're
nuts. I love that. And this is
from Ed Sheeran. They got this to him about you can't it's not
suitable.
It's completely under the Lanham Act. Absolutely. If people can
be confused that they've come to a sucky company called Goldman,
then it's consumer confusion.
I don't know. Yeah, I don't think any confusion whatsoever,
but okay.
But obviously, I mean, this is what I had with the mtv.com
lawsuit. And everyone said, Oh, well, you know, obviously,
you'll never win against Viacom, because they can just keep you
in court forever. And I said, Oh, yeah, watch this. And then I
went to Liz Smith and started bitching and moaning and it
ended real quick. So from the Gitmo nation, Department of
Transportation, our Transportation Security
Administration, we learned something very interesting this
week. A guy was going through the checkpoint and his his
laptop kept going off. You know how they swab it down or looking
for, I guess, certain explosive materials, what would they be
looking for sulfur? What would they be sniffing? They put that
money when they when they swab? Yeah, they swab and they put
that disc into that Little Reader there. What do you think
they're swabbing for?
Well, that I would think they'd be swabbing for various
components of a bomb. In other words, something like ammonium
nitrate perhaps or some other kind of accelerators for
perchlorates. And
for some perchlorate Hey, you got some baby formula? How about
glycerin What glycerin would that count?
Well, I mean, well, glycerin per se, I mean could be used I mean,
glycerin is a cause, of course of component direct component of
nitroglycerin, which could be manufactured as a liquid bomb
sand. Yeah, but this was also a common, you know, thing that
people use for you know, as a, you know, like, use it, it's
just like,
let me help you. So here's, here's what Yes, here's what we
learned the to the TSA agent. You have to they swab this down
this thing down a couple times. I keep getting this reading to
say, you know, do you use a hand lotion when you use this
computer? Of course, we all use hand lotion on our computers
from time to time. Don't wait. So you got to be careful because
that glycerin registered on the swab? Weird. I think it's funny.
Yeah, I guess I mean, it just makes you wonder how much you
know, I guess.
This guy could have had a massive hand lotion issue with
his computer. You know what I'm saying? Some people
you know, some people have dry hands and they always they're
constantly, you know, sure. Using stuff on their hands.
John, get real. Come on. We all know what the lotions for.
All you're thinking he's using it because he's using the the
laptop as a mass category. Yeah. Hello. Hello. And he's like,
looking at so much. Yeah. And it's like split. It's got so
much stuff on his hands. It gets back and forth button.
He's literally splattering gobs of lotion on his keyboard.
Yeah, well, hopefully that's all. So
a follow up on last week's story. Thank you for posting
this in the drop. No agenda dropped.com. Whoever did this, a
German soldier who stole a bike in the Dutch city of Nicor. UK
at the end of the Second World War regret 64 years later and is
paid back for his crime. There we have it. The war is
officially over. The German brought the bike back. Isn't
that great?
It's about time. I personally have taken an interest in this
as you know. Yes. Get it the big news. I think that's kind of
under reported. We ran it on the blog. And then I don't think
somebody mentioned in a tweet, which I should give them credit.
But I don't have it in front of me. But there was four cuts of
the various fiber optic cables in the South
Bay. I read about that this. Someone has been deliberately
cutting cables. Is that what I was to understand?
Yeah, and they were and they're like, and they're done in
different places. And there looks like you know, and they're
done. Like people entered a manhole and then found the
cable. And then I don't know if he used bolt cutters, probably
and they just clipped it. And they did it in various areas
that not like, you know, here's what it means. Like they did a
concerted effort. And and I was of the opinion. And I think I
wrote about this in March. I did I wrote this in MarketWatch.
That it looks like to me to be a test of, of the of the network
of the grid. Then somebody's clipping here and clipping there
to see what happens in the clip here to see what happens in that
clip here and here to see what happens kind of thing. Yeah. And
it took out like the South Bay 50,000 People lost. They lost
internet, they lost a landline and they lost cell phone
service. Because the cell phones or or you know, there's towers
are hooked to something right. Yeah. And so it turned out to go
telecommunications down in the area for hours because it takes
forever to read splice. One of these things is, you know, that
has to be done by hand. And it's like a little process. Well,
there's
so much weird shit going on, you know, with that? No way lemonade
on the data center.
Yeah, but here's the other thing. That's interesting. So I
made this supposition I just mentioned I said, you know, is
this possibly some sort of a, you know, a prelude to a
terrorist thing? I mean, I just seem to 911 Yeah, but I'm
somebody Twitter's me says, Hey, this happened in South Carolina,
under reported. And now I'm wondering where is it? Oh, is
it? You see where I'm headed? Yes. Well, absolutely. It's like
local news. That is not you know, there's some what's wrong
with this picture? Because it's all happening at the same time,
and it's probably happening here and there. And now they don't
want anyone talking about it.
And we're these are these were major backbones, then that or I
guess local local loopback backbones.
I think they were just local loopback bones. I don't think it
was like any big big chunks. But But I mentioned that the
following the column it's worth reiterating, you know, the the
ease in which I mean, people say, Well, you know, their
refineries or you know, it can be bombed and all this other
stuff. Yeah, if you have a grenade launcher, I suppose you
could, you know, blow up a tank. But the both of these things
these, these fiber networks are very clearly marked throughout
the country, like up run here
has like a cut along dotted line kind of type stuff.
Every Samina like the cable that I'm on, is clearly marked out on
the street. And there's a big the biggest cable that we have.
And I think this is the kind of the backbone cable which runs
along Highway 101. If you go driving along the back roads of
the middle of nowhere, you'll see these, you know, these big,
like flags. And the reason of course, is they marked this
thing. So some bonehead doesn't have along the column. Yeah, of
course, right back over the rip the thing out. And so they
ended, you know, you'd also would, like flip the backhoe.
But the, but they're marked all over the place. And I guess the
ones that were in the that the guy got into the manhole cover
and the way they described it was well, you know, he had a
special tool to open the manhole cover, I don't know what you
would shoot was,
or isn't it, just
whatever it is, like whatever it is, it's a
roller skate skate key or something. It's like slip,
like, any special tool. So anyway, so they still but the
manhole, um, I think I've seen them that some of them are
clearly marked, you know, fiber, you know, do not, you know, be
careful. And then they can some places you see, like paint in
the street, you know, like white paint showing where the cable
is. So this is incredibly vulnerable us backbone system in
this us a in terms of somebody want to start cutting cables.
And I don't know, just said to guy, I think something's up. I
know, it's terrorism. They I mentioned that there was they
said, Why doesn't somebody at least suggested that there's
some terrorist activity going on? Perhaps because
it's not on the agenda? No, the press kit hasn't been sent out
yet. My guess that's clear as possible. Yeah. But But anyway.
I'm assuming now that there's places all over the country
where these incidents have happened. All right. So just you
gotta
let us know if this has happened near you. If you
guys listen to the show has information about an
outage. There's also by the way, it's something new where you can
talk about this stuff called no agenda forums.com Is that we
have nothing to do with it. We didn't set it up, but of course,
promoted wholeheartedly. So at Mardi Gras, yeah, might be a
good place to go and post some messages.
Yeah, it would be good. But anyway, so I'm a little bit
concerned about that. And it shouldn't be because if I like
up here, although there's, you know, we have unlikely
anything's going on, but because it's up here, you know, if I
lose this cable, I mean, we lose our cell phones bad enough up
here. And then you lose your landline. Your I can't do the
broadcast.
Oh, no. Oh, no, wait, now it's time to panic.
Wow. And you also have to wonder about the smart grid.
This is, of course, the obvious conclusion is that's a part of
it is you know, this is the test and then we're gonna get our 911
Cyber Terror event, which by the way, is I think, is pretty much
documented, that's going to happen. I mean, this is it's all
in the planning. So whether it's Conficker or whether it's
multiple cuts simultaneously, then you know, that'll be the
reason to shift more money towards the smart grid, and buy
your router. Now, we tested it out with those damn stupid
digital TV boxes, hey, here's another credit card, go get your
special router, which will also protect your children. Jon
Stewart really, really did a disappointing piece the other
day. And if you saw this, where he showed us, you know, his
typical run of clips of Fox News and mainly of Fox News, talking
about this terror of fascist state that we're entering, which
of course is true. Because it's you know, look at the definition
of fascism. Is the government running corporations or vice
versa? corporatism Yeah, yeah, I mean just look what happened to
General Motors and just kick the guy out you know, so that is the
definition right there. And Stuart goes on this long thing
about now you guys should shut up you know if if you guys lose
then you know you have to figure it you have to expect it to be
different and not going the way you want it to go and like oh
man, this is so wrong. It doesn't see it. You know, what
are we now the deficit is projected $13 trillion. Where's
it coming from looking at these beautiful children out by the
pool? They're gonna pay for that. If I can lazy they're not
gonna pay jack shit. They enjoy the pool now kiddies.
There's a lot, which is another thing we have like we have our
deli up here. We have the hardest time getting anyone that
actually wants to work.
Kids don't want to work, right? They just want to chill out.
Chillax.
I'm telling you, and it's and I'm not the only one that's
that's observed this. And it's like, why, you know, they and
they don't they're not interested in learning anything
that the idea of an apprenticeship is long dead.
Nobody has a, you know, they have no skills, they don't learn
anything in school. You know, it's basically a babysitting
service. I mean, luckily, my my daughter, you know, who we
homeschooled, you know, finally decided she had to go to high
school to get her, you know, which, of
course is illegal in California.
It's pretty, it's close to it. I mean, it's hard to homeschool in
California, but we're licensed in Washington State, which you
actually get taken out a special permit. And then they test the
kids into Washington state is great for homeschooling. And
anyways, we homeschool and then she goes to a regular high
school and she's just getting straight A's course. It's like
fallen, fallen off a log. In fact, my both my wife and myself
are kind of like, amazed because she's like, put so much effort
into his homework assignment. She's up till one in the
morning, we're going on a PowerPoint presentation for
something, you know, and then she forces herself to get up
when in the morning when she didn't get enough sleep. And
because she's got to get to school. And of course, she's a
grouch. And
of course, they know more.
I mean, she's bubbly, she's a straight a grouch. So you know,
what can I say? Oh, my goodness, amazing, but that shit, but you
know, the rest of the kid later,
so it's clear, and we have a plan for that as well. We're
gonna throw these kids into camp for three months, and we'll kick
their asses into shape. We'll condition them we'll get them
ready.
Can you imagine what that's going to be like? Kids will like
wreck the place
and Michelle Bachman God bless the woman she's she's on almost
every I'm sure extremely conservative talk radio show
talking about these camps and how this no, this enslavement
can't continue. Because of course the bill though the bills
have been introduced and already passed the House to actually
have camps to send your children to mandatory camps. And she's
getting an I gotta call it right now. There's massive, massive
sexual discrimination going on against her. You know, this,
we're a guy that would respond differently. I mean, the people
are just calling her the Kooky mill, you know, the cookie
Cougar, which I think is kind of a cool name, by the way.
Cookie Krueger Who were
you know, it's it's so wrong. And she's actually she's, she's
she's a she's a senator. Think or congressman. Congress.
Congresswoman. Yeah, this little bit of respect. And she's saying
some important stuff, but it's just this color kooky. Go back
to the pool, throw on some Bob Marley tapes. Where it's all
good. Yeah. Nothing to insert Nothing to see here jingle here.
So anyway, so it is an issue that you know, and then, and of
course, I always harken back on my own childhood, when I had a
paper route, which of course they killed that idea another
another vocation that has gone away
long gone. And Nick said to paper routes as a matter of
fact, I had my paper route man that was had a paper route and
one route had the shopper route, which is the easy money, why did
you grow into
your paper route where, you know, you knew you knew that you
were because in my neighborhood, it was like an ascension type
thing. You know, I knew when I was going to when I went when I
would turn 15 Then I would be taken that guy's paper route,
you know, it was my domain, you know?
Because I'm so damn too old. I don't remember how I got the
paper route. But I think that, that that mechanism did exist,
because you know, somebody had to have the paper up before me.
And what was cool about my paper, which you know, it's kind
of a mercantile way of looking at it is that I had what was
called a rural route. And a rural route is the one where you
get to you have to you know, peddle out to the farmers in the
middle of nowhere it so you'd be pedaling and pedaling and
pedaling you finally get to this you know one guy and you get
some paper and then you have to pedal another mile of
course that's your starter route you get the shit route first.
Who was cool about my rural right buddy by the way you got a
lot more money like twice as much and what was cool about my
rural route is that in the in the section that was deemed
rural they put in a housing development acts like got you
got the mother lode yeah perfect basically hit hit the gold mine
so I was so I got paid rural and I was just like the regular
paper route in fact, except for the two farmers I still to go
deliver to that were left but but didn't you know kids don't
do that and you had to go door to door and to there's two
things you have to do and this is another thing people never
learn these skills because you nobody The problem is nobody has
been introduced to anything in an early age anymore. It's so
they buy time they're graduating from high school or even in
college, they're kind of baffled by it all their zero work
experience, we had to, to solicit everybody to take the
paper, door to door. And it was like door to door sales, which
is also something kind of gone by the wayside.
He also still exists, the internship will not need to work
experience, they call it at the UK school. People do sell things
door to door, you have special licenses and they come by all
the typical brushes, you know, Miracle whipped cream, whatever,
that is still here in the UK.
Now the only time you see it here anymore, as with the kind
of ghetto kids who have been somehow suckered into selling
magazine subscriptions door to door. So anyway, I haven't seen
anything sensitive, except that and people with with the other
door to door thing we have here into an extreme are people with
petitions, you know, or people begging for money for one thing
or another, you know, and during especially during election
cycles. But anyway, so we had to go door to door to door, you
know, begging people to take the newspaper. And so of course,
you'd get so many you know, you'd you'd have a big area and
then it'd be like, say 50 houses and you got two people just
subscribe. So they'd send out and the expert the guy, so I
forgot who's got an expert, I hit that a name for him. And he
was always like, Oh, God, this guy. He was a professional
salesman would come. And he would say I kid you don't know
what you're doing. And then they take they, you'd had to go
through the same process with him
going door to door he'd show you the ropes,
show you the ropes. This guy is like he came close to pulling a
gun out and making people buy the paper. And he was like one
after another. It was like, you know where I went? And is bang,
bang, bang, bang, just everybody subscribes when he's done. And
you go wow, this guy. And then you go you still try it. You
still sucked.
It's a fractal of Wall Street in the boiler rooms.
Exactly. And so anyway, so this guy would get your round numbers
way up. And so So of course, you still wouldn't correct the rural
thing. And then the other thing you had to do as a paperboy is
you had to go?
Well, every every year at Christmas time, you got to go
around with your envelopes. Hey, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.
And you stay
smiling. Yeah, there was something like that. But the
thing is, every month you had to go around to everyone.
Yeah. Oh, that's suck because the people weren't home and
all kinds of crap. And you had this little receipt book that
was essentially Yeah, man.
We had some automation when I was doing my paper route. Did
you have like a little tablet of clay that you chiseled into Mark
next next to the map? You
know, yeah, there's little bitty receipt. But with these little
bitty receipts that were just the size of a postage stamp,
tear one off each person paid. And you have this like leather
thing that was it was that you put the money in. I was like the
one thing I was never very good at was organizing the money. And
I still to this day remembers some guy, as I'm fumbling
around, trying to make change for this guy. The guy says to
me, you know, you handle your money like a drunken sailor. And
that's always stuck with me because I realized that I do to
this day. Deal with this.
So hey, I just wanted to just mention something for Gitmo
nation East because I love the story. And I'm desperately
trying to track down any shred of evidence. But man, this one's
just killing me. And I'd always wondered where the name came
from. And finally, I have some clues apparently. So we had the
we had the big G 20 protests and everyone was in London and that
was the big show and all the anchors were there on the street
and coming to you live from the G 20. Writer. And then everyone
just went over to Strasbourg. You know, if they went to
Brussels for a day or two, then they went to Strasbourg, which I
guess is where all the really shady shit takes place. Because
apparently, on the evening of the third of April 500 of the
world's elite attended the black mass at the Cathedral of Our
Lady Strasbourg, the black mass of course, also known as Black
Sabbath, and I always wonder where that name came from. And
so this and Pope Benedict, what is it? The sixth 10th I don't
know. Whatever. He he did the maths and you know, it's it's
really shrouded in secrecy in this Cathedral has a whole
history behind it. But it was President Obama and the First
Lady Gordon Brown Sarkozy, of course, Tony Blair, converted to
Catholicism just recently, as did Newt Gingrich, who was the
Air so it didn't you know and the story is that they were all
come together because you know finally you know they worship
the Mother Earth God whatever because the Earth is about
getting reset Russian new sources
fresh I have not yet ish yeah
yeah so this is brand new I just read this today
Black Sabbath and they're all there yeah they're all virgin
yeah exactly well that's called on the Honor ism or something
like that used to be where they perform sexual rituals and then
I think eventually kill the the honoree I think that's where
roasted came from from a roast those guys actually throw it on
the spit so the end is nigh that's the that's the basic
conclusion of when the Black Sabbath takes place the End of
Times then they will begin to say to the mountains fall on us
and to the hills cover us because of course the elite are
all going underground in where they go in Paraguay and they're
building bunkers bunkers a bunker buildings big business
these days.
Oh really?
Yeah yeah, you just Google it and you'll see this people are
building bunkers all over the place.
What are you going to do in the bunker that you can't do
outside?
Well you know when no you know maybe hide from the bird flu
I think we should like you know create some pandemonium get
these guys in the bunker and this lock them in there it's
like baby the bunk about maybe these great leaders don't
realize that there's a there's another let layer that they're
missing out on it once they're in the bunkers they get locked
in it turns out to be a giant prison
Well of course I mean there's a whole level that is definitely
going to get screwed the entire all these TSA guys all the
police forces everyone with a uniform who thinks that they're
going to be a part of you know the the New World Order control
no way you're just puppets you're gonna get annihilated
they're gonna fry you with their EMP weapons.
But then the question is who is they? Who is they?
Well, they is the same guys who have the audacity to now
directly target webcam strippers for tax purposes.
They it was this again?
Yes, there's a BBC News report.
Tell me about it. Well, the
webcam stripping is so lucrative that the Swedish tax authorities
are now going after the estimated 3 million pounds
annually lost in tax revenue.
What firms wait you're talking about girls going on the webcam
and yeah and showing the stripping
for money Yeah. So now they have to pay tax on it. Yeah, they do
it that you've never seen that that's why we webcams I got
actually got one of them on right now.
You gotta get through the show, somehow. I
understand. So my son is telling me about one of the weird
underground things that's going on currently in England.
Regarding street cams. Oh, it's he says that there's the people
are putting on entire plays. And a complete you know, whole like
whole TV shows in ons specifically aimed at the street
cams, picking them up doing something on the and then then
requesting from the
the freedom of input Yeah, this started with a music video. Some
guys basically, you know, perform their song and all these
different locations including a bus and then they indeed they
sent a freedom free information request to to the government for
all the you know, they had the time codes and everything. They
got it all and they put the music video together. I didn't
know that they were doing this with plays now. That's awesome,
ya know that they're currently doing it with plays and short
stories. You know, they're doing him in front of these cameras.
And I guess they have microphones so you can hear the
guys. And so then they request it and they have it all time
coded. So then they asked for freedom of information. And it's
the government give them the copy and then they edit
it. That's awesome.
But it's like what is it that the government's gonna end up?
It's gonna cost a fortune. You know, I mean, just seems to me
that the whole thing is idiotic. I'm not that the kids think it's
funny, but I'm saying the government Yeah, take
Yeah, there was a report that came out just the other week in
the UK the guy responsible for all the procurement of the
cameras and I think it's what is it there's 40 cameras for every
person in the United Kingdom. Oh, and your your recorded four
hours a day wherever you walk in the in the entire British Isles.
And it turns out that its own that these this camera network
is only responsible for like less than 1% of all crimes
solved. And so the obvious reason for this report is to say
well, we're on the right track. We just need some more
investment and then we'll we'll be up to the more cameras and
more cameras. Even here in Portugal I was reading in the in
a local a local rag. They're doing all these tests now
rolling out government CCTV programs, it's everywhere. Now.
Orwell was only off by 25 years didn't do too bad, did he?
That's pretty close. But the funny thing is about all these
kids, the guys who sell these cameras must be in seventh
heaven. Oh, yeah. You know, oh, yeah,
that's big business. Another Christian, there's
all the add in, you know, third party stuff like face
recognition software, which doesn't work.
Well, they they use in the UK, some of it does work. They use
that the same technology they use for tracking sport players
on the field. Some of that works, they use some of that.
Well, you know, it doesn't work as well as it does on CSI. No,
this shows you there's two things I've always been amused
by some of the things you see on TV must be I think a lot of it
is just to completely be fuddle actual criminals who watch the
shows, because let's face it, they watch the shows. And the
one of course, which myself you know, I've talked about with my
kids. And I we're all think it's hilarious when it happens, which
is keep them on the phone, keep them on the phone for 30
seconds, so we can trace the call. You know, and they Oh,
yeah, they still do that.
As a gimmick, and I would not use that as a gimmick in a
screenplay because it'd be for one thing it llegaste Yeah, is
it when you get this as you receive the call the all the
information is there instantly. Because it's all in the header
nowadays. And of the phone call, I mean, the phone calls got all
the information on it right? Bang immediately. So you
wouldn't have to keep anyone in line for more than two days at
all. Just once they connect, you've got the information you
want to
call her ID dude. I mean, how hard is it?
That's like, keep Mundelein for
No, did they shake their heads? No, no, he didn't get it. Oh,
dress like cake. But it's just like You're stalling here on the
story. Let's get back to the plotline throughout the look.
Now the other one, of course, which is the real one. That's
just a total eye roller
is the DNA. The DNA is already ready in seconds.
The DNA to DNA is done same day, same day turnaround service.
Yeah, there's the DNA site within hours. Sure. They know.
They pop it on the screen. It's like oh, I had matches. Yes.
There you go.
The other way though, the one I was thinking of I forgot about
the DNA is the is the photo enhancement. Thalia?
Zoom in? Okay, can you clean it? Can you clean that up a bit?
Yeah.
Who said behind the wheel? Oh, that's what's his name? The
license plate.
So Right. But you're so wrong. This is meant to condition you.
This is meant to get you ready to prepare you to become this
force that is now already a part of our reality. People believe
it happens that way. So it's just conditioning. So you don't
even have to then at that point who needs the cameras or the
fake roof a face recognition, people are walking around saying
hey, man, I better not do that. Because if I leave my DNA, you
know, these guys will have it. And one day turnaround service,
you know, I better not be walking there because they can
recognize my face and track me forever. You know, that's
beautiful.
Yeah, well, I don't think it's a plot. But whatever the case is,
you're probably right, on a base level, but that's why we're
here.
Yes
to I'm glad people. Which is why now we have our two minutes, two
minutes to sell people on the idea that they should be
donating to the show dvorak.org/na or no agenda
library, we need all the help we can get. I have a bunch of new
people, by the way, who contributed a goodly amount of
money, including one and I'm gonna give a teaser here. One
guy and we'll talk about this on Thursday when I have access to
the PayPal account. One guy gave us a $1.68 followed by a
donation of $88.88 tried to figure out why. And there's also
been a number of other odd. screwball donate help
helped me with helping with that 188 88 168 Is that what you
said? Yeah, what do I have to add them up for something?
The No, the way I saw it was, here's what I interpreted I will
do this one. I interpreted that he had he Okay, he's Chinese.
And his last name is Chase ch E. And he I figured he had 8888
Because that's the Chinese bracket number. Yeah. And then I
thought 168 was a 16 was one Apple was double A Chinese lucky
number. So he had 8888 plus two more eights and another eight.
And I thought just a number. And if you added them all up, you
know, it was like this, where,
if you add it all up, it equals 911.
But during this, so I actually sent him a note saying, What is
this? And he says, he said that we never I notice at all that
168 is actually another Chinese LUCKY NUMBER besides eight,
eight, or besides eight and, and he explained it in vaguely like
this. The way you pronounce eight, in Chinese is means
money. And 168 The way you pronounce it, those that number
means I want to get money. Oh, really. And so 168 is also a
Chinese lucky number that people you know, that for example, the
license plate in Hong Kong for aid, or, or a bunch of AIDS,
generally trades for about a million dollars. Oh, my
goodness. And, I mean, these are Chinese or Chinese bro, real.
They're wacky, man. They're just wacky.
So I figured that we should be soliciting somebody because no
one's done this. Once
again, when it comes down to the Chinese, if it's not for our
economy, that is for this show, for the Knights of the no agenda
roundtable, we have to go to the Chinese
once $168 would be appreciated. So they shall give us
$8,888,888.88. And that will be enough for us to stop the show.
Well, I guess we could make a compromise. Yeah, that'd be good
number. And somebody else did something which I'll mention on
Thursday or reiterate. He says I want it to clear that I'm only
donating to the show and it was like I think 50 or $100 He said
to get you off the air your name mentioned that it was for the
purposes of in case he you know the our list is ever
investigated. He wants it on record that he wants us off the
air so when the lists come you know when people make dough,
right, right, right, right. So like we like the made off list
and will be floating around the internet so it doesn't get
incriminated I got it.
So I'm going to create another category on the on the donation
page today, hit erase
whoever gets the 10,000,001st determines whether we stay on or
leave.
But I'm gonna have a different category so people can can
donate to get us off the air. And if additional it went to a
different, I think that's a great idea. We could also make
the whole thing about getting you know, John, think about
this, why don't we just reverse the whole idea? Our goal is 10
million, right? And we're gonna work very, very, very, very hard
to get to that goal. And when we when we reach that goal, then we
stop then it's over.
Yeah, that's probably not a bad idea.
That's the model of the future.
Guys off the air give us the model of the future. It's
perfect. Get rid of them.
I gotta I gotta brew on this one. I'm liking it. I think
there's something there.
Yeah, well, that in the knighthood so anyway, of course,
anymore. I mentioned in our last 15 seconds.
No, I just think do what it should be mentioned is no agenda
no agenda library.com and divorce.org/n. A please help us
out. So we can go to three Shows a week and then and then of
course eventually get kicked off the
off the air. Yeah. So it's, that's the the next step is
three Shows a week, then, of course, we want to go to four.
And we can even now we can now that we have a goal, we can set
the steps. I think this is actually much better. It's it's
a predictor, you know, we can't become so big that that we start
to suck, because our destiny is predetermined we're going to
die. Our show will end at that mark. It's I think is this is
brilliant. I'm sorry.
I think there's like a government agency. You know,
they always set themselves up. Well, we're going to be only
doing this for the next decade. Yeah, exactly. Then the next
thing you know, they're in business forever. And there's
just some dull thing that keeps continue. Yeah, we should be off
the air. Yeah, we shouldn't get off the air. We can't sustain
this. No, we're too. We're too interesting.
Case in point, Moody's, which of course, is one of the well known
rating agencies have, I guess bonds in particular, or at all
types of debt? Yes, it has essentially downgraded the
entire country.
Not that they're honest about it.
They've they've placed a negative outlook on all
municipal bonds every single one not singling any of them out
just all of them Screw it. Isn't isn't bonds pretty much what
what the country floats on isn't? Isn't that like our main
tool?
Well, yeah, pretty much. You know, Andrew Horowitz has talked
about in one of our shows, one of the unplugged shows that he
sees no problem. shorting, especially New York bonds, as a
short
write shorting his own country, it's the patriotic way to go
in your own country. This is like when Bill Gates made the
big announcement this is a few years ago and I have to give him
credit because I was like, I thought it was irksome when he
did it. But this is before the when the dollar I think was
around 90 cents. In terms of Euro. Yeah, it was in good
shape. Yeah. He says he's going all he's getting out of the
dollar. Yeah, you know. Thanks, Bill. Just ban American made him
where he is and he's bailing on the dollar. You make some big
stand. I thought it was deplorable. If he was going to
do it. He shouldn't have said anything. Yeah, but it was just
a bad movie.
You know what he did? He's up you know who his idol is. His
idol is George Soros who did exactly that with the British
pound. That's what these guys do, man.
Well, yeah, it's reliable is Buffett, but it's Soros. Soros.
It is with sources shores tight with anybody. I'd like to meet
Soros, Soros, and like a guy that
would take several meetings before you get through any of
that outer layer to find anything out. I mean, I got
Yeah, but I think what's the trouble because I bet she's got
some funny thing. me he's got it have some observations that are
just riotous? Well, yeah,
I mean, well, I believe he's one of he's one of them. Okay.
That's where I put him.
Yeah, one of them. He has done a lot with the gates on those guys
that go into into the bunkers. That
would be the kind of well, you know, Soros has a very
interesting past. I think, if I understand his he wrote a book
and I read an excerpt. So I had a number of books. Well, yes.
But there was a book about his childhood, I believe, that
doesn't come from somewhere in Austria,
or Hungary, or sorry, Hungary, right.
And I believe that he actually put Jews on trains to be shipped
off to concentration camps. You guys got a really interesting
past. I'm not saying that he was, he was a Nazi, or that he
was doing anything, anything other than just following
orders. But, you know, he comes from an interesting place. And
he's got a lot of these like OSI, the Open Society Institute,
and
he was in Budapest, Hungary. He was born in 1930. So in 1940,
when they were shipped, he was only 10. Yeah, have been 12
years.
That's That's what that's the context around that age with his
dad. He was doing that. I should I should look into it. But you
know, he,
we should.
What else? Some other some other cities. It's just, he frightens
me, I think, is it? Yeah, that OSI has been linked to weapons.
George Soros. Soros is the son of course, this is excuse me,
Wikipedia. Esperanto just writer to Vidar sorrows. Tibidabo
Teodoro was a Hungarian Jew was a prisoner of war during and
after World War One and eventually escaped from Russia
to rejoin his family in Budapest, or Budapest.
I'm gonna have my story completely wrong. I don't know,
like Quebec will be.
The thing that's interesting is about it says George was taught
to speak Esperanto from birth. And is this one of the few rare
native Esperanto speakers by the way, Esperanto. When I was a
kid, yeah, this was a, you know, that was a crazy movement to
create this unit. This is like the, you know, trying the
Chinese or somebody trying to create a universal currency.
This is why I remember this. I remember this in school. I
remember there was a rumor going around that we would all have to
learn Esperanto. I'm like, what? And then, you know, for whatever
because it was kind of that you had the problem was the French
wanted to be the they had kind of like the political monopoly
on language for a long, long time. English of course, the I
believe the second most spoken language on the planet, and they
came up with his wacky Esperanto, which is kind of you
got to pull some Spanish in there. He was like Spanglish.
Yeah, well, I mean, I think there are probably more native
Klingons speakers. Or Roberto speakers. Lena, which is a
genuine language that she created. There was a guy that
did his paper recently some some paper for bed. He's like a major
theorist. It's physics. And he he demanded that they produce a
clean version that so people could look at a bunch of
crackpots anyway, that this to me would because esperano got
nowhere in terms of this. universal language. You can't
even get in this way. I think the universal currency thing is
a dead end. You can't get people to agree on anything. Ever since
I was a kid. And we all know that's a lie. I found it you
found it. Ara,
you've saved the show time to end the show.
But ever since I was The kid there's this we're gonna go to
the metric system. Oh yeah. You know, USA. Oh, and I've had
people like just a few years ago. Yeah, no, no, no, you did
eight and a half by 11. Forget it a four. Everyone's going to a
four by the way, which I believe a four is an unpleasant shape or
a piece of paper. Yeah, don't like
it not for what do you call it is not a golden golden,
golden nothing. It's long. It looks like
golden nothing. Hi, everybody. John C. Dvorak. Golden. Nothing
is guide you right? The dimensions are all screwy. And
it's like long and stupid. And
the perils of a four Yes. Now we size would love to hate.
But what everyone was going to Oh worry for it's going to be
the university standard. Because the you know, these various
organizations are going to standardize it. And my favorite
one, I think this was in the late 90s. I remember somebody,
I'm like, Oh, by the way, anyone who's ever met me knows that
everyone's like it this befuddled look on my face, where
I'm like, What are you talking about? Somebody was claiming to
me? Oh, yes, no, the international organizations are
going to pay for the metric SW is going to be take over. And in
fact, if you're not producing all your documents in a4, you
will be banned from trading on the international markets.
Yeah. Well, I will tell you things have changed, John, that
in the United Kingdom, there have been some serious
configurations where shop owners just refused to step away from
Imperial measurements and use the metric system and they'd
been threatened with lawsuits. shutdowns. I mean, it's crazy.
So what's wrong
with the foot? I mean, I think I think I think the concession
that the United States made and I think is okay, even though I
don't like it personally, because I'm an old guy, is the
fact that we went in, in sports in track and field to the, to
the metric 100 meter dash instead of the 100 yard dash.
And, you know, luckily, they haven't jumped surprised. They
haven't somebody's hadn't had a movement to change the length of
a football field from 100 yards to 100 meters.
But I do like the metric system that does have its advantages,
because you know, 18 centimeters just sounds so much better, you
know?
Yeah. Oh, no, that sounds fantastic. I mean, 18
centimeters. So anyway, the, it's 18 centimeters long.
Exactly. Oh, that's an inch. quibble about an inch. So
there's a bunch of jokes in there. So the point is, is that
that's why you have no I have no confidence that a universal
currency when you can't get the United States to adopt a four or
the metric system in particular. Okay,
well, you know, and you bring this up at the end of the show,
so i We can't get into a huge debate, but the international
currency will be a spreadsheet currency only and it's called
the SDR right now is the Special Drawing Rights and it will
become the gold standard for our crappy dollar and and toilet
white pound you know and then this euro thingy that's floating
around it will all be that's the the currency the actual coin in
your pocket doesn't matter because it's all it is just the
belief system no matter what you put behind it here we go that's
why my gold I got my gold I'm good just
saying that this these universal movements will or was gonna do
this or was going to do that it's just it didn't fly because
people just like these British shopkeepers
now they used to not fly now they're flying because the
clampdown is here they've got all these concessions the plead
stage is here so now they can do it that's what the Lisbon Treaty
is all about. If the laws are in place you don't want to comply
you stupid slave will show you that's what's happening.
Well people should be up in arms about this.
Exactly. I don't have our regular theme music with me for
some reason.
So I brought up can we Hamas do we have to hum
the harpsichord? doesn't quite do it does it? It's
like we're attending some Polish show about classical music.
And this was Vivaldi in 14 movements. I want to thank my co
host, John La Viola Dvorak. My name is Adam curry.
So I guess this is the end. I'm John C. Dvorak here and get mo
nation North Pacific Northwest. And we'll be back again next
week or no Thursday, Thursday, Thursday.
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