John C Dvorak: hook line and sinker. Adam curry Jhansi
Devora.
Adam Curry: Sunday March 12 2023. This is your award
winning combination media assassination episode 1537. This
is no agenda, observing Daylight Savings Time and broadcasting
live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country on average and
number six in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry
John C Dvorak: and from Northern Silicon Valley where it's wet.
I'm Jhansi Dvorak.
Adam Curry: Thank you for that exhilarating weather reports
from Sun northern silicon. It's wet. What's weird in Southern
California too. That's gonna screw up the Oscars.
John C Dvorak: Oh, that's right. The Oscars are today. Tonight.
Yeah,
Adam Curry: I have a report of the Oscars but I have a pre
report Hold on a second. Well, I can
John C Dvorak: tell you who's gonna win the Best Picture. Tom
Cruise. Everyone everywhere, everything all the time. That
movie Who's Who is that by? By this Chinese used to be a
Chinese film. Listen to this important
Adam Curry: report from now this was interesting. This is who and
so it's the Indian news service. Your friend but they cut to an
Indian dude. Reporting on behalf of Voice of America. Which is
kind of concerning.
John C Dvorak: Oh, yeah, that makes it sound as though wi O
and maybe a front.
Unknown: You know, this year's Oscar preparation is very
hectic. Because of the past few days in Los Angeles. It's been
raining nonstops. So actually, yesterday, they have a lot of
buckets lying on the floor to capture rainwater. And Oscar
statues as you can see behind me like there was covered in a rain
jacket to prevent rain from like damaging it. And you know, this
year, as you mentioned, is very different for the red carpet
because it's actually champagne color. Now according to the
academy CEO Bill, he said that the reason for this change of
color is because he wants it to be more luxurious, while Jimmy
Kimmel mentioned that they wanted no blood to be shared in
this year's Oscar obviously referencing to the last year,
last year slap when Chris Rock was slapped by Will Smith. Now
it's time that the Academy Award has changed its color from red.
In fact, before in 1961, before that, it was actually green. And
carpet itself is actually 152 meters long, and about 285
kilograms. So it requires 18 people to actually set up and
about 900 hours now the Hollywood stars will make their
way not gray carpet but this champion colored carpet all the
way here all the way towards the Dolby Theater on my left I just
Adam Curry: love the stats that the commentators have I love all
these little nuggets of information to let you know that
the red carpet was once green.
John C Dvorak: Oh my 900 hours because union
Adam Curry: Right exactly. It's champagne not based champagne,
champagne. It's champagne. Yeah. It's my way a sponsor if you
John C Dvorak: had a color if you had a champagne with that
color of liquid in the glass, you'd think somebody pooped in
it
Adam Curry: oh Ma'am, did you think that the MO a Shawn Dawn
is a sponsor? Is that why it's champagne champagne even though
it's beige? There's gotta be some tie into this Come on.
John C Dvorak: Maybe this guy really? Got to be well, they're
all they usually serve champagne. Well actually not at
this event. They're the new tables again are going to have a
seating what's how's it going to be?
Adam Curry: By you asking me like, like, I know, like, like
to report it Entertainment Television all of a sudden, like
I'm Ryan Seacrest. No, no. No. And for those of you tuning in
from around the world, as many do live on Thursdays and
Sundays, big changes afoot here in the United States.
Unknown: And it's that time of year again, get ready to lose an
hour of sleep. Daylight Saving Time is upon us clocks. Go ahead
spring forward at 2am but there is an effort to make the change
permanent. A bipartisan group of senators has introduced
legislation that would keep the same time throughout the year
Adam Curry: over 15 years we've been doing this merry little
podcast together and it's the same report every year. Well,
we're gonna we're gonna make it permanent. We're gonna stop this
insanity.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, every year before that,
Adam Curry: every and before that every year. I actually
didn't feel too bad this morning. Usually I feel much
worse. I don't know why. But how did you feel getting up?
John C Dvorak: I felt okay. Yeah. Now you have an hour later
though. I mean, I was I've had to do the short 10 instead of 11
that kind of kept me short on my pre show rituals.
Adam Curry: But what do you mean you didn't you didn't get up an
hour earlier? No. Oh, you just wake up when you feel like
waking up. You don't set an alarm and you just wake up
John C Dvorak: an alarm for the same time I've always set the
alarm and I just offset the the target time for the show. So
Adam Curry: preparation be damned. Like screw no agenda
I'll just work an hour shorter. Is that what I'm hearing? So you
John C Dvorak: know what you've heard? Yeah, no yeah, no Yeah.
No. You are saying to me yes, you should get up earlier and
ruin the pacing and everything you've developed over the years
a screw up to show for me so you can show some you know, you
could be
Adam Curry: Yeah, that's what I'm that's what I'm angling for,
John. That's, that's exactly. Actually I'm very happy that you
woke up at your at your normal body clock circadian rhythm
time. Because you're not as grouchy in previous years.
You're like really a bit old
John C Dvorak: brother.
Adam Curry: And mind you. This is now one of the most dangerous
vocations in the world. That's us being podcasters.
Unknown: Now to that horrific crime near Seattle, Washington,
a podcast her and her husband allegedly killed by a stalker.
Police say a 38 year old truck driver from Texas broke into the
couple's home and shot them before turning the gun on
himself taking his own life. The woman had filed a protective
order against him.
Adam Curry: Why are you chuckling it's not that funny.
It's a dangerous a dangerous
John C Dvorak: no I'm not chuckling at that I'm chuckling
at the fact that what good does it do you to go shooting
somebody and then shoot yourself nobody knows anything?
Adam Curry: Well that's not I mean, I have a longer report if
you're really interested but this this guy was it here's what
scared me a little bit about it and I'm actually I'm gonna play
Unknown: it for he said i Police say this. eight year old Ramin
Hodaka rom res he stopped shot and killed podcaster Zori
Sadeghi and her husband before appearing to take his own life.
Appearing hostage situation. Shooters not. A neighbor says
their security camera caught the commotion overnight there was
blood curdling to hear investigators say Hodor Quran
Reza, he listened to today's live podcast for people who
speak Farsi looking for jobs in the tech industry and befriended
her through a chat app. They communicated but things quickly
escalated.
This is the absolute worst outcome. You know for a stalking
case. This is every victim every detected. Police Chief's worst
nightmare.
ABC News has learned just a week before her death, Sadeghi filed
a request for an order of protection against the suspect
alleging and chilling detail a pattern of behavior that made
the 33 year old fear for her safety now pay attention
according to the orders today. Laughter voicemails more than 10
times a week sending flowers even sending her husband more
than 20 messages a day writing he won't let me go.
Adam Curry: There are many people who EMAIL ME 10 times a
day who send gifts to the PIO box. Who who say they won't let
me go. You don't have that not like that. I don't know. But
it's any any one of these people could flip in a heartbeat?
John C Dvorak: You never know. Yes. And you never know why. I
mean, I can see that the I didn't know the background of
this. But she's doing a farsi podcast. This is already Middle
Eastern politics, which is the most dangerous sort of politics.
Yeah, it was nuts. A shame.
Adam Curry: It's horrible. It's a bad day for podcasting. Very
bad day for podcasting. That's okay, because we're going to
crack down on crime. And I'm just going to I'm not going to
actually spike it. But I'm pretty sure that the ball I'm
going to reference here is President Biden resurrecting the
1994 crime bill, which he was as Senator Biden was the
John C Dvorak: was the co sponsor.
Adam Curry: I think he I think he he introduced it, I don't
think he was just the co sponsor. And this went hand in
hand with front page, I think was it was Newsweek or Time
Magazine, even New York Times little yummy. It was the
predators, the nine year old predators and we had to crack
down on him. And then we got this whole Corrections
Corporation of America, the real crackdown arresting hundreds of
1000s mainly black men. And wouldn't you know it
Unknown: so folks look Magga Republicans are calling for
defunding the police department.
Adam Curry: Now. This is beautiful. I have to say when it
comes to twisting the truth, there's lying and lying, lying.
There's nothing better than saying hey, it was actually the
Magga Republicans who wanted to defund the police. It wasn't it
wasn't the crazy squad or anything like that. No, it was
the Maga Republicans and he ties it into the investigation of
FBI. So he's like, Oh, it's law enforcement. It's really the
Maga Republicans whoever wrote this concept for him, which he
somehow was able to get out. It brilliant. So
Unknown: folks, look Okay. Magga Republicans are calling for
defunding the police departments and to funding the FBI. Now
that's a good one. I like that one. Well, guess what? Gary
tries to provide funding that is going to keep community safe and
secure. We talked about how about crime was outraged. My
budget invests in public safety, and includes funding for more
training, more support for law enforcement at a time and expect
to pay men play many roles. We expect our cops to be social
workers, we accept them to be psychologists and mental health
counselors. You know, more cops are killed responding to
domestic violence calls than anything else. To know that.
Well, folks, I don't want to defend them, they need more
help. We don't expect a cop to be everything from a
psychologist to a counselor. These departments need more
investment in this kind of help. And we're going to find proven
strategies for accountable effective community places so
Copson know the communities they serve. In the communities know
them. We got to get cops back on the street, back in the street
and the communities they know. Where they know the people where
they stop in and they know the guy who owns the liquor store.
They know the preacher who runs the local school, the local
ministry, they know the person who runs the local grocery
store. Well, we did that in the Biden crime. No crime person
just plummeted. You did that Joey? Because I know, folks,
Adam Curry: folks. Yeah, it was very successful. You're 94 crime
bill. Okay.
John C Dvorak: It's a good investment. The here's a good
way. He's describing some sort of small town America, where the
cops are roaming around on Monday to beat Yeah, you know,
yeah. You know, just go to the cab, just roam into the giant
Safeway and know who the owner is corporations. Nobody, they're
kidding.
Adam Curry: Well, yeah. Anyway. It was. I just, it's like, there
you go. He's going into the 94. Crime Bill. And it's like, it's
like, problem reaction solution. And just blame it on Magga.
Republicans. Beautiful. That
John C Dvorak: was just to pick my nose.
Adam Curry: No, I am. I am stunned by it. I have not heard
a
John C Dvorak: lot of factcheck false. I'm sure it was all over
the place.
Adam Curry: No, only on your no agenda show. Sorry, people are
way too obsessed with dying. you've
Unknown: conducted a number of studies on the health impacts of
daylight saving time. What is your research shown regarding
the consequences of this practice on our health?
Adam Curry: Now, what could the consequences of Daylight Saving
Time Time shifting have? We do this every year, by the way
makes up this year? It's even a little bit funnier? Because we
have numerous left COVID And we have
John C Dvorak: courage depression.
Adam Curry: No, no. Oh, no. Yeah. So
Unknown: basically, our body has a natural biological clock
control processes, different processes in our body, for
example, the sleep cycles, physical activity for
consumption. And what our research found, as well as many
studies from the world is that if we disrupt the natural
biological clock, it can increase the incidence of
different diseases, such as heart disease, increased the
risk for heart attack, stroke, and even diabetes and cancer.
Adam Curry: There you go. heart attack, stroke and cancer.
John C Dvorak: Same thing that COVID does.
Adam Curry: Exactly, exactly. But depression wise, there is
well not really depression, but there's something there's
something going on on tick tock. You know, I'm gonna save that.
I'm gonna save that. We'll save that for later.
John C Dvorak: No, douche. Tick tock, now, tock, tick tock,
Adam Curry: tick tock update everybody. Women, and all I
found are white women, but women on tick tock are complaining
about their Adderall, Vyvanse or Ritalin. And if you recall,
there was a while back there were a couple of stories that
there seemed to be a shortage. Maybe that was during the supply
chain, that there was a shortage of the precursors or something
for Adderall. And there was some replacement. Not quite sure.
Although violaceum it would be meth. Yes. Correct. They talk
about it. It's D meth or something. But what's happening
is women. It's not working for them anymore. They're blaming
the shortage, although Vyvanse as far as I know, has not
changed. And I think that we may be just reaching a point If you
hear how long these women have been on Adderall or Vyvanse I
mean, is it possible that meth at a certain point just you just
become kind of used to it? It doesn't work for you anymore. Is
that possible? Do you know anything about meth?
John C Dvorak: Nope, I have no no. I have no idea. Well, I put
them out I may have does it make sense to get used to your biases
or more of this stuff? Whatever.
Adam Curry: I put a little I put a little supercop together for
Unknown: your 100% not receiving Adderall coming from someone who
was diagnosed ADHD and has been on this medication since I was
nine. I'm currently 26 I did some research to
Adam Curry: get nine and currently 27 taken meth for her
whole life because
Unknown: I haven't been able to function lately. So this is my
bottle and I swear to you, it used to say Adderall, XR 20
milligrams, not D amphetamine. When comparing dexedrine and
Adderall directly, Adderall showed the ability to decrease
symptoms of ADHD overall. And there is no evidence that
dexedrine could I personally think they're giving us
dexedrine during this shortage, but that's just me.
Yeah, no, they're not working. I had to go take a drug test for
my new job. And so of course, I woke up that morning took my
veins like two or three hours later I go to this drug screen.
I just got my results back today. There is no embedded
means in my system.
Is it just me or is anyone else's Adderall just not
working? I'm on like a 20 milligram extended release. And
I feel like ever since everyone's been talking about
the shortage and stuff, like all the new bottles that I get, and
like, I feel like they only maybe work on Sundays or I have
to drink like coffee to like, maybe get it to kick in. I don't
know. Y'all
may have figured out what my Vyvanse isn't working. I was
diagnosed with ADHD 10 years ago, and I've been taking ADHD
meds on and off for 10 years. And this shit is different.
Okay, this is for anyone who takes any sort of like stimulant
Adderall, Vyvanse, Ritalin, Concerta, any of those shortcuts
my language, this should this should is not working. I don't I
don't know what they're giving us. But it's not it. It's not
Adam Curry: if I love how fast they're talking, they seem to be
high anyway, it
Unknown: this isn't a real they're giving us a sugar pill a
placebo something. Every single morning I used to take this I
would get like the instant butterflies in my stomach, I
feel the need to go to the restroom. And it would be this
extreme focus all day. And like a terrible, terrible feeling.
Before I go to bed, a little bit of anxiety, and I couldn't fall
asleep. None of that. Now granted, it's helped my sleep.
But that's how I know it's not working. So there's discourse
about ADHD meds not working lately, and there's been like a
national shortage. And I'm noticing it to some of my
Vyvanse works and sometimes it doesn't. So I'm gonna stop
making a chart. Because I'm gonna right now it's not
working. So when it works, I can feel a come up or just like sit
there for a little bit. I'm like, yep, meds are kicking in.
And then I do stuff like make appointments or clean or do my
homework or read. And I don't make stupid little jokes
constantly in my head. And I took it it I should have come up
by now. And I'm thinking a lot of dumb stuff. So today's dose
is not working and they are from the same bottle. And but the
other day it was working. So today I'm gonna go get my
refill. Because Walgreens said I have five days to get it or
they're going to just put it back because why don't they just
automatically send us the ADHD meds like they really expect us
to come get it. Anyway, I'm gonna make a chart and when it
works when it doesn't work, and I will report back in
approximately a month.
Adam Curry: I'm sorry, I hear junkies.
John C Dvorak: I'm here. Are you hearing correctly?
Adam Curry: Oh, this this. This saddens me. It's funny, but it
saddens me to know and then these women are addicted.
They're junkies. I'll bet you they're listening at 2.0 speed
to
John C Dvorak: maybe you got they're not listening.
Adam Curry: No, no, they're not listening. But this is epidemic.
And so the minute if something changes, and I don't know if it
changes. I mean, if you've been taking it since you were nine
and you're 26 now yeah, okay, maybe maybe you're maybe you're
just immune to it just doesn't work well enough. And that one
lady said, Well, you know, I take some coffee and I feel a
little bit better. That This to me is like wow, this is sad.
John C Dvorak: Well, they couldn't be right. Because I
noticed this myself with certain drugs. They'll take once in a
while. Over the counter, for example, the peroxan which is
Aleve. Uh huh. I find that the generic Aleve the approximate
generic doesn't work at all.
Adam Curry: That's interesting. You say that because when my
when I had my first surgery in my mouth, I could take ibuprofen
I got these big 600 milligram ibuprofen, but I try I don't
believe that an actual brand name Eleaf did nothing. Just
nothing. And that was brand names. I don't know. I don't
know. Maybe the Chinese are screwing us over.
John C Dvorak: They could be, or the Indians, most of this stuff
comes from India. Well, this Vyvanse or whatever it is, is
interesting. I never heard much about it before. It's another
verb. I've taken it. Oh, yeah. What is it like?
Adam Curry: Well, I took it once. Because what? Oh, just see
what my daughter was on. She's not on it. This is a long time
ago. This is 2011 I think. And she was taking Vyvanse I'm like,
Well, let me try one of these. See what that's like. I was
tripping balls. It's a it's a time release. And I mean, that
thing is 1214 hours. He's just just just really I got little
sweaty, Speedy. I'm not a you know, my drug has always been
marijuana. My drug is the opposite of Vyvanse. I hated it.
I can't believe anyone would would voluntarily take that
John C Dvorak: so it's another very it's a variation, a major
variation of an of an amphetamine and feta mean. So
it's speed. Yeah. How's he get away with selling this stuff to
the public at large is beyond me. Well,
Adam Curry: I think this is the telemedicine that's what I'm
learning the telemedicine systems like the one you we
talked about the one that Weight Watchers bought so that they
could prescribe ozempic to their clients and pretend like it's so
it's our it's our program don't worry about program and says
it's what's working. In fact, I got a note from one of our
producers, I'm over 50. And for numerous reasons can't lose the
weight weight, the way I used to. My last physical had me as
pre diabetes, ie I had to make a change, or I will have type two.
And by the way, we all have we're all pre diabetic, trust
me, we're all pre cancerous pre debt, we're all pre debt. My
wife and I started started using majorna, which is like ozempic.
For Weight Loss, I lost 20 pounds in the first month, the
cost is $300 for four shots that taken weekly. The Diabetes
version is about 1000 a month and sold in special injectors.
For me, it was a simple choice, do this now or do it later with
diabetes. So he's been convinced we can afford to do this but but
you know, when I say we can afford to do this, in fact, the
amount we spend his savings saved a not eating out with
these drugs, your appetite drips, and drips, and you really
don't want to eat all that much. I bet I'll bet the five answers
to this class of drugs has been used in Hollywood and by the
elites for decades, finally available to those of us in the
upper middle class, aren't you happy? He says if I were blessed
with great self control of my eating, I would not be in this
situation. I'm a realist. So he certainly has given up. He says
he can't he can't do it. He doesn't have the he doesn't have
the willpower. The willpower. Yeah. But these telemedicine
health guys, these are the ones these are the ones that are
prescribing all kinds of stuff. And, and by the way, big story
about cerebral cerebral is another one of these telehealth
apps. Well, they got caught sharing millions of their
patients data with advertisers.
John C Dvorak: Oh so much for HIPAA.
Adam Curry: That's great. If an individual creators cerebral
account the information disclosed Me included name phone
number, email address, date baba, baba, bah, online self. In
addition, the individual has completed any portion of
cerebral online Melf health self assessment, the information
disclosed may also have been included in the service the
individual selected, so they just sold that now they're
getting fined for it, but it's not like you're hearing much
about it. Yeah. It's really it's really nuts.
John C Dvorak: The allopathic medical system is out of
control.
Adam Curry: Yeah, well, how about this? This is you'll love
this Wall Street Journal. March is a special time for college
basketball fans who kick back on the couch for days to watch the
two week NCAA Tournament known as March Madness. It has also
become a shining moment for some neurologists who see the games
as a perfect time to peddle vasectomies. Yes, the idea of
pairing male family planning with March Madness appears to
have been very successful so how about that?
John C Dvorak: How does that work
Adam Curry: is vast vast madness there you'll see the commercials
vast madness along with March Madness. I
John C Dvorak: have not seen any of these commercials. They say
it's coming.
Adam Curry: They say it's coming. Kleenex or advertising
VAs madness recover On the couch glued to the TV guilt free
John C Dvorak: yeah forget to be washed all these grades. Oh,
that's Oh man as well maybe
Adam Curry: I want to watch the games. Don't interrupt me. Well,
you can if you're recovering from your vasectomy. I wonder
how many of our producers have been tricked into this.
John C Dvorak: I think half of our producers have had a
vasectomy, or they complain about a report or
Adam Curry: they're about to leave us
Unknown: to back off they
Adam Curry: got really mad. It's like you can't talk about EVs.
You can't talk about vasectomies. You can't talk
about it.
John C Dvorak: I'm sure people will warming's out. Hey,
Adam Curry: man, I have ADHD to stop busting. I'm a math guy,
you do whatever you want. I was a druggie for all my life. That
marijuana still still tobacco was well. Dodge is things like,
wow, they got a hold of us now that God has bought the balls
literally.
John C Dvorak: Well, you did play a Biden clip. I want to get
a couple Biden clips out of the way. All right. Biden is not
very good at math.
Unknown: I just met I won't embarrass them by pointing out I
don't want I don't have permission. But I just met a
woman who has healthcare costs that are 600 $600,000 A year
$7,000 A month? Well, guess what? How can you possibly deal
with that? Well, we just dealt with.
Adam Curry: So that sounds like he multiplied by. He did an
extra 10 times there. Were eight.
John C Dvorak: Well, it says seven and six. It wasn't even
that it was
Adam Curry: what? Who knows what he was thinking?
John C Dvorak: Well, then there's this this one here,
which is funnier. And he did. He says it twice to make sure it's
even that you don't miss it.
Unknown: More to show I really, it's all my fault. Well, look, I
think we got a good job report. I'm happy to report that our
economy has created over 300,000 new jobs last month. And that's
on top of a half a million jobs we added the month before. All
total, we've created more than 12,000 12,000 jobs since it took
office. nearly 8000 of the manufacturing jobs. That means
overall, we've created more jobs in two years than any
ministration has created in the first four years. And I think
all this matters. It's no accident.
Adam Curry: No. Goodness. You're still mass bumping.
John C Dvorak: I don't know why. Oh, sorry. That was my fault.
Now. I knew I did that. I've just got to be careful. Well,
the job Oh, that's Biden's ability to capitalize. Yeah.
Adam Curry: Well, jobs are going to change. Pretty soon. You're
gonna have a lot more unemployed. I've been following
the Silicon Valley Bank. closure.
John C Dvorak: I wouldn't say quite a lot of people are
blaming Peter Thiel. Did you get that far?
Adam Curry: Oh, I got much further than that. Oh, would
take us there. Okay. Well, first of all, whenever I get an email
from Andrew Horowitz saying yeah, this could be pretty big.
I pay attention on Horowitz he's a pretty level headed guy. Cool.
Yeah. He doesn't really go too nuts. Well, I have two reports.
And then we can we and I 100%. five by five agree that Peter
Thiel started the bank run. But let's listen to some of the
mainstream reporting. Here's ABC, from
Unknown: New York to California today panicked customers
scrambling to pull their money out of Silicon Valley Banks,
only to find them close all our money's
in the bank. I don't know how we're gonna do our payroll. I
don't know what we're gonna do. Now.
It's the biggest bank failure since the 2008. Financial
crisis. Regulators this morning, shutting down and seizing the
assets of the bank, a go to lender to the tech industry.
Many of those businesses today cut off from their cash, I hope
to get most of it back. But that's definitely concerned. It
all came crashing down in just 48 hours, as the bank tried to
shore up its finances. The panic only spread on Wall Street, the
bank stock plunged and customers started pulling their money out.
Once that happens, it's just inevitable it's going to fail.
high interest rates have left many tech companies with less
cash on hand, forcing them to withdraw more to meet their
expenses.
This is a bank, perhaps a handful of banks that are
getting nailed by the fallout from the from the problem the
tech sector. And it's not a economy wide or a banking system
wide
problem. We pressed the White House on what this means for the
tech world. How concerned are you that we could see a ripple
effect just throughout this specific sector? I just want to
re emphasize that we
are in a fundamentally different position that, you know with the
reforms of the global financial crisis of 2007 2008 we've put in
place stress tests and other tools that our regulators have i
to provide more resilience to our banking system.
Adam Curry: Alright, so what happened here is a is not crypto
related, although there are some there's some exposure there with
a stable coin USDC, which I fully expect to collapse because
stable coins are crap. What happened here is, is really
Yeah, the big banks the big for too big to fail, they had to
over capitalize, they've been stressed tested, but all the
other regional banks, smaller banks like Silicon Valley Bank,
they actually argued the the CEO of Silicon Valley Bank, argued
to weaken regulations. And I believe since COVID, they didn't
even have to have 10% of reserves. And the biggest
problem for that for that was is almost a classic idiot bank move
is they invested in bonds that you have to hold to maturity,
htm is what it's called. I mean, you can't just sell them off. So
they had a lot of these bonds, which are because the interest
rates have gone up so quickly. And as we know, prices of bonds
work inversely to interest rates, that means they're worth
less money if you want to go and sell them. And this went so
fast, which is what what our Federal Reserve has been doing,
that they found themselves overexposed, like $1.8 billion,
and they started selling these unprofitable bombs. That's when
Peter Thiel on Wednesday, I think told all of his portfolio
companies, so I don't know how many of those are, it could be
10, could be 20, could be 100. But these are companies that
he's invested in either directly or through maybe one of the
venture capital firms. He started calling everybody say,
take your money out, take your money out, take your money out,
that is what triggered an actual run on the bank when everyone's
going, Oh, crap, let's take our money out. And they didn't have
the cash on hand, they were $900 million short and just couldn't
give anybody the cash. This was, I guess, kind of expected the
regulars regulators came in and shut it down. And the way these
things work is if you every bank account in America has an FDIC
Bank, which I think they all are, they are insured up to
$250,000 per account. So on Monday, if you had a million
dollars in an account, you'll get 250,000. At minimum, that's
that's what's going to end whatever else happens. We're
going to see before we move any further into some of the
details. The way Silicon Valley works, and I've witnessed this
twice. Once when I took my company public in 1996. We went
we took it public with a brown shoe small New York firm, but we
went around to the big the big companies. And they immediately
bring in Wilson Sonsini, which is Silicon Valley's law firm,
very, very famous, I think the as at Wilson Sonsini, who's kind
of like called the godfather of Silicon Valley and one of the
two, you may know that better than I do. And that's, you know,
and they'll, they'll run, you know, deals through, they'll
play on both sides of deals. It's incredible what a what kind
of monopoly they have. But when we raise money from Sequoia
Capital, Kleiner Perkins shirt below raunchy rock Sriram. But
the main, the main two were Sequoia and Kleiner Perkins,
immediately, as a covenant in the deal. And you're going to
bank at Silicon Valley Bank. And if you remember you, and I
bought a lot of lunches and wine with an SVB credit card. And so
the way it kind of works is they have their money at SVB. Or at
least chunks of it. And you know, okay, we're gonna raise
this money, you get the money, and it really is just
transferred from one Silicon Valley Bank account to the next
one. And because you're in this trusted circle, which the bank
connects everybody, you can then get easy debt financing. Oh, you
need a $2 million line of credit, no problem. And so it's
very incestuous. And I'm pretty sure a lot of the owners, the
bank shareholders, the bank were the same people. So a lot of
yeah, just incestuous exposure. And because of this, they say
50%, I would say, maybe 75% of every single venture capital
back for him, not just in Silicon Valley. We're talking
firms in Sweden, in Denmark, in the Netherlands, in the UK,
everywhere. If you raise money through a big event, not even a
big one, but one of the 350 or 400 venture capital firms,
you're going to have a bank account of Silicon Valley. So
this is going to create a large culling of the heard in time.
Yeah, because payroll coming up on the 15th payroll money had
already been sent into Silicon Valley Bank or sent or supposed
to be sent from it to the payroll companies, they didn't
go out. So and so now. People aren't going to get paid.
Obviously, there's a lot of companies that are, I'd say the
majority of venture capital backed companies are not
profitable. They had no they, they already had to fire people
rein stuff in because No, it's going to be tough if you're
based on advertising and may not make any advertising money for
the next four years. So how are you going to get through they
got a line of credit from Silicon Valley Bank, that's
everything's dried up. So we're gonna see firms collapsing in
the next few days in the next few weeks. Let's go to CBS.
Unknown: Following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank this
week, officials in Washington are expressing concern
when banks experience financial losses, it is and should be a
matter of concern.
Silicon Valley Bank is the 16th largest in the country, with
$209 billion in total assets late last year. According to the
FDIC, the bank is known for serving tech startups and
venture capital firms
Silicon Valley Bank failed largely because of its links to
the tech industry, because technical getting nailed by
sorry.
John C Dvorak: Says It failed because of its links to the tech
industry.
Adam Curry: Oh no, no, you're gonna hear every single boat
bull crap. You're gonna hear all kinds of bullshit stuff in the
next few days,
Unknown: largely because of its links to the tech industry,
because tech is getting nailed by all the rising interest rates
and changing consumer preferences.
Regulators shut down the bank. Do you want to
Adam Curry: want to call out I'm happy to stop you want to
comment?
John C Dvorak: No, I'm just saying this guy's whoever this
analyst is is full of crap. Surprise, surprise,
Unknown: a rising interest rates and changing consumer
preferences.
On Friday, state regulators shut down the bank transferring
control of his assets to a new institution controlled by the
FDIC. In a statement, the agency said customers would be able to
access their funds no later than Monday morning. But it only
insurance deposits up to $250,000. The bank serves some
major companies like Roku, Pinterest, Shopify and Etsy,
which warn sellers that some deposits may be delayed, small
business owner Amber fields now swept up in the chaos,
and another three are in small business, I get this in my home,
those funds, feed my family and
pay my bills. The effect is also being felt overseas, with
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying his government
will take steps to assist businesses that are impacted.
Adam Curry: Ah, yes, I should have mentioned Israeli companies
as well. Of course, there's a lot of investment from Silicon
Valley and Israeli companies. So it's going to it's going to
affect a lot. Now, here's a couple of fun, fun little
things. Silicon Valley Bank CEO Greg Becker. He actually until
this happened, he was on the board of directors for the San
Francisco Federal Reserve Bank. The what is it? The what's the
guy's name? The who was it? I think the not maybe the Chief
Operating Officer. Or maybe Yeah, I think was the chief
operating officer. He actually was at Lehman Brothers, when it
collapsed. So you know, there was just they were very involved
in diversity, equity inclusion focused on lots of important
things like that. And meanwhile, they just weren't exposed to all
kinds of problems. Now, what this also did and hasn't been
mentioned that much, but will be is it made people around
America, certainly nervous about regional banks and regional
banks, just like Silicon Valley Bank, did not have to have the
same type of over capitalization. That the big,
too big to fail banks have. And so there's their stocks were
down, you will see what happens. But what is happening this
weekend, as people are, you know, their bank runs happen
because people have no faith, it may not even be an actual
problem with the bank. So if people just saying all weekend
long, oh, man, you know, the regional bank, you go down, but
to get your money out of the bank, there could be a run on
regional banks. And that could actually be very serious. But
it's not because there's necessarily anything wrong. Now
we go to CNN, who literally could not get anyone better than
Robert Reich. To explain it to us.
Unknown: What does this mean for people outside of Silicon Valley
Bank? Universe? What does it mean for the average borrower,
if anything?
So far, it doesn't mean anything. But the big question
is one of contagion. That is what we saw in 2008 was when one
big bank, a couple of others started to fail, could not pay
their depositors could not actually pay up what they owed.
They were closed, and regulators had to And moving very, very
quickly about we ended up with a financial crisis. Because of you
know, one vague banking card easily starts tipping over other
cards, it's a house of cards. Now, we don't know yet about
contagion, we what we do know is that this bank was obviously
over extended. And this is related to the Fed because as
interest rates went up, and as and this bank was lending to a
lot of startups, this bank simply could not handle it. I
think that this is the biggest economic news today, it is not
this jobs report, the Drudge Report was good. And it's kind
of signals to me a soft landing. But I think that in terms of
what the Fed is going to do, this bank implosion of this
potential contagion may reverse Jerome Pauwels direction, it may
lead to, instead of a half a point increase at the March
meeting, it may lead to no increase at all. In fact, it's
even conceivable that interest rates start dropping at the fear
that we're going to be in deep trouble.
Adam Curry: So I'm sure this is what a lot of people certainly
in the tech sector would love, hey, let's get that quantitative
easing, let's get money cheaper. Again, we need to have cheap
money, which of course will only result in higher inflation for
you know, you for the prices for your, your groceries, etc. And
so now we're in the what are we going to do phase and we've got,
typically, you know, they can find a buyer for bank like this,
like JPMorgan Chase would be a good one that get it for for
almost nothing. And anyone who had money in there might lose
10%, maybe more. You know, that depends on the deal that they
cut. But already, Washington and Silicon Valley are talking about
a special vehicle, the Federal Reserve, we need a bailout. This
is this is going to be interesting. If if the Federal
Reserve forces, you know, however they do that forces a
bailout. You know, and this is really only it's only $100
billion. I mean, you know, the money we gave, so called gave to
Ukraine could fix this problem. But if you start going down that
road, you know, who knows where it's going to end up,
Unknown: you have advocated for the Fed to stop increasing the
interest rate why we before this issue with Silicon Valley Bank,
as simply because I don't see any wage price. Inflation wages,
according to Jerome Powell are pushing up prices. Well, that's
simply not the case. Look at today's report, for example, we
are seeing the smallest wage increase in over a year, prices
continue to rise. That is absolutely true. But wages are
not pushing them up. It's not that workers are doing so
wonderfully well. But what's pushing up many prices
domestically in big companies that want to increase their
profit margins. And so they have monopolies or near monopolies
oligopolies. They are using the opportunity using inflation as
an excuse to put up their prices. So this is at its at its
bottom here. It really is an antitrust monopolization issue.
It is not a Fed interest rate problem.
Adam Curry: The venture capital firms, 350 of them have written
an open letter. Say that hey, you know, we'll work with any
new owner if you find one. But we get stories like this. More
than 60%. John, of community solar financing involves Silicon
Valley Bank, we will not be able to stop climate change if these
companies go out of business. Oh, yeah. Good one. Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. Wait for it. You can just wait for that to happen.
It's like, oh, no, these are none of these companies are
making any money. And they're not supposed to. That's why
they're venture funded. But it also may just be a great moment
for the venture capital money companies to write off a whole
bunch of really bad investments because everyone's just looking
for, you know, it's a crapshoot. Hey, let me get the next
unicorn. Yeah, we'll invest in that and invest in this. It's
kind of it's been very fun to watch Jason Calacanis. He's now
tweeting in all caps. He's beside himself. Because he, you
know, he, he's like an angel investor, and his whole it's a
very simple process, but basically, he gets people to
give him money, he invest their money, and then he pitches those
companies to actual venture capital firms. I'm kind of
giving an abbreviation. So he, he's holding a bag, a machine,
not personally, but his investors are gonna be holding a
big bag of crap. Now, when something like this happens, I
am typically all ready to jump in and say hi, this is how they
introduced the central bank digital currency. You do not
have to do that. Because everyone else is doing it for me
like General Flynn,
Unknown: I want people to go read executive order 14067
Executive Order 14067 signed by Uncle Joe, the Eighth of March
of 22. And it went into effect 13 December 2022. So just this
past summer, and there are already corporations and
elements of our US government that are already beta testing
what's called Central Bank, digital currency, Central Bank,
digital currency. That's what that executive order is all
about.
Adam Curry: And this was accentuated on Friday on Tucker
show, which I do not watch anymore, but the people sent me
the clip. So how could I avoid Kristi, noem? Who was the
governor of what is she South Dakota? I think she saw it.
Yeah. And she mentioned that the UCC update. In fact, Article
Nine UCC is the universal commercial code. I think it's
something that originates with lobbyist in Washington, DC, it
goes to the states, the states have to ratify it, you know,
states just like any other politician, you know, Hey, you
want what I just ratified this, how much you give me for my
reelection campaign. 10 grand, okay, fine. It's too complicated
to read. Anyway, she she vetoed this in the South Dakota, bill
that was passed by the lawmakers,
Unknown: I became aware of this bill, it wasn't introduced until
almost halfway through our legislative session, we started
reading through this bill that was over 110 pages long, it was
sold as an update to the guidelines of the universal
Commercial Code backed by all of our financial institutions, or
banks. As we started reading through it, we saw the section
of the bill that changed the definition of currency. And
essentially what it did was paved the way for a government
led cbdc. And it also banned any other form of cryptocurrency or
Bitcoin or digital currency that existed. So for me, it very
clearly was a threat to our freedom. In South Dakota, we are
the session that completes its business earliest in the year,
we are the first ones to really look at this bill and find out
the truth of what's in it. And I did veto that bill. I'm asking
my legislators to change their minds, to make the right
decision and help me kill this bill once and for all. But I'm
telling you attacker, we've got the same language coming to over
20 other states, I believe, it's to pave the way for the federal
government to control our currency and thus control
people, it should be alarming to everyone and it's being sold as
a UCC guidelines update, there's no rush to do this. We need to
be smart and make sure that we're doing what we can to
protect people. I find it ironic that we also are having this
discussion at the same time, we have banks and credit card
companies talking about coding gun and ammunition in a separate
code so they can track it. So not only can they tie these two
issues together, if the government doesn't approve of
what you're purchasing, if they have the only form of digital
currency out there, and that is endorsed and utilized in the
country, they can control how you spend that money and does
take away all your freedom.
Adam Curry: So from a perspective of what does that
mean for you at home? First of all, don't panic. If you have
more than $250,000. In one bank account, what are you doing?
Someone should have advised you differently. So I think the FDIC
insurance, although there was if you recall, about a year and a
half, during COVID, there was a whole shuffle at the top of the
FDIC, they kicked out the chairman of the board and they
brought in some woke crazy people. So who knows what that
what's going on there. If this could be a part of anything? I
don't know. There's I don't I do not think this is going to be
the introduction of central bank, digital currency this
particular moment, it's possible you could go to sleep, it's
great that happens over the weekend. All these things are
always supposed to happen over the weekend, you might wake up
with instead of dollars Fetty coin or $50. It wouldn't mean
that much to you. Except of course for the obvious control
that can be implemented. It is interesting as a side note that
Elon Musk has openly been entertaining the idea of may may
be buying Silicon Valley Bank, I don't think he will, it seems
like a hassle. He's getting his licenses to do so anyway to
create the x.com that he's always dreamed of. But that
would be an interesting, an interesting thing for it to
happen. So just sit tight and don't panic is what I would say
aye, aye. But it's clear that we're being set up for something
like this in the future. And that's my report.
John C Dvorak: Well, it's a good report. I don't think we're
being set up for anything necessarily. I just think this
was a stupid idea to have everything concentrated in this
one SIV be because of the entire valley being somewhat corrupt in
that manner. What's the point of having every company in Silicon
Valley and every individual and every payroll go through just
one single bank without backup,
Adam Curry: we may we may find out who knows I mean you don't
really know but it
John C Dvorak: was just got to be corruption involved. There's
no other possibility of course,
Adam Curry: of course. And it was so I was Why
John C Dvorak: should Why should my venture capitalists tell me
what bank to work with? Do you want
Adam Curry: the money son? We had covenants in our deal. We
had time saying but why? Well, because I think that they were
all they were shareholders.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that would be it. That's called corruption.
Adam Curry: Called coercion. I don't know if it's corruption,
but I don't know. We'll see how bad it will certainly be a
calling of a lot of crap that needed to go anyway. It
simultaneously helps the Federal Reserve with exactly what
they've been complaining about like well, you know, the job
markets too strong we got to have more unemployment. Maybe
this will help. I don't know how many people will be unemployed
where the collapse of many companies will know in 60 days
and maybe even less I think this will be the story for the next
week. And and we'll just have to pay attention because it's very
possible someone or some people will be really pushing the fear
and I don't see you know what, tonight at the Oscars if there's
a lot of Silicon Valley Bank jokes, then you'll know that
it's coming
John C Dvorak: I don't think they can deliver a joke
Adam Curry: they can change the carpet
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I think carpet was on sale to call this
dog shit brown carpet champagne we got it she
Adam Curry: champagne you my dear friend Sean Panya I if
they're gonna do anything wild with Central Bank digital
currency at whatever level whatever version it won't happen
until the Ukraine war is over. I think that's that's that's what
I'm waiting for.
John C Dvorak: Well, let's listen to some you look Ukraine
clips I have a bunch Oh good. The word logistics clips these
are all this is actually I consider these these five clips
to be an excellent backgrounder on Well, I don't know what
they're trying to accomplish. It seems as though they're looking
at this war some way to stress tested the the defense industry
in some way. Oh, because they can't make enough stuff. For
these Ukrainians. These guys are unbelievable, but let's go with
Ukraine war of logistics. One been
Unknown: 80 years since a war with logistics on this
industrial scale. Ukraine fires as many 155 millimeter artillery
rounds and about
Adam Curry: horses from who did this report because I liked that
editing right off the bat.
John C Dvorak: This is that may have been me. This is NPR alle
Unknown: Ukraine fires as many 145 times
John C Dvorak: throughout this report, there are scattered some
really new explosions, rocket launchers and machine guns. And
he's talking to one guy in an office and you're hearing this
stuff. Psycho Washington DC is under attack.
Adam Curry: Wait, I had I had this that's that's the new
Ukraine war sound effect we picked up earlier so we'll see
if they use that one.
Unknown: Ukraine fires as many 155 millimeter artillery rounds
in about five days, as the US produces in a month. Many of
them are forged finished at 1500 degrees and painted here and
1950s factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The machinery is
decades old. But until now it's suited us needs Iraq and
Afghanistan. We're not dueling artillery battles. But today,
the 20,000 artillery shells the plant creates every 30 days is a
fraction of Ukraine's needs. Ukraine's defense minister
Alexei Resnikoff recently wrote to the European Union and let
her describe to PBS news hour that Ukraine can only fire 1/5
of what it could because of munition shortages. We saw that
ourselves on the outskirts of Baku in eastern Ukraine. This
team told us they did not have enough artillery to fire
constantly Oleksandr commands and artillery unit in the 93rd
brigade
Do you have what you
need in order to complete this fight?
Unless yet? We do have equipment but we need more. And we need
more and more and more because they won't stop until we stop
them.
The current rate of Ukraine's ammunition expenditure is many
times higher than our current rate of production.
Last month, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said
defense industry couldn't deliver fast enough and how to
expand quickly.
This is now becoming a grinding war or attrition. And the war of
attrition is a war over logistics.
Adam Curry: Yeah, no one wants to pony up we just we're just
not making them the old am making
John C Dvorak: Opening up as much as we can in Scranton, now
the
Adam Curry: president's home
John C Dvorak: so what's the what's the last war of attrition
that we've had in the last 100 years?
Adam Curry: What is in this context? What does attrition
mean?
John C Dvorak: That means you just keep killing people Iraq
there at World War One that was the classic war of attrition
there was nothing no strategy there wasn't any just killing
everybody as fast as you can they kill as many as you can and
they can they kill as many as they can you kill as many as you
can. And that's the attrition we're talking about people. So
this is a this is basically a war of well of war of attrition,
where you just keep killing this is a killing mess. This is a
world war one style. outbreak or we
Adam Curry: call it World War 1.5. Okay, sorry, I didn't mean
to piss you off.
John C Dvorak: Worldwide domain. That's the SP that people listen
to the show.
Adam Curry: I wonder how those bombs sound at 2x speed. Pew
pew, pew.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that's exactly what they sound like. So
right there. He's telling us that this is a version of World
War One. Don't the world then did last great war, the last
war. I mean, this is unbelievable. It's given it
away. Okay, let's go to clip two sorry. The
Unknown: US Defense industrial base is not fully prepared to
conduct an industrial style war or to deter that kind of war.
SETH JONES directs the international security program
at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and
recently wrote a report about a shortage of material and
materials in a wartime environment.
The US has had an operational plan for major war, but I think
what hasn't happened is to tie those plans directly to
acquisitions needs right now.
Already, the US has sent from its stockpiles more than $32
billion worth of weapons, including more than a million
155 millimeter shells, 1600 shoulder fired Stinger anti
aircraft missiles, 8500 javelin, anti tank weapons 1800 Phoenix
ghost drones and 38 High Mobility Artillery Rocket
systems
what the US has been able to do is use a range of stockpiles of
weapons. The challenge, though, is that a number of those
stockpiles are now decreasing, and the production lines are
rising to levels that we need them for future contingencies.
It's not only about Ukraine, the military always plans for
contingencies including a war in the Pacific with China. What was
Adam Curry: that thing that just slid off there? That sounded
like a
John C Dvorak: like time Mars probably. So we've given them a
million shells. And they're telling us is not enough. We
need five times more. They've shot a million shells. It were
to watch a million shells. Yes,
Adam Curry: a million a million I tell you, why not.
John C Dvorak: Okay, let's go to clip three.
Unknown: And now the defense department is spending billions
to increase production, including modernizing the
Scranton plant, as seen in these before and after photos.
Already, production has increased nearly 50%. Overall,
the army hopes to increase artillery production 500% In the
next two years, the largest production expansion since the
Korean War, build a plant as the Undersecretary of Defense for
Acquisition and sustainment. I spoke to him on Wednesday, and
began by asking him whether the West could meet Ukraine's needs
for artillery,
we will do our best and we have been doing our best to meet the
demand as it comes in. And, of course, the devils in the
details as to which caliber but yes, the piece showed the 155
millimeter we have already funded the factory at
significant amounts to get their production rate ultimately up at
five times that amount, which is almost unprecedented and it's
not just producing But what we're also buying and getting
from around the world and different stocks to supply with
the Ukrainians need every day. We try to move something to the
left whether it's finding equipment and another country we
can ship in, or anything we can do to find stocks as we
just saw Ukrainian soldiers just a few weeks ago I started back
when they told me they didn't have enough that was an
artillery piece and older artillery piece. Soviet era I
was with another mortar unit. They said they didn't have
enough mortars also firing Soviet era mortars This isn't
only about American European weapons, it's also about getting
Ukraine older weapons which many other units still use, right?
That's exactly right. It's a constant challenge of do we find
or produce the old Soviet or Russian equipment? Or do we give
them the new equipment and And that's we go through that every
day.
Adam Curry: It kind of reminds me in the Netherlands, as you
know, on December 31, you can go pick up your pre purchase
fireworks and you can legally set well, they changed the rules
a bit this year, but you can legally set it off for New
Year's Eve. And it's like, you know, we'd go and we'd have our
parents, you know, vouch for us, or whatever we get, we get our
big bag, and we but of course, we'd have that a week in
advance, and we'd be shooting stuff off. And then it's just
like, then it's just on the 31st all day long, just as much as
you can just write that from our mind my mind than just blowing
stuff up. But it's it's doing nothing. It's it's just blowing
it. Are they just blowing up our stockpiles?
John C Dvorak: That's what it looks like.
Adam Curry: So what happens if China wants to fight us? We got
nothing.
John C Dvorak: to crank it up. Yeah. Well,
Adam Curry: then we'll crank it up. No, this is this makes no
sense.
John C Dvorak: Well, they make the point that the Korean War we
had that we cranked it up. So I looked at the military budget
for the Korean War. And during that era, the military budget
for the United States during that when we had it cranked up
because of the Korean War. The military budget was 44 point 9
billion, which is less you know, less is this bit in the back of
a list that's balanced it for inflation. Does it make it
Adam Curry: 400,000? Maybe even 400 400? million? Yeah, that's
still half half of our current budget.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, less than half. But that boy, that's what
we're cranking it up. But
Adam Curry: that budget is not going into ammunition. I look at
the email every day, I saw another one $3 billion to Hawaii
to build a dry dock. Okay, I'm sure we need it. Now, that just
it's just being spent on junk. Not will not ammo,
John C Dvorak: Glarus, good except for
Unknown: but on air defense, specifically, I've been told
they're running out of s 300, parts weapons all over the
world. And so therefore, they have to go to West,
I think I think for air defenses, and frankly, for
ground forces, what you're seeing is having to go from the
old Soviet systems to almost certainly western systems for
the reasons you said.
And this is all of course, before we get to Ukraine Spring
Offensive, you are trying to figure out how to get all these
armored vehicles and their parts into Ukraine. How do you know
that they'll have enough of those munitions, those parts,
those modern weapons, to be able to launch some kind of counter
offensive in the coming week, what
we're doing is working with the Germans, the poles and the other
countries, when we have a shortfall in parts save for a
certain version of leopards to scour and find those parts, even
to the extent we can find advanced manufacturing to 3d
print. So we're working on each one. And the idea is to make
sure that there are enough parts to sustain for each model. Why
not
give Ukraine the longer range weapon known as the attack them,
which would fly 180 miles that it's been requested that so far,
the administration has refused? Yeah,
it's been a policy decision to date that the long range weapons
which we have been providing, which is about an 80 Kilometer
precision guided weapon is sufficient and range for the
targets that they have, I think for when you get into types of
capabilities are well beyond it, you get into policy issues, and
sustainment issues of whether or not it's an escalatory thing.
If I could, though, intelligence officials told me that
specifically the capacity of the attacker and the range of the
attack and is a red line for the Kremlin in terms of what Ukraine
would be able to hit if it were to use that weapon in Russia.
But why is that a concern given that Ukraine has promised not to
use American weapons inside Russia? Like we're not,
John C Dvorak: Oh, no. Promise not to use it?
Adam Curry: We're not going to send anything to Moscow.
So those trusted Yeah, we should trust them when they say that we
should just try.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, they promise. We'll just trust them.
Because they've never been known for the dishonest ever,
Adam Curry: ever. It's Ukraine. You can trust Ukraine? That's
not correct. So
John C Dvorak: it sounds like that there. You're still using
Soviet gear that we have to supply parts for? Yeah. And we
have to scrounge the parts from all over the place. And we even
have to put the Soviet gear we have to, to 3d print some of
these things, which probably don't have templates,
necessarily, but I'm sure there's enough engineers around,
they can 3d print some of these parts, which is the future. And
it's just a fiasco at this point. But at least there's some
kind of light at the end of the tunnel, maybe. But you have to
listen to this clip. And you can kind of tell that what the
Ukrainians would think is not necessarily what we're thinking
how this thing comes to an end, which you think is going to be
sooner than later and I'm not going to disagree with that, but
I'm not totally convinced. But there is a little guy, there's a
funny little gag at the end of this guy, this assistant,
defense guy. So here we go. Well, I
Unknown: think it's one of the concerns. I think there's
multiple concerns. And the other piece of it is what to what
extent it will make a big difference in the battle. And
those are all part of the calculation.
To what end? Are you trying to procure weapons for Ukraine to
receive all of its territory that it has lost since 2014.
We're providing everything we can that we believe they need.
And I would say this, we are going to be there with them
until it's over and as long as we need to, and not for the
least of which is that we think it's expensive. Now, if Putin
prevails, it'll be really expensive. And so this is really
that important. And we were going to provide her the
equipment they need
Ukraine argues they won't be over until it receives his
Crimea.
That that may be their view.
Adam Curry: That may be their view.
John C Dvorak: Play to the end again, and don't step on it
because he giggles
Adam Curry: Oh, oh, I didn't hear the giggle. I'm sorry, but
they need
Unknown: Ukraine arguing won't be over until it receives his
Crimea.
That that may be their view.
Adam Curry: Oh, wow. Oh, wow. Well, already Solinsky was
denied appearing in the Oscar ceremony tonight.
John C Dvorak: Yes, good for them.
Adam Curry: Well, here's what I like about the story. He has an
agent William Morris entertainment pleated made a
plea to the academy to spotlight Zelinsky
John C Dvorak: he hasn't we can't even get a mortgage agent
I mean, Mike
Adam Curry: Simpson Hey, Mike Simpson William mortgage eight
entertainment agent. What? Thank you, we should be able to get
you as a as an agent for John's bit part.
John C Dvorak: And minify even that yeah, there you go.
Adam Curry: Admitted money at minimum.
John C Dvorak: Unbelievable that this guy has the gall. He also
they also tell you I'm using an agent I think is funny, but the
gall it takes Hey, we have our own we're doing something here a
you know, it's like, what do you want to get involved with the
it's an award show? Yeah.
Adam Curry: Well, I'm telling you, I My feeling is it'll be
all Silicon Valley jokes tonight about Silicon Valley Bank jokes.
I will bet you $1 Now okay, well, we're getting a lot of
dollars here. Okay. $1 You see, I haven't gotten
John C Dvorak: one yet. Okay. $1 right. $1 that this will be easy
to do. That. Will if there is any jokes, there'll be less than
five total.
Adam Curry: No, no, no, no, no. What do you mean? What did you
say? You're pegging it at five. I have to have five jokes about
that to win.
John C Dvorak: Oh, everything's gonna be about Silicon Valley
jokes. Well, blah, blah. But he meets on one joke is counts.
Adam Curry: Let's say three.
John C Dvorak: Okay, I'll take your five. I'm not afraid.
You're gonna take the five. I'm gonna take the five. I was just
about to give into the three. Drop the ball. I'm gonna take
the
Adam Curry: five. But I'll have to write you a check for my
Silicon Valley Bank Account. Bloomberg came up with an
interesting little ditty the other day. Yeah, EU has no clue
of whereabouts of 86% of frozen Russian bank central bank
assets. You know, there's a $300 billion that was supposedly
frozen or scattered. They can't find it. They couldn't find more
than 36 point 4 billion. And then you have Medvedev. Medvedev
met Vijay Medvedev. He said, Oh, May I May I point out? They have
$300 billion worth of foreign assets frozen in Russia.
John C Dvorak: So that's a wash a quid
Adam Curry: pro quo. That's our wash. Yeah. It cancels each
other out. He says he did a happy coincidence. It would be
enough to recall recompense Russia for what might be stolen
from Russia. Well, that's kind of interesting. I didn't No one.
No one broadcast that. No, heaven forbid. Anyway, we're
still using evil Putin and Russia to try and capture the
rest of the countries in the EU sphere to try and get him into
NATO and try and get him into into the war. But you see what's
going on in Georgia, Moldova, though is the interesting one
is, you know, QQ one of our producers, he's from Moldova.
And he says, you know that the President of the woman who
thinks she's president or prime minister, isn't that guy
Moldova? No, Moldova is a woman I what am I say? Oh, I'm
thinking to Belarus, Moldova is a woman that, you know, but
she's all in on EU, but the Moldovans may not be all in on
EU and NATO. And here's Kirby reacting to a question from a
White House correspondent who I've never seen asked a question
before, and she looks Israeli in a way but I'm not sure where
she's from
Unknown: Lee has said that there was a Russian plot to sort of
overthrow her government and break Moldova's path to Europe.
It was something that President Solinsky himself had also warned
about. What is the US says assessment of this possible
plot? And more broadly, what is the concern about Russia's
attempts to sort of influence these got these pro European
governments in the region, even though it's right now focused on
Ukraine about other countries in the region?
So we'll see about that is deeply concerning reports.
Certainly not outside the bounds of Russian behavior. And we
absolutely stand with the modem Moldovan government and the
Moldovan people
we have no confirmation from US side of things
I know of no independent confirmation but we're certainly
not questioning their capacity the will of the of the Russians
and Mr. Putin to try to do that is perfectly right at page Iran
average playbook.
Adam Curry: Oh page numbers playbook Yeah, I was gonna was
talking about oh, he's gonna take over Moldova I don't think
I don't think Kirby was ready for this question. Because you
know, they're so focused on Georgia trying to make it look
like Russia and of course if there's a government in their
day to day wants nothing to do with the with the west they
don't want to be part of NATO or whatever they're sick and tired
of all this crap. Michigan Moldova. Just take a look at the
map. I'm gonna refresh my memory and will those in such a great
spot
John C Dvorak: so Moldova, if I'm not mistaken, has that
little strip of land as butted up against Ukraine? That is
correct. Considered Russian?
Adam Curry: Yes, it's on the southwestern flank, I think.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, something like that. But it's right there.
And it's like a buffer between the Ukraine and main part of
Moldova and they the Russia has been wanting to get capture that
they can't seem to
Adam Curry: right near Odessa and it borders on Romania.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, there's a lot of talk right now that the
Russians are really angling to get Odessa i think that's lost
cause at this point I don't
Adam Curry: think they care I think they want Dawn boss they
want to you know that's what they want that's the
John C Dvorak: if you look at some of the takeover maps where
they take over a big chunk of Ukraine Odessa is included
they'd love to own all the ports because there's money there but
at the Odessa is cannot go to the Russians and probably never
will but it's been discussed
Adam Curry: so any well that could be for for for you know
five years from now when this thing cranks up again that could
go get that but I don't know I'm just not seeing much movement at
the Moldova thing is is weird. It's weird. Does that mean that
we need we can't send anything anymore? We have no we have no
ammo. We got nothing. I don't I don't know what that what the
plan is. They may be at a stalemate. And that that little
laugh tell you had there that little giggle Oh, my God. Yeah,
that's what they think. It looks like it's ending.
John C Dvorak: That's a giveaway. This is well, that's
what and it's not answering the question either. It's like
saying, you know, do you think that next the the Ukrainians
want to take they want to take back Crimea? And he says, Yeah,
I've heard that's what they think. Kind of. I don't Yeah,
like, I don't think so. That's not they're not getting that's
not part of it. We'll be here forever if that happens.
Adam Curry: Yeah. Goodness. I wish I wish we knew a little bit
more.
John C Dvorak: I wish they stop it.
Adam Curry: What stopped the war? Yeah. Well,
John C Dvorak: they have the wherewithal they have,
supposedly we have diplomats that are professionals. And
meanwhile, of course, we lost, you know, the war between Saudi
Arabia and Iran, which is mostly a Pyrrhic I guess, whatever you
want to call but they had a proxy war going on in Yemen
between the two and it was brokered to peace by the
Chinese.
Adam Curry: This was beautiful. I have a clip pre conciliation
Unknown: between old enemies.
The declaration signed by our kingdom, Iran and China was in
Canada Jose senang
SMent on national television in Saudi Arabia followed the
release of a joint statements with Iran to Middle Eastern
countries brought together around a table in China and
reestablished diplomatic relations in tissue if I were
YouTube.
Testing this thing, we agreed to open a new chapter between the
Islamic Republic of Iran and Saudi Arabia after having no
ties for seven years, while observing the interests of both
countries.
It's a masala shahadi This video released by Iranian state media
shows Iranian and Saudi officials alongside China's most
senior diplomats. Sunni Saudi Arabia cut ties with
predominantly Shia Iran in 2016, after an attack on its embassy
in Tehran, carried out by Iranian protesters after the
Saudi execution of a Shia cleric re establishing ties could have
wide implications across the Middle East, particularly in
Yemen, whether two rival Gulf powers are locked in a proxy
war, as well as in Iraq and in Lebanon, Riyadh, and Tehran will
reopen their embassies and will also restart economic and
security deals signed in 1998 and 2001. The White House
welcome the rapprochement saying is a means for us to deescalate
tensions in the region. Because Beijing meanwhile, praised the
wisdom of the two countries.
Adam Curry: I think this is a baller move by China. Freely
cool. They did this, because now they've got Saudi Arabia, Iran,
Russia, they got a pretty formidable front. Now in the
front, they got a formidable group. And what does that do for
our sales of weapons and training and advisors to Yemen.
Does that end is that over now is there as
John C Dvorak: well, we were selling to Saudi Arabia, and
they were using it in Yemen.
Adam Curry: Yeah. Believe me, we have advisors helping them out
in Yemen.
John C Dvorak: But I'm sure Yeah, I think it puts the kibosh
on it it doesn't change the fact that the Saudis will probably
still keep buying our F 16. Or F 30. Fives I'm not sure what
we're selling,
Adam Curry: China is going to negotiate the peace between
Russia and Ukraine. This is the this is the way
John C Dvorak: that was the that was the thesis that showed up in
the show about a month ago. And the fact that they did this
little side bit, which is like okay, look, here's how it works.
We're going to show you how good we are. And then they negotiate
you want so let me pick two crappy countries that hate each
other. Let me show you how we get these two to get together.
Yeah. And they got him together out of the blue by the way, I
didn't know about this happening know that we weren't given any
any heads up on this by the media, that's for sure. There
was no precursor at all. So boom, this happens. Okay, now we
can deal with the rest of it. We can hook these two guys, we can
get the Ukraine thing. It's an embarrassment. Oh, yeah. We
praise a bullcrap. Dr. People should be ashamed of themselves.
They're
Adam Curry: not they're completely a blip. They don't
they have a board. I don't
John C Dvorak: believe it. Okay, so they can't be How can you be
humiliated like this? Oh, they say, well, that's great.
Adam Curry: Oh, they're humiliated. But they want to
save face. And China is going to let them save face. They're the
kings of saving face. And everything. I talked about the
pivot to China. I'm going to give you two examples right now.
The first one is Avril Haines. She represents the US. I think
the National Intelligence Director,
John C Dvorak: she is the dumbest woman I've ever seen in
the intelligence community.
Adam Curry: Well, she's running it and this report, sadly, cut
it down. 48 seconds has some music under it. But this is from
testimony in Senate
Unknown: in brief, the CCP represents both the leading and
most consequential threat to US national security and leadership
globally, and its intelligence specific ambitions and
capabilities. Make it for us our most serious and consequential
intelligence rival. During the past year, the threat has been
additionally complicated by a deepening collaboration with
Russia, which also remains an area obviously, of intense focus
for the intelligence community. We do see them providing
assistance to Russia in the context of the conflict. And we
see them in a situation in which they'd become increasingly
uncomfortable about the level of assistance and not looking to do
it as publicly as might otherwise occur. And given the
reputational costs associated with it, yeah,
Adam Curry: sure. They don't care about the reputation. So
just bear with me for a second. It behooves everybody for China
to and the Ukraine conflict, because we are already moving
away from Ukraine. You're not on the Oscars, your agent, fire
your agent get a new one is not going to work. We're not going
to let you on the Oscars that happened that that right that I
know it's over in America, if you're shunned from show
business as the end of your career, and he's an actor,
comedian. So we have the intelligence committee. Oh, yes.
Well, actually, this is why they're very, they're very
sophisticated. They got balloons, so we need some money
for our intelligence. Okay, great. So we got the dumb Avro
Levine over there. I have here in front of me a memorandum
John C Dvorak: who is not Avril Levine Rachel Levine.
Adam Curry: No, no. Abra Levine is a singer who Aren't you gonna
John C Dvorak: be Chicago right? Here? Right? Yeah, sorry.
Adam Curry: Who is I believe Rachel Levine's daughter. So
that's very possible. I don't, I don't know. I have in front of
me memorandum for all Department of Defense personnel dated
stamped March 2 2023. From from our Secretary of Defense, you
know him if you wouldn't recognize him because he has a
mask and a shield on. I'd like to read a little bit from this
memorandum. Since day one is Secretary of Defense, I have
been guided by three priorities, defending the nation, taking
care of our people, and succeeding through teamwork.
Wow, what is he running at the Silicon Valley startup idiot.
Over the past two years, we've made tremendous progress in all
three arenas. I'd like to thank each and every one of you for
your commitment and hard work. As we look to the year ahead,
these same three priorities continued to guide all that we
do. So he's prioritize these challenges. I'm going to give
them to you in order of appearance and order of priority
number one,
John C Dvorak: this is the order of priority order of priority.
So number one is the most prior buy the most prior, the most
high priority
Adam Curry: highest priority. Exactly. defend the nation,
prioritize China as the pacing challenge. And increasingly
aggressive China is trying to shape the international rules
based system New World Order to suit its authoritarian
preferences. This is a generational challenge and the
department will rise to meet it. To do so we must embrace
integrated deterrence, which charges us to coordinate our
efforts across all warfighting domains, theatres and the
spectrum of conflict to create new and more complex dilemmas
for adverse adversaries. More money,
John C Dvorak: adversaries. Yeah,
Adam Curry: that's what I meant adversaries. Thank you. We must
continue to break down stovepipes across the department
stovepipes across the environment, improve our
cooperation with the interagency and Congress and work with our
allies and partners to improve operational planning, blah,
blah, blah. So, we are to strengthen our deterrence
posture in the Indo Pacific but developing new concepts and
capabilities Kuching deepening our alliances and partnerships.
Hello Philippines, expanding our activities and operations Hello
right off the coast of China. As the threat from PRC evolves, we
will provide Taiwan self defense capabilities consistent with the
budget we need, I'm sorry, with the Taiwan Relations Act,
alright, to tackle the acute Russian threat. We will not be
drawn into Putin's war of choice, but we remain resolved
to defend every inch of NATO territory. Working closely with
our allies. We've already strengthened NATO's eastern
flank and will continue to strengthen our collective
defence and deterrence. It's over addressed advanced and
persistent threats. The department will also remain
vigilant against dangers including North Korea, Iran and
the global terrorist organizations. innovate and
modernize. Here we go. America's dynamism has always been at the
heart of our strategic advantage to tackle emerging challenges.
We are modernizing every aspect of the joint force from
hypersonic weapons to our joint warfighting concepts comms our
joint warfighting concept and American concept vehicles. From
data analysis to artificial intelligence GPT war version, we
are also accelerating the development of advanced
technologies to deliver new capabilities to the force. This
sounds like a Silicon Valley pitch. And then of course, on
the list, meters meet the climate crisis.
John C Dvorak: Well, this number one, no, no,
Adam Curry: this is number four. I'm giving them to you in
John C Dvorak: order number of four. You've already given me
about 10 of them. No, I gave you one.
Adam Curry: One was China. Two was Russia. Three persistent
threats. Oh, yeah. Fours innovate and Myrt and more than
modernized, and five I'm sorry, is meet the climate crisis. Our
strategy and planning addresses for security implications of our
changing climate. We are developing new platforms to
mitigate logistical risks in contested environments.
John C Dvorak: Whatever happens to the fish there on the streets
of Miami flopping on
Adam Curry: the streets of Miami or is the fish that was honest
this. There they are.
Unknown: flopping people are noticing the largest downpour in
the history of the UK was just a year ago. Last fall and there
have been wave after wave of these downpours, the sea level
predictions and low lying coastal areas not least on the
banks of the Thames. are ones that people are now taking into
account all the terms that are flowing I was in Amsterdam
earlier this week. And believe me, they're looking very
carefully at this my, in making this movie I went to Miami Beach
I saw a fish from the ocean, swimming in the streets. Yeah,
Miami Beach flopping flopping around during the highest of the
high tides. That's happening on a regular basis,
John C Dvorak: regular, regular basis. That was some photos of
the more recent examples. So the
Adam Curry: second part was taking care of our people. I'll
just run through this quickly grow our talent to grow our
talent. Does that mean to remain the strongest fighting force in
the world? We must recruit and retain the best of America.
Yeah, once you Jack us up with vaccines we don't want that
helps. That grows your talent, build resilience and readiness,
whatever, ensure accountable leadership, we write and then
succeeding through teamwork, join forces with our allies and
partners, sell them some crap they don't want strengthen
partnerships across America and build unity within the
department. So there is really nothing about you the Ukraine
war is not the existential threat that it was. There's no
whatever it takes, we're gonna defend NATO. It's all about
China. So China gives us it's a gimme. It's like, it's almost
like hey, this is great. Thanks, China. And now we got Iran to do
what we're very worried about running their work with China.
We've got Taiwan Oh, very well, they're gonna take and you know
what, China will probably just not do anything until 2027 It
just go and we're just going to build
John C Dvorak: up what they might not do anything. The
latest from burns, though had the 2027 predictions now he's
now backing off saying what you just said. You know, they might
not do anything,
Adam Curry: then why would they?
John C Dvorak: Why would they watch us flailing around like
idiots if we
Adam Curry: were smart? We just continued to build up our
financial resilience because ultimately the China's trying to
put together I think a financial group now no bricks is basically
that but a Financial Group and make their money the rich
someone's got to be the reserve currency of green energy. I
guess it's not going to be it's not supposed to be oil or or gas
or anything. So I just see this as a non starter which we're
going to be it's going to be fear mongering on the news every
single day. All across the western world be afraid China
China, China, China, and you know, and maybe there'll be
little things I do here and there. But I just I don't see
it. I think it's it's great. They want more money, they don't
care they just want to blow stuff up and on TV pitch for
more money. We have no one to actually go and fight anymore.
We have we have like 50,000 Ready troops we don't even have
the half a million that we're supposed to have. Which is
really bad.
Unknown: Um over the
Adam Curry: over the past week, we had Queen Ursula came over to
visit Ursula Queen Ursula, the President of the European Union
Commission thing is for commission. So after Schultz
came over and Schultz Of course, like hey, man, you know, we got
to like step out of this Ukraine thing. Let's blame it on the
Ukrainians. So we have an out clean Ursula comes in because
now it's time to go back to the Green Deal. The hydrogen clean
hydrogen. Yeah. So she
John C Dvorak: flies over the same way that in and out, in and
out, no comes out or flies over? I mean, again, because they
don't trust any other form of communication. But okay.
Adam Curry: Well, she did do a she gave a speech, addressed the
media. And if you recall, the big problem with the European
Union and the US is the inflation Reduction Act, where
we say we made this you know, a lot of money was it a trillion
and a half dollars?
Unknown: I think it was the Yeah.
Adam Curry: How's that working out by the way has inflation
tempered any it keeps going up crazy. And the and, and, you
know, all kinds of subsidies are a trillion and a half dollars,
lot of money that we put up for green, green initiatives, except
in there, it's like well, you know, we'll we'll give subsidies
for electric vehicles and hydrogen stuff, but it has to be
60% us made. And somehow that was a fast one that was pulled
because this is what Queen Ursula has been bitching about.
For months now. We've played several clips, and I guess they
struck some sort of deal.
Unknown: We agreed on a transparency dialogue.
Concerning the incentives.
Adam Curry: What's your transparency dialogue? Because I
like a podcast, I think Podcast transparency dialogue. That's
what
Unknown: we need on a transparency dialogue concerning
the incentives that are given given to the clean tech industry
for us is important on both sides of the aisle
Adam Curry: like this. We kind of overlooked this. But it used
to be green tech, you remember that was Kleiner Perkins, who
put together a whole bunch of investments in companies for
green tech. Now, which clean tech and clean tech is, is
hydrogen, as far as I can tell, clean tech
Unknown: industry classes important on both sides of the
Atlantic to know what kind of incentives are being given to
the clean tech industry, to make sure that we joined forces to
boost the clean data industry that is crucial and paramount
for reaching a circular economy. A net zero economy a
few weeks ago, we
had already an agreement concerning electric vehicles
accessing the American market. Today, we agreed that we will
work on critical raw materials that have been processed in the
European Union, and to give them the access to the American
market as if they were sourced in the American market. We will
work on an agreement with that is concerned.
Adam Curry: There you go. So it's for the raw materials that
we're going to dig we're going to dig up parts of Europe, which
I think actually will be Canada. So it's like a it's a pass
through. Because Ursula went to Canada and said, hey, you know,
we need your raw materials. We need your green stuff. Because
you have a lot of gas and then you shipped out to us and then
we'll probably ship it off to America. They're doing some kind
of some kind of deal so that they dig up other countries.
John C Dvorak: Dig up Canada. That's a good Alberta is just
ripe to be dug up.
Adam Curry: Dig up Canada.
John C Dvorak: Yep. Canada meanwhile,
Adam Curry: we have nothing to worry about. Because our
national laboratory in the US has cracked the battery
technology code. We'll be able to go 1000s of miles on one
charge. It'll charge in five minutes. Oh, it's
John C Dvorak: I didn't see this.
Adam Curry: Oh, goodness. It the coming Evie batteries will sweep
away fossil fuel transport with or without net zero. I wish I
wish I had a clip I'll just read the first paragraph, the Argonne
National Laboratory in the US has essentially cracked the
battery technology for electric vehicles, discovering a way to
raise the future driving range of standard EVs to 1000 miles or
more. It promises to do so cheaply without exhausting the
global supply of critical minerals in the process. Why?
It's almost like zero point energy. I have seen these
stories so many times. Oh, how many times have we seen the new
battery technology?
John C Dvorak: Yes, go we have to remember everyone should
remember all battery technology, except for little bitty things
like the membrane and some of the packaging and all the rest
of it. All battery technology was beaten to death in the
1800s.
Adam Curry: Yeah, we had battery cars in the 1800s. And then once
the gasoline powered engine came along, I wouldn't want to screw
that battery piece of crap. We've been through this. It's
the argon argon i f battery. It's a global breakthrough.
John C Dvorak: Well, I'm skeptic I'm
Adam Curry: very skeptical. Because we've heard this
John C Dvorak: nothing new in battery technology. 2005
Adam Curry: I have a report here 2005 New Scientist and
rechargeable battery that can be fully charged in six minutes
last time times as long as today's rechargeables and could
provide burst of electricity up to three times more powerful in
a in a Nevada lab. Pa 2011 a pioneer in battery research who
already successful launch a three and a $50 million company
to supply batteries to like to GE and Chrysler has done it
again. Only this time it represents the complete
reinvention of battery technology as we know it. It
will fully replace fossil fuels, especially oil. So we've seen
this
John C Dvorak: and you could probably get that was 2011 Yeah,
probably go back another 10 years and you'll find some Mills
Adam Curry: This is my setup for your battery for I have no idea
where your clips are but I figured I'd say yep, I
John C Dvorak: have no idea. Okay, this is just a bag. Okay,
I get the battery clips.
Adam Curry: I see batteries for cars. I'm like this. I got to
set them up. This is perfect.
Unknown: Yeah. Play the clip.
John C Dvorak: To play clip. Boy, let's go with batteries.
Unknown: Do I want to go electric or hybrid? The Biden
administration would like you to the administration wants at
least half of new car sales to be electric in 10 years. To make
that happen. Car manufacturers need batteries, lots of them.
But here's the thing, China has a tight grip on the materials
and production needed to make those batteries. According to
the International Energy Agency 75% of the world's lithium ion
batteries 2021, the US made only 7%. This is yet another area
where the US and China are competing on the global stage.
So we thought this would be a good ask how the US can make
progress on electric cars and renewable energy when China
dominates the market. We call almost Hochstein for that he's
the Special Presidential coordinator for global
infrastructure and energy security in that role. He
advises President Biden on energy as a national security
matter. And his portfolio runs across agencies. So we thought
he'd be a good person to talk about this. And he's with us
now. Mr. Hochstein? Welcome. Thank you so much for joining
us.
It's great to be here. Michelle, it's really great to have this
conversation.
Thanks for that. So to start us off, is the US in a race with
China to acquire the materials for these car batteries.
I think we're in a race, not necessarily within China, but
we're in a race to ensure that we have for the United States, a
diversified sourcing of these batteries and solar. So it's not
just about the battery. So if you think about the way you just
presented, Michelle, we have the battery in it has a number of
components, and the car has even more components. And they are in
places like Sub Saharan Africa, from South and Central America,
Southeast Asia, and we have to source those. So one thing
President Biden wants to do is make more of those batteries
here at home. We want to do more money here at home. But we know
we can't mine in the United States for everything that we
need. No, we won't have
Adam Curry: it. Go dig up Canada. Much better. Right?
John C Dvorak: Well, there's some mines since I think the
Carolinas have some lithium mines that Nevada is another
place. Of course, Nevada. This numbers were just I didn't know
this. I didn't know that China made 75% Of all the batteries
and we made 7%. When did that happen?
Adam Curry: I don't know. What happened. By the way, it wasn't
that I read something about lithium, like the stock stocks
for lithium are way down. For some reason I read something.
John C Dvorak: So yeah. Do you know why I don't know why that
is? I looked into it. Okay. But I couldn't figure out it's just
who knows what, what's going on with lithium. But we have two
facilities, the United States, two lithium companies, and
there's a bunch of us you want to have this. Canada has a
couple of lithium plays that run on the on one of those. I think
that I don't even know if it's existing anymore. But they used
to have a stock exchange on the west coast of Canada that was
just did mining stocks. That was called a mining stock exchanges
to be penny stocks. And you can invest in some of these Penny
lithium stocks. I think it might not be a bad idea. But anyway,
Adam Curry: we don't offer financial advice. Disclaimer.
John C Dvorak: That yeah, I agree. Don't Don't listen to us
Adam Curry: ever, ever, ever buy bitcoin? Don't listen to me.
John C Dvorak: Just don't listen to him, especially you know,
okay.
Adam Curry: Protect yourself from a banking collapse. Here
you go.
Unknown: Part two, we don't want China to control the supply for
the whole world, just like we didn't want Russia to control
the supply of energy for its neighbors. So we have to learn
from the mistakes of the Russia war. And now implement that
here. And make sure that when you
Adam Curry: learn from our mistakes from the what is the
Russia war, to Russian warrior? What Russian war? You know, the
one in Ukraine? Yeah. What does it have to do with with lithium?
John C Dvorak: You tell me, man good. So
Unknown: we have to learn from the mistakes of the Russia war.
And now implement that here. And make sure that when you buy that
electric vehicle, or you install that solar panel, that it's not
controlled by one country.
John C Dvorak: You mean China, which controls 100% of the solar
panels. This guy is great,
Unknown: not controlled by one country.
So a factsheet, released by the White House last month said,
quote, The US is increasingly dependent on foreign sources for
many of the processed versions of these minerals. Globally,
China controls most of the market for processing and
refining for cobalt, lithium rare earths and other critical
minerals and quote, as I said, this is from the White House.
Yeah, how did we get to this point where China essentially
has control over this market and the US is playing catch up.
Over the last 10 years, China has invested in acquiring mines
in primarily Africa and southern South America. So they own a lot
of mining. They own a lot of the refining and processing of those
materials. When they come out of the ground. You got to turn them
into battery grade material, and then they want to build the
batteries and we wanted things cheap. So we were willing to buy
whatever was on the market at the lowest cost China then
reduce the costs subsidizing it. We bought the cheap stuff from
them and our own industries went out of business.
Adam Curry: So what happened to Elon giga factory? I thought he
had all the answers.
John C Dvorak: Well for him,
Adam Curry: I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, but China controls
him. I mean, aren't they the biggest?
John C Dvorak: Well, he's got a plant there. And they always
threatened him with one thing or another. Shut up.
Adam Curry: Shut up. Iran Shut up. Shut up. Iran. Oh, we tap
you on half your money. Your Tesla. That was my usual thing,
personally. Yeah, very good. Yes, very good.
Unknown: interested in why this happened,
the why it's not as much as the constituency. But maybe even to
the country, what the Chinese wanted to do was to take away
our industry, we even sued them under the Obama administration,
and accused them of anti dumping, meaning that they were
selling product for less than what they was costing them to
produce. And so because we didn't think ahead of what does
this do the entire industry, they essentially took us out of
business. And we didn't really care because we think about
things in a free market, we always talk about we want this
to be in a free market. And one actor in this free market was
acting exactly the opposite. They were subsidizing and
pouring money into it and using their influence around the world
to take over the supply chain. And once we lost the supply
chain, we lost the industry. So if in 2010, we were the dominant
solar power manufacturer. Today, we barely even exist. But that's
all about to change.
Adam Curry: Oh, it's all about the change as we dig up Canada,
John C Dvorak: but it never goes into how it's about to change.
Well,
Adam Curry: the big change they're pushing for is hydrogen.
And I was the New York Times had a pretty big article about
Australia, that Australia would be the will be the world's
biggest hydrogen producing nation, because they're going to
put probably Chinese solar panels all over the Outback.
Yeah. This is great.
John C Dvorak: As you know, we always forget, we always forget
Michael Moore's documentary that he the last one that was famous
that he did, which is still available, you got to scrounge
it up someplace about the environmental movement.
Adam Curry: Yeah, it was all about nuclear being the best
thing.
John C Dvorak: Well, that's what turned out to be but he kept
showing example, after example of failed experiments for green
energy, including that giant solar panel that was set up down
in the Arizona desert.
Adam Curry: Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. Huge.
John C Dvorak: Just be this would be similar to what was
what's gonna happen with the the Outback is huge. It was a big
giant lash shop that you went to visit it was just as in
shatters, it was in tatters? It was, it was a mess,
Adam Curry: or the Outback certainly is big. You can put,
John C Dvorak: you know, how many panels can you get, who's
going to monitor it, you know, okay, and they're all Chinese
and Chinese are going to, you know, sell a lot of panels. But
I'm always thinking about this, you know, there's, there's some
economic thinking where if you know, somebody's going to pour,
throw money away, and they're gonna sell you a solar panel for
10 bucks, and 10 bucks of it is their subsidy. And you're
actually getting the solar panel, you're paying 10 bucks,
but you're actually getting $20 for the solar panel, right? That
this is a benefit. It's a net gain in wealth to the receiver.
And the Chinese have done this in their entire history. And
they always make a fundamental error at the end, they'd never
cornered the market correctly. This happened with Chinese and
this and the Japanese silk industry. The Japanese were
developed a silk industry and they're making these fine silks.
They had the worms and all the restaurants somehow, I guess,
over just in the bottom of the 14 1300s 1400s. It was long time
ago. And the Chinese smuggled some of the silkworms out
because they didn't know about this and started making silk.
And it took a while but you can make a lot of bugs and so they
started making soap and they started making soap that was
good enough to compete with the Japanese stuff. And they would
lowball them. They would sell it for 1/10 The price was good,
best price and and this continued and continued to to
put the Japanese silk people out of business
Adam Curry: or they come into a shoe. What does that
John C Dvorak: all hell's breaking loose around here
Adam Curry: and what's going on? That's right near that's closer
than normal.
John C Dvorak: I don't know what They are okay. Anyway
Adam Curry: I like to soak story keep going
John C Dvorak: so they put this the show guys in Japan had a
business basically took over the world silk market and that
became you know silk trading was a big deal during the Silk Road
and that was called that for a reason because people were
trading everything they could get to get this Chinese silk
they never jacked up the prices What an idiot knows best price
to get the best price we took over the market why should we
jack up the prices and that's always kind of been their
attitude it's like we got a product is making money Where's
not like us we always think everything in terms of what we
do right corner the market you know do bunker hunt cornering
the silver market. Let's just jack it up.
Unknown: No, man's to DC
Adam Curry: now seems like they're they're at the door,
John.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, go down the aisle let him in.
Adam Curry: Meanwhile, as we're on this green energy kick, which
is just a stupid thing, people just aren't having it. I love
the Brits. You know, the the Ulez the Ultra Low Emission zone
which is only a part of London right now, but they want to make
it a lot of London. Where you know, you you you come into the
Ulez zone and you come in with the wrong vehicle and you get a
bill and so now the Brits are just cutting the wires paying
the lenses black ripping them off sewing them in half. Good.
Yeah, of course. It's good. You need this kind of vandalism.
This is insane what this mayor is doing. Sadiq Sadiq Khan.
They're going to install 20 750 of these things. By August.
People are
John C Dvorak: not having it. pellet guns,
Adam Curry: pellet guns. See, what else do we have? Whoa.
Sorry. I don't have anything else on the climate change. Do I
have anything here? Oh, I do actually. I'm sorry. Yes, I do
have some climate change. This is the Netherlands. You know,
there's a big vote coming up on the 15th I think it's the
provincial elections and feared builders is out who's been under
protection for a while, maybe 15 years or so because there's a
there's a what's it called against them? Not the jihad but
a firefight get him? fatback FatBar thought
John C Dvorak: oh, ah, oh,
Adam Curry: it had been because he was anti immigration. And he
said no, we were not built. We're not immigration country.
We're not built for all of the Turlock
John C Dvorak: like that is not built for a big input of all
kinds of foreigners at all, at all, at all. And so is it make
any sense
Adam Curry: when so this was about shutting down the 3000
farms. The farmers are out protesting again, they went all
the way down to Brussels. And you know, we studied this
closely. This is one of the the Tri Cities projects where they
want the Netherlands as you called it to be a bedroom
community. And so of course, fielder's is out with his, with
a security detail and he answers a question about about the
former eliminations, what do you make of the
Unknown: of the nitrogen emission reducing policies? What
do you think the real story is?
I think it's it's leftish rubbish. The real aim here is to
get rid of our farmers for some leftish nitrogen kind of agenda
to make room for even more immigrants, asylum seekers and
build houses and centers for them. And it's something that is
totally different than the current Elite is telling the
people
Adam Curry: I like leftish I like like that. Instead of
leftists, I like leftish, I like left
Unknown: dish dish.
Adam Curry: It's a nice dish we make here at the restaurant,
it's left dish, it's leftovers. And of course, climate change is
killing us left and right and making our travel very, very,
very unpleasant.
Unknown: In the past week, several airline passengers have
been severely injured or killed when their flights experienced
severe turbulence on March 1, seven people were hospitalized
and the plane cabin was left a mess. When Lufthansa flight
encountered significant turbulence over Tennessee A few
days later, a woman flying on a business jet was killed when the
aircraft was violently shaken and forced to divert to
Connecticut scientists expect turbulence like this to become
more frequent change Yep, they're
Adam Curry: scientists expect to get him you're gonna die in the
sky. We're gonna die in the sky people.
John C Dvorak: I had a I was on a plane once and it first
traveling somewhere and I was sitting next to another a guy
who travelled a lot he was like a salesman he was traveling
probably two thirds of the month. So we get into this it
probably done this get into these horror story exchanges
Adam Curry: while I was on a flight one time. Yeah. So
John C Dvorak: I we got we got into this turbulence discussion
and I said to him, we flew over a the worst turbulence I've ever
experienced, we were coming in over Ontario. And it turns out
that we were told later because it threw the plane everywhere,
everywhere. It's just It was a horrible experience that wings
were about to break off. Somebody said Are they were?
Yeah, so somebody said oh, yeah, that they tested the B one
bombers flies fluid flies around, if you catch the, you
know, if you get into the turbulence of that thing,
atmospheric river atmospheric river, it throws you all over
the place. I'm telling the guy the story says, really? And he
says, you know, first of all, did all the overhead cabins pop
open and throw luggage all over the place and hit in the head?
And I said, No. Then he said, well, then you never been in
turbulence.
Adam Curry: By the way, the solution to turbulence is a
short slow down, believe it or not. And that lady who was she
was on the plane with her husband on the private jet. I
can tell you what, most of the people who are injured from
turbulence don't have their seatbelts on.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that's absolutely true part because
because the plane drops 10 feet and you're sitting there you go
up 10 feet and hit your head on the ceiling. And
Adam Curry: I'll tell you that I am I always have my seatbelt on
always. I mean, I'm pilot pilots are not stupid. And the lady in
the in the private jet she did not ever seatbelt on and she
died from a laceration to the head who knows she probably got
thrown and hit her head on
John C Dvorak: flying all over the last. And most people in
private jets don't use seatbelts.
Adam Curry: I remember Ray lane, Kleiner Perkins. This was when
he took me and Blum and Marta on his Galaxy, which is a huge jet
really not challenged as a good challenger as a global
challenger to fly from San Francisco with I guess it was
what airport to LA for the launch of the Tesla which was
the Roadster at the time which Elon did in or really Sequoia
Capital Elon did it in a in an airplane hangar and first of all
it was it was wall to wall private jets five of them from x
Pay Pal guys just it was everyone came in the private
jet. And this was and this was a new jet that Ray had. And so I
sat up front in the jump seat between the two pilots because
you know it was only it's a short flight from San Francisco
to LA I'm like I'm gonna fly up front. So I didn't need to sit
the back drinking cognac. So as we're landing new plane somehow
the pilot made an error and the nose wheel brake was locked. So
you land on the on the two on the main landing gear and as the
nose wheel came down the minute that hit you know, it was like
of course they unlocked it very quickly. But Ray Lane was in the
back sitting across from Rana Marta and he had literally said,
this thing is so smooth you don't even need your seatbelt.
He went flying forward with his glass of whiskey, everything it
could have been a really really bad situation. Because these
people are arrogant you get rich you get stupid. Really
unbelievable. And so this is the tip. This is a tip we're gonna
give you that is a valid tip. Always wear your seatbelt even
when doing seatbelt sign us off everybody. Keep it on. Keep it
on.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, unless you have to go to the bathroom.
Adam Curry: Yeah, and even then wait until you're absolutely
certain that there's not a little lick of turbulence and be
at least 30,000 feet before you even consider that.
John C Dvorak: Well that's our tip for the day kind of tip bows
kind of arrogant, elitist tip that you'd get if your accounts
are lousy donations in the next segment. And with
Adam Curry: that I'd like to say in the morning to you and thank
you for your courage the man who put the sea and dig up Canada
ladies and gentlemen, please say hello to my friend on the other
end Mr.
John C Dvorak: Kraus in the morning ships at sea boots on
the ground feed near subs in the water and all the damos nights
out.
Adam Curry: We noticed what is happening to trolls and the
troll room who we always say in the morning to the lips. Let's
count them right away. Oh, hello, whoa, whoa, whoa, it's
already down to 1450 foot No. What do we have no.
Unknown: Right I'm gonna I don't think this is accurate now Hold
Adam Curry: on What do I'm not getting a count? What's my count
here? 2333 There you go. 2333 and I'm going to keep refreshing
because people are so stupid. They leave during the donation
segment which by the way, it's going to be short today, but
this is where the best content takes place. 2309 We already
lost 27 Shame on them. Shame on them just by
John C Dvorak: mentioning that
Adam Curry: out it goes 2352 We're down we're debt 2309
Unbelievable. These people should be ashamed of themselves
they do not care about the people who support the program.
Because that's what this is. And you know what the people who
leave they're not they're not supporters?
John C Dvorak: No, they probably aren't and they don't care about
us discussing the art 2287 2287 Why they really Belfast Oh yeah.
Adam Curry: Oh yeah, they bail like little bitches.
John C Dvorak: I'm out of here. Donation segment all they're
gonna do is bake from laying
Adam Curry: the chanting. Yeah, well, that's what we do. Anyway,
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this art was loved by many came to us from Roger round eat
second in a row. He's going for the hat trick. This was the
turtle Mitch upside down with little Chinese crown of course,
signifying Mitch McConnell and we have we have an update on on
the the the minority leader on on Mitch on the journal I don't
think so. We didn't that for this show. We don't. Okay, well,
we hope he's okay. We don't know. By the way, the extra
seems to stop our bitching stopped it and that's really
cool. Thanks. If you're still here, trolls we love you. We'll
be giving away a car to one of you later today. Roger Thank you
so much. What would we let me just take a look and just take a
look at
John C Dvorak: what very funny comment to make about this art
in the no agenda social. Yeah, he says that's what I needed to
know I needed to humiliate someone's appearance, humiliate
and he went on and on about, you know, just everything bad about
the art in terms of being negative imagery. And he says
that's how you win.
Adam Curry: And you could have been a part of that conversation
if you were following along. I don't know agenda social.com Now
there were a number of pieces. Let's see what did we see we had
some Schultz pieces by The way you said that lots of people
know the Hogan's hero Hogan,
John C Dvorak: I go God that's where we got our some of our
early jingles based on Hogan. I got exactly
Adam Curry: to both of them over 40. So,
John C Dvorak: okay, anybody who's under 40 That's familiar
with Hogan's Heroes and Schultz saying I see nothing or anything
like that send an email to adam@curry.com saying I'm in
that mode John's right. I would put $1 on it, but I won't I got
the dollar running on the fire jokes.
Adam Curry: We also have $1 running on something else.
John C Dvorak: I can't remember. That's longterm in
Adam Curry: December, but I don't know what it was for.
Anyway, let's take a look we had. So we have some some shell
stuff. We had the pre show mixed cassette tape. Now that didn't
work. We had doped gold. We had some just weird stuff. That
wasn't anything real. I liked the mastermind. He walked away
with it. He did but I liked the changes here, which was the
Ukraine flag being peeled back to show to reveal the Chinese
flag. I liked that. Well. I liked that one. I didn't like
the cursive letters that were used instead of bold curry
Dvorak and changes here. And you said you didn't even see that
what it was you couldn't even parse it.
John C Dvorak: Right. Which was mentioned they say Yeah, kinda.
But
Adam Curry: no, I liked that one. Round he actually had to be
at two different color backgrounds. And we went with
the obvious beautiful Chinese red.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, he probably I'm guessing that he did the
first one. And then he is thinking about what can I do to
improve it? And because they all artists do that they if they if
they think is not quite 100% there and then so when he put
the red background of the Chinese flag, and then the stars
around his head, yellow may look even more like the Chinese flag
and that was a winner. I don't know if the other one would have
won. Hmm
Adam Curry: Well, the one we looked at was Matthew dropped co
Tucker's big dud we actually consider that for a second
because it was higher good higher up on the list. Yeah,
then then the the round anyone
John C Dvorak: like to drop copies right away?
Adam Curry: Yeah, you did but then once we once we saw once we
saw what I'm saying it just seems like Are you hearing me
okay, because people are saying that the stream is stuttering I
don't know. You sound good. Okay, well then we're fine then
somewhere else. From January 6 stuff I think that's it and then
all the other stuff is new. I do love Taunton Neil, who keeps
trying to get us to talk about I guess she's a she's into
crocheting
John C Dvorak: Yeah, she she must be
Adam Curry: and well what the crochet community believe it or
not, there's a crochet community a quite a
John C Dvorak: bit and there's a knitting community as a crochet
there's an embroidery community have meetings that got a lot of
Americans show sewing machine shops, and you go into a bunch
of women go in there they all get a machine to dick around
with so they learn how to do certain tricks.
Adam Curry: So what what they were trying to do and what has
been very disappointing to the crocheting community see this is
the kind of content that people are missing out on if you want
to have an artificial intelligence create a crocheting
I guess, is it a pattern or whatever the crochet errs go to
template. Yeah. And so they would upload a picture of curry
Dvorak. And, and the crocheting template that came out was not
really cool looking for us couple of balls. Yeah, we look
really stupid. It was no good. It was no good. So I don't think
we're ever going to choose anything. We're probably not
even going to talk about the topic except in the donation
segment where all the good stuff happens to Neil. Interesting,
our stream is dead. I have no idea why my people I'm
connected. I have no no idea what people are having a
problem. Okay, mothers have to deal with it. And you know what,
that's what happens when everyone leaves all of a sudden
in the streams can be their fault, their fault. Thanks,
trolls. Good work. And thank you very much, Roger. roundy. Two in
a row. The way it works here is if you get three in a row, you
get a hat trick. And that comes with all kinds of prizes. Yeah.
John C Dvorak: That in two bucks give you a cup of coffee. This
is
Adam Curry: a value for value program. That's why you don't
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WhatsApp chat files. So I'm looking forward to when they get
to the vaccine efficacy. It's not getting a huge amount of
coverage in the UK for reasons the listeners will understand.
But the information is starting to get out there more and more
even the BBC reported on it and that's saying something you
think there will be more outrage but either people aren't aware
or like my douchebag brother in law, Ronan drone. Ronan, they
simply don't want to know but these are the same people that
were happy to belittle me or lump me in with the Flat
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me bow Jaiden Where is where is that bow? Jaiden Don't eat me.
Is it? Is it we have a bow
John C Dvorak: Don't eat me. Yeah, but I bow Jaiden all I
Adam Curry: have is Hillary This is very weird. Don't eat me bow
Jaiden
John C Dvorak: get bored Jaden.
Adam Curry: Yeah I'm looking at Bo Jaiden oh here we go for some
reason. Oh apostrophe go figure
followed by a good karma we got it for karma.
John C Dvorak: jermichael Clink is up next. clink clink clink.
Oh god. Lombard Illinois, ITM guys, okay, I can take a hint.
All the Hogan's Heroes talk talk last show it's been a while
since my last donation ah ha drummed up a donation if you
could play Fletcher yelling Hogan
Adam Curry: that would that doesn't exist
John C Dvorak: I don't think it does either. We had Fletcher do
all this stuff based on the based on
Adam Curry: Hogan but we never actually but you know what, as I
was because I looked just to make sure Fletcher has done some
outrageous stuff for us if you don't mind. We had that one. And
we had
Unknown: ladies and gentlemen. It is time to Ramallah eyes.
It's a little bit funny. No, it's not
Adam Curry: he has done so much. Oh, I don't know where that came
from. Oh, this is a good one.
Unknown: Ah, happy birthday.
Adam Curry: Anyway, no, we don't have that one. So you just got a
nice night.
John C Dvorak: Hill says one end. Oh, I hope so.
Unknown: I hope so.
John C Dvorak: All right. Well, that was
Adam Curry: it. Oh, yeah. Well, that was easy. way he wanted to
wait a minute, but yeah, but what does that tell you? We miss
Masimo I think we missed Massimo. Yeah, we missed out.
Yeah. Masimo Cattaneo Oh, I miss Masimo okay, you can read that
when he's from Noosa Heads in Queensland, Australia. John,
Adam, please expect this bag of threes. That's 333 dot 33 from
Masimo from kin kin Queensland, Australia, the equivalent of
goats Gulch from my Damond I go karma for everyone, because we
will need it and donate every once in a while. People cheat.
Oh, thank you. You've got karma.
John C Dvorak: I believe that was Chow. When I say she out.
Okay, Ciao. Ciao, ciao to David in Grapevine, Texas. Switcheroo
for Dame Karen. Okay, we can do that up done. New Jersey and big
goat to my best girl, the newly minted Dame Karen who will be
celebrating her birthday on 313 as a dame because a birthday to
you. I'm not she's on the list that we usually put some yellow
in here. I know this isn't exactly. I know. This isn't the
exact ring she keeps asking for. But hopefully it will do for
now. No agenda has been the official podcast of the road
trips. And as we come to realize our exit strategy of life on the
road. We look forward to many more years and at least one more
presidential campaign.
Adam Curry: Season of wishful thinking wishful thinking this
John C Dvorak: coming verb placeholder name will be named
Karen keeper of the travel hounds. And she will have a Pino
Taj from the Stellan bike region, and black in red snapper
and asparagus. Oh, ISAC. I was confused by the React she's
getting a ring but she's getting our ring. She wants a wedding
ring.
Adam Curry: Oh. Now we understand now the monkey comes
out of the sleeve. We got it.
John C Dvorak: Okay, and she says black and red snapper and
asparagus. Happy birthday. Damn, Karen.
Adam Curry: I was going to ask you we had a wine. The other
night we were invited to a dinner. And I enjoyed this very
much. I wanted to mention it to Utah ask you what you thought it
was a Spring Mountain vineyard ellevet 2004
John C Dvorak: Are you for Spring Mountain Vineyards a very
famous place it was this literal set for the soap opera Falcon
Crest.
Adam Curry: Oh, I love Yes, I'd love Falcon Crest. We'd love
Monza of LeMans LeMans Oh, man. What was that guy's name Lorenzo
de mas Lamaze Lorenzo Yeah,
John C Dvorak: they were very popular winery back in his 70s
ca when they first cropped up, and they've always had decent
one. I haven't had a Spring Mountain line probably for 20
years. So I can't tell you much about it.
Adam Curry: Well, because it was a 2004 so literally almost 20
years ago. Yeah, it was great. Was really dynamite.
John C Dvorak: Was it a Cabernet?
Adam Curry: Yes kind
John C Dvorak: of characteristics today? Yeah, I
think a Cabernet artistica mirlo
Adam Curry: No like a Cabernet it's it was bold. I would say
Minton by medium not you know if you have smooth tannic it was
dry a little bit acidic. Tasted notes of blackberry, plum, dark
fruit, oak tobacco chocolate. Enough little leathery, earthy
smoke. Reading from the app,
John C Dvorak: bird Haitian orange and my all time favorite.
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John C Dvorak: you. Yeah, actually that's quite something
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you reading now? I'm trying to figure out what he's saying. He
Adam Curry: says turn the after show mixes from COVID into a
Broadway musical Can you not read? It's
John C Dvorak: just so no, I've got blurry vision this reason
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Adam Curry: kind of guy right? That's not the one I think this
is the one OTG going oh, that's your song Baby right there.
Who's
John C Dvorak: gonna guy? Yeah, and then you did a bit on OTG
TMZ Yeah,
Adam Curry: we don't do that anymore. Because we lost
everybody to tick tock so yeah, now we're just telling people to
not listen at two times speed you know not kill yourself.
Thank you, Brian. Nice idea. Yeah, not gonna happen. We do
have some I received five column five and of show mixes all
beautiful songs. I received a couple like from Sir Brian with
an eye which are meant to be the equivalent of shoving bamboo
sticks under your fingernails John, so I'm going to refrain
from playing that. But it was good. It was good by the old
standards. So get your singing caps on people. Sir Baron John
Helmer from Shawnee Kansas our last donation This is very short
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This is very very poor showing.
John C Dvorak: Yes seven actually.
Adam Curry: The UK right seven were to 1537 in the morning John
Adams sending value for value $200 plus a show donation of
1537. That's interesting way to do that like that. No jingles
but I'd like a shot of sales karma to meet quota for the
second half of our fiscal year. Thank you for your courage sir
Baron John, Helmer Shawnee, Kansas so I will give you some
of that sales karma so we're gonna go real quick here through
the through the $50 donation. John's gonna give it to him when
I get set up for our meetups everything short today and be
very
John C Dvorak: $2 Yeah, they are the meetups a short to learn
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Adam Curry: this guy. We can't nobody can pronounce your
pronunciation guide brother. We
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locusts, North Carolina $8 and $80.08 love that Chris O'Hara in
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Mickelson's record. Okay, so getting into the Guinness Book.
Adam Curry: You know, we could we could probably enter that.
Yeah, it's worth probably worth try it.
John C Dvorak: Worth a shot. Devin Roderick Painesville
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guys. We'd be doing poorly. Yeah. Michael Bundy in
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and unresectable he's
Adam Curry: no John. I don't do that. This John. What? What are
you talking about? I'm father of eight human resources. We had
the snip to be done with Kids The jokes are just part of
accepting consequences of the choices we make. I don't rag on
them. I'm proud of you
John C Dvorak: and well, you've done well. You've done your
part.
Adam Curry: Yeah, you should just I mean, you must be tired
brother. That's all I can think.
John C Dvorak: 30 days probably still tired. Norristown
Pennsylvania 5555 clock boy
Adam Curry: clock boy has a message for us Don't forget to
set your bombs forward one hour. Oh man, remember Obama he had
clock boy come to the White House.
John C Dvorak: Oh yeah clock boy the phony Highland heights and
Kentucky's with this clock boy because of 5510 Yeah, then the
next thing you know he moved to Libya. This is the clock boy
situations what got me kicked off. Initially from the note
from the from twit he'll report show.
Adam Curry: Yeah, because you were saying it was bull crap.
And they were all in on clock boy. Oh, yeah, they
John C Dvorak: bought cluck boy hook line and sinker, which is
what you can expect on most podcasts? Yeah, not this one.
David shrinking me get her. in Woodbridge, Virginia 50. These
are $50 donors. There's not too many of them. Margarita and Eden
hood in Orangeville, California, Carrie Cunningham in Warrenton,
Virginia. Gavin McGoldrick in San Francisco, California
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in Woodland Hills, California, Michael Wendell in Matawan New
Jersey. chasten I borrow in Northridge, California. Stephen
crummy in El Cajon, California. Sure. 33 megahertz in Kelowna
Kelowna I think is Kelowna BC and he's got a funny little note
there and then William dole gay I would last but not least 31
Total donations in Bristol Ville Ohio really poor I don't
understand why fell off like that.
Adam Curry: Well, it's because people are like, man, and no
more good indoor show mixes we're just we're not gonna
donate.
John C Dvorak: Well, they're gonna get a good one today.
Adam Curry: Apologies everybody. What happened is some douchebag
unleashed a DDoS attack on our stream the minute we hit the
donations because it's funny, you know, it's funny to do that.
Why don't we not stream anymore? I'm tired of it. I'm tired of
trolls. I'm tired of the stream being being attacked. We're
under attack John.
Unknown: You love it?
Adam Curry: Was that it? That was it. Right? That was it?
Yeah,
John C Dvorak: that's it. That's our full group of well wishers
and supporters for show 1537 Want to thank each and every
one,
Adam Curry: man. Yeah, make no mistake. We love you. Thank you
for supporting our show. Thank you for supporting your show. It
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Unknown: is this we go out we hit people in the mouth
Adam Curry: Well, we're gonna keep everything short today.
David Buss four wishes his grandson Michael Big Mike Mr.
Happy Birthday you're turning three on the 10th Ah love the
entertainment keeper of the travel hounds wishes Dame care
and a happy birthday. Her birthday is tomorrow and we say
happy birthday to everybody here at the back office and the front
office of the best podcast in the universe. And we have one
Dame to bring up on onto the now she's getting a ring today. Not
the ring she may be wants but it'll be a good start this ring.
Unknown: Yep. You're gonna go. Yes,
Adam Curry: because you're getting you're getting double
teamed by the blades there. Karen. Step on up on the podium
please. Thanks to the man who you would like to be your
husband. He's he's getting a step in the right direction with
this one. He has supported you in the amount of $1,000 or more
therefore we are very proud to pronounce the Kate you today as
Dan Karen, keeper of the travel hounds for you. We've got rent
boys and Chardonnay. I don't think you need the hookers. And
bloke certainly not for for your man now wouldn't want to have
make a mistake there. Also, we've got a Pino Taj from the
Stellenbosch Regan region and black and red snapper and
asparagus along with that in case you want it back to Manila,
we got some bong hits and bourbon we got some ginger ale
and Jerboas to get breast milk and pablum, but you might enjoy
the mutton in Mead and scurry on over to Noah the
nation.com/rings Anyone can go take a look at these. They're
beautiful rings, they're Signet rings so you can seal your
official correspondence with it. We do supply some wax for that
along with your official certificate of authenticity and
thank you again for becoming a dame and thank you to your
future husband for supporting us and supporting you. Here on the
no agenda
John C Dvorak: show no one
Adam Curry: we have no meetup reports. But we do have a promo
so let's play that.
Unknown: We interrupt your regularly scheduled programming
to bring you an urgent announcement from the Pacific
Northwest. The North Idaho sanity brigade will return to
their regularly scheduled Thursday Nate a meet up at the
Selkirk Abbey and Post Falls. And remember folks listening to
podcasts at 1.5 Makes you will marry.
Adam Curry: A marry that's an insult I haven't heard since the
14th
John C Dvorak: I don't know what it is. I don't know what that
insult is
Adam Curry: assisity I guess Yeah, marry guess. Monday we
have a meetup scheduled for you at Springfield Springfield,
Missouri six o'clock and Blair's all American Sports Bar and
Grill that Springfield, Missouri. By the way you can
find all of these or read along if you want to know agenda
meetups.com on Tuesday pretty fly for a Pie Guy I Yes. John
314 Pi day, Tuesday I forgot it again bra who I had I forget it
again. Today's to what Yeah, but we can't do it on Thursday. You
get another failed promotion from your no agenda show.
Thursday at Greenlee pizza company in Greeley, Colorado
March 15 Wednesday, Fort Wayne red pillars club 33. They meet
at 633 heads of Xian nose Italian eatery. It's on DuPont
Road in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Oh the Indiana's man they're great.
Hoosiers. And then on our next show day Thursday, the Tucson
ladies and gentlemen start your livers pre St. Patrick's Day
meet up Do you know what that's going to be about? That's a four
o'clock at canyons crown in Tucson Arizona Dane Beth
organizing for you also on the next show day North Idaho Sandy
brigade. You just heard their promo right there so Kirk Abbey
post Idaho photo Idaho Falls. Also on Thursday, the mealworms
are for chickens not children conference 630 at Lincoln's
Roadhouse, Denver, Colorado, Charlotte's thirsty Third
Thursday coming up at seven o'clock edge tavern, Charlotte,
North Carolina, and then we have what March 17 Gary, Indiana. Are
you kidding me? Gary, Indiana. My goodness. I want a meet up
report from Gary, Indiana. The Indiana is out of control St.
Louis, Missouri on the 17th Oklahoma City on the 18th point
Magoo Mugu, California is at Point Mugu on the 18th Mount
Laurel township New Jersey Blue Island Illinois Chicago on the
18th star Idaho in the 18th sheep shop put up she she's
shocked she shopped Bavaria Germany shout go ahead hit me
with a Hogan Oh God also on the 18th Cincinnati Ohio
independence township I mean we have just it all the way through
March with the all the way through April and we I think we
even have May we have all over the world Toms River April 15 Oh
my God, no stomping grounds. It's no agenda meetups. This is
where you get to be with your community. If you feel you don't
fit in if blush to be honest, most of us don't if you're
listening to the no agenda show you're different than most but
there may be a few around you there may be more than you know
even in Gary Indiana no agenda meetup.com As we can find your
community year near you remember connection is protection
sometimes you want to go hang out with Bom Bom you won't be
triggered you will be safe is like always like a party. I came
ready for bear with my ISOs today What do you have?
John C Dvorak: It's good because I really didn't have much but I
got a couple but but you play yours first and see if I can
topple
Adam Curry: okay. I start off with this one. Now my baby Shut
up. Okay,
Unknown: so much bullshit.
We're drowning in it.
Adam Curry: A little crude, truth and justice. are on our
side. Kind of like that one.
John C Dvorak: This little muted really crazy stuff.
Adam Curry: Amy I like that one. How about this one?
Unknown: It activates your amygdala.
Come on, come
Adam Curry: on. And then
Unknown: the good guys, the bad guys.
Adam Curry: Hey, go I like crazy stuff and I like it activates
your amygdala. Those two are good.
John C Dvorak: I like crazy stuff because it reflects the
show. Okay, really
Adam Curry: crazy stuff. All right. What do you have?
John C Dvorak: Well, I have a door shutting desk. Something is
ISO door shows that we're holding the door. Hold
Adam Curry: on. Let me just I mean if you want a door door, I
got an open door it was door closed door close. I got a door
close for you. That's a
John C Dvorak: door that sounds like a cartoon door.
Adam Curry: And your other ISO. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: this I think is a good ending to the show because
it tells you what the show is all about instructive. really
instructive. Now really crazy stuff.
Adam Curry: Are we really instructive or really crazy
stuff? Okay,
John C Dvorak: I think mine's clear. Yeah, but you're right
now go with crazy. Okay, thank you.
Unknown: Let's see, oh,
Adam Curry: this is interesting. It's been three years. It's been
three years since this crazy period started. These are
Unknown: the sites the nation will never forget the
devastation from COVID-19, leaving its mark on millions of
families. But three years later, this trusted resource tracking
the pandemic for all to see is gone. Johns Hopkins University
posted its final update before discontinuing its COVID Tracker
because of a lack of available data. CBS News CHIEF MEDICAL
CORRESPONDENT Dr. John Le Puth points out even if the spotlight
is
Adam Curry: Jamba poop on doc janela poop
Unknown: because of a lack of available data. CBS News CHIEF
MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT Dr. John Le pook points out that the
spotlight has dimmed COVID is not over.
Oh, there are still hundreds of people dying each day in the
United States. The question is, how do we start getting back to
a more normal daily life.
The virus isn't going away. Neither has the pain of the 1.1
million lives lost to COVID in this country. But the pandemic's
impact on our everyday lives is fading. The Biden administration
plans to end the COVID public health emergency declaration in
may not fast enough for conservatives who opposed
vaccine mandates. We chose freedom over Fauci as the
pandemic changed parts of American life forever. Plus,
there's the toll on public trust,
there has been a devastating collision of public health and
politics. And that's something we're going to have to address
with better communication,
better explanation and better investment in our public health
system.
Adam Curry: Do we actually have a public health system? Is that
a correct characterization?
John C Dvorak: I've that's a good question. I have no idea if
we I don't know. No,
Adam Curry: I mean, the NIH I
John C Dvorak: think there's local there's
Adam Curry: we don't we don't have a public housing so we got
public health control. Yeah, and that's about it.
John C Dvorak: We don't think we have about public health is due
to fluoride report and get that Oh, I
Adam Curry: heard about this. It's like it's been a lawsuit or
something taking place. Well, let's
John C Dvorak: find out. Okay, here we go. Oh,
Adam Curry: man, just say early days of no agenda. I was I was
moaning and groaning about fluoride in the water.
Unknown: And TD reached out to the HHS for comment, but didn't
immediately hear back. During fall of last year. A US District
Court Judge lifted a stay on our protective order that order
shielded the NPT is recent study on the toxicity of fluoride from
release. Most recently in February meeting, the National
Institute for Environmental Health Sciences agreed to
publicize the NPT report. The institute is expected to post
the report on npTL website before March 15. The posted
documents could play a major role in the second trial phase
of the ongoing legal battle. A previous review on fluoride
Adam Curry: I'm sorry, by the way, I for some reason I played
report to first but we'll just finish it
Unknown: conducted by the NPT found that fluoride is presumed
to be a cognitive neurodevelopmental hazard to
humans. However, the report said the conclusions were based on a
higher amount of fluoride that is found in US drinking water.
Advocates of fluoride use argue it could prevent tooth decay.
The next court hearing in the case is scheduled for April 11.
I really
Adam Curry: apologize. This is the first clip that should have
been played prior.
Unknown: A study on the potential dangers of fluoride is
expected to be released soon as part of a lawsuit against
government agency. According to plaintiffs, the Department of
Health and Human Services previously blocked the study's
release
the fluoride Action Network or Fhn filed a lawsuit against the
US Environmental Protection Agency or EPA back in 2017. Fa n
is trying to ban the use of fluoride in public water
supplies in the US. The National Toxicology Program or NPT
conducted a study on fluoride toxicity. However, the NPT
hasn't publicized this study yet. internal emails seem to
indicate that the study wasn't published because the federal
government interfered in its publication. The attorney for
the plaintiffs received internal CDC emails through a Freedom of
Information Act request. The emails were quoted in this court
filing, stating as h Levine has put the report on hold until
further notice, as h Levine is a reference to the United States
Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Levine. The attorney
claims that the emails confirm that the CDC was opposed to the
NPT releasing the report and that leadership at the top
levels of the Department of Health and Human Services
intervened to stop the report from being released.
Wow.
John C Dvorak: bombshell. They're trying to kill us.
Adam Curry: Well, we always knew that. I mean, the way I've
always heard the story is fluoride in your water is a
runoff product from heavy industry. Yeah, aluminum may be
one of them. In order to hoodwink the people into into
putting it into their own water, they say well, you know, it's
good for your teeth, it'll protect your teeth.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, turns out there's no evidence of any of
this. Do you know the
Adam Curry: whose waters heavily fluoridated Austin Texas with
the price which explains why they're so liberal Miss Hardaway
is fluoride in my
John C Dvorak: school Mimi single handedly prevented the
fluoride did Florida Florida desalination of the water supply
up in Port Angeles Area good for her, tracked it down to us one
company nationwide does behind I think they have a contract with
the some contract to get rid of all this debt. It's hard to get
rid of fluoride. So you, but it's not hard to get rid of it
if you can dump it in water supplies and let it just dilute
it way down. And you know, nobody will notice. Of course at
this point when companies Delta Dental.
Adam Curry: Alex Jones has been on this for decades, and I knew
that this was bad when I read legacy of ashes which is about
the CIA includes my uncle Don, and right there it said that
they would often the CIA would put fluoride into the enemy
camps water supply to make them nice and docile. So that they
could go in. Yes, that is in that book, override the overrun
the camp. And when I asked Uncle Don, is this all true? He said,
Yeah, that's pretty much the way I remember it.
He upped the war on
Unknown: chicken continues with a recent bird flu outbreak is
prompting health officials to consider rolling out new
vaccinations for birds. Highly contagious, bird flu continues
to mutate that disease has devastated poultry populations.
And this most recent outbreak, 58 million birds have died an
all time high. The Biden administration has not
officially approved these kinds of vaccinations for birds yet,
but if it gets the green light well, it actually won't be the
first time and many poultry are already vaccinated for diseases
including bronchitis
Adam Curry: I didn't know that we were vaccinating chickens
against bronchitis.
Now, Canada, gotta Blame Canada. This is from Popular Mechanics.
I'm not sure where they reporting on it. A hybrid breed
of super pigs. Super pigs, super pigs. A mix of domestic pig and
wild boar is running wild in Canada and are migrating south.
Highly intelligent and possibly invincible super pigs are
invading America. You know, we have a lot of wild wild hogs in
Texas. And they are they are a real problem. They're super
problem everywhere they show up. Super problem for the regular
ones. But how about the Super
Unknown: pigs?
John C Dvorak: Well, you know, we should kind of maybe get the
kids in high school, teach them about gun safety and go out and
damn pigs, the super pigs,
Adam Curry: the Edom the super pigs have
John C Dvorak: become I will say that by the way. Baby wild boar
tastes unbelievably tasty.
Adam Curry: The Super pigs This is why they're highly
intelligent super pigs have become adept at fending off
recreational hunters sometimes with entire sounders. That's a
term for a group of pigs turning nocturnal. To avoid that that's
turning nocturnal to avoid the hunting. Other times the
Sounders will disperse, making them harder to locate or change
their patterns and retreat to forest or wetlands. The best
strategy at reining in the Super pigs has been employing the
Judas pig concept. Have you ever heard of the Judas pig?
John C Dvorak: Is that where they tag one pig? Yeah,
Adam Curry: exactly. The GPS collar. Judas pig. Wow, well,
that's, that's gonna be interesting. hunting at night.
That's a whole different
Unknown: challenge. Yeah,
Adam Curry: that's gonna be a problem.
John C Dvorak: If they start showing up, like raccoons, and
you got something going on. So I have I found a clip. This is an
interesting clip. It's got nothing to do with anything
we've talked about. It's about the elections. Okay. And I
thought this was a good rundown that we should all know, which
is that this is running, it says running fo fo E. But this is
from from Brooks and Brooks. And she'll and he actually explains
something nicely. Because it keeps cropping up. Why don't
people when they start running for president, they keep running
and running, when they should bail out. But now it's not that
easy to do a listen to this.
Unknown: He said the bigger thing is these Republicans have
to know when to get out. How does that strike you?
Well, he's right. In theory, it's it's a lot harder in
practice. Because if you're running for president, you're
raising a ton of money. And so you build up these war chests.
And suddenly a couple of weeks go by, it doesn't look so good
at you want to look at your donors and say I'm sorry, you
wasted your money, you're not allowed to give him the money
back. So and you have to spend it that election cycle. And so
it's actually hard to withdraw, because you have this pot of
money there. And the instinct is to say, Oh, just stay in, I've
got this money, I might as well see what I got and spend it. And
so since it's structurally hard to get out for this fundraising
reason I've described, a lot of them are going to face the
temptation to stay in longer than they should. And that will
that will split the field. I think it's a real problem for
anybody who does not want Donald Trump to be the nominee.
Adam Curry: I didn't know that.
John C Dvorak: I wasn't unfamiliar with it myself.
Adam Curry: It's interesting, you know, Bobby Kennedy is he's
hinting at Iran. Of course, you can't actually say I'm running
because then there's all kinds of changes with the money, I
guess. Oh,
John C Dvorak: yeah. You get yourself in trouble right now
and only hint and there's certain ways you can hint.
Adam Curry: Well, the hint is out because they're looking for
money. I'm gonna see what was it was this. I had it somewhere.
But it's like, oh, here it is the
Unknown: what is the website?
Adam Curry: Team kennedy.com. Join Robert F. Kennedy joined
Bobby's movement for a free and fair America for all. You know,
the minute we said, Hey, Bobby Kennedy, I might vote for that
guy. People like man, he's tied to Big Pharma tied to DISH TV.
John C Dvorak: Those are the same guys who quit the chat room
during the donations.
Adam Curry: Exactly. Well, then another 1000 got DDoS out of
existence. Stupid trolls. Someone does that on purpose
just to piss me off.
John C Dvorak: We have to sell. They are successful. Yeah, that
worked. Worked. Well, the last clip I've got for the day, okay,
is the least get to know this is the reparations. We have a
situation in California where we're, nobody else is doing it.
We've never were a slave state. We're always in a neutral state.
But that's beside the point. I love
Adam Curry: it. Yeah, you're gonna you're gonna give
reparations we're gonna do a $50,000
John C Dvorak: every black guy in the state who qualifies? And
then again, making them qualifies an issue because well,
some of them don't qualify, but we were working on it. And we're
gonna give everybody everybody by the way all the black
community the entire black community is all for this.
Unknown: The California Task Force studying reparations for
black residents wants to revive a reconstruction error agency as
part of its first in the nation statewide reparations plan
Adam Curry: 50,000 Seems a little insulting
John C Dvorak: Well, that's just one of the suggested amount some
people have suggested half a million
Adam Curry: Yeah. President I saw a 5 million I thought I
thought I thought 5 million initially that could
John C Dvorak: have been in in play. Yeah, the higher it goes
the less likely it's going to happen. That's everyone's got to
have to deal with that. 50,000 to me, is a lot for someone who
didn't do jack shit.
Adam Curry: No, I I've talked with Moe about this often by the
way he has that horrible flu so didn't have a show this week.
He's down and out. And he says the amount is well first of all,
he says you know, how can we can do the was it the inflation
Reduction Act for one and a half trillion? You He wants to T
word. He wants reparations for all black Americans has to equal
up to a trillion but only if there's atonement, it has to be
a trillion. And you have to say you're sorry. And it went it
would be and he bases that on a legal thing, which has some
validity. But this 50,000 Really? And then, and then what
happens then we have the spreads to other states, and every
state's going to do that. And who and this is California
money, or is it all?
John C Dvorak: It's gonna spread to every state? Because nothing
is gonna happen, right?
Adam Curry: And unfortunately, the 50 you here's your $50,000,
it's in Silicon Valley Bank.
Unknown: stock stock,
Adam Curry: it's better Silicon Valley Bank stock. Goodness,
goodness gracious, I do have this one clip something going on
in Canada. We've been tracking this for quite a while beasts a
Bill C 18. And from what I understand, and Bill C 18. The
idea is, it would force companies who publish bits and
links of new stories to for Canadian companies to pay
Canadian news organisations money for the links they put up
and the Yeah, from what I understand the well let's listen
to the clip. And the more we can figure out what's going on
Unknown: Google is flexing his digital muscles on some
Canadians and now Heritage Committee MPs want them to
answer for it. The MPs have summoned top executives to
testify on Monday after the tech giant move to temporarily limit
news access for about 4% of its Canadian users. It's just a
test. In the event that parliament passes Bill C 18, the
online news act, it will compel tech giants to compensate media
companies for republishing and linking to their content on
their platforms. It's something that some experts are opposed to
including my next guest, Michael, guys. Thanks for
joining me. Oh, thanks
for having me.
So Google is throttling access to Canadian news for some of its
users in response to this legislation. If this bill is
passed in its current form, do you think Canadian news will
just disappear from Google entirely?
I think it's a real possibility, if we're honest about and I
mean, all they've done, I'm not sure that throttling is
necessarily the right word. I mean, obviously, they've removed
the links to some Canadian to news sources for about 4% of
their user base. But given how popular they are, that still
affects quite a number of people. But given the costs
associated with this legislation, the government
envisioning that Google could be required alongside Facebook to
pay 35% of the news expenditures for every newsletter outlet in
the country just for linking to their content. I don't think we
should be particularly surprised that a company like Google would
say, Listen, if that's the requirement, if you link you
have to engage in that kind of payment or don't link, they're
going to at least look at the prospect of not linking at all.
Adam Curry: Yeah, so they have to pay 35% of the news
organizations cost.
John C Dvorak: Hey, welcome to 9090 Check the calendar. We went
through this in
Adam Curry: Canada or just in America I remember in
John C Dvorak: America, Canada around the world. The whole
thing about links you can't link to my content. You're stealing
content. You're stealing photos. Oh, deep
Adam Curry: linking is is bad is killing the music industry? Or
whatever? No, that was home taping. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: yeah. So this is the this started with a frame
long last frame, which they used at home.
Adam Curry: From your classic right, we still use frames and
the blink tag here and there was a blink tags gone only on the
dot h i think
John C Dvorak: the cat running back and forth across the screen
is the best Oh no,
Adam Curry: it was a whack the monkey the monkey punch the
monkey and whack the Mole. That's what it was. I remember
John C Dvorak: that these guys are idiots. This is the this is
telling you how stupid the media is at the highest levels.
Adam Curry: Correct. And then because the media benefits it's
not going to benefit the small news organization is going to
benefit the big guys as it always does
John C Dvorak: not going to benefit anybody because you're
gonna get cut off and access what Google's gonna do. No links
to you. And who carries you to do
Adam Curry: who cares about Google? It's like the like well
John C Dvorak: who cares about anybody linking but they're
trying to nail everyone who links so screw does anyone who
doesn't want to be linked below robot tag in there don't link it
should be on there probably in the in the code. Yeah.
Adam Curry: Yeah. Google is going down, man. It's gonna take
a while but you know, people are on Tik Tok. No one cares. No one
cares about Google. No one cares about fate. Have you noticed
that meta is just no longer discussed? I think they shut
that thing down. I think that you're not going to hear about
metta and the metaverse at all.
John C Dvorak: It's well I if I didn't have $1 already hanging
on the your wife
Adam Curry: All right, well, we'll go for the Oscars first
and then we'll see how we how we fare later on. It's about
averages really, for me, just got to average out $1 a year,
which is pretty much what we're doing so far.
John C Dvorak: But on today's show, today's show
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Unknown: Johnson gazing out of his window wondering rowdy show
me excuse says he recovered down the funny jams get them sad is
fat seems those times gone and now it hurts him so much no
agenda has a little Mastodon instance that the no agenda
listeners every day they post as many memes as this really admins
have to crack down and cat listens and may you know drop
off a show mixes like you used to it means that you are
listening to
a user with broadcast obsession is subscribing to this fable the
feed navigates his way to get it setting to increase the rate of
audio when He sets it up to 2.5 times to maximize information is
Elvis fading and he doesn't know why it's causing damage to his
personal relationships
yeah don't
hear me you know
like you used to do
Adam Curry: wasn't gonna bring this up John was really absorbed
today he feels at the end of show mixers are no goods they
suck. It's not anything the way it's supposed to be. He songs
parodies are very hard to do a lot of during lockdown, but you
just hate everything that covered everything you hate all
it's horrible.
John C Dvorak: There's not one mix in the entire collection.
Adam Curry: Of course many controls you can also find,
reach or follow on Norwegian social.com which I also will say
is getting a little rowdy. People are a little unhinged.
I've used in an even bigger note in the social.com or people just
hosting me all day long. Oh my goodness. It costs a lot of
space. People don't care. You guys are very untangle
ungrateful. Stop DMing me I do not respond to DMS on Noah
social.com.
John C Dvorak: I just don't notice them because they don't
have no lag. There's no flag. So I click on an on accident. Boom.
There's a bunch of DNS and all backed up. You
Unknown: know, drones aren't taking and shoumik says like you
use too many means you.
John's complaining This domain Adams trying to give us chain
COVID to more practical way to eat in and Christ to tell me
that he's
still need
to go into toilet yours is to think that haven't you heard
when debo with all that being Christ you know it and he said
it can be a show me
I don't wants to keep your blood because China wants to steal my
cream with my cash. I got the rash and everybody brings it on
me Christ you know it can be show me
John C Dvorak: all of the after show
Adam Curry: okay
Unknown: so we talked about locked down when we said the job
was to stay SATs have come in you can cry skin no weight and
he said he can be
MOPO boruch.org/in a
John C Dvorak: really crazy stuff