gone for a week, but hopefully not forgotten. Once again,
welcome to the programme that comes to you from two different
sides of the globe. It is no agenda here in the curry manor
in the lovely and affluent suburb of Surrey known as
Guilford. I'm Adam curry,
and I'm up here in northern California. I'm John C. Dvorak.
John, it's good to talk to you again, my friend.
Yeah, you were on vacation. Yeah. And
I apologise I, I forgot to tell you that I was going on vacay.
Well, I think I did tell you, but I forgot to tell you that I
wasn't planning on doing a show.
Yeah, you were wasted in the south of France, I understand
was
not wasted. Nothing of the kind. It was fantastic, though. I've
never been on vacation to the south of France. And I have to
say, I think I have my new holiday destination all all
figured out.
Everybody says that, that and Portugal is the other one they
like to go to.
I've been to Portugal a number of times. And I think it does
not compare. I really, really liked the south of France.
And even say France. So
I know it's horrible.
All I went to France, I went to the south of France,
no less.
So but you went you know, a lot of people go, I mean, I would
recommend the south of France to anybody. But I will you went to
the high rent district. I mean, when I go there, it would be I'd
be floating around. I actually probably would even which isn't
technically the south of France, go to Provence. Or then if I was
going to be in the south of France, I think nice is probably
more along my or even Monte Carlo. Yeah, is more. Which
sounds ritzy, but it's not as fancy as where you went, which
is Santro pay.
Well, actually, we we stayed at a friend's house in San Rafael,
which is between Khan and Santro pay. And so it's a small a small
village, but we did day trips who went to? We're going to con
and then we did go to Santa Fe twice with the big power boat
the way you're supposed to do right. You roll up there and now
it's fantastic. You park in front of Nikki Beach. Have you
heard of Nikki Beach?
Yeah, it's one of those places where the Russian mob hangs out
exactly.
The Russian mob and all of their cheap cars is fantastic. And
actually we had dinner at lunch at clubs site called stank which
is pretty famous restaurant on the beach right near right
nearby and relations. And actually, Gordon Ramsay was
there when we were having lunch he was so everyone was on high
alert and looking spiffy and doing their best.
Oh, really? What was he doing there? Did you ask did you go up
to him and say hello, I'm Adam curry. I
think you're surely heard of me.
You must have heard of me? I've heard of you.
No, I did not. He was just having lunch
by himself.
Though he had a couple of friends there. It was. It was it
was like totally overcrowded. I mean, this place is there's a
line outside the what you could call a door I guess. That must
be 50 people who have no reservation and subsequently no
chance whatsoever of actually getting down and and having a
meal.
So I was the food
was very good at what they do is they have these each table gets
like this big.
Now this is let's go back this is sank on sand because that's
the name of the place. Yeah,
so 55 club 55 sank. Very famous restaurant. And when you sit
down and it's an it's a dump, right? It's like a beach hut
with with tarps strung over the top of it. And there's nothing
special at all. Except for the fact that all the beautiful
people are there. And each table gets this huge like, like a like
a side of a tree, you know, with bark and all and it's probably
I'd say about five inches high. And on that you know hollowed
out tree, slice or slab if you will, they put huge amounts of
raw vegetables like
you're not getting the description Correct. Is it like
a stump? Is it round? Or is it long and it's cut down the
middle houses? What's the shape? Like
imagine if you took a tree and you sliced off a piece of the
bark, say about three, you know two or three feet long and two
feet long as a piece of bark, except really a deep slice. So
maybe a couple inches thick so like a canoe. Okay, right. And
then so so you have the bark on one side, which has been
modified a bit so that of course doesn't roll around on the table
and then the top part is all clean. You know flat wood flat
wood Yeah. And then on that they put cauliflower and cucumbers
and tomatoes and radishes and all kinds of stuff. That's
really nice. You just everyone's just kind of dying at that at
the table. I'm
surprised I'm surprised before you go on with a description
that the EU allows it because of the trees you mean. Yeah, I mean
they have this thing about how you can you know what food can
touch and have all these rules coming out of Bell Gentlemen, I
am shocked stunned by this.
I'll tell you that the French as far as I can tell, don't give a
shit about the EU. I mean, they're smoking everywhere.
They're doing everything that is not supposed to be possible in
the European Union.
Okay, that's good. Yeah, no excellent that people shouldn't
be smoking but I'm just saying it's good that they're still
French but also
most of the people I met and and talk to definitely don't work 34
hours a week, you know, there's more like 54 So another force,
but great weather again, it was just a wave.
Just get back to the food you will you get the plank of wood,
it's got some cauliflower on it.
Okay, so when I so then I had artichoke, steamed artichoke.
And which I kind of like you know, we take off the leaves and
the closer you get to the centre to the heart of the artichoke,
the more stuff there is on the leaves. Okay, and I had steak
tar tar, which is basically a big slab of raw meat.
Yeah, always a risk. Oh, it's
good though. Oh, so good. And the only other spectacular thing
worth mentioning on this programme is the 14th of July
which is kind of the French Independence Day known as they
call it a couple different things but it's that steal
Bastille Day we were invited to someone actually Patricia was
invited and so we all went along this apparently quite wealthy
woman who was throwing a party on in her apartment but her
apartment was the building next to the Carlton Hotel rooftop
penthouse with I don't know how big this rooftop penthouse was
just on the you know the rooftops part of it but they
were easily the 70 to 80 people outside comfortably and we had a
an unobstructed view of of the water where all the fireworks
were ignited at. Oh,
that's nice. Yeah,
and there's a picture on korea.com You can see the
situation you actually see
you actually took a picture you brought a camera. Wow. Yes.
Just a cell phone camera. It got a new set that actually when you
call me earlier before we started the show, I got a new
cell phone man. Okay, yeah. And because I you know, you know, I
left on on Friday the day the iPhone was supposed to come out.
And actually, I went to the store at nine in the morning.
I'm like, Okay, I'm gonna go you know, go get one at the local
Guilford shop at the O two store. I'll go pick up an iPhone
that 3g model and I'll have something fun to play with
during the vacation. So I roll up there's 100 people in line in
Guilford. And so you know I fall right and turn around because we
had to leave 11 for the airport's turn around go back
forget about it. You know, but throughout the week, I was kind
of reading things and I've been you know, actually there were a
couple of reviews and Financial Times and just some web reviews
and the more I I was reading it the more I'm like you know, I
don't know if this thing is really going to make me
extremely happy. And you talked about the iPhone Yeah, the
iPhone 3g I've been an iPod Touch user for ever since it
came out basically. And so I we got back last night and I
upgraded my ipod touch to the new 2.0 software. And like the
do I give a shit about you know, and I went through the App
Store. I'm looking at all the stuff and like well you know, it
doesn't it doesn't really integrate with my entire life It
syncs nicely with the Mac and all that and then I'm looking at
reports on the battery life and you know how you can't actually
get you know driving directions with a built in GPS not you know
not with voice commands, I'm sure that's going to come out at
some point but all this stuff that's still to come and and
like I don't know. And I saw I broke down and went into town,
looked at the iPhone 3g again. And then went next door and
bought the new Nokia E 71. Which I'm just tickled to death over.
Why? Well I've had the East 61 eye and basically everything
that I didn't like about it which mainly was processor
speed. It's just you know, rendering web pages and all that
stuff. And also the fact that the ice 60 or the 61 It doesn't
have H was at hdsp A the really high speed wireless access and
also the form factor just the size of it and this e 71. If you
look it up online then it is a it's a beautiful beautiful phone
and is unbelievably fast. And it's me using this thing called
Joy cool spot. Have you heard of that?
No, I'm looking at a picture of it now. Looks pretty cool.
So this this thing called Joy coo spot you instal this little
application which works on Now on the Symbian platform, and it
turns your phone into a Wi Fi hotspot. So I just installed
that in you. So basically now I have the, the
image turns into what do you mean a hotspot also turns it
into a transmitter Yeah, as
well. So the the phone has a has Wi Fi, you know, so you can
browse through high speed mobile data or through your Wi Fi
access point. And what this joy joy cu spot thing does is it
just reverses that process. And it turns your phone into a Wi Fi
access point using its data connection.
So I can show you okay, oh, this is also another Wi Fi can get it
out. Because I'm stunned. In other words, what it does. So
essentially, it turns the phone into a hub. Like if you have
your laptop with you and you can't get a connection. Any way,
shape or form you can call up that you can dial up on the
phone and the Phone becomes a Wi Fi hub as it were in the
computer can talk to the phone which talks to the network and
then you can get your email but yeah,
exactly. So it just, it just routes. Well email me you can
get stuff at high speed. In fact, I think the speed that I'm
getting through the phone through that Jaiku thing may
actually be faster than my broadband router really? Well,
you know, I got it. You know, we have shitty provisioning out
here. 50 to one or whatever. So, everyone, everyone's sucking on
the pipe and all you know, it's like when we have really shitty
shows. That's That's my access at home. Yeah, this thing. I've
seen
700 smaller than the 61 Buy a lot.
Yes, it's it's almost the exact same size as the iPod Touch,
which is smaller than the iPhone. And it's great. It's got
GPS built in with turn by turn instructions. It's got
Nokia, Nokia, Nokia. Yeah, it's, it's got turned by really?
Yeah.
Looks like it's about 500 bucks.
Yeah, there's a little more expensive here. It was like 300
pounds. So about 600 bucks. And of course, that's an unlocked
version. So I can put any sim card in that I want. I'm not
locked into a carrier.
And there's one on sale for 483 95
Damn, I should have waited.
Well, that sounds like a winner.
It's well you'll see in a couple of weeks when I'm over it is and
it takes it takes good pictures. It Yeah, it has a 3.2 megapixel
camera, which is the the e 61. Had a two megapixel and so also
the iPhone 3g only has a two megapixel camera. So it has a
reasonable camera with with a flash. It also has
it has a flash with the dead can't do anything with the flash
go for a foot.
I don't know I haven't tried it yet. I got home when I called
you. But it has a camera on the front. A VGA camera for video
calls
on the front. So you can do phone sex. Yeah,
another thing the the iPhone doesn't have and it just the
more I was looking at it
I thought it was supposed to get that everyone kept talking about
I think they bailed out on
everything that I really missed in the iPhone, this thing
hasn't. So combined with that with that hotspot software, I
think I've got a real winning combination and smaller in size.
And it has a keyboard, which I think is a big deal. And the
keyboard. I'm loving this keyboard. And you're right, it
is a big deal. It really is.
You know, I knew I've kind of gotten into I don't do it as
much as I could. But I have to admit that you know, doing just
SMS messaging, even though it's you know, sometimes messages get
lost, I think is as you know, I think the kids got it right. I
think it's a good thing.
Yep. And so now I have to wean everybody off of my old phone
number onto the new phone number because I finally broke down and
got got a UK number to use.
Now it tells what it is
trying to get one that's not being tapped.
No, well, that's not going to happen. I mean, you probably got
about a week before the actuation. As soon as the M i
six or five or whichever group it is listening to who listens
to the show. I figure they listen to the show, once a week,
at about a week after the show's been out, and then they'll know
you have the new phone and then they'll lock you into their
system shortly.
Oh, it's no big deal over here. All you do is even the council
the Guilford Council can request a phone tap. Yeah. And they do
it by the 1000s I think it was 30,000 last year.
I'm sure the Guildford Council has got you on their list. Yeah,
well, I your troublemaker, your
England frickin troublemaker. But, man, it was good. It was
good to good to have vacation good to get away and I'm raring
raring to go. And I did nothing but read paper, very, very
little internet access. So I literally would be reading The
Financial Times back to back Every single day,
I think I'm gonna get a subscription to to this is a
change of my approach to things. I think I'm going to which is
noteworthy, I think I'm going to get a jingle. When we do. So I
think I'm going to get a subscription to the hard copy of
The New York Times, really. And here's the reason why here's my
thinking is because I was at the travelling recently and I, you
know, picked up a copy. Well, usually when I go to the
airport, I scrounge around and try it, I think people should
recycle more, I don't think they should be picking up those
papers, I think people should be one of the reasons people don't
buy newspapers anymore is because they feel guilty about
all the trees that are being wasted. Seriously, and it's one
of the, one of the you know, you sounds like a joke, but in fact,
they've studied this, and people do feel bad about it.
So what so like, 40% 50%
lots Dibley 40, something like 40, or more, you know, as a huge
number of people who don't like the idea, and it's also a pain
in the ass to have a big stack of papers, you got to take into
the recycling bin. But anyway, the so I get to thing, I
realised that the efficiency, which is what we have to
consider here, rather than all the internet, you know, you
always find out stuff and I was watching the news, the other
data is noisy. And so and so blah, blah, blah, some guy
killed somebody, we'll get back to it after this break, you
don't know who it is. And then you don't even get to it until
the end of this show. I don't need this aggravation. So that's
when the internet comes in handy. You go up and you can
look things up. But forgetting just a hit of the news on a day
to day basis, the efficiency of a big newspaper, where you just
open it up, and you can really see what you know what, at least
some people think is important. And you can also pick up on the
kind of what's good about the New York Times isn't so much
news. But it's coverage of trends and trendsetters and
things that are going on in the city that, you know, like, you
know something about sunglasses or something about what people
are when women are wearing shorter shorts, basically
trends, major basic cultural trends, it's more efficient to
get that from from a paper because you get the paper you
can spend 20 minutes whether you'd be on the net all day. And
I think at the beginning to think that in terms of getting
news. Although I think you know, a hit on one of the newspapers
online, probably gets you some news. But I think overall, it's
an inefficient way to gather the daily news and trends and things
that are going on if you if you need to talk about these sorts
of things.
It's interesting you say that, because, you know, I was
basically as I said, offline, and I'd just go down to the
harbour and I'd buy a Financial Times. And I really enjoyed that
format of getting my news exactly what you're saying
there, you know, and Utah, in fact that take the first section
and take it down to the pool. And I could fold it, I could
fold it in another quarter, you know, just kind of hold it in
like a book format and read read one article. And you're right.
It's the importance, that whole layout, showing you what the
editors or whoever's responsible for the, for the front page. And
for each section, you really get a much better global overview
that you is impossible to get online, or at least I it hasn't
worked for me yet that way.
No, I think people get more from this show, which they listen to,
and it's very slow. And then this show is we don't really
have a lot of bandwidth in terms of when you're talking you
because I did this with one of my speeches recently, I had it
transcribed. I gave a one and a half hour speech on the state of
the art in the newspaper industry, whites, you know,
having problems, although now I'm in denial about it. And so I
had it transcribed by a transcription service, and a
whole hour and a half speech was 7500 words. Right? And I have a
fairly fast talker. I'm not I mean, I mumble a little bit and
sometimes I stammer, but the fact of the matter is, that's
about what it is. And so to our show, we have to assume that
it's probably running around 7500 words, which is really
three feature stories, 2500 word stories in a newspaper, which
you can really plough through in about 10 minutes. So what I'm
saying is that the newspaper, the old fashioned newspaper, I'm
saying for one thing, yeah, this shows inefficient, but the
newspaper is extremely efficient and efficient way to get a lot
of information fast. And I think that can't be denied. And the
internet is not as, as as efficient at getting you this
much information. This quickly.
Will also you still in most cases, you have to act as kind
of like the editor, you have to figure out what's important, you
know, because yeah, there might be something on the homepage.
But it's typically not the same. That's being highlighted in the
in the paper and then all the other sections like you know,
then it's almost like a weblog version, you know, reverse
chronological order and not not another layout. You know I love
looking at financial times has that sidebar, like oh, here's
all the stories within this section of the paper. Oh, I
might skip ahead to something Yeah. It's good, I like it,
I have, probably, I should probably put the Financial Times
on the list and subscribe to that, too. Now, now thinking
about that, and then the fact that I've been giving these
talks about the newspaper business being in decline, and
it is, I realised that one of the problems they have is there,
you know, because they're so arrogant, the newspaper people
don't, you know, they're just so full of themselves, generally
speaking, because they, you know, they know they're doing a
good job, they don't want to listen to anybody from the
outside telling them what to do. But the one thing is that
they're not doing very well is marketing in their product
anymore, they've never bothered to market it. I mean, they talk
about, you know, their idea of marketing is almost like the
Chinese method of marketing, you know, the Chinese, you know, if
you always boil down any Chinese philosophy of marketing, it
always comes down to one thing, best price. They don't have,
they don't care about advertising, they don't care
about, you know, messages, they don't care about anything, just
best price, they'll do the trick. So which you know, is is
a detriment to them, and everyone else in the newspaper,
people must be the same way, because their whole idea of
marketing is giving you a deal, you know, well, we'll give you a
month for free, the
free CD inside.
So the point is, is that if they would market the newspapers the
way I'm doing now for them, which is to say, look, this is a
very efficient, well, you guys don't have a lot of time on your
hands. You mean, how much time do you have to kill dicking
around online surfing the net? If you want an efficient hit of
news and trends and information, nothing beats the newspaper.
It's extremely efficient here. This is why you should
subscribe. I've never heard that message.
No, you're right. And how about newsstand placement? I don't
know if they have to fight for that. Or if they still do or if
they care. But where you're where your stuff is in the stand
and what's on that front page. I mean, that's that's a big part
of marketing there too.
Ya know, the front pay well and in Europe, and I think we've
talked about this on the show before. Adapt, because
everything you know, people want you know, you go to a new
standard people travel they hit, go to Heathrow, or any place
where there's a big Newsstand. You look at these screaming one,
you want to buy a lot of magazines, because they they
have you know, these fantastic layouts, and they scream at you.
You're right, they did demand that you pay attention. We don't
do so much of that in the States, even though I mean
magazines, like cosmopolitan, kind of do that. But generally
speaking, the difference is and people have to realise this is
that in the US most of the magazines and newspapers account
for the most of their income from subscriptions. and in
Europe. is all done on the newsstands.
Yeah, well in New York used to I don't know if it's still that
way. Yeah, I guess it is. You had those newsstands where you
buy your dirty magazines, your cigarettes, your chewing gum,
and
yeah, but if you look at the really hot magazines, that those
newsstands you're talking about, and they're all over New York,
the hot magazines, the ones I always get gravitate to are the
ones that are brought over from Europe.
Yeah, yeah, true.
Like the spy and some like weird Wine Magazine, or some screwball
magazine that's coming out of England or somewhere. Yeah.
Anyway, so that's the deal. So they meanwhile the newspaper of
course, no one newspaper person is listening to this show either
because they're sitting around amongst themselves, which is
what they do and you know, wondering what's going on but I
guess I guess it's just too expensive of format to maintain
their their business model. I mean, that it seems like no
one's really doing any great business. No one's you know,
raking it in while maybe Murdoch is who now of course, also owns
the Wall Street Journal. That'll be interesting to see how that
Yeah,
yeah, I was. When I went to Manhattan a few weeks back, the
we had the editor because I went with MarketWatch, we had an
editorial meeting amongst the colonists. And one of the we
have some characters for colonists that to say, but
anyway, the they brought in the editor in chief because Murdoch
also owns MarketWatch. Now Oh, really? I didn't know that.
Yeah, well, Dow Jones, but market watch. And so he owns
everything. And so they
call yet where they say Hey, John, that we want you to stay
away from those topics. We'd like you to focus a little bit
more on this kind of news.
No, my understanding is what they they just wait for you to
make mistakes and fire. Yeah. Okay. Much easier to tell you
what to do. So now that I don't think there's a lot of that kind
of direction but the they did bring in a guy who's the hatchet
man, I guess one of Murdoch's right hand man, men, that guy
was now running the Wall Street Journal in to talk to us. And
there it is that it's starting. Yeah, but I couldn't figure out
what he was talking about. That's the only thing.
I mean, well, I've really been paying a lot of attention.
Obviously reading, reading the news. I've been paying a lot of
attention to what people are saying and in the words that
they're using all these you know, I guess you'd call them
code. code. And uh, yeah, and a big word these days is shock boy
that's being used a lot. The oil shock, the credit crisis shock.
Everything's a shock. And on the heels of that I read The Shock
Doctrine by Naomi Klein, which kind of clarified a couple
things for me about the uses of the word. But just interesting
to note,
that have been noted, noted it here, maybe I'm not paying
attention. Show. So what did Naomi Klein say about Shock
Doctrine?
Well, this comes. So the word shock comes from the Chicago
school of economics, which was founded by a guy named Friedman,
I'm sure you've heard of him.
Now, you're not talking about Milton Friedman? Yeah, I
think it's Milton Friedman. Well, I mean, he came
that school that that, that he was way after that thing began,
I mean, there's earlier
name, he didn't even found the school, but he started the
current. Okay. Yeah, the current thought of how economics should
work.
And he's the guy from this generation.
Right. And so, you know, we you see who, who has studied at the
Chicago School of Economics and who, who, what alumni have
advised, which world leaders, you know, some of them actually,
you know, sleeping with, with, with, with literature, going to
bed reading it getting up and reading more. And, and a lot of
it is based on the shock theory. And one example that was, that
was in there was Katrina. So Katrina hit. And the first thing
that they were the first group to take advantage of, of the
shock of what took place, were people who went in and changed
the entire school system did away with public schooling and
came up with vouchers for charter schools for these
commercial entities. And, you know, like the tsunami in
December 2006, was it 2006? Yeah. Or to get 2006 You know,
that the people came in and took advantage of the shock by
immediately turning that whole coastline into hotels, and, you
know, all the fishermen could go, you know, basically leave,
or were not invited to come back. And, you know, things are
changed drastically when there's a big shock, and it happens
very, very quickly. And, and you
think that's what you know, that's an interesting, I should
read that, I guess. But why bother
is not nothing. Yeah, you'd enjoy it.
But it's interesting in light of the New Orleans thing, because
there is a you know, every time people go there, I have to go
there, I'm gonna have to get over down there somehow. And
because everybody goes there, Jesus, just like worse than what
nothing's changed just a mess. They've apparently left it, you
know, most of the area, the Ninth Ward, and all those areas
that were decimated, just a mess, that stinks. And it just
seems to me as though almost the whole thing is a scheme to just
take New Orleans and get rid of all those poor black people. And
everything that was that was kind of sleazy about New
Orleans, and and turn it into kind of a, you know, a yuppie
bill.
Yeah. So essentially all that won't be the theory would say,
Yeah, and when you read it, yeah, there's points about that
in the book as well. All that public housing and you know, the
problem was basically solved. Okay, it's all done now. So
that's taken care of here but no, no thought about Okay, where
did the hundreds of 1000s of homeless people go or where do
they migrate to? Exactly But yeah, and you know, so So this I
read Shock Doctrine. And then I keep seeing this word shock and
it's always in associate well these days it's it's associated
with oil you know, the oil shock which by the way, what is going
on oil went from $146 a barrel it's down now 228
Yeah, I think I think I think it peaked I think you're wrong. No
no, I think this is the pullback they're about to flip the levers
big time.
There the The jig is up? No,
I don't think so. And by the way, how can you say that these
prices are not based upon speculators when it clearly is
the the options expired on every month? I
never said it wasn't based on speculators? No, I'm just
saying, Oh, I'm sorry. I've also been reading everywhere that all
these studies have been done everyone's saying don't blame
the speculators it's
not you know, that's a crock of crap. I can't believe that.
Yeah, they're saying
over and over again. And you know, they're doing all these
studies and oh, no, we checked it all out. It's not the stock
exchange there's not the speculators No, it's your market
forces are into this. So these options you buy you know, stuff
like oil, you buy options on and they expire on what is it the
the Thursday of every month or the third Tuesday or something
like that? Some like that. So you know, on Tuesday, the
options all expire the the price drops five bucks, and it starts
to go down. Then of course we have you know, What is about to
be the most interesting moment in, in financial history, as
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are, are going to be subsidised by
you, and I essentially taxpayers a scam, that big time, and
that's gonna cause more inflation, right? I mean, you
you print up money you give it to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
and there's more money in circulation and it devalues the
dollar and causes inflation, I think, what are we gonna do?
Just keep watching. Yeah, I don't know, I don't know what
we're gonna do. But it's been interesting, you know, looking
across those three lines of US News, UK NEWS, and and to some
extent, even Dutch news. And, and I saw something that
happened. Someone sent me a note two days ago, that double
jeopardy is now being eliminated systematically in the European
member states. So it's about to leave in. Oh, that's
interesting. Yeah. Alright, so it's about to be taken away in
Ireland, the Netherlands. And I presume as the New World Order
continues, eventually they'll try and do that in the States.
But yeah, it's happy
that you mentioned it, because you know, one of the things that
they've always done, you know, a lot of this has always
been, you know, maybe we should explain double jeopardy real
quick. So not really understand that you do it, because you'll
do a better job.
Essentially, what it says is that if you're a indicted for a
crime, let's say murder, and you are found not guilty, you cannot
be retried, even if they find all kinds of evidence of
including a movie of you killing the person. Because that's
double jeopardy, you can't Yeah, because then the reason for the
laws is it makes some sense. And if you think about it, the way
if double jeopardy doesn't exist, and they are like say
they're after Adam curry. They want to get him in, they want to
imprison him somehow. So those trump up some charge, and then
they find him not guilty. And so they just just charge him again,
and then again, and then again, and then again. And so the guys
never had a court, because you can just keep doing it over and
over and over again until you just how until the guy's
basically dies of old age. And so so that so there's a good
reason for these laws. But the public has been, you know, over
time, you know, there's a brainwashing thing afoot where
you have, you know, movies and stories where you have the evil
guy who somehow manages to scheme the system.
OJ Simpson, that's an example for you. Yeah, OJ Simpson is
a good example. And so you know, and now you find out that he did
it or whatever.
Or he writes a book and says he, if he was going to do it, this
is how we do it.
Yeah, that kind of whatever, you know, there's a but he's
probably one of the many examples so
in this in this change of law, they're specifically saying that
because of new developments in DNA, which is this, this really
scares me, but you know, they should they now want to say, you
know, what, if we find DNA evidence, 20 years later, we
want to be able to go back and prosecute that person, which of
course is really really frightening because, you know,
why do you check all this DNA stuff? You know, I'm willing to
blow
I mean, I'm game for the DNA to get people off. I mean, which is
what they've been doing in this country is which essentially is
they find these guys who have been imprisoned especially in
places like Texas where they just you know, they the guy is
Black Death Row. And so they've gotten a lot of people off and
with DNA but to go back in time if the guy's already been on
trial. The DNA is one more just one more straw, you know, that
she This is where you get into the situation where every time a
new technology comes in, I mean, you might as well just say,
Well, every time they improve DNA testing let's go back after
the same guys over and over again.
John, that's exactly what they're saying. Yeah,
no, it's that's a part of a that's just another step toward
fascism. I mean, let's face it.
Absolutely. What does it call them Latin the beasts Edom I
think is what it is or not. No. Yeah. I don't know what it's
called. But it's totally another step towards fascism. And I'm
convinced you know, now looking at this because the talk still
continues about the the Lisbon Treaty, the European Union's
constitution, which really wasn't a constitution, but it
was and because it wasn't called constitution got rammed through
is now through and 21 of the 27 member states with Ireland,
still the only ones who had a referendum saying No, and it's
like these guys just, it's like they're ignoring it. Oh, well,
you know, Sarkozy is I think he's in three, he's the
president now the European Union. He's in Ireland this
weekend, or this coming week. And, you know, he's like, Well,
I'll talk to my boy over there. And I think we'll have to hold
another vote. Yeah, that's pretty clear. We need another
vote because the first vote button to have the outcome
desired.
Yeah, just keep doing it over and over and over until you get
them to vote, vote something in, which is an old trick.
Let me guess, the fastest trick You know,
the funny thing is you begin to have to come up with the new
word besides fascist. And the reason for that is because, you
know, it's you know, it's marginalised as a term if Ah,
yeah, you're calling everything a fascist You're an idiot, you
know you've been attacked is is not fascism in the sense of the
of the fascist party, or the actual political movement that
took place in the 19 I guess it was in the late 20s with people
like I think Mussolini was like one of the progenitors maybe one
of the main guys that began the process at this is something
else and we have to but there's no name for it and you know, you
can say well, it's you know, we throw out the term fascism, but
it's not really fascism because Fascism is like you know, was a
was a party in fact, it was a it was a political and a
sociological concept. That's this is a little different in
some funny ways. Got it. What was said, but it's never been,
no term has been dropped on it. We need to get nasty new word
that you can keep calling this situation, and we don't have
one. I think it's important that we develop one.
Well, I'm looking now at the thesaurus. Let me see if I can
find anything. Hmm. autocracy dictatorship Nazism totalitarian
totalitarianism that's fascism just sounds so good, doesn't it?
Yeah, it's a nice word. But I you know, the thing is, I think
we've got to come up with something else because it just
sounds you sound like the problem with using fascism. In
fact, I ran into a crackpot friend of mine the other day who
used the term and the first thing you think of is when
somebody is fascist you think of Hitler guy's a crackpot? And
that's the problem with the term No, could you and I saying it
you know people listening is that there's two crackpots are
hilarious we should listen to every week. But
what's happening I think particularly in Europe you know
pretty much mirrors the definition of fascism
Yeah, no, it does but we needed it problem is is the term itself
you know, people who see flying saucers you know, even if they
see one you know, they're not going to be believed for
the activity is heating up in the UK over flying saucers.
Flying saucers are hot right now. In fact, a Larry King, I
have been flipping through, you know, the channels. This is
nothing you have Shirley MacLaine on again? No, no, he's
got these fees. It he's done at least three Shows that I know of
where he has these flying saucer experts
and their ex military in the Shirley MacLaine was on with a
couple of them, I think, must have been maybe half a year ago,
I happened to catch it. And she's one way to Yeah, well, you
know, but you know, surely McCain comes across this kind of
kooky kind of, yeah, but I think she's intelligent. You know, and
as Dennis Kucinich can't see there you go. You're vague and
yeah, you're calling people crackpots for having said they
saw you oppose there was a UK police helicopter that chased
one. They say We chased a UFO and this is only a couple of
weeks ago, and then went out to sea. And then you know, they
continued to with their pursuit, and they had to give up because
they ran out of fuel essentially, they had to go back
but they said was a UFO I don't care what you say it was a UFO
guy and last night show they had a bunch of these guys, including
a guy from Wade king does it is he has to have the UFO, you
know, really the guys that are credible, but they're a little
out there. And then you have a couple of guys who are sceptics,
and the one guy who made this, you know, very good comments,
his looks look, were white, you know, with all these cameras out
there, how come nobody's ever gotten a good picture?
Because they're all using iPhones with two megapixel
cameras.
I'm just saying, you know, where's the good picture? And
you know, like a good picture. There's not they're always just
blurry things done with a you know, a little.on a screen and
look, look, there it is. And it's like a little white thing
flying around. I mean, it could be some kid with a model
aeroplane. No,
go to YouTube or better yet, Google video and look for
something called the Disclosure Project, which was it's a video
from 2000 and the Disclosure Project was this entire panel
have must have been 20 Guys, all ex military, ex pilots, ex NSA,
ex CIA, you know, retired most of them. And several of them who
did air traffic control radar and say look, you know, we're
tracking an object at 80,000 feet, which is pretty high and
that we could just see it stop. We could see it hover we could
see it make a 90 degree left hand turn says there's no doubt
about it. That was nothing earthly that was that was making
those moves and the point of the Disclosure Project is that all
go up there they state their case, you know, they've got all
all have their own stories have their own proof. And then each
of them ends by saying, um, you know, my name is Lieutenant
General so and so retired, and I'm willing to testify about
these facts before Congress, you know, that was kind of the what
the gist closure project.
The other comment that somebody made is you know why these
aliens have all this taken there wasn't one of them just, you
know, stop in the you know, take a stop and one of the teleports
and get out and
well you know what? Okay you know the theories I mean there's
many theories why the prevalent one being that this did happen
this is part of what Roswell was all about and there was contact
and the governments of the world who shot him shot the fucker
down. The governments of the world have been in contact and
they have you know, they gave us technology we give them babies
to eat and blood to drink chemical. My you've read these
theories with strawberry
ice cream is one of the things they like. So I haven't come
across that one yet. Oh, yeah, that's in there, believe me. And
well, anyway, so the thing is, is a trend right now, because in
that, you know, the UK has released their UFO files, the
French did it back in, I think they were the first to do it
back in March. And then I think the UK did it since then. And
then due to French didn't get much publicity for theirs. But
everybody is doing it. Now. It's up to us. And now they're so now
hounded. And I think there's a big thing going on. And I think
a lot of it when it really boils down. It's for the next X Files
movie, the whole thing is a big, it's a big scam. I'm telling
you, anything. I I believe that when you start seeing this stuff
happening all at once like this out of the blue, and then a
movies coming out. I'm looking at who's the PR person I like to
meet this person, you know, and shake their hands because you're
worried we're witnessing one of the greatest stunts in the
history of marketing. Yeah,
wouldn't it wouldn't surprise me It may if you look at how short
the lines are between White House and some of the companies
that own that own scripts and movie companies to produce? Why
not?
Yeah. You know, you've dug in Viacom, you know, they own most
of the content. I think Viacom if I'm not mistaken. I think
they own CNN. I'm not sure.
Man, that's also that's really bugging me that whole Viacom
YouTube thing. But I think they backed off. Well, they, they
backed off why they they're still getting the so here's the
thing that I love, this is what I get the IPS, no, no, no, then
but that's only for external. They, they would do want all of
the usernames or IDS or IPS addresses of the people within
YouTube. Meaning that if they or even Google, I guess so if they
were to get Eric Schmidt details of what he was looking at. And
he was looking at Jon Stewart, or any other person within
YouTube, if they you know, if they were essentially aware that
there was illegal content on there as proven by the logs,
then they're in deep shit. Because you know, that you can't
do you can't be sifting around for stuff and then not taking it
down. You know, the that's not exactly how the
No, that's interesting. You know, I didn't know this. But
yes, the way discovery should work. Yeah. Yeah, no, I think
that's actually valid, but I think is very valid. That would
be interesting to to do.
Well, I think that's, I think it's explicit or implicit that
that's what they're gonna do.
Yeah, no, I, you know, thinking about it. I do the same thing.
Yeah.
So then, of course, it doesn't fall into the safe harbour of
the DMCA.
Right now. They're lame excuse. Well, we didn't know this is out
the window. Now, but I'm pretty good at this sift through a lot
of IPs.
But internally is not all that bad. They'll get they'll get
enough hits. They'll get enough hits to prove it. No problem.
And it'll be easy, I'm sure. Yeah.
You know, yeah, I think you're dead. Right. And I think that
they will prove it because it's lacs. I mean, it did operation
the YouTube whole YouTube thing from the beginning was is lacks
that and
Google video. I mean, there's not a single thing that you can
think of that you're looking for any documentary, anything has
been on the BBC of interest, you'll be able to find it in its
in its entirety. Right there uploaded, converted, ready for
for searching and an enjoyment.
Yeah, no, I've watched a lot of stuff from there.
So what does what does that mean? I mean, once Viacom
because I'm sure Viacom is gonna say okay, hey, you know what,
it's not not 1 billion. I think it's 10 billion, or whatever,
to be able to change the number after the you know, maybe I
don't know how I actually would have to talk to an attorney
about that one.
Here's what I think the game plan is. I think the game plan
is on a on a broad scale. Remember, it's it is Viacom,
Sumner Redstone, you know, one of the most powerful men in the
world. I would say that this this whole copyright thing
that's just a farce, you know, that's just a front to turn the
ISPs into filters and police stations, essentially. So it
starts with Oh, you're looking at something illegally. Oh, No,
no, no can't do that, you know, and then all you have to do is
just determine what's the legal.
Maybe it could be, I'm out. And I think it's actually with deep
packet sniffing and some of these other technologies that
are coming out, it's possible that you could, you could do
things, especially if there were watermarks and flags and things
like that they
would be I don't even need deep packet sniffing, just look at
the HTTP request, it can be really simple. But what it is
it's turning your ISP, your direct connection to the
internet, the first hop you make to the, to the to the network,
it's turning that into a filtering station, you know, the
cops, the man checking us out, you know, they can filter what
for what we know, they have the technology to filter out
whatever they want, and listen, or, you know, search for key
words. I mean, that's not too hard. So one and one is to man.
So back to our fascism story, right? Yeah, it all boils down
at the same time it does, we need a better word. We need a
better word. Maybe people out there who listen, we have like
30,000 listeners, I think. Somebody if we were we used to
braid the mob, as it were, which I'm sure this is close to being
one. See if there's anybody out there that can help us come up
with a new term that describes the New World Order, which is
what we're talking about here, in some some way that you can
use to really, it's gotta be a negative word, but it's got to
be modern. Yeah. It's kinda can't be It can't be
marginalised. And it can't make you sound like a crackpot when
you use it.
Okay, oh, I got a funny story to tell you. So, Dr. Ron Paul, as
you know, I'm a supporter of Dr. Ron. He's doing an alternative
convention in Minneapolis, right in the same week, when the
Republican Convention is taking place. They're doing this, you
know, big concert on, I think, September, the second on
Tuesday, 15,000, seat, auditorium, whatever, they're
gonna have been your artists there. It's, it's really, it's
gonna be the calling at the rally for the Republic. But the
day before that on Monday, is when they're doing something in
a football stadium. And that's going to be more for the for the
diehard, the diehards, if you will. And so they like you
exactly. Well, so they called me up, they said, Would you mind
hosting the event? And I'm like, no, that sounds like fun. And I
said, you know, so I don't make sure I talk about it on the on
my shows, you know, because I said certainly the daily source
code, I know I've got lots of reptilian hunters and tinfoil
hat wearers. And, and then the guy says, oh, as we like to call
them our core base. Like, Right on, man, right on, so I'm gonna
do that September 1, I'm gonna I'm gonna host the rally for the
Republic. It's gonna I think it's gonna be a lot of fun. I
feel
it's gonna be where's it going to be
Minneapolis?
It's what specifically what an auditorium at that stadium.
You know what, there's, by the way, have
you ever been to Minneapolis? Yes, I have. It's a great place.
And that the thing I recommend people will do is go to their
museums. They have two or three just stunning art museums that
are really worth checking out. I shot.
Sorry, no, go ahead.
I'm just gonna say it also they you know, it's a very Cosmo.
It's a much more cosmopolitan city than you think.
Oh, totally. And they have Mall of America there of course.
And well, I don't get that actually, to me is a point
against but that's another story.
Well, it relates to why I was there. I was shooting a
television commercial for Sam goody. And we're shooting it at
the SAM Goody store in the Mall of America because of course,
that's their flagship stores, the biggest one or whatever. And
so it's like a three day shoot. And the second night I'm there I
get a call around midnight in the hotel room. So I pick it up.
Yeah. Yeah. Prince is. Prince has a party over at Paisley
Park, which is famously in Minneapolis as well. says do you
want to come? I'm like, Let me think. Uh, yeah. Okay, well,
there's a car downstairs waiting for you. And so I got whisked
away to to the Purple Palace. And and there was a party at the
at the Paisley Park. It's a Yeah, it's a it's a happening
happen in town.
So how was the party? Did you get to meet Prince? Yeah. Was he
going by the name Prince at the time?
Yeah. Yeah, no, I think it was gone by the name of prints at
the time. Yeah. So you come in, you go through a metal detector
which makes sense and then there's like this, you know,
there's a whole bunch it's really clean.
You know, you're going to a real party real party. You're
going through a metal detector. Yeah, it was it was a big room.
Lit but dimly lit but of a white room across one side that just
the the nicest buffet had seen in a long, long time. And then
we As a DJ with like a mobile setup, and he was playing all
kinds of Prince tunes you've never heard before in your life
it's like there must have been 150 Beautiful girls and boys
nothing else of course it was kind of funny because Prince was
standing over by by the speed by the speakers, you know the new
the DJ, and I was talking to a couple of couple of people so
I'm gonna go over and say hi to him and this one girl I kid you
not says Oh, you shouldn't you better not do that man. You
better not. Why not? Well, because you're you're like six
feet tall and you're white man. That's two strikes you don't
want to be talking to friends play fuck you. So So I went over
introduced myself and guy was not first of all, he's not that
small. You know, the stories about him. You think he was an
Oompa Loompa. But anyway, he was really nice and, and he knew you
know, what I had done on MTV, just the previous week. And
instead in my, my daughter was had been born maybe, maybe she's
a year old and sitting here. How's your how's your daughter?
And he knew what was going on and was fantastic.
business visa visa artists slash business, man lewdly. Why would
he be a jerk like this girl thinks because well, she
obviously likes to project that image for good reason. Because
he doesn't want to be bothered by every schmuck and by her
in particular, I think. And the coolest thing, though, was
because the party ends at a certain point, you know, prints
of course, he only made his appearance and he was there for
a little while. And then he disappeared and, and then all of
a sudden, you know, his guys come through this room. And they
all they do is they just kind of like flick flashlights on and
off, pointed at the floor. And they just walk around. They're
clicking their flashlights, and everyone knows Oh, it's time to
go. And then within 15 minutes, the whole place was empty.
So like a slick party,
very slick party. So anyway, that was my my one time in, in
Minneapolis and I think maybe I was there in Minneapolis. Do
they have Do they ever do Indy? In Minneapolis?
Yeah, in the fall? Do
they have any race? Tracks? I don't know. Maybe? I can't
really get in the middle of the summer, that's for sure.
Yeah, I can't remember. Anyway, Minneapolis,
so you're going up there you're gonna go up there for to be the
host that you're the guy announces man, ladies and
gentlemen, Ron Paul. That kind of thing. Yeah, exactly.
And there'll be artists there. A cheer Ha, yeah. And I'll be
like, you know, I'm gonna wear my tinfoil hat. You know, it'd
be cool. Patricia made me one. I got a really nice one.
Cool. Yeah, we did a couple of blog posts on tinfoil hats,
including things about two or three years ago, some kids at
MIT or someplace had done a whole study of tinfoil hats and
they would send radio waves at people with a different styles
of hats. And they finally came up with one design that perfect
design.
Oh, yeah, absolutely. I've always thought that would be a
great idea as as like a giveaway, you know, you could
basically you you package up a big sheet of industrial
aluminium tin foil, with instructions on how to fold it,
and how to how to make your hat. Yeah, man, it's
great. Let's do it. Let's do the Adam and John tin foil hat
company. And we could actually make a kit. So not that cheap as
aluminium foil the tin stuff, which the radio waves can get?
No, no, it's got to be the hard course. By the way, it's
aluminium. It's not to you aluminium. Well, we got to
differentiate ourselves in the market.
We can use the Canadians pronounce it that way too. So we
can get away with aluminium aluminium hat. So we can be the
aluminium hat company. Do It Yourself hat it comes in a kit.
Make it then like 995 with complete instructions. And you
know a nice package with the with the pieces of foil and how
to you know fold them up and the whole nine yards. I'm sure
people would vices is good a deal. And we can get the the
aluminium printed. Oh, yeah. So it had some sort of logo on it.
I think we'd have some,
I bet you someone's already already started this this
company. There's no way we're the only guys coming up with
this idea.
Well, I know but we have. We have marketing behind us savvy.
We've got marketing savvy.
I think we could sell 10,000 units.
You might be right. But think about how your cost is very low.
But you know, it's just gonna be real. It's gonna be quality
aluminium. And yeah, if we could print it even better, you know,
fold along this line, like an origami thing.
Yeah, that'd be outstanding. We need to there's gotta be
somebody out there that's in the metal business. That has a clue.
I mean, you could even have an upgraded hat. Because what
you're really, what's it made out of copper foil?
Oh, because that really stops the RFID? Well, I
don't know that it does any better. I mean, the stuff that
really would work would be I mean, there's two ways you can
go about it. You can make a Faraday cage, which I think
would be the coolest thing to have a Faraday cage hat because
then nothing can get through period. I guess you could get
underneath maybe could come up through your feet. But anyway,
you get Faraday cage that would be cool. And I lead is always,
always a winner, but then they're too heavy
not exactly convenient to wear on your head, big lead
hat. But but lead foil is not you know, you could lead foil
can be, you know, a very effective and there isn't a such
thing as lead foil.
And well, John, you know, we
have to do Faraday cage is the one I'm, I'm kind of feeling
good about. Yeah, well,
we should we should get this going before September first,
and we'll go on with some of the settlement, the event
settlement, the venue, our merch.
Well, here's, here's another possibility. How about an inch
because especially for this event, you're talking about a
baseball cap insert. That's a Faraday cage. And in other
words, like a beanie, it's like it's like a yarmulke. Yeah, like
a big thing that goes inside a baseball cow
inside the cap. Yeah, that's a good idea inside the cap and
you can wear a regular baseball cap and you got this protection
and it would be cool and light and and you don't look as nutty
and would keep
you cooler in the winter and cool in the summer and warm in
the winter to its floor wax and a dessert topping.
So I think we were on the I should did mentioning is now and
I'm writing up the patent as we speak so I don't want anyone
stealing this idea. Yeah, it's a good Well, yeah. Faraday cage
insert for a baseball cap. So when the guy said because you're
gonna go to this place, you're gonna have a lot of people with
baseball cat caps that say cat. Root, but the people don't
realise you out there don't and especially the European audience
listening and they refers to the Caterpillar Tractor Company. And
there's a bunch of these hats is a cat that people in the Midwest
enjoy wearing.
Yeah, and because basically you get 50 of them when you buy a
cat when you buy one of these. Right?
backhoe or product or tractor one of these big things that
pushes dirt.
Man, okay, it's a plan. And we just gotta find someone who can.
Who can do the printing.
There's got to be well, you know, if we do we do that, but
I'm thinking more now I'm starting to think about this
Faraday cage insert for a baseball cap. You know, there's
gotta be some cat company in China. That makes a caps or
skullcaps because we're talking about basically a skull cap that
you wear inside a baseball hat. Yeah. They can't cause that
much. I mean, there's got to be a manufacturer in China that
could crank out 10,000th of the skullcaps easily Yeah, in the
form of a Faraday cage, like within a week.
a Faraday cage or Faraday shield is an enclosure formed by
conducting material or by a mesh of such material, such an
enclosure, external static electrical fields. Faraday cages
are named after physicist Michael Faraday, who built one
in 1836. Coming from Wikipedia,
yeah, I have actually a wallet not to sound like I'm a complete
nutcase. But I've written about this in PC Magazine. There's a
guy down in Southern California that makes these things I'll
I've seen, I've seen them for your passport and for your
wallet.
Yeah, yeah, I got the well, he's he makes wallets that have a
Faraday cage built into them. And that's what I use for my
wallet. Even though I really haven't gotten any RFID. But I
just think it's interesting. Anyway, the funniest,
I bought the before we went on vacation, I bought three or four
books, and one of them was the shock doctrine. And I started it
at home when I was laying on the couch and I opened I crack it
open as paperback, a crack could crack it open. And outfalls an
RFID. Chip, you know, one of those pieces of paper so you
don't steal the book? Yeah, that was pretty trippy.
Yeah, I would I like to do with those. But if you can find them,
is I like to let them double sided tape on him or something
and slap people in the back. So they're walking around. It's
also fun to stick them in somebody at the bottom of
somebody's shoe. That's horrible. So as they walk out of
the store, the thing goes off like a you know, like they're
stealing something that's great.
I've been looking for I've been looking for an RFID reader. It's
apparently it's not all that easy to have one one device that
can read all different forms of RFID chips because it has to
send out a signal has to then scan a whole bunch of different
high frequencies to receive the relatively weak signal because
I'd love to know you know, what stuff around me has RFID chips
embedded in it.
That's a great idea. But it's but
here's the here's another product. We're just productizing
today which is another Silicon Valley term. I hate
it productizing becomes before monetizing. Yeah, product.
Yeah, you gotta productize then you monetize. So anyway, so. So
the idea is, is to create a device that is similar to a
Geiger counter. And so far as that They will spot on it
doesn't read the chips, it just has the induction output that
will signal one of these chips to send back. Exactly Oh, I'm
here, right? And then so you'll know there's a chip there, you
don't need to know what's on that chip, you just need to know
that chip exist. That would be cheaper. And it would solve the
problem you're after, which is why we know what RFID is. So
what why am I surrounded by RFID? Chips? And if so, where
are they?
So check? Did
I tell you about the about the writing a patent upon that?
Did I tell you about the RFID chip that was used during this
Four Day Marathon walking in Holland? When you ingest
Oh, this is great. you ingest? So yeah, and then you crap it
out? No, no. Yeah, well, yes. Stay in your forever.
But first of all the know you crop it out. The marathon walk
happens once a year. It's called the four day. And it was a
health thing that that's how it started initially. And now lots
of walking clubs. And it's basically you walk, I don't know
the equivalent of a marathon, but you do it over four days,
it's walking, it's not running. It's just hundreds of 1000s of
people walking these routes. It's pretty cool. But to you,
last year, it was so hot that a lot of people became you know,
seriously, Ill fainted. I think a couple of people actually died
of heat exhaustion, exhaustion. And so this year, under the
auspices of, well, we want to create something that doesn't
let that happen again, this company has developed a pill,
you swallow the pill, it has RFID dust or you know, the
equivalent of very, very small RFID transmitters in it, it
stays in your body for approximately 24 hours. But
check this, they it transmits through Bluetooth to your cell
phone, your temperature. And if your temperature goes up to a
certain degree, then you'll receive a text message that
says, hey, you should drink something. And if it goes, Yeah,
you're kidding. No, I'm not. That's absolutely true. And if
it goes up to a dangerous level, you get a text message that says
you have to stop now, I'm pretty sure that the RFID chip is not
transmitting the Bluetooth, I think they have an a separate
device that they give the walkers that receives the RFID
ID signal then converts that to Bluetooth. And then, you know
that text message I think, still got
to be in this pill. Besides the RFID. circuit, there has to be
obviously a meme or something that that takes the temperature
of the person internally.
Yeah, well, that's Yeah.
So there's a small thermometer, and an RFID. And the RFID sends
out a signal when it's when it's inducted, which is the way it
works, right? You send it and then it when as well as
inducted, it's active and it takes a look at the temperature
gauge and then sends a message out what the temperature gauge
told it.
And I think it also could do humidity, or you know, whatever
as
humidity, it can't do humidity because you're inside the with
some temperature and because it's in a liquid. So it's not
gonna work. You know, it's got to be just temperature,
but it's true. And this company, of course, one of their biggest
clients is the government.
Go figure. Go figure.
Now this is all just to protect us more.
Yes, of course. It's just so. So terror, terror free.
It so we had to but we still haven't come up with the window.
Yeah. The fascia board. Yeah. Oh, we need it. So anyway, I'm
reading through the messages on the various I've been blogging
stuff about Obama on the divorce.org/blog site, because
it gets all these people all worked up. Yeah. And somebody
mentioned brings audiences what you're saying, Yeah, brings them
in. And they usually debate each other and call me a jerk or
something because
i It's all pageviews John, it's all pageviews
guy says, in Europe, it's a foregone conclusion that Obama's
gonna win, they've already made this decision. All the Europeans
just take it as a as a given. Is this right? Or is this guy just
full of crap?
No, I would say that that's what that's the writing on the wall.
He also Obama, of course, is now doing his his big European tour.
And he had scheduled himself in front of the, in front of the
gate in Berlin, where of course, famously, John F. Kennedy said,
each being in Berliner, and
Reagan says a donut, if I'm not mistaken. But anyway, go ahead.
And Reagan said, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.
So what is Obama gonna say? I think all the good lines have
been taken. Well, the point
is, is that Angela Merkel, the the prime minister said, Well, I
don't think that's such a good idea. You know, I don't want you
to do any speeches in that spot, because you're not the president
yet. But because he's on this tour, and you know, this is his
big push. It's pretty obvious that
you're going to give the speech from there or did Merkel talking
about it?
No, it's not happening there. It's talking it's happening
somewhere else. And she literally said because she
didn't want to seem in because the he's not President yet. I
think she's right. I think Merkel's not a dummy. No. So,
yeah, she probably is right. Well, of course, I'm sure you
know, somebody somebody called her. Hey, you know,
this is a hey, hey, Angela, baby. This may not might not be
such a good idea. Let's think about this one. Yeah. Who do you
think what is the other guy when? It doesn't matter? Obama's
from easy he's reptilian man. He's easy in the same league as
McCain. It's all from the same same stuff. Just look what he's
doing. Yeah,
no, that's the what Ron Paul thing if this guy was talking to
you yesterday said the same thing. You know, it's just what
difference does it make? You're gonna like this. There's neither
one of them are gonna be.
He's, he's member of the Council of Foreign Relations. You know,
everyone's related to that organisation one way or the
other. And look, he's now he's he's backpedalling, on pulling
on Iraq. He's, he's, he voted for the face of
Vysa, that Pfizer thing makes no sense to me. I mean, why would
he do that? I mean, that that was the biggest, I think that
was a blunder.
Because he has to because he's, you know,
that's what it looks like, it looks like it's where somebody
called him up and said, you know, we know you're running and
everything is probably not gonna look that good, but you have to
vote for it. So here's cake.
Now, here's the sequence of events. Oh, I'm not going to
take public money, because instead of the 82 million I can
get, I need about 500 million. Then he looks around, he's gonna
shit. What am I gonna get $500 million from? Oh, I know. Big
companies like, AT and T.
Yeah, well, this obviously, you know, although they will they'll
bleed it into the system. So you don't know. It's necessarily
from big companies. Anyway, so much for campaign finance, I
always thought that was never going to be the idea of
reforming campaign finance, was never going to fly in a million
years. And my feeling was just because the newspapers would
always be against it. And they would end up, you know, if it
ever actually got to the point where it was more than just kind
of idle chat. They'd start finding ways that it wasn't
going to work. I mean, because they get the money. Where's the
money end up going? He goes to the media? Yeah, it
goes to a lot of local spots, radio and television and lots of
cable. You know, national. It's 500 million. I'm sure 400
million is going to media. Absolutely. I don't I don't know
how they do that with newspapers, they actually
advertise in newspapers.
Yeah, there's advertising is not as much. But there's enough.
And there's all the call out research. And it's all you know,
a lot of a lot of marketing money going into phone systems.
Because of course, I got on the Ron Paul list on my cell phone,
I got entered into their system, because there's no other reason
for them for anyone to call me any telemarketer whatsoever.
Because I don't exist on my company phone. Right? So I got
on his list, and it's all automated, you know, calls you
up and, you know, talks to you and tells you stuff that you
should know, and you can press one or just say yes. I mean,
that's I'm sure that's not inexpensive to set that up.
No, that's expensive. And ATT does that
kind of stuff?
Yeah, right. There you go back to a TNT. So, ya know, the whole
thing is corrupt. But anyway, so this guy says, you know, that
the Europeans have got deserved as far as they're concerned, is
already discounted, you know that Obama is going to win. And
so everything's playing along those lines. You know, I'm not,
I'm not convinced buying it. No, I'm not convincing. I'll tell
you why. Because McCain is a late starter, he did the same
thing and his main election run for the for the nomination. He,
you know, was he's a laggard, and then he does all his work at
the end work when it counts. And we still don't know who Obama's
gonna pick for the vice president, he could watch that,
you know, pick Jesse Jackson or something for all we know, he
could screw that up. And then we don't know who McCain is going
to pick for the vice president. And that I think a lot is going
to hinge on that because people are more, you know, in the, you
know, maybe in the 50s Nobody cared who the Vice President
was, but nowadays they do. Yeah. Especially with these guys, who
are both, you know, you know, targets as nowadays, I mean,
targets of terrorists. And if I do some good video game out,
that's creepy games, trying to kill the president or something
like that. It's horrible. I don't know it was on the news.
Somebody was send me a link on Twitter about it. And I was
looking at it go God, who is this guy nuts. He's some I'll do
some research and get it on the it's some terrorists game. But
anyway, the point is, is that you the Vice President's more
important than ever, and so the who these two guys pick is going
to be a big deal.
Yeah, well, absolutely. And you hit the nail on the head, the
Vice President is more important than ever let you know. The Vice
President we have now is running the show as far as I'm
concerned.
Have you I'm sure Ron Paul agrees.
Go ahead, man. You know, I've figured this out, John, I know
you totally agree. I know you have your tinfoil hat on as we
speak with your Faraday cage wallet. But you just want it you
want to have some kind of non kookiness so that you are taken
seriously by people who read market watch or whatever. But
that's why you pull back man you and then you call me. You're
like crackpot. I'm not a crackpot man. I'm just an open
free thinker. That's what they're called free thinker.
We say You know, he's not a crackpot. He is the one who is
going to be presenting run. A big counter event whether
we're using Ron Paul's a crackpot gathering. No, that's
the core base, John. It's not crackpots Stop, stop.
Come on. I mean, how can I top that,
Ron, Paul's not a crime. We know that you have to you have to
admit it. He's not a crackpot.
Like the guy. Yeah. No, he's like He, you know, in fact, he'd
be probably a more interesting president, these other guys
except for the fact that he doesn't play ball. What do you
mean by that? You know, he's not playing ball. I mean, these
other guys are gonna play ball with, you know, the economic
hitmen types and all these other people that, you know, there's a
system in place that has to be, you know, kept alive. Yes, Trent
tortoise, you know, this one world government kind of thing.
Oh, dude, economic order. The New World Order
I spoke to I had an interview for my Dutch show, I spoke with
the State Secretary for finance, finances, because there's a
whole bunch of problems. And he's actually he's a, he's a guy
that comes from the IT world. He was brought in about a year ago.
He's now he's the Secretary of State for finance. And his
number one goal is to fix all the computer systems, which is
interesting. And this guy, I saw a video of given a lecture. And
he's like, yeah, it's all messed up, particularly the tax system.
You know, we've got all these systems that don't talk to each
other properly. And it's just a mismanaged project is what he's
saying, which is really open and honest. So I get I get to talk
to this guy. And I said, No, let me ask you a question. So when
the Netherlands gives me like, 200 million euros to
Afghanistan, how does that work? Can you send a big check? Or do
you just get on your, your bank account and you use your your
card, and you type in your PIN code? And you know, obviously,
I'm bathing him, but man, he fell for it? And he's like, no,
no, no, we just put a computer entry is it Oh, was it like
that? Did not like actually no real money to No, no, we just
put in a credit entry for Afghanistan. Oh, so that means
that they have to pay it back. Yeah. With interest. Yeah. And
he just kept going. Yeah. And then and then he actually tried
to say, well, you know, what, Fort Knox, they do move some
gold around. I'm like, What are you talking about, man? And it
was it was like, This guy is building the systems for the you
know, the that is exactly what Confessions of an economic
hitman is all about, you know, okay, well, we'll loan you
money, but we're not actually giving you any money. We're just
putting an entry into a into a database, which means you have
to now start paying US interest that would be real money, by the
way. And then we transfer all this you know, all these bits
and bytes to companies like Burger King and Pizza Hut to
come in and, and build stuff. Hey,
you know, the problem that I have is these companies like
Pizza Hut and Burger King and all and all the big box
companies as they call them. Now. That's another term that's
somehow a big box that I get so eventually get into into Merriam
Webster, because they've added a whole bunch of new weird word
jails a couple of dudes a couple.
I heard you. I heard you talk about one that was really dumb.
What was the one on I heard on? Tech five, tech five? Yeah,
I went through a list of them. There's a couple of really dumb
ones. But anyway, so big box is like one of these terms that
probably has to go in. And so, you know, we've got this deli up
in Port Angeles, Washington. And so my wife is looking into
locations for future ones and things like that. She stumbled
on to the methodology for how you know, when you go to these
new malls, these new strip these kind of mini malls, but they're
not strip malls in the old sense, which, in the old
American sense of a strip mall used to have this like running
bunch of weird little stores. And now you have these big kind
of Plaza stores. And there's always a Home Depot and a
staples, and it's always the same stores and then they're all
big stores. Yeah. And there's never any little guys in there.
Rarely there is sometimes there might be a small takari If
you're lucky, but it's usually part of a chain or two guys are
connected or whatever. And it turns out that these places, the
way they operate to date they operate to keep small
competitive stores out. And they do that by requiring you pay one
year's rent in advance freely. Yeah, and there's some other
schemes that they have make it very difficult to get into those
places because you said essentially can't.
Who is they is that the, the developers, developers? Yeah,
the developers want these, you know, they want these, you know,
these Keystone Cornerstone anchor stores, I guess what
they're mostly called. And they want these big names. And they
don't want any small timers. And these big names don't want the
small timers around either. Because they don't want you
know, the Home Depot doesn't want some guy selling something
that competes with them in any way. And so they don't even want
one a story within 10 miles of them. And you know, and so. So
they, these things are essentially set up. So when you
go in, and you can go anywhere around the country, driving
around, you go to this, and I always like to rent cars, I'm
from California. So when I travel, I'm always, I never stay
in the hotel, I'm out, driving around, and you see, and you
say, and you can go and you just go, this is exactly the same as
every other city. In the country, when you run past these
little segments of the town where you have these big box
stores, and there's no variation. They're all cookie
cutter, and then they all have the same crappy stores. And this
you know, they're, it's just horrible. I mean, there's no,
nothing interesting. And you wonder why these big guys are
taken over everything. I mean, you the little guys have nothing
but trouble competing. Unless they become big guy,
I have to say that was one of the nicest things about being in
the south of France is going to an actual grocery store that had
oh my god, it had like, fruit and vegetable that was not
genetically modified, it actually looked like a tomato,
it had some bumps on it, you know, and pears that weren't
exactly pear shaped, it was so nice just to be in a in a
smaller non box like environment. With with real food
real stuff. I hate to say that hate to say it but the French
are onto something
the French have always been on to this and and think about, you
know, you can go to me generally speaking and finding a grocery
store is pretty hard because they you know, they almost
encourage a tomato store next to a meat store. And you know, they
have all these little operations that all you have to if you're
going to go shopping, you generally have to go from place
to place to place to place to place as opposed to one place,
it has everything but when they do have a grocery store, it
tends to be exactly like you say, a fantastic variety of
extremely high quality products that are all, you know, there's
none of this, you know, garbage that were sold. And you go to
these places are places where you have the tomatoes that have
been gassed. So they turn red, you know, there's a Oxitec I
forgot ethylene or some gas you hit the tomato with when it's
the pickled green. So they're never going to develop any
flavour. And then you run into a processing plant where they're
gassed. And so then the gas turns the tomato this kind of
weird, pinkish red tomato is never going to taste like a
tomato, which is the joke and we sell
public you know, the the Food Administration, whatever it is,
whoever's in charge of food they now have, it's now in law Dude,
this is part of the Codex Alimentarius. There's only four
types of tomatoes, that it'll be permissible now, because of this
whole tomatoes scare. Right? The member we talked
turns out to be bogus, which makes me wonder, you know, this
is it's a setup. I mean, it sounds like a marketing ploy for
this code. This is alimentaria thing which we obviously haven't
gotten on to in this country yet. But if if that's the case,
because the number of heirloom tomatoes is in the 1000s and the
fact that they wouldn't want these to be grown, as opposed to
these commercial crappy tomatoes that are crummy is ridiculous.
But it could be all as part of a scam this whole tomatoes scare
because it turns out the tomatoes weren't the problem.
And I'm reminded Oh, tell me
I don't know about the tomato is not being the problem. You mean,
this was the poop water story, wasn't it?
Yeah, well, it turns out to maybe it wasn't a tomato so that
might be the jalapeno peppers. And then they thought it might
be the cilantro. Now they don't know what it
is. I haven't heard it I haven't read any of this I didn't know
though. Yeah, no, it's backed off to
him that tomatoes the tomatoes were paying me now you missed
like three stages of this crap. You know? I mean, they've been
you know changing the story on and off now they don't now
they're baffled
Okay, so meanwhile I should look this up and I'll find this there
was a it was like a like a official release like was real
news on
our site, look for it. Anyway, keep going. Well, anyway, so
I'm reminded of when I was I used to be a columnist at the
San Francisco Examiner, I used to read these op eds. And there
was just one thing that happened this was in the mid 80s. And it
always baffled me and I wrote about it and no, there was never
got anybody paid any attention to any of the of the in fact,
the whole idea out of the blue and this of course, one of the
reasons I like to Confessions of an economic hitman because this
story kind of was reminiscent out of the blue sometime in the
mid 1980s. And people can maybe try to find this. They stopped
shipments of grapes from Chile froze them all because they
found two grapes If that were injected with cyanide or
strychnine or something and they had pictures of the grapes with
pinholes in and where the needle had gone in and poisoned the
grapes and they thought there was some sort of because this
was during that era where people were stealing Tylenol and and
putting poison Tylenol back on and so they had every you know,
all of a sudden Tylenol was all recalled and you know, was a big
scandal and people were you know blackmailers supposedly were
behind all this. I think there was more to it than that. But
this thing with the grapes was ridiculous. Because grapes come
in by the truckloads, hundreds of, you know, millions of
individual grapes piling in from Chile. How do they find these
two grapes with a hole in them? That they could actually show a
picture of that were poisoned, you know, in some attempt to
kill the American public? How do they how does this even
possible? Yeah,
no, I hear you. I hear Yeah. So
so they stopped the grape shipments and then there was a
bunch of negotiations and blah, blah, blah. And I figured they
just gouging somebody over this. And then the next thing you
know, the grapes are bad coming in. And that was the end of it,
and the storage just died. And nobody ever asked a question to
set me as to what bullshit is this? Because there's no way
that you owe the what did I know what inspectors do for a living
they're not looking at. This is just here to
Geneva and international standard for tomatoes has been
adopted ending about seven years of intense debates between
countries on what qualifies as a proper tomato. According to the
new standard tomatoes may come in one of four varieties round,
ribbed, oblong or elongated or cherry tomatoes and cocktail
tomatoes. They must be whole clean, free from foreign smell
free of pests and fresh in appearance. In the case of
trusses of tomatoes, the stalks must be fresh, healthy, clean
and free of all leaves and other visible foreign matter.
According to the so called Codex standard. A commission called
Codex Alimentarius was created in 1963 by the Food and
Agricultural Organisation and the World Health Organisation
that's not true the world trade organisation to come up with
food standards with guidelines on food products. Here we go.
Tom Hyland, who was a senior food standard advisor explained
that one such international standard was needed for tomatoes
in order to protect importing countries quote, many developing
countries in particular, said that they need this standard so
they ensure that they would get the right quality of products
that they ordered.
And I like the way they twist it. Yeah.
I'm telling you. So that's very interesting that this was July
4.
Yeah, there's always a gag in there somewhere. Yeah, right.
Say we always had you know, my wife and I.
Years and years ago, there was a and as we are, it's probably our
last story. I think we're running out of time. But years
and years ago, there used to be this operation. Just pre Costco
era. There used to be a couple of big box stores. One was
called Gemco. And which was which required a, you had to get
a kind of like a licence, but it was like a membership, which was
not that easy to be a government employee, supposedly, I think
was GM, GM, Gemco G government employee e membership company,
something like that. But the other one that was that was
hugely successful was a company called White front. And over the
years, they turned out that white front was run by a mobster
on witness protection. Okay. And, and we started noticing
there's always a trend between mobsters, especially guys on
witness protection, and the naming of their operations.
White front, you know, it's like, oh, white for now. I get
it. Yeah. And there was a trucking company recently that
would have got busted because they were run by another
mobster. And it was it had the word con, as in convict in the
name. And so every time we see like, anything that's God's
consolidated or it was Conway trucking, as a matter of fact,
something like that. And you know, it's always assumed we
always think because that is just another gag because these
guys seem to have a humour. They think it's funny, I think to
come up with these names that indicate what their what their
Well, what they're really about. Yeah. Are not necessarily
crooks, but at least they're getting through their own
witness protection or who knows what. I'm always waiting for the
witness protection, you know, produce company to come out.
Today, we keep an eye out for that kind of thing. gags
Interesting. All right. Let me see. What do we do on time? This
is good. Not even an hour and a half.
Right? It's just under wacky the call duration is 131. Since you
were having so much trouble getting this thing started.
Okay, hold on.
Let me do my thing here. Oh, why is it not working? Oh shit, of
course. I was going to be really slick there and get the music
going. And but of course I neglected to turn on my you
advice? Yeah, something the equivalent of queuing it up.
Yeah. There you go. Wow. Now we've got to come up with a name
for the show.
Well, let's see we talked about I think, though, you know, the
fascism,
fascism. That's a good one. Yeah. Well, how
about modern fashion fascism today?
Sounds like the name of a new show we got to put together
Yeah, it
sounds like a name of a new Shoreham magazine.
Hi, everybody. Welcome to fascism today.
It'd be a good name for a magazine in the 30s. Yeah.
These days, not so good. No. All right. Are you doing a twit this
weekend?
Yeah, I think so. I'm
not sure. Do it last weekend because I haven't caught up yet.
Yeah, I
did was a good show. It was okay. I mean, it was it wasn't a
long show. It was a pretty good show, I think was I think we got
onto some topics because it wasn't a lot of people one of
the problems you have with that shows that we you know, you have
a lot when you have too many guests. It's it becomes
burdensome. Leo spends a lot of time too much time working on
trying to you know, keeping the balls in the air. Because he's
he's always working together. So probably for Max total is
probably the best and you only had three. Okay.
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