It's time once again for Joe Sixpack and the soccer moms. Hey
everybody, it's no agenda coming to you from the west coast or
the west side of Gitmo nation. And hi in Horni in the curry
condo, overlooking the San Francisco Bay and the financial
district, my name is Adam curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak here in Northern Silicon Valley
overlooking the bay from the other side, the cheap side, the
cheap seats, as it were, hey, I can see hey, how
you doing there, John, love to see ya waving back at you. So
let me just start off if I may, by saying she had me from Hello,
may I?
Wait, wait before you say anything when we're talking?
We're doing a special show here. Because we just watched the
debates. And we're doing a Thursday night version of no
agenda. It's
the vice presidential debate of 2008. Right. And I
have to tell you, that I think Joe Biden kicked her ass.
You're kidding me?
Yes, I am actually my goodness. I was thinking of different
things to say to get your reaction. You know, I
I'm almost at a loss for words, John, this debate. So validates
my entire theory that this whole thing is a charade equal to the
biggest reality show in the universe. And numbers. And this
and this woman is Palin mania is what I predicted Palin mania.
And may I say we are all going to die when she is vice
president. But halen mania. This was fantastic. What a great
show.
Well, okay, so let's let's start analysing this thing. When
I got it. I took I took a shitload of notes. I just
couldn't stop.
Well, let me start with some note. Well, okay, but let's get
a little overview because I got my notes are probably different
than yours. what channel you're watching it on.
As last time I watched it on CNBC, I watched nothing of the
run up. I only watched from the very beginning.
Okay. Same here and but I watched a lot of the after
shows, and you did too, even though you didn't want to admit
it. I
honestly, I just switched around because I wanted to see Rachel
whatever her name is on MSNBC, Rachael Ray, known how Rachael
Ray, you know, Sarah can cook you know, the one we were
talking about earlier today? That one Yeah. Okay, that one
did that one. So I just had to because she was so smug
yesterday playing video of Sarah Palin playing a flute. And I
just had to see what she picked out as, as the as the bad points
of
we ran that flute video on the dvorak.org/blog site that people
say all the comments were the same. I wish he was playing my
flute.
That's Hey, John. That's our audience. Unbelievable.
shamed of this is my
point, John, this is my exact point. This is what the audience
wants. I'm telling you what Sarah Palin did this evening. It
was unprecedented. You won't hear this on mainstream media.
No one's gonna admit this, maybe Fox, but it was unprecedented.
The acting performance, of course, politics being show
business for Ugly people, the mould has been broken. Because
Sarah Palin is beautiful. She's stunning. She delivered all the
lines. She knew what to say. She lost it a little bit there when
Joe choked up, but she claimed
to show choking up thing and by the way, at the beginning of the
show, and I'm watching it on HD and a big on by man, I'm using
the projector so there's a 10 foot screen. She was visibly
shaking. Yeah, for the first five or 10 minutes. Yeah. And
I've worked with people on TV and it was a tight, she was
generally speaking, you can't see it. And most people wouldn't
have noticed it. But when you're sitting and generally, unless
you're sitting there with the person, you won't see it because
I've seen people shaking like a leaf, but it doesn't show up on
TV. But with HD with a 10 foot screen. You see it?
Well, you know, that wasn't visible, but I totally believe
it. She was wound up tight.
Yeah, she was she relaxed about 1520 minutes into it, by the
way. And the thing and before we get into our little discussion
here, I want to mention this, that the woman that was the
moderator Yeah. When I controversial, my
moderator I understand, right? Yes, because she has a book
coming out called Obama world or Obama nation or the Obamas
something or other I presume it's a pro Obama book. It's
she's a total Obama nut. She had to back off and she and she did
a really good job until about 12 minutes.
We have Wait a minute. I know I have the note here somewhere.
She she had a couple of zingers that were so anti Palin which
one was the heartbeat away? That was that was later than 12
minutes. That's all
I know that when I'm not saying 12 And that was 12 minutes after
the hour. Right? Okay, it was at a totally total
sharp jump. And there was another one. There was another
meme that she threw out there. Which one was it? I'm looking
for it. Well, you have
it in your notes. But yeah, but let's start a heartbeat away.
Let's just deconstruct it. What was that?
That you mean? The the one heartbeat away? Yeah, that's
what that
was a 12 minutes after seven. Yeah. And it took that I thought
it was that I thought that was the real one that she threw in
the wood Palin, I would hope she was a little more aggressive
than she is. And she should have said, you know, that's a funny
question. You should ask that. Because I, you know, this would
be really cool if you like, if she was like a coach type. I've
been looking over every president, vice president,
presidential debates since 1930. And no one's ever asked that
question before. Is this like some sort of an insult or I
mean, you'll just like, throw it back? I mean, I'm sure would
have gone over with a lot of people.
Well, I tell you that in that case, I actually believe that
when she was training, they didn't think about the audacity
of the moderator actually asking that question. Because
otherwise, she would have had a super one liner because man, she
had him she had frickin zingers.
But she, there was a one liner waiting to happen with that one
heartbeat away question, especially the fact when Gwen
Eifel has a book on Obama, a pro Obama book coming out in the
months ahead. And she has she's a, this is a total conflict of
interest situation, that they only kind of glossed over on
these different channels. But no, but but as far as I'm
concerned, hey, if I'm producing this type of material, this this
kind of show for a national audience. She's off the show.
Yes, you you. Exactly. And you know what? You're talking about
this show. This is the way it's supposed to be built up, man.
This thing was scripted. Are you crazy? This was fantastic. From
beginning to end, everything was put together. And even the
sympathy laugh for Biden, when he when he cracked the ultimate
bridge to nowhere. I joke that was the other shark jump?
Well, there's a couple Okay, well, going on with your list of
I know, it's too long.
It's too long. It's just way too long.
But my is not too long, because I only was only one. I'm, like,
irked that I jumped in, let's go over what happened on CNN and
what you didn't watch. And I did, but you again had the
little graph thing that they changed it. And what bugged me
is when I first saw the change, I went, what is this bullshit?
What was the change?
They changed it from Democrats, Republicans and independents to
men and women in Ohio.
What? And that was it that was oh, man, they punted. They
totally punted. They knew they know what they knew the time
bomb was coming. They got word of it. Well, you know why?
Because Joey Danko, Biden's middle class friend clued him
into it.
Well, you know what, then I hate to say, You know what, because
really, we asked, you know what, and I actually wrote it. I hate
that. But by the way, I wrote a column in of all places, human
events about saying, you know, what, versus guess what was just
things 12 year old say, and Biden, and I was criticising the
Democrats are saying, You know what, you know what? And then.
And then I said, it's worse than Oh, it's not as bad as when
you're 10. And a kid every time they talk to you to say, Guess
what? Guess what? Guess what? My daughter does that all the time?
Yeah. We've talked about this before. Yeah, she stopped doing
it now. You know. But Biden kept saying, guess what, like a 12
year old
in his closing remarks even start off by saying, Look, I was
like, whoa, whoa,
get back to this thing with the
so that's
stop. I like this better, because it really be the feeling
for the independence. But it shows you the difference between
men and women. How was that? I don't want to be critical here.
But the women totally loved her. Right? They No, no, it wasn't
the women loving her. It was the point that women went up and the
men went down. I think they should take the vote away from
women.
Oh, my God. Okay, John. Now, listen, listen, my friend, my
wife would probably agree with but it's just women in Ohio.
It's just women in Ohio.
Well, that cannot be
representative of women. And it's not representative of those
East Coast politicians.
Now looking at the way the graph when Palin early on was the only
one. And this didn't even happen in the previous debate. She
pinned the needle with both men and women, which means the 100%
margin was pinned. Yeah, you know, Biden pinned the needle
two or three times with men or women one of the two but never
with both. And it was when she went on and on about personal
responsibility. We should know what you know, our parents told
us to be good people and we should do this and that it was
just that just buried it was unbuilt. lino Fantastic.
Well, first of all, a couple of general general comments, it was
a really read set, which of course, you know that you know,
all this stuff, you know, this, this show is all. You know, they
say they agree to stuff but basically the producer comes in
says, Okay, here's what you're going to wear, here's what
you're going to wear. And then maybe a little bit of debate
back and forth. And yeah, so she couldn't wear a red powered
dress, but I thought she was she was dressed very well. It was
just, she looked spectacular. And, and when she opened first
of all to Hello, can I call you Joe? By the way, she didn't call
him Joe, once during the entire debate. So and wait
a minute, wait a minute. Her mic was open. And Biden's wasn't
what was that all
the way on us? Not on CNBC. I could hear him. You heard
him. I heard him very. I heard him on her. Like, that's but
what did he say? He said, Well, yeah, you can. Like she was
saying, Can I Can I call you jokes are like really loud. Then
you heard him say? Hello, comments through her mic.
Can I call you, Joe? And actually Biden, you could hear
him audibly. Inhaling a couple of times during the debate,
like, afterward finish, because 90 seconds you can go. I was
like, Whoa, man, the guy is like, either, you know, he's
like, really trying to keep himself in check. There. It was.
It was a rough time.
Biden was fantastic. I'm sure. No, really, I thought he was
fantastic. He didn't go after her. He didn't do anything
really stupid. And
this and honestly, this is it was just it was just a strategy
mistake, because I don't think he expected this. He did not
expect her to perform this. Well. I mean, well, yeah. He
just didn't. And it took him back because he had already
decided I'm not going to attack Palin and I don't you know, and
of course, of course, he has a much better understanding of
what's going on here. He still worked for all the same people,
and we're all gonna die in the end anyway. But that's beside
the point. He was not prepared for that. And so he had he
didn't have anything in his in his arsenal to deal with with
her actually coming out and killing. I mean, absolutely.
Killing No, come on. I mean, but listen, she was so good. She and
she built it up and she got confidence. And then all of a
sudden, she boom, she starts attacking Obama. And, and when
she got a question that she didn't want to answer, John, he
was like, Major League Football Major League Baseball, she ran
note. She ran out the clock. It was like deep ball. She ran up
the clock. I'm like, two or three times I was so Fanta and
Biden couldn't do it. He's like, I'm running out of time.
Sorry, Julie. Actually, I did laminate. I don't think you're
right on one thing, Biden twice during the debates that I
recall, said, Well, I see I'm not I'm gonna be out of time in
a second hour. The red lights blinking was a thing. He said
another time, which was an excuse to let him ramble on I
would like to do a stopwatch on the two of them in that debate.
And I'll bet you Biden snuck in more time using that trick.
Yes, he did. He definitely used it a couple times. And the
moderator was not very tight on on time at all. And I just want
to remind our listeners that you know, I'm a total
constitutionalist, I wouldn't vote for either one of these,
these actors who are cast this evening before you. This is
truly the largest reality show in the world. And I am extremely
delighted because now that I have been proven that this is
one big show, now I can start predicting exactly what you're
going to see along the line, it's really going to be
extremely easy for me. And you know, if this was Steven
Spielberg or Steven bochco, or whoever actually is behind the
production of this of this show, a totally This is outrageously
entertaining. I, you know, I if anything, is been my job to try
and understand what people want to watch and this was, this was
enough
of that. Let's talk more about this thing. So so it's like
drill,
baby drill. Oh, my God.
Orgasm. Orgasm drill, drill, drill, drill, baby, drill, baby
drill, you idiot.
But I mean, think of the connotations of is drill drill
drill and now it's drill baby drill or drill Me Baby Drill me
and then he's saying bushes, bushes, bushes. I'm just hearing
Beavis and Butthead going he said the bushes
was drill Gillis It was fabulous.
Well that was funny You're right. Now let's go back to the
thing that you mentioned about him getting caught off guard now
this I have on my notes but this is at the end of the notes and
this is part of the post mortem that was done on Fox I watched
the post mortem on C and N and the funny thing is the one woman
on there that really annoys me to no end is this Hilary Rosen
on CNN. You know her she was the art she was able to RIA
Oh yeah, she's Yes, of course we do. Yeah,
she's a she's a creep to the nth. And she hates Palin and it
will Send her analysis is useless. This woman shouldn't
even be on television. Anyway. I mean, even Paul Begala, who is a
Clinton guy, and a total Democrat apologist, at least had
a couple of good things to say Hillary wouldn't do it. And it
magala said, for example, that he thought she sucked, but but
she was building up for sale for the 2012 campaign, which I
thought was interesting. They did make that observation,
meaning that Obama can't make it through to elections. Anyway,
the guy on Fox was Frank Luntz, who is the guy.
Biden mentioned him a couple of times, right? No, no. And he
said, lugar, no, I'm sorry.
No, Frank lunch is a polar pollster who works for the
Republicans. And he does all the year where they strap you to,
you know, lie detectors and all this other stuff. Now, that's
hot, and he should be sorry. And he found that the the whole
group of nine, the people that were undecided, everybody,
thought Palin, one, everybody. And he claimed, by the way, at
the end that the polls are going to reflect this, and it's put
McCain back into the race, which makes me think, can you imagine
Sarah Palin actually saves the election?
Yes, no, no, I 100%. Can I got to think through what the next
day on Tuesday we have the next Obama or bush? I mean, Biden
couldn't pronounce Obama's name 15 times out the entire debate.
He kept tripping over his name.
That was weird. Well, let's go back. Let's go back. I want to
this is the part I want to talk about. And this is really
interesting. When this came up, I was going, Yeah, that's
interesting. And it what it was, is that he's that that one woman
came out and said that one of the reasons Palin one for her
was that Palin wasn't expected to do this good based on her
performance with Katie Couric. Yeah. And a woman made, which
makes me think that Katie Couric has actually helped the
election. Ironically,
John, how many times do I have to say that in the script, page
15.
Now let me finish this with what she does woman said, she hinted
that the reason she was so shocked by the change that fact
Palin was good here, and she sucked with cart Couric. And
this is extremely important for people out there, eavesdropping
on this conversation. She hinted that with the Couric interview,
it was edited to make Palin look bad. Oh, absolutely. is an
attack on the media. Yes, that is, I think in the public domain
right now. It's a meme. Everybody thinks the media is
corrupt to such an extreme that they're trying to throw this
election, I think the public is just
not going to put up yep. And they're catching? Absolutely.
They're totally catching on. And what we don't really think too
much about is that television has been, as you know, the main
communicator in terms of public perception of almost nearly
mine. 1946, we're talking about 60 plus year, this
is a, this is a learnable, practicable, demonstrable
science that you can programme people's minds to buy things. We
choose our presidents the same way we buy our washing powder,
and people
are clued in. I don't think they're complete robots out
there, they see that this is going on, they can spot a scam,
they can spot a crappy product, they spot all this stuff. That's
why they you know, cost per 1000 is so you know what it is? In
terms of advertising, because unless you do your job
perfectly, and you're not doing it if you look like you're on
one. Like for example, Katie Couric is supposed to be an
objective journalist. In that old school, where you're even
handed you don't find somebody's weak point and then grind down
and grind down to the prisons and basically,
specifically, what newspapers do you read specifically, what do
you mean when a father rapes her his daughters specifically?
It's the public spots that a mile away and this woman
reflected that in this entire audience at lunch had, which was
a focus group, essentially real time focus group was like, they
weren't they except there's a couple you know, obviously,
there's I can't have 100% But there's a couple Yeah, I don't
know. I didn't like her. But because, you know, a county that
Lancashire miser, my third girlfriend who dumped me.
Can I just counter that for a second? I have to disagree.
Respectfully, John. That, yes, people are on to it, but with
this particular debate, and you know, obviously, Palin McCain
stance on her and boy, she was it was so brilliant to say, I'm
going to talk straight to you and I want to say it, and for
all intents and purposes, she actually said something, but it
sounded really, it sounded really straight. Okay, this was
game changing, rule changing. And
now I know I look, I know what you're saying, what you're
saying is that
I'm saying that America, your
what you're saying is, is going to be worse than ever? Yes,
of course, I'm saying that we're all gonna die. But the point is,
you're saying that the public is onto it. And I have to disagree.
And it's not because the when they think about it, yes, of
course they can they can. They understand that quite quickly.
That's the awakening that I think is taking place. But this
was of a format that is so recognisable. This is, this is
what American Idol did to the gong show. Okay, it took it to a
whole nother level and people are getting sucked into it. They
are getting sucked in really, really deep and FoxNews will
propagate that. And you know, she's a hero. And there you go,
Joe, you know, I mean, might say it ain't so Joe. I mean, my God,
this was this was just absolutely brilliant. A time
bomb, an absolute timebomb. And I agree, I think it puts McCain
ahead of Obama and I bet you that the Obama trolls are going
to be pissed off?
No, I think it's going to be I think they are going to be a
little intimidated, because they're going to be in denial
like this Hillary Rosen woman who gave you know, they had
these points, things going on with these different people. And
she wouldn't give Palin credit for one positive thing. And if
she did, she gave him four negative votes. I mean, it was
unbelievable. There is a certain denial out there. I mean, they
this Palin thing is like, got these guys really spooked. And
they're freaked about it. And it's like, they hate her. And
what she did and there were Democrats are always the love
love people. And they hate hate. I mean, you know, I don't get
it.
Just looking through through my notes that that that actually
they did cover quite a large array of topics. Boy, the Israel
stuff was hot and heavy man, that was, that was pretty
amazing. What I just waited for one of them to say, one of my
best friends is Jewish. I mean, that's all that's all that was
missing away from it. They really got so close. And, and
then Palin. I mean, this, this is so skillfully done her
hammering I'm adeno jot for Yeah, and she's propagating
lies. I mean, he did not say the rotting corpse of Israel, you
know, maybe he it's all an interpretation and translation.
It's all stupid. Well, let's
go back to the main themes, the underlying themes that they were
obviously trying to do. And I thought were Palin did well, at
least on a kind of a subtext, is Biden, better than Obama? And I
actually liked Biden in this debate. I think he was he's a
very personable guy, and he was, you know, he's magnanimous in a
lot of different ways. It's a big smile, totally a political
animal. And, you know, I was hoping to do and he went on with
when I, you know, Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania, he'd say
that she'd say, Joe, using the word Joe, Joe, Joe, when was the
last time you you actually lived in Scranton,
you know, but he also used 40 years ago, there were some
script changes I would have made. So I wouldn't have had him
same addresses because no one knows what the fuck them
addresses Exactly. What the hell is that all about? I mean, he
was really and you had a certain point, you could tell about half
an hour into that they both kind of like ran out of material, and
they had to kind of pick it up. And then
now he lost a crowd and a couple of these crazy things like that.
Now, let's go back, Biden better than Obama, as I was saying,
linked McCain with Bush, because he harped on it much more. So
then, then then Obama was able to do the Obama can lost the
track on that he was criticised for it by the by the people,
deconstructing is his performance. Now she, they
obviously expect to something like this, because she had this
one interesting approach, which I thought was, was genius, which
was that she called him on that. She says, you know, you guys are
big talkers about the future and change. But you keep pointing to
the past.
Yeah. And there's always a finger pointing to the past. Oh,
yes. Beautiful.
I thought that was like, I was just like, whoa, somebody wrote
that one.
And I think that that was set there. They said, Look, if he
starts talking about Bush, Bush, Bush, Bush and all this other
stuff, by the way, what's 1932? What happened in 1932, that he
referenced that
Roosevelt was elected, okay.
Like, anybody knows that, yeah, that's why I'm asking him like,
what happened in 1932, you know, and he, he threw out some things
that he thought he tried to get around the Bush Doctrine. She
didn't pick up on that. I really, really enjoyed when she
said, yeah, it was it was of course, he's positioning them as
Mavericks. And I think that's what's the big theme is going to
be for McCain on Tuesday.
Oh, wait, wait, wait. Every time she brought that Maverick thing,
the numbers plunged that Maverick thing really done
that's over Okay, up on it.
Alright, so they'll know that so they're going to choose
something else I liked. She really positioned herself well
by talking about the West Scylla Main Street. So she really
pulled that towards herself. Now that what that was good, that
was really good. It
didn't do much for numbers. Let me go over quickly, they've just
only made a few notes on the numbers going up and down. With
Palin, mainly, Biden had a really interesting thing with
when he talked about drill drill drill is numbers actually went
down.
And when she said drill, baby drill, did that go up for the
little bit, but the funny
thing was when Biden talked about we can't drill, drill
drill and went down. But we should do some drilling. It went
up like big time, really. But yeah, it was energy
independence.
That must have really worked. People must have found love that
well,
it worked a little bit. And let me give you an example. Jogging
by the bipartisan partisanship thing didn't work. In fact, it
went down Maverick dog corruption, and greed, big, big,
like, spiking, like through the roof, like oh, yeah, so she, she
was the only one who actually started about the financial
crisis. And she also wound up with it, which I thought was
good, because we kind of got away from that. And it was
finished,
by the way, beat his bad. Hands down by now has been hands down
at the end. Grant is down, hands down. And like going out to a
good meal. The desserts would most people remember.
Yeah, you mean that? You mean the way she has her? Her newborn
kid on her shoulder to 11 at night? And just to be on camera?
I mean, that's pretty much oh, by the way, the lame lame. Oh,
your joke was lame, because no one got it. Oh, man. I thought I
thought it was peeing my pants.
You thought you should check. Oh, the other word
Biden used was, you know, Iran is run by Ahmadinejad is run by
the theocracy. I'm like, oh, man, no one knows what that is.
Inside base
Yeah. And it's not an evil name. You know, you've got to say like
the evil Ayatollah, you know, that's the kind of stuff not not
the theocracy, that doesn't get them and by the way, a lot of
what he said I gotta agree with even though I know that the
people who really run everything are out to kill us on both
sides. But seriously, but this as a show. This was I mean, God
bless American television Gods bless it.
You know, it was good, but it wasn't great. I like to see what
the overnights are anywhere
gonna be huge, huge. You know what, it was just so nice. And
it was so because everyone look they started off okay, even
David Letterman last night was saying are you all excited about
the debate this thing is living man this thing is like it's like
a hit record you know, it's just bubbling under and then even
CNBC opens up with well literally Welcome to the main
event. I'm not kidding you. And then we're gonna have pre and
post game analysis these are direct quotes. I wrote them down
you know, and then at the end, Aaron, I think yeah, not Aaron
the the other girl on CNBC she says, Okay, let's get your
popcorn, CNBC. And this is a business channel. This was
highly anticipated. I'm predicting 40 million plus
viewers
will add is the record that was set by Reagan and Carter. Was
that the final the final event? They had more than 40 On the
last one so I think it's more 6575 Maybe 80 It's going to be
hard and a lot 140 Okay, so here's a couple of other things
that bomb this is the one that is really interesting that bomb
that I think caught everyone off guard. She says hockey mom down
into the tank.
I didn't catch that one.
I had to see the chart when she talked about interesting. So
yeah, I thought that was weird. When she talked about parents
and personal responsibility, parenting and personal
responsibility and we needed it spiked everybody she just the
only time and both of Bates at both people were spiked to the
max How about education? She won because of that. How
about education John? How did that do it?
No education moved it up but nothing like that. This really I
mean, it was like holy crap. If she had stayed on that for about
five minutes it would have been she did they just by acclamation
would have given her the job. The other one that the real
loser, the loser that she kept harping on and even when Biden
kind of got into it was a total disaster and makes you know, for
a fact that the US a public does not like this war in Iraq, she
talks starts talking about the troops and get you know this and
that and work, right? People hate that when she brings up
getting out or something like that it goes goes in the toilet
when either one of them talking about extending this war for one
more minute.
Yeah. Hell yeah. And same with Afghanistan, right? Because
that's the big trick here. I mean, it's so obvious. It's
like, we're gonna go get to nothing. Yeah, we're gonna end
the war in Iraq, and we're gonna send all the troops to
Afghanistan, we're just changing to another place. I mean, it's,
it's just moving the same in military industrial complex to
another country, which happens to have a fantastic natural
resource of drugs, that they can also make money on shipping it
through Wall Street. So now, I'm sorry, I get carried away. Can I
just say though, another fantastic, beautiful moment.
This was a Miss America moment. When Sarah Palin was that she
was actually saving poor black kids and dark for hurt herself.
I mean, it was just so moving. She completely nailed that one.
Well, she was she did the right thing with the with her
response. Now, here's the one where Biden, Biden loses when
they talk about drill drill drill he get when he starts
taking, you know, especially with the men, they just go into
the tank. So they these guys have got a problem with that
issue. And by the way, when anyone talks about nuclear power
down, the women go into the toilet, and the men go way up.
This is like hilarious on all these green and all these kinds
of knee jerk themes are still the women are way into it. And
the men are like, now this is bull.
Well, green, and the whole thing is being marketed to women. Of
course,
apparently, yeah. Anyway, the big spike, one of the big spikes
for Biden is when he starts talking about getting out of a
rat. Yeah, of course,
the American people want to get out of the all these countries,
of course, they're just being shafted. They don't understand
that yet. But yeah, of course they do. I think that's good.
So, but they can't, neither of them can really adjust their
strategies on that in the public eyes.
You know, the thing is, again, like the last one, they whenever
they go on the attack, the numbers go down. And when
they're all you know, with just the idealistic crap, bow, it is
a great country, and we hear that we need to improve our
education because we're the leaders and this guy, boom, up
and goes, so the public is looking for that kind of thing.
Well, we're,
it's called nationalism, John. Yes, exactly. And we're very
nationalistic
and they want to play that game. You're going to do well.
Meanwhile, I think I have a note here that oh, here's a word
Yeah, just a note I made I know breeds is fun follows anyone who
follows our various podcast knows that I take kind of
sketchy notes and I wonder what the heck you don't say this one
says coughed a tear, she blew it. Okay, here's this is I
realised what it is. That's when Biden which I thought was a bit
much where he started to you know, cough the tear over you
know, the possibility that was sons and that, you know,
horrible day.
They got killed by by the way, Joe Biden had cries during
speeches. He's known for doing this and I don't want to say
that it wasn't sincere. But you know, he, like any good actor.
He uses his personal emotions and experiences to get across
this point. It's
probably I mean, to do it that well do it. Well, time is
probably something there's a series of these are highly
skilled actors. But yes, but she had the opportunity to be
motherly. I totally
agree. She blew it big time. They're big she could have come
back soon because she already had the you know, she deserves
or her place and have her reward and heaven.
wife was a teacher or something like that, where he wasn't the
first one
I know but but in the rights he told me last night, she went
over to energy assumption. Yeah, she could have
locked it up, right, right now, you know, something about you
know, I have, you know, we've ever all these families, and you
end up everybody really appreciates what you've gone
through. And, you know, just some sort of, there are
plenty of single parent dads out there and we support them. I
mean, plus you totally, and that's the you know, what I
didn't know this about Joe Biden, I think it surprised a
lot of people because most Americans of course, are stupid
slave sheep ignorance. And, but that was a very interesting,
interesting piece of information. And it did
instantaneously, instantaneously it humanise the guy, and that
really, really worked and I and all the way up until the end, I
think he he had the upper hand when once that happened,
well, I'm not convinced of that because I think where he blew it
right after that sometime. He did this twice. And I didn't
write down the first episode of the second time he did it and I
think it got fair numbers, but I think it makes him look like a
either a stand up comic or just a political when he went. He's
not a maverick because he's not a maverick because he's not and
he didn't do it five or six they went on for 10 times and she
didn't there's another opportunity for her to say Joe
you know you're repeating yourself you're not a maverick.
And he did it earlier to
he would even he would even say that he would repeat things
slowly so you idiots can understand what I am programming
into your brain he would keep doing that he would keep doing
and those Yeah, what was that thing I wrote it down and he was
just it was shoot my cow I'll find it somewhere in my in my
notes. But yeah, there was a lot of a lot of repetition because
these guys know repetition works. They know it and it
didn't work. Well no, not that this was Sarah Palin just took
it to a whole different level and and the reason why I
actually watched
fashion with you at the prom was it was old fashioned. It looked
old fashioned. It felt old fashioned. You know, it was this
repetition thing it looks staged that last guy who the guy who
does it the best right now is Chris Rock a comic. Yeah.
Let me tell you though, that so first of all, Sarah Palin is a
political animal, I think. And what that means is again, it's
just an actress and and she's fantastic at it. And I think
it's a super duper asset for for McCain and I only wish that she
was working for us because you know, clearly she can take
direction and this is the kind of woman this is the kind of
image that absolutely could save America if someone else was
pulling her strings so you know, it's going to be a hard job for
Obama and Biden to get across the message This is what I said
to you before she's expert at hammering home the exact talking
points to the tee in understandable pleasant man with
a planet pleasant man resume
language that plain language NBA CNBC guy was just made a big
point of that and everyone from the Midwest including Van
Susteren on Friday. She's on she's like, in love with her.
You know,
she's on Fox. Of course, she's in love with her. He's going on
and on about this is the Midwestern thing that we love so
much as why, you know, the Johnny Carson's and the David
Letterman's do so well on television.
This is the big secret this is this is something that I've
known for almost all my life, Country and Western music is
laughed about a ska followed by the elitist media on the west
and the east. Okay, now it is they, they actually can't stop
it anymore, because now you have the Country Music Awards, but
the sales of not just actual CDs, but of concerts is so
incredibly large because it is actually what is alive in
America today. That's what people really like to listen to.
Dan have
a huge concerts. And if you take that and one more step and start
looking at NASCAR.
Oh, thank you very much. It was the largest League. It is the
largest spectator sport in the United States of America. It is
huge. And then the West Coast and East Coast elitist media.
Whenever they recognise it, they get it and they see this is the
secret to reality television. This they don't even understand
it yet. They're so frickin elitist. When people see
themselves standing in line, like slave sheep's. They love
it. Hey, look, I'm on TV, and I'm going to the stupid
audition. And I made it on. This is what Jerry Springer is about.
This is what it's all about John, and that's why these shows
are huge in the numbers. And and obviously it's it's not it's not
to not be the future of this great country. But that is the
reality. That is really what's going on and that is what you're
seeing this evening.
Okay, now I got the one the one domain the entire night. The one
and crypto were no real gaffes, except for the votes of the way
which is one kind of a gaffe. Besides, I think Mike Palin kept
calling that some general MCO Yeah,
but no, but no one knew that they all had to get their
analysts
that were I mean, they did.
Why didn't Biden correct her? Because you know, if he didn't
know it, either, Biden's
was better. Oh, what was that right and had a gap that I think
he's got a goal in mind. He's talks about that. You know,
there. He calls it the Bosnians, the Bosniaks.
Oh, I didn't hear that. That's fantastic. This is the that he
was so heavily involved in he doesn't even know what they're
called. Because of the bus. Wozniak's. Oh fantastic.
I didn't even say arias. I just Oh my gosh, that is so funny,
the Bosniaks but he
probably thinks Bharat really is from Kazakhstan.
So So here's the one that I thought when he brought it into
the I don't have the exact quote but he brought it in out of the
blue I guess as a reference all the Democrats that still
remember this it this is another one of these callbacks like 1932
that nobody gives a crap about keep brings up Judge Bork. Oh,
man. I mean,
did you hear that? He said Bork
Judge Bork Well, we could have been had Joe who knows
what the nobody likes me. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. This is
this is SMS society, man. You know, he, he also he was
underprepared. John, he really was not ready for this. He
really thought this was a shoo in.
I'm telling you know, you might be right. I thought he did a
great job.
Well, I think he told the truth and I think he spoke from his
heart but and I think he played his role expertly. You know,
this, he didn't attack her. Which just made it so easy for
her and you know, this is
what this is what all the experts predicted by the way.
Well,
I predicted it to not that I want to call myself an expert,
but I told you yours as
much of an expert as any of these other Boneheads. Thank
you. I appreciate that, my friend. Yes, very
good. Very good.
No Pay Palin did have a little gaffe, which I'm sure will
become a Freudian soundbite on YouTube. She had a couple of
them, by the way,
well, there was more than one of the prompts that she had. Do you
want me to say just one? Occasionally, she roamed into
that, you know, Miss teenage South Carolina thing where her
sentence structure started to break down. And she kept trying
to recover. And it was like, well, you try to wrap this up
before you embarrass yourself. Generally, Biden didn't do that,
too. But she would do it in a real weird way that you go. I
can see somebody bringing this one on YouTube.
Generally. She I thought her vocabulary was interesting. She
she definitely tried to start her sentences differently each
time. You know, I pay attention, that kind of stuff. And there
was no look and guess what and any of that stuff, although when
the I think this was the heartbeat away. So the gas that
she made there was instead of saying, John McCain to lead, she
said, No, it was John McCain to leave. I didn't hear that. Yeah,
that was one of the one of the moderators, she cracked a couple
jokes. And I was typing on the keyboard, so I couldn't hear it
to kind of need the in there. What to
just do any jokes. They were laughing
It was she'd like crack the little a little side joke. Just
before she laid into the floor. She said the jokes were laying
low. But the moderator said something. She said something
funny, but and the audience laughed.
Oh, did I do all I remember is the lame o thing. And then Biden
kind of had it come back, you know, think I'm funny or
something like that. That was his rice. No, but that was a
human moment. But I don't think it did much for the debate.
Did you look at the spikes? Was there anything there? Yeah,
it was it went up a little bit. Yeah. But it wasn't it wasn't a
spike. I mean, the spikes are always with the same all kinds
of, you know, grand issues, you know, in education to a lesser
extent, but personal responsibility was the big one.
Yeah. And dreaming corruption. Green corruption work with
McCain too. But the problem is, you know, the problem Palin had
she revisited it too often, she revisited two topics over and
over again, out of the blue, I thought it was a little
strained, about, you know, energy independence, and then
greed and corruption, she'd bring it in once you want to get
her numbers back up, you know, so here, so here's how to how,
by the way, she couldn't, you know, here's the thing that
somebody's one of these boneheads has got to do. I'm
sick of hearing this meme. The United States uses 21% of the
world's energy. And we only have 3% of the world's resources that
3% of the world's resources plus our coal is like 1000 times more
than anybody else has. And when it comes down to it that 3% of
the world's total, yeah, if you tapped it and just used it, it
would last for decades. I mean, the whole thing is bad math. And
the fact that the Republicans have bought into this stupid
argument, oh, well, we use 21% or 25, or whatever it is, it is
the world's energy, but we only have 3% of the world's
resources. Those 3% is more than we're using. Yeah. Nobody jumps
on that and says, Dude, this is just great. I mean, this is
there's got to, I have to think of an analogy, which I'll think
of, you know, it's like, you use like most of the tomatoes in the
world, but you know, you this kind of thing. I mean, there's
some there's some better way to some way of summarising that
bogus number, you're taking two different things.
So McCain and Palin can lock this up. And this is the twist
that I would I would give it considering I only have, what,
30 more days or whatever. I would have set it up so that
McCain can now say, I guess shit, he can, I guess because he
already voted What a dick, I would have done differently. If
he if McCain or Palin were to come out and say no to this
bill, in some way, right for the financial stability Act or the
Emergency Economic stability act. If there was some way that
they could talk that down, they could lock it up. Because that I
think is the number one thing on American's minds right now is
this and what is that going to do to the markets? And we know
Obama can't do it because he's, he's backed so heavily by Wall
Street.
Really, he's been mum on the topic.
Yeah, he's been sitting on observing from the sidelines or
whatever. Right, whatever he says. And I, you know, McCain
just voted against him. That would have been the moment
really, but maybe the timing wasn't right. Well, you know,
it's, he's, I don't think you can go back on it in any way.
You know, he can't say Oh, I you know, I want to mulligan is,
you know, that that whole topic is a problem. So, I don't know.
I think they're gonna have to win without that. But the it's
gonna be interesting to see what happens. I mean, there are
people you know, I had one of my bloggers, you know, most of my
bloggers may hate McCain. And one of them said, is McCain
trying to blow the election? It was a I guess it's one of the
read that actually interesting is not an unusual by the way. It
is funny because he's the Most left wing of the group. That
way, he's not really one of the bloggers. He's the sysop. Who
lead blog. And when he because he can't, he's his feels like
jumping in. Okay, but he gets good numbers usually didn't on
this one. So I can now you know, give him crap, right? He was
it's an interesting point because if you look at some of
the extreme right wing talks, guys are the most conservative
like Michael Savage. For example, one of the more
entertaining guys among the biggest talk show hosts in the
United States on radio. He said, he's been saying this from day
one, that the thing is rigged for McCain to lose, he wants to
lose it. Because you know, they want to get the Democrats in an
eye. If you listen to me and my, you know, 1480 year cycle thing.
The idea is, if you get the Democrats in during this point
of the cycle, everything they will never get in office again,
in their entire history that the party will be dead.
Well, you know, that's interesting, you say that, and I
don't believe the world is too dynamic. And this is why they're
all running scared, by the way to really plan something that
far ahead anymore. So I believe that Daniels, of course, the
true owners of the Earth, control both candidates. So I
think that they basically basically hedge their bets. And
you know, and it's a player, you can do worse
than dropping that theme.
Why I truly believe members of the gore. Oh, come on, you know,
what I'm talking about. These guys are all bought and paid for
Come on. That's obvious. I'm pleased. This is why I say Sarah
Palin, we need to create a movement have
a sense of the cycle, and they would want to get you know, one
person or other somebody in it for a particular
tank. And anyway, if they don't have that's already happening
that, you know, people are so stupid that you heard about the
White House saying, oh, we can't handle the email forms anymore
and more on our servers. So you can't automatically email your
representative because the PHP script is bogging down. Yeah,
what so? Of course, it's a crock of shit. That's horrible. It's
so that stuff is going on, man. So anyway, besides that, what we
need to do is we need to kidnap Sarah Palin and we need to
reprogram her so that we can you know take over these evil people
that are behind all of this that's that's an that's a stupid
theme. That's an actual that is what we should do with the
playbook. I'm telling you, these guys are brilliant. Did you hear
the axis of evil? She had an axis of evil in there. I loved
it. Well, it was Almudena job, Kim Jong Il and the Castro
brothers.
Stowers. Like it sounds like their band. No, it sounded like
evil gangsters. The Castro brothers brothers.
Brothers with Joey knuckles.
Mickey, Mickey blue, Nicki blue eyes Mickey blue, the Castro
brothers. Yeah, no, I love that.
That was a good one. But anyway,
obviously, you know, what cannot represent the United States of
America is this whole notion of, hey, look, no one's gonna have
nuclear shit only weekend. And that's the balance because we
fucking ruled the world. This was so evil. That was the stuff
that was coming out of her mouth. How did that do on the
scale?
It didn't do anything one way or the other? Because then he
always sends the women down. And the men are kind of like, well,
maybe we should you know. She did what she never said. I mean,
that was actually a pretty neutral little exchange. It
didn't amount to a hill of beans was
a huge issue. People don't care about us killing other people. I
guess we don't.
Generally speaking, I think it's pretty, it's pretty removed,
which I think the rest of the world doesn't quite get. But
that's just the way it is. I mean, you know, we're, we're,
we're close but not quite the Roman Empire. We have a certain
kind of Cavalier in this about us that you know, these other
moaners and groaners which is why that article which I have to
post them either when I sent you from the telegraph, but all
these Europeans and you've talked about it, oh, yeah, these
Europeans it's, it's America's problem, this whole economic
thing and now they're all screw I actually,
there's actually a new thread that I'm following because
people are now reading the new bill which is 541 pages you
know, this thing has grown just I've actually sent you a couple
of links. But apparently, they've set it up so that they
can actually just pay foreigners it's just it's just a Chinese
we're just gonna pay off the Chinese and then Okay, now let's
get back get back to business.
Like we don't give them enough money. Yeah, but ya know, this
whole thing is a total scam, but the market demands it when I did
a piece with Horowitz
they're telling us we're all gonna die if you don't do it,
they're saying that we're all gonna die. They're saying it. I
know financial terrorism.
But the market said we're very clearly Look, you guys do this
deal, or we're just gonna tank and that and you're gonna be
screwed. So okay, we'll do the deal. You know, like you said
the other day when I was talking to you said, Well, you know, I
say, you know, even though it seems like a lot of money, and
it does say the least, you know, 700 billion in an economy like
ours, it's a lot of money. It's about $2,500. For every lead,
it's not about the money. It's not about the money.
It's about the power and the control and a fourth branch of
government, but we're
not going to get that, you know, from these candidates. I mean,
nothing's going to change and it's just a cycle
baked into his job. This whole thing about carbon credits is
baked into this bill.
Oh, that did this really bugged me. Oh, it is baked in to the
bill, man is all kinds of carbon baked in, but I'll use it. I'm
sorry. What should
I say included constant when I say included or included would
be good, included and somewhat obscured? Because it's on page
3000, or whatever.
The fact that the two of them Palin and Biden went in, you
know, the Palin was a little better. She was better on two
things. One on that on the, you know, by the way, what are the
gays gonna do listening to fight and saying, Did you notice this?
Yeah, they
both said no way. No gay marriage.
A lot of Democrats were, that's I was shocked.
I was absolutely I was like, wait a minute, that doesn't make
any sense.
And he said that that data that Obama agreed with him so
now so there you go, there's your government art to our gay
listeners, there's your government, they hate you. They
hate you. Both of them you still gonna vote for one or the other
end was Palin was more magnanimous, of course.
And you know what she has, first of all, this is America, John.
And now now I'm actually sounding like an asshole
Republican. But the way she handled that as
opposed to a what?
Just a kook fucking Kook Oh koupit. I am. But the way she
handled that I was extremely impressed. He said, Look, it's
not my style. It's not my choice, blah, blah, blah. She
went through all that. And then she said, But you know what? I
stand by it. Marriage should be man and woman. So that's, you
know, that's that's something that's debatable. And we'll
debate about it forever. And, you know, that's okay. It seemed
to me, although she did skate around that answer, that she
agreed with just about everything and all legal rights,
et cetera, et cetera. But she was hiding something there. I'm
not quite sure what it was
the way she was handling and I thought was pretty, you know,
typical. She's a Christian and she's, you know, Pentecostal.
She has all these, you know, all this baggage, and she was
dealing with it as a person and she but you didn't feel that was
gonna get in the way over legislation, everything. But he
turned it over to Biden. The biggest
Yeah, it was unbelievable. And I think that's really going to
hurt him.
Oh, I think it's going to hurt the campaign because all these
gays are like, lined up lockstep with Obama and Biden. And now
they're hearing this. Yeah, this will be because I'm sure there's
a lot. There's a lot of there's probably as many gay people that
are Republicans as there are Democrats because it's got
nothing to do with anything. We're all gay. They're all
walking over toward the Democrat side, because it seemed as
though they were more amenable, but now it's like, well, what
difference does it make it? Let me just vote my party. Ah, that
was a botch.
That was a huge botch. But it also it came. It came from a
very direct very, that was one of the times he was extremely
direct and just said, No, I'm against gay marriage. Not gonna
happen. Yeah, so that was that, you know, at least you know what
you got with him?
Well, he was, you know, I thought, generally speaking, he
was he wasn't as direct or she wasn't, he wasn't as plain
talking as Sarah Palin. But he was he was just about as direct
without being completely obnoxious.
But he was bumbling look, again, I'm looking at it from I'm not
kidding. I'm looking at it from a NASCAR perspective. And he
sometimes he would go off and he would mention names who you
know, all these words, fancy words. And I'm not mocking
Middle America or anything like that. I love you. You've you've
you've given me a reason to have a career with shitty hair and
leather jackets. And I appreciate but you know, that's
what everyone says, oh, big hair dickhead. But you know what? I'm
just I'm basically I'm basically just the standard kind of guy
and I get a little kooky like we all do. We all like to smoke
some weed and hang out and play our country western music, and
we will play the game.
You'd actually be comfortable at a NASCAR race.
I've been to them. No, absolutely. And I've been to
IndyCar and Oh, yeah. I love it.
But today, I think you have sent you're on to something a little
bit. The problem we're gonna run into here is what happened with
Carrie. Carrie was looking actually pretty good. He was
still ponderous. He couldn't stop talking and droned on and
on. Obama is going to is approaching this kind of
ponderous, boring guy. And you know, as look gonna look to the
same old thing to Democrats that can't stop talking and there's
just a lot of, you know, and they're not dropping down to the
level where they're actually speaking to people. It's just,
you know, kind of talking to an audience. And I don't know, I
mean, I thought I still think I've thought from the beginning
that Obama's act, and I have to I'm not gonna say he's not a
good speaker, he can't hold an audience or he can't draw a
crowd. And I think they should have been selling tickets to
stadiums across the country from get from the get go. You know,
people would pay 100 bucks and fill a stadium to listen to this
guy, because they put on a great show. They got the stage,
it was awesome. It was a it was a class a rock show, let me ask
you something. Because someone, I listened to an interview
today, and I'll send you a link. I was actually listening to him
right up until the debate. And it was some guys of course, he's
written a book or whatever. But he was talking about Obama as a.
And of course, I want this on my resume, a community organiser,
and he was explaining what a community organiser was. And
essentially, it's someone who goes around in a community and
convinces people kind of turns their own opinion in their own
words into something that is beneficial to him, or whoever
he's organising for kind of like, like an internet chat
room. Moderator, if you will, but But you know, whenever the
owner of the bulletin board comes along and says, you know,
it says, I gotta say some of that it's like, oh, well, you
know, the owner of the system is here, I gotta let them talk. And
that his skill, and I, and this is what we're seeing his skill
is playing upon very deep emotions within his audience,
within people who are listening to them, and getting them to see
his way to truly change actually, is that a fair
assessment?
I think in some ways it is, it might be a little superficial,
but the fact of the matter is that community organisers guy
goes around with an agenda. And they go from place to place to
place to get people to agree with this agenda, whatever it
is, and he's and it takes a lot of work. This is like one of
those things I always thought, you know, there's, you run into
this a lot. Everyone in the United States has seen this
happen. You, you run into, for example, somebody knock on the
door, you know, you go to the door, and there's some data out
here, man, there's a little black kid selling subscriptions
to magazines, or candy or something, or else and they come
in they go, every once in a while one of these kids is so
driven, to sell you something that you'd go, wow, I would love
to have this kid working for me, selling you know, advertising in
a magazine or selling something because this guy's just just
relentless and he's gone and on and on. And I just sales guy.
And he's just never he's relentless getting to you have
to give him money to get out of there are some because you can't
you know, you we know people that do this.
We have that in the United Kingdom as well, by the way, and
okay. And this type of person is what a community organiser
basically as he goes around, and he says, you know, he's, unless
he's the leader of a bunch of these kids, it's that kind of
thing. And they're just floating around some area to get some
change made or to get a law passed or to kick somebody out
of office or whatever it is, in the case of the acorn, which was
one of the things he worked for, is still around and they seem to
be involved with getting people
mad. Just ask you something, just so I understand you, it's
me ask you specifically. I'm doing my Katie Couric. I asked
you specifically, is it only little black kids
that do this? No. There's all kinds of white kids or you said
it you said it's always a little black young, black kids who come
up with the newspaper thing or the magazine thing in mind, make
sure you're not a racist bigot cocksucker. I mean, there's I've
never I haven't seen a white kid. Come up to my house. In 20
years selling magazines is always black kids. And I was
using the black kids because they're the best example. And
I'm actually more impressed with them. Because they have two
black kid in a white neighbourhood. A black kid come
into a white neighbourhood selling magazine subscriptions
with a phoney baloney identification, the rest of it
takes a lot of nerve. It takes a salesmanship, it takes an ease.
It takes a lot of there's, there's so many elements. That's
what impresses me. I'm going wow, this this kid is
unbelievable. He's coming into an all white neighbourhood is
selling some crappy magazines that I don't want and he's
relentless was succeeding guilt trips on me and everything else
to get a sale. I'm just impressed believe me. That's why
I'm you know, I don't see why kids doing this.
I'm just saying that, you know, I'm just saying that to protect
you, John, because I know how stupid people are who listened
to the show sometimes,
ya know, I can understand why I don't want to. But there's not a
racist thing. It is a cultural thing. And it's, it's impressive
to me that these kids are so talented. That it's just like
wow, and Obama had to be in that league had to be Give me a
break. This guy was in a league by himself. Yeah, as a community
organiser, I'm sure Yeah. And he's obviously a dumbest guy.
And can I just
take that back? I came out wrong. The people who listen to
the show aren't stupid. Sometimes we just don't hear
things the way there are
some people that listen to show that are stupid and heinous.
That's just sitting there going.
Yeah, they're gonna hate you for defending me all. We had to
Varenka we could have had him as a racist pig.
Yeah, but John's because you suck. You know, you're one of my
true friends.
How sad is that?
It's bad. So, so anyway, but yeah, well, thanks for rescuing
me. Not you mentioned and you're probably right. I shouldn't have
you know, I could have said, you know, some ethnic kid I, but no,
it's usually black kids. And it's the black kids who
impressed me the most. And in fact, there was a I mean, I,
I've always had a lot of black kids or young black people. But
let me finish this. I have run into so many of these guys. And
every time I do I mean, I've seen guys at this toll plaza
collecting tolls that are so adept. There's a couple of guys
that are you there's a bunch of checkers at one of the stores
and there's like one black guy that is there when I see him. I
don't care if his line is 10 miles long, he will get me out
faster than anybody else. And there was a Costco recently I
was and again, it was one of these guys you can see a mile
away. They're just working their butts off. They're just fast and
they're enjoying
it should I tell you something? It's is these guys and gals, I
presume that when everything comes comes crashing down and
the money is useless for a while hyperinflation or whatever,
they're the ones that are going to succeed because they have
true social skills, and true business acumen that goes way
above and beyond all of this thievery that's been going on on
Wall Street.
Well, there may be that but I think they're just naturals and
they'll do example, the more recent I always do this, by the
way, I think people out there should do this. When you go into
a line, I'm looking at a line a bunch of Costco lines and, and
I'm always kind of making a judgement. You know, there's I'm
not knocking that this is where I could get myself into trouble.
We're making some generalities here, but I'm not going to do
it. But I will spot the guy or the girl who are just kicking
ass they are moving the line and you're
you're always looking for the for the man that just recently.
He is about to lose. Yeah. Okay. Oh, wait, came back. Maybe.
Okay, yeah,
I got okay. So this guy is checking me out. You know, I'm
getting we're running up my belt while taking the card with his
other hand with the other guy and starting his checking him
out while he's still finishing me. And I'm out of there. I pass
up everybody this in all the other lines and I went out and
what I want to tell people to do when you run into this, tell the
guy. Well, I would wish to I'd say, look, you're the best
checker in the entire place today. You kick ass. I really
appreciate it.
And let me let me tell you, John, I've I've run several
businesses. The last one was 750 people in like, seven different
countries. And you're always looking for these people. If you
look at me vo right now, we have such a I mean, the ethnic
backgrounds and race and creed and colour and sexuality and,
and just everything is so diverse. In fact, we're so
diverse that we're like a petri dish, because everyone's always
coming in with some exotic fucking flu bug. And we're
always sick all the time. But these people, the people you
have, you want them to kick ass. You want them to go that extra
mile. By the way, that is a very American thing. I don't have to
ask anyone in our company, if we're doing something to stay
until six or seven, they're doing it because they want to do
it and they want to be there. And otherwise it usually doesn't
work out pretty quickly. In Europe. Are you kidding me? Five
minutes to five. Hey, I got my coat on. I'm going home now.
Yeah, we'll start again tomorrow. That is truly an
American trait.
Right? Well, that. But I believe that's true, because they have a
different ethos. But the fact that what I'm what the point I'm
trying to make is that when you run into one of these people,
that is just astonishing worker that has gotten you out of the
store faster by five or minutes or more, you should say
something to them. Because they really and I've always found
this to be the case. If somebody gets a compliment out of the
blue from somebody for doing a really good job, they love it.
And it costs him better. Of course, with nobody very few
people do that. Oh, we've gotten to the culture of here's some
money, or here's a bullshit title. That's a good one.
They're gonna make you will make you a VP which means new
business cards. Congratulations, by
the way, every time everyone knows gets promoted like that, I
would say was that in lieu of pay?
Get No money?
No, I gotta cut and pay as a matter of
fact, that's why you know, just when when you're in but even at
the gas station, man anywhere if someone does if someone's
serving you, thank them.
Well treated regularly, if they are beat a lot of these guys
out, I've been that I like to comment, or you can tell they're
competitive. And they are trying to get they're just doing,
they're competitive, they're doing it. Because they really
like to compete. They want to be the best checker. Because what
else is there to do? If you're What if you're working at a
Costco check line with a bunch of 25 other people doing it?
What else is there to have? You know, you're just checking. But
if you're like checking 10 times more people than anybody else,
that's kind of cool. Now, it doesn't really take any, you're
still there, you might as well just do it as best you can. Let
me ask you a question. These are the people that need a
compliment. So when,
when they when you when you? Okay, so here's here's a tough
one, when you encounter someone who was clearly not doing a good
job of service, do you? I mean, do you just get into major
negative mode? Or do you say, Hey,
are you okay? Or do you say, hey, maybe
if you did it this way, it would be a little bit more pleasurable
for now. No, no,
no, you can't do that. I mean, I tried fact, today, I went to a
little place where they sell vegetables called Monterey
foods. And there's one grumpy old Chinese woman there. There's
older than anybody in the place, and she doesn't like to work.
Got everybody's got two or three people in all the lines, and
she's got nobody there. So I went in there, and it's like,
she's yakking with somebody else, and Cantonese. And she,
you know, doesn't know the price is I don't know what she's even
doing there. And she's flow and she sucks. And it's just
horrible. And you know, and what am I supposed to say to her? You
suck suck you?
Well, bit.
I mean, I couldn't do that. I mean, it's just like, I can't
just use don't go to her line, just to, you know, compliment
people for doing a good job. But you can't really say you suck to
everybody who doesn't do a good job, because that's all you'd be
doing all the time. Because most people are.
A classic John C. Dvorak moment, ladies and gentlemen, do you
want to go out on a hike? Or do you want to talk about food?
Because that was just that was too good, man.
Well, we might as well quit because we got a bunch of foods
talk coming up. I was thinking about it. We got one restaurant
or two maybe reviews in the can too. And then we got we're gonna
try to do some stuff next week, maybe something tomorrow. And I
was thinking about why it was, you know, we can do a lot of
food talking. I was, I was considering why do people care
about us? Reviewing a restaurant San Francisco, we have an
international audience. There's people all over the and it's
not, it's about the food, I think it's not about the food is
about the it's about the details of the you know, it's like the
what, what makes it good, which people should be looking for or
what we complain about. I don't know what it is.
I think I think people inherently realise you are what
you eat, and people are event people are switching on to the
idea that we're eating crap, we're just putting shit into our
bodies. And I think there's a there's part of that, John, I
think people do care. Just
part of that, in essence is also the one thing we do I think,
together on
our own where I live on our own
once in a while nobody else does, is that I think we're
meta. I think we actually kind of bring ourselves into kind of
an overview that is maybe different than what anybody else
does in this regard. And I think it's entertaining enough to
tolerate it
the only thing that that I think will be a bummer for know most
most of our non you pretty much everyone who is listening to the
show, I'm sure they they watched the debate the Europeans Of
course it was on the middle of the night. So I wonder and you
let us know you know how, how it related? How that worked for you
because you probably only got to see some sound bites and those
of course have already been filtered. Because you know who's
gonna sit through an hour and a half of of a debate that isn't
there isn't live anymore. You know, we're just gonna get all
the sound bites will be interesting to see what the the
international audience thinks about this.
You're back. There we go.
I don't know what you caught. I think I think I dropped off.
Well, anyway, John would say coming to you from Gitmo nation,
West. John C. Dvorak and my name is Adam curry. We'll talk to you
again real soon right here on no agenda.