Writing the wake of the new why Mar Republic still free and at
large it's time once again for no agenda emanating from both
coasts of Gitmo nation from the United Kingdom. I'm Adam curry.
And I'm in northern Silicon Valley, San Francisco Bay Area.
I'm John C. Dvorak.
And, John, how you doing on this Sunday?
Not that well, because my local football team, coached by a guy
who's obviously you can do the job anymore lost. So sorry to
hear that. Come about the University of California bears.
I'm a little bit out of whack. Just timezone wise. I was in
Amsterdam yesterday with with the girls, we had a surprise
party for Bob. Who's my stepdad. And so, you know, between the
San Francisco time difference, and then that one hour between
London and the mate or between the UK and continental Europe,
that really throws me off whack. And of course, it's just Sunday
in general. And I'm coming back tomorrow.
So you say?
Yes. So unfortunately, the plan that we had initially was for
you to send me a DVD of the CNN, side by side with the of the
debate along with the audience data from Ohio or whatever. And
that first is going to be sent on DVD within was all kinds of
unbelievable. You can't get a DVD overnight to Europe anymore.
That seems to be impossible.
Well, there's something to do with at least would we could
figure out it had something to do with you couldn't do it
because there's some restriction. You know, I don't
know, we couldn't do it. We couldn't get there till Monday
was the point.
You're kidding me.
So, if you send it on Thursday, you couldn't get in there until
until Monday.
That's what seems to be the case. You have a DHL, FedEx and
UPS,
but you have no idea what the limitation was. It was something
to do with 911 There was some No, you're kidding me? No,
that's what Maggie said. I don't know. I didn't talk to these
people.
It had to do with 911 and that you couldn't send me a disk.
That's just telling you. That's the report I got.
So then, of course, you had poured was David, Chris, Chris,
it you had them upload 4.4 gigs on some fucking server. And then
you actually believe or somewhat someone there thought that I was
going to download that. I mean, we can barely keep a Skype
connection going on. On the bandwidth. I got like, you seem
unreasonable. I got like one megabit down. Do you want to do
the calculation? It took him like one hour to upload it?
Yeah, he's got more bandwidth uploading that I have to four
gigs. That's an amazing amount of data. I
thought you'd have the somebody at the office do it. It doesn't
get better.
It it doesn't matter because he uploaded it to us server. And we
don't have a dedicated backhaul. You know, you're not getting
like, you know, true download data rates across across the
ocean and it just doesn't happen that way. Particularly, you
know, the server that he uploaded it to
so he never got to disk. I didn't have
the 36 hours but anyway, so I thought we could play a little
bit differently. Because amazing thing happened on my way back
from from the United States to Europe. I stopped caring about
the presidential debate. It's really It's pretty funny that
way,
you know well that's funny you say that because I have my notes
instead of being on a big giant box Yeah, just on the back of an
envelope and it's only like three things and
and so I arrived Thursday morning so they were still you
know, the debate was still kind of fresh because it took place
in the middle of the night UK time. And so I got like the
summary which was literally on the BBC I kid you not John. You
see them sit down at the table. You hear some blah blah blah
voiceover and then they went straight to a montage of Joe the
Plumber Joe the Plumber Joe the Plumber Joe the Plumber, the
plumber Joe the Plumber, Joe the Plumber. And that was that was
their entire report.
Yeah, they think that the Jon Stewart show the BBC.
It was unbelievable. And that was it and there was no I saw
him if you want to do something like that. Why don't you just
you just do a montage of of Obama go saying look, look look
look look let me tell you Look, my friends. Look, Joe the
Plumber look.
So anyway, but
I would love to hear your highlights because obviously I
know I heard Excuse me. I heard a couple of them had been read
Seeing a few quotes, you can't get away from it. Obviously,
there's no way you can be in touch with any media not pick up
some pieces of it. I would think. So I'd love to hear your
notes.
Well get a couple of things. For one thing. But two thirds of the
way through the debate, Obama all of a sudden decided that, to
heck with this format, I'm looking into the camera.
Oh, and he went, he went to his his teleprompter mode.
He listed what actually when he saw the teleprompter, they
usually left off. Yeah. They don't usually keep one on the on
the camera. Or maybe they probably do. They will. But no,
he just looked into the camera started, you know, telling
people look, you know, we gotta blah, blah, blah, blah. And he
started talking to the audience, right. There was a couple of
interesting facts that came out in the debate. One, I guess they
figured this out, which is kind of interesting that, you know,
because Obama's so international and all this, he's never been
south of the border. Hmm. And have you ever had that? How
did that come out? He just said, I've never been.
Well, McCain just said it. He says you've never been you've
never been south of the border. You've never been to Mexico or
South America. And you're and meanwhile you're trying to do
this treaty with with I think it was Colombia, there's some bill
or something that he's against. Oh, he doesn't know what he's
talking about. And I thought that was interesting, because
there's the guy supposed to be so well travelled. Right? I
mean, if the course the thing is that we have to always remember
is that George Bush, before he was elected president was never
out of the country at all.
Didn't even have a passport. Right? Like, like most
Americans?
That's 3% 25% came up again.
Oh, no. Did Did did McCain say anything about it? Anyone say
oh, about that new one. Just explain that briefly? Because
that is an earlier and I don't know, if everyone if everyone
listening has we have the
resources and the world's oil reserves, yet, we use 25% of the
oil, Daniel oil production. Now, it's a it's a complete specious
thing to say it's got nothing to do one does not have anything to
do with the other. If we if we use that 3% Well, how long would
that last us? It would probably last us, you know, years
decades. Because that 3% is a lot. Yeah. And the other fact
is, of course, you want to talk about stuff like this, you have
to mention that we have 350 years worth of coal energy
available to us within our own
borders. Okay. McCain wants nuclear.
She doesn't want Yeah, apparently he does. He's
interested, which is weird, because one of the biggest
providers of of nukes is General Electric. And they obviously
don't want McCain.
But at the end of the day, they're backing him. You know,
they're backing Come on.
Come on, they got MSNBC, it just and NBC in the network,
of course, but they've got ahead. You're just talking about
what they've kind of hedged. They've got a hedge, no doubt
about it. I saw just as an interlude, I saw what's your
name? Lynn forester. de Rothschild was on Fox News the
other day and, and she's now saying, because she was
supporting Obama, and now she's saying I'm switching I'm
supporting McCain. Because yeah, just speaking of big money, he
was good.
Yeah, no, I don't remember ever seeing her. Okay, couple more
things. There's not that many. Obama did say the N OB. I'm
sorry. Obama said look at we're gonna look we like to look at
offshore in terms of drilling. And McCain got busted him for
saying we're going to look at it and say, what is it doing? That
was cute. Obama said his faux pa that I thought was funny. He
said and this is a direct quote. We're going to enforce unfair
trade agreements.
Anyone? Did anyone catch it? No, of
course not. Nobody catches anything. Anything that's
fair, I will enforce.
Here's a couple more gaffes. Here's a McCain gaff, but it
wasn't a gaffe. It was just bull. McCain threw in Herbert
Hoover, this is like a cookie what you'd call a callback for
people over 70. Okay. But anyway, so he says Hoover, he
admitted implying that Obama was gonna get an example of a Hoover
which by the way, would be the case based on my cycles. Anyway,
he says we went from a deep recession. Because of Hoover. We
went from a deep recession to a depression. That's bull. It's
just Hoover Hoover, when he was in office. When he got elected,
that was not there was not a deep recession going on, at
least by any standards I've ever researched and Anyway, there was
a crash during his thing and it just drove into a deep recession
and right into a depression after he got elected. Now I'm
I'm a little bit younger. The only reference I have to Herbert
Hoover is the theme tune to all in the family.
So right Yeah, it's funny.
So why would Archie Bunker like Herbert Hoover,
it would do was just mock the Republicans. Nobody liked
Herbert Hoover. Anyway. McCain had one more kind of a gaffe
where he didn't call a hint. You know, like Joe the Plumber, I
guess became a you know, these are, I was talking to my wife
about this, you know, Joe the Plumber. So the way people used
to be named back in the feudal era, you know, you'd be Joe
Carpenter, you were the carpenter. Yeah. Or, you know,
Adam broadcast should be your name or Adam, when Napoleon an
executive
when Napoleon conquered Europe, in the Netherlands, you see a
lot of this. Everyone had to reregister their names. And
because, you know, typical Dutch they registered with really,
some was like, you know, I'm John the carpenter, so it'd be
timber mom, or I'd be the baker and you still have lots of these
very simple names, but there are a lot of them that people had to
later, you know, centuries later change their name, because it
was like some really rank shit. I'm Peter the whore, you know,
stuff like that.
Yeah, there's all kinds of funny examples.
Well, you know, those guys, they have a dry sense of humour over
there. Yeah, no shit. So, so McCain get one point called
Obama, Senator government.
That's Senator government. That's pretty yeah. He
said, Senator government, I Obama. Senator government,
again, you know, nobody's you know, I just, I never saw any of
this written about, it's just like, nobody does a very good
job of any of this. Meanwhile, they will do one thing that I
thought was interesting that that nobody again, you hear
McCain had a shot at this. Obama made the out and out claim and
you can find it in a transcript that the average health care
plan for an individual in this country anyone is $12,000 a
year. But that's what he said, that means everyone's paying
$12,000 dollars a month health care premium. That's
that can't be true. It's not true.
That's the point. McCain has a number, another high number,
which is closer to the reality for some people, which is $5,800
a month. And he said that a year. I think that's not the
average number either. No, I
think it's lower. I think it's lower than that.
Well, what is the what what is the typical cost for an
employee? At a company? Yeah.
And obviously, we our benefits, I think are pretty good. We even
have we paid I think half dental even which I which I guess is
good. Either. And yeah, I think it's between two and 3000.
A year? Yeah. Yeah. I don't think Yeah, well, there's the
12,000 coming from maybe man's world. And nobody calls him on
it in the media. Nobody called. I mean, this is, but throw out
some outrageous number like that, you know, I've had to pay
for my own personal health care, or every so often. And I know
what the figure is, it's not cheap, but it's not $12,000. For
God's sake. Well, I'll
tell you, we have private insurance. I couldn't I was
afraid to switch honestly. Because, you know, then Patricia
would have a pre existing condition and she's been on
we've been on this medical before a heart trouble. And
we're paying about 4500 year it's a European 4500 euros a
year and she has you know, has had some really expensive shit
done. And so I still don't understand what the 12,000 comes
from that just makes no sense but it's really
comes out of is it comes out of his ass is where it comes from.
And I'm actually shocked that this stuff just flies around and
nobody says anything. I'm not because
this is like, Boston Legal. You know, you watch it for denny
crane. And you know, and for surely and, you know, when they
get into the real courtroom stuff and the technicality, like
just gloss over it, who gives a shit? You know, we're watching
the show here.
Okay, so So here's the latest. So the news this morning, of
course,
Colin Powells. Colin Powell endorses
Barack Obama and everybody runs this as a straight story. The
funny the The interesting thing about that story to me is nobody
makes the following connection.
Except you my friend,
Colin Powell. Where is he getting most of his money
nowadays? You know, he's a consultant. Yeah, he's Kleiner
Perkins. Who is right it was which was largely run by John
Doar who was a major Democrat funder who also hired Al Gore so
they could do their green stuff. And so you have this little
cabal out here on the West Coast consisting of door gore and
Powell and Obama and everyone's shocked,
you know, Schwarzenegger is in that group too, as his Bano.
Yep, I know, but they're not on the Kleiner Perkins masthead.
Colin, Colin Powell is on the Kleiner Perkins masthead and so
as Gore Kleiner perkins.com or KKKP BC B. Kleiner Perkins
Caufield and byers.com and look at their partners, you will find
their names and may
I just say to state the obvious look at who they invest in, and
they're one of our investors in the in the Financial Times the
weekend edition. Colin Powell was in the UK just I guess,
maybe Thursday, and he has a picture of him onstage with his
new tune Colin Powell dances with Nigerian hip hop group at
London festival this week is the end You know, he's got he's got
like his, his fingers sticking out like he's doing it. Oh,
yeah. And he's got a sunglasses on. I gotta send you the
picture. He looks like such. Like, it looks like Kanye West
is next him that doesn't look like the Nigerian guy. I think
it's Kanye West. I'm sure maybe it's online, but you got to look
at it. Because it's like, yeah, that that's the guy that
endorses Obama.
So anyway, so that was fixed that was rigged. And, you know,
getting them to just imagine that John Doerr was strong
arming him,
you know, but they were already ramping that up. And then you
were reading the possibility of him endorsing Obama for at least
36 hours.
Well, they that was that type of ramp up the way they were doing?
It was obviously to see what kind of pushback was gonna see.
Exactly, exactly. And they got none. Obviously, people said,
Well, what do you expect? And so they're probably just gonna
blame it on the fact that well, you know, Powell is black and
you know, they're all black. So you're gonna push for Obama and
that's that, but that's not the reason is because of this green
stuff.
So I think I Are you done? Because I want to continue on
Obama if you're done with the debate. Yeah. I think now it's
time to talk about Project Oscar Mike. November Delta.
Okay, here we go.
You don't know Oscar, Mike. November Delta?
Oscar Mike. November de om en de
Yes. That would be the Obama milk next door. Oh, God,
do you really want to talk about that now?
What do you want to talk about later?
We'll keep that a surprise for later. Yes. That's probably a
good idea.
I think you should We should finish the project before we
actually reveal the details. Well, there's been a new twist
to the to the to the project. Since you touch since you sent
me the email. Yeah,
there's been a couple more emails.
Okay, well, I think we should we should use that as a teaser. You
should document this as you you know, take a few notes. You
don't have to like get carried
I believe me. I'm taking notes. I even have my my daughter in on
on this. She's helping me out. Up to this isn't like a family
project now. All right, well, maybe next week, next week will
be more appropriate because then it actually might even come to
closure.
As it were okay. So let's we're going to leave the audience
hanging even though you know that, you know, although that
is,
but they must they must hate us for that.
I don't you know what, I don't think so. I mean, the fact is,
let's let me just explain to the eyes. Adam has this kind of a
amusing project that unfortunately, tell talking
about it could ruin the outcome and we don't want to ruin the
outcome? I don't think so. I have too many I know you say
that. But I'm not I don't take any chances on this kind of a
situation.
All right, because it is a good Well, anyway, let me just say
that part of the project is to understand more about the
operations of the Obama campaign. Is that fair to say?
Yes, you can say that. Okay. And one of the things that has
already come out of this project is that the Obama camp is
extremely not just worried but convinced that if he wins, it'll
be an automatic recount. And it's funny because this comes on
the heels of this oh, you know, the acorn Ohio voter
registration fraud and you know, all this kind of noise is
starting to crop up and I think they might have a good point.
Well, that's why the other thing that people should know about is
the 50 state strategy. And you find that when you if you if I
go to Berkeley now i to shop at one of the you know, better
vegetable stands upscale vegetable stands and what's not
really upscale but it's got definitely you know, when you
can buy 10 to 20 Different kinds of mushrooms including Shan
trolls for nine bucks a pound you
you know you're in Berkeley
well, anyway they places crawling with people signing you
know anyone up they can feed to get their money, they're still
collecting money like they're like they're going out of style,
but they have this thing called a 50 state strategy which is
they're going to push the get their numbers they want to get
so many so much in the way of total how has
to be a landslide because they do it because they're afraid of
the of the recount.
Right. And there's also a big push to get people to to
absentee ballot as much as they can to try and get them into pre
vote. They want everyone to vote if you You can vote now vote,
they will because they don't. They're worried that people can
change their mind at the last minute because it does happen in
these elections.
I'm a little confused about how this pre voting works. Because,
you know, I already found out that that was one of you know,
that you know, what's called a 50 state strategy, but I know
that they were working on on a lot of early votes. How can how
can it be that we have people who are able to vote? Is that
only by absentee ballot, that you can vote early? Or how does
that work?
Well, as far as I went in California, I think the only way
you can vote early is with an absentee ballot. And the other
states, they may have some other process where you can actually
go in and vote in advance. I don't know maybe somebody out
there knows. Some Obama supporter who can tell. Yeah.
All right. So anyway, yeah, we'll talk about No, because one
of the reasons I want to put off the deeper discussion about the
Oscar Meyer, North Dakota is the October 14 fiasco.
Ah, yes. About the the alien ship that was supposed to
surface somewhere near a place or thing called Alabama It was
to be there for three days, three days? Yeah. Well,
obviously, I'm a gullible bonehead. I might, I might as
well put that upfront right there. I will say that. Totally.
I'm a gullible bonehead, no doubt about it. I will say that
there are no there. There's a couple of like three or four
pretty good video videos of UFOs and lightships taken around the
globe on the 14th, which is actually probably low for a
typical day. And I still believe that we're not alone in the
universe. But yeah, I'm pretty much done with the with the
channelling business. That that didn't work too well for me.
No, I'm Jen, you got a bunch of flack, too. But well, that was
fun while it lasted. Well, you were lightly glib just before
the day with, you know, with the possibility, perhaps I mean, I
find it hard to believe but with the possibility actually ringing
in your head that this could happen.
Well, yeah. I'm young and hopeful.
hopeful. I'm hopeful we get invaded from Mars and all. I was
hopeful for an invasion. I
don't know. Now, now that I know that they're not coming. Or at
least the messages that have them coming have were bogus. Now
I'm worried about us getting eaten alive here on Earth by the
reptiles that run the frickin place. So now I can focus my
energy entirely on the world around us and the true reality.
Because that that's getting bad.
So talking about eating we so we had a dinner. Yes. By the way,
I'm reminded of a show I tried to do these more often the
segways there's a show on this hour has 22 minutes, one of
their little sub shows is called awkward segways. And it's just
the funniest thing you've ever seen. It's very difficult to
write. But anyways, in terms of awkward segues, we went to a
restaurant called Eisah. Yes, I've just decided that we're
going to go do we're gonna have to drop our target to some
restaurants that are a little
more certainly affordable, maybe less formal, less sticky, but
actually, these are the real gems is what we're looking for
now is great food at a reasonable price. A nice
atmosphere and not, you know, the the Ritz Carlton instead. I
mean, what basically John, the expensive stuff has been pretty
shitty. Recently.
We were disappointed. Yeah. So I thought maybe going to the
second tier, which are places that are considered kind of
gourmet ish. But you know, wouldn't be getting a Michelin
star anytime soon.
Not with the rope light around the railing now? I don't think
so.
So we go to this place Eisah which kind of kind of a nice
front, a nice front of the house or the bars were in San
Francisco just so people know. It's in San Francisco and it's a
little bit
off the beaten track kind of
new actually, that's maybe one of the better parts of town.
It's a town part of town where the where there's a lot of
restaurants Steiner, and Lombard, and I thought the place
was the front of the house. I thought it looked like it looked
like it could have been in front of a disco is too many.
It's dark, and it had rope lights all over the place. It
was
funny. Yeah, it was like it was It wasn't you know, I didn't
think it was a very good taste and the front of house also
didn't that was kind of odiferous. It did the smells
from the kitchen which was an open kitchen by the way and very
Are you look very clean and look pretty nice. But it was there
was no ventilation in the front of the place near the street.
But in the back they had where most of the people were kind of
covered garden. Right. It was a covered patio. And it was big.
But it was like being in somebody's backyard. You know,
there was wood, like a little porch. And it was strange. It
was unusual. That said, I think overall the food was worth, you
know, worth it. It was nice. And it was very inexpensive. Yeah,
the service was the service was great,
was good. And, you know, it was it was it was almost kind of
like a family atmosphere that in fact, there was no like some
kind of family reunion with three or four tables shoved
together, right behind us. But yeah, it was good. And I was
actually quite hammered. We had whatever we we had, like a
couple glasses of wine.
I don't know what happened to you. But you're actually what we
did. We had a glass of Chardonnay, because we're gonna
have oysters. They had some very, we got a couple dozen
oysters. And you were actually I noticed this, by the way, you
were actually hammered on the one glass of white wine. Yeah.
How do you know I'm hammered, John, what's the giveaway?
I'm not going to tell you now. I don't want to tell your tell.
But I said Sam, I'm thinking what the hell this guy gave a
completely empty stomach. And which I had to assume. And
because the oysters obviously will not do anything to him. You
know, the, you know, that's not going to help and, and then we
had a really nice bottle of 2004 Heights Cabernet, which was you
liked and it was good. And the thing is, is that was compared
to these other places we were at where we would have paid
probably 8090 bucks for a bottle. This was 55 which was a
cheap, relatively even though the wind you can buy I think at
the store for 30. Straight you know, I think all the prices are
the ways to be honest about because I was looking at him was
less than a double, you know, most of these places double the
retail market. I think these guys may have been doubling the
wholesale price, which is really the old old school way of doing
things right. You double the wholesale price and or what
actually don't double what you it's more it comes out to be
less than double the retail price. If you know that the one
is 30 bucks, and they're selling it for 55. And all the other
ones are matching, they're less than doubled, as opposed to the
Ritz Carlton, where they were the prices of the wine were
triple. Yeah, the retail price and you find that in most of the
expensive restaurants. tripling the retail price, it was
recoilless and it was cork.
Now the wine had the Ritz Carlton.
Yeah. So anyway, I would say this is a great restaurant to go
with an acquaintance or friend, possibly even family if it's
like four, and the kids aren't too young, because otherwise
it'd be bored. Not a place to take a date. Really?
No, no, definitely not. It's too funky look like it? I don't know
what it would be. It just doesn't feel like a date place.
No, I'm not going to include it in Project Oscar Mike November
Delta. Good. So my sister loves the foods talk. By the way. I
saw her last night she was in she lives in Italy. And she was
they were their kids. And she said, Oh man, when you guys talk
about food, particularly. It lays it in the wine. I love
hearing about the wine, as he was actually kind of really
complimentary about you, which was unfortunate. You want to
hear from
you. Except for you. The family seems to be pretty bright
speaking Speaking of family and food. I have extremely good news
for you. I'm so glad I came back. You know, I had time on
Friday to go into into the city with Patricia to look at the
house. And oh yeah. And so you know, we haven't, we haven't
really you know, I've explained it here until you've signed in
blood on the dotted line. There's no deal with the in the
UK market, which is good. And of course the market is tanking.
And it's everyone's in terror. But I knew I knew that there
were a couple of things that both Patricia and Christina had
overlooked when because I know what they were falling in love
with. And it wasn't the right things. And there was a
secondary place like a backup that that I knew we had to see
which none of us had seen. And so there were a number of signs.
You know, we're when we're buying houses, boy, we really
care about the actual numbers not you know, we're basically
like how do you feel? Do you want to live here etc.
Well, you know, that's that's a reasonable thing. You do have to
live in the place and if you if the if you're uncomfortable, or
if that place has a bat and I hate that and I am not the
cornball type, but I believe there's a vibe that you go to
this place is nice. Yeah.
Do you have good vibes or bad vibes? So there were a number of
things, which I don't have to explain. And then so we went to
look at the other place. And so you know, it's the minute
Patricia walked in, she's like, Oh, and it's night and day
difference in in a number of aspects. But she was like, Oh,
wow, this feels really good. Until you know, there's A whole
bunch of things just Tick tick tick and then right there in the
kitchen John.
Oh, you're kidding me. No, I'm
not there is a off white cream coloured Agha, sitting right
there like this is the sign for this is the hand of God has
touched my shoulder and said, this is the this is the one. So
we've put in an offer and then hopefully we'll be able to get
this place.
That's too much. Yeah, because I know how much anybody who
doesn't listen to the show all the time. And by the way, if you
do listen to the show, please tell a friend we'd like to get
our numbers up to a point we can actually make money. But Adam
has a there's a crackpot stove that I looked at years ago when
I was getting upgrading my stoves and called an AGA that is
always fascinated me and Adams the only person I know that
actually has one. And now apparently there's a I guess
there's more than one in the city. And yeah, you you that
would be the sign. Yeah, that would be the big you know, yeah.
Right. Just like that joke where the guy's on top of the roof and
a flood you know, he's in you know, you can make this Katrina
flooding and he says, you know, a guy comes by in a boat, and he
says, hey, you need some helping get in the boat. When get out.
You said, Oh, no, no, God's gonna save me. I don't worry
about it. Okay, and a helicopter comes by says no, no, no, don't
worry about it. God's gonna save me. And then you know, then
something else and something else. And then the next thing
you know, he drowns and goes to heaven. And he says, Well, I
think you're gonna save me, too. And God says I should I sent a
helicopter.
Exactly. Well, the oghuz aren't very typical in the city as far
as I know, it's much more of a country home type thing. And
what's nice about the AGA is it actually it becomes the centre
Hirth of not just the room but in many in many cases the actual
house because it's on all the time imagine a huge cast iron
oven and actually has four ovens and two hot plates on top. And
you know, the pets lie in front of it you you you can put your
fresh laundry on top of it to keep it warm before you've put
it in the in before you put it away. You lean against it in the
morning with your cup of tea. I know it sounds a little dorky
but it's really a lot more than than just a cooking device but
Patricia is actually making chicken right now in the AGA
here and it tastes better. I mean, I know my wife's cooking
for almost a quarter of a century and it's better when
it's done in the AGA
Yeah, I think it was has something to do with the way it
did the way the heat is or the way the infrared rays are
bouncing around. I don't know it's not just I think it's
almost as though you're cooking in a in a cast iron. It's just a
surrounds wood. This I don't know how it works. Never mind.
But it surrounds the product with heat in such a way that it
makes it guided I know. It's like a slow cooking device.
Hey, this sounds like you're stumped John. I don't know.
I've never cooked on one of my very you may have only even seen
just seen him and it's it's always fascinated me because I
know that people will have these devices rave about the product
that comes out of them. Yeah, absolutely.
Okay, awkward segue back to the front page of the Financial
Times. I know you don't subscribe yet, so I might I mean
it's once again just chock full of nuggets. And this one you're
gonna want to blog this Andrew LOD LH D hedge fund manager who
quit after posting an 870% gain last year, he quit. And he sent
him a two page letter to all his already blogged out he did it to
all of his clients, thanking stupid traders for making them
rich. And hideous. Yeah. And actually, what do you say?
Idiots whose parents paid for the prep school Yale and then
the Harvard MBA? They were there for the taking. He said he loved
making those idiots his counterparty but of course the
the part that I liked is that he then goes on to endorse
marijuana or hemp actually.
Exactly. I have the headline. Crack pot I call him a crackpot.
Of
course, of course, we're all cracking. This is clearly a
brilliant guy. No doubt about it. He knows what he's talking
about the innocuous plant.
Here's here's the headlines you
get the headline and this is it. This is my this was a quote I
like the evil female plant marijuana. It gets you high. It
makes you laugh. It does not produce a hangover. Unlike
alcohol. It does not result in bar fights or wife beating so
why is this innocuous plant illegal? Is it a gateway drug?
No. That would be alcohol which is so heavily advertised in this
country? Yeah, good on you man.
crackpot millionaire weed loving money manager calls it quits and
thanks idiots out there.
We've loving money manager
I love writing the headline I mean, yeah,
that's excellent.
Very, we'd love in money manager,
oh, I want to say, I want to say something about Obama, because
because we're not going to come back to him. I'm sure. There's
this PDF file floating out there that if you don't have it yet,
I'll send it to you. And it's empirical proof, of course, of
Obama using neuro linguistic programming and other hidden
hypnosis techniques in in all of his speeches and his television
appearances, and I think there's something to that.
That's funny. Yeah. Like to read that.
Yeah. It's, like 60 pages, you know, when you when you read it,
and and, you know, I'm sure you've read up on NLP. I mean,
who hasn't? Yeah, he's, he's doing a lot of stuff. That is,
you know, maybe it's just some kind of training or, but it's
working, that's for sure.
Yeah. He's got the bots working for him.
The Obama bots. And
something we didn't talk about last week, which I'm kind of
bummed about. Your hider? I'm sure you blocked this. No,
I don't know. Doesn't ring a bell.
Do you remember who your hider was? No, it doesn't ring a bell.
He was the extreme right wing Austrian politician that people
equated with the Hitler. Yeah, yeah, I do remember that. Right.
So I never really looked into and of course, this was several
years ago. And like, what I'm sure he is, you know, someone
coming from Austria. That sounds like Hitler, the possible. So
here's the series of events. He was on television in a
roundtable debate. And he said, you know, we have to put an
immediate end to this banking mafia, you know, and he was
really going off on a rant but really calling in the mob and
organised crime. 36 hours later, he's dead. A high speed car
crash by himself. Right. And when you see the picture of the
car, this is like this perfectly round puncture right in the roof
above the driver's side, almost like an RPG hit it. But pretty
amazing.
taken out by a drone.
You know, I?
I wouldn't even laugh about that. Honestly.
It's possible. But you know, I don't think the better No. So
you're a hater. I should look into that. See what the deal is?
Yeah. I'll send you a link. I gotta send you a lot of links.
There's, there's so much stuff.
So Bill Maher,
you're a fan of that of his show. I know you watch that,
don't you?
I watch it. I can I can barely get through it because Maher is
so creepy.
Well, he Yeah, he is he had this. This guy on the former
Comptroller General. And the Comptroller General, is part of
the I guess it's the congressional oversight bureau.
Does that sound right? They're independent. Never heard of any
of this stuff? I think they're independent from from
government. But they have some kind of oversight. God knows.
But this guy was on and I saw a YouTube clip. And he lays into
the whole bailout. He's like, Dude, this is not, you know, 850
billion. This is a $56 trillion deficit that we now have added
to, he was saying that the actual deficit if you take all
the off book transactions is $56 trillion, not 10. And I was, I
was kind of shaken by that. Like,
oh, well, there's, there's a number that the CIA Factbook has
on one of its pages, showing all the debts of all the nations
around the world and we're it's like we're at some number where
the next country of we're dead we're dead last word, the worst
in the whole world, right. And the country that's up next is I
gotta get this page. Zimbabwe obviously. No, no, they're not
even know it's somebody else. They don't they get Zimbabwe can
have enough debt to even get on the list. Right?
For his poor, right, I'm sorry.
And by the way, I do want to thank Stroh, who was sent me a
$10 million Zimbabwe note I'm gonna have to post it I hope to
post it today.
And you promised that last week yeah,
I know. I just said you know, I just can't get enough. Done I
can't get enough done it's ridiculous. But anyway, so yeah,
the debts pretty bad. But there was a guy that wrote again, in
the Financial Times there was a really good article was by a
professor that broke down the, the bailout and extremely
interesting ways. And it was an argument that is, in fact, it is
a good idea. DNA was well structured. So, you know,
there's two sides all these arguments. Now what I wanted
wanted to talk about today since we're talking about greenbacks
is the green channel. And working on the segments. We have
on the Dish Network now a new channel that showed up out of
the blue called green. And it has some of the most dreadful
programming. And we've talked about this over a year, the meat
you had me do about is desert. Is there any real market for you
know, this guy, everyone wants to do this green programming?
And is there anybody willing to sponsor it? And it's
questionable, but this green channel is a proof of the
pudding. But you can see that the programming is so dreadful.
It's if anyone has the Dish Network you should check this
out. And You especially want to take a look at this dinner with
Tom Tom fares you're on the guy who does?
Oh, no, that's, uh, he's like some dorky videos guy. Oh,
that's it, right? Yeah, America's Funniest Home Videos.
Yeah.
So he brings out in this when I watch it, in fact, I'm making a
copy for you. Because you have to watch it because it's a jaw
dropper. It's like a bunch of cliches. You know, these people
sit around, there's a whole group mole Hollywood types. And
they're all sitting around a dinner table eating this green,
you know, very everything is, you know, local and to all this
other crap, that's all trendy right now. And it's to listen to
these guys spew these cliches about one thing or another. And
this is one I think, where I heard the, the one that just
floored me, which is that he will do more good for the Earth.
By the way, the whole thing this whole thing is all about just
that more. I just watched his green stuff, the more I'm
thinking it's you know, political, veganism, Bull.
I'm with you, man. But you know what it's, it's, it's NLP. It's
total programming. It's saying
here's the way they will let me give you the meme. You do more
good, more green comes up for you, you'll produce more green,
whatever it balanced, you know, or your carbon footprint.
Everything's improved. Much more. So if you if you if you
become a vegetarian, you make a decision to stop eating meat and
eating and become a vegetarian. Then if you sold your SUV and
never drove again, or if you sold your SUV,
and I know bought a hybrid. I know
the logic of this.
Look, we've been programmed through people
hate cows.
Oh, it's all it all boils down to the horrific images of Al
Green's bow green. That'd be funny. Al Gore's Al Gore's movie
read like an Al Green dude. That's an insult to the Reverend
okay. No, Al Gore he had a great movie it freaked everybody out.
And it's it's been embedded you know, in fact, I was thinking
about this it particularly in light of this green shit and and
and you know, and the carbon credits and all this crap that
we're going to be getting ramped up our ass pretty soon. And I'm
currently tax cut well carbon credits that go into that comes
along with carbon tax. I'm beginning to think that maybe
the the bush Gore election, maybe the whole point was to
have it be a close call Alibaba gracefully and then come back as
a hero to save the world. I'm almost thinking it was planned.
Mean and look at how fast all of these taxes and all this crap
came about. Meanwhile, the oil is down to 7070 bucks a barrel
and flying is still outrageously expensive mainly because of all
these idiotic taxes which get keep getting put on on top of
the regular fare. It's crazy.
When it's not so the fear the plane doesn't take off and land
with or without the tax.
Okay, it's called Planet green. It's because it says channel
name green, but the network is planet green. Is that possible?
Is it a green.is that their fucking logo? Yeah. Okay, let me
just read this description. Planet green is Discovery
Communications global cross company initiative, with a
commitment to document preserve and celebrate the planet,
including the first ever 24 hour eco lifestyle television network
coming to homes on June 4 2008. Planet green is the multi
platform media destination with a mission. It's the Centre for
the new green conversation, speaking to people who want to
understand green living and to those who truly want to make a
difference in meeting the critical challenge of protecting
our environment. Planet greens unique content, tools and
information will enlighten in power and most importantly,
entertain
Christ and know how much entertainments involved karaoke,
oh, it it's like, you know, a jaw dropper. And it's all you
know, mostly it's just a bunch of people sitting around and
different shows. If they're not like, you know, yodelling hippie
singing songs, you know, with a guitar. My lord, or your are a
bunch of pretentious, you know, kind of rich grew up from
Hollywood, you know, that are just seemingly to go along with
anything that comes their way. It just you really have to
people should just watch it and see how much of it you can take
maybe like it better than I thought it was absolutely
horrible.
That's another thing I really hate about this presidential
race. You know, the the question that Sarah Palin never answers,
you know, is and of course, it's now been whittled down to our
greenhouse gases manmade or not, which, of course, is not even a
fair question. It's annoying. It's really, really annoying
that people have just taken all of this for for granted, you
know, and they keep throwing the IPCC report back in your face.
And we'll look at all these researchers and your thing is a
total Sham. And there's been tonnes of reports for
researchers that have debunked at all not to say that we're not
that we're not fucking up our Earth, obviously. But you know,
the idea of, you know, taxing or buying credits, so I can still
pollute, it's ridiculous so that someone else will have to
pollute less in the future is bullshit. It's almost like your
like your pension, like your Social Security. I'm never gonna
see if I get a dime of that. John, you might not even see it,
and you're getting in there. See it? But you know, and I'll see
that, listen, the New York comptroller is now taking $110
billion of pension money to save New York from the crisis then,
and he said, Well, no worries, because of course, all invested
wisely. Bullshit. It's gone. Well,
yet, it is gone. In fact, Andrew Horowitz on one of our
conversations that you people should listen to, if you're
interested in the stock market, that's mentioned mentions that
he, as far as he can tell, in New York is broke the way it was
back in the Ed Koch days, and nobody wants to talk about it.
This is what I'm saying, man. No, right now we're in. Look,
we've talked about how this has become the nanny pussy, not the
state, but the world. And there's no losers, everybody's a
winner. And what no one wants is to accept that we are about to
get our asses kicked in real time, big time, by what has
happened to the financial structure of the world. And
particularly in the United States, we all lived above our
means, you know, 125 to maybe 300%. Paid in the credit cards
are all filled up. It's over. It's done with but no one
actually wants to go through any pain. And so you're not even
seeing it on television, people getting kidnapped. The guy in
London, the real estate agent, just this week, he said to
people who couldn't sell their home, were trying to rent it
out. He went to go get the keys to show a prospective tenant.
And the bank had foreclosed on both of them any any had another
client who was renting and he had to find him another place
because the bank had the ad repossessed the apartment or
whatever it was, and the guy was kicking the guy out, he paid his
rent. This is real real pain that's happening. No one's
taught this not on mainstream television is being held back
purposely.
Now they're too interested in carbon credits and you know,
green and climate change.
While Iceland you'll love this. And this is something I was
pointed out to me in a Dutch food retailing website, like an
industry type website. That in Iceland, where of course the
whole country has collapsed, there has been a run on the
supermarkets, and that gets they have only a couple is only
300,000 people that live there. So they have a chain of the
bonus supermarkets is what they're called total run, taking
everything off the shelf. And they produce nothing. They have
no food Hey, you
know I've been in that supermarket in Reykjavik. It's
like what did they take off the shelves always seems to me that
the main thing they sell in Iceland is a grocery store is
the most amazing variety of cod liver oil. I swear to God, it's
like the most it's the bigger than any dairy section you've
ever seen in it's all fish oil, different brands and what do
they do they drink it? Yeah, turns out and for people who
live in northern Arizona, you should even consider it. Okay.
It turns out that cod liver oil in particular, but most of these
Fishel mixtures which are being promoted a little bit by health
food nuts nowadays here in the United States, is one of the
absolute best things you could take for depression in areas
where you have a shortened daylight
which is right. For us. Yeah.
So, so you find that and so Sweden In Finland and Norway,
Iceland in the UK should to Scotland for sure. The people
who take lots of cod liver oil, just as a daily diet dietary
supplement, not only don't have much as much depression, because
you get depressed in these areas, because of the lack of
sunlight. They don't have much depression. And they also have,
it apparently is good for it lessens arthritis, and it's good
for the bones and it has a vitamin D component that's
important. It's a fan fact I use it in the wintertime here. And
they sign by the way is the one who got turned us on to this.
He's like a kind of he takes all this weird stuff up and he gets
it needs to get to the definitive point of it. And then
he reports back to the family with his, with his with his
survey. And it turns out that the documentation for this is
really elaborate. And this is the kind of stuff that when
you're what is one of the C's what your mom told you to do in
the 1930s you know, take your cod liver oil, and it's been
lost, we know it because who needs it, we take a vitamin
supplement because the big the big vitamin companies don't you
know, the big drug companies make these vitamins. They don't
they, they, they you know, they've nobody pushes these old
remedies anymore. But
I was just gonna say, If what you say is true, and I'm looking
into right now, and of course, I have no reason to doubt it. If
cod liver oil truly is such a wonder, you know, a wonder
miracle substance particularly against depression. You can bet
your acid is going to be outlawed by the Codex
Alimentarius sooner or later because they of course, they
want to push the you know their drugs onto you to you know,
which is like sodium chloride and shit like that. That's
what's in its salt. Now, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Maybe I don't know drugs. I can camera, drugs and camera Paxil.
Yeah, that was all been a while you have anything good.
So anyway, but the Icelanders, I mean, this is what it was soon
as I heard about this from you know, the report about why this
is good for you in the winter. And I use it in the winter. It's
not a cheap product, by the way. But oh, by the way, there's one
brand called Carl's Borg or Carlsberg. That's a beer, isn't
it? Called? Yeah, it is called Borg. Is that beer? Maybe it's
Carlsberg game is Carl's Borg. Borg gotta know. Carl's Borg is
also a little town up in Washington, but it's Carl's Borg
or Carlsberg or somebody that's a blue label and it's got it
says lemon flavoured this stuff by the way that brand is the one
to get it is absolutely delicious. A you can take it
without gagging. It's really amazingly good. And you don't
get this you know, you don't taste it. extra cords which was
used always a problem with the cub Libris, the best brand new
combined Carlsberg. They should be sponsoring the show. Alright,
so people out there who have these you know, and I'd save you
if you live in North Dakota, Washington State, you know,
Wisconsin, those places is where you want to use it. Meanwhile,
while we're on the subject of weird stuff, I made the error.
And we're talking about vegetarianism. I made the
bonehead error of not looking at the package of some onsale
yoghurt where they actually we're selling soy, Gert.
Oh no. Did your brain shrink?
I'm telling I couldn't swallow it. You know,
we stopped. We stopped drinking soy milk here.
Oh, good. Good. Now, this stuff tastes like puke.
I'm using that on the daily source code. That's a great drop
right there.
And it's got a chalky texture its own you can't swallow it. As
you go. Oh my god. What is this garbage? Is
you one of those? Spit it out.
I did spit it out. And I dumped it out and I was disgusted. It
was so horrible that people stop that they think it's good.
Excuse me. Oh, that's funny. Oh, that's nasty.
dassies the word. Don't even I mean, people want to check it
out for themselves. But holy. I was just stunned at how bad it
was. I talked I mentioned this to my wife and she laughs She
said, she says she's mentioned this to these various
vegetarians. And they always say Oh, you must have gotten a bad
one. Everything bad
108 happens from time to time you get a bad one.
Man. Anyway, so that was my report.
Alaskan glaciers for the growing for the first time. And 240
years.
Yes, what they say? Yeah, that's your that's your global warming,
I guess. Well, supposedly that's balanced by the lowering of the
average temperature at the North Pole. Yada yada yada. And these
things move around. So you know, then you're also losing our
magnet magnetic gun under.
I went. I went to the North Pole once. Have you ever been to the
North Pole?
You're kidding me. You went to the North Pole. Yes. Would you
like to hear the story? Wow. Yeah, that's impressive. There's
no I have not been to the North Pole.
Oh, this was with onramp before we before we took it public and
change the name to think new ideas. Ron and I were running
the company and we had a client Molson ice. And when and there
was a promotion that we that we were we did it with the agent
with another agency we came up with called the Molson ice polar
beach party. And it was a contest and it was 100 winners.
And it would be it was a cool as a cool MTB like contest,
actually, 100 winners would go to the North Pole for concert
with Metallica. Actually, it was Metallica hole. So Courtney Love
and one other band I can't remember. And we and we did a
cyber cast from the North Pole, it was pretty interesting
because we the only way to do it is we took a multiplexer. So we
could take 24 phone lines, and basically convert that into like
150 kilobits per second or whatever. And we had that linked
all the way down from talk to yuck talk, which is Northwestern
territory. So and you know, literally, like, you know, a
couple miles inside the Arctic circle there.
Well, let's get back to the How did you get to the North Pole?
Ah,
well, it's a combination of many, many flights. And the last
one is basically an otter. So an otter is one of those aeroplanes
with the huge the huge inflated tires. And it's a it's a real
workhorse and it just, you know, you can sit in it and kind of
like jump seats, but it's really meant for taking cargo. And,
yeah, so you basically land up on the ice near drilling
platform up there. And, and so it not being the dark period, it
was light for 24 hours straight, which was really, really weird.
And of course, you're up there, you know, we had our crew and
tour and we're sleeping in the oil barracks, if you will. And
you as as metallic as is everybody and and so we're
looking at there's nothing to do obviously. And so we'd like and
it's a dry right there's no alcohol is forbidden, but we
figure we can probably figure something out so we go outside
and it's midnight, but you know kids are riding around on their
bikes and it's as if it were mid day. And some of the kids come
over and we're you know, say hey,
there's a let's back up a minute. There's a bunch of
people at the North Pole.
Well it's not exactly on the North Pole North Pole but but
you know, within I don't know what is it? 50 Miles 75 Miles?
Yeah, there's all kinds of villages
I thought it was pretty barren up there.
It was pretty barren up there.
Oh, okay.
No kidding. You know, the next town was several 100 miles and
that was Inuvik, I think is what it was called. Anyway it was
September actually, I remember because it was my birthday I put
my toe into the Arctic waters of the pole. I dip my toe and it's
a tradition I think is what it was that we say to these kids
that hey, man, you know we can tradition and when we can get
something so you you want the drug dealer? Yeah, he lives in
that house right over there.
Trying to
his kids riding around on their bikes. It was a it was a
fantastic experience
well, you got me on now one I know another guy who like a year
or so ago went and went to Antarctica and some there's a
cruise I guess you can take an icebreaker
cruise. Yeah,
I think I've heard about that. Yeah, yeah, you
leave from somewhere in South America I guess down into tip
down as Southern Argentina I suppose. And boat over there and
crack your way into that. And you know, that's supposed to be
even worse than the Arctic. Yeah, because it's windy. Or I
guess alarms. Yep.
Yeah.
I don't know what I don't know. It doesn't really, you know,
there's a bunch of things I want to do. I still have my checklist
of places to see and go to I mean, I have an A B and a C
list. And I got most most of the a list done. And I thought of
the bees just fall you know, to happen to happen. But I never
have had either the North Pole or the South Pole on the lists
any of them. I've also
stood on the equator. Well, I've I've probably done that. The
other picture. I have photographic evidence.
Wow, it's a little more shade in Brazil. You know, there's it's
not a big deal.
Oh, yeah. No in was it maybe it must have been Africa.
Yeah, I've worked what country does the equator run through in
Africa? It's up pretty high, isn't it? I don't know.
I'm thinking has got to be somewhere near Uganda because
while we were there, well, maybe man, maybe not.
Okay, quatre map here we go.
I'm afraid to pop open Google Earth because it'll crunch the
bandwidth.
We have probably crush it meet you. Let me just take a look at
this. Okay, here's the here's a map with the equator. It's now
it's
higher. It must be higher than Uganda.
No, it's actually looks like it might be lower. Oh, it runs
through tells you what the hell I know. It runs through the very
northern part. Let me take a look. Where's some better
country? They don't outline the countries well enough. Here's
one not found. And I have one that's got the country showing
once more second. He had some but it's not well, not quite
what I thought DDT found that you know phrase knocking
websites, you know, the problem with you know, the problem that
we've had on the internet recently is that there's too
many things.
And you can't get to the good one. Because all the all the
crap is pushed to the top, artificially.
Yeah, this is the one thing I complain about when I say yeah,
go try to find and this is the challenge. Who has the absolute
best cell phone service package in the United States? Yeah, you
can't
get through all the ads, and all that stuff. Now. It's possible.
It's horrible. Probably where people like, you know, the
mahalo project is the right idea. But I don't think it can
scale. And even that, it's all susceptible to, you know, deals
and stuff like that. It's impossible. I guess.
It looks like you got our end goal is right and good ploughs
right through and goal in those countries along. They're just
top maybe the top of Mozambique. It's northern Brazil. And yeah,
anyway,
meanwhile in Indonesia to get mo nation East.
We gotta get her get mo nation T shirts out to the public. I
haven't even seen a design yet. You keep threatening. I have a
design for you tonight.
Okay, cool. You're gonna make one up yourself with Photoshop
or paint Microsoft Paint.
I was gonna just use good ASCII text. I can see
you using paint. I really can't tell me you use it. Don't you
know, I haven't even seen that thing boot for like 15 years.
In Gitmo nation East in the United Kingdom, where it's
really, we're falling fast, and we're falling really, really
hard. The Times has a report you'd hate this. Looks like
they're gonna put into law a requirement that you show a
passport as identification. When you were buying a mobile
telephone, even if it's a burner with a pan go card.
Wow, yeah, that's a big deal.
We'll hear you. Yeah, you still go to Target and just buy one,
you just pick one up, of course. But here you're gonna have to,
they're gonna take down your name, while the other hand that
you've heard about the big database project, right? Where
every single email, text and phone call everything made, will
be stored in a in a big government database. It won't be
the content of the email, they say, it won't be the content of
the SMS text message, but who you called, and when you call
them or who you text. And when you text them. They're going to
store in this huge database, which of course is for national
security purposes.
Yeah, of course. Yeah. Well, you know, I saw a presentation
probably in around 1996. Not sure. From Interpol. They had
been working on the software for a long time. And I think a lot
of governments use it, whatever it is, but it's a it's a, it's a
very interesting piece of code that allows you to plug in
connections between people that lead in other words, if I, if
I'm calling your number a lot, and then you're calling somebody
else's number, then I call somebody in the list. They can
put if you get enough data in the key to success here is a
really load up but I think there may be a tipping point where you
get too much data. But I'm not sure. But this this Interpol
software, would Allah and the guy broke it down. And he showed
it here's a bunch of gangsters and their friends and associates
and family and everybody else. It was for a mob related
tracking. And then they ran the software and all the calls that
were made to each other in there and how long the calls took
place for how long and then they could they could literally
create a
org chart or chart Yeah, I'm sure that exists.
One does exist. I've seen it. Yeah. But you know, I think you
can take it to the next level. And you can pretty much you
know, if you wanted to. And and the key, the long term thing, of
course, is that, which is what people should be why they should
be complaining is that you know that at some point, you can say,
hey, you know, we can figure out the entire political structure
of the Republican Party. Why don't we just start
assassinating these people here? Would that show up in this list?
It actually sounds a lot like, like the software that OpenTable
uses.
is rife, yes. funny idea that it's possible.
Well, you've told me that specifically that there's
rumours that there's something going on with their system where
they track Silicon Valley executives?
Well, actually, that's, here's the rumour, and it's not it
doesn't have anything to do with Open Table, it has to do with
the back door, that seems to be an open table that people have
exploited. And here's the whole story for people want to hear
this. And, you know, doesn't mean you shouldn't be using Open
Table, because you get all these bonus points,
which which do expire, so use them quick.
Even though they don't do anything. So. So there was a
there was an I was sceptical, as usual about when I heard the
story. But here's the deal. There's, there's a consulting
group that does stock market consulting, to try to
predetermine mergers and acquisitions. And they do it by
taking all the public records of private aircraft arrivals and
departures, who they're associated with, which
apparently is a database that you can get a hold of, or you
made as a backdoor that too. And then they use the Open Table
backdoor, and they can they can see fine meetings. And in other
words, if you flew in, you know, you're a General Electric CEO,
and you just flew in for some unknown reason to meet with a
CEO of a small company is possible that it's the if your
secretary which is very common secretaries use OpenTable all
the time to figure out that, oh, he flew into here, and then
they're having a dinner at this restaurant, on this night,
something's up. And that's the you know, you know, unless you
can prove that they're all pals or something, and they're
meeting for some other reason. And so you can then surmise that
maybe we have a merger acquisition candidate here, and
maybe we should invest in this company or that company. And you
know, it's it's basically spook, kind of work with the stock
market. So I'm saying is this bull? And he said, and again,
the friend of mine who's telling me he said, Well, who do you
want to, you know, who do you want to see? We went to where,
what dinner and I said, just give me we'll Hirst's itinerary.
The next day,
I got I gotta go, that's great.
I got a list of the restaurants you went to over the past three
or four months. Oh my god. It was like he went to Chef Paul
and he went, you know, and he's and I recognise I know will very
well and he and I know what kind of places he likes to eat at.
And it was just right you know, made nothing but since looking
at this list, and I immediately call the Secretary and told her
to stop booking US Open Table unless you want you know it to
be known. I mean, you could probably do just a reverse scam
on that, you know, set up phoney baloney meetings and but yeah,
hype hype the stock you bet. Yeah. So but that's just a story
that I've met you know, I have never proven proof of that now.
I hope that I could be trying to trick me but I'm just mentioning
it to anyone out there who needs to know
for years that there's been talk of a backdoor into I think it's
an Israeli made wasn't bad was a banking software or trading
software. I got to look that up. It even has a name like fast or
something like that. Will fast as a search engine from Norway.
No, that's, that's not it, it's something else. I can remember
that as I'm sure there's, it's Look, they're all in it.
Well, your backdoors you pull your backdoors are needed. If
you are a consultant in a you know, and you need to get into a
programme because something bad happened to it, you sometimes
have to remotely access the thing. And for because you may
be in a remote you know, you may not be there I mean most
software as a backdoor for no other reason. So you can get you
know, because a lot of coders nowadays don't work and you
know, on the computer that's running the code, they have to
get into it. And so you know, if it fails that somebody else know
about it, the next thing you know, it's out in the wild and
you know, some sneak is out there looking at database, you
know, just casually in the if you do it if you don't abuse it.
In other words, no one's seeing it constantly pounding the
database to see who's booked where you can get away with it.
By the way, I'd say that now is a really good time to be in the
IT consulting business. If you can do SQL Server and Oracle and
dotnet and Microsoft stuff and some Heavy Lifting maybe some as
400 skills or whatever, because basically, all the banks in the
world are being rolled up into one. And that's a big ask
computer project. But
I think somebody's going to take take, I mean, you can just see
that money being stolen.
Oh, absolutely. And you know, now that the American government
owns a piece of every single major bank that was signed over
the weekend, I'm sure you heard about that, right?
Oh, yeah, no doubt. But everybody was complaining about
in the Wells Fargo guys didn't want to do the deal. They were
they were forced to put a gun to their head. Yeah, it was take
this deal or take this deal. And you know, what the I heard the
interesting rationale about that, on one of these talk shows
was that following well, they had to be that aggressive with
making every one of the banks do the deal, because they didn't
want the public to know which banks were the bad ones.
So this is, you know, and this is, according to the I think the
German started this first now they've written almost a
trillion dollars now in their bailout package, which, of
course, will rise significantly, but every single bank in the
world now that is a non Doc Talk about talking about smaller
local, retail banking the way we haven't in the states yet, but
they're now all partially owned by the government. And this is
trillions of dollars, not not the original amount, and this is
what they weren't going to do. They said, We're not going to do
that. And then, you know, a week later, they're doing exactly
that. And everyone's blaming each other. But in the meantime,
it's one financial system. It's all being rolled into one little
ball. And you can bet we're getting screwed for it. This is
here you go, John historian. Okay. So there's a lot of talk,
even in the intro, I couldn't resist talking about the Weimer
Republic. And since since you like your $10 billion bill
notes. Dr. Ron Paul is actually getting a lot of airtime. And
I'm loving it, because of course, you know, he's he's a
kook, right, John. And he is a kook, he is a cook, right total
cook. He's been saying this since 1983, that I've seen on
record, you keep it you know, you keep saying something for 20
years, it's gonna happen eventually.
Right? So okay, so we stuck in there he hung, it doesn't matter
how you get to the finish line. But now he's, you know, he's on,
you know, on CNN all the time in Fox News brings him on. He's on
Bloomberg. He's even in some of the more mainstream shows. And
he's saying, Look, inflation, you can't write trillions of
dollars. In fact, he's, it was really funny, he made me think
of you, he said, Why should we work in America, let's just
print money and give everybody give everybody money. And
excellent line, but I don't think anyone actually gets it.
But we have to be destined for, you know, 20%, inflation, you
know, compounded over, you know, the next few months even I mean,
it's
no, there, that's not going to happen for a while it when it
happens, it'll be it'll, it'll ramp very slowly. And it's going
to be and I think the only way we can get out of this hole is
through hyperinflation, that that fixes the problem, but that
is in ruins. It ruins everything. But it fixes the
problem and the problem and the banks have got the problem. And
they needed fixing the screw the public, you know, we just go
crazy. We've never experienced that. In United States. We've
never had anything close. We've had like bad, you know, the bad
inflationary period during the stagflation era of the 1970s,
which was one of those economic downturns. We had the situation
where the answers,
I got to interrogate you here now. Okay. 1970s bad thing
stagflation. You, I believe you're out of work for a while.
But how was it really in America? At the end? Maybe you
travelled? I don't know, how was it in the world at that time?
Well, what actually, what
is the weirdest thing the bottom of one of these cycles, which
would have been 1973? Because, you know, that's where things
kind of bottomed out. Actually, in the case of the Great
Depression, Buffett had it? He says that the Dow hit the bottom
in July of 32. But I think there was I think I'm not absolutely
sure that's true. But anyway, in 1973, to be typically a bottom
of a downturn, I actually went to France for
first. Okay, so, remember, I remember
floating around France, in France in the 70s. During this
era, you would be in the French countryside and things were so
grim. Although you really it was an enjoyable trip, to say the
least. But think things were so grim that I clearly remember and
I've never seen this sense. You'd be driving along in a car.
And there would be most of the people were travelling on
mopeds, a lot of girls and guys, guys and girls, whatever they'd
be in a moped, it'd be these little moped bicycles, or these
bicycles that have a little gas motor on the back that's
on the front, actually. And it's called a little crappy. It's
called a solix.
Solax right. There was so Alexes everywhere and let me
let me explain solix John, hold on one second. This is a good
story. worry, the sole X is essentially a bicycle. It has a,
I believe it might even be a 50 cc engine. So you basically have
a cylinder head where your where your front light would be. And
when you get up to speed, you then push the engine forward
with a lever onto the tire, it has a rotating wheel, and then
it fires up. And in many cases, you didn't even have a throttle,
it just has a set throttle because it only will do so much
for you. I will have you know, just as a side note that I
participated in the 24 hour solix race into crackle in the
Netherlands did not win, but I did finish and and I'd be happy
to tell you how we souped up that engine a different day. But
anyway, total beautiful French invention, the solix.
And okay, so the kicker though to the story is you you see
these people floating around and these little bicycles but they'd
be pulling each other. So one person would have her Solax
engaged, holding the hand of another bicyclist and pulling
them along.
Yeah, I you know, when I had my moped in the Netherlands, that
was actually quite common, you'd see a buddy, a buddy who was
biking along the road and you say, Hey, hold on a second, you
let them hold on to you, and then you drag them along.
Talk about stretching your dollar. It's also
quite a dangerous exercise.
I could think it's naturally but this was common. So and
So you think that was really that that was the epitome of
grim.
Grim? No, actually, it looked pretty joyous. I mean, these
people were having fun. They were fooling each other around.
But no, it just seemed odd looking back on it, the grill.
Actually, the grim is part of it, she never really improved
much. And it never does in a true down cycle. It just kind of
lingers bouncing around the bottom for a really long time,
as opposed to the short time I'm hoping for now. And so by the
time Jimmy Carter got in office, because they had to get rid of
the Republicans because they weren't getting anything
accomplished. So they figured they're gonna bring in it, you
know, Liberal Democrat is going to fix things and things just
got worse with him. And then inflation took over and we ended
up with like, interest rates. If you wanted to buy a house, you
had to pay 20 plus points, or percentage, the interest rates
were 2021 2223 24% interest, you know, to get a mortgage. It was
unbelievable. And that guy was out in four years.
So I'm so Okay, so the life was very expensive. There was I
mean, were there things that you didn't have that you go without
anything?
Well, here's the kicker for me. I was working for the
government.
Of course. Anyway, I want to hear my father in law talk about
after the Second World War in Rotterdam that he would bicycle
on wooden tires. And knock you live on wooden tires for you
know, 50 miles to get a sugar beet eat.
That's grim.
That's what I know. That's getting up there in the grim
category. Yeah, I will. I will say I'm, I'm totally looking
forward to what we're about to go through. In fact, oh three,
and I listen to me. In fact, the Financial Times that brought
this up and I liked this peep to hear people are responding to
the credit crunch by relearning the self reliance of the post
war austerity years. Knitting is having a renaissance gardeners
are planting carrots were once they grew chrysanthemums, and
home cooking is making a comeback. I like that.
This is all right, this is a moment of pure decadence, the
way that's described why? Um, cooking is not making much of a
comeback. It's you know, it's like, oh, I think we can cook at
home. And this is all like, you know, a bunch of people that
don't have to cook at home. This is not because they have to cook
at home. This is not because they have to knit to because
they can't afford a sweater. This is people that are many of
these people. For example, there's a Google group, a little
club, and I won't mention the names, but there are a bunch of
people you know who they are. And they're the wives of a bunch
of Silicon Valley. Guys who are billionaires,
oh, man, this is in Britain. This is this is in the Financial
Times in Britain do this has nothing to do with Silicon
Valley. Please. I don't buy that for a second. And besides, it
doesn't matter if the trendsetters are doing it.
That's good. In fact, Patricia came back she says the official
Patricia curry, high street index, because she knows exactly
what the high street shopping is like she says, lots less people.
She said very uncharacteristic, something's going on. People are
buying less for sure. And okay,
and that's pretty that's a good index. That's probably as valid
as anything
but that's part of an economic downturn as people automatically
take to these things, whether they have to or not, because
they're preparing themselves or whatever, but At the end of the
day, I think it's good. You know, if we actually cook some
meals at home, maybe we won't kill ourselves by eating crap.
Well, no, I'm not gardening. I mean, but I'm a big advocate of
this, but it's but
I'm very good at knitting. John, you should see me go. You can
knit Yes. My mom taught me that I've always been able to knit.
Let's finally be my Mimi's first husband was a big knitter. And
she has to although she does she has only knit in a straight
line. She's done some she's tried to do other things. But
there are some women that can knit you know, just sit there
and within a few hours have a beautiful sweater.
So did she does she divorced him? Or did he die in a fiery
crash? No, they
got divorced a long time ago because of the knitting or
something else? No, I'm just mentioning that he's a guy who
knits and there's a lot of guys who knit and
my mom always used to say football players knit. Well,
it's something to do
if you're sitting waiting. I mean, if you're gonna get in a
depression, where you're going to be sitting and standing in
line a lot or waiting and waiting and waiting for the
government to sign doster for soup. For soup. You can knit
muzzle knit while you're at it. When you're if you're up in the
Andes and one of the little villages in Peru, for example.
All the women there because the place is crawling with like,
alpacas and vite Gunas and all these great animals and
sorry, Kuma Matata has
no no like vite Guna. That's all right.
So yes, you know, you don't watch Disney movies. Apparently
I don't I don't get the joke. Anyway, they anyway do what they
do, though. These were these Peruvian women who all look
exactly like you know, Incas then colourfully dressed they
usually have a chute wherever they are these women they are
equipped with a big pile of, of wool that's wrapped around their
arm. And you know, on the left arm and on the other end, they
say sit at the benches in the in the plazas chatting with each
other the two women will be there talking and talking
yakking like two women would do sitting next to each other in a
park bench. But they're knitting together constantly, and that
they should just seem to be knitting 24/7 It's just a
cultural thing. And it's actually, you know, then you can
buy these sweaters for like five bucks. And a pretty nice sweater
is amazing.
Well, I'm happy all that's coming back. And it will,
because we're gonna have to change. I've just given up, you
know, I can see what's happening. It's clear. It's so
clear. Yeah, I'm just preparing for it.
You might be preparing yourself psychologically,
you're going to tell me it's not true. That something has to
happen. I mean, this coffee. Here's another one. Remember, I
was telling about the letters of credit that that's becoming a
problem?
Yeah, this idea? Yeah. Why don't you explain to people that dirty
eavesdropping, what you're talking about,
okay. So if you if you import a product that you sell in your
home country, so it could be, you know, certain types of
groceries, actually, oil probably works the same way. But
you know, any, anything that you're importing, usually, of
course, from China, you know, it's not like you, you fly to
China and sign a check, right? That's to be a little more
efficient way of doing it, and the banks will assign a letter
of credit. So they act as an intermediary. And once the bank
says, Okay, this money is good. It's, it's, it's here kind of an
escrow, you can start sending the goods, that once the goods
arrived, and the letter of credit is executed, everyone
gets paid. It's you know, it's kind of like a super PayPal. And
there's, you know, and if there's, I guess, if there's
some kind of argument, and the bank is involved as well, I
mean, I've never dealt with it, but they're, they're the
middleman. So the letter of credit is exactly what it says
it's a letter of credit. And that credit is also often, you
know, taken to credit, because that's the way a lot of
businesses or finance as the way a lot of states and
municipalities or finance. But you know, hey, I need the, you
know, a couple million credit here to do this stuff. And
you'll get it from me when taxes come in, whatever. So banks are
now cutting back drastically on the amount of credit they're
giving to companies. So that means companies can import less,
and coffee. I was just reading because the, there's problems
with with these letter letters of credit. They can't, they've
got an oversupply of coffee, they can't ship it out of the
country fast enough. So they're actually talking about stopping
production, to get to Tim O'Neil to inflate the price. Because,
you know, if the prices are too low, they're going out of
business. These guys can't go coffee. So this is just the
start, I think of many problems that will actually affect us.
And that's probably and in fact, I think it is exactly what
happened with that Icelandic supermarket. The bonus
supermarket chain is you know, they just can't get letters of
credit and more people are worried about that. And then Why
there's a run on food. Besides there being a general food
crisis in the world already, you look I miss it because I think
this is going to be a big equaliser. It'll be good for
people go hungry for a couple of weeks. It'll change your
attitude. Now change your outlook on life.
Again, I have a big freezer.
Yeah, but a lot of people are gonna get caught without big
freezers.
I think most people are gonna get caught without big freezers.
Most people don't have more than a week supply of food.
So I want your opinion on that. Because you never have an
opinion on these types of things. You do, but you never
express it. Let me put it that way.
That's not true. Well, I have I'm still pondering it. Okay,
because I don't have the I mean, I'm not taking, you know, the
grim Mr. possible scenarios that you imagine which you come up
with some Whoppers.
But this is not just plausible. It's happening. These letters of
credit are becoming a problem. I have a firsthand
proof. Yeah, okay, fine. But I'm just saying I don't think it's,
you know, it won't be a long term problem. It'll be something
that'll be resolved, and everything will be better and
rosier once Obama's elected. Okay, yeah, you're right. Man. I
don't know, once he's in the market is going to skyrocket?
Yeah, I know. But I don't give a shit about that. I care about
human beings. I know. I know, you care about it. It just, it's
all wrong. I mean, it's we've we're basically now what the
world is now one big socialist banking system. And then we're
going to introduce welfare into the United States. I mean,
really introduce it, calling it calling it a refundable tax
credit. That's messed up.
Here's the average. Yeah, it's true that you'd want to make 45%
of the public and on welfare. So So here's the kicker, the whole
economic financial crisis situation is that apparently, I
guess, UBS or at least I'll share the Swiss bank. How does
it any Swiss bank get caught up in this fiasco?
You're seriously asking me that. Dude.
I thought these guys had something on the ball.
Now they're all They're all it's all in the same game. It's all
the same. It's all the same people run it. This is all
intended to be this way please. Please,
actually there was a good article in the Financial Times I
think that explains it better which is discusses the it really
boils down to the CIO read The Financial Times. It boils down
to the rating agencies Yeah, that
was that wasn't good point they made the Brits are hilarious
they're furious about the ratings agencies calling all
these securities triple A when they were really just crap now.
And that's a good point. But that's what I mean. It's all
it's all part of the scam. In fact, I believe in your book,
which you know, whenever you're ready to show me a draft, you
know, I actually love you enough and I will read it. I think you
should you should at least consider including a side note
or thread or something about the concept of the Illuminati
controlling the cyclical motions. Are you checking if
it's on again?
Unbelievable.
I think you should at least consider
unbelievable. We got a you know, I was wondering how long it
takes for us to go off the track. No,
we're not off the track. We're not off the track. Let me come
on John, then you cannot deny that the Goldman Sachs X CEO and
he's got his cash and carry he'll dude in there. Also from
Goldman Sachs, you know, they they hoodwinked everyone they
took the under the auspices of only 700 billion which included
another 100 and 50 billion of bullshit just to ram it through
under basically threat of idiots who sit in Congress who we elect
and they're working and the basically then they they've been
bringing the banks they put a gun to their head. I mean, come
on, man. This is this is not America. This is the fucking
mob. This is I shouldn't say that because I'm going to crash
my car. But this is this is not right. You know, we I just can't
be cavalier about it you know, and that's what everyone is
being it's fucking outrage
your your cursing quotient has arisen for some reason. So we
will bring up this topic.
Well, because the the apathy just slays me, John.
Well, the apathy you know, I blame the educational system.
Segue and who controls the educational system?
Well, you might have something there because there was a
there's a funny post that I put up on the blog. dvorak.org/blog
Have a drink. Where this guy goes to this college, and
somebody pointed this has been around I haven't I've never seen
this before, but a kid did it and you can do this anywhere,
kid goes around some boy at college that's supposed to be so
good. And he goes all the women and gets them to sign a petition
to end women's suffrage. And, you know, all these girls sign
it happily, you know, because they don't even know what the
hell the
vaccination. Hey,
so, my you know, does it you know, this is? I don't know what
it is why, why the? I don't remember when I was a kid,
what's the point where now you're getting off track? What
is the point of end the suffrage? Where are you going?
Well, they would say is, you know, women's suffrage refers to
the right to vote. And you go to some dummy some girl who's in
college and you say would you like to we got to stop women's
suffrage. And that would mean technically that they want to
read in the women's right to vote.
Oh, and women just signed it. What Oh, sufferings? That sounds
like suffering and they signed it.
Yeah, left and right. Except one girl who wouldn't do it because
she knew what it meant. And out of the whole group up there just
sign left right and now when I see these you know the Obama
bots around the Andronikos hole ORS are storing people you got
to sign this you know, people just sign in anything. These
petitions that are floating around are just they don't mean
anything. I mean, people just get just to get rid of the
person you'll sign anything. People will sign these things
left and right. I'm I have these people coming to my door once in
a while. And they're always stunned by the fact that I
refuse to sign any petition.
Look, I'm taking it one step further with you, John, I am
telling you that people are hypnotised and programmed mainly
by television, and they're not watching CNN and CNBC or
whatever. They're watching mainstream television and
they're hypnotised and programme, they're walking
zombies. And they're just, we're blithering idiots, and indeed,
the Department of Education determines the syllabus, they
determine the education and it's lame. It's lame ass. You know,
they're making us a dumb Fox. Sorry, having
meanwhile, by the way, then when you do homeschooling, it's
frowned upon by the state. And in California, as a matter of
fact, it's almost impossible to homeschooling. We homeschool our
daughter, or we did she went she's going to high school now.
We aren't doing very well and liking it, which is unusual.
Because, you know, kids, if they go through the public school
system, at some point, they hate school. And but you know, the
homeschool is always when they will, you know, the various
spelling bees and they do the same because you can you don't
have they're not under control of some state syllabus, right?
That is just a bunch of propaganda. I remember one of my
kids coming home years and years ago is saying, oh, you know, why
are we take you know, as indigenous peoples that Columbus
Day was indigenous peoples day. And scan. Columbus was a
horrible slave owner, who's you know, you know, went on and on
with all this stuff and go, What are you talking about? Another
one of my kids sometime even further back it, you know, just
out of the blue, I said, Well, you know, who freed the slaves,
you know, he was old enough to know, and he said Martin Luther
King.
Oh, shit, I got one for you. In 1975. I entered the Dutch
schooling system in fifth grade, and very government controlled
over there, but just for idiotic stuff. And and I barely spoke
Dutch. And they were it was in the teacher one point was
talking about, you know, the how many, how many states America
has? And you know, then they added as Alaska and Hawaii and
now they have 52 states. And I think that's probably when when
my questioning of authority came from. So I rose my hand I'm
like, Dude, I'm like an idiot over here. The guy with a with a
with the wrong clothes and the mild Tourette's who doesn't
speak the language. There's only 50 states and the teacher got in
my face. I don't see that. And then so then, so what I did is I
went home and I called the the embassy, and I taped it on a
cassette. And I brought it in with the Encyclopaedia
Britannica the next day. And I said, Well, here's all my
evidence. And he's like, Well, that the the insight that
Encyclopaedia Britannica is from 1970. So that doesn't count.
They wouldn't buy it.
No, no, he's gonna say well, why don't you count the stars?
There's only 50 stars.
It remains a anyway so the educational system, but
certainly in the United States, it's it's it's it's meant to
dumb our children not to make them smart. Interesting. You
homeschooled your daughter? What? From what age? To what age
and what was the syllabus? How did you do that?
There's a lot of support. By the way for homeschooling in the
United States. It's extreme. I mean, there's whole stores
dedicated
to soldiers. John was a huge decision was it we didn't like
the
there was actually there was some mild bullying going on at
one of the schools and you know, and she didn't like and she
wasn't going to do well there. We could see that a mile away.
We offered her the opportunity. It was the kids have to
subscribe to it. And so she said sure I can do that. And So, we
went since we have residents in Washington and we're, you know,
my wife is technically a Washington state, not a
Californian. We registered her as a homeschool in Washington
state, they encourage homeschooling and you can
register your child as a homeschooled person and they met
and they make them and they give them tests. And they you know,
that's all you know, they make you take a test of the show, if
you're not keeping up you know, that you have to, you know, make
the kid work harder you have to put them in a school. And so the
whole thing is structured in California to have none of that
and if you're homeschooling you know, they try to bust John
truancy because they're not getting their you know, their
pound of flesh or whatever you get from the to get 800 bucks a
day or per month or whatever per student and they don't like
losing income and so they make a big deal out of it. So you know,
we do it in Washington state is legal, and she liked it. And at
one point, she got funny, I guess she got fed up with it and
she wanted to socialise more and learn less. And so she's not
going to small school in Port Townsend and at
your at your home school. Did you have mandatory vaccinations?
Did you hear about New Jersey? Did you hear about mandatory flu
shots for kindergarten otherwise you can't attend school?
Yeah, what a crock. That's,
that's an outrage. Yeah, it is an outrage Gitmo nation, my
friends get mono nation being killed, but talking about people
getting
in your face. I remember one time I still remember this. It
always baffles me that people are so pigheaded about stuff. I
was given a speech and some there was some forum or
something. And I was asked to give a keynote later in the
night and there was been me while I listen to all these
little sessions. You know, there's all these guys given
sessions a typical conference, right? And some guy was thought
of himself as some sort of a hotshot was talking about, you
know, new technologies and something like that. And he
said, he says the the LED and he was talking about the LED and
says in the LED, which is a liquid crystal display. LED
which is a liquid crystal display, blah, blah, blah. So
after the thing was over, I went up to him and I said, you know,
le t stands for light emitting diode, liquid crystal displays,
LCD, and the guys looks at me says, Hey, I know what I'm
talking about.
And then what you've beaten to a pulp.
No, I stopped. I was just like rolling my eyes seeing what an
idiot and people are listening to this guy's an expert.
You did the Vulcan thing where you grabbed the shoulder and he
just melted to the ground.
That would have been the wish.
Are you doing twit today? Yeah, I have no idea. You heard about
Washington DC moving to the cloud. I figured I'd give you
that for the Twitch show. Why? Both? Maybe you guys will
actually talk about some tech news. That's why.
Well, they move to the cloud. They're just moving you
obviously they just want to be the NSA needs to listen, and I
guess I didn't want to do that.
So this is why it's interesting. The District of Columbia of
Columbia is migrating its 38,000 employees to Google Apps. Uh
huh. That's interesting. Say no more, huh? I told you. I got the
goods for you. Dude. If it wasn't so late, I'd be on on
Skype with you during the whole show. Typing evil messages.
Yeah. Yeah. That's always good for a laugh. So Okay. Well, I
think we're done. Yeah, we've talked too long. We could go on
people
still go on forever, but maybe not. So it's like we're hour and
a half. Yeah, we're done. So next week, hopefully more
information on Project Oscar Mike November Delta.
Well, yeah, that and by the way, we didn't talk about Palin being
on the Saturday Night Live show, would you think?
You know, what, not a moment, made me laugh. And that was
partially because I'd already read about what was going to be
on. I looked at it on Hulu through our VPN, so I was able
to see it. But again, it was a little stiff. I just lost
interest in the whole thing on my way back as like, Who gives a
shit and I started looking at the rest of the world, what's
going on in my own backyard where I sometimes live? As like,
who cares? And you know what people hear? They don't care
anymore. They all they all assume Obama's gonna win, and
they're done with it.
And some Irish bookies actually paid off all his bets.
I read that. Yeah, like, one to 1.5 or something, whatever it
was. But no, I'd, I'd say that people completely think Obama
has it, and they don't care. Right now. You know, the big
argument over here is about Gordon Brown. That, you know,
he's cashing in on the financial crisis by you know, saying he's
a hero, and he's saving the country. And everyone,
everyone's up in arms about it.
As well, they should be the wacky world.
All right, so take me to dinner. This week.
Yeah, I got a couple places lined up would be worth checking
out. Okay.
And if you're in the office tomorrow, see because I'll come
right from the airport to the office. All right. What time you
land? I don't know. 130 I think so.
Right. We'll get there for
coming to you from Gitmo nation east. My name is Adam curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak in northern Silicon Valley. The
place that doesn't exist, but we think it does.
We'll talk to you again next week right here on no agenda.