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coming to you on this end from the United Kingdom. I'm Adam
curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak here in Silicon Valley northwards
another hot day.
Oh, and you are awake John. You're you're you're energetic.
I just You I took the read. I flew in from from New York this
morning. So
and boy yo,
bada boom, bada boom, bada boom. Yeah, actually from Newark. I
love flying out of Newark. What a great airport.
He liked Newark.
Oh, yeah, it's it is the most undervalued of the tri state
area. It is fantastic. It's usually much easier to get to
from the city as less.
I think it's easier to get to LaGuardia. It'd be honest about
it.
Yeah, but then LaGuardia itself is such a pain in the ass
experience. You know, new wasn't big at all given airport and you
can't fly to I don't think you can fly from London. from
LaGuardia. You
can't fly coast to coast to LaGuardia. It's only for Midwest
and east coast. jumpers. Puddle jumpers. Yeah.
So ah, so I'm a little bit. I'm less energetic than you are
today. I guess,
though. So you were you were in New York with all that with the
guys. Yeah, it
was the full week. You didn't know that?
No, I didn't know that. I knew that. Jeff and Ron were in New
York, but I didn't know you were there
yet. Well, it was really important. First of all, you
know, this was our big, go to see all the all the advertising
agencies are really the media buying agencies. But also, Jeff
carpooled, who's been in the company, what all of six weeks
now. You know, we need a little bonding experience, you know,
what the hell do you know? I mean, we talked to the guy for
months before we asked him to join the company as CEO. It
doesn't mean you actually know the guy.
No, what I mean, she take him out drinking
out well, dude. As I said, it was bonding. Not everything is
appropriate. Now, but that's really important. You know, you
get to know a guy you get to know his jokes. You get to know
what he likes to eat in the morning. You know, I've known
Ron for 14 years. You know, it's it's different.
How was New York?
I love New York. Once again. You're borderline New Yorker. I
and I have to say I'm an even with what they've done with Time
Square. I think it's actually improved it. I really, I think
they've done a great job Broadway looks,
technically is fine. Yeah, they've improved I mean ever
since Giuliani got in two places. But it doesn't have its
old charm of hookers and muggers.
No, no, no, no, I disagree that muggers. Yeah. There's not as
many muggers. In fact, I didn't see any. But it does still have
the charm, you know? Yeah, not. It's not exactly that way. I'm
40s. But look, we were doing business in New York. It's still
the same buildings. It's still you know, kind of the crappy
elevators every day. The wind is whistling through the buildings.
Rooms are too hot or too cold. You know, it rains the guys with
the $10 Umbrellas come out. You know, that's also
New York, John. Yeah, but that's not just yeah, that's all over
the city.
And flashed answers is still they're doing fine. I might add.
You go there. Yeah, of course. Really took Jeff.
No, no. I went by myself by yourself. Yeah, I had like three
hours to kill before before I was getting picked up for the
airport. Like what am I gonna do? I'm already checked out of
the hotel. I got literally three hours. It's drizzling. And I'm
like, no, because from our hotel, I could literally see
David Letterman's place the what's relevant theatre? Yeah.
Which has no beautiful Letterman tonight show signs outside and I
thought, oh, yeah, he's always taught you I was always shown
flash dancer. So I wonder where that is. And so I get out Mike,
ever been in here before? No, I haven't been to flash dancer. So
I get on my Google phone. And I typed in Flash dancers New York.
It's like, Oh, it's right across the street around the corner. So
I had a $10 beer that was pretty cool to
the girls recognise, you
know, not too bad. But it was it was very dark. And I went empty.
Because of course Wall Street is bust.
Yeah, well, it should have been a lot of guys in there crying,
you know. And
a couple of I was talking to the girls and they said yeah, the
when Lehman Brothers went down, which is not far from there,
there were guys who came in and she said there were whitish
sheets and they were crying and and since then, business has
only 30% of what it will have what it was, before all the
malaise started.
Businesses only 30% 30% Was it flashed answers you mean to tell
me that that place was supported by Wall Street?
No. You think Unbeliev Are you kidding me? That's when all
these places are supported by the guys who are in these strip
joints are the sleaze buckets who are taking getting hundreds
of millions of dollars in bonuses because that's all they
did they take that money go down to flash dancers or scores or
string fellows or whatever. And spend 1000s on not getting laid.
Yeah, that's about it getting getting rubbed up well go see
Alexei
massages your wallet. Yeah.
So that was I think that was part of why I wanted to go in
there to find out how that was doing. Because when when we had
bank clients in New York,
that's the reason okay, I get it. Well, you know, it was it
was part research. I'm writing it off. To my friend of mine who
used to be a major book writer, I should mention his name, and
maybe I shouldn't but he used to be a writer for PC Magazine
lived in New York, a major major Windows book writer put up
windows tattoo on himself. Oh, me became a iFish aficionado of
all the strip places in Manhattan, really? first name
basis with all the girls. So I said, Well, geez, you gotta take
me around. And Excellent. Excellent. So he took me around,
I met all these different girls who were all just, you know,
they Oh, you know, they were all, you know, falling all over
themselves. When I saw him, I guess he was a big tipper. And
they all everyone knew him and you know, I'm wandering around
like a fifth wheel. And but anyway, we went to that place
flashbangs when they were closing, so we stayed after they
closed. Oh, that's fun, man. The while some of the couple of
girls come sit down so they can talk to him. I be resisting
saying his first name. And so one of them sits down and you
know, we get into a conversation. The first thing
they do is they tear off their pasties, dog pasties and they
just they just hate these things and it's terrible so they're
sitting there with
pasties in Flash
I used to have well then these days it was
1930 John when they sell a tassels right no
these paces you can't see them. It looks just looks like it's a
piece of steel. It's clear goo.
Either worn and keep it keep it up or what is it?
No, it's for just a base as to what to when Giuliani came in.
They required this and that it was a way of getting around
flaunting the
law. Oh, but they weren't completely topless here.
Yeah, well, you can't see this stuff. Anyway, so
they think I was close enough to know John. Okay, well
they apparently were dig changed the law but anyway, they didn't
take us anywhere. They're sitting down beside the point of
the story. Yes. So they're sitting there naked essentially
with a G string. And so one of them talked about you know, she
said Well, you know, I like to get out of this town I'd like to
go someplace else but you know, I'm a stripper and I just have
to find someplace else to go I'm just wearing sugar daddy It was
all my my infinite wisdom said you want to go to Atlanta a
million strip clubs down there and it's really pleasant down
there
was a Cheetos is that in Atlanta?
Big time was the gold club cheetah three cheetah four.
There's a bunch of places crawling with them.
Once again, you amaze me, you are an aficionado in truly
everything. You know some about everything.
Now this is a ladies and gentlemen is an example of
somebody stepping all over your material. Sorry. So anyway, so I
tell I say to the girl was sitting there with her friend,
nothing, basically nothing on and I said you should go to
Atlanta and she she pipes up kind of adamantly and says, Hmm,
I would never do that. They dance new down there. Man I just
stood I was I couldn't speak after that. It was just like,
what?
Well, I think it's a fine service. And I'm all for it.
It's just a bunch of girls that cake, get to work otherwise and
usually have a pretty cute figure.
Now the girl I met was Polish and she was she was she was
going to she was studying business. And she was
supplementing her student income by working three days a week.
Yeah, right.
Man, so anyway, favourite.
You know, there's a couple of I don't like these clubs, by the
way for anyone out there wants to know. Because I at some
point, when you're younger you go, you go to these places, and
I went, they've actually gone through two iterations of these
things. And
it's boring and expensive at the end of the day.
Well, it did the expense. You know, actually, you know, it's
not as expensive as it could be. And it's not as expensive as
some of those mops mopped up places where they really take
you for everything you have. But I have taken it upon myself
because you run into a lot of people that get to go to
Manhattan and you know, they're from out of town or whatever
they want to and they want to go to these plays. I'm talking I go
to a business meeting with some like big software company.
That's always pathetic. That's pathetic. Oh, hey, we're not
home. Our wives are away. We're all guys together. Let's go to a
strip bar and drink at hoot and holler who's Yeah, I hate that.
Well, the worst so I so I usually make sure to go not
because of the strip club but to keep these guys from getting
ripped off.
And now I know who you're talking about. Yes. Okay.
And so I mean, so you go in and the you know, you just see the I
mean these these girls are like vultures and especially when
they they they can spot these out of town guys a mile away and
heart and they can they sort they swarm and then they come in
and the next thing you know that just it's just you can just see
the money they talk these guys in the Bible ridiculous the
price crappy champagne, one thing after another, and I have
actually, in more than one occasion, insisted that they
leave immediately. And I did without explanation. So you have
to go now. Yeah, just take my word for it. You know, I do it
into some sort of a way that makes it sound like something as
something bad's gonna
happen. Because something bad is about to happen. Yeah.
Bad is about them. And I get them out of there.
Yeah, we used to have to take guys, they're all when
we go to those places, people. Ah, when we
took the thing to ideas public right after we hit the tape, as
they call it, that and so after the market closed that day, then
all the all the traders who had because when you go public, it's
a whole event, a whole company, there's a whole bunch of stuff
that happens actually, that's almost worth the book, just
writing about that experience. So do it. And then they're like,
Hey, come on, let's let's I think it was It wasn't scores,
it was some other one. I can remember where it was. Let's go.
And so I was like, you know that it was the typical thing like 15
Guys, you know, and they all made money that day off of our
company. We didn't but our company had money now to go and
grow and be an operate, which was fun. But I remember we all
sat in the private room and then these guys are getting
completely wrecked and they're getting sweaty. And the ties are
halfway off and we were one guy is leaning over to the one Hey,
man, can you spot me 1000 bucks. I'm not liquid right now. I'm
not liquid
1000 bucks. 1000 bucks. Yeah,
and you know, and it was bad. Icky, icky, at best but this was
just, you know, I was like, I just wanted to get a beer just
want to go sit and go hey, what the hell. So
let's you learn something. In fact, if you can get a couple of
these, in fact, if you can get some of these girls into like an
honest conversation which is possible, because they you know,
most of them are just you know, sleeves a lot of them are idiots
Yeah, you find out some interesting things. And well,
this
was a typic Well, this shoe fit the profile you know, from
Poland goes back once a year I think she sends money back when
she wants to. She's studying business and children's
psychology. I don't know what she was pretty.
There's some of these
might have been for real please let me have my fantasy. Let me
have my fantasy stop. Anyway I have heavier in my hands
a way before it before you finish that let me just mention
one more thing if anybody wants to you know if you if you like
Chris Rock bliss find a copy which is all over the internet
of there's no sex in the champagne room.
Oh, I should take a look at that. I have in my hands a VHS
tape and has an old MTV Networks ink label on it. And I got this
from a good good friend of mine had to had to be in New York to
get a hold of it. And it has eight years worth of MTV
outtakes of all of your favourite DJs the ones that
never made the air
Yeah, you on there.
Oh yeah. All of us and are we going
to put post the ones of you on media now we're going to put
every single one of them up. Oh, you got permission. No.
No, in fact, I'm not allowed to say who I got it from and I said
look, I'm gonna put it up in a burn me vo bug in it. So if we
get a cease and desist, someone will upload it to YouTube to
live on in perpetuity. It's great material. And the reason
why I'm doing this a because they didn't invite me for the
headbangers ball, reunion and now they're doing the last TRL
Total Request Live which of course started as dial and TV.
Another show I was doing years ago and they're not inviting me
to that. So I'm inviting all of them to my party
on MVNO. How come you became persona non grata?
Well, dude, I quit on air then we had a huge lawsuit.
Well, what do you expect them to invite you to these things for
then?
Well, that shouldn't be so childish.
It's just business.
Exactly. It's for us. It's just not for me. It's personal. So
I'm putting that up. That'll be fun. I just now but now I got to
find a VHS machine so I can digitise this stuff. Oh, I went
to the all the camera shops on along Broadway and no and
couple. They didn't even have VHS players anymore.
Just find some you know Some local studio, some independent
production house and digitised schmooze them, they'll do it for
free. That's why I got a hate for it and you know, I'll pay
for it.
I just got to find someone who does
those two or three places there, they'll do it. But this will do
a better job than you'll do.
But this stuff is Thank you. These outtakes are not just you
know, bloopers. It's not like America's Funniest Home Videos
or some stupid shit like that, or like something you'd see on
the channel. This is stuff where, you know, you could be
doing a segment and and it's on tape anyway. So it's okay if it
goes wrong. But then you just take it in a whole different
direction. It usually winds up with sex with animals or
something like that. And of course, he's never actually
going to make it on the air, but you kind of complete the thing
anyway. So it's a lot of that. Oh, and you'll be amazed that
we're downtown Julie Brown does.
Yeah, he made besides shoe. Yeah, if you run this thing she
wants
to me she'll laugh. Okay, what are we gonna get cease and
desist? What is
she? What is she doing now?
I have no idea.
She had the best name. Downtown. Julie
Brown. Yeah, goodness. Yeah. Yeah. She has what she never had
was talent.
Well, that's pretty much par for the course or that places I've
noticed.
But most of the people like Martha and Mark Goodman, and I
think Alan is well, they're they're all on the 80s channel
on Sirius Satellite till they got some kind of work. Who are
now merging?
Yeah, good luck. Yeah.
They've merged. They're merging all the technology now too.
And I think the business model still says lacking in this fact,
I was talking who was I talking to you the other day?
Well, the business model is not only lacking, but the problem is
their distribution is getting radios into cars. And right now
the car industry is not selling cars.
But no, I'm talking to I went out to lunch with a venture
capitalist on Thursday, and found a new interesting place,
by the way for business lunches. Oh, good. Anyway, he was talking
to me about you know, he's got a Bentley. And he and it's got one
of the guests has got one of those plugs for an iPod. And he
says the Bentley, you know, used to have a subscription to both
those services. You know, because these guys, he says you
just cancelled on both. He says he just listens to podcasts.
Really? Yeah, he says, and he says a lot of his other friends
are just, you know, they basically wants to get into the
podcast groove. And they don't want to listen to podcasts,
podcasts, because there's no commercial interruptions.
They're easier to listen to, you can listen, you just, you know,
start and stop. Which is a big deal. Because you're listening
to something interesting on XM, you know, there's no there's no
TiVo capability in the nothing's yet.
Actually there is. Sirius has I forget what they call it, they
do have one that will actually record the broadcast and you can
like a TiVo functionality, but it's still it's recording it has
to do it. You know, whenever that whenever the show was being
broadcast and versatility as happy in the tunnel, stuff like
that.
I think once we once time switching became obviously a big
deal. I was sceptical at first. But why would I because I've
been using VH s machine since it first came out to do the same
thing. Right, right. And so once people decided that they didn't
want their content handed to them on a schedule that they had
to, to obey to adhere to. They it I think the world changed.
And I think that's what opened the door for these kinds of
things we do with this podcasting.
I agree. Gee, I wonder who started that? That must have
been a pretty smart guy,
Dave Weiner. Yeah, exactly.
A little present for you here, John. No, no. People basically
bought it for Stern. Now. Everyone listened to stern.
Maybe they listen to some of the ESPN stuff, maybe be the BBC
America. But I think that's pretty much it.
Right. Well, I still, you know, I still think that podcasting,
which is, which is interesting to me, that you invented so far
ahead of the curve. Because it's always interesting people that
get so far ahead of the curve that that, but by the time that
thing really becomes a big deal, they're probably dead. But not
quite. No, I know. But I'm saying in 20 years, I think
everything's gonna be distributed this way. And I
think there's gonna be more independent productions. And I
think more, it's going to be a little more competitive. I mean,
sure. I'm sure everyone still downloads the PBS stuff. And,
you know, now that everyone's gotten into the act.
Well, I do think there will be one one, maybe minor difference
that, you know, if we actually could have complete ubiquitous
bandwidth everywhere at reasonable throughput rates,
then there might not be that much reason to have to download
stuff before you can listen to it. It may actually be able to
be streamed and started and stopped live but you know, it
requires a huge infrastructure. Sure, which we clearly don't
have. So right now,
but I think what's overlooked? Because, uh, you're not the only
guy who said this, but I think what's overlooked in this in
this analysis is that that's actually a throwback, we don't
need to do I mean, I think it'd be great if we could stream
stuff. And I think it's still important for, like sporting
events and things where you really don't want to listen to
that, but I'm just talking about saving more time. Because, yeah,
there's lots of people using iTunes for podcasts, but I don't
really know how well it works. If it's really downloading in
the background. You know, I think that probably when someone
wants to load up, they say, Okay, give me all my stuff. And
the speeds are now fast enough that it kind of comes in and you
can do it. It's a, you know, maybe a 20 minute ordeal if
you've got a couple of shows you want to download, but it's not
really fully automatic. So all I'm saying is just to make it
easier that you that admit, so it's not about the live stream,
it will be on demand streaming is what I mean, it's not like
live in, in real time live. But you can just access it on
demand. I think that will happen more and more, just because it
saves the audience more time at the end of the day.
Yeah, no, I think it'd be better if you just had a big menu.
Yeah, here's, here's, here's ideally, what I'd like to see.
Here we go, you have a your player, or you maybe not even
your player, but you'd have a connection to a player that's
built into the car, who knows what that's through Wi Fi, you
have a menu that comes up on your screen, and you just click
on the 10 podcasts you want and then or subscribe to them. So
they update automatically to some wireless system. And then
you're done. Or you go to a website and some guy has a
podcast, you just click on that into some mechanism, it just
automatically throws it onto your playlist. It goes right
onto your into your car, wherever you listen to the
stuff. And then just basically one click stuff.
So I almost have it set up that way because what I've done is on
me veoh.com Which by the way, I think the homepage is starting
to get starting to like be something now. But on me
veoh.com I'll make a channel of favourite shows. So I have let's
see what I have in there. The New York Times front page, I've
got fresh air, I've got the BBC News pod. I've got Pacific Coast
Holloway, I've got tech five. And then it's all in one
channel. So it's one feed. And I subscribe to that in my Nokia
podcast application. And all I and says literally one click
it'll bring in the whole list of new episodes in the shows that I
like. And then I can just say, okay, download this one. This
one, this one, this one or all of them if I want to. And that's
it. And then I'm in the and then I'm good to go. But that's
that's getting pretty close to perfect. I would say yeah, I
need something like that. I mean, I'm still you have a 71
you can do the same thing. Yeah, I
don't listen to the stuff to the show. I'm gonna have to start
using the 70 ones multimedia capability a little more like
I mentioned headset, that's what's really working for me. I
got did I show you that headset, the Motorola Bluetooth behind
the It's looks like it's made of solid plastic and it goes behind
the behind the neck. I'll show it to you. It's awesome. Let me
see. Do I have another model number on this? Doesn't say
you're looking it up.
You're googling. Googling. It's
yeah, I picked this up at the San Francisco Airport last time
I was leaving and it's it's awesome. So you got you know
beautiful stereo you can start and stop from the headset no
wires, which is really what I what I hated and I couldn't even
put have this thing on when there's when the plane is taking
off when you're supposed to have everything off. If they catch
you with earphones in. Then they almost rip them out of your
head. Right so this just goes right underneath the hairline.
You don't see it and I'm sitting there chillin, listen to shows.
And if a call comes in, then interrupts that is great.
Now you had to send me a link. The I will now well. But anyway,
yeah, I I still burn CDs.
Well, a lot of people do actually. In fact, you know?
Well, I'll
tell you what the problem is with burning CDs because I have
a bunch of them. You know, when they go into the, the San
Francisco office, I have I one of the things I do is I I've
downloaded a lot of the ad tech, the ad tech which is one of the
big conferences for people out there who do a lot of blogging
and stuff they want to kind of understand this business a
little better. You can go to these ad tech, the ad tech site
and they have all their speeches for all their conferences
available as podcasts all as quote. Yeah, that's good. And we
were talking like dozens and dozens do they
have a demo? They have an RSS feed of it?
Well, the problem is are so many of these things you want to do
you want to pick and choose. And so
here's something that would be great if if you could go to me
VO and then you could create a channel of the ones you think
are good and then publish that out. Because I'd listened to
that I've listened to your feed if you if you were putting stuff
in there.
So anyway, so the problem is, is that there, you can only get one
or you know, because of the problem with CDs is that they
only hold 70 minutes. You know, with with you when you have an
iPod, you can load that baby up with hours and hours and hours
and hours of material. Where even with the 71 How much is
that whole? Like, whatever that memory card? Yeah, it's
like two, two gig memory cards. So you can store tonnes of stuff
on it.
Yeah, so it's a big difference. So he ended up burning a lot of
cheap CDs and throwing them out
here, but I find that that's good for the car. Because I've
tried the Bluetooth to the car radio. That sucks that I've
never gotten that to work reliably. So yeah, I'll burn
stuff to a CD for in the car. In fact, I made a big stink about
this, and the download links are coming back ladies and
gentlemen. On the media,
oh, you will know,
of course is stupid. I mean, that's like, you can't force
people to listen to shows on the computer, you know, or forced to
force them. You know, it's like, why make it difficult? Just give
me their damn download link. This is what I'm saying to AOL.
You can hear me saying it out. Don't make us with fucking
difficult.
Well, the problem is, is that, you know, the until they, I
mean, yeah, there's a difficulty monetizing these kinds of
things. But the fact of the matter is, there's ways a and b
people want to download them. You got to get the phone now. No
problem. Well, give me a story first.
Now I gotta cover. Let me see. I got a good story. I'm so happy.
You there. Yeah, I'm back. I want to continue this. You want
to talk about something else? Well, what? No, I
think we're boring people stiff. Alright. So I picked up.
As I always do for my girls, I pick up like People Magazine,
I'll pick up Us Weekly, or whatever it is. And pick up the
National Enquirer and globe. And I'm so happy with our new
president because now politics are really in the in the
supermarket tabloids and had to pick this up. Obama's wife
attacks Oprah. Back off, there's only room for one first lady in
the White House. And it's great because in essence, I'm sure
that a lot of this is taking place. So you know the story, of
course, which is hyped to no end?
Well, well, wait a minute before you go on. Where did you where
was it? Where it just one run? Because I think a lot of people
don't know any better than National Enquirer is quite
accurate.
Yes. But this is the globe, the Enquirer has its own story. But
this isn't exclusive to the globe, which I'll put in the
same league, although Enquirer maybe better. And it's really
saying that, you know, Oprah, who of course, did do a
tremendous amount for the Obama campaign. She had a big
fundraiser at her house, you know, like $1,000 ahead dinner,
declared him the Messiah that, you
know, talked about him as if she is one of, if not the maker
cheat. Well, she's she's huge on television. She is massive. And
so now, you know, of course. So this is how it works, right? The
campaign ends, the twittering stops, you know, the emails are
dropped off the face of the earth because it's done right.
We got nothing left to say to anyone who did anything. That's
the way it goes. But of course, Oprah, you know, who's been
who's been dedicating a lot of her personal time, but also a
professional, taking risk risk, even you know, what she would
remember in the beginning, people said, Oh, she's gonna
lose her audience. People hate her. And so there were some
significant risk involved. So you're not Oprah. And it's not
like all of a sudden, okay, thanks. I'm president. No, she's
calling up and she's going like, alright, so I'll be hosting the
inaugural ball. This is the dress that I'll be wearing. You
know. And oh, by the way, you know, I've got an agenda. Here's
some things you have to do. Because, you know,
I'm Oprah. Yeah, yeah. You know, this was all expected.
Of course, it was, well, people don't think about it. And that's
why I'm so happy that this is showing up in the supermarket
tabloids because that, you know, now I have a reason to read
these things again. And Michelle Obama is apparently really
pissed off. You know, she's like, you know, back off sister.
Yeah. Michelle Obama, Obama is indeed where we'll be in
January, the First Lady and, and Oprah is not the first lady.
Although Oprah was kind of a de facto First Lady of the black
community. And now she's gonna, you know, she must this is gonna
be interesting, because you're right, this could turn into a
little, a little hissy fit here.
Well, even crazier than that. So I was talking to Patricia about
this and who and she approached this from a very different
angle. She sees it as celebrity gossip. You know, she's not even
that into the whole presidential thing the way I am certainly.
And so I mentioned this to her and she says, Oh, yeah, no, I
haven't seen Oprah man. She's like, because you know, she's
not. She's not married to Stedman. You know, her sexuality
has always been in question, and you know what she's really like
the most eligible bachelorette in America would say, even
though she has this guy, you know, maybe just maybe just her
moustache or whatever it is, or beard, whatever you call, it
doesn't matter. But Patricia was saying that, you know,
everywhere Oprah was like, hanging on, on Barack, and you
know, she she, as well was, Patricia put it a little more
crudely, but she says like, he's just gliding over him
continuously. And I bet she would have logged in. That's
what she said, you know, Oprah, is it? There's no way she said
it in Dutch. So it doesn't really translate. But she said
no, but Oprah is just moist. Oh, for Barak, that was the, I get
it. And and I thought about I said, Yeah, you know, I could
totally understand where Oprah would think shit. You know, this
is the guy for me. I like him. Now. She can't do anything about
it. Now, I think that's way too late. But, but you bet you bet
that she has a lot she has an agenda. And she's gonna call
Barack on it. The president?
Yeah, no, it's gonna be interesting to see why he does
it. But he did promise. You know, a lot of people believe
that the entire year the black community, which has never been
had this much access to power is going to be all over him, you
know, pushing him in one direction or another he's gonna
have to do he's gonna have to essentially pull a Nixon and and
pretty much isolate himself. So you just, you just you just
can't get a hold of him.
Oh, he's got he's got enough people. He's considering for his
administration that have worked with Nixon.
Well, and Clinton, and he's got that mean spirited Chief of
Staff,
Rahm and Ron. And well, you know, I looked up a couple of
things on some of these people. I didn't have a lot of time. I
don't we talked about last week, but Rama Manuel was on the board
of directors had Freddie Mac in 2002, when they when there was
no huge money was being laundered and lost. And all
these people that are that are around him in the
administration. It just kind of scary. They've got we I mean,
you probably get a weird background if you're in politics
long enough anyway. But
so the word here is that Hillary Clinton is going to become
Secretary of State. Yeah,
I followed that whole thing Friday to kind of like, well,
you know, she doesn't want to say and insiders are saying and
but then I heard Hillary give a speech where she said, I'm going
to respect the president the the president elects process. So it
sounds like she indeed couldn't be upfront, you know, when
they during the election, when the two of them were still
battling each other. And she had to give in and not, you know,
make a big fuss at the end. They had that secret meeting that
just the two of them and they came out she was smiling, and
everybody thought there was some sort of a quid pro quo deal that
was done to get her out of that out of the race. And many people
assumed it was gonna be the vice president. Yeah, this may have
been the deal.
Well, it's the right gig for her I'll say that she is definitely
the right person. Although of course she works for the evil
Uber overlords you know, you know my opinion on that but just
from what she knows and who she knows and the the world she's
travelled around, and I think she would be pretty good.
Maybe she's another Neo liberal Well, of
course she is. I mean, it's all show anyway, I just want pretty
pictures to look at by the way, Sarah Palin now with their hair
down at that Republican get together.
Turns out, so it turns out you watch Bill Maher last Friday, or
not this company this last week? I didn't see the one. I never
watched it. Yeah. But you shouldn't as
we already went through this, I can't get it over here. Oh,
well, you know, once we get our sling boxes, yeah, we get the
sling boxes. Yeah.
And there's a thing called sling catcher that puts it on the TV,
I'm gonna get some units and I'll figure out how to do it.
Anyway. So Bill Maher was one of the guys ranting and raving
about what an idiot Sarah Palin was because she thought Africa
was a country and it turns out it wasn't true. Yes, she denied
it. Nobody paid any attention to her denials but they decided to
go with it and it was a blogger who was a hoax guy and he was a
big hoax in the Los Angeles Times you know, the media or
MSNBC they all jumped on this poor woman for this something
that didn't even happen it was just I thought it was sick
clickable
Yeah, it's well it's that's the media that's why it's better now
to buy a better the story in the globe is true. It's more true
than that shit.
Yeah, I'm sure I know. It's pathetic that we have to read
tabloids to get news. Well,
I was gonna say reminds me of men and black, and I think was
the First Men in Black where Tommy Lee Jones is showing Will
Will Smith the ropes. And then he walks by a newsstand and he
stops and he picks up the National Enquirer and then
there's Wilson necessity and what's that for? So this is
research. For all the stories there it's all true everything
in here is the real world.
Well, they you know, the One thing that's come out over the
you know, the National Enquirer doesn't get any respect, because
they buy a lot of their their stories, they'll actually pay
sources to spill their beat spilled the grass, right? And
this is considered bad practice.
Yeah, I'm reading the best democracy money come by Greg
Palast. Have you ever heard of him?
No, I haven't heard of him. But I heard of that book.
excellent book, excellent book. And it's really, he's a
journalist, he's uncovered a lot of amazing, amazing things that
have gotten no attention in mainstream media. So it's
partially about the truce that he's uncovered, which goes back
to the 2004 elections, with voters predominantly black, but
almost all Democrat being scrubbed off of the eligibility
or voter list and Florida. But really, it's about how he has
tried to get the stories into mainstream news in America and
has failed. And what I'm already reading now is he's saying this,
no one's doing any research, it's a lot safer, just to, you
know, to buy your story, because that's what, that's what they
all do, John, they don't, they don't know they buy a package
story. They don't buy the news or the information from from the
person directly, but they'll just buy a package of news. You
know, they'll take a press release, turn it into a news
story. And there's no reporting is too expensive. No one wants
to spend the money on reporting. In fact, the line that I like to
hear you like, yeah, the newspapers or at some point,
make something like 20% margin when they were in their heyday.
And so they keep cutting back on the quality and then people
stopped looking at the papers because the quality sucks. And
then they did they cheapen it more thinking people are gonna
want that when I was, you know, I made this argument a million
times. It's like, Why do you make your product worse, if you
want more people to buy it, I mean, that this never made any
sense to me. And then meanwhile, it's so bad. And this is a data.
There's a point of irony here. I was on a call recently for the
Bulldog reporter with a bunch of other writers talking to public
relations, people about how they should do their job. This is
common. And Kara Swisher was on the Wall Street Journal. And
she's talking about her website, she did get all things digital,
whatever it is, they're just kind of a blog that's separate
from the journal itself. Although it's edited, I believe,
anyway, she said that the most popular feature on there is
press releases run full cloth. She says it's just really
shocked her but you run a press release full cloth, and it gets
more page news. And most of the stuff that she does, she says
she just kind of mentioned this in passing. And I'm thinking,
think about what you just said
and that crazy.
I mean, the press is just you know, okay, well anyway, so
that. So the whole newspaper thing is just completely now
somebody made or mentioned the possibility that they are going
to be next in line to beg for a bailout. Well, just guys don't
need any more money just before we
get into that. So somewhere in the beginning of this book is
the line that this is so rare, that jerk that journalists
actually do any real investigative reporting that
that's why they had to make a whole movie about called All the
President's Men because who are the guys wardrobe, wardrobe,
Bernstein and Woodward,
Bernstein and Woodward. It was so rare that they had actually
done all that investigating reporting, investigative
reporting to uncover the Watergate scandal, they had to
make a movie about it. And the point
is well made. I never thought about that. But you're right.
Yeah. I mean, so what's so special guys actually did their
job. It was so unusual
that has ever happened. And this is in the 70s By the way, so
unusual that anybody would do something like this that it made
it made a movie of a movie, you might like
this book, jaw. It's an updated version, the best democracy
money combined. Isn't that funny? Expanded election
edition. Wow. Okay, this is a Paul Parkinson gave this to me.
All right, I have I've known many person, many an arrogant PR
person who have sensually said, you know, we make all the news.
We people just do what we tell them to and that's the way it
is.
Well, the sad thing is that the audience doesn't give a shit.
Wow, whatever.
Alright, so let's give it a shot because you're not really given
much of an option. Now, but I don't I don't get used to it.
Yeah, there used to just believing whatever it's like.
Remember that I love Jersey thing. I think I was telling you
about it the other day about they found all those bones
children's bones. And there's been you know, right, right. 30
eyewitnesses and testimony for years and, you know, so they
finally uncovered you know, Bones of like 12 children and so
you know, now that oops, they replaced the deputy or the the
chief of police oops, someone else went in retirement. Oops,
the judge changed. And now the news came out. Oh, no, it wasn't
there was no children bones at all. It's all animals. Oh, there
was no torture whatsoever. And everyone and people are emailing
me, you really need to make a correction. You were wrong. I'm
like, What are you talking? You're gonna believe this piece
of shit over anything else but me 30 People test testifying
that this was going on Yeah, man,
we get, you know, you see that when you do this is a great
thing about actually modern media and blogging and and
modern magazines that use comments. Because you hit you
can roll out like the most scurrilous piece of information
that you know is true. I mean, global warming falls into this
category that Michael chrome by the way. So Michael Creighton
came out at you know, and he's, I saw his last interview with
Charlie Rose, I have a copy, I should give it like, his
interviews. And he says he knew he was gonna get slammed for
this. But he says he thinks as far as he concerned, it's a
crock of crap. But you know, you could have evidence that it's a
crock of crap, but because people have subscribed, they
have subscribed their personality. In other words,
it's almost like you know, I've always felt this way with, you
know, this Mac versus PC thing that happened where it began in
1984. And just really never ended. And you criticise a
Macintosh. And the person who has subscribed to the Macintosh
by buying one and thinking is really good. They think you're
criticising them? Yep. They've internalised people have
internalised outside information. And and and this is
a form of materialism that is very destructive to one's
personality. And this type of materialism can take the form of
being materialistic about information. So you are totally
you've bought in to something to such an extreme that if anybody
says it might, you might be that the information might be
invalid. You defend the information, even if it isn't
valid, because you are 100% in this is not healthy.
But this is rampant, John and particularly in high tech,
particularly Silicon Valley stuff. And
it's programmed to do with an engineer. Yeah,
it's it's social engineering. But look at those ads. I mean,
basically, Hi, I'm a cool guy, you know, I'm getting laid, and
I use a Mac. That's the whole message. And the other guy
clearly is not getting laid. By the way, by the way, the so I'm
in New York, and I asked Ron and Jeff this you know, Ron, Ron's a
pretty smart marketing guy. Jeff's been with market at
Electronic Arts, all of North America for eight years, you
know, billions of dollars worth of video games. And I said you
see that bus going by says Windows life without walls. Can
you explain that positioning statement to me? And neither of
them could? Do you know what that means? I have a theory.
Well, let me think about it. This this you mentioned it this
is so weak. I remember seeing it myself life without walls
windows. Yeah. So the Windows was just sitting there without a
wall in the hole now, I guess so. No. Okay, but I'm just
trying to think of some some crazy things. I
got it. I got it, man. It's an it's a total West Coast Silicon
Valley thing. Get it? Walled Garden, the Mac being a walled
garden.
Oh my god, you're right.
How lame is that? Huh?
How lame is the right that's exactly it. And so I'm looking
on.
Yeah. And I'm looking at him like, you know, this is not the
best positioning statement in the world. And you know, and
neither Ron or Jeff they said the same thing was like no walls
and it's transparent and but it was not good. You know, like,
well, how does that sound from from Microsoft that said, yeah,
that's like the way they package their shit. But there's a pun in
there and I think because of the whole Mac PC thing, and now
they've got the hi I'm a PC which by the way, I think those
ads are pretty good.
I think they stink. No, I
think they're well cast. I liked them. I liked the light.
Used to hear here. And here's the here's here is the big $64
question about these ads. When you're zooming by advertising
using your TiVo or your DVR whatever it is, and you go
shooting by all these ads, banking mainly Me, me, me. And
you see a Mac ad one of those are the two guys, you will stop
and watch it because you know you're going to be entertained.
If you see one of those PC ads. Are you going to stop your DVR
so you can watch the ad?
No, no, no. No, you're right. But that's the difference
between advertising and making a better ad and doing something
which I believe is the next in which we are doing the next
level of advertising is you turn it into entertainment. Those ads
are entertaining. They're fun to watch. So it's entertainment,
ergo good and it and then of course that's the kind of shit
that when you consume it as entertainment, you internalise
it, and then you get all that crazy, fanboy shit.
But it has messages in it that are that are that are that work.
I mean, I think they're just they're fantastic. He hasn't
sold me on anything but you know, but the fact of the matter
is, is the machine I do recommend people buy it. But if
somebody says What should I get Viola, let's just get a
Macintosh. And you know, you won't have to worry so much.
Yeah.
Hell yeah. And I saw it once again on the road man.
Because Ron, we're using Ron's laptop as the presenting
machine, so he always fully loaded and has, you know, in
case there's no, you go to these agencies and you get like an
hour with one of the top media buyers responsible for huge
brands, I'm talking about everything from Pepsi to Dr.
Pepper to movie studios to ah, you know, other consumer
packaged goods like Gillette, you know, on and on and on. And
then you want to present to them sometimes the Wi Fi is all
fucked up, and you can't, you know, you want you wind up
presenting upside down. In the craziest ways, you know, half
the half the meetings, I spend, you know, my knees on the floor,
I mean, it's real schmatta selling stuff, because you had
to go down find, you gotta find a plug and all
the are the internet connection, or the internet connection is
usually dead.
Exactly. And then, you know, what's the guest password? And
so we have a lot of
stuff. No, nobody knows.
So and this is, these are media agencies who were supposed to be
sophisticated in this stuff. Anyway, so actually, we had a
lot of good luck, we were able to get a lot of it working
fairly smoothly, but, but it's a PC. And so whenever you connect
to either, we did have our own projector, which we always carry
with us, in case someone has absolutely nothing because
there's nothing more pathetic than hey, let's all look over my
shoulder at the screen or trying to navigate a presentation
upside down. Right. But every every different projector we ran
into or every flat screen TV, it's you spend 15 minutes
configuring the fucking options, you know, the size, the
frequency scan rates, the the resolution, and with a Mac, you
plug it in, and it works. It just works.
Hello, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So did I internalise that it sounded a bit.
I think so you're sounding like a little too, too happy about
it? Yeah, no, I agree. The whole thing is a disaster. And I use
the Google phone standardisation when I'm sorry, I use the Google
phone a lot this trip. Oh, I didn't know you had a Google
phone.
Yeah, I got one from the office.
I was supposed to get a Google phone. They never got me one.
Well, no, I got you the e 71. Listen, you don't want the
Google phone unless you want to test it out.
Because the lottery? I want to test it out.
Okay, well, you can have mine. I'm done with it. Because a dog?
No, you're saying No, what I'm saying is the I think I told you
if I told you this, the phone itself is a dog. It's HTC makes
it and the battery life, you know, because of all the shit
that's in there, whatever. It's like three hours, that's not
worth it. There's still a lot of basic stuff missing real basic
stuff, like, you know, I'd like to, you know, send a webpage via
email to someone forget all that. This is an operating
system that combined with the Google services, here it is the
cloud is absolutely ad consumer friendly enough level. And I
could see this operating system. Unlike Symbian. I could see this
going on the netbooks. I could see this being a very
lightweight operating system that works with all the Google
services giving you enough to have a real experience in life
free as an as an operating system. I'm really quite
surprised by it. I'm surprised by it.
So you think Google do you think this may be a Trojan horse? Not
in the sense of a virus but in the sense of like here, here we
come. Or we're gonna do this phone we look look, it's just a
phone. We're just doing a phone. No, no, no, no, we're just doing
a phone. But in fact, they're working on blowing out a real
operating systems is going to be unreal computers, running all
these cloud apps before you know it.
Yeah, well, I know that they're already going to do it on a
sprint farm. So they're just there. They're just going to be
setting you know, pimping the the OS out everywhere they can.
And I don't see why they wouldn't put it on bigger
devices. It just makes perfect sense to me.
So then Microsoft was right, in their paranoia,
I think? I think so. And it could do it, John. It really
could. It already has the touchscreen hooks built into it.
So that's kind of cool. Which by the way, the hotel we were at
had had those big Microsoft coffee tables. It's kind of nice
because it would tell was this, the Sheraton towers but pretty
shitty hotel, but right in the middle where we needed to be for
this trip. So we have these coffee tables. which are about
like, you know, four feet by two and a half feet. And it looks
like you're looking from a top view of the beach, there's a
little starfish there and some shells and sand. And when you
put something down on the table, because you don't, I didn't
recognise it at first, but you put something down and the water
starts to ripple. And then you notice, yeah, and the four
corners, there's a little tab, you hit it. And then boom, you
get Google Maps or Google Earth, I should say, or a it's probably
Microsoft Live, but it looks like Google Earth. There's
pictures of the hotel, and you can do all the rotating and the
pinching and the expanding and yeah, it was good. I was. That's
the shit Microsoft should be making. Yeah, well, if it's even
Microsoft that look to it work too well, for it to be
Microsoft, honestly.
Well, they're not gonna, you know, hey, you know, they drift
in and out of these things. It's like weird and I don't know
what's gonna happen. I mean, the more people you know,
apparently, the government of Holland is decided to go open
source.
It they've been working on that for a long time. I think that's
a damn good initiative that started in Amsterdam. I believe
that's where the initiative started
by the guy from the Dutch guy yesterday. Oh, yeah.
For was it? Where was he from from the government? Phillips,
Ah, right. He was just going on and on about how his company
doesn't, you know, they are they're running Linux and Open
Office because he says why he wants to spend? Why should we be
spending 800 bucks a head office where we can just run Open
Office and it does most of the 99% of what you want done. And
he mentioned, I didn't know this, but the newest version of
open office actually will read and write a doc X file, which
I've told everyone in my family never to use the I
hate those pretty good point. PowerPoint. exe files as well.
Completely. Not not backwards compatible with anything. Yeah.
Well, this is why Kleiner Perkins invested in what's the
name of that company, Kim polices company. The it's a it's
like an IT services company that has it, you know that that will
service instals of Linux. For the Linux organisation, you need
that anyway, if you've got a big company, you need someone on the
outside helping you unless you want to have 1000s of
consultants running around.
I really need somebody from the outside.
I ran a 700 person organisation Yeah, you need help from the
outside you really
can't have like too good IT guys and know what to do when you
have no idea
where you're saying this shit is hard. I mean, forget about just
the physical layer of keeping that working. The idiocy
immunity to people full time for the idiots we actually every
office needs at least one one person, I lost my password. My
computer won't start all of this shit. And then, you know, with
Microsoft keeping compatible versions of Office, are you
kidding me? So you know, then you have to have all the central
instal stuff and then people want laptops to be mobile and
then units, you know, then then that's the worst. Because how
are you going to maintain that? Oh, no, if I pass off to the IT
people of the world, man shit, that is not an easy gig.
They should send the wine where
I'm serious. So speaking of Dutch, the big G 20 Financial
summit taking place today, Saturday, November 15.
I just noticed you mentioned that I they just did a you know,
I was watching the the Jim lair. Team. And they had they had one
that was they had a long discussion about the G 20.
Meeting. And I did tape it and I was actually probably going to
try to send you a disk of it or did it turn out to be too long
for me to to upload. But go on. I just because I have some
thoughts on it.
Well, so I have I have many thoughts. But just I was going
to kind of ease into it by saying that I was reading this
morning on the way back from the airport on online because just
you know, sir, from my phone that young paid to bulkan ENDA,
who was the Prime Minister of the Netherlands rushed back to
Holland he you know, the the conference has just started and
he turned around went back because his father passed away,
which is which is sad, but what I thought was kind of
interesting is the Netherlands is not a G 20 country. And there
are several non g 20. It's like they call it the G 20. Like it's
some secret club but then they invite everybody else. And I say
I don't get it. Other than that. The Dutch royal family is of
course part of the Illuminati and
so sure the whales he had done yeah. So they had a pretty Good
analysis of the professor and these decks you know all of them
were expats from someplace else and the one guy came up with
obviously says, you know, it was he says everything was fine when
you had right after World War Two and there was the first
meeting was a G two, which was England and the United States in
any figure out how they're going to do things he says go back to
a G to adjust the United States and China figure out because it
says, that's the real crux of all this, of this problem is
China and the United States. The rest of these guys are just they
have their own agenda. As he says, there's this nothing's
gonna come out of this meeting. It's a photo on a beat. It's
yeah, it's gonna be just a bunch of guys, Oregon, because
everyone has an outline, every one of these countries that are
involved, they have each one of them have their own financial
mess. And then when they sit in there criticising the US and US
banks that the worst banks in the world, apparently, and I
think we blogged this or in England and Great Britain, the
American banking systems not as bad as especially the the
Germans, and who are just leveraged up to unbelievably
leverage. And it's just a fiasco.
Well, the first of all, you can't have a just a G two with
the US and China, it has to include the United Kingdom,
because the British Empire is, in my mind, largely responsible
for a lot of what's happened in the financial in the financial
sector or globally. And we cannot ignore the fact that
brown Sarkozy, Merkel tree che, who is the president of the
European Central Bank, they are literally calling for a New
World Order and a new world financial order, where the
European, the IMF, now they're saying they want the IMF to be
the central, like the spider in the middle of the web of the new
of a new global financial system. And, and from what I
understand, these guys have already kind of figured out what
they want to do. And out of this meeting, this photo op will come
and look forward in the press that Europe is going to say,
okay, and with Europe, I'm gonna include Russia, and maybe China
will go along with it. They're gonna say, Okay, here's how
we're going to run it IMF in the middle, somehow, I guarantee
you, there's going to be some carbon shit in there. And then
America will have like 100 days to comply. And then we either go
along, or we or we get kicked out. Something like that.
will hopefully we will go along and see what happens.
But the thing you were getting into was that was these were the
financial bailouts. And this is this is indeed just crazy. So
now we have the automotive industry wanting $50 billion on
top of the $25 billion for retooling you know, this You're
so right. You know, what's next? It'll be the airline industry
and then it'll be What did you just say it was gonna be?
Newspaper newspapers, because of course, there'll be no no true
news. No real news. If they go away.
Kenya was like, there's like there's any now there was
a day when we had horse and buggies? You know, those guys
went away. They didn't get no bailout. You know, sometimes
shit just has to change. But this it's not about cars. It's
about the pension funds, the pension funds, what they don't
want us they don't want to screw millions of people out of their
pensions out of their gold standard pensions. And Obama, of
course, who took millions of dollars from the unions will if
Bush doesn't do it, he'll do it. He has to because it's all about
the UAW.
Great, well, you know, they made the deal. And they're supposed
to try it at least but you know, I think they should probably
just go bankrupt. I agree with you. I totally agree. But you
listen to this, and well, you know, you go bankrupt and you're
going to leave a bunch of these pensioners in soup lines is
going to be a disaster because there's lots of them. There's
way too many, but someone
has to hurt. I mean, do we want to kill our children's future by
having it shipped for everybody? Or can we maybe we can find some
kind of middle ground but yes, someone has to hurt in all of
this.
And it's not the bad guys. I know for a fact that won't be
hurting all the executives. Well, who screwed it up? Yeah.
Now of course they want and also the new our government has a
very different pension plan than you and I
the Senators and Representatives they got a great pension plan.
Yep. And, and they have great health care. Yeah, they should
share the same shit they're offering us maybe that would
change it.
Yeah, that's gonna happen. Yeah. So what else let's get off this
topic. You come up with something. I don't have
anything. That's the funny thing about this week. I don't think
anything interesting happened. I thought it was a pretty slow
moving week. It's after the election. You know, you have the
most of the thing is a soap opera, and Michelle cat fight.
As the most interesting thing, it is, isn't that terrible?
That is kind enough.
Let me just I'm heading to Portugal. Oh, that's happening.
Yeah, I'm leaving on Yeah. The trouble is I'm running me to
Frankfurt. So I can't stop by.
What are you going? What's the day?
I'm leaving on tomorrow? Really? Yeah. Then I'll be back on next
Monday. So we have to push the show off to Monday night.
Because I don't think I can do it. I just don't think I'm gonna
have the bandwidth. Maybe.
I mean, I know if you're in Frankfurt, you know, the
Frankfurt is
not going to be in Frankfurt. I'm in Lisbon. I'm sorry,
Lisbon.
Um, I've done shit from from Lisbon. They're pretty wired.
Yeah, but I'm not going to be in Lisbon that long. I mean, we're
going out to visit all these high tech companies all over the
middle of nowhere we should have they should be wired out there.
But I don't know. I would
like to point out that in 57 episodes or 56. So far, not once
have I actually made us do the show. Not on a weekend no matter
what. And I travel a million miles. And now you have one
little measly trip and we have to do it on Monday.
Now you if you look back, we've done a number of shows on
Thursdays. And I used to be just obviously, getting old. Didn't
number shows on Thursdays and we've skipped it. We've done a
lot. A lot of we have done a couple of Sunday shows I have to
say, and I do remember doing a Monday show,
but people do get out of whack man. They got out of whack.
Well, do you want to look if it works out? I'll be actually
yeah, I'll be around. Saturday. I'm gonna go to I'm gonna go to
Holland with Patricia on Friday. I want to see the live show. But
I'll be back Saturday. So if you want we do a Saturday, Sunday or
Monday is fine, too. I'm cool. Okay, well, I'll
try to do it on Saturday if I can, but just bring your headset
by the way, how does this mic sound? You won't believe this.
So I Yeah, well, I didn't want to take my whole my whole Heil
microphone and everything with me. And so I just took my little
what's the name of this setup, it's the Lectro it's actually
the wireless lav set that I always carry with me. And and I
hooked it up to my Mac. So it's it's input directly into the
processing chain in Ableton Live. And I must have gotten 10
emails from people saying dude, you know, this microphone setup
sounds like 10 times better than your normal setup. So now I'm
literally down to a pair of headphones and two little boxes
with a lav microphone. And that's it. He using a lob now it
well I have it stuck on stuck on a mic stand. So it's not clipped
onto my collar or anything. I'm just talking directly into it.
And I have to agree it sounds a million times better and I got
all kinds of outboard gear and external mixers. I think I got
to reevaluate my entire processing chain here at the
manor. Well, there's a
lot of new microphone technology showing up that uses MEMS what's
what's MEMS mammas is a micro electrical micro
electromechanical system. These are the you know, the DLP from
Texas Instruments is one of the first examples of a ma'am, which
is a semiconductor is made like a semiconductor but it has
moving parts. Wow. And you know, there's little mirrors on that
thing. Is that like nanotechnology? Sorry, yeah,
it's nanotechnology. In fact, when you go to you find a lot of
scales now that in some of these high end hotels, you've seen
them. They're like, expensive. Looks like just a piece of glass
and you step on it. Yeah, sure. And there's no movement,
right? Yeah, you're right there is there's there's no your foot
doesn't depress anything?
No, there's nothing's depressors uh, ma'am, there's a memory
device in there. And it tells you what your way. Well, anyway,
I think I'm not sure because I've never I haven't really
looked at but one of the hottest microphones out there right now
is the country man. And the country man and Mike, you've
seen it. But everyone has seen these things. They tend they
tend to be flesh coloured. And so mics around your ear, and
it's got a little bitty thing that comes around in front of
your mouth. And the thing is just got it's like a pin point.
It's just extremely small little thing at the end. And a lot of
Country and Western singers use them almost every bowl right?
When you have the ad on the headset. Sure. Oh, really? Ah,
okay. I was always one. They use it on lots of TV shows now and I
used to be against it because it would never really sound good.
But in the theatres now, when you go to a Broadway play, or
maybe the West End, you can't you know, sometimes you can see
the mics. They're now becoming completely invisible. And the
sound is phenomenal.
The sound on a country man, because the first time I use it
was about a year ago. And somebody says I said you these
things. I said, Yeah, I've seen these things, are they he says
Do you got it you won't believe the sound. And so you use it and
you just it sounds like a big condenser mic. It's gorgeous.
The sound. They cost about 350 bucks. And it's just a really
nice microphone, and they're called countryman.
You But the problem is though, I mean, I'm pretty old school when
it comes to, to broadcasting and I like kind of having a you
know, a nice fat you know, thing in front of my face you know,
it's fine like almost John I mean the idea of having a little
puny little tiny dick Mike it just doesn't feel right. You
know, I gotta have like a grab onto it there and yeah, move it
around when you're talking.
Yeah, yeah, I guess you know you and Ed Sullivan. The big boom
make sure that we're over the head.
I got this email. i This is something I did want to talk to
you about. Fuck no, I gotta find it, apparently. And there's some
pictures circulating the net. There's some Some so called
technology and I say so called for a number of reasons called
like pee pee pee. But like progressive picture something or
that I gotta look up this email, where they've taken a video
still of an aeroplane flying, you know, the one of the like
flight 177 flying in just before it flies into the towers. See, I
can find this fucking email. And then they're able to zoom in
digitally as it were and render the faces in the cockpit. I'm
surprised you haven't seen this because you certainly would have
blogged it.
I probably would have debunked it. lol I
totally think it's fake. But as I'm receiving this from tonnes
of people right now which is weird why I can't find I can't
find one of these emails here we go first ever images from
cockpit Oh flight 175
I'm reminded of the you always get the biggest kick out of the
TV shows that you'll have you know, they'll have some some
crappy camcorder outside on a gas station. And then you know,
so they say okay, and they you know, there's a typical CSI
thing. Okay, zoom in. Now enhance it and and they get the
light and a half miles away
all but do those licence plates here in the UK. Now, every
single gas station you go to, you walk into pay. And right
there, there's a monitor and you see, you know, the past the
previous 20 licence plates that have gotten gas and you see your
car right there on the in a picture and you see their
licence plates been scanned? The things it's pretty amazing
technology, this look at that link I just sent you.
And unfortunately my browser's not working. I think I'm I think
this my stacks out of sync and have to reboot the computer.
Now so anyway, that might be something I want to blog to. I
agree to do to debunk. But I'm getting a lot of it.
But anyway, this sort of reminds me of this kind of thing where
they say enhance it more. Okay. Yeah, the computer geek knows
that he has a special trick he types up.
They know where they do that on what's the show Vegas.
They used to they used to in Vegas all the time. They used to
do all the fancy stuff where they do the point where they did
my other favourite one is run his prints through the data.
Like within to say you know how long it takes to run print?
I don't know. It could take days, why don't you have like
the monitor and you have to have the apprentice face
come up by now. And it goes
to match. partial match.
You know the other one, the other pile of crap that's on TV
all the time that I'm always amused by is they create a point
of interest or a point of suspense. They do the actually
my kids are all aware of this too. And it's like the family
collectively rolls its eyes when this one comes on. It's like a
guy calls up. He's like a kidnapper some run a trace on
his phone. Okay, the traces on the guy, pull them out of the
line, hold them on the minutes, keep them out a little longer.
Oh, we hung up. This information comes over instantly. With the
call. There's no tracing anymore every year
caller ID.
This is like from years ago. I mean, 20 years do I think maybe
30 years ago, on almost every call whether you even use caller
ID or not. There's enough information on the on the data
that that initiates the call that you know exactly where that
what the number is and where it's coming from. Yeah, but they
keep using this as a suspenseful note. And I think it's just such
bold crap that I wish somebody would just bust it, say in you
know, at some point, or unless they're trying to keep dumb
criminals thinking that, you know, I don't know, I don't know
what the point of it is.
No, I think it's the condition. You know, it was just lame
writing. Maybe that's it just lame writing. Because I mean, I
could think of a million conspiracy theories, easy for
that one. Easy. Yet anyways, and we talked about Echelon and all
that stuff. And we know that everything's being traced and
tracked and recorded and hey, that thing in Australia is
really happening now. John, it's implemented implementing a test
system as we speak the D censorship, censorship. Yeah.
And I get emails from people. And I'm amazed to say like,
well, you know, this is outrageous. I've got to stop
this. I mean, sure, we should, we should stop the kiddie porn
scum. And it's the same thing and like, if they can, it's not
that hard to find out where a server is, okay? It's not that
hard to take down a server with your military botnet. Now, it's
not if people are processing credit cards, it's just not that
hard to figure it out and shut it down. You know, do not accept
any type of filtering, do not accept it. Because the next
thing no third on the list is going to be kiddie kiddie porn
first. And then it's our show, John. That was like, oh, we
can't have anti Americanism when we can have anti patriotic talk.
That's the next thing. It's gonna happen.
Chloe, I'm surprised you're not blocked in the EU already?
Well, in the EU, they're already they're absolutely public Wi Fi
that block certain sites? You betcha, has taken place.
Well, you know, there's always you know, as long as you have a
wallet, you can block content that is like just a downloadable
podcast, it's pretty hard to search that stuff. I mean,
they'd have to actually go out of their way to block us. No,
not
at all. We're curry.com has now blocked on Vodafone. Is it?
Yeah. But curry.me veoh.com is not, you know, we spend a lot of
money. This is the scam. And by the way, it's only going to get
worse. We spend I'm going to say between 40 and $50,000 a month
to stay on whitelists for email whitelist for ISP blocking for
net Vanny for strong mail. You know, it's fucking outrageous.
Because these guys it's a scam they have it set up with, with
all the ISPs with all the big email companies like MSN and
Gmail, and they'll negotiate for you and they'll be your by
proxy. They'll maintain the whitelist for all these
companies because it's a business. It's an absolute
profitable business. They're running and it's a scam. And now
the government is going to get into the game watch.
Yeah, you're probably right. It is a scam. It's ridiculous.
I wish people realise that.
Well, the Australians are idiots if they're gonna let this
happen.
Thank you. I'm glad you're out of that. Because I'm gonna go to
Australia is always tough guys. I mean, they always present
themselves as such. Yeah, they pushed around like this. It's
ridiculous. Yeah, this deep on the Capitol.
Where's Crocodile Dundee? What the hell is that? He should be
good. I might don't feel dry internet. I'm making a trip down
to Australia. I've promised my my daily source code listeners
when in 2009 Because in the past year, a lot of seemingly
exciting energy technologies are popping out of Australia and a
lot of magnet engines a lot of stuff like that. And so I want
to go and see some of this stuff. And I got the hydroxy
booster. I know that works to a degree. So I'm gonna go and look
at some of this magnet stuff. Yeah, these guys are doing they
got nothing. Yeah, that's what's down there. Sheet and kangaroos.
And Opal minds.
Oh, it gets a relish. If nothing else, you bring back some old
bulls.
The thing though, is I've been asking my listeners to send me
Australian porn. This is the funny thing. There's so I'm
like, hey, you know, send me some Australian porn for me that
there's only like one porn site in all of Australia.
But then why they filtering it? Exactly.
They got nothing going on there and porn.
They're obviously trying to repress the public's. Do they
ever it's always boils down to finding out who's voting for
who. And let's screw with the guys who vote against us. And
that's been the other thing, which I always say one reason
that you don't want the government want monitoring all
this stuff is let's start monitoring private conversations
of all the venture capitalists to see what's up. And we can
make our investments appropriately.
With the money we just stole. Yeah, what did you see I posted
on curry.com. I know you don't give a shit about anything I do.
But you might want to actually it's on my Flickr, Flickr site.
I had a meeting and I had to scan the business card.
And you showed me that I saw it. Did you like it? Yeah, it was
okay. Yeah. Actually, to be honest, I don't know what the
point of it was.
Well, it says Bear Stearns, a JP Morgan company on the business
card. I thought you know, that's like if you're from New York
finance, that's just something you cannot believe you ever see.
Oh, it was so real. And anyone at Bear Stearns was like, hey,
that's impossible. Anyway, a lot of Wall Street types I spoke to
say Think this is this is the Buying Opportunity now is the
buying opportunity of a lifetime, which by the way, I do
agree with, to some extent, unreal, something that
says, Yeah, I agree to I say I wrote a column about this in
MarketWatch. It says, I said, you know, it's funny that
they're the these experts always telling you, when the market
starts going up, you're supposed to, like, slowly sell off, you
know, as soon as it starts banging in the top, but nobody
ever tells you to, like do a little bottom feeding once in a
while.
There's a lot of good
companies $13 I mean, holy mackerel, yeah. I
mean, it's gonna go up because these guys make the world. It is
like two bucks. And those are I mean, I'm not in the market. And
and you know, me, I'm tired of it won't do it. And I'm done
with it. But yeah, I mean, that seems totally logical. You know,
Intel. Yeah. Right now, it's tough because they got no
orders. I mean, that's logical. We're going into a, into a
slowdown, which, by the way, I think in hindsight, depending of
course, on what the new financial system becomes, but
but what's really happening is people are saving money. Good
Anya. And now, Walmart is doing layaways. We talked about that a
couple of weeks ago, that doing layaway through their email
marketing. And people are keeping money in their pocket,
you know, it sure is grinding the economy to a halt. So what
shifts finally going to be affordable
for a while. So there was a good blog post that we had a some guy
can't remember his name, but he's like one of these fairly,
fairly famous as someone who's a good prognosticator. And he ran
down a horrible scenario for the next four years with under
Obama, which concluded with in 2012, were the best Christmas
gifts
Thank you Rami. Cupcake, all cupcake.
I got a potato.
Potato. I got a potato for Christmas. What did you get?
Well, listen, in the United States. We can't imagine this
right for my father. My father in law just turned 83 today. And
guys had a quintuple bypass pacemaker for 25 years. But he
was a 1415 year old boy in the Second World War, and he ate out
of trash cans. And we you know, we can't imagine that in the
United States. Europe certainly remembers. It's not that long
ago. You know, there's a very different culture and food Yeah,
I can just imagine and it can happen.
Well, you know, people do which still, there are the homeless
still go to trash bins. Here's a story that you you would be
amused by the homeless still go to trash bins and grab stuff.
And you my wife actually used to go to Monterey foods. Trashman
because she had so damn many rabbits to feed literally, yeah,
that she'd get greens and she would talk to these people. And
these homeless people would come in there and get food for their
family for whatever reason. And she said, and but the big
complaint was these groups of people and there was one
highlighted on TV the other day, and one of the, you know, the
the public broadcasting station on some one of these, you know,
hyper liberal shows about how, how this was a good thing. This
group of people in California called Freegans. And the
Freegans are dumpster divers there. These are people and this
one guy who bragged about he was a professor, I think at one of
the colleges around here, I can't remember exactly which
one. He seemed a little weird, but he was a college professor.
He makes like, you know, 100 100 plus $1,000 A year and feels
obliged to go into dumpsters and grab food because he's so much
good food they showed him he says, Look at this, this is a
absolutely fine apple. If you cut off the one side you it's
very edible and he was loading up. Meanwhile, there are people
homeless, starving to death and these idiots who have all the
money in the world for all practical purposes in terms of
being able to go out and actually buy something and keep
the economy going. Or dumpster diving because they're part of
this friggin revolution is pathetic.
No, it's really pathetic as I come home, and Patricia says,
oh, wow was so beautiful yesterday that had a big
telethon. That United Kingdom is great at telethons. And they
roll out and they've got they've kind of got their their Johnny
Carson. You know, they've got to serve Terry Wogan, and they'll
do something funny, and, you know, the whole country watches
and they raised 20 million pounds for poor children. And I
said to Patricia said, you know, isn't it crazy, you know, like,
we spend that entire evening the whole country is engaged in
raising this money. People are pulling nickels and dimes and
pounds and pence out of their pockets and they're sending in
this money and they're a part of a movement and they really want
to try and achieve something and help the children. And
meanwhile, you know, 20 million pounds as a fraction of the 600
billion euros that they've gave to fucking banks, which was our
money as well. This just trips me out. Let's One of them fail,
fix health care, feed the children save the gay whales
we're done.
Now, got it dish executives, they need their bailout. And
they're taken a lot of Yeah, hanging light. They should be
these guys should be, you know, this is if you ever really see a
true depression where you get that 25% unemployment, these
guys have abused the privilege to such an extent I've talked
to, by the way, some billionaire friends of mine about this. And
they're well aware of this possibility that the public
could get to the point where they literally stole storm
Atherton and burned down mansions and kill people. I
mean, this happened during the French Revolution. This is not
the kind of thing that doesn't ever happen. Where the rich
people are literally attacked in mass by hordes of angry people.
Because they essentially abuse the system, which many of them
have done. That wasn't like somebody pointed out to the
other day how when Lee Iacocca took over I guess it was Ford or
whatever he you know, he says My salary is gonna be $1 a year
until I fix this company.
Nobody does that anymore. Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs that works for
$1 Each jobs
is the last one. But the rest of these guys is no, I'm going to
make his I'm going to make $300 million a year and I want every
bonus possible. And then I went to golden parachutes and golden
everything. So if I quit, you gotta give me another half a
billion. And then they you know, and the next thing you know,
they got three or four weeks yachts and they got a big
mansion that's ridiculously large as they can't even use. So
this, this corroborates my theory about what happened with
the public servants, Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross. So
remember, Jonathan Ross, who makes 6 million pounds a year
for doing a talk show on Friday night and a couple of radio
shows on the public broadcaster, the BBC, it's always been a
point of discussion. But now everyone's so fed up with all
these with these guys taken hundreds of millions of in
salary, and fucking everybody that, you know, they go for the
lowest hanging fruit and the minute you know, Jonathan Ross
screws up and it's just not funny. Forget if he insulted
anyone, he just wasn't funny. The whole country goes apeshit.
And they're like, Oh, this is ridiculous. And it's it is the
first step towards exactly what you're saying, John?
Yeah, riots.
The only difference is in the United States citizens have
guns.
Well, it's gonna be worse in the United States. I mean, it's the
problem with the United States is a lot of people haven't
noticed this. But Obama has a citizen militia that he wants to
put together.
Oh, geez, this is, this is huge. Go ahead. Talk about I love
this.
Yeah. And this was brought up in Colorado and Colorado in July,
he first brought this up, and it's never really been denied.
And if you dig around on the website, you find find it
right there. I'm going to Brock obama.com. Right now it's on the
website.
He wants to put a together as citizen, which I consider to be
brown shirts, by the way, a citizen militia is bigger than
the military and better funded to protect the country
internally. By now there was national police are called
whatever they're going to be called. Yep.
I think it's listed under
military. Nobody has. I mean, except for a few right wing
talk, guys and a couple of articles. You can look this up
on Google. anybody out there wants to get into it. And you're
gonna read the whole comment the whole thing Barak said in
Colorado in July, and nobody has seems to be too upset about
this. It's you and I'm going What are you kidding me? You're
gonna do to put together a national police force, bigger
than the US military better funded. For what, John? Don't we
have a local police already? I mean, don't they do the job for
keeping us from getting robbed or whatever, pull over drug
traffic tickets? What are these guys gonna do?
John, I mean, the truthers or the conspiracy theorists out
there have been screaming about this. This is the problem. I
can't even get this message to you. We're out here, man. We're
talking about this shit. Specifically this issue? No one
I don't think people care.
I don't think they I think the problem is they haven't been
told to care. They're at the point right now then. Unless the
major media which is you know, basically Barack Obama's public
relations agency decides to tell people to care, they're not
going to care. Now, I think that the thing is, is that once any
of these things try it, they once they try to implement any
of these things, I mean, talk is cheap. And the Brock Obama list
of things he's going to do is huge. And he said, we're gonna
do this, we're gonna do that. We're gonna fix this, we're
gonna fix that we're gonna get both sama and the list is long.
And once they start to implement one of these things, I think
there may be some evidence that the media is going to think
twice about it, their situation because they're the biggest
targets. First thing you do is you wipe out the report. Are
you?
Are you kidding me? That's not how you get if you're going to
broadcast the shows where you say, Oh, you got to get Yeah,
that's a better way of saying it. But no, I look at it from
the entertainment standpoint, they're not going to get rid of
their transmitter, they need the broadcast to keep the show
going. That's how it works television. Actually, that's a
big part of what we had this discussion in New York. So we're
about to switch to digital television. And no one ever
talks about why or what the significance of that is, but the
radio industry at least has figured out one part of that,
you'll notice that radio is not transitioning to digital audio
broadcasts, it's already available. But it's essentially
failed. And I'll tell you why. Because television, of course,
is used for indoctrination, and as other money flowing in those
circles. But in radio, it pretty much comes from selling shit to
your audience during drive time. When you go to da, B, you've
just diluted the entire offering. The whole reason why
radio stations were able to make money until you know alternate
forms of media came along, is because they had control over a
limited resource. The FM band goes from 88 to 107. You know,
that's it. And you have to have some spread in there. So that
can only be so many radio stations. That's why there's so
much more there was so much money to be made. And when you
go to digital, it dilutes that so the radio guys said, no way.
So what's going to happen with digital television? i No one
ever talks about why this was so necessary. Why do we have to all
switch to digital John C. Dvorak? You certainly would be
an expert in this.
Oh, yeah. You think? Well, the redeemed the the purported
reason is that free up some bandwidth that they can auction
off so the government can get more money? Really? Yeah.
This dropping
drop in the bucket, your through your eyes paranoid analysis,
you're going to tell us that the absolute faculty has something
to do with with poppy with with crowd control?
Well, I don't know. Maybe. I you
think I mean, what's what's the purported? I mean, what are you
will? Why are we making this switch?
The only thing I can imagine is that it can't be. Here's what I
know, it doesn't make sense. If you're going to have more,
basically, there's going to be more channels available, that
does not behove the media in any way. So that's what I know. It
can't be for can't be for the media, they can't be liking it.
So it has to be some government idea. And I'm not I'm not saying
I know what it is, but it just doesn't make sense.
Well, there, you're right. It's not bad enough that there's 500
channels, and you can't find anything on that's good. But now
there's gonna be even more because in fact, the local
public broadcasting station here KQED, you know, went on their
digital thing, they got four channels, they got, you know,
the regular channel of public broadcasting channels, then they
have a version of a bunch of old us stuff, and they have a kid's
thing and they have a world version and a lifestyle. I mean,
it's in a lot of these channels are they did one of them one of
the stations, I think it's I don't know, if it's four or five
or one of it, maybe it's for two, anyway, they have like
their they have their main channel, then they have a
weather channel. That's, that's, that's the sub channel and then
they have a channel that just has cameras around the bay. It's
like, you know, okay, well, that's a good use of it. I guess
I could do that in the internet.
So the other the other end of the John is that they free up
the so called whitespace, which now can be turned into some kind
of super Wi Fi maybe, you know, that's the maybe that's the plan
there as we turn that into the super Wi Fi, the all
encompassing network, ie internet version two, which of
course is not maybe not quite as open and uncontrolled as what we
have today. It's a long term project but hey, it's possible.
Digital is also makes it a little easier, I think to
control content with with DRM, which flags, DRM and things like
that tracking know who's watching what, and that can be
possible. Okay, it's from an Obama speech that he gave on
July 2, the quote from the speech, we cannot continue to
rely on our military in order to achieve the national security
objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national
security force that's just as powerful just as strong, just as
well funded. People of all ages, stations and skills will be
asked to serve
Yeah, and nobody gets to nobody's like, outraged nobody's
outraged whereas McCain, he's running against this guy. You
know, there's another example of why this election was probably
rigged with him not you know, there's no spring in just make
do everything we can to lose and oh, by the way, don't bring up
anything like that. That might get you some yours McCain bought
stuff like that up and also had voted against the bail out he'd
be present he'd be the guy elected.
Meanwhile, in the National Enquirer there are some fuzzy
yet very obvious pictures of Cindy McCain making out with
some other guy clearly younger
that was in the Enquirer. Yeah,
I got to start buying this magazine man that's good but
some
other ones are broke too John Edwards thing nobody was going
to touch it's another thing that media wasn't going to touch this
guy's having babies while running for president with with
strange women who are crackpots. And nobody's going to cover it
because well, you know, we couldn't do it. Meanwhile, the
Enquirer puts a few private detectives on the case and they
get pictures of him with the baby.
We talked about this last week right after the show Barney
Frank. I'm sure you've seen this guy. He was one of the tea was
on the thing is the Chairman of the Finance Committee or
whatever it was. He was banking, the Banking Committee, right?
He's the guy that the big heavy fat guy is gonna read it. And he
got into a big fight with O'Reilly on Fox, which was
pretty funny. So this guy has been in he's a congressman
right? Yeah, yeah. So he's been in in government for almost
tambor for almost three decades at least. But you know, he in
the in the 80s. And he was he had male prostitutes you know,
in public buildings blowing him he had a prostitution ring was
being run out of his apartment in in the beltway area. You
know, it's like, the guy's totally black mailable for for
his his regime.
Like he's hiding anything. And he's no, he's not
hiding it. There was all kinds of inquiries ball. Yeah, thank
you. That's the I mean, nothing against gay sex, and nothing
against prostitutes. But you know, come on. I mean, you can't
these are the things that make you black mailable when you're
in a fucked up shit and weird circles, you know, and no one
ever brings that up. No one ever says, Oh, by the way, guys, kind
of interesting. It's worth a little background human interest
story on him.
Well, maybe the Enquirer you know, the problem with these
papers is that the only delve into politics once in a while to
test the waters to see if they're gonna get any more
newsstand sales, because that's a newsstand sales. Vehicle. It's
very European in that regard. A lot of people don't realise that
most magazines in Europe are sold at the newsstands, not by
subscription.
And a lot of it a lot of the headlines are based on that, you
know, if it bleeds, it leads, but man, if you can get a
politician having weird sex in, in like the garage or somewhere
else. I mean, that's the stuff people love.
And it seems to me that, you know, if the National Enquirer
in particular, since they do have the resources, and they're
very aggressive about pursuing stories, would do a little more
politically, and maybe it's a good sign that they're going
into this Oprah versus Michelle. thing? Yes. They maybe should
bump around the net, the regular media is not covering this as
proven by the John Edwards thing. And it oh, by the way,
when that finally broke in the National Enquirer, you should
have heard all the apologists on all these talk shows on TV, you
know, representing the real media, well, you know, they pay
for that they, you know, we could read about it, and we
didn't know what to do about it. And we decided to cover you
know, Sarah Palin is, you know, sick kid.
Yeah, yeah. Now, you're so right. And by the way, it would
go ahead.
I'm just saying if the National Enquirer would just step up, and
you know, because they do mostly celebrity gossip, they step it
up a notch and, you know, just at least, you know, at least
once an issue bust into something, I think they'd be
they would be kind of interesting to see what would
come of it?
Well, it's clear that the, the tabloids are going to do it. And
that's what as I said, that's always a good moment to wrap up,
actually, because that's kind of how I started the show by
saying, I like this. I like the fact that the this cult of
personality is now going into perhaps the real true print
media. And, and you know what, it's okay to buy these things
because they're entertaining as well. The one thing they really
do well, is they go out of their way to get the perfect picture
for the headline, you know, Michelle Obama looks like she
has, you know, the almost good draw horns out of her forehead,
you know, they got on a really, really mean looking pose. And
there's a lot of fluff you just got to pass over the fluff the
the coca Paul Abdul's nose, which by the way, looks pretty
true. You know, there's a lot of stuff that is just lame, but
then you get to the, the Obama and, or the Michelle Obama and
Oprah pictures and it's funny. I mean, you have to laugh out loud
when you see it. And it's got Greg Norman kissing Chris
Everett and you sticking his tongue out, like a fucking
lizard that's humorous isn't really human.
That's where the that's where their bread and butter is.
It's a great picture. He's like going to French kisser but they
they catch you in like mouth half open tongue just coming out
and looks really sleazy My goodness. Yeah, well, there you
go. We come full circle. We I guess we just have to keep our
eye on alternative media.
Yeah. Including including blogs and whatever. Yeah. All right.
Yep. I'm rolling the rolling theme music, John. All right, so
maybe not next weekend at the latest Monday. And but it'll be
early Monday because we're gonna both be in Europe or you're
gonna be back in San Francisco, then I'll be back in San
Francisco. So when do you come back, you come back Monday or
Sunday, I
come back Monday.
Early. Now it can't be early. It'll be afternoon. So it won't
it will be too late. Maybe if you're gonna get back until
three in the afternoon. It's going to be
I have to do I'll have to stay up at night. Well, I'll stay up
for I try to do some I'll bring gear with me. And I'll try to do
the show when we get it won't sound as good as it does with
this little system here. But it'll be I think we can manage
something.
Well, if you only if only you use the Mac, I can set you up
with a really good setup.
I like to zoom to the machine I carry on the road is two pounds.
You know, it's two pounds. And it's like I can't find anything
that says light. And when you travel, especially
internationally, everything is weighed, they weigh everything.
So I travel light. So no, not gonna happen.
Not even with an air book, or a MacBook Air or whatever now
thinks uses don't have enough connectivity.
I agree. All right, John, good talk good talking to you as
always. And coming to you from the affluent suburb of Surrey in
the United Kingdom. I'm Adam curry,
and I'm up here in northern Silicon Valley in Northern
California. I'm John C. Dvorak
and we will talk to you again in about seven or eight days right
here on no agenda.