Forget about Proposition eight. This is preparation ah
broadcasting from Gitmo nation East in the United Kingdom. I'm
Adam curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak cup here in Northern Silicon Valley.
Hey, John, how you doing? Okay. How was your Thanksgiving for
your Thanksgiving? Good. Ken, what do you do?
Well, we had to unfortunately, we're going to have Thanksgiving
next weekend because it couldn't get up to Washington. So we had
separate Thanksgivings. The price of the airline tickets and
meanwhile, all the air, all the news coverage was Oh, nobody
went anywhere. Nobody went, you know, the airports were emptying
and they were there was like nobody travelling and they were
moaning and blaming on the economy. I'll tell you what to
blame it on. $500 airline fares were that you were normally $65
That's what the blame it on. These guys are idiots.
Oh, I love it when you're like that. So wait a minute. So did
you celebrate by yourself in in the Bay Area and the family was
up in Seattle? Yeah, basically. Oh, did you have no one to
celebrate with?
No, actually, we one of the guys that were sponsoring in law
school, who my wife calls her or fourth son moved moved down here
and so I brought him over and and fed him.
Did you make turkey? No, no, I had pheasant. Ah, oh, that's
John. That's That's it. That's a real bummer when you can hang
out with me right now. I'm sure. Except from the pheasants
perspective, it
actually forged my wife they have to do the whole the whole
meal. You know, I had to walk through a couple of things but
for the most part, she did it she she nailed it. She did she
finally discovered if you use a thermometer on a turkey, you can
probably get the temperature right when cooked perfectly.
Oh, I like those pop up. Warning buttons. Yeah,
yeah. Okay. So one of the things that was floating around here
though, which was I go to the store to get the pheasant. I
figured out the economic collapse and I also have
pheasant and what to make it even more. Dagens
cake. Truffles. Oh, nice. Yeah. So
there's a bunch of offseason truffles that came in, and they
were dirt cheap. I mean, and they were good, solid black
ones. And the woman that brought them in or at the store at local
store. They came from Honduras. Now they've had truffles.
Obviously, the best truffles come from France and Italy. But
then there's a lot of them coming in from Oregon. But the
Oregon ones are kind of mushy. And they're in the you have to
deal with him in all kinds of weird ways to to make him
acceptable. These are just like a French truffle. And they were
like, what,
what is the the truffle market? Or what was it before the the
economic malaise because these things were quite expensive. And
they're basically what does it it's like a root that's under
the earth that has to be uncovered by either a pig or a
dog. Is that the basic idea?
It's like, it's like a fungus. And Santa Fe is a fungus. That's
right. It's a ball. It's a little ball. And it looked very
distinctive looking. And they get to any number of sizes. I
remember going to Alan do cost his restaurant in New York once
when it was truffle week. And they brought out these truffles
in a big box. And they opened a big vintage table individually
and they opened the box and showed you these three truffles
that I swear each one of them there were white truffles from
Italy. Each one of them was the size of a softball.
They are what they cost. What do they cost or don't that's
probably
cost about $5,000 A piece. But but for a fungus. Yeah, it's a
fungus. It's very aromatic. Yeah, but
but still five Gregory dance.
Well, no, those are the big softball ones. You don't see
those. I've never seen truffles like that in my life.
Why are they so expensive? Is that just because of the scarce
isn't rarity? Or what is it?
Yeah, they're hard to find. And they're, you know, they only
grow under certain oak trees. And once you dig one up, you
can't you know, they don't propagate. It's not like cork,
you know, harvest.
Boy, we learned so much on this show from from Cork to truffles.
So the No, I mean, typically a little truffle the site if you
got one the size of a golf ball, which would be a big truffle,
you know, these other ones that I was talking about this
restaurant were ludicrous. But if you got one the size of a
golf ball, which would be a big truffle, you you'd probably pay
about. I'm guessing around 150 bucks for it, something like
that. Yeah, that's a lot. Now these rooms were small. They
were the size of very small. I mean, they were but they were
bigger than then I would expect for the price and you got two
of them. They're more like test testicle size is what I'm
guessing Exactly.
What depends on you know, if you got one anyway, so they were
like $9 Wow. So I bought a bunch of them. And I said, Geez, this
is like ridiculous. I mean, I've never seen this price before
even the ones from Oregon cause more than that. And so I guess
somebody found some truffles in Honduras, and some oak trees and
here we go.
And do you think There's a flavour difference between the
$5,000 softball truffle and the $9 Honduras testicle sized
truffle.
Yeah, yeah the $5,000 one is better much better yeah I mean
you can we
can we grow these I mean is that sounds like a fantastic business
impossible to grow. So anyway that wouldn't this place let's
imagine that one of the bigger restaurants that we are one of
the bigger restaurants that we've been to like take the like
the Ritz Carlton in San Francisco and put yourself in
one corner of the restaurant and then go to the complete opposite
corner. When they when I was at Allen do courses and they had
this box of truffles. I was that far away when the guy at some
other table that far away open the box. Smells melon from
there. Wow. It was unbelievable. So I've been having truffled
eggs in the morning and truffle. basically putting truffle in the
salad. I mean you name it.
Cool. I got some some hemp seeds and I've been putting them in my
salads. Have you ever tried that hemp seeds?
Do you find them? You can
you but you can also just get a hard on it kind of hard. No, no,
no, they actually you can eat them right out of the container
in fact, and they're they're very they're very nutty tasting
and actually not that hard at all. It's just it crunches away
like you have a nice mouthful of nuts. And it's it's tasty and
it's also filling and and the reason of course why I eat is
because I believe it's healthy.
But you believe a lot of stuff. Yeah,
sure. I'm kooky John, but I still look good for 44 Okay. And
you can just sprinkle it on a salad or I put it in yoghurt
sometimes I eat it quite regularly.
Hmm Where do you get them?
You bite in the supermarket right? It's a Sainsbury's hemp
seeds.
Yeah, yeah. Well can you plant them
no well the D shelled soy or whatever the whatever it is I
should go get the it's it's three flights down otherwise I
go grab the container and read it off to you. But it does it
does state specifically guaranteed not to contain any
was a tch Yeah, THC. Sorry THC.
What does that Tetra HETRA tetrahydrocannabinol or
something like that? And tetrahydrocannabinol
bhandara lower whatever the good stuff as we call it here so it
doesn't contain any of the well I
must be some trendy thing that would be fun to do. I'd play
with it. You should
you should you should try it because I think you will you
will like the taste of it and I don't think it's a trendy well
maybe
they don't sell those seeds or their their data if there's no
THC or anything else there. They're so against, you know,
even suggest me they don't even like hemp clothing. I mean, are
they just like freaky?
Or paper? Which of course it's great for making paper.
Yeah, well, there's a lot of uses. I mean, ham, be digging. I
mean, this stuff that's low. It really has low THC content, but
just as stringy stuff, you know, used to be ropes used to be made
out of it's very valuable crop and you know, they won't grow it
because it's like, you know, just propaganda talking about
dropping property. Go ahead.
Yeah. You think oh, man, let me just pick up the newspaper. Yes.
So there was a thing on PBS. This is one of the things I
actually made a note on this because I was watching this show
and I'm just did just struck me as just odd. There's a special
on and this was part two Was this the history of late night
television was though, right? It's actually quite entertaining
because it's all about Steve Allen and you know then how Jack
Park came into the scene and how Johnny Carson got the job and
all this kind of thing. And mer how MERV Gryphon was discovered
himself and that kind of thing. Oh, excellent, excellent. So
they're showing this Steve Allen's show because Steve
Allen's the progenitor of all these shows, and I remember
watching Steve Allen, when I was a kid, and I saw it, I actually
got to I got to watch this, this, this show. But having also
experienced the entire history of late night television,
because even when I was a little kid, my dad who was a fat
fanatic about watching comedies, you know, I could watch, I could
stay up until midnight wasn't a big deal. And so, so I saw the
shows, there's
parents, that's what happens when you let your kids stay up
at it to enter any time of the night. This is what they turn
into.
Right chatterboxes on podcasts,
big winners in society.
Anyway, so they're showing the Steve Allen thing and one of the
things I remember distinctly about Steve Allen, he had this
thing called man on the street. And he's the one who developed
it. It was basically it has some questions. He asked these people
and they were there but there wasn't a real reality TV things
he had the Stooges these regulars that were on the show
it was Tom Poston always played kind of a forgetful character.
And then he had the GAO paid Barney Fife. Don Knotts nervous
wreck and he would just be shaking like a leaf when he was
on the camera was on immunity to answering questions.
And that was funny back in the day that was if you look at no
it actually still funny. Oh, really? She I mean this because
he was so good at it. I mean, he would just trembled too head to
toe and very unbelievable way. And then he had Louie Nye, who
always played some slickster, who was like a New Yorker or
something. And then the last guy had was Bill Dana. And Bill Dana
would come on, and he would play this Mexican character named
Jose Jimenez. And again, Steven always had to always do always,
the gag always began with Steve Allen asking Jose Jimenez you
know, it's always what's your, what's your name, the guy would
say, my nine. Jose Jimenez. And you know what, there's my name,
like you can make those kinds of jokes today in our PC World.
Well, you know, even during this era, which was some time ago,
the some anti defamation group found it very offensive to have
build dangerous, saying my name, even though you know, if you go
see the movie Scarface, you know, with
my little friend, motherfucker.
So anyway, so so they, they somehow even though this was
after he became a stand up comic doing this character, and they,
they, they hounded him out of business. And I think, you know,
he basically lost his living. And that was the end of it. So
I'm watching this special and they, it to me, left him out of
the story completely. trying to you know, it was just obviously
suppressed. I mean, even though this is years and years ago, and
this is a historic document now, you know, this 15
I'm Hold on a second. Hold on a second, obviously suppressed,
please. I mean, you know, people who make television shows and
documentaries are often just they have an opinion, they're
just Boneheads. And in the zeitgeist, you will remember
this
problem is that they showed the other characters in this in this
in this, you know, so they
had, they had to make it within 60 minutes, and they had to cut
one
crap in there that could have been cut out, they left him out.
I'm debunking John C. Dvorak. What is the world they come to?
And I'm
reminded reminds me of what you know, Bill Cosby has been trying
to do for the last five or six years which is scoop up every
possible copy can find Amos and Andy.
That's right, because he wants all the rights and he wants to
reissue and do that again or what does he want to know
he wants to destroy it he want he thinks it should not be a bit
should not be even viewed by anyone.
Or you think that it would be much funnier if he actually
turned it around you know if he used that in a different way,
but it's nuts that even in this day of digital media to even
think you can do that. But it's a subtle point. Let me go to
YouTube
can't be done. No, of course not. But anyway, that's the
thing but I was I was actually I noticed that missing Bill Dana
was the name of the character. I mean, the name of the actor
building the comic I just it was just left out I mean, because
they show I swear to god they had everybody else that was
around that show mentioned or something in Denver to hit Jose
he man his character was important to the man on the
street sketch anyway, I just found it galling
almost as galling as the airlines
know the airlines and they were they were they have trouble
making money. I have a sound effect for us today. John. Oh,
ready, you're ready you know what this is? Sounds like the
subway or a train or something like no no
that not Now listen again. You gotta You gotta listen really
carefully to it. That is the sound of the printing press at
the Federal Reserve John Chow is voted full speed you better
believe it man it's been so fantastic to see all this all
this stuff being created and printed and thrown away and
there's so much happening that it you can't even track it all
anymore. We're now at $7.4 trillion that has been pumped in
in the past three or four months
yeah, all the good is done me
and I love it that the Fed still won't tell it tell anyone what
they what they've given this money to or what they've
received in exchange for it and oh man Obama's financial team.
Summers Geitner Volker guys to do a lot of changes the whole
change Yeah. ROBERT GATES Defence Secretary left in place
there's some change for you
but I got the biggest kicking you haven't been over here but
they they've been are debating this Robert Gates thing since
since the frontman that since the idea first came up. And it's
just the weirdest thing that listen to everybody and their
sister. From both sides. The I'll go on and on about how it
would be really cool for Robert Gates to stay. There wasn't one
person that says this idea sucks, get rid of me know
everybody, but the Democrats and the Republicans and the
conservatives and the most extreme liberals all thought
Robert Gates is the guy the go to guy. But again, I would show
that magnanimous you know, you know, bipartisanship, you know
the name, I'm putting Republicans
in my cabinet, I'm doing the right thing. And so I don't know
he. Well, I think I got it figured out. John, you want one?
I mean, you just went off on your little conspiracy theory
there about
Bill Dana and Jose Jimenez.
Yeah. So of course, we've all been at least following to some
degree the the attacks in, I still have to call it Bombay,
but Okay, call it Mumbai, if you want. And there's a lot of
things that is really bugging me about the reporting on this.
First of all, the immediacy, they haven't even captured any
guys, I think they killed the they say they killed a couple.
But you know, we have one picture of a guy who's wearing a
Versace sweatshirt. And now we of course, immediately know that
they are Islamic, radical Islamic terrorists. And I
started to put all these things together, you know, the, of
course, Obama is saying, Hey, I'm gonna pull all the troops
out of Iraq. Of course, that means I'm gonna send them to
Afghanistan. So sending them to Afghanistan. And then I'm
thinking, Alright, so obviously, you know what they're doing.
Now, if you listen to the Prime Minister of India, he says, On
and out, this is Pakistan. This is Pakistan who's doing it. And
now the move is towards Pakistan. And if you look at the
map, which you might want to do it, and you do, John, but I'm
just saying it to our listeners, from time to time, just pull up
Google Earth there and go look at Pakistan. And you'll see that
on one side it borders on Afghanistan, and on the other
side it it borders on Iran. So if we got or Afghanistan that
borders on both of those. So now I've got all these guys in
Afghanistan at right on the border. In fact, with Pakistan.
I think that the there's a poise here, to take over Pakistan,
which already politically, of course, is severely weakened.
It's a it's an nuclear country. We're building up troops right
on the border. I'm thinking that this is this is and by the way,
there have been in the past, you know, like seven years, there's
been an attack in India every six months, with 60 or 80 people
being killed. And and this just speaks to me completely. I think
it's a gear up for some kind of assault on Pakistan.
Well, it's not bad. It's not like your usual material.
Well, of course, the part that the the usual material part
would be that these obviously are hired mercenaries who are
trained has nothing to do with terrorism because since when
does al Qaeda all of a sudden take hostages and and use AK 47?
That's completely different from any any type of al Qaeda linked
terrorist attack. These guys look pretty damn professional to
me. And it looks like they you know, they were hired, they went
in, they just were in there to kill and doesn't seem to me
like, you know,
no, I mean, I think that's reasonable to what I meant when
I said it's not like usual thing. I thought that you were
going to summarise by saying the CIA, or some hobby house thing
and
CIA, you've got to believe that we're behind it. Israel's behind
it. You know, there's a big thing oh, now they've they have
there's a Jewish house of worship or whatever they're
calling it, they're not calling it to a synagogue. They're
calling it something else. This one, here's something that
really bugged the hell out of me, because, you know, there's,
well, first of all, they're saying, Oh, it seems like they
were targeting Americans and Britons although, you know,
like, of the 130 people who've been killed only a few were
actually American or British. But this is one guy,
multimillionaire, Andreas leovera. Us. And he was on the
phone with the BBC. And right after that, he got killed. And
so I'm like, Wow, that's fascinating. So I'm looking
around for the, you know, for an audio or something like that. I
don't know if he actually was on air, but I found a short
transcript from the BBC website. And here's what he said this was
interesting. So he was in the restaurant, about 1000 people in
the restaurant. And hold on a second. Where is it? He said
that they were locked in. He said there must be more than
1000 people here there are residents and tourists and
locals we are not hiding. We are locked in here. The doors are
locked and we are inside. Now, what kind of terrorists goes
through, you know all of this, you know locking people in a
room containing them they cut the television services. So no
one could add, you know, the cut the telephone connection to the
outside. Yeah, this is this is a major acid attack, John. I mean,
this is a core ordinary military effort. This doesn't seem like a
bunch of a bunch of bozos and boy, do you think they were
armed? I mean, this is, to me, this is very, very troubling,
was on Fox or someplace else pointed out that it was a very
low tech thing, because it was just basically armed men militia
types that, you know, just took over all these places that
burned you know, the hotels and did all the rest of it. You
might you might be on to something here because it does,
it doesn't, because all the things that dechaine has ever
done is they, they've Yeah, they would do a coordinating body
bomb the facade of everything.
There was side bomb. Yeah. And the most people who were killed,
and we're just talking about a really easily it's horrible, of
course, but the most people who were killed were in the train
station, which were mainly Indians. Also, so there's a
definite spin being put out there. And that's the shit you
got to watch for. There's a real spin on that a it was linked to
al Qaeda or other or now they had the some Mujahideen group,
which is by even the definition of Mujahideen is, is not really
something you can pinpoint.
Right? Well, they also mentioned that this drug car or the car
mucha dienes, which is from an region and area and we say it's
somehow related to this other one, really, because I listened
to the analysis on Fox, and they, you know, they was a
stretch it was like, Well, you know, first of all, they said,
we don't even know who these people are at the beginning.
Remember when this thing first broke? It was like, everyone was
baffled by who these people were. And then they announced
you they weren't interested. Who are they? We never heard of
them. Which of course, then is a bad reflection on the Indian.
These blog people are reflecting negative. Did you hear
the audio? Did you hear the audio of the Decca Mujahideen?
They called into Sky News or whatever, like Yeah, and they
were speaking in the Indian. And so there was translation, but it
was like yes, we are the deco Mohammed Mujahideen, we are
responsible. And then the reporter says, What are your
What are your demands? And the and the guy goes like, well, I
demands Hey, what do I like? Like he didn't know what the
demands were? He had to ask some guy so it's, you know, it's
clearly either fake or you know, on setup, or it's just not
right. It's crap.
Yeah, you know, I'm not gonna budge until the reporting is
finished with reporting by the dream world org. Let me take
some more drugs. Oh, all right. Excellent. So it's like what
reported me there's gonna be no reporting. So we're never gonna
find out is what I'm trying to get at here. Obviously, because
if it's what you think it might be, which is a phoney baloney
deal. And by the way, it is interesting that it coincides
with the IMF.
I was looking for I was looking for something will tell me about
the IMF.
They've done a deal with Pakistan.
Oh, this makes so much sense. So we hit him. We hit him twice. We
hit him in the financial nuts and we and we we just take
everything and everybody out and move in. Yeah, now listen to
this. Do major massive Gitmo nation news. You will love this
in the United Kingdom. So we have a we have a shadow
government here. So we have the people running the country. And
then right on the other side of the House of Commons, you've got
what they call the shadow government. So you for the
there's an immigration minister in Parliament, and then there's
the that will be a labour immigration minister. And then
on the other side, you have the shadow Immigration Minister, in
this case, it's Minister green. And so over the past couple
months, a number of stories really whistleblower stories
have broken in the newspapers in the UK. One was that we talked
about this that there were 1000s of illegal immigrants who were
who had been cleared to work in sensitive jobs in the
government, and that the Home Secretary Jackie Smith knew this
month before it ever came out. There was another one about
illegal Brazilian immigrant who was working as a cleaner in
Parliament. Let's see there was what people would think about
the 42 day incarceration there were a number of stories that
were getting leaked to the press, which I consider to be
you know, a look, it's the government we deserve to know
about this stuff. So what they did is they they had suspicion
that it was the conservatory Minister green Damien green of
immigration, who was leaking this to the press. They took him
out of his house last night, arrested him, took him
interrogated him for nine hours while they searched His homes
both in London and in Kent. I mean, dude, does this remind you
of anything? It's great. This is This is outrageous. It's
absolutely outrageous.
They slapped him around a little bit just a you know whether it's
better to be you know, or something where they do it
a waterboarded. And that is just outrageous that this is taking
place. Let me tell you another one because you'll get a kick
out of this the British man, and I've been talking I love the
Brits. And I've been talking to him about this. You know, they
said, Why are you on your back like, like, bitches letting the
government piss on you all the time. And which by the way, they
have a term here, which is called Bo heka.
Oh, yeah. Bend over. Here it comes.
Here comes again. Yeah, it comes again. Yeah. So so they had this
this big blow up about these, these to talk show hosts,
Russell Brand. And Jonathan Ross, we talked about that. And
you know, these guys make a lot of money. And they they said
like, you know, they fuck someone's granddaughter and was
a big brouhaha and should they be fired and one resigned and
the other was kicked off the air for three months. But they have
Dancing with the Stars, which of course originated here in the
United Kingdom, which is called Strictly Come Dancing in the
official pronunciation. And there was a guy on an actor,
singer comedian, one of those older guy, older gentleman named
John Sargent. And the guy can't dance. But the Audience Yeah,
no,
I actually was a guy. When I went through Europe last week, I
was reading all these papers and you know, the cuz there's all
the British papers. And I was reading though there was like a
big deal about John Sargent. They had pictures of them,
right? And they've been there editorials all over the place
about how they can't dance. And I'm the reason why did is wrong
with these people.
Well, so this is what's amazing from a number of perspectives.
So the the judges were, you know, a scale of one to 10, the
judges kept giving him 123 I mean, completely failing scores.
But the audience who ultimately decides who stays on kept voting
for him because they loved it, they were like, This is
entertaining. It was funny to watch him. And it was it really
was funny, because, you know, you dance with a real
professional, and she's basically doing all the moves.
And he's like, dragging her across the floor. It's just it
was funny, it really worked. And then, you know, it was like this
big Oh, well, you know, this is a discount B, this is a dancing
competition. And, and then, you know, so then John Sargent said
that, oh, well, you know what, I'm just gonna resign the show.
And I'm thinking, this is the, you know, the British public
who's so outraged about paying for these for these two
comedians who just weren't funny for once. And they're so
outraged where this is a blatant setup. Blatant, where they kick
the guy off the show, someone's lying somewhere, and they're
just letting them go, you know, it's like, I don't I don't get
it and like, oh, okay, well, I guess that'll make sense. And I
know, Patricia has this fight on on pop stars in Holland all the
time. You know, because it's like, well, this girl, you know,
this is one contestant who's who's really rockin right she's,
she's a pretty she's above average singer. But she weighs
about 230 pounds and she wears dumb dresses to go with it which
are not flattering. And the audience loves her because of
course losers always win on these shows. And they're like,
well, we got to get to her other other judges. Like we got to get
her get her off the show. This is ridiculous. You know, this is
a serious competition. How can she ever become a pop star? And
Patricia is like, if you do people love her What do you
want? Do you want and she literally said to the other
judges do you like that new house she bought then you better
keep this bench on the show is that the audience wants and
that's that's what keeps the ratings going and I'm just
amazed by by the British public taking that lying down.
Unbelievable. Well there was sure a lot of articles about it.
And I wasn't I actually should have asked you about it the last
time we spoke because I was unaware of the backstory I just
Just notice it was like a whole bunch of attention. It was
getting a lot of attention.
Well honestly, it didn't really hit me until I started thinking
about it and I'm like, This is crazy. This is just absolutely
nuts.
Things getting any better. And I'm surprised you don't have
more of that kind of thing going on here. I you know, as much as
there's a you know, fascist state. A Bruin everywhere in the
US. The Brits have got his beat hands down if there was a
competition I would state has just gone completely. Well.
Let me give it to you man. So Patricia call me. She was
travelling to work to to Holland today and she's takes eating out
she takes EasyJet she loves EasyJet as she wants she'll take
EasyJet over British Airways KLM anything she'd love to think
system was great and I agree with her. And she so she calls
me says I'm finally at the gate. So what happened? She said,
Well, you won't believe it. Now, John, you've never met my wife.
Have you ever seen a picture of her?
Oh, yeah, you should have a picture on your phone. And I've
seen pictures of her on you. Because when I have seen her in
action on that show, because link to it, yeah.
Okay. So she's beautiful. And do you think she looks like a
potential terrorist? Just just offhand question. Do you think
that the she looks like a potential terrorist? No,
obviously not. So she rose up to the to the X ray machine. And,
you know, she's, she's, you know, she's already because of
the show was this evening, you know, so she's already kind of
pre prepped, and you know, she's looking good. And she's, she
already has stuff on that she's going to wear on the show. And,
and she has a small tube of toothpaste. And A is a miniature
travel size bottle of Chanel. That's my wife, Miss Chanel. And
so it goes to the X ray machine, and they say ripstop, okay. And
they say, Look, ma'am, this is not in a plastic bag. And
latricia. And by the way, Patricia always laughs at them,
which is, you know, she just smiles and is always happy,
which makes them crazy. And I mean, I immediately I would be,
I would be calling you from jail today if this happened to me. So
she says, Oh, really? Well, do you have a plastic bag? And
they're like, No, you gotta go all the way back. So it's like a
20 minute line, right? She said, okay, so she went all the way
back outside, she had to get a plastic baggie, put her
toothpaste and the Chanel in it, then wait in line, 20 minutes to
go all the way back through. And then they and then this is the
kicker. So they of course, it's the same people and they
recognise her and they say okay, it's in the bag. And they say,
we have to do a liquid test. Watch, they literally tested the
Chanel and the toothpaste. They tested it, which consisted of
spraying the Chanel Number Five into the air and sniffing it.
Unbelievable. Maybe one of the people there wanted a dose of
Chanel Number five, you know, so they could go on a date later.
This is the this is the danger in a fascist state where you
have people who have a uniform and they have a certain amount
of authority for a microsecond of your lifetime. And, you know,
if if they're having a bad day, or whatever it is, they take
advantage of it. And they I mean clearly this is this is
ridiculous and harrassment I mean there's there's no doubt
this is just bullshit.
Yeah, yeah. Unquestionably. Yep. Well, yeah, it was just leaving.
It was just going into the airport in London or what we're
in
South Korea, it was at Gatwick. So it was this, this this
afternoon? Test. It's not. And it's just getting worse.
Well, I mean, you know, there's gonna be a something's bad's
gonna happen. Whoa, okay. What do you think I got a couple of
ideas. What do you say the British public's? You know,
they're going to at some point I mean, the British are you know,
they there is a mean streak in that culture that is going to
come out and I think
what I'm waiting for I want that thin, wiry white English bloke
on the street. burnin shit and waving sticks that's that's
that's what I always thought the Brits were like,
well, you know that movie vendetta Did you see vivo? I
love of course, remember remember the fifth of November
gunpowder treason and plot. I love it. You bet I love a Guy
Fawkes. Yeah, sure.
Well, I suspect you something like that, and just blow up
parliament. I mean, that's what Guy Fawkes tried to do.
And there's it's funny that they still celebrate him. And they do
that by creating a bonfire and getting hammered.
Well, that's all say, celebrate everything by getting hammered.
Oh,
excellent news for you, by the way, a good buddy of mine. In
fact, a very good friend of mine. We stayed at his house in
the south of France this summer. He owns one of the largest
nightclubs complexes I should say in in Surrey. And he has a
strip joint called the lion's den which had never been to I've
been to his clubs several times and and, you know, we had
Christina's birthday party at his one of his clubs. And they
said, Look, man, I'm up for the licence for all the Playboy
clubs in the United Kingdom, which don't exist yet. And so
I'm like, well, that's that's cool. He said, I'm trying to get
a cool crowd together because these guys are coming by and
they're going to come check the place out. So like Yes, sure.
I'll come in. I'll look I'll look. Jet sentry and I'll talk
about the storm and then no problem. So I go over there last
night at 10 o'clock after I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here
which I also should mention a couple of things about in the
moment. And to the place is there any I was like I was
hanging out and it's it's not really crazy busy but it's
perfect for for the setting to impress these, these guys who
are coming in And Michelle says here man, you have a left
downtown me with whatever one of his his top performers. And I'm
like, okay, you know, because I'll go to the VIP area.
Something I did not know John, in the United Kingdom at lap
dancing clubs, they take their panties off as well. And, and
you get a full on full blown show.
That's interesting.
I know that I actually I went, Oh, my Oh, my. I was like, Oh,
hi.
Are you sure this wasn't just for you? Know, no, because
in the recover, there were other guys in the VIP area. And the
same thing was going on because actually, when I walked in,
there was there was a girl I could see just from behind
because he did I don't either that's the invisible G string or
she doesn't have one on but I didn't think much of it. And the
show was very like it was a coordinated show because I saw
these girls do the exact same show. So it wasn't like a
personalised anything. And it's not like you know, you're you're
you're up close, but you ain't that close. But still Oh my QA.
Yeah. So when you're coming
back? I don't know. But we got a visit that place. You'll love
Michelle.
You'll love him. He's a we're flying tomorrow to tonight. I'm
taking him to see Patricia perform. She's doing a big
benefit concert for starving children. And she's going to
perform three songs with a 65 piece orchestra. Her dad is
accompanying her on with on violin or 84 year old dad on
she's doing a smile, I think with him on the violin. So that
should be cool. But yeah, you'll like Michelle, when he went over
here next show.
So that's why you we people should know we're doing the show
on Friday.
Well, I was planning not planning on telling anybody
honestly.
Well, I think they should know because you know, I think it's I
think it's full.
That's a good point. Yeah, that's a good point. So
in case or something happens a lot of these guys, they missed
that whole story. So should we
should we upload it today then or on or on? Or on Saturday?
I don't think we have a problem uploading it today. Big. You
know, I mean, this is the great thing about
about not being in the fake corporate media. Yeah. Yeah, we
can do what we
want. And so we can be off a day or skip a week. I mean, that is
the fact of the matter is especially if people are doing
this right, the people that listen to this thing
religiously. And by the way, anyone out there listens to us.
Tell a friend get a friend and so we can get our numbers up to
some point that we can theoretically pay for this
thing. But anyways, got a couple of lap dances out of it. Veteran
poker night with a sharp stick
it was it was pretty similar actually.
So people who do who do it right would obviously have an RSS feed
that they would get this thing downloaded to their iPod
automatically. Yeah. And and be surprised.
Look, oh, whoa, gee, that was a concept. Yeah, but speaking of
speaking of that, I was just watching CNBC money honey, Erin
was on. I thought she might be off for the for the long
Thanksgiving weekend. And they had a report on radio stocks.
And except for CBS Radio, which currently sticks around
cigarettes it's around $6 All these other companies Ms. The
15% of clear channel that is actually still public. Serious
every single one of them is under a buck a share some of
them 18 or 19 cents share radio is effectively dead.
Serious is a really amazing.
Well, it's not they're losing $750 million. Yeah, they know
and there's
no way they're turning this around. I had predicted this by
the way when they first formed years and years and years ago.
Just how hard is that? Well, was it by sure got a bunch of flack.
I can't be true. But meanwhile, I had more people say to me,
Fidel was with somebody the other day says, you know, and
the guy could afford it. He drives around a Bentley. And he
says, You know, I just gave up on my Sirius and XM Radio
subscriptions to the Bentley. I just listened to podcasts.
Exactly. Because these guys had apparently the Bentley
Continental has a clip and it has a connector. Yeah, it has a
connector that you can hook your iPod right to it. And
the whole the whole problem. Well, first of all, it this
these companies were built with.com money. That's when they
got their first infusion of cash. And, you know, they they
have some beautiful facilities just unfamiliar and
yeah, I've seen pictures of the I guess it didn't stick
they got in New York series has 55 Studios. Yeah, you know, and
that's excluding the palace Howard Stern has right in the
middle of reception there. But of course the you know, They
wanted to merge these two companies and then the FCC and
then whoever else and the SEC, they, you know, they really let
it linger and linger and linger and they wouldn't give a
decision and so the stocks just kind of steadily declined. And
now of course, you know, their main source of distribution is
not actually satellite, their main source of distribution is
vehicles. And so what these guys do what norm now is on norm
pads, who was running it, I don't know, whatever. Guy from
CBS I think anyway, what you know, their their main gig is to
get the big automakers to pre instal Sirius and XM satellite
receivers in their vehicles and not happening
light well, like they did in the 90s there was everyone who was
talked into installing
a stereo Yeah, I remember that stereo.
So I have one of those radios what it says anyway you kid it
am started by the way, there's no nobody broadcasts in a stereo
anymore. But we used to be turned the dial and you would
find a one station on the entire spectrum that had an AMC light
up a little thing would light up on the radio. So am stereo. So
you listen to it. It was it was the crappiest? You know, I don't
know what the point of it was. It didn't sound any better. You
know, it was like the wasn't it? It didn't even hold a candle
come closer with FM sounds like so what was the point?
I'm trying to think there was a reason there was there were a
couple of different reasons they were trying I
remember at some CES, somebody gave me some rationale about am
stereo, and how it's going to actually take over because you
get bigger distances. It's better than FM and all the rest
of it. It didn't go anywhere. It's like this thing going on
this high definition radio that's going on right now.
They're trying to push HD radio and that's not going anywhere. I
mean, it's just like you know this this stuff is fixed already
is done. It's over you got your aim is you got what do you got
you got talk radio, it's what it's turned into. And then you
have your FM which is you got your your music and you got
whatever else you want to put over there in the public. Right.
And
then you've got the real media the real true New Media podcast.
Yeah. And then you have the new media which are you know, much
more versatile. You can listen anytime you want. You don't
you're not stuck, I'm still worked about it. Listen to
because I listen to like a lot of us listen to right wing talk
radio, because it's very entertaining. And yeah, what's
what's the GAO say something or somebody will say something, you
want to back it up, or you wanted to save it, or you can't
do any of that. And you can't listen to it when you want to
listen to it, you have to listen to it when they're broadcasting.
And I mean, the whole thing is, I mean, that whole model of you
know, time based broadcasting, is it all evidence choice,
nobody would prefer it, you prefer the more versatile style,
which is what we're doing. Hell yeah. boils down to that
advertisers will get a clue. And they'll start realising
that that's not that now, let me just say that's not entirely
true, because our audio programming is doing millions of
dollars a month, of which a significant portion goes to the
producers of those audio programmes. With our
transactional campaigns, you know, this, you've been in it,
you've been in these meetings, this shit works, you know that.
You use my code for GoDaddy, use my code for eHarmony, use my
code for budget, use my code for footlocker. And I think that as
we move into the depression, that as long as the grid stays
up, and people can still connect, I think that we'll see
increasing use of, of these types of offerings. And that's
it for us. It's 40% of our revenue. John, it's a serious
business.
No, I'm not saying it's not, but it's not if you put it side by
side with big media, it's like a split. But think
about it. The reason why, for the same reasons that that that
radio in broadcast towers is no longer valid, because you have
to listen at that, at that moment. The interruptive nature
of advertising also doesn't work anymore. Or you can even skip
past it, you can ignore it. You can there's so it's so
completely breaks the model, and which is why, you know, the
counting of downloads never work. No one could ever agree on
it. You know, we had all kinds of guilds and organisations and
societies and whatever. And it was just never work that way.
And by the way, listen to radio, they're doing the exact same
thing. They're saying, hey, use my code, if all of them are.
Well, I have a code budget.com/tech.
Guy. My code is
10% off on any budget. And by the way, I say this on the tech
five thing, which is that I use budget because they really do
have the coolest cars,
and you get a 10% discount on your weekly rent. They've had
jaguars,
they got all kinds of cool stuff anyway.
So you won't have Jaguars anytime in the future.
They're about to go belly up. Well, that's a shame.
Well, it's a massive shame because I got to get rid of my
jag and no one will buy it.
Well, the problem is you of course, you know, Jaguars have
the reputation of the once they get past warranty, they just
start falling apart. So I don't see too many old ones on the
road.
Well, this one is not that old. But the dealer will not buy it
back. They don't have the money. They do and they can't have a
car that has actual money of theirs in it is sitting on the
lot. And they said, there's no one to look around. There's no
one here. Then we're not selling any cars. No one's coming in two
people who do come in half of them can't get the financing. So
the only people are coming in are people who really, you know,
have the money cashed down to buy a good deal on something new
but Jaguar. Now that Tata who owns them has said, Hey, we need
a billion pounds to stay in business because they're looking
for their own bailouts don't think it's just the big three
over here. Nissan, Toyota, Bentley, Aston Martin. Jaguar,
they've all asked the government for help. They're all in the
same position. There's no difference between here and the
United States. Unless you listen to Gordon Brown who says it's
all the all America's fault.
You see Jaguar the way Stewie would on Family Guy?
Jaguar? Yeah, yeah, well, I am Stewie. Jaguar that's come on, I
slipped in a couple of my correct pronunciation from time
to time, I'm slowly going through my transformation.
Yeah, you're gonna become British?
No, I don't think there's any danger of that. I will, however,
have to register for my ID card with biometric data.
Yeah, what biometric data gonna steal from you? Well, of course,
people have your blood. That's what they should do.
And they don't actually tell you. But this is the same Jackie
Smith of the home office. The one who said that everyone's
clamouring and so excited about the national ID cards. She
literally said that, Oh, I get calls, that people are so
excited. They can't wait to have one. So the first group of
people who are singled out who of course will be the first ones
to get on the train to the camp are people like me, if you're
married to an EU national, and which gives you the right to
live and work in the United Kingdom, then you're the first
group to get a card it will contain your visa status, name,
address, picture fingerprint, and, quote, other biometric
data, which I can only assume is is probably will be DNA.
Could be when should they take a swab?
In the in the Netherlands, there's a big debate going on
about something called the electronic child dossier. And
they want to start this in 2009. When a child was born, a
basically they create a new record in the database and call
that the electronic child dossier. Which obviously is
meant for easy access to information about the child so
that physicians and medical institutions can swiftly access
the information and it'll probably stop terrorism as well.
But the big debate has been so they have all these fields, you
know, name, skin colour, eye colour, hair colour, and then
they have a field in the record, which is the the subject of the
debate, which is pubic hair. And literally, there are like three
choices of pubic hair that have to be entered into the record.
What? Yes, sir. Pubic hair. How fucked up is that?
Unbelievable?
Yeah, yeah. Unbelievable.
And fat is so unbelievable. I don't believe it. Well, just
send me a link. I got a blog it.
I'll see if there's an English article about it yet, but it's
all in Dutch so far. And I'm sure Google Translate won't
really do it justice. Well, yeah, the three options were I
think, curly, hairy, and curly, or just adult hairy. That's a
direct translation. So it sounds kind of weird. And I was talking
to Patricia about this. I said, Yes, clearly, you have this
electronic child dossier well into puberty, so everyone will
have one. So what are you going to put on yours? Honey, do we
have to change yours? From time to time? It was like Brazilian
landing strip. Ooh, nothing called the likes it you know,
what part by the way the girls at the club last night. No
entry, just leave that one blank, baby.
What's funny, but,
I mean, this is what's going on all over Europe, John. It's like
in record tempo. This stuff is uh, it's just click, click
click. It's happening.
Yeah, well, you know, it's just the 1000 year Reich.
The 1000 year Reich or is this another cyclical thing?
No, no, I mean, that's what Hitler said when he began his
like programme to make everything fascist. He's said
it'd be 1000 year write up 1000 years of this, you know, and
then of course, you know, they beat him in World War Two and
everyone figured it was the end of it, but I guess not.
It's it's pretty scary
so in other news, yes. What else is going on?
Um, hold on a second. I did get a little bit of homework as he
ruffles The Financial Times open.
So when I was floating around Portugal doing my show guy
brought with me some gear. I brought the what did I bring? I
boil I brought was the M audio interface. It sounded good. It
were NF P I use that because it was a it was a Heil PR 4242
It's a 40 not a 4040?
Yes. 40 It's a really good Heil mic. Yeah. The one that Leo
Laporte uses, because you know, and Leo has been in radio
forever. And he has used that there's one evey model that
everybody in radio used to use the electric voice. Yeah, yeah.
And electro voice specific dynamic electric was not these
aren't condenser mics. And which is interesting, because this
Heil sounds exactly like a condenser mic. As far as I know,
without the without the phantom power. Without Yeah, without
needing this extra power to drive it. It's just a regular
dynamic microphone, but it sounds so good. So I got a bunch
of notes from people, although, I'd need to have a some sort of
pretending that they said it sounds better than normal.
That's what they said, right? Yeah. I have this happen all the
time. I was using, I told you, I use my love in New York, and
people like wow, this sounds awesome. You should always sound
like this. And I'm actually talking on the same wireless lav
mic is happening. I don't know if it's just because it sounds
different. And then people think it sounds better. Or if we over
obsess the sound and so that actually sounds shittier than
normal. But I've noticed this exact same thing. Whenever I
change my setup. On the road, people like it,
I had a guy send me a note saying tell Adam to stay with
that because you were wearing a headset. I wanted the shows. Or
something. You know, it's
this mic. It's the microphone talking through right. They
said all challenges. Just use that mic. It sounds a million
times better. Yeah. And I am i Oh, that's why I'm gonna get a
country I'm gonna get a country man. I
gotta get a country man to I really want to try that.
Because you because that because this PR 40 which is a nice,
beautiful sounding mic and try to probably switch to it. I'm
writing now I'm using an AKG. But a condenser with a tube.
Sounds nice. That's yeah, but apparently the other one will
sound better, but what kind of but we travel with that. Pr 40
The thing is a bit clunker. It's huge. And then again, every time
I get stopped at it one of the gates on the aeroplane, they
want to know what that they find and then they'd hold it up and
they'd look around and say What's this? You know, they
don't know what a microphone is do or liquid test on that
fucker. You know, I'm surprised they didn't crack it open. But
anyway, so So I come back from Europe with to Salamis and a
microphone.
to Salamis and a microphone. His name is John C. de Gaulle. Oh,
June,
and so they're all obsessing. They don't give a shit about the
Salamis or obsessing over this microphone. Right? But anyway,
that's too big. Now the country man is just a wire. It's just a
wisp of the thing. I mean, it doesn't weigh anything. It
weighs nothing. I mean, if that mic is though, is sounds as good
as the PR and my experience. It does. sounds as good as the PR
40 Yeah. Then why take the PR 40 On the road to the country, man
and just you know, you don't because when you travel, you
know that people don't travel a lot. They don't understand. You
know that when you travel, I travel light. I know how to pack
a suit into a regular suitcase. I can go under a seat.
I got a roll of salami in it.
i Well, I got the salami in the computer case.
It's hide the salami with John C. Dvorak.
So I've got a light so I travel very light. And I see these poor
schmucks that and especially the some of these women who don't
know how to travel and then they end their husbands put up with
this crap. They have a suitcase the size of like a refrigerator,
and you know, and they're they can't move it up, then they
can't put it up overhead. They can't do anything with the
things wait to the end of it, then hubby is stuck. I was going
to the Oakland airport about to go up north about two or three
months ago and there's a funniest thing that was one of
these women she was doing her nails in the front of the bus
from the parking lot thing. And and, and I was when I got on
this this whole luggage area was stacked to the gills with
luggage. And so they get off. And this woman you know, she
refuses to carry anything but her handbag and this poor schlub
husband of hers. He's got like two huge rollers and a thing
another thing and the kids have got a couple of bags, and he's
got some stuff over his head. I mean, you're around his neck.
He's holding the port guys. I voted down like a mule.
I Did he have a baby a baby hanging from him as well?
I don't need you know, there was just short of that. And the
little girl that's with him goes up and she crashes. She goes up
to her monitored. Mommy, Mommy, why does daddy have to take all
the luggage all the time? You know, she was giving her crap
was smart. Yeah. And Ben Dysport, daddy, he was carrying
all this thing. I mean, you can travel with one bag, but I
always tell people to travel with nothing and then buy stuff
over there and ship it back. But you can travel very light if you
try hard. I know people that travel for example, is a rant. I
know people that travel for example, and they'll bring
before the liquid thing, which I think was a benefit to all
travellers before the three ounce rule which the 100
millilitres actually, they would bring an entire giant bottle a
year supply of shampoo, and packet. Why would you what do
you bring in this giant bottle of shampoo, a two week trip or a
one week trip or whatever? It's just ridiculous.
You should you should be at Heathrow. All very often the
Virgin Atlantic flight from San Francisco lands simultaneously
with a flight from Mumbai. My goodness, man, the Indians when
they when the when they travel. It's like it's it's enormous.
The amount of luggage they have. absolutely enormous, big crate.
Huge. And you see of course they're always stopped at
Immigrations and some schmuck there is unpacking all this
care. I mean, then they pack it tight. And then I don't know if
they come on over here forever or what but it's real. Yeah,
when
I see this big luxury dance, I'm always thinking, Are you moving
there? Is that what you're bringing so much stuff? You
know? I don't know. I tell people, I guess there's some
women who in fact, I went to. When I went to Korea, Gina
Smith, she brought like 10 pairs of shorts. 15 pairs of shoes.
And so we brought all these shoes forces. Well, somebody
told me she had been there before is that they really are
are picky about shoes. You can't wear the same pair of shoes
twice. And I'm thinking for you and you believe this.
I even I wouldn't believe that one. So anyway, a Woolworths is
bankrupt over here. I didn't even know they're still in
business. Oh, they've been Oh, yeah. Oh, Woolworths has been in
business here for
decades. We haven't I don't think I've seen a wool. We used
to have Woolworths although it was bought up.
It was it was purchased by was a what was in like 19 Eight or oh
eight or something like that? I think they Oh, they did? They
opened up a store in the United Kingdom. And who's the the name
of the guy something I'm sure it's a John H. Woolworth. He
discovered that they could do it was the original Five and Dime
concept. Right. Right. And it really worked over the United
Kingdom, particularly with an American in the store. And so we
really expand that in the 1970s. You know, they had, I think they
had like, they're like, seven 800 stores. And they were bought
up by, you know, by another big, you know, conglomerate that owns
multiple chains. And but Woolworths Florida for the UK
ever since the 70s has really been the place where you where
you get you buy your music, you know, very much like, like a
Walmart, I guess. So they're, they're bankrupt. Which is
culturally a big deal here.
Well, we used to have a Woolworths nearby in the El
Cerrito Plaza, and I would go there, you'd always get go
there. You know that that style of story. There's also it used
to be a Kresge in Berkeley or crest or whatever it was, I
think it was Kresge which was the competitor, which had the
cooler stores for that a big round glass windows and all this
others have Yeah, but you could go there you could always there
was just about everything you wanted. You know if you need it
glue or scotch tape, or you know, something you actually
saw, like it was like a miniaturised what target cells?
Like if you remember Zehrs. I vaguely remember there was I
think it was like a chain on the East Coast. Yeah,
it was it was east coast. So I remember when we'd go on
vacation in the 70s. Back from Europe, to the states, we'd
always be excited, because we'd stay in Armonk, at my
grandparents place. And in White Plains, they had a huge zerres
And we go to his heirs, and we just shop him. It was it was one
of the first everything there for everybody lose your kids for
five hours.
Yeah, well, now the big box stores have taken over that
business. I mean, the target is the one that fascinates me the
most because I'm still reminded of the white front stores that
used to be here, which were actually a mob, a guy who was on
witness protection. And there's always these they always have
these names. I think Conway on this and Conway trucking was one
of these things and there's there's always a joke Yeah, the
name game sure name and Target has always been to me. One of
those joke names of target of target target of what it was
like a target. And so I'm thinking you know, I keep going
through these and they got so many targets. If you drive up
Highway 80, there's a Target store about once every every two
miles off the freeway and very high. These are a high expensive
real estate areas. And so there's a target that I can see
when from my house. And then you go up, there's another one up
and written in the web enrichment is another one
further up. And then there's another and another, and
another. All these Target stores. There's a whole slew of
them, you go into these stores, and they're great stores, by the
way, even though everything's from China, but they have
everything. And you can get anything now they even have food
now. And you can get soap and you can get dog food and you can
get tissue and you can get scotch tape. It's just like a
Woolworths only They're huge. And you can get out of a Target
store almost instantly. They have way too many checkers. I
mean, you never wait. You go in no matter when it is and you're
rarely wait behind one person. There's always an open thing.
Just you're out of there. It's amazing. It's a great store, but
I don't see how they can afford to stay in business. Because I
don't see that the traffic is that outrageous going in and out
of there? Well, I don't know. But because of places like
Target, there's no more five and dime stores.
Well, I do know that we're trying to do business with them.
I know that they're interested in working with us.
Well, they do a lot of advertising. Oh, hell yeah. And
their advertisements are creative. It's a really
interesting company. The other thing that they've done, which
is unique is that they've found you know, all these high end
designers that do these expensive stuff. And they've had
them do a cheap blindstitched Yeah,
this is what ah, h&m started that though, didn't they?
I don't know. I don't know the h&m story. I do know h&m is
everywhere. Yeah.
Hmm. I think they started with Karl Lagerfeld, who of course,
is you know, massive designer. And he did a whole line at you
know, like 200 bucks for whatever a shirt or whatever,
which is incredibly cheap for a Karl Lagerfeld. And there were
people queued up in the morning just to get in a Madonna did
wasn't successful, but they have they have a lot of big names
doing,
I believe fashion lines. They do like you know, a guy who was a
designer of you know, one thing rather than having to do a
toaster. And then he got like designer designed toasters and
clocks and stuff like that. But I was by the way, surprise, I
was in Lisbon. There was a there's an h&m there. I didn't
know that place was I didn't know it was an international
chain.
Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. They're everywhere. But it started in
the UK. It's I think it's known. Wait a minute. Yeah, hammers and
Morris.
Is that what it is? Yeah, it's not American. That's what it
stands for. hammers and Morris? I think so. Yeah. Why? I will.
The reason is, because it's one of those things that kind of
snuck up on me. I didn't I was unaware of h&m until a couple
years ago. And it was already be making, you know, it's already
taken over the kids more. I mean, the kids when I say kids,
I mean, you know, college kids and high school kids and anyone
under 25 That's where they shop. Yeah. And because, you know, you
go in there, you can see that they're oriented toward that,
that age group is 18 to 26 or whatever the demo is, and, and
they have a lot of nice stylish stuff, you know, that's, that's
cheap. Cheap.
The big thing here is Primark. And Primark is I'm sure it's
made in in Asian sweatshops, because the prices are just it's
so incredibly cheap. It's you know, it's the price of Kmart
but it's it's actually it's quite knockoffs you know? So
they look at whatever's in Vogue magazine or whatever is in
glamour or Mary Claire or whatever. And then they they
whip them up which of course I'm sure comes directly from the
back door of the the the factories that are making, you
know, the h&m stuff. Yeah, and say boom, boom, boom, they
hammer rods, the same colours, it's the same patterns is you
know, there's no lawsuits in fashion.
No, for a number of reasons. You can't copyright a font.
So you can't copyright a font I didn't know now you
can know that's why fonts are stolen forever, but yet you did
what you can copyright is the name of the font. Ah, so if you
have like, you design a font like Hatton Shriver, or one of
these crazy things our universe which is you and I are Helvetica
is the classic example of attic is the most, you know, the most
used font in the world. And if you run into the good knockoffs
of it, because it's owned by one of the front, one of the
foundries all the knockoffs have different names. There's like
hell I still when my favourite one was held HTLV S, which HP
used in one of their cartridges early on, but there's, you know,
the other ones have all the
copyright of the name. It's a trademark of the trademark,
right? It's a trademark. And so you can't you can't steal that
you can steal the font, the design of Helvetica, but you
can't call it Helvetica. And that's what everybody does.
Funny. But anyway, the fashion is, by the way, this is a good
argument at the end A patent people have in the anti
copyright people have said, look, the fashion industry, if
you design some fancy dress, and you roll it out for $25,000, a
couture, and then somebody else knocks it off and sells it for
150 bucks, exact same look and feel you can't do anything about
it. This is an argument, this is an argument against patents and
copyrights. Because if you just look at the picture, overall,
it's a highly competitive business. And people in the
fashion industry, many of them make millions of dollars. It's a
very successful industry with this model of everything being
stolen constantly.
But it's not just stolen, it is a part of the entire
infrastructure because if there were only designers making
$25,000 outfits for a very small select clientele, we'd all be
wearing potato sacks. And of course, we'd be wearing very
stupid ugly clothing. So it trickles down. And it's meant to
do that now and it's a whole power structure and the you
know, Elsa clench from CNN and you know, the these women like
and they are predominantly women least who are in the on the
media side of fashion, they really control what we will look
like, in three months from now or what we'll be wearing and
they love that it's it's a part of how it all works. It's
what's funny, it even goes deeper than that people don't
realise is like you know, when they have you know, there are
it's so far it's done so far in advance, it reminds me a lot of
the semiconductor business where you have a really long ramp
because everybody knows we're going to go to 32 nanometers
we're going to do this and it's always done in advance because
you have this this pacing that set by Moore's Law and with
fashion that you know, all these like, Oh, this is the fall cut,
this is fall colours, this is a new colours, you're going to
have this orange and this blue, that's got it this tint and that
those colours are done by these, you know, these guys who do
design inks and dyes six months earlier, or specialty Yeah,
that's what they're doing, they come up with these colours way
in advance of the of the of the fashion season, because those
dyes have to go into the cloth, and they have to. So this is so
there's like a real long ramp. And then all of a sudden, these
new colours come out and everyone's all jacked up about
it. Oh, that's the new green, you bring the old green, you
know, well this you could have probably figured out what the
new green is gonna be if you were in the business because it
did things was decided like nine months earlier or a year now.
I think it's like six it's like six months
Okay, so long as six months but it gets you the problems at
first you got to first you got to
close the colour and then the and then the design the design,
you have to come with the colours and then you have to
then you have to come up with the fabric that uses the
colours. And so there's a there's a gap there because you
got to make fabric usually
the designers they get they step into that part of the process.
So Karl Lagerfeld he'll he'll get fabric which already has,
you know, there's a selection of colours that go with it. So
they're even a step behind that.
Yeah, probably, I would think so you'd have to be I have,
I happen to know. So I have a wife who is involved in all
this. Well, you
have to be anyway. So there's, the ramp is large as long it's
not like it's a big shock, that all of a sudden, I always get
the biggest kick out of you go to Europe, where they're more
fashion oriented, especially with these colours than they are
in the United States. And so you'll go past the department
store and they'll have all these colours, these new colours for
this, you know, season this, you know, spring, you know, oh nine,
and so you'll see all these colours, and then it was just
they really emphasise these colours in Europe. And you come
to us and every so often there was no I remember this one.
There's this crazy rust colour from some years ago, that was
just kind of almost gaudy. It was they were pushing the heck
out of in Europe and you could not even find this colour in the
United States. So apparently, all our people said screw it. We
don't like this colour. care what anybody buddy thinks and we
never got the colour was just the funniest thing. Is he
missing?
I don't know. I got I got two more things. Unless you got
some. No,
I got nothing you can tell.
No, I like it. Because you've been you've been on a couple of
good rants today.
Yeah, well, you know, certainly.
Do you know who Buckminster Fuller is? Oh, absolutely.
Everybody knows who Bucky is. Well, I'm
just learning about Bucky, can you give me some background on
this guy? He seems highly interesting.
He's very interesting. I think I've always thought he you know,
he was very popular amongst a new age nutballs
Yeah, that's why I like him. Exactly.
Well, you if you were actually a new age nut ball, which you're
not I can assure that audience you would have known about him
by now that I actually the fact that you're so far behind on
Buckminster Fuller proves and you know, with with us authority
that you're not a new age nutball but anyway, did that but
I digress. So Buckminster Fuller had all these crazy ideas. He
invented the geodesic dome. He did experiments on himself he
did his crazy experiment about sleeping He put himself in some
isolation and decided to sleep when he felt like and found that
you only needed if you didn't have any beds or anywhere
sleeping you just conked out when he felt like and then wake
up and conk out and wake up kind of passed out theory of
hey, that's kind of how I live my life.
He said you only did it turns out you only need four hours a
day and
I need a little more than that. And he also
did a thing called the Dymaxion car which is the one you should
really look into because it's the funniest thing but but when
you look at like his Dymaxion car and all this other theories
and things, I always thought he was like a crackpot. You know,
yeah, he did came up with a couple of interesting ideas. But
when you start look when you start seeing how these things
work, in terms of aesthetics, that they maxium car was the
ugliest, stupidest thing ever put on the road.
That was what was so special about it. What was that?
It had steered from the one wheel in the back or something
that was made. It was made out of, of the kind of material that
aeroplanes are made out of carbon fibre? No, no, we're
talking about back in the 30s. Stretch aluminium aluminium.
Yes. Now, yeah, aluminium. And it was just as domestic and
apparently killed somebody in New York in a freak accident and
you know, they stopped making them or they were you.
Let me give you the context of how I how I've come in contact
with the work of Buckminster Fuller, and I'm really
interested in how he makes money what his deal is. Well, there
you go.
He's been dead for years. As far as I know,
maybe I should retract that email with the interview
request. A good idea.
look him up on Wikipedia.
This this piece of video where he's talking about, you know,
2012, which of course, you know, I'm interested in God. Yeah. And
he says, this is humanity's final exam. And in what was
interested, the concepts we have to unlearn. You are not actually
of this era. If you cannot grasp the following two concepts. He
died at three by the way. Okay, so free was an early Kook. So
one the concept that the sun does not set unless you can
actually envision yourself spinning on the globe at 24,000
miles an hour and spinning past the sun, then you're still
living fight and 500 years in the past. And he said, the
second one, and this is this is funny, I'm going to start using
this just to piss people off. There is no up or down. There is
out in and around, or through. But there's no up and down
because you actually when you go wood, when you go up in an
aeroplane, you're actually going out of the earth. And if you're
going towards the moon, you're going into the moon. And I was
just it was a concept. I was like wow, that's pretty
interesting. And then when you start thinking about it when you
start feeling yourself being on the globe, which is spinning
around I don't know it's a it had an elevating effect on me, I
guess. Yeah, well, I apparently did I find the whole thing to be
specious, tedious and bullshit. Spaceship Earth is one of the
things that he you know, named. And everybody got jacked up
about that. I mean, yeah, he was
a ship Earth. I gotta write this down. Is that a? Is that a book?
What is he popularised the term this is Wikipedia. You know, I
remember a spaceship Earth. Oh, yeah. Okay, whatever. Anyway,
the geodesic domes his main thing and people would build
these domes because they were they're actually very good. It's
a good very strong structure. But they're the gosh awful
looking this thing they're horrible. You know,
aesthetically, I see these domes that people will
be living in like you're living in Epcot worse
because they had this like this this structure of it. That thing
was just ugly. It looked like some it's just creepy looking.
And so but people would build them because Oh, it's a geodesic
dome Buckminster Fuller anyway, so I you can tell I'm not a
fan?
No, not really. I don't see what his contribution really was. I
don't know. Well, that's why I asked. Now you know, you'll be
good. But go to the diamagnetic die. Maxine is this stuff you
want to look into because that's the funniest stuff,
by Maxine Carr. Okay, so we're going to expedite maxium hits D
YMAXIONDYMAX. i O when all different
look into that. And then before we leave, I'll just crank up the
printing press one more time. Interesting story in the
Financial Times. That for the first time, and this is always
kind of important when you look at economics, the United States.
I have a great picture of Rahm Emanuel here, by the way looking
really scary. Gary guy, for the first time the London School of
Economics is almost in the majority in Obama's cabinet
slash buddies. Because normally it's this is a big deal, right?
It's like what what school of course, Bill Clinton was Oxford.
So what was it I should read that again? Okay, I'll
read you the headline, actually London School of Economics is
well represented amongst Obama's buddies. And the the point of it
is, is that I'm looking for the names here. Yeah, Peter, Peter
or Zog as Budget Director Pete Rouse and Mona Sutphen as senior
White House staff means the London School of Economics only
has two fewer graduates than Harvard in team Obama. And it
goes on to listen to only one from MIT and it seems like a
real that's like in the UK. Of course, all the politicians come
from what's that horrible boy school named? Exeter? No, no,
it's in Exeter. Probably. No, it's not. Is it Exeter? I think
so. Now it's something else. But anyway, I just thought it was
I thought it was Exeter. But anyway, the, ya know, I was
looking at this and everybody's got a PhD. It's like they all
went to like Yale, and then they've got their Harvard but
mostly Harvard. Is that different? I mean, what we have,
you know, we had the during the Bush administration, everybody's
a Yalie. And then, you know, everyone's from Yale. You have
to be from Yale. And then this is switching over to harbour
which I actually think is an improvement. But I could be
wrong. And because who knows? I mean, I don't understand why we
don't have more West Coast representation. There's nobody
from you know, Berkeley, you know, or any of these schools
out here. You don't have too much Cal Tech, you know,
represented in the Gervase all these East Coast Ivy League
clubby schools that you know, have the same fraternities. And
you makes you wonder,
yeah, like Skull and Bones. Shit. Yeah. Eatin is the one
that you hate. And that's it. I'm sorry, Ian, I knew that. I
knew it too. So, oops. Well, anyway, for those of you who are
Oh, and that is the final thing I want to say. Those of you who
are enjoying the change, which is already taking place, we can
see it perfectly. The guy in the front has changed. Everyone else
in the back remains the same in the administration. twice now
I've noticed on both the John Stuart show that the Daily Show
and on I saw it happen on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He
had I forget her name. She has a talk show on E she's like a
comedian. Kind of funny. Tall MILFy looking chick. Now you
don't know. Now I don't know. But you know when people pull
out an obvious crowd pleaser, you know, like, like the old
Hey, but we got change Obama's in the audience goes dead
silent. There's no more cheering there's no more laughter There's
no more Yeah, we got him Look at you. Yeah, we're we're rocking
and rolling the country is back. It's it's not even a chuckle
John, really pletely it's dying. You cannot use Obama as a as a
crowd pleaser anymore. On these talk shows, that's interesting.
Now, I thought that was highly interesting, because that shows
a real change of mentality almost overnight.
It doesn't take much the American public in particular is
extremely fickle, and they can turn on a dime. I mean, that's
been fantastic in the economy due to these crazy turn on a
dime things. I mean, we had, I'm still stunned by this, you know,
I was like, I was just in Portugal and prices were
reasonable. Compared to you know, we haven't gotten
well with your American dollar now, which is being
you know, we had who knew the pound got to two bucks and the
and the weird thing was the Canadian dollar got to $1 became
one to one. And when the stink turned around, just like a month
or two ago, which I expected, it took years to get where it got
and it turns around and goes right back to 76 cents or 75
cents for the Canadian dollar. And then the pound is back was a
buck 46 When I went there, which was low is usually a buck 55 You
know, and traditionally, so it's a buck 46 which was low once it
goes below a buck 50 To me that's like bargain time in
England. I'm thinking this just happened overnight. I've never
seen anything collapsed like this I mean, the gas prices I
bought gasoline for a buck 99 premium
and the same thing is as the Euro same thing crushed the
pound super crushed. It was two bucks now it's 153 that's under
that's an unbelievable drop. Yeah. But I figured out the
other way around, it's an unbelievable rise in the dollar
because the Federal Reserve is selling gold. They're selling it
and I'm like no one else's business No one's buying it. You
know, buying the goal. You are some of it. Now Iran actually
just purchased $75 billion worth of gold. Now these are the this
is not just a bunch of camel jockeys out there, they know
what they're doing. And I think they're incredibly smart.
Oh, that means that gold is going to collapse. We only do
stuff like this this group People.
Hey, John, welcome to the dark side,
telling you I can defend against if you want to sell a gold to a
bunch of dumb Iranians and pull the rug out from under him I
don't have a problem with it doesn't you know,
Lindsey Williams, the chaplain, who like completely base all of
my predictions on just by parroting him who worked for the
oil companies in Alaska, this is the guy who said, it's gonna go
to 200. And it's gonna happen now. And he was right, and
what's gonna go to 200, oil, whatever went to 200, it went
close. But then he came out close, it got to 147. Close
enough, it was 60 when he said it, not even it was 50 when he
said it, when he came out, he came out a couple months ago,
now, eight, six or eight weeks ago, and he said, it's going
down to 50. And of course, it's gone down to 50. And he says
it's stay in there a long time. And the reason why he claims
that he's actually speaks to one of these guys, who, who
determines this. He says, because they want to bankrupt
the Middle East, they want to completely bankrupt him, they're
going to keep the oil at 50 bucks, they want him out of the
way,
they should drop it to 40 that I mean, just traditionally 25
I think it's become too expensive right now, because
even just to get it out of the ground costs 30 or 40, well, you
know that you can bankrupt these guys, if you get everybody you
know, on the same page, there's gonna go to 200 and everybody
starts banking on and they start all these green projects, and
we're gonna do solar, we're gonna do all these other things.
Because, you know, the cost of oil makes it profitable to do
all these other alternative energy tricks. Usually over you
know, anytime it goes over 40 Actually, and then you get
everybody all geared up for this stuff, and you begin having the
Goldman Sachs come out and say it's gonna go to 200 They're
amongst the group that was cheerleading. And then the thing
you know, everybody's all geared up for this $200 deal. You know,
and it's already at 140 It was a setup, it's a setup and you're
all up you're in you're putting all your chips to the middle of
the table and then boom, you pull the rug out from under the
sink falls like our rock if you take a look at the charts by the
way, I mean, this oil pricing went straight down. It wasn't
like Well, let me hesitate here and just loop down it wasn't
like it wasn't like it was going over a cliff in a nice smooth
curve. It went straight down with one blip if it wants to
basically straight down and I love
it how I love it how politicians still talk about the incredible
price of oil
they don't even notice
oil is so expensive energy costs are very expensive. Oh,
I don't have any good don't go outside.
Although it is it is true that shell I just read this today,
shell had to shut down their Nigerian liquid natural gas
production which is what Europe gets almost all of their energy
from from from the Nigerian liquid natural gas. So I predict
that when it comes to heating, you know like gas heating, etc I
think it's going to skyrocket at least in Europe it's going to go
out of control and then of course we have to go buy it from
the Russians which is going to be interesting
well I know shell had that that advertisement they actually had
a channel in addition network promoting this liquid natural
gas bullshit
so evil. It's that's the Dutch royal family, the House of
Orange founders of the Bilderberg Group, know yep, yep.
Let's end it on a Hi, John.
Hi, as you can buy premium gas now for around two bucks.
I'll take it as good. I've now I can fly much cheaper to that. I
don't hate the weather. It's completely crap. Absolutely no
flying. Alright. What's coming up this week, anything special
besides Cyber Monday?
What's going on in Cyber Monday? Cyber Monday. It's
the internet's version of Black Friday. Oh, yeah. I'm gonna be
plugging all of our deals all of our get them cheap deals. See,
we can hop on the bandwagon. Get get a cheap deal on budget.
I got a bunch of budget.com/tech the I have to there's something
I had to do. Yeah, I gotta
see. Ah, right. budget.com/te ch Yeah, te ch. It's MVNO.
offers.com is where you can find you can Gianna hug Gianna
and need some, you know, some action. So yeah, I gotta go do
my online ordering because I think next week is probably the
best year right after that, you know? That's
what that's what Cyber Monday is all about. That's the day when
you get all the best deals. Now, it'll really be dependent upon
what happens today. On Black Friday. I
mean, what do you think is gonna happen? Just predicted? Okay.
Well,
I have to say I've already watched some of the news. And it
seemed like this. This was they were reporting on CNBC on the
west coast because they have reporters in the malls. Right.
This is This is how crazy we are. On the west coast seems
like everywhere, it seemed like same amount of people were
showing up. But now they have to find out how the sales figures
are. But on the West Coast, people were using predominantly
cash on the East Coast people using 85% using credit cards.
We're always ahead of the game out here.
So I'm going to predict we will see a non a significant drop,
I'm going to say 20 to 25% less than last year, which of course
will be amazing because it'd be the first time in 100 years that
we've actually gone down in Black Friday sales, but I think
it's I think it's going to be 20 to 25% down.
I'm saying 5% down. Okay,
five, interesting. And we'll find out tomorrow, but we won't
talk about it until next week. Alright, everybody, coming to
you from Gitmo East in the United Kingdom. I'm Adam curry,
and get more West. I'm in northern Silicon Valley. I'm
John C. Dvorak.
We'll talk again next week right here on no agenda.