Well, we made it up until 2009. And we're not dead yet. So hey,
I guess there's another year worth of no agenda coming to you
from Gitmo nation east in southwest London. I'm Adam curry
here
with me on the end of the last show,
so I deserve that one.
John C. Dvorak here in Silicon Valley North also known as get
more nation West. And so I get more nation shirts by the way a
T shirts or through selling him anymore. We've got a new design
coming next week.
Oh, okay, so they're now officially collector's items.
Yeah, I don't even have one myself.
Well, you're probably not gonna get one now.
Also, because the shipping is to the United Kingdom is a new Amir
$45
It's ridiculous. Well, you know that you know that I had to ship
off a good night. Oh, my editor said he had to send him some
stuff in the day cost like five times more to ship it to the
United I don't know why. I mean, yeah, I think I could have FedEx
that cheaper. Do you think that
has anything to do with import on textiles? Is that is that the
main reason? That must be some reason there's some it must be
taxes, not just shipping?
Oh, yeah. It must be nuts. You mentioned it makes nothing but
sense because
there's lots of stuff that if you Patricia does this all the
time she she used to order from linens and things oops, that
that doesn't happen anymore. Now they're out of business. And
they should be there Oh, look at all the because it's very hard
to get sheets for a king size two metre 20 bed or whatever it
is that we have. And I'm sure order it and then you know, be
like really cheap. And then you know, it shows up as like, oh,
you Oh, you know, 35 pounds on a linen set or something. So it
has to be something like that. Hey, man, I'm in the new place.
Oh, you are do you have the heavy new collection? I'm sorry.
But the new connection
you're breaking up? Yeah, it's the new connections the it's the
new studio it's as of about half an hour ago I would say complete
it's audio video production all built into one it's kind of like
a floor wax and a dessert topping. And for a the first
long time all my routing all my connections are actual wires.
You sound good.
Thank you. It's also I got a different microphone. I have Oh
what are you using? Okay,
I'm using the hello hi now this is the
coming from a pro
doesn't even this is a mindset where you can say
the Radio Shack
what was it wasn't realistic what was the other realistic
radio number what they had another one they had like an
upscale brand name maximise or something like that. I was
nothing else.
It'll hit me in a second. It's an MX l 2010. I've no idea who
makes it kind of looks like you know it's a studio mic. It looks
like it's a condenser by the way. So it needs it needs
external power. And I'm running it through my Yamaha mg 12 MG
one to four CX mixer. The cool thing though, is I've got good
processing now. So I've really enhanced the Skype connection
you sound really really much better than you've ever sounded
on the on the broadcast right now.
Hold on a second. I'm typing this code in here see if there's
any.
So I'm running you I'm running
your next two are you citizen MX
Oh, MX l 2010. MX l and x l Mike X ray Lima so I'm running you
through a what is martial arts and martial
arts how it looks like or no I could harmony it could be MX
it's an MX l
Exactly. For RadioShack
the MX microphones products microphones MX L
so I'm running you through a compressor limiter gate and an
affix
to a FX yeah okay,
the big bottom a FX yeah the big bottom Yeah, big bottom.
You have one of those but I never hooked it up.
You don't have to because I've hooked it up on my end it sounds
beautiful. And so and we've got the nice cast running now i i
was all ready to hook in calls. Just so you know I actually have
Skype running on a separate machine now. So it's using its
separate audio in and out and that's you know that is that's
actually the preferable way to set it up so you don't have all
this crap jacked in virtually. And I wanted to set up a Um, my
SIP client gizmo so I could dial into the phone bridge so we
could take calls. And so about 45 minutes before we started, I
set it up and very typical problem with Voice over IP. And
of course, this is on the BT line who have I'm sure they have
their own, they had their own VoIP solution they want to sell.
And when you call a number, you can hear what's coming in, but
they can't hear you. And that's because all the ports or the
network address translation is messed up. And so I gotta go and
configure the hub. Right, you know, we'll do that next week.
So the MX l Mike's a cheapy. Really? Yeah. 169 bucks on
Amazon. Yeah.
Sounds good for a cheapy.
Yeah. Does it sound good? Yeah. Sounds as good as you do with
that Lavell ear hanging scotch tape,
or the gaffer tape to my forehead. So it's positioned
ideally.
So it's a funny idea for a photo?
No, not really. Happy New Year, John. Well, Happy
New Year to you. How's things going? I'm doing good. Alright.
Someone says it's going back there in the UK. How's the
Biohazard Boxing Day go?
Well, Boxing Day is, you know, as you pointed out, on the last
show, it was very filled with boxes for us.
To the stock market went up, and I have one of the listeners
says, oh, you should talk about it, you know, talk about the
stock market, what do you think
it went up significantly didn't go up 290 points, or 260, or
something where I end the day before, it was also up 150 It
was that up a couple of
days before the end of the year. And then it was up on the field
one day, we were open on low volume and the which of course
leads you there's a there's a thing that there's kind of a
piece of superstition that seems to come through a lot, which is
if the market goes up in January, then the whole year
reflects that it keeps going up. And as the market goes down in
January, the market just goes down. And so it seems to me that
it's up a little started January up just now it's 9000 the
likelihood of it going up more by the end of the month. So it
has an upward trend by the end of January seems to be nil. And
so I can't imagine that it's gonna but it might but it could
either be same you know 9000 At the end of the month will go
down which seems more likely. And I don't know maybe rebar
will get gets it it'll go flying. Who knows? Well, you did
you did predict that. Yeah, yeah.
wild wild swings Hold on. People are saying that we sound like
crap on the stream that we're over modulated on I turned it
down so if you can twitter and let me know if it sounds better
now. That'd be appreciated. I you know this
feedback loop with this with the Twitter you guys see you can't
do that with the real radio. Guy sounds like
shit. You sound crappy. Turn it down. Oh
well, hopefully we're recording it in in high fidelity. So you
can turn it off and listen to it later but the feedback is good.
I
guess I got busted because I did so I guess I must have said just
casually that oil was going to 200 Yeah, dude. And some guy
like busted me for he said you always changing your mind. I
made the point and I'm a bandwagon jumper. I'm talking
about sports, mostly. Huge. I'm a huge fan of the Utah people
watch football. I think that's hilarious. Anyway, so I even
though I never invested. I mean, I was short oil.
Well, let's the whole world. Let's just Let's just take let's
just take it back one step because it's a little confusing.
We got what actually I've received a lot of emails from
Dvorak fans who are saying, Wow, man, you know, you're kind of
right about, in fact, your East Coast Research Division. You
know, I'm referring to Carrie Lutz. He just said, please refer
to me as the East Coast. Please don't mention my name. He sent
me a nice long email. I said, Wow, man, you know, you're
absolutely right. And John is so wrong. But what? Well, so here's
the thing. So there was another person who emailed us and said,
Oh, you know, you, you really, Dvorak is is a what do you call
it a bandwagon jumper? And he was all talking about $200
barrel oil and then you on email said no, I didn't prove it.
Prove It, prove it, find the episode prove it, prove it.
And so I guess some some complete nut ball decided to
listen to all these episodes to find the one loan example of my
suggesting that it could go to 200
Yeah, here it is. And meanwhile, the price of oil is $126 a
barrel. I'm still thinking before the end of the year, baby
200
I'm thinking 200 Oh, there it is. I was just agreeing with you
well, I'd be if you follow the next episode of the show, I was
getting more sceptical.
Yeah, but it's about the bandwagon jumping thing. And I'm
amazed that people are only now just figuring this out.
Well, you know, things that you get on the bandwagon it's not a
bad thing. I'm I'm you know, I use your bomb within
Oh, man, there's so here's the news out of the United Kingdom.
Big protests, of course, around Europe at Israeli embassies
from, you know, of course, regarding the the huge conflict
now in the Gaza Strip. And we have two celebrities, two
celebrities who have stood up and saying we're not taking it
anymore. You want to wager a guess as to which two superstar
celebrities they already think Amy Winehouse? She's got enough
of her own problems.
Noon No no, no.
To celebrities? No. They are British celebrities.
Yes, most of them are British. Internet internationally. Well,
true. Out. No, no. The thing is, they're female and they are over
50 Which is it just Dame Edna female I said female that you'll
never guess. Bianca Jagger and Annie Lennox.
Bianca Jagger and Annie What is this? The hasn't been club? I'm
telling you man. Jagger. Yeah. Wow. I haven't heard that name
for 10 years.
But it's pathetic that that's the only people who are you
know, up in arms about this about this tragedy that's taking
place. Because it really is. This is messed up. And
meanwhile, of course, my my wife Patricia's sisters here. Yvonne
has been great helping us unpack for the past week and she's been
fantastic. But the two of them will sit down reading the paper
and like, Oh, it's so you know, Jett Travolta, you know, John
Travolta son died, tragically seizure hit his head on the
bathtub, I think which is terrible. But you know, and then
just like, Oh, dude, you know, there's like 100 kids who are
dead and still lying underneath the rubble in the Gaza Strip.
You know, how can you obsess about Jett Travolta? Like, well,
at least we know him.
Yeah, well, did they know him?
Well, because they know John Travolta, you know, I'm just
saying. Yeah, they don't know what's closer to home. Yeah.
Think Local act global, or something. Right, Annie? At
global
Think Local. I'm not sure what it means. Talking about what
that means. This reminds me of another topic. So probably going
to jump around a little bit today. That's all right. Let me
find this. I had my course I can't find it when I want. My
daughter has been working on this paper and she's under she's
apparently using this computer. And
don't you hate that when the kids use your computer and
this is the computer you should have purchased isn't like normal
writing computer still
doesn't she have her own computer and you have a laptop
or something that you can use,
she makes this machine a lot. So
you'll wind up giving it to her eventually.
I might because I have another machine that just I just got
from the MPC noise the silent PC folks in Vancouver, Washington,
they have no machine from them just just a great way go ahead,
just a plug accompany the if anybody's buying, you know,
you're gonna use the same price you'd pay for a Dell or anything
else maybe a little more because you're gonna get some better
components. But these guys it's like a custom. It's like a hot
rod shop in the olden days, you could take your car to a rotten
custom shop and they you know, they fix it up, you know, put
some, you know, they just modify it. And soup it up. That's the
word. So these guys build these machines that are architected,
they use old mostly standard components but they've
redesigned a lot of the stuff in the architect so that you have
like a machine like a quad core you know killer machine with a
with a good graphics system in it. I have more with dual SLI,
you know invidious stuff. dead silent. Do dead silent. I mean
dead silent. You have to actually you don't even know you
can even when you turn it off, there's no evidence. You have to
look at it to see if the fans stopped. And how do they do
that? They The thing is, they got to the gut the air going
through a certain way. And they have big giant fans because you
can turn those and move more air with less noise. And they're
using some Antec cases. And it's just Just the engineering is
what it is. And then he got a lot of soundproofing in there.
Excellent. So you get this machine, it's the same price
you'd pay for any other machine. It was dead silent. So I mean,
it's on it's very nice because I finally sick of these I do what
set me off was the number of years ago AMD had the one shot
one of their new chips with some of the rather they sent me a
machine. And He does this every once awhile, they send out these
machines, sample machines, so you can look at their chips,
you send them back.
Generally they become more worthless and over time and so
you don't send them back usually hear me you can't if you want.
They're not expecting him back. But anyway, the you turn this
thing on it, it sounds like you're at the Moffett Field jet
testing centre. Unbelievable. I mean, just holy yummy. Sounds
like the world was coming to an end. And I said, this is
ridiculous. These machines are too noisy. And so I tracked
these guys down. There was a plug for them. So
did you see that? Someone loaded Android onto a netbook or real
really? Yeah, I told you that was coming. I've also found that
there are there's a whole community of people who are
loading Mac OSX onto os 10 on to netbooks
Yeah, Apple's got some mechanism to brick those off. No doubt but
still, it's pretty cool. Apparently the there's one what
is the net book it's like the when I or some things that sound
familiar.
I don't know. When I made this couple of my kids bring the E
PCs very memorable. I think HPs is the HP 100 HP 1000 is which
is kind of neat. I saw one at Costco and played around with it
for a little while. I could use that machine
the keys are a little the keys are a little bit small but man
the portability and if it actually ran os 10 I think I
would go for that
yeah it said the keys are just said but not so much that you
can't type on it and Mr like a phone me back to my daughter's
she's working on this thing for a school and on the wall world's
water crisis no way they always want to get these kids involved.
So So I ran into this one thing on on the browser her that she's
has a million tabs open with a bunch of different things about
water. But this is unbelievable that went into this one because
it's almost as though you know you can't win or it's like as
though you know the reactor definition of a reactionary
which always like to give the right wing that Oh, reactionary,
the true definition reactionary someone was to go back in time.
And it seems to me there's that the American left, or the
Liberals, they want to go back in time to a day when there was
no distribution. There was no roads. Everyone walked and rode
bicycles and this kind of idealistic thing. And so
everything that does remotely modern is somehow contributing
to you know, everything that's going wrong. Now, let me just
read you this. This is from the trout TR o u w daily. Okay, the
Netherlands.
Trout, tr o u WV trial trial. Pro, I believe was started as a
underground resistance newspaper in World War Two, I think, in
Amsterdam.
Here we go hydro power disaster for global warming. large dams
have dramatic consequences. Ecosystems are destroyed and
numerous people are made homeless, often without adequate
resettlement. But it is yet little known that large scale
hydro electricity is a major contributor to global global
warming. The reservoirs could despite their clean image be
even more devastating for our climate and fossil fuel plants.
A few years ago, I spent a minute it goes on and on. And
now I'm thinking two things one is this guy serious. Or and by
the way, let me go to two graphs or three graphs. This is mega
mega hydro has an strobus record, the World Commission on
dams, WC D, consisting of experts, opposition and industry
was installed to produce an independent review of large
dams, the WC D estimates in 2000, that 40 to 80 million
people have been displaced worldwide 80 million. Anyway,
the seems likely, I mean, just the number doesn't sound right.
Maybe in China, whatever the case is, this could have been,
you know, this could be a piece of propaganda put out by the oil
industry, obviously to you know, keep people on the right track
using fossil fuel. But I don't think so I think this is
actually just some typical reactionary in the sense of
let's you know, we Can't do anything well, let's just cut
you know, cover ourselves and put ourselves in the cave
somewhere and, and write it out.
Yeah, it's not the hydro electric power, it's bovine
flatulence, flatulence.
Oh, that's the cloud. So let's see the thing that I think to me
that this all this whole global warming thing always boils down
to is veganism. It's, it's at some point, you don't care what
nut ball you're watching, if you're watching the Green
Planet, they have it hold net channel now on the Dish Network
and elsewhere called green. And it's just a bunch of horrible
shows that are self serving, except emeralds is actually
pretty good because he's still just cooking. You know, emerald
green, get it? And then they have a guy who does I got a disk
for you, I'll send you with a couple of these shows on it just
like
I'm just like all the other ones you sent me here. But
the point at some point always becomes vegetarianism. I mean,
there's always related there's always a vegetarian angle and
they always did it gets kind of to veganism. And let's get rid
of the herds of cattle and let's just eat you know, oats that's
always that element. I've never seen anybody that doesn't have
that element was eat dirt and chalk. They're behind the whole
thing PETA, the vegans and you know the crackpots you know
foods the whole
I gotta tell you I don't I don't talk bad about PETA at all
because those people frightened me to death those are the ones
that want to wind up actually killing you know, I'm very
afraid of a really radical act and book I love animals but
there are some very very radical elements out there in the animal
activism activism space. And and they do they kill people.
Yeah, the workers people are meaningless crap. Every
day, it's all about the animals. So along the lines of global
warming, you want to hear some earth shattering news. What
scientists from the United Nations, IPCC have now
determined that the earth will be cooling for the next three
decades, that is the same people that brought you global warming,
now known as climate change, quote, addressing the Washington
policy policymakers in Seattle, Washington, Dr. Don Easterbrook
said the shifting of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation. That's PDO
for short, from its warm mode to its cool mode, virtually assures
global cooling for the next 25 to 30 years. And means the
global warming of the past 30 years is over the announcement
by Yes, the announcement by NASA that the PDO that's the Pacific
Decadal Oscillation has shifted from its warm mode to its cool
mode is right on schedule, as predicted by past climate and
PDO changes and in the some references, and is not an oddity
superimposed upon and masking the predicted severe warming by
the IPCC. This has significant implications for the future, and
indicates that the IPCC climate models were wrong in their
prediction of global temperatures soaring one degree
Fahrenheit per decade for the rest of the century. But that it
doesn't matter. No one else to hear about it, John, it doesn't
matter. Well, I'm blogging it. That to me, no one else will
hear about it.
Being so the link, it's kidding me. Oh, of course. When did that
come out? These guys are just unbelievable.
11 December 7, actually, is when this came out
came out December 7, and that we haven't and it hasn't been. I
didn't I didn't catch
it until last fall. But this is this whole shifting of the poles
and the solar winds and the diminishing of the magnetism of
the poles. All of this goes back to 2002. So this is before Al
Gore's Inconvenient Truth at NASA and, and other scientists
were saying oh, this will change the climate. It could make it
warmer or cooler. You know, but they were literally saying it's
that that is the cause not manmade it's it's all over the
news now. It's it's mainstream publications just now. It's no
one's doing anything with it. Yeah, maybe but we're still all
gonna die if we don't stop our cows from farting and stop
generating dollars from the ocean. Stop eating meat. Yeah,
that's basically where it boils down to stop eating meat.
Because there are animals I mean, this is people of course,
are anthropomorphize the, you know, the all animals from my
wife has it there is because there was too many Disney
cartoons with all these talking animals.
Usually sounding a lot like Eddie Murphy. Or they sound like
this sometimes. I'll speaking of Mimi has as she mentioned,
because she's an earthquake, not right she She tracks the USGS
website or US GCS, whatever it is.
cuz he hasn't said anything to me about the Yellowstone thing,
which
is what you're gonna bring. That's exactly what's gonna
bring up. Yeah, nothing at all. No, I don't know why, for those
of you
that think she's just finished her spice book, which I'm in the
process of editing.
She's a Spice Girl now. Well,
you should tell her that it's hilarious. I never thought
that's a good joke. So, anyway, so the spice book is done. So
we'll get that out in the next. Hopefully, so
people are being are being warned to not go to Yellowstone.
Oh, but it was that bad. Yeah,
they've they have about 100 earthquakes a day now at
Yellowstone.
Yeah, I heard that. And trim blurs. That's not good. Now
that's extremely bad. Yellowstone is one of the great
giant calderas. I mean, it's it's the size of Krakatoa. And
it's one of the three or four biggest Krakatoa they go off. We
have serious issues. Yeah,
I mean, this could go all the way to the from go up to Mount
St. Helens. I mean, this thing is huge, right?
It's huge. It's a matter of just about the size of it is about
the quarter of the size of the state of Wyoming. And if it went
off, it would the problem is when it goes off, it's a it's a
mega volcano, which is the kind that ends up you know, killing
like 90% of the life on Earth. Yeah,
because it essentially it's fusion into the atmosphere, the
sun is blocked, and then we all die.
Well, we don't all die. Well. What do you
just you in America?
No, actually, it would probably win if it went off because of
the trade winds it would blow most of the crap to the east.
And people on the extreme west coast would have a something of
a chance but probably not much of one because I think the
southern hemisphere if I'm not mistaken, doesn't the mix is
such that you could probably might be able to move to Brazil
and eke out a living during the food riots.
Exactly. Anyway, this
wouldn't be a good thing. There's a correction is there
is there any mainstream reporting on that in the States
or is this another one of these
get crops up but it's not like anybody's you know, it's not
like the the Art Bell, you know, overnight, do whatever that
shows called the overnight whatever it is, you know, they
have all these crackpots on. It's not as though it's picked
up. I mean, that group is into it. You know, there's this group
of worrywarts. The general public had think is oblivious,
oblivious, oblivious for the fact that you know, we don't
have an educated population anymore. And they don't, they
can't keep up with anything except, you know, I'm sure John
Travolta's. Yeah, the John Travolta, everyone, and that's
about it.
Exactly. And so another thing that happened that I also looked
into which became very interesting to me, is the leap
second break at breaking the 30 gigabyte Zune mp3 players. And
it's not so much about the about Microsoft and Zune and all that
and you know, whatever is just the you know, that was a an
unanticipated programming mistake. What was interesting is
how these leap seconds came to be. The US Navy started this in
1972. And the reason why is to compensate for the irregular
rotation of the Earth to keep you know, Earth time or solar
time, I guess we call it in sync with atomic time, but it's willy
nilly. So the last time they did it was 2005. They didn't expect
to insert a leap second until 2010. So they just said oh, we
should do it this year based upon I guess, you know,
someone's sitting there looking at the Earth rotation counting
it out. But this just goes to show when you fuck with time,
man, you can screw up a lot of shit in the world and this time
it was
just a man how well what is illipe second got to do with
breaking the Zune up
because on December 31 It had one more day to go. And based
upon the internal clock, I guess it it has some kind of clock
that is
synced on them. This is not working for that micro
This is what Microsoft themselves posted. They said
this is what had their excuse. I believe that yeah, because
basically you get an extra second and so it didn't know
what to do on the rollover and that's why it happened the
minute it saw that this next day would have you know whatever the
equivalent is of 24 hours plus one second in seconds and that
that basically put it into an infinite loop on on boot up, but
I don't care I mean people have the Zune should be shot anyway,
of what I'm what I'm interested
in the quality of the Zune sound is better than the iPod Yeah,
whatever.
But this this messing around with this same thing with
daylight savings time it bugs me, it bugs me that word that
we're doing this stuff it had there's no energy efficiency.
It's you know, that's all offset by air conditioning in the
summer and you know extra heating in winter. It's all it's
there's got to be some evil scheme behind this time change
and adding leap seconds it just it just doesn't sit right with
me. All right, don't you? Don't you? Don't you have any
information on that did once you were a time ologists at one
point in your career?
I was never a time ologists I've always wanted to be
I
trying to find something I here's the Yellowstone Visitor
Centre. There's nothing here about anything.
Now there's a web page, I have a web page for you. Where is it?
That says that they don't want people going there? I think
now's the time to go. There's nothing more thrilling their
little shakers?
Well, right now they have volcano alert level normal
activation colour code green. But that was an update from
yesterday. It's volcano. That's the USGS USGS site.
I just don't think it's a good idea to go.
No, I think it's now's the time to like well, JIRA tickets it
for why here's here. Here's the reason, the place is always
crowded. Everyone's going to be scared off. So the place will be
really dead empty, which is great.
I doubt it. I think there's a lot of people who are going to
go exactly for the reason you just outlined.
Well, I could be wrong. But generally speaking, I think
people are more, you know, now you I mean, it sounds, it sounds
good on paper what you said, but the fact of the matter is, most
people were very skittish. I was watching this thing on 60
minutes, a couple of weeks ago, there's the word show that had
the explanation of the TSA and the guard heads at TSA. And the
guy just he just don't worry, you know, he's just worrying,
oh, they're out to kill us or want to kill us. We're at war.
And I'm thinking where would you know, where's the? What kind of
a war is this? I mean, we say they killed a bunch of people,
you know, a decade ago. And then now we're, you know, waiting for
me, this is a very poorly. You know, this is not this is not
like you're losing millions of people during the World War Two.
I mean, this is building with these kids, you see, there seems
to be a level of fear. That is a hand wringing, you don't think
of developers think? So they've got a bunch of hand ringers that
are frayed of their own shadow. This is the you know, the
Americans that used to be the, you know, the leaders. And now
they're all frightened. And so I don't think they would be going
to Yellowstone. I think most people weren't I mean, it'd be
Oh, it's
not terrorism. We're fearless. We're very afraid.
I think I think we're completely afraid of everything now. Global
warming? Everybody's you know, afraid of that. That's not
It's not that's the No, it's not the afraid part. It's a it's a
part of being politically correct. And caring about the
Earth and doing your part. That's what that's about is
nothing. No one is afraid of, of the earth burning up. They don't
give a shit. They know it's not going to happen for another,
maybe I'm thinking 100 years
moved to Berkeley.
Now I'm thinking I don't.
But I hear what you're saying anything that here's a funny
thing that I ran into the other day. I mean, I was actually
stunned. I'm listening to the radio. And there's an ad for the
CIA. I've heard this. Yeah, they go on and on about to CIA and
had the guy with the kind of a deep kind of a voice that
couldn't identify it was I think the voice was tuned with one of
those little things, you know that you can just be were sounds
with a guy going, you too could be a useful member of the
Central Intelligence Agency in clandestine intelligence
gathering. And in this, I think it was the word they use
clandestine intelligence gathering. And then they should
go to cia.gov/jobs are taken by the CIA. The CIA is generally as
a recruiting company, they go to colleges and they find kids with
you know, high grade point averages and they make them
offers that they can't refuse. Yeah. And here comes you know,
Gina Smith, she was offered a job at the CIA,
hold on a second hair combs
some of our bugs and then well, real bugs. Is this the one? Now,
at the CIA, now our scientists and engineers create and apply
innovative technology to meet intelligence needs.
Joined technologies so advanced kids classified US citizenship
requires US citizenship required boy reporting. Have enough is
not
the one I was. That's the that's actually better than a TV
ad actually. Well, that's
a TV and oh my god anyway, so I can't believe they're doing this
because it's besides is like so secret agency. And then by the
way they did all that if you want to get if anybody out there
wants to get involved with their high tech stuff, find trying to
find a job with the NSA, at least you want to be with
computers. Anyway, No Such Agency is called amongst the
people don't want to have their phone tapped. I'm thinking it's
a honeypot. The suck people in? Yeah, just to see what's kind of
screwballs and you know, I mean, because you for one thing if
you're like a terrorist, the first thing you'd want to do is
get to get a job get a job with the
CIA. Absolutely. Yeah. Did you did you read about the the
reporter who took on it so she firstly printed out a fake
boarding pass at home on her computer, and you can do that.
And then she had three bottles which he put in her little
plastic baggie. Each bottle was you know, 100 millilitres, one
contain charcoal, one contains sulphur and one contain
saltpetre. And each bottle was labelled as charcoal sulphur St.
saltpetre. Put them as she actually she says that she
completely drenched and made them wet because you know, just
to really make sure nothing could happen because those three
elements people is the is gunpowder. And took them
through, you know, put her back through TSA, a little baggie
with everything clearly labelled she even put the labels out so
they could read them. They didn't look at that. But they
were very, very concerned with the pan flute that she had in
her luggage.
Pan flute I would be. And then already with a pan flute is
suspicious. So
she got through the fake boarding pass with all the
elements for gunpowder and get this is the kicker they swapped
her bag with one of those white little discs and it was
negative.
Well, I think they're like I don't know what that load disk
is looking for. But I suspect there's specific things and one
I'd like ammonia if she had been carrying ammonium nitrate, she
may have been busted. I mean, that seems to be something more
likely to be caught. As has more potential. I mean, it made to
mix Gunpowder by yourself. It's like it's a hole. I believe it
was used to be a chemist when I was a kid. You know, I used to
do all these things until I was when I went to University of
California and I was in chemistry that was warned away
from it. But from one of my professors who said look, I can
name 1000 guys with one finger missing because of the stupidity
of doing some of this stuff. And so I wouldn't you know, you go
work for a dynamite company and learn how to do it right. But
still the the bicoid make gunpowder work. Well, Kirk Kirk
was able to do it. Captain Kirk.
Yeah, well, yeah, I would just do it with the with that thing
going after him. Yeah, Captain Kirk.
Yeah, with the didn't use like bird poop or something.
I herself murmur. But it was a stupidest thing I've ever seen.
So I was likelihood of getting it to fire with by clicking on
some Flint, zero.
Okay, but still, you get the point?
Yeah, no, I get the point. I you know, the problem I have with it
is that every time somebody pulls a stunt like this, then
they just crack crack down on everybody. So I'm inconveniences
as all I think we know that the TSA in the rest of this is kind
of a sham. And the whole thing is just for show. So why do you
do this? I mean, I condemn this woman.
Interesting. Take. Good point, actually. Now I think about it.
Well, I guess the thing, that's the only instead of really doing
some writing and really making some real trouble where it
matters, to stop the idiocy that is the multibillion dollar TSA,
that's what he chooses to use as a weapon and
they end up giving you even more money. So the CIA,
the CIA has a kid's page. John, welcome. We're glad you're here
to learn more about the Central Intelligence Agency.
And then it should say wait, while we instal this trojan
horse on your computer. 10 Nine, eight Fine, now you can
continue.
This is pretty amazing. Unbelievable. So you're ready to
learn more about the CIA? Hmm. Let's see games. Have games.
puzzles were break the code, aerial analysis challenge.
Oh, these are this reminds me of the movie Last Starfighter. So
the kids go on this site, and then they crack the code and
then they give them another second level and the third and
indeed by the fourth level it the kid cracks the code within a
certain amount of time so I'm not going to hire you for the
rest to their lives man
that's pretty that is just frightening isn't it?
Yeah, somebody's got to do some of that. I think they I don't
know I don't know if they're if they we need a better CIA or
worse I'm not sure.
I'm trying to find the radio commercial that you heard but
I'm not. It
wasn't videos audio.
Yeah radio two I said the radio commercial. Or they said video
sorry, I meant radio commercial. You'd think that someone that
have that around? Oh, well.
They're talking about clandestine which is like, what
does that mean? Well, I know that there's covert that's, you
know that they apparently are not seeking anybody to go in and
murder people.
No, but what I've seen them do is is particularly with kids is
they can send you a little kit and you you're supposed to be an
environmentalist, undercover agent and if you see your
parents doing something that is not green, then you didn't you
know, you have to bust them and then you know, you should report
the you have to torture them. Water waterboard your parents
disgusting it really is. Farmers? You got some I got
plenty of stuff. You tell me if he was
just gonna go on with a jet. I never finished the genus Smith
story.
Oh, sorry. Okay.
So she apparently those who graduated from college and they
you know, by the way, I've brought the store with different
people in there. That's bull. And then it was my fair warning
some that somebody may was you said that's bully used to do the
end of May it wasn't you and they said they used to do that
though. Always like that. They used they don't do it anymore.
So the thing was, Gina was supposed to the CIA was gonna
place her in a high paying reporters job at a newspaper.
Oh, yeah. So she would just be writing whatever they wanted her
to write.
Yeah, every once in a while they needed to do some
disinformation. Or some, you know, they need to feed
something and then you know, she would write it up. And that
would be That's all she into maybe once every six months or
who knows. But she'd be on the payroll the whole time. And then
she'd come in. And this is the kind of thing of course, I think
you can identify. If you're smart reader, you can find you
can see these kinds of planted stories that you know, that's
like some of the like, the my favourite example is the
confessions of the economic hitman. If you don't mean you
can read the book or not read the book. But what you want to
go do is look at the reviews. That blasted the book. Right?
And I found this one guy, I can't remember who it was. But
he's, I think he's with the Boston Globe or the worst
impulses, maybe Washington Post. And he blasted the book is bull.
And he went on, but if you then when you see that guy, then you
back to you click on all his articles.
And it's all the same, right? And then you say, the same
apologetic Malarkey, that is like, Oh, this is interesting.
And then you so then if you can reverse engineer the whole
process, and figure out who these guys are the Stooges. You
can read their material to see exactly what the Litany is. And
you're what's what's the what's the memo for the day was the
talk I was supposed to be thinking, what's the right way
of thinking about things?
Well, so you can actually see that right now. You'll see very
few journalists really, really, really condemning Israel, for
their part in the conflict in the Gaza. And then from time to
time, you'll see one that really sticks out and really defends
Israel. And you've got to believe that that's all I mean,
that just doesn't make any sense. You can't defend either
side of that.
Right? So yeah, I know you can fight you can this you can spot
these guys. But what I recommend people do who want to be smart
readers, is that when when somebody when somebody sticks
out like a sore thumb, look at their past work. This is kind of
like using Yelp. In real time. Yes, like a giant you know, Yelp
is interesting as a reviewer site and people around the right
and
then and then you look at the reviewers and see what what
their other reviews are for other things.
Right. So you say you've got you know, Cynthia here who likes or
dislikes this restaurant you think you're going to you're
gonna go to and you click on all of our reviews, and then you can
see if you're in agreement with her on the stuff that you have
common and you know, where there's common knowledge. In
other words, I've been to this restaurant already. What is she
and I liked it and she hates hates it. I'm thinking, well,
this woman is not in agreement with me. So I'm not going to
take her advice. And so you'd find another reviewer who's in
total agreement with everything the way you think in terms of
taste for restaurants. And so you you can sell okay, then she
liked this new place, I will go there. That's you can do that in
the real In real time now that we're on the net with all this
information because these writers, their stuff is all
archived. I mean, you can go to market watch, for example, and
you can read my stuff for the last four years.
And then quickly never read another article because like,
this guy always does the same thing. We don't want to
report. That's the problem. But except for that,
would you mind breaking something down for me, John, I
see you not responded to the three times have now brought up
Gaza. How did that what was going on there? What exactly is
the problem? Why is this?
I think the Israeli I have just for some reason, I haven't
followed this closely by except for the fact that the way it's
portrayed is the Israelis are sick and tired of having these
missiles lobbed into their country constantly. As a as a
terrorist mechanism is kind of like the buzz bombs over London.
You know, they didn't do as much damage as you know, the Israelis
ended up doing right well,
these are these like firemen. He's like bottle rockets are
sending off. I mean, I'm not saying that they don't cause
destruction, but it's nothing compared
to well, they keep doing it. And they won't stop. Right. But why
are they doing
it? That's what I always say, Well, what's, why did they want
to do that? If
people think they're doing it is because you know, hot, the whole
thing is funded by Iran to get the attention away from other
issues in the Middle East. Let's
break it down a little bit further. What is the history of
the Gaza Strip?
Well, the history of the Gaza Strip has always been an area of
of the problem of the Gaza Strip is too close. It's it's in a
situation where you can easily attack Israel. And so the
Israelis had to take it over some years ago. And they have
now
because they wish it was originally not designated as
Israel doesn't resolve stem from after the Second World War,
didn't the Brits draw up these lines and said, Here you go.
The Brits are responsible for the whole thing.
Would you mind just filling me in just so I have the
story? I don't know the history that well. I mean, there
are people that are a travesty, we should know the history.
We know the history that after World War Two, they had their
you know, they had to put all these Jewish refugees someplace
and they this and they wanted to have their own country and they
wanted to go back to Jerusalem. And so as the spoils of war,
which is not uncommon, because the Arabs in that whole group
were on the sides of the Nazis, we could have taken over the
whole place. We took this last chunk and gave it to the the
Jews and they've been pissed off ever since the other people when
in fact, we could have taken over the entire Middle East.
That's the time they've taken over the oil fields. They I
mean, there was there were there were essentially the the enemy.
Right. So that's, you know, basically where it starts.
Well, it's pretty messed up. But I can see, I can see both sides,
you know, I of course, lobbing missiles is not acceptable. But
there's so much going on there, man. It's just that whole
area has been perpetually screwed up. And even before they
they World War Two, I mean, it's never been a good area. I mean,
it's always been nutty.
So you'd expect the office of the president elect to at least
say something which he refused doesn't
know what to do, you see, befuddled?
He's too busy. He's extending everybody's employment
agreement.
No, he's too busy was making arrangements for this big party
he's gonna have there's gonna be a party administration. I mean,
that's going to make Kennedy's look like a joke. I mean, we're
starting off already with this giant party of his inauguration,
which is going to be a you know, this is going to be worse than
anything we ever done in Nazi Germany. I mean, people are just
flocking to go there. And and they're going to be a massive,
it's going to be like 2 million people live. I mean, hopefully,
you know, they're asking for trouble in one of these
situations, there's a riot breaks out or something weird
happens, but let's just say that nothing does. And then we go
from there to the inauguration balls of plural are all like now
it's like a big deal to be in this one or that one. And
there's all the you know, there's gonna be more chit chat
about these balls and who saw who and who's in and who's out
and who's on the Obama a list and who's on the B list and what
can you do to get from the C list to the B list and then this
has never been a this is going to just continue throughout his
administration is just kind of weird, you know, kind of social
craziness
It seems like you've got to get right he's just going to shut up
until the inauguration and then
yeah, and then it's going to be just a bunch of you know, I
think he's it's going to be a lot of empty phraseology, you
know, he's going to come out or do to do a doe doo doo, doo doo
doo Ron Ron to do Ron Ron Ron.
It's gonna be just a lot of you know, he's gonna Next continue
to watch pay what's worked for him in the past campaign
speeches he's going to keep giving them is going to be it's
going to be an endless campaign speech. We've got to change the
problem you know we've got to bada bada ba you know and it's
through Ron
Ron to do Ron Ron it's never
gonna be nothing you're gonna get it's gonna be a do nothing
administration you got no money
Oh, he's gonna print he's gonna print up a trillion. That's the
key if it's a feel good administration I think is going
to give the market stock market a boost and people get back to
work. You know, that buys me No, no
one's gonna get back to work. You kidding me?
There's no jobs. But the but you'll feel good about you know,
this guy is great. I like that about me guy.
Yeah, yeah, at least he's he's trying to change some.
He's changing and he's hoping,
changing and hoping and hoping and changing about it. Savings
accounts, now get 0.1% interest in the United Kingdom the
interest the interest is now interest is now lower than is
now lower than inflation.
That's no, what can I say?
And and the bank you know, a lot of people have a tracker
mortgages. They have that in the states tracker mortgages. I
never heard of it. Oh, in the United Kingdom. And a lot of
people in the lower housing have them. So it tracks to as an
example LIBOR, the London Interbank overnight rate. Oh,
that's
call it that's an adjustable we call Okay. Well, here
they call it a tracker. And of course, those people's mortgages
have been going down. Because they
try. We that's what we've had. We've had adjustable the whole
time. It's just the laughably bad goal, let's refinance and
then they get fixed and it still keeps going down. I'm thinking,
you know, it's never gonna stop going down.
Well, it it stops now, because the banks in the United Kingdom
have said, Oh, those of you with, with tracker mortgages.
This is it. It's not going any lower. Even if the rate goes
down, your your mortgage will not go
down. Well, that's not what it says in the contracts. It's not
going to work here. But they're forcing that that absolutely
force whatever they want. They're gonna get their ass
suit. And if it isn't in the United States, they pull a stunt
like that. We don't put up with that crap you guys put up with?
Oh, you mean like outsourcing the big email, telephone trap
database to a private company. You mean stuff like that?
Yeah. Stuff like that. We don't put up with it.
What is the world coming to? Why did people you know, I was
talking to movers. So we would this move we had like 15 Guys,
you know, around us for a total of four or five days. It packing
moving in,
unpack a talk like this?
Yeah. Well, they're all They're all like cockney guys, and one
or two from the north. And I asked them all kind of the same
question. I said, Hey, you know, when he when you guys just
stopped taking it up the ass? And they say, Well, you know,
we're getting pretty close here. So what you tell me that I'm
going to see pitchforks and torches in the streets. He said,
you know, angry mob. So the guy said is that I believe within a
year that's going to happen. And he said, I'm taking all the
lorries up to Whitehall. So I'm gonna go block the shit off. So
it's brewing. There's something going on there. The French would
have done it a year ago. Yeah, the apple. The French did do it
a year ago. And the year before and the year before that.
Yeah, all the good is done. But at least they feel good about
it. And people always know that the French can, you know, screw
up the whole place really fast.
Hey, would you like to know the top chateaux? nerfs. From 2007.
To top shutting of Depop Yeah. Why?
Because they're announced in the Financial Times.
Oh, by Jancis.
Yeah, Jancis Robinson. Yeah. He's no good. She's no good. No,
she's
outstanding. She's a little fool of herself. But she's got a good
palate, more or less. I mean, she's not I don't think she's a
She's more of a book writer than she is, you know, professional
tastes are looking at her. She'd become the big expert because
she had his best selling killer book. By the way, the insect
that thinks Encyclopaedia of wines or something like that's a
big Oxford Press thing. It's everyone should own a copy. And
so there's my plug for her.
She has the perfect face for radio.
She's a she's a British looking woman.
She's pretty harsh.
Girl, and lively. She's in she's smart, and she's academic and
she knows her stuff but I don't know that her wine palette per
se is as good as some of the bad to be honest, but it's not as
good as some of those real pros out there and but she does you
know, get things that plug things like Schatten of the pop
which is become an overpriced, trendy wine. It's
Well, here's what she's plugging. She's plugging
parents. I'm
sure it's overpriced. Well,
there's no there's no prices. Taryn Omar Jacques Perrin. Yeah
Chateau de Bo Castel
Yeah well that's that's such that's a standard step on video.
Yeah, I've never heard of
them do more closed a closed a pop of course. Dome la barouche
lob rush don de la Siobhan yeah
yeah okay whatever I don't like talking about wine it's just the
you know list of shots and if the Pops is not the most
interesting thing in the world
oh man I can't wait until you come over here
I think it's because Parker picked up on it cuz he was like,
you know trying to get some more market share. So he got had one
of his minions you know, get into shet and have to pop and
start ranking them now you see these Schatten at the Pops for
for the $100 is ridiculous. And they you know, they don't know.
There's just not I said, I think it's an overrated one. I like
them by the way. I think they're really tasty but there's a
sameness to them that doesn't make them that interesting and
I'm sure someone's goal that's a bowl. Now there is there's a
sameness I mean, there's the old tastes like that the tastes very
similar. It tastes like Chateauneuf Du Papa, which is
supposed to but I mean, there's but the variation between the 95
point $150 Chateau neuf Depop and $24 Schatten have to pause
minimal right? It's not profound right?
Hey, I'm coming out at the end of the month dude, so you better
line something up.
So I went to che Spencer the other day, I was sorely
disappointed. No, surely you just know I think they lost
their chef or something because I mean, this wasn't anything
like me. This is like what are you doing? So that's off the
list. Really? Wow. Yeah, very very much have a you ask them
did you inquire what what was one of the girls that works
there also works at free gall. When I'm over free ngala
probably grill her. She says for in Gaul has a new chef. That's
that may have stabilised a cuisine those who have to go
check it out. You know, they've gone through a bunch of guys who
have to go back Well, I'm going
to be out for was it four or five days? Maybe so we should
probably try a couple different places. Yeah, we should Well,
let's plan at least two dinners because it'll be a while before
I'm back.
All right, and there's probably a couple play Oh yeah. You know
what's happening now in San Francisco is these there's a
bunch of these I don't know where they got this one from but
I think there's at least three of them. Extremely trendy,
Peruvian restaurants, high tech New York style decor you know
some sort of suppose it Peruvian cuisine I've been to Peru I
don't know what they're talking about. But the it but they're
extremely very talented guys. You know they're super chefs
from Peru that have been trained in Paris or something like that.
So we should probably get two of those so we can be at do it
thematic thing with this Peruvian thing going what is the
tradition
typical traditional Peruvian dish? Well, as far as
I can tell, when I was in Peru, I mean that was taken to what
the Peruvians really eat. But if you go into the mountains, we go
to the the middle of nowhere that you know the peaks of the
Andes and go to some villages, you know, they they eat a very
pretty moderate meal of you know, just you know, meat and
potatoes literally, I mean, they have 10,000 kinds of potatoes
they grow sweet potatoes came from. So it's a lot of potatoes.
If there's not a lot of potatoes in the dish, then you know, it's
not Peruvian. But there's a thing that I ran into that they
said oh, this is what the Peruvians liked the best is my
guy taking me around. And it's the thing called chief ah, and
it's ch AI f A, and you look at it, and if you just squint your
eyes a little bit, it says China, and it is in a font that
is always that kind of, you know, that Chinatown font, you
know, if he's a tiny, tiny town font,
so it's an audible font clearly. So
it's a Chinatown finance and the food and you go any habit. It's
just kind of a some sort of faux Chinese food Chihuahua. And it
is for what I could tell it's almost a dead on copy of a much
Meteor version with potatoes often, which you don't get in
China Chinese food ever. But of Chow Chop Suey, which was an
invention.
I thought Chop Suey was an American invention. Yeah. So I'm
saying it's
an invention from America. But it seems to me that the idea
that somehow Chop Suey developed independently in Peru from the
whatever the Chinese food was because you know, chop suey
evolved, I believe. I mean, if you think about it logically and
I and it's hard to get the history of chop suey. But Chop
Suey, I think evolved when Chinese from the 1860s came
over. her to build the railroads. And they brought
their cuisine with them. And at some point, they couldn't get
the ingredients. I mean, they you know, we didn't grow any of
this stuff. So they kind of a mock Chinese dish evolved, I
think in California, and it became known as Chop Suey and I
can make chop so I know exactly how it would because I used to
have when I was a kid. And it's always amusing. I think I've
made Chop Suey two or three times over the last 10 years for
the family as a joke and all we're having Chop Suey and and
everyone you
know chop suey.
It's not It's very tasty. It's not like a bad it's not bad. But
it's not something you'd ever have in China. You just couldn't
find it there so so anyway, so this chief is was was I had I go
this is chop suey For God's sake, and these Peruvians are
loving it. So I don't know what that what these restaurants are
about, but it's obviously not about shifa.
You are familiar with celebrity chef Jamie Oliver.
Yeah. Yeah, it used to be a busboy turn chef,
and not very successful chef. Huge a while ago he can and he's
come back with a retort. Why bring it up? He gets said the
British people are drunks with diets worse than those found in
the poorest slums of Soweto. Soweto.
Yeah. And so what was wrong with that?
Are you kidding me? People went apeshit and is retarded. The
people I'm telling you about have huge TV sets a lot bigger
than mine. They have state of the art mobile phones, cars,
they go and get drunk in pubs the weekend their poverty shows
in the way they feed themselves. I found the cooking of the
inhabitants of the slum and survey toe in South Africa a lot
more diverse than ours. It's true. I'm going to be harsh, but
I think a lot of English people's food lacks heart. It's
bland. Spot on. Yeah, he knew you know,
I've never heard that about British food being bland. Hmm. I
mean, going down.
We got a great restaurant around the corner. He in fact has a
number of very, very good restaurants. And we went to a
place called Grafton house last night is in walking distance.
Fantastic, beautiful place. You know, really? It's new,
right? Is it ranked in the Michelin book? Is it who's owns
it? Who's the owner because it's about a five or six of these
superstar you know, find out? Find out what's his name? Gordon
Ramsay. Ramsay Gordon Ramsay type operation. You know, Gordon
Ramsay is in deep shit. You certainly you've heard about
that, right?
No, I know nothing.
Oh. Turns out he was cheating on his wife with another woman for
five years. Oh, that's bad times. He's being ripped apart
because you know, you know how he is Mr. Family Man. I'm
working so hard and I'm saving a saving the restaurant industry
restaurant by restaurant. So the papers just love this. And
definitely yeah, the
papers there picture evidence, because he's so full of himself.
And he's like, you know, the big shot, you know, and he's asking
everybody out for being a dud. Yeah, we're we're being you
know, bad person or whatever
this is. This is show business people. This is how it works.
You know, you go up, you go down. It's a roller coaster.
That's just the way you stay in it long enough. You're gonna get
slammed down and then if you can hang in long enough down at the
bottom, you can move back up. That's the way it works.
Celebrity Big Brother has started again, John. Great.
Would you like to know who's in the house? You don't have to
watch it. I love watching it because it's Celebrity Big
Brother. I'm very interested in because I want to know what
Latoya Jackson really is like. And she's in the house because
it's interesting.
So who is in the Big Brother house? Okay. In the Big Brother
house. I had it here
How come? I can't find it? Well, Latoya, Jackson Coolio. Oh, he's
a rapper a couple of girl bands singers. Oh. Minnie knee. Verne
Troyer.
Wow, that's funny. Humour there.
He was already hammered last night.
Yeah, sure.
Have you seen this? Have you heard of his porn tape?
No, I don't even want to think about it. I don't want to ever
see.
I'll bring you a DVD now.
I'll put something else out. I'll say this is this is a
documentary.
You gotta watch. You give it away.
Many me's porn. He had a girlfriend. It was like they
were really in love.
There's a lot of girls that are kinky, but then he cheated on
her. Let's see x sugar baby mootai buena. Sounds like a real
name to me. Tina Malone best known for playing Moe and
Brookside Oh, that's a UK show. Ben Adams of the boy band A one.
A coolie? Of course Gangster's paradise. Lucy Pender, a
conservatory. Conservative supported model who hates quote
bleeding heart liberals. I'll be interesting.
Oh yeah, that would be fun.
But Latoya Jackson is just fascinating to look at her face.
Just I can look at it for hours like man, how did she What did
she do to it? And knows is all like chopped and reshaped and
just I love it.
Okay, out loud. She she definitely is would would
Michael wanted to do but I guess they use different doctors.
And I think he has a whole host of doctors that he's used. And
you know, the news.
Did you hear the story that he's like, down and out and broke?
I don't buy that. I don't buy that at all doesn't make sense.
No, I don't I don't buy that. He's, you know, look, he
definitely has issues. But I also think, but if you have he
was in Dubai for a number of years and he's all around. And
yeah, he's like, guess what, it's normal guy. He goes to
normal places and stays with normal people which and then
he's always under the always living in a piece of shit house
and I don't know, I mean, just just on royalties alone of the
stuff that he's done. You know, ASCAP, BMI, the guy that he'll
never have to work a day in his life ever again. And I think if
you have such a huge financial empire, and you know stuff like
the Neverland ranch house, like fucking, you know, I gotta, I
gotta deal with that. I gotta, you know, whatever the mortgage
is due or whatever the issue is, you know, people turn that into,
into weird stories.
On the other hand, I heard Marla Maples is just living in some
apartment in Phoenix.
Yes. And she shacked up with Fergie. Was that right? No, but
I put her at the same level.
Something like that. A formula for Fergie. The net? Fergie, the
singer, you don't
know. And Fergie, Fergie, the formerly known as the Duchess of
York,
where she now she was doing what she did Jenny Craig for a while.
Yeah, that didn't work out shows you there was
a very successful documentary that they did here on Channel
Four, I think or maybe was ITV and it was, it was like a
reality show of her at home. And was off the scale seven, 8
million viewers, which is big for the UK. So I'm sure she got
the issue, just doing gigs getting money getting paid.
When I first saw when she first came over to the states to like,
settle in, she still had that British upper class kind of air.
Yeah. Which is a disdainful, kind of understated, quality,
hard to put your finger on. That mean, you're gonna identify if
you know what to look for, but it's, you know, people probably
push I would think she put people off. And I wonder if
that's changing at all, because even even I even saw it coming
through when she was doing the Jenny Craig thing.
I don't think people care. Maybe not that don't
maybe she'll back off of it. I mean, it's just like this style
of, of interpersonal, I
think I think people don't just don't care about her. It's like,
Oh, whatever. Oh,
yeah. No, I said, Well, that's probably true. I have two more.
Two more things. I just want to touch on briefly with you. The
big news here that no one, of course is really talking about
is Russia has once again they do it every winter, turned off the
supply of gas to the Ukraine. So the minute it goes below
freezing.
Every winter, we must do this. Yes. Like,
oh, let's mess with those people again. Now, of course. All of
Europe's gas that comes from Russia, flows through the
Ukraine through that pipeline. And already, I've read reports
that there's 25% Less coming in. So it's going to send prices
skyrocketing Europe is you know, rightly so I think worried about
about these events, because, you know, we're pretty dependent
upon what comes out of Russia to heat the homes in the winter.
Well, that's what happens when you create a dependency
relationship. And
and I thought that senators were elected. That's pretty stupid. I
guess.
They are elected.
Well, then how does it How come? Not only Obama's Senate seat is
being given away and why is Hillary's Senate seat being
given away? Don't those people have to be elected who come in
white? Why does the mayor or governor whoever does
convenience of the states, the states have control over those
seats and they create, they're the ones who set up the
elections and if there's a situation where they don't have
representation, they don't have time for an election that
Governor can appointed senator and give something to Congress.
Through DMS all the time.
Well, that sucks.
Why does it suck? Do you have to reelect the guy? Although the PA
knows,
maybe there's a lizard? Does New York really need Caroline
Kennedy as the as senator?
I don't get the Caroline Kennedy thing either. Oh, I do. All
right, tell me
Oh, if she of course, she was a bigger dingbat, Obama sock up if
she wants, she's going to have front row seat at the at the
inauguration and she'll be at all the right balls. And she of
course lobbied that Ted would show up and, and endorse Obama.
And also could be a quid pro quo that your total
quid pro quo in fact, Bloomberg, Michael Bloomberg said, the idea
that we would pass up appointing someone to the Senate who was
both a friend and a critical supporter of Barack Obama is
political malpractice.
Yeah, I heard that. I did. Bloomberg is an asshole. Ash
well, he got himself extended did me
Yeah, choose he did he screwed the public was unbelievable.
It's hilarious. Actually. You know, it's almost like Lucy and
the football. What did he do? What How did you screw the pub
like cracked out? He said immediately, we'll get back into
it. He's gonna raise taxes, he's gonna do this, you're gonna do
that. He's gonna just, you know, stick it to him, after you know,
making all these kind of vague promises that he wasn't gonna do
anything like that. Oh, he died. The state of New York is in
serious, serious, serious trouble. They're gonna go broke.
They're at new taxes, I think in New York at
you know, they think a lot of people don't realise it all live
in New York, is the fact that there's like a there's an income
tax. The city has an income tax state has an income tax, and the
federal government has an income tax. So you're taxed three times
now, if you live in Manhattan. And when I moved, and I think
that by the way, that that state city income tax is pretty high.
I'm not sure what it is. But I'm sure someone could tell us. But
it's, you know, it's non trivial.
After we moved back from, from the States, I had a mailing
address with an assistant that I used to work with, and she lives
in New York. So I just used her New York mailing address for
stuff. And I got a $2 million dollar tax bill from the city of
New York said, Hey, you owe us $2 million. Pay Now and then
we'll assess how much it was later on. You know, that was a
tough little nut to crack that because those guys are serious.
And they got guns. Yeah. And it was, it was very difficult to
get them off your back and to say, well, this, I never
actually lived there. Well prove it. And by the way, pay us the 2
million now.
Yeah, well, that scam is a total scam. You don't have you know,
tell them to screw themselves. You're not paying them anything.
Oh, they have they have enormous powers, John, they can stock
your pay. They can do all kinds of stuff.
They can't dock your pay or in England. If it's leaving
the United States it can.
It's coming from California. I don't see how they can attach
it. I think it'd be a lot of trouble. There's some I don't
think it's easy. But whatever the case is you got out of it.
Yeah, no, I got out of it. Yeah. After 10 $15,000 in legal fees.
Sure. That's the whole scam right there.
That's disgusting.
Oh, what happens although it always seems to happen with me.
I'm on the list.
Horowitz thinks that we should use people should consider
shorting municipal bonds from New York.
Oh, hell yeah. How about all the minute municipal bond market?
This advice is too late actually, because it just
collapsed. In I think they the
wasn't given yesterday. It was some time ago.
Okay, well, no. But yesterday or the day before I read on
Bloomberg that the the muni bonds had collapsed. They were
down like 12% or some outrageous number, which is big in bond
length.
That's ridiculous. To me. Bonds are supposed to be the best
stable savers. But they haven't been a stable or a good form of
investment for that since I was a kid. Yeah.
Not anymore. So here's what New York will do. And I Forbes wrote
about this actually bring up that article. States consider
selling off roads and parks. Minnesota has deepened the whole
pay for this with taxpayers money now you're going to sell
it this summer. Check it out, dude. Check it out Minnesota.
The state still owns a premier Golf Resort, a sprawling Amateur
Sports Complex, a big airport, a major Zoo, and landholdings the
size of the Central American country of Belize and their cell
Not at all it's for sale. Come on in. Well, maybe
they shouldn't have owned it in the first place.
I don't know the Tappan Zee Bridge, the Tappan Zee Bridge.
That's outrageous.
So you buy the bridge and put up a tollbooth, you can literally
saying the feudal times.
You can literally say, I got a bridge for you. I got to bridge
that bridge bridge. So you buy the bridge, you put up a toll
booth, you charge five bucks, I had to go across it. You don't
have to pay me you can go around.
Here. Democratic Governor David Paterson appointed a commission
to look into leasing states to state assets in New York,
including the Tappan Zee Bridge. The lottery while the lottery is
always a good one, golf courses, toll roads, parks by the mob and
beaches recommendations expected next month. This is crazy.
Well, they're selling off the whole state.
Why count is better? Yeah. Why don't we just sell the whole
thing in one go? Can we just bundle it up? sell to the Arabs?
Yeah, make the money have some let someone be king of New York.
Let's bring in the Dubai money and buy up New York State and
let them run the place. Let them move over here. Just caught over
there. And the other thing they might as well just take over the
state of New York should be all Arab. Isn't that outrageous?
Isn't that and then they can have the little kind of a Jewish
stronghold? Yeah. Oh, which actually represents the Israel
because it got a similar shape. And so you'd have a you'd have a
recreation for the amusement of everybody of the Middle East
crisis in New York state. So we can watch it locally
and check it out. So and then we have all these cameras around
New York City, and we can do a reality show.
That's what the cameras are good for.
You can just follow random story lines, random people, it will be
pretty cool. So anyway, New York's got problems. But you
know, they're mismanaged. What do you expect? Yeah, they've
used all the pension funds. It's nasty business. Nasty, nasty
business. And you got anything else?
No, I'm, I think we hit most of the important stuff, I think.
Sure. Somebody wrote in and said, Hey, wants to talk about
this. And we didn't do it. What about our we didn't get our
colons?
Well, no, because I have to configure the router. No, I have
to get the voice. Here's here's one crazy thing. With Skype on
the Mac, it may be different on Windows. When you call someone
or you have a call established, then you can toggle the keypad
so you can enter in Donald tones. I mean, see ya toggle
Dialpad, so I could hopefully this won't break anything.
Right? So I can do that on this call. So then if I want to call
into the conference, what do you toggle by the way? What is the
key?
There's a little drop down menu on your call window. It says
more and the down below it says toggle Dialpad. Let me see.
You're on Mac or Windows.
I'm on Windows. Okay, I get more and it says play games Crazy
Talk avatar. I don't have any of that good Chinese checkers
wait. On the way on the window on the window itself.
Where it says more let's play Chinese checkers. Chinese
checkers but they can't obviously dial anything.
But anyway, the crazy thing is if so what I wanted to do was I
wanted to start Wait
a minute, you can send a fax that's I didn't know that
Anyway, go ahead. I'm sorry. No, sorry. I wanted
to see you can't connect to calls together. You can't say
okay, I have call one here call to there. I want to conference
if you have to call it to set up a conference and call both
numbers at the same time, which it does perfectly. So I can call
in call you and I could call into the conference setup.
Except then in the conference setup and say okay, please do
your dial tones for your pass pass code. But there's no toggle
the dial pad at least not on the Mac client so you can't you
can't do it. So that's why I set up a different VoIP client which
as I just said doesn't work. But it's crazy that you can't do
that in Skype
I can't do it all sit by and play chat and he's
so next week, I'll
have a simple Skype Skype or fi Outlook with sky look. Whoo.
Wonder what that is. That was hot.
What can you play Chinese checkers with me? Do I have to
do something?
Let's see. Now this is the Ignite opens up it doesn't open
Chinese checkers it opens up the Skype extras manager and then in
his Chinese checkers. Click to open the plugin. Click to see
all available commands.
You're going to right click on that connection I'm
sure would recommend to a frat? No if I can I think it's gonna
blow up. I don't trust it.
Don't do it. Alright, last one from Canada This isn't my never
ending search to understand carbon credits,
though. So this is so you actually prepared for the show
this I always prepare for the show. Okay, you usually
just don't care about what I have to say.
So would you say
Grow Your Own carbon credits?
Hey, you know this I'm thinking about this. I was talking with
my son Eric. And it was like, who does channel Dvorak by the
way for me and he did channel curry for you. We should
yeah. Oh no and I and I want to thank him last week I forgot
about that. Yeah channel
for you. You got to have to think Baba too, for putting up
the show notes. Yes, it's Charlie says he will not be a
call screener so we can forget that. Channel. curry.com.
Right. Yeah, yeah. So it has it's a cool page. It has all of
my feeds. Let me just get some
other gimmicky wants to do but he has to explain it to you.
Okay. Couple of them actually. Including having your head with
a screen on the forehead.
Oh, cool. He's also he's gotten me added something. He's got me
vo today in there. Cool. And what is this? Now there's a
video window all of a sudden on Channel curry.com
was a good place to centralise things. Anyway,
it has my recent Twitter tweets. Why United States Navy
responsible for discharge SC what he did cool. And it has
ended as one big RSS for all of that. So it has a combined feed
as well. That's really cool. Did he use?
He got the combined RSS thing down to a fine art? Yeah, that's
fantastic. Did he use my checkout code?
Your checkout code had GoDaddy
for the domain name.
I don't know. I doubt it. Do that on your own time. So back
to Canada. Yeah.
Some dairy farmers are looking to the future where they can
make money selling carbon.
That brings me back to the point I was going to make yes, we need
to start a business where we just buy it. So there's a lot of
areas in Washington state where they've clear cut. And they just
leave it just just they just declare cut an area and they
there's a little bald spot on the side of a mountain. And then
they there's just a bunch of crap after that. And they never
and then they just abandoned it. So you buy a few acres, you
ripped all the logs down, you leave. And you can probably pick
this acreage up pretty cheaply. I'm thinking and then you plant
trees, and you get carbon credit. Yeah, yeah. So you set
up shop. And then you know, you collect all these carbon
credits, and you'd have to plant like 50 trees. And so you send
somebody up to your plant 50 trees and you there's room for
probably 1000 trees to to 10,000 trees. I don't know.
Well, let's read through them your second let's just read
through the farmers get credits to follow certain farming
practices like zero till, which involves seeding without
ploughing up the fields. The result is that the crops absorb
carbon dioxide and the carbon stays fixed in the soil. What is
all this?
Buying? People chill for a reason.
They leased the credits from the farmers paying $2.38 to $5.43
per acre
$5 an acre? Yeah, that sounds seem like a lot
like a very minut amount actually.
Yeah, 100 acres you get 500 bucks. Well, I guess if you had
10,000 acres it's better than Poklonnaya with a sharp stick
but there's got to be some way of getting in on this does
people do it if you watch the green channels watching this
crappy green channel and I'm always gravitate toward this
stuff like it's horrible. Because it's like watching a car
wreck. It's
a thin line between love and hate John in slow motion.
So anyway, so they're going on in the sky he's on there. He's
he's at Tom, whatever his name is the guy just Funniest Home
Videos. He does his dinner party, Tom bears you're on his
dinner party. And they have a bunch of people that gather
around and they're all green nut balls and they go on and on
about one thing or another and how they really like how they
like to have their carrots cooked. And and so it goes the
show goes on and then pretty soon they get into this kind of
like, you know, insightful discussion as it were. And this
one guy, Crooke Jameson, he says, You know, I was buying my
airline ticket and then on their on the website, there was an
option. Do I want to offset your carbon carbon carbon credit
thing? And he says I did it and it costs me like for my ticket
to New York, it costs me dollars to offset the carbon credit and
they felt really good about it. It was painless, thing and
painless. They just took the dollars. What you don't know
and where does it go? What did they do with that? $6?
They really I think they probably do what I'm thinking
which is they stick a tree in the dirt and until soil and
until the soil if that I mean who knows? I mean,
they plant the seed, they plant one seed these are $6 seed
that's the business we should be in. Why don't you plant your
own seed
now? Why don't we just find out a place that yeah, so Canada
clearly is not worth it. But I'm sure there's going to be other
places and you should be able to this there's gonna be tonnes of
scams we can get in on where you plant the CM it's
not a scam Adam it's not a scam if we're saving the Earth
the first time you've used my name on the show
well beware so anyway we need to you right we need to find some
but I'm thinking you know there's I think planting trees
is it has to be done anyway and might as well you know get a
carbon credit for it. What's what is a tree worth in carbon
credit dollars?
Let's ask let's ask Google what is a tree worth in carbon credit
dollars
and what about this for an idea? You buy one of those Christmas
tree farms and then you close it Yeah, people can't chop down the
tree Yeah, that's
um but I bet you that cost a lot of money resell
it as a carbon credit
I'm just gonna be look I'm just gonna be on the lookout for
carbon credits everywhere What is the carbon oh this is
interesting six trees $300 What Wait a minute that doesn't make
sense. Hold on. Wow, what is this? What is the cart This is
an interesting sight is true definition is the ESO or
exchange soil offset? Or more popularly? Yeah, hold on. This
is This is Oh, this is good information. They talk about oh
man,
hold on you like this? I think Gore is on to something here.
Yeah,
of course he is. Today is the first day of a new currency that
is very much like the real carbon credit note the word
currency. The Save the save the planet carbon credit is
officially launched this day, September 1 2005. To a less than
rapturous welcome from all who use her. Let's call them
credits, because in science fiction films credits are the
currency of the future anyway, yeah, no shit. The 20 credit
note would be entitled The holder to drive for 20 weeks of
current tech, not at current technology levels. I believe
this is really where we're going. I don't know if you seen
this picture of the 20 carbon credit note.
Zealand site, you have a 20 Credit Karma, which is probably
what the thing would look like. Except for the watermark that
says save the planet. And I liked it. I liked the power
lines.
You'd like that little pylons there.
To Larry larious. I'll blog it for anybody
in this little little map there of what looks like Busch
Gardens. That's funny. Is this for Rio that look at the back
the back has two windmills, two wind turbines pay the bearer 20
weeks driving in return for 20 carbon credits
cool Where'd you get the back I don't see the back scroll down.
According to Tufts, an average 25 year old maple tree absorbs
two point 50 to one 1.1 kilo of co2 per year over 25 years at
27.5 kilos means that 36 trees are needed to absorb one tonne
of co2 and with each tree costing $50 Each carbon credit
should cost at least 50 times 36 trees is $1,800 otherwise
there's more value in felling the trees using these trees to
give estimates to their carbon value gives very expensive
carbon credit prices
man we had this year this warrants some
investigation actually,
I think so
it's gonna take a little bit well get used to it. I like a yo
I'm gonna carry a couple of these around on my wall I'm
going to print them and cut on people there's
there's not a lot of people working in manufacturing. You
know, you get you put you put a shack up on about 500 acres in
the Washington State mountains and that you own that you pick
up cheap or you lease and you put a shack up there and put
some guy in there with with a one of those little shovels
together with twisting up a poke a hole in the ground, you twist
and you pull out a kind of a cork pops out of dirt and you
stick a tree in there. And you then this will be this guy's job
and you know instead of working at a factory and making products
and you can pay him so you have a computer up there and you send
him that many carbon credits and he has to plant the trees and
you have an inspector go up there so it's official Make sure
he's actually doing it. And
you know what I think for 2009 That should be our task, we need
to find a carbon offset based business that we can sell to
sell to our listeners. Or whoever. Here, we're not gonna
we'll do that without can't we do that with T shirts is like,
we'll attach a carbon credit to it somehow.
And carbon credit, it's good. Yeah, of course we could
gimmick. Yeah. All right, one carbon credit t shirt. Actually,
we'd have to actually wait. The trees are what they are, we can
probably plant one tree in my backyard. And in attach that to
the T shirts, and that would be probably make up for all the T
shirts. We're going to sell.
Oops, sorry about that. Okay. All right.
Enough frivolity.
Yes, indeed, an hour and a half hour and 42. How do we get away
with it? A
lot of it was probably at the beginning when we were trying to
set up
Not really. So next week, we'll try some phone calls. And then
I'll be ready to do it with you every single day John Diego, we
should just go live do an hour, take some calls, and then stop.
Either that I'm gonna do it by myself with a daily source code.
I might I might do. I might do two shows a day.
You could do nothing but you got nothing but gabbing. Yeah.
The gift of gab. Coming to you from Gitmo nation East in the
United Kingdom. I'm Adam curry.
And John C. Dvorak here in Silicon Valley North health,
also known as Gitmo nation West. I'm John C. Dvorak. I said that
twice.
And we'll talk again next week right here on no agenda.