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Throw in the Oh from Gitmo nation east in southwest London.
I'm Adam curry
I'm John C. Dvorak here and get my nation west northwest by
Northwest in Silicon Valley North
wherever somewhere somewhere over there on the west coast
from parts that we used to what have wrestling in the Bay Area
when they before you know before the WWE F became WWE before they
existed. And they used to be this one guy that was one of
these travelling wrestlers I guess they went to these various
little areas and there was always from from Parts Unknown
from Parts Unknown yet Wait, wasn't that something on the
like the early tonight show? Didn't they say that as well,
from parts on? Maybe maybe even on the radio?
I think it was It wasn't Ray Stevens. It was one of these
other guys who was always like some sort of weird champion. And
he always came from Parts Unknown, because he noticed
Stevens actually was, I'm sorry, go ahead race the race team. Ray
Stevens was this blonde haired wrestler that was supposedly the
he was the world champ or something and he was in he was
supposedly from Reno, even though he lived in Hayward,
California, you could see him driving around once and I had a
big Cadillac and
this is when the wrestlers didn't have these extravagant
outfits that just had kind of like wife beater wrestling suits
on
Yeah, Jen or just you know, the whatever the trunks were, but
they it wasn't like as elaborate as it wasn't as much show
businesses it was still fake, but it wasn't you know, done
quite this way. I'm hearing my
I'm sorry, that was my fault. We shouldn't be yes.
So anyway, Stevens was the master of climbing up to the top
rope.
Oh and doing the doing the
big climb. Yeah,
super flies super five when I was in college. That's what we
always waiting for because all we had was superstation W TBS
through terrestrial reception. Like a coat hanger in West
Virginia, mind you. And we'd always be waiting for the
wrestling. It'd be super fly you Oh, shit. Oh, no, he's gonna do
the super fly. We live very humbly.
He's got Yeah, apparently we there was also a guy that was
there was always an Arab. There was a bad guy. The Sheikh was
right. There was always a it was starting back then there was
always a horrible Arab.
He always cheated.
Oh, wait a minute. I have something for you. Wait a
minute. Okay, here we go. Speaking of Arabs. I have a
quiz, John. You ready? Go. Okay. The quiz is loading one second.
Okay, who, who? Who made the following remark Hold on. The
following remark. Obviously, he will influence the president to
be pro Israel. Why wouldn't he be? What is he an Arab? He's not
going to clean the floors of the White House. Who was that? Who
was quoted saying this in the Israeli my reef daily?
Who was quoted as saying it? I mean, who are they talking
about?
Yes. Who said that? Who made that quote? I'll give you the
quote. Again, if you'd like to hear it, John, for double
jeopardy. Obviously, he will influence the president to be
pro Israel. Why wouldn't he be what is he an Arab? He's not
going to clean the floors of the White House.
Let's see who would that be? Pat Buchanan.
No, that is Benjamin Emanuel, father of Rahm Emanuel. You
think that's a little racist? Perhaps.
It's pretty funny. It's outrageous is what it is.
So anyway, so the will Rahm Emanuel is a character for sure.
I hate to get in his way.
So we had a sheikh the Arab the Arab was
he had I think he was one of the two or three guys who had this.
There's a lot of these guys that weren't that competent. I mean,
until much many years later where you had a wrestler like
Ric Flair. Who in his younger days was you know, he was
you remember all these names? John, were you like a real fan?
Were you into it?
No. But anyway, but I just hard to How could you forget these
some of these guys, but anyway, Ric Flair was interesting
because he was he was never in the WWE E or F as it was was
once referred to. He was in a competitive conference, or
whatever you want to call it our show. And but he was one of the
most big he was always I remember reading some wrestling
forums once and they kept talking about this guy never saw
him. Then when I finally saw him, I said, Oh my God. I mean,
he was actually some he was like an acrobat in his heyday. I
mean, he would fly around and do all kinds of weird holds and
spin around and grab, you know, just jump into the air, grab a
guy by his neck with his legs and his gun and flip around in
some funny way and get the guy in some crazy hold and, you
know, break his spirit anyway.
And what really happened is then the entrance started to be the
whole thing, right? And the theme tunes and the checks.
A lot of has to do with the fact that a lot of these guys can't
do that kind of thing is one thing, you can't do it if you're
so pumped up and so big, you can't.
You're not You're not very bendable. You're not
well, you're not been able, you're also too heavy. And you
could really hurt yourself. If you did some of this stuff. I'm
sure Ric Flair hurt himself a lot too. But he wasn't a big fat
guy. But anyway, in the I think in the early days, there was
always a few guys that were talented actually could do
athletic stuff, and most of them weren't and so they had this,
this this, this suppose it hold which I suppose could be real.
Called the claw. And I think it was I think the Sheikh and a
couple of other guys had and what they do is they couldn't
really rest. I think they grabbed the guy in the stomach.
A big hand and Oh, they've got him in the crease got him in the
claws all over now sports fans squeezing his gut. So
I met I met Hulk Hogan. I told you I worked with him. Oh, yeah,
yeah, on ABC Circus of the stars. I'm still trying to find
video of that, because that was fun.
Hogan was the guy I think that actually made the Oh yeah. He
he was the first Mega global superstar in the in the arena.
And I never saw him as much of a wrestler either. I mean, his
whole gimmick was that, you know, he was kind of meaty, he
could run back and forth and bounce off the ropes. And you
know,
he was the good guy, right? He was fighting you know, he was
for all you holkamaniac So all you little kids out there. You
know, the Hulk is for good.
Yeah, he was. But he was an evil character for a short time too,
because they have no they always have to do they gotta switch.
Yeah, but anyway, so he wasn't very I didn't think he was much
of a wrestler. But he had,
John, you can't say these things. Seriously. I don't think
he was much of a wrestler. No, no, ah, no kidding.
No, when I say that, I mean that in terms of, you know, his
ability to do all these crazy things in the ring, even though
they're, you know, they're, they're orchestrated. I didn't
think he had a good variety. That's what I mean. So he, but
his whole act was I think, was a throwback in the world to
something they don't even do anymore. And in the early days
of wrestling before it became highly commercialised. And, and
I'm always wondering why, you know, they don't see this at
all, you'd see the same scenario goes follows, you'd have a good
guy and a bad guy. And again, they go back and forth, and back
and forth. And the good guys start to win. And then he gets
the bad guy where he's just gonna beat him and he's going to
the bad guys gonna lose him, the bad guy would get on his hands
and knees and beg for mercy. Beg and beg and beg and beg. And the
good guy would say, Well, okay, all right. I'll let
sucker punch him right. Under budget right in the gut. It
sounds it sounds a lot like the early podcast and community
actually.
So So anyway, so what what Hogan, you know, he kind of
evolved that into something kind of different. It was never the
begging thing. And because he was always the good guy, but he
had to somehow turn turn into something else. And so what he
did, which, and he did, of course, he did it every time it
was ridiculous. The guy whoever he was wrestling would be
beating him, you know, and then he'd be beating him bad and he'd
be beating and worse and worse and worse. And then he'd get the
guy and he'd he do something to Hogan, are you banging him over
the head with a chair do something that would make Hogan
snap? The folding chairs are always good. Yeah, yeah. And so
Hogan would like he like you could see it he you know,
supposedly he was snapped into a different person and he's gone
crazy. So then he ripped off his shirt and he was be shaken and
then the guy would come up and do keep doing what he was doing
earlier, which is pounding him but wouldn't budge him Hogan
wouldn't budge because now he's like a suit. He's changed. He's
morphed into a Hulk Hogan get the Hulk thing was kind of, you
know, a reference to the the comic book. So the guy be
pounding and pounding and pounding him and Hogan would do
nothing but just stare at him and look mean. And that guy
would freak and then Hogan would go after him and then just
brutalise them and then he'd win the match. You know, that was
never as interesting or as dramatic as the guy begging for
mercy. And then sucker punch in the guy's got mercy. It was
just, you know, that, that,
that that scam or that theatre, I should say, has now spawned
three generations, my little nephews, you know, my nephew is
910 years old. And to me up until two years ago, it's like I
you know, I could not be a bigger hero by showing up.
Whenever I saw him with something from the rock. You
know, if I had a rock t shirt or the rock of whatever it was, you
know, then I was the hero.
Yeah, that's another character that kind of, you know, he
didn't stay around too long because he had other things to
do.
Jessie Ventura went on to an interesting career in politics.
Yeah, but he never really fully left the sport. In fact, even
when he was the governor he did a he did some sports casting for
the WWF. E guy McMahon. When he started the McMahon was gay when
he had a has a weird ego is actually the size. If you look
at his if you research him he's a sign of a global wrestling
promoter from way back when and he's the one who's kind of
modernised the sport. But then he got Harrop is asked about the
Fed, he could do, he could outdo the NFL. So he came up with this
extreme football, the XF L. And and in the selling point was it
was going to be you know, the football players are all going
to be it's going to be similar to the wrestling, it's going to
be choreographed in some way. There's gonna be a lot of hot
cheerleaders and football players, we're gonna get paid as
fixed fixed salary.
that'll that'll fly.
That's what I was thinking. I think it is. What is this guy
crazy. So he's gonna have you know, he's gonna end I don't
know what he was thinking. So they so the best players they
could get were all crummy. And, you know, they had us I think
they had a team in the Bay Area. And I you know, it's one of
these things that I just, you know, I saw it coming I saw it
go and I never thought to buy some ex NFL football hats
or a shirt or so of course, the collector's items now, right?
Yeah, absolutely. I mean, it was, it was a collector's item
from the get go.
Are you just one big eBay at your house? I mean, do you just
have is everything just stacked up in boxes of
point? I didn't I don't get it. You know, these ones. Some of
these things come by I don't you know, take action. I'm no, I
don't have a lot. I don't do any eBay stuff.
No, no. I think you'd have so much memorabilia that you that
you are like eBay.
Oh, I get a lot of
junk. Yeah, you go. John got a lot of
junk. But anyway, so that thing was a fiasco. And it was, but
Jesse Ventura was one of the announcers on the thing, and he
got himself into a huge trouble with the media in Minnesota
because he was still a governor. And he was going on about media,
you know, he was having to act like, you know, the phoney
announcers that they have on these things. So he had to have
this tough voice and he kept talking about the puke media and
how they didn't think much of their football league and
they're a bunch of pukes. Yeah, went on and on. And so when he
went back to Minnesota, you know, it was like, Oops, you
know, they were just very just given it to him. And so he
actually, I think they, you know, made him pretty mitten
made his life pretty miserable is kind of stupid. And he could
never make up his mind what he wanted to do. I mean, he used it
as a he actually had a lot of potential as a politician. But
he, yeah, I don't think he had it in him.
I think well, he people seem to be pretty happy with him with
the with the job he did as a politician.
I don't know if you talk to people from Minnesota. I don't
think they're that jacked up about it. But now they put in
Frank and I mean, it's like obviously Minnesota is our
crackpot state.
Is he finally in now? I mean, is it is it official is the race
over? I still counted as
a suit going on, but I think he's gonna win it.
It's inauguration weekend, John.
Yeah, I heard that. Well, who's who's? Who's getting getting in?
Well,
I'm practising throwing the Oh,
it's going oh,
have you seen the movie? Oh, today for the weekend? No, I
haven't yet. You've
fired up man. Well, while we're talking just go take a look at
it because I've essentially Oh, I'm claiming the whole thing I'm
throwing that Oh, left and right. Good. So we John sent me
an image Friday I think while we're having some kind of
meeting that's when we're always on Skype sending each other
silly stories and pictures
and I just called the back channel.
Yeah, it is. Yeah, there you go.
I'm throwing Oh
right. You like it? Yeah, you kind of made it look like a
wait a minute to go to the end or no in the beginning and it's
right in the first segment. Yes.
Right at the beginning but you're it's more of a square
that you're making you didn't make it a perfect Oh,
well no, wait a minute I do it again. That was just kind of the
start and also I didn't want like an onion throwing the onion
everybody so this is the new Obama salute which consists of
making an O with your with your hands and holding that above
your head
and yeah, I totally convinced this is gonna take off
that's why I immediately started the wave man. Yeah, I did a I
did like a 20 minute interview with Maggie on daily source code
yesterday. Oh, it was a fantastic Oh, yeah. Fantastic.
Well, I first saw that oh thing and on a obscure blog and
somebody was grossed out by it and which is that image that I
sent you? As but as soon as I saw it, I said this is this guy
could see this cat. Yeah, very similar to it there. There you
go again with the Euro is not Oh, it is enough.
Well You don't think I actually want to do the seek? Oh, salute?
I mean, I'm just trying to bring it to everyone's attention.
Yeah, well, you did that. That's good. That's so that's my point
anyway, I think it would be I think it would be cool if the
work in some surreal sense. It would be cool if, if people's,
you know, at the Obama rally with at least two or 3 million
people that are going to be at this thing, not seeing anything
except the giant screens, which will be all over the place, I'm
sure. Yeah. If they, if they started doing it, so everyone
was,
oh, kind of like Queen radio googoo. Radio Gaga, throw me the
owner. Yeah.
And I think that'd be cool. If they were doing that. Don't you
think?
I think it's going to be it's going to look very cool in 40
years from now when people are researching the great rise of
you know, but we also be good I think the former i i think Obama
in fact, should when they have these military things, you
should throw the good night and reintroduce the goose step. I
don't think
you will look good doing it when you could do a little twist to
it. Like you know, little love Beyonce like him step
I can safely had a military group going by with doing the
goose step, Goose step Gousto. Because and then they all they
would all throw the O on bam, just bam they throw the step, I
think would be extremely photogenic.
Oh, you're tripping me out? I think it'd be cool. Yes. I think
it's frightening. But yeah, it would be cool. It would, it
would fit right in line with the expectations, wouldn't it now?
Yeah. For us anyway. Oh, my good for us and our crazy audience.
Thanks. Yeah. Who by
the way, we love dearly. love you dearly audience.
And in fact, if we can get more of your ilk, to listen to the
show, then we're Yeah, we'd
love to have you anymore. So I estimate I saw, I'm gonna it's
hard to estimate but at least 20,000 people in in London today
and I'm looking at BBC news.com. At the homepage. Obama begins
historic rail trip missing girl and man seen on CCTV. The secret
below Grand Central Station. Funny. There's nothing about all
these people who are who are demonstrating in the Capitol.
So you have a big demonstration going on? Or was that today?
Yeah, that was today. It was interesting. You know, I finally
found some websites that are kind of organising these
demonstrations. And so they had an announcement for today
assembling at Trafalgar Square, which is, man, 10 minutes from
here. So I took the kids up to go take a look. But it seemed
like a lot of people were really talking about the demonstration
that's coming next week on the 24th. Which is interesting,
because the demonstration is going to start at the broadcast
house. That is the BBC. And people are apparently now really
pissed off about the either one sided or complete lack of
reporting on the conflict in Gaza.
Is this organised by that communist group? The
International answer or anybody, any of these people, the Workers
Party or what was behind it? Yeah, I have the one. Generally
speaking, these kinds of things aren't even organised people who
are actually interested in that what they're trying to get the
protesters to bitch about?
Well, I do like the fact that they're protesting the BBC. I
think that by itself is pretty cool. Let me see if I can find
the handle link somewhere. Stop war this is at home on who's
organising Global Day of Action dot.org.
Bullshit. So there's, it's probably the same guys. They
have a LinkedIn they actually have a pretty good online,
they're pretty well organised. They're they're really good. I
actually tracked most of their sites down once two years ago
when they were in San Francisco doing it with that little
science that answer a dot N dot S dot Did you know. And that
thing is like fat I've kept seeing and I said this is this
is odd. And it turned out to be the world's Workers Party. It's
a front and which is a communist organisation, old style old
school. And they have had a slew of sites that link to other
sites. And so you could find you find all these various sites and
then when you go in, but they always had a drop box for giving
donations and they don't the drop box should always be we
always trace back to Step steps back to the world's Workers
Party. Well, here
we go. This is the Stop stop the war coalition. That sounds
familiar. The stop the war coalition was formed on
September September 21 2001. at a public meeting of over 2000
people in London, the platform statement above was ratified at
public meetings and it's even less important.
I'm sure if you track these guys, if you track that back two
or three steps, you're gonna find the same people.
Okay, well,
we're gonna find you know, Wesley Clark. He's going to be
somehow involved.
Officers. Let's see the officers. Andrew Murray.
Lindsey, German Robin best Steve Bell. Andrew Bergen
Communication Workers Union. Yeah. Okay, here we go.
Interesting that St. WC Muslim network Iraqi Democrats against
occupation University and colleges union media workers
against the war
you're all the same. There's
a pole dancers anonymous. Oh dude, I gotta tell you this
story. So I had to go to Guilford last night to drop off
a couple things and pick some stuff up including Christina's
car which I had conveniently parked in the lot behind my
buddy, Michelle Harper's club, you know, the pole dancing club.
I got 10 parking tickets. So I took Dexter with me Christina
for 10 parking tickets because I parked there illegally for two
weeks. That's two times five working days and I got a ticket
for every day.
When it was illegal, I thought was your buddy's place it was a
parking lot.
No, I you know, it's it's just a place I know. I can park.
Nothing to do. It's It's not his I mean, it's right behind his
place that the council owns it. So I took Dexter with me so that
he could drive Christina's car back back into the city. And my
buddy Michelle just come back from Thailand. So I called him
up. I said, Hey, man, you know, I even the club. He says Come
on, guys. I got Dexter with me. And he's 19 I don't worry about
it. You know, it's no problem. So I took Dexter 19 in for his
first pole dance for his first private private lap dance. And I
got him two girls, two girls to do a lesbian show for him. It
was you should have seen his face. It was the cutest thing
ever. And then he comes out from the private booth right with
these two girls. And and there was no one in the club. It was
it was us, right? Because it was early. It was like 10 o'clock.
And so it's us and 10 girls around us. And they're all like,
Oh, he's so cute. Wasn't his first time and Dexter does like,
well in this country. Yes. Oh, man. It's so funny.
What did your daughter say to that?
Well, that obviously was part of the mission was to piss off my
daughter, you know, put her put her on edge a little bit. Let
her know that. You know, we're still men. And now she was she
was cool because they were so I came back and I said to
Patricia, I said to her, let's see what he tells her. And so
this morning, Christina says, Oh, well Dexter told me about
the lap dance. I said, oh yeah. What do you say? Oh, that it
wasn't all that naked dude. They're like completely naked
spread eagle. Dimension. It was two girls. No, we didn't mention
that. Like we're having so much fun with this.
dirty trick,
though. It's great. I've got something over him. Not forever.
He's indebted to me.
Yeah, I guess. So last night they had, you know, there's you
I don't know if you watch Battlestar Galactica. I'm not.
I'm not really good before you say anything. And I hate to tell
you. I know a lot of people watch this show. I think it's
one of the most dreadful science fiction things ever put on. I
thought it was bad the first time it was on the air years ago
when they had you know, the Klan from Bonanza run into a group
and then it it's when they restarted the show like a few
years ago, I watched the first episode because it's gonna be a
big deal. And I wrote a scathing piece I should probably find it
and blog. And I remember that this is a couple years back
isn't it was a
number of years back. I think it was so horrible that I just said
this is bad. I would maybe tune in once in a while just to see
the hot blonde. There was some invisible blonde, who played by
I can't remember her name. I should remember it. But I can't.
Actress who just really looks great on camera, and she would
be coming. She'd be in some guy's brain as you come out and
she torment him. And that was kind of funny. But I couldn't
stand the stories that were slow moving. They were stupid. And so
I said, so I got so one of my bloggers one of my editors said
apparently blogged up that's going to be the last season or
this I thought was gonna be the last episode last night and
turns out to be the last of many last episodes. Yeah. And what
happened? Of course, they found Earth and it was blown to
smithereens and they were all disappointed. It was
post Obama clearly.
Yeah, absolutely. So when they said it's all happened 2000
years earlier, and meanwhile, so So I turned the thing I figure
out maybe this is worth watching. I start watching.
There's nothing comes of the whole episode except the
stupidity of the show. And I'm turning that maybe somebody can
explain this to me, but one of the characters in this Though in
the story who represents I guess the government or something
within the group of these stupid ships, this is standing there
wearing a suit and tie. Like he's wearing like a Armani suit
with a, you know, you know, an Armani white shirt and a tie
that from the looks of the with is from like, two or three
seasons ago. You know, in other words when it was probably shot
again, right about 2005 and I'm thinking I'm looking at this
going, what the hell would it what is the who's doing this
show that they would have some guy in a in a suit and tie which
apparently we you know, would would have banned from 2000
years earlier by the timeline. And he's wearing a suit and tie
like as normal and nobody's saying anything to him. And I'm
thinking why is the guy in a suit and tie was anybody would
have a tie in this
tie? Yes. Particularly what is the year that this supposedly I
guess? I don't know. 2200 or something like that. I have no
idea but I guess it's something like it's so functional
ties, you know, they make so much sense.
Ridiculous, you know, it's essentially a phallic adornment
from traces back to various, you know, movements within the
fashion industry over time. But anyway, so, so I draw right away
or act. And then I try to watch the story which is got all kinds
of crappy background music. So no matter what anybody does
having a hit or an orchestra hit or they're, or they got dunked
on, or they got some horrible music or something rare, some
crazy sounds to make it's creepier than it is. And you
don't know now at this point in the story, you don't know who
the Cylons are because they've all morphed into human look
alikes. And now that they've discovered that 13 tribe is
apparently Cylons, and maybe we're Cylons, which is where I
think this is headed, by the way, which is going to be quite
annoying, but I'm not gonna watch it anymore. I've had it I
can't stand the show. And I don't have much respect for
people who think it's a good show. It's extremely slow moving
with all these dramatic BS pauses in this suppose that
relationships between this person and that person, it's
just terrible.
Are you practising this rant for a twit tomorrow because that's
what like that's where you're gonna piss off the most people I
don't think people
talk about but but yeah, maybe I am practising because I could
bring it up again, because I know because I know there's a
bunch of land
you just let you just want to piss some nerds off that's what
you're into a good show. It's a good show. It's a girl nerds you
shared pretty She's really pretty. Is it just me John? Or
whenever I hear someone say stimulus package does that make
you laugh? But you will now because I've had a stimulus
package for many many years. But I bow and I'd like to show it to
you. Bye Bye.
So So I was watching this this television last night I saw
something that made my heart stop and I figure is probably a
somebody's either coming with an Adobe plugin or something to
create CBS had one they had a like little the spot art for
like an upcoming show. Next on CBS. And the art showing the
characters are three or four characters was done in exactly
that Obama style with the cream blue and red, you know, photos
that have been turned into this you know, the poster that says
hope and whatever. You know that cream and red. Sorry, I
just came to a screeching halt. And I'm talking about Yeah, yes,
of course. I know what you're talking about.
Why do they why the network's now using this this is basically
a callback to Obama.
Well, of course they're getting into it. Everyone's trying to do
something to attract viewers and make money out of it.
I thought it was pandering, but
I don't think it's panned. No, no, I disagree with you. It's
not panning. But you know how media works. Were even doing it
we're doing what are we doing inauguration for change? Wait a
minute, inauguration for change.
If anybody out there has any knows what this plugin is or
what they're doing to get this effect? Cuz I know it's I doubt
if it's being done by hand. I'm sure somebody's come up with a
quick way of doing it. I would send me a link.
What kind of plugin do you expect? This is though,
I It's something where you could just present or it could be like
a series of one of those recordings that you can put into
Photoshop in some way. Take a photo and you push the button
and then boom. Yeah. Turns into the blue cream and red
posterized the style I can I can. I can see how you can do it
with it's probably
something you can drop right into Apple photo booth as well.
You know what I mean? Maybe Yeah, maybe could be
illustrated. I'm not sure. So Oh, I kept my notes from last
week.
Okay, well, we might as well follow yours because you never
are interested in my topics.
Yeah. Okay. So let's start with cocksucker. You know, after I'm
done with my three nodes, yeah, then we can we
can get to mine. Okay. Well, I actually do some preparation for
the show. You know, I have some heart.
So the things we forgot to talk about last week was was that
there was a something about German measles. Apparently,
yeah, they're claiming
an epidemic of German measles in in Britain. I don't even have
those notes anymore is like 3000 people have the measles and the
claiming an epidemic and, you know, it's just another way of
forcing people to take vaccinations. So they can inject
us with nano technology to be tracked. Okay, yeah, think about
this nanotechnology stuff is for real.
Okay, so so there's a website a guy just sent me
it's in the vaccinations. You see,
yeah, okay. Michelle,
go ahead, man. Go get your flu shot. You gotta get another one.
John.
I already got my flu shot. There's a website called
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Mr. Mr. Technology.
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that's the website that does it. And that
was a website that does it. I don't know if it's,
I already have it from someone on Twitter. I don't need your
stinking link.
Oh, somebody sent it to you. Yeah, probably the same. Okay.
Obama icon it's not Obama icon it's Obama icon.
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see. Oh, cool. Okay. All right, man. We this is for you and me.
This is what we're gonna do for our no agenda album art. This is
fantastic. Oh, t shirt to send me a picture of you throw in the
Oh. Oh, yeah, there's an idea. So we'll both be throwing Oh,
and then we'll
have to get drunk first.
Hey, I'm calm coming out. In a little over a week. We got a
plan.
That joueurs the connection there? Because I'm gonna get you
drunk.
I'll get you hammered. I'm coming out. You're getting
drunk. I'm on my way. Hell yeah.
Seriously, though, I'm coming out the 26 so let's plan
something for 27 and 29 or 30 or something like that. Not 29 I
got a board meeting on 20 on 30th 27th 30th. I'm flying back
to the 31st so we could do the show on Sunday.
And then my Skype for instance is pronounced Michael said
simple even though it's it's spelled odd. So anyway, back to
the German measles thing that reminded me of something going
on in the States at least it was released last week. I haven't
seen much of it this week. An outbreak all over the country at
least new stories cropping up everywhere I've planted no rabid
raccoons. Really? Yeah, like like rabid raccoons all over the
place and there was you know, but on most of them
don't most raccoons carry rabies with them anyway at least that's
what I was always told the domain don't want to get bitten
by a raccoon because you know, then you have to go get a rabies
shot.
No, not that I necessarily write you have rabies. They act weird
that come out during the day they challenge you
to do what to a duel
Three to five card stud. What are these animals doing
to a biting contest?
Right? So what So what what is less than make of
hundreds? There was the story. The one story one of the
newspaper says if you see a raccoon, because apparently
they'll attack porcupines with porcupines same thing spikes all
over his foil, nose and body stay away.
That would be the clue. And hey, he's got porcupine quills
sticking out of his face.
And then the last item I had on my list of three says new
consumer product. No, no.
Did we have some kind of brilliant idea?
I must have had something that was so it was must have been so
profound.
We should end the show, but then not stop recording because we
wind up in trouble that way? Because it sounds like we had a
billion dollar idea there.
Yeah, there was it was so profound that I didn't feel the
need to even write down what it was about. Yeah, because it was
so profound, obviously. Because I've come to the conclusion.
That's the way I take notes that I've always believed that if I
just write down just a golf just a general you know, something
general about it, because I don't need to put the details
down because it's so profound. I never remember what it was. So
that's a tip for you note takers out there. Don't do that.
So I don't know. I can't remember. I can't remember
either.
So okay, now your list. Hmm.
Well, let's start with
fantastic water landing nice ditch by the pilots of US
Airways in the Hudson River. That was pretty spectacular this
week. Right? And
Kristin, they immediately sequestered the guy and gave him
drug testing.
Well, yeah, dude, he's been like, he like, Oh, he's just a
quiet guy, you know, because what they're doing right now is
telling him this is the story. This is what you must repeat.
This is what happened. This is how I went you, there were a
flock of geese flock of geese flock of geese. Which is totally
possible. But I've been, you know, aviation story's interest
me. Since I'm an aviator. And the to the here's three things I
want to know, one, I did not see any, you know, when when, when
you have these migrating flocks of birds and geese is is like
the worst kind. Obviously, there's a lot of warnings that
go out. I mean, there's no tabs there, which just means notice
to Airmen, and, and you anywhere you're flying Air Traffic
Control is gonna be all over this all the time, they'll say
up to 4000 feet, you know, you got migrating birds, and they're
real careful about it. Because if you really do run into a
flock of anything, almost depending on size of aircraft,
yeah, that's messed up. Can't find any of it. They say that he
declared an emergency, which I'm sure he did. Now, I've got you
know, I'm a member of all the ATC stream sites where you can
listen to air traffic control all day, which is kind of on the
same level of interest as your wrestling fascination. And I
can't find any recording anywhere or you know, archive,
not online, stuff like that, or you know, there is no archive.
So I just like to know if the actual circumstances were there.
Because they it was so quick, you know, it's like, oh, it was
it was a flock of a flock of geese. And I'm just not seeing
any official reports. And there's definitely questions in
the aviation world as to Okay. One second. When you have an
aeroplane in this kind of trouble for six minutes, you
would have expected certainly around New York, that there
would have been something scrambled or you would have read
that someone was put into action, but none of that. And
for the greenies out there, did he dump all his fuel, because I
presume that you know, he took off heavy completely loaded had
to have dumped tonnes of fuel into the Hudson, I guess, in
order to keep this thing floating, because, you know,
that's the only reason I can see why the aeroplane floated is
because he had dumped his fuel.
Well, there's two things about that they did talk about one is
that kerosene is lighter than water. So that's not necessarily
going to sink it. But the but I think
safety precautions if you have enough time, you're instructed
to dump your fuel. Right?
And they'd have to be dumping it right over the bridge because he
wouldn't run over that bridge. And which doesn't sound like a
good idea. And they also the air buses have a special feature.
Unlike the Boeing planes where they lock up the you push a
button and it locks up the cargo and ever all this is apparently
like a bladder or something inside and they just hit the
locks. Eric Yeah, you can look this one up. Yeah. And it was
like a big deal because according to each one of these,
my wife was listening to the chat in in the Seattle area,
which has because the plane was eventually going to Seattle. So
there was a lot of people talking on all the talk shows up
there. Now it's Some pilot called in talking about this
this feature of the Airbus that it could seal off the bomb. So
there's a water landing that the plane can continue to float.
Yeah. Because you can't bust up the bottom. And he was
commenting that when this feature was developed, everybody
in the industry was, were laughing at it thing and what a
stupid idea like that's going to do any good. I mean, what's the
point? And there you go, and so and so meanwhile, now they're
all going wow, that's cool.
And so what I missed was that no one came out with a life
preserver on no one put it on.
I know that that's why I blogged that picture. That picture
that's going around, no one's
got their life preserver and where and you know, you know,
the the placard the card in the in your in the seat back in
front of you. It always has the beautiful slides that are like
inflated, none of that they they inflate one of those rafted
overturned and then floated away. And this this when it
comes to the water landing the the water landing itself
fantastic. I mean, great job. The plane didn't disintegrate. I
mean, hallelujah
showed a they showed on on CBS, they showed some of the other
attempts to do to make water landings. Oh, it's just like
just so rarely successful. And they showed this one where it
looks like a bit again.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I have to correct you. That is not true.
90% of water ditching is very successful. I mean, everyone
walks away or lives. So that's not true. Well, that's it with a
portfolio of course, because what they're showing they're
showing that 747 that the wingtip hits the hits the water,
and it goes a car. Yeah, but that was hijacked. You know, the
guy there were like hijackers in the cockpit, and the pilot just
lost control the last moment, but still, this isn't a bus 320
has a much lower approach speed. In fact, you can fly it right up
to the stall speeds, that's about 150 miles an hour, which
seems fast. But for an aircraft that size, it's not. Right,
whereas a 747 has a much higher speed. But there's actually
they've released a video now. And if you've seen it, it's a
stationary camera on the Hudson. And you see the plane just as
it's hitting the water. That thing comes to a standstill
within a plane length. You know, it's like, the engines, of
course, got ripped off immediately there at the bottom
of the Hudson. So, you know, when you're doing it with an
aircraft smaller, that's when your chances are larger, but
still, it's 90%. Because these statistics are known of all
water ditches are successful.
Okay, well, that's good to know. Anyway, yeah, nobody came out
with their life vests, which was, I still think is somewhat
baffling. And the other thing is, is that yeah, what did cause
this problem? If it wasn't the birds, there was no evidence of
birds.
Well, I just like the evidence I'm okay with. It sounds very
believable. But you know, when there's birds, a big flock,
that's a real fluke. You know, that's a real and this time of
year. I mean, there's just a lot of things like, wow, I'm not
looking for a conspiracy. I'm just saying, I want to know
more, because I'm really interested. And it
always takes me nice that we knew who was on board that maybe
somebody would like to I
do know that we're several Bank of America, executives on board.
Actually.
That makes sense. So we're going to Charlotte on just where Bank
of America is headquartered
town the very same day that Bank of America received. Another was
a 20 30 billion.
Yes, some. What's kind of suspicious,
I like the flight tracker flight aware.com. So it has departure
time scheduled 3:04pm. Eastern actual departure time 326
arrival time estimated 438 actual 332 flight time duration
of flight six minutes. It's great that you see the whole
dogleg and you can see there's there's a point where he
completely deviates from his track. And I think that's his
decision point, but it doesn't have an altitude or anything.
I'm just interested in, you know, with all types of mishaps
and you just want to know what happened because you learn from
it. But but it's with most mishaps you're always hearing
Yeah, we don't know the exact problem yet but yeah, well how
come I can't hear recording this stuff is recorded you know,
these are all air traffic control it will be cool to hear
it
well let's go back to the theory that these two these bankers
were like a target of some sort. And let's say no and I'm not
believe in any of this. By the way.
I have an article here about it. Hold on a sec, just for the
purpose of
argument. Yeah, if you wanted to not kill these bankers, but you
wanted to scare the crap out of the show that you could kill
them. This is a good one of mine if you'd put them on a plane
with the absolute best pilot in the world, which
happens to be this guy was is the guy right? He's, he's highly
decorated.
He teaches how to ditch a plane. Yeah. And so you're putting him
on that plane and then, you know, see, you know, scare the
crap out of him. And then Let's see what happens if they play
ball they may have been reluctant to I mean they they
already showed a little reluctance to buy the Merrill
Lynch
Oh, John, John love it here here's an article Hold on a
second. There's something about it from nation and world what is
that? Some commie rag John? No wait a minute. Seattle Times.
Yeah call me rag just got a load of for a second I was loading
very slowly. Someone must really like it oh here we go Darren
back
doesn't say much about
sales there was a Joe Hart salesman with investment firm
ing.
Molly schugel
schugel a Bank of America executive came to regret her
choice of three inch heels. Okay.
That's what it all made out of these three inch shields.
That I'll teach him dammit. Five inches or nothing dammit. Hey
them after change.gov We now have recovery.gov
we Oh, really? It's a new one.
Yeah, yeah, it's it hasn't launched yet. But this is for
the the stimulus package.
Yeah, I'm sure they're going to be taking more donations for the
Obama campaign for the stimulus. We're gonna stop that keep
taking whenever we stop hearing Obama giving campaign speeches.
Did you see the latest? The latest one he gave to his
daughter's in the fall?
Yeah. And in Parade Magazine, which is the which is
distributed door to door around the country. It's like 80
million people read this. I mean, you know, getting
something in Parade Magazine is distribution to the masses.
Right. And we you know, of course, the private letter that
you're gonna send to your daughters is published in Parade
magazine. I mean, give me a frickin break. It's one thing to
take your your future son in law to, you know, for his first lap
dance. But this this just, this just takes it all?
Yeah, well, you're a lightweight by comparison that this crowd
really, really? I have so much to learn.
Amen. But I read the stimulus package. And it's pretty
interesting, John, there's lots of money to be made.
Let's make some what are we doing sitting here talking to
each other? Because that's the easiest, more action. Let's talk
more do
but I just want. So this is the preamble. I don't know if
they're if they if this is intended for civilians to read?
Or if they really think senators and congressmen are complete
morons. Because right, right on the front page since 2001, as
worker productivity went up 96% of the income growth in this
country went to the wealthiest 10% of society. While they were
Yeah, well hold on. While they were benefiting from record high
worker productivity. The remaining 90% of Americans were
struggling to sustain their standard of living. They
sustained it by borrowing and borrowing and borrowing. And
when they couldn't borrow any more, the bottom fell out. This
plan will strengthen the middle class, not just Wall Street CEOs
and special interest in Washington. I mean,
well, it says that this is
a front page, baby. Front page. And bold. It's pretty bold.
Yeah, there's just a couple things I just highlighted and if
anything strikes you. So first of all, I love the fact there
are no earmarks in this package. Well, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it's not
yet exactly the whole point and earmark as it comes after this
part. But the executive summary says there will be a historic
level of transparency oversight and accountability. It will help
guarantee taxpayer dollars are spent wisely and American Seed
can see results for their investments. That's what
recovery.org is all about. So you can track who's getting
what. And I think the with a lot of the big money is going to
energy $32 billion to transform the nation's energy transmission
distribution and production systems by allowing for a
smarter and better grid and focusing investment in renewable
technology. What the fuck does that mean? Is there something
wrong with the National Grid? Is it not right?
Oh, no. Works for me. Why don't you read that again?
30. So $32 billion, will go to transform the nation's energy
transmission distribution and production systems by allowing
for a smarter and better grid and focusing investment in
renewable technology. I mean, that is, that's just a bunch of
horseshit. That's nothing. It means nothing. renewable
technology, what's renewable technology like rewritable,
optical disks,
wind power.
Now that's not but that's under a separate multibillion dollar
heading.
Well, the most renewable energy that I know of is wood,
not renewable technology, not renewable technology, not
technology, technology. What's
renewable technology doesn't make sense. That word what is
renewable technology? I mean, give me some of that.
That's a good question. I don't know what renewable technology
is somebody, maybe somebody is
rewritable optical disks. To new, renewable, it's all new,
again,
flash memory with flash memory.
Okay, here's something. Did, you know fact, for every dollar
invested in broadband, as in
broadband Internet access this in that same paper? Yes, I'm
just reading verbatim. For every dollar invested in broadband,
the economy sees a 10 fold return on that investment. What
it says document this most of the investment in broadband in
my regards, it makes me spend more time wasting time on the
net surfing the web.
Well, we need to put scientists to work. That's not you, by the
way, people. That's not you. We need to put scientists to work
looking for the next great discovery, creating jobs and
cutting edge technologies, and making smart investments that
will help business in every community succeed in a global
economy. For every dollar invested in broadband, the
economy sees a 10 fold return on that investment. So, John,
there's 10.
And it says Who?
The president the office of the president elect bonehead. Now,
this is an actual document from the house. Okay, this is the
actual plan that has been
just like the way they throw us, you know, it's like, you know,
people just throw at these these stats, these statistics, and
there's no documentation to indicate,
which is why I bring it up. I hope I'm starting to piss you
off. So anyway, 10 billion will be going to science facilities,
research and instrumentation, scalpels and stuff, and 6
billion, 6 billion to expand broadband Internet access. So
business and rural and other underserved areas can link up to
the global economy. Then there's a whole bunch of stuff about
roads, bridges, transit, 10 billion for transit and rail to
reduce traffic congestion, which seems like nothing. 10 billion
is nothing in the train world. Oh, here's my favourite $20
billion for health information technology, which I presume will
be renewable to prevent medical mistakes, provide better care to
patients and introduce cost saving efficiencies. Now, they
have they tried this in the United Kingdom with the national
national health service. And this thing is already I think 3
billion pounds over budget does not work is not implemented.
It's an albatross for, for the Labour Party. And you know, the
same because this is, you know, this is like the world's largest
IT project, you know, this always fails these, you know,
you get all these big contracts and you know, Oracle and
Microsoft and everyone tries to work together and they all mean
well, and it's always years late milk, billions over budget. And
by then, you know, we're dead doesn't matter anymore. But I
just thought $20 billion to train, you know, who is that
going to?
I don't know, but I think we had to find some way for it to go to
us.
Here it is reliable, efficient electricity grid that come at
it's another one $11 billion for research and development pilot
projects and federal matching funds for smart grid investment
programme to modernise the electricity grid making it more
efficient, secure and reliable, and build new power lines to
transmit clean. Oh God, and new builds new power lines to
transmit clean renewable energy from sources throughout the
nation. Because we don't want no dirty power. We want clean power
running through a clean new grid. I'm just amazed. I didn't
know the grid was in trouble.
Apparently it is and $2 billion
for the advanced battery loan guarantee and grants programme
to support us $2 billion. This is great man. You'll love it for
the advanced battery loan guarantee and grant programme to
support us manufacturers of advanced vehicle batteries and
battery systems because America's could lead the world
in transforming the way automobiles are powered?
Well, you know, that was early on, it was predicted that, in
fact, I remember watching some talk show six months ago with
some people from Detroit, discussing the fact that these
cars are all going to be electric, you know, they the
whole hydrogen thing was a smoke screen, there's not going to
ever get to be that's never going to happen in a million
years. But they all you know, did pay lip service to it. But
behind the scenes, this electric car idea was what was everyone
was kind of gravitating toward. Nobody wants to talk about the
mess. Yeah, but
but that we just gave Nick but we just gave all these. Yeah,
and of course what happens when the batteries are gone, right?
But we just gave these guys billions of dollars. Now we're
gonna give another 2 billion to figure out how to do the
batteries. And they've been pulling their pods for all these
years.
Yeah, it's a giveaway. It's just a it's a giveaway. The
whole thing is this kills me 300 million for grants and loans to
state and local governments for projects that reduce diesel
emissions. Diesels burn some fucking clean these days they're
trying to get rid of diesel
cars they've been trying to ya know, at first they started with
the with requiring so called low sulphur diesel. And then that's
what jacked up the price of diesel. If you go to the pumps,
you go to South when you looked up there during the heyday of
the bullshit oil prices, and you look at there you go. Why is
diesel more expensive than premium gasoline when it used to
be you know, the price of regular or cheaper? So then, you
know, somebody who asked because of the diesels being, you know,
has to have special low sulphur. All right,
I guess what I'm, you know, I could read through this whole
thing, and there's six. I don't know
why they're trying to get rid of diesel doesn't make any sense to
me.
Well, because they're clearly going for the whole electric
vibe. You know, this is what this is what all these guys
gasoline. This is what all these guys invested in, you know, this
is what Kleiner Perkins built their their green tech fund for
us for everything I'm reading here. Yeah, everything. Of
course, John Doerr is at the will be at the inauguration on I
think he's actually on stage at the inauguration. No. Oh, yeah.
One of the other side seats, dude. He's way deep inside.
Yeah.
Well, I know he's a big believer, he managed to call and
get them to need to get a lot of money for him. Yeah. And he's
trying to I know, he's always been angling for a Democrat to
get in so he can become an ambassador. I mean, he was
hoping to be Secretary of State or something like that. Maybe
he'll be the technology advisor because they're gonna move that
other guy to the FCC or something. John
Doerr be a great person for that job. But I also think it'd be
easy. Why don't we get him the ambassador ship in the Bahamas?
Because you know, then we can go visit.
Well, let's make it someplace more interesting than that.
Well, it's nice
and warm. They got beaches. Well, where do you want it to
be? Well, nevermind. I'm not. I'd like
to think you should be the ambassador to France.
Here it is wireless and broadband. 6 billion. You
know, what if he gave you a door, who we both know, becomes
the ambassador to any place, he won't even give us the time of
day.
Yeah, you're right. You're right. So NASA 600 million. Now
we're paying for NASA that way. Biomedical advanced research and
development pandemic flu cybersecurity, 900 million to
prepare for a pandemic influenza 900 million a billion dollars to
prepare for something that has killed 150 people in a decade,
support advanced development of medical countermeasures for
chemical biological, radiological, and nuclear
threats. And for cybersecurity protection at Homeland Security.
You know, what I'm seeing is apart from about 50 billion,
nothing is going into people's pockets it's all going into and
the small business combined isn't even $800 million where
they're thrown into small business, but all these billions
is all going to big companies. This is my favourite. This is my
favourite Transportation Security Administration
explosive detection systems $500 million to instal aviation
explosive detection systems in the nation's airports improving
security and making life easier on travellers by speeding
security lines
well of course they can only put those things in the big airports
So and there's so many feeder airports that if you wanted,
but what is it but what is it can't just get a fucking dog
just put the dog there the dogs are great at this. You don't
need $500 million. Get a dog at every airport to sniff the
luggage that's what they do.
Actually, the dog prey does a better job
that's what I'm saying. Dogs are fantastic at sniffing out
anything really.
I always like you know once a while she you know they have was
in Seattle region there's a guy with his dog you know, the
wandering around is always hilarious because the dogs look
like they're having a great time love
it of course because you know they're like Ah, got it I gotta
get me gotta get me some explosive. Smells like bacon.
And so they're roaming around in this like I always ask the guy
what kind of a dog it is I say is that what kind of dog is is
that a bomb dog? A fruit dog? There's three kinds of drug drug
Dog bomb dog and a fruit. Fruit dog. Yeah, the fruit dog you can
always recognise buys too, too.
And so he anyway. And they always like, oh, yeah, he's a
bomb sniffing dog. Oh, cool. And you know, and he's going around
sniffing sniffing, you know, he's not finding anything.
It's something great for you in California, which will be very
happy with $850 million for hazardous fuel removal and other
efforts to prevent wildfires on public lands. What? I know how
to pick him $850 million. That's almost a billion John, for
hazardous fuel removal and other efforts, some efforts to prevent
it was to prevent wildfires on public lands, making another way
to might let me finish the marketing spin. I'm not done
yet. making these investments today will create jobs in the
short run, but also save long term costs of fighting fires in
the future.
Yeah, jobs and weeding, it's called. So basically, these new
jobs are created, leading to labour and.
But that's, that's 800. Okay, so it's split up. It's split up
between 550 million for state and local volunteer programmes.
So you volunteer, but somewhere, someone's getting paid?
Yeah. 500, organise
it for hazardous fuel reduction efforts. It's the only you have
to succeed just make an effort, which states and communities
have determined are of the highest priority. And then the
forest, federal Forest Service wildfires, they I'm sure they
need a lot of money, so 300 million to them. So it's very
comprehensive, but I do not see. I just do not see a lot for you
know, there's some things in here they're extending Cobra
Well, we'll see, you know, this is just the first pass of it.
This is what's going in $20 billion to provide nutrition
assistance to modest income fan families and to lift
restrictions that limit the amount of time individuals can
receive food stamps for all you're going to be needing that
folks will be very happy that's in there. More food stamps.
So they're going to add $20 billion to the Food Stamp
programme. Yeah.
Well, they're really extending it, I think, is what they're
doing. So it may not be hard, hard cash outlay immediately,
but it's they're going to extend it. So you could stay on. Yeah.
But I urge all of our listeners to download this stimulus
package. Ah, I think it should have just grown every single
Thomas stimulus package. So you know where your money's going.
Yeah, down the toilet.
The Did you watch any of the financial the financial
services, hearings,
or any of the content make sure to watch that stuff, too. It's
unfortunate. I missed it all.
There was. Let me see if I can find it here. Yeah, this is it.
Congressman Alan Grayson. Y'all heard of him. So he, you gotta
listen. You want to listen to something for a second hear him
grill but okay. He grills the the Federal Reserve vice
chairman and what he's going after, is, you know, remember,
we talked about this, that there's been two or $3 trillion
dollars that was handed out to banks. But the Federal Reserve
refuses to tell the public which
banks, right, because they don't want to tell you which banks are
in trouble.
Exactly. So let me see if I can get this going here. So here he
is. This was earlier this week. And by the way, Barney Frank,
Barney Frank who, who's the chairman of the Financial
Services Committee? What a dick.
Oh, yeah, he's terrible by surprise. You know, this is just
another example of where New Yorkers are screwed up.
Continuing to reelect people like this. That's the
guy who they were running a prostitution ring for out of his
house while he was being screwed by rent boys. You know, the guy
does have a little bit of history of weirdness.
Listen to you have mentioned several times today in your
testimony, the importance of transparency. Can you explain
why that's important?
I think the committee has talked about that several times that it
wants to see a strategy for how money's being spent and
understand how it's being spent and have reporting.
He's totally he's totally setting him up, you got to
listen to it back from
institutions that it's being used for the purposes desired.
And so in order to give assurances to Congress and
American taxpayers that it's been used for appropriate
purposes, we want greater transparency and accountability.
It's fair to say when hundreds of billions of dollars with the
taxpayers money is being spent the taxpayers have a right to
know how, yes, Mr. Cohen, how much has the balance sheet of
the Federal Reserve increased since September one?
It's increased from around 800 billion to about 2 trillion.
And what was that
money spent on? That money was lent, was lent to banks,
investment banks, it was spent on lending through the
commercial paper market. And it was lent to foreign central
banks that lent dollars to their banks to take pressure off the
US. US dollar mark. So
he's literally admitting that we gave money to foreign banks,
which trips me out. So it was
It wasn't spent, it was
lent, which institutions receive it and how much for each
institution.
I don't know which institutions which specific institutions
received it, but by categories of institutions, that's captured
in our balance sheet that we've published each week. In writing,
there's Barney Frank going well, he's interrupting, because this
is the big point what in writing, Mr. Chairman, so he
immediately interrupts dick, to that
question. Okay. But I think I would, you're going to hold a
hearing on this, Mr. Chairman, and I think I would be very,
very hesitant to give the names of individual institutions. In
fact, I think it'd be a very bad idea, because I think would
undermine the utility of the facilities that we're giving.
But I think we should say more about the categories of
institutions. You just
said that $1.2 trillion has been lent or spent, as the case may
be, that's $4,000 for every man, woman and child in this country.
Don't Americans have the right to know how you spent that
money?
Yes, they have every right to know, the purposes for which we
spend it. The types of spending the types of lending, that's
oops, Freudian slip, the types of collateral we're taking and
what we expect to accomplish with that.
All right. Well, specifically, I'd like to know how much was
given to Credit Suisse. And what you got in return, how much is
given the Citibank what you got to return? If you put out $50
billion to Credit Suisse, the taxpayers need to know that.
I'd be very concerned, Congressman, that if we
published the individual names of who was borrowing from us, no
one would borrow from us, the purpose becomes a setup is not
to support industries gonna slam at home now to support the
credit markets.
Has that ever happened? Have people ever said we will not
take your 100 billion dollars? Because people find out about
what you said,
We will not publish the names of the borrowers? So we'll have no
test of that. Well, what gave you
the authority to say that? Isn't that something that we should be
deciding? Not you?
I think you gave us the responsibility in the Federal
Reserve Act to oversee the stability of the financial
system through our lending facilities to be the lender of
last resort, and we are trying to execute that to the best of
our abilities.
And you're saying that that entitles you to keep secret the
expenditure of $1.2 trillion $4,000 for every man, woman and
child in this country?
I don't think we're keeping it secret. I think we're releasing
a lot of information about it drives me crazy.
So but that's the whole thing. He's saying the Federal Reserve
Act, which was enacted in 1913. You know, these are private
banks. This is not part of the government. They just got a
contract. And this guy like this, Alan Grayson, he's right
on man. He goes on he just he has he smothers this guy, but
what really pissed me off so the number one question comes up,
and we all know that the question is going to be who did
you give the money to? And he goes on, he says, what kind of
assets Did you receive? Well, I can I'm not going to tell you
that. Were they mark to market? Well, no, they weren't well then
why don't you just make it public? So we can actually put a
market value on that shit and we know it we've got I mean, this
is the guy is right on. And it's just and then of course, we look
at the news and it's all about Canada
course giving them giving American taxpayer money to
foreign bank.
Banks, man, how can you even just skip over that one? Oh,
it's to save the system to save the entire system.
Yeah, the foreign banks they like
so I read a fantastic quote, which you will love. I saved it.
Hold on a second where here it is. This was see if I have a
date on it's only not long ago. This is a quote from Dr. The
Honourable Dr. G gono, who is Governor of the Reserve Bank of
Zimbabwe. And he's talking about what is? Well, first of all,
yeah, Zimbabwe just issued their first $100 trillion. banknote,
which we have to go after that as well, John, because we only
I,
I've got people that are trying to get me to beat you on this
one, because you beat me on the 100 billion dollar note. Yeah.
But the 100 trillion is what we have to get now. So you're okay.
Well, anyway, so
I want to get I'm just gonna get the quote here for a second.
Okay, so what he's saying is, it's interesting to see that the
United States and United Kingdom's governments are going
down exactly the same path. We went here in Zimbabwe, we had
our near bank failures a few years ago, and we responded by
profit by providing the affected banks with the troubled bank
Fund, which is exactly what they're talking about now.
Exactly what tarp and what the this new bank that they're
setting up is going to be. For which we were heavily criticised
even by some multilateral institutions, who today are
silent, when the central banks of the UK and the USA are going
the same way and doing the same thing under the very same
circumstances, thereby continuing the unfortunate
hypocrisy that what's good for the goose is not good for the
gander. So there's your future. Ladies and gentlemen, go look at
the $100 trillion note and get used to it. It's just this
amazes me. You know, it's and have you been watching CNBC at
all, John? No, God man, you should really should make an
effort to watch Squawk Box so it probably is probably pretty
shitty because it comes on really too early for you on the
West Coast. I
have in the morning or something. Yeah, west coast
here. My God.
I mean, they just didn't record it, though. I can record should
because now they're just yelling at the government. What's the
guy mark? The pudgy guy? Yeah, he literally is like, he lost
it. Maybe Tuesday or Wednesday. And he's like, I can't believe
this government. People who can run businesses are getting
screwed and they're giving billions snow trillions of
dollars to complete morons. He's like yelling on the show. It's
just fascinating to watch. And of course, he's he's absolutely
right. shipping rates hit zero. Sorry, shipping rates from Asia
are not you can not as free shipping. So if you order a
container, free shipping, that's how this is you read this story.
This is in the Telegraph. Wow. Charles, truck broker at
transport trackers in Hong Kong, we have seen trade activity fall
off a cliff Asia to Europe is an unmitigated disaster shuffle,
there's
a couple of things. I was just gonna say that I want you to
finish, but I'm sure I'm just coming back from San Francisco
and a container ship was coming through but half empty with a
bunch of empty stalls and they'd come there's not what they
dropped something off someplace before they get to the old No,
no. And so they was coming through and I saw that and then
the other day, from where I can see the train tracks way down
the hill. And there was a train pulling those those cargo
containers. And I always like to look at the tracks as as an
economic indicator. Because sometimes they store cars,
there's all kinds of things you grinds pick up on it goes by I
usually and I've seen this train before it goes by every day at
certain hour. I mean, I don't obviously catch it every day,
but I didn't see it for a few weeks. And it goes by probably
about 40 cars with four containers each and perhaps
another 50 cars. empty empty,
empty empty I mean it's the supplies or just stop it well
it's shit man that Honda has now extended the closure of their UK
plant to April or May I think
we're stopping by we finally given up on the buying crap from
China in non in a non stop.
This is specific this this reports on Korea, Taiwan and
Hong Kong. Not quite entirely China report.
I'm just go ahead. I'm sorry.
I'll just give you some more data points. A report by a ing
yesterday said shipping activity at US ports has suddenly dived
outbound traffic from Long Beach and Los Angeles America's two
top ports has fallen by 18% year on year, a far more serious
decline than anything seen in recent recessions. This is no
regular cycle slowdown but a complete collapse in foreign
demand. So it's both ways.
So here's what I'm thinking. If they're shipped thing is free.
Let's buy a bunch of stuff you haven't shipped over
here. Exactly. It's it's like the early days of Amazon. You
know, it's like get free shipping. Free Shipping.
It's like if we had a couple of people in Hong Kong or anywhere
I mean we could
ship ship for free. It's just no one wants to buy our shit. We'll
have containers we'll have free ship ship. Well, we have
to I think we should be buying stuff ourselves. What we'll do
is we'll create a buying club. In other words, 100 people and
we all want to buy like some you know, whatever your art
antiques, I don't know,
a Korean bride. Put them niches in a container.
And load up a container with some of this doesn't even have
to be full. Obviously.
It doesn't mean it doesn't make any difference. You know, we
could we could just ship over one item in a container. free
man,
and the guy's opened the thing up is what do you got it? I got?
I have a I bought a pen.
But look, it has a laser. And this is what we talked about
weeks ago, it became difficult for the shippers. And you even
you were surprised when I gave you this news. But it turns out
to be pretty true. It became difficult for the shippers to
obtain routine letters of credit at the height of the financial
crisis over the autumn causing goods to pile up at ports even
though there was a willing buyer at the other end. So it's a
double whammy. So they had buyers they couldn't ship it
out. Now the buyers are gone. And now this that just stuck
with shit that they can't get rid of.
Damn. Well the lack of letters of credit probably did somebody
a favour.
Yes, but not but not for manufacturing, which of course
is relatively important.
Yeah, I've noticed
the net closes even tighter the Germans now by law, all internet
traffic will be filtered to protect the children.
Oh, it's always the children. Yes.
Well, yeah, it's specifically the children. So they did the
test. You know, there's a guy in Finland that's making a big
stink. And so because in Finland, they're going to
protect the children with that, you know, don't you know, kind
of a watch list. And so some of this one guy has been
researching it. I can't remember his name. I'm sure somebody you
didn't take much to find it. It finds that these the watch list
of the banned list is bullshit. There's like 123 Maybe potential
overseas, you know, US based child porn sites, which, you
know, we should probably crack down on
which is relatively easy to crack down on on an illegal
website. You know, yeah, especially when underground it's
not really publicly accessible. It's it's underground. In fact,
it's at most Departments of Justice. These are the true
people who I believe are the ones that are better the actual
child molesters
will let so anyway, so this guy finds that this list is a bunch
of like lists that look mostly as as typical political, it's
like, you know, it's not a thing of course, it's political. It's
all political banding, but they're under the guise of child
porn. Yeah. So what do you think happens to this guy?
He gets Oh, wait, wait, let me let me guess either a he took
too much Tylenol. B, his plane crashed. See, he was a robbery
where he was shot in the face any of those?
Know he gets investigated for being into child porn.
Of course. Oh my god, I forgot that one. That's that's actually
the first thing that do You're right. Jesus. Well, so let me
just say to the listeners, that you have to understand that the
reason we have to fight this type of idiocy is because once
the filters are installed, then the only fight is what's on the
list. And that is, you know, you they just ramrod that you know,
they ramrodded a third runway at Heathrow yesterday in the
country went fucking berserk.
How did they do it? I thought that they didn't even
they didn't even have a debate. They just it was just like it's
one guy got so pissed off he picked up the holy sceptre or
whatever it is, there's the mace I think it's called which lays
on the table in the middle between the you know, the
government and opposition parties in the shadow party
whatever and that represents you know, the the all the power of
government that makes me that is the power given by the people.
The guy walks up, picks it up and takes it back to his seat.
And then he got named, which means they call out your name
and your shame and he's been banned for five days but he was
so he said we we were promised the debate we didn't even get a
frickin debate
Well hang on what they're gonna do with the extra runway anyway,
they're not gonna have enough traffic there to need it.
I disagree. Okay, of course, he It's about the hub traffic, it's
not about what they need now, it's about what they'll need in
10 years from now, they don't want to lose out to Frankfurt.
And they Amsterdam is still a player, but they also have their
problems. But Frankfurt and Munich, they're becoming the big
hubs. And what you're going to see is that when people need to
go somewhere that no longer will stop in London, they're going to
stop in in Frankfurt. And there is a huge economic risk in that.
And that's just aviation. I mean, that's just how it works.
Right now, if they all that have to do is allow for more
movements at Heathrow and they could reduce pollution is what
I'll call it, because most planes at busy times are
circling for 15 to 20 minutes above London, you know, if you
just allow for more movements, which is not you don't need
another runway for more movements, you can have more
movements, you really can, you can do more. But they won't even
allow that. So, and all the greenies around it's a huge you
know, and then celebrities are buying up pieces of land where
the where the runway would be that's a good idea. But
so what's the video welcome Parrish never became a hub for
these all this traffic? I don't ever mind strikes,
of course yet. Bingo. You got I was gonna say French. But that
makes as much sense.
Well, I guess that's it for this week. Do we have anything that
we're that we missed? Do you have any?
I think I got one, one or two more things. It Press TV? How do
you regard them as a new source that it's Iranian? I think it's
Press TV. I think it's a it's an Iranian news organisation. Yeah.
So you're not familiar with them.
I may have run into a once in a while, but it's nothing I've
follow. I don't see it as a source for me.
Well, they've got pretty extensive coverage of stuff. And
here's something that caught my mind. Am I Sorry, man arrested
for Obama assassination plot?
We didn't get that news. Of course not.
A man has been well, shall I give you the details?
Yeah, send me the link while you're at it. Well, okay, and
then I
won't read it.
So our lives No, no real selves.
Go find your own damn, Link. Hold on. No, I just I want to I
want to send you the link. I'm just trying to find my Skype
window where the hell is it? Usually on the screen? No, no, I
removed the big chat window because it's a pain in the ass.
Hold on. Where are you? Here we go. send you that real quick.
Button. Boom. Okay. A man has been arrested for threatening to
assassinate the US President Elect, saying Barack Obama
appointed Jews in key positions in key posts. Secret Service
took 42 year old Stephen Joseph Christopher into custody in
Brookhaven, Mississippi Friday on charges of threatening to
kill Obama. I love what this guy says. It's not because I'm
racist that I will kill Barack, it's because I can no longer
allow the Jewish parasites to bully their way into making the
American people submit to their evil ways. But I'm not racist.
It's just nuts. Yeah, Obama is a puppet of the Jews.
He snapped. And he did obviously. And Microsoft now
getting fined again by nearly nearly cruce.
Oh, going after him again netlist element
going after him again for $450 million. Because, hey, they got
a pot of money, you might as well still want to get some of
it, right.
It's basically the cost of doing business in Europe. Now it comes
with a hefty fee.
And for the John and Adam reading club. I have not read
this book. But I read a review which I kept in Financial Times.
Maybe you've seen it, John, Niall Ferguson, the great
liquidity crisis?
No. So what caught my eye read it though.
Yeah. Well, what he's saying is that he wrote this book a while
ago, I think. But what's happening now and he's talking
about a 94 year cycle. He's saying everything that is
happening now is a copy of what happened between the two World
Wars. And we're doing everything exactly wrong once again. You
better get your book out, man.
Well, you know, I still have it. Yeah. I still have the the kind
of I'm not I'm not alone in the belief that there's going to be
a mini boom.
There's the there's the train. There's the 830 here. Yeah, the
1030 just dropped the 1028
The guy is just constantly talking As far as no reason for
him to be honking his horn,
the Deaf notion of your own horn right there.
Yeah, he's just basically there's some there used to be a
number of years ago used to some idiot that did this about two in
the morning. And then I think enough people complained because
there's actually houses down along the tracks. And when
they're not right on the tracks, but I mean, they're, they're so
close to this guy with honking he must think is just hilarious.
Remember where he is, he never showed up? Anyway, so everyone
else in the 30s were mad, maybe, I mean, there's some me the
problem is everything if you start looking at everything, and
I recommend people trying to get an understanding of, of how
fractals work, and you you either can read Mandelbrot
material or you could there was a really good Nova on this, it
kind of gave us some perspective I have read
up on fractals, it is it is really fascinating. And
especially when you look at fractals that can trip you out.
Well, that trips you out anyway. But if you start to see things
as self iterative in some funny way, so everything is kind of
always going to be a certain way. Everything that you're
going to get is going to repeat in a in a fractal like pattern,
which is can be pretty complicated, by the way. I was
thinking about fractals. I just was like it just like a visual
fractal image was. I'm at Costco, and there's a young
mother holding her young daughter in her arms, and her
young daughter in her arm holding a doll. Oh, gosh, yeah.
I'm looking at that going. Fractal fractal. That's it.
Fractal. Yeah, you're right.
What was missing was the baby was the little doll, baby and
the baby doll doll. Yeah. So what you're saying is that this
is well that really the universe and life is a fractal. And that
we're now in the 94th year fractal of something of another
piece of fractal that came from the French Revolution fractal,
right? Something
like that. I mean, so that's like, you don't you know, so
it's like, well, you know, none of it should be surprising. And
when somebody comes up with the observation that this is just
like such and such, well, yeah. But if anything is going to
always be just like something.
And if you really take that to the extreme, and you reverse it,
you got to smoke some weed and it really works. So so so that
is a fractal of really the the earth which is a fractal of the
universe, which is a fractal of God, I guess, you know. So we're
all little pieces like a fern, right? That that's what if you
look at a fern, you'll see that the leaves of the fern are
exactly the same structure as the fern itself,
right, and then go through the boat snowflakes are one of the
better examples too. But you know, actually they did this
Nova show had a very interesting thing, guy decided that forests
are fractals. And he could calculate the number of trees in
a forest and run it, which is valuable and produce in
determining co2 consent, you know, usage and in terms of the
carbon credit crap. And so he decided that a dead a dead
forest was a fractal. And he could determine the size and the
number of trees in the forest by taking a fractal of the forest.
No, that was just a chunk, and then then iterating it in a
fractal like way. And then they would they would do this as a
test on certain areas. And then actually go out and count the
real trees just as a way of doing a sense, a sense a census
to see if this theory was correct. Because who needs to be
counting trees, right? If you want to just take a chunk
millions of Obama jobs counting trees.
And it turns out there was just it was it turns out that forests
are fractals and
$100 million for counting trees could be
anyway, so that's it. So yeah, so people should familiarise
themselves with this. With the basic notion of fractures, you
start to see things that you can you can see things a little
differently. I think it really helps from a just a philosophy
philosophical perspective. I
think it should become a catchphrase of sorts. John, I
think that we should be calling fractals on all kinds of stuff.
You know, I like what you said when you're looking at the
mother with the daughter with the baby with the doll and you
immediately feel fractal you know, you should actually just
like Invasion of the Body Snatchers you go up to the
mother and go fractal
I'm telling you what I saw it it was so cute.
It's like a cute babushka doll dolls you know those Russian
dolls they're fractals a fractal exact fractals are fractals are
your friend.
So anyway, interesting. Eventually, Mandelbrot had some
very interesting things to say including the fact that he was
laughed off the stage basically when he came up with his
theories of fractals,
and what is the theory of fractals and what really is very
important. I
can't tell you exactly I can't explain that there. I can kind
of I can kind of understand it before I can explain it. Okay,
but it's essentially that Everything is self iterative in
a way that all nature and is really refers mostly to nature
itself iterative in a way that you can actually formulate a
structure that is that is mathematically accurate because
no one's ever been out there's all of these things over time
that they said look, a mountainside, you take a look at
it crumbled down, say, you know, you can't there's no math that
can explain what you're looking at. Whereas mathematicians say
you can explain everything with a mat with math. And fractal
theory says no, that's not true. You can explain that with math.
If you use fractal math if you knew if you if you look at the
way fractals work, you can you can explain you can actually
explain these natural phenomena as things in nature like a
mountain. With this modelling that this guy's developed, and
what we think of as fractals in the computer business there are
there's Mandelbrot sets, little designs that he makes where he
has a he takes one of these formulas puts it in, and it just
starts to iterate and makes this really funky looking thing.
A screensaver. You mean? Yes. A screensaver. His whole theory is
based on a screensaver ladies and gentlemen, I just want you
to know that.
And you know, essentially, and they I mean, frankly, now that
people are starting to think and in terms of fractals, they, for
example, the reason if you don't know this, that's you know, if
you look at a cell phone, a mobile phone from a few years
ago used to have an antenna, some of them would come out, all
the antennas now are fractal antennas. And they're inside the
phone because you don't need a an antenna, when you have what
essentially is a fractal antenna, which is a bunch of
things old is a wave,
which comes down to the energy within the ether, which I'm sure
is is a fractal also has the same fractal properties. And
that's how maybe we're all connected or how everything
starts to come together. As we start to understand all that
wirelessly.
I'm gonna really be sad. And when the New Age people get a
hold of this theory, and they start to come up with their
crackpot analysis, well,
but hold on, but when technologists get a hold of it
and start to really understand it, it could be very exciting,
we can get some fantastic shit out.
Well, that's how we got to fractal antenna. Right? That's
exciting.
We improved text messaging, that is a good job. That's that's a
wait a minute, that should be another 800 billion on the
bailout the stimulus package.
But they've come up with a good three sentence explanation of
fractals, I think it'd be valuable. I'm sure there's one
out there. And I don't have it. But
well, I think you should start getting your material out. I
mean, you already announced on Geek brief TV that you were
pretty much going to quit the technology, reporting a
journalism business gig and move on to finance. So you got to get
going, Man, I think you're gonna be great. You know, you and
you've surrounded yourself with the right people. Andrew
Horowitz myself included. And you should get moving on it. You
got it. You got
it. Was it such a lazy bastard? I'd be halfway there by now.
Actually, I'm the things almost done. So let me just crank
something out shortly.
Don't do me a favour. All right, here's
don't worry about that. You have to worry about that.
No, I know. Dear. Thank you. Love you too mean it. Okay,
here's a URL for you. I've seen that I saw this about a year
ago. But it won't go away keeps coming back. This is there's two
YouTube videos. And you have to look at a John. This is a doctor
who originally was in
originally seen this a million times?
Well, let me set it up. And then you tell me why it's fake. He
was looking for a cure for cancer. And what he what he
winds up doing is he found out this is what he claims and what
he's showing in the videos, that if you aim a frequency beam at
salt water at a certain frequency, it ignites and you
can light and burn the salt water. And I have to say the
videos are pretty convincing.
Sure. Well, the only thing missing is Penn Jillette.
Well, why do you think it's not true?
Well, I mean, it's possible that if you set a put a pulse of
energy into anything that is like let's say, you know,
whatever amount of massive amount of energy, you can get a
percentage of it to reflect back to you in some way, which is
less than the energy you expended to begin with, which
means it's a useless exercise, which I suspect might be going
on here. Okay, so
what you're saying is there's so much energy that has to go into
creating the frequency that you don't get the enough energy
back. Yeah. Saltwater burns.com
is assuming that this is not a complete scam, which is what I
suspect actually Hey soul water burns.com This is where you you
lose your,
um, look, I didn't say oh boy, I'm buying shares I just said
hey man, I know I'm Brett look John I got other things to do as
well. You know I could go sit with my wife and watch East
Enders you know we can watch the repeat brother.
Which reminds me Are you going to set up that sling box? Yeah
dedicated line anytime soon with a with a with a channel
controller?
Yes. All I'm waiting for is virgin to deliver. They still
haven't Yeah, that's typical virgin. You know the airline. I
love the airline. But when it comes to the cell phone service,
they're fucking donkey dicks. And it just customers it is not
the Virgin customer service because it's purchased
companies. They bought NTL the cable company which everyone
knows is NT hell. They slapped virgin on it. I must say they
did. You know there are two commercial campaigns running
here. One is for Virgin where they have poster girl from
Thelma and Louise and Kill Bill Emma. Come on the the tall
blonde beautiful. Yeah. Guy what's her? Uma Thurman uma so
she she's doing a commercials for Virgin, Samuel Jackson and
really stylized great commercials. But the one that
blew me away is for the insurance company Aviva. And
it's a new name, I forget what you know, they're like first
National Insurance blahdy blah, whatever their name is. But
you're watching television and all of a sudden you see Bruce
Willis in an action scene and and he's and he said, Well, you
know, what would any guy name whatever his real name was? No,
Bruce Willis Thorpe or whatever. Would you think he could become
an action star and then you see Alice Cooper and he says,
Vincent Fern yay. You know, that's not really a rock Gods
name. And then Ringo Starr, you know, would anyone you know
think that Ron Starkey whatever his real name was? You know that
he could be a huge pop star and it's like, like eight
celebrities and you're watching this you like you think is like
a promo for the Oscars or something. And it's like,
sometimes a name change is important. First National
Insurance bullshit is now Aviva. And it's just mind boggling.
This must have cost millions to put this together. Ah, really
one of the better commercial campaigns I've seen in a long
time. So long story short, yeah, I'm gonna get that for you. Once
the silly version shows up and instals instals The connection
and then I got the box down here. And I already have the
sling box and then you're gonna be good to go, man, because I'll
have a I'm trying to get the 50 megabit line.
That'd be nice. Yeah, they're not
sure if they can get me that because of where we are. But
there's the 20 megabit for sure. Which is not bad.
Well, so we have a Slingbox in Detroit. We've got one in
Hawaii.
I haven't been on Hawaii yet. I usually use Detroit and
Hawaii. Is it pretty funny you can get to on the new show. They
I was watching some new show and one of the stations in Hawaii
and they have a sportscaster or weatherman. I can't remember
which now, who is the size of a house this guy is he's like a
Samoan. He is so big. And he sits on this on the set. And
he's like this SEC takes over the whole set.
He didn't get the Al Roker memo yet the thing.
Huge, huge. I mean, this guy's unbelievable. It's just the
weirdest thing. We only expect to see something like that in
Hawaii. But we need somebody with a sling box in Hong Kong,
or
China. And also it really does help. It's you know, it's really
appreciated. Because and, you know, we get we get more
information. We learn more about what's going on and what's
perceived as important in local markets. I mean, it's Wow, what
a difference with the National bullshit that's being spewed.
Somebody would be it would be good to have Costa Rica, I think
it'd be cool. And
Russia, I'll take a Russian slang box, I'll take an Iranian
slang box. I'll take a Polish sling
sling Polish sling box. And the problem is getting stuff in
English from some of these. But yeah,
but it doesn't even matter. I mean, it doesn't really even
matter. Just just to be able to tune in and kind of, you know,
primetime news time and just you can see what the stories are. I
mean, that kind of works. So anyway,
so the guys that that started this linkbucks company, you
know, they sold a whole company to DISH Network, right? And they
I just say we had their one year they had to stick around. So now
all those founders are gone. So they're gonna come up probably
with something else somewhere.
Some new idea and you think, no, no, no, I
thought that idea was pretty creative. When it first started.
I don't know is that a good idea, but it turned out to be
very workable. Well, I
think what they should do is they should do more have that
community aspect, although I'm sure there's all kinds of legal
ramifications that make it difficult, but, you know, this
little community that which is perfect because you and I
benefit no one else does. Is is beautiful man, you know. And now
the what's the guy from Detroit? I forgot his name. We have it is
Detroit or Chicago?
No, it's Detroit across from Canada.
So you know, I actually I sent him an email I said, thank you
again, man, I just want you to know how much I'm enjoying this.
He said, Yeah, no, no problem. Although, you know, my brother
and my brother in law and my sister or whatever, you know,
they're moving. And so now they're going to be using it,
you have to fight for access. And it's true. And I was like,
crap, someone's already on it. I can't watch it.
Yeah, well, that, you know, typically, people get tired of
that. I mean, I only look at it once in a while. I mean, when I
want to just look at some Canadian stuff. And but I'm
gonna have one probably set up in Port Angeles, where we get
two or three Canadian stations up there plus Seattle,
right? And you're gonna give me access to that, right? Yeah,
there'll be off of a fibre optic
line. So it'll be like great
hot shit, you could set up well, this should be able to create
more accounts, depending on your bandwidth. I guess that's where
the whole legality comes in. You can share it and you can't share
it. You can only use it, you know, that would be
broadcasting, I guess, technically.
Yeah. It's against the they don't like promoting the idea
because there's some some amiss. I mean, I think it was funny
that the Dish Network bought them in the first place, because
what they managed to because you know, here's the problem. I've
always said, it's irksome to anybody out there who gets a
satellite. Why can I buy the local stations off of the Dish
Network, from the Bay Area, where I'm where I am, or from
Seattle where I am, but if I wanted to buy the Seattle
stations from down here in the Bay Area, I can't do it. And if
I were if I wanted to, like buy New York, what if I just wanted
to New York, a local station, so I can watch the New York TV
because I go to New York a lot, right? I can't do it. And why
and you can talk to him, but we can't do because it's against
the law. Yeah. Why is it against the law? So they come up with I
mean, it makes no sense. And so why so they came up with this.
So they bought the sling box, which is kind of a way of
circumventing the law. But it's this is idiotic, that it's
against the law. I mean, why is it against the law? For me to
sit here in the San Francisco Bay Area and watch New York
television, if I want to? Well,
I think you should put that to the president
elect. Yeah, well, he
probably make it worse.
He has reserved $650 million for the digital switchover for
coupons.
Yeah, I got my coupons. By the way, of course, I got
Isn't that for people who have no money? I'm sorry. Yes. That's
you aged people with no money. There you go. So you got your
coupon? Lovely.
I got my two coupons. And I'll tell you the thing about him is
you search again and go Oh, my God, why are they wasting this
much money on these things? You get to things that they look
like the most advanced high tech credit card you've ever seen.
It's a credit. Yeah, it's a card, a hard credit card with an
embossed number. And it's got a big hologram on it. Oh, this
thinks oh, this thing scan that puppy for me, man, what the fuck
is that? So they've got your name, and you know, you've got a
credit or your name
on it. So but your name probably is associated with the number.
Yeah, you were saying, here's what's weird about if you want
to get one of these boxes, that gives you the selection at the
best buy. And all those local stores sucks. Because if you do
any research, you find you want the Channel Master does one or
two, you get
the basic, the basic unit, you don't get anything good.
You can get a good one if you go online. And if you go online,
they ask you for the card number. So what do I need all
the security on the card for if I'm just typing it into a box,
ordering it online, and you get the hologram. They could have
given us a barcode and again a number and that would have been
fine. It would have saved a couple of bucks per person. I
mean, these are the most expensive cars I've ever seen.
They're gorgeous, by the way.
Who makes them I'm sure that who's doing that. So oh man.
What a scam. So someone's made these cars as a back end system.
Who is the back end system? It's on the card. Do you have the
card though? I
don't have it now. They're downstairs like they're around
somewhere. Yeah, but you should take a look at this if I could
figure it out. But I mean, I showed it on the cranky geek
show and I've just been I took it to the office I show people
these cards nobody of course orders but me. Because you know
that I think it's just you guys basically getting some free
electronic gear that might come in handy if you have an old
monitor. Can you put
me on cranky geeks? The 28th
Probably yeah, I'd like to do the show if you're assure us
that you will actually show up.
Oh please if you assure me that there's actual audio on the
fucking show. I'll show up.
So anyway, so I can't
just gloss over that one you guys lie. Audio just lost the
odd who did Did that how did you lose the audio? Could is this
because video production?
I you know, it's a sore point with me so don't
just answer the question Is it is it because of me vo because
somebody screwed up at me vo master B media we're producing
it. Yes. Do we know the person who screwed up? Yeah.
Is he is he fired? No. Can he has he
been flogged? Can we humiliate him publicly? I
think he should be flogged but we will get to that later.
Anyway so
this is what people they're so antsy now they want to know just
tell me what I don't think you know who did it and right now in
the air who what happened
I don't know what happened apparently it's flipped the
wrong switch because the weird thing about it was during the we
were streaming the thing and they were the sound was going
out but for some reason it wasn't being recorded. The video
is being recorded the sound wasn't I have no idea how you
can even do that.
Cheese Cheese Louise Did you freak out?
I've just felt annoyed because it was actually pretty good
show. So you know now the show come along. So yeah, you can be
on the 28th so So anyway, I'm dragging these cars around
because nobody you know has ordered these cars and so now
everybody of course got went online to try to get one I think
just don't ever get to be able to get one by the end of the day
they have an expiration date on them too. Which makes it even
more dumb. So they sent out these expensive cards with the
hologram and all the security crap like you need it so they
also had
to put terminals that all these outlets that have card readers
now they do that no but then nobody does all you did they do
this as a they just type in that number that's the joke of it. Oh
my god. Anyway, I just thought it was a complete waste of
government money this is the taxpayers should be up in arms
about this. Now they are cool look and Eric collected the cool
look and you gotta take them in a frame. I'm gonna take the
whole letter I'm gonna frame it and put it up as like as like an
example of government waste.
Alright, I'll do one more. We gotta go man. I do one more
story for you. This is from a New York Magazine. An interview
with Jean Lang, who's a manager at the at a hedge fund. And he
he says I'm here's how he's hedging on the economy.
Preparations in Lange's case include a store room in his
basement in New Jersey stacked high with enough food, water,
diapers and other necessities to last his family six months. A
biometric safe to hold his guns and a 1985 ex military Chevy K
five blade blazer that runs on diesel and is currently being
retrofitted for off road travel. He has also entertained the idea
of putting an inflatable speedboat in a storage unit on
the west side so he could get off the island quickly, and is
currently considering purchasing a remote farm where he could
where he could hunker down. If there's a financial system break
down, it could take a year to reset the system. And in that
time, what's going to happen as Lang if New York turns into a
scene out of I Am Legend. I want to be ready.
Yeah, these are the guys that are making our decisions in the
hedge fund level.
Isn't that amazing? What a nut ball? Well, apparently there was
a lot of discussion about that about
certainly investing in guns and high high speed inflatable boats
at the end of 2008. And not just him, but like hedge fund
management. I mean, they're all probably made of the same word.
Right? These guys? I just thought that was
they're all nuts.
Yes, indeed. All right. All right. That's
it. Yeah, I think we go like we're done no notes for next
week.
Now, man, we covered everything. And you know what, I think
everything went much better because I didn't open up the
chat room and then the phone bridge and all that shit. Just
just the stream
with a lot of people
Well, John, that was fun. Thank you very much.
You're quite welcome.
You do it as a public service. I know but it's still appreciated
on a personal level.
We haven't we'll have a new T shirt design next week.
Can it be something with throwing the yo I'm gonna get
the I'm going to do the Obama con thing with our pictures. And
listeners feel free to work on that as well. Because I'm not
too good with the Photoshops would not be great for a T
shirt. I have the two of us Obama cones on the front. Good
me. Yeah. Okay, good. Welcome to get mo nation. Speaking of such
and which, and that's from Gitmo nation east in southwest London.
I'm Adam curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak here in Silicon Valley north. Also known
as
what Gitmo nation, West West West. We'll talk again next week
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