Just like Doublemint gum we're now twice as nice with the
Premier Edition of the weekday no agenda. It's crackpot and
buzzkill in the morning. Coming to you from Gitmo nation,
Eastern southwest London. I'm Adam curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak here in Silicon Valley North also known
as get mo nation, period.
Ah, what do you mean? Don't get my piece of get mo anymore.
You know you get to be Gitmo nation, whatever. Easton those
Gitmo nation where should be China.
It's all one big Gitmo nation, man.
So I noticed that rush limbaugh now has a get mo nation thing.
Go You're kidding me.
He calls it Gitmo nation. Literally. Not some males but
it's
similar. Man. He's using Gitmo to kill one another t shirt to
come. Yeah, we'll solve more than we will. But I'll have to
come up with something for Saturday.
Well, you say that now. But you never know now that we're doing
two shows a week.
Yeah, twice as many opportunities.
Big heavy sigh This was your
idea. So I'm reading by the way so I get up this morning and I
get some email from a friend who sends me the I'm gonna blog it
so people out there can you can pick this up later this
afternoon? Because it's actually posted at the on the New York
Post. The entire list 100 I think there was 300 pages of
everybody scammed by Madoff,
oh man,
believe it and they say can you find someone your friends? I
couldn't find anybody. But I did a couple you can search because
it's a PDF file. And so I found a lot of like, 12 people in
Berkeley, you know, that got nailed?
Well, I saw a partial list and it had didn't have Ben Affleck
on it and a couple of Hollywood movie stars.
I haven't found those yet. I just got it. So but I didn't
know I did find the venture capitalists Arthur Rock.
Oh, and we know Arthur from where
he's a visa vie. He was one of the early investors in apple.
But the funny thing is, is that I think that this thing I made a
copy of it obvious because I think this is going to be pulled
down because there's so many people on this list that are
going to be embarrassed and wants to look like a douche.
Yeah. So and they're all you know, most of the lawyers, I
think they're going to sue to get these distinct taken away.
It's too late. It's going to be on the internet. If anybody out
there can get a copy of it, say, save it. And then it'll be
around forever. Have
you been following the testimony of the the whistleblower about
the Madoff case?
I watched it yesterday. That guy was just blasted to eautiful I
mean, it's He's almost like a truther. He's up there. He's
like, I'm coming with another mini made off tomorrow has been
scamming for a billion. He just keeps on going. And the SEC is
inadequate and under equipped and under motivated. And Tom and
he didn't quite say that. But man Oh, man.
And then the did you see the SEC they came out and testified and
there were just a bunch of bureaucratic weenies, led by
some woman that named Linda Thompson.
And she couldn't she's like, unfortunately, because the case
is under investigation. I can't answer that question.
Oh, she is the worst. It's
It's just unbelievable, but I love the I forget who it was. I
really should pay attention to these senators and congressmen
and of course, it's a guy from a smaller state. That's why no one
knows him. He says no, I don't think the scam is Bernie Madoff.
I think I think the scam is you pointing right at the SEC. I'm
like, yeah, baby. Rosie I didn't get it didn't get to see is, you
know, the commentary. Maybe it happened. I didn't get to see
the whole thing would be something like you know, and so
why does Martha Stewart go to jail? You know for
well, it's it's for the same reason that when when everyone
when President Obama said yeah, you know, I smoked weed and I
smoked a lot of it or I inhaled a lot I think was his quote, you
know, it's like okay, we just kind of let that go. And then
poor Michael Phelps I mean granted, Bond pictures never
look good They just make you look incredibly dumb. And you
know now this guy's like the blog yeah losing all the
sponsorship and shamed and you know you're no longer a role
model is like dude, but but again I will stay that bond
pictures just don't look good. It's just it's just has a very
negative thing to it. Yeah, it
also the yummy it just it looks like it's not because of the
size and all it's not a crack pipe but it has that image
it's not even close to a crack pipe. Oh man, poor guy to be
marijuana is not on the list of illegal substances for for many
sporting leagues and events.
And the way I see that the guys have stoning and still swim like
that holy crap and two
gold medals. Way to go my buddy Hey, dude. The gun go off No,
no, no professional smokers not like that. John, you should know
better.
Oh, Oh man I think so so I was watching there was something on
I think it was another one of these PBS things where they're
talking about all these people you like Ireland they everyone's
like closing out all their companies and everybody's moving
to Poland we've been noticing this as if any action the EU
news about this movement is called D localization
and well not specifically about Ireland but all of the EU right
now is the wheels are coming off this thing as we speak. And it's
everyone's messed up because of this protectionism which is the
the huge thing everyone's talking about here. And jobs
moving from left to right I did not know that the Irish are
moving to Poland which seems like a very surprising move
indeed seeing most of Europe is filled with Poles who come over
here to work for a couple of months and go back home.
Yeah, apparently a lot of them are going back home in droves.
Anyway the which is a weird sentence. Anyway, but it was
about Irish mainly because then they opened they've opened up a
slew of Irish pubs in various cities in the wild and in Warsaw
in Poland to get no not worse all wood
wood wood the biggest isn't would you blow me
on the third maybe not me but I think that may be going on
around uhj anyways the third biggest city in Poland it looks
to me to be one of those you know, let's hear let's move
everything into this place and give them all the tax breaks we
can and do this that and the other thing and I just probably
worth checking out
while Ireland is economically is in deep deep kimchi. They're
really in trouble number a number of European countries are
now getting into massive problems and their their country
debt is being downgraded. Get the biggest kick out of the
whole situation. downgrading Your
country is idiotic, EU, and you know Chris Doggett. Oh, you
know, I don't understand why you say something like that. This
crazy EU with all these countries that never really got
along before that's why they're all their own countries, but
let's ignore that. And then you bring in these Eastern European
countries that are hungry and they're more aggressive and many
of them are like glad to you know, they're they're super
capitalist because they got under, they were under communist
rule for so long. They've gone crazy. They expanded
like Like, like, like wildfire with you know, huge expensive
stores and everyone was borrowing money like crazy
because you could do it now.
Just like the Americans Oh, yeah. And anyway, so they still
like in Poland, for example. So they go crazy. They they're just
going nuts. and the EU because of the way it's structured.
They're they're subsidising this
it's such a shambles, man.
It's like let's ruin Ireland and subsidise Poland. And Nepal is
not the only viable economy or one of the few than these other
Eastern European countries. It just cracks me up. What
incompetent boneheads are running this operation.
Well, I'll tell you, I've got some audio for you today. This
is what's been driving the media nuts. Here in the UK for the
past two days. This is Gordon Brown, who made another one of
his Freudian slips, you're going to hear him say that we're in a
depression instead of a recession. And that just drove
everyone crazy. Have a listen. In large
numbers of country, we face a downward spiral.
I'll give you a little bit of extra audio for context anybody
because foreign banks have left. It's all the more reason why.
First of all, we should sign the Doha agreement and that will fit
the G 20 agenda. Secondly, we should make sure that every
country is analysed for what it is doing by the world trade
organisation to prevent protectionism. And it also is
absolutely clear that we should agree as a world on a monetary
and fiscal stimulus that will take the world out of
depression. There it is. Oh, yeah.
So everyone's like now you have to publicly say you meant
recession and not depression. Such a tool? Is
he any balls? He'd say? Yeah, no, I meant depression jerk
offs.
Just Just For Laughs Sure. We listened to that other gaff he
made about saving the world.
Yeah, sure. I like that one.
The first point of recapitalisation was to save
banks that would otherwise have collapsed and we not only saved
the world at safe the bank
but listen listen to I love their parliament. Listen, that
was going nuts.
We not only saved the bank
and I was trying to turn around save the world's banks I meant
going crazy. So what where does that come from John when I mean
these are you call them Freudian slips, but of course they have
nothing to do with sex, I don't think but when someone makes
those these Freudian slips, gaffes win, but it's clearly a
slip because you know, the guy didn't really mean to say save
the world, you know that he just messed up but it does not mean
that is on his mind and he is thinking that way.
I don't know, you'd have talked to a psychiatrist or
psychologist about that. But I mean,
what do you mean? That's the job of vocation? You mean you have
to
to form the word save the world, you have hat, you have to have
structured that sentence somewhere along the line. So you
could blurt it out like that. So he's probably, you know,
thinking that, or, I mean, that guy's an idiot. Ah,
yeah. Well, that's more than anything. See, I
get the Doha things.
What is that? What is the Doha agreement? That
sounds bad? Isn't that the Lisbon Treaty re formulated? Oh,
no, don't want a trade agreement. That's the trade.
There you go. Yes. That crazy trade agreements, were
essentially opening up more markets is that it's just some
way to scam the public? I don't know. Anyway, enough of those
idiots.
Really? Really? Because I got. Yeah, well, I gotta say
something about our president. This morning. I'm trying to find
Yeah, that one. I'm trying to. Wow, I sounded very Republican
there.
Which one which one of the ones that didn't Obama our current
threats, like the real one,
or the only the one that took the other oath? I don't know. I
think the TV Obama that's the one. Okay. Because this morning,
that's a different guy than the President. Yes, I understand.
And I concur with your theory on CNBC this morning, live, and I
can't it wasn't on C span, because I was switching around
trying to find the feed because they did interrupt at a certain
point they had and this was the funny part. They had Obama
speaking at a quote, private breakfast, even had the caption
on screen. President Obama speaking at private breakfast,
which is broadcast live, can it be broadcast live on CNBC? And
he goes through this whole thing about FDR and how he led these
prayer sessions. And, you know, during the tough times, he would
go to these breakfasts, and he would pray with it to me, and of
course, the NBC cut it off too early. It seemed like the
President was literally saying, Please, let's pray. Because
we're so screwed, pray, pray, that's all we can do. It just
really freaked me out. I have no idea where I can find this
video. But it was this whole wind up and like, Oh, my God,
he's gonna He's gonna ask us all to pray.
You know, the thing is, but about about Obama and these
references to Roosevelt during the campaign, didn't he? Or
during the debates, perhaps? Didn't he make a big fuss over
the fact that we shouldn't be looking backward? We should be
looking forward because Bush had made some some sort of what this
is that that all he's been doing senses looking backward? Yeah, I
agree. Roosevelt. Nobody, I mean, how many people were that
listen to this podcast, or, or even around were alive during
Roosevelt's administration? I mean, he died in 1944, I
believe. So I mean, it was like, you know, the entire baby boom
generation was born after he, he was dead.
How many terms what he served, he served two terms. For? He
served four terms.
Yeah, he's served four terms. And he's the reason that two
things that happened because of him, which one of them is quite
ironic? He because he served four terms they passed, that's
when the constitutional amendment came into place. And
you can't be president more than twice.
Oh, I was gonna say, because I thought it was illegal. Okay. It
was
illegal after after him, um, because they said, Look, we're
gonna we're not gonna go through this again. And the public will,
you know, they did if that constitutional amendment wasn't
passed, let's face it, Clinton would still be president. That's
interesting. It's interesting. The founding fathers didn't put
any term limits in there.
Well, they assumed because these guys were going to run once or
twice, because it was kind of a job where you didn't have you
know, it's just a job. And, you know,
they didn't they didn't take into account the military
industrial complex in the world revolving door of lobbyists and
all the money that actually makes the system this new system
work. Right. Okay. They didn't. And so when, in fact, they
weren't they weren't against it, in fact, yes,
they did. And so they, you know, so this possibility existed
where you'd have somebody just damn near become a king. Now, if
it was Clinton, I mean, he still be in office, which means he'd
been in office and running for his fifth term. You know, he'd
be the Oban he'd be in for five terms, and maybe six, because
he's so me. He's still young enough to run two or three more
times. You know, luckily, Roosevelt was old, you know, and
he had polio, and he wasn't that healthy. When he would have been
in there forever, you know, the way it was going. So anyway, so
that's one thing that happens. So they added the Constitution.
And the second thing they did was sometime after I think it
was after the Truman Administration, the RIP, the
Republicans pushed into play the Fairness Doctrine.
Ah, this was where you have to provide equal airtime which I
was taught in college when I studied communications that was
still in science. Yeah, right. It was
until 1987. the Fairness Doctrine was in place and the
Fairness Doctrine was put Just by the Republicans, because the
Democrats were abusing the privilege
they are they owned, they own the media. No, they were
gay. Oh, well, they've always had the liberal. I mean, the
amount of liberal perspective amount of liberal perspective
within the media has always been very high. And it's remained so
how were they using it unfairly? And they were using it unfairly.
They were just Well, I guess they were having these, you
know, dissent. What was like going on, you know, with the the
certain kinds of broadcasters or, or I guess the president, I
think it had a lot to do with the President, you know, that's
fireside chat that Roosevelt did, right. So he's on all the
time on the radio, bla bla, bla bla, and nobody could say
anything live in America, let us pray. And so, you know, you
didn't have any balance at all, and there was no way of getting
any. So the Fairness Doctrine came in. So now when the
President gave his weekly address on the radio, you know,
a Republican could come on, say, hey, this guy's full of crap. Or
the other way around anyway, so the Fairness Doctrine was
initiated balanced things and then it became part of
broadcasting law where you'd have to have one guy than the
other in the unit equal time and Reagan is the one who said this
is a crock I mean, times have changed let's just drop this
thing. And then what happened then of course, he
also he also deregulated all television and radio so all so
that it could all kind of roll up that didn't he do this first
deregulation?
I'm not sure who did the first deregulation of television or
radio, maybe. But whatever the case was, the Fairness Doctrine
was dropped. And then the the rise of right wing talk radio,
which is really a minor player, it came into vogue, as you know,
rush limbaugh was the one who discovered it. I mean, he
figured it out first, let's put it that way. And if to the tune
of $400 million contract and, and now they're Democrats are
all bent out of shape, because, you know, he only you know, he's
just a critic, and they don't want any critics and so they
want to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine, not realising that
they're the ones who had benefited from this wide open
structure more than anyone and in fact if the fact of the
matter is is that Limbaugh he didn't make make Obama lose the
election. He just a guy was carping all the time. These guys
don't want anybody complaining. He didn't. There was no election
didn't go to McCain because of right wing talk radio. Hey,
notice this McCain didn't even win. Yeah. So right wing talk
radio is an ancillary function of you know, love in the
entertainment business. And the fact is, it just, I think it
just bugs them that you have people like Michael Savage, and
people like Rush Limbaugh, you know, calling out people like
Nancy Pelosi, and she's the one that wants to get rid of it. It
would go reinstitute the she's the target. Oh, she's, you know,
I put her on MVNO today that airs tomorrow with her her press
conference where she says 500 million Americans will lose
jobs. It's a gaffe. But I just couldn't resist
that when in the fisting gag.
Well, I said it's no wonder they can't figure it out their taxes
can't even count the number of people in the country.
Get I missed that one. I got a blog it.
Yeah, I'll, I'll send you the clip. But, but but just on that
topic, dude. It's like, it's been four people. Four
nominations in this administration, have evaded
taxes. Yeah. Or evaded maybe a strong word, but they didn't
complete pay. Did you catch the thing where, even though he's
now been affirmed Timothy Geithner. Now this is the guy
who was also partly responsible for $350 billion of TARP money
that has already been handed out to his buddies, and Paulson's
pals, Paulson's pals in the morning. And he was during his
testimony, you know, they're drilling into this tax thing and
said, Well, you know, so how did you prepare your taxes? And he
says, With TurboTax? That's probably what he compiled the
TARP money with to I just put her my Turbo Tax here. And oh,
look at that a lot of money goes to my friends for bonuses, which
is a total distraction, by the way, total distraction that I
think they're playing it up. And the public, of course loves it.
You know, because there's nothing, nothing more closer to
home than nothing closer to home than then tax issues. But
meanwhile, you know, there's all kinds of crap coming down, John,
and the President going around saying, I'm sorry, I screwed up.
What's up with that?
Wow, no, he did that during the campaign to win some he likes to
say that it's just a style you know, me at least he's like, you
know, the difference between I screwed up and him Jack taking
it taking the blame, as opposed to the way Bush would have
handled I thought about this. Bush would have probably pointed
the finger at somebody And then fired him and you know, or
something like that. But, but he wouldn't have been the, you
know, the
there was no one. There was no one there's no one to fire
Dashiell took himself off the list. It was no not a firing
situation.
Yeah, I think the Democrats have always had ever since Harry
Truman a buck stops here type of approach to taking the blame for
whatever happens. In other words, the President, you know,
as he just says, I'd say my fault when it probably wasn't
because let's face it, he's not of course.
That's what you hit the nail on the head. That's what bothers me
about it. It's not his fault. It's just not.
Yeah, no, but it's his fault that he picked somebody who made
the mistake so it is his fault. And maybe when he say I screwed
up, he's not talking about the actual thing that we see as the
screw up but somebody that he let make a decision. That's the
screw up. He didn't just didn't elucidate it.
Do you think that people find it more endearing? Do you think it
worked? If that indeed was the was the plan?
Yeah, I do actually. Doesn't bother me.
I mean, I'm glad that we have two President Obama's as you
claim. Because the number one guy is pretty damn busy with all
his TV appearances every morning. He's doing a good one.
Does he have time to meet and discuss with people? He's always
on TV?
Yeah, he's doing private breakfasts. Yeah, probably. I
haven't got enough, barely enough time to eat breakfast,
let alone have a private huge breakfast. Where I have to give
a speech. Yeah.
You know, I'm just saying it's good that we got two of them. We
need them. As long as there's only one ROM and manual, and
then I'm okay. Then I'm content. Guys, I'm rather than I'm
really, really scared. So I'm waiting for the third shoe to
drop. As you know.
Yeah. I'm waiting for the fifth shoe
to drop. That's not that funny. Two people I know pretty well
died in the past week. Oh, you just got to triple Who are they?
The first guy actually happened the last day I was in San
Francisco, I told you about one of the very first directors I
ever worked with. Right? Right, you don't come off. And I'm not
quite sure how he passed away. And, um, you know, I'm afraid to
post anything until I know, because he was a really heavy
Galois smoker. Although he probably got hit by a car.
That'd be very typical. So that's just weird, you know, guy
you work with for shit. 25 years. And then the other one.
And both of these. I found out a little bit after the fact. So
this also happened a couple of days ago, Gary Christmas, who
was one half of the infamous Christmas twins who had a coffee
shop. These were two Americans, American Indians. as African
Americans slash American Indians was gunned down. My coach said
they were all over the map. And they had performed for many,
many are what are you doing, man? If you're not interested,
you know, just don't make any noise. Okay, I'm talking about
dead people here. I'm gonna have Sorry, I'm gonna have Gary
Christmas come down and put a curse on you. But don't do them.
But they performed since the 40s with Tina Turner when I was Tina
Turner in the 40s. But they performed on stage since the
40s. And later, we're on tour with Tina Turner. And you know
that they had a really good cool act and Gregory died on on eight
or nine years ago. They're twins. And so Gary passed away
and they they lived in Amsterdam for I don't know 20 longer than
20, maybe 30 years with a coffee shop that actually serve coffee.
And tuna fish sandwiches American style.
What do they call those things? What a coffee shop that serves
coffee I've never seen
well, it didn't have the word coffee shop on the front.
Because that would that would bring in the wrong clientele and
Amsterdam it was called Backstage. And so anyway, and
now I'm just waiting yo, I'm like, it's sitting around going
like no, because we discussed this like yeah, that always come
in threes and like to downright fuck around. I hope I'm not
number three.
Why would you be number three?
I don't know, as people I know. They know me. It's now getting
into my circle. You know?
You haven't been hanging out with these people for years as
they're part of a different meal. You it'll be somebody else
that somebody else in that same clique.
Alright. Hey, congratulations. I didn't have a chance to
congratulate you on your top 25 Forbes most what is it? Most
Influential People on the web?
Select web select
Web celebs? Which,
yeah, great.
We've discussed this at a dinner and pretty much a gay list.
There's not a single woman on the list which is highly suspect
and prejudiced and just wrong to start with. And it just just it
looked like it was full of little jokes.
It might have been because they put Leo and myself at the end of
the list with Leo. Gay by the way I can Sure, yeah, I didn't
mean it that way. But I think the guys who put it together are
gay and they were having a good time with it and picking cute
guys to go on the list. And then as a joke at the end they threw
you in Leo in
Yeah. And they made and to make it even funnier they put me
ahead of Leo who's really more of a web celeb than I am. So
yeah, I think it was it was the whole thing was an inside joke.
I mean, the number one web celeb according to these characters is
Perez Hilton. And then it would just was just all over the place
after that it was actually quite funny. It was, you know, I guess
Leah was on the list before I didn't even know this list
existed. Forbes has a lot of lists. Yeah. And I guess I
should send these guys oh,
that's their franchise, right? Is it that is the for list 500
was the fortune 500? No, the Forbes four richest, richest
man, whatever. That's their franchise. That's all they got
going for him. And it's just like a rag mag. And that shit is
never right. When it comes to fortunes.
No, I can't be it's almost impossible. They tell you the
truth. I worked there. And they put a lot of work, serious
amount of work and effort into that list into that world's
richest list. I mean, occasionally, they'll screw up
one of the lists like the most influential they one time I
remember they left off. I think they accidentally left off Oprah
Winfrey when they did most influential women and show
business and she wasn't even on the top. And then the next year
she was number two.
Yeah. Maca is what we call that.
And so so they do make these huge blunders, but the top the
richest list may have some errors and people left out
because they've avoided contact. But the fact of the matter is
these guys go through a lot. They have people working on that
list all year round. And there's not just a few people.
What a sad result for the amount of work that goes into it then
what britches list? Yeah. I know, I know. I know,
I know, people on the list and they say, incorrect. Those guys
do not account. They take as much public information as
possible. And it's also you know, is that there's a
perception amongst the public like, is that how much you know?
So he's worth 2 billion is $2 billion, a pile of money sitting
somewhere? No, of course not. You know, what is it really
worth? What's it all invested in? You know, they take company
values based upon public information. It's not correct.
It's just not
You mad because you're not enlist?
No, not at all.
I don't believe they put as much effort into it as they can. I
mean, yeah, that I'm sure that you know, how much can you
really find out about some guy who lives in Dubai and his worth
$5 billion? I mean, you know, just not going to you're not
going to get an accurate number. Get could be worth nothing. I
mean, look at Madoff.
The more I think about that, and when I was listening to what's
the guy's name? It's like of colour offski Is that his name?
Oh, I guess the sheet of paper I threw out. Good job.
I think it's Palacky call it colour kowski
starts with an AMA. Let me get it starts with the K. It's
Markel. opolis
That's what I mean. Carpa markerless Mark, Mark makapag
mark up guys, whatever. Okay.
I'm thinking the whole thing is rigged. The whole frickin
system. Everything in everyone had to know about it. And
everyone and when you and then I'm looking at these bonuses on
Wall Street, in 2007 handed out $150 billion worth of bonuses. I
mean, come on. 100 and $50 billion I mean that's the That's
outrageous. That money's coming from somewhere it's got to be a
scam and when you look at that number alone you got to think
Ponzi scheme there's just no other way.
We're in the wrong business. Well, too late now. No, no
What we'll get into the carbon trading business and we'll make
a bundle on that.
Well, that could work. So what else is going on? Well, you
know, we didn't talk about the Super Bowl and my correct
prediction of who's gonna win and why. Well, I
also predicted Pittsburgh, I do feel bad that I gave you a bump
steer and I told you to watch the commercials and I think you
were probably disappointed.
No, actually, I ended up watching the commercials. I
ended watching the whole game pretty much. So I took some
notes. I just make a few mentions. I thought it was
interesting that they exploited the crew of Flight 1549 and put
them on the show. He then then Jennifer Hudson gave a I thought
the best rendition of the national anthem I've ever heard
in my life even though I thought she was gonna fall on her ass
because she was in these five inch spike heels. And it
literally shaking up there.
I didn't see it so I'm just jealous.
Oh, it was unbelievable. I thought it was it was app. She
was hitting notes. I didn't realise you know that is a hard
thing to sing because you have to Hit this note in the middle
of nowhere. She like not only hit to know but she went beyond
it. She actually made that she has a hell of a range this woman
when she went into Florida let on that. But it was
telling him my Jennifer Hudson, my couple glasses on the shelf
busted.
Wow, hold on, let me i What's been released on iTunes.
That's get a kick out of it. That's interesting. And anyway,
they say she lives, though. This is the story that I'm reading.
Like if she lipsync she did a heck of a job because she was
she was didn't look like it anyway. Be that as it may.
Here's what I thought about the ads. Could you could they have
done more house ads? I counted to 10 or 11 house ads for NBC
before the first half of them. I stopped counting. And did house
come on right after the Super Bowl that house house I'm about
to house in terms of house. Okay, it was mostly for heroes.
And one other show they kept promoting. And then you NBCs
lineup, you know, this kind of thing. And there was way too
many of those. And then the only other thing that was being
advertised were movies. And what else? That's about it? Oh,
here's another exploitation. So they did a show. They're gonna
have the coin toss for the game. So they bring out John Elway
football player, Roger Craig football and then David
Petraeus, the military.
Did he have his uniform on?
And he's doing it? Yes. He's gonna flip the coin.
What is up with that? That's weird thinking.
This isn't bad. This is a commercial event. You know,
that's run by a football league and on a team. What did we bring
in the military and for? Hold on,
man, she's taking a deep breath. We just hear a little bit what
you're talking about. You know, American television does this so
well. Get the close up to the players. Oh, yeah.
Wow, that's good. That's hard to say. It does look a little bit
like she's lip syncing.
Well, I don't think you could tell he'd done a YouTube video.
Yeah, I can. I'm a professional. No, but this always looks like
your lip synching on YouTube.
No, I'm but no, no, you can just tell by the lack of force
emanating from her face.
Yeah. Possible. If I was doing it, I'd want to lip sync it to
Hell yeah. Because the thing is, you get that slap back from the
audio comes back, like, you know, almost a full second
later. It's almost impossible to sing in a stadium. Okay.
And anyway, the other thing they had a kind of a questionable ad
for the Castrol Edge, which is a oil. I guess it's synthetic.
Where a man kisses a monkey. That's hot. It was gross.
Really? Was that for viscosity breakdown.
And then a fighter? Yeah. And then I got a note here. Al
Michaels, the guy he really dislike his his announcing.
Pepsi Max. Oh, there they had a trailer for the Star Trek movie.
That looked pretty interesting. But again, you know, it's the JJ
Abrams. So I'm sure that this mostly, you know, just suspense
and things blowing up. That's about it. Yeah, there
was clearly no aha moment. What a great piece of video we just
saw.
Just don't do that anymore. Pepsi ads were pretty, pretty
decent. Off to go take them. There was a creepy ad for
something called G. I was, I think was Gatorade. I was Bruce
Springsteen at halftime. Oh, yeah. Bruce Springsteen, Bruce
Springsteen. I didn't make a note on that. It's actually kind
of funny. I thought he was great. Except, you know, it was
like singing you know, singing tramps like us, baby. We were
born to run and watching him sing that then thinking to
yourself, you know, this guy's worth $250 million if he's worth
a nickel. Why, you know, this song is just completely
ridiculous for him to sing it now. You mean from the sing it
ever made, you know? tramps like us, baby. We were born to run,
give me a break. And then and then at the end he does have
this joke at the end. He says you know, it's yes. It's the
thing. He's got the camera and he's holding the putt. Well,
here's the here's the thing that I did made a note of this. They
introduced him at the beginning and he comes walking out with a
guitar and then takes a guitar off and throws it to somebody
And then comes out and sings. What was the point of that?
And I didn't see it, man. I
don't know. I mean, why would you wear the guitar in the first
place? If you're not going to play? Well maybe
decided to play a different song to start off with? Yeah, what
did you What was the first song Born in the USA, and I was doing
the one of the new songs,
or it might have been whatever the case was, I thought this was
bullshit. And so then he sings You know, this other stuff. And
he's got the whole not only has Max Weinberg, who is the drummer
of his Eastery band, but he's got the entire Max Weinberg
seven from the from the, from the Conan O'Brien show playing,
which I must have been a thrill for them. Anyway, at the end, he
holds up as you did put a guitar on later in play, and he holds
it up and says, I'm going to Disneyland. So he's probably got
got an extra bonus for pulling. Oh, yeah,
for sure. Let me just hear let me hear the glass breaking note
John.
There it is. That everybody can do that. No. Listen to this.
Goosebumps fuck in America. For America bring up for trans
Americans is probably the highlight of the event. That was
good. Yeah, it was good. Oh, and they got the the jet fighters
fine overnight.
Oh, yeah. You got to have that, you know, we turned these
events. When when the I'm actually annoyed by this. When
did it become the thing to do? I don't believe in the 30s or even
after World War Two. When you went to a baseball game. They
didn't do the national anthem. Really? It's a baseball game.
Do you recall this, John? Because in my boyhood, no, but
I'm telling you. I remember when I was a kid. It was never as
played up as much as and I used to go to games in Chicago.
Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for our national anthem.
Right. What is this a military event I thought is a baseball
game. John. We have national anthem before a Bowling
Tournament. John, I mean, where do you draw the line with this?
Well, you know that many people find it strange to know that
American school kids in the morning because it really you
think about eight in the morning and
warning.
Hey, it's American school kids in the morning everybody got
Buzz? Buzz killing crackpot here yeah.
That American school kids not unlike you would you would think
of the Chinese school kids stand up and pledge allegiance to the
flag of the United States of America. Yeah, you know that.
That is all that Patricia finds that creepy?
Well, that's something that was instituted.
I personally like it, I like it. I like pledging allegiance to
our country and our Constitution. And if that
symbolises the flag, I'm okay with that.
Yeah, well, we used to do that, you know, when I was a kid, I
don't know when that came into play. That probably was in the
50s. Or maybe during World War Two, I'm not sure. I know,
probably wasn't in existence back in the 1920s. But
it also helps remind people that we are a republic, and to the
republic for which
that is that does do that. And I don't know, when I was a kid, we
used to do that all the time. Every you know, pledge
allegiance to the flag, blah, blah, blah, nine states of
america and may use Can
you not? Can you not say it? Can you and blahdy blah, can you not
pledge the allegiance?
No, I can pledge allegiance to the United States, America and
for the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God.
And then individuals in this room with liberty and justice
for all
hail now.
So so that was actually it's not a bad pledge. You know, I know
that the a lot of Jewish kids would not say the under God
part. And and because nobody cared, right? And they'd mumble
something. And I don't understand why but okay. And it
wasn't like under Jesus. And they tried to get into there's a
bunch of atheists to try to get the under God part. They always
argued that it was that was only added, I guess, in the mid 50s.
I don't even know what the history is. I'm sure Wikipedia
has it. And I don't know, I think yeah, it's not a bad
pledge. And it's when you tried to save with liberty and justice
for all pounding that home is probably not a bad idea, because
we're not getting a lot of liberty or justice. And so maybe
we'll get some revolt by the kids. I don't know if they still
do that pledge every day.
Oh, yeah. Oh, definitely. And, in fact, I read somewhere that
one school actually had one of those Obama cutouts and the kids
were pledging the allegiance but looking at the Obama cut out I
mean, it sounds like
yeah, there was a new story I read this is another similar
story where some teacher because he's teach a lot of these
teachers during the teachers union. And one of them
apparently, I was going to blog this and somehow I didn't I
don't know why should go back and revisit it. I'm sure it's
going to crop up more though. Apparently, some teacher put a
picture, you know, they have the guest instead of having a flag,
we always had a flag in our class, but instead of having a
fight, they have a picture of the flag. And next to the
picture the flag, he put up a picture of Obama. And so you
had, you know, a kid standing up doing the pledge allegiance to
Obama and the flag, pledge allegiance to the flag, but you
know, Obama was there. And so the kid moaned about this to his
parents, who are, you know, kids, obviously, some five year
old or fifth grader who's a Republican, which is creepy if
you think about it, and they pitched it to the school and a
big fuss was made and they wouldn't take the picture down.
And you know, the teacher ended up winning and I think the
Battle of the Obama picture, but I remember seeing, you know,
some classrooms if I'm not mistaken, because you float
around you see this stuff. You see there was pictures of
Clinton or Reagan are pictures of George Bush. I mean, yeah, so
as a picture of Obama I can't get that worked up about
Me neither. But it was one of those stories that people were
going oh my gosh.
The right wing is not reacted with much grace.
It were there any commercials about mercury in high fructose
corn syrup? On the Super Bowl? No, okay. Because I'm seeing
commercials now debunking. So these are mainstream commercials
debunking this. I'm sure you saw the news that there's apparently
yet trace trace of mercury in high fructose corn syrup. Yeah.
And so these commercials are like, hey, it has this is with
high fructose corn syrup. And the guy goes oh, I don't I don't
want that because you know, yeah, and then
this commercial has been around here for a while. Yeah, okay. I
don't want that and then she go into cute girl the crystal girls
real pretty, of course, because
you want to get laid so we're gonna have some high fructose
corn syrup.
So the girl says really? You don't like it? Why? And he goes
I don't know. I don't know that she's I think she throws some
propaganda back and I'm like, Well, you know, it has for you
as all it is, is fructose and sucrose and is the same as that,
you know,
what is it but what is it really John?
It's a it's a manufacturer you're one of the reasons I
don't like it. It's a manufactured sugar that goes
through a site and literally an oil refinery process.
With guys with with yellow hats on
and stuff? Oh, absolutely. You have to have part that's an
absolute an oil. It's hard hats where this stuff is made. And
he's got, you know, again, people with clipboards looking
at gauges. So looking at important millibars here. So
this goop falls out of a spigot, you know, after the process is
over, and it's it's manufactured, it's not a natural
product. And it's a it's a mixture of different kinds of
sugars. Mostly, it's got a lot of fructose. But you know, the
exact structure what is a way what is fructose? What is that
if that's the kind of sugar that is found in a lot of in most
fruit, fruit sugar.
And so where does the mercury come from?
The Mercury apparently comes from one of the within the
processing there is I guess a some sort of a
poison on the poisoning Step. Wait, wait, you forgot them
pulling through the lethal poisoning to Peter.
I think it's used as a in one of the processes in some I looked
it up to be honest about it after I read the story, because
I thought This is bull. And and there is some stage in the
process where there needs to where there's a we need a
catalyst. Oh, I think it's part of a catalytic process that
turns something into something else is along the way. And
somehow the mercury, which is involved got leached into the
process when it really shouldn't. And I guess it's
became a big scandal. That's the only thing I you know, I'm sure
sugar refinery, the guy who runs one of these refineries that
makes this crap.
Well, nothing will happen. Are you kidding me? Nothing's gonna
happen. This is the story is already gone. No one gives a
shit keep eating.
There's a lot of underlying, you know, people are getting a
little annoyed by the government by Well, the government's in
ability. You know, I think the FCC is a good example. You know,
we get these agencies that are supposed to protect us. They
don't do anything. Well,
not only that they're complicit John, it's, it's clear. They're
complicit. They're in the plot. They're getting paid. A they get
hookers, they get dope, they get all kinds of stuff. It's a great
big fucking party in DC and in any other governmental
organisation because it's just gone out of control.
Or the public is getting a little tired of it. And I think
the FDA is the in their sights, they don't trust them. And
they're not doing anything about food. We had this this, this
poisoning with this salmonella thing with peanut butter. I
mean, the whole country's peanut butter supply, which is one of
the one of the few countries that eats this stuff is
contaminated. And it's apparently been contaminated for
a year. And because of this,
the plant plant got all kinds of warnings, and they were told
that they had unhealthy working conditions. I know it's
outrageous.
Why isn't the CEO of that company in jail as we speak,
because Martha Stewart makes better headlines.
For so far these peanut butter has killed eight or more people.
That was the last count I heard which was last week, I haven't
seen what the body count is, you know since then. And there's so
you know, this is wrongful death written all over it. I'm sure
the lawsuits will wipe these guys up. But then again, they'll
get nothing because these guys are gonna go bankrupt, you can
count on that. And the CEO is going to be living in Bermuda. I
mean, this guy, and probably half the the executive staff, we
need to follow the you know, we need to follow the way China
does it.
Yeah, hang them, hang them. Well, we also have melamine in
our milk and it's the FDA actually said it's okay. You can
have X parts per million melamine, it's okay. And I'm
milk It's okay. Nothing to see here. People. Please keep
walking, Move along, move along. Nothing to see here. Just a
little bit of melamine being added. What I
get. Here's the other thing that I think has got to annoy the
public. You have like we have bicycles. Well, that's another
story we have in Washington State. You know, there's a the
Dungeness Valley Creamery, which is down. It's about 20 minute
drive from our house in Port Angeles. And we get all our milk
from there. And it's raw. And this guy who's a clean freak, by
the way, which is typical these raw milk guys, which means, you
know, you have to really do a serious number. And the cows
look so contented at this place is unbelievably happy,
right? They're like, moo you could tell I mean, seriously,
you finally you can see cows smile, I know you can absolutely
this, these cows are happy and they produce a good product. And
this guy is harassed, harangued and just basically intimidated
from the get go, here's the first raw milk provider in the
state of Washington. He's worked on it for 10 years pushing and
pushing and pushing the legislation to change because
all these guys will make this crappy product that needs to be
pasteurised because it's contaminated and diluted
and added melamine to it
because they were our support are basically in cahoots with
them you know there's well I don't see how this raw milk
place can stay in business. And meanwhile the raw milk is a
million times better for you if you know
you know that it's just
the public has got to be sick of this of the but you know a lot
of them are still breeding to fit pumping out
now. We're not just that we're looking at Amy Winehouse. It's
more important. I went to Sainsbury to go get a couple of
ed to run some errands. And there was no milk because of the
blizzard of oh nine that they had here. No milk, there was
just no milk. There was no need for tea.
It's impossible. It's
very challenging. But yeah, no milk,
you know switch to green tea during these periods and drink
that that's that doesn't even really
drink and rock and nettle tea pretty soon dude in this
country.
So broke. I know that's one of the big stories over the other
one I thought I just kept running into in the Daily Mail.
Is the Jessica Simpson shoving out seems to be a big story.
You have got to be kidding me. If you actually follow that.
I'm not trying to I'm not it's hard. It's
hard to avoid. I
know it's hard to avoid that keep showing these pictures of
her and these kind of funky pants she was wore once. And
they're the Daily Mail is calling her asides. She says I
think she's pretty small girl, but to call her size 12 Oh,
please. I'm looking I'm doing I don't think that's possible. No.
It's so sad.
Anyway, I think the public is getting fed up. Well, I hope so
because the portion of the public doesn't take everybody to
get fed up because some people are just going to eat anything
and they don't care about high fructose corn syrup, or the fact
that soybean oil makes it better, you know, fuel than it
does cooking oil. And that canola oil is there's no such
thing as a canola plant. And canola oil means Canadian oil
with low acidity and it's actually rapeseed oil. You know,
this this sort of thing. You know, they always get the
biggest kick out of the number of people We'll use canola oil
and I always bring the same thing up. What does it mean?
What is the canola? Have you ever seen one? Where does it
come?
It's a beautiful tree that canola, the beautiful
canola tree. And he's like, anyway, they couldn't sell it as
rapeseed oil because nobody would buy it.
Well, I agree with you think the public is getting fed up, I
watched the span every morning, it's the early morning show when
you can call in. And they have a independent line, a Democrat
line and Republican line, which is kind of cool. So the people
are kind of pre identified as they call in. And unfortunately,
everyone sounds at who calls in just kind of farmers to see
Spanish at BU but it's great. Oh, but it's it's really good.
It's really entertaining particularly the the live Obama
show, which seems to be just about every morning. But you
know, now that everyone's getting upset and and even
though it's trivial in the in the true theft that is taking
place and has already occurred, you know, these, these bonuses,
and people are getting really mad. And in the meantime, you
know, we've got FEMA building camps to throw the troublemakers
in. That's my opinion. And we have bills like HR 45, which are
intended to take away our guns, which is kind of the cool thing
about America is that we you know, at the end of the day, and
I don't think it's actually ever been hesitant, ever been tried
was we've ever had a true coup attempt. Have we?
Yeah, well, there was. There was an there was a mild attempt on
Roosevelt. Very interesting story. It was and it was by the
Democrats, I might add, they tried to get I think the guy's
name was General Butler. This is on the actually on the blog, I
found a good reference to it. Everyone knew about this. My dad
actually told me about this when I was a little kid that he knew
something about, but the debt, all the documents have come out
since. And the Democrats didn't like Roosevelt, he was not one
of their normal Democrats. He was kind of a combination of a
Republican and a socialist in some funny way. And but he
wasn't part of the system that they had. And they wanted to get
rid of him. So they were going to do a coup. have general
Butler, who was apparently very famous at the time, take over
the government when they were all going to go along with it.
Oh, yes, yes, there's gonna be claiming that the President was
disabled, you know, because he had polio or something like that
he couldn't function properly. And the general and I think
American military tends to be this way. said no, basically. So
you guys are crazy. And the whole scheme fell apart. I'll
put another link to that and the blog, because it's really an
interesting story. And that's the closest I think we've come.
But that is a part of the point of the second amendment is to be
able to overthrow the government or remove the government is not
well, I think it's to protect the government. If the idea is
is if you had a situation where the governor was overthrown by
the military some of that then you could arm and reinstall the
right
world, the government has been overthrown by the military
industrial complex. It has happened. It's done. It's in
place. It's
it's not obvious.
Yeah, September 10 2001, Donald Rumsfeld says and I quote, yeah,
we can't find $2 trillion. Yeah, not obvious. That's right. They
covered it up one day they did one day later thing
the thing is, is that you know the people who are going on and
on about how Bush was going to just take over and he was going
to be the third you know that he's gonna take it third term
and he was gonna he was gonna nuke Iran so they could stay in
office and push off the elections. None of this
happened. These people were all crazy, but the same day I
remember hearing the same crap and it's always the Democrats
who push these agendas by the way you know, you think all the
Republicans are got all these conspiracy theories about this
and that yeah, they have a few but they don't keep thinking
stuff like like, you know, the president's going to declare
martial law and then next thing you know, it's going to be you
know, third term for Bush they said the exact same thing about
Nixon well, maybe it was I remember this guy one writer,
Mark rich I think his name is Nixon had it planned he was
going to be in for the third time then it was gonna be the I
swear to God, he said there was gonna be crowned emperor. And
these people were actually believing this Emperor Nixon
that sounds kind of cool.
I mean, these guys are kind of Emperor's we might as well make
them that just call them by their name you know? I got some
cool album art for today's show, by the way. Yeah, Obama. No, no,
it's it's you and I it's a cartoon you and I throw in the
Oh, and it's a crackpot and bust and the Buzzkill. You're like
it's good. Hey, just came out. The BBC just released. The
Hudson plane crash audio. The Missing tape,
the one you've been looking for? You want to link to it? I'm sure
it sounds all spliced up.
Well, let's do this. I have would hurt. You want to do it
but it's only like a minute. Yeah, yeah, let's go. Second.
Cactus 1539 hit first. Returning back towards LaGuardia. You need
to return a little buddy turn left heading up to 200 stopping
to park he's got emergency returning 15 point on a bird
strike he lost all ng he lost the trust and the agency's
attorney immediately went back
to 29. We see how come we don't hear that part. So we hear I
hate this. So we hear him say bird strike. We're turning back.
And then this guy calls the May another controller and he says,
Well, he's lost thrust in both engines. How can we don't hear
that part? I hate that.
Well, maybe he just maybe they go the air traffic controller
was just dreaming it
well let's listen to maybe it was in the script. Let's let's
listen to the left of the rest of it.
He lost rice in both ends as he said got it. At his 1529 Could
you get it? Do you want to try to win when we won? Right? We
may end up in 15 Point on Runway four is available if you want me
to run not an option whatsoever to write anything in New Jersey
maybe Teterboro. Okay, you're off your right side is Teterboro
airport. You want to try to go to Teterboro. Empire actually
look like a departure guy. Emergency inbound. khakis 1529
over the George Washington Bridge wants to go to the
airport right now. Going through our project if you need
assistance. Yes, yeah, it was a bird strike and I get them in
for runway one. One way one. That's good. Catch. 1529 Turn
right to a theory can land runway wanted to tomorrow. We
can't do it. Okay, which runway we do, like at Teterboro. We're
gonna be
we're gonna be in Hudson. Wow. So that was one minute and 20
seconds and the guy made so of course, it was edited. So it
sounds like he made three phone calls. Three separate phone
calls to other controllers. I don't know, man. I just hate it.
Why don't they just release the raw audio that I hate it when
they do this? I want to hear all the details. I want to hear how
we call it in the bird strike. That's all I get. To be in the
Hudson it is kind of funny, though. I mean, listen to a
guy's awesome. I mean, it's it's pretty that's like a Bruce
Willis vibe there
is like totally. It's like, well, you know,
here's the here's the piece of the audio that we're missing
when he says you want to go to Teterboro? You know, the piece
of the audio, which I'm sure we'll find in the cockpit voice
recorder is Fuck no, I hate Teterboro. It's always got a
crosswind What a piece of shit airport I don't want to go
there. I'd rather go into the Hudson that's the piece we're
missing. They edited the good stuff out I tell you damn it.
Yeah, I'd rather be in the Hudson it's a good one. It's
like
total John Wayne stuff man. It's beautiful. You could make that
stuff up you know?
Yeah, we should probably do a takeoff on the whole thing.
Okay, let's see what we got here for last Saturday. I had a
couple of notes see we can make this way it makes sense yeah, we
had a we had a note to ourselves John that at least twice an
episode we would play an Obama
country just wanted to keep the quote up.
Yeah, that's good. And that's actually kind of a snap is
sounds radio ish it's makes us it makes the show sound like
oh yeah, I have five of them so I can intertwine them and make
new remixes will have enough to last us a year.
We should probably throw in some of that in the morning stuff to
him as a pull a clip from well, we should
also do 100 Days Day 17 Obama in the morning FM
radio. Yeah, we should to really annoy our listeners
to get off on it. They're throwing the towel on the Skype
chat by the way.
So who is the we got to get that website up? Nope, say no more.
So now I've got these notes. These are from last week. Your
last Saturday. One says YouTube Does that ring a bell? No.
I've heard it I've heard of you to cactus. Oh on John. There's a
longer he won't be able to hear that. Now nevermind.
For here's another note I made. Yeah. Finish cussing.
Yeah, we'll remember it. Yeah, yeah, that rings a bell but you
weren't supposed to bring it up on the show. You were supposed
to have some finished cuss words.
Oh, finish. I guess it's finished now. Oh, Oh no,
no, but it's irrelevant now because they're quitting the
show. Oh, they always quit yeah and other quitting the show
because they're like, Well if those guys are going to do to no
agendas we can't do to new yo agenda that's going to cut too
much in my family time.
But yes, so much work
dragon about something that just heard.
You know, they can you know, the other thing is they could just
do the one yo agenda show about the Saturday show. Yeah. And
it's just skip us. You know? Yeah. Okay. Then we finally
beaten back day obviously can't, can't, can't hack. Okay, here's
another one IPO versus 55. And I've got 55 circled
IPO versus 55. And 55 is circled by them was IPO versus 55. Don't
know I'm gonna have to pay you know what I'm gonna have to pass
out like?
Alex, Alex,
Alex, Rebecca.
I've come to the conclusion that the only reason that the I think
I may have mentioned this on cranky geese yesterday or the
day before, yesterday, I've come to the conclusion. I haven't
written this up, but that the only reason for the entire
financial collapse is because they created all these crazy
real estate investment deals that were all, you know,
packaged and sold and bought and sold and bought, mainly because
there was no IPO market to rip off and
Oh, okay. Yeah, very good point. Very good point
ever since Sarbanes Oxley can blame on Sarbanes Oxley?
Which How old is that now? Eight years? Seven,
I think came in in 2002? I believe
so about seven years? Yeah. Fantastic. Great job. Yeah. No,
that's a that's a very good point.
Yeah, cuz these guys are always making money on the, you know,
on the on betting on these IPO deals, and they were always
packaging them up to all the time was spent doing those
things. There were no IPOs. Last year one maybe
I'll never forget, when we when we took our company public, you
get the infamous pricing meeting the evening before. So
essentially, the underwriter the bank, looks at their book, their
order book, and it's they have maybe 10 people who will each
say they'll take 20%, but they know they really won't, you
know, and they just look at all the all the shares, and they
look at how much money needs to be raised. And of course, really
how much money they're going to take in fees, warrants and all
kinds of other tricky stuff. And then they have a little
something left behind the scenes called the was the green shoe.
So if you need more shares, to make up the amount of money the
company needs to raise, and you know, there's more, there's all
kinds of tricks and all kinds of shit going on. And then you have
that pricing meeting. And for a number of reasons we had to be
priced at and this was very, very early. This is before.com
Mania. This was 96. And we actually were company making
money. And but we need to go out at like $7 a share. It was very
small IPO. And so they said no, it has to be six bucks. And
there are a number of reasons with Yeah, with investors pre
pre the IPO that it had to be a minimum of seven and we just
left we walked the deal. And of course, you know, they wouldn't
let it bus but it was just amazing to see how but like
clockwork, you know, if you read a book about going public, this
is exactly what happens. And it's one big scam they're all
horn pole dance beer drinkin.
cheats? Yeah. So they went to a they couldn't do that anymore.
So they had to find something else to do. And they screwed it
up. Because they weren't used to it. They never saw anything like
this. Here's another one that's on the list. Who started the 100
days?
Yes, yeah, that we were talking about that. But we talked about
it after we stopped recording. And you see the graphics
everywhere. I know that it's now day 17 of of the first 100 days
and who started it and why? Because it's illogical. A
quarter everything goes by quarters. So it will be 90 days.
Well, the first time I remember it, although I've somebody might
give me an earlier reference, and maybe one of our listeners
can. And maybe there was something to do with Roosevelt.
Because again, you know, everything is Roosevelt,
Roosevelt. So it might have been a Roosevelt thing. I mean, there
may have been 100 Day deal with Roosevelt. But the first one I
personally remember experiencing was the 100 days of the
Macintosh, from Steve Jobs and his 100 day when he rolled out
the first Mac in 1984 was going to be this 100 days, you got to
do this. That's our goal. We have 100 days to do this and 100
days to do that 200 days to sell so many machines. And after the
100 days, you know they accomplished it, and that was
that but they made a big deal out of it.
Well jobs isn't original, so it's very likely that he was the
first one to come up with it.
Maybe But I doubt it. I just doubt it. I just have a sense
that I don't think so. But if nobody can come up with another
one that actually you know Yes, it will also be if you find that
100 day thing, it has to have some influence. And in other
words, it would have to have been a Roosevelt or Reagan or
some president or some big thing or Ford Motor Company couldn't
be just, you know, Joe schmuck down the street, the Chamber of
Commerce came up with 100 day plan. Yeah, that's where it
started.
Yeah. Maybe did start with FDR, who knows?
You know, just sounds like an FDR thing to me. And the fact
that Obama's, you know, trying to be FDR, yeah, well, here's
another one looking forward. There's another one. I have a
squiggly arrow pointing at a square box. And inside the
square box are the numbers 101 and 102. And the number 101 is
circled. Wow. I don't know. Now this comes right after it says
who started 100 days and I have an arrow that goes over and then
doglegs down and says Obama break down? And then I have
that's where these two numbers appear? One on One and 102. So
it may have something to do with 100 days. Is there 100 102? I
don't know.
That was probably your own little thought thing there. You
didn't.
It was ridiculous. So what's the point of making notes if this is
what you end up with? A
very good question, John.
And here's another one. This one's at an angle. And it's
circled. And as to number 102 point 44 102 point
44 FM everybody is g c. D in the morning in one Oh 2.44.
So maybe somebody can help there maybe some of that temperature.
Not sure.
Switching gears former Vice President Dick Cheney warned
that there is a high probability that terrorists will attempt a
catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in the coming
years and he fears that Obama's administration policies will
make it more likely the attempt will succeed.
Like guy never gives up he's believable. So somebody said
this on one of these show I one of these talk shows and I can't
remember who it was or where but I you know, I would I'd credit
him. They said Dick Cheney comes in. He supposedly had you know,
some sort of, you know, fell down or hurt himself. So he had
to be in a wheelchair for the Obama inauguration speech. And
if you see the pictures there, you'll see him sitting next to
Bush and he's in his wheelchair. He's like, doctor he's got the
guys comment was I think it was unusual. I think it was the guy
who was Tom Brokaw? No is DL hewgley dl Hughley said this. He
says the reason for this is because he didn't want to ever
have to stand during Obama's speech.
No way. He said that that's funny.
It said that as soon as he said it, I said that could be it.
Yeah, well doesn't want to stand I mean, Obama's coming in and
everyone has to stand up right to present because he doesn't
have to because he's in a wheelchair so screw Yeah.
It could be true but i think i Third Tom Brokaw say he looks
like Dr. Evil they
did say that broke has gotten kind of nerdy. But so I've got
this another thing I want to blog
I've met him he's a cool guy broke off. I think he smokes
dope and a lot of it
he looks like he does he talks a little bit like he does I was
smoking marijuana today he looks like Dr. Evil he does that to a
lot it I want to blog entry for the FDR says in a blog sup mill
vice
president share now let me ask you, Tom, Tom broke jaw
getting there. So there's this picture, I'm gonna blog it
today. I keep promising this and I haven't done it. The guy is
amazing. Protecting the country. Security is a tough mean dirty,
nasty business. He said these are Cheney. Yeah, these are evil
people. And we're not going to win this fight by turning the
other cheek bomber. Wow. That's just
yeah, he should just shut up for real. Anyway, there's this
picture. I'm going to blog it. I tried to do it to this afternoon
or tonight. It's a super high resolution multi megapixel shot
of the inauguration audience with Obama in the middle.
I've seen that. And there's another one from there was
another one that I saw that was not the ones you send these from
global id.com I think. Yeah, from the top from the top as me
That's amazing. Look, you couldn't read you couldn't read
the tag on women's bras. I mean, it's unbelievable. It's just
outrageously beautiful.
So anyway, so there's one that I sent you a copy of has, you
know, I was looking for Maggie, you know, within our office and
she was in that audience somewhere. I couldn't find her.
But there's a lot of other people that are missing. I
couldn't find John Doerr for example, in any of the what I
love Did I love the expressions on everyone's faces? Did you
zoom in and look at Biden and look at
why he did was put over in the peanut gallery. What's he doing
over there? That's why he was looking so prudish. I thought
that Biden was given a good, the bum's rush. I mean, dude, you
can tell by where they sat these people who was gonna you know,
what were the situation and Biden looks like he's out.
Well, he is he's on that listening tour for the next six
months. So they should
definitely he's definitely out of the picture. Yeah. Because
Because you know what I think
I think Biden actually has some heart for the country and he's
making trouble and he wants to really do something. And so
they've they've tuned his chip or whatever, and said, Okay, you
now will help middle class go on listening to a report back?
Because I think the guy might actually have some real
time or have the opinion is if they're gonna screw them.
They're gonna put them in the penalty box here. Well for
something he may have said during the campaign.
You know, it's interesting, you bring that up this whole
Blagojevich business, this guy must have pissed off someone
somehow. Because I was thinking back to you know, how did all
this come out? And now all of a sudden they were audio to me we
can't get the audio tape of of the of the heroes solid Berg
flying into the Hudson landing in the Hudson ditching for four
weeks, yet, no problem. Within minutes, we've got the blue boy
of H phone tapes of him basically selling the Senate
seat, which I'm sure is business as usual across the entire
government. He must have pissed someone off real bad.
Yep. I wouldn't be surprised, especially in Chicago,
I need to I need to understand more Chicago politics. There's a
lot going on there. And that historically, we should know
because our president is from there. And he comes from that
pool. Yep. Is it daily is daily the dawn?
Yeah, daily, he will, he will, you know, took over from his
other from his father, who was the original guy. And then they
had a bunch of boneheads in the middle. And Richard Jr. took
over and he's running the show. And, you know, he runs it. You
know, Chicago has always been run with a kind of a mob like,
style with a big boss,
which I kind of like I don't mind it. I think that's kind of
cool. It
works. You know, Chicago is not the worst place in the world.
Although I think it's becoming kind of, it's starting to fall
apart. I'm not going to blame any ethnic group. But but while
I'm at it, well, maybe I shouldn't even go there. You
lived in Chicago, right? Only when I was a little kid. And but
I still go back there because there's a lot of meetings and
things that happen in Chicago and I'm always driving around.
And I you know, I rent in California and so I rent cars.
And so I'm always driving around and I think the Chicago is
becoming I think is going to have the second biggest Latino
population outside of Mexico City shortly. I'll tell you get
you can get as good a taco. Or seriously as not, you know,
longer known for its deep dish pizza. It's now home of the
taco.
I'm telling you, they got good tacos there. I mean, they have
we have good tacos in the San Francisco Bay Area. And there's
lots of great ones on San Diego and then of course you go to
Mexico, you might find them there too. But Chicago is just
got just unbelievable. But it seems to be seems to be a huge
influx. Now. They may be that may be reversing because now
that it seems that they're cracking down on
wasn't there wasn't a lot of construction going on in Chicago
for the past 2030 years.
I don't know I don't notice it.
I do have a question. John. Your notes are so interesting to me
and I do love playing the What the frick did John write down a
week ago game? But how in the devil? Do you manage to write a
book? I mean, you you don't take notes properly. How can you ever
reconstruct it to create me? Don't you to have to take notes
when you're doing your investigative work for I do no
more phantom than I think it is?
No, no, the book is actually done. No, I the way you do it is
you write taking notes and then using them later has never been
an effective method for me to do anything. Unless I have the one
big idea like I'll have the best kind of notes that I make are
thematic. Do you
just write a word or do you use an outline or of any type or I
don't use an outline. I just write I write straight up use
Remington typewriter.
I use it Olympics I blew the joke and there's I can't
remember the name of the typewriter company. I think it's
Olympus or Olympic not sure. Anyway. No, you just write you
just go for it. And then you go back and you've you. What you do
is you want it you kind of do it in a reverse manner. You have
information that you don't know the specifics of and you just
leave that blank, or actually put a code in. So you can always
search for these spots. And then you write everything you can and
then you go back and you fill in these blanks that confirm your
whatever it was you're writing. But generally speaking, I take a
note for anything I'm writing about, I'll just, I only write
short essays generally. But an a book can be a series of them.
I'll write like, the column I'm working on now for PC mag is the
New York Times. And it's thinking about making the online
addition a subscription, or yet to pay. And so I'm writing a
column about what a stupid idea that is.
If you've got a multibillion dollar business idea, no worries
here comes Buzzkill. Buzzkill will ruin your plans. Fantastic.
So I don't need a lot of notes. So I mean, it's like doing this
show. I mean, there's, you know, this conversation, I have a lot
of information that I've accumulated.
It's just not decipherable.
Well, when you write it down on a piece of paper as one Oh, 2.44
Yeah, maybe that's a bill. Somebody called me say, well,
you're yours. But I usually put $1 sign in front of it, but I
didn't know
I was thinking it could be a stock price maybe or
they wouldn't be 40. Maybe now I don't think so. I don't know. I
have no idea. I also have another one note on here says
ravens talking I kind of know what that's about. And then
Kirby Hensley, which I'll say for another show. Since you
mentioned you're in the Universal Life Church.
I'm not just a member. I'm a grand poobah.
Grand Poobah? You know, you got one point. Hensley would give
you a you know, we visited him which I'll tell the story more
detail on some of the show.
He's the founder of the Universal Life Church.
Yeah, he says so you want a PhD? What do you want a PhD in?
Anything and I sit down maybe I ended up getting a doctorate
divinity. So crazy. So I can put John C Dvorak D D. I just got
an email from Bobby Eden. That's patricius pornstar friend. Oh,
God Bo BBI if you want to Google or pay and the last thing I had
in my notes, which I kind of bitched about Yes, I did source
code yesterday. People have pointed out to me that my money
honey Erin Burnett that she's that she's one of them. She used
to be one of she worked at Goldman Sachs she was at Council
on Foreign Relations. I mean, she's total programme job and
among I'm heartbroken
Erin Burnett was on the Council of Foreign Relations that must
have been boring
it's the organisation all those inside fuckers belong to it
everybody's so Rush Limbaugh you know has easy to affection for
her recently talking about her shit.
Well, you can have you can have or you can have you can have her
I'm done with her already. She's reptilian it's hard to find out
this is one of
the casualties of war. Hard to believe that she was I mean it
doesn't make a lot of sense when you see an attack What was she
doing there?
Well she was she was an analyst I think she when you hear her
speak on she was on Meet the Press. And it really was as a
YouTube video about it really was pretty clear that she's
trying to tell the stupid people that you know these bonuses
weren't really from TARP money it goes into that money goes
into a special pool it was it was pretty pathetic it really
like that. That's like the No Yeah, we're going we were losing
my we've lost $10 billion and we're going to take this TARP
money I'm gonna get myself a billion from the 10 billion we
lost so we're gonna have lost 11 billion
she didn't even better Steve Forbes is at the table speaking
of. And she said, Well, you know, so like, say we're a bank
and I'm over here and my department lost a billion
dollars. But Steve over there his department gained a billion
dollars now we still lost a billion dollars. But shouldn't
Steve be compensated with a bonus for the great job he did?
I'm like,
oh my god when she say that?
She said that exactly like that. I went flaccid I was just man.
Wow, yeah, it was it was painful. And then I look at her
bio and like she's total reptile Insider. It's no wonder no
wonder these these morons, the ones who aren't in the game on
Wall Street. These morons are looking at her going, hey, yeah,
I'll invest in that. Aaron. Yeah, I'm gonna go for gold. I'm
gonna go for oil, whatever. It's got to be some kind of hypnotic
thing they've got going on with it because it's sort of working
out. To me there is a strategy behind her, no doubt. And I'm
very upset,
apparently, but maybe it could still cure her. Yeah, right
could make her better. I worked with her a couple of times more
than a couple actually. She does that show that I was doing a lot
on CNBC, which shows that yeah, she's market data. No
lunch street signs. Sometimes. Yeah. That's the one that Kramer
comes on all time all the time.
He comes out here the guy comes on. He doesn't do so much but
he'd come on and he killed a kill half the show and we'd get
bumped. Oh, really? Because he couldn't get him off the air.
So you work in the studio with her?
No, no, I worked in I bend to the studio, but I generally work
out of San Francisco and they just beam it in on a satellite.
Or an ISDN line I guess. How was
she off the air? Was she nice? Was she sweet? Where she
I never saw her in person. That's the weird thing about I
met almost all the other
No, but when when you're not on the air yet.
i She's fantastic. Well, it's hurting me. I'm just saying. Now
she's got all the girls or women sorry. Are you because one of
them is probably uptight, and blonde. The blonde one? There's
a bunch of blonde ones so you don't know which one? The
the one who is the one who does love power lunch.
Show the mind looks like Goldie Hawn little bit. Yeah, yeah,
that's her. She talked to her. I told her she looked like Goldie
Hawn and she thought that was I was was that a score? She
thought it was a good compliment. Yeah, but have you
seen Have you seen they held Goldie and I realised that was
one of the do and I couldn't quite figure it out which Goldie
Hawn
looks pretty road weary these days. She's 90. She's not 90.
John, you're older than
this. I told a woman she looks like a young Goldie Hawn right?
A Goldie Hawn just refuses to participate in the Hollywood
Game of
regular maintenance. Me pulling her face up with operations.
Yes, that is that is the game. She doesn't have to she's an
executive producer. Now she does mostly people don't
realise how much she has done in the field of production and how
incredibly successful she's been all they can ever think about
Private Benjamin was he's done a little bit more than that. It
always bothers me. You see these gossip shows? Oh, Goldie Hawn.
Ah, the laughter I just got cellulite.
Yeah, she's pretty much not playing that game. She's going
to age gracefully. Although with people making comments like
she's rode where he I don't know, maybe she's going to be
pressured to do something.
I just received an email with the Troubled Asset Relief
programme status of efforts to address transparency and
accountability issues. Is that the PDF you were talking about?
No, this is very this is talking about the Madoff list.
All right. I'm sorry. 900 something Oh, this is also
interesting. I'll have to forward this to you. Oh, yeah,
definitely. is the total disbursed 293 point 7 billion
capital purchase programme 194 billion. Fantastic. Automotive
Industry financing programme. How much do you think we've
spent so far on the automotive industry?
2,000,000,019.5.
Wow. Interesting, huh? Oh, cool. It's got a timeline. Oh, this is
this is from the GAO, you guys sent me that? This sounds good.
Yeah, this is let me just thank the person who sent this to me.
Eric luzinski says I asked my congressman, where's the
transparency? And they sent me a document on TARP allocation of
293 billion less every bank how much the received here's the
link. Where did the rest go? And where the hell did it come from?
Is the Fed buying US Treasuries to fund this question mark,
question, Mark. John,
I have no idea. I think it's a bits of
you knows a card, you know, it hit me and this will be the
final final word out of me for this show. This is basically
economic hitman in reverse. Because now we have you know,
this whole by American which Obama has had to basically
retract because, of course, it's the Chinese who want to come in
with our steel. And it's it's it's almost like what we've done
to Africa for the past 5040 years or longer than that. We're
okay we're going to lend you all this money and now when you
can't possibly pay it back, we're going to start to make
demands like you're going to take our shit you we're going to
sell you our shit so we can get our money back in the with
profit. Isn't this just a complete reverse economic
hitman?
Economic Hitman turned in on itself. Do you agree? Is that
what you're saying? Yeah. You know, I don't know. I don't
know, I had to watch it play out. I don't know what the
scheme is the IMF
is in on that he's on in on the game. It's just it's like
everyone, everyone went where the money is. Everyone's in East
Asia. That's where all the big money guys are off to. And, you
know, the Chinese as one example, have been lending us,
you know, trillions of dollars. And
so what you're implying is that, essentially the whole or, you
know, our government government apparatus and everything that
works for that has been working for Americans to improve our lot
in life have basically sold us out.
Yes, absolutely. And I believe there's a lot of really good
people in government I think there's a lot of really good
civil servants but they are probably too afraid don't want
to make waves they've got a job. Some of them do some stand up
and they're just there's still a little misguided in what they
say and what they latch on to they don't really see the big
picture. But yeah, in general, I think the whole system is
completely corrupt from the inside out and just look at Wall
Street just look at the bailout just look at the SEC, the whole
made off thing who by the way, was one of the creators of
NASDAQ and so yeah, I'm pretty sure that this thing and you
know Hello awake all of a sudden do we see what's going on? If
there's smoke there's fire if it smells like shit looks like shit
and tastes like shit it's probably shit
at this defining moment, change has come through America a
government of the people by the people and for the people has
not perish from the earth. This is your mystery we are and
always will be the United States of America
lovely Well I think that you're just putting everybody on a
bummer
I'm sorry to do that. But that's what you can expect from
crackpot
which I am and and buzz kill so
is it and I think what's better than that
the one make you're more of a buzzkill than me. I just want to
throw that
out. What if it's not specified dude, no one said that it's
crackpot and buzzkill and divorce suck and it's
I think it should be crackpot and the buzzkill this should be
a voice in there it shouldn't just be like that. I like the
sound it's better feel better now you feel better that you've
got a little the thing like King King buzz kill. The buzz kill
the buzz kill crackpot in the buzz kill everybody in the
morning.
All right, well, we'll talk again on the weekend and see if
we can see if we can sustain this level of information since
you know it did another hour and a half. I'd like to get it down
to an hour.
I kind of enjoy it.
Yeah, it's hard to stop. Because I have to go do tech five top
five which meant the dude did it tomorrow or this afternoon now
because I'm gonna miss my
Baba Baba Baba. Always bitching and moaning. Yep. A Buzzkill. So
Saturday or Sunday? Well, we'll
see what happens. Saturday, probably Saturday.
I agree. Okay. Coming to you from the place in space they
know as Gitmo nation east in southwest London in the curry
terrace. I'm Adam curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak here in Northern Silicon Valley V. Get
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