Adam curry, John C. Dvorak keeping citizens informed and
aware across the entire Gitmo nation. This is no agenda for
March 1 2000. Nice is no agenda. Coming to you from the crackpot
command center in southwest London Gitmo nation east. I'm
Adam curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak. Buzzkill Bastian Silicon Valley north,
get mo nation, the London bulls kill.
New montage? Yes, he didn't put it up faster than that. No, I
suck. I'm sorry. A lot going on here, you know, a lot of mouse
work, I actually looked into because there's, you know,
there's so much it's firing from the computer screen. So it's
actually quite inconvenient to do stuff with a mouse in that
regard. When you're doing I was doing radio stuff. I looked into
what turns out to be like a holy holy war type situation I looked
into implementing mouse was it follow a focus follows mouse
on on the Mac, which is what is that? What's the
it's a very old Unix X 11 type thing. In fact, it still still
works that way. And it's a source of huge debate. On many
Unix grant, Gui systems, if you mouse over another window of a
different application, even though you're not bringing it
toward the truth to the forefront, the focus of this
wherever the mouse is, means that your keyboard will interact
with that window in that application. Without having to
click without having to click Of course, when you click that it
obscures other windows. And it's so it's the Mac OS X does have a
version of it, scrolling works on on focus. So if you have an
application in the foreground, and you want to scroll your
browser window that's in the back that works. If you do it
through like a mouse, mouse scroll wheel, but you can do a
key input commands and it's I was reading an article on today.
It's fascinating why that's not implemented. Or you know if it
ever can be a lot of it is basically Apple saying this is
good for everybody. Now live with it. But it would be nice if
I could do it. Yeah, it
would have been in that last in that intro there where you were
dead in the water after I said hello.
Don't make me do it again, man. Hey, John, how are you?
Okay. Okay, having some having some oatmeal here in the morning
in the morning.
Oh, you too. Were too quick for me, baby. If only I had that,
that follow focus thing. It could have been much faster on
the draw.
Yeah, well, you'll probably have one of these days be in the
groove. What you'll get some point you're going to do a
perfect show.
Shoot me when that happens. Oh, I just to get into the vibe
here. Want to say that? I took the lady Patricia. Friday night
to see Jersey Boys in London. And you I'm sure you haven't
seen it. Have you John?
Yeah, you're sure I haven't seen it? Well, they did play it here
in San Francisco. They had the Yeah, no, I Turing true. That's
where I saw it first. Oh, you've seen it twice. Now? Well, this
was why I actually was very well for Patricia don't have not seen
it. And I was very interested to see what a London version would
look like. Without wasn't
with British actors. Well, well, wait, let me let me guess. Let
me Yes. So I would think because it's San Francisco, San
Francisco is interesting to go see plays and if anybody and I
think this is probably true for any of these secondary markets,
the audience is so appreciative that if somebody if puts on the
worst piece of crap in history, they get a standing ovation. So
there's this like, it's like an Obama speech. There's standing
ovations constantly. And at the end there, you know, the curtain
call for crap. It's, it's almost hard to take.
Let me tell you, coming from Jersey, I really resent that
remark. Okay. Jersey Boys. And that story can never be compared
to Obama. Not good.
I'm not comparing this scene at the San Francisco theater to,
you know, where some people just get standing goes for no good
reason. I would say the audience reactions were very similar.
Although, in the San Francisco version, there were people kind
of getting up and dancing during some of the some of the songs.
Obviously, it's a musical. That's what they
weren't spinning. No.
Average age in San Francisco, and I saw it before it was
classified as a bonafide hit. Which is kind of nice. And one
of the actors who actually used to do and if he still does a
podcast, Eric, he used to do a podcast. He invited me and I
love the show and I thought it was fantastic. And so I was
interested to see what it would be like in the in London's West
End first of all packed house this thing has been going for, I
guess a year now here in the West End. Not a single seat
leftover. And it was really hard for me to get into it because
Even though the accents were pretty much their, you know,
they they sounded kind of Jersey, there's just something
that you just can't replicate it. You just cannot replicate a
true Jersey attitude you know, it's not even the way the word
sound but just you know, it's it's very subtle ways of
standing, shifting your way to you know, body language and they
did not hit them. I mean great, great performances, as you know,
not bumping into the furniture, getting their lines out and
fantastic singing the lead. The guy who played Frankie Valli was
phenomenal, great singer, but it just didn't make it to the can't
do it. And in fact, there was there was one guy who plays a
couple of different roles. He plays like a cop. He plays a DJ
plays a record company owner. And I like that guy got to be an
American and he was the only the only American in the cast
because he could really hit it. He could he could portray it. So
it was just interesting that it really for me just really didn't
work.
I'm sure the New York version would have been the one that
really rush I wish
and let me just play one bit of a song from the fabulous Frankie
Valli to get into mood. Surely you know this one, John.
He is one of the ones that I would have never played
what a great song.
Show I like the stuff that was actually in underwear there was
a beat.
Well, this has a beat it picks up.
I'm just saying. So you have that you have kind of
sappy sentimental vibe. Yeah. Yeah, that's me.
So I guess I wanted to bring some up by the way. Okay. Before
I forget you.
Yeah, the better hurry.
The Oscars and this list that was leaked.
Yeah, it was interesting, because it was right on except
for one. Yeah.
So it means that there was a guesser. Yeah, it was fake. It
was fake.
Yeah. But I fully admit that I didn't say it was definitely the
list. We both agreed. But what was interesting is the one that
was missed was not the smaller obscure one like the
documentary, which was spot on man on the wire. It was Sean
Penn winning instead of Mickey Rourke. Right Best Actor.
Now, here's the possibility. What do you think of this? The
list is leaked. Everybody, you know, everybody in the audience
has seen this? Because they pass it around, right? I mean, let's
face if you're a nominee, of course, of course. Yeah. And so
everyone's getting freaked out by the fact that their thing is
nailing one after another after another. So let's say this
happens. They have the committee itself that whoever's you know,
running the show says, Look, this is terrible. This is the
worst thing that could possibly happen
switch a Rooney.
And they say, What can we do to kill this and give it to
somebody that you know, well, you know, Sean Penn came pretty
close to Mickey Rourke. And he's got a message that we don't have
anybody to give us this, this communist message that we need
to highlight the whole thing.
You know, what happened? I can just see it. And I was like,
what? And so they have a meeting, right? It's this kind
of dank, dusty boardroom, you know, all secretive stuff and
like, what should we do? And then someone hits the red
button, Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. Let's call crackpot and
buzzkill, they'll know what to do.
So anyway, that's my theory.
I did want to mention something else about the Academy Awards,
the Slumdog Millionaire, winning five awards, I believe, are
more. Yeah, I just wanted to say that's total horseshit. Yeah, it
was a good movie. It wasn't the best movie. No. Was it deserve
all these accolades? Now, why did it win? Because Hollywood is
taking billions of dollars from India. From the Bollywood
industry, Steven Spielberg, I believe $1.2 billion in money
from India, everybody knows there's no more money because
money for Hollywood comes from interesting sources. Yeah, big
companies, big hedge funds, people who have way too much
money and want to put it into something sexy made to get laid
by an actress. That's where Hollywood money comes from. And
that has been drying up and Hollywood sees the writing on
the wall. So they went to India. And this was a total political
move, because who votes on these, you know, the members of
the academy? So it's all the people who are behooved by
Indian Rupees coming into the system.
Right? I agree with that notion. Okay.
Well, thank you. It's just it bugged me a little bit that no
one's really been saying that, you know, it's like
anything if it wasn't for the two of us. Thank you. Whatever
Benton said,
and this is exactly why we need to accelerate completion of the
Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. Like library, which we'll talk about
later in the show.
So, yeah, no, I mean, and the thing about the movie is that
people they go to see it thinking it's gonna be you know,
well, you know this. It's a, you know, I don't know, I haven't
seen it yet. But people have gotten to see it. They said,
there's this somewhat depressing little disappointing. It's, it
doesn't live up to it. I've seen it. Yeah.
And it's okay. You know, yeah, it's a good movie. But you know,
I love movies this year. They were just a bunch of dogs. I
mean, I didn't see.
The Wrestler was a good movie. Yeah.
Did you see that one? Yeah. And I've only seen clips from it,
but it just looks like it rocks and everybody do all the big
shots that know what they're talking about. Think it's great.
So, oh, well watch it on DVD.
I don't think it's probably not
on HBO anyway. I don't see what's the rush? Why do you have
to see these movies immediately?
Well, it's herd mentality if you want to be a part of the
conversation at work or at school if you haven't seen it,
then you're a douche. Yeah, just say you saw it. That's what I
just did. And you bought it so
perfect, isn't it? Okay, well, that's good to know. We
only recently got our our HD television. I've been really
behind on that have been a tube guy really. I like a big ass
tube. And Patricia finally said no more tube
to get a plasma or LCD. Well, I
man I stood for a long time debating between the Samsung LCD
and the LG plasma. And the LG plasma has a contrast ratio is
out of control like 115,000 to one or something. And, and we
looked at it in a in a situation similar to what we might have in
the in our viewing quarters. And I said like, it's too dark for
me. Actually, it's just too dark. Really let Patricia call
the shots on and she'd agreed. So we got the Samsung LCD, which
still has a I think a 60,000 to one contrast ratio. It's got the
200 megahertz you know, so it's it's a proper 1080 Houpt thing.
And I saw what I see last night American Gangster with Denzel
Washington. God, that looks so good in HD.
Just out ring looks good in HD. Well, besides
the fact that you can see every little I showed it to Patricia,
I said, Hey, by the way when you're on television now that
she's on SBS so they don't have an HD signal. And I said but you
know if you're on any if you're on any of the state run
channels, here's how close up we can actually see you and she's
like, Oh, no, this is horrible. I can see the makeup just
sitting on their heads. Is it? Yeah, absolutely. You can see
dirty floors, all kinds of stuff.
So what's the screen size?
Relatively small, actually. 40 inches, which was perfect.
Perfect for we don't even make 40 You
know, yes. It's a 40 inch. It's a very typical because normally
it's 4237 42 but the Samsung has a 40 inch, which is very
perfectly legit. Hey,
let's go come on what I pay, we pay go on to the No
1100 pounds I think 1200 pounds 1500 bucks.
1500 bucks for a 40 inch LCD they can get that one of those a
Costco seven.
Yeah, but you can't get the curries, quality and service
that goes along with like shopping and curries. And I give
my credit card they like I said, Yeah, I own the joint. This is a
test bitch.
Curries. There's so there's a bunch of electronic stores
called curries.
Yeah, it's a huge chain. Huge. Yeah, I get a lot of search
traffic for that. For I used to have Google ads, I'd have curry
ads all over the place. I got tired of it. But a great
interesting story, by the way, the American Gangster because it
and I had seen it already. But it kind of brought back what I
always say. You know, it's the story of Frank Lucas, and New
Jersey cop, Ritchie Roberts, who brought him down. Frank Lucas
was one of the biggest drug lords in the United while in the
on the East Coast, I should say. And he was bringing in this at
the time the Vietnam War. He was bringing in heroin on US
military transport flights, which you know, and it's so
funny to see that, you know, he builds up this empire. He's got
this great supply chain. It's coming in a military flights,
which I say has never stopped until the war ends. And then his
business basically goes bust and like, Yeah, I wonder if we need
more troops in Afghanistan. This is a good idea. We don't want
the supply chain to slow down for any reason.
Which is probably something like that going on.
While I was watching our president at lagoon air lagoon.
Is it Air Force? No. It's North Carolina. Right. Let's Jodan
military base was June last June.
I don't know it could be anything. I had to look it up
and I don't feel like it. Okay, it's in North Carolina. Jackson,
you just say military bases, you got it covered, okay. And he
was addressing the troops. And this is where he publicly
announced that we will, we will remain in Iraq for another 18
months, at which time, the withdrawal will begin, but we
will leave 35 to 50,000 troops in Iraq, at least until the end
of 2011, which just just blows me away, where, you know, first
he voted against the war, then it's like, I'm gonna get our
troops out, then it's like, well, you know, we'll, we'll get
him out. And well, I guess, 16 months, 18 months doesn't make
that much difference. But if you read very closely, what, what,
what has been written about this, and what he's saying? It
is, unless or it's dependent upon, I should look up the exact
quote, dependent upon what's happening on the ground, so it
can change at any time, essentially. But I wanted to
play a little sound clip, John, from the very end of him
addressing fine young, young men and women of the Marines. And
just listen to how he changes the truth, literally, before
your very eyes, slash ears, you ready for it? Go.
As a nation, we've had our share of debates about the war in
Iraq. It has at times divided us as a people to this very day,
there are some Americans who want to stay in Iraq longer.
By the way, who are those Americans? Could you please all
raise your hand without talking?
And some want to stay in Iraq longer? Yeah, there's
some that apparently, there are some Americans who would like to
stay in Iraq longer.
And some will want to leave faster. But there shouldn't be
no disagreement on what the men and women of our military have
achieved. And so I want to be very clear.
I love it. Because this is this is like the warning. Whenever
Whenever President Obama says I want to be very clear, or let's
make it clear, or I want to be very clear, that's when the
bullshit is about to come. That's almost like someone's
saying, honestly, or in all honesty. That's when bullshit is
being announced standby. Here it comes.
We sent our troops to Iraq to do away with Saddam Hussein's
regime.
Okay, John, why did we go to Iraq?
Wow, to get those weapons of mass destruction, thank you,
and you got the job done.
And Mission accomplished, you got the job done. Oh, but it
continues.
We kept. We kept our troops in Iraq to help establish a
sovereign government.
To help establish a sovereign government, you mean the puppet
we put in there
and you got the job done. Mission accomplished.
The repetitive thing, you got the job done better that you got
the job and got the job done. There'll be a punch line at the
end of that
leave the Iraqi people with a hard earned opportunity to live
a better life. That is your achievement. That is the
prospect that you have made possible. There are many lessons
to be learned from what we've experienced. We've learned that
America must go to war with clearly defined goals, which is
why I've ordered a review of our policy in Afghanistan,
so I can't even listen to it anymore. So let's just let's
just go back to the QA that's another lie as well. You know,
it's like, oh, you know, I'm gonna go to war. I'm going to
review that with Congress. No, no, Congress is the only one who
can send us to war, not the president. sounded to me like he
was saying it's up to him.
Well, that's the impression that that that they like to convey to
the public at large so that way, when Congress complains about
some action taken by the president out of the blue, they
look like buffoons.
So how about that we went to topple Saddam Hussein's regime.
That's a lie. That's not why we went there. We were lied to lied
to about it to get in there. But what why does it just? Why does
he lie? Tell me
does it because he's got an agenda agenda. He has an agenda.
And I'll tell you what the agenda is, is to create another
Vietnam, which is what we're going to end up with in
Afghanistan. And perhaps there is a drug angle here. Because
everybody you know, if you talk to a lot of these analysts who
say that the whole thing is about the drug trade in
Afghanistan, there's so much money to be made from it could
pay for the whole damn thing. And you know, and the other
thing is, you know, go back to what my father once told me
says, you know, the Republicans are the depression party. They
always get us into the depression, and the Democrats
are a war party. They always get us into a war. So turning over
things to the Democrats as because all they want, you know,
they want to get out is bogus. I mean, we're not getting out,
here's the opportunity. Here's the room, if you remember when
the elections took place in 2006, it was all you know, we it
was an anti, it was an anti Bush vote. And in fact, I think the
2008 election was an anti Bush wood. I don't think people were
necessarily voting for Obama. I mean, the Democrats were but I
think the independents were just sick of what was going on there
to vote for anybody. So they put a bomb in, but there was an
underlying theme that this was an anti war thing and you didn't
want war, we're gonna get out, just get out. But there's no
evidence that they're going to do that. And there was there
would never be any evidence if you've been following the
Democrats ever. I mean, they're the ones who win in the Vietnam
situation. They're the ones who cranked it up. It wasn't anybody
else it was you know, Kennedy followed by Johnson who really
started throwing troops in there and even phoning up certain
battles you know to get more troops and you know, they got
themselves into a huge buying the guy had to finally quit
because they couldn't get out there's no exit strategy at all.
And they had a Nixon had to come in and just you know, kind of
make a mess over there and maybe he ended up getting us out it
was a it was a Republican so well what we're just gonna
there's a Vietnam coming up just just Fergana Stan thing it's it
it's a dead end place to be.
It was mail out interesting in in this by
the way Wait, wait stop. Let me mention something how can we
just can't leave?
Well, of course we can leave because that thank you finally,
stop stop let me just make mention somebody I always
noticed that the the Americans in particular always are highly
critical of Asian cultures because all these Asian cultures
you put them in a bind and they can't do this and they can't do
this because they they have to save face they have to save face
it's just part of their culture. They are those poor idiots they
have to save face Oh, we can't make him do that because they
have to save face. But what is it with us we seem to be more
interested interested in saving face in any Chinese ever?
Don't know Don't get me started on that. Yeah, I'm done. I'm
done. You're done? Well, some interesting dialogue in this
movie. By the way, the stream seems to be fucking up so sorry
people, you'll have to download it later. Some interest
interesting dialogue about how many people were basically and
not just on the drug side but on the the judge side, the cop
side, the lawyer side, the military side how many people
were dependent and at one point, Denzel Washington obviously as
acting as as this Frank Lucas said, I've put I've put so many
kids through college. I put all of the judges in this town I've
put them through college all the cops I put I put their kids
through college. And when you think about it, if if if that
type of drug trade would go away, I mean, that's when the
economy truly would collapse. So yeah, I think there was a drug
angle for sure. On this I just can't see any other way.
Which brings me to another point Hit Me Baby. So I'm watching C
span and they had a bunch of the the speakers Ron Paul, for
example, and a bunch of others that are add something called
CPAC. The Conservative Political Action Conference Yeah,
I saw this moving this video.
Okay, so anyway, rush limbaugh was giving a speech, and he went
overtime by like an hour. You guys can talk forever. By the
way, I was watching a lot of these speeches. And I ran into
one where marine doubt, I'm gonna make a clip of this
because it was so much she's got to be the worst speaker in the
history of public speaking. She reads word for word from a sheet
of paper without even looking up in history without looking up
and as screechy voice, and then She giggles at her own material
because it's, you know, so well written. And then, and then she
gets lost and loses such fumbling through the papers
thinking that she said something with you whether she did or not.
And it's just like, horrible. Then you see Rush Limbaugh, who
looks like he's not even working from notes I'm doing I'm sure he
is. Who just ad libs two hours or looks like he does. But
here's the thing that we do mentioning the drug thing. So
here in California, there's a Tom amiano, who is a city
councilman San Francisco, kind of a troublemaker wanted to run
for governor once based on unacceptable as a as a state
candidate for sure. has decided to introduce into legislation. I
think he maybe he's in the Senate now or the state Senate
or something like that he's introduced yet because he must
be or assemblyman. He's introducing into the legislature
the legalization of marijuana in the state of California. Right.
And the and the people who have analyzed to say it'll add a
billion dollars in tax revenues. California is broke, okay.
You'll add a billion dollars in tax revenues. You're broken or
dry.
Sorry. You're broken you're dry you got no water either.
He has rain right now yeah anyway Southern California do
dry Southern California should just move anyway so save a bit
of
Mexico
back to Mexico save a million dollars in tax or get a million
dollars in taxes we will probably save another million
dollars in in Billy Billy had a prison Bill billions I'm sorry,
billions, billions in overhead for the prison system and got
and also probably another billion in law enforcement crap,
that it just costs money to enforce these drug laws. They
should, you know, as I've always believed, as a libertarian, that
many of these drug laws should be repealed. Now, what got me on
the CPAC thing the Conservatives and local talk radio guys, we
have in the Bay Area, we have two stations that play
conservative talk radio, the Rush Limbaugh show, and Michael
Medved, and gold, some guy named Gold and a bunch of these other
kind of second, third tier people. And they all are just
going crazy over the fact that somebody's introduced this
legislation, these conservatives, and so I'm
listening to you know, and I'm thinking, why are these
conservatives and I'm gonna read a quote from Limbo Limbaugh, who
says, I wrote, I wrote it down in limbo, it's easy to remember.
It's part of my note taking shorthand. He went on about
somebody's claiming that the conservative movement as it now
exists, is stale. And so he makes a couple he makes his
following courses and there's nothing stale about freedom.
There's nothing stale about liberty. And I'm thinking and
this is kind of a theme that's been going on at the CPAC thing
about liberty and freedom be a personal responsibility isn't a
big one personal response response government should not
be involved in your day to day life. And Limbaugh himself says
it should soon as you close the door to your house, there's no
business of anybody's what goes on inside. How does this jive
with wanting marijuana to be? You know, it'll go against the
law. I mean, well, how does it jive with the with the with all
these onerous laws that are nothing more than a kind of a
modern version of prohibition? How does that jive I'm not
getting it? What is wrong with where am I missing the
conservative agenda here? Where they go on and on about freedom
and liberty and personal responsibility as the theme. The
principles is they like in which Limbo in fact, limbo?
I like it. Just keep saying limbo, that's much better to say
limbo. I'm stuck with it now. Anyway, how does it Jive one
with the other? And then of course, Lim limbaugh was was,
you know, strung out himself on Oxycontin, and doing you know,
she could just as easily be in jail for the rest of his life. I
don't I'm not seeing the connection between these so
called conservative principles, and they're being so outraged
about trying to legalize marijuana. And by the way, I do
not use marijuana and you know, this.
offered you many times it's come on, John, don't you want to be
quiet? Heck, although,
I mean, once you get past 16 I don't understand why you'd be
trying it. So it's like, I don't see the argument. Oh, you know,
once it's legal, it's everyone's gonna be stoned. You know, this
is bull. The fact of the matter and where's the personal
responsibility? I don't get it. I don't get the the the
conservative message on top of this. And man, I'm telling you,
these guys are these conservative talk radio guys are
just going berserk over this idea. Oh, it's terrible. I don't
I don't some some buddy, who's an old fashioned conservative
can explain this to me. I'd like to know.
Well, this, of course, was a campaign promise by Obama that
he was going to stop the persecution of medical marijuana
and was going to change the laws. And so there's a lot of
people saying, hey, it's really happening. Interestingly enough,
though, if you go to White House drug policy.gov, the medical
marijuana reality check still kind of broadcasts a different
message about, about the use of medical marijuana, because it
could of course, intent unintentionally, cause serious
harm to patients, and all kinds of other stuff that they've
written there. So I still don't believe it will actually happen.
It's just a little placating thing. Just shut up people.
Here's a little bit of legislation. We'll bang that
around for a while. But you're right. It's what you're you're
right about. about it being your own business. You're wrong about
not smoking it after you're 16.
So another thing that limb Limbo said was he called that the the
Obama's address to Congress as a State of the Union show,
not a State of the Union. Again,
I know I don't get why these guys are saying this. I mean,
what is it? What is the point? I don't understand why it's
not even called the State of the Union in the Constitution. And,
in fact, I don't think there's any mention of State of the
Union in the Constitution. There is a from time, I think it even
says literally from time to time the President will have joint
will address the joint session. That's it.
Yeah. Well, that what but this joint State of the Union is
addressing the public, not the Congress right. Now. Now, here's
another thing that limb Bob mentioned a, something that was
kind of funny. He was invited. And this is kind of actually he
thinks it was cool to give this anecdote, but I thought it was
not he. He talked to me, he took a day off of his show. And
because he was invited to lunch with Bush, the day after his
birthday, and then Bush had a cake for him that was made in
the shape of a microphone. And a couple of staffers came by and
sang happy birthday, and he told his story. But he said that
everybody believed that he went to the Obama dinner, which was
that same night, that was a bunch of conservative talk show
people and conservative writers were invited to Obama's
whatever, typing one of those white tie things.
I don't know what it was, it was just a meeting for the
conservative people to meet with Obama. And I don't know if it
was a white tie, black tie or no tie. And but it was funny
because Limbaugh apparently wasn't invited, which, you know,
it's like if you're going to bring the Conservatives and it
would be kind of silly to leave him out of it, and especially on
purpose. But anyway, but everyone thought he went to it
because he took the day off without telling anybody. And but
it was just go have lunch with Bush. And then he took it and it
obviously was in his private jet the way he described it. So he
takes his private jet to Washington, you know, grabs a
limo goes and has lunch with Bush, who tells him, you know,
the talking points for the day. And then he jumps back in his
plane and goes home. And he tells the story as if it was
something that, you know, it seems like that would be
embarrassing. I mean, you're trying I mean, the problem he's
having now anyway, is that he sounds like an apologist for the
Republican Party. I mean, he's defended, along with a bunch of
these other conservative talk show, guys, this idiot Bobby
Jindal, who gave this horrible talk and is being mocked here
and there. And it seems to me that the Republicans and the
conservatives in particular, really have an issue with self
analysis and self criticism. They won't they just know, they
won't know Jindal is a great guy in the speech. It was great.
When it wasn't I mean, I don't know this conservatives are just
blowing you
got a couple of emails about that as well from from
listeners. And, and what people fail to understand is that just
like President Obama is doing a really a bang up job at mind
controlling everyone with his cadence, his candor, his body
language, his entire presentation is slick, it's very
professional, he's got a great way of doing it. I would hire
the guy for our tech network in a heartbeat. That's as bad as
this guy was. And it's all about that the message is really
conveyed in very short sound bites with someone who looks the
part and does it well and delivers that's what it's about.
It's what you watch television shows for. It's what you believe
in politics is how it's delivered.
There was a guy when when, you know, the Republicans could
there used to dominate the call the state politics in
California, especially the governor's offices locally,
there's usually always this this split. And then the Democrats
got a hold of the main party with his or with the
governorship with his Gray Davis guy who's just a worst governor
in history
that the guy who killed Shandra Levy,
he's he's the guy who didn't kill anybody. He's the guy who
was responsible for the rolling blackouts.
Oh, right. He killed he killed old grandmas who fried to death
in their in their overheated apartments. That guy? Yeah,
the problem was that the Republicans were taken over by
the kind of the van Jellicle religious nut balls here in
California. And so they, they couldn't feel anybody that was
acceptable. And then they had this argument where I was our
principals were not going to just put anyone up there who can
actually win. And so they I wish I could remember this guy's name
and somebody out there probably knows who it is. But when
Schwarzenegger the only reason he got in is because it was it
was a it was a recall that they orchestrated and Schwarzenegger
got in with you know, because they had they had a real popular
choice. It was the public that got to choose who was going to
run for or who was going to be governor, as opposed to the
party. And so he got in they can't get him out of course now
that he's gonna be out again, because I think his terms up but
they had this guy they were all the Conservatives wanted to run.
And he was McCarthy or McCain some he had some legs and they I
can't remember his name, but he was very smarter. You hear him
on the radios? It's kind of like Ron Paul is where he saw this
guy. He's like cross-eyed, no offense, anybody was crossed.
But I'm telling you guys running for governor, he was cross eyed
and kind of goofy looking. And you look at him and you would
not vote for him, right? It just wasn't gonna happen. But they
would know. But he's the best man. He's got the he's got the
principles and data and it was just like, these guys are nuts.
And this thing about the bend the marijuana thing is a perfect
example. I mean, they don't know what they're thinking. How's
that not government interfering with your personal life as
public safety?
Let's switch over to get mo nation east for a moment because
as we speak, some interesting things are taking place in
Brussels. An emergency meeting was called the financial crisis
meeting for one o'clock today with the 27 heads of government
in the EU, for actually it's over. Now. They are they should
be over now. They're going to meet for three hours. And before
this one o'clock meeting, the Prime Ministers of the was the
top dogs. No, I'm sorry, the Eastern European nine Prime
Minister of the ECU, ERP and block we're going to meet
separately before this meeting, there is humongous crisis. And
it starts kind of starting to become clear now. So now we have
an east and west Europe again. So the Eastern Bloc, who of
course were bailed out by or not bailed out, but who have lent.
They've borrowed hundreds of billions of euros from their
western neighbor states.
Right suckered him. Yeah. So
you know, there's a divide now. And of course, the presidency of
the EU is now held by the Czech Republic. And what the problem
is, basically, there's no leadership, there is no Obama of
Europe, which was entirely the plan to have that set by now.
That was one of the main rules of the Lisbon Treaty was to have
a one single European president that would be that for at least
a year or whatever length of time. And of course, our cosy
want it to be
that strong man. Yeah.
He was he was really pushing this a France, Ram the Lisbon
Treaty right through without a referendum, even though in a
referendum for concept for the constitution of Europe, it was
voted down, it's essentially the same document. So that messed it
up. You know, it really messed up their plans, which is why
there's so much crisis right now, because everyone's doing
their own thing. Everyone's trying to get themselves bailed
out by borrowing money from different parties. It's, it's a
mess, the wheels are coming off of this thing. And no one knows
what to do.
I'm surprised it's taken this long.
God, this this EU thing has been, you know, this is a was a
40 year project. Man. This is this is not just something from
the past couple of years. But
I think it even goes back further than that, when you
really start tracing the
well. Yeah, if you go back to all the individual treaties that
that exist, absolutely. And Gordon Brown will be visiting
the President of the United States on Wednesday, for a
private meeting. And that's when I guess he's going to bring the
message and say, Okay, we're ready to go tell us how to pull
the switch. You know, just let me know. And we'll let it all
come tumbling down.
So somebody says, By the way, the stream works if you specify
the port number,
you have to Yeah, you have to specify the port number one is
that the stream was a different problem.
All right, don't worry about it. Anyway, so
so so we're in dire Dire Straits here.
What is this me? What is dire straits
tell you, I'll tell you what that means. What it means is
they do not the financial system has to change, it's the Ponzi
scheme collapsed, the entire public markets all put
everything together, the subprime mortgages, the credit
card debts, people not paying the defaults, and of course, the
big monster of them all, which would be the unraveling of the
derivatives market, which could go up to a quadrillion dollars
1000 trillion dollars. That's the problem. That's why That's
why we own 80% of AIG is because that's where all this crap is
sitting it's all of these derivatives. If that on unwinds
then everyone will be broke every country every bank
according to the number so whether they do it in a
controlled manner, which they're attempting to do, but of course,
we all know the money's not actually going anywhere except
in the bankers pockets so far, it could change but so far
that's what's been happening literally into bankers pockets.
So whether they do it in a controlled fashion or not, it
has to come apart. It has To unravel, there is no other
they've tried this. So it's either nationalization for
every, every bank everywhere, or it's which my, you know, I would
favor, blow it up, you know, let it go fast, and then we can
figure something out. So this is why you hear President Obama
publicly talking about the cap and trade program, it's called a
carbon based economy, all of these words are there for a
reason, because they are preparing to bring in a new
financial system, that doesn't necessarily mean different
money. I mean, I'm marrow all that crap may be whatever. But a
new money system has to be brought in. And it has to be
based on debt once again, because that's the way the, you
know, the our Uber lords, the people who actually own the
earth, they think that's what they've done for centuries, is a
debt based system, debt based economy. So they have to come up
with a new system. And because there's no leadership in Europe,
they can't they don't know what to do, because of a number of
mistakes that were made in this take down in the US. There's all
kinds of confusion. And, you know, Obama is not actually a
leader. There is no, you know, whoever is leading this as
behind the scenes. So that's, that's your theory? Well, yes,
it's, of course, so now
who but yeah, but can you identify this group of
individuals or persons,
the owners of the central banks, the people who are actually the
the full shareholders and the money behind the central banks,
the Federal Reserve, which is the US central bank, its, its
actual membership is a secret. It's a secret. So it's those
people but I can give you a couple names. But but there's
there's something much bigger going on right now, John? Much,
much bigger. I believe there is a full scale war going on
between warring gangs. And let me give you some data points, if
I may. There is no coincidence. In submarines crashing
underwater satellites crashing in space, airplanes coming down.
There is no coincidence in this. They're particularly and I can't
get this Iridium company out of my mind. So I've been doing some
more digging Iridium is the company that has the 6465
satellites globe, you know, circling the Earth low orbit. Do
you have any idea what Iridium provides when it comes to
services? I thought it was just these silly satellite phones,
right? And, and maybe some, some internet based stuff in the
field, it's handy for in the desert. Well, we already
discussed on this program, that Iridium is pretty much a full
military unit at this point. Just look at the look at the
board of directors look at just go to their website and you can
see it right there. But they provide Chuck's amazing they
provide by law you have to have L R I T which is long range
international tracking every single vessel in the world is
connected to this to this or a similar but this is now they
just announced record results for fat in February, you know,
they're the fastest growing satellite company they have all
the business. They provide tracking for tracking guidance
communications, men, they they have boxes installed on 737,
eight hundreds, which is exactly the model that crashed outside
of triple which, which actually provides data and is a two way
link as to fuel consumption, throttle settings, these
everything is completely under the grid. And so when you get
things happening, where satellites are are basically
crashing into each other not by mistake, but by design. Okay,
I've already told you that's my my theory that that's not just a
simple oops mistake, the satellites can move away they
they had they are powered they know. There's all kinds of
things that they know about what's around in the space
shuttle can't launch right now, space shuttle can't launch
because there's all this debris floating around at low orbit.
Someone is at war or someone is sending very specific messages
to submarines, two atomic submarines collide into each
other. I believe that there's something going on with
navigation systems. And then if you start looking into Galileo,
which Europe ones have their own GPS system why? Why did they
want to have all this because it's a huge blanket of power.
And I can even take we talked we joked about it last week Boeing
versus Airbus? Well, on that Turkish flight that crashed
landed in Amsterdam, there were four Boeing engineers, all of
them directly involved with the install. I don't know if the
installation but all of them engineers on the early warning
aircraft system being installed for the Turkish air force on
Boeing 730 sevens, which is this huge antenna that can detect
missile launchers from 1000s of miles. You know, these things
fly around, kind of like an AWACS. is only different
multibillion dollar contract. John, there is so much going on
just just between Airbus and Boeing alone, getting a
contract. And by the way, Turkey has always been on the fence.
Oh, maybe we'll take Airbus maybe we'll take Boeing, I will
take a little bit of both. You know how much that means? It
sounds like one of the true industries that we have left. Is
these aircraft manufacturing industries. These are hundreds
of billions of dollars of contracts. Is that worth you
know, showing? Hey, you know what, your Airbus sucks watch.
Oh, Atlanta and the Hudson know your Boeing sucks. Oh, it
crashed, landed, knowing that they're also connected. And it's
too many close connections with iridium and and defense
contracts. And actual all out war.
I guess this kind of changes the subject for legalizing
marijuana?
No, no, it's it's a direct result of marijuana.
So, okay. I mean, I liked the idea that, you know, somebody's
messing with the
navigation,
could it navigation,
it could think about
it. Well, you know, said this should be documentable.
Well, well, that's what I was up call. I thought you called a
little bit early. I was incorrect about that. Because I
was actually still on this Iridium thing. And I'm looking
at all the Iridium has specific things they've installed on 737,
eight hundreds, there's a lot of control. You know, what if
someone has the capability, it don't think that these guys
drive around with a tomtom, you know that that's not what's on a
737. And this, you know, these are very sophisticated flight
systems, they get shit installed from all kinds of companies, and
they're upgraded all the time. And I'm quite confident that
they're probably just as connected as ships are, and that
there's a lot of data going up and coming down. And so what if
the glide path, maybe they're not doing it in the in the old
fashion? Well, they probably aren't doing old fashioned glide
slope, you know, which is basically a transmission based
system on the vertical and a horizontal antenna, if you will.
So you can get your glide scope. What if the glide scope was what
if what is the data that was sent to their systems was
incorrect? And and then there may even be control over
throttles. I mean, these things, air buses, the computer land has
lots of control. They've got authorization over all kinds of
things that pilots used to have 100% control of the I feel
messaging going on here. Big, big messaging.
But yeah, and you could actually, if you could get
continued to remotely get control of an Airbus and just
drive it anywhere you wanted. I believe
that to be true. Yes. Interesting. Well, we should
just rise on it, because there's connections all the time. And
let's see if everything else bumps into anything else. But
yeah, we'll be on the lookout for iridium. Iridium is a very
interesting company with a lot of interesting services.
Well, let's see there. By the way,
AIG invested in iridium. I'm just saying
they do. They don't do a big business. I mean, they do stare
hold the industry to quarterly revenue in dollars or something.
It's not Oh, no, it's only No, the revenue is only 76 point 8
million. So I mean, this isn't even a $400 million company.
This is really rinky dink,
but they made but they made money in that. Did you see the
lost money,
their their earnings? I'm looking at their earnings report
right here at February 26 2009. Despite higher
so funny because go ahead and you read that and then I'll read
their press release.
Despite higher sales earnings at Iridium satellite LLC, which
provides satellite mobile satellite communications
services plummeted 83% to 1.5 million for the quarter ended
December 31 compared with the same quarter of 2007.
Okay, now from their website, breaking news, February 26.
Iridium satellite today announced financial results for
the quarter and the year ended December 31 2008. Totals Iridium
satellite reports record 2008 results. Total subscribers
approximately 320,000 Up 37% revenue up 14% operational EBIT
da up 33% net income Down 83% Up 23% for 2008 Though Iridium
network proves resilient in wake of satellite collision, blah,
blah, blah,
blah. So they Oh, there's there's an example of a press
release. Yes.
Well, it's breaking news on their site. And breaking
breaking they didn't Did their businesses is up the revenues
are up speakers
breaking. I was talking to the lovely lady Patricia, about our
conversation about 12% of greenhouse gases being produced
by cow farts and sheep belches.
And you know what she said? She said, why don't we just get rid
of all the men so I thought was a novel solution.
Yeah, that's probably also part of the vegan agenda. So, you
know, people criticize me for saying vague and instead of, I
guess it's easy, which doesn't make any sense if it's actually
gonna pronounce it based on. I'm looking at the word I decided it
should be pronounced VG Jen V Jin because it's from
vegetables. So it should be V Jin. So that so I think V Jin is
a better pronunciation and vegan or vegan, for that matter. I
guess we have a couple of vegans that listen to the show. Well, I
should hope so. We could learn something. Yeah, I'm sure yeah,
they got the I got nothing against vegans. Vegans.
The vegans are okay is the vegans man. That's the problem.
The vegans though okay. Do you have notes because you know,
I've got ton of them as usual.
Yeah, I got one thing here. I had some notes on the Limbaugh
and other stuff going on a good fight last night on HBO.
I don't like watching men hit each other.
Yeah, stupid. Well, fine. How? I'm not gonna make you so just
want healers who twist Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift. Yeah, this
is the new I don't know who is the one that picks says okay,
we're going to make her a star. And they find some growth. This
is kind of a discovery cute looking puffy faced blonde. Who
is now a she's a singer. And she's been on everything. She's
on this show and that show and she was hot, you know,
highlighted on Saturday Night Live, which is rerun but it was
she was like, you know, first ran a couple of weeks. Maybe a
couple months
country country girl country singer.
I don't know. She seems kind of that kind of middle of the road.
Quasi yodeling lesbian sounding kind of tunes. But the problem
is she doesn't have any range. She's got no range at all. So
she that she has just got to kind of a flat voice with a very
smallish, really narrow range and, and the material is weak.
So I'm watching her, but she's pretty. And so So Andrew Gromit,
by the way comes up to me
later, okay, yeah, I know who she is. Yeah. Andrew Gromit.
Andrew grommet says, oh, you know, my wife and my daughter
are really into this girl named Taylor Swift. And I mean, I
don't know what he was going to tell me because then I went off
on him. Something about Taylor Swift, I guess, but, but I just
it's just like, overnight, this just just, it just happens. I've
never seen anything like it. Does she have a background? Has
she paid her dues? Has she been around forever singing the blues
and Memphis? I mean, what, you know, the next thing you know,
she's there and she stinks.
You know, I had a similar experience when my wife and
daughter were talking about Lady Gaga. And, you know, I used to
live in the hits, you know, and I up until about 1992 I can I
know pretty much everything about top 40 That there is to
know and I've met everybody between 1980 and 1992 Anybody
who was anybody I know. But after that I just lost interest
and also tried to get my head out of it and then we're talking
this Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga has had a number one hit for five
weeks
or whatever and it's one song Yeah, crap you know it's a great
dance tune but done it is a great dance to and I can't
remember the name of it.
Well it's I heard this on American Idol I was watching
which I love that show obviously it's just fucking great. And I
hate it ya know? And then they have this they have this new
judge I forget her name but I guess she's like a record
company exec and she's
ever gonna be watching boxing which was
everything you want to hate about a record company
executives this girl and bodies which is why I like to watch
these types of shows and she's saying they're you know you're
what we call a package artists you know you've got everything
you've got the right looks whether they're the only need is
the song but and I'm like well yeah that's how it works you
know but they're selling a product is no difference between
Blue Magic and and these packaged artists it's a drug
it's a cheap cheaply produced imported a military planes truck
that's how she got here. She was important on a military
transport plan
yeah with a bunch of Sham wows it's anyway I just find it
annoying personally. Yeah, but that's okay some of the bitch
about I mean I just I don't know maybe you know maybe there's
something maybe she's your opera singer for all I know I just
don't see it but I
love it where you know i I'm going into global satellite war
warring clans undersea wars and like, I hate this singer. She's
really no good.
I'm the American.
I'll tell you how it works. Here's how it works because cuz
the They're doing this now in, in the UK. The city of
Southampton is now going to have their water fluoridated. Now
even though 78% of the of the population is against it, and
there's a possibility water fluoridation could go worldwide.
And this is you well, the result of this is possibly your teeth
become stronger, but certainly you become subservient. And
I'll Please, you have
you have you not read the CIA book? I've we've talked about so
often.
You mean, bashes? Yeah. Where's our fluoridation? Yes or no?
Right. Yes.
When it's in, turn on your speaker just a bit, John. When
when this is the part that my uncle was involved in the Iran
Contra so these guys have to pick up the drugs, they got to
get it out of this military camp. And they fluoridate the
water because that would keep everyone kind of subservient and
calm. But the overflow specifically says in the book,
they overflow sedated so everyone was sick. You know,
they were all they were throwing up. And they were you know, they
were just sick to their stomach because they put too much in,
but it literally says in the book, we fluoridated their water
supply, so they will be subservient and with be very
calm. We came in to get these big trunks of drugs, which were
in weapons cases. So yes, that's what it's for. That is what is
for End of story.
Have to go look to book up again.
Yes, please do. It's about three quarters, maybe four fifths of
the way through the book. When you it's the whole that's the
whole Iran Contra thing
go really there's no excuse for if the public doesn't want it.
They shouldn't have it. She had but the public needs to shut up.
Just shut us. So what are the depressing news do you have?
What's not depressing?
So Jeff Jarvis came out with a book called What would Google
do? If anybody sees his actually a good book? No, that's my plug
for it. So
what's it about?
It's just kind of an analysis of the way Google does business and
their methodologies and their attitudes about things and how
they see the world. And it's, it's just kind of a gimmick
book, but it's extremely well written I was he's gonna be on
cranky geeks. And then he didn't show up. And so he was gonna get
a nice plug for his book, because it's one of the few
books I've seen recently. Because I look at a lot of
books. And I'm at look at them. And this is one I could actually
read off this kind of stunned.
There was a beautiful picture in the paper here in Kingman, which
paper was a book supplier went out of business, and to their
warehouse, they couldn't empty the entire warehouse. So they
just opened it up to the public. I didn't know about this, I'm so
bummed. They were just 10s of 1000s of books, you could just
go in and as many as you could carry, you could take away. And
wow. And of course, it became an incredible message. Just see
this huge mounds of beautiful books, lying or people rooting
through them trying to find something God pissed. I miss
that one. Oh, well.
So meanwhile, the Rocky Mountain News, and somebody sending me a
copy of the last issue, which I guess ran Thursday or one of
these days. So I did papers, like just within a few days of
150 years old. And scripts with the owners, they just shut it
down, said screw you. And the the San Francisco Chronicle is
about to go out of business and the Seattle post Intelligencer
is about to go out of business because Hearst, you know, can't
seem to make any money there. They losing a million dollars a
week at the Chronicle. How do you lose that much money?
I don't know. We talked about it last week. So I can't I cannot
give you the same I don't know answer.
I just keeps asking the same stupid question. But anyway, so
the Rocky Mountain News went out of business since then. And I
guess they lost $20 million last year, something like they just
couldn't afford to stay open. And everybody's all, you know,
sad.
So here's the the big conspiracy going around the interwebs. And
into the networks that I'm tied into. And I like it as a
possibility. I hate it, of course, if it's true, but I like
it as a possibility. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is of
course, talking to the Chinese. And the rumor is now that she
has given promises or maybe even entered into a more formal
agreement about the use of eminent domain in the United
States. Oh, yeah, I Yeah. We need to borrow $2.75 trillion.
China, would you please front us the money China's going Hey,
man, you know, your shit don't look too good. Right now. You
got any collateral and they say, Well, yeah, we have this eminent
eminent domain pilot See, which means the government can take
your shit, your land, your house, etc, for just
compensation, whatever that would be then or however that's
calculated, and that essentially, that has been given
as collateral for the next round of purchase of a huge amount of
securities, which are on the block ready to go. So you've
heard of this?
Well, let me just read you from a blog post we did on February
23, co2 rollback coming soon, interesting. Eminent Domain
angle is the title of the post. And it's about a article about
cutting greenhouse gases, the bizarre clamp down, you know,
the Carol Browner and all the rest of it. And there's the one
article that I cited here at the very, very, very, very, very end
of the article. There's this paragraph, which says
separately, browner said the administration was this good,
you know, like just here, they just dropped these bombs at the
end. And because people are tired by the time they get to
the end, separately, Brown had said the administration was also
going to create an inter agency tax Task Force to site A new
national electricity transmission grid to meet both
growing demand. And the President's plan to renewable
energy expansion. Says citing has been a major, a major
bottleneck to renewable growth, and lawmakers and
administrators, or administration officials have
said that they'd likely seek greater federal powers that
would give expanded eminent domain authorities. Right now
they got enough eminent domain to take your house over and
drive, you know, it's like, it's like, you know, Douglas Adams
story, they can just basically take a what what do they need to
expand it for? I mean, what were How worse can it be? I mean,
when we what bad things do they are they do they have in mind?
Well, the Chinese would, would want to have their money back.
That could be pretty bad.
Again, you just grab a bunch of property and say, Okay, you
Chinese you didn't have this. You here's a town for you.
Yes. Well, it is a it is a constitutional right that the
government has they eminent domain is in the Constitution, I
think,
isn't there some AI there's something about eminent domain
somewhere they have the authority to do certain things
in the good for the good of the country. But I think I don't
even what what did they need to expand it for what is wrong with
the way it is? I mean, there's something screwy about, well,
what is eminent domain thing is a real problem.
Well, you're asking, you're asking the question, but I'm
giving you the answer would what they would need to expand it for
would be to to have collateral for these huge loans. Is that
not reason enough? Doesn't that make sense?
Yeah, it has a certain sixth sense. Yeah. Maybe
journalists are in big trouble over here. Why? There was an
inquisition is what I'll call it in front of the Treasury Select
Committee, Robert Peston, this is a BBC reporter, he is the guy
who broke the story of Northern Rock being in such trouble which
triggered the run on the banks, the run on Northern Rock. And
there's a lot of hatred about this guy. I mean, massive,
massive hatred. Nothing Not just from from politicians, but also
from citizens who are saying, Man, you should have shut up if
you would just kept quiet and that would have been a run on
the bank. And this Inquisition I watched some of it on the on the
BBC. There's a link in the show notes that I'll put and you can
read through how they how they tried to corner him but they
literally were saying you know, you had a responsibility not to
report this and you started this economic collapse it's just
amazing what they're doing. You can't you can't you have a
responsibility. I guess there's that word over here. You have a
responsibility. They say well he said look all the big players
knew it there was a there was a run inside the bank why why
couldn't the normal people who had money in the bank from the
outside wouldn't give me an outside run? I mean, of course
he's right. But it's just it's crazy that the you know can't go
picking up reporters for a while it not like it picked it up but
they really scapegoated this guy.
Well, so much for the scene over there. This just gonna get
worse. Okay, so here's another story that's, I don't want you
can we change the subject now?
Of course, you can go do whatever you want
to hear about the thing that they're trying to do with the
Real ID and the little chip to train the chip all driver's
licenses. Yeah, this
is this is basically the AI the illegal unconstitutional ID
card.
They've changed the wording of what they're gonna call it's
gonna be called an enhanced driver's license.
Ah, it's it's an upgrade. Nice
it's an enhanced card it's apparently the Janet net
Paulette, how do you pronounce her name to Politano annapolitan
I'm going to Positano I think yeah, yeah, she's promoting it
but meanwhile of course the Christians have considered this
to be the mark of the beast as
is the mark of the beast of course it fits in line with
exactly what what the what the scripture is written is that we
get to the point where you have the mark of the beast and that
would be your implanted chip and your life is controlled through
it I saw I can see how people will see it the view it that
way. Yeah.
Oh, this is thank you by the way, whoever sent me that
picture of Nancy Pelosi it which one? It must be a Photoshop.
Well, I mentioned something about her her chest.
Somebody pumped them pumped up her breasts.
They also sent me this picture I can't hate her now. This picture
gives me gives me dreams. There was one other interesting thing
I want to say about the about the crash the Turkish airways
crash?
Oh, this picture is BS was hot.
It's in the show notes, folks, don't worry. It's something
interesting. The the Dutch version of the National
Transportation Safety Board is chaired by Mr. Peter from follow
from he is married into the royal family. He's married to
one of the princesses. And he's been he's a Bilderberger the
whole thing he's been around for a while. And I can tell you can
tell a funny story about him and Patricia in a second just to
show you what kind of credibility he I have for him
and what his credit worthiness is. So they took the flight data
recorder and the cockpit voice recorder from this unfortunate
accident. And what happened is the Justice Department said,
Hey, we want to see it because you know, we're responsible for
terrorism whatever. And for full harvest said no, you can't have
it. And so now there's this political flap going on back and
forth about this flight data recorder. But there's an
interesting backstory to this, which I think we've touched on
lightly. That the there's all there's been significant strain
between the Dutch Department of Justice, in particular with the
Secretary General, because this is the guy who admitted to
journalists that he had sex with underage children. And Turkey,
you know, according to reports, has been blackmailing him for
many years, because of course, Istanbul is a great place to go.
And, you know, there's a there's like a dissident that's locked
up for life and Dutch jail, and there's all kinds of wacky shit
going on. And I was thinking that maybe it's possible that
these guys wanted these tapes, you know, to hold them over the
Turkish government. But Turkey is a very interesting, kind of,
they're in the middle of this huge web, you know, they talk to
Iran, they talk to the west they talk to, you know, it's all
these different political moves. And it's just fascinating to
watch this unprecedented stuff happening. And and, you know,
fulfill a hope of being a member of the royal family of
Bilderberger, as I said, and the guy who stuck his erection into
my wife's back when taking a picture one time at some event
is just a interesting little character is a lot of stuff
going on. Interesting to follow. He's a masher. Yep. They were
taking a picture because she did a performance and royal
performance or whatever. And, and he was behind her in this
photo set up and he was just rubbing, rubbing his, his Stiffy
up against her.
Oh, that's terrible. Yeah, I don't mind gusting person.
Thank you. You'll see he's the guy with the ears. He's our
Prince Charles. Very, very funny.
So what's his name again?
Vaughn fuller? Joven. Yeah, don't worry. I won't even spell
it's got links in the show notes.
Now. All right, we'll see how silly he looks.
Yeah, and then just imagine rub mashing up against you.
Mash or Oh, that's nasty. And that is what a mad that is the
definition of a masher.
I just got a Twitter here that already impossibly supplies
financial transactions. They're a network for financial
transactions for the banks. Interesting. Interesting.
So what else you got on your list? Tons of stuff? No, go give
me another one. Give me something interesting this time.
Okay. The connection between you have any celebrity news?
Yes. Well, the whole country here has been in just so
fascinated with the Jane Goody story. If you really want to
know
I don't know what that is. J goody.
Is she one big brother and subsequently went on to become a
celebrity and even appeared on Celebrity Big Brother. She was
the one who got kicked out of the Big Brother house, the
Celebrity Big Brother House, supposedly for bullying and or
racist comments about the Indian actress. You recall that flat
from two years ago, this was huge, because, you know, she
said, I can't remember what she said. But it was some derogatory
term or, you know, whatever it was, and she's a very common
type girl.
Yeah. And certainly, the status of course, was we said, yeah,
obviously, but it was it was a House of Commons were discussing
it, you know, oh, we have bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla. So
she got cancer, severe cervical cancer, I believe, and which
there's another story there for another time. But now she's
dying. And this has been front page for weeks of every
periodical above anything else. And you know, because she's
selling her story to every media outlet, because she wants her
boys to have, you know, to be set to be taken care of. So you
can imagine how this enamored everybody and everyone's drawn
in. So there's a reality show running. You know, we're
watching this girl die. It is it is. It's a disgusting spectacle.
Not on her part, but just on what we've become as people. You
know, she's bald, and her husband's in jail, because he
beats some girl severely, I guess, because he's in jail for
18 months. She's like, Oh, you know, I want to I want to marry
him. And so the judge lets him out of jail for not just for the
wedding, but for the wedding night. And she sells the story
to OK, Magazine reported 700,000 pounds, which I think is
possibly true. And that's what people are looking at. They're
there. They're not interested in the shit we're talking about.
That's that is that that is the story here. That is the story.
Wow. Yeah. It's kind of depressing. I think our shows
depressing. We're not gonna get anybody to give us any money if
we
Oh, yeah. Perfect moment after the dying cancer Celebrity Big
Brother story. John, let's talk about our library. Hold on, hold
on a second. We can't just talk about the library. This is no
agenda. All right. The Adam curry, John C. Dvorak, Library
Project, John.
So we have a this library thing, you know, because we have to put
up the library site when we were still looking for donations from
the people who actually use this show, of course, apparently, you
know, to bring themselves closer to suicide with the topics we
had today. So I don't know if it's it, maybe it's illegal
suicide. What do you call it? When you help somebody? But
euthanasia?
Assisted suicide. That's what the word I was looking for.
People, a lot of people listen to the show when they're on
their bicycle or at the gym, or they go into work, and they have
a long drive under the bus. And they don't want to listen to
commercials or they don't want to listen to stuff we you know,
nobody else brings up these topics, even though you know,
some of them are a little fringe. You know
why no one brings up these topics, John, because you're
exactly right. The people who are hypnotized watching mass
media, they want a different story. They want something
that's uplifting and heroic. They don't want the actual
truth. They don't want to hear what's really going on in the
world. That's why
well, we have a number of listeners that seem to like this
material. And it's in the hundreds of 1000s. And we need
to get them to pitch in because this is a public supported show.
So if you can go to divorce act.org/in A, we would seriously
appreciate your help. And I want to thank everybody who's already
done this,
thank you. Indeed,
there's a lot of them, but it's not as many as we need to say
the least. And work probably you know, we do the library. We're
gonna give them a code and then they can go online and look at
some stuff that we're going to keep them separate from the rest
of them.
I got a funny email from someone I'm seeing if I thought I saved
it to my four act.org/in
A. Yes.
You're gonna do the slash library thing too. But I guess
I'm getting it's coming out. We'll do it this week. I have to
grab to get you to do it during the week when grommets around
and we can just do it.
You said you were gonna do that earlier. I'm a Dremel, laggard?
Yeah, that's correct. Someone sent us a really funny email. I
thought I'd save that about the day donation Hold on. Come on
Google. Come on Google Mail. Here we go. Gotta love Gmail.
Adam. Now that I'm an investor and this is from Bruce Chandler,
now that I'm an investor in no agenda, I demand had my name on
an entrance brick in the new curry Dvorak library. I saw this
I vote that you change the plans to a library slash winery. Good
idea. I expect to see a rendering of the new loot
library on curry.com Before long Yes, I won't have to do that. I
also demand a seat on the board of directors had no agenda.
Whoa, that's that's a heavy one there. $2 per month is a lot of
damn money. You bet you guys better not run off with all that
money like made off. I also expect to receive a state of no
agenda each year. State have no agenda address and best have no
agenda when you guys are on vacations. Please use my
investment wisely. But it's
actually a good idea. The winery, we well, the winery is
always a good idea. Especially you know, in a down economy when
you get these things cheap. Now I'm thinking it's probably not a
bad idea to do a state have no agenda at some point. And then
also I think best stuff would be a good idea because I think at
some point, we need it. We need some evergreen material just in
case we can't do a show. I don't
like the idea of evergreen material. I've just I am the
whole idea just makes me think Sound of Music. I just evergreen
doesn't sit right with me. It's
I'm just saying we should have some sort of backup plan in case
we can't do the show.
There's no reason for us not to do the show. Unless one of us is
physically incapacitated. I'm going no,
I mean, I could be trapped. I'm going to be in Holland in the
end of April. Yeah. And I might not have a connection that's
worth a crap that one of the times I was in Europe recently I
go online and they did the connection. You get a card at
the front desk. And yeah, you got a pretty good connection and
then it just craps out it says oh, you used all your all your
capacity. You use too many bits
Insert Coin.
So unbelievable. Yeah, it's like go into whatever that was.
That was pretty funny. That Ryanair story about which of
course got way blown out of proportion, proportion. You
know, they've got kind of a wacky chairman. He says, oh, you
know, I'm considering charging for the toilets. You have to put
a pound into the toilet. Yeah. Right. And then And yeah, that
was even on the front page of the Financial Times. You know,
it's like God we take that seriously, although there's a
great picture that I'll put in the show notes that shows the
Ryanair emergency placard Have you seen this one it's highly
blockable I figured I'd give it to you the Ryanair placard and
you know in case of an emergency in case of pressure loss insert
one pound into slot to release oxygen mask. Secure your own
mask but do not help others they must pay for themselves. If the
plane has landed an emergency insert your card into the chip
and pin device when the transaction is complete exit the
aircraft.
It's cute. Very cute.
Okay, I've got
well let me read you some email here that this is a piece of
folklore that's been going around I think this has been
around over and over again. I just got it again. But I'm gonna
read it and I just it This to me is just total, you know, urban
legend, Bull, which is kind of funny. So it goes to the
following. This is a male I got from John Montana. In addition
to communicating with the local air traffic control facility all
aircraft in the Persian Gulf AOR are required to give the Iranian
air defense radar military a 10 minute heads up if they will be
transiting Iranian airspace is a common procedure for commercial
aircraft and involves giving them your callsign transponder
code type aircraft and points of origin and destination I just
flew with a guy who overheard this conversation on the VH F
guard emergency frequency 120 1.5 megahertz while flying
from Europe to Dubai. It's too good not to pass along which of
course means it's bullshit
which means we didn't which was there's no actual recording of
it. It's just the transcript which is
budgeted to here it goes the conversation went like this
Iranian air defense radar, unknown aircraft, you're an
Iranian airspace, identify yourself aircraft. This is the
United States aircraft I'm in Iraqi airspace, air defense
radar, you are in Iranian airspace. If you do not depart
our airspace, we will launch interceptor aircraft. Then never
say it that way. Aircraft no aircraft. This is the United
States Marine Corps F 18. Fighter send them up. I'll wait.
And then no response. And then what? That's it they did no
response they wouldn't respond to that was it? That's the joke.
She then they wouldn't say anything. So. Okay. People you
got to come up with better material than that.
Well, that's like, why airplane radio transmission jokes are
plenty. That's a pretty good one. But there's there's a lot
of them that float around. Okay, let me see. Oh, by the way, I
this is this third week in a row now that I've said that
California is really Southern California is really in dire
straits with with the water situation. You keep saying, Oh,
it's raining, but that's Northern California. This is a
real state of emergency. For for the Southern California being
pretty big.
They're in a desert. What do they expect?
Is that your answer? Like, what would they say in your days,
blow up and dry away or dry up and blow away?
I'm telling you, they're in a desert. What are they expected?
They've stolen all the water from Northern California we used
to have in the San Francisco Bay Area when Hetch Hetchy reservoir
was like a normal place where we get drinking water. Probably
some of the finest water outside of New York City, which by the
way, has terrific drinking water set for the plutonium. But
anyway, so it was just a tastiest water ever. And then oh
no, we had to divert most of it to Southern California because
they were expanding and they're in the Orange Counties got you
know, building new homes and blah, blah, blah. Next thing you
know, all the water goes down there. So our water tastes like
crap now. So what do you think I'm bitter?
Well, I'd like to understand that at what they just They've
stolen the water. What where's your what do you have the same
water supply just less of it? Are you getting your water from
somewhere else? Now?
We're getting it from another source of sucks. Apparently,
it's just it's polluted. And they have to chlorinate the crap
out of it. So when it comes out of the tap, you smell chlorine.
You know, you gotta buy a Britta you know, just to be able to be
able to choke down the water. That used to be fantastic. Wow,
no, okay. That's a reasonable complaint of life issue, some
quality of life issue.
Thank you. I'm glad you finally got it out. It's taken me three
weeks to get you to respond to it.
So there, you have a dry spell going on. And then here's a way
here's another one. I don't know you've ever been to Bermuda?
Yes, I have. No, they have no supply of water in Bermuda.
There's no, there's no well, you can drill a well in Bermuda and
get water. So what do they do for their water supply? They
don't have big reservoirs. There's not enough room on these
islands. So no, what do they do? Every house has got a crazy kind
of a lime roof. They're all white. A lime roof that is real
clean is kept clean. And it's all the water that we every time
it rains in Bermuda all the water that hits every roof in
every home gets funneled down into a tank in the basement. And
they essentially have created a self sustainable That's right.
Yeah,
Jamaica does a lot of this too. Yeah.
I've seen Yeah, these are these these places do that. I don't
understand why would they don't do that in these dry areas like
Los Angeles and parts of Texas was always having a drought
where it rains like a son of a gun in dead you know, every so
often. In fact, Los Angeles has these huge ditches these huge
pits these giant you see him in the movies all the time, these
giant pits where the rainwater goes washing down and they have
these this these tremendous storms that just throw a ton of
water all at once into the area and then it goes gets shuffled
off back into the ocean where they could be collecting it and
then they complain when they run out of water they don't they
make no effort to do any sort of catching of all the rain that
they actually get. They just waste it all and then they still
aren't good drinking water so they can you know, you know
water their grass and fill their pools This is a call to empathy.
no sympathy for them. Screw
those los Angelenos this Serves you right for living in the
desert. I'm with you John. Screw those guys.
They're all our ways of doing this and although they're all a
bunch of greys down there How come they haven't got these
Bermuda roofs? That save the water I don't get it save
the water oh, I got another beautiful data point.
beset you know people are annoyed by you continually
lighting that stat or playing with your cigarette lighter
constantly.
Who says they're annoyed by it?
I did.
Okay. The on Wednesday morning the same morning of these people
Turkish Airlines crash the the head of the National Police
Department's Special Operations Unit shot himself in the head
suicided himself twice. Yeah, of course. Of course. Not have to
be sure I just love this shit, man. I mean, how can it not be
connected?
Now let's go over this one again. I didn't get I didn't
know this. So so this is the who what police guy shot himself in
the head.
This is back set. I think Oktay is I pronounced it the head of
the National Police Department Special Operations Unit shot
himself in the head early on Wednesday in Ankara.
So he was in Turkey. He was in Turkey. Yeah. Why would Why is
he in Turkey and why? But well he
is. He's head of this is like this the special ops unit of
Turkey. So he shoots himself. There's for Boeing engineers on
board who are involved with the early warning aircraft system,
which is a and this is all relatively new all these
contracts being awarded. We've got Iridium sadly. And I just do
there's something something going on here. I know there's
something going on,
but there's a lot of billions involved. So anything's
possible. You know, you
can get a guy to knock someone off for 20 bucks on the street.
I'm sure someone's willing to kill a couple people if it's
about billions. I'm just sayin.
Yeah, but they had to be the better than some street hit
thug.
Well, I think they're very sophisticated. Obviously. It
isn't radioactive guy running around. Oh, in the UK. Yeah.
Police are searching for Thomas Leopold of Hammersmith Leopold.
So this is I guess he was convicted for child pornography.
But he has been given high doses of radiation is treatment for a
thyroid condition. And he didn't show up. And now people are
worried about him. And there's a report out for him and his
doctor confirms he is dangerous in terms of radioactivity for a
period of six weeks after treatment. I didn't know that
this existed, that people are actually dangerously
radioactive.
Something about this story doesn't make sense. Maybe
there's a doctor who's in our audience that can tell us what
that's all about. Actually, a friend of mine is a nuclear
physician. I mean, he used to be involved with shooting people up
with various things than they used to you put them in a
machine and you can see all kinds of weird stuff, but I'll
ask him. So this is at the background. This is a thyroid
condition. And he shot up with radiation to treat it, and he
saw radio and which is made him radioactive for the next six
weeks. This doesn't sound right.
Leopold was in charge of a tutorial College in harrow
northwest of London was seen a few days before his hearing on a
car ferry destined for Southeast Ireland. But he was questioned
by special brands police officers. And this is apparently
would
have seen him on a car ferry. How would they know that someone
with someone with a Geiger counter
unless you're following him would have seen him on a ferry?
Weird story and yeah, it's a strange story.
Yeah, it'll be in the show notes UK Police hunt for dangerously
radioactive teacher just gotta love that headline. So just to
wrap it up, cuz it's it's really what what leaves people with the
most to talk about about our little little program here we do
twice a week. First of all, I'd like to say that I have to
rescind to rescind maybe not the right word. I have to tell you,
I do believe in climate change now. Because I've looked up the
meaning of this word. And as long as it's not about global
warming, yes, climate change is afoot. The political climate,
the financial climate, the economic climate. And I think
that this is now just a code word, John.
It's not a this is a good one. Now this is the one of the
better things you've done for the whole show today. Well, you
know, it takes a little while climate change is a code word
for, you know, the changes afoot?
Yep. Because climate, of course, is what you predict. And weather
is what you get, you know, that's two very different
things. Climate is just a predictive model. And in some
cases, historic model, but climate really climate change,
it makes so much sense to me. It just hit me I'm like, Yeah, I
get it. Climate change, it's code.
You know, things are going the way you actually think they're
going. Our show is not going to be on for much longer.
Now. I've thought about that. And I've had many discussions
with my wife about it. You know, Homeland Security and all and no
AI although,
you know, a lot of times you know, you get a show like this
which is you know the crackpot and buzzkill special, which is
why we hype that up, of course, you end up with this thing and
now there's just a couple of bucks just like that show they
have the overnight used to be Bell shorts to Coast Coast to
Coast. Yeah, you know, they have people on there that are just,
you know, their eye rolling crazy. You know that people that
say there's a bunch of prisoners in the middle of the earth, you
know, and you can drop a microphone down a volcano and
you can hear him screaming.
Oh, shit. Now you took my last topic, man. What are we gonna do
now?
That kind of stuff. It's like really wacky, wacky stuff. You
know it's almost like you and those aliens you know that
supposedly around and or the flying saucer that was supposed
to land Have
you noticed I'm not talking about that much because I too
was very disappointed so I'm like Yeah, fuck it I'm not gonna
talk about it you know? That's no that's no longer credible
where I got all that shit from
obviously. So,
climate noun, the prevailing attitude standards or
environmental conditions of a group period or place. Origin
1315 to 1400 Klamath Colima synonyms mood atmosphere spirit
tone temper. I'm right there.
That's cute. I like it. We need a jingle or something around.
Oh, yeah, cool. Climate change, you know the, it will have to
take
one of our listeners will come up with something, for sure. All
right, let me just see if there's one time
I'm I'm in by the way, I'm in with you on the climate change.
Okay,
cool. Thank you. I was just looking if there was one upbeat
thing I could I could leave on. Surely you
would be different.
No, I'm sorry. Doesn't seem to be possible. You don't have
anything left. That's it?
I guess again, because I'm sitting this week. Sorry.
Yeah. I mean, I got tons of stuff is just You're right. I
don't want it to all be downer stuff. Guys lighten themselves
on fire topless coffee shop in Maine. That's kind of cool. I
like that as a recession buster.
The huh? Yeah.
Men and women. And, well, there you go. I think we just have to
call it a show, Johnny.
All right. Well, we'll have more stuff for everybody on Thursday
when we get to next one. It's I don't know what's going to be
happening between now and Thursday but probably a lot.
I do find that the wait between Sunday and Thursday is harder.
I'm it's an extra day, the Thursday to Sunday thing I can
handle but I'm I do Jones a bit.
A really? Yeah. Well, we could rotate we can do between
Wednesday and Thursday, Wednesday and Thursday. If you
wanted to, you know, wanted to? Well, I think anybody we're
gonna wish to stick with a schedule. Yeah,
we have to do our Thursday because I'm, I'm driving back
from France Thursday. And I'm going to be there Wednesday.
France, France.
What are you doing in France?
I am. I have a course. I'm taking a course.
In what
Final Cut Pro?
You are? Yeah, as a special man have to go to France to get a
course and Final Cut Pro? Well, the
in this this is something in the time period that worked out for
me. It's not like it's not like a basic thing. It's like a
masterclass thing. It's a big deal. You know, I need to
nobody in Britain that can give you this material. I'm just not
seeing why you have to go to France.
Again, there's nothing for the timing that just didn't work
out. Right. doesn't I mean, this is like, you know, the media
management stuff, you know, I do a show, you know, this six days
a week. So, you know, there's, at a certain point, you know,
yeah, the hard drives are filled up and you've got to manage the
media and there's all this you know, real process flow stuff
that once you kind of, if you find if you really read through
the manual is like, okay, and my eyes are glazing over. But if
you see someone who actually, you know, does it and you follow
along, you know, it makes it a lot easier. And templates built
in. It's a whole bunch of stuff. No, no shit about this. Anyway,
so Thursday, I'll be I'll be back in time for the show.
Thursday.
Well, why don't you pick up some produce or something while
you're there? Yeah.
Yeah, I could do.
You're supposed to give me that bottle of wine for you know,
bring it over. You never did that one from you?
I've never been I've never been able to find it. I've looked at
you mean the
go to Berry brothers. Have you been to Barry?
I got other things to do. I don't even have time to do a
daily source code. I'm gonna go to Barry brothers. All right.
Bring your ass over here and we'll take care of all that shit
in one go.
We won't have time. Okay. Okay, that's it. That's it. I'm done.
I'm through. I'm finished. Coming blacked out. org slash in
a give us some we need some help. Thank you. Coming
to you from the crackpot command center and Gitmo nation, Eastern
southwest London. I'm Adam curry.
I'm John C. Dvorak in the buzzkill bunker. Here in bastion
of Buzzkill. I don't know what we're gonna call it in northern
Silicon Valley. John C. Dvorak
will talk to you on Thursday right here on no agenda.