Adam curry, John C. Dvorak cling to the life raft of sanity by a
single strand of reality. It's Thursday, April 2 2009. This is
no agenda burrowed deep beneath the Southwest quadrant of London
in the crock pot command center in get mo nation east. I'm Adam
curry.
And looking left looking right looking up looking down in
northern Silicon Valley. Still looking. I'm John C. Dvorak.
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don't take funny. I don't take it first. Yes. Yes, you are.
Good morning. So.
So I understand from the looking at? Well, not from looking at
American news so much. But give us a rundown on the riots that
appear to be taking place where they turned off all the cameras.
Yeah, this area of London because they didn't want to show
the cops beating people up or they didn't want to show the
rioters taking over. They just didn't want to show something.
So we
have the the G 20 taking place in town yesterday and today and
I wouldn't say riots so much as protests started taking place.
Just just to your point about the CCTV cameras being shut
down. The London and this is hundreds of 1000s of cameras
that were turned off, but it was because of a legal ruling. Did
you catch any of that?
Yeah, sorry about that resolution was too low. Well,
no, no, no.
Ah, interesting. No one said the resolution was too low. It says
that the CCTV Net TV network does not fully meet the
resolution standards required. It's very possible they're too
high resolution. And they don't want too much on the video
cameras need to have a little bit of grainy look. Otherwise,
it doesn't look good on television.
Oh, they never made it clear where there's too high or too
low. It's just not right. Yeah, I
just that's the quote is the CCTV network does not fully meet
the resolution standards required.
So may be too high. It doesn't sound right.
Well, I've been in legal proceedings, a friend of mine,
and they showed CCTV footage of in front of his club. Dude, this
is Pan Zoom. Full color. I mean, this is not like your frame by
frame. It's full motion video. And with audio. And they use
that in court cases. Which audio? Yeah, audio video
everything. Got a shotgun mic on that
thing or something?
It must be it's definitely directional, but it works. Yeah,
this is so the cameras, the cameras, my friends clubs across
the street. And they just worked and they showed in the
courtroom. Zooming right. That's crazy. Wow. Yeah. Get mo nation
baby.
That's a really bad yeah.
So yeah, so we have 22 pairs of leaders in town. Of course the
prime ministers and presidents as well as financial ministers
or Secretaries of Treasury or central bankers. Basically the
whole new world order has been congealed on the City of London
over and Docklands, actually. So it's not it's not like there's
any problems here. Although we have been hearing the
helicopters for the past 48 hours pretty much nonstop. And
yesterday, the protests started it was fascinating, of course,
to follow this on Twitter. Because then it really comes
through like almost like news, you want to follow the hashtag g
20. And g 20. Rally. And then you can you can kind of get a
good idea what's going on. But really, I would say riots, no,
it was first of all it was it was almost a festive mood.
People were dressed up as kind of like zombie bankers, a lot of
V for Vendetta masks floating around some great pictures, the
photographic material coming through on twitpic, etc is just
awesome. There's some good links in the show notes for today's
program. And they they kind of coordinated they wanted to do
the four, four horsemen of the apocalypse. So they had four
different parades, if you will, all coming together in in the
City of London in the financial district. And what the cops did
is they kind of trapped them all in. So they came, you know,
imagine an intersection four horsemen of the apocalypse
trying to meet in the middle and the cops just pretty much
surrounded them and just made them stay there and hang out for
a while. They did. Trash RBS bank that broken, finally busted
through a window. And yeah, toxic computers and dumb shit
like that. And a couple people got beat up. I'd have to say the
police were reasonably tame. Actually.
Some guy
died. Yeah, well, shit happens, but it wasn't because he was
beat up. I don't think so don't think
the way they the way the media was playing it. The BBC seemed
to have it looking like an out and out all hell's breaking
loose. Loose riot. No, it's
definitely not.
Okay, well, that's what kinda way the American media had it,
especially the PBS.
I have to say Barack Obama said it best. And I do have some
sound clips for later if you want to listen to him. But he
did a press conference with Gordon Brown. And he said like
he said, he said, Look, these these summits are the people
usually aren't that compelling to look at. Got a chuckle says
the language is dry. So there's always a bit of drama being
being injected? Not that he was referring to the BBC or America
showing his all protests and horrible.
I mean, protests or do you think there
were in total?
PBS says 4000? No, no more than that. Oh, no, that's what I was
thinking I was
much, much, much more. No, I'd say close to the 40,000 would be
accurate for yesterday. I'm not quite sure today, I did hear on
the no agenda stream from the real news that they had towards
the Bank of England. And I don't even have to go look at the
video to know that it's Yeah, someone lit a fire somewhere.
It's not the the new the new media is totally, totally
looking for it to be pandemonium, but it's really
just not. And I think it's because there are multiple
groups. You know, no one's really protesting for the same
thing. We've got the climate campers, so they come in and
they pitch tents in the middle of the street, and they want,
you know, better climate change protections, then you have a lot
of people saying capitalism is dead. So we're against
capitalism. And then others are still walking with the jobs,
justice, climate stuff. And then there's some funny pictures of
what I liked the most was, consumers suck. You know, it's
like, what are we protesting? Consumers, just not quite sure
what it's supposed to be. So, but what I have to say that just
overall very interesting things taking place. News wise, The
Guardian, the communist newspaper, has amongst all of
this conveniently with this, with the G 20. Summit has come
out and said, We're going full 24/7 on Twitter, and we're
publishing all news on Twitter. Furthermore, just showing that
they really don't understand what Wait Wait,
wait, Twitter. I saw that article and thought it was an
April Fool's gag. You're telling me it's not.
You can't tell me that's for real. That's an April Fool's
gag. No, they're publishing. I don't know if they're gonna
publish the whole newspaper on Twitter. That could be a gag but
they're at the they're at the protest. They're twittering
their asses off. I'm gonna look for that article. Maybe it was.
Maybe I got fooled.
You could have been because I looked at that. And this is bull
was a guy five very dubious about doing a tech five
yesterday. In fact, I ran a i Every year I do an April Fool's
joke. And I was thinking I was going to do it this year. But
this year, I did one by running last year's April 1. Tech five.
What did you do? Didn't you do something last year?
Yeah, I've done I can't remember. I've done so many of
these gags
that it's they're so successful. I can't remember. I
know that some of them are very successful. I have I'm in the
hoax Hall of Fame. As a matter of fact, with one of them.
We don't remember last year,
I had to think about it. It wasn't anything great. And we
haven't really done anything great for at least almost a
decade.
In general. Right.
Exactly. I think what I do one last year, it was something I
ran in the PC Magazine. It was a funny column. I can't remember
which one it was. But anyway, whatever it was, who cares? But
I but I was so dubious yesterday of of all these articles I'm
looking at I'm thinking this could be an April Fool's joke.
This could be an April Fool's joke. This could be an April
Fool's. I mean, every piece of news I'm gonna read like your
here's one.
You see. Did you see Google's April Fool's joke? Yeah, you
know, I
think their jokes are lame. What 20
pilot the artificial intelligence the ham. Yeah. Like
it is listen here's here's one
malicious viruses but Conficker malicious virus quiet but attack
may be in the works that could be an April Fool's joke
What happened with that what happened to the whole Conficker
thing didn't was not saying
what it was going to happen I that I think is dead worm that's
just floating around I wonder
what if it's an acronym or what it stands for What does
Conficker mean? I've always thought that something the name
must give some clue about what it's supposed to be other than
con you and figure you
I don't know. There's just nothing has ever come out about
it and there's you know this April Fool's thing was the real
was an actual there was a gag for you. And challenge. Here's a
Wall Street Journal article, which I don't think was April
Fool's but in challenge the Microsoft PC makers test laptops
running Google software, that could be an April Fool's joke.
Yeah, Microsoft to enable private clouds and Windows
Server that actually be in April.
You know, it's interesting, all of the mainstream news on any
given day could be an April Fool's joke.
I'm telling you, that's what I was thinking yesterday. Now I'm
worried you're sick because the problem with like these these
news coverage operations like Google News, they run stuff that
you know, they rushed up to three and four days old three
and four days later, so I wonder how much of the April Fool stuff
is gonna sneak into the mainstream? Here's, like, here's
a musician is Billy Bragg and Robin Gibb have joined forces
with the record producer Pete Waterman, accusing Google of
devaluing songwriters amid
Oh, wow, that's not an April Fool's joke. Okay, well, what
is that? Jack, but it could be?
Well, it's all these guys who we call them circlips. Cliff
Richard has been a big proponent over here because these you
know, in in Britain, your copyright, your ownership
expires after 50 years. So all these guys who had hits when
they were teenagers, you know, like Cliff 1516, he has now
their ships coming up and the copyright was expiring and they
lobbied and they lobbied and they lobbied and of course they
got a changed. Just like Sonny Bono did in the in the US with
Disney. Disney, according to unlucky dip on Twitter, police
are letting protesters through the cordon. One by one each is
photographed and filmed, of course, would expect because the
CCTV networks down, they got to do it by hand. So obviously, the
big, big big news here is not just the G 20. Summit, but
President Obama is being in town visiting with not just the Prime
Minister but with the queen. Any, any any news about that in
the States?
It's all they're talking about?
And what's the what are they saying?
There's Well, first they show a lot of photo ops years Obama
with this guy, there's Obama with that guy. There's Obama
with the girl. There's Obama with what's her name from
Germany, there's Obama, there's Obama. And you know, and he's
walking around with that smile and walking around then they may
think they're starting to twisted very slowly toward
Michelle. There's Michelle mania going on in London. They have
all
Michelle mania. You know why? Because she she touched the
queen.
She put her arm around the queen. Oh my god, I'm surprised
they didn't shoot her
and the Queen put her arm around her ankles. It was great, great,
great shot. Those two the front page pictures today is like, you
see it's almost like a chart of the Dow Jones. Baroque Queen
Michelle, Prince Philip is like up, down up down. It does. Give
these people some apple crates, please. Barack Obama is two
times as tall as the Queen.
Yeah, well suppose Michelle did but
any sound bites or anything because I have a couple things
that I think would be kind of over
sound bites. I think they're annoying. But the there was a
Kevin just mostly, you know, the same old thing like you
mentioned earlier, just these clips, these little clips here
and there. But mostly it was the talking heads of the media. I
mean, and what the thing that gets me and I've always been
like, rolling my eyes over this. You know, the media is always
moaning and groaning and trying to save money. We don't want a
foreign correspondent, you know, meanwhile, MarketWatch you know,
we have people everywhere around the world and true foreign
correspondent fashion sitting there. So we have like Tom
Bemis, who's one of my editors in London, that's where he
lives. And they brought him on the BBC to do a little chat with
them. But meanwhile, these big networks that are throwing money
away, they for example, what is the here's what the question
trying to get to what is the point of sending Katie Couric,
the anchor woman to London Just stand in front of one of the
bridges on the river to give a report from there, it's
pointless, because they have somebody working the room.
There was such a great YouTube video I saw yesterday. It's it's
a BBC program, screen wipe. I think it's called. And it deals
exactly with this question. And of course, it's because
otherwise, the news is boring and someone will watch it. If
it's not Katie Couric with their flat mousse, then who cares then
why even bother?
And then the other one was I was watching PBS, I was watching the
news hour, which is a little more sedate and a little more in
studio a little more conversational, and a little
more in depth because it's an hour and they decided to go big
time and they sent a MARGARET WARNER or whatever her name is
this kind of good reporter but she does she really has more of
a face for radio. They Hey, they ship her
Hello, hello, pot kettle calling.
Hey, shipper. Yeah, they said they ship her over there. And by
the way, if you notice, I'm on the radio now. Everybody, they
ship her over to London to get she's standing in front of the
wet Westminster Abbey or the Houses of Parliament. Is that
where the action was?
That's when uh, yeah, I believe that's where the conference was
held on that green piece of grass because it's funny if you
drive by there, and I've driven by that by there many times just
around Evening News time, you see 10 crew set up all next to
each other all doing the same shot from the little patch of
grass with the with the ID in the background.
tendency of the news coverage, which again, one of the reasons
that news media is suffering, they don't even get it shocking.
So I don't see why they spent the money. It just seems like a
waste of money. I mean, don't they have correspondents that
work there all the time? Apparently not. And if they're
gonna send somebody over there, why don't they send a local
expert or bring us
a stringer triggered when it comes to mainstream network
news, NBC, CBS, ABC, those guys, you know, they're making money
on those shows, ya know,
so they're still pulling the foreign correspondents out of
the field and doing all this other stuff and doing these
gimmicky things with us. And yeah, they're all anchor man.
Well, they have is the anchor man doing in London. He's
supposed to be the anchor man. He's not supposed to be a loose
cannon.
Well, because they expected huge riots and everything to be on
fire and they didn't have flight did she did Katie Couric have a
flak jacket on while she was in the streets of London? Didn't
you have some camouflage? She was dressing down. Jamie Oliver,
of course, cooked for all the dignitaries last night.
Well, that's a shame. But I think it's somebody who knows
how to cook.
During during the press conference, this is very funny.
And I hope to God, they didn't even show it properly on the on
the British news. So they took about, you know, one of those
side by side things. And they they took about six questions.
And it was very, very funny. The first one out of the gate was
awesome. Let's have a little listen here. Cue track.
Thank you very much. I said to the rock, I was going to
introduce him to my friends in the British media. Nick.
Prime Minister, thank you very much indeed. Nick Robinson, BBC
News. A question for you both, if I may. The Prime Minister has
repeatedly blamed the United States of America for causing
this crisis in France and Germany blame both Britain and
America for causing this crisis. Who is right? And isn't the
debate about that at the heart of the debate about what to do
now?
I love that out of the gate. Right slam those my friends from
the British press come bang. So, of course, the President didn't
answer the question, but I'll just let you hear a little bit
of the of his stammering it's kind of funny. I would say that
think think think if you look at our
little prompter sources, crisis,
see the sources of this crisis? Geez.
Well, you know, the so the one thing I really don't want to
beat this up because it's kind of dull, like you said, but I
noticed that they start cosi was supposed to, like walk out on a
thing. But he didn't. And he showed up and then he gave us a
little talk with that German Merwin has come. They had
they had the alternative press conference, which was so
downscale it was it was it looked like community theater. A
little crappy as podium. And you know, just a little looks really
warm in there and kind of smoky. And yeah, sir cozy is totally
playing up and playing the big man.
Yeah. And he's the first thing he does is he blames the blames
the US for everything, guarding it. Yeah, he's supposed to be
our friend, you know when he first got in, right? And then
and then the way everyone's analyzing the whole thing is
that the US is trying to do to fix the problem with stimulus in
a made it clear that both France and Germany specifically, they
would think the problem can be fixed with regulation. And so
they're gonna like crank up the regulation machine. And in
Germany, the regulation machine has already cranked up to an
extreme with ridiculous rules and regulations about how when
you can fire somebody, and the French are much better. And it's
going to be regulations, can you watch regulation, if you
reinterpret if you'd look at it, and you break it down to
deconstruct, you're gonna find out just a form of
protectionism, which is what these guys are supposed to be
against?
Well, it's, it's, it's very apparent that there is a major
rift between the US and Britain, Gordon Brown will do anything
Barack Obama says, and the rest of Europe, which is indeed
categorized by the two countries that have most of the say, which
is Germany and France, and they are adamantly against more
stimulus or stimuli, because it's a would include everybody.
And, of course, if you and I watched all of these speeches
and conferences, and our president is saying, hey, you
know, look, look, we're really doing, we're doing everything
here. I even put more money on the table for I even came, what
are you guys doing? And Gordon Brown last night, said the
following.
Let me also add that I'm confident that President Sarkozy
will not only be here for the first course of our dinner, but
will still be sitting as we complete our dinner this
evening. And I think as President Obama has said, Look,
never before, as we did with an economic crisis, any of the
crisis that we've seen since the Second World War, he had this
level of international cooperation. And never before
have the world come together with so many countries
represented from so many, so many different continents to
address this crisis. So we have China, we have India, we have
Argentina, Brazil, we have South Africa, we have Russia, as well
as Europe, and America and Japan. And we are within a few
hours, I think of agreeing a global plan for economic
recovery and reform.
Okay, so that was last night. And of course, everyone, the
news has been all over it. Wondering what kind of watch he
has, you know, how many more hours is just a few. And I was
just watching, it seems like there's a, quote, substantial
agreement on fiscal stimuli worldwide on the table. But
they're not going to announce or make any decisions because they
are going they've agreed to hold another G 20. Summit, where
they're going to review all decisions before moving ahead.
And Gordon Brown, now also saying save and create jobs,
amazing how that's taken over. He said $5 trillion will be
injected into world economies this year. The UK has apparently
pledged $1 trillion in STRS, to the IMF. Now, it seems pretty
clear that this is an economic hit job done. It's all just
coming down.
Well, it sounds as though there's there's a couple of the
thing that's interesting to me is that there's two basic
theories that are still floating around out there about what to
do.
Yeah, one one is regulation. And, and, and the other. Well,
actually, there's three one is regulation. Two is more fiscal
stimulus. And the third is kill off the population. Which,
which? I don't think Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip have
given up on that one yet.
Well, that's because they're royalty. But anyway, so it seems
to me that, you know, there's there's just there's the one
variable, the one missing element that always has to be
considered, which I think wise, Gordon Brown is amongst those
backing the stimulus idea is there's this, there has to be
this fear, especially amongst these, you know, the Germans,
the French, the Italians, everybody, that what happens if
the United States proceeds which with this concept, and we decide
not to, and then when things snap straight, they're in great
shape, and we're screwed. Because, you know, it's happened
in the past where we're in great shape, and everybody else is
screwed is kind of like a it's a
fractal. There you go. It's a repeat everybody. And now, back
to real. John, I'm done. strat. Have you heard the Real News?
No, what?
The long running soap opera Guiding Light is going to cease?
No. Yeah, I heard that. It's a travesty. I think it's been a
dead dead soap opera for some time,
of course. But that's the top of the news. Along with what you
sent me that was a you know, this pisses me off. This really
makes me angry. From the New York Post
is it made me so angry You can spit Jim.
Jim Clark.
Yeah, you see that? You see that picture of this guy? I
hate this guy now. I hate hate hate hate. Hate him. Jim Clark,
who you probably know is the guy who has a yacht that was way too
big and ran on computers.
And of course, you know that your computer Yeah, that that's
not Jim Clark. No, no
Jim Clark had this had also had a completely computerized
sailing yacht. Absolutely.
No, no, no, no, that's that's a Perkins over here at Kleiner
Perkins
don't make me look it up. Jim Clark had also has like
something that runs on Sun Microsystems crap. I'm sure that
wasn't Perkins. Well, regardless, they wanted to get
it well whatever. Regardless regardless he Netscape that's
what added footer. He's got his his like, he has 100 100 million
dollar yacht. Okay.
Yeah. No, I said that. 100 footers bigger. But yeah, it's
100 million. That's what the 100 comes from.
He is marrying. swimsuit model. What's your name? Kristy. Hinze.
I hate Heinz high. Who cares?
Well, you apparently do.
Oh, of course she is. Look at her coli. Molly.
He's like 67 We have this. This is good news for all men.
He looks it doesn't look bad for 67 I'll say I you know it just
give him three years, you know, and then she'll be looking
she'll her eyes will start to stray.
Her eyes are straying off. To the side. picture that was in
the post was just precious. It was like, wow,
it is just you just go I hate you.
Yeah, but you also take a look at that. And you go, Well, you
just did a number of you know, captions for the gold digger
would be one of them. But expensive wife.
I mean, wife. Point Oh, in his case, it does. 4.00 I'm sorry.
That's why 4.0. And she doesn't look like a cheap woman. In
terms of. I mean, that dress she's wearing looks like it cost
a fortune. But of course, if he's got 2 billion bucks is
going to take it would take anybody, even an expensive wife
to spend that fast enough. Although it looks to me as
though she would have the chops to do it.
I just like to add one more. One more story here to our real news
corner. Because you'll be hearing about this at the top of
the news, everybody. Miss Universe describes Guantanamo
Bay as relaxing and calm after a visit to detainee camps. What
Miss Universe who was from Venezuela, Diana Mendoza. She
went there and she said to Hey, the waters surrounding the
facility at the center of the allegations of human rights
abuses, they are so beautiful. They center to Gitmo on
vacation. Bogus story it is that
I like it. I like it. I'm impressed. And now back to real.
So back to real news, by the way, I have a complaint. So So I
go to I noticed that I didn't realize that this is a ongoing
complaint. I noticed that the other day, so I'm at Monterey
foods buying vegetables, and which is of greengrocer and it's
a good one. And I'm in there and it's of course it's a it's a in
Berkeley, so it's I got a Berkeley style of customer. In
other words, people that look like they're just about to die
or any in the in the pita
they're all in the camp, many of them, you know,
so they're keeling over, they're holding on to their Zimmer
frames.
So there's just like a horrible every once in a while I've seen
some like a, you know, younger woman that maybe just moved into
the area and she goes into Monterey foods with her makeup
on because she's going shopping and she feels obliged because
maybe she's from the Midwest or Texas, where she feels obliged
to actually look presentable in public as opposed to wearing
baggy ass crap and mid hair and gobs and gobs of goo like dog
shit kind of in it. And you know what, you know, it's I'm telling
I'm just describing the scene so you can get a feeling for the
I'm smelling the dog shit. And so as you see these women that
come in, they're made up and they walk in and they take one
look around, they stop like it like they hit a brick wall right
at the entrance. And they see and boom, they hit this brick
wall, and then they freeze. And you see their eyes going back
and forth and back and forth, and they slowly walk backwards.
Back into the parking lot, never
really wrong store.
I have seen like going into a gay bar. It's like, this isn't
right. Oh, my coat back there used to saboteur. We had a when
I was in, I think it was just a college or something who you
were floating around doing bar hopping. And there used to be
this place I realized was a gay bar called Mike's it was called
Mike's pool hall Hall. And it was in San Francisco North Beach
area. And it was like three or four rows. We did that exact
same thing. We walked in and we just hit this brick wall. Just
like a whole, like 500 guys turned around and looked at you.
It was like what? Oh, oops. And then we slowly walked backwards.
Okay, so I'm at the Monterey foods. And I'm trying to, you
know, check out and there is the deadline is held up, because
apparently, there was some kind of a middle aged, gray haired,
frumpy woman that was grousing, because she had brought her
canvas bags, and they had mistakenly packed the vegetables
into a big sack a normal paper oh no the horrors of it. It was
it was it she said the Stop the presses.
They had let me see your supervisor.
They had the unpacked a paper bag as a repack did into her
beat up old dirty canvas bags that look like they haven't been
washed for like a year at least. And you know, so I realized that
these you know, there's this trend is actually died off a
little bit. But there was a trend for a while where it was
cool to have a canvas bag that you dragged to the store. And I
know in Europe, this has always promoted because they charge you
like a nickel for the bags there.
Yeah, they do it at Sainsbury.
Yeah, they chose them when all throughout France, I know that
you have to pay for the bag. It's kind of like, it's very
confusing to people who aren't used to paying for a bag that
cost like point, one point 0001 cents with a plastic, but don't
get whatever. Anyway, so. But I read there was this trend for a
while and people were having so everyone had these, you know,
these these grimy old canvas bags, which didn't you know,
they, they didn't really hold that much as a matter of fact,
and not and I was just galling to me is happening to sit there
was she was making all these demands on the staff.
Oh, you know, as pissed off as I thought you might be about that.
Now, you know, I guess I shouldn't have calmed down.
Well, I
will. A few days ago, I will tap into into your feelings there.
There were almost 3000 new stories I saw on Google knows
that you see this report from AARP. And you had already called
this you talked about the meat issue. So this new report, of
course, is a total hack job. Study Finds red meat may be
deadly.
That's killing us.
You're going to die.
It's so the why they gave me why they telling you all the AARP
people this because they're the ones that have been eating raw
or red meat for all these years. And they're alive. And they're
in the fact they're old enough to be in the AARP.
There you go. Case in point.
So what's wrong with this picture? For real?
Well, let's it No, of course not.
I think you can if you want to just do we do a whole show on
how deadly meat is.
It's our I was going to kill you. I do want to give you an
update on the aviation update. And you remember that plot is PC
12 that had 39 people on board that that crashed. Of course all
perished was really sad actually about was it 14? Too many
passengers? I did. I did check around on this and two things of
interest. One is that even though technically, depending on
the age not legal to have that many passengers as long as the
weight and balance was in check than it should have been okay.
There seems to be an issue with the Politis. And as well as the
what is it the the TBM couple of these French planes. A lot of
them have massive engine failures, failures on a short
final. And that's essentially what this looked like but but
here's the craziest thing about this crash. The on board, were
two daughters of Irving bud fell camp And he is the owner of a
prominent California abortion clinic. And so to know that this
plane crashed into a cemetery at the Catholic Holy Cross
Cemetery, right into the memorial called the tomb of the
unborn. Wow, how crazy is that? Sounds planned. I'm glad you
said it.
But yeah, you should be.
But that's just like, whoa. Is that? What is up with that? What
kind of message is being sent there?
Yeah, who's sending it? That's pretty. So. Yeah, that's a
pretty good one. It's true.
Oh, no. Well, what, please?
I'm just saying. I mean, do we know for a fact that it hit
that's the headstone? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Just basically in there
somewhere. It's embedded.
stuck into the Tomb of the Unknown shadow. Yes, Health and
Human Services nominee Kathleen Sebelius has a tax problem.
Everybody seems to
she's going back and corrected three years of tax returns and
paid more than $7,000 in back taxes after finding
unintentional errors. Oh, my God over here. Nothing to see. Look
at that.
I would say that, wouldn't you think that there'd be a fine
involved or a penalty?
Oh, no, that's only if you're a schmuck like us, John, only
that, you know, a lot of people emailed me and said, You know, I
had no idea because I talked about the IRS and that they have
guns. And people even went so far as to look up the some of
the statutes for for the IRS. And you know, there is a whole
paragraph in there about guns. And people don't understand the
IRS is probably more powerful than the DEA in the United
States. And they're armed and they convict you by FBI fining
you garnering wages, doing all kinds of trickery, taking money
out of your bank, I've actually seen that happen, take it out of
your bank account, put it in theirs until you prove that you
didn't do something wrong. You have to prove your innocence. It
is the most unAmerican undemocratic institution in the
world. And I'm not afraid to say because they've already screwed
with me so many times. There's nothing left to screw.
You'll be getting a call. No,
ma'am. I was smart. I was smart after after I learned that what
I've learned out after I found out what the what the IRS can
do. My wife got everything. I gave it all to her. To Here you
go, honey, I want nothing.
It's a good thing. Yeah. So further tip for you out there
who might be audited, what the IRS guys don't like to see,
because they figure that you're over prepared? Is you, you and
you bring out your folders and files. You have a million little
million little tabs on
everything. Oh, really? They don't like that? Yeah.
No, because obviously you're like that nut job.
I've even heard that if you call the IRS and they pull up your
name on screen. And so I can't remember where I read this or
heard this, that if they see that the government actually
owes you money. They're instructed not to tell you. Hey,
Mr. Devorah, we see that you actually we owe you $3,000. You
Where would you like us to send the check? Now they're not
allowed to say that? Even if they hadn't asked on the phone?
Should you ask them when you're on the phone with them? Just
Hey, did you
know you'd be surprised how many people don't even know that?
I didn't know that. Who would know it? Why would anybody know
where people
know that you have taxes coming back to you?
Oh, no, I think everybody knows that. Bloomberg rose. Could go
I was gonna say Bloomberg wrote a great article that'll be in
the show notes. And they have cow they calculate the financial
rescue. Now, don't believe the numbers you've been told $12.8
trillion in funds given? Or lent or guaranteed? Granted? Probably
two thirds of that isn't guarantees. But if all that shit
failed, that is our entire, that's our entire GDP. That's
what we do in a year, isn't it? 12 14 trillion,
something like that. I'll tell you they'd still need there's
just about halfway to what they really need, which is gonna be
about 35 trillion. And I'll explain that someday. Now, back
to real news. You're gonna leave me hanging, huh? And now back to
real. So they threw out a case against Ted Stevens and told him
to go home.
Yeah, what was that about? This is this is the first one this
was the guy who was caught supposedly soliciting Sex in the
bathroom stall?
No. Ted Stevens is the inner tube webisodes guy from Alaska
who has used the 85 year old guy. Not a bunch of trucks. It's
a bunch of tubes.
Right. And it was because he had a contractor do shows he
has a he's getting a lot of gifts and other things. I mean,
he was he was on the team. So we got off 100% from because of
prosecutor guy was a cadet almost procedural error jail.
No, no, it's prosecutorial abuse. They weren't doing, you
know, you're supposed to when you do discovery, and you find
something that the defense can use, you're supposed to give it
to him. And they weren't doing that, among other things. And in
fact, the entire Office of Public Integrity who was pushing
the case, got, you know, reamed by the new attorney general,
that guy the new guy was supposed to be, you know, he's a
tough guy. And he's hold Yeah, and he doesn't want to put up
with any of this kind of crap this. And so and I'm thinking,
Wait a minute, wasn't Stevens, who's a Republican put into
getting put into a bind by the Bush administration? There's
something else, there's a missing piece to this puzzle. I
agree. And it's just a matter of time before we figure it out.
But why would the Democrats let Stephens go, who's a Republican
when it could embarrass him, and instead embarrassed the all
these attorneys, I guess, poor might be Republicans, but what
were they doing prosecuting Stevens in an in an ill manner?
I mean, it wasn't as though they were acting like Republicans
trying to protect Republicans. They were, you know, reaming the
guy. So there's something screwy about that story.
Well, you presume that, look, they all work for the for the
same people at the end of the day, when I was amazing to see
President Obama and for the First Lady, you were at 10
Downing Street in the morning, shift. And so you saw the
handshake and everything and then Hillary Clinton goes over
to the president. And he and he's like real. I mean, look,
Michelle is hugging the Queen, everyone's lovey dovey and
Gordo, my buddy and shoulder slapping and Clinton comes over
and it was like Barack Obama worked for her. How you Good
morning and a shake shook her hand. No, no hugs, no shoulder
note and very formal. It was astounding to see just a
standing.
What do you think that means?
Well, it means of course the Clintons and bushes are still
running the show. Hey, you clicking a lighter?
Now it's cool. ballpoint pen cool. Like you
some great, great audio surfaced from a guy who was returning
from the can't one of the campaign for Liberty regional
events. Have you heard this? He was he was detained by the TSA.
For sorry, the campaign for what? Campaign for
liberty? It's a Ron Paul. Ron Paul, as you know, of course,
the Myakka report came out and told police departments Oh, you
know, if anyone is, as Ron Paul literature, they're probably a
terrorist. Gotta watch out for him. So this guy had, he had
just been to this campaign for liberty and he'd showed sold T
shirts and stuff like that. And so he had $4,700 on him. And and
they stop him and they and they take him for questioning. About
why why does he have so much money on him? And do you want to
hear how egregious This is? Because he recorded
well obviously everybody's on pins and needles. Let's do it.
Yeah, he had a little recorder with
is that relevant? Sir? Yes, it is. My legally required and
I'll tell you what. Okay. You may not be legally required to
come in so you will be legally required for police officer to
talk Can you can you hear that? Yeah, yeah. I'm just trying to
ask the person what all this is about. So I can get you on your
plane. But you will play smart and
how much money is it?
I don't know the exact amount certain are the card says about
$4,700 4700 hours. What do you ever ask yourself? Am I required
by law to answer the question?
That's my I'm just asking you.
That's my question. I don't understand why
do you hear that? You want to talk to the DEA, buddy, but tell
us why you have that money. Why do you have that money? Hahaha.
What you don't understand the question that a
lot of people don't realize that the DEA has been you know, they
pull it they can pull somebody over in their car and then if
they have more than a couple 100 bucks on they just can take the
money Take the money? Yeah, it's just assume that if you have
more than a couple $100 You're a drug dealer.
You're a drug dealer? No, probably. If they can tell me if
I'm required to answer the law in question. I'll answer the
question that's obviously wouldn't versus simple question.
There's one
thing I cared about me 50 bucks but he refused to he don't want
to ask We all have to take him down. We're gonna have to take
you downtown Sean, with you downtown. If you answer the
question, you've got to submit us FBI, everyone, so we can do
that. Yet what you're doing? Well, you answered that
question. Well, you answered that question. Why didn't change
why you had the money? So,
I mean, I can count that money. I could find out how much it is.
It's right in front of me.
You know, and I don't know
why you have that much money. That's why you started this out
there when I was trying to get it anyway. Oh, shit. There's the
handyman. Humphries free for a few seconds John opened the door
for him.
The handyman is now appearing it Adam Curry's manner to fix
something because he lives in an old place. And now he's having
small talk with the guy. He'll be walking back as we can. As
you return.
I'm here. I'm here. I'm here. And there's the dog. It's
another Shelley Winters moment. Whatever you call it.
Yeah, exactly. The only so much you got any more tape? Yeah. You
want to hear more? I got more of it. Yeah, no, I love this stuff.
It's so he recorded this on his phone. I think he's saying the
right thing. I'm
not recorded on his phone. Yeah, yeah. He just kind of like only
holds about two minutes at a
pop he said no, that's not true. The Nokia can do it couldn't
record until your memory is full. Okay, with with one touch
of the button so we can listen to a little bit more. I think
he's saying the right thing though, by saying hey, man,
look, you know, but listen, how they're triple teaming him to
you know, and they're threatening him
clearly would make us flag and I said, Okay, we'll go in here. He
started playing this game again. I said, I'm done.
So not I've been completely cooperative, sir, I'm offering
and I'm simply asking you if
you can just tell us what it's for. Oh, my favorite. If you
have nothing to hide, even just tell us what it's for. You got
nothing to hide slaves. They're gonna, you're gonna have to trip
proof of why you had that much money anyway, you're going to
have to provide proof of why you had that much money anyway, what
is that all about?
What's that, you know, it's legal to leave and enter the
United States of America with $10,000 without declaring it.
And as you know, since we've discussed this before, you could
actually lead and people don't know this is how much because I
got a note from somebody asking me this the other day, you can
walk out the United States with $50,000 in cash. If you want to,
you just have to fill out a form to tell somebody that you got
that much. But if you had $9,999 legal wallet, it's totally legal
to walk in and out of the United States, let alone fly in from
Cleveland. So to say that you have to explain $4,700 is a
blatant lie.
And it's egregious. It's just it's it's police state and
brutality. And these guys should be suspended without pay or
whatever. I mean, just fucking TSA man. TSA. Yeah, right.
Exactly. Promotions.
I understand. Sir. If I'm required by law, I'll be happy
to answer your questions. I don't understand the law.
Are you from this planet? I mean, you understand the
question? I hope they asked me that one day. Are you from this
planet? Stop and think about Hold on a second.
Why can't you just answer the question? Am I required by law
to
understand the law?
This is confusing to me. The workers will take the station
and take you down
to the police station, the police.
You can answer any questions that we have of what's going on?
Am I being forced to go to the police station? To the police
station?
Am I being taken? Am I free to go?
To this police station? Yes. If you want to whatever you want to
call it, we're going to police that. Am I saying that? You
know, don't get into semantics here. We're just going to
questions. You're suspicious or suspicious? Especially British
runnier. Uses for your answers.
That's why am I being 14 will be stationed up
for okay. It's fine. That's yeah,
I understand. You're gonna be on the stage. I think we have to
put you in handcuffs. Oh, well, we have a problem. We're gonna
put you in handcuffs. Yes.
That's fine, sir. I don't understand the law. I'm not
gonna go. I'll help you understand it
will help you understand the law. Can't just It blows my
mind. And this is always what I've thought about these guys.
You know that they're a bunch of little fucking fascist Nazis who
have some power and
not. They're not trained well enough to be doing this job.
They're not necessarily that bright, and they think that they
have more powers than they do and they abused them. Because of
that, we did that thought
and because they now have real badges, so that gives them a
little bit which was a huge mistake. Yeah. And yeah, how
long until they get guns? That's all we gotta wait for wholeness
so what was that outburst? I'm telling the dog to be quiet.
That works. I couldn't even hear the dog. I could hear you.
Well, it worked, didn't it?
You like it? You reminded me of a Southern Mom screaming for
kids at the back porch.
My parents used to have a whistle they had a boson whistle
when I was a kid. And it would literally
we had a kid in our neighborhood. They had it some
woman had a big
bell. No, I had the
she'd ring this bell. Ding ding ding ding ding and the kids
would come scampering it was very annoying. I wonder
if if I can find a boson? How do you spell boson? Is it? I am?
Yeah, I think it'd be LS o n? Isn't it at the BLS o n or
p o su and yeah, let me see if fun. Boson
ow shagging boats in whistle? No, you need.
It's so hard to find. You know, I've noticed this as I've been
putting together our request and dedication trap is what I'm
calling it. It's a trap. A Twitter app is a trap. I'm
coining that if you don't mind. So the way it works is, it does.
It's not public. Yet. It only works on direct messages from
me, you send off an album slash artist. And then once the
requests are compiled, it plays it and actually it will say you
know, Adam curry requested and then fill in the blank. And what
the system does, which is cool, and it'll probably go live for
everyone who listens to the no agenda stream next week. It
searches for this stuff out on the internet. So what you get
back can be can be very interesting to say the least.
Sometimes you get the completely wrong.
Wrong is not foolproof.
Well. It's not about being foolproof. It's about cool.
First I can no one can have a library that can compass
anything everyone wants. So that's the internet. Stuff is
mislabeled. But you sometimes you get a live version never
heard before. Sometimes it'll be a cover version. It's it's fun
to turn on your headphones or your speaker. But if you don't
mind,
I think there it is, this time at the Holon that was at the 57
minute mark usually when I say so. Yeah. Well, I I wonder if we
can track down some older. No coward monologues no coward. So,
honey Hummingbirds are interesting. So here's a
back to real. Hummingbirds are interesting.
So I got a bunch of hummingbirds around here. And they their
sound, by the way is this.
That's a sound. Yeah. So they make that sound. Why do they why
don't they call them clacking birds then?
Anyway, so they fight they're frightening little bitty bird,
the things will come up and they'll they'll just they'll be
zooming around. For one thing that's just faster, just
amazing. But so once in a while, there's one likes to zoom right
in front of you about two feet from your face area and stand
there or you know, hover. They're just frozen, staring at
you. Look, you know that if he made a move for your eyeballs,
he'd be faster than you could block him.
That they're tiny, aren't they? Are they little, little itty
bitty things?
Yeah, they're about two, three inches long, maybe three at the
most. And they're very pretty. They're all good. They're
electroluminescent colored and, you know, they jerk. They just
fly and they don't fly in a straight and I've never seen one
caught by a predator bird.
Our square here is so wonderful, you know, right smack in the in
the heart of southwest London. And there's so many birds I'm
often editing until three or four in the morning. And and you
can tell when it's about 330 That's when just tons of birds.
It's so loud outside. It's amazing. Wake up, but it's
beautiful. Right in the middle of the city. And we've got the
blossoms are now out. It's just fantastic weather.
I always used to joke in Sao Paulo when I used to visit down
there more often. Because I go to because I write for a
magazine down there. And I first thing I noticed about South
Paulo is there's no birds, really at all within 100 miles
of the place. I did see some birds recently but nothing like
you know, running into these enclaves like you have there.
You got lucky
now? Well, hopefully one day you'll see it.
Get the next little tidbit I have on my list is that honey is
being contaminated with high fructose corn syrup.
Well, which money? Is it? I mean, not Well,
that's the problem. You can can't tell. But but there's a
couple of earmarks that are interesting. One of them is and
it reminds me of something somebody told me once about
Heinz ketchup in the plastic bottle, which is also filled
with high fructose corn syrup.
Yes, tons and tons of it. I've noticed that yeah,
occasionally, if you you can get an organic version of Heinz
ketchup, which is made, ironically enough in Canada and
imported into us because apparently, we're too stupid to
be able to make it ourselves. And the and the organic version
is, which has got a green label. It's kind of cute. It's about
the same price, but it's made with sugar instead of the old
fashioned ketchup way rather than high fructose corn syrup.
With sometimes with the high fructose corn syrup, ketchup,
and when you dump it out, you don't shake it, you get a bunch
of water it looks like but that's the corn syrup. It really
doesn't like to mix with
So can you just shake it out then and live?
Well, I think it'll take you forever to squeeze out the corn
syrup. And then the ketchup. Just don't extend maybe just
make your own ketchup. Maybe that's better. I'll have to you
know, to be honest about it. I've tried it. I have never been
successful. It's very difficult to do you need big cookers and
it's it's kind of a steam pressure cooker kind of thing.
Right? Yeah, we used to be when I was an air pollution. It's
like every time I do this, somebody tweets. This guy's been
doing too many things. I used to inspect the del montay Ketchup
factory.
John, is this an April Fool's joke?
It was yesterday. And I assume
you're used to inspect the ketchup factory?
Yeah, because it was possibly a polluter and and it stunk up the
neighborhood. I can assure
you they didn't have high fructose corn syrup then did
they?
No, no, they were shoveling literally there's the things
that here's what y'all describe ketchup maker. It looks
something like a large cement mixer only stainless steel and
it's kind of at an angle just like a cement mixer would be and
there's a big hole in the thing that they've been flapped it
opens up and they throw in these tomatoes tons of them and then
they take a shovel and they shuffle sugar in as though
they're firing a coal fired locomotive and then they crank
this thing up to some high temperature and then they wrote
the they mix up the Forgot it there's impellers inside are for
the thing turns I'm not I don't remember but whatever the case
is, that makes this it takes a long time and it makes this
ketchup. And it's just not possible to make this sort of
glad condiments really are not easy to make at home like
Tabasco sauce would be another example.
Anyway What is the main ingredient of Tabasco sauce?
The Tabasco pepper okay it's like a Cayenne only it's still
hard
to do because of what you the you don't you don't have the
equipment at home or
I don't know but for one thing that process is very screwy and
they also barrel aged the stuff and I even if you look at other
competitive sauces like Tabasco you will find any that have that
aroma you know the thing is a pungent like you know,
essentially the Rome I think does is the most interesting
thing about Tabasco is Tabasco sauce is probably one of the
greatest single condiments in the world it's unbelievable
product I'm always astonished when I because it's so cheap
every time I get have Tabasco sauce I actually think about
Wow, it's amazing that this exists
so now the high fructose corn syrup is mixed into the honey
but I presume if you're getting the organic natural stuff that
you're in the clear you think
but you can't you can't be sure because there's the visa for
Germany there's very few countries are labeled properly.
Germans by the way are pretty very tiny nuts and they are they
are very strict about honey you can always count on German honey
to be pretty good. But anyway, the that reason I bring up the
anecdote about the ketchup is because that the high fructose
corn syrup coming off of it, it doesn't come off of the organic
stuff by the way nothing comes off it's just you don't have to
keep shaking it is because the honeys that that have high
fructose corn syrup do not D they start to separate over time
if you don't if you don't mix them up, and you can see the
corn syrup coming off of it. And it's like and it looks too
horrible by the way because you can have these lotta honeys like
to you know, depending on the sugar content, they like to
harden up into a mass. So it's kind of like a like a cream it
turns to be like a naturally creamed honey. And by the way,
we have a in Port Angeles Area we there's a honey guy up there
who's a complete fanatic about honey and he's the one breeding
all the new bees and all the rest of it and he always
lectures you about this stuff that's one reason I'm just kind
of passing along this stuff anyway stuff separates and you
can kind of see it and the weird ones are the ones that have that
ability to harden up into a solid honey which I liked
because it's not such a mess, but it'd be like a solid mass at
the bottom and then a bunch of weird looking goo at the top
and let's just review high fructose corn syrup contains
mercury and will eventually kill you correct?
Well, I don't think it's the mercury that's gonna kill you.
And I don't know that the thing is it doesn't seem to be an it's
not a natural product. Here's the point it's made it a
refinery like oil like yes like oil you can find a process for
it. What was that?
That was my that was that was what my parents call me with
the Boston's whistle Yeah. So So anyways, it's an unnatural
product that does seems to have issues with the the pancreas and
might be responsible for modern days late adult onset diabetes,
because there seems to be a correlation between the amount
of diabetes and amount of corn syrup or high fructose corn
syrup in how does
this ship get approved by the FDA? And why is it still in our
food? If it does all this nastiness to you?
Well, they just fit for one thing. They have a propaganda
machine that says no, it doesn't do any of this stuff. If you
look at the chemical, the chemicals of high fructose corn
syrup is nothing more than various sugars that are all over
the place. And fructose, which is a sugar. So how does this
stuff any worse than sugar that's out there already? That's
what they were saying. That's okay, that's what they got it
and they have a plenty of you know, and the problem is that
you can break depends on how you do the and now why don't we just
use sugar? Well, high fructose corn syrup is subsidized. So
it's like 1/10 the price so all these horrible, you know, these
businessmen look at the numbers and they go well, although I've
noticed now that people are starting to switch because it
can use sugar as a selling point which is hilarious if you think
about it. But they you know so much cheaper. In fact, there's a
there's a product up in that we used to buy called Portland
punch, which was a sugar based drink made from the local
berries of Oregon. And I think there's blowgun berries and low
Lala berries. There's a bunch of different berries in it is but
it's like one of the most delicious drink mixes you could
buy anywhere. And about a year or two ago the guy the CEO
decided to switch the formula into high fructose corn syrup.
Now ya hear this story? My wife is pissed about this, because
she hates this stuff. So she calls the guy and talks to the
CEO. Hello, it's me me buzzkill here and she in the in the guy
has the gall to tell her that the FDA now recommends that all
sugars be only high fructose corn syrup.
Oh, of course they recommend that and the same as aspartame
is Oh, that's a total lie. Oh my gosh. So she calls
him on it. And then he backsies as well I don't see that there's
any difference. And then he goes back they go back and forth and
this apparently heated argument. And then I guess it ended up
with her slamming the phone down and never buying the product
again. And she should
she should do a show man get her on. She should do a podcast or a
blog or something or tweet about it immediately. She won't do any
of that AMI buzzkill says I'm never buying that again.
So she's you know, so we can't have the product the product
does taste different. I mean, sugar does not give you the same
flavor profile as high fructose corn syrup does is different and
is and it's also something disgusting about you know, you
take your formula for your product as you've been in
business selling for decades, and then you can you just out of
the blue just let me just change what's in it
to a product that it has to go to a refund cheaper.
So it's cheaper. So I can make it cheaper and sell for the same
price. You don't seem lowering the prices on any of these
products, whether it's not that cheap rattling No.
So the Australians are doing a lot of interesting reporting and
neither Unilever Kraft or Nestle three of the world's largest
food producers can confirm or deny the use of nanoscale
particles or just nanotechnology in their food. So here's what
the article discusses. First of all, there's a lot of nano
particles on packaging with UV filters to keep out light so
that it doesn't you know turn to shit which of course it really
is in the packaging. They've got shirts that don't stain because
they've copied the nano structure of lotus leaves to
create water repelling surfaces. That's kind of cool, actually,
but I wouldn't want that again. It's my skin and ice cream that
has lower fat content but the same fatty texture and flavor.
It's frightening this nano stuff, because they're messing
with with with the deepest, darkest particles and and if
that's like Monsanto's type area, you know where they've
you've heard about this in Africa that all these Monsanto
crops are not producing seeds and farmers are committing
suicide, because they're they're basically dead in the water.
Well, that's funny. It's
not fun. That's it. That's it, that's a twist on their old
thing. Well, you know, you're gonna use our seeds. Well, I'll
tell you what, hey, check these tomatoes out no seeds.
South African farmers suffered millions of dollars in lost
income when 82,000 hectares of genetically manipulated corn.
Maize is what that's called, failed to produce any seeds. The
plants look lush and healthy from the outside. Monsanto has
offered compensation. But But so far, several farmers have just
committed suicide, they have an 80% crop failure essentially,
and that they're dead. They're just completely dead. I mean,
can we can we just understand that you can't mess with food
like that? It's just not a good idea.
Well, you know, if you go back far enough to did I think people
would probably call breeding the same kind of, they probably have
the same negative attitudes, some of the Luddites would.
That's possibly just being a Luddite here.
Wow, that's always possible. I hadn't considered that. I'll get
back to you. I'll get back to you on Sunday. I have to think
about, Oh, you better think about it. Larry Silverstein
who's the, of course, famously, the developer of One World
Center, the One World Center come to the One World Center. He
bought the World Trade Center towers two weeks before 911 took
out double double insurance on it got big pay off, and now he
needs a financial aid.
Why? Well, I can't build
the One World Center without some money from the New World
Order. So I think he's asking for a billion.
There's something shady about
this guy. No, no, John, please. Larry Silverstein. So here's the
backstory that I just love. So very few people know that he
purchased the World Trade Centers literally a few weeks
before. Before they were brought down, I'll just leave and leave
in the middle of how they came down. At that, at that time,
before the purchase had been completed, the paperwork still
had to be signed. He wasn't uh, he was hit by a car. He and he
was in the hospital with like, broken, broken bones. His pelvis
was fractured. And he didn't want anyone to knew no total
news blackout. And he signed the papers almost on his deathbed in
hospital and and of course, the double insurance which he
collected on ads. Of course, there's something shady with
this guy, are you kidding me? How convenient. And now he needs
financial aid for the One World One world so
I didn't know that he was building that thing. It's funny.
Well, he has
the he has the plot. It's his land this was it. 16 acres,
something like that.
So that's pretty interesting and obscure. And I think that's one
of the reasons that people should I'm gonna take a break
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I bury our library. Yeah, like Bill Gates pronounces that
library library.
Like a three year old.
A lot of people burn out. So it's amazing. If you start
listening to find a lot of people, there's two words that
are always mispronounce. One is live Barry, but my favorite
lasts. How about
ask How about that being the universally mispronounced word
ask it's not X people.
My favorite one though, that people constantly mispronounce
is zoologist. people pronounce zoo ologists as if there's three
O's in the word Zoo. Just now my favorite thing is when you watch
a TV lawyer, usually a cop drama. I've watched one the
other day and I just cracked up because there's something funny
about the cop. You know interviewing somebody and they
say well what do you do for a living and the person says I am
a zoo ologists is like a zoologist is not going to
mispronounce their own business.
They should have just changed the scripts that would have been
easier.
Zoo apologist Oh really? You work at a zoo? Is that what
you're telling me?
There's there's another move here right along those lines of
the meat will kill you the meat issue that and this one this one
is starting to piss me off because you know they can come
for my money they can come for my property but stay away from
my toilet paper. Dr. Allen Herskowitz Senior Scientist and
waste experts with the here comes Natural Resource Defense
Council. The Natural Resource Defense Council has said that
fluffy toilet paper is worse for the environment than human
beings themselves. What? Yes, millions of trees are harvested
throughout the Americas including rare old growth
forests in Canada to sustain the United States obsession with
quilted Ultra Soft multiplied toilet paper and it must stop.
That's interesting that somebody would come off the wall with
this.
Well, if you're the Natural Resource Defense Council, this
is what it is, John, this is we're gonna see this every
single day. This is how the low carbon economy gets ushered in.
And we're gonna have people literally wiping their asses
with sandpaper because they think it's going to cool down
the earth in the middle of a snowstorm you
as a current cop my friends at Monsanto corn cob,
do you know that the the Queen of England used to have an in
some say she still does used to have a person to literally wipe
her ass? called I think
that's what Michelle was trying to do.
It's called the what is the groom of the stool? And, yeah,
the groom, and this was a high ranking official, the groom of
the stool. You know, so the Queen would do her business, and
then the groom of the stool would literally wipe her butt.
And some say it still happens, but
that's gonna happen if she lives any longer
please do not. That's one of the one of the that's one of the few
pleasures in life is nice toilet paper, nice toilet paper. It's
important. Well,
you know, it's like in India, you use your left hand.
Right, and you never shake? Well, of course, you don't shake
you shake with your right hand. Right?
Well, you don't you don't eat with your left hand. You use
your left hand, you'll just keep wiping it often you wash and
then in the Ganges, and then some, you know, I'm sure like
the semi Indian. But what we've got the toilet paper
what what are the three pebbles four. Sorry, three, obscure
Terminator reference couldn't help. NASA has and this is under
the category severely under reported news. NASA has come up
with charts and research and well the sunspot cycle is
behaving a little like a stock market. We right now are at a an
all time low, almost have solar activity, which of course is why
the global warming trick is kind of tough to pull off because
it's cool right now. And a will swing up obviously, because the
solar activity goes up and down. But it's just amazing. They're
essentially once again a report from NASA saying this is what
global warming is about. This is why it happens and that just
publishing it, it's just out there. Ready for everyone?
To know it. Nothing to pay attention to here. Here's what
you should be playing. Yeah. Oh my god over here. Nothing to
see.
Look at that That of course will be in the show notes that no
agenda.me veoh.com
Well and I guess this guy I take his Swedish that came out and it
says that the whole He's the world's expert on Thai the end
of the ocean size and you know the ocean expert on the ocean
knows a lot about
the water he might be a zoo ologists for all I know
good busy Well it just so anyway. Yeah, he says it's a
bunch of bull.
Yeah. Okay, so he'll have two bullets to the head. So I'm
taking my back boys.
Suicide bullets today.
But you know, it's so easy. You just fly in America and it's
like the TSA will say hey, you look suspicious coming. Oh, he
resisted we had to shoot him. Oh, he shook my gun and shot
himself twice in the head.
What happens if what's going to finally happen to that TSA hero?
He got out. How was that resolved? Is there a story in a
newspaper about this bullshit?
No, only only online obviously. I haven't seen any newspaper
stories about
that doesn't make any sense. Because the the online world is
just nothing more than derivative of what's in the
newspapers of yesterday's newspaper guys. There's nothing
original ever done by online people. It's all taken from
newspapers. No, that's
not true. I have one sound effect. That was good. That was
me almost spilling the remainder of my tea. I do have a guy
actually who did something I loved I love your little sound
effects. See if I can just find this guy talk to Rahm Emanuel
member we were talking about the the enslavement of our young
people. With the give act.
Yeah. And till it hurts. Yeah. So
he went and he interviewed to find it here. He interviewed
Rahm Emanuel about why can't I find this crap? Until may have
lost it? I just had live shit. No, because the whole point is
he went out and he did the interview. And he recorded it.
And I want and I wanted to play it for you.
But it's something we can look forward to on Sunday. Yeah, I
guess we'll have to do that. So but just to count on your point.
There are people who are doing it. Of course when you listen to
the audio, it's it's almost unlistenable. You know, it's all
kinds of extraneous noise, just not professional enough to
really to really make it. Make it Yeah, but the information is
there. And it's good. Because a minute I was just saying Yeah.
Oh, yeah. Three months, three months, you will be sent away.
And pissed. Well, I have to play for you on Sunday. I'm sorry.
I'm so open to it.
Ya know, that professional level of professionalism of online
journalists, if you want to call them that, or whatever, whatever
you want to call them? It just comes with experience.
Here. Just I got it. I
was so hoping for it to be on Sunday.
Really? You might get a kick out of it. Go? Yeah. She is a little
little piece he's done here
in New York Daily News, and I am podcasting. This week from the
Regency Hotel in Manhattan, where I sat down with
Congressman Rahm Emanuel. He was at the Regency raising money for
the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which he
chairs and is also promoting his new book, which is called the
plan and what
a tip is, don't make it sound like you're talking out of your
anus,
wrote with Bruce read
about the universal service. Tell me about people.
Critically, are people gonna live in barracks universal civil
defense training
unit. Universal civil defense training is what he calls it.
And
I think he had it at a team that we were saying somewhere the
ages of 18 to 25 years and three months of training at some point
in college at
some point in college uniform, universal defense defense
training. Three months worth now, it's the audio is really
crappy, but I'll put it put it in the show notes.
Once you clean it up, put it through a system Yeah, somebody
see if sometimes it's hard, man, if he gets that digital warble
in there, I'll see if I can pull some good stuff from it for
Sunday show.
You know, just cut the you know, cut the lows and eyes and push
the mid range and filter it. Then of course, set it over to
Dolby labs.
Doubly another obscure reference you didn't get. I didn't get a
spinal tap about it. Okay. You've seen Spinal Tap couple of
times. So the girlfriend who then weasels in and wants to
manage the group, and she's bitching about the album and
says, Oh, you know, it's the mix was all wrong. She's saying this
in a band meeting. because you never should have used doubly on
a on a rock record
Well, that's like the line in showgirl where she says I want
to get I want to get some of that Johnny for sace
know, for sace
Gianni Jr
Jionni Jionni for syce Everybody. I do have
one just like library and there's a wallet.
Yes, indeed I have pure interested one more bit there.
And now back to real. The BBC has admitted they were
desperately hoping that their entry for the Eurovision Song
Contest would suck, because they can't afford to host the next
show if if they win.
I love it. You imagine a sequence of economy's so bad
everybody puts up the sucker. And
it's, it's such a great show. Unfortunately, Sir Terry Wogan
isn't going to be doing the voiceover this year because
that's the only reason you want to watch it is to watch the BBC
with Terry Wogan crapping on everybody. And so he's not doing
it. He's backed away from it. There are two things we haven't
talked about, John, that I think we should mention just for the
timeliness of it. One is the firing of the GE General Motors
CEO, apparently by the White House. I can just see Rahm
Emanuel going over there. You got to take a vacation.
Yeah, well, because it was a $20 million vacation though. Forget
that part of it.
I thought it was like 35 or something. I thought it was
more.
Maybe it was more I thought it was 20. Whatever. What
are we what are they coming to? I mean, how does this work? Not
and where's the reporting on this? How does that work?
It was reported, but it was reported. But yeah,
thank you. How does it work? The President calls them up and
says, Yo, dude, I'm sorry. But why did he have to be fired?
Why?
I don't know. But why don't
we know this? This
deputy, we spent billions have been
$20 billion on these companies. I think we have at least the
right to know why. Why did he get fired? Just because the guy
sucked or he drove the company into the ground doesn't mean
that the government has the right to fire somebody. What's
next?
All right, well, that's predictable. Let's see other
items we missed.
The the journalist fund from the Huffington Post, I think is
worthy of mention. Because I think that this is going to be
one of the one of those huge failures. They've there's a fun
setup 1.7 or 1.8 or $1.75 million for coming from a number
of partners, including the Staples Center for Investigative
Journalism. It's like, again, what is what's this money going
to be used for Jay Rosen is an adviser to the fund. And how
does this work? What are they? What is it? What are they going
to do?
You're gonna give people like 50 bucks to go out and I don't
know. I don't get it. It's pathetic is what it is. And this
Arianna Huffington. I don't like her. She really irks me. She
really I'm not sure I can't put my finger on it. But I just want
a bit slapper. And maybe it's good everyone fawns over so
much.
Well, she's something of a character because she keeps flip
flopping from one party to another she'd be huge Obama fan.
And she's was a nice guy that ran for governor. She's I don't
even know what she's ever done. I mean, besides being she's,
she's like a high level version of Paris Hilton, in terms of
thing, but we're the perfect face for radio.
He had there you have it. Uh huh. It's like,
I don't know what's the deal with her she's and how does that
thing makes make enough money for her to wear all that bling
where she got it from?
I think she was just worried. We're married to a
multimillionaire which they she took a big settlement when she
got divorced. I don't know. Guys, we need to look her up on
Wikipedia, the only source of federal information the United
States, you probably
didn't know that. The CEO of PPR luxury brands from PPR was held
hostage for two days by people who were let go by and want and
by employees who wanted higher wages. Did this news make it to
get mo nation West? I never heard it. Well, you will be
hearing it because thank goodness there's a showbiz tie
in so I can't wait to see it tonight on Entertainment Tonight
everybody. And now back to real Salma. Hi X billionaire husband
is held hostage in his car during French credit crunch
protests. So luckily, you'll hear that now that Salma Hayek
is involved Hmm they're gonna start jacking this up. It's not
you know, the protesters. They were just protesting didn't look
good enough. You know? We need some real. We need some real
anger out there.
Yeah, I wouldn't think
you watch they're gonna work on it. PETA kills animals.
Well, Oh, yeah. Well, that story was first first explored by Penn
Jillette. And his Powell was his nailer. You know, tell her Yeah,
on that bullshit show that they do, which is the name of the
show, by the way. Yeah. Bullshit show that they sounds like it's
a bullshit show. But it's the name is bullshit called
bullshit. But two years ago, they went and they did a slam on
the PETA people. And they discussed this thing and nobody
picked up on it. I thought it was you know, it was like it was
it was it was deplorable. And now what, two and two years
later, three years later, that's like news that's been going on
ever since before.
So the news is that PETA operates a dog and cat
slaughterhouse at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. Right.
And this is published
at Penn and Teller talked about this place, like three years
ago.
Well, I think I'm going to delve into that because it only just
kind of popped up on my radar. Yesterday. And I should look
into that. I mean, what's up with that? Do you Do you know,
any details or just the headline like that?
No, I don't know any real details. Since you brought it
up. I mean, I haven't even seen that story. I saw the thing
about Pete because actually, somebody blogged it, I think, on
my blog to mark.org/blog. Check it out. And and go to
dvorak.org/in A and you'll get more stories like these. That's
smooth enough for
you very smooth. And then the final story and of course now
I'm worried about these April 1 joke. This is a translated story
from Latvia.
That already suspicious.
Apparently, a chartered ship from the Netherlands arrived at
what would the then spills port, I guess, in Latvia, with three
tons of marijuana. But instead of destroying it, apparently,
and this is the story. They're going to, they're going to sell
it in drugstores
in Latvia, in Latvia.
And for them, and if they can't sell it all by the end of May
2009. They'll just give it away, please people. I mean, who's
gonna go in and buy it if you know they're gonna be given it
away?
I think that sounds like an April Fool's sounds like an
April Fool's
joke. But I just wanted to mention, and I hope to God, it's
true, because that will be my next holiday destination.
Life is supposed to be pretty interesting. As is the Estonia.
All of that. Yeah. The new Europe. Is this stunning?
particularly happy to see you.
Always happy to see you. You know, it's the architecture.
Yeah, it is kind of beautiful. People should come on oh, I
guess now is not a good time.
No, but it's probably better still cheaper to go to the, the
right side of the Adriatic. And, as opposed to the left side, go
to Croatia. Good. Good, fun country guy. Slovenia. I've been
there. It's beautiful little place. Compact.
Is that where you write your? You write a column for a
magazine over there. In Croatia, the Croatia what tech? Is that?
Like Croatia? Bug? It's an English English publication?
No, it's in Croatian. It's translated. Really? There are
people that can do
that? Yeah, that's interesting. What do you write about?
International tech issues.
Cloud computing. These people are like still on abacus. Like
cloud computing is coming.
I can do a column from five years ago, and it's right up to
date. Now they're actually more they're pretty. That's not true.
They're most of these little countries are because of the
nature of the internet. They're all on the same page. I think
what's really being overlooked with a lot of these guys, is the
fact that their software development going on in Eastern
Europe is outstanding South America and all over the world
that is as good as anything we're doing and they can't get
they can't get any traction. And Americans are like, you know,
well, it's like the Silicon Valley syndrome. You know,
they're I was always told this by the venture capitalists, you
know, so where's this company that you think is so great?
Well, they're in North Carolina. Oh, North Carolina. Is there is
that a direct flight No connection. Oh, no forget, I
know, we don't want to go look there that might that might go
on any
connection. And this, by the way, is a fact, I have been told
that at some point, especially in the late 90s, when it began,
it hasn't changed. The venture capital people in Silicon Valley
will not invest in any company, anywhere. If there's not a
direct flight from San Francisco. If there's a
connection involved, forget it.
Well, some of these guys will take their own plane, obviously,
but I think your point is well made. And yes, there is
astounding work going on. Most of what these guys they wind up
doing just to live is they form little, like we have some guys
over there in Romania. And which, of course, is convenient,
because they're 10 hours earlier than San Francisco. So they do a
lot of stuff during the evening. And we we work with them
completely by remote. But still, you know, the the real
creativity, yeah, it's not really getting out. That's just
they can't get can't get a break and get any money. But there is
some astounding work going on. Not just in the Eastern European
now
I've ran into in Sweden, I thought the Swedes had a whole
bunch of good ideas. They're very creative. And the problem
is their own venture capitalists don't exist. They call
themselves venture capitalist, but all they do is put money in,
you know, high interest banking accounts. And if they can find
them, and and they can't get anybody, the US to be
interested, because there's more than one, you know, there's just
no direct flight. And they, you know, how they know that they
just like MySQL, they had to actually set up shop in a Bay
Area, you know, to get anywhere and when they set up shop here,
the next thing you know, they were bought by sun and they made
billions of dollars. I mean, you have to it's not easy. I think
the only guys that may have bypassed that process is Skype.
I don't think they ever moved to the US. They
did it in Amsterdam. Yeah, that's where they set it all up.
I think there's I think their main development may still be
there. Shout out to Congressman Ron Paul. HR 1207, which is the
bill to audit, the Federal Reserve now has 50 co sponsors.
So it's almost doubled since the last time we spoke getting 50. I
know you say it'll never pass but 50 co sponsors quite a bit.
Yeah. It'll never pass a and it will be. It'll be interesting to
see if Ron Paul still alive two years from now.
Oh, no. Ron Paul has been around for a long time. He's not going
anywhere. They're not going to do anything to him because they
need someone to call out as the Koch.
Well, that's true. That's one of the reasons I appreciate you.
Yes. Love is so mutual. And I'm severely hurt. Everyone knows
now that I've got my MILFy thing going for Bachman. And they send
me a picture of her kissing George Bush could not be fuller
on the lips. It's just makes me
rich. But they know how to get to you,
man. Well,
I know how a screw up sentiment picture but you know, it could
be doctored. The whole picture could be a fake. Looks for your
take. You're being sucker. You're being bamboozled.
Well, I still love her to bits. I really do. I hope she stays
around. But yeah, they're already doing the Kook thing
with her. So once you're labeled a kook, you're safe. That's
true. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I keep telling Patricia who is
sometimes somewhat concerned.
Well, yeah, I would be too if I were her, but for other reasons.
Na, na. Oh, nice. You get a drum a little drag get a snare drum
in here. And I can sit here with
I can always live with the two drumsticks.
Look at that. So I think that's about it.
Yeah, that's why I have the final tune running. Sunday, as
per usual, sir. Seems so okay. And in the meantime, if you've
got nothing better to do, check out no agenda stream.com Because
I'm working real hard on it. I probably spent I'm probably
working 18 hours a day lately because I spend so much time
hacking the stream stuff together. And of course I'm not
at all every CEO of a company that has any type of engineering
should try it once or twice just go ahead and try it try and put
something together. So you get a deep appreciation of what goes
into this stuff but not like it's really hard, necessarily
because it's like learning French I guess another language
but there's so much you got to think of and you can program
yourself into a box and ah and you get a new appreciation with
what those people are doing when you when you yell at not that I
do that. But I know lots of CEOs who are not cognizant of what
it's it's like creative writing, you know, it's not an exact
science, you can approach things from multiple directions. It's
like painting. Would you agree?
Whatever you say.
Now, let's see, that's exactly this. This is what Mimi and I
are talking about when we're saying that you're just rude and
we really feel you need an attitude adjustment.
This is rude. I just I was. I was agree. I couldn't have
agreed with you more
now. But to say what to say, or whatever you say that that's
horrible. I just said, Now you sound like my daughter.
Who didn't say it like that. I didn't. You're like, you know,
you. I could see why she has issues with you.
Whatever you say. I'll have. I'll try that on my wife
tonight. See how she responds. It's just whatever you say.
Whatever. It's like the rudest thing you can say.
Well, okay, I'm gonna sorry person. And I'm sorry. I'm
sorry. I didn't mean to say that.
Coming to you from the crackpot command center in the southwest
quadrant of London in Gitmo nation east. I'm Adam curry.
And I'm John, whatever you say, divorce rack up here in northern
Silicon Valley. That place it doesn't exist and that's also
known as gizmo nation West.
We will talk to you again on Sunday right here on no agenda