Adam curry, John C. Dvorak making the world a better place
through the magic of hooker economics. It's Sunday, April
5 2009. This is no agenda operating covertly from the
crackpot command center in the southwest quadrant of London and
get mon nation east. I'm Adam curry.
And from Silicon Valley north, the home of the chip. I'm John
C. Dvorak.
Raglan Buzzkill. Yes, it's April 5. It's a very special day. Not
only is it time for no agenda number 86. But I want you all to
take a moment out of your day. Because we have to say something
very important to my partner in crime here on the program. JC
DeVore iKey is the original Buzzkill. And today, it is his
birthday.
It's your birthday too.
I love I love Skype man. And I'm presuming that Skype is right,
because it told me that it's your birthday today.
Yeah, plaque. So I think or whatever that other thing is.
There's a number of services. I don't know how they get this.
But of course, if you if you follow it closely, you will
realize that 102 is what it says on Skype. So they don't
know your 107 Actually, I think is what it says.
So once 107 Yeah, because you know, the thing is, I was
talking to somebody about this the other day that you know, a
lot of people and I started doing it myself is that when
you're given the opportunity when these these services are
asking for your age, you find the oldest you put the right day
in. Yeah, but then you find the oldest thing that's on the menu,
you know, like is it 19 100 1901 For your birthdate. And so you
just roll down to the bottom and you just click on that whatever
it is, right. And I picked up on this noticing that on, on early
on, on Live Journal, and on. Then MySpace and my sister's
suspect on Facebook. All the kids have been doing this,
because you're running into you know, you see some obviously,
of course, no, of course you want to be over 18 your 20s on
Yeah, but
they themselves 103 Yeah. So. So meanwhile, and I pointed this
out to somebody the other day, maybe it was moody or somebody
in the office. I said, you know, they these people keep doing
these statistical analysis of the average age of the users on
the social networks. And they always come up with something
like 40 or 40 years old was everyone's using 102 103. Right?
And nobody's paying any attention to the fact that these
numbers are so bogus. I don't understand how all these people
are using these services.
That's funny, man. Well, of course, everyone knows that. You
are what are you today, John?
You're let's see. Let me make the calculation
according to The New York Times, because that of course is the
the newspaper of record and since they published your
birthdate, it is it is now set in stone, obviously.
Absolutely. That's I wish I had to figure this out. Because I
don't pay much attention to my own age. I wouldn't be born and
52 According to the New York Times,
listen, I got I got the song for you, man.
Yeah, what are you saying? The bottle of wine? So
what is the New York Times to be 57? When I'm 64 All right,
yeah, well, I'm not 64 Thank God. So anyway, enough of that.
What's in the news?
Well, I just wanted to stay on that for a moment. Because in my
life in the news is my wife turned 60 on Tuesday. And of
course, my wife looks well. I obviously say she's 27 Well, I
actually tell her 35 Because that seems like a really good
number. And it's in it's actually could be possible that
I mean, it really looks 38 But she doesn't look 60 That's for
sure. But and she knows it and she feels good. And what does
she say the and I said, it's fantastic. I have a great
husband. I've got a wonderful daughter and I have a career.
But she is so angry about this this number.
Well, what is the what? I appreciate that so what is her
secret though to look staying youthful? It's looking
Oh, it's what she eats.
What does she eat?
Well, first of all, you know, she she cooks almost every
single night so she cooks herself doesn't mean we don't
get takeaways and pretty vague and stuff. No, absolutely not.
Oh, she loves the meat. John, trust me. And that 60
She where's the rim shot? Yeah,
I can get myself a little early in the morning there. And it's
what she eats obviously so and she eats a lot of salmon, stuff
like that. And she exercises and of course we all know that it's
obviously it's me. There's no There's no qualms about it. You
as possible. I'm sure it's possible for that having
a partner that's so much younger. Yeah, of course it
contributes no doubt keeps you keeps you on your toes,
but she's really pissed off about this. Just I think that
what it's like you're gonna have a big party. Oh, no, I'm
forbidden. I was no parties. No, nothing. She does surprise
party. I can't Oh my God. Oh, that would be she would divorce
me. She would absolutely divorce me on the spot. And like, she
doesn't she really she doesn't want it. She doesn't want to see
the number 60 So Christina and Dexter are making three cakes
with 20 on it, you know, stuff like that. That's how far this
goes. Right? I said do cakes with 35? That would be fun. Make
sure
that they put 20 candles on each one. Exactly. Yeah. Oh,
no, no, no, not a good idea. The house is on fire. What's
happening there in southwest London, the fire brigade is
pulled out. So I of course I did what you know, there's one thing
that always cures a 60 year olds blues. And that's obviously a
brand new Gucci bag. You know, that's the kind of stuff that
always helps. So I was gonna go pick one up for Pete turn the
turn down a little more.
What the salad is say, you know, for some reason, it's quite low.
But of course, I'd expect you to complain no matter what. All
right.
I had, you know, because I had I was gonna go pick to go pick up
this bag at the Gucci store in Amsterdam, and I had some
business anyway, I had an awesome I had like a guy
weekend,
which included you went to Amsterdam. I noticed that in
your email. Yeah. So
Friday afternoon, took off and it was perfect because it was
beautiful in the Netherlands and it was missed mist fog to them
like 700 feet in the UK. So no one was flying. And I love it
when no one's up there is it just me and the controllers,
because I got nothing to do and they're like, hey, this idiots
flying. Then they start to give you vectors and they're really
helpful in the chatty and it's fun. And they let you cross all
over the place at high altitudes where normally couldn't do that.
And then so I had a couple of meetings and then Friday evening
I basically wound up hanging out with six foot tall blonde women
it was fucking amazing.
Where you're in Iceland
in Amsterdam, is I know one of I knew most of them but one of
them is my my banker. And we I promised her this. We should
have we would have like two years we're gonna I will go out
to dinner and she finally finished her roof terrace. I'm
John I'm so sorry that I'm not going to be there when you're
there for Queen's Day. She's got a roof terrace. That is un
frickin believable right in the heart of Amsterdam. Wow. And
then we went to dinner and then she started calling her friends.
Yes, like actresses models. Like holy shit. This is awesome. I
just sucked it up and enjoyed every single moment of it. And
then scored a Gucci bag and went home the next day.
Well, sounds like it sounds like a plan.
Yeah. How's your how's your life been?
Boring by comparison? I'm cleaning my office. I Yeah,
yesterday. Yeah, no, I didn't go down. Sure I was vacuum. The
The show is really, really catching, catching on. And
there's a number of telltale signs that we're on to
something. And the end, the best thing happened kind of midweek.
From time to time it it had acted up. But now it's really
full blown. We have on the no agenda drop.com site, we have
one or multiple trolls who are just going crazy. 24 hours a day
posting stuff. At the drop. Dan, I love it literally just well,
you know, this is the whole point because the dropside it's
not it's not a forum. You know, when people come into forums and
they start flaming and all that, you know, that's when it all
melts down. And it happens every single time everywhere. The
minute a topic is interesting people come in flame wars erupt.
It's just human nature or it's the nature of the web, whatever.
But this is just a site we have dropped shit. Yes, presented
like a blog, you can actually view it in different manners,
which is kind of handy. But it's just links are embedded videos
or mp3 files and they'll come in high in hierarchy over order.
can't pronounce hierarchy,
chronological chronological order even.
Thank you. It's easier to say. So So yeah, and I was actually
thinking to myself a while back, it's like and this is kind of
boring, because all these links are basically death destruction
and the world is being taken over. That's our audience. Yeah,
like we need something entertaining, you know, and so
there's either it's one troll or a couple of posting the most
hilarious If it's really funny, so you know, and because it's a
drop site, you can find what you're looking for anyway, you
just scroll to it or use a different view. But you can
because it now updates dynamically, you can just sit
there and just watch all these amazing things come in. And they
do a lot of work. A lot of photoshopping and I love it is
good.
That is a big deal. Yeah,
it's a telltale sign I'm telling you.
Now, a lot of this stuff, you know that one thing is that once
you get to a certain level of popularity, there's a self
propagation mechanism on the internet that doesn't really
exist anywhere else.
Correct. Self propagation that you could guess that we'd call
that viral. I like my word better. Okay. The
self propagation, the self propagation mechanism. That's
kind of like auto fellatio. You know, that reminds you know,
that's a funny thing you should say. You're there apparently,
now that I mentioned auto fellatio. Yes. There's videos of
Oh, yeah. We actually were I missed the joke there. I says,
ya know, I've got to stop doing.
That would have been it. I gotta cut back on that. This came up
in dinner last night. And my daughter I don't know for all of
a sudden she said oh, auto fellatio and my wife goes Have
you ever seen that video? She's Yeah. Have you ever seen the
auto cunnilingus and like, Oh, God. And it kind of deteriorated
from their conversation.
You it does remind me I was thinking about this the other
day because I'm putting together another interlude night there's
a B 52 song called. What was it? Somebody loves Shaq? Oh,
of course be 50 twos. Yeah.
Every time I hear that song, it Do you know how music sometimes
gives you a moment of where you remember something that you were
you heard that song? It's
called the soundtrack of your life? Yes, of course. Well,
yeah. So I'm at a place called This Is A while ago, by the way.
I'm at a during the era when that song existed. I'm at a
place called Dirty dance, which is a strip bar in San Diego. And
so they this real cute girl comes out and they played this
song and her act was that she would kind of ride around on her
stomach and then start to arch her back and touch her back of
her head to her ass. Oh, yeah, baby. Look at this. While
they're playing this song, by the way, the love shack, tin
roof. rusted. Go, oh, my god, while this girl is limber.
So that's what? For those who haven't heard it yet, the
Devorah interlude on the no agenda stream no agenda.
stream.com is about a two hour. Just awesome songs that you know
them all. You haven't heard them for ages. They never play it on
the radio, certainly not the versions John's playing. And
Jon's introducing them, which is fantastic. What would be even
better, because you do a little bit of it. But I missed that
type of information that goes with it. So if you got some of
those soundtrack of your life song, you got to talk about it
too.
Yeah, I'll try to throw in a few more anecdotes. I was I've
actually got the thing down to a formula. I could retry could
reveal. But please don't know, that's the magic doodle pay to
at least two of these little asides of very interesting
information that people can enjoy. But I'm not gonna you
know, at least I'm not gonna background every song I play.
Doll. When does the next one drop, Johnny? Oh,
um, either tomorrow or Tuesday. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. It's
already done. I got that playlist and everything right? I
just have, there's just a couple of I just have to piece it
together. It's actually painful a piece of together. But it
takes about an hour and a half.
Well, you should try programming the whole stream, talk about
painful.
Can't imagine the stream by the way, and then people should
listen to it once a while is unbelievably Fantastic.
Thank you, John. Well, I didn't quite hear you. I think we just
cut out for a second. What did you
say? Yeah. So I was drawn to connection. Now the fact that it
works is amazing.
Me does and the request. It's calling him a twap traps Twitter
app. So my my request to app is is working. And of course
there's a million things I have on the list. Now understand
these these engineers, the developers can now like oh,
yeah, I gotta do I gotta rewrite the the ID three tags. Now. I
really should put the request file together and meld it
together with the, with the song as requested. And then like, oh,
you know, and you should get a direct message from the no
agenda stream. That it's been that it found it it's going to
play it you know, it's about a million things. I guess I gotta
release it at some point, just make it work. But the thing I'm
most afraid of is scalability. because it's all running on my
Mac,
I think you're gonna have
and what happens when I travel to San Francisco? You know, the
request in the news will be down for 10 hours until the stream
will run. But no, it'd be working fine until you leave.
Exactly. Exactly. That's what
I mean, my my sis up for the divorce, uncensored blog. It's
just hilarious because the thing works fine. And then he goes on
to you know, Mark will take a drive down to San Jose and then
the site goes down. Of course,
it's Murphy's Law. Of course,
it's almost it's almost as though they these, maybe we do
have artificial intelligence? Well, there's a sense of humor.
Well,
there's certainly a lot of serendipity because this whole
thing is programmed. There's a lot of random elements in it.
And sometimes just the combinations or the it's
probably in an individual basis, but you know, a song we'll be
playing in like, holy crap, that's exactly the right song
for this minute.
Yeah. I was listening to it the other day. I was it was very
enjoyable. Group of songs. There's a couple I wanted to
get. Which like it play them.
Do you remember? Do you remember which
one? Yeah, I was like, I wasn't, you know, I know. I don't
remember. I just listened again. They'll come up again. All
right.
Before I forget, I'd like to do the show on Wednesday, because
we're leaving for a vacation for a quick week on Thursday. I'll
be able to do the show Sunday.
Yeah, Wednesday, I'm leaving on a flight to Washington. I'm
taking the rest of the week off. Crap. Like I'll be on a plane at
eight in the morning.
Alright, well, let's figure this out. We'll figure it out later.
We can always do it.
Well, we can do it Wednesday night.
But we could do it. I mean, it could do Thursday. Who cares?
When are you leaving? Thursday? We arrive at our destination
around three in the afternoon.
On Thursday? Yeah.
Yeah, baby, you know, but it's like vacation. So if I unpack if
I immediately start unpacking the mic and the gear these
things, some people will be annoyed with me.
Why didn't quit show business? Show business person she knows
better. Please.
So the the alternative media, but also the certainly the
English media really picked up on Gordon Brown's closing of the
G 20. Summit, which we have to talk about because some
decisions were made and some conclusions, or as well as
conclusions. And hopefully the United States knows something
about that. He said questioningly towards his
colleague. What? Well, what they decided at the G 20. You know,
there was this guy who tell me I don't know. Well, first of all,
we listened to a little bit of Gordon Brown closing down the G
20. Because that's what all the newspapers that jumped on front
page, every single one of them, as well as the alternative
media's
countries of the world have agreed a global plan for
recovery and reform. This involves the biggest interest
rate cuts in history, the biggest fiscal stimulus we have
ever seen the biggest increase in resources in the history of
our international institutions, with 250 billions more money
than ever before for trade finance, as well. For the first
time, we have a common approach run the world, to cleaning up
banks balance sheets, and restoring lending. We are
engaging in a deep process of reform and restructuring of our
international financial system for now and for the future. And
we have maintained our commitment to help the world's
poorest and we have put more money aside for that.
He said poorest not poorest, just an FYI.
And also for a green recovery. These are
I like that I like that one. The the green recovery. Yeah,
that's, that's they slip that one in. Alright, wait for it
here come
this is collective action. People working together at their
best. I think the new world order isn't merging. There you
go. But the but
I just got to hear it again. The New World Order is emerging, if
you wish
to take, Yeah,
take that little clip and then put a big echo behind it. So it
sounds like its own Mexican radio and use
it. Hold on a second. Let's see if we can do that.
I think the new world order isn't merging. And with
that was pretty good. So the New World Order is emerging. And
there's a little more to that, actually, that he said, kind of
fit with it.
I think the New World Order is emerging and with it the
foundations of a new and progressive era of international
cooperation.
So the plan, which of course has been endorsed by President Obama
and everyone else who was a part of it really what what was going
on is The Barrasso because there was the whole thing that was on
there was televised and there was like, that was all the
theater where the real work was actually taking place behind the
scenes. And as predicted, and actually, I have the, the PDF
here, Declaration on delivering resources through the
international financial institutions. This is the
document that these, the group of 20 came up with, we, the
leaders of the group of 20, are committed to ensuring that
capital continues to flow to emerging market and developing
countries to protect their economies and support world
growth, blah, blah, blah, blah, we have agreed to make available
and additional $850 billion of resources through the IMF, and
the multilateral development bank's to support growth in
emerging market and developing countries. And there are
acronyms in this document John, I've never heard of them. Listen
to a couple of these. So it's it's several it's in reality is
really several trillion dollars that are being created in these
special drawing rights and everyone's pitching in and China
of course, is loving it because there's that's going to be the
new reserve currency but then we have the multilateral
development bank's which is part of there was a I guess that's
you have parts of that called the Asian Development Bank, the
Inter American Development Bank, the African Development Bank,
the European Bank for restructuring and development
what what are these banks? What is that about?
Sounds like they're creating a series of middlemen that can
control something else
the new high value if
there's no where they bought it what's in that were whereas
there were assets of their banks?
I think it's just the bankers not not the ones that are that
get bonuses but the the true elite. And that's their bank,
just like the central banks. I guess it's I think you're right,
it's all it's like a shell game
to central central bank
of the new IFC global trade liquidity pool. I mean, come on
global trade. Well, that's probably that solves that
problem that you were talking about earlier with the letters
of credit.
Yeah, except it runs through those guys. Well,
you know, they give pieces of the action can you set yourself
up where you're just taking a penny here and a penny there
from you know trillions of dollars in transactions you do
pretty well
some of this language? Of course you do you do fantastically
well, some of this language sounds like it's a it's almost
like a retail bank for countries. We welcome the IMF
new flexible credit line. That's like a credit card or something
like an ATM for countries for eligible countries. I mean,
there's just all this stuff in there the IBRD the IDA the DSF
they've got it all figured out.
I don't know why we're not doing that. Doing what we you and I we
shouldn't be bank we should have been bankers.
Now it's I am so at the realization that we really,
truly live in a, in a world of multiple layers of games,
fractals, if you will. And we're not in any of them. Not players
in any one of these games. This. What's this guy's name? Bill?
Hold on. Let me look it up. BILL MOYERS of the Bill Moyers
Journal had had Bill Black on Well, yes. Oh, God, I agree with
you. Do you know who Bill Black is? Now he's the reporter who
went after the savings and loan and and because of his articles,
the Keating Five came about and they want to
have one that Nancy Pelosi was with, you know, you okay, yeah,
the way everyone got out of it, basically. So he wrote, and he's
written a new book. And it's called The Best Way to Rob a
Bank Is to Own One, which of course, caught my eye when I saw
the title. It's a good title. It's an excellent title. And so
he explains, and I wouldn't mind playing a little piece of that,
because it's a rehearsed script. You can hear you can almost hear
Bill Moyers deliver his lines. He's so bad at it. Like Oh,
really? You mean there's really fraud going on?
Yeah, that sounds like him. I mean, the guys that told him you
totally program at
Target, or the Wall Street barons who are heirs of an
earlier generation, who scandalous rip offs of wealth
back in the 1930s earned them comparison to Al Capone and the
mob and the nickname banksters. Bill back. Welcome to the
journal. Thank you. I was taken with your candor at the
conference here in New York to hear you say that this crisis
we're going to this economic and financial meltdown is driven by
fraud.
I was taken aback why I had never believed such a thing.
What a fake rock. Well, listen.
What's your definition of fraud?
Fraud is deceit And the essence of fraud is, I create trust in
you. And then I betray that trust and get you to give me
something of value. And as a result, there is no more
effective acid against trust and fraud, especially fraud by top
elites. And that's what we have.
In your book, you make it clear that calculated dishonesty by
people in charge is at the heart of most large corporate failures
and scandals, including, of course, the SNL. But is that
true? Is that what you're saying? here that they will?
How much of that is hard to take that guy?
Yeah, I just want to, I want you to hear his answer. Because his
answer is correct. And and it's like a one paragraph answer. And
that's when I when I when actually I saw because video
when I saw this link in the show notes, of course. That's when I
realized that it's just such a small little piece of the of the
of the entire game that oh, yeah, we're not in
was in the boardrooms and the CEO offices were this wrong
again? Absolutely. How do they do it? What do you mean?
Well, the way that you do it is to make really bad loans,
because they pay better than you grow extremely rapidly. In other
words, your Ponzi like scheme. And the third thing you do is we
call it leverage, that just means borrowing a lot of money.
And the combination creates a situation where you have
guaranteed record profits in the early years, that makes you rich
through the bonuses that modern executive compensation has
produced, it also makes it inevitable that there's going to
be a disaster down the road.
So that was pretty good.
Yeah, I'm not buying it.
You're not buying it, you know, fraud.
Now, what I'm not buying is a fact that he suspects that door
says and of course Moyers eats this up because he's essentially
a socialist that, you know, with a very limited view of things
and he should be right writing for The Guardian. Because he
has, he's, he's making the assertion that these guys are in
the boardroom, you know, wringing their hands going,
Yeah, and here's what we're gonna do next. And this is going
to happen and we're going to do this and that, when these these
board meetings, you know, if you've been in them, there's not
a there's not a lot of scheming going on the way they make it
sound it sounds like these guys, you know, close the doors, okay,
they everybody, we want to make sure there's no bugs in the
room. These guys kind of fell into this mess.
First, I'm gonna plead the fifth on on what you just said. But
it's more like it's cultural. It gets to a point where
everybody's doing it. It's like for those No,
I'm not gonna argue that but that's different cultural these
cultural initiatives, you know, these are the style. Yeah,
everybody. In fact, that's why I think these these idiots keep
giving themselves bonuses because they're so they're so
separated from the reality that they you know, what, I don't
know. What did I what? You know, why? Why is anybody upset that
I'm giving myself this huge bonus? They don't, they're
completely divorced from the rest of society, because, you
know, they've been in an insular environment, you know, and
they're limos and hookers
because you know, there's hookers in the morning somewhere
but you know, the way they make it sound is always a some sort
of, you know, you know, yeah, Dr. Evil Yeah, Dr. Evil you
know, I mean, it's just not the way it is. Rather these guys are
the greatest guy you know, great people are fun to be around some
of them are
so I guess what I was saying? Yeah, absolutely. Because they
got good hookers but it's that's what I mean by it's just a
subset of the bigger game that's being played above then I'm sure
there's someone above them but it really everyone fractal. Oh
hold on a second. I have a jingle for that
God sounds like something coming out of the ooze
we got a great audience man. They send us awesome stuff.
Self it's so is it self propagating? Whatever I forgot
what my term was.
It was a good one. You might have to listen to the show.
I listen to the show the other day. I don't think is equalized.
Very well.
What do you mean?
I sound like for one thing I sound like I'm I'm talking
slower than I am
well that's just the Skype connection I there's not much I
can do about it but you're not talking slow you come through as
slow as usual.
Hmm. Sound like Emo.
But you know, it sounds good man. I can you want me to you
know, like the actual EQ.
Yeah, I'm thinking the EQ is could be a little
give you a little more low in there.
Normally would help. Then you got your reverbs now when I'm on
the other mic, yeah, the other house already I don't didn't
need to do anything but good. I'm also on phones there too. I
don't wear them here,
right now. It's not like you do anything to improve the quality
of the show.
It can all be done by twirling knob.
Yes, it's very easy. We have the Blackwater replacement is now
known.
So who is it because I understand the Blackwater guys
are going back back to Iraq.
They are going back to Iraq. But Blackwater of course changed his
name to z, y, z. And they and they lost their contract but
they've got a new one. No, it's a girl go figure. A Chicago
company called Triple Canopy. And beginning May 7, Triple
Canopy canopy will officially take over Z's mega contract with
the US State Department now I haven't done
Triple Canopy sounds like in like a catering company. Yeah,
well, that's Doesn't it sound like catering company? Oh,
that's Triple Canopy, we got the best chefs in town.
Let me look at their website, it said triple Go figure. Oh, my
God, triple canopy.com. This is great solutions. Solutions need
to take over the world, we've got a solution for you. Security
Services. They're also hired for some apparently some security
services in the US crisis management, Homeland Defense
rock and roll the picture of content. This is a very
interesting site. A Triple Canopy our key strengths of
security analysis, protection, operations and training are
focused on the critical task of Homeland Defense. We're
dedicated to keeping nation safe from terrorist attacks by
assessing vulnerabilities providing fixed site security,
protecting key personnel and training organizations to
prepare for and prevent threats.
Rather, sounds like those typical kinds of consultants
they need perfect. Yeah, well, that's what exactly what they're
called consultants, you know, the guys who are in Georgia when
they attack Russia.
Right, those guys,
the consultants, hey, they're seeking top performers who
appreciate you appreciate the opportunities that come with
being part of a growing international security solutions
solutions leader.
Well, you know, maybe it'd be a job for me.
Okay. Emergency Medicine, operations, coordination,
program management, administration, logistics, human
resources, we could go in there.
Can you imagine being the HR person in a place like that?
Hardly. A bunch of guys coming in there, you know, sharpening
their knives hardly. Are you gonna hire me or not?
I think this whole act of thing is starting to kind of gel. I
think I understand what's happening. So I think it was
last maybe it was last a week ago, at least the last show,
Senator Rockefeller, he played that clip where he said they
never should have created new Al Gore never should have created
the internet. Yeah. So. So he has now introduced a bill
to turn off the internet. Yes, exactly.
The Cybersecurity Act of 2009. If you blog that, Have you have
you looked at this thing yet?
I don't know that we blogged it or not, but I have looked at it.
And I was just it's an eye roller. Yeah.
Here's one. It grants the Secretary of Commerce. Now
remember, who was the who's the Secretary of Commerce? Now? I
don't know. They keep changing. They keep rejecting access to
all relevant data concerning critical networks without regard
to any provision of law regulation rule or policy
restricting such access?
Yeah, Dad, let's just write a bill that says, By the way, this
bill is unconstitutional, which we thought we'd mention it.
It's unbelievable.
And hopefully the Supreme Court I'll get a hold of one of these
things that just tell him to screw him.
Who's he has Democrat right. But he also has Olympia Snowe,
Republican from Maine, who Yeah,
he's an obvious idiot.
That need another name. We must protect our critical
infrastructure at all.
By the way, vote her out of office. Ladies and gentlemen,
anyone there in Maine? Go out of your way. Get rid of her.
I'll have to look into her now. She MILFy I doubt it. Oh, you
don't know her?
No, I've never seen a picture of her. I can look it up. But I
only know the policy.
rec district.
She's bad enough. It's
pretty outrageous.
We have to start targeting the individual just laters and get
them voted out. Okay, so let's
this is a good idea. Why don't we find why don't we find some
vote that's coming up for some election. There's always
something going on right at a lower and lower level. Oh, yeah.
And so lots of stuff weird crap. Yeah. So let's find one that we
can put the stick the audience on and see if we can get someone
voted out. Okay, I'm gay. It's fun and Okay, so we'll take us
through just fine. It's fun it's fun to get someone if we if we
made it fun. Imagine if kids enjoyed it. Hey, come on, man.
Let's come on down to the schoolyard. We're all gonna get
together to vote someone out of office.
It's fun. Well, they did that in California when they actually
had a recall against this guy. DeRay Davis and that's how
Schwarzenegger got in. That was fun right? That's
the guy that killed Shaundra levy wasn't it? Who is not the
guy who killed Shawn No, no,
you keep saying it everybody I bring up at California politics
you killed Shonda Levy.
Okay, who killed her them?
De there's somebody was turned out to be some psycho that was
stalking her or something. I think they figured it out. Hey,
I got a letter from Andrew. Nick top ski over pronounce his
pronouncing that right. I was listening to the latest.
Excellent as usual no agenda. I didn't have to read that. But I
did. I immensely enjoyed the part where you were describing
the Berkeley area shopping experience which leads me to the
following. I work as a store accountant while putting myself
through college or says I worked with Bryan mint. I worked at a
local supermarket Harris Teeter, where I occasionally go and help
bag excetera This is in North Carolina. Not exactly exactly
the hippie capital of the nation. Although I would
question that comment, but we have a fair amount of liberals
who latch on to the current trends. Lately the store has
been pushing their reusable polypropylene bags which I which
has struck a chord with everyone's eco guilt.
I haven't had a cake it's necessary for the green
recovery. Otherwise you can you need eco guilt,
a eco guilt I have I liked the word. I have had occasions where
I am begging someone's ordered this by the way is in response
to Mike bitching about the woman who demanded they put stuff in
her bag in her cloth bag. I've had occasions where I'm bagging
someone's order and the reusable bag is full well they still have
some raw meat left. Obviously this person wouldn't want their
raw meat mixed in with their vegetables etc. So I go to put
it in a plastic bag and mentioned it to the customer I'm
doing so I have had people literally lunge toward me with
hands out, yelling no, not another bag no and then
proceeding to place the raw meat with all the other groceries in
the overpack bag. I can only imagine how smashed everything
as being in the one bag vegetables, cans, cleaners, etc.
Also, the people failed to take into account the crappiness of
the bag, it's only 99 cents it is actually an extremely high
profit item for the store 60% margin. So the bag degrades
after three to four visits and turns into an absolute piece of
crap. I imagined that the customer will then buy some more
reusable bags thus negating everything they had been trying
to accomplish by not using disposable bags because the
reusable ones are so much thicker and contain so much more
material. Not to mention that some people will not use a bag
because it is a waste of a gram of plastic they're paying.
They're the same people buying 20 containers of yogurt that are
made from enough hard plastic to bag their entire carts where the
groceries from one yogurt container anyway. Just
what a great rant. That's a good one was a good rant. Excellent.
Well, I got a I got a short little note from David Johnson
who said Adam Jonathan's story was interesting, because when my
Canadian wife tried to enter the US a few years ago, and this is
in relation to the guy who had $4,700 in cash and the TSA was
questioning him like he was like a piece of dirt. She was denied
entry for her lack of cash. Yes, she didn't have enough.
Wait, what? How much money do we have to have to get? We're gonna
find
out we're gonna find out the agent profiled single women
traveling alone without large amounts of cash because they
could be mail order bride material. From Canada, yeah.
Hey, man, stop. Okay, be very careful, because I don't want
David to get the wrong idea. He he has a very hot wife.
Sure. Well, there's some good looking women in Canada. There's
no doubt about it, because I talk a lot. But that's by the
way the women in Canada
know Hey, this is the the John C. Dvorak School of modeling. We
go you walk along, baby.
So there's a well they walk a lot in Toronto. So anyway, so
I've
measured this, what statistical evidence do you have of women
walking a lot in Toronto? And why do you study these things?
So let's go over the simple fact of that of what's happened over
the last I'd say 15 to 20 years. Now, I've noticed that women in
Canada tend to have that or 15 or 20 years ago, they walked a
lot and they had a usually a fairly good looking figure. And
it's in a small, compact, shapely derriere. Now hold on,
hold
on, hold on, hold on. I'm just building a visual Okay, we're
ready.
So now over the last few years, I've noticed that the same women
that you're loyal, you know, they say the next batch not to
use that term derogatorily.
It's a flock of geese and a batch of broads.
And so the next batch comes out and they seem to have bigger
butts, and a lot of cellulite in that is actually visible through
the pants, which is not a good thing. That's not a good look
either. Now, it's not a good look. Now, I'm thinking the only
thing that's changed in Canada, is the fact that the Canadians
in particular, unlike the Americans, the Canadians have
made canola oil, their primary source of oil. I mean, they use
it all the time. And I have a theory I think their bodies
very interesting figures are very much like the
olive oil, this would be the euro or just you even corn oil,
but safflower are some of the better, healthier oils. I think
that this would go away. Wow. I mean, it's the only thing that's
one thing has changed is the oil.
Well, you know that in Britain, there's a severe obesity. They
call it an epidemic like you can catch it, but it's a obesity
epidemic. And I'm convinced and it is backed up by studies that
started when Kentucky Fried Chicken, McDonald's, as they
call it here and Burger King, all entered into the market. It
was all this fast food and the Brits just took to it like
crazy. No one's except on Sundays, they have their Sunday
roast, but every other day of the week that they're just
eating takeaways and just total crap.
Right where they used to eat fish and chips. Exactly. Which
is not the healthiest thing in the world. But it's nothing. In
terms of comparing I think, a hamburger from McDonald's, you
get actual fish and then yeah, yeah. So it's, and most of the
fish and chip shops are closing.
Yeah, they can't afford to survive anymore. Because you go
into what is it? Iceland? Iceland is that have you ever
been to an Iceland? No. Okay, so it's a supermarket chain. And it
is about the lowest of the low, it doesn't come any lower. It's
like Costco prices. Except it's all it's all crap for
everything. So you buy like a 12 pieces of fish and chip frozen
shit, which of course doesn't contain any actual fish and or
chips. And it's like a pound you know? And I'm not kidding. It's
a pound for 12 pieces of no actual ingredients, stuff. And
people there's no education executive Jamie Oliver. And of
course, he's the only guy who's right. And he stopped me and he
said, Stop feeding your children. They had they had
mothers who were so angry at Jamie Oliver making real food
for kids. And they were they were handing hamburgers through
the gates of the school yard.
Yeah, that was the news about a year ago.
Yeah, I mean, and they laugh at him. And they call him a dick
now and now he's the he's the he's a he's a punch line. It's
just so sad. People.
Yeah, I don't get it either. I'm not I'm actually befuddled by
the I mean,
it's education. John, it's pure education people just education
system. Right. They just don't know. And and so I can only
blame the education system, I guess.
Well, so we do all the time here. Yeah. I would never
ever fix it. And all that stimulus money was all going to
education into buildings and broadband. Not at the actual
curriculum. Or teachers.
Yeah, we're probably the most educational thing on the air
right now.
Very good chance you kind of you went a little too fast for me
because I wanted to say on the heels of, of the shutdown the
internet act. Sure. You heard about the FBI raiding a data
center? No. Oh, really. It's core IP networks LLC, the CEO
posted a note. Dear customers today at 6am The FBI conducted
an unwarranted early morning raid of our 2323 Brian street
data centers on the seventh and 24th floors. received a phone
call 6:05am from our noc, the entire network stack network was
powered off. I received the call 15 minutes later from FBI agent
Alan Lynn mysoline would not tell me why he raided our data
center or what he was looking for. He also accused me of
hiding inside my house in ovilla, Texas, I was actually in
Phoenix. The FBI seized all equipment belonged to our
customers. Many customers went to the data center to try and
retrieve their equipment but were threatened with arrest.
Neither I nor core IP are involved in any illegal
activities of any kind. The only data I have received thus far is
that the FBI is investigating a company that has purchased
services from core IP in the past. The company does not even
co locate with us anymore. Currently, nearly 50 businesses
are completely without access to their email and data. without a
warrant, John
Oh, really? Yeah. Sounds like a lawsuit.
So I think that this act to act, the the our Act, a law, this
international law that we're not allowed to hear about, because
according to our transparent government, it threatens
Homeland Security. This is all a part of it, it's, you're gonna
see more and more of this shit of computers being taken, raids
data.
So ladies and gentlemen, make sure you keep your machines
backed up. Yes, please do keep the backup off premises
and make a couple backups. While you're probably a
couple is not a bad idea. I mean, generally, you should do
that anyway. That way, you can kind of rotate through them and
always have set you should never really be more in lose. Well, I
mean, depends if you're a company, you don't want to lose
more than a few hours of data. But as an individual, you don't
really want to use lose more than a week, let's say. So every
week you should back everything up.
Is what I love about my Mac The Time Machine thing. God it's so
wonderful. Just works. You don't Yeah, but
it's in the it's in the office. No one's know what happens if
they leave yet. What if they come in? And they just take
everything?
No, no, I backup to Well, yeah, true. I backup to the local
drive. But I do backup other places. Where all the time?
Well, if I told you where then they're gonna go and raid that
as well. I'm not going
to tell you is it off site? Yes. It's,
it's in the cloud?
Oh, no, the cloud they can get to to you, of course. So anyway,
yeah, can I make a good one, you know, the thing is, you can go
to Costco, and you can buy a terabyte hard drive for 100
bucks. And you can, it's usually USB and plug it into your
machine and just make it take the whole drive all your other
stuff and just make a copy. Just make a whole copy of the C drive
and whatever other drives you got, it's probably not going to
be a terabyte, and then go take it to your mom's house or your
somebody's you know, Powell or safe deposit box or whatever,
and just put the thing in there.
That's some excellent advice.
Excellent advice.
Don't have a jingle for
that. No, you could use actually it'd be a cool jingle. Excellent
advice. In the morning.
You got a list. You had some stuff last week. I remember we
talked after the show. And
we've Yeah, you know, I wrote it onto this just note pad of stuff
that we forgot to discuss mark to market. I know that's from
Horowitz
it was it was a pretty good show with with Andrew.
Yeah, he was a happy camper. He went to Paris he I guess you
guys had lunch or something? Yeah, I
was waiting for a mention. You know, there was no mention on
the show. Oh, well, you didn't pay
you till you didn't listen to the show. Because there was a
specific mention of him having coffee or something with you?
Where was that? I thought, well, maybe I'd walked out of the room
for a second and hadn't paused it. And I did listen to
the show was right at the beginning too. So yeah,
that's interesting. No, I heard the whole thing of I liked his
theory about the rim. RIM has a
theory about rim and the stock is was I was fascinated by that
myself. And it was quite good. You should repeat it for a
second. So our no agenda listeners? Yeah. What he says is
that rim shot up like a rocket and he says BlackBerry by the
way, the BlackBerry Yeah, that BlackBerry shot up like a
rocket, good earnings, all kinds of things happen that are
positive. And he and he's by the way, this is what he why I like
Andrew Lawton. This is what he's really good at, which is is
thinking than taking it one let you know why, you know, you're
looking at the why from a different perspective. And he
suspects that this these numbers may be skewed and tricking
people. Because he's thinking that if there's these big
layoffs six 700,000 a month of all these people that many work
in corporations where they were the company assigned you a
Blackberry, and people get addicted to the Blackberry, you
get fired, they take your BlackBerry away, they keep the
service contract because it's you know, it's a contract, it is
still lasting, but you don't have the you don't get it
anymore. And so you have to go out and buy another blackberry
and a new service contract. And it inflates the numbers because
of the turnover of people that are you know, they've lost their
jobs, and made nothing but since the way he did explained it.
God, I thought it
was brilliant. I don't know how big the blip is, but it makes so
much sense. Like yeah,
so huge blip really? Yeah. And it just probably what it is, it
makes it you know, because there's no other explanation for
because people love the Blackberry, they are addicted to
it. People who have a Blackberry especially they use it for
email. They can't live without it. So they'd go off and get
another one immediately and it would help me find a job. So I
had to explain it. I talked about this and I think a lot of
people need to know this, especially Americans, that very
few people realize that once your contract is done with your
phone company and you have the phone that they've given you a
good deal because you had the long term contract. Usually you
can call the carrier up or the provider the whoever it is the
phone company T Mobile or Verizon and tell them you want
them to unlock the phone. Right and they will do it.
Really was you already terminated you've already paid
for it
your obligations over you have the phone. Yeah, you don't you
know, Blackberry doesn't
work that way. You've got all the services tied in. Yeah,
that's true. So you
just say look, unlock my phone and be on my merry way. And they
do they always give you the codes. It's a little complicated
at the punch in a lot of numbers. But the next thing you
know, boom, the phone's unlocked. Okay. And now back to
real. Stepped
on your earlier I'm sorry about that. I didn't notice. It was a
routine night on actress Demi Moore's Twitter feed. The star
was in the midst of exchanging positive affirmations about the
power of collective consciousness with some of her
400,000 followers on the popular microblog sight when she
received the tweet. I'm just wondering if anyone cares that
I'm going to kill myself now. So long story short to Demi Moore
has stopped the suicide.
Yeah, that's actually been all over the news. Another
yet. Well, John, exactly why. I mean, do you have to make the
point anymore clear that that is the real news.
Yeah, Demi Moore is the news.
She's gonna go ahead.
Let me just say she gets more play from being the Twitter than
anything else.
You know, it's so weird. I see how she acts with Ashton, who
managed to talk about it for a minute. And she's, she's kind of
doing this childish type vibe, because of course, he's, I think
he's, he's probably 15 years younger than she is maybe a
little more. So I'm like that she's older. She's older than I
am. I think she's 47 or 47. Maybe?
I don't know. She could be it doesn't matter me. She's fucking
beautiful.
But then Ashton, of course is just immature just by age alone.
But he's also you know, he's he's a guy having fun in
Hollywood. You know, he's making money. He's got shit going on.
He's screwing to me more. But then she's got to get people
want to take her serious as an actress. And not not that I
wouldn't. But Hollywood won't. It's I think this whole thing is
going to turn into a career record if she doesn't watch it.
Maybe you need to have a Twitter. Now it's
just the her whole vibe man. You know, when she was with Bruce
Willis, she actually she her whole demeanor was different.
Yeah, no, there's no doubt about that. I know. She said she
acting she's acting
childish. Yeah, it's kind of a turn off because she is like the
ultimate the ultimate MILF for you? Dude. Dude, who are you
talking about dude?
For the notes that we had from last week,
I know it was on the notes. You've lost the notes you wrote
it on.
I'm looking at I'm looking at notes. It's here this year that
hear this noise? That's me slap on the pad.
That's you auto flesh eating. So what's on the pad?
I'm trying to find you know, find the notes. Not any here but
there's notes from the last genome five months of shows. I
mean, let me just read
you some Okay. Read some read some notes. And we'll see if we
can decipher them. Chavez
helping socialist Iran dash Cuba dash Russia, the life affirming
podcast. Boring. Next note, Lawrence vs. Texas. Yeah, we
just got I'm trying to catch up to
Okay, so what why no one that that's on the list that we
didn't do last week is that it is coming. It's in the app
store. I think Apple rejected at first but the no agenda, iPhone
slash iPod touch app is coming. Right. And let me tell you what
it includes. I haven't played with it myself. Let me rephrase
that. It has a so it's basically an app and you have a menu tabs
at the bottom and it's the stream. So it taps right into
the live stream. So you don't have to figure out what how to
how to make that work. There's a Twitter so you Twitter directly
to no agenda. And there's a direct download thingy for the
podcast. It can have the offline version. I mean, it's like a
whole little wallet all Yeah, whole No, no agenda. Universe in
the palm of your hand. And I think it's going to be 99 cents.
Good. Yeah, I'm Chris. This is how it should work. People need
to make money off of us. I think that's cool. And not only that,
but we need to make some money off. Uh, you
know, we do have to mention a few people who contributed 50
and $100. Tweak. Yes. And I want to also apologize, there's one
guy who sent me an email because the last time I ran through this
list of names I left somebody out he sent me an email because
that was two weeks ago. And now of course, it's in my email box.
I can't find he's gonna have to send me another Your email I'm
sorry. Okay. But we got a bunch of interesting ones here. What's
interesting to me is the we do have a few things. Like, you
know the $66.60 from Robert A her, but generally speaking we
got a lot of $50 donations Stephen said Tony, Richard,
cheap us. Mike Wilkes Bronson photography. Chris of a bollock
Niven Brooks see Chase McCarthy? Robert Anderson good for $100
Thanks, Robert. John Matthews. Sorry, John Matthews. Then we
had have known malinovski and Kerri Lutz both for 150 and
carry a courses already. Yes. Because research division Thank
you Carrie. It gave us my eg decided to help us out here he
works.
Getting stories for us, and he's paying money to afford the
library's donating. I mean, that's unbelievable. In the
morning for
the best guy Kenneth Alexander. Lowest Whitman sent us 100
bucks. She's a very famous PR woman in New York City. Really?
Yeah. And she likes to show and she's gonna do some
I was just gonna say Can Can she can she help us with some PR?
I think so. We just have to give her something to do. She'd love
to. Oh, that's great. Is she hot? Lois is hot. Oh, God.
Really? A cool i've always
wanted right up your alley. Milty. Yeah. Robert Anderson.
what's your what's your name? While you're doing those shout
outs I want
what was Whitman did to be HW H. Public Relations I think is the
lowest? Yes. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Let me get these names out.
Robert Anderson. $100. Thank you, Robert. Now we got the
oddball ones. David Vander wall $56.66 Excellent. Just like
Okay, great. I love it here we sell would you send a $666.60
Yeah, Jesus, thank you. And then of course, we got Robert A, her
a who I think maybe mentioned before, for $66.60 So there's
all these 6666 Yeah, excellent. Now that what's interesting to
me is we mentioned some people in the end the magic number
eight that the Chinese lucky number so we did get a couple of
numerous $8.88 cent donations. But the curious thing is is that
you know, there's a thing the random number theory that has
everything in bunches we had two donations in a row out of the
blue and none again ever for $88.88 by Thomas Nelson and
somebody named desert burn which could be a pseudonym or I don't
know about desert burners but they came in Bang Bang right
after another cool yeah $88.88 I'm just like you look at the
listeners are this this the Bing Bing and then that
but no one cent 888
No, nobody sent 888 But they get a special call out for sure. But
anybody doesn't get mentioned when they send over $50 into us
please send me an email and this time I will put it aside and get
you mentioned the next show
I thank you very much and of course this is for the no agenda
library slash winery. We haven't actually done anything with the
money yet
but there's somebody suggested that we expand this winery
library and something else. Armory armory. I like it. Armory
winery library armory. done
we'll make it so of course you can also help just by giving us
some link juice twittering about us tell a friend that's even
better tell a friend turn them on to the show.
And as you go to divorce.org/n A or no agenda library.com or no
agenda library.com And you can Dettol link you to the Pay Pal
site and you can or you can I'll put up some addresses where you
can mail stuff if you some people hate PayPal and with some
justification and we're also going to add Amazon and some
other
oh you can add some other pay collection services that we're
going to call election election I don't like the sound of that
I'll always the no agenda collection agency we hear you
got a donation for the armory
like the armory idea I think
the armory is even better.
Armory load up with guns. Yeah, we
could like get like ammo and shit. And we'll also we'll also
just take gun donations doesn't have to be money. Just send us a
mail. Yeah, that's it. We're working, take guns off the
street, put them in our armory. It'll be cool, everybody, I
promise you. Bloomberg came out with a report earlier this week.
Regarding the shadow puppet theater of that is the
administration. Of course, there's a total transparency
involved. So that's why we have to bring it to you courtesy of
Bloomberg. And this is about money that people are making.
Lauren Summers, who, of course, is director of President Obama's
National Economic Council earned more than $2.7 million in
speaking fees from companies such as Bank of America,
Citigroup, Goldman Sachs.
What a coincidence. Yeah.
You wonder you wonder how that works. Summary treasury
secretary under former President Bill Clinton spoke to Citigroup
Goldman Lehman Brothers holdings Twite. Last year even I mean, so
this is this is very recent. And then we have Chief of Staff Rahm
Emanuel. Let's see he, he listed holdings of less than $1,000 in
shares of AIG. But he still had shares of AIG.
His wife, he's hoping he's going to make a comeback.
His wife bought between 1015 $1,000 worth of AIG stock
in August. And this is, that was a blunder. Yeah, and those 2007
So I bet you they did make money on it. Let's see Valerie
Jarrett, senior adviser to Obama we've never heard of, but she's
a close friend from Chicago sold shares she owned and CME,
Caterpillar, Hewlett Packard Intel, Sony General Mills,
General Dynamics Corp, Costco. And this is a fantastic article
right down to David Axelrod. Chief Strategist, he's he's
really the PR guy. He's the Googles of the administration.
And a senior adviser to the president now, of course,
received $1.5 million in salary and partnership income from
public affairs firms. And he agreed to buyouts that will pay
him another 3 million over five years. So that's current. I
mean, it's just it's crazy. Everyone's just making money,
everyone but us. Well, of course, we were the armory, it's
the way to go. You know, it's the it's the honest way to do it
is just just amazing. dvorak.org/in A. Anyway, here's
a technical thing that blew me away. And I don't know if it
works in the States, but it's called the eye plate. And it's a
it's literally a plate you put over your existing phone jack if
you have ADSL. And it can boost your ADSL connection by 60%. The
speed or throughput?
Sounds like a scam. Well,
that's what I thought. But BT is actually advising people to buy
it, it costs like 10 pounds. And what it does is it it isolates
the bell wire because the way I think the way at least British
Telecom works, but many many ISPs with ADSL is if you have if
you have like a crappy connection because basically
just phone lines, you know, copper wires, if it's crackly or
whatever, there's an auto throttle that starts to kick in
so that it tries to give you a continuous smooth performance.
But if you apparently isolate the bell wire or whatever that
is,
that's probably as well and the old systems you had three wires
you had a just a regular positive negative and then you
had a third wire which I think green and it was it sent a huge
voltage during the bell specifically right that's like
that has changed. Yeah, that now is all twisted pair you don't
have a bell wire anymore in any system didn't at least at least
in my neighborhood. And but there used to be what was funny
about the bell wire
isn't really good shock from that if you were if you're like
you could get a job. Yeah, you could set some
you know, put it on somebody you know, have somebody grab it and
call the number and they get to get knocked out.
Hey, that's cool. Do that often Johnny?
It's DC. It's not gonna hurt anybody.
So hey, well, I'm gonna order one who knows? It might work.
Right? What do you do you have DSL? Yeah. Okay, because I
probably was for 10 pounds. Yeah, how
can you go wrong, right. I still can't get a virgin. We don't
even get me started on it. I want to get that that 50 megabit
service from from Virgin, but they can't seem to connect with
them. They keep promising to call me and then I call back and
there's no one there. It's screwed.
So somebody sent us a joke. Okay. It's kind of a long joke.
I'm reluctant but I'll read it. And you know, this comes from
Tracy Taylor. The joke is has a title shows you that it's like
it's almost a shaggy dog story. but not quite on a Saturday
afternoon the joke is called Saint Pelosi. on a Saturday
afternoon in Washington, DC House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, his
aide visited the cardinal the Catholic Cathedral. He told the
cardinal that Nancy Pelosi would be attending the next day sermon
and he asked if the cardinal Be kind, kindly point out Pelosi to
the congregation and say a few words that would include calling
Pelosi a saint. The Cardinal replied, No, I don't really like
the woman and there are issues of conflict with the Catholic
church over certain of Pelosi views. Pelosi is a then said,
look, listen, I live here. Now for a donation of $100,000. To
your church, if you'll just tell the congregation you see Pelosi
as a saint This is a
joke You sure this is not an AP news wire story.
The Cardinal thought about and said well, the church can use
the Montreal worker requested tomorrow sermon. As Pelosi aide
promised House Speaker Pelosi appeared for the Sunday sermon
and seated herself prominently at the edge of the main aisle.
And during the sermon is promised to Cardinal pointed out
that House Speaker Pelosi was President then went on to
explain to the congregation quote, well, Speaker Pelosi.
Speaker Pelosi is presidents is probably an honor to some she is
not my favorite person. Some of her views are contrary to those
of the church and she tends to flip flop over many other views
Nancy Pelosi is a petty self absorbed hypocrite, a thumb
sucker and a nitwit. Nancy Pelosi is also a serial liar, a
cheat and a thief. Nancy Pelosi is the worst example of a
Catholic I have personally witnessed. She married for money
and is using it to lie to the American people. She also has a
reputation for shirking your representative obligations both
in Washington and in California. She is simply not to be trusted.
The Cardinal compete completed his view of Pelosi with but when
it compared to senators Ted Kennedy, Harry Reid and John
Kerry Nancy Pelosi is a saint.
School long way yeah, that was worth it. That was good.
I don't know. Maybe shorter material. I'm not good with the
long jokes. Send me shorter material.
New research out of Spain suggests that T H. C, the active
ingredient in marijuana appears to prompt the death of brain
cancer cells. They've been doing tests on mice and not just brain
cancer cells but they've modified these mice to have no
complete human properties however that works.
They talk yeah,
they're actually doing this show. And so they've been
injecting THC into them the active ingredient marijuana and
it's and it is killing and once you enter the quote here, it
appears to kill cancer cells. While it does not affect normal
cells. To hell. There's no wonder these guys outlawed that
shit. The pharmaceutical industry in the entire cancer
industry would crumble if we found out that marijuana
actually cures cancer.
Well, that would be interesting. I think this needs more looking
into.
And luckily, right on the heels of that interesting combination.
Talk about the odd couple. Congressman Ron Paul, but also
Barney Frank, together introduced a bill to legalize
industrial hemp, which is of course, criminal that
should have been done years ago.
Yeah, absolutely. There's so much that can be done with hand
boarding, and particularly paper is a good one. Because that's
why a lot of first place.
So it's an amazing product. And it's not of the it's not the it
doesn't produce a intoxicating bud.
Which is, which is kind of a bummer. But on the other hand,
yeah, you can use it for a lot of stuff. It's no it shouldn't
be legalized as crazy.
Well, they made it illegal. I don't know why they made I think
they made it live because it's so hard to tell it in Dutch.
That's the hemp from the pot plant. I mean, it's the same
plant, basically. But one is bred differently.
Well, you know, the story while we've all seen the documentaries
and the as far as I can see that the reason it stopped is because
what's his face the publisher. First, he had all these Mexicans
were competing with his paper mills, and they were competing
with hemp using that for paper. And so then he started
publishing and all those newspapers, these fucking
Mexicans are whacked out on weed. We got to get rid of both
of them get rid of the Mexicans and the weed.
So where they used to do marketing, crack, but they still
do marketing like this. I mean, it's the old different
legislature to like, pass a law. I was watching this thing on
great scenic railway journeys. It was in a PBS special in a
whole set of series of these and I loved riding old trains around
and I noticed that in a couple of places where this train
wouldn't even exist anymore they hit you know, they will some
hotshot some some, you know do gooders went to the state
legislature to have them pass certain kinds of laws to allow
the train to take over this certain tracks and then You
know, get certain tax benefits. And that's you know, the way
marketing is always be done as you can get the state lawmakers
to do stuff for you. You know, you can make you can make some
change there and then hearse was a master of it.
Someone's impersonating me at no agenda drop.com It's funny. It's
like AC says I'm baked. Baked. So you can bake to President
Barack Obama brushed off a question about legalizing
marijuana as online town hall last month. But now we have a
new supporter who knew Carlos Santana smoked weed, but
apparently he does.
i But wait a minute. Wait, hold on a second. Are you telling me
you're not talking about the guitar player? Yes.
Can you be
honest, you're telling me that he is. He smokes? who smoked
weed? Oh. Really? Yeah. Let me get a pen pencil to write that
one. I'll
send you the link. No worries,
you can all find the link. Yeah, send me the link, because I find
it hard to believe that a musician
of the word actually would be would be smoking weed. Yeah.
Especially one from the 60s,
you can find it? No agenda.me veoh.com.
By the way, I think that interlude thing I do. I think
it's it. I'm going to not this next one. But the one after
this, I'm going to do a tribute to Hawaii and the Big Island
because I noticed that one, because they because it has a
there's a certain hippie quality to the songs I realized I'm
thinking, you know, this stuff is a little too. You know, it's
like something you'd throw together in the late 60s for the
Big Island,
John, is that that radio is no longer being made? There is no
no,
I know, it's what am I doing it? When I'm producing this thing? I
am thinking in those terms and saying, you know, people don't
listen to this stuff anymore. They don't program it anymore.
There's a lot of good material that's been forgotten. That's
still good. I mean, the thing that's interesting to me is that
there's a lot of music from and actually I go back to the late
50s with some of the stuff from the late 50s. On to the present.
There's a lot of material that that holds up to an extreme. I
mean, you could listen to what was done yesterday.
Well, but even to the rest of it. Recently, Spandau Ballet
announced that they were reforming and going back on the
road. And of course, it's probably because they're broke.
And I support that. Regardless, I think it's great that they're
gonna go out on the road. But when you think about it, I was
playing muscle bound from Spandau Ballet, which is before
true, which was their big hit, and then they got gold and all
those other songs. And then of course, they became uncool. I
was playing that in 1982. So how long ago was that? It's like,
almost 30 years, man.
Right. And it's amazing how much stuff holds up. And usually that
stuff that holds up the best is just really good rock and roll,
though. Yeah.
I think I need to also automate the would it be cool if I could
automate the no agenda chat so you could have different voices
who would just speak it for a little while? Because I just
come in all the time. Like I'm big. I just popped a Viking
based off past. from Gitmo nation south in Italy. If it's
not been I don't think it started yet. But there's a huge
uproar has Silvio Berlusconi who is of course, completely looking
at the taint of the world's elite. Now, they have two types
of bus service in Italy. There's the bus service if you are just
visiting ie an immigrant, or if you're a resident, you have to
take a different bus service
now little that's funny. Yeah. Racism there. Thank you. This is
not the best for you.
So they have to have to I gotta I gotta talk to my sister about
this. She will give me the lowdown on that
sheet so me Go ahead. Go ahead. No, please no
one's gonna say that she she of course listen to the show Willow
who lives in in Italy and I will Oh yeah, she tells me all the
time but all this crazy shit that's going on there's in your
husband's also in the in the movie business. Now imagine in
Italy, or movie and television and theater even you're either
Hey, we need to get a bit part. Oh, that'll be easy. Oh, yeah.
Oh, that'll be easy. Well, we have to go to Italy. Oh, no. Not
that not to Italy. But so you're either you either work for
Berlusconi or you work for the other mob? I mean, it's like
there's no there's no in between? And the way you think
movie deals and how they're financed or weird in America. Oh
man idli is is awesome as the fun sheet has the funniest
stories. So I couldn't get us a bit part.
Yeah, I need a bit party a walk On I go
before before I forget I got you hooked up for Queen's Day. Are
you going by yourself? Are you taking Mimi? No, no, there's
a group that's dumb going over there. Visit a corporation that
but no wives. It's
kind of silence guys club on a side note.
Yeah, okay. No wife.
I've got you. I've got you into the hottest party of the entire
Queen's Day. Hmm. And I'll just give you the title of the party
because I don't think anyone knows yet. The title and so the
these parties have names. The name of this party is no sex in
the champagne room.
Which is a callback to a Chris Rock. Getting together on one of
his Yeah,
so I thought you'd appreciate that. And I'm talking funny. So
those those models I was hanging out with? Yeah, you'll be
hanging out with them. Okay, good. And but you have to
promise take pictures.
Oh, you're talking to me? Because I looked like a goof in
there a ticket about taking photos. Let's bring the little
rival LITTLE RED camera. That's pretty spiffy, so
it'd be like, Where's Waldo?
I'll make sure to wear the red stripe. Like hell is this old
guy doing
100 beautiful people. John, you're beautiful. You're a
beautiful person. All right, you're baked? Yes, it's all
true.
So here's the deal. So there's so now they've moved to like the
G 20s. Or and they ride stopped and now they moved some some
event to France and the French when they protest they burned
down the place? Yes.
So well. They went to Strasbourg which of course there's the
bridge there between France and Germany. It's all the symbolic
shit they have. You know, imagine having Washington DC and
then having Colorado you know, that's kind of the same thing.
It's like that's where the government also meets. So yeah.
And the French storage they don't you know, these guys are
serious they there's this huge, huge building they just burn to
the ground
but very little coverage of that nothing like the protests in
I only saw it as funny because they showed all those British
protests you know here and there but didn't you know not with a
lot of fanfare but this thing was almost suppressed. Well,
where
was Katie Couric? Wasn't she there? Were all the anchor
anchor men and women there
I guess it wasn't on the list of things you can you can you know
they are allowed to attend knowing that the French are go
crazy.
Yeah, you gotta love the French for that. You really do yeah,
there's a bunch of right now I gotta get to the details on this
but right now there's a bunch of wine terrorism going on in
France. What's that? Well, there's a there's a group and
they you know they wear the masks and they they hijack their
their represent the wine growing areas of France and apparently a
lot of cheap plunk is coming in from Spain and elsewhere to feed
the French market and screw the French wine growers. And so they
hijack these these tankers you know with you know, strong arm
you pull them aside with you know, I guess guns and throw the
guy out of the tanker and then go drive it over to a sewer and
then open the valves. Wow,
what a travesty.
Well, they're all you know, opening the valves of the, you
know, the Spanish wine they don't want in the country.
It's still that's a travesty.
The wines probably not that good is my guess. Screw. Screw their
wine. Yeah, whatever. The Spanish giving them the good
stuff.
But the French Of course, you know, they are known. It's been
a couple 100 years, but they are known for cutting people's heads
off in public office. So I'm counting on him.
Yeah, they do that they do it. They definitely don't put up
with a lot of crap the way that Brits do.
But it was also noticeable. I'm looking at the front page of the
Financial Times Barack Obama and Nicolas Sarkozy, and of course,
Michelle and the lovely kind of Carla Bruni, and they're just
standing in the middle of the street. You know, whenever
Obama's anywhere else where obviously where the fake show
was going on that is I security and, you know, a million limos
and now they're just on the street just looking to looking
around. Hey, welcome.
Yeah, maybe they're holograms. No, please.
Well, anyway, hey. We even though it is top of the Real
News, the space wars continue as North Korea there's a dispute
now North Korea says it successfully launched their
satellites into orbit. And I believe the US Defense
Department is saying no, no, no, no, didn't Korea, the payload
part crashed into the ocean so they didn't make it. And Japan
had threatened to blow it out of the sky and then blow up North
Korea. So none of that happened.
Somebody sent us a note saying that the this either of the
Patriot missiles had stenciled on them you know inactive or not
works I forgot what the term was. But of course the Japanese
didn't see it because English
like a use by date.
No it was it these were real these they had no warheads. I
mean they were just duds they're like test you know bombs what
the North Koreans know the the the Japanese the Japanese had a
bunch of patriots that were apparently just you know, just
test props, props, props, props. That's the word. Yeah. But it
still had the stencil on the sink. You know, basically prop
you know, proper owned by props apartment
MGM prop department.
Please return
if found?
Ah, yes. Okay. Take that story up and post it.
So when do you leave? You don't you don't leave for why No, I
leave first. Okay. We'll figure that out behind the scenes. I'm
leaving on Wednesday morning. Right. But you're going you're
going up to get mo nation Northwest.
Right. And then we'll be back. But a date. You know, I'll be up
there as I know, you're gonna be gone over the for Sunday to
well, you know, if we're going on holiday, and if if we're only
leaving Thursday, yeah, I hope to still be somewhere else with
Sunday. I can do the Sunday show no problem at all. Because I'm
just saying like, I'd rather do it on Wednesday. Because it's
just kind of weird. If we're in you know, first day of vacation,
and then, and then there's dad setting the shit up. There he
is. talking all that crazy crap.
Yeah, I know what you mean. I think it's gonna be more
problematic when I'm in Amsterdam.
Well, all depends on the what do you know what you're saying?
Not yet. Okay. When I do know, but I don't have it in front of
me. And while we win, you know,
let me know, because I can find out about the broadband
situation. But it would I mean, it would be cool if you could
participate. And so Sunday is the second of May then I think.
First Second now, and maybe it's even the third? I don't know.
Yeah, I'm
leaving on the Saturday and so I'll be there. Prior to the I
don't know.
We'll we'll work it out. And then just finally, last thing I
have on my list. Have you heard of the US National Ignition
Facility? No, what is it? This is the American version of the
Large Hadron Collider. Although it is it appears to be something
completely different. Where the lab will kickstart a reaction to
demonstrate nuclear fusion, by focusing 192 giant laser beams
on a tiny pellet of hydrogen fuel.
I know that this is probably a fusion experience experiment.
They're trying to you know, fire somebody they've been trying to
do this since I was a kid. Make nuke nuclear fusion work as an
energy source. What is
the basic principle of nuclear? Nuclear fusion?
It's that when you take and you you know, with fish, and of
course you have these atoms they blow apart and and they produce
energy.
What do we have now we have nuclear energy, what processes
just fish and fish and explosions just blow up shit.
That's what it would be if it wasn't in the reactor, right?
But just eat us up and it boils the water in the water turns it
steam generator, but it leaves a bunch of crap behind. But fusion
where you fuse fuse hydrogen together, you don't have
radiation involved. You end up with you know, some gas. And but
it creates even more heat. But unfortunately, it creates so
much that it's hard it is and they haven't been able to
control it. And that's why there's always this belief that
maybe there's some way of doing cold fusion would be the
solution to everything but well, it would be it would be the
energy source. That would be amazing if it could ever be
done.
I and that's great. But I just don't like that name. I think
it's a bad marketing fusion. No. The United States National
Ignition Facility. You know, it's like, alright, you know,
we're gonna ignite us.
Yeah, I know. It doesn't sound good. That's a stupid name. They
shouldn't have named it that they're idiots.
Anything else on your list? Johnny? Boy,
I'm done. I'm sure this I'm on the list, but I can't you but I
can't find the list. Okay, we'll get to it on next time, which
will
be Wednesday or Thursday. We'll find out for sure later this
week. Yeah. So again, thank you for all of your donations for
the no agenda armory. Don't forget to change the page, John.
And of course, we have to keep the NA link in there.
Right the word.org/na
Right, but it stands for nothing. Well, national armory.
No, it stands for no agenda is what it stands for. That's a
national armory. It's not the national armory. It's our
private armory.
Yeah. Yeah, we'll have a variety of guns and cold cuts,
and meat and meat, guns and cold cuts. Patricia went to the MME
zoo to so
Oh, yeah, there's supposed to be an Obama thing there that
everybody is lining up to have their picture taken. Well, it's
funny because so the wax museum for anybody to the wax
museum, which is basically it's kind of a, it used to be only
dignitaries, and it was the thing. Yeah, it was only in
London at the time. And now they're everywhere. And now it's
kind of like a hardrock Cafe vibe. But what they do is in
each individual country, whoever's you know, the hot TV
star singer du jour, they are then they have this honor
bestowed upon them, which of course, is it's only to get
people to come to the museum. So it's like a self fulfilling
prophecy. But these wax figures that they're making have changed
so drastically over the years. So the guy who's hosting Hollins
Got Talent, the show that Patricia is a judge on. They're
making a wax figure of him, and they do that at Madame Tussaud's
in London so he came over and Patricia and I had lunch then
she went over to the museum. But all these figures now they're
Obama's ears. You can first of all you can touch them now there
was a time when you weren't allowed to touch them because
they were really made of wax legs disintegrate and and now
you can stand next to them. You can hold them you can touch
them. And Obama's ears are made of a kind of latex and you can
wiggle them. And yeah, it's funny and you can Brad Pitt his
bum is squeezable, was not at home. Yeah. Of course she does.
If she squishes through squeezed
she doesn't have a wax figure. Oh, God,
you know if I could buy her one I do that. Because it's
frustrating. Of course, she should have one she should have
multiple.
So what's the what have you gone there and looked at these images
because most of them don't even look like the person now
that they're pretty bad. I think that in general that pretty
poor. Some of them will look okay. And you know, but we have
so much imagery these days. You can imagine were 20 years ago or
30 years ago, you know, you saw a picture from time to time of
someone but we there was no internet. And now you know, we
know exactly what people look like who are famous in India, we
look like what they look like in the morning when they look like
shit when they make a bomb. We know they're cellulite, you
know, all of that. So that automatically makes it tougher.
All right, well, let's play so I'm going to visit it next time
I'm in town. I gotta get to London. I think now's the time
to go.
Well, let's just try and coordinate so I don't have a
board meeting when you come over.
Hey, and you know, the fact that the idea of the Queen's Day
visit was not mine. What do you say hon? I want to say that Will
Smith's ears are flammable.
I thought no, I thought it was Obama's ears. No,
Will Smith's but to kind of do. The next new figures are going
to have like a war years. So people will because people
Oh, I thought it was Obama was Will Smith, the same guy was the
same, same.
Same. On that note, in the crackpot command center in the
southwest quadrant of Gitmo nation East I'm Adam curry
in here from Silicon Valley North also get mo nation West.
I'm doing dual service here. I'm John C. Dvorak
and we will talk to you again sometime this week on no agenda.
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