Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. Ma da doddie doddie doddie doddie
doddie doddie doddie doddie doddie di De body. This is no
agenda. Everybody it is time once again for no agenda. It's
Thursday, April 16 2009. Coming to you from the crockpot command
center and Gitmo nation. East. I'm Adam curry.
And why am I shouting? I'm John C. Dvorak. Raglan Buzzkill.
We've been we've done it once again, we're on the air.
You know, you shout your announcement. You've noticed
that?
Yeah, but I know why I'm shouting. So okay.
Obviously, I don't know why I'm shouting.
Because I'm, I know, I'm the original puker this is this is
the radio that I'm used to making, which is why they
invented the compressor limiter.
Oh, for guys like you. Yeah, that's
right, Johnny. That's just what it is. It's the way we you know,
and I think we've done that we've been through that before
but radio guys those like 8080s 90s radio guys, even off
the air, they talk like this to a man. I
don't Yeah, yeah. It's like they're talking into a
compressor limiter all the time. And, man, I don't want him How
did you hear that? Sit on a radio man.
Rap? Yeah, well, I do know, guys that. Over the years, you know,
they had they went into broadcasting and they end up
with a trained voice. And they just always talked with it.
Mm, because you know, it's like, hey, maybe that's what we're
entering. I'm Shannon.
In fact, there's a guy over case CSM, who was the station
manager, and he got into the software business. And one time
I was talking to him on the phone, and I just heard his you
know, and he's talking to me on just a casual phone
conversation. I said, Well, you have you been in broadcasting?
Because he just started he everything was just just
perfect. And what's it's like, by the way, they're finding
complimentary if you if you mentioned of course it
was like talking to Leo Laporte off air he talks the same way.
Yeah, but he doesn't have an extremely an over emphasized he
has a trained voice, but it's not over emphasized. Like some
of these guys. Were, were sounds peculiarly outrageous.
My wife like really likes his voice. I mean, yeah, and I think
she infers in a sensual way.
Yeah, I think he's developed a his voice specifically for that
purpose.
There you go. That by the way, is why most of us ugly guys got
into radio in the first place. There was rock band. No talent.
Radio. Yeah, I might get laid. Do you know that I did. I tell
you that glory Turner contacted me that I tell you about this
story. Know, Laurie Turner, better known as Lt. In West
Virginia. When I went to school, we had a radio station it was wi
t b, which officially stood for we're in the basement. But of
course, we all knew it really meant we're into bong hits. And
it was a low power FM station. I was running the station with
like three months, but there was a DJ there who had and she was a
I think she was sophomore junior. I can't remember Laurie
Turner and she was kind of this you know, exactly the kind of
girl I kind of liked a little tomboy ish. And she had, you
know, this, of course, was early 80s. So she had little bit of
streak of pink in her hair. And she was a good jock. And it was,
you know, so we wound up having sex once and the next day. She
said you know what? Think I'm lesbian
story that very few guys would relate to anyone but I'll go
My daughter loves this story right away. The only time I had
sex in college is the next day you know, Hey, man, I'm really
diggin chicks. So she and she dropped me a note the other
said, Hey, man, number me it's LT which is her name is
different now, so I'm not going to but she's still in radio and
she's managing bands and she's still lesbian. It was great. I
like hey, Lt. How you doing? My 18 year old daughter really
likes that story.
Yeah, yeah, that's a good one. So that's so that's so that's
how it's gonna go.
Hey, by the way, we have a ton of new listeners. While they may
not necessarily be new listeners, but a ton of people
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So what what would somebody search for to find this app?
No agenda in the iPhone store? I think you could also go to the
direct URL is somewhere here crap I don't know. It's like a
very logical. Here it is. itunes.com/app/no agenda mobile.
There you go. Okay. Well, I'll make sure all that stuff's in
the in the show notes in the show notes. So I just got in. I
just flew in from Portugal.
And boy, are my arms tired. Yay.
It was beautiful. When we left it was a real bummer. Just, you
know, it looks the southern part. And of course, we were
only about 30k from from Spain. It kind of reminds me a bit of
California. But you're kidding. It looks exactly like
California. I wanted to be careful because you're the
California I N on the show, but I'm driving through I'm like,
this is just like California. Another place I never would want
to live nice to visit.
You know, it's like I think that's one of the reasons that
Portuguese settled, especially around the San Francisco Bay
area. So many of my family was raised in a town that was
dominated by Portuguese at the time.
Oh, make sense. Yeah, Newark. Well, wait a minute. Isn't San
Francisco? Wasn't he from Portugal?
I don't know. I think it was actually the image again name is
Sam. Sam, Sam.
Francis. Okay. Bob. So
anyway, so I took a since I was essentially raised in a
community of Portuguese. They, I mean, they were the dominant
culture and all that you know, I always thought they were you
know, didn't think much about it to be honest about it. But the I
got this just taste this for the the the linguist the sausage,
the one type of sausage that they make over there and they
also have a lady Do I can't pronounce it but they have a
kind of a piece of osika COPPA only its spice the same way as
their meats we of course we went shopping since we'd rented a
house their meats are outstanding the fish of course
Portugal well known for its fish, but meat is just
outstanding. I was pleasantly surprised
I was delicious but anyway so I got a taste for that stuff and
so I still so when I was there like a couple of months ago I
and I noticed the same thing. The joke of it with me of course
was I was you know in that same kind of where you are partially
not quite that far. But I was looking at for core cork trees
because it was the whole country is a fact they saw a map because
that was the whole
country was corked, that's a smelly smell to that place.
It was a was taken to a cork factory and then I got it just
showed me a map of the all the major cork infested areas. But
every cork tree is registered in Portugal you can't if you move
into a house and you have a cork tree in your yard you cannot
take that tree down. And of course they are valuable because
the cork on a cork tree contributes a lot of money every
time you pull the cork off every seven years or so. Takes like 45
years to get the thing to produce enough cork for the
first time. Anyway so I'm driving we're driving around I'm
looking look as I can see any cork trees all I steer these oak
trees and energy they look like California oak so can you see an
oak lately? Yeah completely and then I saw that a lot of these
oak trees had their their their bark removed I'm thinking what
is it what is wrong with it what's where's the corks? And so
I mentioned said she says she says you do not know that at
cork tree is in oak tree. I didn't know that. I didn't
either. I was go all No wonder so I was just looking at all
these guys called a cork oak and it looks just like a standard
oak tree I mean it's got the same exact outer bark it's got
the exact that the distinctive shape of an oak tree which is
really pretty and they're all over the place but they're not
the kind of oaks we have their their cork trees. But that makes
me think that in California we could be growing these trees if
we had a brain because the cars we could sell cork well I mean
it's just one of those things that says like an annuity if you
had like a big cork farm, you know you have you know, just
keep producing it just just water. Oak tree you don't have
to do anything and just pull cork off of it and sell it. The
whole
place. I'm really really digging it. I think I'd like to sell the
front So last year when we went there and this, there is
something special to it and Portugal's really come of age
but particularly this is the non tourist part which is the east
Algarve. In fact, and we went into all y'all, which is about
eight kilometers from where we were. And, you know, it's like
they don't have an English newspaper. Forget about it. You
know, that just shows you the level of tourism. Of course,
Faro, which is maybe 17 or 18 kilometers away. Yeah, that's a
proper city. But it's also it's nice. It's clean. It's
unhurried. It's it's a lot of it's new. Because of all the
European money they
got. Yeah, they got a lot of European mind they built a lot
of roads
and and drugs are decriminalized, which was
fabulous. I tell you.
Well, it's decriminalized. I mean, in letting people sell it
on the streets. But
oh, no. But there's another article which I placed in the
show notes about the success of that experiment, which has been
ongoing for that you were me.
That's me. And let me just kill it while you're talking.
Is it that guy again? Who is that mysterious man who calls
you during almost every single show?
Oh, this was good. I wish I shouldn't have hung up. Good
time.
I was listening. I said, Oh, this is one of those was
recording. And it was it was a record. I unfortunately can't
get the phone of the mic anyway. But as a recording, I guess this
is going out to everybody as we speak. From just two days all
these machines that are sending out these messages are getting
kind of annoying, and some of them sound like somebody's
talking to you. But this one was America. Are you aware that
there are Tea Parties happening all around the country? You too
can take part so this is like an orchestration for these these
protests is which I think I personally this shows you did
this is not so spontaneous. No,
I mean, I you know, if I were to set something up, John, if you
and I had concocted a Tea Party, the last thing we'd be thinking
is yeah, let's get one of those things that political parties
use I mean there's there's big muscle behind a lot of this
something's going on in fact, you know what this is John?
Know what? It wasn't loud enough. I couldn't hear it.
Crap. I'm sorry. I'm doing
fractal fractal what? Yeah, it's pretty low. Now you're talking
now you're talking I'm now sorry, fractal of what?
Well, first of all, the Tea Party is a fractal of the Tea
Party. Yeah, well,
I realized that that's a fractal. It's kind of pointless.
You know, I got a weird. I'm not quite sure about these tea
parties. And first of all, I don't like it's like, yeah, you
know, you can cover a song by The Rolling Stones. But it's
better if you have a new original song that that is of
these times, you know what I mean, the whole tea party. I
mean, really doesn't do it for me.
Well, I you know, I think that has only one benefit. The
amusing discussion, which goes on and on and on and even Rush
Limbaugh did have the describing trying to describe on the
airwaves teabagging I think
that by the way, is the only good thing that's come out of
this like, White House gets tea bag, you know, like all right,
yeah, that's a good headline. So what do you think any if any
mainstream newspaper wrote that that would be pretty ballsy as
it were unintended.
So the you can go folks and go to your urban dictionary and
look this up, it's kind of gross. But the but it
depends on if you're doing the bagging or the teaching, you
know, it's a matter of perspectives
depends. The point is that it's forced this term, which is was
fairly obscure, to come out and do the open because of the use
of these jokers that keep using the tea bagging terminology.
It's just hilarious. But meanwhile, of course, I'm
getting phone calls as everyone witnessed from an automated
machine trying to get me to get involved with this crap.
Is there anything really coming out of this and so the idea is a
tax revolt?
I think you know, I'm wondering who's really behind it because
it's
gotta be it's gotta be political party that the only ones that
use these boxes
what Yes, but which which political party could be either
one it could be it could be it's I think it's the Democrats
looking for pushback to try and to get a you know, this make
these I just disturbed by the whole thing. I wouldn't take
part that's for sure. I don't know who's behind it unless I
know exactly what's going on. I'm not dealing with anything
when I saw
Glenn Beck being one of the main supporters of this whole
teabagging that's when The alarm bells went off in my head.
I'm like, oh, guy. You know what I mean? Yeah. So yeah, no, I
agree.
Hey, can I just give you? I'm sorry. Well, by
the way, I want to remind everybody that we're two guys
who are conservatives. So at least, at least, you're more
crackpot conservative. It's a new fringe group. I did want to
give you a quick review morphia as we ate several times in
laundry restaurant at Villa monta, which I told you about
their sister restaurant has two Michelin stars. But that was
really that was in Lisbon. So of course, it doesn't count but it
was good. There were two that actually there were four things
I wanted to mention to you quickly. First of all, pumpkin
cream soup. I've had pumpkin soup before but this pumpkin
cream soup they made was just outrageous. The octopus
carpaccio which I guess is essentially raw octopus right?
Smashed smashed. Well I was smashed was the main tool
carpaccio,
no slice very thinly sliced. Oh,
it wasn't like smashed.
No, no, it was the actual tentacles slice really thinly
and
kind of this basically octopus sushi, we'd call that but yeah,
you gotta really, really thin like our pod show. They had an
upper teeth, which I'd never had before, which was really
refreshing and nice. It was a white port. With tonic water
and, and lemon. Have you ever had that?
Well, I know. There's used to be a song white port and lemon
juice from the 50s No. Do you mean no,
there's a song called White port and lemon juice.
Yeah, from the 50s I'm trying to think of a band that did it.
Let me let me go into my honesty. Like why fine like
I can. I can hear the lyrics white portlemouth Just tastes
good to me, I believe is one of the lines in that tune. What
happened with Brio Squale about 1958 59
I'll write that one down. And and revisit it. Now the last
thing I wanted to mention. So by the way, it's a very interesting
combination. The white port
with Oh yeah, well, white port lemon juice is very famous and
obviously and then the tonic wire would add another bite to
it. It'd be that would have to be a terrific. Yeah.
And then I feel like having one go make one right now. But what
you might want to wait, because I'm going to whet your appetite
even more. We had a bottle of the 2005 Vita Nova Have you ever
heard of the Vita Nova? No,
this is a Portuguese
it's locally Portuguese Algarve? Produced by none other than Sir
Cliff, Richard.
Oh, yeah, you mentioned this in an email. And it was not bad. I
have to say, Oh, well. Now you know, the thing about that I
think is overlooked here. Since I when I was over there. I also
got I was being taken down by the government. So I get the you
know, I like to go to a winery. Okay, let's go. And so Okay, I
got so I got like a pretty good background.
So next time the government takes you places can I give you
a couple of things to ask for, you know, like the the command
center the shelter the missile silos, you know, not just the
winery.
Well, I'd go for the big stuff instead of this crazy things
that you are into. But anyway, so I got a lot of lectures about
the wines. And I have a good number of wine tastings that
were set up for me and the wines from Portugal are fantastic.
They're under priced to an extreme. There's two or three
vendors there that make terrific stuff outside of the the
northern part where the where the ports are made into the rest
of the country is all it's all the whole countries could be
growing wines, like just like California, and I was actually
stunned by the quality of have a few of these wines stunned. I
mean, I would drink these wines every day. I mean, and they're
so it's reasonable.
Yeah, I thought the Cliff Richard wine was a little
overpriced. It was 48 euros granted, you know, you're buying
it in a restaurant. Just you know, just from the stuff that
we've we've had before and you know, my own experience now.
Maybe was 15 to 20 euros higher than it should have been in
price but I'll
write because it was it was probably a cliff Richards
wanting specifically for the British tourists.
No, actually, it wasn't I had a lot we were the only people in
the restaurant. I had a long conversation with a sommelier
because there's also a 2004 and then he has a port and he has a
whole bunch so it was it was a it wasn't just a oho let's have
some Cliff wine type of choice you know
Oh, well that's what I would have expected. Okay, go ahead.
Hey, John.
Thank you very much. There goes all our affiliate deals here
it goes affiliates
so I got a ton of of news and stuff to go through. I might
want to
finish up with his wine store was the wine was you thought was
outstanding or
was very, very good. Yes. My wife liked it. The kids like
that. It was it was it was outstanding and I was all kind
of ready because I remember he was on. I think it was Hell's
Kitchen with Gordon Ramsay and Cliff was in the restaurant is
that where were the two? The retina Blue team compete? I
can't remember which show that is which one of them. Yeah,
that's Hell's Kitchen, Hell's Kitchen. And they served wine
and they and they and they gave Cliff Richard three glasses
blind blind taste test, and said, you know which one do you
like the most? And of course, his own wine. He you know, he
picked last. So it was I didn't know if it didn't know if it was
the exact same one that we had. But I was already you know, all
set to kind of hate it. But no, it was good. He and he gets some
some reasonable props from the, from the sommelier, and they had
a good they had a good list and a big list. Or a good list. We
have a Wikipedia entry. We do. Yeah. That's pretty cool. The
whole history.
Really, how inaccurate is it?
It's pretty well, you know, it's pretty accurate for what it is.
Yeah, it's all right.
Good. We have somebody up, obviously one of our fans
because otherwise it would be a negative thing. Doing it and
hopefully they'll dog it like people do. And keep on the RSS
feeds and make sure that some vandals don't show up to the
always the vandals. So vandals coming in to screw things up.
So I thought maybe we should start it right off. And now back
to real. With some real news, John, because there is just too
much real news to to ignore. Today. That's all. It's all
real. Yeah, well,
I mean, it's real. What's real
for the news, the Real News, this would be the news that
everyone is watching and listening to. is all about
Ashton Kutcher, competing with CNN for a million Twitter
followers. I saw my wife and daughter glued to the television
set as Madonna defends her adoption of yet another child Oh
my god. And then Hugh Jackman pledges $100,000 charity to a
charity for his What is it for the best idea on Twitter?
My God. Best idea on Twitter, what is the world coming to
today higher over there to get all this publicity? Well, Hugh
Jackman actually said in order. This is what's in the article.
Let me just bring it up here. He said that he kind of felt guilty
because he had twittered something incorrectly. I guess
the name of the Sydney Opera House, I didn't know it was
called anything different than the Sydney Opera House. And
people gave him shit for it. And I guess this was kind of like,
oh, you know, the PR, I can just see this PR bitch going? He
would I got I know, we really have to correct the situation.
Because it's really going viral. It's really going completely out
of control. So here's what I'm thinking. I'm thinking, you got
100 grand. I mean, it's all tax deductible anyway, so you get
that away to the best idea that someone can tweet to you and
under 140 characters. And it's like, he's totally saying that
someone else was twittering because he's Oh, I made a
mistake. It was someone else. Transcribed my tweet. Dad called
it 140 characters. Yeah, I related over the phone. Like you
can't Twitter from wherever you are douche. And, of course, you
know, the sad passing of Maryland chambers.
Oh, I didn't I missed that one. Oh, yeah.
Very young. 56 years old Maryland chambers. Guys like me.
I don't know about you, John. But you know, we kind of grew up
that wasn't that was the name. You know? Who would be today's
version of Maryland chambers.
Like I met her once. Really? Yeah. She was at when years ago
when the CES show had an adult section down in the basement of
one of the halls. She was in the I went down there to mosey
around. And there she was. And I chatted with her for a few
minutes. Yes, she. She looked like she. She she was you know,
from a distance. She's still pretty, but she had to kind of
like, kind of a hard life look.
So Behind the Green Door was really the movie that, you know,
similar to
right. That was the big big film. I never saw that movie.
It's funny. I met Marilyn chambers. I never saw her movie.
But did you when you met her? Did you say I really admire your
work.
No, I didn't really realize Whoa. I just you know, casually.
In Hollywood. That's what all these are men. It's so annoying.
And when you meet an actor or you know, so and they, and they
say to each other the whole time, I really admire your work.
Well, I really admire your ass. Sorry. Oh, man, you want to talk
about pirates for a minute? Because we
I think before we get it, we should stay with us one more
real news item that we have. I'm sorry, hold on a second. And now
back to real. Yes. And that is the Susan Boyle video that
everybody's all worked up about.
Let me hand the background in over this. I'm probably going to
agree with what you're about to say. So Britain's Got Talent and
of course we follow the show religiously my wife being the
equivalent of Amanda Holden here can't who's in Sharon Osbourne
in the states and America's Got Talent. Yeah, I think so. Simon
Cowell show so on and usually this is the name of the show
should be Britain loves losers, because that's what's so great
about it people come up they juggle the do bad magic acts,
but it's funny and since cut very quickly, and it's total
chewing gum for your brains really good.
And you know how I feel about these shows already?
Oh, you hate him. And of course, I've told you knowing what my
wife does that this you know, this stuff is these shows are no
accident. Okay? It's not like people just like watching talent
shows now this is the this is the the absolute epitome of non
uh, what do they call it non scripted drama on unscripted,
unscripted drama. Because drama is created. It's just not
scripted. It's they really should say edited drama. And
it's completely well done. And there's a lot of stuff that
happens in the on the in the production process as well. And
I think a lot of the show stands or falls by this. So out comes a
contest, and it's one of the pre rounds. I'm sure everyone's
heard this by now. But for prosperity sake. The lady is
dressed like that, you know, like, I The minute I saw her,
come on, I'm like, Okay, watch this. I knew I because I know
how the show's work. But she was dressed like a house faroush
It's like she almost she should have had her little apron on.
And she looks like a dog. I'll just say it dog face. And she
comes out and they do the little banter with the judges. And
already and she's stumbling. And she's not knowing what to do.
And of course, then the music starts she opens her piehole and
outcomes. I look I had I had to convince myself that she was not
lip synching. It was from crap. What's the name of the musical
Les Miserables? Right. And it was. phenom just beautiful. And
of course, everybody goes crazy. I'll stop there because I think
you need to jump in.
Alright, so I took a look at this and felt the same way. You
know, it's like, wow, that was pretty good. It was pretty true.
You know? Cool. Then, of course, after watching it once, I and
Chris, it was on all over the place and media or YouTube. I
mean, there's about 30 versions on YouTube. And by the way, what
really annoys me and got me kind of ticked off anyway was every
single YouTube version of this has not embeddable, not
embeddable, so you couldn't embed it on your own website.
Exactly why I'm wondering who's the ones not letting him embed
it and then break.com apparently got a copy of it. Nobody called
them so you could embed it so I embedded it on my blog. And
after doing so, then I watched it I just noticed the timing all
the kit the cuts were perfect. She comes out she starts to sing
Kotick cut right away to Simon watch his eyebrows go up I know
for a fact that you know that this whole thing was
orchestrated by him and he then I'm sure he said put the camera
on me as soon as she sings your watch and I'll do a real slow
take it'll be great. And then and then of course instead of
everybody kind of being amazed at the same time no they didn't
they cut to the next person and she did all of a sudden is
amazed some five beats after Simon's amazed and then five
beats after that the next guy Oh, he gets all jumpy and then
they have to to goof balls. These two idiots backstage I
don't know what the point of that those guys and deck. Yeah
two boneheads that are kind of morons and your nose pickers,
and they're on there jumping up and down and pointing and
goofing around just right on cue. The whole thing was like so
staged and watch you sit this is crap. And then so I just
casually mentioned it on my blog that I thought this was staged.
And boy, the guys come out of the woodwork. It wasn't staged.
You're an idiot. You know, I got notes from people and this is
the real deal and it goes on and on and on somebody linked to a
website in her hometown where she was actually interviewed on
camera, and she doesn't wear those she was wearing she was
wearing a conservative outfit but it wasn't anything as frumpy
as that crazy dress and she her hair looked a lot different. And
I think that they put it made her eyebrows bigger than they
are just to make the whole thing Were comedic. And I was just I
was just, I thought she was seventh grade. She was
fantastic. That was really sweet. But at the same time, the
way that the public lapped this up as though it really happened
and it wasn't orchestrated in stage to show how stupid the
public is, in general, is what disgusted me. And that's what I
pointed out in the blog. And then that just got worse when
these commenters were just defensive about the fact that I
think the thing was a bunch of bullshit.
Well, so you are right. It is totally staged, it's all set up
Cowell was in on it, for sure. Probably the other judges as
well. They production totally dressed her the eyebrows, I'd
have to look at that. That's interesting. I'll I'll take I'll
see if I can, if you can send me the clip of her being
interviewed in her hometown.
He has actually if you go to the blog and go down to the
comments, there's the actual, I've embedded the video within
the comments of her
now. So all of that said, we know that you are not a fan of
this type of programming. And you know that I am in fact, my
next aircraft will come from this type of programming, so I'm
quite happy with it. But you have to admit, if you can get
beyond being so stupid that you fall for it. The whole
experience is kind of like sitting on the couch, drinking
the beer and getting a nice low blow job. You know what I mean?
I'd rather get the blow job
I am so happy. We're separated by 1000 miles.
But I didn't want it from you. Oh, damn. So we back up a
second. What do you mean you're getting your next airplane?
Well, you know how much money my wife is making?
All right, I thought you were gonna do another reality show or
something? Oh, no,
they did. They did ask us she had oh, by the way, we found the
perfect show for Patricia. The perfect show for her to do is
called crap. It's an English show. So it's an English format.
Something I think it was like disgusting bodies or basically
it's people who have all kinds of weird shit with their body
and they go to the doctor and of course these people have been
living under severe stress and it's a nice little nice host
female host and she really is talking and she's taking care of
the which my wife is great at it kind of the mental aspect and
yet Patricia will look at any wound orifice you know, whatever
it is and she's very interested in she is a white witch so she
she can heal. But then they go to plastic surgeons, whatever.
And, and this just shows amazing stuff. Amazing things that
people have wrong with their body or wrong. What's normal
so when someone wants to watch this kind of thing,
John, this is blockbuster. This is blockbuster stuff man. And
this is what this is what television is going to become.
So we might as well profit from it while on the other side.
We're doing something good. And I'm saying we big word. I mean,
everything is in my wife's name. She's making all the money. So I
just better be quiet and carry your suitcases and shut
down as long as you get the airplane what kind of plane
you're thinking about.
I'm thinking about a I still want to I don't want a turbine
but a turboprop. So either King Air
what you want or you don't want to turn No, I want a turboprop,
not not a not a right not a turbine,
a jet. So
turboprop, right which was used which incidentally you use jet
jet Yeah, it's yeah, it's a jet jet concept. It's just Yeah, jet
fuel tube, it has a propeller. But there's, you can go to less
places with a jet. And if you get like a king air, you know,
then there's a couple of extra destinations you get which are a
little bit cooler than all the big airports. So and it's very
fabulous as fast as almost as fast as
goes 350 knots, you know, so it's a spiffy
and this will be true just this has two engines,
twin engine and an arrest row
which is a hole in the back.
You always want to always wonder what that is for. Let me there
was a very interesting, I guess, a radio show. I'm looking
forward now. And there was a call in a second let me bring up
the the audio. And the person who's calling in declares that
the Department of Homeland Security is literally shipping
in live bird flew all over the country and of course this is
going completely unreported. And I wanted to play a little bit of
that audio on Got a new system that I'm working on for keeping
track of my notes and stuff. Hold on a sec, here it is. I'm
playing it straight from the YouTube page. So it starts off
without starts off with all it starts off with a lot of the
likes Spread this video. Now here it is concerned,
we have some actual proof that a trucker may actually be
transporting bird flu. We have who is aware who has taken the
document to many agencies, including New York State Police,
the FBI in many, many states, infection control disease. And
what this trucker retorted was that he works for Department of
Homeland Security. He's a Spanish man who is trucking an
independent truck he goes down to the corner of Broadway and
Clinton in Albany, New York at the Department of Homeland
Security facility every single living for loads. He said there
were a reward Flanagan's and JB Hunt trucks ahead of him loading
that he has taken loads from a silo above Glens Falls, his
truck actually was lowered into the ground into a silo when the
truck came out of the ground. He was given a shot in his arm to
protect his family. He transported refrigerated loads
to the Pentagon, Baltimore, Maryland. Tucson, Arizona. He
was
it goes on and on.
Sounds like it.
But this is from the Power Hour. I don't know what that is.
Who knows? So what what's the credibility factor here? What do
you think
I give it a seven or it can you turn on your speakers? Just a
tad there, John. Yeah, here we go. Yeah, I give it a about a
seven on credit.
I gotta get the checkbox out and make sure that you, you Did
everyone have a drink? I've asked for the speaker's. Turn
down your radio. Hello. Caller caller can you turn on your
radio just a little bit? The Power Hour, so it goes on? It's
pretty detailed. And I like the whole you know, the truck goes
down into a silo or an elevator. I like that bit.
I think that sounds dramatic. overly dramatic. I'm not buying
it.
Well. Okay. Jesus, man still so loud your speakers?
Really? Because let me just move the mic back a little bit. I
think I'm
gonna two words headphones.
You know, I used headphones up at the
Yeah, it was wonderful. It was great. I could I could talk sexy
to your wife and you couldn't hear a thing.
Yeah, well, it was awesome. Not gonna happen. So she mad at me.
He's not mad at me. She No, no, she's just she was she was super
true. She's going to be down here. By the way at the end of
the month when you're here and she's going to she says you
should take her and her friend who's visiting from England.
They live in Cornwall. Yeah.
Oh, Cornwall is where all the crop circles are.
Yeah, you should take them the two of them to dinner. Oh,
they can harass you. And what's your friend's name?
Teresa? She's actually she hot? She teaches because she's
married to a harmonica player. Who's somewhat famous. Over
here. Nothing to see. What still a month is she married to toots?
No. And mid Gammon. And so like, I know who the hell that is.
Well, he used to play with like Janurary and all these
eon I thought it was Ian.
It could be I say a lot of things wrong. Like like veg and
I say veg and I mean I you know which is not what they are there
vegans.
The new thing is Freegans
free. Oh yeah. No, we have the freakin problem here. Yeah.
The You mean the freakin issue. The freakin problem Freegans
this is P fragance. People who eat free food.
We talked about this on the show. And we did. We did we did
and it's like do one guy mentioned mentioned against some
professor at Cal you know is a freegan. And he's just talking
about all this waste. You guys got plenty of money, you can go
buy stuff, but he's great scrounging through and my wife
is upset about this whole thing. Because there are people who
actually need to scrounge through these things to survive
and people these these these people don't need to. Yeah, so
why are they doing it? They're taking the food away from the
poor is what they're doing. Seriously? Yeah, you're right.
It's it's ridiculous.
Putting them at a disadvantage. Yeah. So it's a good point. I
buy that.
Anyway, where were we? Well,
you know, how, if you buy futures, such as you know, if
you buy oil you know, you buy it on paper. Yeah. But
try buying something for later delivery.
Right. But if you if you if you just let it run out, eventually
someone's going to show up with that oil on your doorstep.
Only if you fulfill the contract
right All right, well apparently Lehman Brothers had 450,000
pounds of yellowcake futures or whatever however, they had it,
they now have it because yellow cake, the price kind of like
just dived. And so there wasn't there was no market for it. So
now they're literally sitting on 450,000 pounds of yellow cake,
Lehman Brothers.
And I'm assuming this isn't the cake you eat? No, this
is what you know the uranium uranium you can make. I guess
you can make nuclear bombs from this stuff.
Maybe they should sell to Iran isn't the yellowcake what we
went to Iraq for? Yeah, well, no, because somebody was there
we're trying to get yellowcake and we had documented
well, but But shouldn't we go to war with Lehman Brothers? They
got yellowcake I think we did go that's just nuts. That is
absolutely nuts. The G 20. You know, they had this, of course
the big show here in London and and so many things have happened
around this g 20. That was not reported at all that we've been
talking about on this very program such as the Black
Sabbath. But also all of you laugh my friend, but I know
you're not really happy. So one of the main things that came out
of the G 20 Show, which they put on in London was no more tax
havens, you know, because you have all these islands, Guernsey
and jersey and of course you have famously Monaco and, and
there's the Bahamas and but of course we have Switzerland. So
this was the big thing. You know, it's like, stop it. No
more tax havens. So the and they this, this was kind of one of
the big things that that came out of it. So it was a part of
it was the climax of the show. So the OECD was responsible for
the public aid. These are the economic costs the Organisation
for Economic Cooperation and Development. They published the
blacklist of these tax havens. I guess how many were on the list?
I don't know 10,000?
None? The list is wide pletely empty. Looking at the website is
like there's no no listings at this time.
None None. There is no hotel
there are no tax haven. No, there's no tax havens that are
outlawed. They were going to publish the black list. They
published a list of zero
I wonder what their what the deal was the data was this some
sort of extortion thing to get people to know because because
it's a cop up. So my look
the only the only the only publication now the only
publication that picked up on this because of course the only
publication that would do some research and go and check it
out, which apparently can just be done on this thing called the
internet. Was the German Spiegel magazine who do a lot of
excellent reporting. That's why because it's a show it's fake.
Yeah, Simon Cowell should be hired to run who
says Simon Cowell isn't running it? I tell you sometimes, I
wonder. But I was just guessing. Yeah, but you wouldn't be
surprised, would you? Nope. Did you have notes? Because I can
just go on and on darling.
Well, no, I tell you this much, you, you I what I'm doing for
the listeners out there. And I want them to appreciate this is
that when you when we start to go off to another topic, and
then we are interrupted then we get off the road and we're
bouncing around you know, and if you know what four wheel drive
on, I can return us to the to the road. And I'm going to do it
right now. You said you want to talk about pirates. And we've
never we haven't done that. Let's go there. Okay, so I have
some thoughts on the pirates.
Thank you. First of all, there was a fantastic picture. And I
don't know if it's shopped or not. It's from a Chinese Chinese
news website of 1000s of porpoises. I don't know if you
saw this value on bullyville They're literally blocking the
pirates from getting to the to one of the ships that they want
that they want to hijack. And it's just yeah beautiful. And
I'm looking at photoshopped or for real
this is this is reminiscent of the lot of Asian Mystique,
mythologies that are created and they've been created over the
years the Japanese are experts at this there's their stories
about how you know somebody was going to take over shoved a big
army of flotilla was coming in but then an injured ever just a
storm out of the blue that no one expected came in wash them
away. You know these there's all these kinds of this type of you
know, supernatural stories that protect you know, these cultures
somehow and I think when I first heard that story is first thing
I thought of I think this is like cultural bunch of money.
malarkey you know this all things all of a sudden come up
and they save the Chinese vessel because you know, we're so you
know, we're in tune with the animal world. I don't know what
what the point of it is to be honest, but it's I think it's a
crock.
Well, yeah, I have to agree. Let's start this conversation
with a quote from St. Augustine.
In the city of yonder ship.
Your timing is so beautiful. In the city of God, St. Augustine
tells the story of a pirate captured by Alexander the Great
the Emperor angrily demanded of him. How dare you molest the
seas? To which the pirate replied How dare you molest the
whole world? Because I do it with a small boat I am called a
pirate and a thief you with a great navy molest the world and
are called an emperor. St. Augustine thought the pirates
answer was elegant and excellent.
So they shot him
well, yeah to to the head and place the gun in his hand. So
the suicide so I really I really do want to stress that what the
media is doing now is it this makes me sick to my stomach?
When were no one is doing a single bit of background on what
is happening. Why these pirates are hijacking the ships. What is
the story behind it and there are few publications linked in
the show notes that explain what is systematic. These guys, the
fishermen and their fishermen who have been their waters were
have been poisoned. Their fish has been fished away from their
waters sold by their own government to foreign
corporations. And they're desperate they don't know what
to do. The only thing they can do is this. It is a most human
form of terrorism, by desperation by massive
desperation. And what's going to happen is we're going to send
all we're gonna send our army over our Navy over their army
would be a cool one. We'll send our Navy over there. And when I
start blowing these fuckers out of the water, and we're gonna
lose ships too, because these guys they'll strap up torpedoes
they'll strap an AK what you know, one of those RPGs to the
to the front of their rubber boat if they have to. They are
desperate and the world is standing by like it's freakin
Johnny Depp it was there gonna be a screw Let's kill Johnny
Depp man screw that motherfucker. Because that's the
old Johnny Depp's man screw you know this is a sad sad sad
story.
Well, I mean the one thing is intro I don't know whether to be
honest about it. I don't know whether it's a sad story not
because from what I can tell, I'm not getting the story, which
was kind of what you're saying. But it's like what is the story
and the fact is is like I was watching it's on last night on
the one of the network know one of the local news channels where
everyone's was so serious. And then the show these do they show
these clips I don't know where these clips are coming from. But
one pirate or another standing here standing there always
holding a gun up in the air as though they were like shooting
in the air. They look like give shots from the Symbionese
Liberation Army back in the day as
file footage. I love it. Yeah, exactly. We have shaky shaky
file footage of pirates.
Yeah, it's just a bunch of stock footage. And so then they cut
back to they then the story with which is not a story because
they don't tell us any real details. And it goes back to the
anchor guy. Now on this station. I didn't know who it was. But I
just remembered I wrote the quote down. He's serious. He
looks back at the report and says, Well, this is not a battle
we can ignore. What the hell you talking about? We could ignore
it. Why don't you just go round? I mean, go further. I mean,
it's, I mean, we're having I don't know, the whole thing is
like, it's just poorly covered. And we don't know what the
heck's going on. And nobody wants to go there.
When we do know what the heck is going on.
Because, ya know, I've been there. I know the country's a
mess. The countries that Yes. Yeah, you're right. That's
what's going to happen. Somebody's going to we're going
to send a big, you know, feud with this right, but what
practice once in a
while, well, that's the Somali pirates are totally being being.
Now it's the word they're being set up to become target
practice. That is exactly right. And the media is setting them
up. We're all setting them up is going to be this one big joke as
we start blowing up pirates out of the water, and these pirates
will winds from time to time they will blow up one of our
ships. It's so crazy. But in the meantime, we put together huge
telethons of comic relief to buy mosquito nets for people who
have malaria. And the whole country is so friggin out of
control. That the only thing that its inhabitants can do out
of desperation, is go out and hijack the shit. That's all they
can do. And no one cares. No one it just boggles the mind wake
and
they captured this captain and then the big news. Is like
somebody says this cute Okay, so he there's so the snipers he's
you know, it's sharpshooters. Why the sharpshooters are on the
ship is beyond me because I, you know, I guess you everybody
needs a bunch of sharpshooters on your ship. But they have
three apparently three sharpshooters on board because
everybody needs sharpshooters on their ship course. Hey, we need
some in our armory teenage kids who are probably you know, 13
years old and they bang they believe the three of us if this
boom right in the head boom done if stories even true.
So there's a couple of really good articles that you'll find
in the show notes lessons from the Barbary pirate wars pirates
attack Oh, there's I guess there's a new there was a new
attack that failed to get a board what the media is not
telling us about Somali pirates. Colon Africa is a country I like
that. That's a great headline. And you are being lied to about
pirates is is another great article and it gives you the
background and you know, you might want to consider telling
your friends at some of this is just freaking crazy and and we
got to have a little compassion for people. I'm just saying.
So the next thing that's going on in the news is they go into
this apparently there's they've categorized right wingers as
hate groups. And, and they're starting to promote the idea
that you know, one of the reasons that they want everybody
coming back from Iraq to be registered as a potential
terrorist is a new term that I'm noticing and you're gonna start
hearing this out there. Homegrown threats,
yes. Homegrown terror. I've heard that one a lot already.
Yeah.
And it always refers back to the 1993 limits. You know, how many
15 1616 years ago the 1993 bombing of Waco by those two
characters? The federal building? Yeah, don't get me
started on that. Title wanted us to get into it as two minutes.
Two minutes too weird. Yeah. But the point is, is that nothing
like we terrorism that we're supposed to be fighting is not
homegrown. No, why is becoming high priority
because we need to roll out the the civilian army that is just
as as powerful and well funded as our overseas army, according
to President Obama. And so we need to get that shit
Kickstarter because we got home grown terror baby. A newly
unclassified Department of Homeland Security report PDF
link in the show notes warns against the possibility of
violence by unnamed quote right wing extremists concerned about
illegal immigration, increasing federal power restrictions on
firearms, abortion and the loss of US sovereignty and singles
out returning war veterans as particular threats. So that's
the whole
story by the way, that laundry list is a conservative checklist
that everyone from Pat Buchanan to Ann Coulter to everybody in
between would be would be on that list, because they're all
pretty much just up there. There was some some flexibility on the
abortion issue. But generally speaking, they do want American
sovereignty, we don't want to be using the amaro and then they
all most of them are against you know, excessive gun control. And
you know, on and on and on. So how is this How was the holler
these people who are probably half the country or more
generally speaking, they mericans are a conservative
bunch, which means almost everybody in the country is on
you would be on the terror watch list because of that checklist.
It's it's it's so bogus, I can't believe that they're getting
away with with doing this. You know,
I read a couple reports that Ann Coulter is actually a transit
transsexual.
Yeah, I know she supposedly with the way that rumor has it. She
was once a transsexual singer, performer, dancer, dance floor,
all right. Well as a transsexual, she's kind of hot.
Not seriously, but she keeps her figure
there's nothing like coming home to a classic Dvorak.
So I don't think she is to be honest about it. But it's a
funny story. I hate her. By the way, I've heard her give a
because I, unlike you know, when you go I went to a big
university. And one of the things you get used to and this
white kind of recommend people I don't have a problem with large
auditorium, we you take a class and you'd go to Wheeler
auditorium at the University of California, the the auditorium
at the time, I was doing the whole, like 900 people, how many
people were in the class and you'd listen to these lectures
by people who knew how to give a lecture. And you know, these
great lectures were in these big universities and they talked to
a larger audience and which makes it even more interesting.
And so I've always enjoyed big lectures into large audiences.
And so I got to and so I listened to him to this day
because they're on now Have monda on the Dish Network, you
know, you get to listen to one or another and we talk about him
on the show. But one of the things I heard, only I heard on
a podcast was Ann Coulter giving a speech to I think UC Santa
Barbara or some someplace. And I have to say she gives a really
great speech. I was I was stunned. It was so it was very
well presented. It was a conversational, you know, it
wasn't somebody reading from a sheet.
And you're getting more than just the soundbite version.
And you got to hear the whole her whole thought process. And
then I was actually, I wasn't expecting it to be honest.
Because I'm not I'm not I don't I think she's just a phony, in a
lot of ways, because she's always just trying to get
attention to sell her books. But when you listen to her talk for
45 minutes to an hour and in a succinct way. It's like, wow,
this is interesting. And she makes a lot of good points. But
typically liberal. Liberals out there won't listen to anybody
but then their own, own guilt their own. So they miss out on
some of the very interesting, unique. They should listen to
people like her so they can see what they're doing wrong.
Anyway. Just listen to lectures, folks. That's what I'm saying.
Kids, listen to lectures. We should make a t shirt. John.
That's a great teacher. listen to lectures.
That's why they're called lectures. It's home. Okay, I got
one more point here to bring up. This is good. Back to Real News.
Oh, so I'm sorry. And now back to real. So I'm watching the CSI
New York last night, which doesn't cut it with the Vegas
version, by the way. Oh, no, no, it doesn't. But I like Gary
Sinise, I think is a really fun actor. He is a good I agree.
Yeah. And this one was really hyped because it was I had a
guest star, I forgot his name, but he just, he's a TV actor of
some repute. And who is playing an evil he's kind of playing a
Murdoch character. And the whole thing was this ludicrous of I
wish people could see this again. And we just went and
proposes a repeat. Essentially, it the story revolved around a
missing flash drive, actually a thumb drive that somebody some,
some fixer had put a bunch of data on that had to do with all
kinds of horrible things that were going on in the city of New
York. And then the FBI was after the flash, everybody's after
this flash drive. And the whole story revolves around this
trying to get this flash drive, which is eventually destroyed at
the end through a weird coincidence of bouncing through
a great over the subway hitting the platform and then falling
exactly on the track. And staying there as a train ran
over the rail. That's ridiculous. But but the joke of
it was they had the flash drive, and it was in police evidence.
Nobody ever ever copied the flash copy. Yeah, right. But
they looked at it, but they didn't copy it, which makes no
sense. And then when it went to this guy, who apparently
somebody shot somebody to get a hold of it, and then they never
copied it. And I'm thinking, is it Are they trying to tell the
public that these flash drives, which is just volatile memory in
some form, you can't like, why wouldn't you take the flash
drive, copy all the data onto something and then bury that you
know, some somewhere and then just erase this thing they never
did. It was the stupidest plotline, obviously, written by
somebody doesn't know anything about technology, and then fed
to a public that I must have been befuddled by the story,
because I think 90% of the people watching this knew
better.
So that feeds nicely into actual news, because of course, shows
like CSI, or just I mean, we've talked about this, in my
opinion. They're probably funded in some way through some
backdoor through some government services. It just has to be
because it's conditioning, it's to make you ready for what you
actually should be as a slave, and how you should behave. And
you know, all this, all this stuff that CSI can do, and you
just behave shut up and working by you know, that's basically
it. Because what's really going on? How all this, you know, so
we talk about sensitive data on a thumb drive, who knows what it
was from, but this happens in the UK all the time, because of
course, this is a country that is really a decade ahead of the
United States. You know, our national health service has been
going into electronic mode. It's been multibillion pound project
deemed a clusterfuck for lack of a better term. This is fantastic
article, actually a whole website by Dave de bronkart. And
I guess he calls himself blogger Dave, and Google Health launched
and his records are online. Like it's something somehow Google
Health has to do with it. So he's able to access his
information. And what he finds out what he uncovers you Is that
the way that your health information is conveyed is
through insurance codes. So every person, there's 10s of
1000s of these insurance codes and they change all the time. So
it's like one big meta file, the insurance industry, and I
presume in connection with with pharmaceutical industry, they
maintain it, but it's literally insurance codes because it's as
good as gold. It's all about the money. So these treatments that
the guy had had, and some conclusions that were made from
these insurance codes, were a likely to get him killed because
of different combinations that are just not apparent by
combined combining these these codes that are meant for
insurance purposes. But also he was deemed schizophrenic when he
was puking his guts out from theme chemotherapy, just all
these things that are that are incorrect, because the way
they're doing it folks, is through the insurance industry's
data, not through like a doctor language that says, hey, you
know, I examined Mr. Dvorak. And yeah, you know, it's an ingrown
toenail, but he seems in pretty good demeanor, and he's a kind
of a funny guy, although he's a bit of a buzzkill. That shits
not going to be in the database the way you think doctors are
speaking to each other. So they just want you to focus on who
I'm gonna, my data is gonna get lost instead of the obvious,
which is, this is money. These codes are money, John, they're
just this whole new trading system on backed on our health.
Dude, I'm so big, you better interrupt me now.
I'm so big. It is baked all the time. You know, you don't sound
it. That's what's interest. That's what's kind of
frightening. That's cool. So, so anyway, well, let me tell you my
I got an anecdote then that was just kind of interest because
insurance companies are behind a lot of weird stuff. So I got a
speeding ticket, you know, last year, and I think I don't know
if I told the story publicly, but it's actually quite cool. I
told all my friends. It's quite amusing.
Oh, excluding this friend, but okay.
I think I may have told you the story. Okay, you haven't you
don't remember a lot of things I tell you, I think I did,
actually over one of the Hello kettle
pot calling.
You need the pot calling kettle, we need to
get it in the morning for it. That's all I guess people
are gonna get sick in the morning for everything. So
anyway, so I had to figure out, you know, I don't want to really
get marks against my insurance. So I had I took traffic school.
So I signed up for it did a little yelping and found some,
you know, real easy to deal with one day traffic school in
Chinatown, Oakland. So I go in there, and I'm listening, this
guy's kind of a stiff, but he's pretty much delivering a, you
know, a bunch of just a bunch of information. But then he goes on
it on a rampage about the insurance companies and about
how these these marks work. And it was a bunch of very weird
insight information about how you get two marks for driving on
the wrong side of the road, if they want to give you a certain
kind of a ticket. And how if you're trying to get your
insurance rates lowered, that there is a clearing house, which
seems like semi illegal but there's a there's some sort of a
data clearing house that he explained in great detail, that
if you keep jumping insurance companies, you essentially what
they were still stopped insuring you, right? They don't want you
doing this. And he goes on and on with all kinds of weird stuff
like that. That means there's something I'm thinking to
myself, I don't know what this has got to do with driving, but
it's fascinating. I leave to go to lunch, I come back the place
the classroom, which is in the you know, in Chinatown is
cordoned off with, you know, police things and, and it's a
it's a crime scene, apparently, the guy who's given the course,
was arrested and hauled off for reasons unknown to me. I saw the
two there were two undercover cops because they were both
there. I saw him there in the class, taking the class, and the
guy and I asked him what happened? What was the deal? He
says, Well, you know, we had to arrest him for something and
they just vague with he didn't say, you know, fraud or
something. And so they, which is like why don't you wait to the
class was over, because I know at least you know, we could get
finished the damn thing and say no, and they get there they then
the state, I think it was either the state or that it was the
state of California, then they gave us they give us a little
thing to fill out. So we'd get a check in the mail for what we
paid for this class. And I did get a check like a month later.
And I thought the whole thing was rather peculiar. So then I
but I still had to take this class again. And I found an
online class to take which was very thorough. And I did it
online and I noticed that pretty much what the online course was
teaching was exactly what this guy was teaching. Exactly,
except for this extra information that this guy kept,
you know, railing about, you know about the insurance company
and some of the other weird stuff that you know, that has to
do with how you dry. I'm saying I'm just shaking my head. Well,
you know That's interesting. I took a few photos of the crime
scene. But that was irked. It was a waste of my whole day.
I like it. A typical John C Dvorak moment.
That's why I stay home.
A little follow up from the aviation world. Big, big, big
articles in Dutch newspapers. And I heard the reports just as
I was going on vacation, I think but now the big newspaper caught
on to it. And I'm sure that they're publishing some
disinformation in the morning, the Turkish Airlines crash,
apparently, remember, we had those six Boeing employees who
were on board who are all involved in the special new
AWACS version of radar 730 sevens, I'm sorry, what the f
730. sevens, the exact type that crashed. Remember, this,
I think was 750 710-777-3074 100.
No 800. It was an 800. So this is the plane that the Turkish
army, they've had built like this kind of like, it's like a
dildo on the back of the fuselage. Kind of like a cigar
type deal, though.
I come into Boeing Field when I'm flying to and from Port
Angeles. And I fly over these planes that because of this,
this where Boeing does their testing their flight testing,
and there's a new look, because they have all these AWACS planes
there. But there's a new look and one that I looked at, I look
at two or three times I go, What is that thing? And they had two
or three of them sitting there?
Yeah, so that's the kind of dildo thing. And so the the six
engineers, I'm sorry, four engineers, three of who died,
there is one, I don't know what his condition is, but one of
them is still alive, because they're only the only six people
that don't know, it wasn't six people died on the flight. It
was a relatively low number, lot of people severely injured, but
a low number, but most of the Boeing employees, and these were
the guys who were working over there for the Turkish Armed
Forces, setting up these these dildos. And their laptops. And
other documents were taken from the plane prior to the
investigation and sent back to Boeing. Hello,
I wonder if anybody helped with their demise, too. I mean, it's
like, well,
this is this is, you know, when you've got three pilots in the
cockpit in the cockpit, which by the way can be to your
disadvantage, depending on what they're doing. One of them, you
know, 26 year Air Force veteran, which doesn't necessarily mean
he's a great pilot or not. That means that he's been trained.
Now he's part of the system. Anyway, who knows? I'm just
reporting it. Because you'll never you'll never hear
about we'll never know what any of that was about. I wouldn't
say we'll never know. I mean, we can surmise I'm sure but I will
maybe we will. But I doubt it. Yeah. Never know. So anyway,
this is the kind of information like I said we by the way, we
what we did for for soliciting money last week, I think
backfired saying that you've you give us money we'll get off the
year,
because we really thought it was such a good idea. Well, I
think there's probably a few people that thought it was a
good idea, but it wasn't so we're not going to do that. I'm
not going to ever stop doing this show.
Because otherwise we'll never get anywhere because the the
three shows that's for sure. We need to stop the armory and we
need to get our no agenda knights of the no agenda Armony
our arm our armory up and running.
Yeah, so we got some guys a few away, we just listed a few a few
people want to mention this also that I finally get the guy who I
really forgot to mention, sent me a note immediately after the
show. And of course, now it's buried my email box. He has to
do it again. I guess like we kept to stop meeting this way.
But that's the
only thing you have to do is these emails and you're always
messing it up. I mean, I don't want
this because it's all in the cloud. It's in the cloud. I hate
the cloud.
Well then don't use the cloud do use
out use use here's what he has used if it's the subject line
donation forgotten, I will go that way I can find it that's
the promise subject lines people will not take advantage just
ask you one question. Is it not possible to search your email I
don't understand what the you know the guy's name,
believe me. It just clicked chokes. What do you mean? What
do you mean just chokes? It's checking what cloud? Are
you using the Cloud Search?
If I searched the body, it would take forever I can't get it. And
have you ever tried this little thing called Gmail? That that's
that's what it that's the search base email is all about John
this will change your life.
We got a bunch of people sending us $20.12 And then we got
$19.89. What is that refer to
1989 9891 17 And that was a stomer I gotta think about that
one,
then 1337 What happened in 1330? That's leet as an elite Oh, l
two 3x Or Yes. Hey, I got
that one right off to me and my command line skills. I'm getting
leaked, baby.
That's cute. Okay, that's very cute. It's a very 1985 good year
for some year for for the roses. 999 666 upside
down. I
do and I'm still on the drive. You got to your to zip on Yeah,
I'm perma baked. Oh, sorry, wrong one. That's from the chat
room. I liked it a lot. A big.
Now it's mentioned a few people who get mentioned because of
they gave over 50 By the way, somebody else who gave us 3333
And he sent me a note saying I'm giving you this because I don't
like Adam.
Cool. That's only half
Yeah. 666 So the big they won't call out Richard to pay us for
$50 in a hurry Allah kala who gave us a nice cool 100 But the
funniest one I think this week would be Andrea cardi now who I
couldn't resist looking up because she gave us $69 And so
baby and she she she I couldn't
see a picture but she's in Italy. I think she's in Milan or
someplace like that. Oh, dude, she's our Italian listener.
So here's what I'll bet you she's hot I bet she she's not
she's Italian John
well with it she could be Claudia Cardinals daughter for
all we know. What was her name was a first name, Andrea cardi
Now Andrea Cardenas may be nice. But yet people need to go to
divorce.org/n A and contribute to the show and you get to hear
all kinds of interesting news. Or no agenda library.com
And feel free to to use this show to your advantage. I mean,
there's there's a lot of things you can do if you maybe you have
a low power FM transmitter you want someone who was doing that?
Did we get an email about that John?
Yeah, somebody was doing something.
Oh crap. Come on. Well, wait a minute. Well, I'm gonna go to my
email I'm gonna go to my email right now watch how it works.
Okay, so low power FM Alright, is that is that obscure enough
Gmail computes and Gmail says
nothing is what it says oh hold on there's a yeah so what I
thought
wait a minute maybe trends JMeter Oh, now he's changed it
we don't need no stinking transmitters here it is. I got
him no agenda on FM so it only took me two hits. From Cory here
it is Hold on a second what was his was it was a Ford from you
know last Johnny to him and send it to me directly. That's how
good my Gmail is. Corey Allen says I thought I'd let you know.
I recently dug up my old FM radio transmitter non broadcast
and no agenda stream for about a one mile radius from my house,
which covers a good chunk of the city. Bloomington. Bloomington.
Illinois.
It'd be Indiana probably I L. Oh, that's Illinois. Yeah. Eight
is a Bloomington and in every state back to 88.7k
R c k and women then there was this he's changed I think he
changed the frequency. Yes. I'm sorry. Strike that. Kr CK
frequency Kenneth KR CK now 90.3 FM Bloomington annual let's
give it Yeah, that was as you can put it on a show KR see kids
yeah,
crack That's right. Hey everybody, it's Craig I slipped
Hey everybody, it's K crack here with JC de Bloomington Illinois.
90.3 FM Johnny will say something there. Alright, so
kids fine. Excellent. Do you see how that how that email works?
John, are you convinced?
Yeah, I have to get my act together. You heard it here
first. Okay, so now the other big thing going on the big news.
But more is there's more more to the show. So definitely a lot of
send us
money William please. This is a good show. John. I'm liking it.
There's a United Airlines has decided to charge really fat
people.
Double right two seats. Yeah
for two seats because they used to be free. They used to just
give you the extra see free so that now so there's a bunch of
people complaining they saw they This has got to be a goldmine
for the local station so they get to find the fattest people
they can find. And we can fill
up The Real News man, let's find some fatties.
And that one that one they had the moniker this one woman is a
fat activist what her title was. That's crazy. Fat activist would
now this reminds me of another anecdote, which is sad. No,
maybe it's a little, maybe in bad taste, but I find it quite
amusing. I'm at sea TAC. And this is the Seattle Tacoma
airport. So there's there was this was a number of years ago,
when you did have to give somebody an extra seat if they
were too big. And there's this woman standing at the counter.
And she was like, it was like probably just a little bit like
just about top of the stomach highs, all you could see of her
from the other side of the counter. And I was watching her
plead for the second, she'd have a second seat. And she had the
strangest body. It was she looked like she was a super thin
supermodel from the waist up. And so this person that was
taking a look. And I said what are you crazy? What are you just
want an extra seat? You know, she was just looking at it. She
was nuts. But I guess she didn't say hey, well look at me now
because she had probably the biggest but
I've seen this body type. And I'm convinced that what what's
happening to exacerbate there is really a there's a mental
disorder. Of course, it's horrible condition when you
think about it. These women are just built with what we used to
call childbearing hips. And of course, you know, they can just
get a little bigger than that. But then they will starve
themselves and work out and it'll never come off. It's just
it's just the build almost, it will not come off. And so the
top gets thinner and thinner and thinner and beautiful and slim.
And just so fantastic. And the bottom is is you know, then it's
just like, Oh my God, because it's a bill that's not like your
fat.
This woman's but it was the size of a Hummer. It was
unbelievable. And but I felt kind of sorry for it because I
know she was trying to plead her case without having to back up
and say, hey, well, you look, you look in my eyes. Anyway, oh,
that's just all the fat activists are reminding me of
that anecdote. Now I got it out of the way.
So, you know, used to be in the day of Rubens that the
Rubenesque women, which doesn't sound like it's not like this
woman was a Rubenesque plus plus. But it was on Vogue. It
was the fashion and it was it was what was considered
beautiful. And I have a question for you, which I think I asked
you privately. And I believe we said, hey, let's talk about that
on the show. Because sometimes we have an agenda. Well, here it
comes. My question off air to John was, Did women really
remove all of their pubic hair in the 17 and 1800s? Was that
the fashion or did the painters for some reason, just not
painted on?
I think there's a combination of things because they you you have
to remember that until Penthouse magazine came along, they
airbrushed out that hair and Playboy and it was always a big
deal. The girls were airbrushed and had airbrushed and they
would airbrush out all the you know, any hair that was visible,
and then all of a sudden it became kind of stylish to show
it. And I would assume that the painters lifted off. But I would
also assume that they knew how they had beeswax back then they
had all the honey and all these other things. They could rip
that hair out, you know, with the Brazilian as it were in the
same way they do today. I mean, I don't think that technology's
changed, or it's not new. Somebody just invented wax. So
at what point do you think? Did women say You know, I wasn't in
1900s? When they said hey, you know shit. That's kind of a good
look. I like that bush. And then of course, you know, because
that just I remember my mom she had she had like a friggin Afro
down there. You know, that was you weren't waxing in the 70s
Well, that's the 70s What would you what would you do? You know,
I
saw my mom naked. You never saw your parents naked? I wouldn't.
You're kidding me.
Now that you mentioned I probably did. But the point is,
I think wow.
put the brakes on. This is very interesting. This is the
generational divide right here.
Where that your you'd like to see your parents will wonder I
didn't
sit down and be serious for a second. Shooters for a second.
It was very normal in our house. You know if you're walking from
the bathroom to the bedroom, whatever you you could walk
naked but it was no big deal. My parents would do it we wouldn't
do kids would do it.
Okay. Well hear from your European We're Americans.
Do so Americans never see their parents naked.
Yeah, you see, yeah, but you do wonder you don't wander around
the house naked unless you're a nudist family and there's plenty
of those. You put a towel on who wants to see somebody schlong
and bouncing around. I mean, it's you know, it's just like it
when you put a towel on or get dragged first. I mean it would
be the reaction. I have to
I will you got me there and naked men generally just not a
good look. But
I don't want to Mother roaming around naked scratching herself.
I just don't think it's something I want to see. And I
would be say the same thing. Boy, you put a towel on when you
get dressed for God's sakes or
what is so repulsive to you about the human body, John? What
is it that repulses you so much?
It's not repulsive. It's just like it's something you just
want to just dwell
on. What sounded like why wouldn't you want to dwell on
it? You've got you've got
I just think that there's
this is this is this how you homeschool your children? With
this?
I can still walk around naked?
No, but have you have you seen your kids naked?
I don't go round look into that kid's steak.
No, I just asked me a question. When did you I mean, you must
have seen some of them naked when they were born
their diaper for God's sake. what point does that stop? It
stops after you don't have to chase the damn diaper. Think
you've seen enough naked kids by then?
So you know my daughter was sunning topless at the pool in
Portugal is that
and is that too much naked topless yet? That's not That's
not No,
it's a topless area. Okay, I just want to get a straight
John. It's a topless to have
our little niches. You can go over the topless beach and be
topless and nobody cares. Or go to Central Pay where everybody's
topless. And if you're not topless, you look like
you are so Oh, man. And I well, you hold your fork wrong, too.
So that's just a little bit that's kind of why I love you,
too. All that little,
you know little stuff. Yeah. It's just the way it is.
Would you like me to end the show here? We can do another
nine minutes if you prefer.
Way I don't think I've well I'm out of material.
I can well, I got a couple of things. Excuse me, I got into I
really got into command line on on vacation. We had two days
where the weather wasn't all that hot. And, and I
rediscovered vi M. This thing is amazing. What I don't know what
you're talking about the Command Line Editor to my fingers. Never
I am now just go
to the command line and type stuff in.
That's exactly what I'm doing. John. You know, how are we
talked about our our developers, you know, if you look at them,
they've got all these screens open all that shit. Because
these guys are professional information managers and they
have the best tools. And as it turns out, all this gooey stuff,
it really gets in the way of most of the work. I just want to
do I want to you know, quickly move stuff from email to
outlines, the Twitter stuff to input Twitter into, you know, a
show rundown. I even want to fire my jingles from the
keyboard. All from one window. It shouldn't have to be a
million different apps and controlled tab and mouse and it
just it slows me down so much. That I'm becoming a Born Again
CLI crackpot command line.
Okay, I know well, you can do to
wrap up the show. Now the reason why was because I like dos. The
reason why I'm saying it is because I've got a whole bunch
of stuff that we could still talk about to wind it up. I'll
give you a few.
Well, maybe we should save it for the Sunday show after we get
some more contribution. But
you want to hear these stories. Polish media discovers evidence
of CIA prisons. I guess. We're no surprise no surprise there.
No, I think that's it. I mean, yeah. Well, there was the the
the one just talking of command line was that it was some guy
who was detained. Let me find it. Man, some guy who was
detained in the report. Oh, here it is. Boston College. I've got
it. It's from eff so I'm just citing the source. Just so you
know, but it's kind of funny. So on Friday, eff that's the
Electronic Frontier Foundation in the law firm, efficient,
Richardson filed an emergency motion to quash. I didn't know
that the interesting motion to quash a quash you and I and I
strike you one more. And for the return of seize property on
behalf of Boston College Computer Sciences student whose
computer cell phone other property were seized as part of
an investigation into who sent an email to a school mailing
list identifying another student as gay. And so from this report
from the warrant application to season search this kid's
property. Reported Mr. calyx D uses two different operating
systems to hide his illegal activities. Oh yeah. One is the
regular BC operating system. The other is a black screen with
white font which he uses prompt commands on it. Okay, so we're
using prompt commands is now enough to get
terrorist prompt. Rights this crap papers are going out of
business. Boy Yes, right question anymore. So my last
comment is that you ever do this, I just want to know
because you know, you are like a screwy guy, I love you too.
Here's the way it goes. Do you ever like go and you're like
looking at my notes here. And I of course, it just notes from,
you know, this one, these little notebooks that I pick up and
drop in. So there's old stuff in here, and I don't know what it
is. And I write that I have done this, I noticed I've been doing
this a lot. I can't figure out how to break myself of the
habit. I'm talking to somebody. And I say, Well, why I want to
get a hold of you. What's your email? And then they give me
their email, I write it down. You know, and it's always
something weird. And yah, yah hoo, in this case, and then I
put it away. And then like six months later or a year, I don't
know how you look at go whose email was this? You don't write
the person's name, you just assume well, there has got to be
something but it's not. It's impossible to tell who it is.
And you can't email them because you look like a complete dork.
You know, you say email, I got your email my box, and I wonder
who you are. And maybe because you may have promised to call
them to, you know, call them or write them in the next day and
you didn't do it, whatever. And so you so now you're stuck with
this with this orphan email. Do you do this?
No, I don't. Because when I first of all, when people I
don't think I ever say I really want to get in touch with you
give me your your email. I don't think I ever say that. Most
people say hey, man, can I email you and say, yeah, it's
adam@curry.com is really easy to remember.
Yeah, no, that's fine. When you have something like that. I
think if I wrote down adam@curry.com And then right,
like,
yeah, so I guess the point is, yes, you would go well, the
point is, we get we get a reboot with Twitter. I think that's
that's the new business card. You want to reach me just
Twitter me. And so the real divorce hack and yeah, we all
can choose a cool name now instead of having to remember
because we're so stupid I mean, look at what we believe in on
television. We're so stupid. We can remember two sets of data
the name part and then the domain name part. So Twitter
makes that easier. By the way, that was the that was a report
that series report that twittering can rot your brain
well you know say Facebook gives you bad grades
is this an official report you have
that somebody University Oh hot University of Ohio I think
they've came up with that you get people uses Facebook a lot
or or get lousy grades? Yeah, believe it but they don't know
why because it because they use Facebook too much or is because
they have lousy grades and they gravitate to Facebook to lament
No, because they're they're hooked on that shit, man. You've
you've seen it you've you've seen what it looks like when
someone's on Facebook all day long. You know? You get sucked
in it's it's almost like doing coke. Because you saw was
Twitter by the way. Except it's it's more like crack. So we're
Facebook is coke. Twitter is crack, crack. It's crack,
because you have to keep looking, you know, it's like the
Blackberry. Like, oh, did someone update? Is there new
status? Is someone is someone's life apathetic? Is their mood
happy? You know, and you get that instant hits. Oh, yeah, I
got another one. One of my friends. So Twitter is kind of
the same thing. You know, we're doing another follower. It's
crack. It's crackers, crackers crack. But alright, I'm
not gonna argue it's I think it's quality crap. Is the good
stuff.
It's the new command line for the web. I love it. It is. It
will look look at what you're doing. You couldn't have you
ever retrieved stock quotes through Twitter or John it's you
know what this is Don't you would if you can predict exactly
what's going to happen all the same stuff is going to happen
all over again. I started publishing my cyber sleaze,
which is the very first kind of gossipy stuff I was doing online
way before the web, you could finger my dot plan file in my
account number those days of fingering, John.
That's yeah, when I was in college, he did that.
Yeah. That's how I started publishing on the on the
internet was through fingering.
I believe that
and so the show has come full circle from teabagging to
fingering. My name is Adam curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak.
We'll talk to you again on Sunday. Right here. On no agenda