Let's go. Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. It is Sunday, April
2026. We reverse roll this is no agenda, and hopefully not
fortunes coming to you from the lovely. Gitmo nation West. Or
should I say Northwest? In San Francisco? I'm Adam curry.
And I'm John C. Dvorak and come up with a blue ad right. And get
mo nation east. Yeah. Go get it later.
All right, officially the shittiest start
ever giving me crap before we started.
Oh, hold on. You're over. Modulating now. You got to turn
it down. You're like blowing me out here.
Okay, well here to get me there. How's that sounds?
Oh, now now. You're too soft.
Oh, man. You just gonna complain the whole time.
Okay, look, I'll turn you up here. Okay, this is no agenda.
Episode 92. discombobulated because not only have we
reversed locations, we've reversed time zones. I'm really
not a morning person. John, when it comes to doing any kind of
show. It's. It's early for me.
Yeah, well, it's something like 430 here in the afternoon. I'm
in Holland. Gitmo nation East version. Yeah. And it's not bad.
It's nice out. It's raining a little bit earlier. So this is
your by the way. First thing I did when I got here. We went out
and looked at that giant lock. That big giant dam they built in
Rotterdam that closes the ocean. Yeah. Have you ever seen that?
Yes. Of course. Yeah. Yeah. But it's it's you know, for us.
It's. Yes. And my wife is from Rotterdam. I do go there from
time to time.
I it took us forever to find that thing. Yes.
And did you see it in motion? Probably. Right.
No, the only close it once a year. When they have to know
they close it all the time. Well, it's not wasn't closed and
they weren't moving it.
Okay. All right. So, John, you're in Amsterdam. I'm in San
Francisco. I happen to be in a hotel for this trip. And it's a
real shithole, which is kind of interesting. So the setup is
different. Everything is a little bit messed up.
Yeah, by the stream. Sounds pretty good. Yeah. Stream
sounds reasonable. So tell me about your How long has it been
since you've been in Amsterdam? It's been what? 2025 years.
Maybe last time you were there.
I was there two years ago.
That's what I mean. 2025 years ago.
Let's just suppose the smart shops it might seem that way to
you?
Well, that none of the smart the smart shops only sold mushrooms
and other stuff. Nothing that I was interested in. So where are
you now? You're not in a hotel?
No, I'm at Janna Allen's house.
Okay. And he's part of your little excursion.
Yeah, he's the excursion.
Well, there's only one thing in the news here. John
was always going to be a short show if you can come up with
more than one common thing.
Well, we can talk about this one for quite a while this says
swine flu is the is top of the news. Every I've got people
calling me from Europe, saying hey, man, are you okay? Is it
going to be all right? You know, because of course I also have I
came with a cold. I had a pretty massive head cold, which it
could be swine flu, for all I know. But I've been Hawking and
coughing and sneezing and wheezing. And people are like,
Hey, man, yeah, there's a clinic really nearby the hotel. I can
drop you off there. You can have them take a look at you.
Everyone is freaking out. John.
My wife in Washington state is worried because she's coming
down and she's gonna meet up with her friend who happens to
have just come up from Mexico.
Yeah, I'd keep that person away from me.
Let me if she wasn't in Mexico City.
The whole thing was I think the whole thing is is horseshit.
Honestly, I'm not buying any of it.
You don't think there's any swine flu going on at all?
There's
no, I'm sure there's swine flu. And I'm sure it's, it's derived
from bird flu or whatever. But people don't you know, people
don't seem to be dying in the States. They seem to own only if
you're Mexican. Do you die? So I'm not worried.
Maybe it's a targeted genetic experiment.
I think it's a beta test. I think this is a I think it's,
well, there's a couple there's a couple of interesting articles
that I've been. I've been collecting. And there was a
Spanish article. Let me see if I can find this. That actually
spoke of a test that they were planning a test on April 17. Let
me see if I can find it. Now. So some people think this is just a
kind of a get ready. I mean, to me, it seems pretty clear that
they've been trying it for a while and the bird flu thing
just didn't work. Swine Flu things seem to work a little bit
better. And now everyone's going to get some pills. Let's all
break out the Relenza and the Tamiflu.
So what's the what was this thing you read in the Spanish
newspaper? Yeah, I'm
looking for it. As I said, I'm a little slow this morning. Well,
while I'm looking for that, I do have interesting bid from
Bloomberg, apparently Panasonic. In February February 18. sent
all sent all of their workers home from from different
outposts in the world, as a warning saying that there was
probably some kind of pandemic flu coming here it is. February
10. I'm sorry. Panasonic has instructed Japanese workers
assigned to parts of Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe and South
America to send family members back to Japan because of the
risk of outbreaks of new influenza strains. How do they
know that in February?
That's a weird. Did they keep them in? Have they gone back?
Are they still in Japan? Now?
It's a very it's just a very short to short notice I just
found on on Bloomberg. And it's only two paragraphs. The Osaka
based electronics makers asked workers families to return home
by the end of September.
What is the end of September for next year? Blue? Hmm.
Interesting. Well, so.
Yeah, you're right. That means you're gearing up to get all
ready to go. They're gonna give us a flu vaccine for four flus
and then they're gonna have the fifth one they're gonna release
and they're gonna kill everyone.
Not everyone. It's only going to No, of course not. It's only
going to kill people over 60. And under under 15.
Well, you know, the swine flu that's going around is has a
range, it has a kill range between 25 and 45. Nobody
younger or older. It's like he hits hitting a middle group.
Yeah, but see, I just I just don't buy it at all. I mean, I
just in
one case, you know, as we were flying out one case cropped up
in New York City.
Well, yeah, there was a school, the school closed down because
there were kids who were showing influenza symptoms. And so
they're all everyone's freaking out. I just think that it's it's
one big, big piece of bull crap. And, you know, how do we
actually know that that 60 people died in Mexico?
Well, nobody's going to actually be reporting on such thing. So I
guess we're just taking somebody's word for it. Exactly.
They're looking for sympathy.
Wales now in the United Kingdom as pulled out all the stops big
alert, saying we're preparing because of course, Wales is they
see themselves separate from the United Kingdom. You know, they
have their own Gaelic language and they have their own little
little enclave there and guess they have their own their own
setup. And they're getting ready for the pandemic pandemic flu.
According to the top police chief, the National Health
Service, assembly, local government, they haven't have
even have a name for it, they call it exercise tallies in
which I don't know so we got a Gaelic name. They came up with
some new Wales.
A T A L I E s i n Taliesin.
So I have my I have my Tamiflu in the suitcase, which I carry
with me wherever I travel. So I'm ready. It still works,
apparently on this new flu. And I'm telling you, you should
either travel with some Relenza or some Tamiflu. Well, I'm
telling everybody, this,
I'm not going to get either one.
I know you're not I'm just saying I'm advising it. So when
you get this, whatever it is, and then moan and groan about
it. You know, as you come to the near death experience, I'm just
gonna say You know what?
So So here's the things that the dots that people are connecting,
which I just love. So on the last no agenda, we talked very
specifically about Monsanto. being kicked out of Germany with
their genetically modified pigs. And so of course, there's
immediate theories, either A, the swine flu propagates through
non Monsanto pigs, which I thought was a pretty good one.
IE, Hey, man, you can't have these. These swine flu pigs. You
gotta have are pigs the healthy kind?
That's a good one? Or
isn't it? Yeah, I like that. Or, of course, you know, these,
these genetically modified pigs are the ones that actually are
the problem. But from the way I see it, you know, John, well,
how long we've been talking about, about the pandemic, you
know, probably coming from from bird flu and you know, we've
seen the, the attempts to try and spread it amongst the
population. And now here it is, you know, it literally it's an H
and H N flu, except it's, you know, it's the h one, n one flew
have an h1 and one was bird flew out. That's the thing that I
haven't had an explanation for. How do we have the h1 and one
bird flu? And now we have the h1 and one swine flu a minute, am I
missing something here?
Well, I'm pulling up another report here, of a medical
director, who says that this could have only been created in
a laboratory that this
that's our man.
It's, yeah, well, it comes from infowars.com. So now, he's got a
lot of good links here. But of course, you know, how, how does
bird flu get into pigs? You know, and how does that work?
But here it is. NPR. NPR reported the deadly swine flu
combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way
researchers have not seen before leading researchers to suspect
it was cooked up in the lab. There you go.
It's doable. I mean, it seems to me as though if they had that
vaccine that they sent out that we kept talking about that had
the bird flu in it by accident. Yeah, that if that got into some
people, that would create a probably a fourth variation that
would be similar to cooking it up in a lab.
So I'm, I don't know, I'm just
like, if somebody's gonna, you know, I think they're just
trying to move some product here. You know, here's the
here's a here's a thought, you know, Tam of flu. You they there
used to be a couple of things called I think it's flu,
muddying. And a couple of other things. There were two variants.
I can't remember the exact chemical names, but there were
these two Antifa, antivirals that were used before Tamiflu,
and they worked on the flu very well. And then about three years
ago, they just stopped working, and they don't work at all. And
so they just took them off the market. And these are the two
amantadine supplements, some there's two of them. And so they
took these things off the market, and then Tamiflu came
along along with Relenza. And that took over and they're more
expensive because the other stuff was kind of a generic. And
so they were cheaper and Tamiflu is expensive when it's anybody
out there who wants to get a Tamiflu prescription. And the
end they by the way, the insurance companies as of about
a year and a half ago will not pay for this really. Really
Yeah. Because I went into my pharmacist and i got i cuz I
loaded up the family so everybody in the family has one
batch of family
Wait a minute so the divorce family they were they have like
a little pill box that they carry with them everywhere and
they're all set.
Yeah, yeah, that's it.
Wait a minute. Can I ask you a question? If you're truly my
friend now I gave you some gold to carry around how come you
didn't hook me up with some Tamiflu like you don't give a
shit if I if I died? You listen to the beginning of the show.
Yeah, but you didn't hook me up with any like now if you keep
saying I will never use
this stuff even it's still about the love brotherly love,
you're just not for you what it is, is your memory is going
here's what
I'm gonna do. I'm gonna go to the I'm gonna go to the to the
clinic, the one that everyone wants to wants me to go to? And
I'm going to I'm going to say get me a Tamiflu prescription.
And that will show us a if it's available. And if the if they're
even handing it out. I mean, I'm sure there's gonna there's gonna
be some kind of rules or regulations put in pretty quick
about this stuff. So why don't I do that tomorrow?
Okay, and when you do it, as I'm telling you in this as well, I
don't think you have the flu. Mr. Curry. Why don't you say to
him, Look, if that may or may not be true. I won't use it now,
but I need as a prophylactic, give me a prescription.
Seriously, they're supposed to give it to you as a
prophylactic?
How can Tamiflu be a prophylactic? You would take
it in case you thought you're getting the flu or if you're
going into some area where there's a flu or something like
that. Just see what they do. Okay. Anyway, so where was I?
Oh, okay. So they these other things, these amantadine and
these other antivirals just stopped. It was about two years
ago, two flu seasons ago or so. And then it baffles everybody
because it's like, why does this stuff stop working? And I mean,
it stopped dead doesn't do anything. So then Tamiflu, which
is a more expensive product, $100. A dose not a pill, but for
one regimens five days you take, I think you take it four times a
day or three times a day, five, five days. Mmm, is extremely
expensive. And now it turns out that there's some evidence that
Tamiflu is going is stopping working uncertain, like some of
the strains that they have in the flu shot, which means you
know, what, now here Wait, wait, let me finish the thought. So
the thought is, if they think Tamiflu is going to stop
working, they're going to have to dump their stocks while it
still does work. So let's create some so some phony flu scenario
and rid of it right. Get it out of Indian inventory. How's that?
That's good enough for you.
I Like You know, the thing is, is we're both kind of on the
same side on this issue so there's really not a lot to
discuss someone screw in with us big time End of story is just
it's just dumb. And I just can't believe it. Well, anyway, I'm
all I'm seeing is reports about you can get a scratchy throat
you know, a headache may be diarrhea may be vomiting, but it
seems like you know, a flu you know, and it's just the way
that's been been jacked up. And and it's incredible how, how
this has gone. So no, pun intended, viral of where I'm
getting calls all night long for people saying, oh, man, are you
okay? And are they gonna let you back into United Kingdom if you
come from California? I don't know. I think so.
I don't, maybe maybe you're stuck.
while you're over there, and then in the Netherlands, you
might want to talk to your, to your hosts about this. I had not
heard of this until I read it in. In the Spiegel magazine.
Apparently, they're using a they call it the mosquito, but it's a
teen repellent system. Throughout the Netherlands in
actually in Rotterdam, our Chihuahua is did you say teen
yes teen as in teenagers a teen repellent. What it is, it's a
device that you can so wherever kids are loitering. And
apparently so this is now in use in in Rotterdam. Or a suburb of
Rotterdam. You hang this device up and it emits an extremely
annoying sound. But at a frequency that apparently can
only be heard by people under the age of 25. So that's got it.
Oh, that's
sad. Yeah. Right. They can hear stuff that we that adults can
hear. But there's devices being used in Holland. Yeah. Dad. And
he says, yeah, he's heard of it. I hadn't heard of
it. And I'm like, This is amazing. This is like super
gizmo nation stuff, man. Like, some, like a ray beam like
kids away. Yeah.
It gives the kids headaches. And they're like, oh, man, I don't
want to be near that thing. And so of course, what they're doing
is they're hanging these things outside of places where they
don't want kids loitering. So what are the kids do is they go
inside the establishment to loiter on the inside, it's
totally backfiring. But this is obviously raising, you know,
human rights issues. Because of this. It's an outrage, you're
hanging up shit to repel people. That's not right.
To reduce teen repellent, you gotta go and find this guy to
get me thinking this is not a bad idea. And get off my
lawn kids, or I'll turn on the mosquito.
You know, I drive around my daughter's 14. And she and I get
some new brakes on the car. And apparently to her they squeak.
And you can't hear her right? I can't hear him. And I mean, I
mean, you can get him to squeak by doing certain things. But
she's claiming that whenever I touch the brake pedal, it's just
as Gosh awful sound of screeching brakes. You see? And
so I don't know,
well, I liked this whole technology. Because if there's
one thing that's amazing, it's the fact that there's a device
that makes teenagers listen to anything. So why can't I get a
hold of one of these devices? And and send out messages like,
clean up your room? Take out the trash? Do the laundry? We need
one of these devices, that's perfect for teenagers.
So that's pretty funny. Did you look it up? Try to find out if
you if you can buy the thing or buy these devices. I mean, it
must be available. No, I haven't. I
haven't I haven't done the research. It said you know I
kind of got confused because I forgot that. You know if I have
to get up at 630 to set up for the show am that I wouldn't
really have much time or or consciousness to prep properly.
Yeah, well, I figured that would be the case. Well, then we can
go to a couple of the gimmick go watch it play the real news
theme here and we'll go to one of my clips. Yeah,
sure. I do have some other things that are interesting. But
yes, now you asked me are now back to real. All right. Yes,
you had some clips you wanted to play Okay, I
got the clip I was watching the adult Video Awards, which is one
of the worst things you've ever seen because it's like everybody
in the audience's are making out usually the two women and
they're feeling each other up in these and then there's a bunch
of sleaze balls it's just unbelievable it's fancy. Yeah,
it is actually there's something fantastic about it. But you know
only like watching a train wreck. So I watched this woman
when the Best New Actress Award and I think she has one of the
most interesting Thank you speeches probably ever given on
any award show. And so the clip is which is the story a clip the
woman's name is it's got a single name soya Okay, and she
is a she's a nut. She's introduced by some dinghy blonde
who won it last year and she's kind of a goofball, and then soy
soy it gives her thanks and I clipped it down so it's pretty
short. And it's with it's it's actually a classic.
Wow, I can't believe that it's been a whole year since I was up
here to accept this award. It was truly one of the greatest
experiences of my life. And now I'm very pleased to have you all
join me in saying who this year's nominees are in the
category of Best
do you have this on video?
I think I might still have it but the funny thing is yet
there's a note here I want to put in when they have a
nominations for awards on this show. They nominate everybody
they can think of it that the nomination can go on forever
because they want everyone to show up.
Get it starlet
Best New starlet to Lexi Bell Tory black Chase Evans Jalen
Fox, Jaden James,
Nick one of the funny best debutantes. Adam curry, John C.
Dvorak, Jamie,
Jamie Langford, Jandy Lin, Megan Malone, Korea Ray, Faye Regan
writers sky Missy stone stoia Angelina Valentine
okay
and I'm shaking so bad for her I feel like I'm winning all over
again right now stoy baby come on down. Steuer
oh my god thank you. Thank you so much. Avi and digital
playground Robbie fucking de June and just about each and
every person that jerks off to my smile
that's funny. Yeah, you don't hear that every day.
And they had the band there to playing live for the acceptance
speech. That's a pretty big production. I like it. Oh,
it's huge, huge and the thing is packed. That's fantastic. Yeah,
same thing they nominate that and I doubt it. I use it goes on
for days with these nominations. And then all these people have
these phony as names ever
and that used to be the only reason to go to Comdex wasn't it
when when the adult Video Awards were at the same time as Comdex
Yeah, it used to have the show at the same time as Comdex and
you you drift over to the other show, you know,
I wind up here all of a sudden
over there, and it was pretty funny because for one thing if
you had a video camera or something girls would just about
do anything and it was really quite amusing to go over there
and hang out but they moved it so what was the other one I have
there the other clip
you have something called fat people clip Oh
yeah, well this is a well we can save this for another real new
segment or we can do this one out. This is what this is
interesting. This kind of changes the direction of the
show a little bit but this is a news report that came out like a
week ago now it and you know everything has to have a global
warming angle. So now the news and this is an actual news
report that was done on I think it was k I think was either key.
I think it was the the KPI name is KPI x and in San Francisco,
and they're blaming sorry,
then I'm sorry, I just started the clip. Premature. Oh, okay.
Play the clip. Clip doh on why researchers say obesity is bad
for the environment.
Obesity and global warming both heavy topics now linked by a new
study from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
It says people who weigh more tend to drive more and eat more
and all that food. It's shipped on average 1500 miles from where
it's grown to your plate. Fat people researchers contend are
killing the planet than those who are thin.
All right, finally something I can stand behind. Now you're
talking kill the fat people This is good. No, no, it really
doesn't doesn't.
The funny thing about this report which went a lot longer,
by the way, I didn't want to play the whole thing. There was
a bunch of puns in throughout throughout because the reporter
couldn't take it too seriously. And then throughout the report,
all they showed was the fattest people imaginable. The TV guys
love to show this. And you know, you never see their heads. It's
just either a shot of their big their past, or their big gut
that's hanging over bouncing off their knees. But what people
got to realize that this is exactly where we're headed. And
yeah, we'd laugh about it now. But it's, it's no joking matter
because they literally the they're already doing it in the
United Kingdom with the, with parents, you know, they can take
your kids away from you, if they're obese, or if they're
deemed obese. And they're going to do it under all of these all
of these new rules and regulations. You know, Hey, man,
you're too fat, you're killing the planet, your anti socialist,
anti social behavior. We got to cite you for that. And by the
way, look at this lovely camp, we have all set up once you come
over here, and we'll train that all off here.
That camp can change the name. So there was a report out of
England and I was looking at it's on the blog, actually. I
guess it was someone who casually said some mom just had
a baby and she gave birth to a boy sheet that I guess they all
thought it was going to be a girl and she says to one of the
nurses ah, I was hoping it was for At first she had this
bizarre and so she's drugged. Yeah. And she says well, it's
too bad angel is the name of that story is while woozy
wishing newborn was a girl leads to mother's harassment and
possible they almost had her arrested.
Oh, right. Because she because Oh, she has postpartum
depression and she doesn't want to
know if it wasn't what they think that she knew. They don't
know what she had. But let me just read this woozy from pain
medication after cesarean section swinging. swinging from
joy to over her newborn boy to exhaustion from the strain of
delivering him Karen Piper mentioned to her doctor that
she'd been hoping for a girl. When nurses finally told papers
pirate she was free to leave no discharge papers for her son
were brought out. Instead, she faced a parade of inquisitive
official visitors, including uniformed police of social
worker, a psychiatrist and assorted doctors and nurses. Her
baby had been placed on medical hold, while government
investigators considered whether she was fit to take Luke home to
Prince George's County,
what? What publication was this in?
Well, you can assume we were it was from the daily man that this
was in the Washington Post. I take it back. This isn't the
Washington Post, not the Daily Mail.
But this is conditioning. John, wait, let
me see where this was this way. I've
actually been out. This is doing it. Now. This is what we talked
about on the last show with this moms cycles is actually
this actually took place in the United States.
Yeah, and this and this article is meant to condition you to get
you ready for the fact that moms now have to or expectant moms
have to undergo psychiatric tests. And if necessary, take
the drugs that are prescribed. And otherwise you don't get a
sign off. That's exactly what happened here. Oh, you seem to
be depressed. So we're not going to sign off. We're not going to
release your kid. You before your kid is actually when it
comes out of your uterus, when it comes out of the womb and
belongs to the government until until you can prove that you're
worthy of having the kid
sorry, I brought it up. So it's just the way it is. No one was
find the whole thing distressing.
Well, of course, it's distressing. It's going wrong.
What's the common sense factor? There's some common sense other
common sense stories that have cropped up recently. You know,
it's like what is he? What are these guys thinking?
That Well, you know, my stance on what they're actually
thinking.
Yeah, I know you consider it a giant scheme,
because you just talk for a second while I just go grab some
coffee because it's like, I can't quite reach with the
headphones.
Yeah, okay. Well, I got a I got an email from Mike Pelletier,
which is a hard name to pronounce actually. So Mike,
sorry, I got it wrong. He says he's talking about that. Here we
go again with Portuguese lingo Isa, he talked about another one
called Chura ko a Spicer linguist. He lives in South
Eastern Massachusetts and you can find authentic Portuguese,
Portuguese Ling Lisa, and Sherco at Chavez market and Fall River
Massachusetts, ladies and gentlemen. All right, me right.
The butcher shop. I wonder you know that we've got a new name
on Twitter that called I think it's called linguist and the guy
is collecting all the addresses of places that may be handling
visa.
Now what is the deal? How does he do that? If this is just
Twitter from time to time with a new location, or can you send
have a Twitter to him and
he'll see you sent this tweet to him and then he does the rest.
That's cool. We're gonna make a big deal out of this. I'm gonna
make this the sausage does your it's just a better sausage. You
hear that? Yes.
It's a better sausage.
No, I thought you could hear the bells. No. And I thought that
Mike was more sensitive than that.
Now I don't I don't like this mic you're using I'm not just
not a big fan of the SM SM seven or 5787 Yeah, no big fan of it.
It sounds it sounds kind of muddled.
Well, it could be the thing on it. It could be a lot of things.
The Italian right well, I like it for it's easy to travel with
and it's you know, fits in a case and just use it for now and
then I'll get back to my good beer.
Yeah, the Italian Mafia is cleaning up during the UK
economic crisis. According to breitbart.com You know how much
the Italian Mafia clears on an annual basis just in gross
revenue estimated but $170 billion a year in Italy Wow,
that's pretty good money.
Yeah, and what then of course what's happening now is and it's
it's logical that this is taking place you know, now that we have
the screen what is the main business of the mob the main
business of organized crime his loan sharking so you know, to
their they're doing double time on in the low in the loan
sharking business, but also where they make most of their
money is in the knockoff business. So they have, you
know, all the all the high, high value brands, the bags, the
sunglasses, all of that crap. They have that made specially
for them in China, probably in the same factories, of course,
as the as the real deal. And
no, I've always suspected that because there's occasionally you
get me for one thing, when you take a look at a Rolex clone in
order to actually even baggies and some of this other stuff,
some of this stuff is obviously cheaper. And it's not as high
quality, but some of it's undetectable, yet looks exactly
the same. It's got anyway. And what are they going to do? Are
they going to put molds together and manufacturing lines to clone
a watch? That's exactly the same when you could just find
somebody that you know, there's already making that watch
because they're all outsourced let's face it, and then just
say, hey, here's your here's some money, I want you to make
an extra 1000 of these things, or 10,000. So when you Wow, we
can't afford that you put a plastic tarp on it if you can't
afford the glass you know, or stuff like that. When you
when you read this article, which is in the show notes, no
agenda, me veoh.com You'll, you'll really read through this
and you go like, Wow, man, the everyone's got to know these
guys are doing it. And I'm sure that they go to the top fashion
designers or you never hear any huge news about oh, we rolled up
this, you know, this huge counterfeit ring. You never hear
about that. Because I'm sure they don't go after him. I'm
sure it's just like I and that's the secondary market, just let
maybe they even need the secondary market to keep all the
molds and everything in place for the for the real deal. It's
seems like that's completely integrated.
Yeah, I think so too. In fact, when I went to Korea, not this
last time, but one time before I would, there's an area of town
where they have all these suitcases and it's mostly for
luggage, and Eddie Bauer stuff and all the stuff in it all
seems like you know, pretty good quality stuff and it's just like
five bucks. You know, it's everything's five bucks. So and
So, ya know, I've always been convinced that there's something
with a lot of this the clone stuff, it's just as good as the
real stuff. In fact, a lot of people in fact, I've got pretty
good at identifying especially Rolexes because I collected a
number of them. And I would every once in a while I'd run
into somebody who had a row I always like to look at people's
Rolexes because the there is one difference that is that the real
ones are usually made with a lot of gold and they weigh more
assorted other bits of bling.
So anyway, the people who don't you know say was that a real one
you know, and and occasionally you get one that was obviously
my mom gave it to me for my 30th you know or whatever we get to
that got married to a guy so you can't you haven't got the guts
to say you know, I think it's a complete fake. What's to say?
Yeah, it's fine. It's good. You know
that you know from time to time. When I show up at airport
security, you know, and I kind of know the drill I got the
laptop out of the bag I got the belt off and I know exactly in
the UK you don't have to take your shoes off and oh by the
way, it doesn't go off even with my with my boots which do have
metal in them because they have a separate shoe X ray machine So
I'm taking everything off, but from time to time, they'll say,
Oh, you have to take your watch off. And and I always have to
laugh at that. And I always say no, it's I'm not taking my watch
off, I'm not gonna put my watch through your machine said I
can't keep my eye on it what goes through that machine. And
by the way, it will not set off the metal detector. Gold is not
supposed to set off the metal detector.
Well, not everyone who works gold. You know, there's some I
saw I've seen some some of the I was looking at I was in some
foreign country and they had one of these metal detectors that
you walk through. And it had a it had some sort of a little
gauge at the bottom and I asked the person about it was like a
bunch of lights. And when you walk through it, it would light
would light up at in the vicinity of where something
needed to be checked. In other words, it was the top of your
head, the middle of your body or your feet. And, and which I
thought was the solution to people taking off the I think
taking off the shoes, which is has been spotty. Not everybody
has to take off their shoes, but now they're making everybody
take off their shoes for some reason. It's like, why am I
taking off my shoes? I wear plastic shoes.
Because we had one douchebag who had I know but they light a
fire.
Even if they remember that guy? Yeah, the shoe bomber.
It's like one guy. And he was unsuccessful. It didn't work.
Like oh, now take your shoes off. We got Heathrow Airport,
there's like 15 people extra work. And now just for the shoe
X ray machine which you can totally bypass. You can I did it
again on my way over. You go through the right hand passport
control station. And then once you're through you can slip
right off to the right of the of the queue for the shoes and they
never stop you. Should you just look you fumble around with your
passport until someone else is walking around. You wait for a
diversion and you walk right by and they've never questioned me.
Yeah, it's nuts. No, the whole thing. I mean, I did it San
Francisco I had this I told the story before I was greeted when
I left out of San Francisco this time but then I realized I left
out I didn't leave out of the International Terminal I left
out of left out of the domestic terminal to go to Dulles. But I
wanted to go through the through the international terminal so I
could go bite you know, they have that machine that with the
micro beam or whatever the heck is the X ray thing, that crazy
thing, ya
know, the, the profile capture what do you call it?
Yeah, whatever it is. And which I went through I mentioned this
before about mentioned,
biometric biometric profile. That's it. When
it's somehow whatever it's called a Microsoft rather. But
anyway, they you go through and it says you if you drill through
this, you won't get patted down well, but when you go through
it, you get more patted down because they wanted to see how
good it did. I mean, that was the joke of it. You know, you
got something you gotta comb in your back pocket. Yeah, get it
cool in my back pocket. So anyway, so I wanted to bypass it
because they say you can go the other way and get patted down.
Like, because I wanted to go over there. So I could say,
well, I'm going over here because I'd rather get patted
down rather than going through that machine and get patted
down. Why should I have to go through all that agony? You're
just a bitch. But
I got a nice I got a nice welcome home Mr. Curry at
customs this time around. Oh, you did? Yeah. Sandwiches. Yeah.
Welcome home. Mr. Curry. What was interesting, you know, I was
waiting for my bag and for some reason, and I must say I dislike
it when you're when you're an upper class passenger and your
bag comes off last it seems like that should be done differently.
And they had to draw other people about this.
Yeah, I mean, it's and it's totally the the ground handling
services not actually even the airline you know,
because they see and they kick it a couple of times dropped
down they're gonna throw it away that's leave this went in last
year this bastard
dickhead. And so they had
I do if I was working in a luggage thing. That's exactly
what I do. Yeah, I put all that stuff aside, stomp, jump up and
down on and throw it in. So it makes sure it goes in comes out
last. So what I do I mean, that's what you do when you're
when you're working class.
Well, that's very disappointing to hear John.
I'm just telling you, it's just a fact of life. That you just
gonna have to get used to it.
So that so the, so I'm waiting there for the bag and they have
the sniffer dog come out, which is a beagle.
You ask him what kind of sniffer dog I always ask them and they
always tell me Well, I
didn't ask and I was little I was just preoccupied and annoyed
that my luggage didn't show up but apparently was not a drug
dog because when I got into the hotel and I go to roll up a nice
little bit of tobacco there I look inside my pouch. Like I'd
forgotten to remove some some herbs that would have been very
so I guess it wasn't a drug dog. If it was a drug dog is a real
shitty drug dog. He's no good. And I wonder how do you how far
away can they stick and they sniff stuff you know from miles
away. I mean, how does that work?
That drag dog can smell thing from about it looks like about a
two to three foot radius. Well, hey, would it save what any good
drug dog would have spotted your what you had brought in
illegally? You know my advice, by the way, my advice? Yeah.
Don't do that again. Yeah, but
I didn't do it on purpose. I had to leave in a hurry. You know,
it's like my plans change. What was it doing in your suitcase in
the first place? It wasn't it wasn't in my suitcase. It was in
my pocket in my jacket pocket.
Oh, you just walk around with it.
I'm a lucky bastard. Hey, someone sent me a great clip. I
don't have the the shadow puppet theater jingle. Sorry, I
don't have it. It was probably a bill by the way. The Beagle was
probably a bomb dog.
No, I think it was an agriculture dog. I think he's
just looking for like nuts and bananas and apples and shit like
that.
Up there. Those are the three dogs. They have an egg dog. Bomb
dog and
dog. Yeah, no, I got a welcome home. Mr. Curry, you're you're
good to go. That was really nice. So this is a like a minute
and a half. It's Barney Frank, who I just despise this guy so
much, because he's such a dick. And he's sitting there and he's
he's helping the the banker screw us out of all of our money
and my kids money and my kids kids money. And I want you to
listen to this clip of Barney Frank, who is the chairman of
the is it the Banking and Finance Committee? I think it's
called talking about Fannie and Freddie Mac in 2005. Let me just
get this started. It's a YouTube clip. Of course, now it's not
going to play. Here we go. Come on. Yeah, this is June 27.
Speech is
pleased to join in supporting this resolution. Indeed, I was
the prime co sponsor. The main sponsor is our colleague from
California, Mr. Miller, who comes to Congress with a
distinguished record himself in building homes. And this is a
very important resolution, particularly this time, because
we have, I think, an extensive degree of concern right now,
about homeownership and its role in the economy. Obviously,
speculation is never a good thing. But those who argue that
housing prices are now at the point of a bubble seemed to me
to be missing a very important point. Unlike previous examples
where you've had, where substantial, excessive inflation
of prices made, it caused some problems. We are talking here
about an entity homeownership homes where there is not the
degree of leverage that we've seen elsewhere. This is not
the.com situation. We have problems with people having
invested in business plans for which there was no reality that
people building fiber optic cable for which there was no
need. homes that are occupied, may see an ebb and flow in the
price at a certain percentage level. But you're not going to
see the collapse that you see when people talk about a bubble.
And so
that's what I wanted you to hear.
Yeah, well, the guy's he's a visionary.
He's freaking Scooby Doo is what he is. So you know, we just got
to bring this up from time to time because these guys are such
shysters, such liars such such scum of the earth. They'll
they'll lie and cheat and steal and do anything. And we just sit
by like a bunch of frickin slaves and let it come over us.
And pisses me off?
Well, the one of the promises because of the new cycle, you
know, that's the thing that we try to do here, which is to
remind people, you know, over and over again, because they
forget, they want to forget, nobody wants to, they want to
forget.
Yeah. Oh, yeah. And if people forget, after two weeks, I mean,
it's like, Oh, whatever. Yeah, there's no follow up. There's no
nothing. So indeed, that that is, that's what you're paying
for ladies and gentlemen. That's what your donations to the no
agenda armory are all about is to remind ourselves once in a
while, what has actually happened so we're not like the
frog that is getting slowly cooked in the boiling water.
Well, that may not be true, either. But the it's the net by
the way, that's no I'm sorry. dvorak.org/in. A, we do need
some contributions to keep the show going, Oh, by the way,
which brings up a point, but also the nor agenda. library.com
is another good place to go. So somebody wrote in and said, Hey,
you guys, can you go back to once a week because this does
too much material for me every you know, to have these two
shows. And I just said well, I didn't really think we're ever
gonna go Back to once a week, but because we want to go to
three times a week, and if we can get enough money. But now I
was thinking, Well, what if he's not the only one who feels this
way to do this? Do people want this once a week, like maybe
longer? Or do they want twice a week? Or do they want three
times a week? So we need to, we need to get some input on that?
Well, I, from time to time, I'll get an email that says, oh, you
know, usually it's their own personal situation. You know,
they don't have enough commuting time. But the point is, this is
this is chewing gum, this is disposable, when, you know, the
news that we're talking about today will probably not be any
good tomorrow, or the day after. And if it is, then we'll just
bring it up again, and there'll be a follow on you don't have to
listen to every single show, I guess is the point. Nor is that
possible, I don't think it's desirable that you listen to
every single show. But in order to grow any type of critical
mass in an audience, we have to we actually have to have a
minimum of three Shows a week to really break through now, we
just can't do this. We just don't have the we have to give
up other things to move to three, three days a week, which
is why we're working on the donation system. But I
fundamentally disagree. And I just like to say, you know, this
is not like your typical podcast, where you just have to
listen to it as the highlight of the week. I mean, this is not
just entertainment, this is something that you should, you
know, when you have the time you tune into and you and you and
you get important information, but you can come in and go out
you know, it's not you might miss some good story about the
adult Video Awards, but you know,
yeah, but it's not life and death. No, it is for soya by the
way, she's got a website. I think you just stoy or something
like they should check her out. She's got a she has what I would
call a nice body.
I think I have her on the Pay Per View channel. I'll check I'm
reliably
spending a lot of movies
I'm reliably informed she might be on my pay per view channel.
And apparently she's got a she's a Twitter. So she's on you can
see there's a number of, of porn stars. Who are Twitter strippers
that are posted on Twitter? It seems like you know, I guess
people follow them. I noticed I checked a few of them out and
most of the information is dull.
You know what? I saw something really fun the other day,
there's an account. Let me see if I can find it because I am
subscribed. It's I think it's like erotic London or something
like that. But if someone has hooked up Twitter to Craigslist,
and when someone posts in the SEC services on Craigslist,
which of course are basically all hookers. Then you get a
tweet for your location that you're subscribed to. Now, wait
a minute, give me this again. Okay, so
you know, on Craigslist, you have the erotic Services
Division, which is where all the hookers post. They're new in
town available tonight. So you can subscribe to passing through
hot babes in town one night only. You can subscribe to a
Twitter account and I think it's erotic London. Let me see if
that's right. Hold on.
So this is for the London hookers. Yeah.
So there's one for Amsterdam. There's one for every city
basically. Let me just see if that's the one erotic London
I'll, I'll find it and I'll put it in the show notes. So the
minute someone posts a new ad in that category, then you get a
Twitter about it. It's interesting.
Yeah, yes. You're out whoring around. Well, although you know,
yeah, I wonder deck, you could probably rig that. I mean, I you
know, he set that up and you'd have your
little course you'd have yours at the top. You kidding me?
Absolutely. Yeah. Yeah, it's
a scam. Absolutely. So there were my son. Go ahead. No, go
ahead. No, please. No, please. No, you please. So my son sent
me a critique. I guess he listens to the show once in a
while.
Now which son is this? Is this? Is this a JJ or is this Eric?
John. And so he we don't call him JJ. I do so so he go ahead.
So he is turned into the yo agenda guys apparently, oh, he's
now against us. And no, he's not against us. He just thought he
would you know, he's giving us a because he types so fast. I've
talked about this before. I mean, he puts together like you
know, he just like ridiculous, but anyway, so he's got a couple
of things here that he's complaining about. One of them
is the following AES and he's got it marked at 107 dot 00. He
says Dad Add it isn't cool to publicly like Family Guy
anymore. Oh, which I didn't know I didn't know this either. This
is this is to get the kids know this stuff. Yeah, this is I
can't public I can like it but I can't publicly like it. This is
definitely. And now
back to real. You may no longer like Family Guy what is supposed
to be cool then what are we allowed? What are we allowed to
like?
He doesn't say he this is it. This is today's today's kids.
They're all just negative. He said talks about the metal
detector and the G phone. And he doesn't know what he says there.
I freak the guys out at the office are our engineering geeks
when I showed him that they couldn't believe it. Yeah, like
how does that work? Man? How does that work? So well, of
course, if you're listening to no agenda, you would know that
there's an electronic compass in the G phone.
So he mentioned that we should probably try to get some sound
clips of old Jerry Brown, who used to be the governor of
California is running again and is a crackpot, you know, they
call a moon beam out here or in California. And he might have a
good point there. Acid rain, he says is still around and he just
goes on and on with some other stuff like New World Order to
poison baking.
What do you what do you should do? And what I was suggest is
there's no there's a couple of ways you can interact with this
show. There's obviously still a lot of use no agenda drop.com,
which is where you can chat during the you can chat at any
time, in fact, but you can also drop in news. And if there's
something that you feel is incorrect, you know, please put
some information in there so everyone can see it. There's
also note no agenda forums.com Which another one of our
listeners slash producers maintains.
And then we have an IRC channel coming up. Yeah, that but
we're not going to launch that until we're both back in our
respective bunker and, and command centers. Yeah, so but no
agenda forums, I think it's probably a good idea to go and
have conversations and you know, he shouldn't just be writing
letters and sending them to us and post that publicly, you
know, we're obviously not going to be right about everything. In
fact, we're probably more wrong about things and we're right
about them. Exactly.
Probably wrong about that. Which needs we're right, more often
than not, you know, I'm saying
to the Village Voice, which I think still has significance in
New York, doesn't it? It used to be the newspaper you had to read
if you wanted a job or if you want a place to live in the
city. But I think it's still very relevant. When it comes to
news. Would you agree?
I wouldn't disagree.
There's this and this is on the on the on the website.
Obviously, it's a letter from a reader. And it's too long to
read the whole thing. But what this guy is saying and in fact,
the title of the article is not Nazi Pentagon experiments in
Queens. And for several years now residents in Queens have
been receiving electrical shocks to their bodies while they're in
bed. They've got they feel pinpricks. They get headaches,
but listen in it's all I ate, what was that? And it's all what
happened go back to bed. So they have helicopters hovering
overhead, and these people literally wake up in the middle
of the night. And they can feel their skin being being zapped
by which is doing it in Queens.
I don't know why they chose Queens specifically. Well,
there's a lot of good reasons probably. But this is the if
this is true this sounds completely like the
completely nuts that was the electromagnetic
the end dude there's like all these neighbors are are
confirming all this shit is happening. This has been going
on since 2003. And as recent as here Tuesday he had he has like
a little running diary Tuesday, April 21 2009 3:32am. Tap on the
comforter over left knee playing overhead woke up from my sleep
451 I am thud uncomfortable over both knees. Then a moving wave
travels longitudinally, up the comforter. The distance of one
foot from the knees to the thighs wakes me up again
aircraft's still overhead. And then you know the the field and
that seems to be a high number of people who have died of brain
cancer in in this Queens neighborhood. This is this is
really pretty crazy stuff. And if it wasn't that published in
The Village Voice, I would have maybe dismissed it a little more
easier. But
you may have first published published in the New York Times
you would have just written it off.
Yeah, exactly. So check that out in the in the show notes.
Because you know my stance I need to follow up on that one.
I'm going to Well, I'm hoping people I'm sure we have
listeners in New York and maybe we have a few in Queens but it's
it's an outrageous account of what these people have been
going through for years. And and it's concerning.
Yeah. 830
in priskin the right hip, plane overhead, electrical shock to my
neck at 843 plane overhead. Both legs involuntarily move for one
second as electrical current has been applied to them.
Man, it's just the one guy, you know, we had these, you know,
that's like the guy who gave us the 5150. You know, we there are
these people out there. And anyone who's worked with the
public, you know, in a government agency, they run into
him, because they're always calling in and complaining about
this sort of thing. You know, you go over there, and the guy's
got aluminum foil plastered all over the walls and a thing on
his head. And he's always pointing here and pointing there
saying, yeah, they gotta been coming in from the window, and
they're trying to bait me over here. And on one thing or
another, I
see I don't write those guys off. I really don't.
Yeah, well, you should, you should well, maybe do hang out
with them. I'm not sure. But while you find them to be I find
them to be hard to deal with to be honest about their the for
one thing, there's so sincere, and then and they're looking for
someone to believe them. That it's like it's kind of I don't
know, I feel uncomfortable around those folks. Sorry. Are
you out there? I'm sure there's a few of them. Listen to the
show.
I would hope so because they're the only true connection to
what's going on. Send all your crazy shit to me. I won't call
you a nutcase. While you're in the Netherlands and in the
Amsterdam area, you might want to go we already discussed this,
you might want to go check out the museums. As you know, was it
a Goldman Sachs who was called recalling the or basically
taking possession of the bend in the heat and cut off the
painting by Rembrandt?
Right, no one at the Rights Museum. Well, now ABN AMRO
says hey, we have a painting that we need to remove from the
exhibit as well. The self portrait of Rembrandt is now
part of a another multimillion dollar claim. So all these all
these
paintings been ready, which is a self portrait I'm thinking of
which is the one where he's the kind of middle aged guy with a
hat darker. He's wearing that hat. Yeah, I have, I actually
have a fairly good copy of that painting of painted in China
that I picked up when I was in German. And they went to the
shop that has all these new they're all a copy shop. And he
had any, it's interesting because some of these paintings
of these copyists in China, this is just one company has 250 of
these guys are just painting stuff constantly. And I was
going through the paintings to take some that I thought were
pretty cool. And he laid out about 10 of these Rembrandt self
portraits. And one of them you look at one to the other to the
other to the other needs. So you've seen a painting enough
time you just said that's the one I want you to grab and it's
like 50 bucks. And it's a nice painting that looks good in the
hall. But the weird thing about it which is the reason I want to
tell a story is that they also there's some guy in China that
does nothing but Mona Lisa and let's get this guy is pathetic.
He has never hit Mona Lisa the day I swear to God, I saw 20
pictures. It looked like it huh. And every one of them was like
her eyes are too close together for his long side. She's got it
what's happened is you got a hair lip. I mean it's one thing
after another and she's
not that cute to start with but you know, put her eyes too close
together and give her a hairline
it doesn't take much just a millimeter different that Mona
Lisa painting is actually hard to copy. I mean, I've seen
copies of it that are fair, but this guy this guy is just
specializes. I don't know if he's ever hit it ever.
So he needs just to finish on the story. So this this Dutch
multimillionaire who secured a multimillion euro loan with with
his Rembrandt painting so this is a whole separate case from
the from the one we talked about on the last show. He is not
behind on his payments he hasn't defaulted but apparently the
bank thought it was necessary to file a lawsuit to ensure that
their lien would be valid it's actually ABN AMRO and JP Morgan
Chase so they're out there embarrassing this guy saying oh
yeah hey you know if this guy this guy defaults on his loan
then that paintings ours in this it just has a disgusting feel to
it. This, this whole this whole art to as collateral All thing.
Art is supposed to be for everybody.
Yeah, or the owner. Yeah.
So you might want to go take a look at the painting before it's
gone.
I'm sure it was there. Last time I was in town is when I went to
the Reich's Museum and I saw it then. I mean, I could go back
and take one more look and say goodbye painting. There's other
museums I haven't seen.
Have you ever been to the modern art museum? The state look?
No, as a matter of fact, the only two doning museums I've
been to in Amsterdam where the Reich's Museum and the and the
Van Gogh Museum,
you should go to the stage like it's right. It's right around
the corner. It's the modern museum of modern art. And
probably my favorite exhibit, which I think is on permanent
displays. Who's afraid of red, white and blue, which is just
this massive painting of a red, a white and a blue stripe.
Sounds fascinating. It is. color field paintings always have a
kind of a? I don't know. I unless they're done right.
They're pretty hard to take. So a guy sent Michael cosmi Send us
another photo, which I think I will send to you so you can put
it in the show notes or put it on the on the webpage. And he
says he's gonna send when every time he sees this, this is these
towers, these towers that are cropping up in Manhattan, that
look like a It's hard to say what they look like. They look
like a sniper. It's like some sort of a thing that it's like
an elevator with a with a with a, like a booth on the top of
it, that he calls a snipers tower. And is for I guess crowd
control or something even though I don't see any holes where the
where a gun can come out and shoot people. But the NYPD has
these things all over the place? No, I'm talking about No, I
have no idea. No.
Well, let me send me the picture. Let me take a look. Let
me just forward this to your email. That'd be easier because
it's in an email. So anyway, it's a Yeah, he has been finding
these things. And I told him to send them all. And he's been
sending it. I guess we haven't passed it along. But we need you
need to post this. So people can send you I'd like to find out
what they are. I mean, maybe we should call New York City and
find out what the heck's going on with these things. Maybe
you'll get it in a second. So what else you got on your list?
I'm looking for the audio, or preferably video. So I'm not
going to read this whole thing because I have the transcript.
But I'll do it on our next show. Maybe someone can help me find
the find the actual source material of Al Gore lying to
Congress. Representative Blackburn was questioning Al
Gore at the Global Warming legislation hearings, which you
know, we talked about this. So now watch out because here it
comes here come all the taxes on everything that emits carbon,
including the actual words coming out of your cakehole.
And, and he talks. I guess it's a he right, Blackburn. Thanks,
thanks. So he, he talks Gore completely into a corner
basically making him say or admit that he is profiting from
from all of his green initiatives. And a it's just
reading the transcript. It's it's beautiful. But what happens
is, so here it is. I'll just read this. So you're a partner
at a venture capital firm. They've invested a billion
dollars in 40 companies that are going to benefit from cap and
trade legislation. Remember that? So is the legislation that
we're discussing here today, is that something you are
personally going to benefit from? And then the transcript
goes, Al Gore sigh. I believe that the transition to a green
economy is good for our economy and good for all of us. And I've
invested in
need to have the list in your voice to make that really work.
And I can just see him sign just like a dwell I
know that that's what that's exactly why I want to have the
real source material that I have invested in it. But if penny
that I can't do
that, no, no,
every penny that I've made, I've put into a nonprofit, the
Alliance for Climate Protection to spread awareness of why we
have to take on this challenge. And and Congresswoman Diego's
Congresswoman, if you're if you believe the reason that I have
been working on this issue for 30 years is because of greed.
You don't know me? And then Blackburn comes back says No,
sir. I'm not making accusations. I'm asking questions that have
been asked of me and individuals constituents that we're seeking
a point of clarity. So I'm asking and then out and then so
here it comes. Every penny that I've made has gone to it my
nonprofit, every penny from the movie The book, from any
investments from renewable energy, I've been willing to put
my money where my mouth is, do you think there's something
wrong with being active in business in the Country. So
immediately throws the yo is is doing business bad. So he's he's
out and outright lying, that it's all in nonprofit because
it's not. He's making tons of dough off of this. And he left
the White House with $2 million reportedly in his pocket. And
now he so far has invested $35 million of his own money in for
profit endeavors. And he's sitting there saying to
Congress, no, no, no, no, no, this is all nonprofit.
Unbelievable.
Yeah. Well, everyone who listens to the show know that we're no
fans of Al Gore?
Do we have to talk about any nights of the no agenda
roundtable other than the 1081 quest, which
you will have to attend at one email? Handy? Because I can't
I'm looking for it now. And I can't find it.
Yeah, I can probably find it. Why don't you? Why don't you say
no, we have no more new nights. And this is disappointing. But
if anyone wants to be a night of the no agenda roundtable make
sure to give us $1,000 for the show, and then you're gonna
become one.
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What? What browser did you use
Safari, of course, it's a supported browser.
Well, that's odd.
This happens, you know, Google, Gmail has changed a couple
things. They also changed the way they do their attachments.
So now, there's like a little flash thingy in there. And when
you attach a file, it uploads the file to the server first,
before it sends the email. And I've seen online lots people
have this problem. They attach a file, you wait for like three
minutes, and it's almost done. And then it'll say, oh,
attachment failed. And you can't fix it yet. Yeah, you have to
blow out your entire cache. Like, I'm not going to do that.
You know, I'm going back to pop mail. I'm getting sick of the
slowness of IMAP. You know, the whole thing. It's ridiculous.
Yeah.
So the 10 and the thing
that really bothers me is that I can't do I map while I'm flying
around in an airplane. I know I can have the combination. Well,
you weren't you. Yeah, I don't do that. I'm good. Because the
other thing is that the I was using Thunderbird and I got
65,000 messages on my pop bar, my IMAP account that thinks
chokes at 65,000 messages it goes oh, I can't have any more
messages. I can take some messages out to take some
messages out. It doesn't change it still says you can't deal
with it. Once it wants to some flag is triggered it seems to me
that the thing just won't doesn't want to talk to you
anymore. It's like a jilted lover. Yeah, that can't find any
any clients that are any better.
Well, what's what's worked really well for me is as you
know, I'm doing the command line thing but you can figure that
with with IMAP and then you can set up a little cache directory
for your header files and stuff like that. So
hey, I don't care about this is ridiculous.
Go ahead gooey boy. You will go ahead and be slow.
So Teddy's gonna do what you suggest. Now lots of people are
doing what I suggest. Yeah, all 13 of them.
So let me look for that email. It was Do you remember the guy's
name?
Oh, you know I had if I was at my house where I have his name
scrawled on the wall with the with this can of spray paint
which I have all the nights by the way, are on the wall of my
office with spray cans paint across the wall. That's how I
remember their names. I can't remember names so I have to
spray can paint them
wait a minute. You say you spray paint your wall with the names
of the Knights
Yeah, with a can of Krylon black okay, what's wrong with that?
No, no, don't you do that?
Chi know what? Crap I don't know. I don't I don't know who
Okay, well, we did get a lot of people thinking they knew what
it was all wrong. Yeah, that's Well, here's the most
interesting one from John W kits who sends us lineups
I can find let me cheap. I can go on the Pay Pal account and
then get you do
that and I'll read this some of the wrong answers. So we got a
donation of $1,081 from one of our three nights of the no
agenda roundtable and of course the numerology thing is is just
beautiful because it gives us a way to get big numbers out of
people. And John W kits sent in his thought why this 1081 wasn't
interesting number from the official 10 code list
Association of Public Communications officers. So you
have 10 Four obviously is, is Roger or Affirmative? You have
1021, which is what is your location? And 1081 is a code for
the breathalyzer. Which I thought was a good,
that's not bad. I liked the answer. It wasn't what it was.
But it's a very creative.
And did we have a 50 to 64?
Maybe but you know, somebody pointed out something
interesting, which was some of these people who are donating
from Europe, the money make be coming in as some oddball number
because of the change from Euros to good dollars. Good point. And
we might be like interpreting these things when it's really
like the guy gave us 50 bucks, but it came in as 4216 or
something we're seeing well, I'm there's a year of the Star Trek
episode on number three.
I use my favorite ones. So the 5264 add 52 and 64. That gives
you 116. Read 116 upside down and you get 911.
That's a good one. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, that's pretty
funny. Let's see if I can actually access my Pay Pal
account here from Holland. Because 90% of the time, any
time unless I'm on that one machine at home. It tells me to
screw myself. Era criminal to what we got here.
How much does pay pal take off the top of those donations,
they take up they take too much of the you know, the rip off and
we we should probably discontinue this as the $2 a
month thing. It's better to do $24 A year because the $2 a
month thing they take they take like 30 cents or something. It's
like ridiculous. Totally. And then it's take 30 cents off the
24 I mean, it's just like to go into PayPal.
Okay, so um, I got into my got my email and I think the guy's
name is Steve. Steve will give his name or not. Of who? Now
it's not Steve the guy the the no agenda night. Shit. It's not
Steve.
I don't have the spray. Can you Okay, sorry. Got it.
It's Michael. There we go. Michael, can I give his last
name? Yeah. Michael Zelena. I'm sorry. Yes, sir. Sir Michael,
Sir Michael Zelena. Sir. I knew that. Yes.
And when and of course, you you had to tell me after the last
show, because I was going to pull my hair out.
And yeah, but wait, let me let me tell give some people a
briefing. After I told you and you're going to hear one of the
most convoluted things in your in your life. Adam says, oh,
man, I was going there. I was getting it.
I would have come up with that and not completely shit I would
have come up with because I knew it was going to be some some
geeky thing. I knew it. So Sir Michael Zelena. I'll just read
his read his email. Characters are represented as numbers in
ASCII encoding. This is the part I would have gotten to because I
have I've had I have had to deal with ASCII codes doing a lot of
this command line stuff. So for example, the letter L is 76. So
if you look up the letters in the table, for adhered comes,
look. And listen. You come up with a series of numbers like
7670 970-975-7670 970-975-7670 380-384-8688. So if you add them up. So he
just wanted to do look and listen, but he wanted to make
sure we got over $1,000 So he made it look, listen, look. And
if you add all of the ASCII codes of look and listen and
look together, you get 1081.
Yeah, yeah, you were headed there.
I was. I was I was definitely headed there.
Yeah, you're always you always got it. Yeah. Anyway, all the
other answers. I think that drunk driving was even better.
He was involved in in campaigns against genetically modified
food. And he wholly fully supports what we're doing here.
I no agenda to keep people aware of how we're getting screwed.
Did you get there was a good news story last week about how
the Indians i think i twittered it I don't think I blogged it
about how the Indian in India they have they have somehow
talked to these poor Indian farmers into giving up their
normal seeds in favor of Monsanto seeds
are more than like 1500 suicides or something from these now
there's a
lot of suicides because these guys are going broke. What
happens is you get something like 1/10 As many seeds for your
for your investment, and the seeds which are supposed to grow
10 times faster and give you a huge Which crop? They all the
crops are many of the crops failed and ever grew for crap,
they were junk. And so these guys are basically wiped out.
And because I don't see, you know, you just have Monsanto
going in there with micro loans by any means. And so it's like a
big scandal in India. And it's about Monsanto. I think Monsanto
should should rethink their strategy.
But I think they're I think their their strategy is now just
starting to unfold. I think they're just loving it right
now. I don't think they give a crap. And they're all over the
administration who, of course, are now in their 100 days.
That's another big real news story over here. And I would
have to say just scanning across the dial the President gets very
high marks from from the media, who are apparently representing
the people
and the media representing the government. So there's another
one that was interesting. I ran into actually, not to look him
up now. But the guy who, you know, there's a there's a report
that came out that, you know, Merck had this product called is
a drug company now had this product called Vioxx, which
apparently was you know, killing pizza.
That was the painkiller that was actually killing the pain for
real.
Yeah, well, I've worked Yeah, except when you got a stroke
that didn't help.
So anyway, let me see if I can find this is I gotta get the
guy's name right. This anyway, the CEO at the time, and I
always you know, when you had there was a bunch of the
unturned when they had during discovery, which is a real
problem for these companies. You know, they don't like to get
sued because discovery is like a nasty thing. bite you in the
butt. Yeah, so they found some memos from the marketing
department and our maybe went as high as the CEO. It's hard to
say but everything's a reflection of the CEO when it
comes down to it. Who says that we do there's doctors that are
absorbed not prescribing Vioxx and we have to destroy them ruin
you Okay. I think he just fell off. Somebody just grabbed a
window
they're trying to take me out back john and get into the head
no, I did read this that they had the the hitlist memo we got
to we've got to discredit them destroy them. Gotta get rid of
these doctors. And of course Vioxx is the shit that wound up
killing lots of people. I know, man, this is frickin outrage.
Yeah, here's the kicker. The kicker is I gotta get this guy's
name maybe somebody Well, I could tweet it tweet it but what
the guy who then retired like two years after the you know,
the crap hit the fan regarding this stuff. You want to stay
anyway, he was wrecking the company anyway. He's a board
director at Microsoft. Corp just find it abhorrent. I mean, and
the funny thing is, I I got to get his name because I think we
should talk about this guy every so often. Because if he has a
CEO, he wants to go out and discredit people and try to
destroy their lives. I think we should just bound him. Let me
somebody should do it to him. Don't you think
I I'm you know, I I've been here for three days. And I can just
feel throughout my whole body how we've lost that. That that
public media fight John, there is just no you know, in China.
Yeah. You know, you put shit in the in the in baby food. We're
gonna kill you. We string out publicly and we sentence you to
death. Here. It's like you can what about the peanut butter
guy? What happened to him? If we hear anything about that, dude.
Yeah, whatever happened to him know, the guy's name is Raymond
V. Gilmartin. And he's one of the He's the former chairman,
president and CEO of Merck and company when they put out the
memo to destroy the doctors reputations. So he's a he is a
member of the Microsoft board along with this and you know,
people that I don't know why these people were even on the
board except for James Marquardt. There's a woman from
Harvey Mudd College. There's a chairman of the board of BMW and
AT and T Guy. Guy from JP Morgan, Chase or woman from JP
Morgan Chase. You know, I mean, the good okay, whatever. Just a
screwy board no wonder the company's in trouble. Or they
had their first down quarter. Ever, all their history ever.
Yeah, ever? Well, I think it's finally coming to fruition. And
actually, I'm giving a speech at college in New Jersey. And of
course, I don't remember which one it is. This week,
you get the spray can out. You can remember more.
Yeah, the hotel will love me for it. And I think I'm gonna lay it
out on the line for him because this is about music licensing in
the music business in general. And anyway, I'm doing a favor
for a guy and so a friend of mine, so I'm gonna go talk to
them. But you know, 1520 years ago when when the internet was
just kind of this thing that was emerging, in fact, when it was
still rude to just jump into a news group and post something
without having read through the netiquette of it all, and
certainly no commercial messages. Remember those days?
Oh, yeah. And then if you did it, you'd be flamed to death if
you violated the who? Oh, yeah,
well, dude, when I registered mtv.com people hated me. Oh,
here it is. Now it's ruined. The internet has ruined. We're
bringing commercialism. But it I think it's just coming to
fruition. You know, the, the the internet is, is taking away
everybody's business. It's music business is dead. Newspapers,
dead on the vine television movies. It's just no stopping
it. It is. It's just going to die away phone companies, you
name it. And now everyone's Giacchino wasn't reading about
the now the cable companies, you know, this, like, I think
they're really, they're really in cahoots with the government
at this point. And they're, and they're really going to try and
make certain things just completely unaffordable. So that
you can't, you know, you can't just stream a video, if it's
coming from outside the network or outside of whatever your
package you're going to be able to buy into. It'll only be
cheap, if it's their shit. I mean, this there's something
afoot, and there's a lot of nastiness going on. And we're
just letting it all pass by. And
well, we have to start complaining more. Hey, no, this
connection that we have seems to be pretty good. And I think it's
interesting is that when I'm in the California and you're over
in Europe, the connection is pretty good. And now I'm in
Europe, and you're in California Connections pretty good. Even
though you had that hotel. Yeah. And but if I'm in the in
California, and you're at the hotel, it sucks. The hell's that
all about?
Yeah, isn't that interesting? Where if we're, if we're stone's
throw away, then it's no good. It must be something Well, who
knows? Maybe we should swap computers either
way. He's got a connection. Yan has a connection here. Who which
is he's got like 20 megabits per second coming into his house.
Nice. And it's on DSL, and he's waiting for fiber where he can
get even 30 Meg's and he's paying like a buck 95 a month or
something like that.
105 that's he's paying 30
bucks. 30 bucks.
Oh, man. I'm jealous. All right, John. Tell me what's what's on
the agenda for the next for the next couple days for you in
Amsterdam.
We're gonna go take a look at the the miniature world Ah,
yeah,
of course. Hey, you know the weather will be just as shitty
there as in the real Holland
actually right now it's the sun came out I mean, it was raining
this morning. But now it's actually pretty nice. But you
know, I'm sure it's still gonna be miserable most of the time
and then we're gonna go to course to the giant party now I
didn't realize that that party that that the parties that the
night parties for Queens they are the night before? Yes. So I
was doing some research because I was pointing out to somebody
what I was up to. And then I looked at the page and said the
parts of the night before I'm thinking wow, it's a good thing
I read this so you
know if you showed up on the evening of the 30th You would
have been severely disappointed now the way it works is is the
29th the night of the 29th is when you just party like a
madman and then you stumble home you know at seven in the
morning. And of course beforehand and you I don't know
if you can already see it. They may not have started yet but
people will mark out on the sidewalks they'll mark out their
spot with chalk you know and they'll put their name on it or
their house number like okay, this is my spot so you can't
take that and it's like so like drawing little real estate
lines. So you someone's
sorry I'm sorry just this for selling stuff yeah
selling stuff. Exactly. So you you stumble home around seven in
the morning, you know then you you get all your crap that you
want to get rid of and you throw it out on the street and you sit
down there on a blanket and and you wait for people to buy shit
from us they walk by and then if they buy all your stuff then you
go walk around and you buy someone else's shit it's a
fantastic system.
Somebody told me that the park there's a park that gets loaded
up with stuff yes the
formal Park Yeah. So yeah, so So the party is isn't you probably
weren't Hardee's the night before? Yeah, and you probably
won't need to go there before 10 I mean, it won't get stuck with
this even say what time it gets started. I'm so pissed off and
I'm not there.
God damn, well, it's too bad, isn't it? So? Yes. I doesn't say
what time it gets started. I guess what midnight? Is that?
What you think? Yeah, probably.
Anytime, anytime after 10. That will make sense. My girl is
gonna hook you up. She's gonna take a cut
at 10 at 10 There's nobody there. You're saying?
No, not before. 10 No, nothing happens before towers gonna go
there at 630
Hi, I'm here for the higher Were were the Americans. I was
gonna go to dinner at four, because they have an early bird
special. And then I was gonna probably, you know, take a nap,
and then go to the party about six 630. And then you know,
salad bar, John. Perfect. Yeah, good luck with that. Enjoy that.
And, and definitely call taxi Eric man, he's, uh, he's on
standby. He's ready. Yeah. Okay.
All right. Well, we'll see what they'll I'll report back with
photos. Yes. So I have this done about I want to make it public
complaint. Okay, I got another one of these cards. This is the
third or fourth time this has happened to me. I have a 16
gigabyte Compact Flash, I stick it into my camera. I take about
1015 pictures. And then it says, like flash memory, no, good. It
just stopped working.
Oh, yeah. And it breaks and you can't recover your pictures?
No, you can recover your pictures with some special
software. I'm not worried about that. But I couldn't make any
more photos. I have 16 gigabytes.
Yeah. Yeah, this lock. Yeah, that's eight. That's wonky.
That's flash. I've had that happen so many times.
I'm now convinced that that's the reason that they never came
up with those hybrid hard disks. Because I think hooking flash
memory to a hard disk and having to stuff fail left and right.
Yeah, it's just it doesn't feel that much. But it fails too
much. Considering what the mean time between failures is
supposed to be with the hard disk. Yeah, it just not, you
know, it's not viable. I don't think anyone wants to admit it.
I'm gonna go get me a netbook today. You know, I did some
really, I did some really stupid because, you know, I'm all alone
here in San Francisco. And of course, you're not here. So I
have no nobody to play with on the weekend. So we're like, you
know, I'm gonna go out and you know, what, what, uh, guys do
when you're when you're totally bored, you go out and shop.
Right? So, so I walk out first, say, I went to the leather
store, I want to see if I get a new leather jacket, some amazing
shit. But no. But then like, I use my G phone. I'm like, I'm
going to be completely cyber. And I'm going to say, you know,
I'm on market and say, okay, G phone. I'm looking for
computers. And you know, it gives me an address on Van Ness.
So interesting walk from where I am, you know, it's about a mile
and a half or whatever, two miles. And you know where it
took me. It took me to the Circuit City on Van Ness.
Oh, that's funny,
which is of course, closed the business completely out of
business and I walked two miles and like, Okay, where can I go
to get a net
book? John's get a nice walk. Yeah. Is
there a place nearby that I can go?
A computer store where you are? Yeah.
No. Cool. Thanks.
And Francisco do you expect they got a lot of bars
coming to you from the crackpot shithole hotel room. My name is
Adam curry.
And coming to you from Gitmo nation east, aka Holland. I'm
John C. Dvorak.
Not quite sure when we're going to talk to you again because of
the Queen's Day festivities, but it will be this week sometime
soon. Right here. I know agenda