Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. I am so frickin tired everybody we're
back at home bases respectively it's time once again. This is no
agenda coming to you from the crock pot command center located
in the southwest quadrant of Gitmo nation East's known as
London, everybody I'm Adam curry
and from parts unknown in northern Silicon Valley the
place it doesn't exist so the unknown Park is key. I'm John C.
Dvorak. Buzzkill
damn that was tight was good the judges please hold up their
their votes. Eight point 8.7 Yes, we got ripped off. Buddy
nine point scale.
Are you doing John?
Okay, I see you're back in London. Finally.
Yeah, it's weird because I somehow could I guess I told you
Oh, there'll be a bit later or whatever. But I got in early. I
was home at like one o'clock. It was unbelievable. When so fast.
Your connection sucks.
My connection. I hear you fine. You can't hear me.
That's the good part. The good news.
Okay, my back is killing me.
Why'd you didn't get to what kind of plane would you fly
back? Oh, it
was the it was the 747 it was the the Virgin in the upper
class and with the bed and everything but it was lumpy. The
bed was lumpy.
The bed was lumpy.
Yeah, I don't know. messed up my back that's for sure. But it's
envelope. It's
the cup. Sorry. No, go ahead. I've noticed a couple of flights
since I just flew you know, I flew back and forth a couple of
times this year. That they've they've changed the you know
about I think about two or three years ago British airlines put
in in business class complete flat seats and flat in other
words use a bed that was literally flat there was a lot
of room and it was very comfortable. So it looks as
though united on the flight over had completely flat beds too and
it was like a little alcoves. It is in business not the first
class right now it was completely flat except for the
fact that they designed the thing with seats that face
forward and half the seats face backwards.
Man that's not a good thing.
Well, I mean, who wants to be flying around backwards so
anyway,
you can't complain man. If you fly if you if you got a flat bed
and it's for free. You can complain. Did you fly backwards
then on? On United I flew
backwards. Okay, I was although I slept I was brought back down
and then coming back on LWF tonsa. You'd think of all the
carriers that would have the flatbed Lufthansa be one of but
no, they have the same old reclining seat that kind of
keeps you at like just about 10 or 15 degree angle just doesn't
quite do it. Now you can't flip around and you know, lay on your
stomach anything or anything like that. So anyway, one of
these days I'll have it figured out.
It's it's a long ass trip. weather is beautiful, though.
It's really just phenomenal. It's like San Francisco weather
actually. Yeah, we
have this week we've got 80s
Okay, it's not quite like San Francisco weather but at least
there's sun blue skies nice and warm. Everyone's out. And
despite the fact that, you know, no one has a job, they've got no
place to live and the government is ripping everybody off for
their own personal gain. This huge scandal, John, we missed
some massive expense scandals in the United Kingdom.
Well, of course we did because who's gonna cover that over
here? We got too many real money story. Yeah,
we do. And it's and now the ministers of parliament have
actually called in the police. The Scotland Yard have to come
in and find out who has leaked all of this confidential data.
Which of course is a good thing because now we find find out
that Gordon Brown he expensed 6000 pounds for maid services
that he shared with his brother for his house and of course we
still have wacky Jackie's husband who rented not one but
2x rated movies and she expense that wow nasty
nasty means kicked out on her ass
she should put out for her husband. That's what that's what
this story tells me. How embarrassing is that though,
that you actually have to have to account as well. It was my
husband. It's how I would have said for perhaps like well, the
both of us watched it or something. Yeah, it's like a
little sexy night and we we apologize that kind of slipped
through the cracks. No, my husband watched it. Well, yeah,
just looking at her. No kidding.
That's embarrassing. What an idiot she is but the headline
The big headline Joanna Lumley. Better known as Patsy from
absolutely fabulous or
is that the blonde?
The blonde the blonde? Of course Joanna Lumley fantastic actress,
I should just say actor. She also was in Wasn't she in The
Avengers after
this in this call for a real news hit? Ah, yeah, well,
sorry. That's okay. We need to real well, it's it's very
interesting once he's done because it's not just like a
showbiz story but the Are you familiar with the Gurkhas?
The Gurkhas.
Yeah. Um,
is that either a small pickle or someone in India?
That's a gherkin? No, I think it's, well, this has to do with
the Gurkhas who fought in the Falklands war on the on the
British side.
Yeah, these are Indian fighters. Yes, correct.
I think it's correct. And so the Saudi have these Gurkhas who
fought on the on behalf of the British, many of them in the
Falklands War. I'm really paraphrasing here because the
story gets even weirder things you aren't a lumley's dad was
either a part of either he worked with the Gurkhas or he
was saved by the Gurkhas that were there's something going on.
And so she is basically speaking up for the Gurkhas who now are
being refused entry into the United Kingdom. And she went to,
she went to parliament the other day, and she and she tapped, she
went right up to Gordon Brown who I got to talk to you. And
she says, I haven't seen the video yet. But there's big scene
and then she grabbed them the Minister of Immigration and
said, You are changing this policy and you can see these
pictures of the guy like completely he's he's terrified
of her. And she's all over the papers. And she apparently is,
is changing immigration laws just by by standing up and
saying, Hey, screw you guys. These guys fought for us. They
have every right to enter the United Kingdom. And and it's
like the it's the top of the real news here.
Well, I would think I mean, the fact that they let they let in
radical Muslim is Lammas from Pakistan. That was your unit
inhabiting all over all over that part of London. And they
won't let these guys in who actually fought for him. It
doesn't make any sense.
Oh, of course. Well, they're clamping down you know, this.
The island is shutting down. No one's allowed it. I got just
under the wire.
Yeah, now you won't be able to get out.
I did have a moment when I was entering immigration, thinking
of the Michael Savage story thinking, you know, we know
they're like six more names on the list. You don't really?
You're wondering who knows? Well, I mean, it's not any
nuttier than Michael Savage being on the list.
Well, true. It's nice. Actually not really set for the fact that
our audience is one 100 than he is. Yeah. But anyway. So Miko,
savages, kid, I can't remember his name. But anyway, he's the
one who's the CEO of this of the Red Bull clone Rockstar. Oh, I
didn't know that. Yeah, and I think actually Michael Savage is
the money behind Rockstar
I think it's a pretty successful brand. I see it all it was
hugely successful.
It's amazing. Just came out of the blue and of course, it makes
sense because Michael Savage before became a talk show guy
was an herb biologist. All right, and he's got a bunch of
books on.
I'm an ER biologist with the what's the big deal? I'm an
expert or biologist.
Yeah. So anyway, savage would have been the guy that probably
blended this thing. And that was so funny, because I was watching
they had this huge fat fight that was obviously was big in
the UK was Ricky Hatton. Versus Manny Pacquiao, which is brought
into Las Vegas that half of of England I think he's from
where's he from an England he's either from he's not Welsh. I
don't think I can't remember. Anyway out to look it up. He's
got he's from Manchester. So I think so he's got this huge
contingent they follow them all over the world. You know, they
pound drums is really quite a scene. And Manny Pacquiao has
had this Filipino contingent and he's actually one of the
greatest fighters I've ever seen. So he beats the crap out
of Hatton and hat and gets nailed with a left hook and
falls. Looks like in fact, friend of mine was twittering.
The fight when it happens is oh my god, I think he's dead. So we
call that a knockout punch, right? Anyway, he went flat
against the canvas, which was sponsored by rock star. That's
why it actually was laid out in parallel. Right on top of the
rock star logo as though the whole thing was like he couldn't
have
asked for it. You can't get better, you can't get a better
setup.
I mean, it wasn't like he was across it or part it was just
right in the middle. So damn this thing I've ever seen.
Nobody's mentioned that, of course. Awesome. Awesome.
Anyway,
so looking at the news over here. And you know, of course,
Patricia came back from she came back yesterday from Holland, her
live shows and she brought back some, some Dutch newspapers. And
I've just been kind of scanning all the headlines, a couple of
things that are notable.
How's things going with Wendy, by the way?
I'm waiting for the for the shit that hit the fan on our
comments. I have no idea how things are going with Wendy. I
don't know. The swine flu name has changed. In the Netherlands.
And I see it in Germany. I see it in France. It is now
officially known as the Mexican flu. It is not the swine flu
anymore. But all the headlines in the Netherlands and this is
exactly what we predicted. I think one or two shows ago, the
Netherlands has now announced the Dutch government that they
know there's what is it? 17 million people live in the
Netherlands. They have on Order Now 34 million flu vaccinations
so that each member of the Dutch population can receive two flu
vaccinations before the big one hits in autumn? It's not quite
we're not quite sure if it's mandatory, but seeing as they've
got, you know, 34 million, which is exactly double the
population, it seems like they will make it mandatory. Giving a
new name to to to the head, I think it should we maybe call it
to to the arm. So I you know, this being the true testing
ground, I think we can see a lot of this. A lot more of this
happening. And I have a feeling is going to be mandatory John,
we got to start looking now or find someone or talk to somebody
between shows and find out what the deal is with this August
flu. The fact of the matter is the flu that shot that they
normally put out for the winter flu, which hipped hits hardest,
you know, between November and February. They can't develop
that flu vaccine until late in the game. So that exists, yeah,
until it exists. And then they can kind of figure out what it
might become. Then they take four candidates and make a flu
vaccine and they can't produce the flu vaccine and get it into
the public domain. Until October, typically the first or
second week of October, this thing comes out. And I remember
that exact days, because a few years ago, we actually had a
shortage in the US. And anyway, they can't so why don't get what
this is, is this, what this is just either a hollow shot. I
mean, it can't have any meaning this flu shot given for the
first week of October, it's
even funkier because they're saying well, you know, so of
course we need to have some some of the strain or whatever before
we can create it and they they're going to use the new
techniques which don't involve the the old fashioned six month
egg process, but even crazier saying, so if, if the strain is
different from the h one n one, they say, Oh, well, we can
easily morph that into whatever is necessary. Well, now
they do have a new way of you know, somebody came up this
within the last year or two some you know, there was a big deal,
a big news story that well, we found a different way of
attacking the flu virus through some other mechanism on the on
the on the little animal itself. And maybe they're talking about
that, but it was my understanding of this thing
hasn't even gone through human testing yet. Do you think
perhaps we're gonna have real time testing? Just this is what
we're looking at here. Is it they're going to actually
experiment on the public? Wait a minute, no, nevermind, there's
no way they do that. Oh, no, that wouldn't happen over here.
Nothing to see. Look at that.
Well, I you know what, the more I look at this story, it almost
almost feels like there was a payoff was due to the
pharmaceutical industry is like, Okay, we'll we'll we'll conjure
up this big scare story and everyone will start freaking out
and and then you guys can go ahead and and you know, we
already have it all on order where, you know, now everyone
will be prepared to take their shots. And
maybe there was how about this, the pharmaceutical industry
created this thing. You know, there was a couple of reports
early on when the Mexican flu, swine flu, a h one n one first
appeared that it was some people said, well, you know, this could
have been one of those things developed in Bethesda or it's
Um, lab someplace because there was some curiosities about that
those stories have been dropped that you know, maybe they maybe
they got a new marketing trick you know, which is the create
some phony but any other thing that made this flu and Mexico so
odd in terms of its perhaps being invented was that it what
it had? No, you know, it was like no history, no history,
what had no history but where it formed in the outside of a pig
farm somewhere in the middle of Mexico. It it as it gravitated
as it reproduced and moved out further away from the source, it
became almost nothing, it became like a dud. Which is
it became seasonal flu.
Yeah, mild. And it's funny, because How's it go from 150
dead? To you know,
well, what I understand and what I what I've deduced, in Mexico,
you know, the handout. Antibiotics very easily. It's
not like in the States or in many countries where you can go
through Doctor prescription, I think it's very, very easy to
get antibiotics. And my feeling is that the general resistance
of the population of Mexico City probably was reduced.
Does that make sense? biotics really has nothing to do with
with with a virus. I mean, it's, it shouldn't have made any
difference. Although it's turns out that a lot of these people
who died they died of pneumonia or something that this whole
this whole story is fishy. That's all I want to say.
Well, not nearly as fishy as the of course this happened right
after we did our last show. The big Mia culpa letter came out
for the Air Force One fly by. And he was the White House.
Military director, he he took the hit and he resigned over
there. Yeah, he quit. You know, it was kind of disturbing. Did
you read his resignation letter which was sent to the President,
by the way, did you read it? And do you have a chance to look at
any of that? No,
I didn't. I didn't think it was worth. I'm now understanding
that it was probably something I should have read
only for one reason. And one reason only not anywhere. Was
there a word that said, Hey, I'm sorry. He did. There was there
was no apology, which is like, you know, here's what happened
because he was told to do this by the president's office. Yeah.
But it's so frustrating. These people are
gonna have to quit. But I was told to do this. Yeah, no,
sorry. Just following orders. Just don't worry about it. We'll
give you a pension.
just following orders. We didn't know your habits. Nice give
boost. That that is just and did you see the picture? Did you see
the picture that they've released? Yeah, I mean, I'm
telling you, that thing is photoshopped. That's the worst.
That's the worst picture in the world. It's so it's flying above
the end the Statue of Liberty, but the background is it's
completely not the right New York background. It's got like
these Jersey in the background.
I don't know what the deal is. It's something then there's
another fishy story that somebody just sent me an
interesting little note here on the swine flu. Now this is a
good one. Now the US this is a just came in some weird source
but it says us Disease Prevention Center. I don't even
know what that is. claims the newly spread potentially fatal
strain of swine flu virus may have originated from California
of course. The Centers for Disease Control and protection
said on Saturday the state preceded Mexico the alleged
source of the virus This is now this story is even weirder. As
we investigate blah blah blahs really is March patients were
diagnosed in California with a new type of viral infection. The
new strain of swine flu virus h one n one. So okay, so it
started in California, goes to Mexico kills 150 people comes
back to California and does nothing. Me well there it's such
a big deal about to hear to list here. Ireland's the latest to
report a case. It says here's how many has been confirmed. 51
in Canada 15. In Spain, 13. In Britain, six in Germany, four in
New Zealand, three in Israel, one in Switzerland. This is
doing do we now actually know what the symptoms are of this
thing? We know the
symptoms of and listeners just say a high fever, achy back
yeah. Not not necessarily vomiting. I don't think that's a
necessity in this one.
No. Okay. Maybe diarrhea.
G big difference. The because I was talking to the girls, you
know, and Dexter's here as well and and you know, because I was
pretty sick, you know, for for a good week and a half. I was
definitely on the ropes. And so you know, I definitely whatever,
you know, if we call it Mexican flu, swine flu, I had it. I
mean, there was no other flu going around that anyone talked
about. So I had it Oh no. That's impossible because you weren't
throwing up. You weren't violently ill. I said I was ill.
It just, you know, well, you had something but the thing that's
weird about what you had was you come into the office in San
Francisco, which is normally a cesspool of disease. It is. And
you didn't get pass it on to anybody.
Well, I didn't kiss anyone this time around.
I'm just saying
from the world of the pharmaceutical industry, and
from our another one of our younger listeners, to no agenda,
I'll read this email because it's disturbing. Hey, crackpot
and buzzkill I've listened to no agenda 95 in which the 16 year
old from getting out Gitmo nation West wrote in, they might
want to hear what's being taught to the children in the midwest
of Gitmo nation east. I'm a 15 year old freshman at the same
high school that your two of your favorite guys Rahm Emanuel
and Donald Rumsfeld graduated from. Well, that's interesting.
I didn't know they went to the same school. I didn't either. my
biology teacher, that must be like, what's in DC? What's the
where all those kids go to? It's my cousin's all went to it
wisely is Wesley maybe or? I don't know. my biology teacher
recently gave us a homework assignment to learn about HPV,
and what website does she tell us to go to why www.gardasil.com
Of course, we're better to learn about a virus than the website
of the sole provider of a vaccination for it. There's even
a nice video on the homepage featuring some girls
approximately the age of those in my class. While the
assignment had questions about how Gardasil works, and why it's
important, there was not a single question on the possible
health risks. I wasn't expecting my biology teacher to ask
questions about how drugs are subsidized by the government,
but I still find it difficult to believe that my teacher was not
paid off. I love you man. I have attempted to convert some
additional no agenda producers however, bringing anything up
that could possibly be viewed as anti government results in the
large majority of my peers thinking I am a complete moron.
So I have rested my case. Your show was the only time I ever
hear about most of the stories you've talked about. So please
keep up the great work from Mitchell did excellent.
Excellent. Young freedom fighter, a freedom Ranger
amongst us up and coming lovely.
Freedom Ranger. We gotta use that one. You
liked that one.
So yeah, well, that's just kind of what the
just kind of pisses me off. This is going on in schools. Kids are
not safe.
The name of the school is actually we're talking about one
it's in Winnetka, Illinois called New Trier. Oh, is
that where a manual and I guess
and Rumsfeld sounds like a propaganda center.
I keep I keep reading the Tamiflu is no longer effective
against the Mexican flu, which of course is Rumsfeld's company.
I haven't heard that from anywhere. I've
been reading a while I'll put the links in the show notes.
Yeah, no, there's in this some kind of like semi official
looking reports about this. That doesn't work anymore. And of
course,
for you people out there who listen to the show,
Relenza switch to Relenza
Relenza is a little harder to use because you have to inhale
it. It's a powder. Oh. So like, you get these blister packs. And
it's crazy device that you suck on. And you have this I've had
it I don't have any with me now. Okay, I'm because I carry around
Tamiflu. But you know, I would just assume I mean, I find it to
be kind of interesting. Anyway, so you, you push this little
thing and it pops the blister pack and then you inhale is
really hard. Real hard, you know, to get this powder, kind
of in this in the vortex and it goes into your lungs directly.
And it actually has a nice flavor. Believe it or not, I'm
kind of realized. Suppose you could probably put this in these
blister packs of powdered milk. So she can
drop it in your tea. Oh, I never hear you cough. John. Maybe it's
Baxter international who, who of course, is one of the companies
that is contracted by the government to come up with the
with the vaccination. They're a Chicago based company. I didn't
realize that. A lot of interesting Chicago companies in
cropping up doing weird stuff. Of course that would come right
back to the Chicago mob that is now infiltrated the
administration in the White House.
Yeah, pretty much guys got it covered. So I'm looking at the
school. The website there's a list of New Trier High School
lemonade is from northern part of Chicago, just north of that
city itself, which which is the ritzy part of the US where you
know, Jesse Jackson's got a mansion all these people live in
this northern area. And some of the people that graduated high
school and college and Margaret. Adam Baldwin Ralph Bellamy. The
Bellamy brothers earn Charlton Heston Rock Hudson. Wow,
Virginia Madsen, paniolo Milford, I don't know who
O'Brien these are just actors. There's a huge list of them. And
then business executives, there's a few that you haven't
heard of. So Christie Hefner, because he would live in that
area. Of course, yeah. During that era, a whole slew of Mike
Bloomfield, the guitarist, a whole bunch of musicians.
It's a hotbed of creativity. There
are some from Elgin, it's a big list.
rather disturbing. Madison, Wisconsin, the court there's
upheld a rather disturbing practice, the police apparently
are allowed to attach a GPS to your automobile, even if you are
not a suspect. It does not require a warrant. So they can
track you. Yeah,
I think this goes on in a lot of cities.
I know what's going on in Europe, because I because I, you
know, and it's legal. And it's okay. It always was, and
apparently, you can do this. I mean, isn't that somehow a
breach of some kind of rights somewhere? Which
I don't see how it could be. I think, I think funnier ideas for
for a citizens group to to put these things on cop cars.
I wonder what they look like, I wonder what it's it's like a
kind of like a bug, like a magnet thing that you plop on
as probably, you know, a little device is probably the size of a
lipstick case, maybe maybe not even that big. And then it's got
a magnet in it. And you just, you know, get underneath and put
it under the bumper or someplace, it's, you know, where
it can go? And maybe it would be the way to do it. Right? Is you
you can you make the device, either dirt, you know, color
colored or something. So if it was hooked to the car, and you
looked under that you wouldn't necessarily see it, probably you
don't want to have a blinking light.
But clearly, it's some it's invasion of privacy. And, and if
you're not a suspect, I mean, how can they just why would they
just be able to be allowed to do that?
Why? Well, the question is, why would they want to if you're not
a suspect? The real question is, is they? As you got a note from
somebody on Skype saying not to be nitpicking, but Jesse
Jackson, Obama live in the South Shore. I live in Winnetka, on
the North Shore himself. I always thought Jesse Jackson had
a place in the North Shore. So this is news to me. I really
don't know anything about it.
Anyway. Whatever Hey, we get we have our a couple of our
listeners now that are correcting us in real time,
which I think is great.
And apologies for the last show. We just couldn't get the stream
working at the same time. You know, I am. I'm reading a book
that was recommended to me by one of our listeners. And it's a
bit of a book. It's like how many pages this thing is like
1070 pages of small print. So very challenging for me. And but
it's been it's been around for 50 years, and I'm about a
quarter of the way through it. Now. I
can't I guess the name of the book? Yes, please do? The London
phonebook.
No, no, no, it's it was written in the 40s very famous author.
She's written another famous book, which I also haven't read
and I honestly I'm such a such a
culture. You're not gonna say and Rand. Exactly what I'm gonna
say. Atlas Shrugged.
Well, please Have you read this?
I've read her stuff. Sure. Have you read The Fountainhead is the
book you want to read? That's actually quite entertaining.
Yeah. So
that's, I understand that they're ready to make the movie
about The Fountainhead.
But the fountainhead was made into a movie in the 40s Starring
Gary
Cooper then it's a remake. And there you go.
The Originals probably better
but Atlas Shrugged is really interesting. Why are you going
Oh, brother. Wow,
she is a she is a sensually a cult figure. And the people who
follow her are all kind of wacky. Objectivists and what's
your point? I know it makes sense with you doing this of
course. She's a this this this philosophy she developed called
objectivism is rather bits it's kind of soulless and it's not
particularly pleasant ideals that are in it I'm not a big
fan.
So I guess I haven't gotten to the idealistic part but what is
kind of cool is this the description of how how evil
government really is. least that's the way I'm gonna read
this
book kind of to get that.
Yeah, you know what I'm Sam, it's fascinating though it's a
page turner once you kind of get into it,
yeah, no, I actually sat down and read Fountainhead in one
sitting. It's just phenomenal. And, and by the way, anyone out
there who knows that book knows what? Put down.
Don't say it. Don't say anything. Because that's, that's
the next one on my list now, but I thought it was a great. This
is a book that I would never pick up to read, I'd look at
this thing. Go. No, no time for that. This is like this is
bigger than my bar of gold.
I have a book around here I should recommend
when I finished it, so by the next show, I'll I'll do a
review. But I think you would not recommend having read it a
long, long time ago in its original apparently and its
original first run edition.
No, I mean, if people would have never read and ran, they should.
I mean, she's a very entertaining writer. And she's
got and she creates a sense of drama, The storytelling is
fairly decent. It's just that the underlying philosophies you
know, get on your nerves. After a while I actually had a
roommate in college who was a and ran nut. And I found the guy
to be you know, he kept I think most of his time was spent
looking in the mirror and grooming his eyebrows.
Literally. I think that's pretty much to me. That's an added
random question. You know, you might do the same, but
I'll let you know. I'll let you know how it turns
out. You'll be kind of a nerdy guy out. You'll be fat fanatic
for a short time. So anything else? We're I think that's it
for this week's news.
No, no, man.
Don't forget, I'm outta here. I don't have any stories.
There's tons of them. That's right. There's nothing you can
know about. And it's the craziest thing. So I always pick
up the National Enquirer and People Magazine and house
magazine and, and Teen Vogue for Christina and I bring that home.
And so why not just Hey, so what is the funniest thing? And you
know, how long we've been married 22 years? And how long
have I had been a crackpot, you know, at least two years, maybe
three years? And she says, Is this true? Is this true? So what
that Brad and Angelina are going to split up? What? Why would I
know that?
Because you were in the states and everybody knows what's going
on here. Importantly, why
would I care?
Brad and Angelina, I'm surprised they stay together as long as
they have.
She's She's smoking man. But she's and she's got to be kind
of wacky,
kind of.
I don't know. I mean, she's got
to be a handful. Any guy I gotta give Brad Pitt a lot of credit,
because he's a very faint, you know, he's a good actor. I like
really like his movies. And I like what he selects to do.
Although I couldn't watch,
you know, after reading. Did you see that? No,
I didn't even know. No, I haven't seen that. Watch. You
did that other movie where he's an old man is a baby on
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
I couldn't watch it. I couldn't stand why was I was on the
airplane. There's two or three movies I watched when I travel
across the ocean. I watch probably three, four movies
depending on which direction I'm going. And so I watched. I
watched the new James Bond movie. I was thinking about this
last night. So I'm gonna talk about I can talk about movies I
saw recently I saw that I couldn't I could do this. And I
started thinking about it. For one thing, I almost turned it
off three times in the middle because it was more like a
Jackie Chan movie. There was no story. And it was like the kind
of action that was like, why is this guy having to DWIs is when
did James Bond become this world class karate champion, you know,
with with all these crazy moves and crawling up buildings and
doing Jackie Chan stuff. So I thought it was and the movie
started with about two or three of these scenes. I said, This is
bull. I'm turning it off, and I've been watching it. But
thinking back on it. I can't remember what it was about. He
was so shallow.
Oh, how I long for the days of Roger Moore and even Sean
Connery when you think of it,
so then I watched I tried to watch the Benjamin Button movie.
I couldn't take it. It just was like it was just annoying was so
annoying. I had to turn it off the movie I did like and I think
everyone out there should definitely rant or look at it or
get a copy. Because it was riveting. And you wouldn't know
why unless you saw the movie. Frost Nixon Oh, I saw
that. I saw that on the way over fantastic movie. I had no idea
that frost financed all that stuff himself that he took this
huge risk and almost you know almost blew it.
Yeah, he almost went bankrupt. It was a fant it's a fantastic
story. Mostly about the backstory not so much about the
debate. And it was I think it's one of the what's really one of
the finest films I've seen for years.
There is one other one I'd like to mention since I also like to
watch movies from time to time when I'm traveling across the
ocean. The reader with Kate Winslet Yeah, I didn't get to I
was thinking about I cry I couldn't not stop crying I had
actual tears. I'm like I'm so happy. So happy on my flatbed
because I don't want anyone to see that I'm sitting here like a
baby cry. Such a buzzy and it's a long movie too. It's like two
and a half hours but beautiful watch
beautiful I watched Jim Carrey's yes man and I think that was
actually even though it's it's ridiculous formula movie which
is right out of the textbook. I had a piece one of these formula
flicks together you know boy meets girl boy loses girl boy
music, but I thought it was highly entertaining. Because
there's a there's a bunch of scenes that are quite funny and
Jim Carrey is quite good.
His use of seven seven pounds Will Smith no seven
I don't even never even heard of that. Yeah,
it's a good movie man. It's one of those that kind of unravels
and it all comes together at the end and just a it's a fabulous
story I don't I don't see I can't wait till the story
because it would spoil it but Will Smith I think he's
performance and that is it's Oscar stuff. Really really is
another blue I cried.
Like yeah, well the Oscar movies are the ones that come out near
the end of the year. They've got this thing set up now where
Wait, it's all gonna be Indian movies again. Yeah, probably I
find the movie industry is in such dire straits and you know
how movies are financed there's basically two types of financing
there's the Well there's two parts to the financing you have
the you know the money that just flows in from idiots who want to
think they're gonna get laid you know by the actresses and they
can be on the red carpet but the real the real financing is the
debt financing of these movies that is all done upfront that's
always the first money out and that's the real that's what you
know real hedge funds are in that and and banks you know it's
pure debt financing there was no debt financing anymore there are
meetings going on all over Hollywood people are freaking
out because there is no money to make movies right now there's
just no money well so I'm saying perfect opportunity for what for
some debt financing I'd love to debt finance a couple movies you
kidding me?
Well what's your email day these the Hollywood moguls that listen
to the show? can send you a note and you can be given organizing
this Yes, I could. Now whenever we have any you know if we had
any Hollywood people that listen to the show, because I've been
trying to get a bit part that's why it's just some guy you know
guys behind the counter.
711 You kids get to get away from Pac Man
laid off old man. Would you like fries with that? Get out of my
sight your kids don't want you know how to flip a burger.
May 14, the annual Bilderberg conference is scheduled to be
held. Yeah. In Greece this year.
In Greece Oh, yeah. Was in Athens are one of the islands
it's at the five star Neph SICA austere Palace Hotel in
Vouliagmeni limonene. Which doesn't, which sounds like an
island to me.
Sounds like one Yeah. In with the regular public, you have to
put them out on an island somewhere. And this is
just a crate for people who don't know what the Bilderberg
Group is started by Prince Bernard of the Netherlands in
the Bilderberg hotel. It's essentially world leaders,
royalty, the movers and shakers all come together. But the crazy
thing is it also includes the editors of the top publications
of newspapers, magazines, but it's kind of like a fight club
thing where how can we never been invited? Let me think. I
have interviewed someone who went there the the Dutch secret
Secretary of Economic Affairs. And I've asked him point blank,
I said, So what do you guys discuss? What do you chat about
there at the Bilderberg? He says I'm sorry, I can't talk about
that's the first rule of Bilderberg is we don't talk
about Bilderberg but but it's but what so because
they don't talk about anything as a drinking Club. Well, then
why
would the press that is invited why doesn't the press just say
that then? Oh, you know, we just hung out and drank. I mean,
that's okay. I'd accept that. But the fact that the press has
invited World Press top editors and owners of publications but
the editors and nothing is allowed to be published. It's
irksome and does not do you see that hurts their credibility.
Bill Gates used to have a thing down the hood. canal. He's got
some sort of a lodge there. And he every year would invite, you
know, Walt Mossberg and John Markoff and all these hot shots,
and all these big papers that cover technology down to this
brainwashing session that they had the Hood Canal. And they
would one of the rules was the same rule. You can't
what you've told us this story before.
Well, you wanted to do your I did.
Yeah. And that you were on that you were no longer invited?
No, no, I was never invited.
Okay, well, I take it back continue.
No, I was never invited. But I found out about it. Because then
the only reason I found out about it was a fluke, because
they had the same rule. Now you can't talk about it. But we have
a bunch of newspaper guys. This is the problem with tech
reporting. By the way, it's not just tech reporting. But yes,
no, I'm just saying what tech reporting they make people cite.
And I have to say they did this with tech reporting before they
deal with the general media, which does not make people say
non disclosures. So you sign a nondisclosure agreement, which
is a legal document that says you can't talk about this or
that. And sometimes there's a date attached where you can
start talking about it or not, I mean, this is all done for the
marketing department. So they can carefully orchestrate you
know what, how they're going to roll a product out, and how
they're going to keep the buzz alive and do all the rest of it.
So there's no real reporting going on. Because you're signed
off on all this stuff. By the way, I refuse to sign these
things. No, I'm, and I think it's important that anybody does
sign them and they sign them at the New York Times they sign him
at the Washington Post a sign of everyplace else. No, what I did
was I had found out about this Hood Canal thing. And then I got
a hold of a couple of friends of mine that went there. And I just
had them tell me about it. And I just reported on it. Yeah. And
of course then they cancelled it and never had it a sense that I
know of.
So I was not under nondisclosure. Just before I
left, we went down to Cupertino and met with my old friend Eddie
Q. You know, Eddie,
fast Eddy Cue.
That's fast. Eddy Cue everybody. How you doing Eddy Cue down here
in Cupertino. The Eddy Cue runs the the entire iTunes, iPhone,
iPod Touch division. And there's your buddy. Yeah. Well, he was
it was in just before the D Conference when he called me up
and said, Yeah, Steven, I would like to meet with you about
podcasting and iTunes. And this was before they, before they
integrated it and announced it and launched it. And so we went
down from the meeting. And these guys are on fire down there,
dude, they are so on fire. And now a fire. Not in like actual
fire. But okay. But man is just amazing this platform that they
have. And now in the new iPhone apps, I believe that the
functionality you'll be able to to create an iPhone app where
you can then sell stuff within the iPhone app. So you can sell
your iPhone app and then you could potentially sell well
obviously anything in the iTunes store but also other iPhone
apps. So you can put your own like affiliate program into the
iPhone app. It's just there's there's so smart. If so on to
that they know exactly what to do. These guys are
Dan. I curse that you given him a blowjob on the air. Yeah,
well,
that's it. That's all I wanted to do. Hold on. Who's it? Now
it's good. Well, we're gonna do some stuff with them. We got
some ideas.
Okay, well, that's
a good thing. Yeah, but I was I was just amazed at Eddie's
office. Dude, he's got like, every massive celebrity it's
like Eddie, I love you. It's almost like he's a record boss.
Well of course he is really. But you know from actors to sports
figures he's got
but he has a bunch of signed autographed pictures all over
the office a bunch
that is the office I mean there's not there's not a wall
space left because the this thing is just so massive for
people I think I'm actually have to go get one now. Go get one
what an iPhone. I gotta get an iPhone again.
Would you want you to get the what iPod Touch? Well, I have I
have the old iPod Touch that could go I could get a new iPod
Touch don't get an iPhone because you're going to all
you're gonna do is complain about
I was thinking of taking my GE phone in and just laying it on
the table. Hey, everybody, how you doing? Here's my here's my G
phone. Which I am loving more and more. By the way, I love the
G phone because I have the the US the MVNO offices gave me this
one. And so we have the you know, the T Mobile I guess on
it. So when I'm in the States, I want to use that because it's
obviously cheaper to call around. So I wound up kind of
using it as my primary device and it just really it really
does rock I can't help but say
it what operating system you have. Because if you have my son
who has a developer's model, upgraded to 1.5 and he says the
battery life is just goes right. It becomes usable.
Really? Yeah. Well, I have the most recent version, I mean,
it's all updated.
Yeah, I think it was a T Mobile Phone is probably not 1.5.
Well, can I see that in the monitor? Tell me in the settings
if I look at it what it should about phone? Hold on. Yes, about
phone. I have firmware version 1.1.
All I know is I get a tweet saying i They won't let us
upgrade to 1.5. So, so I go to my Twitter account announced
that they're what you're looking for this I'm going to tell you,
it's 1.1 it's 1.1. So it's not 1.5.
Okay, so I'm looking at the Twitter account. Just tell
people we're streaming this. And my, my following goes from the
666, which I had on there as a kind of a gag. Yeah. To 667 I
didn't follow anybody knew.
You must have done something somewhere.
Adam can upgrade the old I touched to the new firmware for
$10. So I don't know I didn't I'm telling you. I don't just
follow anybody. I don't remember. I know I didn't. I
guarantee you yesterday was 666 and out 667. So some hack going
on. That got me up one number. So I'm
just I'm just waiting for I'm so tired. I can't remember what it
was going to. I lost it mid sentence. Can you believe that?
Yeah,
that was bad. Yeah, I can hardly wait for.
For I know what I remembered. For Android on a netbook, I'm
holding out the first netbook that really has Android Rock,
and I'm buying it I think, I think these guys are onto
something. It'll never be the platform six, or I don't let's
not say never, but I don't think it'll be the platform success
that iTunes and everyone's trying to do this. Now Nokia is
relaunching the OV ov store, which keeps reminding me of
ovaries for some reason. But they're launching the
relaunching the Ovi Store and everyone's you know, trying to
recreate this model of a marketplace and App Store
essentially the the Apple App Store but it's not working for
at least doesn't appear to be as successful as what Apple is
doing. But it's, it's kind of like the new the new black you
know, everybody has to have a store, an app store.
And yeah, I know everyone has to have an app store. No, it has to
be called an app store
and we need it we totally need a no agenda street or no agenda
app for the for the BlackBerry lots of people requesting that
and I have no idea if it's hard to do or
somebody out there probably one of our listeners can just
probably knock it off in a weekend well we'll promote it so
we'll promote it so what's the no we have two apps for the
iPhone?
Yes we do. I have I've not tried either one Jersey Joe at the
office he he's using the one that the original one but yeah,
I don't know if they're the same if they're the same
functionality. But people do seem to like it because it does
the it'll it'll download the podcast but also play the stream
that is only if we keep the stream at 64 kilobits or lower
because Apple Apple won't allow apple won't allow a higher
quality stream I guess for the for cost of bandwidth or
something of the like
oh can you get the stream in some other fashion do you have
to go through the apple everything to do everything is
everything you have to go through Apple is all roads lead
to Apple and everything have to come out of Apple isn't making
any sense probably well we need an Android phone app then
well stream furious doesn't very well stream furious were baked
in we're in the we're in the listing and and they actually
they they asked me for some sound sort of sound clips and so
I guess they want they want to do like a sound board along with
the no agenda. I'm now care I'm just happy stream Furious is
great app. I use it on the you should you should load it on the
on your G phone. It's great streaming, streaming radio app.
So I've been saving this one now what are we 45 minutes from the
show? Yep, perfect. Here we go. John, the Clean Water
Restoration Act, which amends the Federal Water Pollution
Control Act. Now past Do you know what this does?
Probably something bad.
Yeah, I was right along. What we were talking about earlier or a
couple of weeks back with the United Nations wanted to control
the waters, the oceans, the seas, etc. So there were some
changes in this in this amendment to the act. And
they've taken out the language navigable waters of the United
States of the United States. and change it to waters of the
United States which is a huge difference because in one case
it's I guess water where you can use the other you could use as
transportation now it's all water of the United States all
the water in my well yes all water.
So here's waters of the United States the term waters of the
United States means all waters subject to the ebb and flow of
tide the territorial seas and all interstate and intrastate
waters and their tributaries, including lakes, rivers,
streams, including intermittent streams, mudflats, sand flats,
wetlands, sloughs, Prairie, potholes, wet meadows, playa
lakes, natural ponds, and all impoundments of the foregoing to
the fullest extent of these waters or activities affecting
these waters are subject to the legislative power of Congress
under the Constitution. Water is now owned by the government it
is no longer a right you have no right to water, the government
controls water and there's a huge I mean, there's there's
there's people freaking out over this there are and this was so
this was announced in that the World Water Forum in March in
Turkey. And where language actually from there were there
were there, what do you call it? Their doctrine declaring water
as a human right was removed. So in the United States, the way I
read this and the way others read it as well, all water and
that was quite a list there including your well water John
is owned by the government and I guess can be done with as they
please whenever they want to.
Does that include recycled pee?
Why are you like this? It's so unnecessary. This is a huge
deal. This is this is this is what let me ask you this. Would
you consider water a human right?
Well, I don't consider it a right I consider it a thing an
item a reality a something that exists, I don't have
access to water? Or can someone say You know, you can't have
that water?
Well, if they put a fence around the reservoir, I don't think I
have the right to go through the fence.
Right, but who's putting the fence around the reservoir? The
government cannot do
I have mixed feelings about this. Let's put it that way. I
don't know what this means. I mean, I don't know why they're
doing this or something fishy about it, which is today's
theme, by the way. Fishy stories.
So if I look at the Grand overview of everything that's
going on, and all the horseshit that we're following when it
comes to climate change here, here's kind of what I'm
thinking. Here's the the theory that I'm working on, call it a
conspiracy theory, if you must. So clearly, clearly, there is
knowledge that in the next few years and probably it'll
coincide with 2012 Go ahead and say it Oh, brother. Oh, brother
clearly there is knowledge that there are big changes afoot and
and it makes sense there are changes the magnetic poles are
reversing we've got all kinds of massive magnetic and solar
activity, you know, the Earth is changing the Earth changes all
the time. It's evolved throughout its its history, only
6000 years, as you know, and I believe that there is actual
knowledge that lots of crap is going to happen and that there
will be weird and that's I'm not talking I'm not calling for
destruction and devastation. We're all gonna die. But yeah,
we could see flooding in weird places. We could totally see
shit coming down. And I think that that's why all of this all
these stories are being launched. And that's why Al Gore
can stay with such certainty that they know the science is
clear. And
well, while you're at it, play the clip I
gave you okay, hold on a second.
This is a one day hard on Larry King.
She's She from the from the view Joy babies that
comedian she's a comedian that that is one of the women on the
view.
Okay. Oh, here we go. She's on Larry King and
she's gonna be bitching about sorry, go ahead. She's gonna be
bitching about Rush Limbaugh.
And this and this pertains to 2012 Somehow, just play it. Hey,
get off my lawn. You kids Shut up. There you go.
There's no problem. I mean, this guy, Rush Limbaugh. I used to
work with him years ago. And I sort of been friendly with him
in a certain weird kind of way. Did pills together and he
constantly is talking about how there was no global warming.
Every climatologist in the world. says there's global
warming. Every scientist has said there is a problem. We're
all On this earth together and this guy goes out and says that
there's no global warming, who was hey, what is he talking
about? And who, with these ditto heads that agree with him? I'd
like to know, aren't they breathing the same air that we
are? I don't think he has a degree in meteorology. Oh, I
don't think so.
What a bonehead, meteorology that has nothing to do with
climate.
So, of course, that that implies that either Al Gore has a degree
in meteorology, I think as the great joy has a degree. The
thing that gets me about this stuff, which is every the word
you use, every now
every single, every single one. This is
what's the problem is with this argument and why it sets off a
bunch of alarms and red flags with me when you start saying
it. Because this is like going to Israel and getting an
agreement, you know, with anybody, they're just going to
be debating forever. And then the scientists don't all agree
on anything. There's
a definition of science. Sorry, isn't that almost a definition
of science? That is not truth is debatable. Yeah.
So how does every with no exception every climatologist
and every scientist, this is bull? I mean, when you start
hearing that you know something's wrong. When will
we just come to terms with the fact that the arrogance, the
pure arrogance of thinking that we are going to hurt Mother
Earth is ludicrous. We might kill ourselves? Sure. I mean,
that's highly likely. In fact, it's probably necessary that a
whole bunch of us die pretty soon because we're growing at
exponential rate. And so maybe that's why things like Mexican
flu are introduced to kind of help that along. But the
arrogance of thinking that we're gonna that we're going to ruin
the earth just slays me time and time again, when I hear that.
Yeah, no wonder you know, Krakatoa goes off and it throws
up so much crap into the atmosphere that there's the we
could never duplicate, you know, supervolcano blowing, and they
happen all the time. So anyway, I just found that clip to be
annoying. So, you know, she, I mean, here's a comedian, you
know, that is just, you know, full of herself and just like
found the thing to be. And by the way, I have a clip, I can
put it up, I'll send you a link to one of the more famous
meteorologists from, who's a TV guy now, going on and on about
what a bunch of you know that this is all in true and what you
mean,
the guy who started the Weather Channel? Yeah, that guy. Yeah.
John, do I have to go and pull the show where I played that?
Don't you remember, we played the whole interview where he's
like this whole thing? It's about 20 minutes through I
played the relevant bits. So maybe I played on daily source
code. I can't remember that was
on our show. Right now. It's a you're getting you're the one
that should have the horn honked?
Where is it? In a world? Oh, no, that's not it. Not sorry. I
missed it. Maybe this one? No, not that one. No, no, sorry. I
can't help you. Save by the bill.
I gotta hook up with sound effect machine to this thing. On
my side. This is ridiculous.
Ron Paul's Audit the Fed bill, HR 1207. Now has 148 co
sponsors. We're getting closer. Getting closer.
Now. What was my prediction on this? It's not going to happen?
It's
not Yeah, you said but we need 218 to have
to have it pass. So Senate has to deal with it.
Well, yeah, but I mean, step by step, Baby steps, baby steps and
there was a, just a beaut, and this is in the shownotes. You
have to listen to this. I'd love to play a couple of clips from
this, John. This is me. Where the hell is it? Yeah, it's the
clip is called who is minding the store at the Fed. And this
is, let me just open it up. This is from from Congress. This is
Alan Grayson, asking the Federal Reserve inspector general, about
the trillions of dollars lent or spent by the Federal Reserve
where it went and the trillions of off balance sheet
obligations. Now the whole thing is about five and a half
minutes. But just to hear, I just got to play a little bit of
it so you can hear what is crazy. Obviously, they're not
answering anything
Have you done any investigation to what we call dead air?
You can't hear this. No, you're not hearing anything?
No, I'm not hearing anything. How is that possible? I hear it.
Man I'm just telling you. I heard all I want a second all
the other sound effects you did fine. But this is like you're
putting this through some of the systems Oh, it's
going through exactly the same system. Let me see if I don't
hear a thing that will hold them. Well, it's not playing
right now. Hold on. Shit, you're right. I crap. was no fun than
if you can't hear it.
Sure I heard the Joyce bay or thing. Yeah, JB.
Let me just see why is this happening to me? Oh, it's it's
even going through the music being recorded. I say I can't
believe you're not hearing that.
I'm hearing nothing. All right. Well, I want it for next week
that yeah, I'm sorry. I don't know, what's the what's wrong
here. But He literally says, Okay, so there's $9 trillion of
off balance sheet obligations. Can you please tell us where
that money went? And she just won't answer the question. She's
like, well, you know, it's part of our review review of $10
trillion a review. Now we're not it's not an investigation. It's
a process we call a review. And so where did that money go?
Well, as part of our review, it's just you have to watch this
clip, it will freak you
out. Okay, we'll make a link to it. And we'll talk about next
show. Yeah,
I'm sorry. Well, someone
else was talking about this show, which I wanted to talk
about last time. Okay, is apparent, apparently Arnold
Schwarzenegger opened the door to legalizing marijuana in the
state of California by saying it should be discussed what you
said that last show. Yeah, I said last show that we're going
to talk about it on this show. So
what's there to talk about?
What's there to talk about some numbers, if you start looking at
it, because people have this interesting argument like, well,
you know, it's not going to really do the state much good
because you know, you're going to tax marijuana because it has
a tax ID, right. It's the tax marijuana is not going to really
do that much. Because, you know, people just gonna grow it
themselves. And I'm thinking, Well, how many people grow their
own tomatoes? I mean, you effect well, how many people grow their
own food? They don't do that. I mean, some people, you know,
aren't interested in how many people you know, in the olden
days of the pot smoking in the in California, by the way, we
have a good piece of artwork for this topic that yeah, we do.
Depart pot smoking. Most people buy their pot, they don't grow
it.
I don't know you reliably informed on this.
Seems to me? Well, anyway, so I was looking at the numbers. So
I'm looking at the numbers. And in fact it you know, the most
they could expect to get even though it's nothing to sneeze
at, which is about the amount of tax they get from tobacco in
California, which is a billion dollars. But the fact of the
matter is, we still have something like we have something
like 45,000 people in jail for drug related offenses, which
cost the taxpayers between 35,000 70,000 a year. Yes, that
which is one deal, right. And we're talking about at least $2
billion in this is from 1999 figures, by the way in savings,
plus 2 billion in taxation brings it to 3 billion. And then
if you start to look at the ancillary stuff, which in other
words, what is law enforcement? What is the price of law
enforcement over this stuff? We're talking about another
couple billion, and you end up with something like 6 billion?
Well, but don't you see, John, that's exactly why it's taking
place. That's exactly why it's never going to go away. Because
all of these, all of these prisons, marijuana
and decriminalize drug uses, which is different than
legalizing, by the way. We in the year 2000, California
wouldn't have this huge deficit. Something, I think 6040 There's
42 billion in the hole right now. We wouldn't be up here
about $20 billion, we get fix these potholes on the San
Francisco Golden Gate Bridge.
Yeah, but it's part of the military industrial complex.
This is exactly why it's still taking place. Because these are
commercial prisons, they get money per head per person that
they have incarcerated. It's exactly that reason why it will
never be legalized because it's way too big. And in the scheme
of the evil Uber lords who control us with their military
police. They can
control us all we want. But we're $42 billion in the hole in
the state of California with a 10% personal income tax. The
public can't put up with this crap any longer, even though
there's some Uber Lords or whatever they are doing the
prison system. We don't need all these drug users in jail at
$70,000 a person that we're paying for
all these drug users working for the government, that's a much
better plan.
Well, I'd rather have them working for the government for
40,000 a year then paying 40,000 just to feed them. It's
ridiculous.
Did you see the unemployment numbers that came out? 600,000
It seems like every month it's five to 700,000 more new
unemployed what happened to the saver create bit,
but they've saved they would have been a million. Oh, right.
Okay, I'm sorry. I should have known. They've saved 500,000
jobs. There
was a sector that grew by 150,000 jobs. Government Yes,
exactly. I was gonna say Yeah, exactly.
Anyway, so Schwarzenegger at least has left the door open.
There's a big movement in California to do this, by the
way, it's not going to happen, just as you are so sure about HR
1207 This'll never it'll never be legalized, it'll never be
decriminalized. It's just not gonna happen.
And whatever happened to Obama's promise that they were going to
stop harassing these people that have the legal marijuana joints,
you know, for medical purposes.
Well, there's a lot of promises, man, I mean, this whole it's
kind of slipping under the under the radar. But, you know,
Guantanamo Bay is not closed. Okay. We know that on day two,
there was the big there was the big who, oh, that's the first
thing I'm gonna do. I'm gonna close Gitmo baby, and it's not
closed. And in fact, that debate is now once again raging,
because, well, you know, where are we going to send these
people we have nowhere to send. It's like 100 Guys, you know,
100 100 guy the what is the big deal? You can incarcerate 45,000
People who are using do use drugs. But so and it looks like
it looks like this is just me a throwback to the Bush
administration or the bush. I look more like Bush to it. Sure.
It Bush three humane it's your day? I
guess it is Bush today.
So many things, you know, the same for the wiretapping. You
know, and have you seen any of these? Eric Holder holder?
hearings with the Attorney General, essentially, about
prosecuting the Bush administration officials for
sanctioning waterboarding and other e i Ts.
Yeah. That went in? Oh, man. I think they should Well, of
course they should. The what gets me in this hit me on the
plane is like, because just before I left, I was watching
this and you know, and then of course, the question is did
Nancy Pelosi the speaker of the house? Did she know that these
enhanced interrogation techniques, waterboarding were
being used? And she said, Oh, no, I was only told that there
was a legal opinion. Of course, thank you lawyers of the world.
There was a legal opinion that it was not actually torture, and
that's what she was briefed on. But everyone knows that of
course. Of course, she knew it was going on but what kills me
is that we have these huge discussions about you know,
simulating drowning on someone not a nice practice. You know,
throwing caterpillars into confined spaces with people who
freak out over it not a nice practice. But at the same time,
you do realize that we have we are killing each other there
people shooting bullets at each other. And you know, tanks and
blowing up people from helicopters. That is not a
discussion Well, that's all fair. No, that's okay. The irony
of it just goes beyond me. I was talking to the guy who made my
omelet the last day I left at the at the hotel Frank and and
he says man, Frank make an omelet. I don't know how we got
into it. But he said man you know this when you got these
guys over there and in Iraq and Afghanistan and just blow 30
people up we can't win a war like that. That's not fair.
They're not playing fair. Like sounds like the flip the omelet
Frank. Just flip it for me, Willie baby. It's not fair.
So back to the marijuana topic, just for a second my son asked
me so so what do you do? What is his legalized marijuana thing?
You got it? Is that because of Adam? And I want to make it
clear that it's not. It's because of the taxes and the
stupidity. I do not advocate anybody using drugs. And I in
fact, excoriate you constantly for smoking tobacco.
I have I have, you know, I have not smoked marijuana for the
past five days.
And if anybody out there would notice it doesn't seem to make
any difference with you. Exactly. So but you're still
smoking tobacco.
Very little, actually.
Anyway, the point is that no, this is just a practical matter.
Sick
and tired of it. I'm sick and tired of myself. I'm sick and
tired of being unhealthy. I'm going to the gym starting
Tuesday. My daughter is committed to drag me in
times are we pumped up?
Yeah. Hey, baby, getting my guns. Oh, yeah, man. Look out.
No, I'm tired of it. John. I'm so after that bout with swine
flu. I'm like, I gotta stop this shit. I gotta stop smoking. I
just got to stop everything. It's just I become so
unpleasant.
Well, there goes your office meetings.
Yeah, in the staircase.
So well, good luck with that.
Well, thank you. Thank you for being so supportive.
Well, I think you know, you tried it before. I hope you can
do it this time. I can But you know, going to the gym probably
does help every once in a while everyone should do that two
times
a week to start off with I'm going to be so nice give out and
then you're I'm gonna go I'm gonna come back to San Francisco
in June, I'm gonna be so pumped up baby. And I gotta get a I'm
going to be out there for a long time. I'm going to be out for
like a month. Oh, no, yeah, so I gotta get the setup. I gotta get
a hardware setup. So we don't dick around with all that stuff
every single time. So it just works.
So you're gonna be able to stream you think,
yeah, that's, that's what I'm saying. I gotta make sure that
that's all set up. While we're at it, John, why don't we
talk? Let's go to Yes, I'm sorry. No, you're right. You're
the Knights of the Knights of the Knights of an award. And we
saw
a show about donations.
Hi, Adam. And John. I'm the one who donated $48.71, which is the
one he doesn't want his name mentioned. I don't believe
okay. Oh, I remember this one. This. This was a wacky code we
never ever would have gotten.
Yeah. I'm a registered Health Information Technician through
the American Health Information Management Association
responsible for data integrity, blah, blah, blah. Which is kind
of interesting, because one of the big stories this week is
somebody stole all the data from the Virginia Health Care System.
Oh, really? I didn't know that. Yeah, some hacker effect. I
haven't seen the follow up on the stream. Maybe somebody can
send me a tweet tweet or something if there's anything
new. But some guys still 10 million records are ignored it
more than that did all the states apparently most of
Virginia's health care information and then deleted the
files on the servers and then found the backups and deleted
them? And said, Give me $10 million? Or I'm putting these
records into the public domain? I'll give them to the highest
bidder and what exactly
are these? What are these records consist of?
It's like all the health care information under the guise of
your you know, the person's name their health record, to do every
doctor have a social security number, there's
really not going to be that exciting, because as we've
determined, all of this information is essentially
insurance codes.
Some of it? I don't know,
besides, well, yeah. Besides, this is what we learned besides
the demographic data, or you know about the patient. There's
not actually it's not like there's hand entries by you
know, Dr. Spock, saying, Well, I saw this patient and this is
where his symptoms and this is what I prescribe. Oh, yes, we
do. We do know this, what's in there is one of 20,000 Insurance
codes, and that is your medical history. It's not, not like your
GP is entered all of this data, meticulously the way he would in
his own notes, which is, which is the danger of this type of
digitized health care being implemented by the IT
specialists?
Well, anyway, the point is, he's got this stuff, and he wants $10
million. So that's cool. So they're special, the FBI and
everybody's spending all their time wheel spinning, trying to
trap this guy, you know, two IP addresses, MAC addresses and
whatever they can do. Yeah, so the guy is so bold to come out
with this, you can be sure that he's either mobbed up Russian
mob or something that probably a Bulgaria or someplace and he's
got so many covers, you know, in terms of IP spoofing, that
they're never going to figure out who it is. So 4871 All
right, here we go. You actually discuss the meaning of the
number but the next topic is just no agenda 95 bla bla bla,
code, the code 4871 is actually 48 point 44 87.1 Is the ICD dash
nine international classifications diseases for
swine flu that technically there are three to choose from 4870 or
which is 44 87.0. Influenza, influenza with pneumonia 487
point one influenza with other respiratory ie cough, or
480 7.8, which is influenza, influenza with other
manifestations. I don't really see the difference there were
the last two. But anyway, since every October new and modified
codes are added to the codebook. They may add a specific swine
flu code by next fall. They did add code for it. This is by the
way, boring, but I'm gonna read it anyway. They did add code for
88. So anyone wants to give us 48 bucks? Would it be good
influenza due to the avian influenza virus after all the
bird flu hysteria. Anyway. So there's other ones Jerry
mentioned, by the way, like codes like 305 dot 00, which is
alcohol intoxication slash abuse. Do we have to know about
this international classification? No, it's a
standard. This is probably the stuff that was stolen by the
scammer.
Yeah so what did the same thing yes insurance codes
635 dot nine could reveal an elective abortion 295 dot 90
could reveal schizophrenia
Oh, before I want to do we have any donations we're gonna just
move on. There's anything worth mentioning or people not giving
us any money anymore. Is it all just done are we toast?
We'll go through the number with the specific people next
Thursday, but I would advise people to please donate donate
this. What I saw Thursday night relates or Friday I guess
relates to this because one of the main reasons I I like
marijuana is because it it, it appears to help against my mild
form of Tourette Syndrome. Interestingly enough,
yes. And by the way, I think that Tourette syndrome that you
have is responsible for your occasional outbursts.
Oh, you know what, if you do an MRI of my brain, the the tics
and twitches are related to firing of synapses in the brain.
You can it's coordinated, it's all built in it could totally be
apps that have to do with that. I don't know it's a weird
disease and it's no one can do anything about it. At least I'm
not well in fact, I am saying a lot of nasty swear words as well
but I don't do it in the supermarket typically.
Now one of the things that I saw there was a really good
Tourettes special on PBS some years ago that I watched. And it
was interesting because the number of people who just sit
around cussing all the time with Tourette's is very low. It's
very low. Yeah, one in
Kabul, but they are they are the funniest, the most fun to hang
out with.
I was actually on an airplane with one of them came on Yeah, I
know they took the guy comes I knew something was amiss when he
started coming on the plane to begin with, because for one
thing, he had a rolly bag, but he had the thing turned around
backwards. So the wheels were not really making contact, they
were just scraping and he was cussing. And so I said, ah I
already seen this special and he had the twitches and so he sits
down he was in first class and he sits down and he starts
cussing as people come on the plane because he got on early.
So as people go by it goes
nuts so I'm telling you, I suffer from this so I know what
it is. What's weird about this syndrome is there's and a lot of
people will have like gutter I've obviously studied this
people make guttural sounds and really weird things. And what it
is, is you you know that you're going to twitch or you know that
you're going to make some kind of sound or and and you all and
wells up and you and you almost can't see well, you obviously
can't stop it. Although I have a very uncanny knack of being able
to stop it when I'm on camera. I don't know why. But it is
certain types of sounds and words why this is why cocksucker
is you'll hear that a lot with Tourette patients. I don't think
SON OF A BITCH is one they use a lot. Are you sure you said son
of a bitch. Now he may have been cussing some other well,
you know how nice it is to say, you know, it's like a gotcha.
It could have been that whatever the case was, it was it was I
recognize what it was. And I was amused by it because it's
amusing. It's just very amusing. But the guy got kicked off the
plane if I took him off. So to disrupt on
Real Time with Bill Maher, one of our favorite writers was on
Seth MacFarlane. And he has Tourette Syndrome. He has
exactly what I have. And it was really fun to watch. Because
because I can see it, you know, I can see where you know, he's
trying to control it. And as he has good little little, my
sister was called jujitsu is what they call it. And he's got
a little you know, little twitch with his head thing going on
there. And I noticed that immediately like, oh, man, the
guy's got Tourette. And, and what happens is, is when when
you're when He's really He's into the vibe, and he's
laughing, it was funny, and he was on the ball. And he was you
know, Joe and who he was, he was killing he was really, really
good. And then a guy and then it really starts to happen, you
know, because now he's not paying attention to it. It's
like, wow, yeah, it was just, it was it was good for me as a
fellow sufferer like you go. And it's interesting to watch. It's
interesting to watch someone with Tourette. They're not
boring. Yeah.
Well, it's kind of interesting. I mean, it's interesting once in
a while, I mean, the cussing ones are the more interesting of
the group. The Klan, I mean, you basically have a couple of minor
tics that nobody even notice
moves around and it can be in my neck. It can be in my A my
blinking of eyes. It could be in my arm. It's really crazy. It's
crazy
thing but then But then a once while you go into a fit of rage
for a very short time, which I think is somehow related. Now
the one thing that was in this special which I've always found
the most fascinating about the Tourette sufferers is that
they're all apparently and you would kind of deny being this
way clean freaks
no I'm not a clean freak I'm not
well you but yeah I don't know that you're not
because I'd admit it if I was
I'm not not necessarily
what are you trying to say? I think you might
be a clean freak you keep your desk Radek clean
because I never do anything at it. Well, I can't imagine keeps
it clean that he's the one who cleans the shit up. I never had
to clean anything. I wind up making the joints feel
tired in a very clean freakish way. I what I have to think
about
I'm not a clean freak. I'm not.
I know but most Gluck clean.
Like I'm not a clean, clean, clean freak.
Anyway, so they had all these Tourette's guys and they would
have in the neighborhood. They had a lot of elements of OCD.
Yeah. Well, they didn't have OCD, they would just
have OCD. I totally have OCD. There you have it like touching
the light. I used to. There are all kinds of little habits, you
know that? It's like not step. I've never been that severe,
like not stepping on the cracks in the pavement. But that's a
very, very common form of it. So yeah, I totally have OCD. But
that's gotten better though. The whole thing has gotten better
mainly because of marijuana. What can I tell you? I love this
stuff. I love this stuff. It really it really calms me down
and makes me feel good about myself. But I've got I've come
to terms with it. Just talking about it really helps. It was a
huge problem. When I was a kid it was like you know, it was
was it diagnosed properly when you were younger.
Well, what do you mean properly?
Well, somebody said this kid's got Tourette. Yeah, you're gonna
have the time of your life. Yeah.
Get him a TV show. This is cool. Yeah. And there's my dad had it,
though. I still has it. And interestingly, my cousin has it
who's a just a sweet kid, brilliant kid. And when we had
the we had the family reunion, and I didn't know this. My my my
cousin came up to me. So my first cousin is her son. So he
will be my nephew. Right? Yeah. So my cousin Lucy comes at Lucy
by the way. She was the one that was married to Christopher
Buckley. Christopher Buckley. She's not hold Washington clan.
And Christopher Buckley.
They have the right, right. She is married to him. She
was their divorce now. Yeah, I used to hang out with the book.
You
know. I wonder if she's in the book. Whoa,
is it like a biography type thing? Well, it's
mostly about his dad and mom, but probably has some stuff in
there.
She might be I think, Connor. I guess Connor is their kid. I
think so. That? I don't know. Because I think I think so.
Well, anyway. So he, he hasn't she came to me said, you know,
it'd be so cool. If you could just chat with them a little
bit. And let them know that it's okay. Because, you know, it's
tough. You know, it's like, it was like eight or nine years
old. You know, it's it's weird, because you're a freak,
essentially. Because you're not normal.
I guess I mean, I don't know that. I mean, if you didn't
mention it to me, I probably would have never picked up on
it. Really? Yeah. Really. It's a so mild. It's like ridiculously
mild. I mean, I mean, just like a couple of little twig that
twitches I could come from anything. And you know that
you're not you're maybe a little OCD, but it's not really
noticeable. And a lot of people are clean freak, so that doesn't
mean much.
Well, of course, the times when we see each other, I'm usually
baked. So that would that would explain it.
To me, I guess. Could be that could be it. But it's just to
me, it's not real noticeable. But I'm not perhaps the most
observant person when it comes to these kinds of things. I'm
always looking for that guy, huh? What syndrome he's got an
excuse to get the you know, CD and he's manic depressive, and
he's a bipolar and he's this and he's, you know, just doesn't
care. Well, anyway,
that's why it was so interesting. When I got tapped
to do a TV show when I was 19. I was like, oh my god, this is the
last thing I need. Like, I'm gonna be on TV and we're like a
fucking Twitch bot. And somehow I learned to control it without
drugs by the way. I can do segments and I can do shows and
interviews and there's nothing and then the camera goes off and
then it's back.
Yeah, well, that probably is trigger something a performance
gene or something gets triggered it shuts all that stuff off. I
know that when I go on camera, I get be coughing and wheezing or
have a colon I'm clear as a bell. I never coffered choke up
on the camera, and then knew when it was over, I start
coughing again, or whatever if I hadn't happened to be sick at
the time. I don't know it's just something
Is professionalism my friend that's what we call that.
And I want people to go to divorce.org/na and give us a
handle mention your name and this coming Thursday. Yeah,
please. $1,500 would be good and $24 subscription would be good
and even $2 a month we don't care.
Yeah, you know, I need medical help. I need medical attention.
It's going to cost me an arm and a leg so people always asking
what we're going to do with the money have we spent a single
dime of that money yet?
Not did I know of four? What
do you mean? You're the one controlling the purse strings
are you sure
actually have a little pot full of money still.
We haven't done jack shit with it.
We have to do a website we got a website we're working on. We're
doing one of these Squarespace wants
people to believe that when they see it.
Well, I'm gonna call these guys up this week and say, Hey,
where's art? You know, because it's some people developing it
for us and see how far along they've gotten. Okay, groovy.
Groovy. dvorak.org/in. A please go there.
Yeah. And so, I'm back now, so I'll be able to work a little
bit on our no agenda stream, which I've completely neglected.
We have the IRC channel, which we'll be implementing, hopefully
this week, which is cool. One of our producers set that up.
I have a new interlude. A new interlude. Whoa, yeah.
Do you have it ready to go? Can I put it on? Yes.
I just I can't my FTP my FTP site seems to have blocked me
for some reason. I don't know why, but I'm gonna have to get
that fixed. Also, we got to an interesting 500 rupees from
someone I want to talk about
rupees through Pay Pal.
No, he sent me a 500 rupee bill. Oh, okay, cool. Printf Pareek.
He wants me to read his letter in that Indian accent. I do.
Okay, cool. Really? An Indian guy asked you to do that. Yeah,
he says it's hilarious. That's cool. I like it. If I get if I'm
getting I haven't been able to get into that voice much
recently. I don't know why. Practice on Zoom goes.
Just practice. Are you on twit today?
No, I'm not. I'm getting my son's in town and we're going
off to do some stuff. Okay,
cool. All right. I'm gonna go read my the rest of my an Rand's
novel. Don't do that. Be happy the children today are reading
Damn it. No gender library
that no agenda library. Exactly. All right. I was a bit over the
map today, John, but I'm, I'm so jet lagged. It was a fast show.
Yeah, rockin but that we missed a lot of big stuff that's
happening in the world. It's this whole thing in in Pakistan
is just spinning out of control. Obama, I don't know if you saw
him with Kurt Karzai of Afghanistan. They were in
Turkey. And Obama's gonna address the mood, the Islamic
world and he didn't show up at prayer day. There's just so many
things going on.
We'll get back to it.
Not to mention that in the United Kingdom, they figured out
how to make up for all the deficit spending they're doing.
Can you guess? Can you guess? People, people, people making
over 150,000 pounds, will now be taxed at a 50% rate. Ah 50 50%
half of your money goes to the government who are watching porn
movies with their husbands? I feel good. I feel groovy.
Yeah, they're using your money to watch porn. Yeah.
Coming to you from the crackpot command center located in the
southwestern quadrant of Gitmo nation East better known as the
United Kingdom. My name is Adam curry,
and from the buzzkill bunker here in Northern Silicon Valley,
where it's a beautiful today. I'm John C. Dvorak,
we will talk to you again on Thursday. Right here on no
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