Adam curry, John C. Dvorak after a very brief but extremely
annoying hiatus. Once again, it's time for your bi weekly get
mo nation publication. This is no agenda coming to you from the
heart of Gitmo nation east. Yes. From New York City, the place so
nice. They named it twice. I'm Adam curry.
And from a place he only named once Thank goodness for that
northern Silicon Valley. I'm John C. Dvorak. Vaughn and
buzzkill
Joe, we've done it. We're on the air. It weren't
bad. Not bad for for a hot for a hotel shot. Shot, baby. Yeah.
Interesting. You have to listen to the beginning. Because you're
normally you have that that planned voice over you do at the
beginning, which I think is pre recorded, right? No, it's
never pre recorded. It's always live.
Everything is live you even that thing at the beginning. And then
this thing that you follow up
with? Yeah, that's always live. Except I didn't write anything.
Now. I just did it off the cuff.
Both are live all the time. Always.
Ha. Always. It's always like this. John C. Dvorak. You know,
it's really live and I know how to talk it up. So I'm talking to
the note on the head say exactly when the voice guy comes on.
It's no agenda. This is no agenda. And then I hit this one.
And then I talk over that for a little bit.
Normally, because normally, I thought I've heard a variation
on the gain.
No, that's just me varying the game.
Oh, baby, whatever. Soulive it's all sounded good.
So apologies listeners for not one but two missed shows. Most
of you probably know what's going on. I'll be very brief
about it. My wife and I are separated. We she has asked for
a divorce and appropriate. And there's not much more to say
other than that is a very sad situation. Particularly because
there is a third party involved being our 18 year old daughter,
and it sucks ass.
And you can write about it in your memoirs.
Yes, and we did actually record no agenda 99 Last week, and it
was horrible. so horrible. And so just didn't feel right. And
even though you warned me in the beginning, we we didn't put it
out. As like,
here's the question here. This is the real dilemma. Are we now
doing as we speak? No agenda? 100?
No, this is no agenda. 99 I have destroyed the previous
recording. It no longer exists anywhere.
It's gone. Yeah.
So
So I had. So okay, so this coming Sunday? There'll be no
agenda 100? Correct. All right. Well, that's good. And
hopefully, you you were you weren't going to be going to be
in the I will. I will be connection.
Yes, I will be in Amsterdam, and not in a hotel. So I will have a
better connection. Yes, I will. And right now I'm in New York,
in New York for business. And that really is just one more
brief thing. In these types of situations and separation and
divorce is nothing new, it happens to a lot of people. It's
it's very difficult when it happens. It happens after you
know, 22 years. But what sucks is that invariably, one of the
two parties and often both still have to go to the factory, and
still have to work because you know, the chimney is gonna keep
smoking. And in this case, the show is part of my going to the
factory. I have responsibility to over 60 families, it as it
were,
we're getting docked pay for missing the last two. That's
fine.
You deserve it. And thanks for being so. So nice. Only only
Dark pay for only two shows. That's really it's really kind
of huge.
So the big news, and I
and I have caught up a little bit with the news. I was totally
off the grid like way off the grid. So
there was no other big news if we're gonna talk real big news
is Obama's thing with his you know, this. Apparently they can
grab you off the street and throw you in jail forever
without any habeas corpus or anything.
Oh, Jesus told me about this. I mean, it's not it's not like not
like I wasn't expecting to happen, not like we haven't
predicted it, but honestly, and no bullshit. I have no idea what
you're talking about. Really? Yeah. Well, dude, I'm a little
preoccupied here.
Yeah, I know. But you could at least you know, pick up a paper
once Well, kake.org go to divorce dad or calm down, calm
down. You don't need to belch on the air. There's not sorry. You
can calm down, go to divorce.org/blog and look at and
the thing that's interesting about this to me, is that the
one who When after Obama the hardest, especially in the MSNBC
world, was Rachel Maddow. Oh, really? Who just laid into him
this bit was if you want to call laid into him, but she gave him
nothing. grief for this. You know, he essentially gave a
speech that was condemning the Bush administration for what it
was doing at Gitmo and all the rest of it. And then they came
up and he said, It's all crap and we're gonna do it and
everything's gonna be legal from now on. And so we so they
designed this thing called prolonged detention. Hold on,
I'm looking for it I'm looking at divorce is May 24. Or just
click on the search and type in Mad Cow. We don't have a lot of
Matt our reference.
And they do w is that it? Ma de Dowd do W Oh, you're sorry, we
couldn't find anything to match your search. You put an MA DD
Oh, no, I misspelled it. Obama out, does bush gets blasted by
Matt out? Should we play this? Or is that
too long? It's like, really, it's seven minutes and 42
seconds to take up the whole show. All right. But tell me
about it by just essentially, Obamacare is really interesting
kind of inspired speech, blasting the bushes for all this
different stuff they did. And then essentially announces the
exact same plan with a new name change. In this case, it's
prolonged detention, which says that if we think that
if you're an enemy combatant doors expect the way he
defined it could be anyone that can pick you up as you come into
the country and hear the slip. Well, he's at the anyway, so
it's she described it as a pre crime, sort of, like
thoughtcrime no pre crime the way you know that the the
Minority Report movie.
Yeah, but, but this is exactly what we discussed probably
around episode number 40, when all the stuff came out about to
what what, what determines if you are a an enemy of the state,
essentially. And it was so frickin broad. And this was
exactly what Bush did exactly what he did. So it's just it's
the same stuff, different faiths, right?
Yep. But anyway, you can watch that. And we'll talk about none
on Sunday. Because it's better be talked about on the 100th
anniversary show because it really symbolizes a lot of
things. But
can I just get a Can I just said, uh, yeah, you told me so.
Who said it? I wasn't on the bandwagon.
I know. But there's no one else on this show. So just I want to
feel good for
a minute. You I told you so. Okay, good.
Somehow that didn't work out the way. Okay. All right. So the
fastest state gets yet a little bit closer.
Yeah. Okay. So you missed that one. Now. Here's another one. I
heard. There's a good one floating around that I wanted to
do a little piece here since we're getting our or adoring
fans are looking for insights that they don't get anyplace
else. And I want to do one before I get to the Korean
story. Okay. Marino down toward marine doubt. Sorry, not, oh,
doubt marine Dowd. Got busted for plagiarizing. In the New
York Times who was Marine? Oh, she's a reporter,
Marie. No, she's a columnist, marine Dowd. She's on TV. She's
all over the place. And she got much of her plagiarizing and I
started looking into it. I read I have an explanation for what
happened. And also, I find the whole situation amusing, because
just the same way that the Democrats are like, you know,
saying that the prolonged detention, which is the the
Obama version of George Bush initiative, and
this by the way, this by the way, is exactly what's going on
in Gitmo nation East in the United Kingdom, exactly the same
thing.
So anyway, let's go to this. So marine Dow lifted from the
Talking Points Memo, Josh Marshalls, blog, blog, word for
word like 4040. Like me, it's a long piece. Now I'm going to
read you the, the, the original. And I can say right into step
two, they get to one pronoun is exactly the same. Here's from
Josh, Josh Marshall. More and more. The timeline is raising
the question of why if the torture was to prevent terrorist
attacks, it seemed to happen mainly during the period when we
were looking for what was essentially political
information to justify the invasion of Iraq, or marine
doubt. More and more the timeline is raising the question
of why if torture was to prevent terrorist attacks, it seemed to
mainly happen during the period when the Bush crowd was looking
for what was essentially political information to justify
the invasion of Iraq. Every single word is identical except
we was swapped out for the bush crowd but yeah. Oh boy. Now the
funny thing there's two things that are interest thing about
this one is that it? Well, everyone's jumping all over her
for being a plagiarist. And she, by the way, blames the mistake
on the fact that somebody has sent her an email with this
quote in it. And she took from the email. In other words, she
has a plagiarist friend who she plagiarized from. She didn't
plagiarize directly from this,
she took it from email, which is just beautiful, and
which is embarrassing, but the kicker here is is that she
obviously cut and pasted because every commas in exactly the same
place. Now, what's what's unique to me is, and I've written for
the New York Times, so I understand this is that the only
thing that was changed and the New York Times is top heavy with
editors, and was in fact checkers. And fact checkers but
they don't check for plagiarism. They check for facts. And you
know, they don't have those, you know, those systems that the
high school teachers use. Anyway. So what's interesting is
nobody's brought up the fact that they she threw in the bush
crowd, which was an obvious, you know, slanted slam. Nobody says
anything about that being weird. But I realized that what
happened here was that this thing went to copy, edit, and
then went to the editors or the line edits and copy whoever, and
they found the word we and the New York Times, I can assure you
from working with them are really upset. They just cannot
take poorly referenced pronouns.
We being the pronoun in question,
we, we who's we It goes like this. It's like, oh, is this
John? Yeah, I'm reading this here. Let me read this to you.
During the period or when we were looking at who's worrying.
Is that you? Were you looking? Were you and your friends
looking? Yeah, no, no, no, it wasn't me. What I don't see who
we is. No, they figured out readers are idiots and most of
them are but there's so they said well either we will get we
the bush crowd. Okay,
cry like crowd even crowd is is sketchy. What is the?
Well, you know, she brought this is the what you do in the last
minute for the edit. You got to come up with something because
it was who specifically
could you say the Bush administration or? Well, you
could
have or you could have just said the government. There's a lot of
things you could have said but it didn't swapped it out. You
got the bush crust, so that so essentially, I believe she's
probably just took the whole piece, whole cloth and then ran
it now. Everybody's jumping on her for being a plagiarist and
she's coming up with phony baloney excuses. When I saw an
email, I did this, I did that. She's blaming a friend. And by
the way, the irony here is that she's the one who exposed Joe
Biden in 1987 as a plagiarist.
Oh, that's right. His it was a speech right? Was it a stump
speech? Remember that? Oh, shit, John, hold on one second. Don't
move. It's
not moving. Yeah, I saw you move. I'm squeezing my tea bags.
Oops. Did I say that? In fact, it's true. Sorry about that. I'm
actually having a tight time. We're having Thai food, Thai
food, Thai food, tea,
Thai food, too. You know, I have no tea here the hotel and I
promised my daughter I'd always have my phone near me. And it
was in the in the bathroom. So I just want to make sure I had it
to me. So let me finish this. Yes, please. So you're gonna do
a cut in or you're gonna cut that out?
Don't leave that kidding me. Man. This no agenda. Yeah,
right.
So anyway, here we go. So here's what happened, in my opinion, as
a production writer, someone who does a lot of writing. And she
does. She's a columnist, too. It goes like this. You're
constantly looking for material. You're cutting and pasting and
cutting and pasting. You're kind of pacing for notes. And then
you had then you're right, you're right, you're right. And
then you maybe cut and paste some stuff, you can use it for
reference, and you go back and forth, and back and forth. Every
once in a while. By the way, this freaks me out. I'm always
freaked out about this. My wife has a solution to it. But it
always scares me that I'm going to make this mistake, you run
into a piece, a few sentences that are very interestingly
written that you think you may have written. Oh, and
this does happen.
It happens all the time. Yeah.
So So I read
this stuff going on. Did I write that? That sounds like me, it's
pretty good. And then and then. And then he says, I have a piece
that I wrote about UCSD Pascal about 25 years ago, that got mis
attributed to some other writer. And now I've lost confidence in
the fact that I'm pretty sure I wrote it. But if you look it up
on the archives, it's
you know, we had something not too long ago with at our UK
office. Matt coddle who does games weasel media Oh show?
Yeah, the video game show the Gaming Show and so he also
writes a blog version of it, which is kind of you know, the
way we operate you got the video version and the blog version. We
found out that a reporter for The Scotsman, which is actually
pretty respected newspaper, right, that the this reporter
had been plagiarizing every single one of his postings for
like six months? Wow. Six months. And we, you know, I
can't we didn't take them to court or anything like you
don't have to bust them in the public domain. You know,
I hereby hereby busted. Now we didn't you know, they were
hugely embarrassed and
usually embarrassed they were ripping the guy off. Yeah, well,
it was beyond plagiarism.
It was word for word, it was complete copy, paste, and it was
a freelancer and all this and, you know, and actually, we
turned it around, we say, you know, what, why don't you give
us some fine press dude, you know, to do something nice for
us. And, you know, when we I know how these things go. I
mean, there was no malicious intent. It was just poor, poor
process, poor journalistic process on their part, but for
the Scotsman, and that which I don't read, I do believe it's a
reasonably respectable paper. And they did do the honorable
thing. And I think they did print something about it. And
they fired her, this calmness, so they took care of it, but it
happens, you know, and it's how can you trace this stuff,
particularly when you're working with freelancers? It's very
difficult. So yeah, I could be vindictive, and then we could go
into
addictive, you just have to make a point of it. But I mean,
anyway, this thing, I think, with Dad was one of these deals,
and I might, you know, I am always worried that this is
going to happen by accident. And and I think that somebody's
worried for the New York Times, if this actually happened to her
by accident, it would be rather humiliating, you know, it's
like, Gee, I can't keep track of what I'm doing was what you're
saying to yourself? Are you the public announcement you'd have
to make, which is the way it is, though. Now, my wife has an
interesting technique, because she's always worried that
because we do a lot of books and we take, you know, like, we just
finished our spice book, and you take recipes from here and there
and use that thing
out. Yeah. Is it available? No. Is it on the Kindle?
It will be cool. So anyway, so you take you know, you take
like, like, you're looking for a definitive recipe, I've done
this when I used to write about food. For like chimichurri
sauce. For example, if you take about 10 of these recipes, and
you put them in the thing, and then you look at them, and you
kind of digest the basic theory and you come up with a, you
know, your version, the problem yours will run into is that
sometimes if you let these things set for a few months, you
don't know if you wrote the thing about that you think is
your version or not. She brings everything in when she does cut
and paste like that in red, or blue or green. So it's never in
black. So there's never a problem. It's a great idea,
because with that word, you can you know, you can color the
text.
That's a very good idea. And that that's kind of like a built
in protection. You can always come back and say, well, it was
blue.
If it was blue, then it was it was in yours. If you
wrote it a blue no matter what John are ye
so anyway, yeah, that was good. My marine doubt story, you can
make more.
Let me hit you here. And now back to real. I was reading the
economist on the flight over to New York and a little piece in
the which I haven't picked up the economist in a while. And
they have these little story the world this week, and they do
politics and technology and business. And this one just
tickled me pink. Because it's kind of a food story. Britain's
Court of Appeal ruled that contrary to the argument, but
have their maker Procter and Gamble, Pringles contains enough
potato to be defined as potato chips and therefore are not
exempt from Value Added Tax. And that's amazing. Here's Procter
and Gamble, actually trying to prove that there's no potatoes
in there potato chips so that they can get some kind of tax
break.
Oh, I just love that.
I like to ask the question is, why would a Pringle without
potatoes? Get away with tax a tax break and Pringles with a
potato have to pay more taxes? Does that make any sense to
anybody?
Well, it doesn't say it in the in this little bro, but I
presume it has something to do with agriculture or something
like that. Doesn't that make sense that they're taxing
agriculture and that don't know its value added tax. So that's
VAT. So there's different different levels of value added
tax for food versus clothing versus chemicals, I presume? So
something like that. I mean, it would be nice to know and I
think certainly warrants some do some detail. Yeah, for sure. But
it just it's funny that you know, here's a company who you
know, once you pop you can't stop Pringles rock right. That's
their the best potato chips around but the maker of the maxi
is saying, well, there's no potatoes in there isn't enough
potatoes so it actually be called potato chips.
It's actually a toy.
floor wax and a dessert topping but don't think it's a potato
chip.
Well, that people shouldn't be eating stuff like that. No.
Meanwhile, the bad local news here is that Monterey foods
which is One of our top vegetable places and they sell
you know I mean go there you buy sell at a chain no no it's a
place run by various people and in all the you know the Zuni
Cafe chef shops to everybody all the top chefs from the area that
they run these you know fancy restaurants that go there apiece
to see what the latest crazy thing is that's in you know,
like saps and truffles and oyster mushrooms and abalone
mushrooms and now that the one of the founders is having a beef
with his I guess the the other relatives or the kids or
something and now that this thing may be over and ruined and
out of business in the next month or two and I'm depressed
more food news this evening I had dinner with with my partner
Ron Bloom and one of our board of Director members Jerry
Newman. Have you ever met Jerry know what a color for you really
need to meet him by the way he's in the office all the time very
very colorful guy and he's been with us from with this company
from day one also helped us with with a previous company. i He
took us to bar American Have you ever heard of this restaurant in
New York?
That's not ringing a
bell. It's a John you need to eat at this place. First of all
the ambiance is just outrageous and it is packed it is very
difficult to get a reservation and I had ribs tonight and oh my
god I've never had your pork or ribs and I know you do a pulled
pork and your and all that stuff but I somehow I feel it just
might rival and I also had the what's the what's the Atlanta
onion the is it the Dallas or Vidalia Vidalia? Thank you
Vidalia onion soup which was delicious.
By Dalian onions are interesting because you can actually eat
them raw like an apple.
Yeah, and Ron of course is from Atlanta, so he knew all about
him and he said you have not lived until you've tasted
Vidalia onion he was outstanding I tell you
Well, next time I get a shot at it I'll go there. What was the
wine you had and let's go no
no wine. Dude, we're working we're working hard you know
gotta clean what time
was dinner? Eight o'clock? What time was it over?
930
Can you couldn't have had a glass of wine?
No, no, we had a Pinot Noir at the hotel and that was pretty
much it I'm by the way I've been clean for almost two months now
when it comes to the to the Mojo so you know and I've been going
through quite an interesting process of cleaning out my
system which is just outrageous now that I see how long this
crap actually stays in my body. It's been weeks and weeks and I
can just feel everything streaming out sorry for the the
visual there but yeah, I'm good I'm feeling good. So the lighter
the lighter clicks you hear are for tobacco only and that of
course is my final advice and I'll get rid of that eventually
too it's a new me and boy I'm not funny when I'm not baked I'm
not and which of course is one of the one of the biggest fears
of performers you know Amen like now not baked you know it just
might not be good anymore
you it's you're heading there so
I'm sure Brooks will be more than happy to do this show with
you.
So the wealth while you're down to topic of books well I can't
do this anymore so
yeah, okay,
so take we got some clips on when people listen to him I can
go off with those Okay, I want you to play we got the bobby
that just now once you've played Bobby Kennedy clip which let me
explain what's going on for people who have not seen this.
There is a American experience on PBS has a thing called the
Kennedys or the Kennedys is experienced with the Kennedys I
can't remember but anyway was on last week and I think it's gonna
be running for a while on and off. It is a must watch that
talks about the you know, the the sketchy history of the
family and everything in between all
the way back to Joe when he was running booze. Yep.
Cool. And I think even before that, but anyway, the but there
was I just was listening and listening. I was I was just
riveted. Sorry,
he was running moonshine not drugs. moonshine. You said
booze, didn't you? And I said, I think I said, I don't know what
I said. I'm sorry. I'm not big. Yes. Bucha.
Remember, he's going so anyway. So anyway, there's this one
clip. This was the clip of his little speech before he got
shot. But it was it was like I was I've never really dissected
this clip before what I want you to listen to his words
carefully. Now
just for the timeline, because I think a lot of our listeners,
you know, certainly ever heard of Bobby Kennedy. Yeah, you
might you might just want to set that up a little bit more. Yeah.
How much more I can set it up. But okay, let me See Bobby
Kennedy?
G are not typing into wiki PVR. You
know, I'm just saying what day was shot? So we get the date
here.
So, John, John Kennedy, was
you Okay?
John Kennedy was shot in, says
6363. This is a 68. Okay, so this was 1968 Bobby Kennedy,
what if you wanted me to set the whole thing up, but this has got
nothing to do with the clip. But I know you want to hear it,
which is there was a, you know, anti war movement going on. And
they were going to put in Eugene McCarthy to run against Lyndon
Johnson and Kennedy didn't want anything to do with it. And then
Lyndon Johnson said, I'm not running for re election. And
then Kennedy jumps in at the last minute and pushes aside.
Jean McCarthy, and then you know, runs and then he gives,
you know, he just making headway, and then he gets shot,
assassinated mysteriously, in my opinion to this day. And but
this is beside the point, I just want you to listen to the
speech, because it's quite kind of interesting. If you listen to
his words, I think he has a makes a again, of a verbal typo,
but it's funny to listen to it in today's context, here we go.
Order from photographers gathered around the podium.
What I think is quite clear is, is that we can work together in
the last analysis. And now what has been going on within the
United States over the period of the last three years, the
divisions, the violence, the disenchantment with our society,
the divisions, whether it's between blacks and whites
between the poor and the more affluent, or between age groups
or on the war in Vietnam, that we can start to work together.
We are a great country, that selfish country and a
compassionate country. And I intend to make that my basis for
running and over the period.
So did he say selfish country? That's what I heard. I heard
selfish. Yeah, let's listen to that again. Hold on one second,
let's just
chilling age groups are on the war in Vietnam, that we can
start to work together. We are a great country and a selfish
country. And a compassion. Yeah. And I wanted to make that my
basis for running and over the period of
Well, that's, you know, Bush Bush was the king of this, you
know, the king of these types of gaffes. And of course, Rumsfeld,
who, at one point said, Yeah, you know, the plane was shot
down over Philip, Pennsylvania. Oh, the one that crashed I'm
sorry. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
So I was highly amused by that because I'm watching this. I
know what. Good catch. Yeah. So I had to put that one out. So
I also liked I love to like the poor and not so affluent, what's
the difference?
Yeah, is that what I'm sorry, I missed that one that's
going on within the United States over the period of the
last three years. The divisions the violence, the disenchantment
with our society, the divisions, whether it's between blacks and
whites between the poor and the more affluent,
more affluent, more affluent, my bad.
Alright, so I thought that was funny. Now another one which is
another clip that I got, which has a little decision more of a
local complaints and said, No, I know I've got to get to dominate
the show.
Yes, for this time, and this time only enjoy. No, there'll be
other opportunities I'm sure. So I'm, I want you to play the
stolen car. And this is a personal This is one of the
reasons everybody should have their own pod show because you
have personal grievances. I just want you to play this is a clip
from one of the TV stations I think in the STEM in the Salinas
Valley, about a car ring that was they've cut the guys and
then they got all the cars back and then there's this story ran
and I my jaw was just hitting the floor and I'll explain why
after you listen to the clip.
added three more arrests over the weekend, bringing the total
to more than 43 more cars were seized, adding up to more than
60 stolen cars off the streets. Plus 33 guns were taken along
with a $1.4 million in drugs and stolen car victims were able to
reclaim their vehicles at the CHPs makeshift Carla today. A
month ago, Maria Laiho had her 9094 accurate stolen from her
driveway while she was finishing dinner. She had planned to buy a
replacement card today, when she saw a police photo in the
newspaper that looked like her car
is this I'm ecstatic because it's like, you know, the people
that took this car, they don't know how hard it was for me and
my daughter to to come up with the money. You know, I'm a
single parent with my daughter to come up with the money and
buy another a second vehicle.
The CHP will store the stolen cars for 30 days at a lot in San
Martin. For more information contact the CHPs Monterrey
office, any sign of economic confidence.
Okay. All right. Here's the deal. The CHP the woman has a
car stolen is reported stolen the CHP Has the car in there a
lot don't she has to see it on TV.
Yeah Don't they know that it's hers isn't registered to her?
Yes, it
has a license plate. It has an even if the license plates were
taken off it would have a VIN number which is peculiar to the
car
and I presume that she had to had to prove that it was hers.
I mean, what did they what did they do it the cops steal the
cars from the thieves so they can auction them
off? Oh, it would not surprise me would not swear the news
guys with this story. Why don't they asked this question when
they say how come you had to watch see this guy did IBM
excuse me just news guys. You presume this news? Got you mean
journalists? Is that or just news guys? I mean, please.
I mean, what does it take to ask a simple question? Why is this
woman woman having to see this thing on TV to go get her car
when they should have called her immediately
because you're probably right because you can scam and you
know, you can? By the way, you too can pick up vehicles really
cheap at police auctions.
Yeah, I guess you're not getting enough drug cars.
I was gonna say I should go down there. So hey, man, that was my
weed. Dude. That was my that was my weed. I saw a picture of it.
It's exactly like my weed. I can prove it.
Huh? Anyway, I found that extremely annoying to watch that
story.
I was in the car on the way to to Heathrow Tuesday morning. And
I realized guy from Slovakia I always like to talk to the
drivers because you know, find out where they're from. And he
was telling me we're talking about the the incredible traffic
wardens in the United Kingdom. You need to turn on your
speakers just a little bit, John a little bit of slap back.
What time 43 Maybe you hit it about time every week. Well, you
know, that's when it starts to really annoy me. And he he told
me because he told me the story where he had, he had the he had
the flu and he had been working for 12 hours. So he pulled over
to the, to the to the curb. And he closed his eyes for like, you
know, he had taken some flu medicine and he's like, I got a
little drowsy. I didn't feel too good. So I pulled over and he
closed his eyes for like 10 minutes. And he wakes up and the
warden is putting a ticket under his windshield. And and he's
like, Hey, dude, you know, like I could have passed out I could
have been dead you know? Didn't Why didn't you even attempt for
a second to see if I was okay, no, instead you write a ticket.
And then he proceeded to tell me that in the United Kingdom these
traffic wardens actually have an incentive, a bonus incentive
structure for every ticket they write. Wow, yeah, whoa, whoa,
indeed.
At the UK is really screwed up.
It is so messed up. It really is. And I don't know if any of
the continuing saga of the ministers have no they the for
the first time in 300 years, the Speaker of the House had to
resign over this expense me there was these ministers of
parliament were using government money to do things like have
their moat cleaned. I mean, I love that one. Oh, excuse me,
the taxpayers have to pay it to pay to clean my moat. Everything
from that down to a broken toilet seat, and just outrageous
and the speaker. And the last time this happened was when
actually they introduced freedom of the press, which the irony is
not is obvious. The speaker had to resign because instead of
going after these, these these bandits, and making them resign,
he went after the people who leaked the information to the
press. I mean that yes, the UK massively screwed up. Massively
moat cleaned, yes, moat. My moat clean. This whole thing with,
you know, you're allowed to charge your secondary home in
near parliament, to the taxpayer. So you can still have
a home in your constituency. And that's really what it's for. And
there's all this trickery people, you know, bought homes
and then sold them to family members and all kinds of crap.
And it's just, it's minor in the scale of what's really going on
and get mo nation and the new world order but it really,
again, props to the Daily Telegraph for uncovering all
this and really blowing it out. Because it has opened up the
eyes of the public and I you know, until the next Amy
Winehouse scandal at least they're thinking about it,
though. There'll be something coming up shortly they Oh yeah,
it's about time. It's about time. We got to get in more
celebrities. Amy Winehouse house is not carrying her weight. No
she needs to step up to the plate.
Yeah, seriously.
Amy, what you do on baby. We need more real news.
God what is your problem? Yeah. So
now of course we have what's the the reality show I've been
following little bit out here in the states of the couple of
eight children and it's like their 15th season. And you know
they have calidad
Yeah, something makes a Kate makes eight and
she and you know, and CBS the whole morning. Oh, I mean, there
is some real stuff going on in the world people
always show but the more I hear about it, the more I'm thinking
it's the worst thing ever put on television. No, no, no,
that has to be the Real Housewives of New Jersey. That
has to be the worst thing on television. To Robbo you have to
watch a new episode every Tuesday at 10k to
make eight or something like that. Yeah. Kate as that
sounds, yeah, I think that's it. But anyway, so her sister and
Kate Plus eight. Yeah, her sister and brother in law. Were
on CBS this morning saying you know, this is abuse. These
children are being abused. They have no safe home, which of
course is true. But in show business, that's okay. You know,
James, we love it. It is so vapid and empty. Thank God for
shows like this.
Well, we do our part. Yeah, we do our part. Who's
we?
There you go. The Bush crowd. We always refers to the bush crowd.
Adam curry, John C. Dvorak. This is no agenda. We are the first
crowd.
It is we sorry, I finally got some jingles to play. So I'm
noticing.
Well, we gotta. We gotta work them in. Yeah. Okay. So here's
Okay, I'm going to do another third. I'm going to kill some
more time. Good, good girl. irksome story. Again, this was
more of a reflection of the news media than anything else. Oh, by
the way, so I ran and besides before I get to the I ran into
Steve Gilmore today, of the Gilmore gang. Yeah, Steve, I am
for somebody I really get along with this guy. I've always liked
Steve. He's actually a very funny person. Yeah, I
used to like him too. And turn your turn until he turned into a
total total
prick. So anyway, he He mentioned something to me today,
which I ended up putting on tech five and I. And I realized that
I went over to the Google Developers Conference where I
was literally thrown out because I didn't register, physically
physically thrown out. I walked out after they won that meeting,
but their cyber I made a fuss and got somebody in trouble.
They did security have to escort you to the
wait a minute, stop, stop. I want to hear before you get into
this Gilmore thing. What happened? I want.
I'm doing cranky gigs. And I've got Jim Louderback. And room and
on the show today show just auditioned to watch it. So it's
actually one of our better shows quite funny. Because Sebastian
Ripley mentioned that we have 125 years of tech reporting
amongst the four of us, which of course, I said means that the
show is going to be terrible. So it was a good show. But anyway,
so Needleman says, Yeah, I went over to the Google Developer
sessions. And he goes, No, it's not bad. And so as we're
leaving, I'm heading back to the parking lot. And he's says, once
you come over, the thing is you can get in I said, I don't have
my, you know, your pricing. But I went back in I went in there,
and I, you know, I went to the press thing, and I found what I
thought I'd still good probably going to write this up
somewhere. Eventually, I found it to be like the entire just a
bunch of very sheepish. Oh, God, you know, you didn't you know,
the registration ended at 9am. And we were not accepting any
more media. And we can't do this. We can't do that. And let
me call somebody let me call somebody.
Isn't this what isn't this a media based event? Or is it
purely?
No, no, I'll tell you every media guy in the world was
there, including Steve Gilmore. But didn't know it's
what do they have to do? They need time to check you. I mean,
do they have to do a background check? I mean, what is the
point?
There is no point. Okay. It's just somebody's made it a rule.
Here's the point. Somebody made a rule and everybody's following
it.
Okay. So who did you get in trouble?
Woman Nate Well, I don't know if she's how much she may be. I
actually get a promotion was a woman named Megan Hughes, who
everybody referred to, as Oh, you know, we
gotta you gotta talk to Megan. Megan's the only one
talking to Megan she would like snubbed me when I was there. And
she wouldn't even talk to me. So,
you know, it's because of the show. She's probably an Obama
boss.
He doesn't even know who anybody isn't. She doesn't listen to the
show. So I mean, it's obvious. But anyway, so then I made a
fuss to some people who supervise her and then they they
apologized to me and said, Yeah, I can come tomorrow. Oh, but of
course you're not gonna go. I might because it was a keynote
in the morning. I might check out but it's beside the point
whether it's going to be a convenience thing,
by the way. We're doing this on Wednesday evening, just an FYI.
Right.
So anyway, but the point is what I was observing, and I was
talking to Gilmore about this was There was this bureau weird
little bureaucracy bureaucratic, like this buzzing that was going
around with people, nobody can make a decision. Nobody could
just say, Okay, get in, get out of here, you know, get out of my
face. There was just wasting a bunch of time on this trying to
find somebody else who could make a decision. Nobody would
make a decision. And I was thinking, oh my god, is this
what this company's devolving into one of those all 20
Somethings by the way, devolving into one of these decisions, you
can't make a decision they can't think for themselves at all.
They are just little robots. I just, I was very
concerned about the story right there, then that's the story. It
is the story and how, how deep is this kind of cancer gone into
a company? You have to wonder, when you start seeing stuff like
that. I mean, this is, you know, it's not it's not rocket science
to like, you know, figure out what your job isn't to do it
correctly.
This is what happens with big companies who hire quick and
explode. And it's it's very normal, and it'll hurt them
somewhere somehow.
Oh, yeah. No, I think so too. And that's what I but I was
like, just totally fascinated, was just watching this. I was
thinking, oh my god, this is ridiculous. So anyway, so
Guillain Barre went, who went to an earlier session mentioned
that, that HTML five has got a new tag in it.
The Blink is back. Now, when That'd be funny, I didn't even
know HTML five was coming out. Didn't we lock that shit down
with three or whatever
they guess not? Did I like to blink thing blinks ever left?
Not every browser recognize
I'm gonna check it out. I'm gonna start blinking my
headlines on the on the blog.
I remember back in the day, man, boy, did we overuse that
everything I loved blink. So what is what is back what is
happening?
Adding a new tag. So now you just like an h ref for a JPEG or
a ping or a GIF, an mp4 or any sort of video file, which means
you don't need to use flash anymore to put five video on
your blog or anyplace else without
that's not true. Because you know, mp4 is still a container.
Just mp4 Because all the
video is a video. There's a video tag now.
Yeah, like h ref. You know, just basically, I don't even know if
it any more complicated. And just the same way. Like it's
very similar tag to the to the photo tag.
You could always do embed, you could always do a tag
within the browser doing it you couldn't embed you had to
the browser, the browser still has to fire up a player just
just in
case it's in the browser. That's the point. Getting fired up.
So is this is this an IETF standard this HTML five How does
that work? Well, I'm just finding out Mr. Tech journalists
getting thrown out of conferences. You know, you're
trouble DeVore ack, you're nothing but trouble.
data had been better, you know, then just you know, you're
sorry. But then nine o'clock the deadline was not met.
It's like immigrations.
These are the people that will be ruling the world will be
five. Well, actually they are now.
You got ABC news clip here to roll. Okay.
First, let me read a story that they it's under report under
showed up on the blog as under reported news. Gasperini
actually found it and I know I said he sent it to me and then I
posted it for him for some unknown reason. Under reported
news, ask yourself where you have to read this stuff on a
blog. Okay. Now this is a whole story. You can go to the blog
and look up North Korea and you can get this whole thing and I
demonstrated read it's part of the excerpt. Apparently North
Korea has erected the United States because there's a bunch
of countries ganging up on him. They think so I mean, I'm gonna
read you from the article. North Korea North, the North anger was
parenthesis halfway through the article, the North's anger was
provoked by the South decision to join a US led international
security initiative established after the September 11 attacks
to stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Quote, those
who have provoked us will face unimaginable merciless
punishment. UNQUOTE, said the new Central Military statement
of the official Korean Central News Agency blaming Washington
for the latest turn of events, the psi which is this this
protective group
Services Inc.
which now groups 95 nations provides for the stopping of
vessels to ensure they're not carrying weapons of mass
destruction are the components to make them the Everleigh if
you ever looked at the definition of weapons of mass
destruction, it's about as broad as terrorism
right i ematic weapon grouped in there. Anyway, back to the quote
from the Koreans is getting better anytime no hot any tiny
hostile acts against our republic, including the stopping
and searching of our peaceful vessels will face an immediate
and strong military strike in response to North Korean
statements. said it said his military would no longer and
here's the kicker, quote, but said it said his military would,
quote, no longer be bound by the 1953 armistice that ended the
Korean War in which the United States fought on the side of the
South because Washington is drawn its puppet soul into the
psi. With no binding ceasefire, it said, quote, the Korean
peninsula will go back to a state of war.
Wow. And of course, they've launched the three nukes by now
they've done three new tests, haven't they? Yeah,
they've been doing a bunch of stuff. So But meanwhile, they
say they're going to start restart the Korean War. If this
goes any further,
who is who is they in this case? Is that
Kim Jong Il's crowd?
Oh, that crowd there? No, good.
So now so well, how do you think now with this kind of threat
going on? That the Korean War by crank up again, which seems like
it's something you might want to report? You know
what that is?
You might want to report on this. Here's today's ABC News
with Charlie Gibson. And here's the way the story is presented
to the American public.
By the way, Charlie is a news guy. In case you're wondering,
he is a news guy. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today
that North Korea's recent military moves including an
underground nuclear test this week were provocative and
belligerent actions. And she warned the North it will face
consequences. Meanwhile, the North threatened a military
response if the US or South Korea tries to search North
Korean ships for equipment needed for its nuclear program.
That's it. Sheesh, that's it. It's gonna matter of fact, like
a couple of lines, let's leave out some of the more interesting
parts and move on.
Well, hold on someone Someone sent me a link. Because I guess
maybe it's the same report. In a 10 minute clip, and I haven't
pulled it one of our one of our listeners slash producer sent it
to me, former ambassador Donald Gregg is in that report. I'm
just seeing the email now. So I'll have to pull that for
Sunday show because, of course, my uncle, Uncle Don Greg is the
president of the Korea Society. And he is I can I think I can
just safely say it, he is heavily involved in any talks
between the Koreans north and south and the United States. And
I know from my private conversation with him, he has
said continuously that there is a severe underestimation of the
culture of the Koreans, in particular, the North Koreans,
and you do not want to mess with them has always been his message
to me. So I'm going to I'm going to dive into that and I'm going
to try tomorrow to get a hold. He may even be in Korea, for all
I know, I'm gonna see if I can get a hold of him to see if we
can get some insight inside scoop because this is, and I'm
surprised not seeing more of him.
Well, that, you know, there's some but they're just they're
downplaying this, and it's been bugging me. And it's the Koreans
do have a culture that that has to win. I mean, they they're a
different, you do business with them a different way. You always
negotiate in such a way that they have to always feel they
won.
They have to, you know, very much like most a lot of Asian
countries, they have to save face, etc.
Why did Koreans have that little idiosyncrasies that are
different than the rest of them use they've always been
attacked? And so something anyway, so this is not a minor
thing, but it seems to be a good few that listen to our news.
There's not much, you know,
but you know, Charles Gibson said he is a true news guy, you
know, so he reads teleprompter as well as our president.
I think he Well, he reads a little better because he can
actually read it into the camera whereas the president can't seem
to do that. He can't pull that trick off, which is not that
hard. So anyway, so I was a little upset by that. Meanwhile,
they are emphasizing and in the same news story cut right to the
Pakistan situation. And it seems to me as almost as though the
government is like said, Okay, you news guys. We're gonna have
to do something about Pakistan, because these idiots over there,
this Pakistani army can't handle anything. And I should have this
news clip, but I don't have it. But essentially, they went and I
because I thought they were going to downplay a lot of this.
But no, they actually over went over the top with the Pakistan
story, first describing the fact that the in Lahore where they
had this bombing that killed 2030 people, they had the look
like they were targeting the ISI offices, which is the the
security essentially the CIA of Pakistan.
It is yes, CIA.
And they see then they are credited with actually creating
with our help the Taliban in the first place. And the Taliban,
you know, was then led to rule Afghanistan and now that we've
rousted Um, I guess we're I guess we're getting pretty good
at getting the Taliban out of SPF enough so that they're in
Pakistan attacking take over the old place. So we
gave it we gave them their playbook, you know, we taught
him
so so they're in Pakistan and causing trouble and every time
you turn around now we got him back to offer, you know, they're
good. And then they are in the pet Taliban when they want to
ceasefire, they say, Okay, we're gonna go back to the we're gonna
we're gonna stop doing this, we're gonna stop doing this
really. And it's looks like one of those American wrestling
matches from the 60s or 70s. Like, yeah, where the guy said,
no, no, no, don't hit me. Don't hit me. Don't hit me in any one.
So
we last but we're we're in a real really not
happy. Well, the Taliban situation there. So it looks as
though and the report had this interesting. It had some
editorializing in it that I thought was a little telling and
hit use a word because it's a code word, but it was telling
and what it told me was that something's up and he went and
went something like this first together report, this one guy on
the ground who actually had a foreign correspondent, believe
it or not, there, you know, and that's some guy standing in
front of, you know, green screen or whatever. We're in the hotel.
And he said that the mayor, he says, the Americans were
praising the Pakistani army for pushing back the Taliban. But
then there's this commentary that was nobody thinks the
Pakistani army has enough on the ball as it were to do more than
one or two fronts. And now that they're, you know, these these
some other groups, I guess some of these jihadist groups that
aren't necessarily Taliban are attacking here and there within
the country. You know, it may be more than they can handle it was
put presented in such a way that it was like, oh, okay, so that
means we're going to have to go there next. I mean, that's what
I was thinking, Well, you know, we're not, we're not because if
they got a bombs, and the Taliban gets ahold of one of
those things, you're gonna not
we're not John, because all we're doing is we're sending
troops to secure the poppy fields and Afghanistan to keep
the drugs flowing.
Well, there may be some truth to that. But it doesn't mean we're
going to put up with some Taliban. He's getting a hold of
you show me you show me we got no troops there. We got no
movement. There's no plans. There's no they don't agency.
And an Obama if you haven't, don't remember he mentioned this
when he was running for office about having to go into
Pakistan. Yeah. But we're not geared up for it. We're not
Yeah, you know what? Yeah, they said that about Vietnam, or
we're not going into Cambodia?
No, he's not even saying we're not. It's just we're not. We
are. Yeah, we're not we're not going into Pakistan.
We are going we're going to have people on the ground in
Pakistan. Has that been announced? No. I'm just telling
you, I can see this coming down Broadway.
Oh, we're not India's gonna go in there and take over the whole
country and kill everybody.
That's not going to happen.
Okay. Well, as Mark was
saying, is that this is a serious mess. Yeah.
All right. What is the most popular weed these days
increasing in popularity by leaps and bounds? Now selling
for $9? A pound at specialty supermarkets?
Dandelion? Yes.
Correct. According to The Wall Street Journal,
interesting. I only say that because my wife has gotten
involved in making dandelion honey and dandelion wine and
dandelion syrup.
Is this a yuppie thing?
She's not a yuppie. No,
no, but is this a yuppie thing? Where's this restrict was
denied until you mentioned the story? I just took a wild guess.
I didn't know that this was going on. I thought my wife was
just doing something.
Five years ago, she's
on the cutting edge. Well, she's a visionary. Well, she's
got a spice book coming out
on a recent Saturday, Washington DC. Washington DC interior
designer Morgan green stopped at a produce stand and picked up
some dandelion greens $9 A pound no problem says Mr. Green. These
are as good as yuppie green as you can get there you go.
There's yuppie
Yeah, good. Come on. Check out my lawn dudes.
Daniel a no no, because if you don't follow the organic rules,
you can get arrested for growing dandelions illegally and
incorrectly. The dandelion perhaps the most common weed at
the mall is seeing a huge surge in sales at grocery stores.
Other long scorned, scorned greens making the leap to the
dinner table include purslane I don't know what that is,
personally.
It's a Yeah, I've seen it. I don't know if it's a type of
parsley or something like that. I'm not sure I don't remember
lamb's
quarters. And well, this one I know about stinging nettles. Of
course, in the Second World War. It was very typical to make
nettle soup and all kinds of
if you could come to stinging goes away. Yeah.
And that's actually it's kind of tasty. Throw a couple of rocks
in there and then you got yourself meal we're telling you
when I was a kid that's all we had. We used
to make that at school in Holland. Yeah. And in the talk
about rocks. Yeah, well rock soup Sure, man. Yeah, so you
throwing rocks and some stinging nettles and that in the
tournament this is what we used to eat in the war kids
you chew the rock so you
know you just you just put it in there for flavor flavor
flavor crystals
what what is the world coming to
not sure how much nutrition you get from a boiled rock.
It was for taste the industrial
I'm saying I didn't even get any taste out of them now the you
know the Indians up in the height is up. North as
kills me what? It's funny.
So the height is used to take in that when they see they have
these. They cook soup in a they have a cedar box that's that's
watertight. These things cost a fortune to buy. And you find
them on Vancouver Island. You can buy the cedar box and then
they and then they put them liquids and whatever food you're
going to cook in them and then they take some rocks that are
kept in like on top of the hottest coals imaginable. So the
rocks are just like you know red hot, and then you drop them in
the box. And it boils the water and it's actually kind of an
interesting way of cooking. probably safer then su V read.
Yes. Let's not go into that again. No one responded to that.
Of course no one gives a crap.
Well, you know they've I'm going to still go I know you
should you should. I think it's a health and safety issue that
is large.
Nobody cares about because it's not covered by the major media.
And one of our producers Aleister sent me some aviation
news and it struck me he I don't even know if he caught it
because he hit the title of his email is a bloody l stick to
your 182 R G, which is the type of aircraft I have. You'll
recall the we went into some reasonable detail about the
Turkish airways crash near Schiphol Airport. So he sends me
this article. The UK FAA, the AIB, the aircraft Accident
Investigation Board, released a final report on a an incident
with a Boeing 737 300 And this is from September 2007. So just
listen to the facts and then and then it'll probably strike him.
The Boeing 737 300 was approached to Bournemouth
airport which is in southern England it's a an international
airport but not like Heathrow Gatwick following a routine
passenger flight from Faro Portugal early in the ILS that's
the instrument landing system approach. The auto throttle
disengaged with the thrust levers in the idle thrust
position. The disengagement was neither commanded nor recognized
by the crew and the thrust levers remained at idle
throughout the approach. Because the aircraft was fully
configured for landing the airspeed decayed rapidly to a
value below that appropriate for the approach. The commander took
control and initiated a go around. During the go around the
aircraft pitched up excessively. Flight Crew attempts to reduce
the aircraft's pitch were largely ineffective, the
aircraft reached a maximum pitch of 44 degrees nose up, and the
indicated airspeed reduced to 82 knots. That's like you know,
three knots before stalling and crashing and falling flying like
a brick. The flight crew however, were able to recover
control the aircraft and complete a subsequent Approach
and Landing in Bournemouth without further incident. This
was exactly what happened with Turkish airways, although it was
blamed on an altimeter. This is exactly the same scenario.
However, this is a 737 300 and it was two years ago and it was
a 400 series that happened outside of the Netherlands exact
same scenario throttle went to to idle the crew didn't notice
it in the Turkish airways incident, which by the way still
is very very cloudy as to what happened. And I'm saying whoa,
can anyone please pull these two together see the similarities
and maybe call a significant issue with the Boeing 730
sevens?
Well, somebody should yeah.
Just a little bit of aviation news. I
know it doesn't it doesn't sound right.
Doesn't doesn't mean it doesn't sound like oh, I've stumbled
upon something huge but in the world of aviation No, not me.
No, it
doesn't sound this whole thing. I believe that there's that
yeah, there's software issues a lot of these planes and you
know, there's different things that go on and it's like, you
know, people make mistakes.
But but to have these two mistakes happen on very similar
aircraft
and And yeah, it makes makes you think there's a there's a
subsystem that's faulty.
Yes. That's the Werther's or some procedure or something.
Yeah, it's,
it's one of those things, they always have this problem. They
had this with that. There's a there's a good book that came
out about 1520 years ago, called ENSCO, software dangers of
software or something like that, I'm gonna have to dig it up. I
do have it still in the library. Often, I'll find it in the next
month or two. And, well, what can I say, and but it did talk
about different kinds of catastrophes that have happened
over the years. And one of them was a famous one, I think it was
turned into a TV show, where some guy got on to a, you know,
behind there some some radiation, piece of radiation
gear that you had to radiate you for some, you know, medical
reason. And if you put in if you apparently, it only happened
once in a while, but somebody went into the thing, and instead
of going at the very low amount they were they basically roasted
a guy thing. And then they kind of figure out well how that
happened. And then they couldn't figure it out, they figured the
guy using the system, it's screwed up, and they fired him.
And it was a big deal. Didn't happen again, one other time,
and then some software guy who knew what he was doing, found
that series of you know, mistakes. In other words, what
had happened was, instead of putting in the exact number, and
then hitting the button to go where you get that number,
apparently, if you put in a different number than you wanted
to erase it, and you hit the backspace key two or three or
four times, and then you put it in again, and then maybe
backspace again, that would never erased anything, the
backspace key didn't work, right. And so it just added more
and more juice to this thing. And it turned out to be a
software problem. And this is the kind of thing that you know,
you have one series of it when you study the exact procedure
that you went through which most of the things
you can do, you can replicate it and it keeps on happening.
Right. But it's always some software thing. This is a
reason.
I've always been very, you know, I've always found Enstrom
helicopters, which have the best safety record of all helicopters
never a single. I don't think it's ever been a single fatality
ever in instrum helicopter, but I also got into Euro copters for
a while. Until I you know, there's a lot of audit not
really automation, but a lot of the systems are controlled by a
computer in the Eurocopter. And I saw boot ones. I was like, oh,
it's Windows. I'm not too confident. This thing anymore.
I do not like I would not fly it.
No. You know, the joke about what if? What if your car runs
on Windows or the analogy of
there's a whole series of gags for about a year there was a
million gags like that? Yeah.
Hey, maybe a perfect time, John to bring up something we haven't
talked about in at least a week since we were off air. And
that's the one for the armory.
So we do need to get some people out of people, since we bailed
out for a week have like dropped their subscription.
They hate us there, they dropped the action. They've canceled
their their donation subscription. Yeah, rightly so I
guess I understand it, you know, it's minor crisis.
There's a few of them that it's like, I could name names, but I
won't. You don't have to shame him. But there's a bunch of
them.
We forgive you. And we appreciate everything a little
disappointed
by one guy though. Then again, maybe they could transfer their
$2 one to a $24 a year when it's better. So we're gonna, I'm
gonna I've got the big list of people with the $1,500 and
screwball numbers I'm gonna run on on our 100th show. And I'm
don't have it for today. But I do want to encourage people to
we're going to be doing the show again, on track every week,
twice. And, you know, maybe we can do a bonus show somewhere.
And but generally, I don't see that problem again, because
we've done it. The only time that it's only in like dire
emergencies, where we don't do the show. I think we have a lot
of material that we're backed up on. And we'll catch up. But if
this and this wasn't even, it wasn't like a dire emergency. It
was like I was ill, you know, and I was literally ill. So you
know what happens? And yeah, I know, you keep saying the
Evergreen, but I don't believe in Evergreen shows because it's
like, let's like lane. You know, it's like either we're current,
or we're not, you know, I'm sorry, the Evergreen
should be great, especially if it's in the can for a long time.
And so did you hear about what Ed Kennedy said?
It's just not good. Well, there's a couple of things that
we haven't touched on, which are pretty big. And I would like to
hear your analysis of it number one, of course with the big in
the news in the United States, at least California gay union
ban upheld anything Yeah, talk about there.
Yeah, well, I mean, I've I mean, I was expecting that everybody's
all bent out of shape the gays are taking are doing the wrong
thing as usual. The reason that got passed in the first place
was because it was passed as a not the world's greatest law and
then everybody went to court and then they would activist judges
and I kind of interested in the fact that the Liberals are the
one that keeps talking about activist judges or somebody
does. But these activist judges have decided that we're now we
think that you know, whatever the population of California
thinks, we don't care we're gonna do it. How you know,
whatever so they decided to overturn the thing and a whole
bunch of people got married and then they came up with the I
don't know who it was but a bunch of different religious
people mostly came up with Proposition eight and then
unfortunately they found that dirt idiot Mayor from San
Francisco is probably gonna be president united states someday
Gavin Newsom he fits the profile was yeah kind of a treat
Williams look alike type guy was
a handsome man Yeah, totally
fan he you know he's been arrived, which he had a few
babes. So he got on the podium, but you can't do nothing about
it. Now you guys just you chop too bad. He wrote started
writing the people who had voted in the law in the first place
and had the head thrown out. And he was like, he was like,
throwing it in everybody's face. That you know, you are the
people, the state of California, whatever you think you can do.
You can't because we cannot outperform you in court. So
you're screwed. And he just went on and on like that. And I
honestly believe that because people show up offended by that.
A because California is do have to redo pass all kinds of laws,
the public passes laws. That's what we do when we have
referendums and
referenda,
whatever, I don't know. But anyway, whatever the case is, we
have these this process where you can pass laws by the PUC
they're trying to get that overturned by the way they're
trying to get rid of it because it's getting to be a problem or
you know, heaven forbid, there's actually a democracy
Oh, please let's stop that in its tracks. That's no good.
So so the California is I think we're annoyed by this this kind
of taunting a so they you know, a lot of people voted for it.
And then the Obama campaign, which was extremely if you
didn't notice he won, but he brought out a lot of the black
voters and many of them are religious and they don't like
the idea of gay marriage in any way and so they the Obama vote
probably was the one that pushed it over the top and now they're
going right back to the courts again instead that would they
should if they really want to get this done it should
if you have a referendum and it's not just like fine when is
it ever fight this is like the frickin well it's been treaty is
it ever final when is it just
it's always filed they just have to sue over it being
unconstitutional or something like that, which they found the
first one was was was vague and crummy, but they wrote the
second one is Prop Eight pretty ironclad and then that's why the
Supreme Court today you're on your own we can't do anything.
What they should do of course is try to find it do another
another referendum on the other side if they want to win this
war that they've created for themselves now that said a
friend of mines over watching boxing and he robbed an
interesting point is why all the liberals in particular and the
gay specifically want marriage as opposed to civil unions when
marriage is really something that's biblical.
Yeah. Well we Ventures is because this civil unions aren't
legal. Right? Yeah. And
the thing we're not in California, I mean, civil unions
between same sex has to be passed to but you could get that
but the gay said no, we don't want civil unions period. We
want marriage Well, why don't we see the real problem the way he
sees it? Is this is that the state of California or the local
civil? You know, the all these we should just take marriage out
of the picture. You know,
I am all for gay marriage because I really, really really
have a problem with it either.
Let me finish my point. I really want everybody every man woman,
whether you're gay, straight, transgendered, bisexual
homosexual, I want you to go through divorce as well. Please,
you should have that right. deserve that. Right?
You got California's have gone through that gag a million times
already. Okay, so let's go back to this idea. Get rid of
marriage as a civil anything. It shouldn't even be on the books.
If you want to get to have a civil union. You want to like
that you want to run off with your girlfriend and go to City
Hall. You don't get married. You get a civil union. You sign on
the spot. You want to get married? It's a it's a religious
group at church. Yeah. Go to church and get married. It will
be up to the churches to say this marriage is okay. That
one's okay
to be separation of church and state isn't that the whole deal
and marriage this should
be a church thing. So you can get married and have a civil
union and
go to another church that does allow it
and there will be plenty. But they there's something else at
work here because the whole thing is just nobody wants to do
anything easy. Nobody wants to you know, it's almost like you
know, somebody has nothing better
Do John, they got nothing better to do? And by the way, look at
the signs that professionally made. These are professional
print jobs.
Yeah, no, I agree that,
that's always that's always you gotta watch out for that shit
when you see professional signs. And we forgot to mention it's
devora.org/n a, or no agenda library.com You know, what's
going to keep this show alive. And especially now that I'll be
needing some extra income. It's not that funny. There's news
that we bring to you way ahead of anything that that shows up
in print. And I just want to refer again to the Wall Street
Journal today. We told you this when the PPI P plan was
announced, the website was up, we looked at it, we we we
uncovered the total scam that really is of just a way to get
all the toxic assets off the books of banks. It's known as
the PPI P. And so today a headline on money and investing
in that section C one of the Wall Street Journal, the
industry banking industry lobbies the FDIC to let some buy
toxic assets with taxpayer aid from their own banks. Exactly
what we told you was going to happen, they're taking your
taxpayer money, they're going to buy up their own assets really
cheap to get it off their books and still own it. And and you
and you will own 80% of the crap. And you will own almost
nothing of the upside you the taxpayer, you know, the taxpayer
bunch. And there it is in black and white in the paper, like
some big discovery from the Wall Street Journal, big discovery
guys. I also looked at the reporting as promised in May
recovery.gov. And well, it's going to take me a month to
figure out these reports. As simple as the website was now
the reporting is out. Oh, yeah. Oh, volt. It's impossible to
understand what they're actually reporting other than a lot of
money's gone to a lot of teachers.
Well, you want to get the teachers on your side. So you
can you know, push your Yeah, again, push
your exactly push your stupefying agenda. And June 17.
coming up very soon. I'm still tracking that date. Very
significant. You should know what it is Mr. Dvorak?
I'm sure was the date again? June 17.
Is the sentencing date for Bernard made off.
Oh, that should be good for a laugh.
Well, and you know, and I just want to reiterate my prediction
that there will be no sentencing there will be an international
financial court of bankers court, and they will have to go
to the bankers court. And once they start having some kind of
influence over law, when it comes to finance and banking,
they will actually start to become law.
And I like your theory, but I don't think that's going to
happen. I think he's going to get they're not going to the
public is not going to allow your scenario to actually take
place. Oh, please.
John,
there were there were allowing the banks to forget about it.
Don't get me started. You know, this whole thing. Now this whole
made off thing. Here's the scam. Okay, $50 billion. So, of
course, that's the big question. Where'd the money go? 50
billion. So take a million dollars, then. So a million
dollars. Imagine what a million dollars looks like in paper. Now
multiply that by 1000. So it's 1000 million, and then 50 times
that. So I have my own thoughts where that money went to I
personally believe it went into Israel, it's been put into
weapons, probably the kill arrows or something like that.
But when you really think about the scam, a lot of the investors
were insured against losses in that money. What company ensures
those types of losses? Don't even answer I'll give you the
answer. It's AIG. AIG was bailed out by us the taxpayer. It says
hustle it's a big hustle and someone's laughing oh and by the
way everyone got paid off with bonuses. Billions of dollars of
bonuses. And it's all it's all coming up and you're gonna go
boom
Oh Lulu. Oh Amy Winehouse is more important and what that saw
what's up let's watch the show with those eight children this
your
new voice? That's my idiot idiot voice which of course does not
include any of our producer listeners who are on the ball
and smart but propagate this information please tell people
how we're being hustled and scammed it's just sad
Well, it's sad that we're not on that side of the fence so we
don't have to talk about it we can just be sipping champagne in
Paris
and we could you know that is a choice the both of us could make
at any anytime by the way John there's plenty of hustle to get
gig in into I mean we can we can still participate in all this
but no, we choose for what is righteous.
We're righteous dudes, man. Hey, dude, and
we're not even baked.
All right, then finally because we are nearing our allotted time
we want to talk about the nominee for Supreme Court. I
don't Yes, everything we've talked about
we can save that we could save that it's still boiling away.
You know, we
can talk about a traverse See, surrounding my favorite
controversy as the Joe Biden comments when they had when they
picked Clarence Thomas. And he said, Yeah, why would they pick
him? You know, personally, he's obviously picked because it's a
you know, a publicity stunt. I get a black man if he was white,
he said this. If he was white, they wouldn't have picked him.
Fantastic. I mean, does anyone remember at the Anita Hill
scandal? Do you think any of our listeners even old enough to
remember the claim?
That was a clip Google this big hair on the coke cans?
Yes. And Google long Dong silver if you want to laugh, if you
want to laugh, and that is what is on our Supreme Court. You
know, a harassing pubic hair coke putting long Dong silver
porn watching dude.
Turns out to be if you ever see him on a talk show or being
interviewed. He's He's a great guy.
Well, of course he watches porn. You gotta be a good guy. I'm not
against him. I'm just saying I said there was ball. You don't
think that was true? You don't think that harassment thing was
I thought the evidence was pretty freakin compelling.
I don't know I was skeptical the whole thing would be too much of
a setup. And that woman was a bit much
that I needed to hold and yeah, that's pretty common that I have
to call that is pretty sexist. You know whenever a woman has
what a parent or it comes with what should be a legitimate
complaint about sexual harassment it comes
up a little late in the game. You know time there's time
there's ever years after the fact you come out and you say
all this stuff it just a little sketchy to me unless the guy is
like, you know a serial killer in some Zoo. Well that then you
start to put two and two together because all the people
come out of the woodwork information, John
these days when it'll take five or six years, but I will
eventually have to come out and tell you tell the tell the
people that you touch me inappropriately. I mean, what is
this? What I'm talking about this the kind of thing when it
benefits me?
Bring it out? Yeah. You got to save that stuff, man until you
get a lawyer who's really going to help you.
And of the question is what would be inappropriate for you
anyway?
That's that is how vile you actually are. Hey, alright. Oh,
we've just about filter that. Yeah, just about filter. I think
we stopped while we're still ahead.
I don't think we ever got ahead.
So I'm going back to get my nation East to Europe. And
Thursday, I come out to San Francisco for an entire month.
The timing. The timing could not be worse.
Where are you? What's your flight? What what airport you're
flying out of when you come back?
Well, maybe I shouldn't mention that. Because you know, now that
I
mentioned off the air, but I want you to pick some stuff up
for me at duty free?
Oh, sure. Not I'd be happy to but it's a massive bummer,
because this is exactly not when I want to be away from my
daughter. So that sucks. And by the way, thank you. I want to
thank everybody for sending the beautiful emails and
encouragement, non judgmental one way or the other. That's
highly appreciated. And anyone who has experience in my
situation, particularly as regards children, I would love
to hear hear your experiences. I definitely need help.
And we do have the no agenda forums with people who are
chiming in normal form.com yahoo.com
Wiki isn't there no agenda wiki.com I
don't know there might be we ended the 100th show we got the
took plug all these guys. I mean, we still have cage match.
And Baba still does his thing and we can't let leave him
behind. And we have a lot of people and don't forget to go to
the no agenda library.com or divorced.org/na and help us out.
So we keep the show going.
So we should do something really special for episode number 100.
Like actually do an episode to prepare. Yeah, please.
Start with some jingles up that'll be good enough everyone.
That's all people really well. I really
want the jingles okay for the 100 I'll tell you what, you get
the website up. And the jingles there? Yeah. Okay. It's the
website man.
Number 200. You will have something for you guys.
All right. Time for me to go to bed. It's Pet weights past
midnight here in New York. So coming to you from I should just
say at the lovely Empire Hotel in New York City get my nation
East is not bad. 220 bucks a night. Fantastic special
promotion. My name is Adam curry.
You should be calmed down John C. Dvorak
will talk to you on Sunday for episode number 100. Have no
agenda