No Agenda Episode 384, "No Specific Plot" (2012-02-19)

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John C. Dvorak:
I think somebody's listening to our show.
Jingle:
[opening music]
Adam Curry, John C. Dvorak
Adam Curry:
It's Sunday, February nineteen, two thousand twelve (2012-02-19).
Time for your Gitmo Nation media assassination, episode three eight four (384).
Jingle:
This is No Agenda.
Adam Curry:
Measuring the balance of the universe here at Camp Mofo in the Capitol of the Drone Star State, Austin, Texas, in the morning everybody, I'm Adam Curry.
John C. Dvorak:
And from Northern Silicon Valley, where "Bonds Backed by Mortgages Regain Allure", I'm John C. Dvorak.
Jingle:
It's Crackpot and Buzzkill.
In the morning!
[opening music closes]
John C. Dvorak:
I'm John C. Dvorak.
Jingle:
It's Crackpot and Buzzikill! In the Morning!
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Stinger
Adam Curry:
You know you're not on the Horowitz show, right?
John C. Dvorak:
I just read--That was the top headline in the New York Times this morning.
Adam Curry:
"Bonds Backed By Mortgages"--What was it? "Gains"--
John C. Dvorak:
"Regain Allure".
Adam Curry:
"Regains Allure". Hmm.
John C. Dvorak:
I mean who writes a headline like that but the New York Times?
Adam Curry:
Yeah, really.
John C. Dvorak:
So that means something is up.
Adam Curry:
[Laughs] I don't know. I actually thought we were kind of done. You know I was paying close attention between
Adam Curry:
kind of done. I was paying very close attention between Thursday and today--Oh boy. My air conditioner just went crazy. And, um, I think we've uh concurred evil. There was--there was--there wasn't a lot of--There was a lot of stupidity, but there wasn't a lot of evil to fight in these past few days.
John C. Dvorak:
Eh, stupidity is more fun.
Adam Curry:
Yeah. I agree. I agree. Uh, but actual evil--I think we've--we'eve temporarily. Temporarily, we've set 'em back a little bit. I don't know.
John C. Dvorak:
Well that is because it's a holiday. Every time there is a holiday, if you haven't noticed, things slow down.
Adam Curry:
What holiday?
John C. Dvorak:
Tomorrow is President's Day! It's a big holiday. The Post Office is closed. The banks are closed.
Adam Curry:
Oh, wait a minute. Isn't that--
John C. Dvorak:
Do you even keep up with this stuff?
Adam Curry:
No. When you live like me, when you don't have an office to go to--the only thing I care about is Thursdays and Sundays. I don't...I'm just like, "Oh what? President's Day?" Whatever. No, I don't keep up with that. Not at all. I have no idea. Isn't that just the car shopping holiday in America? Isn't that where we all go and buy cars?
John C. Dvorak:
Well, there--or a white sale.
Adam Curry:
Wha--wha--Is that--white sale. Is that refrigerators, and ovens and stoves?
John C. Dvorak:
I thougth white sales were sheets.
Adam Curry:
No, I thought a white sale was refrigerators.
John C. Dvorak:
No, sheets.
Adam Curry:
No...well, you're not going to go out and buy sheets.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, people buy sheets.
Adam Curry:
[Laughs] Ok.
John C. Dvorak:
At Macy's.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, well in the morn--
John C. Dvorak:
Macy's always has the white sale. They don't sell refrigerators, that I know of.
Adam Curry:
In the morning to you, John.
John C. Dvorak:
In the morning to you, Adam Curry, and to all ships at sea. And all boots on the ground...
Adam Curry:
In the morning to you, John.
John C. Dvorak:
In the morning to you, Adam Curry. In the morning to all ships at sea, and all boots on the ground, and all feet in the air. And we also had a washed up on shore foot.
Adam Curry:
Yeah we did. We did.
John C. Dvorak:
Another one.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, well, we still track it, but it's just--it's boring now. It doesn't matter anymore. It's like, Ok, so once in a while...
John C. Dvorak:
Did you see the analysis that says it's due to--a lot of people believe...possibly a, uh, a cult of, uh, raping dolphins? You know about this?
Adam Curry:
Yeah. I haven't actually seen that serious. I've seen, like, internet-type reports about this. That dolphins are going crazy and eating people.
Adam Curry:
like internet-type reports about this...that the dolphins are going crazy and eating people [laughs].
John C. Dvorak:
And they're raping them. First they rape them and supposedly--this, according to--I don't--this is not--none of this is true.
Jingle:
Hey, citizen.
Adam Curry:
Well, that's what you say.
John C. Dvorak:
They have an uh, uh, i guess a, uh...a member...that has like a hand on it. And so it grabs people and drags them down and rapes them and their foot falls off and washes up on shore on BC. That's essentially, that's the theory.
Adam Curry:
Have you ever, um, done that 'swimming with the dolphins' thing?
John C. Dvorak:
No, I don't swim with the dolphins.
Adam Curry:
I've done that once.
Adam Curry:
...done that 'swimming with the dolphins' thing?
John C. Dvorak:
No, I don't swim with the dolphins.
Adam Curry:
I've done that once. I, uh...it was a documentery. I don't remember where I was...and so, it's actually quite expensive. And its...its...I think its probably cruel as well. Cause you know, these dolphins are like locked into a fenced-off area and then, you know, like "Hey! Come on in a swim with the dolphins!" It's like four hundred bucks or something.
John C. Dvorak:
Huh.
Adam Curry:
And so. We--I got this...I got to do this as part of a documentary, like, I don't know, fifiteen years ago or something, maybe longer. And, uh, I swam with Jake and the Fat Man, uh, turns out, actually.
Adam Curry:
I swam with Jake and the Fat Man, uh, turns out, actually, um, two male, um dolphins. And so, you know, there's a part of the 'getting to know them' process before, you know, they swim with you. Which is quite cool cause they--you lay in the water with a life jacket on and they come up and they each put their snout underneath your foot and then start to push you. So you're actually propelled out of the water. Kind of like hydro-planing. It's a very cool experience. And, uh, so, you know, we're playing with these dolphins. They role over and then the handler says, "Oh, um, don't pet his belly."
Adam Curry:
They roll over and then the handler says, "Oh, um, don't pet his belly." And the reason why becomes quite evident when you do because these guys will get a boner that is--I swear to God is two feet long.
John C. Dvorak:
Does it have a hand on it?
Adam Curry:
It's got a knee. These things are huge! Dolphin shlong is outrageously big. And they love it. They're like [dolphin noises].
John C. Dvorak:
Huh.
Adam Curry:
So, it's possible.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, well, I uh--whatever the case is. It seems--it just seems a little far-fetched.
Adam Curry:
In the morning to all of our human resources who are charged up ready to go. I see them all standing by in the quorum at the stream and chat. No Agenda Stream dot com (http://noagendastream.com). No Agenda Chat dot net (http://noagendachat.net). Good to have you all on board as we once again try to fight evil. As I said, there's not a lot of it, but there's a lot of stupidity. And I'm a little disappointed. Cause, you know, we never converse in between shows and you sent me and email and it completely bummed me out.
John C. Dvorak:
Oh, because you had a surprise clip?
Adam Curry:
Yeah! I was going to, like, freak you out with this news item to show you why--
John C. Dvorak:
Oh, but I had also been turned on to the item.
Adam Curry:
Yeah...
John C. Dvorak:
You can thank Eric the Shill for ruining your gag.
Adam Curry:
Well, thanks, Eric. No, someone sent me this earlier in the week and I'm, like, "This is such a perfect example of why this program is important. This is Yahoo!--
John C. Dvorak:
No kidding! It's the worst! And why do they produce this? It just shows you the educational system in this country has gone to hell
John C. Dvorak:
because there there is no... this a mis-logic. Oh and it is presented in such a way that you... play it if you want, it's just...
Adam Curry:
I'm gonna, yeah, let me set it up a little more. This is the Yahoo! News version. Yahoo! News who of course have successfully merged their news outlets with ABC News, that other compromised service. And, um, where it's CNN, and CBS 60 Minutes, they've got like experts like Sanje Gupta and Dr. Drew to come in and cover up the
Adam Curry:
horrible Leroy 12 which is now about 20 of these girls who all of the sudden got Tourettes-like syndrome.
John C. Dvorak:
and...
Adam Curry:
Yes?
John C. Dvorak:
And they decided to do it in a mocking trivializing way that is just an insult to anyone with any common sense.
Clip:
As if the flu weren't enough, this winter there was a mysterious outbreak at a high school in New York that some theorized could all be in the victims' heads. Over a dozen girls and one adult at LeRoy High School [?] all reported the same very real
Clip:
symptoms of twitching, ticks, and uncontrollable outbursts. But there is no known medical cause and the bug may have been spread on Facebook by teens convincing themselves they were sick. A similar twitching outbreak struck nine girls and a teacher at a Virginia high school in 2007. But investigation determined at least 6 of them were faking it. Fake outbreaks spread by the power of suggestion are a rare phenomenon; sometimes called "mass hysteria". The Tanganyika laughter epidemic paralyzed people in part of what is now Tanzania.
Adam Curry:
Did you ever look that up, the Tanganyika laughter epidemic?
John C. Dvorak:
Did you?
Adam Curry:
No! I thought, hah, I was sure I would be able to say, "John when the Tanganyika laughing epidemic came about what was the general consensus in the world?"
John C. Dvorak:
It's kinda like, pre-Google.
Adam Curry:
I mean...
John C. Dvorak:
It's hard to look some of this stuff up.
Adam Curry:
I mean we could actually use some of that. Why don't we have a laughing epidemic? That would be great. We should have some of that.
John C. Dvorak:
heh heh
Adam Curry:
There's more to this great story.
Clip:
With months of uncontrollable laughter in 1962.
Clip:
And another famous suspected example was the dancing plague that struck Strasbourg, France in the summer of 1518 and didn't end until several dancers had dropped dead.
Adam Curry:
Now that just doesn't sound true to me. [laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
[chuckle]
Adam Curry:
Several dancers. So there uh, there was an epidemic in France in what did he say, 1600? And people were dancing until they dropped dead. This is clearly meant-- anyone with any sanity is gonna say, "well that sounds like it's stupid." Maybe it was real, I don't know. I mean it's hard to tell now isn't it? You're right, pre-Google.
Adam Curry:
But it's playing down what is a serious problem which, you know, I believe is caused by HPV injections, the famed Gardasil drug. And it just gets worse.
Clip:
Mass hysteria belongs to a category of self induced or imaginary ailments called "factitious disorders".
Adam Curry:
Heh heh. Which is what you -- You're gonna be diagnosed with this one day my friend. "I'm sorry, your daughter has a factitious disorder. It's very sad. And you know how that spreads don't you?
Clip:
Like that of Bethany Storo who got on Good Morning America by splashing acid on her own face, and claiming -
John C. Dvorak:
This is a totally...
This is what got me about this thing:
This has got nothing... one has got nothing to do with the other.
Adam Curry:
No. But they even take it further!
They take it to the stupidest level ever, down to the simplest of all simple childhood nursery rhymes. Well, not nursery rhyme, but little stories you tell your kid at bedtime.
Clip:
Or Ashley Ann Corillo, who faked having cancer, even getting a "won't quit" tattoo.
Clip:
Pretending to be sick to get money is known as malingering while feigning illness to get sympathy or attention is called Münchausen syndrome, named after Baron Münchausen, an 18th century German nobleman known for exaggerating his exploits. Its also called Crying Wolf. ...
Adam Curry:
There you go. Its like, OK so we went from some mysterious disease that has caused these girls some serious harm down to crying wolf, they're just crying wolf. And we all know the story of crying wolf, don't we?
Clip:
And one of the dangers of constantly claiming to be sick is that if you really do get the flu, nobody believes you.
Adam Curry:
Ooh.
John C. Dvorak:
The flu! Why is it the flu, by the way? He go from that to 'if you really do get the flu.' What? The flu?
Adam Curry:
I know this is un ...
John C. Dvorak:
This whole thing ...
Adam Curry:
is unbelievable.
John C. Dvorak:
is a humiliation to anyone whose ever done broadcast journalism.
Adam Curry:
Yes.
John C. Dvorak:
It's a complete fiasco. It is probably the worst little production I have ever seen.
Adam Curry:
And they put some money into it.
John C. Dvorak:
Its got is illogic, it jumps from one end to another and makes false associations. It's so bad, it should be ..uh ...they should shoot these people.
Adam Curry:
But of course the way it spreads is the best part. Oh, that doesn't go, hello ..
John C. Dvorak:
I'm here.
Adam Curry:
Oh, maybe I missed it, the whole point where it can be spread by Facebook?
John C. Dvorak:
that was early
Adam Curry:
that was early, I missed that.
John C. Dvorak:
and the flu, somehow the flu got a little promotion.
Adam Curry:
I missed that, I guess.
John C. Dvorak:
And it ended with the flu. Somehow the flu got a little promotion for back scenes which is the irony of the whole thing when you think about it. I't really the punch line.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, you're right, that's the irony. It comes from vaccines but .. you really, you don't need the flu because .. you get a vaccine .. and by the way, it looks like the CDC was busy doing other things, they didn't have time to release the flu virus into the atmosphere.
Clip:
I'm Wendy Davis and I'm Ron Vaughn. Get your cold medicine and your vitamin's C ready, think about getting ready for the flu shot. c2; and health officials say..
Adam Curry:
Oh pfft! What could this health report be about? Get that flu shot Ohh!
Clip (Speaker 2):
We are...
John C. Dvorak:
Rather late. It's like March!
Adam Curry:
[chuckle]
Clip (Speaker 2):
The latest start to a flu season since 1987. It's running late, but now its here and we're about to thick of it.
Adam Curry:
So, really since you said that, John I'm just really combining that now. That piece really was just a flu vaccination piece.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah.
Adam Curry:
And it's perfectly timed with all these other news stories.
Adam Curry:
This is some bogus story from, where is it from?
John C. Dvorak:
Oh, I almost had clip ! from here. They had the same exact bogus story in the bay area.
Adam Curry:
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak:
About, "Oh, the flu season!" It's like. "Hey, wait a minute. Who lost the sheet to our run down to our October/November?"
Adam Curry:
"We're out of order! What are we doing?!"
John C. Dvorak:
"What is date on here? How come we didn't run this on October? What happened?"
Adam Curry:
"Run it now! Quick!"
John C. Dvorak:
"It's March and we haven't down the flu stuff? aww!"
Adam Curry:
[chuckle]
Adam Curry:
"My goodness! What distracted us? Oh! It was that stupid GOP X-Factor reality show."
John C. Dvorak:
Too many debates.
Adam Curry:
Yeah. I got to talk about that briefly.
So, Rick Santorum, and this is Gitmo Nation Lowlands is all in a titter right now.
John C. Dvorak:
Why?
Adam Curry:
Well, because one of the royal princes, Friso..
John C. Dvorak:
Oh yeah. Right, got hit my an avalanche.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, got hit by an avalanche, and I know one princes and Micky knows one of the other princes;
Adam Curry:
through business contacts actually. I haven't spoken to my prince. Micky didn't email her prince. And he said, "Yeah, it's pretty grim." So-- but this is dominating the news. And it's gotten to the point-- it's very interesting to watch the social medias where the lowlands people are like, "Who cares? Yeah, yeah. This is bullcrap." They're so negative right now. The vibes are so low in the lowlands.
Adam Curry:
The people are so suppressed that, you know, the news media is obviously covering up all kinds of other stuff that's going on. Somehow they feel it's wrong, but at the same time it's kind of inhumane to be like, "I don't give a crap about that guy!" It's like, wow. My brain is a little twisted over it.
John C. Dvorak:
[chuckle]
Adam Curry:
But one of the things that is suppressed because of this is something "Frothy Mix" Santorum said while he was on his little speaking tour. And his whole thing is ObamaCare bad, ObamaCare bad, ObamaCare bad, whatever.
Adam Curry:
And he says something - about the Dutch medical system which is patently untrue.
John C. Dvorak:
Oh, this is the problem with all these guys. They all say stuff that is just off the wall untrue.
Adam Curry:
So he's talking about-- he's making a comparison to death squads. And he brings up an example--
John C. Dvorak:
Death squads or death panels?
Adam Curry:
I'm sorry, what's the difference? Death panels, right.
Adam Curry:
So then a medical like a secret group of people--
John C. Dvorak:
Cabal.
Adam Curry:
Cabal can say--
John C. Dvorak:
"I think he should be die."
Adam Curry:
Yeah, I think he should die. So in the Netherlands, euthanasia is legal. And I know from first hand experience, this is not really that simple. Even if you have all the documents signed, I mean, there's a percentage-- I believe the official percentage is two percent of voluntary euthanasia. Which means you sign a document that says, "Hey, if I'm no good any more, then pull the plug."
Adam Curry:
That's essentially the deal. But here's how Santorum presents that.
Clip (Santorum):
In the Netherlands, people wear a different bracelet if you're elderly. And the bracelet is "Do Not Euthanize Me"
Adam Curry:
Are you hearing this? He says people wear bracelets in the Netherlands that say do not euthanize me.
Clip (Rick Santorum):
Because they have voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands. But half the people who are euthanized every year-- and it's ten percent of all deaths in the Netherlands.
Adam Curry:
[chuckle] You can hear the guy filming this. "Woah!" Ten percent of all deaths is people who have voluntary euthanized.
Clip (Rick Santorum):
Half of those people are euthanized involuntarily.
Adam Curry:
Oh!
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs]
Adam Curry:
Involuntarily!
Clip (Rick Santorum):
Because they're older and sick.
Adam Curry:
Now listen, it gets better.
Clip (Rick Santorum):
And so elderly people in the Netherlands don't go to the hospital. They go to another country.
Adam Curry:
That's such a lie. That older people in the Netherlands don't go to the hospital--
John C. Dvorak:
They run! They run for their lives!
Adam Curry:
They run away! That is such bull crap. That is, I mean -- I'm sorry.
Adam Curry:
It is just not true. You know, I've had a lot of older people around me in the past ten years, some very close and who have passed on and this is just not true. It's just a bold faced lie. Now I will say there is-- and we've discussed this on the show, that when you're of a certain age the way the system works, they do say, "Well, we're not gonna pay for your liver, cause, you know, you're old. You don't count anymore."
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, 98 years old and you want a liver transplant.
Adam Curry:
Well, even younger than that, I have to say. Seventy five [75] is like, you're not gonna get one.
John C. Dvorak:
If there is a limited number of livers and somebody younger needs it, it's probably best to go to them.
Adam Curry:
That's the thinking. But this, is such a blatant lie from this douche bag. [laughs] It's unbelievable. It's just a lie. It's absolutely not true. And what does he think?
John C. Dvorak:
I would demand that he produce one of these old bracelets that say Do Not Euthanize.
Adam Curry:
I want one. Yeah, we should sell those.
Adam Curry:
We should sell those bracelets, "Do Not Euthanize Me, Bro" [laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
"Do Not Euthanize Or Drone Me"
Adam Curry:
Bro [laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
Bro
Adam Curry:
Really, I've never seen one of these bracelets and I've been around. Stupid, bonehead, Frothy Mix Santorum.
John C. Dvorak:
He's a liar.
Adam Curry:
He's a total liar.
John C. Dvorak:
He's an embarrassing liar
Adam Curry:
[sighs] But, he's the front runner [laughs] in the beauty contest. I can't wait for the talent portion.
Adam Curry:
It'd be great if he had to play, like, you know, slide whistle, or recorder, or something like that.
John C. Dvorak:
Well, while on the subject of douche bags
Adam Curry:
Woo hoo!
John C. Dvorak:
I've got a Keith Olbermann clip which relates to the election.
Adam Curry:
[chuckles] Oh God. Okay.
John C. Dvorak:
Olbermann, who apparently decided that Ron Paul is not his cup of tea, decides to take a shot at him with his really nasty little commentary.
Adam Curry:
Good one
Clip (Keith Olbermann):
First, the Sanity Break. On this date in two thousand [2000], one of the strangest coincidences of history concluded
John C. Dvorak:
Coincidence!
Clip (Keith Olbermann):
When the cartoonist Charles Schultz died,
Clip (Keith Olbermann):
literally one day after the publication of the last of the Peanuts comic strips he had drawn six weeks earlier. Two [2] days before that, the House of Representatives had voted to award Mr. Schultz the Congressional Medal of Honor. There was one vote against that. By Congressman Ron Paul.
Adam Curry:
[laughs heartily]
Clip (Keith Olbermann):
Who had also voted against giving the same award to Rosa Parks.
Adam Curry:
[laughs] Not only is he anti-black, not only is he anti-human rights.
John C. Dvorak:
Racist. He's a cartoonist hater.
Adam Curry:
Cartoon hater. [laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
Now, Olbermann, who seems to be sensible in some regard, but in this case he apparently thinks that a cartoonist should get the Congressional Medal of Honor for a comic strip? This is what this award, this is like marginalizing the award for people who actually did something heroic. Rosa Parks, herself, would say this would be bogus. She probably wouldn't even take it. If you've ever listened to her interviews, she just wanted to keep her spot in the bus and somebody else made a big deal out of it.
John C. Dvorak:
Why is this a Congressional Medal of Honor issue? And why is it a big deal that Ron Paul is the only man with any apparent honesty with himself about the value of these things? That he'd vote no and be condemned by this idiot?
Adam Curry:
Well, I guess since Olbermann is clearly back on the air, now he's on the take. There's no other way to explain it. Why would you do that?
John C. Dvorak:
Time marches on, he says. Time marches on!
Adam Curry:
Ah, no one cares about that douche bag.
John C. Dvorak:
He had to go to an abyss set. He doesn't have a background anymore. They just put up the black curtain like we use on the X3 show. It's cheap.
Adam Curry:
[laughs] Are they in the basement, too?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, probably. It's like a cheap production.
Adam Curry:
[laughing] Well, I'll tell 'ya, John. I've viewed the stuff that happened over the weekend from multiple viewpoints.
Adam Curry:
And I'll discuss the one as a television producer first. And I'm referring to the Whitney Houston funeral. And, I don't know if you saw any of this. It was hard to miss
John C. Dvorak:
I saw zero [0] of it.
Adam Curry:
It was hard to miss, actually.
John C. Dvorak:
I did it!
Adam Curry:
You did it. You succeeded. Your mission is complete. So here's what was interesting about this. It was four [4] hours long and I was monitoring everything. I was monitoring the social networks..you know, it was on CNN, Fox, everyone was broadcasting this thing live world wide CNN more, of course, more world wide than Fox.
Adam Curry:
Although Fox has a pretty big world wide presence now as well. A lot of people are watching this. I haven't seen any ratings yet, in fact while we're doing that, I'll see if we have any thing come in yet. Because, I think it was a fairly large audience. But, here's what was interesting. We had the Grammy awards. The Grammy awards, eighteen [18] cameras, you know flashing, strobe light-y you know, the biggest names in the music business.
Adam Curry:
Man, it was the most boring, idiotic show I've ever seen.
John C. Dvorak:
I couldn't watch it. I thought it was, for one thing, and I'm not like a twenty [20] year-old, but these people that were performing were OLD! I mean, it was like, why don't you put on some modern groups. I mean, why am I watching these people that are you know that are in their sixties [60's] and seventies [70's] playing. And they weren't playing anything good. They were playing this kind of dirge music. I thought the whole thing was depressing
Adam Curry:
Right. Thank you. Exactly. It was depressing and it was boring. This Whitney Houston funeral was also about four [4] hours, about the same length as the Grammy awards. It had no commercials and ONE camera. ONE camera. And a lot of interesting people and talented people singing. And from a television production standpoint, the numbers haven't come in yet, we still waiting, I haven't even seen the overnights. I think that this got bigger ratings than the Grammys.
Adam Curry:
And was, actually, quite entertaining to watch.
John C. Dvorak:
Hmm
Adam Curry:
So, from a television production standpoint..and I watched Micky..I saw her sit, because I had recorded the Grammy's for her. She was in Los Angeles doing something else..and she couldn't even sit through it. And of course, she had to fast forward through the commercials [quick sigh] 'ah, what is all this crap?' and it's gonna sound a little weird,
Adam Curry:
but, if you take into account what I believe is going on in the music business.. which is an evil business..it truly is. First, we had Madonna's Super Bowl half time event. Now, you saw that, John. Didn't you? I know you saw it
John C. Dvorak:
I saw it until, I only watched about half of it because, for one thing, it was over-produced.
Adam Curry:
Um huh
John C. Dvorak:
And it wasn't that great. I mean, I suppose for what they were looking for they got what they wanted. Then, of course, somebody flips off somebody at the end,
John C. Dvorak:
and I missed that, so I felt pretty gypped.
Adam Curry:
Well you've kind of missed-
John C. Dvorak:
If you're going to flip somebody off, please do it at the beginning of one of these things
Adam Curry:
[chuckles] Well, I think you kind of missed the symbolism that was in this performance, which was all over the place with it.
John C. Dvorak:
This Madonna thing?
Adam Curry:
Yeah. Oh yeah. There was all kinds of pyramids and devil horns and, like, squatting on rocks, I mean this was all
John C. Dvorak:
[chuckling] Squatting on rocks
Adam Curry:
Oh yeah, oh yeah, this
John C. Dvorak:
The old squatting on rocks symbol.
Adam Curry:
That's right. In fact here's ah Madonna on Anderson Pooper before the show, and she uses some very interesting words to describe her performance.
Clip (Speaker 1):
Are you nervous about doing the Super Bowl?
Clip (Speaker 2):
Oh my God, I'm so nervous. You have no idea. I am.
Clip (Speaker 1):
Really? [crowd applauds]
Clip (Speaker 2):
Yeah. I mean first of all, its the Super Bowl, I mean the Super Bowl is kind of like the Holy of Holys ...
Adam Curry:
Mmhm, the Holy of Holys. Pay attention to what she's saying here. The Holy of Holys.
Clip (Speaker 2):
... in America, right?
Clip (Speaker 1):
So, like, here I am, I'm gonna come into, like, the halfway between, like the- the- the church. The church experience -
Adam Curry:
So she's now, and it's true I think, she's equating the Super Bowl to the holy of holy. "It's the church, ok, what is your job in the church Madonna?"
Clip (Speaker 1):
I'm gonna have to deliver a sermon.
Adam Curry:
Ah! Right! A sermon. I think she did deliver a sermon. I think she delivered a satanic sermon.
John C. Dvorak:
[Laughs] I'll buy it!
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, I think you nailed this. This is good.
Adam Curry:
Now stick with it, stick with it. Then we have the Grammys. Now remember that Whitney Houston died as the first guests were arriving to the Clive Davis party in the same hotel. In the very same hotel. Eight hundred people in the music business, and she's up there dead for hours while they're downstairs partying. I mean, that's crazy! Whitney Houston was Clive Davis' baby. He made her, and vice-versa by the way,
to a certain degree. Clive, of course, was already kind of out there. So Chaka Khan comes on the Piers Morgan show. I think that a lot of artists are very afraid to just basically just come out and say it. At first he says - he asks her about people coming and partying while Whitney is up there dead. She was in the bathtub probably, still. They don't just take it out. It's crazy!
Clip (Speaker 2):
You were, I think going to go to the Clive Davis party.
Clip (Speaker 1):
Yes.
Clip (Speaker 2):
It was a surreal event where Whitney's body was still in the hotel, and there was a sort of
Clip (Speaker 1):
(Piers Morgan) It was a surreal event where Whitney's body was still in the hotel and there was this sort of party, apparently half the room were in tears, the other half were kind of partying. What did you feel about that?
Clip (Speaker 2):
(Chaka Kahn) I thought that was complete insanity.
Adam Curry:
Yes, it was insanity. Of course it was insanity, you're absolutely right. And Chaka Kahn exp... now listen carefully to the words. We just heard Madonna about the Holy of Holy with the Super Bowl and the church and the sermon. Yeah the church of the demonic spirit. Now listen to Chaka Kahn whose been in the business a long time. You don't hear about her much any more, because of course she's you know, fulfilled her contract and she's out and she's
Adam Curry:
still alive. Here's how she describes the business.
Clip (Speaker 1):
[Piers Morgan]
Do you think she had that tendency anyway?
Clip (Speaker 2):
[Chaka Kahn]
I think that we all as artists because we're highly sensitive people. And this machine around us (so-called music industry) is such a demonic thing. It sacrifices people's lives and their essences.
Adam Curry:
Yeah. "It sacrifices their lives and their essences." (which of course is the same for soul). And then we go on to do the show the next day where we have Nicki Minaj literally performing a demonic ritual on stage. John, here is what I'm gonna say is happening.
John C. Dvorak:
With a Pope character.
Adam Curry:
Thank you. Here is what I'm gonna say is happening: There was absolutely a sacrifice whether it was purely music business related, whatever it was, there's a lot of weird crazy crap going on in the music business.
Adam Curry:
Listen to the lyrics. Look at the top ten. Where did all the love songs go? No, it's all about the Rain Man. It's all about... it's demonic. It's completely demonic.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, where did all the love songs go?
Adam Curry:
Well they came back yesterday.
John C. Dvorak:
Even when Paul McCartney sang on the Grammys - sitting down the whole time - it was very atypical of his material.
Adam Curry:
Mm-hmm. Exactly. Because it's a demonic system of programming.
Adam Curry:
Music is extremely important. When we were kids, starting in the '50s - I'll just take it back a little bit, I know all the '50s songs for some reason - it was all about "Love Me Do", "I Love You", "Wake Up Little Suzie", "Love, Love, Love, All You Need is Love." And that changed somewhere around the '70s, the Disco Era kind of, when they're like "Hey, we can program people." Music is no more or less than vibrations. It's just vibes coming out of speaker conuses, and it's really important what it does to the psyche.
Adam Curry:
And I think that the music business and the industry is being used to bring down people, to enslave them, get them into these demonic feelings. And what happened with the Whitney Houston funeral, is the other side went, 'Okay, we're not having any of that. We're going to project love and,' well, the God stuff. I was even into that yesterday. You got, like the preacher guy, the Wynan brother, saying 'if you have a light heart, can you say amen.' I'm like, amen!
Adam Curry:
I was like, all over it. Stevie Wonder comes out and perf..it was absolutely, there is a war going on between evil and..or light and dark..let me put it that way.
John C. Dvorak:
That could be. Whatever the case the Grammys got huge ratings and I don't think this thing will even come close.
Adam Curry:
Awww? Well, well wait until the ratings come out.
John C. Dvorak:
Ah, you'll see
Adam Curry:
But, by the same token, I'd say be very, very careful because when this stuff takes place..and it's happened in the past..something big will happen.
Adam Curry:
We're being set up. Maybe the anti-Christ was birthed during the Grammy's, I don't know.
John C. Dvorak:
Could be Obama
Adam Curry:
Well, you should Goggle that.
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs]
Adam Curry:
In the UK, by the way
John C. Dvorak:
It was always George Bush. Why can't it be Obama?
Adam Curry:
Say yeah, what's the difference? They just birthed a new one. In the UK
John C. Dvorak:
Same guy
Adam Curry:
On Channel Five [5], this is the fail of the century. So, they have a promo for Channel Five [5] for a Whitney special.
Adam Curry:
It's followed by a commercial for a company called Wonga. And it's better to watch it. It will be in nashownotes.com, but you will be able to hear, so they close off the promo and then listen to the first line of this commercial which, I guess, is meant to be funny.
Clip (Speaker 1):
but in the end [inaudible] silence one of the world's greatest voices? [inauduble] Whitney's Addiction: Death Of A Diva. Tuesday on Channel Five [5].
Clip (Speaker 2):
She looks better in a body bag.
Clip (Speaker 3):
Wonga.com. Straight talking money without the drama.
Adam Curry:
Did you hear it?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, it "looks better than a body bag."
Adam Curry:
Yeah 'she looks better in a body bag. It's unbelievable! Who does the
John C. Dvorak:
Sure that wasn't something else? Was just a bad cut or bad segue?
Adam Curry:
No. It was just a commercial that has to do with something else that they played right after the promo.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, a bad segue
Adam Curry:
Yeah, they played it right after the promo.
John C. Dvorak:
It's terrible
Adam Curry:
Absolutely horrible
John C. Dvorak:
Oh, anyway
Adam Curry:
Anyway, I feel like we got some re-balance in the universe and that's good.
Adam Curry:
And we'll see how the rate...
John C. Dvorak:
Hah.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, well, I'm hopeful.
John C. Dvorak:
I say no
Adam Curry:
I'm hopeful. Did we get any balance in our show?
John C. Dvorak:
We got a very interesting series of donations, because whole bunch of people came in with almost the exact same amount of money, although we do have one winner of the executive producer sweepstakes. Firas Al Thibani, in Riyadh, which I like to pronounce rid-a-ya
Adam Curry:
[chuckles] rid-a-ya, yes
John C. Dvorak:
Riyadh, in Saudi Arabia, actually came in with two hundred sixty six dollars and sixty seven cents [266.67 USD],
John C. Dvorak:
which is the exactly one thousand [1000] Saudi Riyals.
Adam Curry:
Ohhh. Nice
John C. Dvorak:
Been meaning to donate for a while, he says. Why? Because you're worth it. You do excellent work and uncover issues that are often ignored by the media. I would also like a karma shout. Let's give him one
Adam Curry:
Yeah, absolutely. We highly appreciate the thousand [1000] Riyals.
Jingle:
you've got karma
Adam Curry:
That should be a new amount. A thousand [1000] Riyal karma shot.
John C. Dvorak:
Why not? They're takin' over anyway. Hey
Adam Curry:
[laughing]
John C. Dvorak:
So Firas will be the Executive Producer for today's show. We want to thank him for coming in from far away. Send us some photos. Joseph Vlake, in Jeffersonville, Indiana, two hundred fifty [250] dollars. Associate Executive Producer. John and Adam, needs a de-douching and also some house karma. So he needs a combo here. Currently living in the in-laws RV. Oh, that's gotta be a thrill. Due to the house we were buying falling through after selling the old one. That's nice. You sell your old house and you can't get into your new one. And you're living with your in-laws in an RV.
John C. Dvorak:
Making an offer for a third [3rd] house today and need the karma to make sure it works out. I know Adam can relate to the RV thing. Imagine it with wife, son and golden retriever.
Adam Curry:
[chuckles] And when the golden retriever gets wet, and then comes in the RV, the smell doesn't go way for, like, weeks.
John C. Dvorak:
I wouldn't think. Give him a de-douching karma
Adam Curry:
Yeah, you got it
Jingle:
You've been de-douched. You've got karma.
John C. Dvorak:
Marco VanVeen in Grevenzond, Some place. Not sure where this is
Adam Curry:
Kraffesonda
John C. Dvorak:
Holland?
Adam Curry:
Yes
John C. Dvorak:
Kraffensonda. Two three four five six [234.56]. We want to thank him. James Shearer, in Roseville, California. Two three three three three [233.33]. James Howard. Sir James Howard to you. Indianapolis, Indiana, two eighteen twelve [218.12]. In the morning citizens. My birthday is on the eighteenth [18th]. I made a donation in honor of myself, after hearing Adam's deconstruction of the Leviathan oil field conspiracy.
John C. Dvorak:
"I'm even more tempted than usual to flee civilization and become a yak herder in outer Mongolia"
Adam Curry:
Hey, hey. Get in line!
John C. Dvorak:
But, before he goes, he's going to bequeath all his worldly possessions to the greatest podcast in the multiverse. That would be us.
Adam Curry:
That's very cool, thank you
John C. Dvorak:
Yak farming is fun, Sir James. You might think about it seriously. Brian Mancuso, Infield, Connecticut, two eighteen twelve [219.12]. Hey citizen. I'm supporting the new show with two eighteen twelve [218.12]. "Why? Because it's also a palindrome."
John C. Dvorak:
"It's my birthday and I fear that" ..oh, we don't have him on the birthday list, put him on the birthday list.
Adam Curry:
Oh really. That's wrong. Yeah, I'll put him on right now.
John C. Dvorak:
And if "fear that since my last show mention-worthy donation was on two hundred point five [200.5] I may have relapsed into douche-baggery."
Adam Curry:
Oh, no!
John C. Dvorak:
"Five [5] dollar a month subscription only goes so far. If you'd be so kind, could use some karma for his job search for whatever is building on the moon bases isn't buying enough oxygen generation systems, water processing or space suits from my company."
John C. Dvorak:
He supplies the international space station.
Adam Curry:
Oh!
John C. Dvorak:
Isn't that interesting?
Adam Curry:
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak:
I figured it would be a good idea to look elsewhere.
Adam Curry:
Oh Yeah.
John C. Dvorak:
Thanks for the message.
Adam Curry:
Here's some Karma for ya.
Jingle:
You've got karma.
John C. Dvorak:
We've got Phil Rottus in Adelaide, South Australia. $212. Uh, "quick reply to the well-justified boner call-out from my friend, Ed Zolo last week, is required and now I declare the race for Knighthood 212 between Ed and myself is officially on!"
Adam Curry:
Oh! We've got a race to the bottom.
John C. Dvorak:
He need a Karma call-out for his daughter, Miya and a MILF call-out for his wife, Natalie. So I think you can give him a combo, yes.
Adam Curry:
Combo? Can I give them a combo? Combo is good, okay.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah. Start with the Karma, and then...
Jingle:
MILF! That's one mother I'd like *honk honk*
Adam Curry:
And here's Karma for his daughter:
Jingle:
You've got karma.
Adam Curry:
There you go.
John C. Dvorak:
I would have done it in a reverse order, but okay.
Adam Curry:
Well, you're not pushing the buttons.
John C. Dvorak:
James - You're right, I don;t have the buttons - James Church, Dundee, Illinois. $200 and He'll be our final Executive Producer for today's show, 384. "Been a listener since show 291."
John C. Dvorak:
Uh, "I could use some general Karma for reasons to be determined later.
Adam Curry:
Wait, you want to put that in a jar or something?
John C. Dvorak:
Well, just give it to him and he'll jar it himself.
Adam Curry:
[chuckle] Here's it comes
John C. Dvorak:
"Thanks for all the hard work."
Jingle:
You've got karma.
Adam Curry:
[chuckle] Yeah.
John C. Dvorak:
I would like to thank all these people for helping out on this show. And uh, remind everybody the can go to NoAgendaShow.com, NoAgendaNation.com, Dvorak.org/NA, and ChannelDvorak.com/NA to continue supporting the No Agenda Show this one being #384.
Adam Curry:
That's right.
Jingle:
Dvorak.org/NA
Adam Curry:
We've got an interesting initiative from what one of our producers. I didn't quite understand it at first, but he is forwarding a domain to us but he wants us to do something with it. He's got Generic.Drug.name. I guess "name" it a top-level domain? I didn't realise that.
John C. Dvorak:
Oh yes. It's new. That's a new one.
Adam Curry:
I didn't realize that.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, they were hoping that they would get everybody, like, dvorak.name
Adam Curry:
Oh.
John C. Dvorak:
And I would set up shop selling email addresses or something.
Adam Curry:
I guess we could set up a..he says, 'It would be cool if someone set up a wiki
John C. Dvorak:
A wiki. Just put a wiki up.
Adam Curry:
so I can point the dotted decimals to that server'. So you could have like xanax.drug.name or..I dunno..I dunno how that will work
John C. Dvorak:
The wiki itself could just have every, you know generic, if you have a drug, you look it up and see what the generic is. I mean there's gotta be something done..we have to at least support the generic world,
John C. Dvorak:
because obviously they're destroying it.
Adam Curry:
Remember, of course, we uncovered that Diane Feinstein, right after Whitney Houston's death, immediately put the bill in which is intended to kill generics under the meme of internet pharmacies bad, sell illegal stuff.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah
Adam Curry:
So she's got a shill. She's got a shill working for her. Of all the people in Congress.
John C. Dvorak:
Who?
Adam Curry:
Bono, of course
John C. Dvorak:
Ohh, Bono
John C. Dvorak:
Who?
Adam Curry:
Bono, of course
John C. Dvorak:
Oh Bono. Bono's bad.
Adam Curry:
Bono Mack. Listen to this. This is with a..have you ever seen this woman, Jane Velez-Mitchell?
John C. Dvorak:
Oh yeah. She's the clone of, uh, what's her name, the screaming lawyer/
Adam Curry:
Nancy Grace.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, Nancy Grace.
Adam Curry:
Ugh, on HLN. Horrible woman. She scares me. I sit there and watch and I flinch every single time
Clip (Jane Velez-Mitchell):
Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack. Congresswoman, I'm THRILLED that you want to hold hearings on prescription drug abuse
Adam Curry:
There it is. I'm THRILLED you want to hear. Did you hear it?
Adam Curry:
"I'm THRILLED you want to hold hearings on prescription drug abuse." Let's listen to what her reasoning is
Clip (Jane Velez-Mitchell):
Listen,
Adam Curry:
Listen! LISTEN!
Clip (Jane Velez-Mitchell):
let's be real as a nation. I've been talking to people all day, yeah druggies abuse Xanax. They mix it with alcohol. It gets them a terrific high. It's a deadly combination. Why would any doctor prescribe Xanax for Whitney Houston? One Google search, congresswoman, would show she struggled for years, we all know it.
Adam Curry:
This is very good, what she's doing, by the way. One Google search. You can Google it.. I love that, you can Google it. Do your own research. You can Google it for yourself. That's the truth
Clip (Jane Velez-Mitchell):
Substance abuse
Clip (Mary Bono Mack):
Well, Jane, it's a great question
Adam Curry:
Ahhh! It's not a great question.
John C. Dvorak:
Oohhhhh!
Adam Curry:
It's not a great question
Clip (Mary Bono Mack):
ask who is this doctor? What was he thinking?
John C. Dvorak:
Wait, hold on a second. Stop. What WAS the question?
Adam Curry:
That's the whole point. There WAS no question.
John C. Dvorak:
There wasn't even a question and she says it's a great question.
John C. Dvorak:
What is wrong with this woman?
Adam Curry:
Well, because this is a pre-programmed, scripted segment, that's why.
John C. Dvorak:
And Velez went off script and forgot to ask the question, whatever it was.
Adam Curry:
Let's listen to it again. What's the question? Whatever it is, it was a GREAT question.
Clip (Jane Velez-Mitchell):
know that she struggled for years, we all know it, with substance abuse.
Clip (Mary Bono Mack):
Well, Jane, it's a great question
Adam Curry:
Great question, you douche. You forgot to ask the question, but don't worry, I'll save it
Clip (Mary Bono Mack):
You have to ask, who is this doctor, what was he thinking?
Adam Curry:
That was the question. Who is this doctor, what was he thinking? That was the question she was supposed to ask.
Clip (Mary Bono Mack):
Why did he do that?
John C. Dvorak:
Ha haa. Wow
Clip (Mary Bono Mack):
Unfortunately, this is too common a story now in America.
Adam Curry:
What can we bring this down to? What common denominator can we, how can we get the entire American? Sure, celebrities is one thing. But, how can we bring it down to get everyone really excited about this horrible uh generic, I mean uh counterfeit bad drug situation with doctors prescribing,
Adam Curry:
so we can bring in some legislation to get rid of cheap generics from other countries. What could we do? What common denominator do we have to bring it down to, John?
John C. Dvorak:
Cartoon?
Adam Curry:
Close.
Clip (Mary Bono Mack):
Want to say something about that I've heard over the past few days about Whitney's death. Is when somebody said, 'you know she had cleaned up her act and she was off of street drugs. But now she's on prescription drugs.'
SFX:
ding
Clip (Mary Bono Mack):
And I think that's a perfect example of what we're faced with right now. This battle that we're faced with, this epidemic of prescription drug abuse that really is killing not only adults, not only entertainers
Clip (Mary Bono Mack):
but it's also killing our kids.
Adam Curry:
Yeah! There ya go. It's killing the kids!
John C. Dvorak:
Killing kids, you're right
Adam Curry:
Killing the kids
John C. Dvorak:
That and child porn
Adam Curry:
It's killing the kids
SFX:
ding
Adam Curry:
I almost forgot. Oops, here we go. We do need producers who can not support us financially to propagate the formula
Jingle:
Our formula is this, we go out, we hit people in the mouth
SFX:
[slide whistle]
Jingle:
New world order
Adam Curry:
Hit me now baby! Shut up slave! I think, uh, let me see, I have to change servers or something.
John C. Dvorak:
What happened?
Adam Curry:
Who knows they're blocking us again.
John C. Dvorak:
Is it the chat room?
Adam Curry:
No, we're having-
John C. Dvorak:
It's the pharmaceutical companies.
Adam Curry:
The pharmaceutical companies. Well, I'm gonna switch streaming servers everybody. Get ready to refresh your browsers. Uhhh, I don't know what's going on with that. Hold on a second, John.
John C. Dvorak:
[whistles while waiting]
Adam Curry:
It's worth it. Otherwise everyone gets really freaked out that they can't listen to the show live, you know. They sit there doing it live. Ok. Alright. Good. Well, I'm never doing that again. Ever.
John C. Dvorak:
Well
Adam Curry:
Do you remember where we were?
John C. Dvorak:
Uh, we were at the point where we were talking about some things.
Adam Curry:
[laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
And, uh,
Adam Curry:
Oh yeah, that's right. I remember. Exactly.
Jingle:
Hey citizen
Adam Curry:
We're back.
John C. Dvorak:
Well, we can go to a clip.
Adam Curry:
Let's do that. Let's pick it back up again, Johnny, c'mon we're pros, we can do this.
John C. Dvorak:
Well I got a bit that we can do, because we just had Bono on.
Adam Curry:
Yeah.
John C. Dvorak:
And as an idiot Congressperson. But, I've got the better one, which is Anna Eshoo.
Adam Curry:
Anna Eshoooo?
John C. Dvorak:
And I wonder, you have to do this with me. We tried to do this last night, this is by the way, only half the clip.
Adam Curry:
Who is Anna Eshoooo?
John C. Dvorak:
She is a Congresswoman, who somehow got on the committee that had something to do with spectrum allocation, broadband. She doesn't know anything technically about any of this. So she just stammers her way through an explanation of what might be going on with spectrum. And in the process, she says "Uh. Uh. Uh."
Adam Curry:
A lot?
John C. Dvorak:
"Uh." A LOT. So much, we can't, and this is, like I said, only half the clip.
Adam Curry:
Let me ask you, is this?
John C. Dvorak:
I've got the bell ready.
SFX:
ding
John C. Dvorak:
You have to listen to the ones I miss. I'm going to ring the bell every time she says Uh and you're gonna see what I'm talking about. You know, this is a classic Congresswoman. She's actually been in office forever. She's paid to do this and she can't even present herself well on television
Adam Curry:
Is she, uh, is this part of the Lightsquared GPS congressional hearing that was going on? Is that what this is about?
John C. Dvorak:
I believe so.
Clip (Anna Eshoo):
haven't come to a total agreement uh uh
SFX:
ding
Clip (Anna Eshoo):
you know that uh
SFX:
ding
Clip (Anna Eshoo):
we did agree
SFX:
ding
Clip (Anna Eshoo):
on uh many different parts of the bill, which is wonderful, and that's the way it should be. Because these are not partisan issues. The difference of uh uh
SFX:
ding
Clip (Anna Eshoo):
viewpoints uh approaches
SFX:
ding
Adam Curry:
uh uh
Clip (Anna Eshoo):
uh, that we have a national interoperable uh
SFX:
ding
Clip (Anna Eshoo):
public safety network uh for our country finally uh
SFX:
ding
Clip (Anna Eshoo):
that the nine eleven [9/11] commission called for this. We finally have gotten to it and uh
SFX:
ding
Clip (Anna Eshoo):
and there is agreement uh
SFX:
ding
Clip (Anna Eshoo):
about the D Block uh
SFX:
ding
Clip (Anna Eshoo):
where we have some difference of opinion
Clip (Anna Eshoo):
is about uh
SFX:
ding
Clip (Anna Eshoo):
a governing body uh
SFX:
ding
Clip (Anna Eshoo):
relative to that effort. So uh uh I hope that we can uh
SFX:
[multiple dings]
Clip (Anna Eshoo):
come to an agreement
Adam Curry:
Ok, I get the point. You know, you can't do this. You know why? There people out there, every single time you ring your bell, they take a drink and they can't keep up
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs]
Adam Curry:
We can't do this right now. We're gonna lose our listeners. It's worse than the stream crapping out. Is when you ring the bell, everyone's like "drink!"
Adam Curry:
Oh man. You gotta stop electing this woman. Get rid of her. Where's she from?
John C. Dvorak:
California.
Adam Curry:
Oh well. There you go. Hey, by the way. On the California thing, you know, I've been following all this bank bailout, essentially. This so called 25 billion dollars that they're gonna get, which really they don't have to pay anything. They pay two billion dollars and most of that goes to California. And that of course, a lot of that is discretionary for the attorney general to spend however she wants, because her
name is Kamala Harris. Guess what the rumor is now around Washingtonian town.
John C. Dvorak:
No.
Adam Curry:
She may become nominee for the supreme court.
John C. Dvorak:
Oh please.
Adam Curry:
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
John C. Dvorak:
She's not getting in, I can guarantee-- no republicans are gonna allow this nut job to become a supreme court-- no. She hasn't got the right background.
Adam Curry:
Maybe she was-- maybe that's what the ritual was about. Maybe she was birthed as the demon child. She's evil. She is totally evil, dude.
Come on, you've got to admit.
SFX:
(John's Bell)
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah.
Adam Curry:
It's horrible. No, it's-- there's a lot wrong-- (laughs) Hey, there's a lot wrong, did you know that?
John C. Dvorak:
Mmm hmm. I've heard that.
Adam Curry:
There's a lot wrong. Even more wrong is the Iran situation. Uh... uh. You've got to ring the bell.
SFX:
(John and Adam's bell)
Adam Curry:
Uh... Erin Burnett...
John C. Dvorak:
Oh no.
Adam Curry:
Oh yeah, or as we say in Texas, "Burn it". We don't say Burnett, we say burn it.
John C. Dvorak:
Burn it! Yeah!
Adam Curry:
Burnit. Erin Burnit. We'll just call her that from now on. Erin Burnit.
John C. Dvorak:
You should say that in Santa Barbara.
Adam Curry:
Erin Burnit. So first she rolls out a little clip about from Clapper. This is the guy who knows nothing, and yet he is the--
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, he's hilarious, Clapper.
Adam Curry:
Yeah. So he... first he sets it all up about the Iranian--
John C. Dvorak:
This is the guy, remind the listeners, he's the guy that they asked him a question about something that was just taking place--
Adam Curry:
In the UK. A big terror thing. He's like--
John C. Dvorak:
There's a big riot going on! I dunno!
Adam Curry:
(laughs) No,
it was like a terror thing. I dunno what's going on.
John C. Dvorak:
He's totally oblivious.
Adam Curry:
I can probably find that clip, too. So of course, even though the International Atomic Energy Association has said, "Well, there's no evidence that shows that Iran is making a nuclear powered or a weaponized nuclear uranium." That came out wrong.
John C. Dvorak:
Boy, did it.
Adam Curry:
Yeah. But, you know what I'm talking about. Now we're just saying, "Well, we all know this is true. It's true! It's true! It's a fact! It's a whole fact! It's a fact!"
Clip (James Clapper):
Iran's technical advances particularly in uranium enrichment strengthen our assessment that Iran is more than capable of producing enough highly enriched uranium for a weapon if its political leaders, specifically the supreme leader himself--
Adam Curry:
Supreme!
Clip (James Clapper):
chooses to do so.
Adam Curry:
The Supremes are now in charge. Apparently Diana Ross is going to make the decision. So this is the setup, and all these people are paid off to do this. And it blows my mind that the public stands for this, where Erin Burnit now brings in Peter King,
who's-- he's--
John C. Dvorak:
Go on TV at the drop of a hat.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, is he a senator or a congressman?
John C. Dvorak:
I believe he's a congressman.
Adam Curry:
And... you know, great timing, cause of course, you know, we had this great lone wolf event which we'll have to talk about in a second. So all of this is going on about these, you know Iran. He cleverly brings this around to strikes on the homeland. It's unbelievable. This is no longer about Iran building a nuclear weapon to wipe Israel off the face
off the face of the map, as the Supreme Leader has said. But he brings it all the way around, and Erin Burnit, man. Screw you.
Clip (Erin Burnett):
The question is will Iran strike inside the United States?
Adam Curry:
That's not the question! I've never heard this question.
John C. Dvorak:
When has that been the question?
Adam Curry:
It's the question! The question is...
Clip (Erin Burnett):
Out front tonight, Peter King, chairman of the house committee on homeland security.
SFX:
(Whooshing sound)
Adam Curry:
(Imitating whooshing sound)
Clip (Erin Burnett):
Good to talk to you sir, appreciate this.
And I know that you have been briefed, and obviously--
Adam Curry:
I love that. I know you have been briefed, so you know what I'm gonna do, right? You know the answers to all the questions, you've been briefed, right? You're ready? Are you ready for it, Mr. Chairman, sir?
Clip (Erin Burnett):
Mr. Clapper has briefed (stutters)
Adam Curry:
(Imitates stuttering)
Clip (Erin Burnett):
details, and you've been told there's no specific plot at this time. Are you satisfied with the intelligence that you've been getting?
Adam Curry:
So she says, "There's nothing that's been planned at this time, but are you satisfied with what you're getting the briefing so can you please lie a little bit?"
Clip (Peter King):
Erin, I am, because even though there's no
specific plot, the intelligence community does believe--
Adam Curry:
There's no specific plot, but listen to these words.
Clip (Peter King):
that an attack could very well happen. Right now, a threat from Iran--
John C. Dvorak:
What? What?
Adam Curry:
Yeah. He literally says, "Even though there's no specific intelligence, a plot could very well happen. Be very afraid!"
SFX:
"SQUIRREL!"
Adam Curry:
It's gonna happen! It's coming your way!
SFX:
"Hey, citizen!"
Clip (Peter King):
community does believe that an attack could very well happen. Right now, a threat from Iran, a possible attack from Iran is the greatest threat we've faced.
Adam Curry:
The greatest-- no.
That's not the greatest threat.
John C. Dvorak:
The greatest threat we've face is an attack from Iran?
Adam Curry:
That's the greatest threat ever! Ever!
John C. Dvorak:
How does that work?
Adam Curry:
Well, he's going to--
John C. Dvorak:
What kind of a douchebag is this guy?
Adam Curry:
He's going to explain it to you.
Clip (Peter King):
And every threat stream is being tracked down, so why was no specific threat? We're assuming-- we have to assume that one could occur. That's why the NYPD, and by the way, I agree totally with Mitch Silber, that we have to assume that Hezbollah would be the proxy.
Adam Curry:
It gets better.
Adam Curry:
So Hezbollah will be the proxy for Iran to attack us in the United States. Oh yes, it's possible.
Clip (Peter King):
For Iran, and could well carry out the attack. So, no. I am convinced CIA, FBI, NSA, DIA all of them, plus local police like the NYPD
Adam Curry:
Listen to that police state, huh? DHS, NSI, CIA, FBI, plus the local police force, your dentist, your clergy.
Clip (Peter King):
are working 24/7 on this.
Clip (Erin Burnett):
And has this changed--
John C. Dvorak:
They've got nothing better to do.
Adam Curry:
24/7. Hey man, can you get me some more coffee, I'm working on the Hezbollah attack. I need some more coffee.
Clip (Erin Burnett):
And has this (stutters)--
Adam Curry:
(Imitating stuttering)
Clip (Erin Burnett):
changed? I mean now you're saying that Iran is the greatest-- is the greatest threat for a terror attack in the United States, whether they do it through Hezbollah, proxy, or otherwise.
Adam Curry:
A proxy. That's another public company type document, right? A proxy. You can vote through proxy.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, a proxy vote. It's a little sheet of paper that...
Adam Curry:
These companies are huge. They're influential. Very good. Very good. Here we go.
Clip (Erin Burnett):
Has that changed? Has the recent rhetoric and conversation raised that threat level or not?
Adam Curry:
It's so scripted, she can't even get through it.
Clip (Peter King):
It really has. There's several things. One is the-- obviously the tremendous tention in the middle east with Israel and Iran, and the fact that Iran is getting so close to having a weapon--
Adam Curry:
So close, John! It could be in 24 hours! So close! It's the fact! No, it's not the fact. It's not the fact. The opposite is true, you liar.
Clip (Peter King):
weapon. Secondly, is the fact that--
Adam Curry:
Another fact! Standby.
John C. Dvorak:
The fact!
Adam Curry:
Another fact!
John C. Dvorak:
Fact!
SFX:
John's bell
Clip (Peter King):
back in December, we stopped the plot of the-- the attack upon the-- the assassination attempt on the Saudi ambassador, the attempt to blow up Cafe Milano, which would have killed hundreds of Americans. That was really crossing a red line.
Adam Curry:
Ah, there's the red line. That's the Panetta red line. Be very-- pay attention to these words. The red line. Panetta has said, "When they cross the red line we're gonna go after them."
Clip (Peter King):
And all the chatter that's out there, just the--
Adam Curry:
Chatter!
Clip (Peter King):
The general consensus among everyone in the intelligence community--
Adam Curry:
Everyone! Everyone!
John C. Dvorak:
Everyone! The science is in!
Adam Curry:
Everyone! (laughs)
John C. Dvorak:
It's global warming all over again!
Jingle:
Don't be a denier! The science is in! Science!
John C. Dvorak:
Everyone!
Clip (Peter King):
is that right now Iran and Hezbollah would be the number one threat to the United States. Also, unlike Al Qaeda, which is still a very serious threat--
Adam Curry:
No, let's not forget those guys, cause that's team B. You know, if we need to, like scare you into submission some more, we gotta bring
those guys back in, but unlike Al Qaeda, yeah...
Clip (Peter King):
the offshoots of Al Qaeda, Hezbollah, is a state trained terrorist organization. That is really the major leagues of terrorism.
Adam Curry:
It's the major leagues, John. It ain't some farm team just down the road. Oh no. This is the major leagues. This is the guys who get paid to do it. They're sponsored. You think that maybe the Hezbollah will have like sponsored shirts?
John C. Dvorak:
You know the thing-- the funny thing is is that in asymmetrical warfare, they're anything but the major leagues, because
asymmetrical warfare, which is non-centric where they can come at you from any which way, and there's no state that you can go back and bomb, even though we tried to do that in Afganistan, and we tried to do it in Pakistan.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, how did that work out?
John C. Dvorak:
That's the major leagues. This is bullcrap.
Adam Curry:
Well, of course, it was all setup to coincide with this patsy. And just listening-- I mean I pulled one report, cause of course there were a million about this guy who was gonna go blow up the capital building with an explosive vest
John C. Dvorak:
I have the rep-- I have the-- to bring people up to it, I do have the news report, locally, where the guy actually read it slightly wrong.
Adam Curry:
Ooh, let me hear yours first. Where is it?
John C. Dvorak:
And he ends up saying set up in a way that made it sound like the whole thing was a scam.
Adam Curry:
Oh really? Like it was a setup? Is it another--
John C. Dvorak:
Another feeble minded a-hole busted by the FBI clip.
Clip (Speaker 1):
The FBI arrested a man today for plotting to detonate a suicide vest at the US Capital. The 29 year old
Moroccan man was taken into custody at a parking garage in Washington DC. Agents said they had Amine El Khalifi under surveillance for about a year. Undercover agents set him up with what El Khalifi thought was a suicide vest.
Adam Curry:
(laughing) Yes, he was set up! Duh.
John C. Dvorak:
It took them a year, by the way to set-- it took a year of brainwashing this guy. This is what's so pathetic about this. Can we have our agencies, instead of spending time and money setting
up the feeble minded to do crazy things, because you've got, you know you find that they're stupid and you can talk them into anything if you spend a year with them and actually go stop a real plot? Wait a minute, there probably aren't any.
Adam Curry:
So the report that I have, it gives us another extra little detail which just blew me away that they continued with the setup.
Clip (Speaker 1):
Officials say the suspect decided to target the Capital after first considering a military installation, a synagogue, or a restaurant.
Adam Curry:
So here's how it went.
"Hey! El Khalifi! I wanna blow up a restaurant!" "No, no, no, man. That's not good, that's not good. Try something else." "How about a synagogue?" "No, man. We've done that one, that's no good." "How 'bout a military installation?" "No, no, no man. We already had that other guy. No, that's not good. How 'bout, maybe you could think of, I dunno, Capital Building or something? Just a thought."
Clip (Speaker 1):
They had followed him for months, they said. But in December, he started, quote, 'Moving down the path toward conducting an attack'. And eventually, on his own initiative, went out and bought
potential bomb components like nails and glue.
Adam Curry:
Now, let me tell you. I go to Home Depot often, cause I do buy nail-- nails and glue.
John C. Dvorak:
You do.
Adam Curry:
Yeah!
John C. Dvorak:
I've heard about that. I've heard this about you. I think they're keeping an eye on you.
Adam Curry:
Should I be worried? Maybe I should buy something else.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, you bought some nails.
Adam Curry:
Nails and glue. Potential bomb--
John C. Dvorak:
You didn't buy any screws, did you? Or ball bearings?
Adam Curry:
Ooh, that would be really bad. No, nails and glue is apparently now-- whew, potential bomb material there!
Adam Curry:
No nails and glue is apparently now penitential bomb material there. You need a license to buy. Nail and glue license
John C. Dvorak:
Why were they following this guy in the first place?
Adam Curry:
I'll get to that
John C. Dvorak:
The went some place and they found the stupidest guy they could find, that was real susceptible to suggestion, and they went in and say 'Hey, you know, I got somebody, you know, would you like to meet our buddies we're going to have a poker party on Thursday night
Adam Curry:
Yeah come on by
John C. Dvorak:
[with accent] I do not play poker
Adam Curry:
Allah Akbar [laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
Ok, well good. You wanna go have a beer? 'No, no I do not drink'
Adam Curry:
Allah Akbar
John C. Dvorak:
Ok, we're gonna go pray on Thursday
John C. Dvorak:
you wanna come with us?
Adam Curry:
Allah Akbar
John C. Dvorak:
Sure!
Adam Curry:
Allah Akbar. Alright, now it gets better
Clip:
Suspect Amine El Khalifi is described as a twenty nine [29] year old Morrocan who is living in the US illegally in northern Virginia
Adam Curry:
Now, I don't know much about living in America illegally. But, as an illegal, why would you live in northern Virginia? Is this some great opportunity?
Adam Curry:
To live amongst spies and spooks and in northern.. Alexandria. That is spy country
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah it's all spies
Adam Curry:
Someone says, 'Hey Amine El Khalir, you have to go to Virginia man [laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
It's cool there
Adam Curry:
Allah Akbar
John C. Dvorak:
I'd like to know this. Are you telling me the FBI found an illegal alien that was floating around with these sorts of, he was an idiot, obviously.
John C. Dvorak:
And instead of just grabbing him and deporting him, they allowed him in the country for an additional year while they followed him around and finally talked him into doing this
Adam Curry:
Wait a minute. You didn't get the whole report. 'Cause guess what they let him do? I mean, this is where it gets crazy
Clip:
A law enforcement official says he espoused extremist views, but said they believe the suspect was acting alone. Just two weeks ago, FBI director Robert Mueller said there was a growing concern about that kind of individual. A lone wolf who is not part of a known group
SFX:
wolf howl
Clip (Robert Mueller):
Over the last two [2] years, what we have seen is an increase in the lone wolf activity
SFX:
wolf howl
Clip (Robert Mueller):
Uh, principally because, uh, you have the Internet that can be utilized
Adam Curry:
Ohhhh!
Clip (Robert Mueller):
for radicalizing, can be utilized for instruction, uh training. Uh, organization
Adam Curry:
[snickers]
Clip:
Over the last two [2] years, for example, one suspect was accused of trying to fly explosives into Washington targets using model airplanes.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, remember that bogus one?
Clip:
And another accused of trying to bomb the DC Metro. I spoke to Phillip Mudd, a former FBI counter terrorism official about whether the public is in danger when officials mount a sting operation like this one
Adam Curry:
Oh, now we have to be concerned about the officials
Clip:
and how they decide to set up a take-down
Adam Curry:
Take down!
Clip (Phillip Mudd):
They ask 'is he gonna do something tonight, tomorrow, does he have access to weapons?' If you can insure that he doesn't, one of the questions you want to ask is 'can we prove intent in a court of law?' At that point, as you roll the operation, you own it
Adam Curry:
You own it!
Clip (Phillip Mudd):
He's gonna come to you and say, 'Where do I get a vest? Where do I get weapons? Where do I get explosives?' At that point, you own it
Adam Curry:
You own it. You own it. But this is patently not true, because here's a bit of information. They should have taken him down months ago. But they didn't because it's a total bull crap operation. Listen to this
Clip:
According to one affidavit filed in this case, that on January fifteenth [15] El Khalifi stated that he modified his plans for his attack. Rather than conducting an attack on the restaurant, he wanted to conduct a suicide attack in the US capital building. That same day, at a quarry in West Virginia, as a demonstration of the effects of the proposed suicide bomb operation, El Khalifi dialed a cell phone number that he believed would detonate a bomb placed in the quarry. The test bomb did detonate and El Khalifi expressed a desire for a larger explosion in his attack. He also selected February seventeenth [17] two thousand twelve [2012], today, as the day of the operation, according to the affidavit. He was going to hit the capitol building today, Candy
Adam Curry:
So, they set him up with a bomb in a quarry in West Virginia. They say 'hey man, dial this number, watch it explode.' He does that. Isn't that the point you need to arrest the guy?
John C. Dvorak:
Well, I think they wanted to take it a step further.
Adam Curry:
Of course!
John C. Dvorak:
The question on my mind becomes, how is this in any way, a lone wolf operation when he obviously has a team of people with him? Even though they're our guys.
Adam Curry:
[chuckles]
John C. Dvorak:
But, they're not lone wolf. If he did the whole thing from scr..if it was truly a lone wolf, they would have never, I mean the guy would have dreamed, of course he would have done his original plan and blown up some, you know, coffee shop.
John C. Dvorak:
This is not a lone wolf operation, for starters. There's no way. There was a whole infrastructure involved that was more than this guy could do, obviously
Adam Curry:
For more than a year. I mean this is
John C. Dvorak:
For more than a year. This is bu..this is really a bad sign that you know, I just want to warn everybody. Be careful of who your friends are.
Adam Curry:
I don't have any anymore. I'm like 'you're not my friend. Go away'
Adam Curry:
'I don't need any friends. I want to go buy my nails and glue in peace.'
John C. Dvorak:
Glue. What's glue gonna do?
Adam Curry:
*laughs* It's bomb-making material, man.
John C. Dvorak:
He didn't make the bomb, obviously.
Adam Curry:
No! They gave him a vest. "Here you go."
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah. So what do you need the nails and glue for? He's probably fixing something.
Adam Curry:
*laughs* Fixin' up the house.
Adam Curry:
But it's disturbing because the way this is presented, it's (like you said the other day) meant to freak people out, and I'm sure it's working. I'm sure it's working.
John C. Dvorak:
And then Peter King with that horrible report. CNN should be ashamed of itself for promoting this sort of thing. They got no evidence. Intelligence agency said so, but yet they apparently lied about it because according to Peter King, "Everybody in Intelligence, all the communities: DIA, CIA, you name it.
John C. Dvorak:
They all know this is coming!"
Adam Curry:
"24-7. We're on the case."
John C. Dvorak:
"And they're working on it. 24-7."
Adam Curry:
"24-7. We got your back, buddy."
John C. Dvorak:
Why do people keep reelecting this clown? He is a negative person. He's bad for the country.
Adam Curry:
And Erin Burnett's gonna burnett in Hell.
John C. Dvorak:
Well she's just reading from a script.
Adam Curry:
She's a CFR shill. Come on, she's in the CFR.
John C. Dvorak:
Well whatever she's doing she should be ashamed of herself. Why doesn't she ask an intelligent question?
John C. Dvorak:
She used to do that when she was doing her stuff on CNBC. I guess they won't let her. Why doesn't she ask an intelligent question? Why would they say that there's nothing going on? There's no evidence of anything happening, and you're now telling me working on it 24-7. There's a disconnect here. Explain it. Why doesn't she ask that simple question? No.
Adam Curry:
No.
John C. Dvorak:
*huff huff* "Oh, God, we're gonna all die!"
Adam Curry:
*cackle* Good one. That's my opening clip right there. Just mark that.
Adam Curry:
*anxious grumbling* "We're all gonna die!" Who's really dying is everybody over there in Euroland. Not going well there. Gas prices in Gitmo Nation Lowlands highest ever. Guess what they're paying per gallon? I did the calculations.
John C. Dvorak:
Per gallon?
Adam Curry:
Yeah.
jg:
I would say like seven dollars.
Adam Curry:
No, it's more. So the all-time retail price for a litre of petrol is 1.795 Euros,
Adam Curry:
which is $2.36 per litre. One gallon is 3.78 liters, so the price per gallon is...
SFX:
bell
Adam Curry:
$8.90.
John C. Dvorak:
That's high.
Adam Curry:
*giggles* Yeah! Ye-hee-ha-ha!
John C. Dvorak:
We'd be driving a lot of small cars in this country if our gas prices were nine bucks a gallon.
Adam Curry:
And a lot of it's just taxes. It's all this bullcrap. By the way, is oil really going up that fast? Is oil shooting up the charts?
John C. Dvorak:
No. No, it's been stable for the last year.
John C. Dvorak:
It's almost like dead money.
Adam Curry:
So it's warmongering and profiteering at work in front of your very eyes.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah.
Adam Curry:
Can't be anything else. Nicolas Sarkozy who wants to get re-elected. The French Napoleon. Napoleon was French, but he's the new Napoleon.
John C. Dvorak:
"The French Napoleon." *laughs*
Adam Curry:
That was good, right? "Hi, I went to college for three months. The French Napoleon.
Adam Curry:
He's the French version of Napoleon, dammit!" So he has a reelection campaign poster and it features him in front of a sea. A beautiful shot of him and the sea. And people went to work on it, 'cause it's stock photography. And it turns out it's the Aegean Sea, which is right off the coast of Greece. So he's touting that as some French beautiful landscape. Now they're trying to get rid of all these posters.
John C. Dvorak:
Ahhh
Adam Curry:
Stupid idiot.
John C. Dvorak:
So I did a hit for Canadian Broadcasting Company a couple days ago.
Adam Curry:
Oh really?
John C. Dvorak:
I went to my regular studio that I use, which is Beyond Pix, in San Francisco. But, they've changed, it's interesting, I've notice this on the, when they do these remotes. They've changed something which I'm actually stunned it took so long to do this. In the olden days you'd sit in front of a picture, of like, San Francisco or something in the background.
John C. Dvorak:
And they'd have the camera on you. You were all lit up and the background was in focus.
Adam Curry:
Right.
John C. Dvorak:
Which made it look kind of dubious. So now they have the bouquet effect, so the background is really blurry.
Adam Curry:
Uh huh
John C. Dvorak:
So they've taken it to one higher step where now the background is on a video screen. It's blurry and it's live action
Adam Curry:
Well, that's distracting
John C. Dvorak:
So, no actually. All you see in the case of, all you see-
John C. Dvorak:
I was in front of the Golden Gate Bridge, which looks like I was gonna go 'brrrr, it's cold out here.' But, I didn't do that. In any case, the bridge was all blurry 'cause it was all phony, you know like the lens effect
Adam Curry:
Yeah, it's fake. Got it
John C. Dvorak:
But, you can see the waves, barely. It wasn't distracting. It actually makes it look like you're, it's all so phony. [laughs] I'm in some studio with a screen behind me. I'm not by that. You can't even see the Golden Gate Bridge.
Adam Curry:
What were you talking about?
John C. Dvorak:
Does anybody think this is, I think it's indigenous.
Adam Curry:
Well what was the topic? What were you talking about? The history of San Francisco?
John C. Dvorak:
No. No! It should have been a Silicon Valley shot. I was talking about Apple's and Chiners. I wrote this column accusing, all of a sudden the Chinese are confiscating all the iPads because some bogus little company came up from out-of-the-blue that's out of business and starts suing Apple over a trademark violation over iPad.
John C. Dvorak:
And I said this is because Apple decided to make a big stink about the Foxconn company and they're going after them with these consultants and the Chinese said, 'Yeah, really? You think you're gonna do that?' And then they just put the clamps down and said, 'Now what are you gonna do?' And I'm convinced this is just a little politicking going on between the Chiners and Apple
Adam Curry:
And as a result, Apple stocks tanked right after your news hit, I'm sure
John C. Dvorak:
No, Apple stock's not gonna tank for a while.
Adam Curry:
[laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
It will, eventually.
Adam Curry:
Speaking of the Canadia's,
Adam Curry:
Kevin Ru...I'm sorry. Canadia's. I'm wrong.
John C. Dvorak:
Canadia?
Adam Curry:
Why'd I think Canadia when I meant Australia?
John C. Dvorak:
Oh
Adam Curry:
You know Kevin Rudd, who used to be, uh, wasn't he the Prime Minister?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, I think he was.
Adam Curry:
Now he's the Foreign Minister.
John C. Dvorak:
Okay.
Adam Curry:
So this video of him [laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
At least he's still got work
Adam Curry:
Yeah, but he's trying to, so he has to do one of these pieces like "Lucifer"
Hillary Clinton does. And it's part of the Chiners, that's right. Something about the China. We don't even know what the piece is, but the Telegraph released.
Adam Curry:
And I encourage anyone who is a freelancer, who does these..you'll never work again..but, who does these things with these people. The a-hole elitists. Release the raw tape. Release the outtakes when they mess it up. Because it's hilarious. So, Kevin Rudd can't get it right and he has a meeting at six [6] o'clock and you can hear the guy tapping on the prompter, changing the words
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs]
Adam Curry:
And he's swearing. He's just going off on it. I edited it down. The whole thing is like three [3] minutes and he's swearing.
Adam Curry:
He's going off on it. I edited it down, the whole thing is like three [3] minutes. I got like, fifty [50] seconds just to get the juiciest bits.
Clip:
that is just impossible [sighs]. I get to the very end, it's just [sighs]. God damn [sighs]. And tell me, the cats in the embassy, to just give me simple sentences. And I've said this before. And tell that bloody interpreter, arrghh! [slams something]
Adam Curry:
[chuckles] And you know how it goes when someone can't--
Adam Curry:
when they have a prompter freeze and they get really frustrated? You've seen this happen, right?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah.
Adam Curry:
Some people will blame it on themselves, like 'Why can't I do this? Why can't I do this?' But, he's like going off on 'These idiots, these dick heads, these interpreters. Why can't they get it right?'
Clip:
It's fucking language! It's just ..complicated.
Adam Curry:
[snickering in background]
Clip:
So much. Y'know? How can anyone do this? You know what I mean? It's just [sighs]
Clip:
This is becoming hopeless. Tell them to cancel this meeting at six [6] o'clock, will you. I think I've had it
Adam Curry:
[chuckles] "Cancel my meeting"
Clip:
the fucking Chinese interpreter up there
Adam Curry:
[snickering]
Clip:
just fuckin' hopeless.
Adam Curry:
[laughing]
John C. Dvorak:
This is the foreign minister?
Adam Curry:
Yes.
John C. Dvorak:
Can you imagine Hillary off camera? Oh, must be unbelievable.
Adam Curry:
Oh, I bet it's fantastic. People need to release that. This is really good. If you really wanna help.
John C. Dvorak:
Well, you know, you don't have to be the person doing it. You're not the guy who's going to release it anyway. It's the guys in the control room.
Adam Curry:
Well, no, no, no, no, no, no..this is an ENG setup. This is just a single camera with a prompter on it. It's in his office
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, but you've still got to take the
Adam Curry:
No, no, no. It's in his office.
John C. Dvorak:
But there's still going to be raw footage somebody's, that's going to be floating around the control room when they edit it.
Adam Curry:
That's possible. Yeah, you mean the edit suite, not the control room, the edit suite.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, the edit suite is gonna have the little-
Adam Curry:
We need more of this and I will air anything you send me. We need more of this. This is great!
Adam Curry:
This is what YouTube was made for.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah!
Adam Curry:
This is fantastic. Really I love it.
John C. Dvorak:
Bloopers.
Adam Curry:
What?
John C. Dvorak:
Bloopers.
Adam Curry:
Yeah. Political bloopers. By the way, there's another show for us, John.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah. Political Bloopers.
Adam Curry:
We could make it so that politicians actually think it's cool.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah they do it on purpose.
Adam Curry:
Yeah. "Hey, I'm on P-Boopers!" P-Bloopers. It's our new show. P-Bloopers. Political Bloopers.
Adam Curry:
"And now: Kevin Rudd. He's so hilarious!" So everyone comes out and starts (y'know after we've been talking about this for oh, I don't know, two years) about commercial drones and drones everywhere and drones in the skies. Now everyone's like "Oh, drones! OH, how do we know!" at the FAA passed legislation. They by the way are the ones allowed to...
John C. Dvorak:
This screwed our business model!
Adam Curry:
It totally did! Well, yes and no.
John C. Dvorak:
They must have heard us bragging about how we could take over the whole industry, and the next thing you know they changed the law so now any douchebag can fly a little drone around. BY the way, I recommend everybody get some really good high-powered pellet guns (which are usually legal in the city) and then keep an eye out. If you see a drone flying over taking pictures of your backyard, pop about ten rounds into that thing and see if you can drop it.
Adam Curry:
Okay I was going to go in a little different direction.
Adam Curry:
Pellet guns are for pussies. You need to get yourself -
John C. Dvorak:
No, you think you shoot... you discharge a firearm in the city limits of most towns and the cops will be right there, and you'll get arrested. So no.
Adam Curry:
Let me explain something. So what they've done: there's two forms of drones that will be able to fly. The one that will require a license (where we can still be in business) are the ones that fly at two thousand feet AGL altitude.
Adam Curry:
These will be under fifty-five [55] pounds and, you know, this is like commercial air space, so you can't just get a drone and fly it at two thousand [2000] feet. You will have to have a license, like I have, and then you have to take a separate test for a..they're trying to get away from the word "drone," by the way. They're really trying to make it UAV, but we're not gonna let them. It's gonna remain "drone". So that's part one [1]. The other part, though, is under that two thousand [2000] feet level.
Adam Curry:
And I looked up the law, because obviously back in the day, they said, 'Look, if you own land, then you own the air space all the way up to the sky.' essentially. The stratosphere. Now, they had to do away with that for over-flights. So you can't be paying every single guy every ten feet like, 'here's a dime. I'm gonna fly my commercial airliner over it.'
Adam Curry:
But, the law is. Here it is, I've looked it up. 'The dividing line between the portion of air space in the public domain and the portion protected as an incident of land ownership against invasions by aircraft, is the line delineated by the Federal Aviation Administration as the minimum safe altitude of flight.' The minimum safe altitude, John, as any pilot will be able to tell you is five hundred [500] feet. So, if something's coming over my house and it's under five hundred [500] feet, I am blasting the crap out of that with an actual firearm shotgun.
Adam Curry:
And I encourage anyone else to do the same. And you have the legal right to do that. And they're going to be flying these things right over your house. Three hundred [300], two hundred [200], maybe fifty [50] feet over your house. So, if it's under five hundred [500] feet, which of course is not easy to determine exactly what that is, if you can see it and you can hit it with your shotgun; valid. And you should do it. And pellet guns, maybe in the city. But, this is a severe problem.
John C. Dvorak:
Well, anyone who has shot skeet would relish shooting one of these things because they're not moving that fast.
Adam Curry:
Aw, they can book.
John C. Dvorak:
I know, but if it's taking pictures it's coming..yeah, if it buzzes your house, it's already gonna be gone before you run outside with your gun.
Adam Curry:
What do you mean? I have--
John C. Dvorak:
If you're just sitting around out there, it's easy pickins.
Adam Curry:
I have my gun on the balcony at all times. What are you talking about? I'm just waitin'.
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs] Well then your like some crazy guy with a rockin' chair with a gun next to him,
John C. Dvorak:
just waitin' with his hound dog sittin' next to him.
Adam Curry:
That image is exactly me. That's exactly what I'm gonna do
John C. Dvorak:
[bays like a hound]
Adam Curry:
Again, I can't believe people are putting up with this. But, the two thousand [2000] feet drones is obviously also a problem. And you should shoot those, too. I'm gonna be shootin' everything. You can take me to jail all you want, I'm shootin' it. Get out..not 'get off my lawn'..'get outta my air space, dammit'
Adam Curry:
Go ahead a prove that you were above five hundred [500] feet. Go ahead and prove that. If I could reach you then you had to be in range. How far does a shotgun? A shotgun doesn't go over five hundred [500] feet effectively, does it?
John C. Dvorak:
Not really, I mean, it's just the spread is so ridiculous after that
Adam Curry:
'Cause then I have to resort to the uh
John C. Dvorak:
You need some anti guns. You can buy those in Texas, you know.
Adam Curry:
[laughs] Anti aircraft guns
John C. Dvorak:
The pom pom gun
Adam Curry:
[laughing]
John C. Dvorak:
pum, pum, pum, pum, pum. You have this seat, the thing moves around, yeah
Adam Curry:
[laughing]
John C. Dvorak:
It would be right in your back yard
Adam Curry:
Micky! Micky! Spin the turret!
John C. Dvorak:
Lead it! Lead it more! Lead it!
Adam Curry:
[makes pom pom gun firing sounds] I can see it [laughs]. Aw, beautful. Yeah. Well, we'll see how far all this gets. There's a lot of crap on the horiz..but, the thing is, like they say,
Adam Curry:
'the drone makers were heavy lobbyists.' It's not like the model airplane guys, this is the defense industry. They're all jumpin' on this. If you go to noagendanewsnetwork.com we subscribe to a couple defense blogs. And one of them is the UAVS and it's basically a blog about drones. And the lobby is just incredible, because everyone needs to jump on this as quick as possible, because it's replacing helicopters. Replacing all kinds of really expensive hardware.
Adam Curry:
So these guys need to get in there and make it really expensive.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, you don't want to let the cheap guys get in there and screw it up for guys making easy money
Adam Curry:
Nope. Aw boy, very funny though. Hey we've got the same clip, I see
John C. Dvorak:
Which one?
Adam Curry:
About "R-Money."
John C. Dvorak:
Which clip is that?
Adam Curry:
Romney confused
John C. Dvorak:
Oh, I don't have that clip, do I?
Adam Curry:
I see it right here in your folder.
John C. Dvorak:
I don't even see Romney's name
Adam Curry:
Maybe it somehow--
John C. Dvorak:
It's your folder.
Adam Curry:
That's interesting. Well, let's listen to him, then.
Clip (Mitt Romney):
I take two attacks, two approaches to that question. One is to describe my own record. I was a conservative governor, I've described some of the ways I've done that. How I fought for conservative social values, conservative economic values, balanced the budget every year.
Clip (Mitt Romney):
Actually, during my term in office, the budget in Massachusetts grew more slowly than the rate of inflation. Let me contrast that with the other guy, who is sort of up in the poles right now, Rick Perry, excuse me, Rick Santorum.
John C. Dvorak:
Ha ha ha!
Adam Curry:
[chuckles] Wrong script man!
Jingle:
Audios mofo.
John C. Dvorak:
You got your old script, dude. Swap it out
Adam Curry:
[chuckles] Wrong script, man. You got the wrong one. Rick Perry--I mean Rick, uh, Santorum.
John C. Dvorak:
He was designed originally to be this guy that's going to be head-to-head, so they can keep spending money but,
John C. Dvorak:
they had to swap him out because he failed. The more I look back on the Rick Perry thing, I think he actually tanked. I think he did it on purpose. He didn't want to take part in the game and I think he is kind of a goofball, so he just played himself and goofballed his way--a lot of the stuff he did was way too over the top goofy.
Adam Curry:
Yeah
John C. Dvorak:
I don't think he wanted to be part of the this scheme, because he knew he was going to get screwed in this deal.
John C. Dvorak:
He wasn't going to win, because it was all about Romney. So he said, screw it. Maybe he expected to be vice president, like I predicted, and they said, "well I don't think we're going to give that to 'ya." "Well the, screw ya, I'm out. I'm out of the script. Go find somebody else to play your stupid game", and he walked.
Adam Curry:
Well, it still seems like my latest assertion/Red Book prediction will come true, is that, "Prominent Republican Senator told ABC News"--the compromised ABC News--"that if Romney can't win Michigan,
Adam Curry:
The Republican party needs to go back to the drawing board and convince somebody new to get into the race." Who could that be? Jeb Bush. [laughs] So Jeb Bush is all over this thing.
John C. Dvorak:
[chuckle] I agree with the Jeb Bush potential. But, I think, again, that's just part of soaking these idiot contributors for more and more money for their guy, so they can spend it so the media can just soak it up.
John C. Dvorak:
That's a media report.
Adam Curry:
Of course it is. And it's interesting how Ron Paul keeps, uh, he's on the Candy Crowley show every single Sunday morning and I see that because the show's on around eight o'clock here. It's always the same question. "So when are you gonna give up?"
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs]
Adam Curry:
It's always the same question. "Well, you know, if you are closer in April, will you then endorse someone else?" And Ron Paul is not having it. He keeps saying, "Well, no, were going all the way.
Adam Curry:
What are you talkin' about?" They just want him to say even the smallest slip, you know, and he's very careful about it. If he ever says that "Well, you know then, I might do this or that", then all of a sudden--ohhh!. They just want him to say he'll give up.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah.
Adam Curry:
They're so sick and tired of it. They really can't handle it.
John C. Dvorak:
Well, it's a problem. Because he comes out with these assertion about one thing or another. He's a man of conscience even though, I guess, voting against Charles Schultz, a cartoonist, for getting the Congressional Medal Of Honor is some horrible thing,
John C. Dvorak:
according to Keith Olbermann. We should just give the award to everybody!
Adam Curry:
Yeah. We should get one
John C. Dvorak:
We should get one if he's going to be that liberal! So Ron Paul keeps bring up "No, torture's illegal. No, this isn't good, we should get out of these wars." All the stuff Obama promised. He's kind of saying the same thing, which is what got Obama elected. I'm totally convinced that everybody voted for Obama because he was anti-war and anti-this and anti-Bush and anti-the other thing.
John C. Dvorak:
He just became the same thing all over again. And now all these people are horribly disappointed. If you listen to Democracy Now, it's like they still won't come to grips with it, but you can just tell they're bummed out. The don't know what to do. They can't put another guy in, he's going to run again. And so they're buying into the "Well, he'll fix it next time. He'll fix it. He had to be that way because it was a first term" It's bull crap.
Adam Curry:
Well I will also give a lot of these people the benefit of the doubt and they got tricked. They really bought into the..look, it was a huge movement, John..you can't deny there was an emotional feeling that people were just like "hey here's a guy that's really saying he's gonna change it." Now, of course, it was a trick. It was an actual trick. But, people really bought into that and they're disappointed and dismayed that they got tricked.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, they got suckered and now they've come to a reality.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, they got suckered, and now they've come to a reality that they're uncomfortable with. That these guys, all of 'em (except for maybe Ron Paul) are a bunch of criminals. And they lie, and they do stuff like the Peter King thing you played earlier.
Adam Curry:
Ahh, just lie.
John C. Dvorak:
You played the blatant lie of Rick Santorum about the bracelets in Holland. It's bullcrap! One thing after another. Then you have the people that support the bullcrap like Olbermann.
Adam Curry:
It's gotten worse. Angelina Jolie is now confirmed to be an asset. Uh, it's unbelievable. So she does this movie about Bosnia. Wasn't Bosnia, John - am I crazy in not remembering? - wasn't that also about a pipeline?
John C. Dvorak:
I think there may have been... well we were... I'm sure there was a pipeline involved.
Adam Curry:
Wasn't that a "Balkans pipeline" type thing deal?
John C. Dvorak:
Could be. Could be. Let me look it up for you.
Adam Curry:
The elitists don't really give a crap. So anyway she does this movie which she says she financed herself.
Adam Curry:
Anyway, she does this movie which she says she financed herself. A big chunk of change. Probably fifteen [15] to twenty [20] million dollars
John C. Dvorak:
Wait a minute. Before we go on. Apparently now there is a new initiative, the Ionian – Adriatic Pipeline, going through Bosnia, which is a natural gas proposed pipeline.
SFX:
ding
Adam Curry:
There 'ya go.
John C. Dvorak:
Which may have something to do with your other observation.
Adam Curry:
The Leviathan Theory. Absolutely. Well, she's now coming, as part of the Leviathan Theory, she's now coming out and says it's..this is Angelina Jolie.
Adam Curry:
"It's time to intervene in Syria." Hmmmm, isn't that interesting? And then she's at at awards
John C. Dvorak:
What's she got to do with it?
Adam Curry:
People listen to her. C'mon man. She's hot! Sexy.
John C. Dvorak:
She want to steal some kids or what's the deal?
Adam Curry:
No, no no. She's an asset. Remember, she's the United Nations ambassador for refugees. She's a confirmed asset.
Adam Curry:
Quote, "I think Syria has got to a point, sadly, where certainly some form of intervention is absolutely necessary", Jolie told Al Jazeera Balkins, in interviews shown on the channel's Internet site. "It's so sad. It's so upsetting. It's so horrible what's happening. At this time, we just must stop the civilians being slaughtered."
Adam Curry:
And then she goes to Egypt and we have the former director of the International Atomic Agency, also a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and shill of the Crisis Institute. The guy who was supposed to go in and be President of Egypt, ElBaradei. And ElBaradei gives her some award and kisses her.
John C. Dvorak:
[chuckles]
SFX:
ding
John C. Dvorak:
Anything to get a cheap kiss.
Adam Curry:
Apparently she's like five-foot-three. Did you know this? I thought she was like six foot tall.
John C. Dvorak:
Well this is the right... we've said this a million times: this should be in Wikipedia.
Adam Curry:
Wikipedia. I've been told that she's like one of these, you know, like a pixie.
John C. Dvorak:
Well that could be. You don't know. It seems as if Brad Pitt is not a tall man.
Adam Curry:
No. He's not. He's not.
John C. Dvorak:
Let's see if we can get... I'll look up Angelina Jolie height. Usually they have a few references (that's always wrong, by the way).
John C. Dvorak:
Angelina Jolie weight..because they lie..but, she's five [5] five [5]
Adam Curry:
I bet she's smaller than that
John C. Dvorak:
No, wait. That's somebody else. No, it says she's five [5] seven [7]
Adam Curry:
Noooo. No, no, no, no, no. I was speaking to people who have met her. And they said, "She's like a pixie." She's like a little, teenie, dainty thing. You just want to pick her up between your thumb and index finger. Like, put her over there. I don't believe she's five [5] seven [7].
John C. Dvorak:
She's very thin
Adam Curry:
Yeah, but that's what I mean,
Adam Curry:
she's like a little pixie.
John C. Dvorak:
But, she's five [5] seven [7] by everyone
Adam Curry:
I don't believe it
John C. Dvorak:
Apparently, recently, she's down to like a hundred [100] pounds or something
Adam Curry:
I don't have to tell you how I know that a lot of these things are wrong, but a lot of these things are wrong. Particularly when it comes to height, weight and age. But, I'd say that height and age are the two most lied about things on Wikipedia.
John C. Dvorak:
I think weight is right up there. Here's one that says she's five [5] eight [8]
Adam Curry:
{laughs} Oh, please! No way
John C. Dvorak:
Even that, I know it's not true.
John C. Dvorak:
That can't be.
Adam Curry:
No way. No way. So, anyway, there is something else going on with Kosovo. I keep reading about
John C. Dvorak:
That would be this natural gas pipeline
Adam Curry:
Awww, hold on a second, because I actually didn't pull the clip, but Lucifer Clippity Clop..let me see..I bet you this is about it
John C. Dvorak:
While you're doing that, want to take a quick aside?
Adam Curry:
Um huh
John C. Dvorak:
I think somebody's listening to our show.
Adam Curry:
Ya think?
John C. Dvorak:
Well, because I watched the children's show, Doodlebops
Adam Curry:
[laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
Which is the worst piece of crap ever produced for children
Adam Curry:
Doodlebops
John C. Dvorak:
And there is a reference to our show in there, if you play the clip, just as a shorty, you tell me if you can spot it
Clip:
[laughing] C'mon Mo, let's go! I'm DeeDee Doodle. I'm Rudy Doodle. I'm Mo Doodle. {unison} And we're the Doodlebops! The clippity clops???
Adam Curry:
[laughter]
Clip:
Yay! The Doodlebops! That's just silly.
Adam Curry:
[chuckle] The Clippity Clops!
John C. Dvorak:
Writers! The writers that write for the Dooblebops are listening to our show.
Adam Curry:
[chuckle] [cough] Hey, we're moving up in the world.
Yeah, "Clippity Clop" was out there with um, let me see uh, let me search for the word "Kosovo." There it is. Oh my goodness.
Uh, she was out with the Cathy Ashton. And they were like, blowing each other.
John C. Dvorak:
Oh! I saw the picture with the two of them,
John C. Dvorak:
And I saw a picture of Hillary and Ashton recently.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Those two "Clippity Clop" and Ashton. Yeah.
John C. Dvorak:
They look like gay lovers.
Adam Curry:
They would make a handsome couple, wouldn't they?
John C. Dvorak:
I think so.
Adam Curry:
Well, let's see...
John C. Dvorak:
And Hillary doesn't look good. She's gaining weight, she looks tired.
Adam Curry:
"Clippity Clop"
John C. Dvorak:
I think they're ruining her.
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
Good morning, everyone uh...
Adam Curry:
Clippity Clop! Let me see if I can find this
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
It is always a pleasure to uh, welcome my friend and colleague, the High-Representative..
Adam Curry:
What's this "High-Representative" bull crap?
John C. Dvorak:
The High...! She's stoned, man!
Adam Curry:
[laughter]
John C. Dvorak:
She's high! What else could it mean?
Adam Curry:
[chuckle] [stoner voice] Cathy, man. Hey, man,
John C. Dvorak:
High-Representative.
Adam Curry:
[stoner voice] Pass on the crack pipe, man. I want to get high too. You can't be the only one who's high. [chuckle]
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
...union down here in Washington. We always have uh, a lot to discuss and we are always replying on each other because uh, as I said, in uh, Munich a few weeks ago, Europe uh, remains an American partner...
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
of first resort on all of the global challenges we are confronting uh, together.
Adam Curry:
Ooh! Really?
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
We know that uh, Cathy uh, understands...
Adam Curry:
Here it is.
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
...the significance of our...
Adam Curry:
I'll fast-forward. If I can find it, it'll be good, otherwise...
John C. Dvorak:
We should be dinging her for the uh's.
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
the ongoing violence against Syrian people
Adam Curry:
Yeah, really.
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
perpetrated by the Assad Regime, um...
Adam Curry:
Here, let me see it I can find it, um...
SFX:
Ding!
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
on behalf of
Adam Curry:
[chuckle] Uh.. uh..
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
uh mysel,
SFX:
Ding!
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
and our government
Adam Curry:
Uh
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
our sympathies to uh, the family
SFX:
Ding!
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
of Anthony Shadid, and to The New York Times uh,
Adam Curry:
Yeah, by the way, this was kind of weird. This Anthony Shadid deal.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah?
Adam Curry:
Yeah. So, this is a uh, a prize-winning journalist who was been shot! He's been..
John C. Dvorak:
[chuckle] Yeah, I know. The guy sounds like um, one of these characters you run into when you read about the Civil War. These guys that are basically, you know, running around with no arms or legs and they're still fighting.
Adam Curry:
And so, he's in Syria. And I see the guys from CNN are just now on the street in Homs. They're on the street. But, he had to climb through barbed wire, through Turkey, and come into Syria. When you read this story of his passing because of an unfortunate bout of asthma, did you have like a hmmmm, really?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, two to the head
Adam Curry:
Yeah, because the guy speaks fluent Arabic, multiple dialects. I'm thinking he found out what the true bull crap is and, they like, 'sorry man, good work'
Adam Curry:
I mean, it's horrible.
John C. Dvorak:
I think most people, not most people, but at least listeners to this show and others have deconstructed some of this. I think it was something more than anything we've even thought of that he must have uncovered. He's one of those guys that's digging around some
Adam Curry:
Yeah, he's digging deep. He might have found something big.
John C. Dvorak:
It's something that if anyone know, we obviously don't know what it is, there would have been a disaster for someone. Who knows, he may have run into a whole.
John C. Dvorak:
I have no idea. A poker party with Jimmy Carter, for all we know. Who knows. Or even the third Obama. I have no idea
Adam Curry:
Let's listen to Lucifer, because she does mention Kosovo in this.
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
the opposition and to provide relief to the people of Syria. I will be attending the Friends Of Syria Conference, in Tunisia, next week.
Adam Curry:
Friends Of Syria Conference. Did you get an invite to that?
John C. Dvorak:
No. I got snubbed.
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
where a number of nations will work to intensify pressure on the regime and to mobilize the humanitarian
Adam Curry:
Yeah, so here it comes. She actually, there is something going on with Kosovo which we were not aware of and she's going to bring it up. I'm looking at the transcript, because I didn't clip this. I'm filling time.
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
... the regime's actions to tear the country apart. We're looking for...
Adam Curry:
Let me forward it. Here we go
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
is leading. To try to advance Euro integration for both Serbia and Kosovo.
Clip (Hillary Clinton):
Deputy Secretary Burns is encouraging both sides to remain flexible and open to compromise.
Adam Curry:
Ok, so what is going on? It must be the pipeline.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, obviously that's all she's on right now is the pipeline stuff.
Adam Curry:
Hmmm
John C. Dvorak:
Everything she's doing, if you've just listened to the last five [5] or six [6] shows, and actually any shows after Leviathan, she's always connected to this thing somehow. Right with the Noble Oil. Everything is connecting her to this, so she is going to be -
John C. Dvorak:
I don't know. She's maybe the quality control person, the front man, the person that goes ahead, the advance person, she's the advance man for everything to make sure all the ducks are in a row, so nobody screws up when they put all these things together
Adam Curry:
So, there's a couple of interesting news articles, while we just stick on Leviathan for a second. And by the way,
Jingle:
Is the largest natural offshore discovery in the world, in the last..[singers] Leviathan!
Adam Curry:
[laughing] It's a little long, but I like it. So, I've gotten a lot of insider emails. And these come in encrypted. You can use PGP encryption. Even after I've read it I delete it. And hopefully that protects you and me
John C. Dvorak:
Right. And I don't do any of that
Adam Curry:
No, please don't send it to John, what ever you do.
John C. Dvorak:
Just in case.
Adam Curry:
Solar Turbines. Have you heard of this company?
John C. Dvorak:
I'm sure I will
Adam Curry:
Solar Turbines was purchased by Caterpiller. It's a Caterpiller company and my source has a source well-positioned at Solar. My source, that's Adam here, said to his person in that organization,
Adam Curry:
'So, uh, how you doing with uh'..You know, Solar Turbines sounds so innocuous, like it's about turbines for solar.
John C. Dvorak:
Or something. But apparently not
Adam Curry:
Apparently they are making an f'ing killing on their natural gas turbines
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah
Adam Curry:
Huge. Huge.
John C. Dvorak:
I'll real from their web site. 'Products from Solar Turbines may play an important role in the development of oil, natural gas and power generation projects [speaks into hands] around the world!'
Adam Curry:
It's huge, apparently.
Adam Curry:
Now Turkey. As you know, Turkey kind of got cut out of this Leviathan gas field in Israel and Cyprus deal. And Turkey are now starting to freak out as Israel and Cyprus signed their agreement that will allow Israeli defense planes and ships to use Cypriot air space and territorial waters. And Turkey is saying, 'Oh yeah? We're turning our ships around, too.' So we could see an actual war happening there,
Adam Curry:
because Cyprus, part of that is Turkish. Am I correct in saying that? Yeah
John C. Dvorak:
So here's the way this could play out. The Syrian thing is just a show to force the Russians to take some positive side in the Cypriot action
Adam Curry:
Uh huh
John C. Dvorak:
This would be my prediction for the red book: There's going to be some weird activity with a confrontation between Russia and Turkey.
John C. Dvorak:
And when the Russians finally make the Turks back off, then the Syrian thing calms down. Because the Russians would be the ones hurt most by the Syrian thing
Adam Curry:
Yes
John C. Dvorak:
It's all about Russia
Adam Curry:
Meanwhile, in order to prepare the market for gas energy generation, two things are happening in Germany.
Adam Curry:
The dealers played a little game and a large portion of Germany almost went to blackout because they were messing around with the gas reserves. And this is very similar to what happened with Enron, in California. But, what came out in the news was 'Oh, we've shut down nuclear energy'..which they haven't yet. It's suppose to happen over the course of the next five [5] years..
Adam Curry:
But, it was kind of portrayed in the media as, 'Oh my goodness. We need a fix for this. Something needs to be solved, because this nuclear energy, we're not going to have that any more, so we need more gas.' And CNN..we actually both received an email from Atomic Rod about this today..CNN did their report, which we previewed about the nuclear industry.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah.
Adam Curry:
Did you see any of that report?
John C. Dvorak:
No I didn't. I missed it
Adam Curry:
I've got a little piece of it and the memes are everywhere.
Clip:
We're here in Vermont where there's a battle brewing that could determine the future of nuclear power for the US. At the center of this battle, this nuclear plant, the same design as Fukushima
Adam Curry:
[laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
Bull crap!
Adam Curry:
Same design as Fukushima.
John C. Dvorak:
Let me mention something. I want to do a little background here, just before we go on with this:
John C. Dvorak:
First of all, people always like to talk about the French, they have a system in France where they get most of their power, electricity from nukes. They're all over the place. I talked to a nuclear designer about this once and he said in France it works very well because they have one standard design and so everyone who works in any one of these plants they can quit one job and go to another plant someplace else because it's the exact same equipment
Adam Curry:
Right
John C. Dvorak:
The problem with the U.S.A. has always been, even though you have the same company, like General Electric, making most of these plants, they're all custom made. They're custom outfitted. They're all like custom cars. There's no two alike. So, how would this one be a copy of Fukushima, which is an old design? That's bull crap!
Adam Curry:
Let's listen to her report, because she actually discusses that immediately
SFX:
[bells intro]
Adam Curry:
Oh, cue ominous music please
Clip:
The Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station is forty [40] years old.
Adam Curry:
Forty [40] years old!
Clip:
Its operating license, issued by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, or NRC, is set to expire next month. It's one of twenty three [23] Mark One design nuclear reactors in the US
Adam Curry:
So that sounds like at least there were twenty three [23] that were the same, John
jc:
I wonder whether they were the same. I will look into that to correct myself in a future show, but go on
Clip:
But, problems with this design are well known to industry insiders
Adam Curry:
To the insiders, yes. Well known. This is a problem.
Adam Curry:
Nuclear bad!
Clip:
Including the NRC. According to government documents dating back to 1972.
John C. Dvorak:
What is the point of running music behind a documentary-style of presentation? Unless you are trying to influence the thought process of somebody listening to this crap.
SFX:
ding
Clip (Speaker 1):
Seventy two [72] the NRC said 'we never should have licensed this Mark One design, period'
Adam Curry:
Period. We're all gonna die.
Clip (Speaker 1):
We've got so many of them licensed already that if we were to change our mind, that would ruin nuclear power forever.
Adam Curry:
Ah ha. So this is the whole point
John C. Dvorak:
Who's this guy?
Adam Curry:
He's a whistle blower, bull crap guy, with a beard. So, Atomic Rod does a nice bit of deconstruction about this. And the problem, of course is, I don't understand nuclear energy. But, I am willing to take at face value that is probably very cheap and very effective and very safe. I'm really willing to take that at face value. But, because it is called nuclear, we all think of bombs going off. And the way it's being presented by CNN,
Adam Curry:
which I will point out, owned by Time Warner. Large shareholder, what's his name? Ted?
John C. Dvorak:
Ted Turner
Adam Curry:
Ted Turner, who owns tons of gas land. That's what he owns. Liquid, natural gas. So he would be against nuclear.
John C. Dvorak:
Sure he would
Adam Curry:
But, if you look at the cost of nuclear fuel and, particularly, of the raw materials, it's really, really cheap.
Adam Curry:
And so no one benefits in the oil and gas cabal, particularly the gas cabal now, if nuclear energy is even around. So forget building new plants, they want to get rid of the old ones. Just ruin everything. Get rid of the whole shebang and have a great party
John C. Dvorak:
Apparently this plant in Vermont and the Fukushima plants were all based on this Mark One design. So that's true.
John C. Dvorak:
Now, if they're identical, I wonder cause my understanding is no two [2] of these were..I think the basic design is probably identical. Everyone says the Mark One is the worst thing ever. [reading] 'Thirty five [35] years ago, Dale G. Brightenbaugh and two of his colleagues at General Electric resigned from their jobs after becoming increasingly convinced that the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing, the Mark One, was so flawed, it could lead to a devastating accident.'
Adam Curry:
Right.
John C. Dvorak:
[reading] Questions persisted for decades about the ability of the Mark One to handle the immense pressures that would result if the reactor lost cooling power.
Adam Curry:
Right
John C. Dvorak:
Ok. I stand almost corrected
Adam Curry:
So, when was Three Mile Island?
John C. Dvorak:
That's a good question
Adam Curry:
And did anyone die? I was too young, I think. I wasn't really cognizant of Three Mile Island. For those of you who don't know..which, by the way,
Adam Curry:
TMI, before it was Too Much Information, stood for Three Mile Island. You can see how language changed, interestingly enough.
John C. Dvorak:
1979
Adam Curry:
Ok. What movie came out in 1979?
John C. Dvorak:
I think that was the movie with Jane Fonda. The China Syndrome
Adam Curry:
Oh really. Jane Fonda. Married to:
John C. Dvorak:
She was later married to Ted Turner, but I don't think she was married to him at the time. She was a radical left-winger at the time
Adam Curry:
Right. But, I think we'll find out when she got married to him.
Adam Curry:
But, the China Syndrome came out. Which was about the melt down of a nuclear reactor
John C. Dvorak:
Same story
Adam Curry:
Exact same story. So you gotta wonder if this hasn't been going on for a long time. [chuckles] Seriously.
John C. Dvorak:
She was married to Tom Hayden, the radical, until 1989. So she was a good ten [10] years, in fact she only married Ted Turner in '91.
Adam Curry:
Ok. Alright. But, that coincidence is pretty interesting.
Adam Curry:
And did anyone die at Three Mile Island?
John C. Dvorak:
Well, you made me change pages. I don't think anybody did, actually
Adam Curry:
Is it contaminated? Can we no longer visit that? I mean, we all gonna die?
John C. Dvorak:
You can go by there and have a soda pop
Adam Curry:
In Pennsylvania, right? The Susquehanna Valley, right? Yeah, Harrisburg. My aunt lives in Harrisburg. She's still alive
John C. Dvorak:
How old is she?
Adam Curry:
Aunt Jannie? She's got to be 80?
John C. Dvorak:
Well there ya go
Adam Curry:
Yeah. Three Mile Island
John C. Dvorak:
It was apparently a stuck valve
Adam Curry:
Yeah.
Adam Curry:
But I do remember watching television and we seeing all these things and we're all looking at it, 'Is it gonna blow?' 'It can blow at any minute. We're going to have a complete melt down '. So maybe there is something to this nuclear energy. There has been a lot of improvements in this stuff. It's just that I wish I could make..can I make nuclear energy in my basement or something?
John C. Dvorak:
You keep bringing this up. You keep wanting to do that
Adam Curry:
Yeah, can I?
John C. Dvorak:
Have a small, little pile in the back yard that [makes churning sound]
John C. Dvorak:
grinding out steam to power your place
Adam Curry:
Is it possible?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah. I think it would be a little bit bigger than you want. It can't be much bigger than a big generator.
Adam Curry:
What do I need for that? Do I need nails and glue?
John C. Dvorak:
Licenses..yeah, you need nails and glue and lots of licenses
Adam Curry:
But seriously, from a physicist perspective
John C. Dvorak:
You need to buy the fuel for it. First you need the proper construction. I don't know if they make them that small, except for on ships. Maybe on a submarine kind of thing might work.
John C. Dvorak:
Keep looking into it
Adam Curry:
I will keep looking into it.
Jingle:
Beatles-style No Agenda Donation jingle
Adam Curry:
Do I need Yellow Cake for it?
John C. Dvorak:
[pfftt] Yeah, from Nigeria. And you'll probably get a letter in the mail about it. From some Nigerian
SFX:
ding
John C. Dvorak:
Trying to get some money out of the country, because he owns all this Yellow Cake. Warren Wyker, in Victoria B.C., a hundred and fifty [150] dollars he donated. [reads] 'Tonight on my way to a private poker game, I thought to myself, if I win the pot I'll donate it to No Agenda.'
Adam Curry:
I saw him tweet the picture. He won the pot! He had a huge stack of chips
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] He proceeded to lose half of my twenty [20] dollar buy-in in the first hour so I publicly tweeted my promise to donate if I won.
John C. Dvorak:
[reading] Suddenly my luck changed. Over the next three [3] hours I managed to knock out all seven [7] other players and walked away with a hundred seventy [170] dollar pot'
Adam Curry:
Woot!
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] 'Could there be such a thing as No Agenda pre-karma?'
Adam Curry:
Ohhh
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] 'I'll have to experiment with this. Here is the hundred fifty [150] dollars of profit. I'm holding back my twenty [20] to buy-in to try again next time'
Adam Curry:
Nice
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] Anyways, thanks for your hard work assassinating the media. Please de-douche me and send any remaining karmic balance after tonight's
John C. Dvorak:
karma event to my wife, who has been attending grad school in another city five [5] hours away for the past year and a half'
Adam Curry:
All right. First of all, we have no idea. Report back and see how that works with the balance of your karma. So here it comes. De-douching and karma double shot
Jingle:
you've been de-douched
Jingle:
you've got karma
Adam Curry:
That's nice. I think it is possible, and we don't know nothin' about karma, other than people seem to enjoy it.
Adam Curry:
That if you think about it and say, 'hey, this is what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna use my pre-karma and if I win' ..of course the thing probably would not be good to then not go make good on the karma.
John C. Dvorak:
I don't know. He did the promise on the twitters and so he ended up having to be a donor, not a boner.
Adam Curry:
I'd never hold him to it.
John C. Dvorak:
William Langford, in Milwaukie, Wisconsin, another contributor. A hundred [100] dollars. [reads] 'This makes me one-fifth of the way to knighthood.
John C. Dvorak:
He needs karma for his compensation exam with the V.A. [reads] 'I'm not dead yet and they want to know why.'
Adam Curry:
[laughs] Oh God. That's horrible. Yeah
Jingle:
you've got karma
Adam Curry:
Wow. Wow
John C. Dvorak:
We won't ask. Warren Carroll, in Des Moine, Washington. I didn't know there was a Des Moines in Washington. A hundred [100] dollars. [reads] 'Investigation into the Leviathan Project has been one of the most interesting and well-produced discussions I have ever heard!
John C. Dvorak:
You have out done yourselves. Here's a donation to help fund Adam's work on the condensed clip that he was going to try and put together. Hail the foot'
Adam Curry:
I'm still working on it
John C. Dvorak:
It's not easy. Especially doing video. It's painful
Adam Curry:
Someone else should be doing that, actually
John C. Dvorak:
You need a little staff down there. Some minions. You need minions
Adam Curry:
That's what I need, I need staff. I'm happy I get coffee halfway through the show
John C. Dvorak:
You got coffee?
Adam Curry:
I got coffee. Micky always brings me coffee, just before the donations segment.
John C. Dvorak:
Also have a hundred [100] dollars from Mark Smith in London, with no comment. London, London. I'm assuming that's in the UK. Could be London, Ontario. But, seems like the UK. Jan Perciel, in Hamburg, HA, which I would assume is
Adam Curry:
Deutschland. Gitmo nation Deutschland
John C. Dvorak:
Deutschland. Has to be. [reads] 'Hey John and Adam. Hey Citizen. A quick lucky number contribution.' He gave eight eight [88] eighty eight [88]. He's asking for some karma for his upcoming trip to India.
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] 'Hey Werner, I try my best to be there on time. And here's a great tip for everyone's next vacation or extended holiday trip. After you have enabled your email auto-responder, check whether your auto-donator over Paypal is active as well. I just checked mine and feel well-prepared for the trip now. Please keep up the great work.' And then he says something, [reads] 'hatch a poola ching a ching'
Adam Curry:
Oh..
SFX:
Hatchman Chinese clip
John C. Dvorak:
Ahhhh
Adam Curry:
I recognize that anywhere [laughing]
John C. Dvorak:
Good, the ching a ching gets it. Robert Vinson, Chagrin Falls. What a name for a town. Chagrin Falls, Ohio. They probably pronounce it Shagrun. Seventy five [75] dollars. Bob, in Cleveland. {reads] Long time boner, looking for some karma for a new job career starting January twenty seventh [27]'
Adam Curry:
Aw, very nice. Ooh! Oww! Sorry.
Jingle:
you've got karma
John C. Dvorak:
Did you give Perciel a karma?
Adam Curry:
I don't think so. I'm going to give him a hawpoo chuttah ching ching karma
SFX:
Huntsman Chinese clip
Jingle:
you've got karma
John C. Dvorak:
There ya go. Now he's set to go in India. Watch out for the food poisoning, by the way. Only eat local and eat all the spicy stuff you can. Won't be easy to do, but you won't get sick. Kimberly Lewis, Davis, California. Sixty nine [69] sixty nine [69. We seem to have a sixty nine [69] sixty nine [69] thing going on
Adam Curry:
[speaks a French line]
John C. Dvorak:
Since the last show. [reads] 'Hi John and Adam. First time donor to the greatest podcast in the universe.
John C. Dvorak:
I'd like to request a de-douching, as well as karma shot for my birthday shout out. We've got that listed. For my smokin' hot hubby, Al Nonymous. He got me hooked on your show when we started sharing about three [3] hours of daily commute bliss. To keep from having to talk. [both laugh] Thank you for all the hard work and keeping us entertained as we circle the giant drain hole of the universe.
Adam Curry:
This is actually great. It's like, "honey, just turn on the No Agenda Show, I really don't want to talk to you."
John C. Dvorak:
She's in San Francisco
Jingle:
you've been de-douched
Jingle:
you've got karma
John C. Dvorak:
Matthew Phillips. Or Mattheau. I think it's probably pronounced Matthew, but I could be wrong
Adam Curry:
Mattheau
John C. Dvorak:
In Dearborn Heights. Another sixty nine [69] sixty nine [69]. [reads] 'As in Matthew. Not French. My parents do not like me. Clippity clop, clippity clop'
Adam Curry:
[laughing] All right
John C. Dvorak:
Another sixty nine [69] sixty nine [69] coming in from Daniel in Melbourne, Victoria. I think this all began with Kerry Shern, who started the sixty nine [69] meme
Adam Curry:
I'm liking it
John C. Dvorak:
It's fine. Sixty nine [69] sixty nine [69]. [reads] 'Refer to me as Daniel from Mel-bun. Thanks. Thanks for the entertainment that accompanies me through my long drive through the green New Zealand pastures for my thirty three [33] days of holidays.' He gets thirty three [33] days. [reads] 'The sixty nine [69] sixty nine [69] is also because I want to return to Australia as a donor, not a sheep boner
Adam Curry:
Excellent. Thank you
John C. Dvorak:
And Don, in Columbus, Ohio sixty six [66] sixty six [66]. Kind of the evil number. In Colombus, Ohio. [reads] 'Hi from Don 'o War. Please do not say my legal last name on the podcast.' Which is not mentioned. [reads] I'm smoking my Megadeath CD's over here and feeling I should donate six six six [666]. A heavy metal donation amount. Since listening to No Agenda, I've gone from not understanding politics to knowing what no one else can possibly understand in politics.
John C. Dvorak:
Thanks for that.' Which he might as well also say, thanks for nothin'. [reads] 'Also it's my birthday. I'll be forty four [44] and still rockin'. Mom and dad thought it was a phase.'
Adam Curry:
Excellent
John C. Dvorak:
Tim Paradox, in Little Hocking, Ohio. Fifty five [55] twenty five [25]. [reads] 'In the morning from gitmo nation drunk student, at the home of number one party school, Ohio University in Athens, Ohio
Adam Curry:
Woot
John C. Dvorak:
I think Chico State would take you on with that one. But, please call out long time boners, Mr. Whiskey, Sick Puppy and Predator Doctor as douche-bags
Adam Curry:
Happy to do that
Jingle:
douche-bag
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] 'Donating drunk and could use a Huntsman karma combo jingle for a potential upcoming home purchase. Thank you for the best podcast in the universe.'
SFX:
Huntsman Chinese clip
Jingle:
you've got karma
John C. Dvorak:
Joe The Dish Slave is back, from Stockton. Fifty five [55] ten [10]. [reads] 'Hey John and Adam. Joe The Dish Slave here again with double nickles on the dime. Please put the donation toward my wonderful wife's dame-hood, as any good Knight Of The Flatware needs a damsel to rescue. I would appreciate a mention of my podcast, the Ozone Nightmare.' The same one he sent last time. [reads] 'Thanks for the hookers and blow.'
Adam Curry:
First of all, he's now a Knight Of The Flatware
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah. Knight Of The Flatware.
John C. Dvorak:
Sir Simon Reed, New York, New York. Double nickles on the dime. [reads] 'ITM citizens. Can I get some karma for my sister, who is going through a tough time, even though she doesn't listen to the show and groans, she groans, whenever I talk about it. She really could do with the help.'
Adam Curry:
Well, maybe you should turn her onto the show, man. Get her to listen.
John C. Dvorak:
She won't listen, apparently
Adam Curry:
We'll throw out some help-her-get-listening karma
Jingle:
you've got karma
John C. Dvorak:
Renee Estevez in Orlando, Florida. Double nickels on the dime. "First time donor, long time boner which recently got dumped the day after Valentine's Day," By the way this is very common.
Adam Curry:
Yeah, it happens a lot.
John C. Dvorak:
It happens a lot because people didn't get the Valentine they expected. You can thank Hallmark for this disaster. Anyways: "which is just as bad. If you ask me I'm now a statistic, I'm asking for some slide whistle karma not for myself but for all the suckers who still believe in love."
John C. Dvorak:
This one's for you. Ready for the slide whistle karma?
Jingle:
You've got karma.
John C. Dvorak:
*slide whistle*
Adam Curry:
*very amused* Excellent.
John C. Dvorak:
"P.S. I could be wrong but the last two times you guys denied karma to a sports ball team they both lost the subsequent match. Sounds like a fractal to me!"
Adam Curry:
There you go. Yep.
John C. Dvorak:
"If so I'd like to request some karma for Rick Santorum." Well, yeah. Funny idea though. Oh, too 'cause we won't give it to him.
Adam Curry:
Exactly.
John C. Dvorak:
Oh! I see what she's doing. Eh, she's sneaky.
Adam Curry:
It's cool, that's like what parents do to their kids. Reverse psychology.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah! She's reverse psychologizing us. And she hates love. Give her a couple months. Anyone in Orlando look her up. Alaxis Richardson; Fayetteville, Arkansas. Double nickels on the dime. "My name is Alaxis pronounced Alexis. Thank you very much. I would like to wish my wonderful boyfriend,
John C. Dvorak:
Clent." Who's spelling these names? Clent?
Adam Curry:
Arkansas.
John C. Dvorak:
"He'll be 24 on the 21st and more importantly is responsible for my No Agenda addiction." Good for Clent.
Adam Curry:
Nice! Very good, Clent.
John C. Dvorak:
"The Best Podcast in the Universe." she says. Double nickels on the dime from Kent O'Rourke in Frostburg, Maryland. "Just want to request some karma for my friend Angie."
Jingle:
You've got karma.
Adam Curry:
*sings* "Angie, Ayyyyn-gie."
John C. Dvorak:
Boi-oi-oi-oing.
John C. Dvorak:
Sir Nathan Marshall, Grand Forks, North Dakota. Double nickels on the dime. "That's Sir Marshall to you. I have to donate after last Thursday's show. You've proved once again why No Agenda's the Best Podcast in the Universe. I need a shot of Karma to find a new place to live and for North Dakota to eliminate property taxes for good this coming November."
Adam Curry:
Yeah. Good luck with that.
Jingle:
You've got Karma.
Adam Curry:
It could happen.
John C. Dvorak:
Well - as an aside, there's no reason with all that oil and gas they've got under that state and the wind power they can generate,
John C. Dvorak:
that there's any reason whatsoever that anyone should be paying taxes at all, property or otherwise. Seriously.
Adam Curry:
I'm down with that
John C. Dvorak:
Jonathan Rucks in Alpharetta, Georgia, fifty two [52] ninety [90]. [reads] 'I've just donated fifty two [52] ninety [90] to get some karma for my buddies, Derek Dean and Jason LeCatta. They turned me on to you and J.C.D., so it's well deserved. I'm attend a mass precinct meeting to hopefully become a delegate for Mr. Ron Paul.
SFX:
slide whistle
John C. Dvorak:
[reads] 'Here in gitmo hillbilly. Atlanta, Georgia. A little shot of karma definitely helped. A big thanks to you and the Buzzkill for the eye-opening info.'
Jingle:
you've got karma
SFX:
[single toot from slide whistle]
Adam Curry:
Hey, easy. Slide whistle only on request
John C. Dvorak:
Bart Bartons Best. I have no idea where he's from. From parts unknown. Fifty [50] dollars. [reads] 'Been a while. Good work, keep it going. Can I get some karma for me and my loved one?' Ok
Adam Curry:
Absolutetly
Jingle:
you've got karma
John C. Dvorak:
Another fifty [50] dollars from Eon Larson, in Aukland. [reads] 'My donation is in honor of my daughter's twenty second [22].' We've got her on the list. [reads] 'Twenty one [21] oh two [02] twenty twelve [2012], a palindromic date for all of you international listeners out there.' Twenty one [21] oh two [02] two oh one two [2012]
Adam Curry:
It's European
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, it's European. [reads] 'Silly US citizens and their nonsensical date system
Jingle:
hey citizen
John C. Dvorak:
And finally, without comment from Geneva, Illinois, Jason Fortun came in with fifty [50] dollars
John C. Dvorak:
I do have one additional check that came in from Brian Navarro, in Chicago, sent in a nice check for ninety nine [99] ninety nine [99]. I've noticed something funny. We get a lot of these checks, because people do these time payment plans and people put little messages
Adam Curry:
Oh that's nice
John C. Dvorak:
This one says 'Apply to account karma.' So I'm assuming he wants a karma call out
Adam Curry:
Let's make sure we give him that then.
Jingle:
you've got karma
Adam Curry:
Nice
John C. Dvorak:
With all these cute little messages that are in here. 'In The Morning', 'ITM', 'Slave ', 'From Slave', 'Sending one year listening'. John Henry who we credited last time, he did a one year back pay and it's on the check. It says 'Memo.'
John C. Dvorak:
Another one came in from David Burneff, From Raleigh, North Carolina for fifty [50] dollars and his memo on his check says 'Giving is loving' on the check. It's actually quite funny.
Adam Curry:
I think it's really good and a lot of people are saying, 'hey man, how can I send a check?' and so there are multiple ways to do it. All of that is explained at
Jingle:
dvorak-dog-org-slash-NA
Adam Curry:
That is the place to go and find out all that information
John C. Dvorak:
We'll have some more information on these time payment plans. Some of them are interesting because they consolidate them,
John C. Dvorak:
so you get an envelope full of these checks. We have one guy sending in a dollar. The bank sends it and I don't think the bank charges for the postage or anything. It just comes in from the banks. These time payment plans are pretty amazing. And most banks do them. So check it out
Adam Curry:
And with your support, we keep this program on two [2] days a week, which we are happy to do.
Adam Curry:
Of course, after we discussed this, donations have slipped a little bit. But, we would evaluate them month to month. We evaluate the month of February and see how it goes and then we continue for the next month. That seems fair enough, doesn't it?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah, I think we're doing ok. There are supporters who come around. We have to thank all of them. We hope they continue to do so.
Adam Curry:
We have a lot of patrons who come back
John C. Dvorak:
And some people send in small amounts. We do get a lot of forty nine [49] dollars ones. People don't want to be mentioned. They don't feel it's necessary to be lecturing the public,
John C. Dvorak:
and they stay seriously anonymous and others don't care so much.
Adam Curry:
And it's not just the program you get. You also get the show notes, which you can find at episode number dot nashownotes dot com. Today's will be three eight four [384] dot nashownotes dot com. And also, the art. We can't thank our artists enough for all the great work they do. I think it's entertaining. I think it's a big part of the show.
Adam Curry:
In fact, we have correlated bad art to low support for the show.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah. There's actually something to that. In fact, when we have a klunker show, sometimes we get no art. I think our artists just turn off the show. I'm not sure. Of course, we do need the stream to run because the artists usually do the art in real time
Adam Curry:
Sir Gitmo Slave and Mr. Oil are all over that and I guess we've been ok since we had that little snafu earlier on.
Adam Curry:
Okay, one more time to program your brain:
Jingle:
dvorak dot org slash n a
birthday jingle
Adam Curry:
We've got a nice little list today. And of course, your donation of fifty [50] dollars or more helps you get on this birthday list and we always send a follow-up card every subsequent year that we are still on the air. Brian Mancuso, he congratulated himself. His birthday was yesterday. James Howard says happy birthday to himself yesterday as well. Kimberly Lewis congratulates her husband,
Adam Curry:
Al Nonymous celebrating on the twentieth [20], tomorrow. Dawn wants to congratulate herself. She turns forty four [44] on the twenty eighth [28]. Seems like we are a little early on that. We might have to do it again next week. Eon Larson's daughter turns twenty two [22] on Tuesday and Alexis Richardson, her boyfriend Clint turns twenty four [24] on Tuesday. Happy birthday from all your buddies here at the No Agenda Show
Jingle:
birthday stinger
John C. Dvorak:
We do want to thank everybody, profusely, for helping us. There is a show I don't think too many of our listeners watch. It's a J.J. Abrams show. He does Fringe, which is a wild show, but is hard to follow.
Adam Curry:
I don't watch any of that stuff
John C. Dvorak:
He's now doing Alcatraz and the show that is taking off and doing well, (then again you probably haven't watched either) which I think is a great little drama called Persons Of Interest,
John C. Dvorak:
about a guy who developed a computer that watches everything everybody does in the entire United States and has been kept a secret
Adam Curry:
It's a pre-crime show
John C. Dvorak:
It is a pre-crime show and this little clip I just said is right up our alley, because it's one of our memes that, I guess, one one the script writers decided to put it right out there and see what happens to get some attention
Clip (Speaker 1):
Stay down. Don't anybody move
Clip (Speaker 2):
On the ground
Clip (Speaker 3):
You gonna arrest me?
Clip (Speaker 4):
I'll be out in fourteen [14] hours and I'm comin' for you
Clip (Speaker 5):
Threatening a police officer. I'll add that to the charges
Clip (Speaker 6):
There won't be any charges. At least none that stick. He's CIA
Clip (Speaker 5):
What? So CIA's trafficking drugs?
Clip (Speaker 6):
The government couldn't win the war on drugs, so they're using it to fund the war on terror.
Adam Curry:
[laughing]
Clip (Speaker 5):
This common knowledge?
Clip (Speaker 6):
Doubtful, the Company is built on secrets.
Clip (Speaker 5):
I risked my life for this. I'm takin' him in.
Clip (Speaker 6):
You do and The Company will ruin your career. And that's if you're lucky.
Clip (Speaker 5):
Taking him in
Adam Curry:
This is better than Sixty [60] Minutes.
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs]
Adam Curry:
It's the truth. The truth right there. We haven't discussed this in a while,
Adam Curry:
but there's a number of really good books that you can read. And the one I like best is Legacy Of Ashes, written by Weiner, former New York Times journalist. As you know, I corroborated this with my Uncle Don, long time CIA operative all over the world. And when you read it, this is Iran contra, literally..
John C. Dvorak:
It's all facts
Adam Curry:
Yeah.
Adam Curry:
In fact, floridating water at camps to subdue a camp before they go in and get what they need to get. All of that. It's all true. It's all in there
John C. Dvorak:
So, I was listening to this clip and there was one discrepant little line in there that I thought was odd. The CIA guy was the drug dealer. And, by the way, the guy who spotted him was a CIA guy, as a rogue agent. The drug dealer guy says,
John C. Dvorak:
"Yeah, you can arrest me, but I'll be out in fourteen [14] hours" and I thought the fourteen [14] hours was rather specific. I am still wondering what message are we being sent with this number fourteen [14]. So I'm keeping an eye out.
Adam Curry:
Ok, good. I have not idea what that is
John C. Dvorak:
No. Why would it be fourteen [14] hours? Why wouldn't the guy say, "Yeah, you can arrest me, but I'll be out in no time. Or I'll be out before you get back on the" which is typical dialog. But, fourteen [14] hours?
John C. Dvorak:
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Adam Curry:
So there is a lot of stuff that we don't understand, but sometimes just by mentioning it on the show, some people do say "Hey, I've got a connection to that" Our listeners, for those of you that are new, we actually refer to them as producers and they do produce the show. Executive Producers pay for it, Associate Executive Producers pay for it. And producers help us produce. Field production, really.
John C. Dvorak:
Crowd-sourced
Adam Curry:
Well, I don't like the name crowd-sourced
John C. Dvorak:
I do. I love it
Adam Curry:
So, I've been paying attention to Pfizer. The makers of Xanax.
John C. Dvorak:
Getting lots of free publicity, I might add. Don't you think this message from CNN is publicity when you go, "Oh well, everybody's taking Xanax and then drinking alcohol and they get wasted."
John C. Dvorak:
This is like a formula for, "I didn't know that. Let me try that. I wanna see what that's like."
Adam Curry:
No, I think it's a three [3] pronged approach. First of all, Pfizer is doing what they should be...we have a saying in the Netherlands [speaks Dutch]. Which means, when you are being shaved, you should sit very quietly. And I believe this is all part of Pfizer.. when these congressional hearings start..and Diane Feinstein has the legislation in..it's going to turn out that,
Adam Curry:
well, Whitney Houston had either a counterfeit Xanax
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs]
Adam Curry:
Right, or it could still happen, either that or everyone goes into this registry database and you shouldn't be getting Xanax from Canadia. Or any other drug from Canadia. So, another one of Pfizer's big ones is Viagra.
Adam Curry:
And Viagra actually does not go out of patent until twenty twenty [2020]. But, there was a real problem, because the active ingredient, Revatio, it was about to go out of patent. Which means that you could potentially go and make your own boner medicine.
Adam Curry:
So they sued..whatever they did..they got a six [6] month extension on the patent. Revatio, interestingly enough, is used on kids. So I'm not quite sure how that all plays together, but it's interesting to see that they are doing anything they can to extend their patents, because I was just looking at the numbers..their revenue..Pfizer. Ever since Lipitor went out of patent..you can now get generic Lipitor..their revenues were cut in half.
Adam Curry:
We are talking, like billions of dollars less money coming in. So, it's obvious they are doing anything they can and now..
John C. Dvorak:
I've got a good idea for these guys
Adam Curry:
What?
John C. Dvorak:
A really good idea. Come up with some new drugs that are like maybe, antibiotics, or something that that actually helps mankind, instead of milking the old ones to death. Maybe develop something new. How about that for a concept? It's my suggestion.
Adam Curry:
[laughs] They're trying that. They're trying so...
John C. Dvorak:
Oh really. I don't see it.
John C. Dvorak:
They're spending all their money on advertising
Adam Curry:
So, Purdue Pharma, up in Canadia, they're pulling OxyContin off the shelves in March. They're changing the formula. Here's what's going on: Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, which is twice as strong as Morphine we might point out, will stop manufacturing the drug in it's current form at the end of the month.
Adam Curry:
OxyContin taken orally in pill form is a long-acting form of the highly addictive opioid OxyCodone. When the pill is chewed or crushed, when injected or inhaled it produces a heroin like euphoria. It's basically synthetic heroin. So, they're pulling it off the shelf and they're going to make a new form of a pill that you can't crush and if you try to liquefy it, it only turns into some kind of gel which you can't extract for injection.
Adam Curry:
And this is a big deal in Canadia, because everyone's freaking out because everyone's going to turn to heroin. I'm like, yeah!
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Adam Curry:
Isn't that the point?
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John C. Dvorak:
[laughs]
Adam Curry:
Coincidentally, up there in Toronto, the Border Services Agency says it found thirteen [13] kilograms of opium at Toronto's Pearson International Airport. So, I guess they're starting. Or, could it be, it's very hard to see what the message is. Just this week, along with this announcement, a vaccine against drug addiction.
Adam Curry:
The holy grail?
John C. Dvorak:
Huh
Adam Curry:
There ya go. It seems the Addiction Technology Transfer Network presented, in Ciudad Juarez, the Mexican health secretary Salomón Chertoriviski, whatever, that it looks like they have a vaccine for heroin addiction. Which, of course, can't be in a vaccine. It's an injectible. And I'm thinkin', these guys are doing it really smartly.
Adam Curry:
So you change the pill, so you can't inject it. You ramp up the heroin coming in from Afghanistan. And you put a little fishy out there, a little carrot, that says 'hang in there.'
John C. Dvorak:
How about this. So you have this vaccine, or actually should be called a preventable, like a Lunchable
Adam Curry:
[giggles] Lunchable
John C. Dvorak:
You have this vaccine that prevents, uh, how does it work?
John C. Dvorak:
How does it prevent addiction to Oxycontin?
Adam Curry:
Probably because it gets you high.
John C. Dvorak:
The reason I ask is because, what happens if you get into a bad car accident and you are prescribed Oxycontin after having the vaccine a year or two earlier? Does it mean you are gonna die? What does it mean?
Adam Curry:
Of pain, maybe
John C. Dvorak:
What does it do to you? Does it make it so the stuff doesn't work? Does it make you so you can't be addicted to it, but you can still take it?
John C. Dvorak:
Which doesn't make any sense at all. Because, what then, would be the point? I think it's dangerous. It sounds like the worst thing in the world.
Adam Curry:
Let me read it to you
John C. Dvorak:
There's actual need for Morphine under certain highly painful situations. So, now you 've got injected with some crazy crap that now you can't take the pain medication
Adam Curry:
Well, here's the report
John C. Dvorak:
You can't take a cough syrup
Adam Curry:
The vaccine triggers an immune response that stops heroin entering the brain and stimulating the opiod receptors,
Adam Curry:
stopping the quote 'rush of the drug.' The vaccine will not be the solution to all addictions, but it is one way to confront the problem above all in the treatment field. It is hoped the vaccinated person will have a lowered desire to consume the drug because the dose of the vaccine will block the pleasure of taking it. I think you are right. I think that's a very good point. This is not smart at all. If you actually need morphine or oxy
John C. Dvorak:
Or whatever
Adam Curry:
It won't work. That's a good point
John C. Dvorak:
Then what are you gonna do. Overdose on aspirin? Which doesn't work in these situations? No, this doesn't sound like a good thing. No one has asked this question.
Adam Curry:
You know what that is? That is a great question
John C. Dvorak:
That-is-a-great-question. That, ladies and gentlemen, is what constitutes a great question. Although we'll never say that again.
John C. Dvorak:
Do you know about this Davis Report? Have you been following this at all?
Adam Curry:
No
John C. Dvorak:
The guy who blew the whistle on the Afghanistan thing and now he's in trouble
Adam Curry:
No
John C. Dvorak:
He's actually in the Army and he wrote this big report for some military journal and it leaked out and Rolling Stone ran with it
Adam Curry:
Oh, it was a huge report. It was like ninty [90] pages or something. I read the report, yeah
John C. Dvorak:
Here's the intro to it on the Davis Military Afghanistan Document
Clip:
We turn now to what Rolling Stone magazine calls the Afghanistan report the Pentagon doesn't want you to read.
Clip:
It's called the Dereliction Of Duty Two, Senior Military Leader's Loss Of Integrity Wounds of Afghan War Effort. And it was written by Army Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, who returned in October from his second year-long deployment in Afghanistan. In the report's opening lines, Davis writes, quote "Senior ranking US military leaders have so distorted the truth when communicating with the US Congress and American people in regards to conditions on the ground in Afghanistan, that the truth has become unrecognizable."
Clip:
Part of the report was published in the Armed Forces Journal in an article called Truth, Lies In Afghanistan. In an interview on the [inaudible] Show, Davis explained what motivated him.
Clip (Daniel Davis0:
The job that I had there required me to travel all over the country and to talk to soldiers of every level, from the highest commanders to the nineteen [19] year old private. And what I saw out there over time, it began to be clear it was so different that what the public assertions are, that I started to have some moral problems with it.
Clip (Daniel Davis0:
But, that turned into something more when I started seeing the results of men dying as a result of this in missions that made no sense and were then later characterized as big successes, when in fact they were not. Later in the summer, a couple guys in particular that I had met, were killed in action a couple of weeks later. That drives it home pretty strong.
Adam Curry:
Hmm. So how long does this guy have to live?
John C. Dvorak:
Well, he's still the Army. So they think that some bad things could happen to him. He could get court martialed, maybe. But, it was unclassified. The main document. He has a classified document that they are trying to get a hold of, that he also wrote, that no one has seen. But, this guy is going around moanin' and groanin' and this has gotten so little play. I mean, all this other stuff that Rolling Stone magazine has come out with the different..the McKristol and all the rest of these other things.
John C. Dvorak:
If I hadn't have been listening to obscure news reports, I would have never found this
Adam Curry:
Have you read the report? Because I actually started reading it and I went [sighs]. jd; If you can't read it, then nobody can read it
You know what the problem is, is it is just like there is nothing new in there
John C. Dvorak:
No. That is true and that is probably one of the reasons it's not getting any attention. But, it does bring home the same point. That this thing is bogus and we've got a President who is going to keep up there.
John C. Dvorak:
And now there's back room talk. I watch at least a couple of these Left Wing operations go on about "Well, Obama promises that after he gets re-elected then he's gonna do what he was gonna do the first time. We have to take his word for it. He's going to. It's what he says." How dumb are these people?
Adam Curry:
[laughs] Of course. How dumb are we? That's really the question my friend. How dumb are we? So okay, well everything's quiet out in Greece. I guess Monday is when they say they're gonna pull the trigger.
John C. Dvorak:
How long is this going to go on? I think, since we began this show, the Greeks were supposed to do this or that
Adam Curry:
March twenty third [23]. Now everyone's talking about this document and it appears to be orchestrated by the Federal Reserve and by the Treasury. Little Timmy Geithner. From what I'm reading..and I'm going from John Ward's stuff, the slog..it appears that all the American banks are preparing for this.
Adam Curry:
And I don't think Greece will actually leave the Euro Zone. It's just going to be a default. They're not going to go back to the Drachma. And it appears from the Leviathan sources..and it's amazing how many people are popping up and giving me information..that the problem is whether, as a part of the austerity measures, they are going to sell the... um where is it here? I got it.
Adam Curry:
...whether they are going to sell the gas company, D.E.P.A. and the energy company D.E.S.F.A. together or separate entities.
John C. Dvorak:
You get more money by separating them, I think.
Adam Curry:
Now, what would happen if the Russians came in and decided to buy that?
John C. Dvorak:
I think the Russians just might do that.
Adam Curry:
I think Gazprom is a real contender for this.
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah. This is what is really going on behind the scenes is the battle between Gazprom, I'm sure BP is in the race, Chevron, Unical.
John C. Dvorak:
I mean all the big boys. Shell for sure.
Adam Curry:
So, who do you think? Who do you think is going to run away with it?
John C. Dvorak:
I think Gazprom. If I was going to bet on a horse race, I would bet on Gazprom. I think there is a lot of politicking going on. It keeps pointing me to look at the Russians or at least be a joint venture. It might be a joint venture that a bunch of guys get in on. That will resolve a lot of it
Adam Curry:
It's all pretty expensive though, all this stuff. It's not like real easy to do all this.
John C. Dvorak:
These companies have got billions and billions of dollars. Maybe Apple will buy them.
Adam Curry:
[laughs]
John C. Dvorak:
They got the most money in the bank
Adam Curry:
[laughing] Didn't you tell me a theory about that the other day? About Apple? I know, Apple is going to become a bank. Someone else told me that. I like that theory a lot. Apple now has now what? A hundred billion dollars, almost?
John C. Dvorak:
Yeah. Over a hundred
Adam Curry:
Why don't they just become a bank? They already got your credit card and your address book.
John C. Dvorak:
That's their exit strategy.
Adam Curry:
Just becoming a bank. No, I think it is totally possible. By the way, if you think Apple is not evil in this whole address book thing, you're crazy. Apple is absolutely evil. They are putting all your shit together. They've got your credit card. Thank you very much for buying that stupid ninety nine [99] cent Rhianna song. And they're selling all that information. I am so close to going all Linux.
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs]
Adam Curry:
I am. There's like two [2] pieces of software that doesn't run on Linux yet. And if I can get that..I'm out.
John C. Dvorak:
I would probably take that approach if Adobe ever put its editing suite on Linux. I think it would be all over for everybody.
Adam Curry:
But, aren't there enough open source programs that do exactly the same?
John C. Dvorak:
No, they don't come close. It's a joke.
Adam Curry:
What do you use Adobe for other than read .pdf's? You actually create .pdf's? What do you need that for?
John C. Dvorak:
Well, you need it if you are going to publish a book. You have to create .pdf's. You have to do it with Adobe's software. You can't do it with any of these clone softwares, because none of these printing shops will take it. They say, 'na-na-na-na-na-na. Look, if you're going to this, you do it right. You use the Adobe product because that is what we are standardized on.' And I also use Illustrator all the time and I'm always on Photoshop and I use some of the advanced features. I can't use The Gimp
Adam Curry:
[laughs heartily] Hey man, I love the Gimp
Adam Curry:
The Gimp is rockin'. Please. But, that's not all you do. I mean, the bulk of what you do is email and surfing the web and stuff like that.
John C. Dvorak:
I know. I could use Linux for that, it's not a problem. But, if I want to up the ante and do some serious computing with one of these products, they won't put them on Linux. And the reason goes way back to the open source thing. John Warnock hated Ghostscript, which was threatening him in the early days when he developed Postscript and he just refuses,
John C. Dvorak:
as long as he's chairman of the board, he refuses to let any of that stuff float over to Linux. It's just a grudge.
Adam Curry:
Well, yeah, that's their bread and butter then. That makes sense. I'm sure that eventually, eventually we will get there. We'll have to because..I don't know about this..I mean, I haven't upgraded to Lion. I refuse. And next it's going to be Mountain Bird
John C. Dvorak:
Mountain Dew
Adam Curry:
Mountain Dew? OSX Mountain Dew. Oh, it's going to be just like your iPhone. Well thanks.
Adam Curry:
That's not what I'm looking for. That's not a great idea. I don't want it to be like my iPhone.
John C. Dvorak:
No, I was looking at Windows 8. I have it on a machine, running. This has a bunch of Windows Phone crap on it. With these stupid tiles. Nah.
Adam Curry:
Well, you could always run it in a virtual machine if you want to, if you need it, right?
You mean Linux and run all this other stuff in a virtual machine? Yeah. People actually do that.
Adam Curry:
I might consider that. I actually was successful. I got Ubuntu to run on my Macbook Air. But there's just one piece of software that I can't get to run in Wine, whatever that is. I don't know if there is another way to do it. The software I use also runs on Windows. I just can't get it to run right. Otherwise I would be out. I really would. I would be so out. Sick and tired of this crap. And people will figure it out, by the way. Figure it out that it wasn't such a good deal. All that free stuff.
Adam Curry:
Tech press sucks balls, dude.
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs]
Adam Curry:
Seriously
John C. Dvorak:
What do you expect? It's been balkanized and there's all these kids that don't have experience and what are you gonna say
Adam Curry:
I don't know how we got on this, but it's worth discussing. Two [2] things that are very disturbing: One is that all these companies, all this Internet advertising, it's all bull crap. Your machine is compromised. Filled with Flash cookies,
Adam Curry:
super cookies and they're selling all your information. Now it's gotten to the point where it's not so cool any more. Twitter takes your address book. If you hash, that's one thing. If you ask me, it's another thing. But, it's just not cool and it's not ok. People are going to start figuring out that, 'wait a minute.' Micky and I changed our..I still have a Facebook account and I only use it only to terrorize my daughter's friends and call them fags. Which is hilarious
John C. Dvorak:
You're terrible
Adam Curry:
It's hilarious.
John C. Dvorak:
Well, you're right. That's a strike zone for these kids.
Adam Curry:
Yeah. And my daughter thinks it's the funniest thing ever. So, of course, she's like, 'oh, you've gotta change your Status to Engaged.' Dude. Micky and I, both like, now there's like emails, banners, everything. Ohhh, wedding rings, wedding planners. All this stuff comes in all of a sudden.
John C. Dvorak:
Spam. You've been spammed
Adam Curry:
Totally. Totally. The minute we changed our Status
John C. Dvorak:
So in other words, you changed your Status and you got spammed to death
Adam Curry:
Yes
John C. Dvorak:
Wow! That's terrible
Adam Curry:
So, Micky said, 'What if you changed your Status to dead? What do you get them."
John C. Dvorak:
[laughs]
Adam Curry:
I don't think there is a Status for dead, but they should have it
John C. Dvorak:
That's a great Status
Adam Curry:
Just Status: dead. I think if you die, someone should be able to set your status to dead. That would be good. Status: dead [laughs]. What was the other point I was going to make?
Adam Curry:
The other point I was gonna make is that the educational system, which is already a piece of crap, do you know that all of these universities, they're now sponsoring...
Like, you know, the whole idea is "come to our college" — Harvard's doing this too, by the way — "come to our college and you could be the next Zuckerberg".
And then you have just tens of millions of dollars going into these incubators.
And kids are learning nothing but...
Adam Curry:
You know it's the same as like trying to become David Beckham.
And they're learning nothing, they're just, you know, they're dropping out, they're joining these incubators, and they might come up with an interesting product, and then boom.
They don't get any money.
You're not going to be Mark Zuckerberg.
You're gonna get robbed.
The whole thing is a big ass scam.
Don't go to college at all, I say.
Become a bum, like me.
John C. Dvorak:
Well if you're gonna go to college, go to college to learn something other than what they... the bull crap Mark Zuckerberg, who's a dropout.
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Adam Curry:
Yep.
John C. Dvorak:
You know, this is not a life.
Adam Curry:
No.
John C. Dvorak:
I wouldn't mind having some of that dough, but you know.
Adam Curry:
Well I...
John C. Dvorak:
[inaudible] ...seem to be a happy go lucky guy.
Adam Curry:
I do officially call myself a "bum".
When Micky says...
John C. Dvorak:
Well there's other people who've done that.
Adam Curry:
This is my fiancée: "What do you do?"
"I'm a bum."
"No, what do you do?"
"I read legislation, as a hobby."
John C. Dvorak:
[chuckle]
"I read legislation..."
Adam Curry:
You know what a guy said to me the other day?
He said, "Well you know you could work at a lobbyist firm."
I said, "Yeah".
[chuckle]
"They need people who are into that."
I said, "Okay".
John C. Dvorak:
Eh, you probably could.
Adam Curry:
Anyway...
Adam Curry:
Keep your eye on the kingdom and not on the jewels that lay before it, my friends.
That my wisdom of the day.
John C. Dvorak:
It would be so much fun to work for a lobbying company.
Adam Curry:
[chuckle]
I'd make some real money.
John C. Dvorak:
Well yeah, you'd do that, but it would probably... it's gotta be...
Adam Curry:
Well I wouldn't be...
It's gotta be an unhappy existence.
Anyway, we'll continue to keep our eye on the evil and keep fighting it for you and bring you all the stupidity that's out there, and the real news you can actually use to get laid at cocktail parties.
Here at Camp Mofo, in the Drone Star State, the capitol of it being Austin in the morning everybody, my name's Adam Curry.
John C. Dvorak:
And from Northern Silicon Valley where yes, I did listen to the "Doodlebops" once, I'm John C. Dvorak.
Adam Curry:
[chuckle]
We'll be back on Thursday, once again, for you.
John C. Dvorak:
[call bell]
Adam Curry:
Please join us on No Agenda.
John C. Dvorak:
[duck call]
Adam Curry:
And a reminder, we've got the No Agenda Producer Update next on the stream.
In the morning.
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