John C Dvorak: It's over the hill. Adam curry. John C Dvorak,
Adam Curry: Sunday, September 29 2024 this is your award winning
gibo nation. Media assassination, Episode 1699,
Unknown: this is no agenda,
Adam Curry: celebrating climate week and broadcasting live from
the heart of the Texas new country, right here in FEMA
Region. Number six in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam
curry
John C Dvorak: for Northern Silicon Valley, where we're all
saying, stop advertising and promoting gambling to the
American public. I'm John C Dvorak. It's Craig
Unknown: Vaughn and buzzkill in the morning,
Adam Curry: I hear it's very bad for people.
Unknown: Yeah, I've heard that too.
Adam Curry: It's like, it gets people all addicted, and then
they lose all their money. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: yeah. But Mimi used to. Mimi used to when she
was younger. Was a kid, high school, I guess she used to live
in Reno. Oh, boy, she's and she says she shot
Adam Curry: a man in Reno just to watch him die, didn't she?
She
John C Dvorak: remembers these new kids that would come into
the high school, yeah. And then they within six months, the one
or two of the parents had a gap immediately, gambling habit,
sure. And they had to leave the city, had to move back to
California, Iowa, or wherever they came from, because they
were, they just went broke. But people are so pathetic. She lost
a lot of friends. They have some friends. And the next thing you
know, they had to move out of the state because they couldn't
maintain a, you know, a normal life.
Adam Curry: Well, I'm glad that you're sharing this with us, so
everybody can check themselves, check yourself, people.
John C Dvorak: Well, I got, got why I said this is because I'm
watching the football stuff today, you know, in the morning,
before the game started, and they have all these different
analysts Come on, and they're all recommending various bets.
This is on the sports shows,
Adam Curry: just doing it in the in the content of the show
itself. Now,
John C Dvorak: yes, it's gone that bad. They have DraftKings
and all these couple, two, three, these gambling
operations. And they're, it's not even legal in California,
but still, really. And they're, they're just promoting bets.
They're promoting people to throw money away. Do
Adam Curry: they have prop bets? My favorite prop bet? Yes. Prop
bets, mostly prop, almost
John C Dvorak: everything's a prop bet.
Adam Curry: Hey, are they coming to take you away. What's with
all the sirens?
John C Dvorak: I don't know. You know, this has been, it's been
like living in New York.
Adam Curry: It's because Kamala was in town.
John C Dvorak: I don't know what it is, but there's a lot of
Sirens of late. Yeah,
Adam Curry: you know, Kamala was in town, and it was, it was, it
was quite the spectacle.
John C Dvorak: Yes, I saw that. I maybe have some clips I do. I
saw I saw the news coverage. It's pathetic.
Unknown: Vice President Kamala Harris is here, but her trip
tonight into San Francisco might have had an obstacle or two. Our
crews spotted a way low vehicle that had to be driven away from
the motorcade route by police. Vice President Kamala Harris
makes what could be her final visit to California before the
election. A little after 830 Friday evening, the VP touched
down at SFO as her motorcade arrived at the Fairmont San
Francisco an autonomous Waymo got stuck making a turn. The San
Francisco police officer had to manually drive the vehicle out
of the way.
Adam Curry: That's great some way. Mo advertisement there.
That's good, that's good, yeah, and I guess she went to the
border. Was that the California, Mexico border that she went to?
John C Dvorak: I don't know. I thought it was Arizona. Oh,
Adam Curry: I just presumed that it was California. That was
John C Dvorak: yesterday, I think, and it was like it was a
nothing burger, kind
Adam Curry: of you said nothing burger? No, I
John C Dvorak: did. I appreciate it on purpose. And so she goes
there, and then she starts blaming Trump for all the border
issues.
Adam Curry: Yes, this is, well, she I have this short clip where
this is just one of those unbelievable things that she
says is great. Earlier
Unknown: in the day, Harris made her first trip to the border in
Arizona in years. Harris expressed a tougher stance on
illegal immigration. She spoke with local Border Patrol Leaders
as they walked along the wall. There are consequential
issues at stake in this election, and one is the
security of our border. The United States is a sovereign
nation, and I believe we have a duty to set rules at our border
and to enforce them.
John C Dvorak: Wow. Okay, you know, the funny thing about that
I didn't get that I saw that clip. I should have grabbed it.
I'm glad you did, because I'm giving you a clip of the day,
because that is unbelievable. Oh, thank you
Adam Curry: very much. Well, Bob, I have clips I think, and
I'll do it.
John C Dvorak: I don't think so. Well, I mean, this morning, not
to the height of hypocrisy.
Adam Curry: Oh no, no, no, not. And by the way, for people who
tune in like, Hey, I listen to that no agenda show, sounds like
they got an agenda. Yes, we're against idiots. We're against
liars, liars and idiots. Which former President Trump takes it
to the next level. This is the clip that was being played all
morning on the M 5m Joe
Unknown: Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that
way.
Adam Curry: So of course, none of them played it in context,
which we will do now we will do yes, of course, borders
Unknown: are Harris went to the border to lie in the most
shameless and horrible way possible. At the very site where
she released so much suffering, misery and death, there's no
greater act of disloyalty than to extinguish the sovereignty of
your own nation, right through your border, no matter what lie
she tells, Kamala Harris can never be forgiven for her
erasing our border, and she must never be allowed to become
President of the United States. She must never be allowed that's
over 647,572 migrant criminals who Kamala set loose to rape,
pillage, thieve, plunder, and kill the people of the United
States of America, and they're not going to change. They're
only going to get worse. They're only going to get worse. And our
law enforcement system, we have the greatest in the world, but
our people are told not to do their jobs. We don't want you to
do anything. And they come from tough systems. They're going to
love our system. Kamala is mentally impaired. Every
Republican did what she did,
every Republican did what she did, that Republican would be
impeached and removed from office, and rightfully so. Joe
Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way. She
was born that way. I
and if you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could
have allowed this to happen to our country. Anybody would know
this?
Adam Curry: Yeah. So a little more context.
John C Dvorak: It's a much better clip in context. Oh,
Adam Curry: of course it is. It also makes more sense. But
that's not what they do. That's not what the media does. And by
the way, just because, you know, there's always people who say,
Yo, Trump, he never lies, right? He never lies.
John C Dvorak: You must have got some nasty email this morning.
Adam Curry: That's just the troll room. What are you talking
No, no, I
John C Dvorak: want to mention something that, since you
brought that into that clip, which is the number of, you
know, the, I guess somebody in ice decided to release the
numbers, yeah, of number of known criminals that have been
released into the country, the hundreds of 1000s, basically.
And so this morning, I'm you know, because this is based on a
note somebody sent me early this morning, actually, about how
Margaret Hoover is actually kind of a, not really a conservative,
and she's interviewing Hillary in a new, oh
Adam Curry: yeah, I haven't seen it yet, in the frontline,
frontline interview
John C Dvorak: firing line. She
Adam Curry: needs to lay off the lip gloss.
John C Dvorak: Well, Hoover has always been kind of a bogus,
conservative. She's an old, some old school style. I'm
Adam Curry: just saying just as a as a production, television
production. Tip back off, on the lip gloss, Hoover, it looks
creepy. Well,
John C Dvorak: she's creepy, yeah, so maybe you're
projecting. Okay, okay, creepy, yes, and pretty, but creepy. The
other one in this category, and I should mention, because it's a
pet peeve of mine, is Shannon Bream, yes, who always thought
it was the one of the prettiest girls on Fox ever, and but she's
exactly and once she gets off of Fox, I'm telling you, she's
going to turn into another Margaret Hoover, because I was
watching today, she was interviewing a senator from
Georgia, and they brought up this issue of all these, these
criminals that were released into the country and out of the
blue. And I didn't get a clip because it was still done,
finished, but she did say the she said, Oh, well, you that
doesn't take into account all of those that have been
incarcerated, just just what? Just just this comment, huh. And
it was like, why you even? What does that get to do with
anything? And she's and bream was the one, it
Adam Curry: was on now, one we call the bream Queen bream
John C Dvorak: was on Gutfeld. And. They were talking about
lawfare and how these five cases against Trump all kind of
happened at the same time with all a bunch of people that quit
the Justice Department and gone to these different areas to all
do this all at once, indictments of Trump and bremo. No, no,
there's no way that's a coin. That's just a coincidence.
Adam Curry: Really, what is she doing?
John C Dvorak: She is a she is an Ajahn provocateur. She should
not be out at Fox at all, but she's got this, you know, nice
smile and you're making like a fox girl. That's
Adam Curry: why she's at Fox. We know Fox is no good. It's no
better than the rest.
John C Dvorak: Yes, yes, I know. I'm just trying to, I I'm
normalizing the concept that she's, you know, that, yeah, I
agree at at a base levels, that sucks. Is no good. But anyway, I
just that was a pet peeve of mine. I got, got out of this,
out of the system.
Adam Curry: And unfortunately, when, when Trump went through
that list, he said he forgot to say, they rob you forgot, and
they forgot. They're eating the dogs. He should just throw that
in from time to time. I miss that.
John C Dvorak: Have you seen the tick tocks of all these girls
dancing to a to a mix of he's they're eating the dogs. They're
eating the cats.
Adam Curry: I've, I've seen different mixes of their eating
the cats eating dogs, but haven't seen the girls dancing
to it, because, John, that's
John C Dvorak: your Tiktok dipshit dancers.
Adam Curry: Is that like the solid gold dancers? The Tiktok
dipshit dancers? Yeah, exactly. It's
John C Dvorak: a new version.
Adam Curry: So right on cue with this news that there's over
600,000 criminals Aurora Colorado, I guess they put out a
press release, and I I guess they haven't, or from what I
understand, they have a new police guy. Like, did they throw
out the old guy? And we missed that, because I think in this
report, it says there's a new police chief.
John C Dvorak: I didn't hear this either. Oh, well,
Adam Curry: this so listen to how they downplay the apartment
complex issue. Good
Unknown: evening and thank you for joining us for Denver Seven
News at Five on this Friday. I'm
Jessica Porter
and I'm Jason grenauer. First, Aurora officials are threatening
to close two apartment complexes over safety concerns they say
include an uptick in crime and deterioration.
Denver seven's Veronica Costa got the internal communications
where officials recommend the management company
Adam Curry: notice they got addresses internal
communications. Yeah, that's a leak internal
Unknown: communications where officials recommend the
management company addresses the quote, criminal nuisance or face
the
Adam Curry: consequences. It's criminal nuisance. See, it's in
our internal communications. It's not TDA, it's no gang. It's
just criminal nuisance. Two apartment
Unknown: complexes in Aurora with dozens of people living in
them could suffer the same fate as the apartments on 1568 gnome
Street, which was shut down weeks ago. The Edge of Lowry and
200 Columbia apartment complexes are the target of two letters
signed by aurora's new chief of police, Todd Chamberlain,
deeming them quote criminal nuisance properties in violation
of Aurora city code. The letters sent last Friday point to an
uptick in violent crime in the physical condition of the
properties as public safety concerns saying they could close
as soon as september 30, if conditions continue,
John C Dvorak: it's a nuisance. It's just a criminal the way
they downplay it. That was actually quite good. Well,
that's
Adam Curry: what you do with it. When an internal communication
suddenly winds up at the six o'clock local news on Denver
seven. I mean, yeah, of course, a criminal nuisance, the real
nuisance, which I'm so happy I got a clip of this, because I've
only been hearing about it and and been seeing the the
headlines. And this is about the looming strike, which would kick
off on Tuesday of the long the long wish of the Longshoremen.
Oh, that one, that's a bad one. And yes, it is quite bad. And I
found on the What's up with shipping podcasts, which, of
course, I subscribe to my modern podcast, kudos, yes, what's up
with the guy's actually good. There's a couple of these.
There's an ag show like, you know, what's up with agriculture
this week? This is where you get some some decent news. And the
what's up with shipping podcast? They didn't have the guy on, but
they had an interview with the union president the East Gulf
Coast longshoreman union. And so two clips. The first one is a
little. The second one's short. The union president explains,
first of all, why they want they're going on strike, and
seems like it's still unresolved. At this hour, it's
still unresolved. So anything could change and what that will
mean.
Unknown: But today's world, it's changing into the future.
They're not making millions. No more. They're making billions,
and they're spending it fast as they make it. I want a piece of
that for my men, because when they made their most money was
during covid, when my men had to go to work on those piers every
single day, when everybody stayed home and went to work.
Not my men. They died out there with the virus. We all got sick
with the virus. We kept them going from Canada to Maine and
Texas, Great Lakes, Puerto Rico, now the Bahamas, everybody went
to work during covid. Nobody stayed home. Well, I want to be
compensated for that. I'm not asking for the world. They know
what I want. They know what they want, and if they don't, no,
then I have to go into the street, and we have to fight for
what we rightfully deserve. These people today don't know
what a Shrike is, right? When my men hit the streets from Maine
to Texas, every single port are locked down. You know what's
going to happen. I'll tell you.
First week, be all over the news every night. Boom, boom. Second
week,
guys who sell cars can't sell cars because the cars ain't
coming in off the ships. They get laid off. Third week, malls
are closing down. They can't get the goods from China. They can't
sell clothes. They can't do this. Everything in the United
States comes on a ship.
Adam Curry: Yeah, but wait, there's more and a threat at the
end,
Unknown: they go out of business. Construction workers
get laid off because the materials aren't coming in, the
steel is not coming in, the lumber is not coming in. They
lose their job. Everybody,
Adam Curry: by the way, does this guy sound like George
Carlin? Or what?
John C Dvorak: You know, he has a George I was wondering what he
sounded like, and I didn't catch that, that angle of it. Yes,
Unknown: the steel is not going Yeah, coming in, the lumber is
not coming in. They lose their job. Everybody's hating the
longshoreman now, because now they realize how important our
jobs are. Now I have the president screaming at me, I'm
putting a TAF Harley on you. Go ahead. Taft Harley means I have
to go back to work for 90 days after cooling off period. Do you
think when I go back to 90 days Those men are going to go to
work on that pier? It's going to cost the money the company's
money to pay their salaries? Well, they got one from 30 moves
an hour, maybe to eight. They're going to be like this. Who's
going to win here in the long run? You're better off sitting
down and let's get a contract, and let's move on with this
world and today's world, I'll cripple you. I will cripple you.
And you have no idea what that means,
Adam Curry: I will cripple you. Well,
John C Dvorak: there's a couple of interesting aspects of this.
One is that the longshores did an agreement on the West Coast,
and he doesn't mention that. But no, he does not. He does not. He
does. He talks about Texas, the Maine, he doesn't talk about the
West Coast. And so I'm just just stay if, if people are looking
for investment opportunities,
Adam Curry: not investment advice, I know
John C Dvorak: just opportunities. I don't, and I
don't know what they would be, but if the if they shut down the
east coast. The West Coast will be booming with activity. That
means Seattle, Portland, Oakland, Long Beach, all up and
down the coast. The these ports will be filled because everyone
has to be redirected so and so. That means the rail out here and
everything else is going to be busier. It's going to be
ridiculous. The fact is, we're going to be swamped. Well, you
Adam Curry: have those ships sitting out at at sea again, of
course, because they won't be able to handle that's
John C Dvorak: what will end up happening. The whole Bay will be
filled with a bunch of boats, and
Adam Curry: prices will have to go up because of that. Also just
the now
John C Dvorak: nightmarish at this at one hand, on the other
hand, it's going to be a boom, at least locally, on, you know,
the West Coast. Well, bully for you. Well, I'm, I'm not looking
forward to it. The traffic's bad enough. Yeah, no kidding,
because that means the trucks will be loading and, you know,
me, the place, just the freeways will be filled with trucks
getting this stuff as far east as it can, even though you once
it gets to Denver, it's going to do. I mean, it's just not
possible to for the West Coast to supply the entire country.
It's not possible. And the
Adam Curry: good news is Washington, DC will be affected
by this, so that will, that will get their attention. Now. Taft
Hartley, Taft Hartley, I think, is what it is that's a provision
that the the president can call call upon to force the union, I
John C Dvorak: have to review that again. I forgot what, how
they could.
Adam Curry: Well, he made it sound like, okay, that means we
have to go back to work for 9090, days, and we'll be
working. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: unions call it, but this,
Adam Curry: and he makes an incredible. Valid point, like,
oh, we had to work. We were essential workers during Covic.
As he said, Covic, you mean covid? This guy was authentic,
man. He's got tats. He's, you know, he's got the big chain
Sherman, their bicycle chain around his neck. Yeah, they're
not good on him. We need a little bit of crippling here.
Wake people? Well, no, we
John C Dvorak: don't wake people up.
Adam Curry: Get them, get them. Get them. Get them. He's
John C Dvorak: right. He did say one thing in there that I
thought was very noteworthy, which was, nobody knows what a
real strike is like in our current in our current
environment. The millennials don't know what it's like. The
disease. Don't know what it's like. Most of the you know, the
the Gen X Don't, don't, have never experienced a real strike.
And now whether there's going to be one or not, is another issue.
Well, they
Unknown: got it two days. Yeah, we'll see.
Adam Curry: Yeah. I don't know exactly what
John C Dvorak: the real strikes, a real strike, a real bad thing.
Adam Curry: Yeah, what happened to Boeing? Did that get resolved
after their final and best price?
John C Dvorak: I have no idea what's going on there. I didn't,
well, I didn't follow it close enough. So I don't know what's
going on, but it's nothing like what this. This is a big deal.
The Boeing thing is a, you know, just the one company. No
Adam Curry: talks broke off without progress. So no, yeah,
so
John C Dvorak: they can stagger along. That's not going to
affect the economy much.
Adam Curry: Well, it's probably good because, well, you heard
the latest about Boeing.
Unknown: No this morning, another black eye for Boeing.
Black Eye for Boeing, the NTSB issuing an urgent safety warning
over a key part in some of its embattled 737 Max jets, just the
latest blow to one of the world's biggest aviation
companies, which has faced a series of setbacks this year,
including an ongoing strike and that door plug blowout in
January. The new issue regards the rudder control system on
some 737 Max and ng aircraft first discovered in February
when united pilots reported rudder pedals on their max eight
became stuck in neutral. Let
me just tell you something.
Adam Curry: The rudder pedals are pretty important for landing
in particular, also for takeoffs. You know, in flight
also, but you really can't land with a crosswind if you don't
have a rudder pedal. It's going to be very difficult, as
Unknown: they landed at Newark International in that incident,
the plane landed safely.
The rudder is that vertical fin on the tail of the airplane that
pilots use sometimes, whenever they need to counter a stiff
crosswind, or if there's an engine failure. It's not used
all the time, but it's there for a reason, and that's for
potential emergencies or maneuvering ability.
Adam Curry: It's that's a little disingenuous. You need the
rudder. It's just you need or you can't. The flying the
aircraft without a rudder is no good.
Unknown: NTSB investigators say testing determined a sealed
bearing was incorrectly assembled during production, and
that Collins aerospace, which manufactures that part, notified
Boeing that more than 350 had been delivered to Boeing Since
2017 and were affected. In a statement, Boeing says last
month it informed affected 737, operators, airlines, of the
potential problem, adding they're working with a supplier
to address it. United Airlines is the only US carrier that had
the component in its planes and says they've already been
replaced. No
Adam Curry: so it's already done. The no panic, just united.
They had dudes and dresses replace the parts. It's all good
to fix it. They fixed it. It's all good. Their CEO dude in a
dress. Come on. It's we wrapped up climate week, and you and I
didn't even notice, yeah, we kind of missed it. I'm sad.
There was so much else going on, and NPR was all over it. They
had a climate solutions week. Is what they had on the on the air.
John C Dvorak: I was listening to it all along. I never heard
in
Adam Curry: here. Oh, well, it was. It was mainly centered in
New York. Is where that was the headquarters of climate week.
And just you know, NPR has big problems with their podcast
division. It's essentially closing.
John C Dvorak: But should they got no good podcasting, and they
keep promoting them and ruining the normal programming.
Adam Curry: Well, I got the credits from the shortwave
episode. Is called shortwave, which is the NPR podcast, and
then this is the Climate Solutions edition of shortwave.
Maybe if we listen to the credits, we can understand why
they're going out of business. This
Unknown: episode was produced by Hannah chin and edited by our
showrunner, Rebecca Ramirez Tyler Jones. Checked the facts.
Yes, the audio engineer was James Willetts. Beth Donovan is
our senior director, and Colin Campbell is our senior vice
president of podcasting strategy.
I'm Regina Barber, thanks for listening to show wave.
Adam Curry: We need a vice president of podcasting
strategies on this show, and a showrunner. I want a showrunner,
a showrunner. Dana Brunetti should be our show runner. He
would be good at being our show
John C Dvorak: he considered, he probably considers that lousy
job. Oh, it's
Adam Curry: the well, he was a show runner, right? Wasn't he
the showrunner
John C Dvorak: for a house of cards? No, I
Adam Curry: think he was the showrunner. I think he was,
yeah, it's a showrunner. Is You're the boss. I mean, you're,
you're making it happen, and you have to take the licking, and
you have to go show
John C Dvorak: runner for people out there, they never give them
credit. The credit is on according to they have to, you
know, there's all these rules nowadays that the Producers
Guild and the directors go, they have these rules about how you
show credits. You know, they say used to be in the automation.
They show all the credits at the beginning of a movie. Now
they're at the end. The trick to finding the show runner of a
show is the last executive producer listed before the
writer, right? So they have executive producer, producer
cobras, blah, blah, blah, all these. Then there's executive
producer, and then writer, the one with the guy who comes up
before writer is the currently the executive, or is the
showrunner for the show, which is, I don't know why, they just
don't call him a showrunner, but they won't do it on credits
Adam Curry: because it sounds demeaning, which
John C Dvorak: it does sound. It sounds pretty lame. That's
Adam Curry: the job. We have to bend over for the network.
John C Dvorak: They really should be called boss,
Adam Curry: and they have to go back to the productions guys,
the network doesn't like it. Darren O'Neill says he'll be our
showrunner, which is fine by me. He is already. He's right. Rock
and roll show runner. Um, anyway, but do you want to do a
little bit of fun climate stuff? Just for
John C Dvorak: for young I only have the eating bugs part of the
whole thing. If you want to do climate stuff, I don't really
have anything on climate. What
Adam Curry: is, what is the eating bug stuff? Well, there's
John C Dvorak: a podcast, yeah, another
Adam Curry: podcast today's podcast you
Unknown: don't do.
John C Dvorak: And this is called the can I bug you?
Podcast, are they and like all, are they pro bug? They're pro
eating bugs. And this is like a podcast about eating bugs, and
so they and it's one of the problem. You know, I most
podcasts are not very good. No, I don't know if people have
noticed, but they're lame. People don't really feel
comfortable talking into a mic. It's just a million things. It's
just the timing is bad. They they don't get then they added
it to make it worse, you can't edit to make timing work, that's
for sure. I'm
Adam Curry: gonna take out all of the pauses and the ums and
it'll sound great. Yeah.
John C Dvorak: So we have this podcast. Hello,
Unknown: listeners. Are you hungry? Hey, this
looks like a good spot to rustle up some grub. Ew, what's that?
Hey, grub, what's it look like? Ew, gross. Tastes like chicken,
slimy yet satisfying bugs.
Is food. That's what we're here to talk about. Hold
Adam Curry: on. So they have this reasonably well edited
opening montage, you know, is like, which make just come from
cartoons. As far as I can tell, sounds like a cartoon, yeah. And
then they go into the podcast, and it's like this big room, and
you hear the room and everything. This is very painful
to listen to for me,
Unknown: slimy, unsatisfying.
Adam Curry: Oh, Lion King, yes, that's where it's from.
Unknown: Exist food. That's what we're here to talk about on
today's episode of Can I bug you our every other weekly deep dive
into the wide, weird world of insight. It's a deep
Adam Curry: dive. You sure? It's not AI this podcast,
Unknown: pretty sure.
I'm UC Riverside spokeswoman, Jules Bernstein. I'm here with
my co host, Doug yannicka, who is the senior scientist at UC
Riverside's entomology research Museum. Hey, Doug. Hello. Hey
Doug. And our special guest today is Erin Wilson Rankin, a
professor of entomology here at UCR. She studies the ecology of
arthropod communities and teaches a course for non majors
called the natural history of insects, which introduces the
subject of entomophagy, the idea of intentionally uses using
insects as food. Oh, hold
Adam Curry: on. Entima Fiji, is that what she said, this is a
good term, entomophasia.
John C Dvorak: I think F,
Unknown: A, E, G, E, P,
John C Dvorak: H. I think there's a P H in there.
Unknown: P. Beige because, of course, it's different than
people unintentionally consuming insects in their food, which
they most certainly do. Hey, Aaron, Hi. Do you happen to have
any information about how many insects are allowed in food
products per the US Food and Drug Administration?
I know for a couple things that are, you know, particularly
important to me, chocolate, but you can have, it's allowable to
have, you know, 5060, pieces of insect in 100 grams of
chocolate. Oh,
Adam Curry: and they're doing this too. There, there are bugs
in everything. Now you just go look at the supermarket. It has
different names, but there's bug bugs, bug dust, bug SAP, all
kinds of bug stuff.
Unknown: Um, you can have a lot of aphids. 2500 aphids per 10
grams of hops. So if you're a beer drinker, there might be
some extra sweetness coming from the insects. Does that add extra
protein? Possibly, there's such small amounts that I don't know
if it's going to be statistically significant, and
it probably gets filtered out. I mean, there's particulate
matter.
Well, some people find this gross, but others think insects
are the food of the future. Get into today, food
Adam Curry: of the future. Sorry, entomaji, e, n, t, O, M,
O, P, H, A, G, u, y, also to be pronounced as mtimo, faggy,
depends on where you come from. Practice of eating insects.
Alternative term is insectivory to Yes, that's what I would use,
insectivory, yes, Hmm. Well, what you just heard is, is, is
really part of the problem. Is the FDA, you know, without much
fanfare, has approved all of these entomophagy project
products that go into food, certain flower, cricket flower,
being the flower, yeah, what's the what's the term for cricket
flower again? Because it has different
Unknown: word I don't remember. Yeah, yeah, let
Adam Curry: me just cricket flower is, can't find it now,
food. Thank you. Troll room, just call it food. Cricket
flowers.
John C Dvorak: You think flour?
Adam Curry: There it is. Thank you. Cuisson, a cheetah powder,
A, C, H, E, T, A, A cheetah powder. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: that's better, probably term than flour. Flour,
F, l, o, u, r, uh, indicates to me, something that's from
grinding some sort of a plant product. No,
Adam Curry: you're grinding a cricket, like
John C Dvorak: cricket, it's like, is there beef flour? Is
there dog flour? I mean, no doubt the Haitians know that.
Adam Curry: No doubt so. But yeah, but that's all allowed by
the FDA, so people just put it in there, and it's part of the
climate change narrative. I think for a moment, since we
have a guest on this MSNBC show who is known to the show for
many years and comes from this period, we need to open it up to
the
Unknown: gate, to the gate to the climate gate. So
Adam Curry: yes, the climate gate jingle started for us. I'm
going to say 2009
John C Dvorak: it was right during climate gate. So you'd
have to figure out when that was
Adam Curry: yes. Well, that's why it's a jingle, and it was
Michael Mann. Was the guy who was falsifying his his notes was
chain Well, modifying them
John C Dvorak: because it didn't make, I think falsifying is a
better word, can I? Yeah,
Adam Curry: that's probably correct. Was changing his, his
notes and his formula, and it was found out. It was a big
scandal. It
John C Dvorak: was a it was a hack
Adam Curry: email, yes, oh, it was a glitch, a glitch and a
hack. And, yeah, so it was a hack that the emails came out
and and, of course, they denied it was a scandal. It was a big
scandal. We covered it quite extensively, being it.io you can
hear all of it. So Michael Mann shows up with Katie tour on
MSNBC for climate week with, well, can you guess who he's
with? I mean, if you have Michael Mann, one of the premier
climate science Scientologists, climatologists of our time, and
of the IPCC, the International planetary Panel on Climate
Change. Who would he show up with for a bit of color in the
commentary?
John C Dvorak: I can think of a number of people, but
unfortunately, I can't get Francis Collins out of my mind
since I saw him the other day bullshitting about vaccines. No,
it's not Francis. It's better than a hand. Is the only the guy
it should get, but you don't see him anymore. No, no. Hansen is
the guy who came up with the first no hockey stick.
Adam Curry: I'm disappointed you didn't guess
Unknown: Helene is breaking records in the southeast, as the
UN is holding its climate week here in New York, where
scientists and world leaders have met to discuss concerns
about bigger and stronger storms, along with temperature
changes across the globe Joining us now, science educator and the
Planetary Society CEO, Bill Nye, you know well,
John C Dvorak: you should have said a big phony. We all know
very well. Science edu is not a sign who's not a climatologist
in any ways, electrical engineer or something,
Adam Curry: but he has a new outfit.
Unknown: Listen to this outfitter and the Planetary
Society. CEO, Bill Planetary Society,
Adam Curry: bro, we need one of those nine. You
Unknown: know now and University of Pennsylvania, presidential,
Distinguished Professor of Earth and Environmental Science and
author of our fragile moment, how lessons from Earth's past
can help us survive the climate crisis and a whole lot of other
books. Michael, Mann gentlemen's really great to have you. Oh,
it's
Adam Curry: great to have you. Well, let's,
Unknown: let's have Michael stop.
John C Dvorak: I'm just going to, I'm going to do a little
mind reading here. I'm a certain that Katie tour brings up the
climate gate issues and Michael Mann being a big phony by by
fudging numbers, and he she confronts him like a good
journalist would. Right your
Adam Curry: mind, reading is off the charts, so far off that it's
not on the chart.
Unknown: You were nodding your head as Melissa was talking.
Marissa was talking about rapid intensification,
yeah, something we talk a lot about these days. You know,
these storms intensify now.
Adam Curry: This is the extreme. What remember back in the
climate gate days it was global warming. This is before it
became climate change, because the warming was provably not
happening. Then it was, weather is not climate, but now extreme
weather events is climate, yes, far
Unknown: more rapidly than they used to. And there's basic
underlying science that predicted that decades ago. I'm
sorry.
John C Dvorak: I have to No, no, that's fine, doesn't that's
fine, that's fine. I can't emphasize enough, since you
brought it up, it just reminded me. I can't emphasize enough,
since we've been doing this this long enough, almost 17 years,
yeah, the idea that weather isn't climate was extreme was
punctuated and pounded on the table to no end. Weather is not
climate. Weather is not climate. That's all they talked about.
Now they changed it. Let
Adam Curry: me see if I have a weather is not climate. We have
a lot of those. What is this?
Unknown: In India, a severe heat wave has shattered the national
benchmark for the hottest day on record, as the temperature in
the city of halodi topped a staggering 123 degrees
Fahrenheit. Several 100 people have died so far from the
extreme temperatures across India, increasingly Deadly Heat
waves have been linked to climate change. That
Adam Curry: was mistitled. I should look for them honestly. I
should go back and look for them. But they Yes. They kept on
saying weather is pounded the table over it. Yes, weather is
not climate. Weather is and that
John C Dvorak: was because it was they were they brought some
stuff up during the winter. Look, it's freezing out. What
are you talking about? Weather's
Adam Curry: not climate. All right, back to back to Michael
Mann, with the rapid intensification
Unknown: basic underlying science that predicted that
decades ago. You warm up the oceans, there's more energy,
more evaporation of moisture from the ocean that provides the
energy to intensify these storms. They intensify faster,
and we are seeing that. And the threat is, you know, as you
heard here, you have less time to prepare, because something
that was just a WEAK tropical storm is a major, a major
hurricane, within a matter of 24 hours, they had a lot
John C Dvorak: of time that's never happened before.
Adam Curry: It's, it's rapid intensification. And, by the
way,
John C Dvorak: did, oh, I got, I got it. I got this time. I can
do it. Okay, she's gonna ask about, you know, that they had
a, they had no major hurricanes in 2023 How do you account for
that?
Adam Curry: No, the next she's now going to move to Bill Nye.
She's going to move to Bill Nye. So we need Bill Nye to put in
some scientific evidence, some scientific analogy, a metaphor,
something that we can understand.
Unknown: I keep hearing people say, you know, climate
scientists go out and they say, it's the end of the world. The
climate change is here. Disaster is coming, but everything's been
fine. And then I look at them, and I said, What about that
hurricane or what about that fire? There are this country
that are not fine. It's not happening. You know, it's not,
you know, the end of the world, like in a science fiction movie
at the moment, but there are real life effects around people
that are being displaced and killed. It's coming. People
Adam Curry: are being killed by
Unknown: climate. Well. It's also when your power goes out,
that's when the end of the world gets us in the developed world,
and people who live in that area now have just not just rainwater
flooding, but flooding from the ocean, which is salty, which
rusts your car, and then you can't get insurance.
Adam Curry: Bill. Nye comes in with some with a factoid we all
need it because your How about your car blowing up in the
garage because it's an electric vehicle? How about that? Bill
didn't notice that one. Obviously, these two guys are
here for a reason.
Unknown: You had a climate week this week. Any consensus
happening? We're just
one. We're just one international meeting from
solving from solving it, yes. Oh, just one more. No,
everybody. Oh, it's humor. People say to me, Bill Nye
Science Guy, Bill Nye, people
Adam Curry: come up to me, Hey, Bill Nye Science Guy, imagine
that. People come up to me. Said, Adam curry podfather, oh,
wait, some people do that. People say
Unknown: to me, Bill, my science guy, what can I do about climate
change? What can I do about climate change? We'll tell you
what people's vote right now. We hear so much about the undecided
voters, and this is I'm being as
diplomatic, generous, magnanimous. How can
you not tell the difference people? One side is in support
of doing something about these massive problems associated with
climate change. The other side is pretending it's not
happening. And you guys, we all want a villain, and so on. But
it really has been the fossil fuel industry that's worked
really hard to suppress the science.
Adam Curry: Suppress the science. You okay, maybe you
should just explain what you really want the people to hear.
Bill Nye science guy. A
Unknown: lot of people, when they hear that, though they
think, God, you guys are being You're being too crazy, you're
being too strict, too harsh. I like my way of life, okay, I
like my car ordering things on Amazon. I like all the plastic,
yes, but that's the thing. I mean, it is so ingrained in our
life, and what they're looking for is for science to come up
with a way to solve this. We clap up.
Adam Curry: Do we have a scientific solution? John is his
solution to the science I am
John C Dvorak: befuddled by this whole thing. Well, he's she's a
she is useless, and he's an idiot. I mean, I don't get it.
Why would they even put this on the air? Oh,
Adam Curry: the reason is coming now, on
Unknown: our side of it, we claim that we have enough energy
to take care of everything right now, if we just could apply it.
And so the longest journey begins with about a single step.
We will phase out fossil fuel use, and they will we will phase
in renewable energy, but just when it comes november 5,
everybody, you've got to vote for the Democrats, doing my best
here. For many years, I've been the head of a of the
organization that we work very hard to be political, but not
partisan in space exploration. Be that as it may right now the
choice is clear. So you can everybody out there. You can
hate me, you can hate him, you can hate everything. But when it
comes to doing something about climate change, you've got to
vote for Harris walls, and
John C Dvorak: that's what this is, where you expected Clip of
the Day. No, no, no. I thought the Trump, I'm telling you this
is that was the most that that is not acceptable. NBC should
be. NBC is bad enough. This is that head of Comcast. Again, I
keep bringing him up. It's his this guy really that Comcast
that should get rid of NBC because they're ruining the
country. I
Adam Curry: think, you know, we need a best of, Best of Show in
the in the next couple of months. I think you should do an
interview with Bill Nye science guy. I bet you can do it. I bet
if you called up and say, Hey, I'm I'm a podcast you'd be like,
Oh, you're a podcaster. Say, yeah. Like, probably wouldn't
John C Dvorak: do the due diligence he needs no to listen
to the show, because once he did that, he would never agree to an
interview. Do
Adam Curry: you think he would? He would walk away while you
were interviewing him? No,
John C Dvorak: he wouldn't agree to it. Oh, well, that's
shameless.
Adam Curry: Yeah, of course, we are thinking of all of our
producers on the East Coast, south southeast, North Carolina.
John C Dvorak: You can say all you want. They're not listening
well, you know,
Adam Curry: some still have battery power, but this was a
very odd storm. It was, you know, they said, I mean, I got
so I told you that the reporting was strange. The reporting was
off kilter, like it was, it was a lot of water, and it destroyed
dams. But cat four,
John C Dvorak: that's, yeah. Didn't go, it looks like it
didn't go, didn't
Adam Curry: go, but there's a lot of destruction. But it
wasn't that the winds weren't what anyone predicted. The winds
were much, much calmer. Just a lot of water. And it was just
water, just a lot of water. Yeah, a lot of water. So we are
thinking of you producers lot of water.
John C Dvorak: And there was, I thought I was looking over my
clipless I thought I had this clip. I know I had it. I guess I
didn't produce it. I'm not sure what happened. But there was a
great clip somebody sent me from, from Florida, one of the
islands where some Tesla,
Adam Curry: yeah, was caught far was blowing up in the garage. It
blew up in
John C Dvorak: the garage and burnt down what looked to be a
castle. I mean, this house was just as gorgeous because it was
left a couple outer walls, because the house burned to the
ground. And then the reporting, local reporting, talked about
how all these electric scooters were going up boom, blowing up
left and right, and there was Tesla's blowing up the salt
water. This is very dangerous.
Adam Curry: The Iron Oh, the irony of trying to save the
climate with your EV and it catching on fire because of
burning the place, burning the place down, I'd like so I have a
couple of things I want to share as a mini presentation, but I
share, you're gonna share. I'm gonna share a secret, only if we
hold hands. But I what happened with Nasrallah? I think is
something we have. We need you to do a deep dive.
John C Dvorak: I have a lot of Nasrallah clips, so that's why
I'd like you to start follow up. No, no. I'd
Adam Curry: like you to start it off. I'd like you to, like you
to get it all out of your system, and then we'll do some
analysis, because this was, I think, much bigger than people
realize.
John C Dvorak: I find it distressing to be honest about
it. I have a series of clips here from the Hezbollah leader,
Hezbollah,
Adam Curry: Hezbollah, let's just
John C Dvorak: start with them. NPR stuff. This is two clips
from NPR
Unknown: to many. Nasrallah is the leader of a terrorist
organization, but others in the Middle East, as we just heard,
he's viewed as a hero. NPR, Al shaachi is
John C Dvorak: this? Is this his leader? One? Yes, it is. You
don't want to stop that clip? No, it has to come later. I'm
sorry. Okay, what we want is HEZ summary, good one. NPR,
Hezbollah
Unknown: has vowed to retaliate after an Israeli airstrike
killed Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Iranian backed
militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. The question of what's
next for the two countries hinges on the war in Gaza and
Piers Jaina RAF in Beirut has more on what it would take to
get to a ceasefire. Hezbollah itself is really unwilling to
accept a ceasefire. It made clear when it announced the
death of Nasrallah that it would continue fighting Israel. And
Nasrallah has always made clear that there won't be a cease fire
here, unless there's a cease fire in Gaza. But N piers,
Daniel estrang, who's in Israel, says Gaza cease fire talks are
stalled.
The question is, Will Iran backed militias throughout the
region fire at Israel, whether that's the Houthis in Yemen,
whether that's Shia militias in Iraq, Israel is preparing for
that potential
escalation. Okay,
John C Dvorak: did you get a note from one of our Mohammed?
Yes, Mohammed, I'm going to
Adam Curry: talk about that in my presentation,
John C Dvorak: because I thought that was interesting. Let's go
to summary too.
Unknown: The Assassination Friday was an escalation of
Israel's campaign against Hezbollah in a year long
conflict, Hezbollah started firing on Israel just after
Hamas attacked southern Israel October 7, leaving around 1200
dead and kidnapping around 250 relatives of the remaining
hostages have called on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu to ease up On hostilities until the hostages
are released. Meanwhile, President Biden calls nas ralas
death a measure of justice and pierce devaram reports
in a statement, Biden said Nasrallah and Hezbollah have
been responsible for killing hundreds of Americans as well as
Israeli and Lebanese civilians. Biden said the US is goal is to
de escalate tensions in the Middle East through diplomatic
means, but ceasefire negotiations between Israel and
Hamas have been held up for months, and there is also no
agreement to stop the fighting on the Israel Lebanon border,
the president said he's also directed the Pentagon to enhance
the posture of US forces in the Middle East to deter a broader
regional war. Vice President Harris released a statement too,
saying Nasrallah had, quote, American blood on his hands.
John C Dvorak: This is the guy we have to remember who blew up
the Marine barracks, killing 200 during the Reagan
administration. Well, he's
Adam Curry: been around for 30 years, right? Yeah, he's
John C Dvorak: been around forever, and it's like they
can't, they couldn't get rid of him. The Israelis finally got
fed up, I guess. Yeah. Because they used bunker busters to blow
up that area. Yeah,
Adam Curry: they, they got him like they had an eight second
window and done.
John C Dvorak: But so, but this guy is, you know, he's not a
he's a bad guy to us and the Israelis and everybody who's on
that side of the argument, but he's a good guy. In fact, I get
back and forth with some buddy bitching at us because we're
playing. I'm gonna
Adam Curry: talk about that too. This. That's actually what set
me on down the road, down a different path. Well,
John C Dvorak: I do want to mention that 1701 which is a UN
Secretary Security Council Resolution, 1701 which required
the Hezbollah to move north, and for the Israelis to leave
Lebanon in 2006 it was ignored by Hezbollah. I'm gonna, I'm
gonna talk about news also ignored by this guy who kept
writing us notes. I'm gonna read some of I'm gonna read that in a
moment. But okay, well, I'm just setting this up. Yes. So let's
listen to the couple of things about this guy. And if anybody
thinks that that he wasn't loved by the by the Lebanese, they're
wrong. As far as I'm concerned. You could maybe have something
to be
Adam Curry: contradictory. I do have contradictory stuff. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: I will play before I get to the leader one.
Well, let's go with his leader. Let's play that clip.
Unknown: Nasrallah appeared on television for the last time on
September 19, denouncing the Israeli pager operation. Cave.
Retribution will come. He said it's manner, size, how and where
that we will keep to ourselves. The White House said today that
nasrallahs death was a quote measure of justice for many
victims. Nasrallah is survived by his wife and four children.
He was 64 hadil al shaachi, NPR news,
John C Dvorak: all right, he's been he's been doing this for a
long time, if he was only 54 and then one more ancillary clip I
just play this has love, hate clip, and then we can play the
two clips about him. So
Unknown: there was just this mix of emotions. There was mourning,
but there was more than that. People here were confused. This
is uncharted territory. People on the streets are also scared.
They understand the gravity of the moment, and they also
understand that no one can quite predict just what comes after
this. Tell
us. Tell us more about Nasrallah. What he represented
in the region. He's
a complicated figure. Israel in the US consider him a terrorist
who led deadly attacks against Americans as well as Israelis,
but to many here in Lebanon and across the Middle East, he's a
hero. After Israel invaded southern Lebanon in the 80s,
Nasrallah led an armed resistance that eventually led
to an Israeli withdrawal. And of course, on the Palestinian
issue, he became the most visible and perhaps the most
prominent anti Israeli figure in the world. So for more than
three decades, not only was he the top commander of Hezbollah,
but he was also a religious leader and a politician.
So the big questionator, what happens next?
I mean, there will be a funeral, obviously, but I think there's
just a lot more questions than answers. I mean, how will
Hezbollah retaliate for his death? And what about Iran? Who
is Hezbollah's benefactor? How did they react? And then, of
course, Israel, starting with the pager attacks last week,
Israel has systematically degraded Hezbollah leadership,
and is that enough, or does Israel go further, launching a
ground invasion? We don't have clear answers to any of those
questions right now. What
Adam Curry: was this outlet
John C Dvorak: who did this particular report? The NPR? Oh,
that's
Adam Curry: NPR as well.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, most of this is NPR. So we're going to
go, I mean, I can't trust the same clips from PBS news hour,
but NPR seems to have the most, and I will say this, NPR, I
think, was very sympathetic to Nasrallah. I think they were
totally they played it like, oh, you know, this guy was the
Adam Curry: greatest 64 his his four children, his wife, 54
John C Dvorak: I think he's 54 this is 64 is what I heard.
Okay, yeah, it
Adam Curry: would make more sense.
John C Dvorak: Family and family. Man, yeah, it
Adam Curry: was a good family. Man,
John C Dvorak: so here we go with the last two clips. And
this is the HEZ leader one
Unknown: and two to many. Nasralla is the leader of a
terrorist organization, but others in the Middle East, as we
just heard, he's viewed as a hero and fierce. Hadil al
shaachi takes a closer look at who he was.
Adam Curry: That's some Hero talk right there in
Unknown: a fiery speech at a podium in Lebanon, you heard,
John C Dvorak: I want you to keep that him yelling and
screaming clip in mind with what you're about to hear
Unknown: in a fiery speech at a podium in Lebanon in 2000 Hassan
Nasrallah compares Israel's military capability to a weak
spiderweb.
Wallahi.
Women. It
was in this year that the long time Hezbollah leader became an
icon. He had just led his militia in a war that pushed
Israeli troops out of southern Lebanon, ending an 18 year
occupation. Nasrallah was born to an impoverished Shiite family
in the north of Lebanon before co founding Hezbollah. Hezbollah
learned the ropes in the Emil movement, a Shiite political and
paramilitary group. He was chosen to be Hezbollah's leader
two days after his head Abbas Moussaoui was killed by the
Israeli military in 1992 he became famous for his thick
beard, black turban, cloak and charisma, charisma, speaking
with a slight lisp, has salva appealed to regular Arabs. Lisp.
Adam Curry: He spoke with lis. I
Unknown: didn't hear that.
Adam Curry: I didn't catch the lisp.
John C Dvorak: Well, it's hard, I guess. Yes, it was Arabic,
Arabic lisp. It's,
Adam Curry: I don't know what that fed dies.
John C Dvorak: Okay. So she goes on, let's go to part that's the
end of that. I think, yes, that is yes, yeah, go to part two.
Unknown: Mohammed bezi is the director of the Center for Near
Eastern Studies at New York University. He
was speaking as if he was sitting with people in a cafe.
He had this,
okay, stop it.
Adam Curry: Speaking to people like he was in a cafe. What
John C Dvorak: kind of Cafe is that? It's a loud one,
adversity.
Unknown: He was speaking as if he was sitting with people in a
cafe. He had this accessible style that resonated with
people. Was
a hero to many Arabs, illusion with their own leaders. His son,
Hedi, was killed fighting the occupying Israeli army in 1997
in extreme contrast to most of the other political leaders in
Lebanon, whose children would be sent to Switzerland, to
universities, and so that solidified that he was making
the same kinds of sacrifices that he was asking other
people's children to make. For
much of the last two decades, Nasrallah was only ever seen on
television and never in public for fear of assassination
attempts when Nasrallah spoke the region, and begrudgingly,
the Israeli security establishment had to stop and
listen to the message he was about to convey, the
political priorities, the military priorities of
Hezbollah. There was also a sense that Nasrallah meant what
he said.
For the Israelis, Nasrallah was a terrorist who kept their
northern borders unendingly threatened. He was involved in
the bombing of the US Marine barracks in Lebanon that killed
over 200 US servicemen in the early 80s, also backed Syrian
President Bashar Al Assad during the brutal 2011 civil war that
killed 1000s of Sunni Muslims. He's
also going to be remembered as as sectarian leader, and people
aren't going to forget that. So it'll be this dual legacy.
Hezbollah
and Israel began trading fire the day after the Hamas led
attacks on Israel on October 7, hostilities intensified last
week when 1000s of pagers and walkie talkies used by Hezbollah
members exploded around Lebanon. Lebanese health officials said
the explosions killed 39 people.
Okay,
Adam Curry: that's, those are some good backgrounders. So
John C Dvorak: I think, by the way, this guy, the Sunnis, can't
possibly like this character. He's killed Sunni Muslims. He
killed American soldiers. I don't know why. Reagan actually
backed off then and vacated the area once that bombing took
place. He was a bad guy, but, but, okay, NPR plays him up as a
family man and and he took sacrifice by not sending his kid
to Switzerland, and with
Adam Curry: a list, he's he's so with a lisp, he's so normal. All
right, so we did indeed receive two emails, and one was from one
of our producers, and I'll just read the opening to the email.
I'll come back to it later. He says, on Thursday's show, John
joked about you and him being shills for Israel, which would
be a fine enough joke. But then the blunder occurred when he
presented to you and everyone listening, a military industrial
complex swamp monster extraordinaire with deep tie to
the Israel lobby as a respected expert on Middle East affairs.
And he, of course, sent that to me. So I replied and said, I'm
copying John. Since you forgot to copy him on your email,
probably because he couldn't spell Dvorak, we also received
an email from our dude named Mohammed, and he reminded us of
a previous email, and he said, Is it me, or does it seem like
every single powerful Iranian or Iranian proxy figure vanishes
unexpectedly. It seems like someone is systematically
getting rid of them after each assassination will be a couple
of days of colorful rhetoric followed by coordination for a
very clean response that doesn't hurt anyone, and bright lit
missiles or drones that are intercepted by the Iron Dome so
both parties can claim some victory and have good visuals
for their side social media accounts. And he closes by
saying, just like Adam's Iranian friends say a lot of people in
this. Region. Think the Iranian regime is coordinating every
step with the US and Israel, which is something we've has
been an ongoing theme. So now I just may be, I just connected a
whole bunch of dots. It could be, I could be as worse than
that guy, Ian Carroll, you know this will you get your team
forward? How this will blow your mind? You know that guy, that
that Tiktok guy, irritates me.
John C Dvorak: There's a lot of irritating guys out there. He's
one of them. That's one thing we've noticed over the years.
Adam Curry: So we need to go back a year to October and
girls. I want to mention and women. And women, we need to go
back a year to October 7 last year. And I've just pulled a
couple clips just for color. This is McGregor, who said the
following, well, I should point out that I was in Israel three
years ago in February of 2020, and I had the opportunity,
because I was a guest of the IDF chief of staff, to visit the
Gaza front. So to say so, I saw the barriers, I saw the walls, I
saw how the Israelis had constructed what I thought was a
very effective and tightly organized security system. To be
perfectly blunt with you, I'm somewhat surprised by the entire
thing. It seems almost incomprehensible to me that the
Hamas fighters could have broken through as suddenly and as
easily as they did without two things. One is shameless
incompetence, for which I saw no evidence when I was in Israel or
someone deliberately let them in. It's just hard for me to
believe that Hamas was quite that clever. Now, if you recall
October 7, immediately, was billed as, this is our 911 This
is our 911 This is it the Israel. The Jews were saying it,
Sir Brian of London. You got to understand, because that was the
messaging all across Israel. This is our 911 only would be,
you know, the 220 300 people is the equivalent to 30,000
John C Dvorak: Americans. We had to remember the extrapolation
that constantly Yes, which I found offensive. Well,
Adam Curry: because that, I believe that was a meme that was
launched because it is indeed very hard to understand how
Israel let their security lapse? We don't have to go through all
the clips, but a cat could walk past that wall or that
particular border structure, and bells and alarms and everything
will go off, and machine guns start firing automatically, but
no none of that, and it took them hours and hours to come to
where the breach had occurred. So I think we talked about at
the time, the comparison to 911 is probably pretty apt, because,
you know, that was an inside job. I'm just going to say it at
least as a sufficient evidence that we did, never got the full
story. WTC, seven, and we never got, we never got the full
story. On October 7, on October 8, it was Hezbollah who started
shooting rockets over so now I'm going to go to another podcast
called call me back. It's Dan Senor, and he does this podcast
is pretty much for the past year, has only been about what's
happening in Israel and Gaza and Lebanon, and he has with him a
guy named Nadav Eyal. And here is their assessment of the
situation in Israel, but predominantly in Lebanon. And
what we
Unknown: are seeing here in the last 14 days, and specifically
with the killing of Hassan nastrala, the leader of us
designated terror organization, a man with American blood on his
hands, and mainly, by the way, the blood of Syrian Muslims on
his hands, dozens of 1000s of Syrians. One of the reasons
we're seeing scenes of of celebration around Syria as a
result, and not only in Syria, but across the region, I've
I've gotten more messages since October 7 from friends and
officials in the Sunni Arab world, particularly the Sunni
Gulf, celebrating what Israel did to Nasrallah. So
I'm getting the same kind of messages. And the reason for
that is that strategically, the tide has shifted. We have been
talking on your show, and I've been making two points. The
first point is that Israel is trying to restore the deterrence
it did not have on October 7, when it was attacked by Hamas,
on October 8, when it was attacked by Hezbollah, in April,
when it was attacked by Iran and by the Houthis in between, and
the tide has changed, and what Israel has done to Nasrallah,
the leader of the. Most well funded and well founded terror
organization in the world, and to its entire central command is
something that is simply vibrating through the region and
has changed the region already. This is a strategic change.
Sometimes, you know these kinds of operations, they carry
tactical weight. There was always someone to replace, not
in this case, very much like Osama bin Laden. This was the
Hassan astrala that entered this war, and he made the biggest
mistake by entering this war and aligning himself with
yerkesinwar, the leader of Hamas.
Adam Curry: So as I'm listening to this podcast on the dog walk
last night, what really triggered me was this next clip
when he brought up UN resolution 1701,
Unknown: all these calls for ceasefires were misguided, that
the international community should have been focused on
getting Hezbollah to move back, back north of the latani River,
as it was mandated to do so under UN Security Council
resolution 1701, after the 2006 Lebanon War. And for the last 11
months, there's been little to none of a serious effort to
pressure Hezbollah. Yes, there's been some behind the scenes
moves and whatnot, but there hasn't been a full thrall. The
international community was not mobilized to pressure Hezbollah,
and that failure to focus on Hezbollah the way Israel was
keeping an eye on Hezbollah and thinking about its next move on
Hezbollah is as responsible or as much of a driver to this
moment as anything absolutely,
I was amazed when I saw the Biden Emmanuel Macron
declaration saying after the quote, unquote escalation in
South Lebanon, in other words, after, Israel was having one
success after The other, that now they're calling for 21 days
of ceasefire. So
Adam Curry: the way this came across to me is, wait a minute.
Everybody was just letting this happen. There was, there was no
calls for, you know, that this was against. I mean, the minute
something's against, the UN resolution, usually, and
everyone's there, everyone's in New York, like, How come nobody
said anything? So back to your guy from your clip, I pulled a
little piece. His name is David wormer. He's the guy who had, I
think was, an NTD clip.
Unknown: He never lived up to its side of seven, resolution
1701 and that's now the Israeli demand that resolution 1701 be
actually implemented. And if the UN and the World doesn't force
on Hezbollah to live up to its terms, the Israelis will go in
on the ground and force Hezbollah to live up to its
terms.
Adam Curry: So back to the email from the guy who talked about
our incredible blunder he taught, he says, David wormer, a
simple book of knowledge review would have sent up many red
flags about this guy. He just heard, as per the book of
knowledge, David wormer has a PhD in international relations
from John Hopkins University. He worked in navy intelligence. He
was the Middle East advisor to Dick Cheney and Special
Assistant to John Bolton. This alone should be enough to make
anything he says, suspect. Dig a little deeper, and we find that
he was working as an advisor to Dick Cheney. He was investigated
by the FBI for espionage. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. When I
hear all those names, and I'm already putting the Israeli 911
in my head, okay, so this guy has a message to send, and
actually what this blunder turns out to be quite the great find,
because where are we on the list right now of the West Clark
seven? And then
Unknown: I came back to the Pentagon. About six weeks later,
I saw the same officer. I said, Why? Why haven't we attacked
Iraq? We still going to attack Iraq. He said, Oh, sir. He says
it's worse than that. He pulled up a piece of paper off his
desk. He said, I just got this memo from the Secretary of
Defense's office. It says we're going to that says we're going
to attack and destroy the governments in seven countries
in five years. We're going to start with Iraq, and then we're
going to move to Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.
Adam Curry: We have them all now, except for Iran, and
Lebanon was one that we hadn't quite captured. And Lebanon is
really important, strategic, political, Geo, strategically. I
mean, they've got this port. They've got, we know that this
huge gas fields offshore The place has been in in a in a
state of disarray for quite a while, financial disarray. I
think that it's probably true that certainly the younger
generation is happy this got this family man is off the
scene, that there's no one really to follow him up. They
blew up with the pagers, all of the probably lieutenants or
whatever. And there may be some kind, you know, the IDF. We
already heard that on Thursday. IDF is probably. Going to go in,
we may see some form of a revolution, albeit probably a
peaceful one, to change what is happening in Lebanon, to make it
us friendly. And now we come back to our dude named Mohammed,
who says, you know, I wonder if America is working with Iran to
get all some stuff done we have it's not Iran it's not the
Iranian people, it's the Revolutionary Guard, it's the
mullahs, it's the it's the Supreme Leader. So we need to
take those guys out, and we need a reason. If only we had a
reason. What could the reason be? If I
Unknown: were president and a former president and a leading
candidate. I'm the leading candidate by far to be the next
president, and that leading candidate was under threat. But
if I were the president, I would inform the threatening country,
in this case, Iran, that if you do anything to harm this person,
we are going to blow your largest cities and the country
itself to smithereens. We're going to blow it to smithereens.
You can't do that. And
Adam Curry: right on cue, my neighbor, Laura Logan, connected
to Defense Intelligence Agency through her husband, who no
longer is in service, comes out with a post urgent, according to
informant in New Mexico, Trump's plane is the next target for
assassination. Nine heat seeking surface to air missiles have
been smuggled into the US for this purpose, and there are
three kill teams already inside the country. Trump has been
informed. So have the US, Intel agencies and other authorities.
Money has been transferred to a cartel to push this over the
border. These people are cornered and vicious. They will
stop at nothing. So only one of two scenarios is now possible,
either.
John C Dvorak: I like the way you dramatize it. It is good
dramatize Well,
Adam Curry: I mean, that's the way the church lady Text group
dramatized it, because they're like, oh, Laura poses this, you
know, Infowars, multiple sources now confirm surface to air
missiles inside us to target Trump
John C Dvorak: forced one. Oh, you're getting,
Adam Curry: I'm getting, Alex. I'm getting, I'm doing it, I'm
doing it. I'm doing it. So one of two scenarios is possible.
One is something actually happens, President Trump is
assassinated by a surface to air missile, God forbid, but I'm
just saying God forbid, but it would certainly be a reason to
target Iran. I think more likely is, this is Trump's job, and it
is probably said, and I just have to step back where many
people believe that Israel controls America, I believe the
opposite. We control Israel. It's our aircraft carrier in the
desert in the sand. And this has been a setup from one year ago
to get every single piece of the chessboard all the way up to
Iran, and there will be a reason, probably, for Trump, as
President, to take out the National Guard, the moolahs, the
whole kit and caboodle. It may be just as surgical. He may have
more pager blow ups or whatever, and then but a Bing, but a boom.
We have the West Clark seven completed, and then the Neo cons
have exactly what they wanted. Instead of taking three years,
it took them 23 years. That's what this feels like to me, and
John C Dvorak: took them a long time. Can I take do a little
meta on this? Yeah, please. Is it possible because of, if you
back off to your own thesis and Muhammad's commentary about how
the Israelis and the Americans and the Iranians were already
working together, that they've already been taken over.
Adam Curry: Very possible. And, and, you know, and the rest of
it is all
John C Dvorak: show, all shows, all theater,
Adam Curry: fireworks, fireworks. Yeah, completely
possible.
John C Dvorak: I mean, and that's the reason they had to
get rid of Nasrallah. They were also, how did anybody, I don't
care how good Mossad is, or our people, how do they know where
this guy is, where they can do a targeted bunker buster from a I
get an F 16, or whatever plane they shot, it from which has
been documented, a targeted bunker buster that went and blew
up the basement and went through and killed this guy when he's
never, ever seen who, how did they ever know where he was?
This is an inside job. Interesting.
Adam Curry: You bring that up. I didn't clip it, but the that Al
guy on the dance in your call me back podcast, he said exactly
what you're saying. Like this was, what kind of intelligence,
how did they get? And he went on to say, I have my thoughts. You
know, I'm working on sources like, not going to say anything
about it yet. So everyone's asked. Asking this question, How
was this possible? I agree, inside job. It is the the 911 of
the Middle East and and we're almost done. I mean, Syria, we,
you know, we have troops there. Sudan, big mess. It's all our
arms that
John C Dvorak: are. Got to remember, they've killed off
that, that one superstar leader in I don't know, where was it,
Lebanon. They got him in this hotel room and they blew up,
though, they supposedly sent a missile, it turns out to be a
bomb in a room in Tehran to take out this other guy who knows is
absolutely right when he says, These guys have been
disappearing one after the other, and they're all a threat
to the system.
Adam Curry: So now we just need some big fireworks. It would, it
would be kind of cool to have some surface to air missiles not
hit anything but go off. You know, more more cool fireworks.
I mean, that's that. It has to be something like that. You got
to go back to the to ground zero on October 7, bull crap the
Israelis. Whoa, whoa. How did that happen? No way. This thing
was a setup from the beginning. Unfortunately, had to kill, you
know, like 50,000 men, women and children in Gaza. But I think
they thought it was worth it, and they don't care. They killed
3000 Americans on 911 they don't care, sent in millions of
troops. Wound up killing a million Iraqis. They killed
John C Dvorak: left and right. I'm always go, I take it all the
way back to that Korean flight that flew, you know, an inch
over Moscow. It was just accidental move, or even though
they turns out the thing was filled with cameras. It was
taking pictures of some base, yeah, and there was a bunch of
paying passengers in that plane, yeah, you know, they paid good
money to take a nice, safe flight to Tokyo, where everyone
was headed, and they all got killed. Nobody cares. And
Adam Curry: by the way, they didn't care, sending out a
dangerous product to inject to the American people and the rest
of the world. They don't care. Guess the price, and
Unknown: neither did Trump.
Adam Curry: FYI, so this would be the perfect reason for Trump
to become president. Perfect. He's been threatened. He says,
Hey, I'm gonna he basically says, I'll blow you to
smithereens if you threaten me, although he said, Oh, if it was
the opposing candidate, yeah, whatever. You know, there's, you
see the videos, these slick videos which are clearly CGI,
computer generated media, CGM, maybe I should say, with, you
know, supposedly made by Iran, put on the on the Ayatollah's
webpage or the President's webpage. And it's Trump golfing
at Mar a Lago, and this robot with a camera, you know, little,
you know, little four wheel job rolls along, and then it goes up
there, and it targets the president, and then all of a
sudden, the drone kills him. On on the eighth hole. This is all
part of the show. The question is, does it come as an October
surprise? Which would make sense. You know, Trump's the
guy. He's the guy that'll take him out. Bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb
Iran, bomb them, bomb them and bomb them again. Everybody's
teed up, especially Fox News. You
John C Dvorak: Well, I think they've already got Iran in the
pocket. I think this whole thing, they're not going to bomb
Iran anytime soon, and I think the mullahs knew that. And this,
with this whole thing, is this something of a ski. I mean, it's
a complete scam, from top to bottoms, exactly. And with that,
it's well done.
Adam Curry: It's, it's very well done, because we've already
forgotten October 7. We already forgot that we're already beyond
it. We're beyond it. All right, Trump's out there talking a big
game about it, and Iranian was going to kill Trump. Okay, sure,
sure. We'll see what happens. And with that, I'd like to thank
you for your currency in the morning, to you, the man who put
the sea in the climate week in New York. Say hello to my friend
on the other end, the one and only. Mr. Johnson
Unknown: thunder,
John C Dvorak: welcome to I'm sorry. In the morning to you and
Mr. Adam curry, also in the morning, ship sea boots and
Raffy in the air, steps of the water, all the games and nights
out there in
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John C Dvorak: down. Four down. 304 down. We're
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I explained just yesterday, I was on the other day, I was on
the new media show, and yesterday I was on the
podcasting summit, the what podcast summit, the summit for
podcasters. Really about podcasting 2.0 I was talking
about how we do the show. You know, our Yes, our little
John C Dvorak: podcast here, I ran into a whole series of you
being on all these random podcasts. Was
Adam Curry: it on tick tock? And did you get into the Al? Did the
algo suck you in?
John C Dvorak: No, it was on YouTube. Oh, also, same
Adam Curry: thing and, and I was always very, I'm very
complimentary, am I not about you? Especially about you? No,
no, okay,
John C Dvorak: I think there's, I will talk to you about it
after the show. I do have some thoughts. Oh, did I do something
wrong? Well, it's no, it's nothing bad. But I think you,
you have a pitch, and you, I think you're de emphasizing one
of the elements of the pitch, which is that we don't do
premium content.
Adam Curry: Oh, I, sometimes I forget that, yes,
John C Dvorak: because that you can really go out because
premium this i and the reason that comes up to comes to mind
is I was, there was some 404, media, whenever this one group
does the sub stackers, and then they go on about how they're
going to do a podcast about this, about this column, and
then there's going to be premium content for these subscribers.
And I'm thinking, Why? Why? Why are you hiding it? Is the
information better than the stuff you're normally telling
us? Is it secretive? Can you can you ever refer to it because
it's premium? Why are you forcing is the material you're
actually trying to service a greater audience? Are you just
trying to cut it, cut them off? I mean, I I just don't
understand the mentality behind and this was all started by
Patreon. I do not understand the mentality of premium content.
Thank you. In other words, I mean, it should all, if it's all
premium Yeah, it's like a stock market newsletter. You have to
pay for it because it's all premium content. It's not for
the general it's not just free information, because you can
make money from money making content. Yes, but in the case of
this show and these and all these other podcasts. Why are
you hiding some of the information from the general
listener, many of whom can't afford to to subscribe to
anything. We have a lot of people that I just know. They
just can't afford it. They can't afford five bucks.
Adam Curry: Yeah, and I think this is an excellent point.
Thank you for reminding me. Do we have to have the meeting
still, or can we not have the meeting?
John C Dvorak: There's some other issues. I'm
Adam Curry: gonna be nervous.
John C Dvorak: I'll bring them out. I'm
Adam Curry: gonna be nervous. I
John C Dvorak: don't know why you keep harping on the you have
now come up with a new thesis, that we hate each other.
Adam Curry: I never said we hate each other.
John C Dvorak: Yes, you suggested it.
Adam Curry: I said we're not really friends. Y'all know you
John C Dvorak: said we're not really friends. We might even
hate each other. You said that it's a joke. It's not perceived
as a joke by me. I'm sorry.
Adam Curry: Well,
Unknown: do you love me? I
John C Dvorak: think we are friends. If you ask for a favor
from a friend, I would give you the favor. I've
Adam Curry: only been to dinner at your house once. You live in
John C Dvorak: Texas.
Adam Curry: I used to live in California, even then once, and
you didn't even let me see your studio.
John C Dvorak: Well, no, you're not going to see the studio,
okay, under any circumstances. But that's beside the point. We
used to go to dinner a lot when you were near.
Adam Curry: It was really a build out because I got bored of
telling people I should go back to saying we don't talk outside
of the show to keep it fresh. That's that's where that comes
from.
John C Dvorak: Okay? And you also leave out the part that
this is performance art, yeah, you're not using it.
Adam Curry: No, that's your term. You always use the term,
yeah, but you know it's right. I
John C Dvorak: Okay. I didn't know that you were reluctant to
okay, you don't see it that way. No, okay,
Adam Curry: no, I see it that way. But I don't like the term.
I like saying because, you know, performance art, think makes me
think of Bjork or Lady Gaga.
John C Dvorak: Okay, I get it. I get it.
Unknown: Well with me, I
John C Dvorak: could see where you could be. I find it
objectionable, objectionable.
Adam Curry: But what I usually try to explain and, and, yes,
sometimes I You're absolutely right. I'm taking the criticism
as as constructive. What, what I, what I did say in that same
interview is, you know, we have, sometimes up to 100 clips, and
we're just playing off each other. We don't play them all,
but this is an ongoing creative process, and we just flow into
each other. And
John C Dvorak: I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna, yes, we do. I'm
not gonna name the podcaster because I get because honestly
don't remember his name. But there was some guy who were on
some podcast where I swear, because I had the time codes, it
was 37 minutes before he even put you on the screen, and then
he talked another 10 minutes before he let you say a word. It
was almost an hour of the whole podcast of him jabbering.
Adam Curry: I'm trying to think what this must have been a while
back. I'm trying to think it
John C Dvorak: was, it wasn't, it wasn't, not that far back. It
was maybe three or four months ago, and it was yak, yak, yak. I
mean this. And it was, I don't, I don't want to insult a fellow
podcaster, even though
Adam Curry: I remember there was a podcast like that where this
happened. I remember telling Tina, like, wow, like guy talk
more than than me. Just kept on talking. I don't, I don't
remember who it was, yeah, yeah, and that's okay, but absolutely
Point taken. And of course, we're friends,
Unknown: kind of kissing cousins,
John C Dvorak: so I'm not going to take anything. I'm not
kissing
Adam Curry: now. Do we not have to have the meaning, or is there
even more?
John C Dvorak: There's one or two things in a little more? No,
Adam Curry: oh no. Oh no. Hey, let me critique your interview.
Oh, wait, you don't do any, okay, I've
John C Dvorak: done a couple. You promote the show.
Adam Curry: When's the last time you promoted the show? Exactly,
I'm out there living on the edge, man, I'm taking all the
hits and people email me when they're angry at you. Well,
John C Dvorak: that's fine. It's working out for me.
Adam Curry: I refuse to have this meeting after the show.
There's something else you need to say. You can say it now. No,
well, is it constructive? Will it improve the promotion of
John C Dvorak: the show? No, no,
Adam Curry: it's just you bitching about me. Is
John C Dvorak: that what it is? No, it's a suggestion. Okay,
Unknown: all right, you can suggest it. No, no, because
John C Dvorak: this is no, because no, it's bond to it
properly in public.
Adam Curry: I will respond. I You really can't make me mad
anymore, except the other day,
John C Dvorak: the other day try. That's the reason the
Adam Curry: other day you thought I was mad when I said,
Hey, why don't you just do the show with Mo. I think I did say
that. Yes, you did.
John C Dvorak: I don't know. I mean, I like Mo, but yeah, he's
he's more than I can take.
Adam Curry: There you go. Hello, everybody. All right, so Good
point. There's no premium content you can't access, and
people who can't afford to support us with their treasure
of the time, talent and treasure. You can support us in
other ways, by telling people to listen, by promoting us somehow.
One of the ways that we like to receive value, and our value for
value model, is from our artists. We have a lot of them,
and they use no agenda, Art generator.com, we were talking a
lot about AI on the last show. PS, producers, you don't have to
send me the notebook. Lm, podcast that you made up. Okay,
everybody is coming up with ID. Did you get all did you get a
number of these?
John C Dvorak: Yes, and I'm gonna I, since I'm working on a
sub stack column about this, I one of them I do want to
actually use, go have a link to, yeah, anyone can do these. I
mean, it just, I know, but the notebook LM is terrible, and by
the way, so I'm sitting at dinner with their family on
Friday, and I just mentioned notebook LM and JC, who's in the
AI, he's got an AI company. Says, oh, that's the greatest.
What? So I called him out? He
Adam Curry: says, The Greatest. Let's do a deep dive. This is
mind blowing. Oh, yeah, ah, yeah. That then, after you
called him out, what happened?
John C Dvorak: He immediately backed off. He said, Yeah, it
sucks. So
Adam Curry: this one producer, since we're on it, he uploaded a
text file that had like three words in it. Monk, I think was
like one. What does monkey taint smell like? That was literally
the input for the podcast. And he did three others, you know,
like, okay, but I do have to play just a little bit of this
one.
Bag: Okay, you've got to hear this one. Today's deep dive is
dot unique. Our listener wants to know, what does a monkey
taint smell like.
Unknown: And frankly,
who am I to judge? Let's dive in. You
Douche: know, it's funny, isn't it? The listener gives us this
single, open ended question, no extra info, nothing. Just what?
What does a monkey taint smell like? Right?
Bag: No, I was at the zoo the other day and or I've always
wondered, just straight to the monkey taint. So where do we
even start with this? I mean, on the one hand, it's a question
about a smell, presumably. So
Douche: we're already making assumptions. Well, yeah, I
Bag: guess we are. Okay. So it's question about smell,
potentially, and it's about monkeys.
John C Dvorak: How are they making assumptions? That's
exactly what the question was.
Adam Curry: This is why it's,
John C Dvorak: what does that smell like, in
Bag: some way, but it's also got this word taint, yeah, that's
Douche: the real curveball, isn't it? Curveball? It's a real
curveball, John. It's evocative, suggestive, not your average
neutral word for a body part, because you wonder what kind of
smell the listener is picturing. You know exactly
Bag: like. Are we talking about something acrid, musky, sweet,
putrid? The word taint kind of implies something a bit
offensive, right? Oh, man,
Adam Curry: this is how bad it is.
John C Dvorak: Now, this is Google. I want to say a couple
of things before we will get off this in a second for people or
think it sucks, but this is Google. They're editorializing.
There's example after example of them editorializing one thing or
another. It's got nothing to do with what this is supposed to
be. Notebook. It's supposed to be, take your notes and then
turn them into some sort of narrative so you can, you know,
listen to it. You learn. You can be educated. It's not supposed
to teach it, you know, life lessons. It's called notebook.
Hello. What does notebook mean?
Adam Curry: And the sad thing is, it probably cost $5 to
create this podcast in compute cost. I think you're low in
Compute costs.
John C Dvorak: I think you're low.
Adam Curry: Yeah, I might be, I might be, that's and, dude, I'm
telling you not you do. But dudes, dude, when they really
start charging you what it costs for this nonsense. It's gonna,
it's over. No one's gonna use it like, you know, it's really, you
know, someone sent me a song about the pod files that's
really cute. If it had cost you 10 bucks you've done it. No,
exactly. It's not that cute. It's because it's free. Now,
we'll talk more about that later. Let's get back to our
artists. Because we were talking about the concept of AI slop,
which I'm hearing now, even on Bloomberg, I heard him talking
about it. So the term is out there AI slop, which is ruining
review websites is ruining comments is ruining websites
where people upload short stories they've written.
Everything is now chat, GPT, anthropic, Claude, slop, Gemini.
And so we felt it was only fitting to choose a piece of AI
slop, which came from comic strip blogger,
John C Dvorak: creative, quite good, quite good, quite a good
piece. Yes,
Adam Curry: well, give it, you know, give it to mid journey or
wherever, whatever. AI system, computer generated imagery
system, did this. It was a little computer lady with a bowl
of AI slop. It was boom,
John C Dvorak: deep dive, yeah, and it was slopping all over the
place. It was green goo.
Adam Curry: Yeah, it was good.
John C Dvorak: She's a robot, yeah, it was, it was a, it was a
compositions, dynamite did a terrific job. Yes,
Adam Curry: we almost went with Ukraine. Loves bombs by Nico
Sime, which we, actually liked it better, just for the
dynamicness of the of the image, which is a Ukrainian flag in a
heart shape, holding a bomb with a cute little smile on his face.
But we immediately took, uh, took issue with the Korean
Dvorak being almost unreadable. It was unreadable. Very small.
John C Dvorak: He had jacked that up to, well, it looks like
it's about, at least on this little image, it's probably 14
points, maybe, if he was jacked it up to, like 4050, points. So
it was across the bottom, yeah. Very probably would have won.
Unknown: Very small. We
Adam Curry: you kind of liked Darren O'Neill's curry on Dvorak
2028 but you said it's a violation because the name
Dvorak was much bigger than the name curry. It was a violation,
which is a violation, violation, um. Um, I, I liked the comic
strip bloggers, AI, the snake eating its own tail, but you
didn't even see it. You didn't see that. It was a snake eating
its own tail. So I
John C Dvorak: just saw a circle, yeah, yeah. When you
pointed it out, I saw it, yeah. But that's also had an AI eating
itself with a kind of a serpent trying, but never got to it
wasn't, wasn't it? So that, no, that wasn't gonna happen.
Adam Curry: And I think those were the main ones that we
considered. Lots of people threw up some other AI based stuff.
But of note was rocket boy, who put two dorky nerds with
microphones and then curry Dvorak on drum like, is that AI
us or something? What was that all about?
John C Dvorak: I those are very, as baffled as you. Very
Adam Curry: strange, very strange choice he made there.
Well, I mean,
John C Dvorak: it's like, when you see it you asked, have to
ask yourself Self, why did he even submit it? Yeah, and
there's two microphones, one's a big and they're not hooked to
anything. It's just like, it's a bad AI.
Unknown: All right,
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John C Dvorak: trying to improve things. I got a note. No, no,
you take you take offense. That's fine, not taking offense.
Adam the lesbian, what? Nothing. Adam the lesbian, yeah, you just
some people get the gag, hmm,
Adam Curry: okay, well, the troll room is just doing
question marks. Like, what is he talking about anyway? Um, here's
my friend, the oil baron, who has been, uh, discussed on this
show with, uh, he's definitely give us some time and talent in
driftwood. Driftwood is that, I think that's where Jason
Calacanis just bought his ranch.
John C Dvorak: Is there a lake or an ocean around there where
there's driftwood, where
Adam Curry: they used to be, long time ago, long, long time
ago, and the oil baron comes in with $1,000 and just says from
the oil baron, and I could not be happier. Thank you very much,
oil baron. And he hasn't. He didn't ask for a knighting or a
or any type of title, but I will ping him after the show and ask
him what
John C Dvorak: he wants. He wants to be for a Commodore.
Give me always a certificate. Yeah,
Adam Curry: yes, he should be a Commodore oil baron. Commodore
Commodore the oil baron. We'll get the information. And thank
you very much, brother, that's my my buddy, Paul the oil baron.
A cool 1000 Jason
John C Dvorak: actually did move there, huh? Oh,
Unknown: yeah, yeah.
Adam Curry: This would be a interesting and another friend I
brought in, who supports, where's your friends supporting?
Where's the lib Joe's
John C Dvorak: lib Joe's on moving to Texas. Dennis Harrison
is up. He's in Beaumont, Mississippi, and he wants to be
Commodore Harrison jingles. L Sharpton, special jobs, jobs,
jobs, thank you for your value. Love it. Knight. Name, sir. He
wants to be a knight. I guess he's gotten to that point. And
Sir Harrison of the rednecks, table request, wagyu, rib eye,
shabu, shabu with Riman noodles and ASAHI SUPER DRY beer for
your information. Roseanne Barr at the Tucker event in Dallas
was ridiculously over the top. Okay, lol, he says, kind
regards. Dennis, yo,
Unknown: there's no real conflict. Jobs, jobs, jobs and
jobs. Let's vote for jobs.
Adam Curry: Karma. All right, we move on to Sir eight bit Ben
from Evansville, Indiana, 512, 33 let's see what he has to say.
Sir eight bit Ben here would like to claim the title of
Commodore VIC 20 with this V for V donation. I would also ask the
peerage committee if I could claim my overdue Baron title
accounting an eight bit Baron Tesla license plate pick
attached. I didn't see the picture. Must be cool. Does he
say sir eight bit Ben on his license plate?
John C Dvorak: I don't have it. I would like to
Adam Curry: claim the territory of Southern Indiana. If the
committee approves, I see no issue. By the way. Got to Baron
with my monthly chip donation of 6502 kindly asking other retro
geeks to join in on that donation. Good one,
John C Dvorak: yes, 6502 it's the original Apple two chip.
Yes. Indeed.
Adam Curry: For those who don't know, the Commodore VIC 20 was a
very important computer for its time, not only being promoted by
William Shatner, it was one of the first computers used by many
famous tech figures like Linus, Torvalds, uh, SART Satoru,
Iwata, who was that? Satoru? Iwata, I have no idea. John
Carmack, who was that?
John C Dvorak: I know who that is, but I can't think of it.
Elon
Adam Curry: Musk,
John C Dvorak: I doubt it, or
Adam Curry: himself, sir Abby Ben and the podfather, Adam
curry, and he sent me a clip. Did
John C Dvorak: you wait a stop you? Your first computer was a
VIC 20? No,
Adam Curry: my first computer was the Sinclair ZX 80.
John C Dvorak: Well, that's even nerdier. And
Adam Curry: then my second computer was the Vic 20, which
was not called the Vic 20. It came from Germany. In Germany,
they called it something else. I forget what it was the Vic 20,
because vicin means it's the F word in
John C Dvorak: German, vicin vicinity, okay?
Adam Curry: And he said, here's the clip from show number 15 of
the no agenda show. I didn't, didn't have a lot of dough
around. And then, of course, the Vic 20, the Commodore VIC 20,
the predecessor to the Commodore 64 that was really my, my first
real computer that I hacked around with. I built a I built
my own acoustic modem to use with it. And we figured out they
had these ROM cartridges that you could plug in with games.
And we figured out how to copy the games from rom onto
cassettes, and we would sell those. It was, it was a lot of
fun. There you go. How about how about that sound? Huh? A
John C Dvorak: couple of things. Yes, for one thing, and I'll
remember that, but I will say that, and I should, because I
should have said something about you built your own acoustic
modem, really, I
Adam Curry: sure did
John C Dvorak: with a couple of speakers. No,
Adam Curry: it took a telephone microphone. No, took, took an
existing telephone horn, and pulled out the elements and then
put them in two little cardboard boxes, and then had a very small
PC board that we connected to the back of the visual me and my
mouse in your pocket. My buddy dick radamachers And we both
worked at the electronic store so we could steal all the
components.
John C Dvorak: So you're a Larson, yes, on Saturday, on
Saturdays, that's what happened to all the pencils over there at
me. Video, it
Adam Curry: worked at approximately 75 baud, if I
recall. Yeah, sounds about right. So I could punch a key,
and then that key would show up on his screen. Finally, he says,
Can I get some jobs karma? After being a dude named Ben and
leader of Ben for over 21 years, I was recently let go. If anyone
has an interesting problem to solve and is looking for an IT
leader that's not afraid of change, has decades of
infrastructure experience and actually understands how
computers work. I can be reached at eight bit. Dot FYI, thank
you. Craig Kohler, aka sir AP Ben Barron of Southern Indiana,
to be in a few moments. And thank you very much. And here is
your jobs karma. Hope it works out for you, brother, jobs,
Unknown: jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs karma,
John C Dvorak: sir becoming heroic in sharerville, Indiana,
500 and all he says is he wants to be, sir, becoming heroic
commodore of the unsinkable, two beautiful it's, we
Adam Curry: shall make it so anonymous Vista California, $500
in the morning. Gentlemen, I've been wanting to donate for some
time, and between a recent promotion and the prospect of a
Commodore title, I couldn't justify being a douchebag any
longer. Please dedoosh. Me,
Unknown: you've been deduced. I would
Adam Curry: like to be known as Commodore Swizzle of the tiki
realms. Thank you both for all you do no karma and no jingles
and thank you very much. Anonymous.
John C Dvorak: Sir RJ of grand point in Grand point or point,
Manitoba, California, California, Canada. Manitoba,
California. It should be a man. This should be this $500
donation equals $702.60 Canadians. Thanks. Justin
Trudeau, I missed my normal 3333, donation for my birthday
in July. As I've been working on my own exit strategy, which is
now complete, between the carbon tax, GST, PST, labor tax,
business tax, property tax, that are all charged here in Canada,
I've decided that owning an independent business isn't worth
all the bullshit anymore. Oh, man. So at 56 I officially
joined the retired community, and it's time to enjoy life.
Whoa.
Adam Curry: What's he gonna do? Putter in the lawn.
John C Dvorak: He's gonna be puttering in the backyard.
Adam Curry: Dude, there's much more to do. 56 you're a baby.
You're just getting started. He's
John C Dvorak: younger than Adam. Yeah, I've bumped up my
normal donation amount for late fees. And as a bonus, I get the
Commodore certificate as usual for my birthday. Can you play
the OG Sharpton clip? Sir RJ of grand point tonight
Unknown: is the measure of whether the country begins in
the state of Wisconsin a national drive to push back, or
whether we have more to go to build a movement of resistance.
But resist we much, we must, and we will much about that be
committed to classic that
is one of my favorites.
John C Dvorak: Yes, the classic. That's what started us off on
the on finding Sharpton stuff.
Adam Curry: He's He's a gem. He's a gem deserves every penny,
every penny. Yeah, you're always complaining about how much he
makes every penny he deserves. We have done well by him. He's
done well by us. Cory Baker is in Fort Myers flyer Florida,
$500 and he says, should be enough for a doubleting, double
knighting. Accounting will follow. And we did not receive
his email from Cory Baker, I looked, I'm sure you looked. I'm
John C Dvorak: looking now, as a matter of fact, and I will say
this, so we got a Corey Baker from May 24 about the newsletter
fiasco. We got a Cory Baker from another newsletter fail. I guess
he keeps track of this in October of last year. Nothing
since,
Adam Curry: okay, Corey Baker, so we will keep it in abeyance
for you, and when you are clearly you can email us, so
when it shows up, we'll, we'll take care of
John C Dvorak: you indeed. Onward with Sir Schwartz in
Langa, Deutsch, Denmark. Ah, he's in Langa. Denmark, 500 from
Sir Schwartz, now commodore of Butland. Denmark. E o n,
Unknown: that's it.
John C Dvorak: Perfect. The comment, all right. Steven
utland, Stephen
Adam Curry: crummy, El Cajon. Am I saying that right? Yep. El
Cajon. El Cajon, California, 500 this donation not only makes me
a Commodore, but puts me over the threshold for knighting. Dub
me sir, Steve, protector of the ERISA. ERISA, ERISA, there we
go. ERISA, E R, i, s, a, oh, it's the law that governs
pension funds, the administration of which is my
profession. ERISA, beef enchiladas and rocks margaritas
at the round table, please. And how about an F the EU from that
demon Vicky Newland,
there you go. Thank you very much. See the roundtable
John C Dvorak: you know, hearkening back on that note we
got from the guy bitching about our use of that character to
determine the 1701, issue, he goes on about how it should be
red flagged and this, and that red flag actually knowing,
knowing all that about the guy was
Adam Curry: helpful, was good, it was
John C Dvorak: it hell, because we we play Vicky Newland clips,
because she does have pertinent information, and some of it's
coded, and some of it's necessary messaging, and it's
important to play this stuff, yes,
Adam Curry: and that's what I said, is, even though it was
meant as a You guys suck type email, it really helped me. I
was like, Oh, this makes sense,
John C Dvorak: yes, because it got you into a rabbit hole. Yes,
that's a helping anybody. Yeah, it
Adam Curry: was helping. We figured it out. We figured out.
Iran, hello, oh, I'm not supposed to say that. People are
saying I say hello too much.
John C Dvorak: Oh, are you? Are you saying hello too much? Well,
Adam Curry: I went to the transcript. I said it three
times in the last show, which I think is too much. Hello, hello.
No So hello. Who
John C Dvorak: says that more than you do? Mark Levin, Oh,
Hello America. No,
Adam Curry: no. It's, it's not just hello as in a greeting, but
it's like, hello,
Unknown: hello,
Adam Curry: you know, do you not get it yet? It's no good. I'm,
what are we drinking?
John C Dvorak: No, no. He's, oh, this is a Topo Chico. Oh no,
from going back to the classics. Yes, No. He says it the same way
you're you know, he says it that. He doesn't say it as a
greeting. He does exactly the same way you do. We're in the
middle of some say hello, so you don't know it. Well,
Adam Curry: that's more reason for me not to do it.
John C Dvorak: No reason for Sir Mike of ax head watch, oh, in
Clinton Township, Michigan, the wooden watch guy, yeah, 333,
yes. Three, three. Those watches are great, by the way, and he's
apparently back in business. Three, three, 3.33. Dear John
and Adam, I've been quite a time since I donated. I Since I
haven't had the funds. Oh, due to some bad deals and bad luck,
I've been unable to keep afford to keep ax head watch dot shop.
Ax head, watch dot shop open. I have not been able to get back
to being a dude named Ben in the mortgage industry since peak
covid. After a year of unemployment, I became a
forklift certified earlier this summer, which is, I've driven
forklift, sir, it's
Adam Curry: fun. They're fun to drive,
John C Dvorak: they're fun to drive. And then back to steady
employment and income. I didn't know you had to have a
certificate. I never did. I have also been once again, now,
because I wasn't a professional, I drove a fork. That doesn't
mean I was no
Adam Curry: it's probably a violation of all kinds of labor
laws that you drove it.
John C Dvorak: I have also been, once again, nominated for the
United States Congress on mi 10, Michigan district 10. Yeah,
Michigan 10. And I've I'm sorry at Michigan 10. Now I can afford
to open the online store back up. Acced Watch, dot shop. I'd
like to encourage promo code ITM, and it's gone from a 20%
discount to 33% off all wooden watches. Tax head watch. Dot
shop for my going out of business sale. So he's going to
get rid of all his watches. These watches, yeah, we both
have one. You both have one. They're they're quite unique and
Adam Curry: and if the apocalypse comes, you can use it
as a handy fire starter.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I never thought of that. I do believe he
says, this brings me to Baron. I would like to be sir Mike of the
Fairfax, liberator of Michigan, 10 Baron of Lichtenstein. Please
provide me with jobs karma for this election, an upcoming
business, and some sort of health karma for my smoking hot
wife, Dame Kelly, who is back in the hospital unfortunately for a
few days. Sir Mike of watch X, watch head, liberator of
Michigan's 10th district.
Adam Curry: All right for Dame Kelly, we'll add in a goat.
Jobs,
Unknown: jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's vote for jobs. Karma.
Adam Curry: Sir Jeremy chumpati is a Associate Executive
Producer today with a run on number two, three, 4.56,
Oakville, Ontario. ITM gentlemen. It's my 62nd
birthday. It falls on a podcast day. It would be remiss of me
not to donate. Thank you for your courage, sir Jeremy
chimfatti Baronet, fatty Oakville, Ontario, candinavia.
All right, you're on the list.
John C Dvorak: I'll tell you, if you like to burp a lot, this
Adam Curry: way to go, it'll do it. It'll do it. I know it's
very, very bubbly.
John C Dvorak: Anonymous in will Williston, North Dakota, 210,
60. A little over a year ago, I made an investment over $10,000
as someone who was supposed to mentor me with starting a
business without going into detail, it's obviously it's run
off with all my money. Oh no, that sucks. It's within the
limits to file in small claims court, which I could do myself,
but I'm really looking for someone in the community to help
me out with with with it, if they have some legal expertise,
hopefully for free, small claims. You know, I
Adam Curry: thought Small Claims had a limit of 5000 is as
John C Dvorak: on this it depends on the jurisdiction.
Okay, in most states, I think it is 5000 interesting, and it's
pretty easy to win. It
Adam Curry: is you just file it, you're probably gonna win. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: I can do all the legwork with legwork, but advice
concerning the red tape and pitfalls would help me out. It's
not really that many. It would really just come down to
exchanging some emails here and there and just putting out and
just putting it out there. If someone got the time, I if I get
my money back, I'm going to be a big donator. Thanks to all you
do every one else, please donate now. Okay, he's given us no
information, as he's anonymous. Yeah, that's really helpful.
How. Is anyone supposed to help you?
Adam Curry: Maybe Jay has his information so you can email
notes at no agenda show.net, if you think you can help him out.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, maybe that might work and they just do
that. It won't hurt. And
Adam Curry: there's Eli the coffee guy from bensonville,
Illinois. We are just about rounding up our list here,
Associate Executive Producer at two, oh 9.29, and Eli says
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jingle here. What is, what is BDSM, don't enslave me. Kamala,
I don't understand, but just
John C Dvorak: don't. It's just that don't enslave me. Camel, as
a
Unknown: bondage, don't enslave
me. Camel,
Adam Curry: there you go. Camela, yeah, racist, racist
kid, mispronouncing her name on purpose.
John C Dvorak: Linda loupatkins comes in from Lakewood,
Colorado, as usual, and surprisingly enough, she asks
for jobs karma, and then she says for a faster, more
effective job search. Visit imagemakers. Inc.com, that's
imagemakers. Inc, with a K your go to for executive resumes and
job search needs and work with Linda Lou Duchess of jobs and
writer of resumes, jobs,
Unknown: jobs, jobs and jobs. Let's
Adam Curry: vote for jobs. All right, we rounded out with one
final donation. Associate Executive Producer, $200 from
Stefan Anders in Munchen Deutschland. Hello Deutschland.
Here's the Hoff. And he says, Thank you from Munich Germany,
Stefan, Stefan, thank you, and thank you to all of our
executive and Associate Executive producers who have
helped us out here today is very much appreciated. Of course, we
appreciate any treasure you can send in our value for value,
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send whatever value got out of the show back to us, and we will
be very grateful. Thanks again to these execs and associate
execs of Episode 1699,
Unknown: our formula is this, we go out. We hit people in the
mouth. Shut
Adam Curry: up. No agenda donations.com. No agenda
donations.com. You I
John C Dvorak: have a little three clipper on election fraud.
That's kind of interesting. But before we do that, I do have my
every show a I Kevin Gavin Newsom
Adam Curry: to see if you can get arrested
John C Dvorak: because you are breaking legal break,
Adam Curry: breaking California law, breaking the law.
John C Dvorak: Every clip is a scofflaw. So here he is. I This
one came out about it two weeks ago, and I missed it. This is a
news I didn't realize that Newsom's endorsing Trump. Today.
I'm
Unknown: here to do something that some may think or believe
is unheard of. Yes, the news reports are correct. I Gavin
Newsom, am here to endorse none other than Donald J Trump for
President of the United States. Trump's got this knack for
making America the center of attention, whether it's on
Twitter or on the global stage. He's like that friend who always
has the best stories at dinner, who wouldn't want that kind of
energy. But seriously, in this endorsement, I see an
opportunity, an opportunity for dialog, for understanding, for
maybe, just maybe, finding common ground. Trump is hands
down, the best candidate in this race. Because if there's one
thing I've learned in politics, it's that sometimes you've got
to dance with the one who brought you, or in this case,
the one who's brought the most entertainment, Trump 2024
Adam Curry: it's pretty good. It's pretty good. Now, did you
just find this? Or did you make
John C Dvorak: I actually searched for it. The his, I
think, is, I think his on this one, I think the speed and
cadence is a little faster than it should be. Yes, it is. He
doesn't quite talk that fast, but it's good, and I can see why
this, something like this would would upset him before
Adam Curry: you move to the election fraud. Just to wrap up
the AI, I'd like to play one clip, because there have been
some developments that need brief discussion amongst us.
Unknown: Open. AI, the world's most valuable AI startup has
lost another chief executive, Chief Technology Officer, Mira
Marathi, is one of more than 20 key staff who've departed this
year, leaving CEO Sam Altman with just one of his fellow co
founders. Is it a real problem or just growing pains? Let's ask
technology editor Peter O'Brien, Peter open, AI, currently trying
to raise a lot of money. So surely this can't look good for
investors. Hi,
Caris, well, you're right. Open, AI, at the moment, they're
trying to get about six and a half billion US dollars from
investors hoping to close that round by the end of next week.
That would value them at 150 billion US dollars. I think
let's just start off by putting that into context, because it's
a tall order. What they're asking for that would almost
double their their value. It would also put them just not too
far behind something like SpaceX, which has launched about
95 rockets into space this year. And, you know, obviously behind
the third place behind the byte dance for Jones Tiktok, which
has a billion monthly active users worldwide. So yes, they're
wanting to be really, really one of the three big, big startups
in the world. And it doesn't exactly inspire confidence that
there have been all of these departures from open AI, but
we've also seen further reports this week that OpenAI is looking
to restructure into a for profit with a nonprofit arm, changing
from its current format, which is a nonprofit with a rather
large for profit arm. What does this mean? This really means
that investors are probably going to start thinking actually
they are more interested in my return on investment, then their
current very nebulous goal of trying to create an AI for all
of humanity, which is smarter than humanity, but which is also
safe and beneficial, right? The investors want a return
eventually, and a shift to a for profit structure would give some
confidence.
Adam Curry: They've brought in the Saudis for this round, which
means they're really desperate. In my book, Apple dropped out of
this investment round, like, Nah, we're not going to
participate. And from what I understand, you don't even get
stock. You get some a new concept called PP, us, which is
profit participation units,
Unknown: not even a warrant,
Adam Curry: wow. So when they start to make profit, okay, the
Saudis, the Saudis, of course, I mean, Microsoft is going to put
another billion in in compute. So it's not actually money, you
know, there is
John C Dvorak: some some time, yes,
Adam Curry: some, some, some time. Computer time. Yeah, but
like the old mainframe days. Hey, man,
John C Dvorak: I'm reminded, since the app you said Apple
dropped out, I have you seen this commercial where, uh,
promoting, of course, the non existent Apple intelligence AI,
where there's a girl, she's at a party. She looks around the
corner and she sees some guy, oh, and the guy standing there,
she's she knows she recognizes him from another party from
maybe a month ago. So she she turns around and hides behind a
a wall, and then grabs her phone and says to the phone, hey, what
was the name of that guy that I met at that party a month ago?
Unknown: Yeah,
Adam Curry: have you seen this? No, no.
John C Dvorak: She says, What was the name of the guy at that
party a month ago? This is an Apple commercial. Yes, an Apple
commercial. And then the phone comes back, oh, that's Zach such
and such. No, and she goes into she turns around and gets past
the wall, and as a guy comes up to her says, Hey, Zach, how you
doing? He saw I'm surprised you remembered my name. No. And I'm
thinking, what bull crap.
Unknown: Oh, man,
Are they kidding? I guess not. I'm
John C Dvorak: not the only I've seen this commercial twice now.
Adam Curry: I'm looking for it on YouTube. I don't see it
John C Dvorak: well when you'll see if you watch, well, you
don't watch as much network TV as I do. So you might not
Adam Curry: know, just on the on the Apple film, on the Apple
thing, Rob, you have to
John C Dvorak: be an idiot to believe that this could even
happen.
Adam Curry: Robert, who was listening to us on Episode 1698
said I was yelling at my phone. I was yelling at my phone
because you were talking about if Apple made that Sarco pod,
you know, the death pod that they used in Switzerland, yeah,
yeah. The pod, yeah. And he said the name, obviously would be
called Die pod, hello. He said, Hello. Not me. He said, The die
the die pod, like, Where were you in the troll room? Man,
that's.
John C Dvorak: That's a good line you would have and you
would have taken credit for it. No, no,
Adam Curry: no, no, no, see, I even gave him credit right here.
I can give him credit right here. I
John C Dvorak: have one letter to read, since you're bringing
this sort of thing up. This from producer Chris. He says, I know
it's probably too late for today. Apparently, it's not. But
I wanted to address the CEO of norvo novo, Nordisk. Novo
Nordisk stating before Congress that insurance companies control
drug prices. We talked about this in the last show.
Ultimately you say, you could say they do, like a grocery
store determines the prices of a can of soup after a sale and
allowing a coupon, but the drug companies absolutely control
where the price of a drug enters the market. Drug companies set
the average wholesale price, AWP, let's say 1000 a month.
Then they sell the drug to wholesalers at some price less
than that, let's say 700 is the wholesale acquisition caused
whack, which is then inflated a bit when selling to pharmacies.
And there are middlemen involved. Insurers set their
prices a percentage of the AWP, and going on and on. He says, if
no vote, Nordisk wanted to set the price of ozempic at 50 bucks
a month, they could they absolutely control lowering the
AWP, which would cascade through the market as much as lower
price, as to a lower price of the consumers, saying insurers
are ultimately responsible for the price of a drug is akin to
saying car dealers are responsible for the price of a
car and ignoring what their cost is to acquire it from the
manufacturer, sir. Chris Good
Unknown: point, thank you, sir. Chris Good point.
Adam Curry: Anyway, I'm just going to double down. Actually,
I have a text group. I got text group with the oil baron and my
buddy Vic in Dallas, and use NET. That's IRC, baby. Use net.
What was the other one? What was the other something? Fido. Fido
net, Fido net, Fido net. We were on Fido net the other day and,
and I'm like, This AI is going to collapse. And then, you know,
they're posting back, like, oh, yeah, that's like Steve Ballmer
said no one will want the the mobile phone. He's like, gonna
add you to this list. And, okay, okay, they're believers, not
John C Dvorak: the oil. Yeah, most people are. I tend to
believe you're so far ahead of the curve on this that is going
to go a lot farther than you think. Ah, but
Adam Curry: they're having trouble with this round apples.
Apples dropping out already. The
John C Dvorak: round is ludicrous. They're asking for
too much. But
Adam Curry: they need the money to keep it, to keep the scam
going. They have to keep coming out with, oh, did you
strawberry? Oh, it's the latest strawberries, the best. Go in
and ask chat, GPT strawberries. How many? How many states have
an M in it? They don't come back with with, you know, like Rhode
Island. I mean, it's so it's stupid. There's no I in the AI.
John C Dvorak: It's artificial. It has an N in it. Island, an M,
an M, M, Michael, M, M, and Rhode Island, okay, yeah. So,
okay,
Adam Curry: that's all fine. It's all good. I'm just you're
just not
John C Dvorak: telling you you're way ahead of the curve on
I agree with you. I know
Adam Curry: you do, but I don't think I'm that far ahead of the
curve. I think you're farther than you should be. What do you
think it is then you think they can do another year of this, two
years, two years, two
John C Dvorak: years into the Trump presidency.
Adam Curry: Well, Trump has bought in with, oh, we need all
kinds of Power. Power. Need power for this. We're going to
have huge data centers, which I don't know what we're going to
do with them. Well,
John C Dvorak: what's going to happen after AI collapses and
you have all this extra excess energy, it's going to be a boon.
It's good. Well,
Adam Curry: there's a, I know, edge sword here. It
John C Dvorak: could be a boon to the economy, because all of
free energy, energy is a big deal, but it could also collapse
the whole place. No, we'll
Adam Curry: be mining Bitcoin,
Unknown: at least I will.
John C Dvorak: I found three clips on election fraud on PBS
that I thought were it's a PBS or NPO, PBS, PBS, PBS that I
thought were fascinating because it, it brings up this dominion,
because the idiocy of the whole idea of Dominion having a
machine that basically fills out the ballot for you. It acts as a
middleman. I think this is the machine I used in Albany. Last
man in the middle. It's a man in the middle. It's a man in the
middle machine. And it's kind of stupid, but for some reason,
everyone's using them. And it's like, yeah,
Adam Curry: gee, what? What reason could California have to
be using them? Let me think the.
John C Dvorak: Let's play these three. These are clips that
they're excessively long but, but I thought were interesting
enough that I could make long clips.
Adam Curry: Was that a cue? Yes. What
Unknown: was pretty obvious primary election day in Bartow
County, Georgia, and election workers are conducting a logic
and accuracy test of computers that stand between voters and
their ballots where
it says Text Size, touch theft and then do big, big.
They
are image cast X ballot marking devices or BMDS made by Dominion
voting systems. Everyone who votes in person in Georgia uses
one of these touchscreen computers to record their
choices and then prints a marked paper ballot, which gets scanned
and tabulated. So are these machines worth the added cost
and complexity I advocated for them. Joseph Kirk is the
election supervisor here. He says the ballot marking devices
offer advantages over paper ballots marked by hand guides
the voter through the process. It makes sure that there's no
question about their intent. A small
percentage of selections on hand marked ballots are disqualified
because voters make ambiguous markings. Dominion's ballot
marking devices may address that issue, but many election
security experts say they inject stubborn uncertainties into the
voting process. Fundamentally, it's
a problem anytime that you're going to put a potentially
vulnerable computer between the voter and the only records of
their vote. J
Alex Halderman is a professor of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He is
among those who advocate for hand marked paper ballots. I
guess it seems ironic that the best computer scientists in the
world will tell you the best technology for an election is
pen and paper. Well, that's
that's absolutely right. And the reason for that is we, we know
how paper can be secured. We know how digital systems can be
attacked.
Adam Curry: Wow, for PBS, that's impressive. Is this. So does
this all stem from the hanging chads? Is that why the computers
were brought into it, or just purely hanging
John C Dvorak: chads goes way back, but I think it has to do
with people smudging or, you know, when they I don't know
what really, I don't. There's no real reason, as far as I'm
concerned, except, but they do this, and I'm thinking, and I've
used the machine so I can tell you what you do. You go in
there, you do the voting on the machine, and then it prints out
the ballot. Yeah. You want
Adam Curry: paper with the votes, and you look it over.
John C Dvorak: You look it over, and the vote you voted for this
guy, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. And then you stick it in
the you file it, and they then it counts it. Wait,
Adam Curry: wait, don't you stick it in a machine that
counts it? Well, the machine,
John C Dvorak: yeah. So you stick it in machine accounts,
and it should just count it, yeah. So where do you think
that's it? That's
Adam Curry: where. That's where the problem is. Is in the No,
John C Dvorak: that's what I thought it might be a problem in
the counting machine. This, when I heard this, this next part,
what, what the real problem is because, because you can go back
and make these, you can see what I did. I voted here and I voted
there, and I had this. Next time I do this, I'm going to vote by
hand. I'm going to go in and vote. I'm going to take a
picture of the ballot, because of the little interesting the
gotcha in here.
Adam Curry: Are you allowed to take your camera into the
polling booth? I don't think why not? I don't think you're
allowed. Why not? Well, because you have exactly what you're
saying. Because they don't want any evidence.
John C Dvorak: I have seen no signage of any sort saying I
can't have a camera in my private little voting booth,
they
Adam Curry: have signs it here in Texas where we vote, no
cameras, no guns, which is a big bummer. Well, the
John C Dvorak: guns I can see enough to play on a second. Let
Adam Curry: me pull all these guns out. No, I don't think you,
I don't think you can use
John C Dvorak: I see. No, I've never seen such a sign, and I
don't see why it would make a difference. All right, I'll
Adam Curry: bill you out. Don't worry. We got you. Thank
John C Dvorak: you. Thank you. You're a friend. Yeah, I
Adam Curry: am friend. We're friends. So we're good friends.
Bail each other out.
John C Dvorak: You wouldn't at first glance, you know you do
what you just said is what I logically would think too. But
no, it turns out there's a more interesting way of cheating that
I was like, what the
Unknown: risks aren't even comparable.
Halderman has spent a lot of time studying the risks. He is
an expert witness for the plaintiffs in a pending federal
lawsuit seeking an injunction against using the current voting
system. Halderman says he and his team found nine
vulnerabilities in the Dominion system. We met at a law office
in Atlanta. In March, he showed me some of what he demonstrated
in open court.
We thought like an attacker, what would an attacker want to
do? How could an attacker circumvent the layers of
protection that are in this machine and in a real polling
place? Halderman
demonstrated a few seemingly easy ways to breach the security
of the Dominion ballot marking device. He used a pen to recycle
the power which gave him administrative control of the
computer, and he used a widely available USB device favored by
computer security experts and hackers to rewrite the software
of the machine. All of this mischief could occur without an
obvious trace. That's because the scanner that tabulates the
votes does not look at the human readable text. Instead, it
derives its data from this QR code.
We can change just the QR code and leave all of the voter
visible text identical to what the voter entered on screen. So
as a voter, there's nothing at all that you can see that's
going to indicate there was a problem. Halderman
and his team worry that the hacks could propagate through an
entire county, or even statewide, while the ballot
marking devices are not directly plugged into the Internet as
they are updated and operated, they regularly exchange data
with online systems through USB memory sticks and smart cards
that
can potentially provide a route for hackers far away on the
internet to gain access to BMDS. The kinds of attackers that
worry me in this scenario includes some of the most
sophisticated adversaries in the world, foreign governments, gov
Adam Curry: and Democrats. Wow. So there's a QR code on your on
your ballot, yeah. Oh, man, that's so that's pretty crazy.
John C Dvorak: So I thought that was interesting. And of course,
now we have to, you know, you can Craig give this report
without, like, slamming the Republicans? Yeah. Got to, yeah.
So they so there's been examples of corruption in different areas
of the country by both Democrats and Republicans. We've known
this forever. And so they do an exemplification. They defend the
machine, and then they exemplify what could possibly happen using
a Republican example, which is really done for the purposes of
showing it could be done, but it's beside the point. NPR or
PBS did its job of making sure they slammed the Republicans in
this matter. But here we go with the with the final analysis,
Unknown: we asked dominion for a response. A spokesperson emailed
us this. The claim that someone could hack an election with a
pen is flatly false. A court directive gave Mr. Haldeman as
plaintiff's paid expert unfettered access to system
security features, including passwords, security cards,
election files and more. This did not take into account the
many layers of physical and operational safeguards. There is
no evidence that any of these apparent vulnerabilities have
ever been exploited. Georgia, they
Adam Curry: throw out of no evidence. Yeah, that's amazing.
That's good. Okay.
Unknown: There is no evidence that any of these apparent
vulnerabilities have ever been exploited. Georgia State
election officials say they are hypothetical scenarios. Almost
all these are mitigated by the processes that are put in place
around the election system
itself. Gabe sterling is the chief operating and financial
officer for the Secretary of State. He says the many layers
of people and processes surrounding these machines make
it impossible for a voter to reboot them with a pen or insert
a USB device without being detected. So what Alex Haldeman
demonstrated you believe is not a real world scenario. The
computer
experts focus solely, solely, solely on the computer. They
focus nothing on voting processes and human behavior,
but they don't look at the entirety of how the system
works. The reality of it is, is there's so many safeguards
around it,
but what if there was an inside job? This is exactly what
happened in early 2021 in rural coffee County Georgia, the
election supervisor and the local Chair of the Republican
Party invited Trump campaign allies and a data forensics team
into the secure area where the Dominion machines and the
election management server are stored. For several days they
copied proprietary software and confidential data. It is one of
the most infamous security breaches in US election history.
Adam Curry: Oh God,
Douche: good job. Good job.
John C Dvorak: I just want to play a 21 just to show you, PbS
is way of doing business. You. I have to play this PBS slant on
gun violence that was yesterday, or, I guess, Friday show. This
is typical of PBS and the fact that there are stooges for the
Democrats. Listen to this. Gun
Unknown: violence and crime in America are both key issues in
the 2024 campaign as part of our ongoing series about election
year issues are. Lisa Desjardins has looked into where the
candidates stand, and she joins us now. It's great to have you
here, Lisa. So let's start with former President Donald Trump.
He talks often about crime despite his own felony
convictions. What
kind of reporting is that? Dipshit?
Adam Curry: Wow. Lisa changed her voice. Lisa Desjardins is
still around.
John C Dvorak: Oh yeah, now she takes the anchor job every so
often because I
Adam Curry: remember she was sick, so I guess she's, she's
better. I'm happy to hear that. I always kind of liked her until
she went all nutty. She went a little wacky there for a while.
You remember?
Unknown: Well, she's, uh, yeah,
Adam Curry: she went, Well, I think around the time that
Snowden came out, and she was,
John C Dvorak: you're talking about the right? The same girl,
Lisa day joy, then the one. She's got a big nose. Yes,
remarkable.
Adam Curry: Are we talking about someone else? Didn't she work at
Wired for a while?
John C Dvorak: No, no, no. She's always been a PBS girl.
Adam Curry: Okay, I'm thinking of someone else. Then who was it
was, Oh,
John C Dvorak: I think you're talking about desjard. Zeni
Zeni.
Adam Curry: That's who I'm thinking of, yeah. Zeni, Zeni,
Desjardins, she did
John C Dvorak: go kind of nutty. Yeah, yeah, no. Lisa desjard.
Dan is a petite Yes, with the big nine presenter on PBS
newshour Not
Adam Curry: to be left out of the election night shenanigans.
Amazon prime will be doing live coverage since who has, who has
networked live, who has network l
John C Dvorak: Michaels doing it. Ah, guess
Adam Curry: again, if you were to choose the most trustworthy
name in news and you wanted them to host your election night
coverage on Amazon Prime, who would you choose? Okay,
John C Dvorak: so it's got to be somebody that's not working for
the networks, because it's a conflict of interest. Not
Adam Curry: anymore. I'll give you a hint. He's he two hints.
He is no longer working for the networks.
John C Dvorak: Yes, I would be right. So you got to say he, so
it could be, what's his name? The guy used to be the anchor in
NBC. Come on.
Adam Curry: You're close. You're close. That you might have it. I
John C Dvorak: think I do have it. I just, for some reason, his
name is eluding me.
Adam Curry: No, that doesn't count. That I
John C Dvorak: it counts for me. I could think of his name, if I
think hard enough,
Adam Curry: we're sorry. Brian Williams, yes,
John C Dvorak: exactly. That's exactly who I was thinking of.
Brian Williams, who's the worst for this sort of thing.
Adam Curry: Isn't that great?
Douche: Oh, poor guy.
John C Dvorak: Hey, gotta know that he actually would have been
worse. Would be lower. Oh. Matt Lauer, when
Adam Curry: does he get to come back? There's gonna be a moment
where he's going to make a comeback. There's going to be
gonna have to
John C Dvorak: because he's getting, you know, money. He's
gonna run out of money. You know, he got a golden parachute.
There's no doubt about that. So he's, he's living off of his,
you know, what's left? But guys like that, they're gonna,
they're always gonna spend at the limit. So it's gonna, they
can't, it can't go on forever. Yeah,
Adam Curry: I wonder, I wonder what he's How much must that
suck to be him? I mean, really,
John C Dvorak: yeah, with the with the locking doors and the
rape,
Unknown: yeah, all of that
Adam Curry: Tina still talks about. I used to, I used to
watch the Today Show, and I would, I would love watching.
What's his name, Matt. Matt Lauer. He said, I love that. And
says, Then I found out he had a rate button under his
Unknown: desk. So
Adam Curry: it's gonna take him a little bit longer, but he has
to make a ray entree eventually.
John C Dvorak: Uh, couple. I just want to mention
Adam Curry: one thing before you get to your three more clips,
John C Dvorak: Tiktok clips. So this a warning in advance. Yes,
Adam Curry: the constitutional lawyer Rob he's been doing a
lot. He's been doing some good work. They're not even gonna get
to some of the work he's done for us today. But one of his
buddies from law school, I think Houston lawyer Tony Busby, who
he says is a hard ass lawyer, is now set to represent over 50
clients. Yes, in a new this, in a new Diddy lawsuit, which
apparently includes some who are minors.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, there's a there's a lot of there's been a
lot of hinting. Thing about minors? Yeah,
Adam Curry: well, we have an inside track. So whenever
there's something going on with the buzz, the buzz be hopefully
we'll, we'll hear a little bit from our constitutional lawyer.
Do we have the best producers in the universe, or what
John C Dvorak: it's embarrassingly it's embarrassing
riches. What's the embarrassment of riches?
Adam Curry: Yes, it is.
John C Dvorak: It's an embarrassment of riches. Nobody
else has this. No,
Adam Curry: all right, here we go. John has tick tock clips.
Now
John C Dvorak: this one. This is a woman who brought this clip,
and she, she, she narrates it, and so and I thought this clip
was kind of oddly. It was odd and offensive, and it hasn't
been going around. It's about Kwanzaa and Camela. I unearthed
quite the gem
Unknown: growing up Kwanzaa was always a special time. We came
together with generations of friends and family and
neighbors. There were never enough chairs. So my sister and
I and the other children would often sit on the floor, and
together we lit the candles of the Canara, and then the elders
would talk about how Kwanzaa it's a time to celebrate
culture, community and family. And they, of course, taught us
about the seven principles. My favorite principle was always
the second. Could you tackle self determination? And it is a
deeply American principle, one that guides me every day as vice
president
to everyone celebrating. We hope your week is filled with love
and light from our family to yours. Happy
Kwanzaa was invented in 1966 she was born in 1964 her family did
not celebrate Kwanzaa. I mean, the guy that invented it was a
communist, so maybe
Adam Curry: how it's good to hear that again, even without
the tiktokers commentary. What a phony. And was that Doug? Was
that Doug? Yeah, it was Doug the Jew. That Happy Kwanzaa. Y'all
Happy Kwanzaa? Wait, please. I
John C Dvorak: mean, what a liar, yes, yeah,
well, I found that to be offensive, yes, um, and you're
not even black. I'm not even black, and I'm not a Jew. No
Adam Curry: that we know of. Here is the,
John C Dvorak: here is the, I don't know if this guy's
serious. It's one of those tiktokers that you go. Is this
guy full of crap? Because do we really want to call babies
babies everyone?
Unknown: I just wanted to talk today about ways we can use
words. To me, this
Adam Curry: is a guy.
John C Dvorak: Yes, this is a guy.
Unknown: People feel included in the conversation. One of the
words I see thrown around a lot that can make people feel left
out is the word mother. It's better if we use the term
birthing people. There are a lot of people that can give birth
that aren't traditional mothers. That includes trans men. Another
word that I see just tossed around is babies. It's much
better if you use a gender nonspecific term for children
that young until they can decide what their gender is and pick it
for themselves. So much better if you can use the term babies
that allows them to have autonomy, and it allows them to
choose their gender instead of just assigning it to them at
birth. Another term that I see used a lot is cervix or womb,
not uterus. It's much better if you use a more general term,
like reproductive organs. So these are just some really small
changes that we can make in our vernacular that helps people
feel more included in the conversation and not left out.
And it just goes a long way. So anyways, try making those
changes and let me know how it goes.
Adam Curry: Now, do you ever comment on these videos? Because
I have a comment, since I don't have an account, isn't the term
baby gender neutral by itself.
John C Dvorak: It's a baby bring this brings me to a story. Yes,
it is. It's totally neutral. So on this and this situation that
we're moaning and groaning and bitching about goes back, and in
this case, this will go back to this story goes back to about
1982 which is what 40 years ago. Oh,
Adam Curry: don't remind me.
John C Dvorak: So back then, there was a I was doing a story
for, I guess this story actually goes back to 1986 because that
is the year I was visiting. Boeing and one of the Boeing
guys used to write,
Adam Curry: hold on a second.
Unknown: You can't just do that. Can't do what.
Adam Curry: You can't just launch into a story without your
jingle. Hey
Unknown: everybody,
Adam Curry: it's a bonus. Yeah. And it sounds like a story I've
never heard.
John C Dvorak: I have told a story before in the show, but it
was probably 10 years ago. So I'm doing this guy, one of the
engineers there who was showing us at the time, Boeing calc also
got a tour of the Everett facility at the factory. Got the
season. Boeing calc was an original spreadsheet program
that was quite good, like VisiCalc. It was, it was like
more, yes, it was like VisiCalc, and it was quite good. It came
out before the Microsoft took over the place, but it was, it
was a good product, and they it was used internally. And so it
was actually a commercial product for a year or two. And
in the process, the guy was telling me that he used to write
for Mac, I'm I'm sorry, PC World, which was the competitor
to PC Mac, yes, of course. And he said that he had turned in
some copy where he said they mentioned specifically, instead
of using congressman or Congresswoman, he used state
representative. And the copy editor came back at him. He
says, no, no, no, you can't do that. It has to be. It has to
be, or it was a congress person. He said, It has to be a congress
person. He says, why a congress person? He said. And the copy
editor, who was a woman, said, We We only use gender neutral
terms at the magazine, as
Adam Curry: if representative isn't gender neutral,
John C Dvorak: exactly what he said. He said to her, how is
representative not gender neutral? And she said to him,
and I think this is reflected in the clip I just played 40 years
later, she said to him, yes, it's true, but we want to make
it we want to make it known to the reader that we care, that
we're using gender, gender neutral terms. So we used person
Congress, person esthetic representative. So it's, it's a
form of virtue signaling. It's a form of code, yeah. So you say,
Look, I'm, I'm on your side. I am. I am this person. I'm a
Democrat. Is what it amounts to, yes. So you have to write, you
might as well put I'm a Democrat right at the beginning, because
that's what you're doing. When you can't use the word
representative, you have to use Congress person. I was, I've
been offended by that for ever since. I'm glad
Adam Curry: you got it off your chest. I don't recall this
story. Yeah, well,
John C Dvorak: I'll probably tell it again 10 years from now.
I
Adam Curry: don't think so, if we have four more years, not 10,
by the way, thank you everybody for reminding me and correcting
me that we are in our fifth election cycle on the show, not
fourth, fifth. We've had five. Wait, am I saying that right
now?
John C Dvorak: Hold on, yeah. Hold
Adam Curry: on. Oh, my got it from here we go. Obama, McCain,
2008 Yes. Obama, Romney, 2012 Trump, Clinton, 2016 Trump,
Biden 2020 and we're now in the fifth Trump Biden Harris, 2024
this is our fifth, our fifth trip around the election cycle.
John C Dvorak: Yes, that's why we know so much
Adam Curry: about about babies, and that's why people come here
to hear about babies from ticktockers. All right, let's do
your last one. Just to
John C Dvorak: one is not as good as the other two, but it's,
it's, but I thought it was an interesting it's educationalist,
a food activist who's very famous, and they've somebody put
a bunch of her Tiktok stuff together to tell her. Her
message is that American corporations are poisoning what
I believe this is somewhat true poisoning the American public.
Thank you very much.
Unknown: Oh, for sure, in the US, there's 11 ingredients. In
the UK, there's three, and salt is optional, an ingredient
called methyl polysiloxane is an ingredient preserved with
formaldehyde, a neurotoxin. This is Skittles. Notice the long
list of ingredient differences, 10 artificial dyes in the US
version and titanium dioxide, this ingredient is banned in
Europe because it can cause DNA damage. Artificial dyes are made
from petroleum, and products containing these dyes require a
warning label in Europe, and they have been linked to cancer
and disruptions in the immune system. Hmm. This on the screen
back here, is Gatorade. In the US, they use red 40 and caramel
color. In Germany, they don't. They use carrot and sweet
potatoes to color their Gatorade. This is Doritos. The
US version has three different artificial dyes and MSG. The UK
version does not General Mills. Is definitely playing some
tricks on us. They launched a new version of tricks just
recently in Australia. It has no dyes. They even advertised that
when the US version still does. This is why I became a food
activist. My name is Bonnie Hari and I only want one thing. I
want Americans to be treated the same way as citizens in other
countries by our own American companies.
Adam Curry: Yeah, this was from the Ron Johnson hearing that
your buddy Jillian Michaels appeared
John C Dvorak: at the beginning of it starts off at the 11
ingredients versus the three. And that was about McDonald's
french fries.
Adam Curry: It's disgusting. It's a really good hearing.
People should take a look at it, because that will save your life
just by not eating this junk. But all of it is just like
advertising gambling, as we started the show today, that if
you walk in the supermarket. It's, it's just, it's like a
cartoon, like all kinds of colors that attract the
children, mommy, mommy, mommy, I want this one, Mommy. You know,
it's nasty. It
John C Dvorak: should be illegal.
Adam Curry: I don't know why that qualifies as a tick tock
clip. There was just a clip that you found on time.
John C Dvorak: Sorry about it.
Adam Curry: Right? I was No, all right, since you offended me
with that, I'm going to offend you with a clip which is an
illegal clip. It's illegal to play this clip, illegal by show
standards.
John C Dvorak: However, it's not Rachel Maddow, is it? No,
Adam Curry: it's not a felony, it's just it's a misdemeanor,
although it's close to felony. But the W carry, yes, W, E, F,
the World Economic Forum has a has a summer session, and this
was about the sustainable develop development goals. All a
part of climate week. And this should anybody who was thinking
of voting for, I would just say Kamala Harris should rethink it,
because this is the general thinking of the elites in the
Democrat Party. And John Kerry is, without a doubt, one of the
elites he has married into the Heinz fortune. He you know, he's
a douchebag. He's an incredible patrician with a very big
watermelon sized head. But listen to what he thinks about
the First Amendment and the right to say whatever you want
to say. And I will precede this clip by saying the terms
misinformation, disinformation, Mal, information is all bull
crap. There is information. It's just information. Everything I'm
sure that has a technical term in language. When you put
something in front of it, what is that called?
Unknown: The prefix? Is that called
Adam Curry: a prefix? Yeah. And on top of that, there are no
secrets, only information you don't yet have. So it's only
information. But this is the kind of thinking that goes on in
the upper elitist echelons of the Democrat party as it is
today,
Unknown: the dislike of and anguish over social media is
just growing and growing and growing as part of our problem,
particularly in democracies, In terms of building consensus
around any issue. It's really hard to govern today. You can't,
you know, there's no the referees we used to have to
determine what's a fact and what isn't a fact that kind of been
eviscerated.
John C Dvorak: You have to back it up. And when you hear the
word referee, replace it in your mind with gatekeeper? Yeah,
Adam Curry: and by the way, it's so hard to govern these days
Unknown: in terms of building consensus around any issue. It's
really hard to govern today. You can't, you know, there's no the
referees we used to have to determine what's a fact and what
isn't a fact that kind of been eviscerated to a certain degree,
and people go and that people self select where they go for
their news or for their information, and then you just
get into a vicious cycle, yeah, especially podcasts. So it's
really, really hard, much harder, to build consent.
Instance, today that at any time in the 4550 years I've been
involved in this and and, you know, there's a lot of
discussion now about how you curb those entities in order to
guarantee that you're going to have, you know, some
accountability on facts, etc. But look, if people go to only
one source, and the source they go to is sick and, you know, has
an agenda, and they're putting out disinformation. Our first
amendment stands as a major block to the ability to be able
to just, you know, hammer it out of existence. So what you need,
we need is to, is to win the ground, win the right to govern
by hopefully having winning enough votes that you're free to
be able to to implement change. Now, obviously, there are some
people in our country who are prepared to implement change in
other ways.
Is that unbelievable? Or what?
John C Dvorak: You know, he, I think he caught himself and he
tried to beat around the bush, because after he talked about
the First Amendment being an impediment,
Adam Curry: What a nuisance that thing was a nuisance,
John C Dvorak: an impediment. He, he kind of, it must have
went right through his brain. Oh, you dumb shithead. You said
the wrong thing here. Now, try to get out of it, because he
seemed to be fishing after that. Yeah, I saw that.
Adam Curry: I just found this. I found it incredible, incredible
paint. And that's the thinking, you know, just this first
amendment is annoying and people and we don't have any more
referees. We need referees like Brian Williams, good referees.
All right, have to play this. Since we do have a a an
appearance in our end of show mixes, the mayor is back. Yes,
yay. Very excited to have the mayor back on the show. You.
Thank you, Mayor Sir. Michael Anthony. Mayor Adams and I have
two clips here. The first is a little background. You know,
John C Dvorak: I sorry, I call him Mark Anthony in the last No,
it's
Adam Curry: sir, Michael Anthony. Have a little update
here on from CBS on the latest with Maya Adams,
Unknown: fortunate day,
and it's a painful day. New York City Mayor Eric Adams asked New
Yorkers to reserve judgment shortly after a federal
indictment was unsealed accusing him of engaging in a long
running conspiracy involving illegal campaign contributions
charges, he denies the five count indictment includes
charges of bribery, wire fraud and two charges relating to
receiving campaign contributions from foreign nationals. Sum up,
federal prosecutors say Adams accepted more than $100,000 in
luxury travel benefits from Turkish officials in exchange
for favors. In one instance, they say Adams pressured the New
York City Fire Department to let Turkey open a new diplomatic
building here despite safety concerns,
the Turkish official got
what he wanted, and as we explained in the indictment,
just four days after Adams held up his end of the bargain, he
went right back to soliciting more travel benefits from the
Turkish airline. This is just one of at least four federal
investigations into Adams or his inner circle. At least three
high ranking city employees have already resigned in recent
weeks. This is unprecedented. Their CBS News legal contributor
Caroline polici says prosecutors must think they have a strong
case to indict the sitting mayor, a first in city history.
You
have to believe that prosecutors feel that they can not only
convict Mayor Adams at trial, but sustain that conviction.
Adams
has vowed to remain in office while he fights the charges,
Adam Curry: so the show. Consensus on this, which you
reminded of us on the last episode, is this is entirely
because he started complaining about the illegal immigrants,
I'm sorry, the newcomers flooding New York City, and he
went against the Biden Harris administration, and that this is
retaliation. Well, son of a gun, wouldn't you know it? I
Unknown: will say this I watched about a year ago when he talked
about how the illegal migrants are hurting our city, and the
federal government should pay us, and we shouldn't have to
take him. And I said, You know what? He'll be indicted within a
year, and I was exactly right, because that's what we have. We
have people that use the Justice Department and the FBI at levels
that have never been seen before. So I wish him luck. I
don't know anything about what he did, but I told a lot. A
group, a lot of people right over there. That group was
saying, you know, so you were right about that. When they
mentioned that, I said they came in, and he was pretty strong
about it. He said, This is really unfair to make us carry
this burden. We shouldn't be doing this. This is New York
City. I mean, your parks are loaded up. I just passed
recently, Madison Avenue, the Roosevelt Hotel. It's like
nobody would recognize it. That's Midtown, but he came out
very strongly against it. He was right, by the way, because it's
ruining our country. He was honest. And I said he will be
indicted within a year, and that's what happened. And I
noticed the indictment is very old. This goes back a long time,
so I wish him well, but I said that he will be indicted because
he did that. You take a look. That's what they do. These are
dirty players. These are bad people. They cheat and they do
anything necessary. These are bad people, and we need an
honest Justice Department. We need an honest FBI, and we need
it fast, boom,
Deep Dive.
John C Dvorak: I have a I have another PBS version of the up of
the mayor being indicted. If you want to play it, it's only 33
seconds. It sums things up a little bit. I think your clips
are better, but I want to get this one played anyway. Also
Unknown: today, New York Mayor Eric Adams pleaded not guilty to
bribery and other charges in federal court. He's accused of
accepting illegal campaign contributions and gifts from
Turkish nationals in exchange for using his position to help
Turkey's interests. Adams did not speak on his way into the
Manhattan courthouse, but flashed a thumbs up to the
crowd. His lawyer said he will file a motion next week to
request that the charges be dismissed. Adams was released
after the hearing. He has said he won't resign and will
continue to conduct city business as usual.
Adam Curry: The Department of Justice, man, they are against
the American people. No matter who you are, they are
weaponized.
John C Dvorak: They have an agenda, and if you don't follow
it, you're screwed. And part of following it is accepting a
bunch of illegal aliens, criminals, and who knows, who
else into the country and liking it. Did
Adam Curry: you see Massey grilling the inspector general
Horowitz, who is the Inspector General for the FBI.
John C Dvorak: I don't think I did. Oh, so
Adam Curry: mass have it? Yeah, I do. Massey, whose wife, just
passed away, you know, suddenly. And this guy, I think he's, he
already was just like, I'm gonna say whatever. I think he's just
flat out everywhere now, like, nope, nope. He's going against
the Republic. I
John C Dvorak: think he believes his wife was murdered. I
Adam Curry: wouldn't put it past people. You know, once he went
on Tucker Carlson and said a whole bunch of things, all of a
sudden, she died. Suddenly. Yeah, horrible. So here he is.
This is about January 6. He's specifically interested in
footage of the pipe bomber who put the pipe bomb down at the
DNC, which we've seen. This footage, I think it's on
YouTube. You've seen it, right? Oh, yeah, but no, no, no, no,
no.
Unknown: We've got a failed FBI, failed investigation of the
January 6 pipe bomb. Are you looking into that at all?
We've had discussion. I know Congressman about it, and we
have followed up, and I can speak to you about that. Mean
they keep saying it's ongoing investigation, but they've got
no leads, no suspects. They've lost information. They've lost
evidence. They can't find evidence. Secret Service deleted
all of its texts on January 6. Steve dantwan, oh, the guy in
charge Washington, DC field office says that the cell phone
data that would could have been used to find the bomber was
corrupted. And now we just found out. I found out from an from
another Inspector General, and I want to submit this for the
record. Yeah, he I asked him, Do you have the footage? The video
footage? Does the FBI have the video footage of the DNC on
January 6? And he tells me, when he asked the FBI for the video
footage, they don't even have video footage of the DNC that we
know was created on January 6. It's almost, I mean, so it's
almost as if they don't want to know. Can you rule out that
there were any confidential human sources involved in the
whole pipe bomb thing on January 6? I'm
not. I'd have to go back congressman and refresh myself
on what we've information we've gathered to date on that I don't
know as I sit here, okay, that would be a huge revelation, and
happy to come.
I think we should get that and get it public before the
election. I yield back,
Adam Curry: they deleted text messages because that's what you
do, yeah, if you're Hillary Clinton against
John C Dvorak: the law to do that, but they do it anyway.
Yeah? Well, I have one last little clip here that might be
interesting. This is 13 seconds. It's not much, but this is just
because they keep talking about now. Now you know they don't
want to ban gas stoves. I don't know where you get that from.
This is Newsom.
Unknown: California's Governor Gavin Newsom has vetoed a bill
that would have required tobacco style health warnings on gas
stoves. It's a setback for climate and public health
advocates to encourage the shift to all electric home appliances.
John C Dvorak: We have all electric in Washington state, in
our area, it sucks.
Unknown: I'm gonna show my food by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fun.
All right.
Adam Curry: Everybody remember, we do have John SIPP the day
coming up. The mayor returns in our end of show mixes. And of
course, we've got another fantastic show coming up next on
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year retired Navy Mustang. His name is Matt, and he says, As
JCD correctly pointed out, Commodore was the old name for
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naval vessel, they are greeted with honors via the one MC,
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Rear Admiral lower half. Holy moly. I thought being a rear
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dings. Commodore arriving. My suggestion would be to do the
Boson pipe followed by the bells to announce the new no agenda
Commodores, alternatively ruffles and flourishes is also
appropriate for more ceremonial occasions. Very respectfully,
Matt, so let me see. First, I will get us set up here, as we
are about to announce all of our Commodores. We have a number of
them today. You
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supporting the best podcast. How's that, John,
John C Dvorak: well, I liked it better than what you've been
doing. I mean, I don't think you need to do the bells more than
one round of Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, oh, that would
be fine right at the beginning. I kind of like all the bells,
the bell, Bell, if you want to keep ringing bells, that's fine.
Just, I think the bosons pipe could be a little clearer. We
have to get a better clip of that. I think it will disturb
the dogs. Yeah, let's
Adam Curry: try it again.
John C Dvorak: There's better examples.
Adam Curry: Yeah, I'll look for something else. We have a couple
of nights to bring up to the podium. Here. We have a layaway
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Unknown: you've been deduced
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Yeah, you bet it's like a party. All of these meetups are just
like parties, even if it's just two nights in a bottle, which is
exactly who showed up for the Edinburgh meetup. Oops. Hi
there. This
Unknown: is sort of Canada.
We are two nights in the bottle. It's literally two
nights on the
bottle, representing no gender in the morning.
Adam Curry: Two nights in a bottle works for me. Good work.
Gentlemen. Thank you very much for doing that and for sending
in the report. Tri Cities Washington had their very first
meet up, and hence their very first meetup report in the
morning.
Unknown: Everybody. This is Aaron from tri city. Just want
to say that we had a wonderful, successful, first ever Columbia
River Basin meetup here in the Tri Cities. Hope to see some
people coming out next time looks like we're going to do
another meetup in November. Thank you for your courage.
Steve from Kennewick, here Washington has the most
producers per capita than anywhere in the nation
we did the work.
This is Trevor checking in from Moses Lake, just coming out for
the first time. Having a good old time with some no agenda,
listeners, producers, I mean, looking to have more fun with
these guys in the future.
Hi, Dame
Janice of the bombing range. This is so much fun
in the morning. Bye in
the morning, Adam and John sir yogi. Night of the Carnival
Midway is here. He's
out 50 more dollars, and
I'll be sir silent ice cream. Just got to get around to it. We
had a lot of cider. See you later
in the morning. In the
Adam Curry: morning, I would say, a very successful inaugural
meetup. These are the things you want to go to to meet your no
agenda nation, boys and girls, friends, children from other
lands, you may have nothing in common except the show, and
that's why you will love being there. You will connect, and
that connection always brings protection. Today, the Don't be
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Unknown: Sometimes you want to go hang out with all the nights
and days. It's like a party.
Adam Curry: It's like a party. Go visit one. You won't be
disappointed. I promise you it is fun, fun, fun, fun, fun, till
your daddy takes the T bird away. I only have one ISO, so
let's start with yours.
Unknown: Well, start with yours.
I will cripple you.
John C Dvorak: All right. I got three I had, starting in order
of quality, sexy,
Unknown: eat that was sold so sexy. Let me hear that again.
Eat that was sold so sexy. All right,
John C Dvorak: how about go home? The
Unknown: show is over. Now, go home. I
like that a lot. I
Adam Curry: like that a lot.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, you might like this one best best podcast
ever.
Adam Curry: We have a winner, ladies and gentlemen, best
podcast ever. And now it's time for the famous moment. John C's
Tip of the day and sometimes,
Unknown: JC, and sometimes Adam,
Adam Curry: I'm excited. Everybody's excited. We're
always all excited to find out
John C Dvorak: about the tip. Well, this is a food tip, a food
tip. I thought I'd bring it out, because this is something I do.
There's a there's been recently, because the avocados mostly come
from California and Mexico, yeah. But in some parts of the
country, in fact, most of the parts, there's a huge boom in
Peruvian avocados. Are they no good? No, they're better than
the other ones. Oh, and let me explain a Peruvian avocado, and
they come in and says, you'll see it on the they always say,
where the origin of country of origin is. And if you see a pile
of Peruvian avocados, what I have to do with the reason for
this. This tip is, how do they ripen? How would you tell
they're not like a normal Haas avocado? Most people in
California and elsewhere, you can tell how ripe and ready an
avocado is by kind of a firmness group. Grab. Yeah,
Unknown: yeah. I
Adam Curry: grab. I squeeze a little, and that kind of gives
me the idea if it's ripe or not, if it's if it's overripe.
Usually I get three avocados. I get one for that dinner that
day, and then I'll get one for the next day and one for the
next day. So I do take firmness into account
John C Dvorak: now with the Peruvian avocado, the firmness
is it's always harder than a normal avocado. It and if it go,
if you feel softness, it's over the hill. So you say to
yourself, well, then how the hell would I know this is the
right it's right. But how would I tell I
Unknown: tell John
John C Dvorak: the color of the skin of a Peruvian avocado,
which is kind of a greenish like all the red, it looks just like
a regular avocado when it turns solid black, and the avocado is
still firm, that avocado is ready, and it's spectacular.
Adam Curry: And how do we know it's a Peruvian avocado? It'll
say,
John C Dvorak: there's not a store in the world that won't
put the country of origin, where it says Mrs. Avocados, 59 cents
or whatever. It'll say country of origin, Peru. It'll say,
there they I think most states require you country of origin.
Adam Curry: So how about the avocado? I want to be ripe in
two days, when it's from Peru, it'll be black and it'll
John C Dvorak: be it'll be black with some green. Oh, so it's a
color identifier as total color. It goes from super green to
black splotches to pretty, almost all black with a little
green, to all black. And there's about a two or three day window
and it's all black and it's still hard, boom,
Adam Curry: yeah, we prefer avocado of color here on the
show. Excellent tip everybody. Hey
Unknown: guys.
Show us your tips.
There we go.
John C Dvorak: Anyway. Check out Peruvian avocados if you ever
see them. No, I like it. That's good. It's
Adam Curry: good. Good word. And that does it for Episode 1699,
1700 on Thursday, everybody 1700 we'll send out a newsletter to
John C Dvorak: remind 1800 everyone should donate and sing,
congratulations, boys
Adam Curry: and we have Canary Cry, news talk coming up next on
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Boys, go figure. End of show. Mixes, we have. Down guy, Steve
Neal Jones, our clip custodian and the Maya sir. Michael
Anthony returns to the end of show mixes. We could not be
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the morning. Everybody. I'm Adam
John C Dvorak: curry, and from Northern Silicon Valley, where
it's cold, I'm John C Dvorak. We return
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Unknown: concern about rising temperatures on planet Earth
heated up a hearing here in Washington today,
this morning, record breaking heat spreading across more of
the US. You should
know what happens to your body when it exposes itself to
extreme heat? First, your body attempts thermal regulation by
moving blood flow outward toward the surface of the skin. The
heart rate quickens. Blood vessels dilate to release heat,
the skin becomes flush, then your body begins to sweat.
Let's see how long it takes when you start sweating, because
after all, it's not heat. See humidity
if it's really hot, especially if it's hot and humid, these
thermal regulation systems that we've developed won't be enough.
The heart will continue to be fast, putting strain on
cardiovascular systems. The skin will continue to sweat,
depleting your body of water and essential electrolytes.
Many scientists claim that the temperature of
the Earth's atmosphere has been rising over the past 100 years.
The truth is, the
crisis is still getting worse.
Excessive sweating will cause an imbalance of fluids and salts in
the human system. With rising
temperatures, the threat of infectious diseases
will increase.
It's warmer than I like.
Your body's core temperature rises rapidly. Your body reaches
the threshold for heat stroke. There is irreversible damage to
cells in vital organs, and usually,
you might die. I think it's very important for us at every moment
in time, and certainly this one, to see the moment you
we love our country. We are an optimistic people. We are an
optimistic people. I love our country. I know we all do.
That's why everybody's here right now. We
love our country.
Let's come together. Let's come together. Let's come together.
Let's
come together.
We take pride in the privilege of being American. Let's come
together. Let's come together. Come together. You.
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As you all already heard, I've been indicted for corruption and
bribery. The feds is trying to take down me and my whole
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Yo otherwise, y'all know I woulda got away with it anyway.
I got one word for all y'all talking about, step down.
Jumanji. If y'all get rid of me, your instrument may off and it
be public advocate. Jumanji, Williams. Jumanji, and straight
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you tell Kathy Hochul, you tell AOC, you tell Jumanji, you stand
by Mayor Eric Adams, and if y'all don't got my back, maybe
I'll just go maggot somebody. Please love me.
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