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1629: Sunflower Kids

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Adam Curry: Going into the bin baby. Adam curry, John C Devora.
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January 28 2020 for this short award winning keyword nation
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media assassination episode 1629
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Unknown: is no agenda
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Adam Curry: taking the piano propaganda and broadcasting live
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from the heart of the Texas hill country here in FEMA Region
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number six in the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry
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John C Dvorak: in from Northern Silicon Valley where we call it
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propaganda. I'm John C. Dvorak.
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Adam Curry: It's all propaganda. All of it, all of it. All of it.
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All of it. Oh, my goodness. Texas is propaganda central
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right now. Oh,
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John C Dvorak: ye. Ah, the convoy.
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Adam Curry: Eagle. Take Back Our borders. I really I must alert
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everyone. This is Abbott has been activated. This is all
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politics has nothing based in reality. And everyone's getting
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all jacked up.
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John C Dvorak: Really see the photo of all the tractors? Yeah,
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well, I consider it a iPhoto. Because it's like where it was.
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Where is this thing where you have these, these tears? Like a
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hillside with tears and tears and tears all with 1000s
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attractors, supposedly at the Texas border.
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Adam Curry: I'm telling you, of course, people are going to show
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up at the border. Let me run through a couple of clips
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because this is the battlefield is now between your ears. This
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is and you'd think oh yeah, everyone. Yeah. We're the good
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guys. Now you're being propagandized. We're talking
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about a two mile stretch of border. There's people walking
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across three miles down the road. But oh no, it's going to
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be take back our borders. Texas
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Unknown: responded Friday to Washington's demands for border
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access with demands of its own for the federal government.
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Demands for proof wrote Attorney General Ken Paxton have the
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government's authority to turn a Texas park into a port of entry
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anytime you might spend suing Texas should be redirected
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toward enforcing the immigration laws Congress already has on the
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books, Paxton wrote, a strong response came as Customs and
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Border Protection officially reported more than 302,000
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encounters at the southern border in December. The highest
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monthly number ever recorded. More people than the entire
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population of the city of Plano Governor Greg Abbott said today
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he had asked the president eight times to help with no response,
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giving him constitutional authority to protect the state
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from an invasion. Dallas appellate lawyer David Cole
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thinks the invasion argument has some weaknesses. But he said
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Texas may be able to make an argument on exactly how much
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control over immigration, the federal government actually has
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call agreed it is very awkward right now having military and
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law enforcement both on opposite sides of all of this down at the
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border. The governor also noted today, he believes all 25 states
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that are backing Texas in its efforts would be willing to send
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troops to help if they're needed. All right,
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Adam Curry: time to load them up. Get it ready, locked and
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loaded. We're going to the border don't go. Oh my god, I
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John C Dvorak: thought you were going well, I
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Adam Curry: was gonna go until first of all, we have boots on
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the ground, plenty of boots on the ground. Obviously people are
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sick of what's happening at the border. But this is nothing more
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than a Republican Party setup against Biden, of course. And I
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can think I can reasonably prove this. I'm not quite sure what
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Tucker is doing. If he's really just a willing idiot and all of
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this but he had Ken Paxton on our State's Attorney General,
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John C Dvorak: isn't it the guy that tried to impeach Oh, yeah.
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Oh, yeah. So how's he a guy? Who what's the deal with him? First,
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let's get a little background on this guy. First of all, the
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Republicans in Texas tried to get this guy out. But now he's
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like their spokesperson. Yes,
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Adam Curry: there was a battle for him. And I don't think it
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was there all the Republicans but there was definitely a
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faction that did not like him. And and I have to say that the
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title a guy seems like a pretty reasonable guy. He's doing good
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things for the state. But now it's clear that Abbott is just
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the global shill. You have to realize you've got from
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seriously from a callin airport. There's there's they're
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basically bringing in young age men not to create a an army
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inside of America. They're cheap labor. And it's Republican and
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Democrat. You know, companies, you know, it's just companies
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capitalist. Our children are too lazy to go on work and crappy
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ass jobs. And so we need to bring them in. And they're
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walking right through TSA of this is all the United Nations
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Office of international migration and the faith based
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organizations that are that are paid 1000s of dollars for the
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migrant resettle immigrant resettlement program. It's all a
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scam, and we're all being played. And when I heard this
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short exchange between Tucker and Ken Paxton, it has nothing
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to do with what's going on with with, with the immigrants in
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America. It's about getting Biden out and the Democrats and
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Unknown: it's just propaganda. So what would happen if Biden
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decides to quote federalize the National Guard of Texas? Look,
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he can do that any President can do that. I think that that
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pretty much ends his election possibilities, not that there's
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that good now anyway, but this is becoming the number one
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issue. When you come into a state like Texas that I think
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people can clearly see. We're just trying to protect ourselves
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from crime and terrorism and a lot of bad consequences, I don't
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think and now these liberal sanctuary cities know the same
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same problem. They've got just a little bit of what we have. And
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they know that this is real. So I think it's becoming more
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Americans are becoming more aware. And I think if Joe Biden
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decides to force that onto us by taking over the National Guard,
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I think it's an automatic loss. He's done. And so you know, in
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some ways, you have to suffer with the consequences for a few
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months if he does that, which I still hope he doesn't. But in
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the end, he loses the election. Absolutely. If he does that. Oh,
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it
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Adam Curry: seems like this is only about the election, Ken
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Paxton, Tucker, please lead the witness some more. Do
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Unknown: you think it's possible that he will? I mean, I guess
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it's possible. No, but what? What would you rate the
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likelihood?
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John C Dvorak: You know, I don't know. I mean, by the way,
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anybody who says, you know, first they get into the topic,
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and then they milk it. And then just to stretch it even more, is
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a question you can't answer. What do you think's the
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likelihood? What's your percentage? One to 10? That'd be
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next year? What is your, you know, just drag it out? That's a
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good, good catch. Yeah,
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Adam Curry: it's leaving the witnesses obvious. It's obvious.
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Okay. We'll continue.
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Unknown: Do you think it's possible that he will? I mean, I
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guess it's possible. No, but what what would you rate the
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likelihood? 20? You know,
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I don't know. I mean, I don't really think Biden's thinking
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about this much. I think it's his his his handlers, whoever
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behind the scenes making those decisions. That was I could
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probably better give you an answer. But, you know, I have no
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idea what he'll do. Because I don't think he knows what he's
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going to do. And I after he's done. I'm not sure he even would
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recognize what he did. So if I knew who was making that
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decision, I could actually direct questions, or somebody
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could I think that would be helpful, but we don't country
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right now. Yeah,
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no, I don't I've never met someone who could answer
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conclusively who's in charge the United States. Obviously, it's
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not him. It's
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Adam Curry: only about who's in charge and Biden's gonna lose.
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It's a lose lose for him. I mean, that that, that was kind
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of embarrassing. It's like, if you really want to talk about
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the problem, talk about the problem. And clearly the the
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busing was the setup. I'm not saying that that was wrong. I've
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been I'm not saying that. I don't agree with hay, give it to
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the sanctuary cities. All of that is correct. But we are
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being played. And we're being played and you called it on the
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last show with the take back our border.com website which seemed
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very sketch sketch, I said it's sketch 700,000 trucks. And so
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this is Fox Business News. They bring on a Texas representative.
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I don't even know who this guy is, but he's a Republican. And
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he goes too far and he shows his hand but even the setup were
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first they show you the map. Look at all these Republican
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states. All the governors that are backing Texas. Hmm. Do you
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think it's political,
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Unknown: Texas now receiving support from 25 Republican
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governors all backing Governor Abbott's border actions blaming
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the Biden administration for the crisis? I want to bring in Texas
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Congressman, Lieutenant Colonel Keith self, Congressman, good
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morning. Let's talk about this trucker convoy, you brought this
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up just a moment ago. So this is called take our border back. It
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kicks off Monday. So you've got multiple starts. You've got
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trucks leaving from Virginia Beach that are going to go
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through Texas, Arizona, California. On the website, it
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describes the vent events as a peaceful assembly, encouraging
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all freedom loving and law abiding Americans to attend. I
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saw that you posted on AIX, to raise awareness about that. You
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obviously just mentioned it a moment ago. I understand that
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you're going to be speaking once they get to Eagle Pass. I also
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see that it's gonna go through Yuma it's gonna go through San
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Ysidro, California as well. Seven or 1000 vehicles. That's
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the prediction here. How do you keep that well peaceful, and on
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track. That's a lot of trucks.
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Well, the people that have organized this are the same
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people at West California to DC with the truckers rally I
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understand we're going to be joined by Canadian truckers so
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these people are committed to a peaceful demonstration I'll pay
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Adam Curry: attend Shouldn't what he's saying here. He's
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saying all these the people who did the trucker convoy to DC and
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then he says, and we're going to be joined by the Canadian
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truckers, what? Seriously now? The Canadian truckers? They're
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going to he's he is playing on visuals. Oh, yeah. The Canadian
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truckers. Yeah, we were all for the Canadian truckers, it'll
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even bring in the farmers and on
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Unknown: track. That's a lot of trucks.
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Well, the people that have organized this are the same
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people that went to California to DC with the truckers, I
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understand we're going to be joined by Canadian truckers. So
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these people are committed to a peaceful demonstration that
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we've had enough. The American people have had enough. were
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demanding that the Biden administration do its job,
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enforce the laws on the books, and secure our border 8 million
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people during the Biden administration. That's more than
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the population of Ohio. This is the time for us to rise up as
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the American people can demand that our president do his job.
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Adam Curry: All right. So he I don't believe this for a second.
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I do not believe there's going to be 700,000 trucks. They set
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that number out there. The number is being propagated
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everywhere. And then, of course, the Fox Business News model. As
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the obvious question, his answer is quite interesting.
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Congressman,
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Unknown: I love the fact that people are standing up and using
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their voices peacefully. But we know that bad actors in the past
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have co opted these types of events, and done everything they
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can to make the peace loving Americans look bad. Are you
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concerned that there might be some sort of CO opting of this
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con going?
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That's always probability, but you learn as you do these
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events, what?
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Adam Curry: That may be a possibility. But why would you
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say that may be a probability?
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John C Dvorak: That's always a possibility. Oh,
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Adam Curry: you said probability.
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Unknown: That's always a probability.
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Adam Curry: But you probability. I don't like that. I don't like
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that. I don't like it.
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Unknown: Probably probability, but you learn as you do these
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events. So know that that might have been in the past. So
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they've got measures in place to make sure that does not happen.
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And I am hopeful that that will not happen because this should
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be a peaceful movement of the American people joined by other
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nations if they want to come this is the Canadian farmers,
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trucker. This is the German farmers. This is the French
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farmers release the Dutch farmers. This is a movement well
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beyond the United States that people are simply tired of the
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overreach of their federal governments that were pushing
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back. Now is the time.
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John C Dvorak: Well, how many federal governments are there
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besides ours? How can they always say, I've noticed this
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before? Recently, I don't have any clips, but where they're
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referring to like the French federal government or the or the
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British? And they say, well, the federal government?
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Adam Curry: Federal Government's Exactly. So a couple things
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here. So you know, the Biden administration, I don't know if
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I actually have a clip of that, I think actually do. said, Oh,
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where we're stopping all LPG export license as an
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immediately. That's all they're trying to screw with Texas? I
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don't think so. I think what what Biden is trying to do is
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keep lots of gas in America and maybe do something about
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inflation, lowering liquid lowering natural gas prices, it
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doesn't seem like that was a punitive move. All these
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messages everywhere. And then of course, what do you do on the
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degree they
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John C Dvorak: should be putting that gas into into play here?
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Yeah,
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Adam Curry: well, and that's what they're doing. It has
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nothing to do with the
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John C Dvorak: just stopping export license doesn't mean they
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stopped pumping now. And
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Adam Curry: so immediately, we get vice. I want to remind
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everybody that Vice went bankrupt and was purchased by
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one of its major debt holders, Soros. Soros investments, for
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$200 million. They wound up buying it for like $2. And here
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is their headline, protest. convoy headed to southern border
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is calling itself an army of God. Experts say that the
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Christian nationalist rhetoric adds a dangerous dimension to
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the standoff between Texas and the federal government. And this
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is written by Tess Owen. And let's look at some other VICE
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News story by test Oh, an extremist call for civil war and
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succession over Texas border ruling. Far Right Congressman
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explains there aren't enough white people joining the army
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Republican wants schools to call animal control on furry
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students. Come on, people get it. That's a good one. have
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actually this is a war for your mind. And well let's get some
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joy read to balance out the coverage here something
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Unknown: called take our border back convoy noted this on a line
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today. And here is a polite gist of the text in this invitation.
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It says calling all truckers bikers, law enforcement,
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Veterans Military elected bikers. Yeah, we
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Adam Curry: need some bikers, all truckers we're podcast our
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spotlight
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John C Dvorak: podcasters bikers, law
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Unknown: enforcement, veterans, military officials, business
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owners ranches and freedom loving Americans. It's supposed
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to start in Virginia Beach on Monday. Its separate rallies on
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February 3 In your Eagle Pass Texas yuma arizona and San
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Ysidro, California. They're saying it's supposed to be a
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peaceful convoy and active, active activism lineup of people
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sounds a lot like the lineup of people who were at January 6.
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Adam Curry: He says, It sounds like the same people that were a
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January section.
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Unknown: A lot like the lineup of people who
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were at January 6, right? Listen, as long as it's
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peaceful. I support people's right to booze. Yeah, you know,
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they don't like was having an aborted bout means it's
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peaceful, right. But this idea this
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John C Dvorak: is peaceful, right?
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Adam Curry: As long as peaceful right? As long as these peaceful
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Right? Right,
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Unknown: by all means protest laws is peaceful, right. But
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this idea that trying to spark some sort of civil war, that's a
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real problem. That's not That's not a thing. And you know, when
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you look at that map, you see a lot of places where there are
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very few people. And that, you know, the places in between
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places are the places that are angry, they are the places where
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the power doesn't reside in creature, and therefore, and
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they want to be separate from the places where it does reside,
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because the biggest universities are not there. The biggest
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cities are not there. They feel overwhelmed, but you cannot, you
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know, plan to break away from the United States just because
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you feel overwhelmed. You have to win the argument. And that is
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where they are failing.
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Yeah, I think a lot of people forget what
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John C Dvorak: the, yes. What argument is he talking about?
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He's just talking
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Adam Curry: poop. He has nothing to say nothing.
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Unknown: Well, but you cannot, you know, plan to break away
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from the United States. Just because you feel overwhelmed.
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You have to win the argument who
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John C Dvorak: wants to break away from the United States
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because they feel overwhelmed. That's
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Adam Curry: what this is the propaganda. Oh, they want us to
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just slow that in. Yes. Yes. They want us to cede
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Unknown: break away from the United States just because you
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feel overwhelmed. You have to win the argument. And that is
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where they are failing.
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Yeah, I think a lot of people forget that the what originally
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sparked the notion of Civil War was the it was an election. It
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was the election of Abraham Lincoln, who the slave owning
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South slaveholding South did not want to be the President of the
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United States. They feared he took away their money making
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human bondage industry. Yeah,
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Adam Curry: Human Bondage industry. Okay, well, let's just
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throw a couple more on top of it. Let's bring in the ladies
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from the view. We need to do more of this more. Tim Scott
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Unknown: shocked a lot of people because he claims to be a man of
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faith, just like Mike Pence claims to have been a man of
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faith. They have every religious person scared that they're
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coming for their religion, while the devil takes their soul. They
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are not even walking in the path of as Tim Alberta said, you can
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either take up the sword with a strong man like Donald Trump.
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Jesus, they
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Adam Curry: they're quoting some kind of scripture here, John.
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John C Dvorak: Yeah, they're butchering some sort of
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Scripture, calling Donald Trump a strong man, a strong man who
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Unknown: takes their soul they are not even walking in the path
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of as Tim Alberta said, you can either take up the sword with a
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strong man like Donald Trump, or you can walk in the path of
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Jesus. They have all completely you know, in their cheek I was
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to their face I was making about
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Adam Curry: a turn their cheek on their faith. This is a new
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one.
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John C Dvorak: You're these these women on the viewer, a
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bunch of atheists. I love the turning
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Adam Curry: their cheek on faith is fantastic. There
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John C Dvorak: are a bunch of atheists and then they go off
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every once in a while. I don't know what the point of going in
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the other direction is. I have It's baffling to me to listen to
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these people. Well, that's why it's fun.
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Unknown: Jesus, they have all completely, you know, in their
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cheek, I was to their face. I was
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thinking about all of this today. And it's like, you know,
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Trump
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Adam Curry: was thinking smoke was coming out of my ears.
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Unknown: I was to their face. I was thinking about all of this
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today. And it's like, you know, Trump is his word of the times.
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You don't like when Ronald Reagan was around? John Kennedy
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and the rest of them. There was a certain decorum in the
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atmosphere. There is total chaos now because of social media, and
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all of the things that he any anonymous idiot can make a
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statement. He
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is scary. Many people realize that they were this is really up
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to us. It's not up to the media. It's not up to us at The table
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it is strictly in your hands. What country do you want to be
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in? What country do you want to be in? Do you want to be in a
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country where people can live up to their potential no matter
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what their faith is, no matter what their visual is, no matter
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what their proclivities are, the country you want, where you can
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be who you are, or do you want to be in a country where the man
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says, day one, I'm going to be a dictator.
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Adam Curry: Oh, misquote, dictator, dictator, come on. So
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they're just, you know, again, just go listen to C span in the
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morning you'll hear Democrat line, he's going to be a
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dictator. You'll hear we're probably one from day one.
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You'll hear Republican line. Biden's letting the man ruining
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the country.
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John C Dvorak: Just just
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Adam Curry: to prove a gummy nerd is 33 wrong because he's
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such a douche in the troll room.
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John C Dvorak: I'm very nerd 33
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Adam Curry: Yeah, he's a douche.
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John C Dvorak: He's a douche various a guy or a girl. You may
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have misgendered him? Yeah, I
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Adam Curry: hope I did. But Adam isn't even aware that the
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Canadian truckers are really ruling on the field here. Yeah,
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I am douche.
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Unknown: A federal court has ruled the government's use of
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the emergencies act during the convoy protests back in 2022.
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Was not justified. The CBC is Karina Roman, is live in Ottawa
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and Karina even reading over their decision, which runs
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nearly 200 pages. So we're just all kind of getting our heads
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into it. But so far, what have you been able to glean from it?
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Okay, so
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let's just go over the language that the judge has, in terms of
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his conclusion,
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Adam Curry: this was actually quite an interesting,
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interesting take that happened. And I think it's worthy of two
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clips, that, you know, Trudeau going after the truckers, taking
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their money, blocking their money was completely illegal.
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And they're homina, homina homina, about
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Unknown: him, saying, I have concluded that the decision to
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issue the proclamation that would be the invoking of the
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emergencies Act does not bear the hallmarks of reasonableness,
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justification, transparency, and intelligibility and was not
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justified in relation to the relevant factual and legal
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constraints that were required to be taken into consideration.
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Now, obviously, that is news that he found very differently
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than the public inquiry, the Reloop reloc Commission, which
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found the government was justified, in invoking emergency
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sacked Andrew. And of course, you know, in this 190 Plus
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pages, there are many, many reasons, many goes over the
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arguments of both sides, just to give people a sense of what
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parts of the charter we're talking about. We're talking
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about section two B, which is the freedom of expression,
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Section eight, which is search and seizure, he did not find
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that there was any infringement on the right to assembly because
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even though of course, you know, people were restricted in where
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they were allowed to go. That is, you know, allowed with
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reasonable limits, but in terms of freedom of expression, and
23:08
search and seizure, that's where he found there were
23:10
infringement.
23:11
Adam Curry: Actually might have been blue douche 33 I don't know
23:13
if someone named douche
23:17
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I know about all this. But so what what
23:19
difference does it make? What do you make this point? What
23:22
difference does it make? They can't, you know, make Trudeau
23:25
bend over and take care of 20 lashes? Well,
23:29
Adam Curry: it was really the it was Chris Chrystia Freeland,
23:34
who, who was in charge of this operation? I do have she
23:38
John C Dvorak: resigned. I think that she well, she came out and
23:42
apologized for some
23:44
Adam Curry: what she's not. She's not a horrible woman not
23:46
apologizing here. So
23:48
Unknown: we are aware of the court decision. We have
23:54
John C Dvorak: you noticed the cadence. Oh, yeah. It this is
23:57
the same meal. You have Susan Rice. Lisa Monaco, they all have
24:05
the same exact they're all part of some sort of some sort of
24:10
underlying middle you didn't
24:12
Adam Curry: she go to? There was something about her background
24:15
that I recall when we look it up. I would listen to the clip.
24:17
So
24:18
Unknown: we are aware of the court decision. We have
24:22
discussed it with the Prime Minister, with Cabinet
24:27
colleagues, with senior federal government officials and experts
24:32
experts. We respect very much Canada's independent judiciary.
24:41
However, we do not agree with this decision. And respectfully,
24:50
we will be appealing it. I would just like to take a moment to
24:57
remind Canadians of See how serious the situation was in our
25:04
country. When we took that decision, the public safety of
25:09
Canadians was under threat. Our national security, which
25:16
includes our national economic security, was under threat.
25:21
Under threat, it was a hard decision to take. We took it
25:27
very seriously, after a lot of hard work, after a lot of
25:32
careful deliberation. We were convinced at the time, I was
25:38
convinced at the time, it was the right thing to do. It was
25:44
the necessary thing to do. I remain and we remain convinced
25:51
of that.
25:54
Adam Curry: So she says there was it was necessary, there was
25:57
a national emergency. That's actually the part that is most
26:01
damning as there was there were issues in Ottawa, but no way was
26:05
there a national emergency.
26:07
Unknown: And in terms of the justifiability. Andrew, you'll
26:10
recall that there was a lot of talk about the CSIS definition
26:14
of a national threat to security. And what's interesting
26:18
is the judge found, it doesn't actually matter whether or not
26:21
CSIS said that there was a national security threat or not
26:25
me that should be given weight, that, you know, it's something
26:28
to actually consider, but it's not the sole reason to invoke
26:32
it. So you might say, Well, then why did he say they were
26:34
unjustified? And, and, again, Andrew, I've only read parts of
26:39
it. But from what I gather, it really comes down to this was
26:43
not a national emergency, that the police and the provincial
26:48
authorities in different regions where we were talking about
26:50
Alberta and Coots, or whether we're talking about Quebec, or
26:54
Windsor, they were able to deal with the problem at hand what
26:58
really the problem was Ottawa, and that means it wasn't a
27:01
national emergency. Any talks as well about some of the financial
27:06
penalties they brought in in terms of seizing and freezing
27:09
bank accounts, because that affected people beyond just the
27:12
people they were trying to affect that itself was an
27:15
overstep. But he does say that the Cabinet had the right and
27:20
the power to invoke in terms of that is within their power, but
27:24
they did not have the justification. It was an
27:27
unreasonable evidence before Yeah, I got it.
27:34
John C Dvorak: Then again, yeah, so what?
27:37
Adam Curry: Well, you You said yourself to our our friendly
27:41
Canadians of Great America is that they're good at complaining
27:46
and maybe they'll complain enough.
27:49
John C Dvorak: Yes, I did bring it when they complain
27:52
Adam Curry: and they keep keep complaining that that's very
27:54
offensive. And they're complaining, complaining about
27:57
me
27:58
John C Dvorak: date. Well, just for people who don't I was on
28:01
Grand American. I have a thesis about the American Revolution.
28:07
The difference between the Canadians and the United States
28:09
when they were both run by Britain, is that we had a right
28:13
we had an armed revolution where a violent folk, the Canadians
28:17
never did, they never had an arm revolution. They just complain,
28:22
they complain and complain. And they are right and even they
28:26
kind of know they're really good at complaining. Yeah, it works.
28:31
And it does work. It does work is different. It's a different
28:35
approach in our approach but
28:42
Adam Curry: so while we're in in this season of reveal now we
28:46
know Okay, so that was bogus. The our trucker thing this
28:51
700,000 trucks is a boat I don't
28:53
John C Dvorak: understand why any trucker would go down to
28:55
Texas. You have to
28:57
Adam Curry: and the vibe in Texas is we're gonna get them I
29:02
mean, people are spun up seriously they're spun up Yeah,
29:07
we're gonna we're not we're not going to stand for it. I pray
29:10
that everything goes okay down there. It won't take much look
29:14
at this just look at the videos on tick tock and YouTube and
29:17
everyone's cracking up their guns and getting ready it's like
29:21
oh my god please It's not worth it not this this is not the this
29:26
is not the battleground in there I think Abbott went too far now
29:34
and it's not even him it's just the all the
29:37
John C Dvorak: all these other organizations like this others
29:39
sketchy operation sketchy say the borders org or whatever it
29:43
is. Yeah. You have to wonder what what's going really going
29:48
on. I swore I wouldn't go to the board in a million years. We
29:52
Adam Curry: have boots on the ground. So but seriously three
29:55
miles away from Eagle Pass people walking across the
29:59
border. Hello, I'm in. So
30:03
John C Dvorak: this is a there was a guy. In fact, there was,
30:05
there was a guy on one of the TV networks that was just walking
30:09
back and forth across the border. United States, Mexico. I
30:14
mean, I didn't get back and forth and back and forth.
30:16
Exactly. Now, this, you brought up the point of the replacements
30:21
you're bringing in yet because our people don't want to work
30:24
Adam Curry: migrate? Yes, migration replacement,
30:27
John C Dvorak: I have a series of tick tock videos. All right,
30:34
about the Gen Z, the Gen Z's who don't want to work now I have
30:40
kind of their latest kind of play
30:42
Adam Curry: the jingle first and play the jingle. So we feel good
30:44
about tock tock, tick tock.
30:49
John C Dvorak: No, I have different ways of looking at
30:52
this. And I've got one clip that'll kind of push it over to
30:55
one side. But there are rational reasons that and I've, I've seen
31:00
these videos, why these kids don't want to work because it's
31:04
like they're being exploited. The minimum wage isn't what it
31:10
should be. It's 40% below what it should be on and on date that
31:14
you see a lot of it, but I'm taking the more of the critical
31:18
side of this because I think I think that's always more
31:22
beneficial. If people can take criticism, even though these
31:26
books certainly can I want to play a few of these. I have
31:29
quite a few actually. But they're entertaining. I want to
31:32
start with the Gen Z dude who's quitting.
31:37
Unknown: Here's why I'm quitting my first full time job. For one
31:41
we have to go into the office every day. I have to wake up at
31:45
eight so I can get into the office by nine times even
31:49
earlier. Two, people always are telling me what to do. That's
31:55
not how I roll. You just because just because you're in a
31:59
position above me, doesn't mean you can tell me what to do.
32:02
Okay. And three, I'm not getting paid over 100k Yes, this is my
32:08
first full time job. But also I know my worth, and it's well
32:12
over 100k And I'm not getting that. So I'm excited to announce
32:16
that I am quitting and pursuing full time social media
32:20
influencer brands, if you would like to work with me, please hit
32:24
me up. Thank you.
32:27
Adam Curry: Well, this is a loaded clip.
32:32
John C Dvorak: First, yes, of course. This is noodle boy. Part
32:35
two, more or less. And this guy is just so full of himself and
32:42
he's going to be an influencer oatcakes. Sure.
32:45
Adam Curry: Which is the number one dream job of most young
32:48
people. Yeah,
32:50
John C Dvorak: well, it's it is a dream job because if you were
32:53
an influence, you could actually pull it off which is rare. You
32:57
can make a million dollars a year yeah.
33:00
Adam Curry: For a while.
33:02
John C Dvorak: Yeah, it's not forever as long as you feed the
33:04
algos. I do want to get to the classic dough didn't do I should
33:10
play this at first this is a one this woman the nine to five gals
33:15
to clip she is the one that said a lot of this off articles were
33:19
written about her she's there's at least 10 clips of her
33:23
apologizing for one thing or another. And then she finally
33:25
ended up quitting her job. And she's got a clip with that. But
33:28
this is the original clip that got everything started. And so
33:32
far as the Gen Z's being condemned by other people. And
33:37
Unknown: I'm probably just being so dramatic and annoying. But
33:40
this is my first job like my first job after college and I'm
33:44
in person. And I'm commuting in the city and it takes me puking
33:47
forever to get there. There's no way I'm going to be able to
33:50
afford living in the city right now. So that's off the table
33:53
like fucking da, if I was able to walk to work, and it'd be
33:56
fun, but I'm not. So it literally takes me like I leave
33:59
here like I get on the train at 730 and I don't get home till
34:02
like 615 earliest. And then like, I don't have time to do
34:06
anything I don't. I want to shower, eat my dinner and go to
34:10
sleep. I don't have time or energy to cook by dinner either.
34:13
Like I don't have energy to work out like that's out the window.
34:16
Like I'm so upset. Nothing to do with my job at all. But just
34:21
like the nine to five schedule in general is crazy. Being in
34:25
office nine to five like if it was remote, you get off at five
34:28
and you're home and everything's fine but like I'm not home it
34:31
takes me long to get home and like, like people are dropped to
34:35
the office like it doesn't you don't get off at five. And I
34:38
know it could be worse. I know I could be working longer but like
34:41
I literally get off it's pitch black like I don't have energy.
34:45
How do you have friends? Like how do you have time to like,
34:48
meet like a guy I don't know. Like how do you tell I'm really
34:51
dating like I don't have time for anything and I'm like so
34:54
stressed out and I'm also getting my period so that's why
34:57
I was emotional but like, am I I'm melodramatic, it's fine.
35:02
Adam Curry: I think there's a couple of things at play here
35:05
first and foremost, without a doubt wages are too low for
35:09
inflation and it is very difficult to make ends meet just
35:15
for the basics which now now of course these children are being
35:20
pushed towards Yeah, we should have universal basic income note
35:24
the basic word to that was you cannot discount several years of
35:31
work at home, which is quite preferable to I guess everybody
35:36
work at home that's much better. Yeah,
35:39
John C Dvorak: what she said herself, you know, when you work
35:41
at home you get when it's five o'clock, and by the way, that
35:44
one and I don't have any clips exemplifying this but all the
35:47
Gen Z are supposedly literally stopped. Maybe they do have one
35:52
stop at five at five o'clock. Computers off. They're out the
35:57
door.
35:57
Adam Curry: John, we saw that 15 years ago of me view. Five
36:04
o'clock. Pick up the bag. 505 Everyone's gone. Yeah, poof. And
36:11
that's and that is just a general worth that we saw during
36:15
the show. We have seen this take place. We saw the post
36:18
suffocation. We saw the pandering we saw it and this is
36:21
part of the I know it sounds Boomer ish even though I'm Gen
36:24
X, the voice of Gen X and the face or hair of Gen X I was the
36:30
head of Gen X. We saw the participation trophies. And just
36:36
to insert some quick clip into your clips. Now we have at
36:41
airports, multiple airports around the United States, the
36:46
sunflower Blaine, have you heard of the sunflower lane?
36:51
John C Dvorak: No. If you didn't already, it sounds bad. If
36:55
Adam Curry: you display the sunflower symbol, which you can
36:57
get at the airport, there's a special Lane in case you're you
37:00
know, autistic or triggered some
37:03
Unknown: passengers at Gerald R Ford International Airport may
37:06
soon be sporting a bright yellow sunflower, it's part of a
37:09
program to identify those who may need extra assistance. It's
37:13
part of the hidden disabilities sunflower program. That means
37:16
airport staff will be trained to recognize the sunflower symbol
37:20
and provide assistance and accommodation as needed. The
37:23
Sunflower item can be found at the airport's Visitor
37:25
Information Desk and security screening checkpoint. hidden
37:29
disabilities are physical or mental impairments that others
37:32
may not be able to see like learning disabilities, diabetes
37:36
or epilepsy for an airport joins over 232 Other airports around
37:41
the world aiming to make travel more inclusive and accessible
37:44
for all 432
37:47
Adam Curry: airports for the if you have learning disabilities.
37:51
Come on.
37:53
John C Dvorak: Wow, this cropped up overnight wonder who's behind
37:55
it that's worth looking into. Yeah,
37:57
Adam Curry: just popped up for me this morning. And I saw an
38:00
article and someone sent me that someone sent me a note about it.
38:05
And you know that it was for people who have autism hidden
38:09
disabilities. Hey, a my when I was a kid, blind people went
38:14
through the airport. Talk about a disability. They didn't get a
38:20
special line. But now it's like, oh, I have learning disability.
38:26
Oh, you can't learn to stand in line. No, I can't. I can't deal
38:31
with a line. I can't deal with people in the line. Alright,
38:33
back to your Tiktok sets interest.
38:35
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I can't deal with people I can't stand
38:37
in line can't stand. What
38:39
Adam Curry: is happening. You know what it is? It is food
38:41
starvation. They have no nutrition. They're eating bad
38:45
food and their bread. Idiocracy is nearby. It's common
38:50
John C Dvorak: people here we go to a British, a black British
38:55
girl who is Gen Z. And here's her lament.
39:00
Unknown: And Z won't apply to jobs. Gen Z won't put up with
39:03
this. And all I can think is great. I am so glad that people
39:08
born 1997 and on have some sense not to be exploited. There's
39:14
never a reason that we shouldn't be offering salary ranges on
39:17
jobs. I've genuinely wonder what companies think jobs are for, I
39:21
would never apply to something if I don't know that they're
39:24
going to provide me with a wage that I deserve. And that's
39:28
especially true as a black woman where I know I am much more
39:32
likely to not be compensated at the same rate as my white co
39:36
workers. Gen Z. Care about equity and diversity is a core
39:42
principle for a majority of the generation. So when we're
39:47
talking about Gen Z, changing things up in the workplace,
39:50
wanting work from home, wanting to know how much they will get
39:53
paid. All I can think is great. Let's do more of this.
40:01
John C Dvorak: Yeah, we have the get what I deserve. Yeah, meme,
40:06
which isn't dollars.
40:07
Adam Curry: You know, I understand the disappointment
40:10
because I have children with this disappointment, like, I'm
40:15
working in a restaurant, but I went to college, and I got a
40:18
degree. And, and that was kind of the promise is don't worry,
40:23
you know, that just did not happen. So, you know, sold
40:28
drugs, it made a profit got it, but I was promised and now it
40:31
John C Dvorak: was promised who promised him so society or
40:35
society? Well, yes, if it was a person promising you'd I could
40:39
see that you'd have a complaint. But society can't make promises.
40:42
I should mention that you don't
40:43
Adam Curry: have to convince me by the way back in my day. It
40:47
MTV. We I think the 1987 88 interest rates were high, I
40:54
would say they were in the nine 10%. Nine, I think nine or 10%.
40:59
New York was in shambles. MTV paid. That was non union. If you
41:05
are an associate producer, an AP, which is kind of you know,
41:10
you run scripts around and you and you get coffee. No, it's
41:14
above gopher. It's an actual title you get it says but
41:19
brunette he's not old enough to know what I'm talking about. Me
41:25
you had a path there was a path to go from a P to P you could
41:28
become a producer peep these kids lived for in a in a house
41:33
in Brooklyn, which at the time Brooklyn was Brooklyn. It was
41:37
not it was not Yeah, it was not. And they had massive commutes to
41:41
get into the city. And they were happy. I mean, yeah. And they
41:46
they got by and they worked and and they were the first to be
41:50
there. And the lastly because I can become a P I can be a
41:53
producer. If I keep at it. And then I've seen many of them go
41:57
on to I see the Joey the horse de mio I see him on credit roll
42:02
of big award shows as the director used to get coffee. But
42:07
he grinded. You know. That's that's what's gone. And I'm not
42:12
quite sure how I
42:13
John C Dvorak: think you're right, that that's definitely
42:14
what's missing. Yeah. And I think it has to do with the
42:18
educational system and the so called promise from the society.
42:22
That yes, I do have a two parter here. That before we get to the
42:27
one that's going to be the end is going to be the hiring
42:29
managers, which is going to be some people actually talking
42:31
about this. But this is a two parter from a long clip. It's an
42:38
X Gen lament. And it is it's a bunch of X Gen Xers Gen Z lament
42:46
it's a bunch of Gen Z years talking socialism and universal
42:52
basic income this was actually put aside for the universal
42:54
basic income discussion. Yes, and it's it's a bunch of
42:58
different people coming in and out. And and it's got a music
43:02
bed, I'm sorry. But it's at least shows you some of the
43:06
other the other element at play here. Because that last one girl
43:10
who was a black woman who's saying we're into equity, in
43:14
other words, we're into you know, everyone gets should get
43:16
$100,000 a year, just because they're good people. So let's
43:22
start with this, this, listen to this, or know
43:24
Unknown: who needs to hear this. But the majority of your
43:27
struggles are because of capitalism having to spend the
43:30
majority of your life in forced labor. Because getting your
43:34
physiological needs met is good kept behind a paywall is not how
43:40
humans should be living their lives. Humans really have to pay
43:43
money to stay alive. We have to pay for food, we have to pay for
43:48
water. We have to pay for shelter. The Universe put us on
43:52
Earth, a planet that has everything humans needs to
43:54
survive. And yet we've evolved to the point where we have to
43:57
pay money to stay alive. And
43:59
we're working 40 to 60 hours a week, like on average. And we
44:04
cannot afford to live like we just do not make enough to pay
44:08
rent to pay for food. Everything is so expensive right now in
44:13
wages are not keeping up with the cost of living and I
44:16
think to myself, is it depression or is it just the
44:19
reality? We're living in an excess?
44:22
John C Dvorak: Oh, yeah, I've
44:22
Adam Curry: seen this. Is it depression? Well, it's part of
44:24
it is economic depression. Yes.
44:28
John C Dvorak: Yeah, a little bit. Yeah. It's a spotty. But
44:32
this is the idea that you're a human so you deserve free.
44:38
Shelter free food.
44:40
Adam Curry: And remember, Andrew Yang's property propagated this
44:43
Andrew Yang the UBI this has been propagated by many
44:48
politicians. This is out there and it's being dangled like
44:51
yeah, we need the basics. We have the rights. We have human
44:56
rights for food, clothing, shelter. We should get that for
45:01
free. That should be the basics. And then when we work we get to
45:03
party.
45:06
John C Dvorak: Face, where Valerie
45:09
Adam Curry: Gail Clark curry would say, Adam Clark curry.
45:13
Life is unfair. It was harsh. But it was said to me many, many
45:18
times
45:22
John C Dvorak: or two, there's just something
45:24
Unknown: very unnatural about being in this world, the fact
45:27
that we have to pay to live, you know, pay to have health
45:31
insurance, pay to eat and drink like money is so fucking
45:35
important. Why do we put so much power into a piece of paper and
45:38
cotton? Is it
45:40
depression? Or is it the fact that our government is more
45:43
aligned with corporate profit than human lives?
45:47
government keeps us in a perpetual cycle of struggling
45:50
and suffering that most people can't even pay attention to
45:53
anything outside of their own communities? Let alone what is
45:55
happening in the world?
45:56
Is it depression? Or is it the culture of our country that if
46:01
you can't get ahead, you're just not working hard enough? There
46:05
is
46:05
no reward for hard working people anymore? I don't want to
46:09
work anymore. What is the point you cannot get ahead?
46:12
Is it depression? Or do I just need to work harder? Three jobs
46:19
and still fucking struggling? And I'm just getting myself
46:22
farther and farther into credit card debt because I don't have
46:25
enough to avoid using it feels like I'm drowning. Is it
46:30
depression?
46:30
Are we just been priced out of existence? Water, housing,
46:34
health care,
46:35
everyone should have access to them. It shouldn't matter. Your
46:38
social economic class matter your sex, gender, racial
46:41
identity. They are basic human necessities. No one should go
46:46
without.
46:49
So what is it? Is it depression? Or is it just living in America?
46:55
Adam Curry: There's one thing that about the visual of this
46:57
clip, which I did see. And I you can't really know for sure, but
47:02
look like everyone in their car had a pretty nice car. Yeah, I
47:06
noticed. And, and I don't know that a lot. My first car, I was
47:11
on television, I was making 19,000 guilders a year on
47:16
television, which at the time was $8,000. I think, of course,
47:21
it was Dutch socialist country. My first car was a lancea. An
47:25
old lancea with the paint was all off, scraped off it. And the
47:31
wheel literally flew off while I was driving to work one day. You
47:36
know, it's like that we had Crap Cars. We worked on him
47:40
ourselves. As you can tell, that's when my wheel fell off,
47:43
because I didn't tighten it. But you know, it's like that, that
47:47
John C Dvorak: we used to work on cars. Yeah, we used to work
47:49
on our own cars and move them to your own car. Well, you have a
47:53
gun I had we had the gun. Strobe Light in the car.
47:57
Adam Curry: Can I just can I just insert a little anecdote
48:00
because this is certainly not so
48:02
John C Dvorak: well. Before you do that. I just want to mention
48:03
that last clip. When that woman was reading her laundry list,
48:07
she said she used the term racial identity. Yes. So you can
48:13
just say like, self identifies anything you want.
48:17
Adam Curry: Of course you can, including a victim. So I had not
48:24
flown since we flew to Nashville after the show. And part of the
48:28
reason why this is firstly, taking flying lessons I'm going
48:32
for my instrument rating is expensive. But Amy Lynn, who was
48:36
my instructor, 24 years old, she put herself through American
48:41
Airlines Academy took out a loan for I think $15,000 and, and
48:48
she, the timing was perfect. She got hired immediately at at a
48:54
regional airline. So boom, she was gone. So I really wanted to
48:58
make this flight so we can be back for the show, and then have
49:01
a release two nights with my buddy Vico, who I've known for
49:04
35 years in Dallas. And so the new instructor, Nick, Nick is 27
49:11
Similar story, took out loans because he wanted to be a pilot,
49:15
took out loans, put himself through flight school. 27 has a
49:20
two week old baby. His wife is now at home with the baby. He is
49:25
going to work for one year then we're gonna move back up to
49:27
Dallas get his ATP is air transport license so he can fly
49:32
on jets. He sees a future of course there is a future right
49:35
now. And you know and he's I am not a CIO so she doesn't know
49:39
who I am of course he's like you aren't MTV me back when they
49:42
played music? Yeah, the back in those days. Listens to maybe one
49:47
podcast from time to time is not on social media. It I like
49:52
reading books. I'm just saying it's not this is not par for the
49:56
course for everybody. But I was delighted and very very pleased.
50:00
He's with my instructor. The young future of America. It is
50:04
it is here it is here.
50:06
John C Dvorak: That's probably true but that's what we do on
50:08
the show but
50:09
Adam Curry: he's not on Tik Tok. So that
50:12
John C Dvorak: so we're gonna go to the last clip in the series,
50:15
which is these are. This is a radio, like Good morning zoo
50:20
show radios on the run of the radio stations and they're, and
50:24
they're reading and discussing. Yeah, everything's got you got
50:28
everything ready.
50:29
Adam Curry: I'm ready. I'm ready.
50:30
John C Dvorak: They're discussing what hiring managers
50:33
have kind of uncovered about Gen Z and I thought this was a good
50:37
way to wrap up this series of complainers 100
50:41
Unknown: hiring managers were part of this survey and they
50:44
were asked about Gen Z employees. Well, more than half
50:48
say recent calling college graduates are not prepared for
50:51
the workforce. 53% said young applicants struggle to make eye
50:54
contact during job interviews. 50% say they're asking for
50:58
unreasonable compensation. Nearly half say the interviewees
51:03
showed up wearing inappropriate attire. 21% refused to turn
51:08
their cameras on for virtual interviews. And one in five
51:13
employers say a recent college graduate had actually brought
51:17
their mom or a dad to the job interview. People are bringing
51:23
their parents to a job interview.
51:24
It's embarrassing. I thought you're gonna say when it came to
51:27
the camera and you know the virtual interview so they were
51:31
using those filters like with the dog ears and stuff like
51:33
that.
51:34
I could see that happening to now those Jen's ears lucky
51:37
enough to get the job are not starting off on the right foot.
51:40
63% of employers say young professionals can't manage their
51:43
workload. 59% say they miss deadlines often and 53% report
51:48
they're frequently late to meetings, and Gen Z has a bad
51:51
attitude to 58% of employers say the young jobseekers get too
51:55
easily offended. Imagine that 55% Fine, they don't respond
51:59
well to constructive feedback and 52% claim they have poor
52:03
communication skills. So that girl better adjust her attitude,
52:07
and learn how to dress for work and not bring mom and dad to an
52:10
interview when she has an opportunity for a better job.
52:12
Adam Curry: I think we should just change their names from a
52:14
Jen to just sunflower kids. There's a sunflower kids.
52:18
They're the ones that need to go to the special line at the
52:20
airport. They're the sunflower kids. And and it's really Yeah,
52:24
if we if we want to place blame on immigration, it's their
52:28
fault. That's why we have to bring in Yeah, I have
52:31
John C Dvorak: to assume that that's true. The good news is
52:36
that even though it's a minority, a lot of reporting
52:39
that came in because it's 52% 58% 63%. If somebody says
52:43
70%, say this, that means 30% Don't are getting good people. I
52:48
mean, they're just not as though it's not Gen Z is a bunch of bad
52:52
apples from beginning to end. Because there's some that were
52:54
brought up correctly, they're well worth they somehow got
52:58
jobs, maybe in the family store, or they worked during the
53:02
summers when they were because when I was a kid I worked during
53:04
the summers when I was in high school and college and
53:07
Adam Curry: at what when you when I was 16 Saturday job,
53:11
you're got you have a Saturday,
53:13
John C Dvorak: I had to paper routes. But I had the paper out
53:16
too. I had two paper routes. Okay,
53:18
Adam Curry: your bully for you?
53:20
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I had a shopper route, which is the
53:22
moneymaker. Don't kid yourself. Once a week. It was free money.
53:27
So anyway, the thing is, I had run into kids, I give the same
53:33
thing. Yeah, maybe I did this in that when I was a kid. And they
53:36
say there's no opportunity for us because they've and I agree
53:40
with these kids who say that because we moved all our
53:43
manufacturing to China and Mexico. And there's a lot of
53:48
word areas that used to be rife with the industry or got nothing
53:53
left. Except you know, some storage facilities or store
53:57
more, you know, your place where you could put your stuff because
54:00
you got too much. So the problem is, is systemic. But these kids
54:07
have got to get a clue.
54:08
Adam Curry: The Sunflower kids, that's what I'm gonna call them
54:10
from now on the sunflower kids. So, of course, this comes from,
54:17
and I'm guilty of this too, you know, helping your kids out bad
54:20
teen as hard as you'd like. That's it, you're not getting
54:23
any more figured out. Which is what you need to do. You know,
54:29
tough love it, hey, you can't pay your rent, you got to find a
54:32
cheaper place. Or get another roommate. I mean, they get
54:36
another roommate and that's what we used to do. So it is also
54:39
parents but I will say though, even if you listen to no agenda
54:42
stream, we've got the MMO the millennial media offensive. We
54:48
got good kids out there. I would say that most of our producers
54:52
have great kids. You meet him, you meet him at meetups, they're
54:56
go getters, they they're out there they're doing stuff so
54:59
it's this Is this is not our norm. Let's put it that way.
55:03
Thank God.
55:06
John C Dvorak: No, it's just I'm guessing it's just it's not 100%
55:11
But there's a majority of Gen Z kids that are like the ones that
55:16
were toddlers
55:18
Adam Curry: sunflower kids sunflower kids, well, then
55:21
there's this this is not helping much up the road from you in
55:25
Oakland. It's
55:26
Unknown: just kind of scary in general, not even just to go to
55:28
work, but just kind of coming outside. Dariel
55:31
Crenshaw works for Kaiser Permanente oaklins largest
55:34
private employer, the health plan is directed workers in
55:37
Oakland to stay in their offices for work and lunch, because of
55:40
concerns over crime. Workers are being told to bring their own
55:44
food or have it delivered, I do
55:46
agree. Because just their safety for their employees, you know,
55:50
if you can work at home work at home, if you have to come in,
55:53
just be safe about it
55:55
in a memo issued last month and obtained by KTVU. Kaiser also
55:59
tells workers not based in Oakland, don't have any meetings
56:02
downtown, move them elsewhere, or have them online, and also
56:05
says the Claremont hotel in the hills is the only hotel approved
56:08
for business logic. In a statement, Kaiser said in part,
56:12
those recommendations remain in place for now. Kaiser Permanente
56:15
is committed to ensuring the safety and security of our
56:18
employees and physicians across all of our locations. We
56:21
continually monitor our environments for concerns,
56:24
review our practices and strengthen them whenever
56:26
possible. Many downtown merchants and other people who
56:29
live and work in the area are taking issue with these
56:31
directives. And that
56:32
is a little upsetting to hear that, you know, because you
56:34
know, everyone's trying to thrive. Everyone's trying to you
56:36
know, make business you know, it is pretty slow as it is I don't
56:39
think you want to discourage people from walking around and
56:41
kind of given to the bad elements that are running
56:44
around. I think I think quite the opposite. I think if there
56:46
are more people on the streets, there will be less incidences.
56:51
Adam Curry: Yeah, we need better examples than what's on tick
56:54
tock, you know, you better examples of people who who grind
56:59
go grind. That's That's what used to be the American dream.
57:04
I'm old now. Of course, a lot of jobs a lot of cushy job,
57:09
John C Dvorak: by the way, I thought Foley sent me that clip
57:11
exclusively.
57:13
Adam Curry: Oh, I must have picked it up from somewhere
57:15
else. I didn't get it from Foley. I don't think so. I don't
57:19
remember. There was also and this really stems from the from
57:26
the.com Bubble days. As you know, there were some reboots,
57:30
and we got this enormous true bubble of quote unquote
57:36
journalism, journalists journalism, which somehow
57:42
includes BuzzFeed. Then here is millennial extraordinaire Taylor
57:47
Lorenz lamenting the news business.
57:50
Unknown: The entire journalism industry is basically in a
57:52
freefall. Today, the Los Angeles Times laid off 115 employees,
57:56
they wiped out their entire DC bureau in an election year, they
58:00
laid off pretty much all of their sports teams, they killed
58:03
their entire tech and business section. They laid off breaking
58:05
news writers, social media editors, the list goes on. But
58:09
what's really dark is this is just the latest in months and
58:12
months and months of layoffs in the media industry. In fact, 10s
58:16
of 1000s of journalists have been laid off in the past year,
58:19
major media companies like Buzzfeed News have completely
58:22
shuttered their news operations. Time magazine also just laid off
58:25
a ton of people and Oh, Sports Illustrated basically shut down
58:28
last week. Pretty much the entire digital media ecosystem
58:31
that myself and a lot of other millennial journalists came up
58:34
in has been completely hollowed out and it's not just digital
58:37
media sites, local news has been obliterated. The newspaper
58:40
industry is cratering rails essentially dead aside from NPR
58:45
which has been gutted. Meanwhile, hundreds of workers
58:47
at Conde Nast, the parent company of pretty much every
58:50
major magazine, from GQ to vogue to the New Yorker to Vanity Fair
58:54
are on strike because they're also facing impending layoffs.
58:58
Even mainstream national media outlets owned by billionaires
59:01
like the Washington Post where I work and the Atlantic right
59:04
estore have done layoffs. If you're a young journalist say
59:07
there's almost no on ramp to traditional journalism, even if
59:10
you do get a job journalist salaries have been stagnant and
59:13
even declined. And by the way, we don't make that much to begin
59:16
with. I don't think people understand how bad the world
59:18
would be without journalists, journalists,
59:21
John C Dvorak: just as a backup to that report from her, which
59:24
was pretty concise up to say, here's the print media declined
59:29
PBS report from the same probably about the same time
59:32
that she did that,
59:33
Unknown: you know, Emory, as much as it pains me to say this
59:35
this this the story of print media is in so many ways a story
59:39
of decline Sports Illustrated, which was once considered the
59:42
standard of sports journalism today, announced they're going
59:45
to lay off most of their staff. You work in this space. Is there
59:49
anything that is working? What's the story of reinvention for
59:52
print media? Is it the nonprofit model that Evan Smith has
59:55
championed with the Texas Tribune? The
59:58
Texas Tribune is a good example. It's had some financial
1:00:00
challenges, but they've done incredible work on a different
1:00:04
model. You we have seen in the past handful of months, this
1:00:10
initiative called press forward, which is $500 million being
1:00:15
committed across I think 22 donors, foundations and
1:00:18
individuals to support a local news initiative. In markets
1:00:23
across the country. We have a lot of people living in news
1:00:27
deserts now in this country. And this is an this is an effort to
1:00:30
try to return local news to a lot of those communities
1:00:33
strengthen it in places where there may be fledgling efforts.
1:00:38
You know, Baltimore's another good example of that, the
1:00:41
Baltimore banner, if the Baltimore Sun is disappointing
1:00:45
you you should be supporting this new this new effort, which
1:00:48
is a startup, which is being run in part by a lot of alumni from
1:00:55
the Baltimore Sun. Look, in my perfect world, they both thrive.
1:01:00
But if one model isn't working, we have to be experimenting with
1:01:04
some others and a lot of those are not for profit models.
1:01:07
Blogger
1:01:09
Adam Curry: news is worthless news is news news just is news.
1:01:14
It's opinion that you're talking about opinion and insight. And
1:01:21
does yeah that's why it doesn't work with the advertising and
1:01:24
you know, whatever. I want to get back to that to that in a
1:01:28
moment. I want to take a little sidestep because the young kids
1:01:33
in the United Kingdom are freaking out. And I have three
1:01:38
clips to show what this is really about but they're
1:01:40
freaking out because the army chief came out with a statement
1:01:45
and said Oh prepare for war there will be conscription which
1:01:50
is fancy English for the draft and they're all add didn't get
1:01:56
any Tiktok clips, but they're all They're not going to draft
1:02:00
me I'm not going to be the arm I'm not gonna fight anybody. I'm
1:02:03
not going to Oh, no, I'm not gonna prepare for war. Now
1:02:07
Unknown: simply the United States actually they're gonna
1:02:09
station nuclear weapons in the UK for the first time in 15
1:02:13
years. And that's down to tensions escalating with Russia.
1:02:16
Yeah, Pentagon documents have revealed the RAF Lakenheath in
1:02:21
Suffolk would host the warheads that are reportedly three times
1:02:24
as powerful as the Hiroshima bomb.
1:02:27
Well, this comes as Boris Johnson has vowed would fight
1:02:31
for his country if the UK goes to war.
1:02:35
Adam Curry: Now let's listen to Boris Johnson, who is very gaunt
1:02:40
looking these days, no doubt from the ozempic that he tried
1:02:44
and he's really just promoting his column.
1:02:48
Unknown: Lance Corporal Johnson reporting for duty and
1:02:51
responding to the appeal from general sunders for a Citizen
1:02:55
Army and encouraging young people across the country to
1:02:58
think of the attractions advantages of some kind of
1:03:02
military training or service because the moment they think
1:03:05
it's either uncool or unethical, or perhaps they're not following
1:03:11
general Sanders, they're following Colonel Sanders to
1:03:15
find out what we need to do about it. My column in the Daily
1:03:19
Mail,
1:03:19
Adam Curry: so let's find out what this was really about. As
1:03:22
we have Sky News, where the relatively serious sit down
1:03:25
interview with the former minister of defense in the UK
1:03:30
Unknown: lucky to have to buy sell with with us this morning.
1:03:32
It's good to see very serendipitous because somebody
1:03:37
who you'll know well, General Sir Patrick Saunders, I'm not
1:03:40
sure if you served with him, but certainly you have. So you did.
1:03:44
So he's suggesting reading between the lines in the
1:03:47
Telegraph today that if we go to war with Russia, we could find
1:03:50
that our US may have to be conscripted. That's a bit alarm.
1:03:53
Yes, head of the British Army, one of the most cerebral
1:03:56
thinkers that we've got a strategist, we need to listen
1:03:58
and listen carefully. We've been too complacent. I think I've
1:04:01
said this many times with you what's coming over the horizon
1:04:05
should shock us it should worry us and we are not prepared.
1:04:09
We've had a couple of decades, three decades or so since the
1:04:12
Cold War, life has gone well, it's now going to get more
1:04:15
difficult as authoritarian states exploit our timidity
1:04:20
perhaps reluctance to really put fires out and the best example
1:04:23
of that is a democracy on the on the corner of Eastern Europe
1:04:28
that's in its third year is now in conflict and we've not
1:04:32
resolved that. So Patrick Saunders is saying prepare for
1:04:35
what's coming over the horizon. There is a 1939 field to the
1:04:39
world right now. There's a forest authoritarian states are
1:04:42
rearming. There's a risk averseness about the West in
1:04:46
wanting to deal with that and are waiting for it and
1:04:49
institutions, global institutions such as the United
1:04:51
Nations aren't able to hold these Arab nations to account in
1:04:55
fact, the UN I'll go further is reaching its League of Nations
1:04:58
moment unless It's reformed. So that's where the world is
1:05:02
heading, we need to wake up to that there's a mindset now of
1:05:05
this era of insecurity that we're heading towards. And but
1:05:09
we're still on a peacetime defense budget of just 2%. That
1:05:13
does change. And the Red Sea is a great example, that if you
1:05:16
don't step forward, if you don't, if you're not robust in
1:05:19
dealing with those that are testing the the envelope, it
1:05:23
will be weakness will be exploited, and it will affect
1:05:27
our economy
1:05:27
Adam Curry: more money. We need more money for weapons. That's
1:05:31
what this is all about. Yeah,
1:05:33
John C Dvorak: more money to squander actually to put in
1:05:35
people's pockets. This half this money is not there's report
1:05:39
after report coming out that if you know, maybe 40% of the money
1:05:42
is actually going to where it's supposed to go. And the rest of
1:05:44
its just being squandered or pocketed, or Oh, yeah, this goes
1:05:47
through corrupt channels. I mean, can we do something about
1:05:51
this before we start just throwing more money at stuff?
1:05:53
Can we it's not impossible.
1:05:56
Adam Curry: Ukraine says it uncovered mass fraud and weapons
1:05:59
procurement. Oh, you don't say report from Rwanda? Oh, wow,
1:06:04
really? Oh, that's a surprise. Now back to the news business. I
1:06:08
believe part of it first of all, way too much. That was just free
1:06:14
money. Alright, we just have to live with that. That was free
1:06:16
money for how many years? 1512 years. 0% interest that's free
1:06:24
money, free money. That's why everyone was investing. The only
1:06:28
ones in my opinion did smart in the news business, the New York
1:06:31
Times, because they took that free money and bought games.
1:06:35
John C Dvorak: And kept MP brought non news product s which
1:06:39
Adam Curry: is the Tiffany network, CBS, they would always
1:06:42
news is a loss leader. And we make it up we invest in our news
1:06:46
to bring you news. So that's part of our service just to get
1:06:50
in the door. But you know, news by itself has never been a
1:06:54
profitable business. You either buy a newspaper to propagandize
1:06:58
for your own for your own means for your own business or
1:07:02
whatever you want to use it for. That's why billionaires have
1:07:05
always owned rich men, particularly our own
1:07:08
publications. It's just it's not a business. But now we oh, we
1:07:12
had the internet and all these ideas. And so now that has to be
1:07:15
thinned out, they've got to go away. And luckily, we bring in
1:07:20
something called AI, which, even though it's sad, that will be
1:07:25
your news, your news, actually not your opinion and your
1:07:29
insight and your analysis. But news will just be brought to you
1:07:35
by AI. That's why the getting rid of a whole bunch of people.
1:07:38
And I think when it comes to AI, we had an event take place,
1:07:43
something is on the horizon. But I have said that this AI stuff.
1:07:49
The way it's going to be used is something's going to come out.
1:07:54
And we need to flood the market with thinking like, oh, that's
1:07:57
just AI. Yeah, no, that's not real. That's just AI. And this
1:08:02
is part of the Swift up.
1:08:04
Unknown: Now a disturbing trend on social media struck one of
1:08:08
the world's biggest stars this week, when explicit AI generated
1:08:13
images of Taylor Swift began to circulate on X, formerly known
1:08:18
as Twitter. Taylor Swift's fans, or Swifties, rallied to flood
1:08:22
the platform with posts and drown out the so called Deep
1:08:26
fakes. The incident has led to renewed calls by politicians in
1:08:29
the US for legislation to clamp down on these AI generated fakes
1:08:34
now,
1:08:35
Adam Curry: so first of all, its ex now, Elon Musk is great at
1:08:39
making money from the government. So I wouldn't put it
1:08:42
past him that somehow he's involved in this up. But all of
1:08:45
a sudden off Taylor Swift, there's pornographic images of
1:08:49
her head on porn bodies. And I did some research. This has been
1:08:54
going on for a long time we've titled by the
1:08:57
John C Dvorak: way, yes, for a long you could do this with
1:08:59
Photoshop, anytime you want. I mean, it's maybe not as fast as
1:09:05
the AI is a little quicker. If it works. If it doesn't work.
1:09:09
It's not. But this has been it's just the invention of Photoshop,
1:09:13
or even before that, when with guys who knew how to do photo
1:09:16
editing by cutting, cutting the low head out of a photo itself
1:09:20
and gluing something. This is nothing new. This is nothing new
1:09:24
Adam Curry: at all. No, but what I think is happening and I have
1:09:27
a piece of John Claude Van Damme Pierre with the question that
1:09:33
was asked about this all because the White House is concerned,
1:09:36
why is the White House concerned? Something's coming
1:09:39
out. It's going to be some nasty images from somebody who needs
1:09:44
to be able to say that's a I listen to the setup question.
1:09:49
Listen to her answer it there
1:09:50
Unknown: were fake sexually explicit images of Taylor Swift
1:09:53
all over social media this week, like generated by AI. How
1:09:57
concerned is the White House about the news His use of this
1:10:01
kind of technology? And does the White House want to see Congress
1:10:03
move forward on legislation that would make sharing posting
1:10:06
images like that a federal crime?
1:10:08
So I'm glad you asked that question, because it is.
1:10:12
Adam Curry: First of all, all these questions are approved
1:10:15
before the press conference. So for jumping over Claude Van
1:10:20
Damme to say, I'm glad you asked that question. This was a setup
1:10:23
question. This was known she knew this question was coming.
1:10:28
It was probably could you please ask about about the images?
1:10:33
John C Dvorak: And she could have written a question for all
1:10:35
we know. And
1:10:36
Adam Curry: so all of a sudden, now we need legislation against
1:10:40
this. No, no, no, something's coming. That is going to be
1:10:43
highly embarrassing to somebody important legislation
1:10:46
Unknown: that would make sharing posting images like that a
1:10:49
federal crime. So
1:10:51
I'm glad you asked that question. Because it is
1:10:52
alarming. We are alarmed by the reports of this the circulation
1:10:57
of images that you just laid out a false images to be more exact,
1:11:01
and it is alarming. So while social media companies make
1:11:04
images,
1:11:05
Adam Curry: there's images of me holding up an Israeli flag.
1:11:10
Yeah, oh, it's alarming, their own
1:11:12
Unknown: independent decisions about content management, we
1:11:15
believe they have an important role to play in enforcing
1:11:18
enforcing their own rules to prevent the spread of
1:11:21
misinformation, and non consensual, intimate imagery of
1:11:24
real people. Sadly, sadly, though, too often, we know that
1:11:29
lacks enforcement disproportionately impacts
1:11:31
women, and they also impact girls, sadly, who are whelming
1:11:36
targets the overwhelming targets of unlined, harassed harassment
1:11:39
and also abuse. So the President is committed, as you know, to
1:11:42
ensuring we reduce the risk of gender generative AI producing
1:11:46
genders like through his latest executive order that we
1:11:50
announced just just in the fall of last year.
1:11:53
Adam Curry: She's reading the script here.
1:11:55
Unknown: So this problem is not new. And it's one that the Biden
1:11:58
Harris administration has been prioritizing since day one, we
1:12:01
have taken this very seriously. Again, this is alarming to us.
1:12:05
You as you know, he launched a task force to address online
1:12:09
harassment and abuse. He did that just this fall, the
1:12:12
Department of Justice launched the first national 24/7 helpline
1:12:15
for survivors of image based sexual abuse. And so our
1:12:19
commitment, and that we will continue to do and continue to
1:12:22
take action, and make sure that we continue to work on this. And
1:12:27
again, this is very alarming and we're gonna do what we can to
1:12:31
deal with this issue.
1:12:32
Adam Curry: This has been going on for decades. This is not new
1:12:36
and alarming. That first something at who could it be?
1:12:41
I'm thinking Kamala, well, there may be pictures of Kamala.
1:12:47
John C Dvorak: Oh, yeah. Because she was notorious actually for
1:12:50
having heels. Yeah, I can even name the guy that should be seen
1:12:54
with
1:12:55
Adam Curry: heels. Hi, Harris. We all know her nickname in
1:12:57
Washington, DC.
1:12:59
John C Dvorak: So this, I just want to point out that when she
1:13:02
says, if you notice in the past that you ever heard, I think
1:13:06
when Kelly McInerney, whoever was running the trumpet when she
1:13:10
was a press secretary. She never said the Trump pence presidency.
1:13:15
No. I don't remember anyone saying the Obama Biden
1:13:19
presidency except Biden when he was running. Yep. But this woman
1:13:24
consistently says the Biden Harris presidency and she did it
1:13:29
in that clip. That's what tipped me off. And so she said that
1:13:33
yes, that would be the lead. So she so they got Harris mentioned
1:13:37
a lot, maybe could be some family picture. Now. Harris
1:13:41
Harris would be the because you know, they I think they still
1:13:44
would like to run her or maybe it's a way to get her off the
1:13:46
track. Or maybe there's a lot of possibilities here you could do.
1:13:51
I'll
1:13:52
Adam Curry: be honest with you. The first thought was, oh, my
1:13:54
god, they've got pictures of Big Mike. We need to say that's AI.
1:13:58
Now that was my first thought. But because that would be where
1:14:02
you need it. But then I got this clip of Larry elder on the poor
1:14:11
boy show, and he says no to Big Mike. He says Kamala all the
1:14:15
way. Here's
1:14:16
Unknown: the deal. The reason Joe Biden is not going anywhere,
1:14:21
if you can fog up a mirror is because the next person in line,
1:14:24
it's not it's not Gavin Newsom. It's not Michelle Obama. It's a
1:14:28
Kamala Harris. She wants to be president. I read a lot of black
1:14:32
media, and they feel she's being picked on for her so called
1:14:35
cackle. They feel that Joe Biden has given her thankless tasks
1:14:38
like getting to the bottom of the root causes of illegal
1:14:40
immigration. And black women are the most loyal part of the
1:14:43
Democratic base, and they will be furious if she's dropped
1:14:46
kicked for anybody other than Michelle Obama. And Michelle
1:14:49
Obama does not want the job. She wants to be loved. She wants to
1:14:52
be liked. There's nothing that's always suggest to me that she
1:14:54
has the temperament does not have the temperament to be a
1:14:56
politician. She complained for eight years about what it was
1:14:58
like to be in a fishbowl of being first Lady, what makes you
1:15:01
think she wants to be a politician and if Michelle
1:15:04
Kamala Harris have dropped kick for some white dudes like Mayor
1:15:07
Pete or Gavin Newsom, they will be livid. They won't vote
1:15:10
Republican, they just won't vote at all, thereby guaranteeing
1:15:12
whoever we nominate will win. They won't do that, that you
1:15:14
live with the identity race card, you die with it. And
1:15:17
that's why she's there. She got picked because she's a black
1:15:19
female. She's still a black female by the way she wanted to
1:15:21
run for president she did run and tell her to step aside from
1:15:25
Michelle Obama, even if Michelle Obama announced but what she
1:15:28
Kamala ran for da of San Francisco she got elected. She
1:15:31
ran for ag of California got elected and reelected she ran
1:15:34
for US Senator got elected and she's on the card with with Joe
1:15:37
Biden got elected she's never last election when she's been on
1:15:40
the ticket. Nothing and there's nothing that all that suggests
1:15:42
to me that she's going oh my god, I'm incompetent. I'll step
1:15:44
aside for Michelle Obama. Oh my god. I mean, crap. Let's step
1:15:46
aside for Gavin Newsom. Not going to happen.
1:15:49
Adam Curry: God like galeri elders theory there.
1:15:52
John C Dvorak: Yep. I think he nailed it.
1:15:53
Adam Curry: And then add to that this women, particularly women,
1:15:58
girls, you know, camo, I think there's a picture out there.
1:16:03
There's a horse more than one probably they've got to say this
1:16:06
is AI.
1:16:08
John C Dvorak: Because it's just fully Brown. As to why
1:16:11
Adam Curry: would Willie Brown sabotaged? Does he have reason?
1:16:15
John C Dvorak: I don't know that he would. Although maybe he
1:16:18
would.
1:16:20
Adam Curry: I think it's out there. This This seems Willie
1:16:22
Brown
1:16:22
John C Dvorak: is a male. Yeah. And he would probably think that
1:16:27
Gavin Newsom be a better president and Camelon he knew
1:16:31
that he had a lot to do with cannon mullahs getting up to
1:16:34
worship guys. He's
1:16:34
Adam Curry: still alive Willie Brown boy. Yeah, he's
1:16:37
John C Dvorak: still floats around every once in a while you
1:16:38
hear from him. He may even have a podcast but Willie Brown would
1:16:44
be I wouldn't put it past him. He was the probably one of the
1:16:51
greatest politicians in the history of California Black, a
1:16:54
black guy who is just could make everything happen.
1:16:59
Adam Curry: Just one last story on AI I'm a big George Carlin
1:17:05
fan such a big fan that you even made a compilation for me
1:17:09
because you have it. You have almost everything. George Carlin
1:17:12
it was neatly organized. You sent it on a on a thumb drive
1:17:16
for me. Every I mean, yeah. You
1:17:20
John C Dvorak: just have his discography. I
1:17:22
Adam Curry: mean, you have all his stuff. It's great. It's
1:17:25
great. It's hard to get as beautiful. It's a very, very
1:17:28
nice collection. And so George Carlin's estate sued this dude
1:17:34
over so called comedy special. That was aI generated. And
1:17:40
people sent this to me like, Oh, you think AI is no good. Look at
1:17:43
it. This. It wrote the script. I don't I don't think it wrote the
1:17:46
script. It did the voice. And when I looked at it, I was like,
1:17:52
no, no comedy comm can only come from humans. It can't come from
1:17:58
AI and I want to play 50 seconds of this comedy special. Maybe if
1:18:06
he had played it in front of a live audience and had real
1:18:09
laughter? Which there probably wouldn't have been much I'll
1:18:11
John C Dvorak: say, so I haven't seen this. So this entire thing.
1:18:15
Oh, good. I know about it. And I just have never followed up
1:18:19
fears. I know what it's gonna be. It's interesting. 50
1:18:23
seconds.
1:18:24
Unknown: There's one line of work that is most threatened by
1:18:26
AI one job that is most likely to be completely erased because
1:18:30
of artificial intelligence.
1:18:33
Adam Curry: I know it doesn't even well, they have a little
1:18:35
bit of it. But now it doesn't really mean
1:18:37
John C Dvorak: I can hear it yet. But it sounds like somebody
1:18:40
else that's just coincidently sounds a little bit like Carlin
1:18:44
is what it sounds like intelligence.
1:18:46
Unknown: Stand up comedy. I know what all the stand up comics
1:18:52
across the globe are saying right now. I'm an artist and my
1:18:55
art form is too creative, too nuanced, too subtle to be
1:18:58
replicated by machine. No computer program can tell a fart
1:19:02
joke as good as me. Well, let's see. This is just off the top of
1:19:08
my artificially intelligent head. A fart was in the middle
1:19:12
of a very nasty divorce. So she went to her sister's house and
1:19:15
she asked her sister, do you think I'm doing the right thing
1:19:18
by getting divorced? And her sister said he's been holding
1:19:21
you back for too long. You have to leave that asshole
1:19:29
Adam Curry: your your votes, please.
1:19:32
John C Dvorak: Holy moly. That's terrible. And by the way, Carla
1:19:35
wasn't a joke teller. No, I mean, maybe early in his career.
1:19:39
He did some jokes. But so that's a joke, literally. I don't know
1:19:43
how the AI came up with that idea. And he was observational
1:19:48
comic, very much different and also used to get into the weeds
1:19:54
with the with vocabulary. And he didn't sell anything like him. I
1:19:59
know
1:20:00
Adam Curry: But when it first came out people said oh this is
1:20:02
great and I watched a little thing I mean, it had within 20
1:20:08
minutes you know there's certain
1:20:09
John C Dvorak: that can't laughters do not even close to
1:20:12
being that well done really kills
1:20:14
Adam Curry: it that really kills it does. So, I still say that
1:20:19
the best is when AI is used by comedians. And when we have
1:20:30
funny stuff that they make funny, funny videos Funny, funny
1:20:35
memes that dare I say it blew by No, no, no crazy. Go crazy.
1:20:41
John C Dvorak: Well, a creative people get a hold of AI they
1:20:43
Adam Curry: can do things. Yeah, it's a tool for creative people.
1:20:47
Sure,
1:20:47
John C Dvorak: yes. Why comic strip blogger all of a sudden is
1:20:50
a great artist.
1:20:52
Adam Curry: He's certainly trying he's never quite it's
1:20:57
sometimes it
1:20:58
John C Dvorak: hisses yet but he's gone from his like is kind
1:21:00
of interesting would be very soulful material that he used to
1:21:06
do to stuff that is extremely slick. It's just this like as
1:21:11
too slick. It's it was it was, it was a lot of steps to slick
1:21:15
but it's a an interesting change of style. That is noteworthy to
1:21:21
me.
1:21:23
Adam Curry: I would like to remind people at this at this
1:21:25
moment, that this is a value for value podcast, I almost almost
1:21:30
brought the Executive Associate Executive Producer segment out
1:21:33
forward to this hour. But then we had one donor come in to save
1:21:38
the day. But I do want to remind you that while you're enjoying
1:21:43
this, and while you slowly tune out over time, at the end, we do
1:21:47
thank everybody give them their due credits, we bring Knights
1:21:50
and Dames onto the stage and bring them to the roundtable. We
1:21:55
talk about our meetups, there's a lot going on with the no
1:21:58
agenda, nation. And just reminder that if you get any
1:22:02
value out of this, if anything in this first hour and 22
1:22:05
minutes was a value to you, that we would like you to return that
1:22:08
with your time, talent or treasure. And some a good
1:22:14
example of time and talent was boots on the ground. And I was
1:22:20
not aware of this. Tracy sent me a note says Adam, a number of my
1:22:24
family members saw a show on PBS called Nazi Town USA. Which I
1:22:31
was unaware of it came out a couple days ago.
1:22:34
John C Dvorak: Is the masterpiece of this is the
1:22:36
American experience show. wounds. Yes, yes, this show I
1:22:41
would I didn't take any exception route. But I could
1:22:43
have
1:22:43
Adam Curry: private training, we have a trailer.
1:22:47
John C Dvorak: Well, let me just make your you can go do your
1:22:50
thing.
1:22:51
Adam Curry: Sure. I'll be over here. Just call me when you
1:22:54
read.
1:22:56
John C Dvorak: This thing had so much innuendo in it about Trump,
1:23:01
the usage of the word insurrection, the use of it was
1:23:05
one thing after another, they were trying the best they could
1:23:09
the writers, I guarantee it to associate the German Boond
1:23:14
movement from the early 1930s. And the fact that they wanted to
1:23:19
take over the country and run it. Some is a little sketchy.
1:23:23
But they wanted to take it over and turn the country into a
1:23:27
Nazi, you know, stronghold, fascist country was so you could
1:23:34
just you could take I mean, it's good, by the way. It's
1:23:37
excellent. Information is very interesting and entertaining.
1:23:41
But the idea there was a it was pretty propagandistic. And I was
1:23:46
a little offended by that part of it.
1:23:47
Adam Curry: So Tracy says that my fam her, his or her family
1:23:51
members were saying this documentary is exactly what
1:23:56
Trump is planning. It's all about the white Christian right
1:24:00
taking over the country turning it over to a new dictator. And
1:24:04
we should mention that there was a very, quite a substantial
1:24:10
Nazi, fascist Nazi movement in the United States. There was
1:24:17
really when it comes to what's the term I'm looking for. We had
1:24:22
we had best looking baby contest at fairs, eugenics, it was the
1:24:27
eugenics
1:24:28
John C Dvorak: eugenics, it was like what we were the eugenics
1:24:30
kings, it
1:24:31
Adam Curry: Hitler sent fan mail to the United States, you
1:24:35
Genesis said, Wow, you guys have really got a good idea here. And
1:24:40
he loved it until he started gassing Jews and then the
1:24:43
eugenicist in America went oh, let's, let's take let's simmer
1:24:48
down a little bit
1:24:49
John C Dvorak: your names to something else planned
1:24:51
Adam Curry: parenthood which Margaret Sanger she was a part
1:24:56
of the Eugenics Society of America. I know you You don't
1:25:00
like that? You don't think I'm not gonna get into
1:25:03
John C Dvorak: it she her main focus was birth control period.
1:25:07
Yeah. Not breathing.
1:25:09
Adam Curry: All right. But there, so there was definitely a
1:25:12
huge, so if anything for sure. The jump there was a big huge
1:25:17
Genesis movement in America and we backtracked on that when we
1:25:21
saw what could happen with it, what could be done with it, we
1:25:23
sterilize black girls, there's all kinds of horrible things
1:25:26
that we did. This is not this is not what Trump is doing. I'm
1:25:32
going to play this is very cool,
1:25:34
John C Dvorak: by the way that what you just talked about? That
1:25:39
the idea that oh, this is what Trump wants to do. That was the
1:25:42
whole reason for this American Experience show was to Yes,
1:25:47
twist the minds of the viewers. Yes. And I find it offensive. I
1:25:51
thought that the information was good, but I was familiar with it
1:25:53
to begin with. What I found a way they presented it to be
1:25:57
obvious propaganda, anti Trump prop, anti Trump, anti
1:26:01
Republican, anti Christian propaganda.
1:26:04
Adam Curry: And I'm just waiting for the following question to
1:26:06
pop up again. Because we've heard it in the past, I tried to
1:26:10
try to find a clip, but it hasn't occurred yet. If you
1:26:14
could get in a time machine and go back and kill baby Hitler,
1:26:17
would you do it? This is the kind of stuff you're going to
1:26:20
hear. IE, hey, if you could kill Trump before it becomes Hitler,
1:26:26
would you do it? You watch that's all coming.
1:26:34
Unknown: The 1930s There were these camps all across the
1:26:37
country. And they
1:26:38
looked normal. But it wasn't.
1:26:41
It was a Nazi camp.
1:26:45
Adam Curry: thing we have to
1:26:49
Unknown: go the depths of the depression, a great many
1:26:52
Americans started to ask themselves whether the American
1:26:54
experiment was failing. Lots of Americans thought that
1:26:58
capitalism democracy they were done for it and something else
1:27:01
was going to have to take its place.
1:27:04
Membership gotten
1:27:04
the Friends of the new Germany, the American and the North. us
1:27:12
for this, this might seem fascist ideology tapped into
1:27:16
some dark realities in America. I'd like to tell you a few words
1:27:19
about our purpose Nice.
1:27:23
Adam Curry: Very hard to hear any have imagined that I know. I
1:27:26
know. It gets a little better at the end that's that comes
1:27:29
straight from the PBS website. It's almost done. It's going to
1:27:31
build a distinctively American version of Nazis,
1:27:35
Unknown: or asterik power or after influences within the very
1:27:38
fabric of the United States.
1:27:40
They were literally holding parades in front of Jewish
1:27:42
people's homes. There's no such thing as foreign fascism.
1:27:49
Fascism is always homegrown.
1:27:56
Adam Curry: And what we have now, if Funny enough, funny
1:27:59
enough in the United States, what we have now is we have Jews
1:28:03
very, very worried. I was talking to the girl who stayed
1:28:09
at our house to take care of Phoebe, American Jew, and she
1:28:14
says I'm a little afraid, warranted or not. I'm a little
1:28:18
afraid to wear my Star of David out in public. I'm worried when
1:28:22
I get into an Uber and it might be a Muslim. Or might be but the
1:28:31
funny thing is, that's coming from
1:28:36
John C Dvorak: this media spinning it up. Yeah. You got
1:28:38
spun up.
1:28:39
Adam Curry: Yes. Very. I definitely tried to spin her
1:28:42
down a little bit. And, you know, and so what they're
1:28:47
bringing in now is I'll make sure you know that it's Trump is
1:28:49
Trump is Trump is Trump is Trump.
1:28:52
John C Dvorak: Was his Jewish daughter. Yes. Jewish son in
1:28:57
law. He may be Jewish. We don't know.
1:28:59
Adam Curry: Yeah, I had it was actually kind of funny.
1:29:02
John C Dvorak: But okay. Yeah, he's hates Jews somehow.
1:29:05
Adam Curry: Yeah. The so the International Court of Justice
1:29:10
by the night I got a clip. I have a clip to you. Once you
1:29:14
play your clip, I have a clip of Kirby which I think is pretty
1:29:18
funny. Yeah, I
1:29:18
John C Dvorak: do not have Kirby. Okay.
1:29:20
Adam Curry: What do you have? Well, that's
1:29:21
John C Dvorak: a good question I brought condemned Israel. Would
1:29:25
that be the one that would sound like it? Yeah, Qatar
1:29:27
Unknown: and Saudi Arabia have welcomed a ruling issued by the
1:29:31
International Court of Justice on South Africa's genocide case
1:29:34
against Israel, which orders Israel to prevent genocide acts
1:29:38
in the Gaza Strip. The Qatari Foreign Ministry said the ruling
1:29:42
serves as a stark acknowledgement of the grave
1:29:44
threat of genocide looming over the Palestinian population in
1:29:48
Gaza. The Saudi Foreign Ministry reaffirmed the rejection of
1:29:52
Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian territories and as
1:29:56
violations of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment
1:29:59
of Crime of Genocide. Meanwhile, the Palestinian Prime Minister
1:30:03
of Mohammed shtayyeh said he hopes the ruling against Israel
1:30:07
would include an immediate ceasefire given the severe
1:30:10
suffering of Gaza residents.
1:30:12
states now have a clear legal obligations to stop Israel's
1:30:16
genocidal war on the Palestinian people in Gaza and to make sure
1:30:20
that they are not complicit. the ICJ order is an important
1:30:25
reminder that no state is above the law. It should serve as a
1:30:29
wake up call for Israel and actors who enabled its
1:30:33
entrenched impunity. Alright,
1:30:35
Adam Curry: this is a problem because this justifies the
1:30:39
genocide Joe moniker. And Kirby was sent out to defend genocide
1:30:46
Joe,
1:30:46
John C Dvorak: by the way, that report I should mention came
1:30:48
from China dies okay,
1:30:50
Adam Curry: this report comes from TRT I think, which is even
1:30:54
more fun. Hey, Kirby, by the way, have you noticed he's
1:30:58
wearing dog tags
1:31:02
John C Dvorak: but over over everything over his tie over his
1:31:06
tie, break ice Fred getting shut down? He needs to be identified
1:31:11
if he's if he's killed, what what is the deal there? What
1:31:13
Adam Curry: do you think kind of the, you know, he has a chain,
1:31:16
I've seen this. He has a chain that you know, the one you'd
1:31:19
have a, you know, your ID on. And he has a dog tags, you know,
1:31:23
identical you break one half offs, and that back to the next
1:31:27
of kin. And he's wearing those dog tie. I find that to be very
1:31:31
bizarre. Anyway, you
1:31:32
John C Dvorak: know what it is? No. It's the dog tag of Lloyd
1:31:37
Austin. It's a memorial. Maybe Kirby's just a dog,
1:31:42
memorializing Lloyd Austin, who is yet to be seen. And he's back
1:31:47
in the hospital. My interpretation? Well, we'll
1:31:55
Adam Curry: see what happens. Here is a question that came in
1:31:58
regarding genocide. Joe,
1:32:01
Unknown: thank you. The fact of the matter is the ICJ has not
1:32:04
dismissed the allegations against Israel with respect to
1:32:09
genocide. They do believe that those allegations warrant
1:32:12
further investigation and deliberation. So do you stand by
1:32:17
the words that you use earlier this month, to characterize
1:32:20
those allegations? That they're meritless, counterproductive and
1:32:24
completely without any basis, in fact, whatsoever? And what are
1:32:27
you basing that off of if the UN's top court believes that
1:32:31
there is a plausible risk of genocide, they're specifically
1:32:34
directing Israel to prevent and punish the direct and public
1:32:37
incitement to commit genocide?
1:32:38
We have no indication that that's that that's going on
1:32:41
Sabrina. We have no evidence that they are deliberately
1:32:44
trying to exterminate the people of Gaza. Well, the
1:32:48
ICJ specifically cited inflammatory statements that
1:32:52
were made by Israel's defense minister, referring to human and
1:32:56
non human animals, the President of Israel, saying the entire
1:32:59
population of Gaza is responsible. Do not see that as
1:33:03
risking incitement. Comments
1:33:04
like that are certainly also counterproductive, and
1:33:08
unhelpful. No question about that. But we haven't seen
1:33:12
indications that the Israeli Defense Forces are getting up
1:33:15
out of the rack every day putting their boots on the floor
1:33:17
and saying that they're designed their whole effort is to go
1:33:20
exterminate the Palestinian people. They're trying to
1:33:23
eliminate the threat that Hamas poses. I want to be very clear,
1:33:26
and I know I've said this a million times. And you're all
1:33:28
probably sick of me following up on this, but that doesn't mean
1:33:31
that we excuse any single innocent life loss. The right
1:33:35
number of civilian casualties is zero. But there's no indication
1:33:38
that we've seen that validates a claim of genocidal intent or
1:33:43
action by the Israeli Defense Forces.
1:33:45
Adam Curry: There's no evidence of genocide he says there's no
1:33:48
evidence they don't get their boots on every day and said
1:33:52
we're gonna kill us and Palestinians that would be
1:33:54
genocide. This is not generally what is the definition of
1:33:57
genocide?
1:33:58
John C Dvorak: Let's look it up. Okay,
1:34:00
Adam Curry: let's course the book of knowledge is very varied
1:34:07
these days.
1:34:10
John C Dvorak: interested? How
1:34:11
Adam Curry: about the Holocaust Memorial? Should we take it from
1:34:14
them? No, no.
1:34:19
John C Dvorak: Britannica. Britannica. Yeah, I think it's
1:34:23
more objective. Okay,
1:34:24
Adam Curry: Britannica says? Genocide, the deliberate and
1:34:28
systematic destruction of a group of people because of their
1:34:31
ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race.
1:34:37
John C Dvorak: You will here's the basic. here's the rub. I
1:34:40
think this is maybe from Oxford. This from Oxford. Yeah. The
1:34:43
deliberate killing of a large number of people from a
1:34:45
particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying
1:34:49
that nation or group gets pretty close. Well, if you do they
1:34:54
definitely want to destroy something. Yeah, they
1:34:56
Adam Curry: want to get rid of it. For sure. Well, anyway, By
1:35:00
John C Dvorak: the way, this way I have to read this. The
1:35:04
original the origin of the term genocide. The word genocide did
1:35:08
not exist prior to 1944.
1:35:12
Adam Curry: Oh really?
1:35:13
John C Dvorak: It's a very specific term coined by a Polish
1:35:16
Jewish lawyer named Raphael Lemkin. It's a new word. It's a
1:35:21
relatively new word. Oh, that's
1:35:23
Adam Curry: interesting. What is the root of the word is it from
1:35:26
Greek or something?
1:35:30
John C Dvorak: What's the etymology look and see
1:35:31
Adam Curry: I have said word.
1:35:36
John C Dvorak: Lawyers are saying here what the animal
1:35:38
ology is
1:35:39
Adam Curry: no. Well, we've sent in our negotiator
1:35:43
John C Dvorak: here to way way way sorry. He formed the word
1:35:46
genocide by combining Gino from the Greek word for race or tribe
1:35:50
with side from Latin word for killing.
1:35:52
Adam Curry: Right. So erase or killing? Gino is eraser. Is that
1:35:58
what you said?
1:35:58
John C Dvorak: No. This race? Oh, race. Oh, you know is Greek
1:36:01
for race or tribe. Oh, race killing. Okay. Or tribe tribe
1:36:07
killing.
1:36:08
Adam Curry: He should have copyrighted that and he will be
1:36:10
very rich, right. It
1:36:11
John C Dvorak: goes way beyond copyright.
1:36:14
Adam Curry: We sent in our negotiator who do you think we
1:36:16
sent in?
1:36:20
Unknown: Sullivan, President Biden is sending the CIA
1:36:23
director to help broke. Washington Post. A gentleman
1:36:28
there CIA director William J. Burns will look to close the
1:36:31
gaps between Israel and Hamas. That deal is said to include the
1:36:34
release of all remaining
1:36:35
John C Dvorak: costs for one second. Yeah. Under normal
1:36:38
circumstances they would have sent in Lloyd Austin or
1:36:41
Kissinger.
1:36:43
Adam Curry: Oh, I'm sorry. They
1:36:45
John C Dvorak: can still send into the agenda rolling his
1:36:47
corpse.
1:36:48
Adam Curry: Lloyd I wouldn't have been Lloyd Austin as Lloyd
1:36:51
Austin the guides to do the negotiation. Don't you typically
1:36:55
send a diplomat? If you
1:36:57
John C Dvorak: do? Well, you can see that's the great thing about
1:37:00
William Burns. He's a historic diplomat. So as head of the CIA,
1:37:06
they can move him Illinois. He's just gonna be just a diplomat.
1:37:09
He's not there to collect any information about it. Boys in
1:37:14
the streets Oh, not
1:37:15
Adam Curry: at all
1:37:16
Unknown: gaps between Israel and a loss. That deal is said to
1:37:19
include the release of all remaining hostages held in Gaza
1:37:23
and a two months ceasefire. Burns is expected to travel to
1:37:26
Europe for talks with Israeli and Egyptian intelligence
1:37:29
leaders. It's also sledded to me with Qatar as prime minister,
1:37:33
Israel continued to its defense today, Gaza's health ministry
1:37:36
reports, Israeli fire struck a crowd killing at least 20 people
1:37:40
wounded more than 150.
1:37:42
Adam Curry: That report was missing number of children
1:37:45
wounded or killed.
1:37:47
John C Dvorak: You're slipping. Well wasn't from Democracy Now.
1:37:50
So
1:37:51
Adam Curry: no, it was Chicago news wire. Meanwhile, there's
1:37:56
some new allegations about the United Nation pressure
1:37:59
Unknown: is growing on the United Nations and its operation
1:38:02
in Gaza, Britain and Australia on Saturday joined other
1:38:05
countries in suspending their contributions to UNRWA, the
1:38:09
United Nations Relief and Works Agency. Then later in the day,
1:38:13
Germany announced it would follow suit and that one could
1:38:16
really hurt as it was UNRWA was second largest donor. This
1:38:20
withdrawal of support follows allegations that 12 Anwar staff
1:38:24
members took part in the Hamas October 7 attacks on Israel.
1:38:28
Israel, of course, has never been a fan of the UN. But it's
1:38:32
now up the ante by saying it's determined to permanently stop
1:38:36
Anwar from operating in Gaza, in Tel Aviv is also calling for the
1:38:40
resignation of the UN agencies boss. But there are some who've
1:38:44
moved to defend Anwar, they point out it has 30,000 People
1:38:47
working under his auspices, and that the 12 has been accused
1:38:51
were all instantly sacked. Chris Ganesh is a former Anwar
1:38:55
spokesperson. He says Israel has a long history of making claims
1:38:59
about the agency, which turned out not to be true. We
1:39:02
had allegations that UNRWA was hiding rockets components in its
1:39:06
schools and was colluding with Hamas terrorists. In fact, it
1:39:09
was UNRWA that found the rocket parts in it schools immediately
1:39:13
reported to all our major donors and the Israelis condemned it
1:39:17
what did we get in reply? We got further accusations in spite of
1:39:20
having done all this that we were colluding with terrorists
1:39:24
Adam Curry: are very suspicious
1:39:26
John C Dvorak: you know the UN who did the joke of it is that
1:39:29
it's the United States taxpayer that's putting up most of the
1:39:32
money that's all I think all of it all pretty much all I do have
1:39:35
a three by three about all this time.
1:39:38
Adam Curry: Three by three. I'm so excited
1:39:40
Unknown: each day run meant by JC three
1:39:43
Adam Curry: by three bearings don't read from ABC, CBS and
1:39:46
NBC. I lead you right into it. That led you right into it.
1:39:52
Unbeknownst to me, we have a three by three. This is where
1:39:55
JCD takes the top news organizations lays them out side
1:40:01
by side it seems we have and three by three plus once again
1:40:04
today.
1:40:04
John C Dvorak: Yeah, we have CBC also but let's go with ABCs wn T
1:40:08
Matt Gutman.
1:40:10
Unknown: Shocking new allegations tonight against the
1:40:12
UN's largest aid provider in Gaza. Israel submitting what it
1:40:16
says is evidence that 12 aid workers took part in Hamas is
1:40:20
October 7 rampage, the United Nations Relief Agency for
1:40:23
Palestinian refugees or OpenRA. Immediately firing those workers
1:40:27
saying its investigation could lead to criminal charges.
1:40:31
Tonight the State Department temporarily pausing funding to
1:40:33
the agency investigation
1:40:35
proves that in this case, I think it's about a dozen
1:40:38
employees are assisting Hamas. And even to the point of maybe
1:40:42
even, you know, involved in hostage taking then absolutely
1:40:45
they need to be held to account. It
1:40:46
comes after the International Court of Justice, in a sharp
1:40:49
rebuke of Israel's conduct of the war, ordered it to, quote,
1:40:52
take all measures to prevent genocide. The interim ruling
1:40:55
stop short both of calling Israel's actions in Gaza
1:40:58
genocide or demanding an immediate ceasefire. And what
1:41:02
does Israel say to the allegations of war crimes or
1:41:05
crimes? Families being blown up in airstrikes without genocide?
1:41:09
The
1:41:09
problem is that come off. He's doing everything he can use the
1:41:13
population as a human shield.
1:41:15
And tonight Hamas releasing chilling new video showing three
1:41:18
female Israeli hostages pleading for their release. The family's
1:41:22
asking we only use a steal from the video. And David back to
1:41:26
those UN workers accused of involvement in Hamas is October
1:41:29
7 attack. The Biden administration is now calling
1:41:32
for a full and transparent investigation. But they say that
1:41:35
the actions of a few should not impugn the entire agency.
1:41:39
David's still just extraordinary of true.
1:41:42
Adam Curry: This if true. This is interesting.
1:41:44
John C Dvorak: Now that contradict your clip. Yes, it
1:41:47
did.
1:41:47
Adam Curry: But there was something in that I found very
1:41:50
interesting. The family has asked that we only use a steal.
1:41:53
Why not? Why wouldn't you as a news organization, show the
1:41:58
hostages pleading for their lives?
1:42:02
John C Dvorak: Might be pandering. Okay, by being you
1:42:06
know, sickening.
1:42:08
Adam Curry: Oh, unlike everything else they show.
1:42:11
John C Dvorak: Please, designed to be safe. It was not their
1:42:16
state department didn't give him the Go ahead. It's
1:42:18
Adam Curry: designed to be sickening to show what Israel is
1:42:21
doing to Palestinians. That part is okay. I'm gonna say
1:42:27
John C Dvorak: in BC.
1:42:29
Unknown: Tonight the UN's highest court ordering Israel to
1:42:32
prevent genocidal acts by its forces but stopping short of
1:42:36
calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. South Africa had accused Israel
1:42:40
of committing genocide and ask the International Court of
1:42:44
Justice to order an end to Israel's war against Hamas.
1:42:47
Israel has an inherent right to defend itself. The vile attempt
1:42:51
to deny Israel this fundamental right is blatant discrimination
1:42:55
against the Jewish state, and it was justly rejected. Danny Danon
1:43:00
is a member of Israel's Parliament, and the
1:43:02
International Court of Justice said there is enough evidence of
1:43:05
potential genocide that there is a case to hear, what's your
1:43:08
response to that it
1:43:09
was a fake case against Israel, about a fake genocide, blaming
1:43:14
us for genocide. That's an absurd.
1:43:17
The judges highlighting this quote from Israel's defense
1:43:20
minister as potential incitement. We are fighting
1:43:23
human animals, but also calling on Hamas to immediately release
1:43:27
its hostages. The court has no way to enforce its rulings which
1:43:31
come amid a devastating humanitarian crisis families
1:43:35
waiting for hours for a single bowl of soup. Palestinians hope
1:43:39
the ruling will add to international pressure for a
1:43:42
ceasefire. It
1:43:43
makes it very difficult for this Biden administration to continue
1:43:47
to
1:43:48
provide cover to Israel,
1:43:49
this reaction from the White House.
1:43:51
We don't believe that right now in general ceasefire is the best
1:43:55
approach. We have no indication that they are deliberately
1:43:58
trying to exterminate the people of Gaza, the
1:44:01
White House saying like the cord, it's called on Israel to
1:44:04
reduce civilian casualties. The US also halting funding to the
1:44:08
UN Agency for Palestinian refugees amid allegations 12 of
1:44:12
its staff took part in the Hamas terror attack. The employees had
1:44:16
been fired, the UN says and it's launched a full investigation.
1:44:21
John C Dvorak: Okay, so they reversed the order. Yes. The
1:44:25
report they put the UN thing at the end which NBC would be kind
1:44:31
of globalist operation I would see the One A minimize
1:44:35
discussing that. So they put it at the end. I thought that was
1:44:37
interesting. Another thing that I find unique is why is it South
1:44:42
Africa? Ah,
1:44:44
Adam Curry: the I know this because a lot of money came from
1:44:49
Qatar into the south out that guy with the big mouth into the
1:44:53
South African political system. They had no money. He had the
1:44:58
guy who was saying we're going to we're going The shoot white
1:45:00
people, that guy, right that guy got they had no money to run for
1:45:05
there for the election. This is just what I've read. I don't who
1:45:09
knows if it's true and so they they take Israel to court, the
1:45:15
international criminal justice system and and then all sudden
1:45:20
they have all this money. So I think that's why South Africa
1:45:24
did it. And then they recognize the ICJ which, you know, because
1:45:32
and I don't even mean doesn't America, blatantly say we don't
1:45:37
recognize this court?
1:45:40
John C Dvorak: I don't know if that's the Google. I know we
1:45:41
don't recognize the ICC is a different court. Okay. They're
1:45:49
all you know, whatever. Okay, let's go to CBS which has the
1:45:53
mum in my opinion still has the best coverage of everything. I
1:45:58
think they do the best job even though ABC supposed to be the
1:46:01
top news network. Here we go. CBS, the wall continues
1:46:05
Unknown: to close in on civilians inside Gaza resulted
1:46:09
1000s of miles away in The Hague. The United Nations
1:46:12
International Court of Justice has delivered its interim
1:46:16
rulings on South Africa's case against Israel. The court
1:46:20
residing Judge Jones Donohue stressed that this was part of a
1:46:23
wider court case to determine whether or not Israel was
1:46:27
committing genocide. That however, could take years not
1:46:31
she warned the court
1:46:33
considers that the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the
1:46:36
Gaza Strip is at serious risk of deteriorating further before the
1:46:41
court renders its final judgment. And so
1:46:44
while the courts stopped short of ordering an immediate
1:46:48
ceasefire, it has unequivocally ordered Israel to take all steps
1:46:54
within its power to prevent genocide and punish those who
1:46:59
incite it. It also demanded that Israel provide food and water,
1:47:05
the United Nations is 1.1 million are now facing
1:47:09
starvation and access to humanitarian aid, which is still
1:47:14
only trickling in. And for those who live there. Like Hi, I'm hi
1:47:17
dad who just want a ceasefire. This ruling was never going to
1:47:22
be enough this immaculate why would the world cold give them
1:47:26
more time to continue genocide against us. This is unjust and
1:47:30
unfair. Israel has to report back on its progress to the
1:47:35
International Court in a month. But for Palestinians trying to
1:47:39
outrun this wall a month is a long way away. And today the UN
1:47:45
Relief Agency in Gaza is under fire. 12 of its workers have
1:47:49
been fired suspected of taking part in the Hamas attack on
1:47:53
Israel last year and taunting the United States the agency's
1:47:57
biggest donor to temporarily halt its funding worth pointing
1:48:01
Adam Curry: out today is Holocaust Remembrance Day. I was
1:48:05
waiting for that good. One CBS show in the United States is
1:48:10
from the Council on Foreign Relations website. The United
1:48:13
States has long had an uneasy relationship with the
1:48:16
International Court of Justice, which primarily arbitrators,
1:48:18
legal disputes amongst UN member nations that recognizes
1:48:23
jurisdiction. The United States withdrew from the court's
1:48:26
compulsory jurisdiction in 1986 after the court ruled it owed
1:48:31
Nicaragua war reparations. So it was raining. So it withdrew from
1:48:39
the compulsory jurisdiction. Reagan pulled us out Yeah, so
1:48:43
we're out.
1:48:45
John C Dvorak: Good for him. Nicaragua, Rog, lovely.
1:48:49
Unknown: I mean really, really? Really, dude.
1:48:53
Adam Curry: I right, buddy? Yeah, like no, no, no, we don't
1:48:57
recognize you when we were clearly at fault.
1:49:00
John C Dvorak: All right, so let's go to the plus here is
1:49:02
going to be CVC which of course is a kind of a boring version of
1:49:06
our networks using that pops the gotten that pops No, they
1:49:10
usually they don't they I mean, it's not as bad as some of them.
1:49:13
They don't have anything like the BBC. But they don't have as
1:49:17
much it doesn't have as much pizzazz and and triggering is
1:49:23
our networks. Okay.
1:49:26
Adam Curry: Well, come on. What are you talking about trigger
1:49:28
right off the bat?
1:49:30
John C Dvorak: Well, baby crying Yeah,
1:49:31
Adam Curry: it's good one.
1:49:33
Unknown: In the Hague protesters and supporters of both Israel
1:49:36
and Palestinians set the stage for the momentous ruling by the
1:49:40
United Nations top court. Lawyers for Israel had wanted
1:49:43
what they call the observed genocide case dismissed. While
1:49:47
South Africa's legal team demanded what amounted to a
1:49:50
ceasefire in Gaza. The court considers that 15 judges did
1:49:54
neither the rule that while some of Israel's acts in Gaza could
1:49:57
plausibly amounted genocide, the court did not order a halt to
1:50:01
the war, instead judge to
1:50:07
Adam Curry: hear from the International Criminal Justice
1:50:09
Court and we all we order a halt to this bar. Can they do this?
1:50:15
Is it that easy. They can do whatever they want. I mean, they
1:50:18
can order a high edict they think they should have ordered
1:50:21
doesn't mean he was going to follow it. They should order it
1:50:25
was wrong with Israel and the other previous reports
1:50:27
John C Dvorak: said that they get damaged month to comply with
1:50:30
some sort of report. India did do a little paperwork. It seems
1:50:35
to me that paperwork, but they're signatories, and they
1:50:41
were ordered to stop they have to stop
1:50:43
Adam Curry: the epithets is just insane to listen to. This insane
1:50:47
is completely
1:50:47
John C Dvorak: insane
1:50:48
Unknown: plausibly amount of genocide, the court did not
1:50:51
order a halt to the war. Instead, Judge Joan Donahue said
1:50:55
Israel must take actions to prevent an acts of genocide. And
1:50:59
to improve the humanitarian situation particular
1:51:02
the court further considers that Israel must ensure with
1:51:05
immediate effect, that its military forces do not commit
1:51:09
any of the aforementioned acts
1:51:11
Adam Curry: kill better.
1:51:14
Unknown: In Gaza, where the fighting is some of the heaviest
1:51:16
of the war, and where Palestinian officials say 26,000
1:51:20
People are now dead, half of them women and children, there
1:51:24
was disappointment or check and felt would have come up with
1:51:26
anything. Immediately. There should have been a ceasefire I
1:51:30
had saved for the videographer working for CBC News, then they
1:51:34
can start investigating and see what's really happening here.
1:51:36
When I say methods everyone's expecting that Israel won't
1:51:42
follow through with the ruling said Omar Al Sokka. Since wins
1:51:46
Israel follow through with any ruling from the UN, Israeli
1:51:50
officials, including UN Ambassador Gilad or dawn,
1:51:53
meanwhile, lashed out over the fact that the genocide
1:51:56
accusation is still hanging over the country. Today
1:51:59
the UN has become one of the weapons in the arsenal of modern
1:52:04
day Nazis against us. Every human body has become weaponized
1:52:09
against the Jewish state.
1:52:12
Adam Curry: You know what's amazing about these reports it
1:52:16
has people so spawn up where you know, it's like Walk down any
1:52:23
street in your in your town. And look at the homeless the drug
1:52:30
addicts the thieving from stores the total decay look at the I'll
1:52:36
give it to you the potholes look at the look look at children who
1:52:41
are crying that they can't make ends meet no one cares about
1:52:44
that. No. Oh no juice. Let's troll room was filled with them
1:52:49
today. It's amazing. This getting spun up over this. This
1:52:54
has been going on forever. Nothing new. Sadly, yeah,
1:53:00
John C Dvorak: it's been going on since I remember when I was a
1:53:04
kid. A kid in college I was college kid when I was young at
1:53:08
the slingshot and they were arguing with each other back in
1:53:10
the day. This is you know 4050 years ago and I went to hear a I
1:53:15
got I talked about this before i i went to Wheeler auditorium for
1:53:18
to hear would turned out to be a three hour lecture on on the
1:53:23
music industry by Phil Spector.
1:53:26
Adam Curry: Wow.
1:53:28
John C Dvorak: That was feels great. It was great.
1:53:31
Adam Curry: Did you have the crazy hair? Yeah, you had the
1:53:34
crazy hair.
1:53:36
John C Dvorak: And he was way it was wearing? He was wearing some
1:53:39
sort of a blousey white shirt with the frilly the Danda
1:53:44
sleeves. It was like a lace. Yeah, oh
1:53:47
Adam Curry: yeah, frilly shirt, frilly shirt,
1:53:49
John C Dvorak: frilly shirt, and that frilly shirt, he mentioned
1:53:52
that and it was and he was referring back to the he was
1:53:55
talking about the jukebox box days of of creating hit records
1:54:03
and talk to any made dimension. And I already took took this to
1:54:06
heart when I was a became a column writer. Never have to two
1:54:10
dogs in a row. You can have hit dog hit dog hit but okay, if you
1:54:15
have two dogs don't dog on, you're done. You're done. And
1:54:17
they won't they won't play your stuff anymore. It's just you're
1:54:19
done. Yeah. And so, but he referred back to the 40s. And
1:54:26
he's talked then he says, you know, this situ and he talked a
1:54:29
refers specifically to the situation in the Middle East
1:54:32
with the Jews and the Arabs back then. And it was just it was a
1:54:36
nightmare. It's always been what you just said it's always been
1:54:40
going on but now you so why do we get spun up about because
1:54:44
Adam Curry: we're, we're be taught to choose aside because
1:54:47
you know, it's all everything. All the problems in the world
1:54:50
are the fault of one side or the other. That's what it is and
1:54:54
people fall for it every single time. Every single time. Whoa
1:54:58
blue, red, blue. Right, Left up, down Jew Muslim. It's always the
1:55:04
same. Although I don't hear Chinese Uighur, don't hear that
1:55:08
often.
1:55:09
John C Dvorak: It's ended, in fact, going to the Chinese news.
1:55:12
Wait, wait, wait, before
1:55:13
Adam Curry: you go to the Chinese news. I have one clip
1:55:16
from your buddy Kristen Welker, who is tells us that the White
1:55:23
House is very, very tired of the protests. Very tired of being
1:55:29
called genocide. Joe. Joe
1:55:31
John C Dvorak: is one of them upset?
1:55:33
Adam Curry: Very, very upset about it. Yes.
1:55:35
Unknown: What is the White House has planned to deal with
1:55:38
protesters in the coming weeks in the coming months and the
1:55:42
concern that it could overshadow his message?
1:55:46
Yeah, this event today was certainly a smaller event. And
1:55:48
we're told it was actually invite only. So perhaps that is
1:55:50
why there were no protests happening today. But the White
1:55:54
House is understanding this is a problem when it interrupts the
1:55:57
message of the President when he's on stage. So they've hired
1:56:00
a guy named Doug Landry. He is an expert at campaigns and some
1:56:03
campaigns over the past several years. And he is somebody who
1:56:07
they believe can come in and come up with a creative
1:56:09
solution. Or Mike membeli, at our Monica Alaba said he can
1:56:12
come up with a creative solution to try to make sure these folks
1:56:15
have a voice and their voice is heard. But it's not interrupting
1:56:18
the President's.
1:56:21
Adam Curry: You can have a voice but you can't interrupt the
1:56:23
president. Stop that. Stop
1:56:27
John C Dvorak: came out of that last particular event, I guess
1:56:32
where I think he was in Milwaukee, where they call them
1:56:35
genocide, Joe, but genocide Joe, but it's the
1:56:38
Adam Curry: chanting it's and it's all it's all the socialist
1:56:40
Marxist influencers who are doing this been doing it for
1:56:44
decades. They occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter.
1:56:49
Oops, oh, crap. Now they're doing it against us. Oh, well,
1:56:53
it was for when they were doing it against Trump, but then do it
1:56:56
against Joe, to be expected but but that's the point. It's like,
1:57:01
there's atrocities all over the world. But no one cares about
1:57:05
them. Ask yourself, why do you care so much about this one? Be
1:57:09
a gatekeeper of your own mind for two seconds.
1:57:13
John C Dvorak: More concerned about the pie holes.
1:57:15
Adam Curry: I'm with you on with you on that shine.
1:57:18
John C Dvorak: This is the as you as what happened to the What
1:57:20
about the Uyghurs? Well, here's China from this CCTV, actually
1:57:24
CGTN report from Beijing on China and their human rights, so
1:57:30
they're obviously taking care of the problem,
1:57:33
Unknown: or Chinese envoy has expressed the country's
1:57:35
readiness to collaborate with the global community to advance
1:57:38
and safeguard human rights. China's Permanent Representative
1:57:42
to the UN Office at Geneva was speaking after recommendations
1:57:46
made to China were adopted on Friday during a session of the
1:57:50
UN Human Rights Council Chinchou you also said Beijing aims to
1:57:54
ensure that the benefits of his modernization are distributed
1:57:58
more fairly among its people.
1:57:59
So as you can see you we will be out of course and so in the
1:58:02
process of achieving this ambitious goal, we will ensure
1:58:06
the fruits of modernization will benefit people all over the
1:58:09
country more faily continuously improve the level of human
1:58:13
rights protection and promote a free and overall development of
1:58:16
the people. While promoting high quality development of the human
1:58:20
rights course China will always uphold the spirit of
1:58:22
establishing itself while bearing in mind others an
1:58:26
advocate for equal and orderly multipolarity and inclusive
1:58:30
economic globalization that benefits everyone.
1:58:33
Adam Curry: Yeah, I know that people are teaching guys people
1:58:37
are tuning out like a China whatever. I don't know. It's not
1:58:43
it's not in the programming. It's not in the programming. If
1:58:46
it's not in the programming, people don't care. That's like
1:58:48
Africa. You know, I keep trying to play Africa clips is like you
1:58:54
can see the drop off right away. Oh, Africa. Yes, a big place.
1:58:58
John C Dvorak: Who cares buddy wants to deal with.
1:59:01
Adam Curry: I do have a fun and tight. I don't want to give it
1:59:06
away. I want to give it away. A report came out a report
1:59:11
somehow. We have big pharma and the medical industry has looked
1:59:17
into the future and the future is dementia. In Canada.
1:59:22
Unknown: A new landmark study is projecting a 187% increase in
1:59:28
people living with dementia by 2050. The report also looks at a
1:59:32
major shift in dementia demographics in this country. To
1:59:36
discuss the findings is Dr. Roger Wong, Alzheimer's Society
1:59:39
of Canada, board member, Clinical Professor of Geriatric
1:59:43
Medicine at UBC.
1:59:44
Adam Curry: I found this to be fascinating. First of all, the
1:59:47
number 187% not double, not triple not quadruple, not
1:59:52
180 511 187%. This must be a climate change model. And he's
1:59:59
got I mean Isn't dementia something that we pretty much
2:00:03
have licks? Why would it be increasing?
2:00:09
John C Dvorak: Let's find because people are living longer
2:00:11
or maybe it's not as part of it's not increasing or, or maybe
2:00:14
it's the way it's being defined or the definition is changed.
2:00:21
There's a lot of reasons. There's
2:00:23
Adam Curry: some of that, but there's an agenda here.
2:00:25
Unknown: So how do we prepare? Doctor,
2:00:27
I think there are four different ways that we can think about it.
2:00:30
The first thing is in terms of our healthcare system, we need
2:00:33
to ensure that our policies in place an implementation of these
2:00:37
policies to allow for equitable access to dementia care,
2:00:42
including diagnosis and prevention, equitable, all
2:00:45
Canadians in ways that are culturally sensitive. The second
2:00:49
way is to research we need to ensure the research on dementia
2:00:54
in Canada would include participants from very diverse
2:00:58
backgrounds, because they make up the population in Canada. And
2:01:02
a third way really, is to think about policies policies that
2:01:06
will reduce differences in dementia risk across Canada. And
2:01:10
that will include policy to allow for national data
2:01:13
collection and tracking. And fourth, and last but not least,
2:01:18
is to make sure that there is education and support that is
2:01:21
again done in culturally sensitive ways to support
2:01:24
persons living with dementia, and their care partners and
2:01:28
loved ones.
2:01:29
Adam Curry: So I was about done with this. I'm like, Oh, this is
2:01:31
not interesting. Who cares? What's kind of bogus report and
2:01:34
then all of a sudden, this guy on cloaks, it's about the
2:01:38
Asians.
2:01:39
Unknown: The report highlighted the fact that the Asian
2:01:42
population is really going to be impacted. Can you expand on
2:01:47
that? Tell us why?
2:01:48
Absolutely. So what this report does is to look at individuals
2:01:53
from different cohorts and different groupings, and this
2:01:56
discovery that for people with Asian including South and East
2:02:00
Asian ancestry, that the number of individuals living with
2:02:05
dementia is projected to increase by nine fold, so a nine
2:02:10
time increase from about 40,000 people plus living with dementia
2:02:15
right now in Canada to over 400,000. So it's a significant
2:02:20
jump, again, multiple reasons the population is aging, but
2:02:24
there are also the presence of risk factors that lead to
2:02:27
dementia since especially in this population. The other thing
2:02:32
to remember is there's also a lot of culturally sensitive
2:02:35
values, attitudes, beliefs, or stigma that could become
2:02:39
barriers in terms of these individuals accessing care
2:02:43
Adam Curry: those pesky Asians don't like our health care
2:02:48
that's what that's what this report is about. Oh, you're
2:02:52
gonna get dementia you pesky Asians if you do what do you
2:02:55
think you're going to buy eating healthy that you're going to
2:02:57
live longer? No, no, no, no no that's this is the
2:03:02
pharmaceutical industry of Canada targeting the Asians you
2:03:06
got to come into the fold now of course weird report but of
2:03:13
course what they'll do is you just kill them. Well, they have
2:03:16
that base layer. Yeah. Make got made you got made. Yeah, got
2:03:20
made. Absolutely. I'd be very worried. If I was Asian. coming
2:03:28
for you.
2:03:29
John C Dvorak: There is a kind of part of the clips earlier of
2:03:35
the kids bitching about the country being crap and United
2:03:39
States is it's all America's fault and capitalism Cordex this
2:03:45
is gonna play this is a clip I think is going to portend
2:03:48
especially if Trump gets elected because people want to leave the
2:03:51
country. But this is from a show called the bridge. I played the
2:03:55
whole I think I have the whole beginning so you get a feeling
2:03:57
for it. This is a podcast. Oh, luckily out of Beijing. Oh, and
2:04:05
I just want you to hear what they think of the of this new
2:04:09
trend.
2:04:12
Adam Curry: Snappy music, I like it already. This is a great
2:04:15
podcast,
2:04:17
Unknown: shall I call it upon to the bridge the fun conversations
2:04:20
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Find us where you get your podcasts. If you liked the show,
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us at? We love the bridge@gmail.com we love the
2:04:38
bridge. To the bridge, the American Dream is no longer to
2:04:44
settle down in the states and have kids and then quote, The
2:04:48
American dream is to leave America and quote what does that
2:04:52
bring to mind for you? baybay Wow,
2:04:55
that's a huge statement.
2:04:57
Great. I
2:04:59
love that. Through well, maybe to a certain extent, but you're
2:05:03
I was reading about this. And my the thought in my mind was,
2:05:07
there could be a silver lining to this dark cloud, you may say,
2:05:12
you know, dark for US citizens. But then I think this will be a
2:05:16
great opportunity for more Americans, especially the
2:05:19
younger generation to walk out of the country.
2:05:25
Adam Curry: I love this because, yes, I would say a large
2:05:28
contingent of young people in America think that you can just
2:05:31
go to any country and go in and live and work. Yes, that's how
2:05:36
it works here. Apparently. The answer no, no, Austria does
2:05:40
Australia, don't they still require, like a million dollars
2:05:43
in the bank account? Or some you have to be at a literal
2:05:48
John C Dvorak: to become an Australian citizen that might be
2:05:50
required?
2:05:52
Adam Curry: I think it's even for working there longer term.
2:05:54
No,
2:05:55
John C Dvorak: I don't think well, maybe we have Australia
2:05:57
and New Zealand is pretty easy to get into. Yeah.
2:06:02
Adam Curry: Well, who would want to go No one goes. No, I think
2:06:05
you have to be a billionaire and and build a bunker if you want
2:06:09
to live in New Zealand? That's no problem.
2:06:12
John C Dvorak: I think there's but I think we're gonna start
2:06:13
hearing about this more. It started with the CNN report in
2:06:17
the Chinese loving it. Just dead. Young Americans,
2:06:21
especially like the ones complaining earlier. is just
2:06:24
going to leave the country. They hate it here.
2:06:26
Adam Curry: Yeah, well, good luck.
2:06:28
John C Dvorak: That's what I think.
2:06:31
Adam Curry: I've lived in a couple of countries. I still to
2:06:33
this day, it was Christina.
2:06:38
John C Dvorak: And you've lived in very, you lived in England
2:06:41
for a long time. And you were in the very liberal Holland, which
2:06:45
is like, you know, she was perceived as the great Paradise
2:06:48
by many liberals in the United States, because you can bicycle
2:06:52
everywhere. Yeah,
2:06:53
Adam Curry: I have a report. Remember now what I've said many
2:06:55
times is that the Netherlands is the narco state of the European
2:07:00
Union. Let's get a little rundown on what's going on in
2:07:04
from Deutsche availa.
2:07:05
Unknown: Now the European Union is teaming up with port
2:07:08
operators to combat increasing illegal drug trafficking. There
2:07:12
have been huge increases in the amount of cocaine entering the
2:07:16
continent through ports in Belgium and the Netherlands in
2:07:20
recent years and that has prompted the EU to start a new
2:07:23
project to fight back against the drug smugglers person has
2:07:27
been steadily ramping up on European politicians to act to
2:07:30
tackle the drug gangs operating here. Criminals have reportedly
2:07:34
been handing out hundreds of 1000s of euros in bribes to port
2:07:38
workers and threatening them and their families to gain access to
2:07:41
shipments. The Dutch port of Rotterdam is another key focus
2:07:46
of the project. Scores of people have been shot or bombed in drug
2:07:50
gang violence in Belgium, the Netherlands and across the
2:07:52
European Union in recent years, including the murders of famous
2:07:56
investigators and lawyers, as well as innocent children caught
2:08:00
in the crossfire customs officials here in Antwerp seized
2:08:04
116,000 kilos of cocaine last year coming in on ships from all
2:08:10
over the world. It was another new yearly record for the port.
2:08:15
And bear in mind, that's just what's being seized, not what's
2:08:20
getting past the customs officials. The gangs are
2:08:23
bringing the drugs in from Latin America, mainly Ecuador and
2:08:26
Colombia. The Porter liars comprises of European
2:08:30
politicians, Port masters, shipping companies and security
2:08:34
firms.
2:08:37
Adam Curry: And it's so bad. They're the micro mafia, killing
2:08:42
each other. Over stolen dope. It's this it's a mess. It's a
2:08:49
mess. But hey, they got wooden shoes. I just need to play a
2:08:57
couple clips. We were going to take our break in a moment.
2:09:00
Because Rev. Al had another classic Reverend Al moment. Not
2:09:05
on his own show, but he was with the Joy Joy read the readout.
2:09:10
And of course bitching about Trump is
2:09:12
Unknown: somewhere around a quarter of a billion dollars
2:09:15
he's going to have to come up with so Donald Trump will become
2:09:18
more unhinged. He will become more desperate. We're going to
2:09:22
see him and his followers go into the Twilight Zone in terms
2:09:27
of action now, because I do not believe he has the money. And I
2:09:32
And if he defaults, he has judgments against him. His
2:09:35
property start getting lean. He is facing something he's never
2:09:39
thought and his brand has been totally demolished now, because
2:09:45
the big businessman will be exposed like the Wizard of Oz to
2:09:49
have no clothes and no way out.
2:09:53
Adam Curry: This is a new one a hybrid. The Wizard of Oz has no
2:09:57
clothes. The
2:09:58
John C Dvorak: Wizard of Oz has No clothes. This guy is that
2:10:03
gold mine
2:10:08
Adam Curry: the Wizard of Oz has no clothes Joy read what say
2:10:11
you? Yeah,
2:10:12
Unknown: there will be no owning beauty pageants and partnering
2:10:16
with Macy's and all of those things go nice. Now in his state
2:10:20
of mind, what was the movie where they said you play with my
2:10:22
money you play with my emotions, his emotions are about to get
2:10:24
played with.
2:10:25
Adam Curry: Oh, yes. Now while we're on that
2:10:27
John C Dvorak: he hasn't owned a beauty operation for decades and
2:10:31
years.
2:10:32
Adam Curry: It's alright the Wizard of Oz has no clothes.
2:10:36
Bless just discuss this for a second. This sexual harassment
2:10:39
suit very interesting
2:10:40
Unknown: US Department of Justice says it former New York
2:10:42
Governor Andrew Cuomo did sexually harass more than a
2:10:45
dozen state employees. The settlement was announced today
2:10:49
the DOJ concluded its investigation and provided ways
2:10:52
New York can change how it handles complaints. Cuomo
2:10:55
resigned, as you recall his governor in 2021, after claims
2:10:59
that he created a hostile work environment, to staffers were
2:11:02
accused of not reporting the allegations.
2:11:05
Adam Curry: So just contrast that which no one heard about
2:11:09
what they're doing with Trump. This guy was an actual sleazy
2:11:14
Scuzz and just gets a 25 second story.
2:11:20
John C Dvorak: It's quite, it's quite ridiculous on this Trump
2:11:24
Adam Curry: has plenty of clips here.
2:11:25
John C Dvorak: Why don't I do the reason I got my clip in
2:11:28
cludes? A little mention of the fact. Maybe I don't have it. But
2:11:34
the fact that reed Hoffman is the one who financed this whole
2:11:38
deal. I
2:11:39
Adam Curry: think I have that on seconds. I do have that. Well,
2:11:47
John C Dvorak: I know what it was. It was Yeah, Trump's
2:11:48
attorney came out I didn't record it. He came out and just
2:11:53
raved about the phony baloney nature of this entire trial
2:11:58
where they couldn't put on a defense they wouldn't let him do
2:12:01
this or that or the other thing. And then she definitely she said
2:12:04
they watched the fact that she wanted to mention to the jury
2:12:07
that reed Hoffman is paid for the whole thing is just part of
2:12:11
a smear campaign. But
2:12:12
Adam Curry: do you know what the now she's claiming? That? You
2:12:16
know, she's getting death threats. But the real lawyer No,
2:12:21
no, no. This Carol woman but the real. The original suit. The
2:12:28
where she claimed damages for was because she lost her job as
2:12:32
a columnist at I think vogue at 76 years of age, which kind of
2:12:39
you might have been lost that anyway. Yeah, I would think
2:12:43
Yeah, but that's what that that's what it was really
2:12:45
originally about. Everyone sees this. Everyone sees what's going
2:12:50
on. It's now here. You're right. Let's listen to joy. Reid. Let's
2:12:53
see if she sees what's going on
2:12:55
Unknown: the unanimous verdict. Donald Trump is on the hook for
2:12:58
just over $83 million in damages at $3.3 million. To be exact. It
2:13:06
took just less than three hours of deliberation by the jury to
2:13:09
come to that verdict. It's a huge increase from the $5
2:13:12
million verdict. A separate jury awarded Carol last year after
2:13:16
finding Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming
2:13:20
her. Now this is the part where if you've got kiddos in the
2:13:23
room, you might want to cover their little ears because kiddos
2:13:26
Adam Curry: watch those kiddos which is paedos talk Ms. Carol's
2:13:30
Unknown: case goes back to the 1990s and she accused Trump of
2:13:34
doing exactly what he said on that infamous Access Hollywood
2:13:38
tape
2:13:39
Adam Curry: now please indeed, if you have kiddos in the room,
2:13:42
you may want them not to hear this because this is on
2:13:45
television where he
2:13:46
Unknown: said when you're a star they let you grab women by the
2:13:51
you remember the rest. Miss Carroll told the jury that he
2:13:55
did exactly that to her, forcibly putting his tiny
2:13:58
fingers into her against her will.
2:14:03
Adam Curry: She cannot resist she cannot resist.
2:14:07
Unknown: Ms. Carroll told the jury that he did exactly that to
2:14:10
her forcibly putting his tiny fingers into her
2:14:14
Adam Curry: now that doesn't jive with what he said on the
2:14:16
tape. He said they let you do anything. Now it's forcibly I
2:14:21
mean I'm just
2:14:23
John C Dvorak: as big gibberish me forcibly and letting you know
2:14:26
Adam Curry: I'm an effing here, obviously and the whole thing is
2:14:28
you are all thing is horrible. The whole thing.
2:14:32
John C Dvorak: This is just trying to bring back the old
2:14:34
meme so we can get the list that I made.
2:14:36
Adam Curry: Yeah, we'll play that as end of show.
2:14:40
John C Dvorak: Play out of it. Yes, Trump.
2:14:42
Adam Curry: Trump rotate. It's
2:14:43
John C Dvorak: just the same and plus the new stuff, you know,
2:14:45
which is I've got to add to the list. Now let me see. Let me
2:14:49
revisit the list. Hold
2:14:51
Adam Curry: on. Let me see if she adds anything to the list in
2:14:53
the next 25 seconds against
2:14:54
Unknown: her will in the dressing room of a New York City
2:14:57
Department Store. I'm sorry to be so blunt, but I think
2:14:59
sometime I actually forget what we're talking about here, aka
2:15:02
sexual assault, and then he serially defamed her.
2:15:07
Adam Curry: I liked that serially defamed, which of
2:15:09
course is usually only used in the context of serial rape. But
2:15:13
that's a good dude. Job, Joey. Previous
2:15:16
Unknown: New York jury ruled that yes, he did both. And then
2:15:19
he defamed her again and again and again, leading her to sue
2:15:23
him again and leading us to where we stand today.
2:15:27
Adam Curry: Unfortunately, I didn't really follow the suit, I
2:15:30
would like to know because, you know, where does freedom of
2:15:32
speech and and where does defamation start? You know, can
2:15:37
I sue some of the trolls and the troll room?
2:15:40
John C Dvorak: Yeah. You should. Yeah, we're talking the way they
2:15:45
call in Yeah.
2:15:46
Adam Curry: Oh, all kinds of things.
2:15:50
John C Dvorak: We'll stop at troll room.
2:15:54
Adam Curry: Let me see. Is there anything else we need to do?
2:15:57
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I gotta play this one clip.
2:15:58
Adam Curry: Okay. All right.
2:16:00
John C Dvorak: Because we talked about it earlier. They This is a
2:16:02
guy on another. This is a nice. He's a radio guy who has a
2:16:06
podcast and he brought this character on
2:16:09
Adam Curry: another podcast you're going to love and going
2:16:13
into the bin, baby. Yeah,
2:16:15
John C Dvorak: that's not good. And but this was an insane
2:16:19
analysis of the mystery of the missing Austin.
2:16:27
Adam Curry: Austin? Yes, yes. has been delayed
2:16:30
John C Dvorak: alysus I think takes us a little beyond what
2:16:32
I've been thinking.
2:16:33
Adam Curry: Let's review for a second. Awesome was gone. No one
2:16:37
knew. We're waiting for him to show up. It takes two weeks then
2:16:41
he shows up in something that was supposedly his home. We're
2:16:44
not sure you don't like the look. You think you know he a
2:16:48
you know and you think he's, you don't trust it? Is that a good
2:16:54
enough backgrounder?
2:16:55
John C Dvorak: And then it comes back? He's back in the hospital?
2:16:57
Yeah.
2:16:58
Unknown: What's problematic is this. We have traders within our
2:17:02
government. And I want to just finish a statement. I do not
2:17:05
believe what people saw was a real defense secretary Austin, I
2:17:10
believe he disappeared for the length of time he did, which is
2:17:13
an abrogation of his duty. And I believe what we saw was a
2:17:18
computer generated AI presentation, people said and
2:17:23
I'm not a sound engineer. Good night. I
2:17:25
have two hearing aids. But sound engineers have said, it's not
2:17:29
the same voice. They can some of these guys are sophisticated. So
2:17:34
what am I saying?
2:17:36
What is the real story was Austin in Ukraine, when Russia
2:17:41
basically blew the hell out of a NATO bunker. While the rumor is
2:17:45
yes, and even the Russian Defense Ministry said he's dead.
2:17:49
So how can people go on believing lies when there is
2:17:53
zero credibility? So
2:17:54
what I'm saying is computer generated imagery matched with
2:17:59
AI and I don't buy artificial intelligence I buy this AI and I
2:18:05
think I'm the first guy that said it as alien interference
2:18:08
alien intelligence alien meaning foreign to humanity. It can be
2:18:12
demons it can be fallen angels it can be you know the little
2:18:16
less. What is alien interference?
2:18:21
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I alien interference. I now am inside.
2:18:27
Does that take Alex Jones it go for this? This has fallen
2:18:30
Adam Curry: angels. I now have to go back and do a sound
2:18:33
analysis of of a home homebound Austin versus you could previous
2:18:40
Austin that's I believe
2:18:42
John C Dvorak: it's so echoey the homebound Yeah, that you can
2:18:46
do the analysis would be not valid. I
2:18:50
Adam Curry: think because you played that clip. I think you
2:18:52
got to Theramin it's been a long time but you deserve it. You
2:18:56
deserve a Theramin Hey, Willie in interference. I'd like to
2:19:00
thank you for your curtseying the morning to you the man who
2:19:02
put the scene conscription say hello to my friend on the other
2:19:05
end the one and only Mr. Jobs
2:19:11
John C Dvorak: in the morning all ships you see boots on the
2:19:12
ground feed near subs in the water. And all the days and
2:19:15
nights out there in
2:19:16
Adam Curry: the morning to the trolls control room. Hello troll
2:19:18
stick a few 1920 on the counter today listening to us 1920 How's
2:19:30
that stack up? This sucks. It's because of your china clip.
2:19:37
John C Dvorak: One low and China clip that was one minute long.
2:19:40
Adam Curry: I'm telling you that China clip does it man. You can
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follow along with all of the trolls. It's very feisty in
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there today. It's kind it's kind of interesting. It's a very good
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indicator of the I'll just call it the troll spun up meter. You
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can see you ha boy trolls are out of control today. Even void
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zero went in and said hey, simmer down people now that's
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like you got daddy mad. Daddy mad when void zero comes in. You
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can be a troll by going to troll room.io You can listen to the no
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agenda stream there. 24/7 There's all kinds of groovy
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podcasts on 24 hours a day many of them live, which is fun. You
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know, everyone trolls long does other things. It's good. Yeah,
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