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April 18th • 3h 38m

1652: Ashkenormativity

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John C Dvorak: Want to shake and let me get this straight? Didn't
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you basically invent podcasting? Adam curry, John C Devorah
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Adam Curry: 2024 This Year Award Winning Combination media
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assassination episode 1650.
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Unknown: This is no agenda, seeding
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Adam Curry: your clouds and broadcasting live from the heart
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of the Texas hill country here in FEMA Region number six in the
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morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry
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John C Dvorak: from Northern Silicon Valley where they're all
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singing Google Google. You can't hide. I'm John C. Dvorak.
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Adam Curry: Yeah, let's do that in a minute. But let's let's do
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the Google have
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John C Dvorak: anything that was I have I have the clip I Oh,
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good. I have a Google Google clip.
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Adam Curry: But before that, the funniest thing, just the
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funniest thing happened. I love this story. And I love how the
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mainstream is like, what are we going to do about this? This is
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a problem. Jeff,
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Unknown: hold on to the WR lifecenter got some brand new
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video we've been telling you about this rainfall in United
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Arab Emirates and in Dubai record breaking rainfall and
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flooding this view from the Dubai Airport. This rain has
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shut down schools it is shut down roads grounded flights. The
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second largest airport in the world looks like a river. This
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is the tarmac outs of plane window. Look at this view here.
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Country got 10 inches of rain in 24 hours. That is an entire
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year's worth. It's creating dangerous conditions all across
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that region. People are being told don't travel unless it's
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absolutely necessary. If you nearby Oman, there are 18 people
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who have been killed because of this severe weather. The
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National Center of meteorology in Abu Dhabi says this rain
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event surpasses anything that they have seen since they began
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keeping records in 1949.
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Adam Curry: So I'm looking around and I come across
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Bloomberg Radio, which is there 24 hours a day Bloomberg Radio
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that they have video of it as well, of course, you got people
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sitting there with headphones on with a big mic in front of the
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face, who has Bloomberg Radio, watch me. And they have a new
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reporter in Dubai. He's kind of a cute lady, you know, she's got
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a shit cut out the whole part about her. She's new. And she's
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so happy to be here. And her and her husband are living there
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with a young child, everything's great. But she's new. So she's
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inexperienced and doesn't quite know the you know how things go
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not supposed to talk about certain topics. So she right
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away explains exactly what happened and why this took
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place. And you will hear some interference being run. The
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Unknown: official response is actually this is I think they
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called it goodwill rain. And let me explain the context of this.
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So this is also new to me, right? I had, I was not familiar
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with this concept of cloud seeding. And for anyone who's
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not heard of that term, it's basically a methodology that
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some governments in the region use to help encourage rainfall.
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And what they do is whenever they see cloud formation, they
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inject substance into the clouds. And in this case, I
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think it's salts anything with a bit of iodine and the whole
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point is for for those substances to attract moisture
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to encourage more rainfall in very barren landscapes like you
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know like deserts and in the Middle East and what we have in
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the UAE and so what some people are saying and these are you
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know, this is allegations, of course, but denied by the
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government is that this has this is an example of cloud seeding
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that has gone too far. The response is that it wasn't just
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you didn't just heavy rainfall in your thought and other parts
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of it in Pakistan.
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I want Damien says started jumping Jumana that every other
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word from Damien's a Greek letter
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to my lunch when she comes to New York in a few weeks time,
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but you want to I really need to ask you this one question. What
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is the damage you're on the ground next to jobseekers and
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they breathtaking,
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Adam Curry: please? I mean, she says it right there. She's boots
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on the ground. She's brand new. Jump in man. We got to stop
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that. But we can't we can't have that be the official, the
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official explanation and The Guardian. Of course, you'd have
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the guardian to to come out and say oh, where is it here? Don't
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blame cloud seeding for the Dubai floods. Cloud seeding
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cause the heavy rain in short, scientists say no. In a
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statement issued to multiple news outlets except for the new
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lady and Bloomberg. The NCM, which oversees cloud seeding
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operations in the UAE said there was no such cloud seeding
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operations before or during the storm did not engage in any
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seeding operations during this particular weather event. He
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doesn't say before. He says during experts meanwhile, John
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you'll be interested in know how to debug Cloud seeding theory.
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Martin Unbound, a professor of atmospheric physics and dynamics
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at the University of Reading said that cloud seeding
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certainly in the Emirates is used for clouds that don't
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normally produce rain. Hmm. You would not normally develop a
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very severe storm out of that. And he added that in the 50s.
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And 60s, people still thought about using cloud seeding to
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produce these big weather events or change these big weather
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events. This is long, big recognize is just not a
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realistic possibility. Well, I'm sorry, this cloud seeding
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happens all the time for rain. Well, I'll
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John C Dvorak: tell you this, that what he just said at the
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end there, because I was a kid in California during the cloud
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seeding era and 50s and 60s,
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Adam Curry: the days of cloud seeding, day used to pour rain
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just constantly
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John C Dvorak: with these clouds and they would tell us hey, you
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know, we're seeding and boom, next thing you know it'd be
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storming like crazy.
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Adam Curry: And Lady earlier in the in that clip, the the new
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the new lady said, they were warning everybody a day and a
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half ahead of time. Hey, it's gonna rain. Now, of course,
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Deutsche Avella took the expected tact.
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Unknown: While it's not clear to what extent climate change may
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have caused rainfall. Experts say it's an example of the kind
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of weather we can only expect more on the crease. As
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temperatures rise around the world. With climate change, what
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we see a lot is that you expect increased intensity of storms
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like this heavy, heavy rainfall talk and increase conditions to
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form storms to even begin to think about precipitation.
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As the climate changes, the Gulf is expected to experience bigger
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and more frequent rainstorms.
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Adam Curry: Oh, okay. All right. There you go. This is truly
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manmade climate change. Math, manmade extreme weather event.
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It's true if you want to look at it that way. It's just I'm so
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I'm so sad that they why don't they just say it? Yeah, what's
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cloud seeding? We all know it. We have to deny
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John C Dvorak: I don't even know this not even that is though the
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especially the news media. It's not as though their butter their
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butter. Their bread is buttered by climate change. And I'm
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making money is the you know, the researchers and scammers
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that are making money off the climate change. notion so why is
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the media all in on this? Why they why can't they be honest
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with it with themselves? Oh, dig up the guy who will say climate
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change? Well, I have plenty of guys who would say just the
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opposite. If they wanted to be there in the Rolodex. You can
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have you if you wanted to put a story together. I could put 10
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guy saying is bullcrap. And 10 guy saying, Oh yeah, climate
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change, easy. climate, climate
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Adam Curry: change the movie, everybody look forward. It's on
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YouTube. I do have a Genesis clip, interestingly enough,
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which includes one of our favorite people. I don't know if
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you saw this, it was circulating around suddenly and I and it
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came by and I scooped it up in the net 1982 which is forced
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that 42 years ago. Yeah, 90 Yes. 98. Ha, can you believe that
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1982 was 42 years ago was hey, it was a long time ago. Dan
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Rather CBS the genesis of climate change. Concerned about
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rising temperatures on planet Earth heated up a hearing here
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in Washington today. For years scientists have theorized about
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the dangers of the so called greenhouse effect. Now this this
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is where I think this is why we don't remember this because the
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original term before global warming was the greenhouse
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effect. And I think that that was a bad term. Because it
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sounds so green. And you know, it doesn't even when you think
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of greenhouse, you don't think of all poo it's really hot in
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here, because most people have probably not been in a
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greenhouse.
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John C Dvorak: Yeah, but the greenhouse has been in one. Oh,
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I used to work in one. It used to work in a greenhouse. Yes,
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Adam Curry: the rose nursery in that when I was a kid, but my
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John C Dvorak: experience being in a greenhouse is that they're
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muggy muck.
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Adam Curry: Yes. muggy and warm, very muggy. And if you're if
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you're in a rose rose nursery, you get a lot of scratches.
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Anyway. So this is pre pre climate pre global warming,
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which then became climate change because the warming wasn't there
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for several years. Remember that period. So we're going back to
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greenhouse gases the warming of the Earth's atmosphere due to
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the burning of coal and oil. And in recent months as David Cullen
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reports, research has uncovered facts to support that theory
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facts
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Unknown: many scientists claim that the temperature of the
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Earth's atmosphere has been rising over the past 100 years
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that the great sheets of pack ice and Antarctica are melting
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at a much more rapid rate than previously. And finally, that
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the sea level has been rising with increasing swiftness over
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the past 40 years sound familiar?
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John C Dvorak: If they surprise me for 40 years, and that was 42
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years ago. I'm looking out the window here. Yeah. mud flats, no
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change, no change. Map of the mud flats from the night. Yeah,
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the 1880s 1890s Somebody sent me the same thing. It looks the
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same. I wasn't. So I mean, why would somebody explain this to
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me? Besides, the one guy wrote is, yeah, well, it's because of
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the silt.
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Unknown: Right cause what's happening in Greenland right
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now, the maps of the world will have to be redrawn. Erdas
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Adam Curry: redraw would happen to San Francisco Bay. Alright,
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we looked out the window, no change back to the reports. If
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the
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Unknown: scientists are correct about 25% of flora that would be
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flooded along with low lying areas all over the world.
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Climate changes could produce widespread disruption of
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Adam Curry: this climate changes. So this was really the
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precursor I'd love this Genesis clip climate changes to changes
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from greenhouse gases, climate change.
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John C Dvorak: I want to stop you for a second kind of
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perspective on this place. It was until when Reagan got
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elected. They were still promoting and I have, I will, I
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will get these clips off of an old cassette I made in the late
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70s, early 80s, I think is probably 79 to 80. Which I mean,
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which is around the house somewhere. They were still three
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years. I know where it is. Anyway, the day we're still and
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this is on mainstream hippie, radio hippie they were they were
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still pushing the new ice age. And yeah, sure went to about
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1981. And we're not talking about as Bill Maher said one
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article 1000s of articles were written about this are the same,
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they had to
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Adam Curry: write some of the same people who were then later
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wrote about and
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John C Dvorak: about half of the same Yeah, but half the same
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people a number of dissent of those people those have stuck to
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this day with the with the global cooling, which is
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interesting, but nobody talks to them. Anyway. So the show around
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1980 by 1981, they just wasn't working because they went
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through from about 70 I think it started around 72 They started
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doing all these scary things about global cooling and so they
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had to reverse change course to around 82 which is where this
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clip came from. This is part of the course changing events so
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this they flipped the script. Since
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Adam Curry: we're talking about it normally I wouldn't have done
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this but you brought in Reagan is actually mentioned in this
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1982 report. We might as well go back wind it back for years to
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1978 This is a classic no agenda clips. Many have heard it an
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hour long special by the one and only Dr. Spock Leonard Nimoy who
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told us that it would so this only four years before this
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we're gonna we're all going to flood that will you're all gonna
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die of the new ice age
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Unknown: in 1977 the worst winter in a centuries but the
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United States arctic cold rip the Midwest for weeks on weight
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blizzards paralyzed the cities of the Northeast. One desperate
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night in Buffalo, eight people froze to death in green cards.
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That portion out what was on the road that night. Traffic
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just absolutely stack was afraid of being stuck in the car all
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night long. With the cold and the wind running out of gas. And
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then what? I think that if we had to go through a real bad
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winter, just like we just went through. I think we have to
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think about moving someplace else.
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Move where brutal buffalo winter might become common all over the
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United States. climate experts believe the next Ice Age is on
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its way. According to recent evidence, it could come sooner
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than anyone could expect. And weather stations in the barn
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door. Temperatures have been dropping for 30 years. Long
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three of summer ice are now blocked year round. According to
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some climatologists within a lifetime, we might be living in
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the next Ice Age.
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Adam Curry: Oh, Mr. Spock, Ambassador Spock
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John C Dvorak: Yes, classic clip classic, no agenda clip.
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Adam Curry: It's you can find the whole hour long. I think
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it's an hour long special. He's out there walking into Blizzard
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with his heavy coat on. It's so good. And then great. A mere
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Unknown: four years later, climate changes can produce
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widespread disruption of agriculture. The American Farm
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belt might be too dry and the wheat and corn crops would have
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to move to Canada. Oh, blame the odorless colorless carbon
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dioxide gas for these potentially dangerous changes
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around the planet. That's the
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Adam Curry: they were still calling it carbon dioxide then
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we've now changed that to carbon. Obviously,
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Unknown: it is the greenhouse effect. The gas allows sunlight
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to filter down and warm the earth. But like the glass of a
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greenhouse, the carbon dioxide tends to trap heat so that it
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cannot rise into space. The scientists maintain that the
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coal oil and gas we've been burning for 100 years have
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produced more and more carbon dioxide and helped overheat the
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Earth.
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Adam Curry: Notice no mention of cows, no mention of any other
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things. No, it's just burning fossil fuels. Now some
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Unknown: political leaders endorsed the demands for more
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co2 monitoring stations. Oh, who could be coming up 1982 like
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this one in Hawaii. And they share the anger of the
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scientists at Reagan Administration budget cuts at a
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time when they feel closer to getting to where it is budget
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Adam Curry: cuts and who's coming in to get some research
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money, money money answers.
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Unknown: We are not doing the kind of research that we should
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be doing to determine whether or not the scientists who are so
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alarmed are correct and
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Adam Curry: that this is Al Gore Senator Gore assessment
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Unknown: and what they find out will affect the lives and
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fortunes of millions of people and okay, very survival of
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cities like this one. David Culhane, CBS Neos, New York,
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Adam Curry: there it is Al Gore early on going for the research
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money. And it will change the lives and riches of many Yes, it
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did, especially for Al Gore. And for others and for science. By
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the way, remember our first law of holes? If you are one Shut
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up. I'm going to play one more clip for climate change. And we
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can move on because we have a and I think this actually, I
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think this flows into a couple of clips I saw you had the new
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CEO of NPR, Catherine Mar. She She has worked quite a career
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she has she is a I mean, if if you had to place a picture next
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to Liberty card in the dictionary.
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John C Dvorak: It would be it. I believe you use I have
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Adam Curry: to she's kind of she's she's great
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John C Dvorak: photo of her wearing a Biden for President
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house.
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Adam Curry: I mean, she's all in on all of this leftist stuff,
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all of the trans Maoist stuff, all of it. So she did a TED talk
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a few years back, Mr. I
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John C Dvorak: didn't get that mistake. Mistake. I could have,
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Adam Curry: we could just play the whole 15 minutes. Instead, I
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clipped about a
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Unknown: minute and Min 30. Here I think about our lack of shared
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of urgent action
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Adam Curry: I should mention at the time, she was the I think
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the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, which of
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course produces Wikipedia. She later went on to be the
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executive director of the signal Foundation, which makes me want
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to question the use of signal the the chat chat texting app,
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right communications app. And but she is she has a long line
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of very globalist organizations that she's been in. So let's go
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back to her views on climate change and how we have to have
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the conversation, which is coming to an NPR radio station
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hear you very soon I think about
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Unknown: our lack of shared of urgent action on climate change.
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We've known for a very long time now about the negative impacts
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of manmade carbon in the atmosphere, manmade
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Adam Curry: carbon, she's she just skipped over the dioxide
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part. So now just manmade carbon funds. But
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Unknown: that implications of that data, challenge our
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identities, our industries, our communities, in ways that have
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led and created resistance and even disinformation. And the
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resulting public debates about the truth of climate change have
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prevented us from taking specific and concrete actions
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that could mitigate the harms to us around rising seas.
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Increasingly deadly waves of heat and cold, deadly powerful
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storm systems.
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Adam Curry: Notice how she brings in heat and cold all of a
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sudden, with such
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Unknown: urgent threats ahead of us, we need better ways to get
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to shared understanding. Fortunately, I've seen how at
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Wikipedia, we can come to cooperative and productive
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conversations around disagreement and decision making
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without using one shared truth as our baseline. It's general
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and accommodating approach stop.
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John C Dvorak: One shared truth of our baseline. I was waiting
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hills. That's it.
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Adam Curry: I was waiting here for you to stop it somewhere. I
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mean, she's just full of these little buzz phrases. One what
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does that mean? I don't know. She's too cute. You're looking
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at it like, Oh, she's cute. What'd she say?
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John C Dvorak: We can come to moderately shoot in a horsey
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kind of a way. cooperative
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Unknown: and productive conversations around
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disagreement and decision making. Without using one shared
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truth as our baseline. One shared
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Adam Curry: truth as our baseline I think
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John C Dvorak: of our baseline. Yes. I don't know.
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Adam Curry: I don't know. I it's it's gobbledygook. It's TED talk
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is
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John C Dvorak: total gobbledygook.
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Unknown: Generous and accommodating approach offers us
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an a practical way to take it down a notch, focusing on
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something a little less stressful, the best of what can
20:58
be known right now. And the good news is we can know a lot of
21:02
things. We have high quality information, facts and data that
21:07
allow us to do things like track the migration of, of endangered
21:11
species, or the spread of a pandemic around the world.
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Adam Curry: Oh, yes. She's gonna be great. And button by
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coincidence, someone sent me the form 990 for NPR, which I was
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very happy with, because it has a lot more stuff in here than I
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realized. NPR last year spent $2.25 million on TED talk. I
21:34
guess they have Ted Talk Radio. Yeah, so they, they, they they
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bought that for $2.25 million. Now, she will make about half a
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million dollars. Because all the salaries of the directors and
21:53
executives and important people are disclosed in this form. 990
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But what's interesting is how much do you think Steven ins
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keeps Inscape makes host of the Morning Edition. I have no idea.
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$488,000 with a 32,000 Extra bonus. Okay. The other hosts the
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secondary hosts 378. And these are pretty these are pretty big
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numbers.
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John C Dvorak: Yeah, but they don't compare to TV numbers.
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Adam Curry: No, but they only have 12 and a half million
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listeners. The whole winter we'll have MBR all of NPR?
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That's not I thought it would be much bigger. It
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John C Dvorak: will I think it was and would have been if it
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wasn't for the fact that they've gone nuts. Yeah, exactly.
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Adam Curry: They probably were much bigger and
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John C Dvorak: herbs. This girl is something is interesting,
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because if you look at those spot, this book, jingle might be
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in play here. Let me just read a few things she's done. Which
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seems unlikely. Yes, she is the non executive chairperson Web
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Summit former chief executive director Wikimedia Okay, we got
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that member the Council on Foreign Relations worked for
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UNICEF, the National Democratic Democratic Institute, the World
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Bank and access now, before joining Wikimedia She
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subsequently joined the Atlantic Council US Department of State's
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Foreign Affairs Policy Board. So a lot of stuff here for grows 41
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Spa, the spoon,
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Unknown: the spoon. Everybody wants to spot the spoon.
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John C Dvorak: Graduated from the Arabic language institutes
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intensive program at the American University in Cairo.
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That's that study that the Institute francais spent time in
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Lebanon and Tunisia. received a bachelor's from New York
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University in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies. Council on
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Foreign Relations a Eurasia group began working at HSBC in
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London. This is a big
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Adam Curry: resume. year what year at HSBC?
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John C Dvorak: 2005. Whoa, wasn't
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Adam Curry: that the year of the big scandal that maybe Comey was
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still on the board? In
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John C Dvorak: 2007. She returned in New York City where
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from 2007 to 2010. She worked at UNICEF and goes on and on. I
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mean, this is undecided. This is a person that is this is not a
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normal career path for anybody this book, listen
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Adam Curry: to this. Between 2005 When did she leave?
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John C Dvorak: Well, between today she in 2007. It looks like
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she returned to New York. I'm
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Adam Curry: looking here from Reuters. Almost like between
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2005 and 2007. There was a growing flood of US dollars
24:51
moving between the exchange houses and HSBC. This was all
24:55
the Mexican drug dealers who were money laundering their
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money through a HSBC exactly the time she was there. And Comey
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was on the board of directors. She's inside man. She's in in
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big time. And she left right around the time that Oh, we got
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our money. Let's go. Wow.
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John C Dvorak: So she's a she's a, I would say that she's a
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heavy hitter. Yeah.
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Adam Curry: Well, I mean, that's so it is unique that she's would
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you say she's cute like with dog? What did you say?
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John C Dvorak: insei. Dog. I would never say that about any
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woman ever
25:34
Adam Curry: forgot what you said. You said. I forgot what
25:37
you said. You
25:38
John C Dvorak: know, horses kind of way cute in a horse, you sort
25:40
of sense.
25:42
Adam Curry: So how often do you get such a such an elite who has
25:46
us kind of horsey good looking? She's unique. It's no wonder
25:52
it's a it's a it's a miracle. We haven't seen her surface before.
25:58
John C Dvorak: She's well, we haven't. Obviously, she hasn't
26:01
taken the profile that we're looking for. She said there's
26:06
probably 1000 People like her. Yeah, floating around going from
26:09
the Middle East Institute to one thing or another as great. But
26:13
when they crop up and push their way into the mainstream media,
26:17
which is what we deconstruct, we have to take note. And we took
26:22
we've just taken note that this woman is a spoke. Yeah. Yeah,
26:26
she's connected. And she's in it. And now she's running NPR
26:29
and she's running on behalf of the woke. And that guy where I
26:33
have clips I will get to those later. The guy who made the
26:36
wrote a simple essay. I think he was trying to kiss her ass. She
26:39
ended up getting him to quit.
26:42
Adam Curry: Yeah, let's let's play that because that this is
26:44
an interesting twist. Based on the analysis we had, mainly
26:49
yours that you know this guy. And I'm not saying it's wrong,
26:53
but that this guy was just a big hero. Do it in between CEOs. I
27:00
think that this had more impact. Yeah, I think it had more impact
27:03
than we expected. And you know, the, the cracks are starting to
27:06
fly. I was talking to a buddy of mine. And he says all the
27:09
teachers around here, it's almost like a virtue signal. Oh,
27:14
yeah. listen to NPR. And they get all their woke bullcrap from
27:19
NPR. And even though this wasn't really about a wokeness thing,
27:25
per se, the article that this Henri wrote, he was he the crack
27:31
I think the crack started to show and I think that in the
27:33
intellectuals who listen to NPR and have the tote bag and the
27:38
bumper sticker, probably the probably there was it stirred
27:42
something up. And that's why, you know, the pushback was too
27:46
hard, or it's something went wrong for this guy to quit.
27:49
Yeah, joke's on him. But I think the cracks are showing. But
27:53
John C Dvorak: the other thing is it turned out that the
27:54
staffers put it together a petition to to demand that he
27:58
get fired. The staffers, again, obviously against free speech or
28:03
free thought got all bent out of shape because they felt they
28:08
were offended because they were doing good work. Yeah.
28:12
Adam Curry: Do you know that a recent survey, I think Edison
28:15
Research showed you know what media personnel, the American
28:20
public trust most? podcasters Yes. Yes. A mil? Yes. Americans
28:30
trust podcasters more than any other media personalities.
28:37
John C Dvorak: Yeah, good for us. Yay. Yay. All podcasting.
28:43
Adam Curry: Go podcasting. Indeed.
28:46
John C Dvorak: Well, one of these I got four clips here one
28:48
of them. Two of the clips are in analysis by this guy. His name
28:53
is mentioned in the clip. But he he discusses what's happening
28:58
happening in general to the media and mentions podcast. Oh,
29:02
good. A senior business. Sorry. No, I'm
29:05
Unknown: sorry. Let's go okay. Hey, Senior Business editor at
29:08
NPR has announced his resignation. This comes just a
29:12
day after the outlets suspended him for an essay criticizing
29:15
what he called the company's liberal bias. And a statement on
29:19
X ray Berliner took jabs at the company CEO Berliner said he
29:24
can't work in a newsroom where he is quote disparaged by his
29:27
boss. Just days prior, he published an article on the free
29:31
press titled I've been at NPR for 25 years. Here's how we lost
29:36
America's trust. in it. He said NPRs culture had changed from
29:40
having an open minded spirit to a much narrower worldview.
29:44
Berliner cited a number of examples and NPRs coverage from
29:48
Hunter Biden's business dealings to the Israel Hamas wars
29:51
specifically, quote highlighting the suffering of Palestinians at
29:55
almost every turn while downplaying the atrocities of
29:59
October 7. NPR CEO Catherine Maher has defended the outlet.
30:03
She has been criticized for an alleged progressive bias and for
30:07
disparaging social media posts about Trump. Prior to being
30:11
fired at NPR, she had said, quote, our reverence for the
30:15
truth might be a distraction that's getting in the way of
30:18
finding common ground and getting things done unquote.
30:22
Adam Curry: Free before you continue. So here's the study.
30:27
The in fact they they entitled The study, because of the
30:31
outcome podcasting, a medium of trust. According to the,
30:37
according to the study of US consumers, 64% of podcast
30:41
listeners actively seek out podcasters and create time for
30:44
the content, the most of any other tests in media
30:46
personality, making the time spent with podcasts highly
30:49
engaging and intentional. And these findings, the podcasters
30:54
most trusted comes at a time when trust in the US media has
30:57
hit an all time low. Half of Americans reported to believe
31:01
that national news organizations deliberately mislead them. And
31:06
that's research from Gallup and the Knight Foundation. How about
31:11
that? That's saying a lot.
31:15
John C Dvorak: I mean, yeah, and that's probably just the tip of
31:17
the iceberg in terms of the way people feel about the mainstream
31:21
media and the mainstream media is just they don't know what to
31:23
do about it. You know, they're having meetings every once a
31:25
while, and you end up with a comment like that was in his
31:28
last clip, where the woman of this blonde, the new CEO, said
31:35
that, well, you know, it just because it can't handle the
31:37
truth is basically what she said there.
31:41
Adam Curry: I know, it's, it's a bit rude. But you know, it's
31:46
just a comment in general. If the if you look at forget NPR
31:51
for say, if you look at the mainstream media, and even just
31:55
entertainment, I consider what we do, okay, the construction,
31:58
but it is we're trying to make people laugh, it's
32:00
entertainment. I mean, everything is really ultimately
32:03
meant to be entertaining. Mainstream, they abused their
32:07
audiences. I think about the bachelor, the Robinson Island,
32:17
whatever it's called survivor, your anything to get normal
32:21
people to abuse themselves, so we can all watch it. Big
32:24
brother, all of these, all of these things are just abusing
32:28
their audience. Whereas podcasters we work together with
32:33
our audience. That's the only way we can make it work. We
32:38
produce the show together. We do it together. We respect our
32:42
audience. As far as we could throw him. You're
32:45
John C Dvorak: like very taken by this report. Dude, I know. I
32:51
can see where you bent your arms back and you're betting
32:55
yourself. Stay with me. Not a pleasant sight.
32:57
Adam Curry: Stay with me. I'm doing it for the children, John
33:01
fleece.
33:02
John C Dvorak: All right. I want to mention, by the way, this URI
33:05
guy, yeah, he quits because he knows he's going to be get paid
33:08
twice as much to do a fox podcast, but a podcast. He's
33:14
working at Fox on Neopian gut failed. And a couple of his
33:17
other shows as the you know, staff guest like Juan Williams
33:22
was for years after he got fired from the NPR
33:27
Adam Curry: executive advisor. What is it called? The one of
33:29
they usually have it's called.
33:32
John C Dvorak: They called the liberal stooge. Oh, come on.
33:35
They're the liberal put him on as the physical force. Oh,
33:38
Adam Curry: on the five I gotcha. Yeah, that's a good spot
33:41
for him. Yeah, good spot. Yes.
33:44
John C Dvorak: I like it. I like it. And he'll like it too when
33:47
he gets the money. Yeah, for sure. Onward.
33:49
Unknown: Joining me now to discuss the latest controversy
33:52
over national public radio is investigative journalist Jeff
33:54
Carlson. Jeff is also the co host of truth over news on Epic
33:59
TV. Jeff Carlson, thank you so much for joining us. Good to
34:01
have you back on the show. Recently, this clip of NPR co
34:05
Catherine Maher, which was discovered by conservative
34:07
activist Christopher Ruffo. is making the rounds especially
34:11
today with even Elon Musk commenting on it. This is what
34:15
she had to say about her fight against quote, disinformation.
34:19
The
34:19
number one challenge here that we we see is of course, the
34:22
first amendment in the United States. It also means that it is
34:25
a little bit tricky to really address some of the real
34:29
challenges of where does that information come from? And sort
34:33
of the influence pedalers who have made a real market economy
34:35
around it.
34:36
Jeff, what is your reaction to this? These this statement by
34:40
the CEO of NPR? Well,
34:41
it just keeps getting worse, doesn't it? You know, this this
34:44
whole thing originated with the essay by URI Berliner, the one
34:48
of the editors there who was frustrated with the environment
34:51
that he was working on. We've kind of finally blew the lid off
34:55
and then as people started digging on the CEO, the more
34:58
they found the more alarming it was And what I think is going on
35:02
here and why we're seeing the kind of reaction that we're
35:05
seeing is this is exposing the whole side of censorship and the
35:10
so called disinformation experts. You know, she's made a
35:14
number of speeches. You know, one of the ones she was bragging
35:17
about working with the government and central
35:20
censorship efforts. And now here she's talking about the single
35:23
biggest impediment to her work is the First Amendment
35:27
Adam Curry: it's interesting some how the sausage here at no
35:30
agenda is made in that clip was that little bit of a miss Maher
35:35
talking about, you know, the First Amendment, and I had the
35:39
clip, but it was the the audio was so broken up. Like, this
35:44
really isn't isn't really good. I mean, in context of this clip,
35:47
it's good. That's actually how I went searching for more on her
35:51
and that's how I hit on the TED Talk.
35:55
John C Dvorak: Ah, well, that clip was unusable. I had it too.
35:59
Yeah. I think it may be missing misinterpreted. I also thought
36:04
the interpretation I thought it was a little loose. Yeah,
36:07
dubious and loose. So she's yakking away about one thing or
36:10
another and they've taken it. They've taken it as a negative
36:14
thing. I didn't do that. But the overall analysis by this guy,
36:19
Jeff, is still decent. So let's go on with part three.
36:22
Unknown: There are now growing calls to defund NPR with
36:26
Republican senator Marsha Blackburn
36:28
Adam Curry: telling Oh, I first of all, can we just talk about
36:30
defunding NPR? They only get what is it? John 2%. From the US
36:36
government, it turns out way is going to be more. It
36:41
John C Dvorak: turns out to be more but it's done through AI.
36:45
There's a word for this. It's round about it. That's not the
36:48
word. But there's another word for it. They have other
36:51
mechanisms. In other words, they get money from a bunch of
36:54
sources that turn out to be proxies for the US government.
36:59
Yeah, so they're getting a lot more than that is bogus. And I
37:04
fell for it. Yeah, me too. And you fell for it is easy to fall
37:08
for. But then when you have somebody who anally analyzes
37:11
this, disguising that it's not the one this came up, I've heard
37:14
this before. And they start looking into it. It's a lot of
37:18
money.
37:18
Adam Curry: And this is what Laura Logan was talking about.
37:21
When she when she was in DC. She said they have all these
37:25
cutouts, I think is the term she Yeah, cut out, you got cut outs,
37:28
and these are NGOs. And they get millions of dollars or 10s of
37:32
millions or hundreds of millions. And they then turn
37:35
around and they and they Yeah, they fund it to NPR, just as NPR
37:40
turns around and funnels it to TED talks, which I think is
37:44
probably also a nonprofit. I'll bet you it is.
37:49
John C Dvorak: Not that I know. I know. But it had to be
37:52
switched. I mean, it was another guy who bought it.
37:55
Adam Curry: So So basically it's it's government money funding
37:58
that Ted dude.
38:02
John C Dvorak: Yes, the new jet you originally
38:05
Adam Curry: know that TED is gone. It's the new Ted dude. All
38:07
right back to the clip.
38:08
Unknown: There are now growing calls to defund NPR with
38:11
Republican senator Marsha Blackburn telling Fox News that
38:14
she's planning to propose legislative action that would
38:18
threaten to cut the funding to NPR. What is NPR is record when
38:24
it comes to covering major political stories?
38:27
Well, you know, it's I guess, in many ways, it's like a lot of
38:31
other news organizations and that they've got kind of a
38:34
storied history, and had done a great job. But as our
38:37
environment became more politicized, so did they. And
38:40
you know, the funding is something that we've talked
38:42
about for a long time, a lot of people have talked about it for
38:44
a long time. And it's not a small number. I believe the
38:48
parent organization gets almost half a billion dollars, like
38:51
$500 million, the radios get something on the magnitude of
38:54
$125 million. So we're not talking about small amounts,
38:59
even though NPR likes to portray it that way. And I would remind
39:03
everybody, you know, if you want to point to a time when a change
39:06
really happened, it was earlier than this. But NPR actually came
39:10
out at the time of the Biden Trump, you know, when they were
39:14
running for president, and in late October, right before the
39:19
actual election itself, they said that they weren't going to
39:22
cover the Hunter Biden laptop laptop story, because it wasn't
39:26
newsworthy, and made a public statement about that. And they
39:30
knew it was perfectly newsworthy, they knew that the
39:33
FBI had possession of hunters laptop, they knew in real time
39:36
that it was a real story. Publicly, they denigrated it.
39:39
And that's one of the elements that may have helped swing that
39:42
election.
39:43
Adam Curry: Ted foundation Inc.
39:50
John C Dvorak: Yeah, you look for the
39:51
Adam Curry: Yeah, yeah, dead foundation. This is interesting.
39:55
At the end, it really has reset my thinking about NPR. Because I
40:00
was, I mean, I know that they're their ad sales, or I'm sorry.
40:06
John C Dvorak: And whatever you want it, whatever
40:07
Adam Curry: you want to call it. I know that that is sold by
40:10
professional radio salespeople because they they sell, you
40:14
know, and we'll throw in NPR, you know, they sell the whole
40:17
thing as a package. And the podcasts are definitely
40:20
commercial. And they can do that because of the, you know, the
40:26
outdated laws around what they're doing. But I had, I had
40:31
never really considered that they were getting all these
40:33
grants from cutouts. That makes a lot of sense. No wonder she's
40:36
in there. She has she has to government,
40:41
John C Dvorak: government stupid. Yeah, making sure things
40:43
go the right way for this kind of money. Look, we're putting a
40:46
lot of government money in here. We want to make sure somebody's
40:49
in control. We don't want to invest the rails and protect
40:51
Adam Curry: our investment here. Yeah, definitely.
40:55
John C Dvorak: All right, I think we're on for yes.
40:56
Unknown: I mean, what's the role of the news? Fundamentally, the
40:58
role of the news is to report on the government, right? It's
41:02
supposed to be an adversarial relationship, by its very
41:06
definition, it is not supposed to be friendly, or comfortable
41:10
or conversational. And yet, with receiving a large chunk of their
41:14
funding from the government, they're now reliant on the
41:17
government. So that alters the fundamental nature of the
41:20
relationship. But you know, we can also extend these problems,
41:24
these relationship problems, to all the other media
41:27
organizations, New York Times Washington Post have very, very
41:31
cozy relationships with their national security counterparts.
41:35
So we've moved away from this watchdog, the press as a
41:39
watchdog on the government into a role of cooperation with the
41:44
government, which is the very reason that we saw all the
41:47
censorship actions that we've seen over the last number of
41:50
years. It's it's a partnership. It is not. It is not a, you
41:56
know, an adversarial watchdog relationship that's ended many
41:59
years ago, unfortunately.
42:02
Adam Curry: Was it ever a watchdog? Ever? I can't recall
42:06
it ever being a watchdog cyborg? Maybe
42:09
John C Dvorak: if you go back to the 30s. Okay. We have radio
42:13
that I think when you go back to the when the we had the American
42:17
Revolution, I think it was
42:20
Adam Curry: was there NPR during the American Revolution?
42:22
John C Dvorak: No, during a time talking about the media in
42:24
general news.
42:25
Adam Curry: Oh, please. Now that that went out the door before
42:30
John C Dvorak: we were born, I think is funny the way he puts
42:33
this thing. He could have been called on it, which was he says,
42:37
it says The New York Times and its national security
42:40
counterparts.
42:42
Adam Curry: Oh, I didn't even catch that. Yeah,
42:45
John C Dvorak: he's that's what he said. And I went Oh, that's
42:48
interesting. He's so he thinks that the New York Times is and I
42:51
think so to the New York Times is just part of the national
42:55
security system.
42:57
Adam Curry: Well, I have to have a clip after you play your your
42:59
next clip about the New York Times. Next clip, I
43:02
John C Dvorak: believe is the last Yes, it is,
43:03
Unknown: and give us a sense of just how widespread is this
43:06
activism journalism, if you will, how do we get back to the
43:09
watchdog stage that you're talking about?
43:12
Well, unfortunately, I don't think we can get back under the
43:15
old model. The you know, the pervasiveness of the activism is
43:20
so widespread, it's endemic, it's at every major, you know,
43:24
institution. And it, I don't see any rectification for it. But
43:32
people are waking up to the fact that they're constantly being
43:35
lied to. It's why the industry is undergoing such profound and
43:39
fundamental changes. We've seen any number of closures,
43:42
bankruptcies, etc. And it is opening up an entirely new
43:47
realm, you know, sort of the new media, people that are doing
43:50
their podcasts, you know, you folks at Epic, that are looking
43:54
for the fundamental truth, just want to report the news, people
43:57
are hungry for that. So while it's a very deep and fundamental
44:02
problem, on the one hand, on the other, it also creates an
44:05
opening and people are looking for that opening, so it's an
44:08
opportunity as well. But ignoring the old media is going
44:12
to go away. Jeff Carlson,
44:14
thank you so much for your time. Yeah,
44:16
Adam Curry: that's actually quite good. This has been going
44:18
on for at least 20 years and we saw it happen actually on the
44:22
media had like an hour long as a hate listen for me, but they had
44:27
a pretty good profile of the how newspapers were destroyed by
44:31
Craigslist later Backpage how government came in to regulate
44:35
Backpage because that when I was a kid, I mean, literally, that's
44:40
that's what you would look for, for your apartment for your job,
44:45
Help Wanted for a relationship, all these different things were
44:51
all in the classifieds, then that was completely disrupted by
44:55
wiped out wiped out because it was $18 billion worth of
44:59
revenue. That was taken away by Craigslist mainly. And of course
45:04
now it's rampid everywhere. And the news room. They all thought
45:08
people buy the newspaper frosh, they love our wonderful news
45:11
reporting and analysis. Oh, no, they don't. So the newspapers,
45:16
they're basically gone with some few exceptions. I think we'll
45:19
always have, you know, some big mainstream hits that people will
45:23
still glom on to usually those who are zombified and asleep.
45:27
But when you look at television, and particularly cable, it is
45:31
and streamers it is eroded to such a degree that we can't have
45:37
10 subscriptions to everything, in fact, is the first thing to
45:40
go when when, when money gets tight, like oh, let's we got
45:44
these subscriptions. Who What are we going to cut? It's the
45:49
audiences have eroded. A big hit now on a network TV show is
45:52
five, 6 million. Yeah,
45:54
John C Dvorak: tell I used to be 100 million for some things.
45:59
Adam Curry: Well, I mean, big events will be 100 million. But
46:02
even even, you know, a CBS or NBC must watch TV. I mean, that
46:07
was you were talking 20 30 million people. Easy. And so
46:11
during there was a really good article that I read about this,
46:15
I'll put it in the show notes. You know, during in the last it
46:19
was in last 15 years, we had 000 0% interest rates it's
46:28
called The Life and Death of Hollywood Daniel best in rents
46:30
and Harper's
46:32
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I read that article too as a good article.
46:34
Adam Curry: It's long but it's a good article. It's too long guy,
46:39
the guy he's an editor on garden he's the
46:41
John C Dvorak: editor to see sittings
46:44
Adam Curry: three for me. But he basically said that you know, we
46:48
had all this all of these this cheap, free money in essence,
46:53
and then the streamers came in and they started to create
46:57
amazing quote unquote amazing content paying writers all kinds
47:01
of money everybody was rockin and rollin and then it flipped
47:05
from that get get as many users the typical Silicon Valley just
47:10
don't worry about
47:12
John C Dvorak: eyeballs it took the eyeball approach to Silicon
47:15
Valley I yeah, I get get the eyeballs and we'll deal with how
47:18
much how to make money off the eyeballs later and
47:22
Adam Curry: then that change and move to profitability which is
47:24
why you see the all these companies
47:26
John C Dvorak: some of it has to be boring Hey, we gotta live
47:29
balls here. We're losing our as well is that well, it
47:32
Adam Curry: happened coincidentally with the end of
47:33
free money with inflation and the interest rate hikes. So
47:36
that's over of now Netflix is doing okay. But in general, the
47:42
industry has been hollowed out and destroyed. And add to that,
47:46
that during the writer strike. People didn't didn't Miss Kim
47:49
all or, or what's the other guy? What's the what's the other,
47:53
Jimmy? Jimmy,
47:55
John C Dvorak: Jimmy Fallon and stuff.
47:57
Adam Curry: And what's now people started watching tick
47:59
tock in bed, they didn't care
48:02
John C Dvorak: for entertaining, generally much more
48:04
entertaining.
48:05
Adam Curry: And the cost of distribution, the cost of the
48:09
studios, the old way of doing stuff is just too expensive. It
48:13
is over. And so we've seen this very slow decline. And obviously
48:18
radio is now like
48:20
John C Dvorak: tight, you know, listen to this like talking to
48:22
Brunetti. Well, I'll just exactly what he thinks he
48:26
thinks. That's why he doesn't use right. That's why he
48:29
retired, he made
48:30
Adam Curry: his money, he's gonna grow corn. So anyway, back
48:38
to the guy saying the New York Times and their national
48:42
security counterpart, we must remind ourselves that it was New
48:45
York Times reporters who I believe lied about the aluminum
48:51
tubes, and all this, which really got us into Iraq. And you
48:56
know, that's been litigated over and over again. And so well, we
48:59
didn't know as people were telling us, fine, whatever. But
49:02
there was a there's another not so nice report about the New
49:05
York Times. That is, comes from the intercept. Is that still
49:12
piarc Pierre acomodar. drive my cars so his outfit
49:16
John C Dvorak: far as I know, and even even though they say
49:18
oh, they're going broke, how they're going broke. This guy's
49:20
got enough money to sustain that company forever, forever.
49:24
Adam Curry: Trying to start this clip. A new report
49:26
Unknown: by the intercept has exposed internal editorial
49:29
guidelines issued by the New York Times, dictating how its
49:33
journalists should report on Israel's war on Palestine Gaza.
49:37
The leaked internal memo unveiled the American newspapers
49:40
restrictions on several words, including genocide, ethnic
49:44
cleansing, and occupied territory. An anonymous source
49:47
from the New York Times told the intercept that while it's not
49:50
unusual for news companies to set style guidelines, these are
49:54
unique standards applied to violence perpetrated by Israel.
49:57
The report highlighted that up until november two People, the
50:01
NYT had referred to Israeli fatalities as a massacre on 53
50:05
occasions, compared to just once for Palestinians being killed.
50:08
The disparity was also Stark in the usage of the term slaughter,
50:12
which appeared 22 times more often in descriptions of Israeli
50:16
deaths than Palestinian deaths. Since October 7. Western media
50:20
has faced heavy criticism for adopting a pro Israel tone in
50:24
its coverage. Several protests have erupted outside the offices
50:28
of media outlets, as demonstrators accused American
50:31
and European outlets of Manufacturing Consent for
50:34
genocide in Gaza. Israeli bombings on civilians houses,
50:38
hospitals and schools in Gaza have been overwhelmingly
50:41
described by Western media outlets as Israel asserting its
50:45
right to defend itself. While any act of violence by
50:48
Palestinians has been labeled as terrorism, is Western media,
50:53
downplaying Palestinian suffering in Gaza, while using
50:56
language that is being weaponized by Israel.
51:00
Adam Curry: This is a report from Turkish radio televisions,
51:03
I need to mention that as well. This is not a good look for the
51:07
New York Times often described as the New York Times, this is
51:11
exactly what they should not be doing. Because this plays into
51:15
every single trope of Zionism, and Jews running the media. What
51:22
were they thinking? Seriously, what were they thinking? Because
51:27
while I understand,
51:28
John C Dvorak: I'm guessing it wasn't even the Jewish
51:31
contingent, which Pharaoh No, very a big minority at the New
51:35
York Times most of the if there's Jews at the New York
51:38
Times, just to be honest, blunt about is at the top
51:42
Adam Curry: while getting onto public. At
51:45
John C Dvorak: the baseline is a bunch of woke liberals. And so
51:48
they probably the woke liberals that are down there probably
51:52
said, hey, there are leak this. They leaked this to somebody
51:56
over there this scam. Yes, totally. This is a hit piece on
52:00
the New York Times by the people that work at the New York Times,
52:04
I can assure you
52:05
Adam Curry: the phone call came from inside the house.
52:10
John C Dvorak: So yes, exactly.
52:12
Adam Curry: So I just want to talk about something here
52:14
because Well, I understand the brainwashed under educated over
52:19
socialized New York Times people but also what universities who
52:22
always looking for oppressed and oppressor, I get all of that. I
52:27
mean, that's Black Lives Matter is the same thing. And it's kind
52:31
of devolved down to who's genocide ng who wishes always
52:35
seemed to be able to talk about, but what is what is new, and
52:39
this really happened after October 7. And what I'm seeing
52:42
that you and I we are getting tagged and we're being called
52:45
out as covering for Zionism for the we're shilling for them.
52:50
Yeah,
52:50
John C Dvorak: it's hurting our donations. Oh, it definitely
52:52
hurting. Who knew that we had that many Jew haters to be
52:57
honest about it in our audience,
52:59
Adam Curry: but but let's talk about that for a second. Because
53:03
what? So the main term is Zionism. Design this control
53:08
everything. Israel controls everything. Oh, yeah. No, I'm
53:11
just gonna run through it when I want to
53:12
John C Dvorak: have a series. I'm sorry for being a being a
53:15
jerk about it. But yeah, no, but Right.
53:17
Adam Curry: It's important because, you know, if I'm being
53:20
accused of something, I want to understand what this where it's
53:23
coming from. And so, you know, it's Israel controls everything,
53:28
media, finance, politics, AIPAC. You know, which, you know, and I
53:34
see lists, we'll all look at all these, these, these politicians,
53:37
by the way, most of them not Jews like Marco Rubio. He's I
53:40
think he's one of the top who get all, you know, millions of
53:43
dollars in donations from AIPAC, which the American Israeli
53:47
political, actually conference, I think. And of course, American
53:53
Jews aren't doing themselves any favors by staying silent. You
53:58
know, it's like, oh, let's not just say anything. Well,
54:00
John C Dvorak: they're whining a lot about these Gaza protesters.
54:04
We
54:04
Adam Curry: have but but, but they need to also come out. And
54:07
look, there's there's no doubt that, that Jews have great
54:14
networks, especially in America, they have great networks, and
54:18
they stick together. You know, just like, there's great
54:21
networks everywhere have different types of people,
54:24
different backgrounds. Yeah, morons. But but you know, when
54:28
you when you have Jewish actors changing their names, it just,
54:32
it all adds to it. It's like, you're trying to be quiet, and
54:35
all you're doing is making it worse for everything. But now,
54:40
and I don't have many Jewish I have friends in Israel. And we
54:43
can talk about that. But I don't have many Jewish friends in
54:46
America, but the ones I do have. They're very, very frightened
54:50
right now. And it's it you know, I grew up in the Netherlands. So
54:57
I know a lot about what happened to the Jews in World War Two.
55:01
And there's lots of stuff to be skeptical about, you know, even
55:05
Anne Frank, there's all kinds of skepticism about her diary, but
55:08
doesn't really matter because I would play with friends, and the
55:12
grandmothers would be there and they had numbers in their arm
55:14
and they had stories. So, you know, there was definitely some
55:18
Jew hate going on. And when I look at what's happening, and a
55:22
lot of this is on Mastodon in general. It's always it's always
55:27
been on 4chan for a long time. And it's, you know, and it's,
55:30
it's stuff like, Are you noticing, you know, put a name
55:35
in for parentheses, you know, oh, Ju. It's, it's all like, so
55:39
there's, there's this. There's, yeah, there's this correlation
55:42
between Zionism, which, you know, the definition is, you
55:45
know, a homeland for the for the Jews and Israel. And we can
55:49
argue about that. It's not frankly not that interesting to
55:51
me. But this has devolved to. It feels a bit like 1933 Berlin.
55:59
You know, the way Dietrich Bonhoeffer described as a garden
56:02
of the beasts, we've talked about that, that break Bush,
56:05
great book, but Americans were good at this. I mean, we had the
56:08
red scares the communists, then we rounded up all the Japanese
56:12
after Pearl Harbor, you know, 911 if the towel heads, the
56:15
Muslims did it. And but this undercurrent of the Jews are
56:19
doing it the Jews are control has been long around for a long
56:22
time. And the main argument I see now is, well, what why do
56:25
you care so much about what's happening? I don't want my
56:28
American tax dollars going to genocide? This is this is the
56:33
the basic complaint, or that if you ask you keep at it, what is
56:37
the real problem? You know, it's 4,000,000,008. What if it was 40
56:41
billion, I don't care. We literally just gave the military
56:45
industrial complex 900 billion, almost a trillion. And if
56:50
anything, it's a distraction from the climate tests who I am
56:54
climate phobic, and the globalists who are restricting
56:58
our freedom of movement, your food, your finances, your
57:01
property, but we're all bugs, and we're all running around,
57:06
being really afraid of the Jews controlling and you know, and
57:09
and by the way, the Schilling that you and I are doing, yeah,
57:13
you know, we're going to be the first to get killed when they
57:15
take over. I mean, this is literally the stuff that people
57:17
are saying. And, and I'm like, Is this because possibly we have
57:24
been in the last 20 years, which I believe most of these people
57:27
grew up in the last two decades. Because I'm older now, you know,
57:31
so I don't have much to lose. I don't care I've had I'm fine
57:35
talking about I'm not trying to shill or cover for anybody. We
57:38
get no money from the Jews. I get no AIPAC money is none of
57:41
that. But isn't maybe because we deep down feel so ashamed of the
57:48
death and destruction we have done in the Middle East. For the
57:52
last 20 years, literally last 20 or 2223 years. Everyone knows
57:58
that everyone knows that, that we went into Iraq under false
58:01
pretense we killed a million people, we ruined Libya. Is it
58:07
that? Is it something deep down that were broken in our psyche?
58:11
And all we can do is, is arguing and point towards the Jews? Or
58:15
did the Jews make us do that? Did the Jews make us kill all
58:18
the Arabs? I mean, it's a serious question. What is what
58:24
is wrong with us? Why are we doing this? Because this happens
58:27
every 100 years. It's the Jews. It's I mean, it's just time for
58:32
a Jew reset. Is that what everyone wants? I'm trying to
58:37
I'm trying to understand,
58:39
John C Dvorak: well, you're not going to know.
58:42
Adam Curry: Well, there's give a lot is a lot, you know, and then
58:45
you
58:45
John C Dvorak: get all we do is deconstruct the news.
58:48
Adam Curry: I know. But this also plays into Christianity.
58:55
You know, it's like, you know, the Bible commands us to pray
58:59
for peace over Israel over Jerusalem and to be specific
59:03
Jerusalem. And then before you know, curry goes to Christians
59:08
that he's a Christian Zionist, okay.
59:12
John C Dvorak: Whatever that is, whatever that is. Well, let's
59:14
get back to these clips.
59:17
Adam Curry: So you have no input on this. You have not absolutely
59:21
John C Dvorak: I have absolutely no input on this this concerning
59:24
viewers. I just, well, let me think what is the best way to
59:30
put it? I love my job. I love what I do. Let's listen
59:34
Adam Curry: to a Google protester who was protested and
59:38
subsequently removed for protesting project Nimbus, which
59:42
is an AI project that Google is doing for is what
59:47
John C Dvorak: the project you know, it's project Nimbus is
59:50
really up cloud.
59:52
Adam Curry: That was let me play the clip so you can hear what
59:54
she thinks it is. Okay. We
59:56
Unknown: demand that Google protect their Arab Muslim in
59:59
Palestine. Tn worker voices from harassment, retaliation
1:00:03
suppression, and we demand that you will recognize project
1:00:06
Nimbus as a workplace safety and health concern. We know that the
1:00:10
genocide and BUZZA is one of the or is the first AI powered
1:00:14
genocide. So we find that big tech is at the forefront of kind
1:00:18
of like streamlining this genocide against Palestinians.
1:00:27
Adam Curry: I love the AI genocide. That's great. Ai
1:00:32
Geneseo title. Ai genocide. Yes. I mean, seriously, what
1:00:37
John C Dvorak: does one have to chant to Google? Google, you
1:00:42
can't hide you've committed genocide.
1:00:45
Adam Curry: If there was too much background noise in that, I
1:00:49
guess, I guess I didn't I didn't clip that part. I'm sorry. So
1:00:54
John C Dvorak: yeah, they had a couple protests have been
1:00:56
sitting in in New York headquarters. They said end in
1:00:59
Menlo Park, they are Mountain View. And they fired 28 Out of
1:01:05
the 80 people that are protesting within Google, this
1:01:08
is another example the call came within the house. You have
1:01:12
Sergey Brin, a Russian Jew, who emigrated with his parents in
1:01:20
late 70s. I believe 80s. I used to have him on silicon and spin
1:01:24
all the time before he became a billionaire.
1:01:27
Adam Curry: Very didn't take your call after that surprise.
1:01:30
Pretty much.
1:01:33
John C Dvorak: Once these guys, it's just typical, by the way I
1:01:35
had to get I got got to go through the experience of being
1:01:38
like, important enough that you know, people would take your
1:01:44
call, and then you go become a podcaster. And you're now you're
1:01:46
doing this what we're doing, which is much more important and
1:01:50
more meaningful, more trusting and more trusted, and nobody
1:01:54
takes your call. Because you know, what can you do with this
1:01:59
podcast? What can you do for me? podcaster? Yeah, bag podcasts
1:02:03
are so he's so you. Nobody takes your call. Right. And he's not
1:02:06
the only one. I have a DOB in my memoir. And I've known, but he
1:02:16
is a really nice guy. Smart. And he was on the show maybe 10
1:02:20
times, maybe more. And he was just a sharp guy. And once
1:02:28
bragged about how the Google at the time in this in the late 90s
1:02:31
had more PhDs working for his company than anybody, any
1:02:35
company in the world. Oh, yeah.
1:02:36
Adam Curry: Back when they that was their whole thing. We're
1:02:38
smart. We're smart. That's never since
1:02:40
John C Dvorak: then they've gotten you know, they there,
1:02:42
they became arrogant. And the irony to me is especially after
1:02:46
listening to your little thing about the Jews running
1:02:48
everything, is you get to Jews running everything. But yet,
1:02:51
they got these guys in their company because they've hired
1:02:54
the woke because the Sergey Brin broke down in tears in front of
1:03:01
Trump won, which was an embarrassment. It's just it's
1:03:07
out of control over there.
1:03:08
Adam Curry: Okay, two things. One, a quick. This was, I have a
1:03:14
Trump clip, which I think is interesting to discuss in that
1:03:16
context. But one more technology clip. This has been a story that
1:03:20
has been bubbling under and finally come to the forefront on
1:03:23
the BBC,
1:03:24
Unknown: Apple has decided to re modify its emoji software.
1:03:28
That's because after a new update last week, when you typed
1:03:31
in the word Jerusalem, the iPhone was offering an emoji of
1:03:35
a Palestinian flag. Of course, Israel and the Palestinians hold
1:03:39
competing claims to the city of Jerusalem. And as a result, many
1:03:43
have taken to social media to describe the emoji prompt as
1:03:46
anti semitic. And what's more strange is it seems to be the
1:03:51
only city in the world where this is the case, typing in
1:03:54
London, Tokyo or New York brings up no flag suggestions
1:03:58
whatsoever. Apple is described it as an unintentional mistake,
1:04:03
which has now been no sure. It's not the first time that it's
1:04:07
found itself caught up in geopolitics. In 2019, Apple Maps
1:04:12
began designating Crimea as part of Russia and then switched it
1:04:17
back to Ukraine after Russia's invasion.
1:04:20
Adam Curry: So no this is woke people and I'm sure there's
1:04:22
plenty I
1:04:23
John C Dvorak: know they're crawling all over the places
1:04:25
that you won't be able to
1:04:26
Adam Curry: get rid of them. No, no, that's their problem. But
1:04:29
John C Dvorak: here's once you're in once you I would say
1:04:33
once the woke have infested a company to extreme that it is at
1:04:38
Google and elsewhere. The company's just has to fold and
1:04:42
start over the it's just this hopeless you can't get rid of
1:04:44
them so here's he will ruin your they're there to ruin your
1:04:47
company because they don't care. They can No no no the Duchess
1:04:50
socialist communist that they hate capitalism, short Apple,
1:04:54
Adam Curry: not financial advice. So definitely not saying
1:04:58
that guy who dances around On this incredible way is Trump
1:05:03
with his Jewish daughter Jewish son in law
1:05:06
John C Dvorak: that he made himself be Jewish for all we
1:05:08
know.
1:05:10
Adam Curry: He, he moves the the embassy to Jerusalem. Big
1:05:16
friend, big friend of the Jews,
1:05:18
John C Dvorak: God dia, Abraham records got the Abraham accords
1:05:21
Adam Curry: rolling. But and I would say a lot of these people
1:05:24
who are, you know, four brackets. You never see four
1:05:28
brackets Trump, the n and so as one of his rallies, then these
1:05:35
things never start by accident. They started the chant and
1:05:38
Trump's response was interesting is a big problem.
1:06:05
Unknown: He's done everything wrong.
1:06:07
Adam Curry: They're not wrong. They're not wrong. And then he
1:06:09
does say he he's done everything wrong. As in I'm sure the next
1:06:13
line was, that would have never happened with me. But really
1:06:17
Trump Oh, you're working
1:06:18
John C Dvorak: on a Trump impression?
1:06:19
Adam Curry: Did you like it? Was it was that anywhere close?
1:06:22
John C Dvorak: It was close enough that I think you can come
1:06:24
work and I want to do one I want to build
1:06:27
Adam Curry: huge ships. When I think about Thank you. Thank
1:06:32
you. Yeah, really what he really what do you really have stopped
1:06:38
it? I don't think so. I mean, there is this the hatred is
1:06:42
really so
1:06:43
John C Dvorak: good. He's so good bit. Yeah. To say he would
1:06:47
he's he did. I mean, Biden had an interesting gaffe. I want to
1:06:50
play that by the way. I do want to get to the Columbia clips.
1:06:53
Adam Curry: Okay. All right. Go ahead. Go ahead. I'll just add
1:06:56
color.
1:06:57
John C Dvorak: I went by he played the Biden telling Israel
1:07:00
clip I
1:07:01
Unknown: made it clear to Israelis don't move on Haifa
1:07:06
instance not. Anyway, I just look what we did. Recently.
1:07:13
Blame
1:07:13
Adam Curry: it don't move on Haifa. He meant Iran probably.
1:07:18
John C Dvorak: Well, obviously didn't mean Haifa, hyphens in
1:07:20
Israel. It's their tech center. Dome.
1:07:24
Adam Curry: What well, what was he thinking then? Why was he
1:07:26
thinking like we've got to protect don't move
1:07:28
John C Dvorak: on Haifa. I was told the Israelis not to move on
1:07:31
Haifa. Maybe he told the it's possible that the back channel
1:07:36
was telling the Iranians and we've already established at
1:07:39
least the basis of our theories is that the Iranians and Biden
1:07:45
administration are in bed together. So a lot of this is
1:07:48
theater
1:07:49
Adam Curry: I sent you Did you see the picture? I sent you
1:07:51
know, the email of Lex.
1:07:54
John C Dvorak: Oh, no, I didn't get those. I mean, I probably
1:07:57
have to go dig up.
1:07:57
Adam Curry: So my my first boss ever when I was 19, lex Harding.
1:08:01
He's now 77. I think he celebrated and I always text him
1:08:06
on his birthday. We're still good friends. And he married a
1:08:11
girl from Tehran who was had been living. I think she moved
1:08:15
to Holland when she was nine or 10. But she's significantly
1:08:19
younger. She's in her 50s. And that she's great for him. I
1:08:23
mean, you want an Iranian wife, man, I'll tell you. She,
1:08:27
especially when you're an old dude. Like that was OB T takes
1:08:29
care of him. So they and I knew that he was going to go to
1:08:33
Tehran, and he's after he's going to Kabul, so I text him
1:08:37
happy birthday. So are you are you there? Are you in Tehran
1:08:39
yet? So he sends his picture. You got to see it. They're both
1:08:43
in traditional Iranian garb. I mean, it's awesome is a really
1:08:47
funny picture. And he says, yes, and no one's worried about this.
1:08:53
This is obviously the mullahs the Iranian. You have Iran. And
1:08:58
then you have the Islamic Republic of Iran. Those is all
1:09:01
the douchebags that are killing the women and everyone hates
1:09:04
them, but they're basically suppressing the Iranians. And he
1:09:07
says all of this is I think his quote was, it's just flexing
1:09:11
muscles for TV news. And I believe that and that's exactly
1:09:16
what what we said it was. It's just flexing muscles for TV
1:09:20
news.
1:09:23
John C Dvorak: Well, so I'm thinking that Biden comment
1:09:25
about not hitting Haifa was a message that he that the
1:09:30
administration sent to Tehran. Hey hit Haifa. Haifa, whatever
1:09:37
it is, we're Intel is. We have all our tech people. They're
1:09:41
good. They're all in Haifa. That's excellent. And so he was
1:09:45
telling it the Iranians no central those missiles but don't
1:09:51
make sure of all at the end and no, as far as I know, no
1:09:54
missiles were headed that way, no less. So this is a scam of
1:09:58
the highest order that will be read yield eventually. But, I
1:10:01
mean, we're just doing this on supposition theory. Yeah, but
1:10:04
we're so good at this. I'm absolutely convinced we're
1:10:07
correct. I don't
1:10:08
Adam Curry: break your arm. patting yourself on the back
1:10:11
there. Alright, let's go to Columbia then I want to hear
1:10:14
that.
1:10:15
John C Dvorak: Columbia, Columbia. This is I got it. I
1:10:18
have some clips from the hearings that I thought were
1:10:20
funny,
1:10:21
Adam Curry: which I want to play. What are these hearings?
1:10:23
What are the hearings? They had an education
1:10:25
John C Dvorak: hearing and they had the President of Colombia
1:10:27
there because Colombia has got some of the worst anti Jew in
1:10:32
New York by the way, anti Jewish protests going on pro Gaza, pro
1:10:37
Hamas protests going on at Columbia University and so they
1:10:40
brought him before the education some education committee in
1:10:44
Congress. And here's the overview clip. This is Columbia
1:10:47
Jew haters overview
1:10:49
Unknown: laters from Columbia University testified before
1:10:51
Congress today on the school's response to anti semitism on a
1:10:55
campus university president minutia fique said she's
1:10:58
committed to confronting anti semitism.
1:11:01
I've held on to four principles. First, safety is paramount and
1:11:05
we would do whatever is necessary to ensure the safety
1:11:08
of our campus. Because of those efforts. The vast majority of
1:11:12
our demonstrations have been peaceful. Second, we would
1:11:15
demonstrate care and compassion equally to everyone. Third, we
1:11:19
must uphold freedom of speech, because it's essential to our
1:11:22
academic mission. But we cannot and shouldn't tolerate abuse of
1:11:26
this privilege to harass them and discriminate. And fourth,
1:11:30
the ultimate answer to anti semitism and all its forms is
1:11:34
education.
1:11:36
During today's hearing of the House Education Committee
1:11:38
Chairwoman Virginia Foxx appeared with Jewish students
1:11:41
from Columbia who said they have faced threats and physical
1:11:45
confrontation. Lawmakers press should feed over Columbia
1:11:49
professors who praised the Hamas terrorist group. They include
1:11:52
Professor Joseph Mossad, who allegedly called the October 7
1:11:56
massacre awesome. And Professor Muhammad Abduh, who allegedly
1:12:00
expressed support for Hamas on social media should be said that
1:12:04
Mossad is under investigation and that the university will
1:12:07
fire up do. Congresswoman Elise Stefanik said Republicans would
1:12:11
hold Columbia accountable for failing to protect students.
1:12:15
Meanwhile, the University of Southern California is also
1:12:18
under scrutiny this week. It canceled a graduation speech by
1:12:22
a pro Palestinian valedictorian due to security concerns.
1:12:26
Adam Curry: I have that clip. Do you want to hear the USC clip?
1:12:30
Yes, I
1:12:30
Unknown: please. Controversy on campus after USC canceled the
1:12:34
valedictorians commencement speech citing safety concerns
1:12:38
asthma Tabassum was chosen by the USC Provost to be this
1:12:41
year's valedictorian selected from nearly 100 qualifying
1:12:45
students who applied but at least to pro Israel and Jewish
1:12:48
groups complained to USC about the choice pointing to Tabassum
1:12:52
social media activity specifically a link to a free
1:12:55
Palestine slideshow on our Instagram, which calls for the
1:12:58
complete abolishment of the State of Israel. The university
1:13:01
has to make the decision about whether this valedictorian and
1:13:06
her propagation of anti semitic vitriol online is worthy of
1:13:12
being the representative of the class of 2024 Tabassum
1:13:16
said she is shocked and profoundly disappointed.
1:13:19
University is succumbing to a campaign of hate meant to
1:13:22
silence my voice.
1:13:23
Unfortunately, that is clear. If you're a Muslim student today,
1:13:28
you don't expect the university your administration
1:13:31
to stand by you. The university's
1:13:33
Provost says the issue here is how best to maintain campus
1:13:36
security and safety period and that the decision has nothing to
1:13:40
do with freedom of speech. USC is commencement typically draws
1:13:43
65,000 People university leadership has not shared
1:13:47
details about potential threats.
1:13:49
Adam Curry: Yes. Isn't that amazing? You've got Jew haters
1:13:51
out there man. There in your question
1:13:54
John C Dvorak: is they have 100 candidates to do a valedictorian
1:13:57
speech. And why did they pick her? They picked her because
1:14:01
they bent over backwards. Just the opposite of anti Muslim.
1:14:05
Yeah. They said, well, let's do herb in it and didn't think it
1:14:09
through. Oh, of course. There's
1:14:11
Adam Curry: dopes, dopes believe it? Oh, man.
1:14:17
John C Dvorak: So let's listen to the some of the hearing with
1:14:20
this woman who is the head of Columbia. And this is Jim banks.
1:14:25
There's there was endless clips like this. It was one of those
1:14:29
situations where they found someone they could pick on. And
1:14:33
the President of Colombia was this woman who was easily easily
1:14:37
picked on. So they picked on her and it's very funny to listen
1:14:41
to. Here's Jim banks versus Colombia. prexy
1:14:44
Unknown: Can you define for us? The word Ashika normativity
1:14:49
I am not familiar with that term I
1:14:51
Adam Curry: believe in Oh Aska normativity.
1:14:55
John C Dvorak: Yeah,
1:14:55
Adam Curry: that's fantastic.
1:14:58
John C Dvorak: Isn't it? Asking normativity honestly,
1:15:01
Adam Curry: but what are the ones just look at this woman? Is
1:15:04
she black by any chance?
1:15:06
John C Dvorak: No, no, she's not. She's, I think she might be
1:15:08
Jewish. She's looks Jewish. Now, I didn't say that to generalize,
1:15:12
but to say, what's her? She's actually cheap. Somebody said
1:15:18
after this was all all these, you know, after they badgered
1:15:22
her the whole time, they said, well, a lot of people analyze it
1:15:26
the right the right wingers. Well, she was better coached
1:15:29
than than the idiots from Harvard. And she might have been
1:15:35
better coach, but she, I think she did find it but and they
1:15:40
badgered her, but I think she held her own. She was good. All
1:15:43
right, let's listen.
1:15:44
Unknown: Can you define for us? The word Ashoka normativity. I
1:15:49
am not familiar with that term, I believe it appeared in a
1:15:52
student glossary that was prepared by a group of students,
1:15:56
it appears in the Orientation Guide Book that's given to all
1:16:00
of the students at the school of social work, but you can define
1:16:04
it for us.
1:16:05
No, I'm saying.
1:16:06
I know you seem to be familiar, but
1:16:08
I'm I don't use that term. I don't know that term. I believe
1:16:12
that glossary was prepared by students for other students. I
1:16:16
don't think it's up when it's
1:16:17
handed out you agree is handed out to all of the students who
1:16:20
the at the orient me that that's what it is. It's the orientation
1:16:24
glossary of terms for incoming students at the school of social
1:16:27
work. So
1:16:28
I don't think it's a product of the School of Social Work. I
1:16:30
think a group of students put this dude's handed
1:16:32
out to the students at the School of Social Work. Let me
1:16:35
let me read to you how Ashkan normativity is defined by your
1:16:39
you seem to you don't know if it comes from students or
1:16:42
professors at school that asked normativity is defined as a
1:16:46
system of oppression that favors white Jewish folks, based on the
1:16:52
assumption that all Jewish folks are Ashkenazi, or from Western
1:16:58
Europe. So do you have a response to that definition of
1:17:03
African normativity? Is that appropriate? This is handed out
1:17:07
to your students by
1:17:08
other students. It is not a product of the faculty of
1:17:11
Columbia. This is
1:17:12
your standard. See, obviously, you you you allow this to be
1:17:15
handed out to your students is that appropriate,
1:17:18
as I said, is is not a product of the faculty or the
1:17:21
administration. It is something that a group of students
1:17:23
produced. I don't necessarily I don't agree with it. I think
1:17:27
it's not very useful. I don't condone it.
1:17:30
Adam Curry: He's really hounding her.
1:17:33
John C Dvorak: Yeah, absolutely. Now they get the Wow. And I
1:17:38
think is it as a wiki entry? Ashkenaz is the School of Social
1:17:43
Work that is doing this. Oh, these people are the worst. So
1:17:48
let's go to this. Oh, you have a doohickey entry. Yeah,
1:17:51
Adam Curry: Ashkan? normativity. It's in here. So it has quite a
1:17:55
lot. Would you like examples or his definition? The newish
1:17:59
Jewish Encyclopedia? Wow.
1:18:02
John C Dvorak: You accomplished Jewish the Jewish Jewish
1:18:05
Encyclopedia
1:18:06
Adam Curry: defines African normativity as the assumption
1:18:09
that, quote, Jewish life and culture is limited primarily to
1:18:12
the experience and customs of Ashkenazi Jews. Well, what's
1:18:18
wrong with that?
1:18:20
John C Dvorak: Well, it's because it is obviously a
1:18:22
prejudice against the Sephardic Jews. Ah,
1:18:25
Adam Curry: yes, there it is.
1:18:26
John C Dvorak: So it's like bad. Yeah, yeah. Okay, well, let's go
1:18:32
to clip two here where he goes, finds another little tidbit.
1:18:35
That is great. Okay, can
1:18:37
Unknown: you help me understand something else? I didn't go to
1:18:39
an Ivy League school admittedly. What? Can you you can you
1:18:42
explain why the word folks is spelled F O L x throughout this
1:18:49
guidebook and in other places at the School of Social Work? What
1:18:52
does that mean? I'm serious question.
1:18:54
We don't know how to spell. I mean, I'm not familiar with
1:18:57
that.
1:19:00
Adam Curry: Whoa, she says they don't know how to spell No,
1:19:03
that's that's the woke term for it. So you don't offend anyone
1:19:07
who's non binary, isn't it? Oh, so
1:19:13
John C Dvorak: you put x a Latin X nobody likes this bullcrap.
1:19:17
Adam Curry: I love her answer that because they don't know how
1:19:18
to spell that says something about your university lady.
1:19:22
Serious question. They
1:19:23
Unknown: don't know how to spell. I mean, I'm not familiar
1:19:26
with that. Spelling.
1:19:28
I'm not. I don't find it a laughing matter.
1:19:31
No, I'm not laughing either.
1:19:32
I think it's I denying that this is a official product of the
1:19:37
school. But this is handed out to all of you. You are aware
1:19:39
that is handed out to all of your students, and you're not
1:19:41
doing anything to stop
1:19:42
it. As I said, it's not an official product of the
1:19:45
administration is this Columbia
1:19:47
University spells the word folks. No. Okay. And as does
1:19:52
Columbia University recognize the word because it's not found
1:19:56
in the Webster's dictionary or anywhere else Ashkan normative
1:20:00
VT is that is that in tweakable term at Columbia University.
1:20:04
Congressman I am I am with you. I you know I agree with you that
1:20:08
I don't find this. Okay.
1:20:10
It means this will this way is handed out on your watch.
1:20:15
Adam Curry: This is not true. Merriam Webster has an entry for
1:20:19
folks. No,
1:20:22
John C Dvorak: no I think he specifically said Ashika
1:20:24
normativity is the one that he looked up in the dictionary
1:20:26
couldn't find it. Nobody Merriam Webster has folks with an X Yes.
1:20:33
Well read me the definition.
1:20:35
Adam Curry: The definition used especially to explicit focus as
1:20:42
folks arrow so the meaning is folks fol k s, used especially
1:20:48
to explicitly signal the inclusion of groups commonly
1:20:52
marginalized.
1:20:55
John C Dvorak: Does dumb
1:20:57
Adam Curry: well Merriam Webster is dumb.
1:21:00
John C Dvorak: Hello, I've gone in with in the last year or so.
1:21:02
Yeah, with
1:21:03
Adam Curry: vaccine is an mRNA thing that doesn't work.
1:21:09
John C Dvorak: That's great. So things are out of control.
1:21:11
Adam Curry: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they are. I have a couple of
1:21:14
cars of course now we're well, but let's let's look at this fun
1:21:19
report. So we've never really known the count of the dead in
1:21:28
in Gaza. You got to say it like that, by the way, because that's
1:21:32
kind of you don't say Gaza is a Gaza?
1:21:36
John C Dvorak: Gaza? Because that's that's because Gu ZZ a
1:21:40
Gaza, Gaza. Gaza. That's
1:21:42
Adam Curry: how you virtue signal that you're all in. Oh,
1:21:44
you haven't heard this? No, I have not. So we have not really
1:21:50
gotten closer. Closer.
1:21:53
John C Dvorak: Was our donations again.
1:21:55
Adam Curry: Why? Why?
1:21:57
John C Dvorak: Why are you on mocking renunciation of husband?
1:22:00
Yeah,
1:22:01
Adam Curry: I don't care. I'm too old to carry there. We
1:22:04
John C Dvorak: have our our supporters and that's the way it
1:22:07
is. Yes.
1:22:08
Adam Curry: Bring it on. Bring it on. Zinus said those checks.
1:22:14
John C Dvorak: Okay, SARS checks from Zionists and Intel
1:22:17
Adam Curry: agencies we really, really you guys are lacking is
1:22:20
no good. It's
1:22:21
John C Dvorak: fallen off the boat. We do good work.
1:22:26
Adam Curry: So here's here's an extra 5000 lives, which I'm not
1:22:31
sure if they were counted or not. And the way this very short
1:22:35
clip reads they should be counted among the dead. And
1:22:40
actually this should be counted among the children. This is from
1:22:42
Reuters. And
1:22:43
Unknown: it does mean that a dean Collini headed Oh Basma IVF
1:22:47
center guys's biggest, he doesn't know if the Israeli
1:22:50
strike in December targeted the lab specifically or not. But the
1:22:55
impact of that single blast was far reaching.
1:22:57
And all these lives were killed can take away 5000 lives in one
1:23:06
child,
1:23:07
those embryos sperm specimens and unfertilized eggs for a lost
1:23:11
hope for hundreds of Palestinian couples facing infertility.
1:23:15
Adam Curry: I'd like to know where the 5000 embryos Do they
1:23:20
count? I bet you they weren't counted. But but you know,
1:23:24
that's now you're a nut job. Republican Christian. Because
1:23:30
they're not children, remember, are the children. They're not
1:23:33
children. This is very controversial. I think Reuters
1:23:39
needs to need to clarify. Alright, let's, let's get to the
1:23:46
retaliation stuff. Let's talk to the spook or let's listen to the
1:23:50
spook Richard angle and BC Israel's military
1:23:53
Unknown: tonight is vowing that Iran will pay for its attack,
1:23:56
Iran will not get scot free.
1:23:59
For US officials tell NBC News. They expect Israel's response to
1:24:03
be limited and likely involve strikes against the Iranian
1:24:06
military and Iranian backed proxies outside Iran. But
1:24:10
caution, Israel's plans may change. The unprecedented
1:24:15
Iranian attack included more than 100 ballistic missiles.
1:24:19
Today we visited a military base where weapons recently used
1:24:23
against Israel are collected and analyzed what Iran fired was in
1:24:28
a different league. Gazans are living in an ongoing
1:24:32
catastrophe. today. Our camera crew filmed the casualties from
1:24:36
an Israeli airstrike on a market. Medical officials say at
1:24:40
least 11 people were killed and more than 20 injured. Israel
1:24:44
accuses Hamas of hiding amongst civilians.
1:24:47
Adam Curry: Yeah, they didn't really have any good NAT pops or
1:24:50
B roll of the rockets that didn't hit anything in Israel.
1:24:54
But but but but we should all be very afraid. Be very afraid
1:24:59
because it Iran is threatening to bring out the secret weapon.
1:25:04
Unknown: It's just the 17th of April 2024. Israel and Iran
1:25:08
appear to be a step closer toward Iran. In fact, it's
1:25:12
threatening to wreak havoc with a secret weapon. It is
1:25:15
threatening to use a weapon that's never been used before.
1:25:20
Before, of all puzzle, a movie, in fact, is the spokesperson for
1:25:24
Iran's national security and foreign policy committee. And we
1:25:27
recently said, and I'm quoting now, we will confront any
1:25:31
Israeli aggression and respond to it, we are ready to use
1:25:34
weapons that we have not used before. The question is, what
1:25:38
are these weapons? Is Iran hinting at weapons of mass
1:25:42
destruction?
1:25:43
Adam Curry: Be afraid?
1:25:44
John C Dvorak: Oh, here we go. Again, be
1:25:46
Adam Curry: very, very afraid. Oh, yeah. Well, of course, we
1:25:51
know that Iran is just hours away from a nuclear weapon. We
1:25:54
need to admit it, we need to crank that up. And we'll do what
1:25:58
we'll do that with, with a little overview of the
1:26:03
sanctions. Because of course, what you want to do is you want
1:26:06
to kick these people off of our money system and you want to
1:26:11
confiscate their money it makes it makes you so popular in the
1:26:14
world.
1:26:15
Unknown: Just days after Iranian rockets lit up the skies over
1:26:18
Israel, both the US and the EU are vowing to respond with new
1:26:23
penalties for Tehran.
1:26:25
I fully expect that we will take additional sanctions action
1:26:30
against Iran. Is it
1:26:32
Adam Curry: normal, in your recollection, that the Secretary
1:26:38
of the Treasury comes out during war time and talks about
1:26:42
sanctions of of quote unquote, adversaries, adversaries? Or
1:26:48
adversaries either? Yes, that's British. I can't remember this
1:26:53
doesn't ring a bell now. So but why they send this old bag out
1:26:57
every single time?
1:27:00
John C Dvorak: She you know, she's one of the few that was
1:27:02
the head of the Federal Reserve. So she has some karate toss. I
1:27:06
Adam Curry: suppose. gravitas?
1:27:08
Unknown: Yeah, grabbing sanctions. Action
1:27:11
Adam Curry: was bank wars, obviously. But I've never I've
1:27:14
never seen this before that they sent the banker up
1:27:17
Unknown: against Iran in the coming days.
1:27:20
I will send to this general election service, the request to
1:27:23
start the necessary work related to the sanctions.
1:27:27
new sanctions come in addition to an already sweeping set of
1:27:31
American and European penalties against Iran, tied to its
1:27:35
connections to terrorism, its human rights record and its
1:27:38
nuclear program. The sanctions include a ban on nearly all US
1:27:42
trade with Iran, the blocking of the Iranian government's assets
1:27:46
in the US and their prohibition of US foreign assistance and arm
1:27:50
sales. The penalties have also targeted 1000s of people and
1:27:54
companies both in Iran and in foreign countries. That should
1:27:58
be fun for the
1:27:59
John C Dvorak: bullet. This begin this idea of you know,
1:28:03
wow, this country's hooked us and so we're going to sanction
1:28:07
this dude. Yeah, hey, let's sanction Bill Smith, and that
1:28:12
sanction this guy.
1:28:15
Adam Curry: All the Iranians which you call Persians in Los
1:28:18
Angeles, how about their money? Is that gonna get sanctioned,
1:28:21
too, because oh, they might have ties to Iran. Oh, no, that's
1:28:25
really bad for its part. The EU has oh, by the way, my favorite
1:28:28
guy, who is now just appearing with Jens Stoltenberg all the
1:28:32
time. Our former Dutch Prime Minister, Rita, EU member, he's
1:28:38
the guy you have to go home with who you came to the dance floor
1:28:42
remember him he's coming up for
1:28:44
Unknown: its part, the EU has a range of sanctions already in
1:28:47
place, including restrictions on trade, travel bans and the
1:28:51
freezing of assets. Last year, the EU banned the export of
1:28:55
parts around uses to make drones, some of which have been
1:28:58
used by Russia during its invasion of Ukraine, and also
1:29:02
used by Tirana and its attack on Israel over the weekend. In
1:29:06
recent years, the combined effect of us EU sanctions have
1:29:10
had a crushing impact on Iran's economy, effectively putting a
1:29:14
cap on crucial oil exports and causing inflation to soar.
1:29:18
Meanwhile, with a nuclear deal in tatters, Iran is said to have
1:29:22
edged closer than ever to having nuclear capability.
1:29:26
Adam Curry: There it is. Crap. I thought that had the Dutch guy
1:29:29
in it. I'm sorry.
1:29:30
John C Dvorak: I have a sanctions clip you might want to
1:29:32
play sanctions.
1:29:34
Adam Curry: Yes, please sanction. Biden
1:29:35
Unknown: administration said it will also impose sanctions on
1:29:39
Iran, saying the new sanctions will target Iran's missile and
1:29:43
drone program and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard in the
1:29:46
coming days. This came as a house passed in second batch of
1:29:50
measures to combat the Iranian threat including seven bills
1:29:54
into resolution. Israel on Wednesday reported that 14
1:29:59
soldiers and for civilians were injured by drones and missiles
1:30:03
from Hezbollah near the Lebanese border.
1:30:06
Adam Curry: Oh, here it is. I have it. This is Cameron, who's
1:30:11
back on the scene who isn't either the the new foreign
1:30:14
minister for the UK?
1:30:16
John C Dvorak: I think he thinks he is a globalist
1:30:19
Adam Curry: douche. Well, he's all over this report. This is
1:30:22
where the Dutch guy comes in.
1:30:24
Unknown: Israel's allies seem reconciled to some form of
1:30:26
retaliation, but do not want further escalation.
1:30:30
The situation is very concerning. It's right to show
1:30:33
solidarity with Israel. It's right to have made our views
1:30:37
clear about what should happen next. But it's clear the
1:30:40
Israelis are making a decision to act we hope they do so in a
1:30:44
way that does as little to escalate this
1:30:47
Adam Curry: as possible. What is this? Well, we hope they do a
1:30:49
little Just don't hurt him too much. Please just live
1:30:52
Unknown: in a way that as I said yesterday, is smart as well as
1:30:56
tough, smart
1:30:57
Adam Curry: and has to be smart kill people smartly.
1:31:00
Unknown: The diplomatic response is focusing on tightening the
1:31:03
sanctions regime against Tehran, EU leaders gathering in Brussels
1:31:07
on Wednesday, we'll discuss that. And g7 foreign ministers
1:31:11
meeting in Italy on Thursday, we'll do the same Oh, that drone
1:31:15
and missile industries will be obvious targets. But the Islamic
1:31:18
Republic has a long track record of managing the effects of
1:31:22
Western sanctions. And
1:31:24
I think there's more that we can do to show united front that
1:31:27
Iran is behind so much of the malign activity in this region
1:31:31
backing her mass backing Hezbollah backing is they need
1:31:36
to be given a clear unequivocal message by the g7. And I hope
1:31:39
that will happen at the meeting.
1:31:41
Tehran, a military parade mark the country's Armed Forces Day,
1:31:45
and its President warned of the consequences of an Israeli
1:31:48
counter attack. I've got a quartet studying. The Zionist
1:31:52
regime makes a slightest move to violate our territory and harm
1:31:57
the national interest of the Islamic Republic. They must
1:32:00
understand that they will face a severe and heavy response to
1:32:06
Iran's attempted attack against Israel has united its allies in
1:32:10
its defense. It has also diverted attention from the
1:32:13
ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. The Israeli government
1:32:17
will be balancing the need to deter future Iranian attacks.
1:32:22
The need to keep its allies on side. Well, I'm
1:32:25
Adam Curry: just full of fake news today. I thought I had the
1:32:27
touch guy somewhere. Wow, I
1:32:29
John C Dvorak: can't believe you you dreamed that you had a vivid
1:32:33
dream did that was collusion. Now you're like you're playing
1:32:36
it out in real time. Like an AI
1:32:39
Adam Curry: podcaster was like is coming up because I dreams I
1:32:43
hallucinate it. I hallucinate it. We of course we did have the
1:32:47
part of this Google protests was the International Day of of
1:32:50
action. Free Free Free Palestine. I'm sorry. How many
1:32:57
kids did you kill today that that's the new
1:33:03
Unknown: people protesting the rising death toll in Gaza pulled
1:33:06
away and cuffed by Miami Police after blocking traffic on
1:33:10
Biscayne your Bayside in downtown Miami, we
1:33:13
want to say that we don't want any more of our taxpayer dollars
1:33:17
going toward genocide funding the genocide that is unfolding
1:33:21
in Gaza. At least
1:33:22
seven were arrested Monday afternoon, the demonstration
1:33:26
part of an international day of protests against the 10s of
1:33:29
1000s of Palestinians, a large number of them children killed
1:33:34
in the Israel Hamas conflict.
1:33:36
I think it's really heartbreaking and upsetting that
1:33:38
we do have to take such extreme measures to get people to care.
1:33:41
And I think it's upsetting that people don't intuitively care
1:33:44
about the 10s of 1000s of people in Gaza, who are who have been
1:33:49
murdered and then the millions who have been displaced and are
1:33:51
starved
1:33:52
Florida Senator Rick Scott plati Miami police enforcement at
1:33:56
Monday's protest scene on x. Here's a warning to any leftist
1:34:00
Hamas sympathizers. Don't try this crap in Florida. We stand
1:34:04
with Israel and our Jewish community. We won't put up with
1:34:07
you pitching a fit to defend terrorists. Are you a Hamas
1:34:11
supporter?
1:34:12
No, I do not support Hamas. I think that needs to be said
1:34:15
really loud and clear. In no way shape or form? Is this action in
1:34:19
support of the lives that were lost in Israel? We absolutely do
1:34:23
not agree with senseless murder of innocent people.
1:34:28
Adam Curry: It's worth mentioning that Egypt still
1:34:29
hasn't opened their fence.
1:34:31
John C Dvorak: You know that. That brings me to a thought. Ah,
1:34:35
Adam Curry: here it is. It took 45 minutes but he has the
1:34:37
thoughts. I actually
1:34:38
John C Dvorak: have a thought okay. Is it is it in some funny
1:34:42
way and being proven by these, these Hamas supporting pro
1:34:49
Palestinian protests all over the United States and elsewhere?
1:34:54
That there's actually amongst the Arab nations and I would say
1:34:58
even Iran who's finances Hamas a lot of times you finance a
1:35:03
terrorist operation, if you want to call it that, which I think
1:35:06
is valid, to get keep them away from you. This is though Syrians
1:35:11
used to do this years ago with the original guy that ran the
1:35:14
place, he would just buy off everybody.
1:35:18
Adam Curry: The guy's dad, the old The old guy, the
1:35:21
John C Dvorak: guy's dad. Yeah. And so they the idea is that you
1:35:23
just hear, here's the money, just don't do it just stay out.
1:35:28
Stay out of our business, is that the Palestinians are
1:35:31
actually and proven to be generally hated. Yeah. And there
1:35:38
is nobody wants to have anything to do with them. Because once
1:35:41
they get into a country, they do what they were seeing here,
1:35:44
which is the protest and make a fuss, they, they cause trouble,
1:35:47
they make things they follow the works. They they blocked the
1:35:51
bridge, that's the Golden Gate Bridge blocked. The Brooklyn
1:35:55
Bridge blocked all these things that have been happening over
1:35:58
the eighth. There was a 15, I guess was the day and and this
1:36:03
and this subtle genocide going on is actually a genocide. They,
1:36:10
the Arabs, and everybody's all together, let the Jews take the
1:36:12
blame. They're the flame I'll with
1:36:14
Adam Curry: you on this. I'm with you on that. I think that's
1:36:18
John C Dvorak: the idea is to kill all of all Palestinians.
1:36:21
Adam Curry: I think you're right. It is a genocide.
1:36:24
John C Dvorak: So it would be a genocide, but it's an a genocide
1:36:27
with the approval of the United States of, of, obviously, Egypt
1:36:34
of Iran, a Jordan, Saudi Arabia, everybody. There's not it But
1:36:40
Israel gets to take the take the brunt of it.
1:36:43
Adam Curry: I think you're right. Well, I
1:36:45
John C Dvorak: just thought I mean, it's just because you keep
1:36:47
seeing, you know, there's this undercurrent of hatred toward
1:36:52
the Palestinians, by everybody, including they bring it on
1:36:55
themselves, like when they blocked the Golden Gate Bridge
1:36:57
the other day, which made a mess in the Bay Area. And
1:37:00
Adam Curry: it doesn't doesn't make anyone a fan of Palestine.
1:37:05
No,
1:37:05
John C Dvorak: nobody. There's no fans. These guys that are
1:37:10
making the fuss. Yeah, I would be very happy they have Dave, I
1:37:15
think they're worn out. They're welcome in a lot of places.
1:37:18
That's why they don't want to take them in. They blocked the
1:37:21
door can't come in. So maybe may explain that to me. Okay, so
1:37:26
Adam Curry: maybe this is okay. So, Mick, and I have to agree.
1:37:31
I've been the people who are in Israel that I know who are open
1:37:34
and honest with me. And even some very conservative people
1:37:41
that I know actually, we live in Austin. They're like no, kill
1:37:45
them all. We got to kill them all. Get rid of them all. We're
1:37:48
tired of it, we're done. And that would be the definition of
1:37:53
genocide. But of course they say that's really rude Don't say
1:37:57
that. Is then the fear of the people who are not crazy
1:38:05
brainwashed leftists are they fearing that we're next well if
1:38:10
you let Israel genocide them they'll genocide us?
1:38:16
John C Dvorak: I don't think that's in their in their mindset
1:38:18
yet, yet. Yeah,
1:38:22
Adam Curry: we'll leave that open.
1:38:24
John C Dvorak: There is this this fear that you see it on
1:38:26
MSNBC and elsewhere, where they're talking about Donald
1:38:29
Trump, and how he is the end of democracy and all the rest of
1:38:33
it? If he gets elected, I mean, why is it this is bullcrap is
1:38:37
not the end of democracy. If Donald Trump gets elected, it
1:38:40
won't be the last election ever like they have said on MSNBC. So
1:38:44
what is their real fear? Maybe what you said wow, it could be
1:38:50
an underlying it might be just subconscious. I mean, there has
1:38:54
to be like I've said in this show we've you've heard it a
1:38:57
million times I think they're everyone's sincere when they say
1:39:00
what they say. And it's not like they're phonies. And
1:39:05
Adam Curry: and I want to be clear, we are anti war we don't
1:39:08
like any of this. No, I don't like any
1:39:12
John C Dvorak: killing. He maintain a anti war stance Yes,
1:39:16
for good reason. Yes, war is a racket is bullcrap. It's a it's
1:39:20
a, it's a scam, and it's just gets a lot of people killed. But
1:39:25
yes, you know, this is ridiculous. Well, it's going on
1:39:28
speaking
1:39:28
Adam Curry: about democracy. The Atlantic had a very thoughtful
1:39:32
article. Titles a surprise titled democracy dies behind
1:39:37
paywalls. And I would have read it to you.
1:39:41
John C Dvorak: Were it not behind a paywall?
1:39:43
Adam Curry: The paywall? No, yes. These guys are so tone
1:39:50
deaf. The literal owl I think was Jeff Jarvis who tweeted it
1:39:56
out. You know, like democracy died died behind he Who did it
1:40:00
because he's on unmastered I follow him on Mastodon which is
1:40:03
probably
1:40:03
John C Dvorak: he's given up all these guys. That what they call
1:40:06
the dead bird. Yeah
1:40:07
Adam Curry: the bird say to democracy dies behind paywalls
1:40:12
the case for making journalism free at least during the 2024
1:40:15
election by Richard Stengel and then is behind a paywall. That's
1:40:21
hilarious. These people are so tone deaf they don't even
1:40:24
understand how stupid they are. All right, let's pick another
1:40:28
hot topic because dei is is folding it's imploding upon
1:40:33
itself. I would hate to be right now today in any company in the
1:40:39
DEI department. This is not good. I have two clips. The
1:40:45
first one is from Bend Oregon, where they have some kind of dei
1:40:50
committee for for the for the City Council then
1:40:54
Unknown: has a volunteer group that advises it on how to make
1:40:57
local government serve people who have historically been left
1:41:00
out. We're gonna jump right into public comment at the human
1:41:03
rights and equity Commission's usual meeting last month to
1:41:06
start with the folks who are here in person a dad showed up
1:41:09
with his two young daughters. They were the first of seven
1:41:12
people who signed up to speak Hi,
1:41:14
everybody, my name is John halen. I just you know, my kids
1:41:17
got out of art camp today and I wanted them to see that there
1:41:21
are people in our town fighting for equality
1:41:23
recent public opinion survey show most Americans support D AI
1:41:27
programs, but political polarization is fueling a
1:41:30
backlash with a vocal minority. Republican politicians around
1:41:34
the country have sought to end public dei initiatives. Opinion
1:41:37
Polls show this effort often appeals to people with racist
1:41:41
views. Ben's dei leaders experienced this firsthand as
1:41:45
they heard the rest of the public comments at their last
1:41:48
meeting my pronouns
1:41:49
are fist punch stands for didn't earn it. White people are sick
1:41:54
and tired of being attacked, robbed, raped and murdered.
1:41:57
This was just the first act in what appeared to be a
1:41:59
coordinated performance over zoom. More disembodied voices
1:42:03
used anti semitic slurs, Nazi slogans and homophobic insults.
1:42:09
One man chanted the N word over and over until city staff cut
1:42:13
off his mic. Um,
1:42:16
I'm sorry, oh, that does not happen often.
1:42:18
Bend Equity and Inclusion director Andress. Portello was
1:42:22
leading the meeting. So we're gonna move forward. I'm so
1:42:25
sorry. Let's take a second. And we'll return to this in just a
1:42:30
bit. Coordinated
1:42:32
Adam Curry: performance. Yes. Notice how they they didn't know
1:42:36
I can't put any of that in your report what they actually said.
1:42:40
I liked the pronoun. My pronoun is fist punch. That's kind of
1:42:43
funny. Now, this is a beautiful ditty from joy read and this. I
1:42:49
already had it but Moe texted it to me like, this is here. It is
1:42:54
doing the DEI dirty work. Remember, most prophesy? He says
1:43:00
they're pushing all the black women, the racist Democrats?
1:43:04
Because they're racist. They're racist? Dei, it turns out to be
1:43:09
a very racist thing. Yeah, let's push all the black women to the
1:43:12
front, let's put them in really important to positions. And then
1:43:16
when they failed to put Trump behind bars, but it was the
1:43:21
black ladies. But
1:43:22
Unknown: for me, there is something wonderfully poetic
1:43:26
about the fact that despite the fact that even if convicted,
1:43:28
he's not going to go to prison. The first person to actually
1:43:33
criminally prosecute Donald Trump is a black Harvard grad,
1:43:37
the very kind of person that his former staff, the people who
1:43:41
worked for him, Stephen Miller, etc, want to never be at Harvard
1:43:47
Law School, but he was and he came out and graduate. He's
1:43:51
prosecuting you, Donald, and a black woman is doing this same
1:43:54
exact thing in Georgia, and a black woman forced you to pay
1:43:58
$175 million. Fine, that's out now also in question, because
1:44:03
the people who put it up, that might not be legit. Donald Trump
1:44:06
is being held to account by the very multicultural, multiracial
1:44:11
democracy that he's trying to dismantle. And for me, there's
1:44:14
something poetic and actually wonderful about that. It says
1:44:18
something good about our country that we're still capable of
1:44:20
having that happen. Go dei if my dei is are bringing it home on
1:44:25
go
1:44:26
Adam Curry: DD I'm bringing it home. She's on the block to your
1:44:31
watch. She'll be on the block too.
1:44:33
John C Dvorak: She should be her show stinks. She's gay ratings
1:44:36
are nothing Oh,
1:44:37
Adam Curry: no one has ratings on cable anymore. No one is
1:44:41
inconsequential. They're still getting the they make their
1:44:46
money from the homes, you know, a buck per home. And that's
1:44:51
dwindling, I think would be the term. Unless you have something
1:44:55
else I'd like to do some trans Maoism just to have it all in
1:44:59
one go. That's Get our fill of everything that's nuts in the
1:45:01
world. Oh, yeah, it was it was that a yes you you walked away
1:45:06
we
1:45:06
John C Dvorak: go with a transit I don't have anything that that
1:45:09
fits into the, into these themes. Okay,
1:45:13
Adam Curry: these couple of
1:45:14
Unknown: pretty short here that have some breaking news from the
1:45:16
US stop,
1:45:17
Adam Curry: John, whatever you're doing is breaking news.
1:45:19
It's
1:45:20
John C Dvorak: breaking by the way.
1:45:21
Adam Curry: I love our producers. I think it was
1:45:25
Thursday night. I'm in bed and I'm and I'm just doing a little
1:45:29
I'm doing a little scroll. And all I see is breaking breaking,
1:45:32
breaking breaking. So I I tweet, or I guess there's now a slash,
1:45:38
I tweet breaking all uppercase colon and that's all nothing
1:45:42
after it. Our people are the best. You could see all the no
1:45:47
agenda people at this hour, you know, unprecedented. They knew,
1:45:52
Alert, alert, be afraid everybody knew what was going
1:45:55
on. That was great. That
1:45:56
Unknown: is some breaking news from the US Supreme Court. The
1:45:59
High Court is allowing Idaho to largely enforce its ban on
1:46:02
gender affirming care for transgender children under 18.
1:46:06
While those lawsuits over the law go forward, Justice Clarence
1:46:10
Thomas was not in court today and did not participate remotely
1:46:14
in arguments, there was no explanation given for his
1:46:16
absence.
1:46:18
Adam Curry: What what what are you saying? What about? Well,
1:46:22
who
1:46:22
John C Dvorak: cares? Well, there are various Supreme Court
1:46:27
justices Aren't there a lot here and they're now medicinal? How
1:46:31
is that part of the news?
1:46:33
Adam Curry: Oh, it's breaking. It's breaking. What do you care?
1:46:36
It's breaking pay attention. Are
1:46:38
John C Dvorak: they doing this is part of the get Clarence
1:46:40
Thomas out of there. We have Chevron deference. Yes.
1:46:44
Adam Curry: I hope he's okay. He's
1:46:46
John C Dvorak: really all about, let's just slam him as much as
1:46:48
we can
1:46:49
Adam Curry: hope he's okay. Now, now to well, this is kind of an
1:46:53
odd report, but I think it goes right along with the trans
1:46:56
Maoist agenda of you know, you know, allowing anyone to
1:47:02
identify as whatever they are, what is the the funniest thing
1:47:06
we've had people identify as I'm a cat. And then there were some
1:47:10
I think most of them were fake. But there might have been
1:47:11
actually one school that brought in a litter box because they
1:47:14
demanded
1:47:15
John C Dvorak: it. I believe so I think believe one school
1:47:18
brought in a litter box. I think most of it
1:47:19
Adam Curry: was fake. But But I think if I recall, one at least
1:47:23
did do that. Well, this is a middle school in Utah. And
1:47:28
parents and kids are let you got this clip.
1:47:32
Unknown: There was some kids dress up as animals. And I heard
1:47:35
that I had another kid got bit by one of them. There's a lot of
1:47:39
speculation surrounding the protest that happened at Niebo
1:47:42
middle school Wednesday morning. Nearly 75 students and parents
1:47:48
showed up facing the school, saying they're unhappy with how
1:47:51
administration is handling reports of harassment.
1:47:59
This video I Niebo middle school student took last week, parents
1:48:03
say there's an issue between some students and others who
1:48:07
call themselves furries or people who enjoy as cartoonish
1:48:11
animals back when I went to school, you know, you couldn't
1:48:14
dress that way you couldn't do certain things. And I think it
1:48:17
kind of needs to go back a little bit like I know kids need
1:48:20
their own personalities. But it's ridiculous. When kids are
1:48:23
dressing like animals and licking and biting people. I
1:48:26
just don't think that's okay. But the Niebo school district
1:48:29
tells us it's not that extreme set, Sorenson says no one was
1:48:34
scratching or biting anyone, and that there are a lot of untrue
1:48:38
rumors going around, actually is
1:48:40
not something that's been occurring. In fact, a lot of the
1:48:43
information that's been put out there is completely incorrect
1:48:47
and inaccurate. And so we're still trying to get on top of
1:48:50
that. Thank
1:48:51
you. This is strudel. A member of the furry fandom. So they've
1:48:56
been a furry for over a decade. They have their own opinions as
1:48:59
crazy that it's escalated to this point where these kids are
1:49:04
fierce
1:49:06
John C Dvorak: people the problem with this clip is this
1:49:08
is what you're gonna what you're playing. So I will fix it. Thank
1:49:12
you. She's dressed up as a as a giant chipmunk. As she's doing
1:49:18
the serious interviewing a microphone back and forth
1:49:21
between the anchor of the station and the Chipmunk, who's
1:49:26
muffled voices is what you're hearing and it kind of do we
1:49:30
lose. This is one of those few times where we lose we're not
1:49:33
having the video we lose impact. Yeah,
1:49:35
Adam Curry: we do. But I do like that the the interviewer says
1:49:39
they
1:49:41
John C Dvorak: did. Yeah, I didn't catch that at first.
1:49:43
You're right. This is
1:49:45
Unknown: strudel. A member of the furry fandom. Though they've
1:49:48
been a free for over a decade. They have their own opinions.
1:49:52
It's crazy that it's escalated to this point where these kids
1:49:55
are being so distracting to their peers that their peers
1:49:58
want to stage a walkout or to have You know, the next
1:50:00
generation kind of muddy our name and not represented very
1:50:05
well it is kind of disappointing.
1:50:07
Adam Curry: Yeah, disappointing. So, I of course have nothing
1:50:10
against furries because we have furries who listen to the show.
1:50:15
And I think you and I believe that they're in it for a sexual
1:50:19
kink and that's all good with me. You do whatever you want
1:50:21
with your furry don'ts
1:50:22
John C Dvorak: actual King come on. We all know they never have
1:50:25
sex and I brought this up, mate with you or somebody I brought
1:50:30
this episode where they they don't have sex. Wearing the
1:50:34
costumes because the costumes are so expensive. They don't
1:50:38
want to ruin they don't want to ruin the costume. Yeah. That's
1:50:43
what I'm told. Oh, no, I
1:50:45
Adam Curry: remember. Didn't we have a furry meetup? There were
1:50:47
ferried as a furry convention. There was a furry meetup.
1:50:51
John C Dvorak: I don't remember that. But I do. It's possible.
1:50:54
Furry Yeah, we do have furries in the audience. Are we used to
1:50:58
unless they're anti Zionist? No.
1:51:02
Adam Curry: And then my final clip and I want you to open up a
1:51:06
web browser. Get your a Bravo. You're brave. This came across
1:51:14
my desk. This is a this is a consult a counseling firm. This
1:51:19
is a group of therapists. They operate in multiple states in
1:51:24
the South Alabama, but they also just added Idaho. They they work
1:51:32
on seen that I mean in person with with clients but also they
1:51:38
do telehealth. So this is this is what your child the people
1:51:42
who your children might be counseled by. I'm gonna give you
1:51:49
the domain name John. And then I'll tell you about the woman
1:51:52
who I clipped here. She's the CEO. It's yellow bird
1:51:56
counseling.com Yellow Bird counseling.com. Dominique is the
1:52:03
CEO Dominique Cecil, she graduated from the University of
1:52:07
Montevideo, Montevallo with a Bachelor of Science in
1:52:11
Psychology, a minor in vocal performance and received her
1:52:15
master's in clinical mental health counseling. And she
1:52:20
started this kushy work to solo for a while then she started
1:52:24
Yellow Bird Counseling LLC. Do you have do you have the the the
1:52:29
website up, John? Yeah, it's
1:52:31
John C Dvorak: a bunch of fat black women.
1:52:32
Unknown: Oh, sorry. What's up, y'all?
1:52:35
Adam Curry: This is her, um, the live stream, which is on their
1:52:39
website, then it's not just if you look at their entire staff.
1:52:43
It's not just a bunch of black women, but there's a lot of good
1:52:47
one white woman in a hair color there all day them there are
1:52:51
they are queer. And here's, here's her little pitch on the
1:52:55
livestream
1:52:56
Unknown: is Dominique, aka, that therapist. For those of y'all
1:53:02
that don't know me, I am the lead clinician and CEO for a
1:53:08
group practice known as yellow Berg counseling. Okay, so what
1:53:14
do we do? What does that mean? So our normal day to day thing
1:53:18
that we do seven days a week that I guess or whatever, you
1:53:23
know what I'm saying we do that now. So we provide counseling in
1:53:31
therapies that we provide. All right, in the states of
1:53:37
Adam Curry: mind, you imagine Master's in clinical mental
1:53:39
health counseling Alabama,
1:53:41
Unknown: Louisiana, Mississippi, New Jersey. And now Idaho, newly
1:53:51
Idaho and you know, I'm sure with all the search consumption
1:53:55
of potatoes, I don't know, but this way that we do our normal
1:53:59
day to day activities, but what do we do here on social media?
1:54:03
Every Thursday evening at 8pm Central Standard Time, I say is
1:54:08
because one of my clients needs some one of my therapists need
1:54:11
some like Adam, no, whoo, take care of that jump on here. So
1:54:17
Adam Curry: we I mean, wouldn't you be appalled? If this was the
1:54:22
person counseling your child who has some severe identity crisis
1:54:29
this is to me, this is appalling.
1:54:33
John C Dvorak: They have merch, ie, we
1:54:37
Adam Curry: she's flipping her braids back and forth while
1:54:39
she's doing this
1:54:40
Unknown: go live every Thursday evening. And we discuss topics
1:54:45
that the general population can relate to.
1:54:48
Adam Curry: It's not much longer but I think it's worth it.
1:54:50
John C Dvorak: You know, they this is like all versions of
1:54:55
John Pierre Claude Van Damme the the Peru, the spokesperson for
1:55:01
the Biden administration, yes, they're all her in various
1:55:04
forms.
1:55:06
Adam Curry: This these she is mentally it's almost like, you
1:55:10
know, most mentally most of the child trafficking male runs
1:55:14
through Child Protective Services. And I think that's
1:55:19
the, um, the, I think that statistic is probably pretty
1:55:22
accurate. The people who are supposed to be helping your
1:55:25
child art sigh opping them into this. She's queer, whatever that
1:55:31
means
1:55:31
Unknown: to how we all benefit from having a therapist. All Z.
1:55:37
Okay, old D. All right. On Deck, y'all, that's what I'm saying on
1:55:42
deck. Okay, so, um, yeah, that's what we do. We have a fun time
1:55:47
doing it. Yogur has kind of expanded a lot, a lot, a lot
1:55:54
with greatness. We've got all these beautiful types of
1:55:59
therapists. And so I'm just so for a long time, I've been the
1:56:04
only queer therapist on staff, just me by myself, and everybody
1:56:10
else was just queer for me, which is cool, but it's like
1:56:14
different when you have other queer therapists. So I got me
1:56:17
some queer therapists to join me and I'm not I'm saying and
1:56:22
they're so cool.
1:56:26
Adam Curry: I cry for these children. This is this is just
1:56:31
not okay. This should not be allowed. She's the boss of the
1:56:36
outfits. Okay, Phoebe. She's the boss of the outfit. Hey, I found
1:56:39
a I think I think Hey, Phoebe. TVs. Okay. I found the clip with
1:56:46
the Dutch guy.
1:56:48
John C Dvorak: Oh, finally. Yeah, but
1:56:50
Adam Curry: it's it's related to Phoebe. It's related to Ukraine.
1:56:55
As you know, there's we got some real problems now because
1:56:58
everyone's focusing on Israel, Israel. That's why Israel and
1:57:03
the Lensky is like, give me some credit, man, give me some give
1:57:07
me some air defenses when he says we're gonna lose. We're
1:57:10
gonna lose the war. So we have to ratchet that up whenever
1:57:12
there's another bunch of money on the table, which is the 61
1:57:16
billion, which I'm pretty sure will be approved. Because, you
1:57:21
know, Mike Johnson, if he doesn't approve it, and they
1:57:24
lose the war, which will happen, they're going to lose. Then the
1:57:27
Republicans will be blamed. Oh, you killed Ukraine. So he's
1:57:32
really got nothing to lose by approving it, except maybe his
1:57:35
house speakership. So this is a Germany, urging EU leaders to
1:57:40
send Ukraine air defenses from France 24
1:57:43
Unknown: intensifying Russian attacks, NATO's chief is calling
1:57:46
on allies to beef up Ukraine's air defense.
1:57:49
We just had an important and timely discussion on how to step
1:57:53
up further our support to Ukraine, in particular on how to
1:57:56
provide more air defense systems to Ukraine. Because the
1:58:00
situation on the battlefield remains very difficult.
1:58:04
It comes as Germany's making plans to encourage other
1:58:07
European countries to offer Patriot missile systems to
1:58:09
Ukraine, after announcing it would send one of its own. It's
1:58:13
an initiative prime ministers from Denmark, the Czech Republic
1:58:16
and the Netherlands are keen to take part in I have great
1:58:19
respect for the commitment shown by Germany.
1:58:21
Adam Curry: Every go I love his he's bagged man with his respect
1:58:24
for Germany. Very good, very good
1:58:26
Unknown: partying. I have great respect for the commitment shown
1:58:29
by Germany. And we will consider the sphere first and what ways
1:58:32
we can support to this German initiative. Are we not better
1:58:36
off sending a few of our own our own air defense systems to
1:58:42
Ukraine at a time where they not we are struggling daily to fight
1:58:48
off the never ending Russian attack. Ukraine says it needs at
1:58:52
least two dozen Patriot air defense systems to protect
1:58:55
troops on the frontlines and to defend Hawk heave. The country's
1:58:58
biggest city after key which has been under attack for weeks.
1:59:02
Iran's drone and missile attack on Israel over the weekend has
1:59:05
raised questions in Kyiv. About NATO's priorities but as I say
1:59:08
it was I should say, a sigh believe it was a signal to all
1:59:11
leaders around the world. France, Jordan, the UK and the
1:59:15
US have all responded and supported the protection of
1:59:18
Israel. And here definitely, they used air defense and
1:59:22
aviation. Many things that frankly, Ukraine is lacking
1:59:26
yesterday justice because we're nervous to show great.
1:59:29
Stoltenberg also says he's optimistic about the US Congress
1:59:33
approving a military aid package in the next few days. Without it
1:59:36
Solinsky says Ukraine will lose the war
1:59:39
Adam Curry: care wait until it is the new Yen's he is he'll be
1:59:45
he'll almost be as good maybe even better. Remember the
1:59:49
President of the European Union, the Belgian guy, the one who did
1:59:52
haikus haiku Herman
1:59:54
John C Dvorak: Oh, that guy with a crack. That
1:59:57
Adam Curry: guy was great. He was fun. Yeah, so the roots of
2:00:03
it'll be great.
2:00:05
John C Dvorak: So I watched the Trump speech and I think it was
2:00:10
in Pennsylvania. Yeah, it was it was latest. Yes. Then his
2:00:14
Adam Curry: new material, new material. Well,
2:00:16
John C Dvorak: not a lot of it. He was mad. And you could tell
2:00:18
there was a lot of anger because of his having to be a New
2:00:21
Yorker, this
2:00:22
Adam Curry: the he's his trials, not good when he's angry.
2:00:24
John C Dvorak: He's not so he's not good. But he does have a new
2:00:27
moniker for Biden. That was worth playing. Is this thunder
2:00:32
Trump?
2:00:34
Unknown: Our democracy is under siege because of Joe Biden. Joe
2:00:37
Biden loves to say that democracy is on the ballot in
2:00:41
this election. If it is, we're going to win to the greatest
2:00:44
landslide in history. Because we're the ones who are fighting
2:00:47
to save our democracy and crooked Joe Biden is the
2:00:50
demented tyrant. He's a demented tyrant who is trying to destroy
2:00:55
our democracy two days from now. The entire world will witness
2:01:00
the commencement of the very first Biden trial they're all
2:01:04
Biden trials, you know that right?
2:01:08
John C Dvorak: demented Tyrant is good. liked it? Yeah.
2:01:12
Adam Curry: Did you get anything on the the Boeing hearings?
2:01:16
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I got some Boeing clips. Okay.
2:01:18
Adam Curry: Because this is I mean, if there ever was a
2:01:21
takedown of Boeing, man, this is it.
2:01:25
John C Dvorak: I think they're going after Boeing. It at this
2:01:28
point with these two that when I started when I recorded the
2:01:30
first one. The second one is to two parter. I decided or thought
2:01:35
to myself is not a decision to thought that they're doing this
2:01:39
on purpose. They're going after Boeing, or some specific or
2:01:43
there's something going on that we don't know about, well, maybe
2:01:46
they got Airbus money. Something's up but let's play
2:01:49
these clips. scathing testimony
2:01:51
Unknown: delivered by Boeing whistleblowers today. They say
2:01:54
Boeing effectively produces defective planes and everyone
2:01:58
who gets into one is at risk. And today's Virginia Gibson.
2:02:03
Every person stepping aboard a Boeing airplane is risk Boeing
2:02:07
whistleblowers gives scathing testimony on Boeing safety
2:02:11
culture engineer Sam Sala poor says it's effectively putting
2:02:15
out defective airplanes.
2:02:17
The company's taken manufacturing shortcuts on the
2:02:20
787 program that may significantly reduce the
2:02:26
airplane safety serious issues on the seventh eighth engine
2:02:29
program, not properly closing 1000s of gaps in its assembly of
2:02:33
the fuselage on major joints. A
2:02:36
culture of retaliation prevents workers like him from reporting
2:02:40
these problems. His boss even suggested he killed someone who
2:02:44
said what Salah poor said about playing quality and another
2:02:48
instance he found a nail stuck into the tire of his car.
2:02:51
It really scares me, believe me, but I am at peace. You know if
2:02:56
something happens to me, Well, I am at peace because I feel like
2:03:00
like coming forward, I will be saving a lot of lives and all my
2:03:04
teeth. Whatever happens it happens whistleblowers
2:03:07
assert that Boeing prioritizes profits over safety This comes
2:03:12
after the door blew off of a Boeing plane mid flight earlier
2:03:16
this year, and various other incidents engine anti
2:03:20
ice exhaust duct duct fasteners compromise sealing adhesion
2:03:25
within the center fuel tank, loose bolts in the rudder
2:03:28
assembly well duck rudder pedals Miss installed electrical wire
2:03:32
wire bundles in the wings boilers and then of course the
2:03:35
door blowout.
2:03:37
Adam Curry: I got called Tina about her return flight from New
2:03:39
York. Stock rudder pedals bolts in the Are you kidding me?
2:03:46
That's death. That's real death.
2:03:49
John C Dvorak: Well there. Disco continues with part two former
2:03:53
Unknown: FAA Engineer Joe Jacobson saw serious flaws with
2:03:57
Boeing's planes. He observed Boeing hiding these flaws from
2:04:01
government agencies. Former Boeing manager Ed Pearson says
2:04:06
even the government agencies have done a poor job.
2:04:09
These agencies have become lazy, complacent and reactive the
2:04:12
deterioration has been occurring over several years. Pearson
2:04:16
says the National Transportation Safety Board the Federal
2:04:19
Aviation Administration, and the Department of Transportation all
2:04:24
ignored Boeing's problems. Even after multiple high profile
2:04:28
crashes. If
2:04:29
the leaders of those government agencies had done their jobs
2:04:32
investigators would have uncovered a mountain of
2:04:34
important information the FAA would have known Boeing's
2:04:36
production processes were a mess.
2:04:38
The whistleblowers want to change Boeing's entire
2:04:41
production system, one that encourages people to raise
2:04:44
issues and prioritize safety over profits.
2:04:48
Adam Curry: Okay, question. Where's Buttigieg? Isn't he the
2:04:57
boss of these agencies?
2:04:59
John C Dvorak: Yeah,
2:05:00
Adam Curry: He is. So could this be it just a thought that popped
2:05:03
in my head? Could this be that they're like, oh, you know, we
2:05:07
don't want that McKinsey guy getting anywhere near the
2:05:10
presidency to make sure that we discredit him, but they haven't
2:05:14
called him yet they haven't they haven't raked him over the coals
2:05:17
and why not? Because, yes, the FAA is just as responsible for
2:05:23
what Boeing's doing, as the FDA is for Pfizer from Maderna.
2:05:28
Yeah,
2:05:28
John C Dvorak: I agree. Bear. In fact, those two down to 737, Max
2:05:34
nines, whatever they were that Max eight were never fully.
2:05:38
Yeah, the redhead. Yeah. Yeah. That was one crashes and then
2:05:41
another one crashes and kills all these people. Yeah, one two
2:05:44
punch. What is the how does that happen?
2:05:50
Adam Curry: Well, we know how it wasn't the FAA. The FAA should
2:05:53
have been all over that. Yeah. Hmm. Well, I mean, I'm surprised
2:05:59
where is Buttigieg This is very interesting. By the way, there's
2:06:03
someone pointed out to me that there's a we love Michael
2:06:07
Crighton as a writer. state of fear was, in essence, the, the,
2:06:14
the screenplay, the script for what is taking place with
2:06:17
climate change. Yes, airframe, which I've not read. airframe,
2:06:24
released in 97. The plot follows Casey Singleton, a quality
2:06:28
assurance vice president at the fictional aerospace manufacturer
2:06:31
Norton aircraft. she investigates an in flight
2:06:35
accident aboard in Norton manufactured airliner that
2:06:38
leaves passengers dead 56 injured. I got now I have to
2:06:44
read this.
2:06:46
John C Dvorak: Yes, you do. To get to get to get the new rise
2:06:50
when you're finished. You're out what what's
2:06:52
Adam Curry: gonna happen? Now this is this is very, as a as an
2:06:57
airman, this is very concerning. And I would think I think I
2:07:01
reported that it's our Navy pilots, you know, who are
2:07:05
getting ready to retire, which happens in your late 30s, early
2:07:10
40s. And, you know, they all of course, want to go and go on and
2:07:15
keep flying. Typically, they want DHL, FedEx, you know, they
2:07:19
want these kinds of jobs, anything without passengers,
2:07:22
please. They all want to go with Airbus. They don't want to be on
2:07:26
Boeing. And that tells me something. And I learned that
2:07:31
over a year ago, like now, what's going on? We don't like
2:07:35
Boeing anymore.
2:07:37
John C Dvorak: It just fell apart out of the blue. What do
2:07:41
you mean? I mean, Boeing was rude. You know, a very
2:07:44
competitive when you first started the show 1617 years ago,
2:07:48
if I'm talking about the Airbus Boeing battles, yep. And how
2:07:51
Boeing was winning. And there was no evidence that they were
2:07:55
making junk. Then something changed between then and now.
2:08:02
Adam Curry: Can they pin this on Biden somehow?
2:08:06
John C Dvorak: No, no. You can pin it on the board of
2:08:10
directors, that's for sure. Yeah, well,
2:08:13
Adam Curry: they can. For sure. They can pin it on. What's her
2:08:16
face? The who brought him to her state? What's her name? Oh,
2:08:23
yeah.
2:08:23
John C Dvorak: The governor of South Carolina. Nikki,
2:08:27
Adam Curry: Nikki Haley, Nikki
2:08:28
John C Dvorak: Nimrod,
2:08:29
Adam Curry: Nimrod, Nimrod Haley. I guess we don't really
2:08:32
need that. Yeah, let's
2:08:33
John C Dvorak: they moved to South Carolina as well. That's
2:08:35
when it began with a year old that was from the
2:08:37
Adam Curry: culture change. Or maybe they want some kind of
2:08:40
change in in corporate regulations. This I agree with
2:08:46
you something's up, something's up. Because a lot of this may
2:08:49
not be as bad I mean, we do not see aircraft that have broken up
2:08:53
in flight a lot. Which is which is what they're talking about,
2:08:57
you know, hey, they're jumping on the on on the wings to make
2:09:01
them fit. So we haven't, there's no evidence of that happening. A
2:09:09
lot of these things are maintenance. So remember, United
2:09:12
is just the run by a dude in a dress. That who is clearly
2:09:16
occupied with other things. Then quality assurance. We had the
2:09:20
Southwest cowling fly off which was definitely a ground crew
2:09:25
mistake. But it's all thrown on to Boeing and yeah, the the
2:09:32
changes to the 737 max for which they were grounded, which they
2:09:35
made changes, but no one had to no one had no one went to jail,
2:09:40
even though it was clearly clearly they big mistake,
2:09:46
including the FAA.
2:09:48
John C Dvorak: So the the facility in South Carolina
2:09:50
opened in July 2011. And that seems to be the crux of
2:09:56
everything.
2:09:59
Adam Curry: I don't know We also have Carolina
2:10:01
John C Dvorak: sigh was used by two of the subcontractors
2:10:03
bought. Remember Ling temco Vought, aircraft industries and
2:10:08
global aeronautics joint venture Vaught and Alenia forgot about
2:10:12
aeronautical to build sections of the fuselage, composite
2:10:16
materials. That's where the 780 777 87 is made there
2:10:22
Adam Curry: is a spirit aircraft, whatever it's called,
2:10:27
is that a public company?
2:10:29
John C Dvorak: I don't think so. Okay, well, the
2:10:32
Adam Curry: I keep hearing that they're definitely going to
2:10:33
split that into and one half will go back inside of Boeing
2:10:37
and the other half will continue to make parts for Airbus. And
2:10:43
it's still It could just all be Airbus. I mean, hold on. I have
2:10:47
a well let's take a look here. I have France 24, who would be on
2:10:52
the Airbus side of the equation was listened to their report
2:10:55
Unknown: literally saw people jumping on the pieces of the
2:10:58
airplane to get them to aligned those are the lengths that
2:11:02
Boeing will go to to put production over safety. An
2:11:05
engineer at the airline TOLD US lawmakers to Senate Committees
2:11:09
on Wednesday piled more pressure on Boeing, which is under
2:11:12
multiple investigations are some Santa Paws said he was
2:11:16
threatened for raising his concerns internally plane crash.
2:11:20
In a rush to address the bottlenecks in production.
2:11:23
Boeing had problems pushing pieces together with excessive
2:11:27
force to make him appear that the gaps don't exist even though
2:11:32
they exist. Effectively they are putting out defective airplanes.
2:11:36
Boeing
2:11:37
says these claims about the 787 Dreamliner are false and says it
2:11:41
hasn't found cracks while maintenance in nearly 700 of the
2:11:44
aircraft. Regulators have limited production of another
2:11:49
aircraft the 737 max after a door panel blew off during an
2:11:53
Alaska Airlines flight in January. In 2018, and 2019, two
2:11:59
other 737 Max aircraft crashed, killing 346 people. Another
2:12:05
whistleblower said nothing changed in Boeing's culture
2:12:08
afterwards.
2:12:10
Hundreds of people died and there's been no justice unless
2:12:14
action is taken and leaders are held accountable. Every person
2:12:17
stepping aboard a Boeing airplane is at risk.
2:12:21
Boeing has announced a management shakeup as deliveries
2:12:25
fell by half in March. So
2:12:27
Adam Curry: it's definitely hurting the bottom line.
2:12:29
John C Dvorak: Here. Let me read something from the wiki page.
2:12:31
Okay. Quality control issues. The South Carolina plan has been
2:12:35
accused of shoddy production ignoring safety defects in the
2:12:39
airplanes in favor of meeting deadlines in 2019, following the
2:12:42
discovery of exterior damage on planes of manufacture in
2:12:45
Charleston. For a time Qatar Airways would only accept
2:12:49
delivery of Dreamliners assembled in Everett. Later that
2:12:53
same year KLM which had discovered loose seats missing
2:12:57
an incorrectly installed pins nuts and bolts not fully
2:13:01
tightened, and a fuel line clamp left unsecured on his jet
2:13:06
complained that the standard of manufacture was way below
2:13:09
acceptable standards. Early in 2020, Boeing engineers
2:13:13
discovered depressions in the 787 vertical tail fin which
2:13:17
could lead to structural failure under limited loads affecting
2:13:21
hundreds of planes on our vast majority of the fleet, eight 780
2:13:25
sevens were grounded due to the issue which had been discovered
2:13:28
in August 2019 At the South Carolina plant, but we did this
2:13:32
it goes on and on. Yeah, this, this South Carolina as a
2:13:36
manufacturing hub, which I think car manufacturers are using to
2:13:40
obviously not to demean the citizenry of South Carolina.
2:13:45
They're not up to the standards that they need to be if they're
2:13:49
going to be doing this sort of work. The
2:13:51
Adam Curry: only other thing I can I can surmise, because it
2:13:54
has been going along consistently whenever something
2:13:57
happens to an aircraft, whether it's airline related maintenance
2:14:01
related or manufacturer related. The first thing you read in
2:14:05
social media as dei to maybe it's a big push to, to to kill
2:14:13
Dei. Could
2:14:15
John C Dvorak: be just about I think this is I think this is a
2:14:18
going on everywhere. They push to kill Dei, because it's
2:14:22
showing it I think it's a valid push because I think dei is you
2:14:28
notice it in the everywhere.
2:14:30
Adam Curry: Oh, you're noticing I noticed it. You're noticing.
2:14:34
All right. Well another thing Pete Buda judge has not really
2:14:37
been in the news for Where is Pete is the Key Bridge the
2:14:41
Francis Scott Key Bridge and there are some updates
2:14:44
Unknown: we are following breaking news. Breaking news
2:14:46
into the wavy newsroom. The FBI opened a criminal investigation
2:14:50
into the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse.
2:14:52
The Washington Post reports the FBI is investigating whether the
2:14:56
crew of the dolly left the port knowing the vessel had systems
2:15:00
problems. Authorities are also reportedly reviewing the events
2:15:03
leading up to when the dolly slammed into one of the Francis
2:15:06
Scott Key bridges support pillars. And
2:15:08
Adam Curry: we already had one dockworker, who said oh yeah, I
2:15:11
know there were problems with the electricity with the with
2:15:14
the reefers, which is the refrigerator, refrigerated
2:15:16
containers and there's another one.
2:15:20
Unknown: A desperate mayday call to
2:15:22
get to the other side of the bridge. Down made
2:15:25
too late. Killing video capturing the minutes leading up
2:15:29
to the tragedy showing the ship losing power lights flashing on
2:15:34
and off before striking a support sending the bridge
2:15:37
crumbling down this week. FBI agents boarding the vessel
2:15:41
conducting a criminal investigation into the earlier
2:15:44
hours seeking warning signs that may have been missed or ignored.
2:15:49
Like what crane operator Damian Tucker,
2:15:51
I've been working 15 hours on that vessel claims to have
2:15:54
witnessed firsthand I was radioed up from the reefer
2:15:57
mechanic and some of the Longshoremen on a ship that was
2:16:00
lashing containers that night. They were having electrical
2:16:03
problems getting power to reefers
2:16:06
reefers are refrigerated cargo containers used to transport
2:16:09
perishable goods in the two decades, Tucker's worked at the
2:16:12
Port of Baltimore loading and unloading 1000s of reefers that
2:16:16
happen often.
2:16:17
No it doesn't happen off and
2:16:19
you're 23 years
2:16:20
how many times have you experienced where Reapers are
2:16:22
struggling to get power, maybe twice echoing his account the
2:16:26
Associated Press quoting an anonymous source claiming while
2:16:29
the ship was still dumped, alarms went off on some of its
2:16:32
refrigerated containers indicating an inconsistent power
2:16:36
supply. Tonight the NTSB not confirming or denying the claims
2:16:40
only willing to say a preliminary report of their
2:16:43
investigation will be released in the coming weeks.
2:16:46
Adam Curry: Where's Mayor Pete? Nowhere to be found. And by the
2:16:52
way, Mayor Pete Mr. Dei, Mr. Dei, remember all the all we
2:16:59
need to have with but we got to have bridges have to be raised
2:17:02
so the black schoolchildren could get underneath it to go to
2:17:05
the beach
2:17:06
John C Dvorak: to commemorate. I remember the bus is too tall to
2:17:11
go underneath this thing. Breach. Yeah.
2:17:17
Adam Curry: I remember that. Okay. I have a couple of big
2:17:20
pharma things and then we can we can thank some people unless you
2:17:23
have something else you'd like to know
2:17:24
John C Dvorak: if you're gonna go big firm. I do have the RAND
2:17:27
Rand Paul, visit a to the Hill, which I thought was very, yeah,
2:17:32
you
2:17:32
Adam Curry: went to you even put a little thing on Twitter. You
2:17:35
said you should be watching this. And you know what everyone
2:17:38
did? Oh, wait for the show.
2:17:43
John C Dvorak: I think that was related to something not this
2:17:45
particular
2:17:46
Adam Curry: budget. That was that was that was this
2:17:48
particular clip you said? wasn't okay. Yeah. You said everyone
2:17:51
should watch this.
2:17:53
Unknown: It's very educational. All right.
2:17:57
Adam Curry: What are we what are we going to be listening to?
2:17:59
John C Dvorak: This is Rand Paul on the hill. That TV you know
2:18:03
that whatever it is from the magazine, crystal ball? No, not
2:18:08
those guys are long gone out to new guys. And he's pretty much
2:18:13
summarizing all of the complaining that he's been doing
2:18:16
and I I took what I get
2:18:19
Adam Curry: on Wuhan, Wuhan related.
2:18:21
John C Dvorak: I got three clips in this yes about the virus and
2:18:24
how it's like, we've been scammed every which way.
2:18:28
Unknown: We've known of course, that eco Health Alliance had
2:18:31
pitched the diffuse project to I believe the Defense Department
2:18:34
did not procure funding for that project, although you know
2:18:38
whether that research was going on or had gone on any way or
2:18:41
continued is an open question. But now you're saying that it's
2:18:45
it's far from this lone agency that knew about this project,
2:18:49
who else in the government knew that scientists were trying to
2:18:53
get government funding to make a virus that would have looked
2:18:55
like COVID
2:18:56
It's important to know that we only know anything about this
2:18:59
because of a whistleblower. So in 2021, a lieutenant colonel
2:19:03
Marine Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Murphy, at DARPA came forward
2:19:09
and he said he'd been looking for research like this because
2:19:12
he was convinced that it was going on. He went to a folder, a
2:19:15
computer folder, and he looked for this and it wasn't there.
2:19:19
Then he saw another exchange between myself and Fauci. And he
2:19:22
saw the tension heating up and he went back to the folder and
2:19:25
looked at all the sudden, the document was there. And the
2:19:28
document indicated that Wuhan lab was working with UNC Ralph
2:19:33
Eric, and with Peter de Zak at Eco health, and their proposal
2:19:36
was to take a Coronavirus, which is not very infectious in humans
2:19:40
usually, and make it more infectious in humans by putting
2:19:43
a special cleavage site called the Furin cleavage site and what
2:19:48
DARPA passed on this DARPA said, Well, damn, that sounds a little
2:19:52
bit crazy. Create a virus that could be so contagious, because
2:19:55
Coronavirus can be deadly, but it's typically not very
2:19:58
contagious. Now you're going Devine, combine deadly with
2:20:01
contagious you got a real problem. And so they turned it
2:20:04
down. And so we always said when 2020 happened and we saw the
2:20:09
sequence of COVID-19 alarm bells should have gone off and DARPA
2:20:13
and they should have come forward and warned us that Wuhan
2:20:16
had already proposed to create a very similar type of virus. And
2:20:21
no one did no one from DARPA came forward. So we've always
2:20:24
faulted the people at DARPA and think they were covering it up
2:20:26
other than the whistleblower. I
2:20:28
Adam Curry: don't like two things that he said there one
2:20:31
toy computer folder, okay. Sure. That is Microsoft SharePoint,
2:20:37
whatever stuff goes away. The other thing is he makes it sound
2:20:41
like a Coronavirus will kill you. It's the flu
2:20:47
John C Dvorak: no no Coronavirus, more of the cold a
2:20:50
Adam Curry: cold I'm sorry. But it's not I mean, not not more
2:20:55
deadly than your your yearly cold and flu season. He makes it
2:21:00
sound like oh, there's a Coronavirus.
2:21:05
John C Dvorak: All right, well, that they'd be reasonable
2:21:07
complaints that's going to clip the second part of this. Now
2:21:10
Unknown: we know the presentation for this research
2:21:12
was given to 15 agencies, including the NIH, and the NAI,
2:21:18
the NAI D, which is Fauci division of NIH. And worse than
2:21:23
that, not only were they briefed, the original diffuse
2:21:27
proposal, we now know included work to be done at the Rocky
2:21:30
Mountain lab in Colorado that's owned by Fauci is division of
2:21:34
the NIH. So it doesn't pass the cardinality test, that somehow
2:21:40
Anthony Fauci knows nothing of this. So we've actually come up
2:21:45
with another criminal referral for him, because in committee
2:21:48
and HELP Committee, he tells Senator Roger Marshall, that he
2:21:52
knows nothing of this diffuse grant. And also in Missouri
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versus Biden the court case in deposition, he says he knew
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nothing of this diffuse grant. And yet now we know, his agency
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was briefed, and his agency was going to be part of the original
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proposal.
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Adam Curry: Does he want Fauci behind bars as he wants? It's
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John C Dvorak: been after Fauci ever since Fauci looked him in
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the eyes and lied to him. Yeah, yeah. And he's been really after
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Fauci, he's gonna get he says, I don't get him clip, I'm
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Adam Curry: gonna get him. No, I
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John C Dvorak: have the clip of I don't have the clip of doing
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this longer than I have here, where he says, you know, there's
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no chance to, or just this Justice Department's gonna do
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anything about Fauci. He's lying in front of Congress, but he's
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gonna stay on this. So here's the last of this,
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Unknown: you would think some of these federal agencies would
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feel a little bit of contempt or would want accountability from
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the people at, for instance, eco Health Alliance, whom we now