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Adam Curry: Good news sucks.
Adam curry Jhansi Dvorak
Thursday May 23 2020 for this
year award winning give our
nation media assassination
episode 1616
Unknown: This is no agenda
Adam Curry: going trends Mao is
man broadcasting live from the
heart of the country here and
FEMA Region number six. Morning
everybody I'm Adam curry and
John C Dvorak: from Northern
Silicon Valley where we're all
worried about the TS MC Kill
Switch I'm Jessie
Adam Curry: kill the TSMC at
work he'll fridge
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I was
reading about this this morning
actually.
Adam Curry: Is this the thing on
cars?
John C Dvorak: No, no, it's this
is the the Taiwan semiconductor
manufacturing company who makes
90% go Yeah. How did this
happen? How did this happen? 90%
of all the high end chips are
made in Taiwan. And that and the
company that provides most of
the gear is again How did this
happen? Located in Holland?
Yeah. ASML ASML that well, they
make
Adam Curry: photography don't
they make the Lithgow they
John C Dvorak: make the altra
UVC. Yes. Yeah. Nobody else
seems to be able to do
Adam Curry: Yeah, I know. Go
Dutch. And
John C Dvorak: so the Dutch a
lot of people go Dutch so they
they have it was unknown to me
but they have a kill switch.
This
Adam Curry: I did not and all
their gear. The Dutch have a
kill switch.
John C Dvorak: Yeah. And so they
if China takes over the island,
all that gear that said TSMC
will remotely be ruined. Just
with real it's just Yeah. Isn't
that interesting?
Adam Curry: Where did you hear
this from?
John C Dvorak: It was in the
trades. I read it in the
Adam Curry: trade. Billboard
which which trade?
John C Dvorak: industry trade
manufacturing news,
Adam Curry: Hollywood Reporter
huh? Well, I know that the Dutch
that was a big focus, because
the Dutch government told ASML
like, Hey, you guys, you know
you can't x if we say you can't
export you can't export to
certain countries like China and
Russia. Yeah, exactly. And and
the company was like, well,
who's in charge here? And the
government went yeah, you but
the so they have a kill switch
on all the gear because they
exported the actual gear, right.
The
John C Dvorak: gear? Yes. We
export the gear and then Taiwan
has probably the lion's share of
it. And there's a backdoor I
guess they can just remotely
over the internet killed the
gear. I think it's the contract
that shouldn't shy
Adam Curry: away. Then the
Taiwan should disconnect their
gear from the internet. Hello,
John C Dvorak: I'm sure it's
part of the contract. They have
the gear in the first place so
you can be sure it's in there.
Adam Curry: I mean, everything
has a kill switch these days.
You know the cars have kill
switches. It's a kill switch
bonanza. Did you know they have
a new president in in Taiwan?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, this dude,
he's a pro independence guy.
Unknown: Here's the guy. New
precedent fly Ching tear
inherits not just the office,
but the intricate web of
challenges that comes with it.
Yes at home. He faces a
fractured parliament, with no
party holding a majority.
Internationally, he faces
significant challenges, even
though he has offered to meet Xi
Jinping for talks. It's also
pledged to defend the island
saying it's only the people who
can decide to Taiwan's future,
Beijing has repeatedly labeled
him a dangerous separatist
military, from China remains fit
presents. Even why Ally has been
preparing for Office. Beijing
has been ramping up drills in
the region as both a reminder of
their military might and
political intentions. You see
Adam Curry: those guys? I love
it when they when they fight in
Parliament. They knock on each
other in the head that throwing
them off chairs, dragging them
on the floor. All we get is the
John C Dvorak: Taiwanese
Parliament uses like a bloodbath
is great
Adam Curry: and all we get is
baby girl your eyelash hauls we
get like what it was what is
that version? Now those guys are
do it for real and bam. knock
you out saga. By the way,
where'd this guy go to school?
This Taiwanese president where
Harvard? The course he's a
stooge. He's one of our students
John C Dvorak: because he is
he's one of our stooges do quiz
and
Adam Curry: I will we're waiting
for Georgia to implode. I'm sure
we've got stooges all over that
place, as in Georgia as in the
country. Well,
John C Dvorak: that's been
amazing. Now we have today
there's the big meeting between
Biden and the guy who runs
Kenya. Yeah, Ruto and this is
like ridiculous like this is the
best we can do is Kenya, Kenya,
Kenya, whatever how you want to
pronounce
Adam Curry: Kenya have anything
of value for us. But
John C Dvorak: it must but I
think it's strategic more than
anything right in the middle
there. I went I was in Kenya.
Oh, here
Adam Curry: we go. Here we go
everybody drink
John C Dvorak: this is like this
is this country's is a nightmare
and and so we were headed to
South Africa, the family and
we're going to South Africa for
a meeting and we had a stopover
Adam Curry: for a meeting of the
ICC and what what does that
family do
John C Dvorak: for our family
meeting? So we're we stop in
Kenya and we're at the airport
waiting. And a couple of things
happen. One is I had a this was
a while ago, so I had these
cassettes to listen to and those
were stolen, which I made a fuss
about and I got him back. Ah,
stop.
Adam Curry: Stop, stop, stop,
stop. Now were these your disco
cassettes who stole them? What
happened?
John C Dvorak: They disappeared
from the overhead. We were out
of the plane for a minute for
some reason. And we're in the
airport and they got stolen and
I made a huge fuss about this
and I got them back. And the
guest says you shouldn't leave
anything in a when you take
these breaks into Africa because
that's like a year's salary for
somebody one audio cassette. I
said okay. But the thing that
part of the reason for this
story as you go you're sick.
We're sitting in the airport
lounge waiting for the to get
back on the plane. And the
Kenyan army foreign army guys
are in there shaking down
passengers and robbing them one
after the other. Wow. In the
airport.
Adam Curry: How did they shake
you down for your best event
ever
John C Dvorak: got to us before
we got back on the plane. You
know, my make eye contact was so
low kids. They were literally
stealing people's money at the
airport, the Kenyan army. I said
this is a terrible country. Wow.
And I was glad to get out of
there. But this was probably a
while ago. It was 30 years ago.
Yeah. Okay. Oh, it's changed.
Adam Curry: I think here the
place is great. Now. It's
changed. It's really shaped up a
lot is groovy now. Yes. All
right. So so that is Biden's
big. Foreign Policy Kenya.
John C Dvorak: Yes. I do have a
clip on this. I might. Kenya
Adam Curry: who has Kenya. Oh,
yes, you do. Oh, let's let's
chase away the audience right at
the top of the show. Good one
was
John C Dvorak: it's taking place
here in the US of A so let's see
what happens. The Biden
Unknown: administration is
rolling out the red carpet for
Kenya's president. Who's
beginning a three day state
visit to Washington. NPRs
Michele Kelemen reports.
Relations
with Kenya have gone from a
regional partnership to a global
one. According to National
Security Adviser Jake Sullivan.
This
is the first state visit by an
African Head of State in nearly
20 years. It is long overdue.
He says President Biden and
Kenyan President William Ruto
will announce new partnerships
and emerging technologies and
more on security cooperation.
That includes in Haiti, where
the US will be offering
logistics, to a Kenyan led
international force. The long
overdue mission is meant to
stabilize Haiti now wracked by
gang violence.
Adam Curry: It's about barbecue.
I see. By the way, I don't think
that's true. There was first in
20 years, there was a huge
African contingent I remember
this maybe 10 years ago.
Remember that all with all kinds
of African heads of state? heads
on sticks.
John C Dvorak: The best you can
do is 15 years ago, somebody
came over and said, Hello. So
this is about Kenya is going to
be bringing army over to take
care of Haiti. Yeah, but the way
they put it Oh, yeah. For for a
technology with a kid.
Adam Curry: Yeah, foam finger
number one. Hello. Hello, Haiti.
We're coming. We're coming for
our elites have wanted Haiti so
bad for so long. You know, let's
face it, the Clinton Foundation
messed it up. They were supposed
to have control of it. And then
somehow that slipped through
their fingers after they, after
they got the gold contracts and
took all the children. We
haven't forgotten. I
John C Dvorak: mean, that
potential for casinos,
especially in the north part of
the island. Carnival Cruise was
beautiful plants. It's
Adam Curry: an obvious place. If
it wasn't for the
John C Dvorak: damn Haitians.
Yeah, barbecue. Annoying.
Adam Curry: Well, let's get to
the big news of the day. This
was without a doubt the big news
big, big, big, big news. We're
Unknown: learning more about the
severe turbulence on a passenger
plane from London to Asia. One
man was killed and images show
just how chaotic things got
inside that cabin. And we are
now hearing from the airlines
CEO ABCs Christiane Cordero has
more on this Christiane Good
morning,
Rhiannon Good morning to you
this kind of turbulence has been
on the rise experts say one
factor, maybe climate change.
Adam Curry: Climate change now I
love these reports because
John C Dvorak: yeah cuz true by
the way Tribulus has never
happened before climate change.
Adam Curry: I'm going to give
you a whole I got a whole report
I got a whole rundown on this
because I'm tired of this
nonsense. And by the way, one
man was killed. He died of a
heart attack it said, but he
died of a heart attack. He
wasn't killed. It was not a
pretty scene. Absolutely. Which
is a reminder. How many times do
we have to see it just like we
do up here in the cockpit. When
you're in your seat, keep your
seatbelt buckled. Don't think
that you've got a free ride
here. Keep your seatbelt
buckled. It's that simple. A
Unknown: Singapore Airlines
flight with us as Reuters, by
the way hit but severe
turbulence and Tuesday, flinging
passengers and crew around the
cabin and forcing the plane to
make an emergency landing in
Bangkok. dozens were injured.
One died of a suspected heart
attack suspected what happened
what happened it appears that
the flights entered an air
pocket. There are also reports
that there were some storms
nearby
Adam Curry: some of the
turbulence so this is kind of
where I caught my attention like
Oh, because they're talking wind
shear clear air turbulence,
climate change. And then there's
this little report that everyone
kept repeating over and over and
over Reuters again,
Unknown: climate change be
making air turbulence more
common and severe. The death of
one passenger and injuries to
others on a Singapore Airlines
flight has underlined the
potential dangers of severe
turbulence in particular.
Airline ratings editor in chief
Geoffrey Thomas turbulence is
becoming
Adam Curry: more prevalent as
climate changes. And the
university's research in the
United Kingdom has shown that
over the last 40 years, severe
turbulence has increased by
55% 55 55%. Oh no, this climate
change must be stopped. What is
it doing NBC breaking
Unknown: this morning after that
dramatic turbulence onboard
Singapore Airlines flight 321,
the airline's CEO is speaking
out. We're deeply saddened by
this incident, that extreme
turbulence wreaks havoc inside
the plane, injuring dozens of
passengers and flight
attendants. Some critically so
called clear air turbulence,
often appearing close to the jet
stream is very difficult to
predict. And researchers say
climate change has made wind
shear much stronger. Yes.
Adam Curry: And so now we're not
sure was it clear air
turbulence? Were they in a
storm? Is it wind shear? Maybe
the CBC can help us out? Paul
Unknown: Williams is an
atmospheric scientist at Reading
University in England. Are we
seeing an increase in
turbulence?
I think so. This started out as
a theory we had about 10 years
ago, we were running atmospheric
simulations, computer
simulations of the future.
Adam Curry: Oh, yeah. Now
standby, because we got some
modeling going on here.
Unknown: And they were
indicating that the amount of
severe clear air turbulence was
going to double or treble in the
next few decades, because of
climate change. And more
recently, last year, we
published a study that confirmed
that, in fact, those increases
have already begun.
Adam Curry: I love how they
published a study that confirms
that we looked back at
historical data. That's No, no
actual evidence. There's no
actual evidence, they just
published a study that confirmed
it
Unknown: confirmed that, in
fact, those increases have
already begun, looked back at
historic data, going back to
1979, which is when satellites
first began observing the jet
stream. And when we crunched
those numbers, we found that
rather than 1979 to the present
day, there has already been a
55% increase in the amount of
severe turbulence. So I think
those increases from climate
change have already begun and
are only set to continue into
the future if the climate
continues to change as we expect
it to.
Adam Curry: So this is your pet
peeve. Your pet peeve is 55%. Of
what? So exactly sounds very
severe this 55% Oh my god, we're
all going to die. Luckily, CBC
kept this guy on the phone, or
on the Skype on the zoom for
about 12 minutes. If you didn't
fall asleep. By the end, he lets
us know what's really going on.
Unknown: severe turbulence is
rare, and it even will remain
rare. If it doubles or triples.
Something like 1/10 of 1% of the
atmosphere at fly cruising
levels has to be a turbulence in
it. So you take naught point 1%
and double it or triple it. It's
still only point two or point 3%
of the chance of your flight
hitting that little tiny part of
the atmosphere is really is
really tiny, just keep your
seatbelt fastened, and then try
and have a nice flight. So
Adam Curry: 0.1% of the air is
has severe turbulence. But
because it's 55% increase, it's
only like 0.2% now. So there's
not that much to be afraid of,
especially if you realize that
this was not clear air
turbulence. This is what it was
Unknown: the Boeing triple seven
was flying from London to
Singapore, when it hits sudden
turbulence on the edge of a
powerful storm, flight radar 24
data shows the plane suddenly
pushed up and down, like a
violent wave at 37,000 feet,
then a controlled emergency
descent to 31,000 feet and an
emergency landing, they
Adam Curry: were flying over the
ITC z which every big, heavy
aircraft pilot knows is the
intertropical convergence zone.
This is where this is right by
the equator. This is where you
get these two jet streams
converging. This is where
particularly July January, you
get big storms. And that's what
they flew into. This has nothing
to do with clear air turbulence
from climate change. It's
nonsense. It's not fun and fun
if you're in the in the plane.
But this is big scare tactics.
And once again, hype climate
change. And I spent several days
this week putting together our
Sunday special, which will be a
climate change special.
John C Dvorak: And this would be
the second time we've done it
climate change special I'd like
people to compare it to the old
one. Well,
Adam Curry: buted climate change
clips. And I did us reading and
talking about climate change,
almost it'll be different won't
exactly almost no clips. So
because of Cirque de nonnamous
being it.io. If you haven't seen
being adata, you can search
every single episode of the no
agenda show. Going back to the
first episode. When you see the
transcript, you can highlight a
piece of the transcript, click
the Clip button and it creates
an embeddable clip actually
creates an embeddable clip with
a video with with the captions.
And with the show art, it's
really phenomenal what he's
done.
John C Dvorak: It's phenomena it
is actually good debt, which is
why I'm sending you more show
notes now knowing that I'll go
into this database. So yeah, I
Adam Curry: just fun to do. So.
I started episode one, we
actually the first episode we
talked about, and I only only
search for global warming, I
didn't search for climate
change, because it was global
warming. We're talking almost 17
years ago, you could
John C Dvorak: do another five
hours using searching for
climate change. I didn't
Adam Curry: get past episode
100. And I had the show done.
John C Dvorak: And yeah, and
what I did the same thing with
the clips and what didn't get
very far. And
Adam Curry: what's surprising is
that the elements are always the
same. Banning meat vaccinations,
because we also had another bird
flu, swine flu, trusting the
science, if you recall. And I'd
forgotten this, that the
university that had all the base
climate data, do you remember
that they lost all the data
because they didn't have enough
hard drives, and then the data
got corrupted, and they lost it.
So the actual Glee the actual
basis data that all this
nonsense is built upon has been
lost at stake. Similar, similar
to the moon landing recordings,
oops. And then something one
other thing that is very, it
just keeps coming back. It's the
same elements over and over
again. Huge element and no meat,
no meat, by the way. There was
no talk of burps, it was all cow
farts. Sheep farts was
John C Dvorak: another big Good
point. Yep, you're right. I
remember that period where it
was called farts. It was no cow.
Now it's cow burping.
Adam Curry: That was sheep
farts. You don't hear about that
anymore. The sheep farts when
you remember that? Yeah, it was
like 12% of, of New Zealand's
climate change or global warming
came from sheep farts. So they
made up all kinds of stuff. But
I pulled a clip as a teaser. And
this is a discovery that you
made on the show. We're going
back to Episode 93 from 2000.
What, what are you making that
sound for? Because
John C Dvorak: 93 That's, that's
in the dark ages. But that was
the show. But that's
Adam Curry: what's so cool is
because this, this is how long
we've been tracking this
nonsense. And we've been
delivering this as a public
service to people. And this one
I had forgotten about and it's
something that you picked up on.
We're going back to Episode
93 2000 Here we go. You'll be
amazed by this
John C Dvorak: New Zealand
interview UVC this week, they
had a complete documentary on
power shift. oh nine. Oh, nice.
Now power shift.org People can
go out there and check it out.
It's a green activists and
essentially the government has
taken over this this particular
conference and they loaded it up
with Obama people. The keynoter
was the EPA woman, Paul Podesta,
the one of the staffers that one
of the major staffers, you know,
Podesta
Adam Curry: before we knew about
Podesta, it's
John C Dvorak: one of these
other guys was gonna look like
the organizer from the way they
had this thing. structured the
way they did the, the, the show
this documentary, Bill Clinton
was there, there's everybody was
loaded up there was loaded up
with these guys. And here's what
I'm watching this thing
thinking, wow, this is just
another then they got all these
kids. It's a bunch of young
people. And they get them all
pumped up with you know, this
green, green, green, green green
stuff and you know, global
warming. And so then they jumped
to showing some of the behind
the scenes seminars, you know,
they don't always have the
breakouts. No, of course. So the
breakouts are training to kids
on civil disobedience, resisting
arrest, how to do sit in spot
properly, how to lock arms for
how to do passive resistance.
Wait a minute, let me get this
straight. And I want to be an
anybody who happens to be one of
those people. I like to ask a
question, since when do does the
government train the youth to do
these sorts of things? That the
first thing I thought it was
either Nazi youth or the Young
Communist Party, this is
training the youth.
Adam Curry: So I'll bet you a
lot of those trainees from 15
years ago are now in schools
teaching the next generation
this same nonsense. Yep. In
fact, we got a boots on the
ground from New Jersey from
Chris, he says, and his his
daughter, he has two children in
the system. He says my oldest
daughter was in grade school.
She's now a sophomore in
college, but they started with
the propaganda. Even before the
school year started, they would
gather all the parents and go
over the topics they'll be
covering. And over the ensuing
years, my daughter would come
home and report on the nonsense
they'd be pushing. In fact, they
showed the here when my daughter
was in the sixth grade, she came
home to let me know she had
upset the science teacher who
was on her soapbox about how
we're killing polar bears. And
of course, this is a no agenda,
she
John C Dvorak: will mention
there's more polar bears than
ever exactly, and
Adam Curry: then forced the
class to watch a YouTube video
titled something about the lone
polar bear in the tundra,
starving to death because of
climate change. But the video
shows an emancipated emaciated
bear walking back and forth in
the snow while the teacher
explained the video was shot in
the deep Arctic wilderness. It
was indicative of what all the
bears looked at. But by the end
of the video, my daughter raised
her hand and said, Hey, if the
video was shot on the tundra,
then why is there a wall and two
garbage cans at the edge of the
frame? I soon received a call
from the teacher who didn't
appreciate being contradicted. I
mean, this is horrible what
they're doing to our children.
And I was listening to an
interview of John Daniel
Davidson. He's a senior editor
at The Federalist I guess he's
he's been writing for Wall
Street Journal, and, you know,
all kinds of mainstream
publications for 20 years, and
he came out with a book called a
pagan America and the decline of
Christianity and the dark age to
come. And I just had to share
some of his thinking on the
topic, please give
Unknown: us some examples of how
this is breaking down and how
pagan is paganistic elements are
being introduced to these big
companies like Google and I've
seen different things taking
place like this with Yeah,
you start with this. I mean,
some of that is is is the
obvious stuff, climate changes
and environmentalism as as a
modern form of, of nature,
worship, corporate culture and
corporate America shot through
with this stuff. Now, the way
mains our mainstream society
talks about climate change, and
environmentalism is
fundamentally religious because
because of the importance that
they place on it, right? We you
have people saying, You, you,
you shouldn't have children. You
shouldn't we shouldn't form
families, arguing for policies
that will bring absolute misery
and ruination to
Adam Curry: as good as
Unknown: people are comfortable
kind of talking about policies
that will result in the deaths
of millions and millions of
people, famine and starvation.
For the sake of what I would
argue is a religious idea, right
that we that we owe you The
Earth something and we need to
sacrifice ourselves to Gaia, we
need to sacrifice our human
flourishing to this other being
which is the earth. So, and this
is where it gets tricky because
these people are not going to
say I worship the earth. I am a
devotee of Gaia.
Adam Curry: So I'm like, Yeah,
that makes sense, you'll follow
the science and we have to save
the Earth admits it's replacing
it's a religion for people who
are all in on this going back
decades, that's just witnessed
in our religion,
John C Dvorak: we've talked
about it being a religion, but
then he goes on a property as
much as anyone but
Adam Curry: then he goes one
step further.
Unknown: So we have we have
environmentalism or climate
changes, as as a modern form of,
of pagan religion, we have
transgenderism, which is a, a
modern form of paganism or devil
worship throughout pagan
cultures of the past, this
notion of, of changing sexes or
gender bending has been a
feature of various pagan deities
in various cultures, throughout
human history. And it's
remarkably consistent. The idea
that, that a pagan deity could
do this in and of itself and do
it to other people, is has
always been associated with
certain date deities, right. So
again, are transgender activists
going to say like, going to come
out and say, I'm a devotee of
you know, this Persian goddess
or or of this, you know,
Mesopotamian God, probably not,
most of them are not going to,
but they will functionally be
engaged in very old practices
that are pagan fundamentally.
But more broadly, as I mentioned
earlier, transgenderism is
really a kind of a subset of
transhumanism, which posits
that, that we can create
ourselves and we can we can
become like gods, that we are
Gods, that that we are not
limited by reality, or by
biological reality. Men can
become women, women can become
in or we can become neither. And
that we are, we have that power,
as of a deity.
Adam Curry: Okay, so I'm
following him there, but the
transhumanism part, I was like,
oh, yeah, we kind of forgot I
forgot about that about oh,
yeah, it's all part of the
transhumanist agenda, and the
neural link and all this stuff,
and then he winds up with this
one. And
Unknown: where I think that is
headed, and where I argue at the
end of the book, when I talk
about artificial intelligence,
in the trans transhumanist
movement, you know, because
always because because what
starts with self worship always
ends up projecting out to
something else. So the
transhumanist movement is not
going to end with with just
saying, We're all gods and we
can, we can determine what we
want to be because we are
deities, there's going to be an
external object that ends up
ends up becoming the object of
worship. And in the case of
transhumanism, it's going to be
artificial intelligence. And you
can already see the ways that
this is taking shape, the most,
the most vocal and prominent
transhumanists have already come
out and all that all that said
in their words, and especially
in their actions, we need to
turn over decisions about our
lives, to these AI algorithms
that will tell us what to do and
will tell us how to be happy and
will enable us to live forever.
Adam Curry: And I gotta tell you
the amount of times that I've
heard some tech weasel talk
about that how AI of like, Elon
Musk, go, no AI is going to
create a god. I've heard Joe
Rogan say, oh, you know, AI, we
just need AI that tells us what
to do. And then you look at the
Viva tech conference in France,
this which is going on right
now, Viva tech. And there it is.
That's
Unknown: France positions itself
as the top innovator in the
artificial intelligence space.
Europe's biggest startup events,
Viva technology opened its doors
in the French capital. This
year. AI is everywhere,
everywhere. Events. eighth
edition aims to show off the
depth of AI's capabilities, from
sorting waste, to cancer
detection, and tackle key
questions about its impact
across industries like climate
change, and upcoming elections.
Adam Curry: So AI will take care
of climate change will take care
of medicine and the upcoming
elections. But luckily,
Unknown: in terms of journalism,
however, French media group has
told France 24 the industry
isn't at risk. A lot of
preparations will be made.
John C Dvorak: Don't worry, it's
the only thing that is at risk.
Adam Curry: No, it's the best. A
lot
Unknown: of preparations will be
made easier and quicker by AI.
And we know that you know, you
can have a synthesis of millions
of pages and a very quick thing,
then comes the human difference.
I'm a very, very strong really
In the fact that AI will not
replace those guys of course,
luckily not you will not be
replaced by an AI because what
you know what you can do AI
today doesn't know how to do it.
AI
is also revolutionizing the job
markets through consultancy firm
PwC found that roles integrating
AI skills carry up to a 25% wage
premium as well as having nearly
five times the rate of
productivity growth and easing
repetition for employees.
Adam Curry: Yeah, that's right
everyone get a job and AI kids
kids don't become a plumber. Oh,
become a prompt jockey. That's
the way to go. It's gonna be
great. Bill I
John C Dvorak: have a clips oh
please give me some AR
Adam Curry: clips.
John C Dvorak: And the reason
these are interesting now is
because of the clip you played
earlier about the climate change
made up that was taken over by
the US government with Podesta
and everybody else in between
the Clintons because it seems as
though this big AI meet up which
just took place in South Korea
it's been same thing it's like
the US government's now like
moved in for an or what they're
up to of course, well, if
Adam Curry: we think about what
Davidson said, you know, we give
people a I give them their their
something to worship and the AI
tells them what to do, but let's
make sure that we control what
it says.
John C Dvorak: Well, that would
be one definite possibility.
Let's go with AI meeting in
Korea one.
Unknown: Many of the world's
leading tech companies met in
Seoul, South Korea this week,
and they joined an international
agreement on AI safety. Several
governments led by the US also
agreed to set up a new global AI
safety network. So will these
voluntary agreements actually
keep AI safe? Commerce Secretary
Gina Raimondo is leading the
Biden administration's effort on
the issue. Welcome back to all
things considered.
Thank you, Ira Good to be with
you.
Giving us a concrete example of
the sort of AI risk you believe
these new agreements will help
us avoid, are we talking about
misinformation or invasive
surveillance or what I
would take both and then some
misinformation deep fake. Some
of these models are so
sophisticated that if they're
not properly tested, before
they're released, they can do
things that the developers
didn't even think they were
capable of. Oh, Lord.
John C Dvorak: Okay, so here's a
woman who doesn't know anything
about tech, or computers or any
issues. It's not a scientist.
She's got She's the head of the
congressmen she's a stooge. So
she's,
Adam Curry: she's like,
generally on the Love Boat, she
leaves the delegation. Come on,
everybody. She's got the
umbrella. Come on, everybody.
Yep, it's time to drink.
John C Dvorak: So we know this
is a fiasco. You got to test
that you got to test it to make
sure it won't do this or that?
Well, you can't. That's bull
crap. The whole idea of AI is
that is kind of a you know,
freewheeling. So how do you test
that? You do test it by just
really? You have to be you said
test before release? No, the
only way you can test it is by
releasing it. You know, let the
let the weenies at it, you know
that they start doing using it
for all kinds of nefarious
purposes,
Adam Curry: comedy. So far,
comedy is the comedy is great.
Comedy is art. Yeah, and
creating songs and bad songs. As
some transcription does
transcription, okay. Now, but
that's
John C Dvorak: do it well.
Unknown: Yes. You heard about
hallucinations are the models
doing things that weren't
predicted? So one of the things
we'll be doing is testing all of
the most sophisticated model
before they're released to the
public for you. They're gonna
Adam Curry: have a lab and have
an AI Lab. They're in the
commerce zone. Good
John C Dvorak: question. And by
the way, I didn't notice that
before that you're playing this
clip. She does talk a little bit
like, well, I can't quite break
through by though is this
possibly some powder going
around? Might be imbibing
everybody follow the rails
Unknown: so that we can be sure
that they do what they're
intended to do. But it's
Pandora's
box already open. I mean, we've
already seen deep fakes that use
politicians voices, I
would say yes. And now I mean,
certainly the technology is out
there. And we've already started
to see some disturbing
incidences where as you just
said, you know, there's deep
fakes that's out there and
misinformation. The exciting
thing here, it's easy to get
bogged down and how it could go
poorly. There's also life
changing life giving
possibilities that AI can bring
to the world Name
Adam Curry: one. Name one life,
you
John C Dvorak: beat me to the
punch line. Sorry,
Adam Curry: I'm sorry. Name one
life chain. Enjoying life giving
life giving this, this is your
this is your worship, it gives
me life. I love my AI and I love
my truck.
John C Dvorak: Okay, three,
bringing
Unknown: the doctor to everybody
that has a phone, you know, huge
opportunity for education. So I
think the whole point of it is,
let's do our best to work with
like minded countries that
believe in democracy that are
that opposed civil rights
abuses. And say, let's put a lid
on the risks, so that we can let
all of the exciting
opportunities develop. You
say, let's work with like minded
countries. China is a notable
outlier. As I understand it,
Chinese delegates have attended
these international summits. But
the government of China is not
part of a global AI safety
network that the US has led with
other governments, China
exports, its AI technology to
many other countries around the
world. So how effective are
these guardrails gonna be if
China and its allies don't agree
to them?
Ultimately, we want as many
countries to participate as
possible for exactly the reason
that you just said,
Adam Curry: you know, the more
Wait,
John C Dvorak: what reason that
he just said, trying we went all
countries to participate? Yeah,
exactly the reasons you said all
he said was they're not
participating.
Adam Curry: Because that's
everyone against China, the more
I think of it through the lens
of let's all worship the AI, the
more this makes sense, I someone
has figured it out, like, Hey,
as long as we're pulling the
strings, as long as we control
in our lab, as long as we make
sure that whatever comes out of
the AI is what we want it to be.
I think this Yes, I think they
see
John C Dvorak: Yeah, the message
you want AI to deliver is
Democrat precisely what it is.
Yeah.
Adam Curry: Vote Joe. Joe.
John C Dvorak: That's just a
wrapping clip, which just makes
the whole thing and I roller,
Unknown: we're talking about
three distinct but related
agreements here. There's the
private companies that have
reached a set of standards.
There's this international
safety coalition. And then there
is the federal government
setting up its own AI Safety
Institute under your Department
of Commerce. The press release
says it will do things like
advance support and articulate
principles around AI safety. It
does not say in force. Does this
institute that you're leading
have any power to prevent AI
companies from doing things that
experts believe would be
harmful? Ultimately,
Congress needs to act.
John C Dvorak: In other words,
no, no. Well, this
Adam Curry: fits in perfectly
with this urgent, urgent
warning.
Unknown: We live in a world
where artificial intelligence
can create video pictures and
documents that look stunningly
authentic. Now the Department of
Homeland Security is warning AI
will likely be used against us
in the upcoming election.
This isn't a threat of tomorrow.
This is a threat of today.
According today
homeland security bulletin. In
Me countries terrorists and
other adversaries could exploit
AI tools confused or overwhelmed
voters and election staff to
disrupt their duties during the
2024 election cycle. So
Adam Curry: I'm sitting here
going alright, what exactly is
AI going to do besides make
nudie pictures of Taylor Swift
or something else? That's funny
that is obviously not real while
Biden pooping but what's going
to confuse us
Unknown: for example, according
to the DHS bulletin, enemies
might use AI to share altered
images, videos or audio clips
claiming that a polling station
is closed or that polling times
have changed who and
what do you need AI for?
Adam Curry: Thank you. Thank
you. What you don't need I mean,
the guy went to jail for doing
just that as a as a as a goof.
up Twitter he put up a you know,
like a Hillary's sign we did.
We're done with the GIMP. And if
you use Photoshop, you don't
need AI for that. But okay, so
bulletin points to
Unknown: this audio know
the value of voting democratic
on our votes count. It's
important that you save your
vote for the November election,
which is 30 suspect it's an AI
generated message.
John C Dvorak: Hold on a second.
Adam Curry: I love when you get
riled up.
John C Dvorak: They suspect
wanted somebody just asked Biden
at the press Carrasco kJP at the
press conference
Adam Curry: who are said
authorities. authority.
Authority weak
John C Dvorak: report. Where'd
you get this?
Adam Curry: This is? I think
this is NBC. NBC, it's an AI
just pour out well, hello.
Message
Unknown: sounding like President
Biden which urged people not to
vote in the lead up to the New
Hampshire primary in January,
which I
Adam Curry: didn't hear in that
clip, by the way, but I didn't
hear him say that but okay. And
DHS
Unknown: officials also
expressing concern that AI
technology might be used to
create and push out dangerous
information that could help
extremists design The violent
attacks
Adam Curry: okay, no examples.
No reason why it needs to be aI
extremists just attack need AI.
Oh Muhammad, we need some AI
being racist here but AI right
away and why am I an Indian guy
all of a sudden, whatever it is
terrorists
John C Dvorak: doling apart.
Adam Curry: Terrorists don't
need AI. And then here's here's
the real head scratcher. After
we saw this open AI parlor
trick, this little shoe rod of,
you know, a an AI going oh, wow,
it looks like you're gonna do a
video. Oh, this is great. So is
this AI or is it just an actress
that you hired? I'm a little
confused about this report.
Hollywood
Unknown: megastar Scarlett
Johansson is taking on one of
the biggest names in tech open
AI co founder Sam Altman.
Hey, how's it going?
Hey there,
the actress saying one of the
five voices for open AI is new
AI chatbot sounds eerily similar
to her own. I'm really excited
about teaming up with you.
Johansson, who famously played
the voice of an artificial
intelligence system and the 2013
movie Her Hi. How you doing?
saying in a statement that
Altman had reached out twice
wanting to hire her for the open
AI project?
Adam Curry: How stop? Why do you
need to hire an actress and they
hired a different actress. They
did a casting for AI can't AI
create the voice? Is this? Is it
generating the voice on demand?
Or is it using pre selected
segments or do they have to
sample I don't and that makes no
sense. Why can't AI just create
the voice? This is very this is
sketchy
Unknown: an offer she declined.
But she says when she heard the
demo for the voice named sky she
was shocked angered and in
disbelief over the resemblance
to her own. In response. Allman
says the company has paused the
use of skies voice but denies
copying Johansens saying in
part, the voice was never
intended to resemble hers. But
Johansson points to a recent
post by Altman on x where he
simply wrote her referencing the
movie he's spoken about
publicly. I
Adam Curry: think her got
something deeply right on the
interface deeply. Right.
Unknown: Is the controversy.
Right?
Adam Curry: Well, this you got
it. This is how you got to talk.
You see if you're if you're one
of these cult members, it's
deeply troubling us. I think it
got something deeply right on
the interface. Her got something
deeply right on the interface.
So you got it. On the interface.
The
Unknown: controversy,
highlighting concerns over
online fakes and the growing
copyright concerns posed by
artificial intelligence. And
open AI says prior to ever
reaching out to Johansson, it
cast actors to create the voices
of his new chat bots, the
company has yet to release the
identity of those actors.
Adam Curry: I'm surprised that
they need to cast actors for the
Identify
John C Dvorak: your points well
taken what what boy, this is
great.
Adam Curry: So luckily, on the
place where it matters, CNBC,
where people are going, Oh,
googoo, gaga over in video, oh,
and you bought chips, the more
chip we can compute, compute,
compute more compute, it'll work
and we have more compute by
NVIDIA chips more compute, wait
for their super black black
ball, Chip, whatever it is, then
it'll work, then it'll work. I
promise. It'll work once we get
more compute. So they bring on
this guy, Gary Marcus. And thank
you, Gary Marcus, you've
Unknown: consistently offered
gut checks about hallucinations,
lack of progress, the way in
which this is not the pipe
dream. That's some envision.
Have any of the recent product
introductions changed your mind?
No,
I mean, we're still basically
working with the same technology
is still designed in the same
way. It takes a lot of
statistics from a lot of words
and tries to predict what
happens next. And as soon as
these things come out, people
start playing with them on
Twitter, and so forth. And you
see a lot of examples where
they're still making the same
boneheaded mistakes as they were
before. Nobody has actually
solved hallucinations. And I
don't think we can with large
language models, I think we need
genuine innovation here. So what
happens is we have a trap right
now where people propose things
like the humane AI, then
imagining that AI is solved, and
then they put it out in the
world. And we realize no, it's
not solved. And I'm afraid that
hasn't happened yet. Are
you going so far as to argue
that the wave of investment that
very smart companies are making
right now is misplaced? I
think people are putting in too
much money too fast. I do think
it's kind of premature. Sam
Altman talked about raising $7
trillion. That's like series H
money, or something like that
when you've really established
your business model and so
forth. And that just hasn't
happened here. I've publicly
predicted that open AI might
turn out to be the WeWork of AI.
People might scratch their heads
and say, Well, this is a
solution. In search of a
problem. We haven't really found
the problem. The whole industry
spent on something like this $2
billion last year made $3
billion in revenue that is not
sustainable in the long term. So
either they have to make it
better, which is proven really
difficult. Or they have to find
some killer use case, which they
haven't really because the
performance is unreliable. So
yeah, my guess is that a lot of
investors are going to be left
holding the bag.
Adam Curry: So I hear this and
then I read about people,
people, people leaving open AI
and they have these horrible
NDAs and you can't talk about
the company ever, or your blues
all your vested stock, and I
realized why? Because they don't
want these people to tell
everyone that it doesn't work.
That it's crap.
John C Dvorak: No, it works. It
is crap.
Adam Curry: I'm sorry. It works
but it's crap. Yeah, I mean, but
it's a trick. It's like it's not
it's impressive and the things
in the you know, the the video
and the audio and the pictures
and you know, some of you know
Okay, so we'd write up flower
points fine, but it's not really
useful and what the guy said is
true. It's a solution looking
for a problem that just doesn't
exist yet.
John C Dvorak: Well, I think the
funnier thing and he does
commentary expressed was the
week that we work well the we
work with good long winters or
pure foot humor that was good
definitely the peak no but no, I
meant funny in the sense that
it's like pathetic 50 billion to
bring in five three No, three,
three, okay. 53 That which I've
always been convinced is going
on with electric cars too, that
they are shipped you know that
they're losing. I think General
Motors or Ford or one of them
brought this up they're losing
$100,000 A car they saw every
car sold was $100,000 in the
hole. And I think they I think
that that goes for Tesla even
though the cars are out costs
over 100,000 I think they're
probably losing money on each
one because the technology is
just too expensive to make but
the same thing with his AI when
you go to Wall e dolly I'm sorry
dolly like Wally was doing well
well he's the movie dolly is the
is the image that our generator
Yeah, you generate these pieces
of art over and over again day
art probably losing 10 to $20
each time that you generate a
piece of art it's just it's a
it's a huge money loser. Yeah,
they will make up for it and
volume they
Adam Curry: get the users will
think or worry about profit
later on. If we were too old for
this. We have we're just cynical
off the top because we've seen
this
John C Dvorak: crap forever. Now
Adam Curry: the only guy who
really did well, but the last
bull crap was Mark Cuban with
broadcast.com. Brilliant.
Brilliant. Yeah. And
John C Dvorak: he was in and
out. He was brilliant. It was
brilliant. It was it was pretty
good.
Adam Curry: You can't say it
wasn't brilliant. Now, if we
just stick with big tech for a
moment, I was shocked. I tell
you shocked that Tucker Carlson
did an interview with Eric
Prince and posted this interview
with the hashtag paid promotion.
Oh, yeah, yeah, what exactly
would so he does an interview
with Eric Prince hashtag paid
promotion. So we all know that
Eric principles
John C Dvorak: get paid to play
now on the Tucker Carlson and
Tucker Carlson. This is how he's
making his money. And and he's
doing
Adam Curry: it with Eric prince
with his unplugged phone. Listen
to this nonsense. So how does
your phone protects people?
Unknown: So again, this, like I
said, this, this era started
three and a half years ago. And
we came at it from a completely
contrarian view. This phone,
it's our hardware made in
Indonesia at a Singaporean
facility, that'll be safe. Our
operating system, all our code,
Adam Curry: all our code, the
whole lot, we built the whole
operating system, okay. And
Unknown: we are solely focused
on data sovereignty that you
control. It's
pretty cool. Just that. I am
kind of impressed that you made
hardware, you didn't just build
an app like you extract
because you have to control it
down to the root level of, of
the hardware and the software.
So that our we don't have an
advertising ID and our operating
system blocks, any any attempts
by any app to turn on your
camera, or your Wi Fi or your
microphone or your GPS apps.
Adam Curry: Okay, all right. So
that's not that spectacular. But
wait, he's gonna make some great
claims here and
Unknown: we don't allow any of
that leakage. In fact, we have a
privacy Center. This is called
the unplugged. This is an
unplugged phone. And this is a
effectively a firewall which
prevents apps from doing all the
things they're used to doing on
all the other phones. So you're
in control of what of your data
goes out, which is effectively,
zero. This is like a, this is
like a safe comes in, it doesn't
come out.
Adam Curry: Okay, so you
couldn't use apps. And then none
of your data goes out. Now
listen to
John C Dvorak: the adult way.
Stop, we have to stop right now.
When you hear I think you
Adam Curry: need to hear the
next clip for what you're going
to say. But okay, go ahead.
John C Dvorak: Apps assumes an
operating system that runs the
apps apps don't just run on
anything. I can't run it. Random
app on my
Adam Curry: toes. He's running
an Android derivative. Of
course, we this is boy, he
John C Dvorak: said, Wait a
minute. You said they did the
holes coating themselves. They
got nothing to do with anything.
Yeah,
Adam Curry: yeah. Get ready for
this.
Unknown: I'm just the bottom
line and I'm protected from what
am I protected from if I use
this, here's the thing.
The if you're using apps, and
some federal agency goes to that
app purveyor, and says, Give me
everything you have on Tucker,
that he's been using that app,
they'll be nothing because
there's no data leaking from you
go
Adam Curry: so there'd be
nothing, they'll have no login
data, there'd be no no usage
that nothing, there'll be
nothing, the app just runs
without the backend service.
It's amazing.
Unknown: From your device. To
that to that app. If if you call
somebody we have our own secure
messenger, for example, you want
to call and make a secure call.
And you call me it takes about
five seconds to connect. Because
it's literally creating a
encrypted tunnel between you and
me, generates a new encryption
key, every call, it is our
effort to to fight the power. It
can't I mean, fight the power,
just confess it, I use an iPhone
made by a company I actually
kind of hate and that hates my
country. And me and I use it
anyway. Because it's, there's
Adam Curry: a lot of people like
you, that's why we're here with
a paid promotion would want to
digitally a lot of people like
you dumb, dumb, ignorant not
knowing exactly what's going on.
And here comes the claims queue
Unknown: that would want to
digitally opt out of the lie of
big tech. And so what you can't
do, obviously, we don't have the
Apple store. We don't have Apple
Music, but you can use Spotify,
you can use a lot of the other
streaming services on here, we
just prevent them from
collecting your data as to what
you're listening to. Or oh,
Adam Curry: okay, so I can use
Spotify but they won't know what
I'm listening to.
Unknown: streaming services work
excuses lie here,
we just have that work. It
doesn't work from collecting
your data as to what you're
listening to, or, or where you
are when you do it. And you can
share pictures, you can send
pictures, we have a lot of the
other privacy related apps,
whether it's signal or Threema,
or proton or telegram.
Adam Curry: Telling telegram is
privacy protected No prob proton
Oh, yeah, proton.
John C Dvorak: Email Server.
Adam Curry: Proton, definitely
gives up information. Doherty's
okay, it may not be able to give
the messages if they're
encrypted, if they're encrypted,
not always encrypted. But this
is a lie. And he's in a troll
room says that he's also buying
ad space on O'Keefe stuff. So
people are gonna fall for this.
It's like that. Remember that
nut job with the freedom? I'm
John C Dvorak: not as upset
about it as you. Well.
Adam Curry: I'm more upset that
Tucker is doing paid promotions.
I mean, that's just lame. That's
just lame. That's just
John C Dvorak: a cash flow
problem,
Adam Curry: I guess. But you
know, but he's,
John C Dvorak: I like to know
what he charged for that
particular advertorial. Whatever
you want to call it.
Adam Curry: Hey, Eric. Prince,
we'll talk about your phone. Oh,
it's great. Oh, yeah, you can
listen to the no agenda stream
securely. No one will know
you're listening. It's great.
Yeah. This is a hoax. It's not
good.
John C Dvorak: Oh, oh, it's just
it's not necessarily a hoax is
somebody it just cuts everything
off. Nothing works. Right.
They're asked to look at your
camera or your contacts or
anything else. We're just
refused. We won't use it. We
won't run it. That means nothing
will work nothing. No Apple will
work on that phone. Spotify
Adam Curry: will not work unless
you opt into the library that
does digital, what's the term
looking for? Yeah, no. Yeah, you
do. It's the digital the digital
signature the
John C Dvorak: I forget the name
of a DMCA
Adam Curry: No, not that. No,
it's like it's the same thing if
you if you load Firefox are
brave. And if you then want a
wild wild vine There you go. If
you want to watch some movie
from, you know, but if you want
to watch YouTube TV, you have to
then opt into loading the wide
VOD DRM. There we go. You have
to opt into loading the the
libraries that in essence, let
them know exactly what you're
doing. Otherwise Spotify doesn't
work. I know because
John C Dvorak: that's what
there's all I think all this
stuff's not going to work
because most of these guys look
at it said, Well, if you will
let us do that. You can't use
us.
Adam Curry: Spotify or Spotify.
I have no agenda phone no agenda
phone.com the Spotify does not
work unless you say okay, I'll
opt into this stuff. The bills
John C Dvorak: to spy which
gives it all away.
Adam Curry: Of course. Of
course. I'm telegram burn
signal. All right. I'm sure it's
all secure.
John C Dvorak: I'm sure that was
a paid promotion. Come on.
Adam Curry: I know. But it's
just I'm disappointed. I expect
so much more from my
John C Dvorak: probably never
immersed you hated that guy
Adam Curry: who don't know I
expect more from my mercenaries.
Go back.
John C Dvorak: No, not for me.
I'm telling you hated the guy.
Tucker. I never hated Tucker.
And I always thought you did.
Oh. Oh, let's just take a slight
comedic break.
Adam Curry: For real comedy or
no comedy because I thought that
was pretty funny. That
John C Dvorak: was funny, but it
wasn't as funny as this. Okay,
I'm ready. Now I'm this tic toc
battle ruined our lives because
of they not going to have the
good clips like this. This talk
ban I taught clip I have which
is every time I watch one of
these I say now is this an
actress auditioning is this
really good acting is beyond the
pale. I mean, is this or is this
really just a dummy that because
people get on the there's some
of the dumbest people that put
themselves on Tik Tok. And
they're just, they're dumb and
arrogantly dominant. You know,
they don't even know how it
didn't in this case is not a
woman who's necessarily dumb.
She's just ignorant. And I just
think is one of the great clips
I've ever heard. Tick tock tick
Unknown: tock tick tock.
Say other day I went to a steak
house for a friend's birthday
and she ordered a steak and the
waitress goes, How do you want
your cow cooked? It's a weird
way to order it but whatever. So
she asked my friend how do you
want your cow cooked? My friend
says I want it medium rare.
Something like that. So then I
wasn't in the mood for steak. I
wanted a hamburger I'd been
craving a hamburger. So I order
you know the cheese the cheese
burger. And she was how do you
want your cow cooked? I kind of
like awkwardly looked at my
friends. I was like, I feel
really embarrassed. Do I point
out that it's not cow like
hamburgers? A pig? Everyone
knows. Pig. So back I was like,
Well, I want my pig cooked. Well
done. You're not supposed to
you're not supposed to eat pork,
like uncooked. Everybody knows
that. It's why it's always been
super weird to me that people
will get like, red in the middle
on their burgers. And so she
looks at me. She goes You mean
your cow? And I'm like, I don't
know how to have this
conversation right now. Like I'm
not a teacher. I'm not. I don't
know how to educate you kindly.
And I was like, sure my cow. It
was so bizarre. Like how do you
not know it's literally in the
name? It's a hamburger. There's
no hope for the world. Yeah,
that's right.
Adam Curry: That's right. No
hope for the world. I think it's
real, I think is genuine. This
is. This is the level of output
we have from our scholastic
system. I bet she knows a bit.
She knows all about climate
change, though. But she's all in
on that. By the way.
John C Dvorak: If she votes
Democrat, I can assure you the
the oil baron
Adam Curry: gave me a whole
bunch of Nidal meet
John C Dvorak: the goal Nidal?
Yes. Isn't that an antelope?
Adam Curry: That is a kind of
Antelope only it is an antelope
that has is a remnant. It has
three stomachs. So the four no
three or two no three so it has
a whole has so the the meat and
its ground is ground ground
ground in the gall. And we had
hamburgers, man, this is some
delicious very lean delicious
and you know I can send some to
you if you want if you'd like
me. Yes, a cooler. Yeah, he's
got he's got he's got dry ice so
yes, we have dryers. He's got
sausage and and the hamburger
tubes and he shot it himself. At
the at the Kings ranch.
John C Dvorak: Tony Maloney game
ranch here. We call it a gig
most Acosta minted
Adam Curry: oil baron he Do we
call it here? We don't say a
phony baloney Game Ranch John we
call it a high fence Ranch is
what we call it okay, we don't
call it a phony baloney get we
call it a high fence ranch.
John C Dvorak: Okay shot at the
fence, fence fence whatever it
Adam Curry: is his birthday be
nice it's his birthday. Okay,
John C Dvorak: happy birthday
he's not on the list put them on
the list. He's on
Adam Curry: the list. I put them
on the list of course I did.
Well, speaking of crazy food,
John C Dvorak: well wait wait go
back to the meat. So what makes
it special? I mean, what was
what was the characteristics
that made it so tasty it
Adam Curry: so it's kind of like
a mix between venison which I
happen to like the taste of
venison. Yeah, I like to taste
the medicine too. But the
texture and all that is much
more of of beef.
John C Dvorak: It's about
nursing here's when you go to
the ground these ground you
grind up these animals and they
take on a different quality like
for example not to digress too
much. Okay. Example ground elk,
which is a terrific all tasting
product needs to be backed off
because ground elk in a burger
is dense. It's too dense you
need to put some ground turkey
or something in there lighten
and lighten the load. So this
about that for this is this have
is just dense. This
Adam Curry: has the exact same
consistency as beef as ground
beef. It no difference. And but
it has, so it's very lean and it
has to just taste better. It
tastes better. Yeah, I'd say I
want to say sweeter. But that's
not really the right term. But
you know, venison? It's not
gamey though. But it's not
venison can sometimes taste low
gamey if not depends
John C Dvorak: on where where
the venison if it's like New
Zealand ranch venison This is
very mild compared to some
animals somebody shot
Adam Curry: well this is from
the phony baloney a game hunting
place so no high fence
John C Dvorak: I've
Adam Curry: it's fan I haven't
had the sausage yet that
breakfast sausage and I saw I'm
sure they spice that was
something so I'm gonna try that.
Try that next. But he gave me
just a whole bunch of these
these tubes that they pack for
him. So you know, he shoots I
wonder if he even has to carry
it back on his back. You know,
to just you know, just shoot it.
Oh,
John C Dvorak: they shoot it and
go over beer. A bunch of done
you go into the 19th hole.
Adam Curry: Here is the latest
from Illinois. The state is
buzzing literally
Unknown: the Wednesday hump day
everyone and boy do we have a
show for you. Buckle up. We're
talking cicadas and booze. We've
all heard that you can eat
cicadas you know there are
recipes online describing how
you can pan fry them boil them
toasts and put them in cookies
and cakes, whatever but
whatever. Would you drink them
alright, so
if that's something that sounds
appealing to you listen up noon
whistle brewery hosted these
images yesterday unveiling its
locally harvested, cicada
infused Lord. It is available at
its brew pub in Lombard. The
comments on this post ranged
from Heck yeah, and try it to
y'all are nasty. And of course,
a lot of people asking
Seriously, why?
Adam Curry: Because your future
is bugs Illinois. You hear that?
That? We all know you can put it
in cookies and we'll know who's
doing that. Seriously. Who's
doing that? Who's buddy moose
putting that stuff into their
cookies. It's concerning. very
concerning.
John C Dvorak: Well, I suppose
you do pull it. Well. No bugs. I
don't have any bug clips. You
Adam Curry: have no bug clips.
John C Dvorak: Now I guess a Mar
a Lago service. I sold some
climate stuff there, which I
couldn't get to because you you
went to that guy who went from
climate to transgender to AI,
which is beautiful. It was a
huge switcheroo on the whole I
love flow.
Adam Curry: I'm okay to go back
to climate if you want. I mean
yeah,
John C Dvorak: I got some NPR
climate changes because they
there's an ant Arctic expert.
This is getting on my nerves.
This stuff is Yeah, well, you
know, it's doing this is the
worst. Where's the sea rise? You
know, I
Adam Curry: don't see it. Yeah.
Familiar,
Unknown: elitist voices of
America. This is NPR
or PBS. fixing the problem comes
down to you probably guessed it.
Oops, I'm
Adam Curry: sorry. Oops. Wrong
one. For decades,
Unknown: scientists have
gathered evidence that climate
change is melting sea ice in the
Arctic. But Antarctica has been
this weird outlier. The region's
sea ice melt hasn't been so
dramatic. That's because the two
places are quite literally polar
opposites. The Arctic up north
is an ocean surrounded by land
the Antarctic in the South. is
land surrounded by ocean. It's a
very different setup. That's
Caroline Holmes. She's a polar
climate scientists at the
British Antarctic Survey.
Scientists like her have been
tracking in Arctic sea ice
levels by satellite for 45
years. And they spotted a big
shift in 2023. Last
year, there were loads of
dramatic climate stories going
on. And one of those was that
sea ice in the Antarctic was
really dramatically low in
Antarctic winter. So that's our
summer, Antarctic winter.
And Arctic sea ice plummeted to
the lowest point on record. But
it wasn't immediately clear
whether human activity caused
that there's a lot going on in
the Antarctic climate home says,
Adam Curry: you know, at this
point, when I hear this noise,
it literally just goes in my
ear, one ear goes out the other.
I think everyone else tunes that
out to Antarctic ice, whatever.
And it's now a human activity.
But it's not human activity. She
said man was more complicated.
There's more going on. Yeah,
like flying saucers.
John C Dvorak: Wait a minute, if
human activities causing global
warming? No,
Adam Curry: that's not part of
the globe, man. I feel your
pain.
John C Dvorak: It should either
it's causing it universally,
because it's global, the word
global refers to the globe. Or
it's not. But they can't seem to
make up their minds. They don't
know how to deal with the fact
that they can't really put any
numbers together that work. But
okay, continuing,
Unknown: the Antarctic is really
variable. We know, things like
winds, temperatures around
Antarctica are some of the most
variable places on earth. And
because of that, you could get
lots of naturally cause
variation, but it kind of
masking everything that's going
on while climate change.
So Holmes and her colleagues at
the British Antarctic Survey put
together some calculations that
use computer modeling. Long term
for the Antarctic to lose that
much sea ice.
And we found that this is a
really rare thing. I mean, we
knew it was rare. And because it
hadn't happened before in our
lifetimes, but we showed using
computing that it really,
really, really was a really,
really, really, really, really
was a really, really, really,
really, really was a really,
really
extremely rare event. That
suggests such a major ice loss
isn't only a product of shifting
wind patterns, or ocean
currents, how far now there's
much clearer evidence that
climate change is playing a
role.
We found that it would only have
happened about once in 2600
years. Ah,
John C Dvorak: wait, wait, wait.
Let me get this straight. 2600
years ago it happened. Yeah, so
what was the climate with you're
blaming climate change back in
the day? 2600 years ago,
Adam Curry: was the Romans
Romans burning stuff? This is
Yeah, no, I feel you but you
know what? This is where the
money is. I don't know why we're
so pigheaded about it all. We're
just paying we should just jump
on board on board go all in.
cash out. Hello, everybody.
Climate change. John. What's
John C Dvorak: the latest?
Unbelievable we're all gonna
die. Where's my money?
Adam Curry: Have you seen the
latest models? Oh, yes. You
know, AI is going to solve this
when we get the next large
language model from Miss drawl.
It's going to be great. Yeah, we
could be cashing in. People
would believe us. We could sound
the fear if we can sound
sincere.
John C Dvorak: It sounds
sincere. That's the trick. It's
hard
Adam Curry: it's hard but I
think we could do we could pull
it off
John C Dvorak: doable we can do
it take couple acting lessons.
We're good to go. Yeah, okay. I
think there's less there is
Unknown: there is fixing the
problem comes down to
Adam Curry: your Corinne DeVore
Consulting Group is what it
comes down to domain admin with
some AI
Unknown: fixing the problem
comes down to you probably
guessed it reducing greenhouse
gases Gillingham says that until
then reliance on fossil fuels
will continue to shape the
Antarctic even if the effects
don't show up right away.
Adam Curry: Oh, how much meat
who's paying these people?
John C Dvorak: The vegans rich
vegans vegans
Adam Curry: that you'll see
that's quite the quite the
common theme in the climate
change special a lot of veganism
and with the whole
John C Dvorak: idea seems to be
the root of all evil. Veganism
Adam Curry: is a big part of it
big part of it and with that I
would like to thank you for your
currency in the morning to you
the man who put the seeds in the
cow that's cook say hello to my
friend on the other end the one
and only Mr. Joss
John C Dvorak: well in the
morning you Mr. M curry also oh
the morning in the morning all
the ships in the season have
boots in the ground their feet
in the air subsequent water
Notre Dame's show So
Adam Curry: this is I, you know,
I saw it this morning, I when I
logged into the troll room, I
saw a very little trolling
activity. But I think Darren did
something. Because on the last
Thursday show we had 18 120
Trolls today, down to 1693. I
blame Darren. But uh, Darren do
I don't know, I didn't listen to
the whole show. But when I when
I checked in, it was only like
250 Trolls. Wait, no, but I have
it here. Let me see I checked
in. There was 389. And that was
a half hour before we started.
So he chased the trolls away. I
don't know what he did.
John C Dvorak: He played a song
that was offensive to Taylor
Swift, I'm
Adam Curry: sure. Well, I
John C Dvorak: don't think he
played Taylor Swift today. But
maybe.
Adam Curry: Anyway, we, I mean,
there's still I mean, it
certainly
John C Dvorak: be some issue of
getting online. There's a lot of
possibilities. We also have a
holiday coming up. And so that
holiday will probably result in
people taking off today, the
next day and the next day and
then Monday. For the government
the time that's right. Take off
a couple of sick days before a
three day weekend. Boom, you're
good to go know all about it.
That's right. I do believe me I
end of things when you quit. I
worked there for almost a decade
in this agency. And I and I got
our almost a round of applause
because I walked out of there
with no sick leave. Left and no
vacation time left 00
Adam Curry: a big article again,
today I was reading about how,
how today's workforce, they
don't take any, they hardly take
any PTO, because they're just
working remote. And we've talked
about this before. They just
have little apps that make the
mouse move around to make it
look like they're busy. They're
sitting on the beach. I don't
understand how how can the
economy be booming and doing so
well, stock market all time high
hits amazing what's going on?
How does it work when no one's
doing anything? You tell me?
Well,
John C Dvorak: I'll tell you
what I think, which is I think
that even working at home and
getting an hour's work done a
day instead of eight is still
more productive than being in
the office and shooting the shit
all day. And being around the
water cooler and getting a half
an hour's work done. It's just I
don't understand. I'm not I'm
not convinced that that work at
home guy with a fake mouse
movement. All the rest is still
not getting more done than you
get done in the office.
Adam Curry: It's very possible.
Very possible. I think the stock
market all time highs because
the dollar was basically
devalued due to inflation. But
that's just me.
John C Dvorak: Well, it's
universal because the dollar
versus euro is a buckle rate. So
it's still not that bad. No,
Adam Curry: no, not at all. Not
at all.
John C Dvorak: It's fine
compared to the yen, which is
completely lost.
Adam Curry: I don't know how
I'll be over 160 again yet. I'm
waiting for it.
John C Dvorak: I think is
waiting is pushing it on my eggs
by a Toyota. Do that by a Toyota
by
Adam Curry: a truck. Let me see
where it is home. I can take a
look at it right now. Let me see
is no one almost 157 creeping up
creeping up?
John C Dvorak: Did bounce up
there before. I mean, a couple
of weeks ago,
Adam Curry: I know we did. Two
John C Dvorak: highs that
shouldn't be there. No,
Adam Curry: but it is because
something's wrong. I think
there's something wrong. I'm not
sure. Maybe it's just me. All I
hear is I was a everything's
great economy's great. And that
and all I see is tick tock
videos of children going I can't
afford ran I work two jobs about
something's wrong. Somewhere,
something's wrong. By the way,
you too can be a troll that just
you know, maybe, hey, if you're
a troll, just get one of those
apps that just makes it look
like you're busy in the troll
room. Nick convince us now just
move the mouse around post
something from time to time and
just pretend to make us feel
better. I think it's possible
you can get one of those
John C Dvorak: I was creating an
AI for the troll room. I would
create a promotional one. A
professional it's just continue
to hound you like by the way,
too many eggs.com Go to too many
eggs.com That's what I would use
over and over and over every
five minutes. Have you been to
too many eggs.com Anything?
Adam Curry: Well, Doug is our is
our AI in the troll room. Of
course. Doug is AI.
John C Dvorak: Doug used to be
used to give the news.
Adam Curry: Yeah, on the stream
dyno. And then Darren came along
and killed Doug. I don't know.
Anyway,
John C Dvorak: it was all pre
AI.
Adam Curry: That's right. We've
we've had aI on the show for 15
years, with the least with Doug
with Doug and it was probably
better. Certainly more
entertaining. And Doug read the
news. If you'd like to be a
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Better Homes and Gardens
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John C Dvorak: Joe was good we
wish was done by Tenzin Neil
right next to it.
Adam Curry: Yes it rabbit it was
a little the house the batteries
it the idea was there is a
typical no agenda pack shot with
Duracell batteries. And which is
weird because I should remind
people
John C Dvorak: I've had nothing
but bad luck with Duracell
batteries that you get from
Costco. They, they they leave
them into a they leak. They leak
they leak and they don't last
that long. The best battery to
get as an either an ole max or a
Fuji
Adam Curry: Fujis Fujis I've had
good luck with Fujis foods she
John C Dvorak: makes a terrific
battery. Can
Adam Curry: you get those at
Costco? The Fuji? No, you
John C Dvorak: only can get at
Costco is Duracell and the
Kirkland battery.
Adam Curry: How are those? The
corona? I
John C Dvorak: have not noticed
that they're any good? No,
there's not a place to buy
batteries.
Adam Curry: I don't think I'd
ever buy Kirkland batteries.
John C Dvorak: I bought them at
Fujis Fujitsu didn't show me
anything.
Adam Curry: You got a complaint
about the chicken the other day
I saw I saw you posted about it.
John C Dvorak: Well, it turns
out that Costco is taken to
Costco chicken the 495 class 98
Whatever classic classic cheap
chicken rotisserie chicken and
in some cost goes not mind
locally but the one up in Port
Angeles, Washington was actually
in swim. They put it in a in a
plastic bag instead of in the
container. Oh
Adam Curry: no,
John C Dvorak: that's so the
plastic bag all the juice ends
up in the bag and the bag is
made out of whatever it's made
out of it. cracks and leaks. And
so you're gonna get Costco
chicken juice all over your car,
or wherever you put the bag and
it also steams the chicken in
the bag. Creating a soft skin.
It's a disaster. And you also
can't tell using the chicken
trick. What the best chicken is
in the in the group because
they're all in bags. You can't
really tell with the Costco
chicken in the container. The
trick is for everyone out there
who eats the scrap. The trick is
if the back of the chicken is
touching the top of the
container because you can see it
I'd say about one out of 20
chickens does this. It's the
perfectly cooked chicken Jhansi
Unknown: de Bourgh X diva the
day was that
John C Dvorak: P vis a tip
Adam Curry: well I wanted to
play the P but then you you
close it with a tip but your P
was the was the bags
John C Dvorak: the just yeah the
cheese is a bag yeah the bags
are no good.
Adam Curry: We don't have a
Johnson anymore. Like Tip of the
day we should should we had many
artists check in with slingshots
the slingshot people love the
slingshot idea.
John C Dvorak: Yeah.
Adam Curry: They didn't quite
why didn't they quite do it? It
didn't quite hand in quite
John C Dvorak: good for a little
light corny. I
Adam Curry: kind of liked Darren
said no agenda sewage sludge
class and other classic packshot
was okay. I saw
John C Dvorak: you use as he
always throw something in there
just in case. I saw that you
used
Adam Curry: Fletcher's gold
standard for the newsletter, the
newsletter I
John C Dvorak: thought was
pretty piece didn't that wasn't
nice. It wasn't for the show,
because it doesn't really have
any direct connection, anything
but it was a nice piece. And
then there
Adam Curry: was a bunch of AI
stuff everywhere. A lot of Trad
wife stuff. People trying to get
us with trade wise, wasn't going
to translate. I did get people
emailing me about how they love
being a housekeeper.
John C Dvorak: And well, they
should. Instead
Adam Curry: of homemaker, it's a
Jhansi Dvorak housekeeper as
great as great. Well, thank
John C Dvorak: you for keeping a
house. Yeah,
Adam Curry: exactly. You're
keeping the house. Thank you
very much, sir. Schug, aka fo
diddley for the artwork for
episode 1662. We almost this was
kind of interesting. We almost
titled that one. jacked up, Joe.
And we went for a hard landing,
but we like yeah. How about
jacked up, Joe? And if we had
done that, it would have been
the third time we've used that
title a quick turns out Yeah,
quick, a quick check revealed
that we had already doubled that
once before. So
John C Dvorak: yes, we do use
it, use it twice. When I
promoted the idea of let's go
for that trick.
Adam Curry: I wavered for a
minute, but then now because now
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douche me fellas you've been de
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to donate for quite some time.
This is Texan been failing to
donate for failing
John C Dvorak: or knowing for
some time bores you bitter de
douche me
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douchebag. John, it's hard for
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after 20 years of walking with
him. I know now for certain that
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With a cheerful heart of
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end. Hang on folks only a little
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John C Dvorak: He's voting Yes,
and you can hold on you never
know what's gonna happen. Yeah,
you never know. Alright. Thanks,
brother.
Adam Curry: Thank you dusty and
didn't have that he asked for a
knighting or anything. Nope,
John C Dvorak: he did not. We
talked about this Jay and I, and
we're just gonna wait for him to
come back and tell us what to
do.
Adam Curry: Okay, and we'll do
it. We'll do it for you,
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Just let us know.
John C Dvorak: Barry growl from
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Tennessee. Great content guys.
Keep it up. I would like to
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Adam Curry: You've got all
right, Barry. Thank you brother.
I'm pretty sure I know. Barry.
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John C Dvorak: to Iran
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Adam Curry: Thanks, brother.
Thank you. Rob Simpson
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Thank you Rob Simpson. So we
give him a night a couple of
Mike bumps
Adam Curry: Yeah. Oh, this
doesn't sound when you want to
do it when you requested it
doesn't sound anything like it?
Yes
John C Dvorak: because you're
here is not Mike bumps because
this is what a mic bump sounds
like yeah,
Adam Curry: do the one that you
normally do that other bump? I
John C Dvorak: can't is there's
a function of the of the
microphones
Adam Curry: there you go. Rob
you've got that yeah, that's the
one is
John C Dvorak: not the mic being
bumped what is what are you
bumping there and bumping the
hole? Is this the right
Adam Curry: I love that sound?
Yeah, what are you buying? What
are you bumping?
John C Dvorak: It's this is the
midst the bar that sticks out
and and then the mic is attached
to that and then there's just a
cage around the mic, which
shouldn't allow that to happen
what I'm doing here should not
be heard by the mic at all. But
Adam Curry: are you are you on
the Heil? What do you want? What
Mikey I would Yeah,
John C Dvorak: I would say that
this cage is no good.
Adam Curry: Well, I wish we
could complain to Bob but he's
dead. No,
John C Dvorak: it's not his
cage.
Adam Curry: Oh, that's
John C Dvorak: why cage is the
one that got sloppy and it ended
up touching the outside thing
and it would make it even more
noise. This cage is just no
good. This is an Amazon cage.
Adam Curry: Anonymous from
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says Hey, hi fellas. Four more
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Unknown: proven conspiracy
theory is that be pushing proven
that they will not factual
conspiracy theories Jen Sakhi
yesterday President Biden
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conceptual gay sex in
California. What are your
thoughts? How do we I mean, some
say he's Jim Jones, Jim Jordan
with a jacket on he co authored
the bill on aid to Israel and
restrains
jobs, jobs and jobs for jobs.
Adam Curry: Mind we love rev out
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John C Dvorak: love at least his
keeping up. New producers so
you're getting stuff from him
again. Anonymous in Sauk rapids
Minnesota we know we used to
have some of that worked on his
show remember that you some
years back right where he
required he has to have a cup of
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at two o'clock on
Adam Curry: the desk, so he has
a rider. He has a rider
John C Dvorak: anonymous and
other anonymous and this one's
in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota nuts.
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Hoping for any new jingles
people don't express themselves
anymore.
Adam Curry: What does that mean?
John C Dvorak: It means there's
not enough new jingles. We just
played one.
Adam Curry: New jingles there?
Yeah, four more years as new
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Congrats. Congrats to Adam and
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and three human resources. Keep
up the good work. This will be
the longer version haven't
played it in a while.
Unknown: He's getting lunch at
AAA the tortoise
Adam Curry: in the race. Kim
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IICT. They are all Jedi. ESP
IICT. There's no real conflict.
Of interest we must resist. You
go.
Adam Curry: Classic rebel for
you. Thank you very much.
John C Dvorak: Dr. Sir otter
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Some we didn't cover No we
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Adam Curry: I says yet but I'm
sure he meant yes. Yes, of
course.
John C Dvorak: We need a little
girl and yet.
Unknown: President Trump said
that because of the killing of
Al Baghdadi man dang that the
world is a better place.
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Adam Curry: There's no more
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the other one. Oh, there's two
greens. I got it. Thank you.
This next one is Mr. Aaron
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we got that for a number of
Unknown: jobs, jobs, jobs and
jobs for jobs
John C Dvorak: here we go with
Eli the coffee guy in
Bensenville Illinois. This
brings me to a note that was
written into gentleman you asked
espresso questions last episode
we have answers the device used
to knock spent coffee out of the
porta filter is known as a knock
box. I mean he pointed this out
do not to box KNOCK KNOCK box
box. light roast don't knock out
of the porta filter as easy
because they are denser. As the
coffee is roasted darker, the
bean actually expands more like
popcorn and density decreases
which means the darker rows will
get knocked out easier. John
light rows do have more
caffeine, the Honduran organic
is my favorite for espresso.
Adam, I agree that dark roast
work better in the French press.
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Stay caffeinated. Now, that
brings me to a note that was
sent by another coffee guy. And
of course I ended up going back
claiming the notes. I have to go
back and find the note. Okay.
But just give me a second here
it is from Mike. And he's a
coffee roaster too. But he does
I think he's more commercial.
Does he have a cold coffee
roaster here weighing in on the
light dark debate. And this is
our producer Mike Eli, the
coffee guy who has a dang good
espresso blend will probably
confirm what I'm about to say as
well. But he doesn't quite
because he says something
different here. It's not that
light roast coffee has more
caffeine is that the light roast
coffees have more density now he
did say that and humidity that
the amount of space they occupy
is greater compared to a dark
roast. So when you fill your
porta filter with a dark roast
the standard is 18 grams. But to
occupy the same amount of space,
you will have 20 grams of a
light roast. Oh
Adam Curry: that's why it's more
more caffeine is just more
product. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: it makes sense.
Adam Curry: More product God
John C Dvorak: this is even more
noticeable when you compare the
amount of coffee and a 12 ounce
bag of light versus dark roast
also the phenomenon where he
can't knock the light roast out
as to do a dark roast being more
carbonized brittle and light
roast being more flexible
retaining more water I work in
some high volume $30,000
espresso machines that use
ceramic burrs and they are not
rated for light roast because
they will get jammed from the
two factors I just mentioned.
Now that's more information than
anybody out there who will ever
give your podcast about coffee
coffee.
Adam Curry: Yes well I'm I'm
down to my almost my last can of
the coaster.
John C Dvorak: I love yes you
love the can coffee. Yeah,
Adam Curry: again it says here
nitro shake vigorously to
activate. And that does open it
sprays all over me. My sport is
you know, should I wait before
because the activate
John C Dvorak: is another
question for Eli the coffee guy.
He's the one who makes that
product because
Adam Curry: I did it the other
day. I'm all over my hoodie and
like okay, now I just want to
mention on this this Canada's is
confusing. Costa Rican Dota
tarrazu Snap to coffee you hear
cubs single origin, juicy
profile, vibrant taste. Hmm.
Indeed. It's just water and
coffee.
John C Dvorak: Well that caught
that can coffee that make us
quite good. It trips
Adam Curry: me out. I mean, it's
yeah, we noticed that please.
Carter Smith in San Diego,
California and he says $200 for
y'all catching up for a
subscription that has long since
lapsed. Thank you for your
service. Carter Smith. Thank you
Carter.
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make the comment and then I'll
do the jobs. Quick
John C Dvorak: comment is that
we've gotten at least two notes
from people who said you said
there's no advertising but Linda
do packings advert typing.
Really? Yeah, I can read the
note. And my comment is No,
she's not really advertising
because she's not going through
his advertising system. She's
just plugging in a product that
she has the same as Eli, the
coffee guy, which I reprimanded
this guy for not mentioning that
seems like more of an ad and
they didn't, Linda.
Adam Curry: Oh, he's got a code.
He's got a code
John C Dvorak: of code. So, hey,
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someone who donates $200 every
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is a plug. We also play stuff
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Unknown: Our formula is this we
go out for yet people in the
mouth
Adam Curry: yeah, there's some
bird flu mother just keeping it
alive at this point. If you've
been following but this is
John C Dvorak: is languishing,
they're not
Unknown: trying to keep it alive
tonight US health officials
closely monitoring that human
case of the highly contagious
bird flu virus. Now the second
infection linked to an outbreak
in dairy cause second infection
John C Dvorak: to secondary
infection. Why are they using
the word height? You know they
this is a I don't know where you
got this but this is bad
reporting is highly contagious
amongst birds. Yes. Well, but
they just throw it out as highly
contagious makes it think that
we're getting it. That's
Unknown: the point authority
saying a Michigan Farm Worker
recovered after having mild
symptoms that worker likely
contracting the virus from
infected livestock. Back in
March, a Texas farm were lying
was diagnosed with the first
human case of bird flu
Adam Curry: human case of bird
flu. First of all, bowl crap.
I've seen guys in Belgium with
bird flu. And let's pinkeye
basically tied
Unknown: to dairy cows. Both
patients worked with cows. What
is tied
Adam Curry: tied to dairy cows
even mean did you did you put a
string on it a piece of yarn
John C Dvorak: that a big rope
Unknown: diagnosed with the
first human case of bird flu
tied to dairy cows.
Adam Curry: I mean, that's not
even. That's not it's either
from dairy cows, or
John C Dvorak: where where it
did this ridiculous ABC. This is
abc abc these networks are
really out of control that being
told what to do. Kurt
Unknown: was diagnosed with the
first human case of bird flu
tied to dairy cows. Both
patients worked with cows both
reporting eye infections, but
the cases are not connected eye
infections
Adam Curry: pink eye that's
literally what you get. It's
almost like you know just
rubbing poop in your eye you get
pinkeye please Hi infections.
Oh, I'm blind. I'm blind from
bird flu.
Unknown: risk to human health
still is very low because of the
bird flu threat. The CDC tonight
as a precaution, urging cities
and states to keep up flu
surveillance summer
keep up keep up the surveillance
but there is no human human
transmission, which is very
important reasons that this
problem is still mostly confined
to livestock.
Adam Curry: All right, let's
listen to Lester Holt on NBC
with his version very quick. A
Unknown: second human case of
bird flu linked to dairy cows
has been confirmed in the US
health officials in Michigan say
a dairy worker who contracted
the virus experienced mild eye
symptoms.
Adam Curry: Oh no since
recovered. The first case was
found in Texas in March. Oh,
I've recovered from from my
pinkeye Oh, so rough it was you
know, there's
John C Dvorak: probably more
cases of the plague the two
cases insured flu and
conjunctivitis, actual play.
Yeah. Actual plague. Yes.
Adam Curry: Yes. Yes,
unbelievable. These people
Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, yes, go.
Let's change gears and go to the
10 commandments in the in the
Louisiana schools. Big scandal.
Unknown: Louisiana may soon
require public schools to
display the 10 commandments oh
no free classroom.
That's in a bill that passed the
state senate last week. A few
other states have also
considered this move after a US
Supreme Court decision about
religion in schools. Molly Ryan
with memorization WR KF in Baton
Rouge has more to build
specifies that a poster at least
11 inches by 14 inches must be
displayed in every public school
classroom with the 10
commandments, spelling out the
prohibitions against killing and
stealing to prohibitions against
coveting your neighbor's wife,
servant or cattle. Proponents
say it will provide moral
guidance to students. The
significance of history is like
the Oracle. Our laws are based
on the 10 commandments. In fact,
without them, a lot of our laws
would not exist that
state representative Dodi
Horton, a Republican lawmaker
and sponsor of the bill
discussing it at the legislature
last month. She passed a similar
bill last year that requires all
public school classrooms to
display in God we trust. Horton
and other proponents say there's
a new legal opportunity for
something that's been prohibited
in the past. They cite a US
Supreme Court ruling that gave a
high school football coach his
job back after he was fired for
praying on the field.
The legal landscape has changed,
which now allows us to present a
bill like the 10 commandments.
No,
Adam Curry: where's the
controversy?
John C Dvorak: Let's come in and
clip to here
Unknown: we go. Okay. A similar
bill failed in Texas last year
and Arizona's governor vetoed a
slightly different one. The
group Americans United for
Separation of Church and State
says Louisiana would be the only
state to require the
commandments and all classrooms.
Opponents of the bill say it's
state sanctioned religion and
violates the First Amendment. No
here's Terry Landry with the
Southern Poverty Law Center
opposing the bill and a Senate
committee saying it violates the
rights of families of varying
religious beliefs
were the parental rights in this
particular issue. The proposal
does not require teachers to
teach the 10 commandments, but
some, including Landry argue
some of the commandments could
raise uncomfortable questions
for elementary school students.
Do I want a teacher explaining
to my child what is adultery, he
noted that could also clash with
another bill being considered to
ban classroom discussion of
sexual orientation. The bill
goes back to the house where
it's expected to pass with some
changes before heading to
Republican governor Jeff
Landry's desk. If he signs the
bill. Opponents are expected to
challenge it in court.
Adam Curry: Oh, bravo, here
John C Dvorak: we go. Now
there's a few things to discuss.
One is the guy the the the
atheist who who I'm assuming is
an atheist. They came up with
this well, I know it's gonna
cause problems because you got
to explain adultery to children,
but meanwhile they're promoting
sexual orientation discussion
Adam Curry: was homosexual
orientation to the first graders
and why don't why don't you put
the 10 commandments just hanging
above your pride flag it'll all
be okay. sleaze
John C Dvorak: and of all things
by the way, we should mention
the 10 commandments are
innocuous. But they will bring
forth the satanists and the
corniest are going to bitch and
moan because it's not a
separation. What church are we
talking about here? That the
Jewish is it? 10 commandments
comes out of the Old Testament.
Yes. So that's Jewish. So are we
talking about you're objecting
to D hate Jews? I don't go this
stretch. But then again, now the
other element that came out this
is Texas rejected the same idea.
What's wrong with you in Texas?
Adam Curry: I don't know. But I
was not part of that vote.
John C Dvorak: I understand in
California. Why is going that
would never happen.
Adam Curry: Well, I don't know
the details of the Texas thing
but that just need to set
straight that the separation
between church and state is
nowhere. Can you read that in
the Constitution? The only the
only thing that reads in the
First Amendment is that
government cannot make any law
against any religion. Yes, even
if you want to be a Satanist.
The separation of church and
state comes from a letter that
Jefferson wrote that people now
hold up as well as founding
that, no, no, you can do
whatever you want. Any state can
do what they want. And quite
honestly, any school should do
whatever they want. But we do
much better if we got a little
bit of 10 commandments in our
life. But no, oh boy. Oh, yes.
I'm sure this all boils down to
one thing. Don't vote for Trump.
John C Dvorak: While we're at
it, yes, I think you nailed it.
While we're at it. The only
reason for the controversy are
the fact that they carry this on
NPR
Adam Curry: don't vote for
Trump. And while we're at it,
everyone, you know, you can go
to any school in America or you
can go to, I think probably if I
wanted to school in
Fredericksburg, you'll see pride
flags, in all different versions
and all the teachers have a
pride flag not to be it's going
to be great and get pride and
pride and pride one of the one
of the sins of course, pride,
but we got all kinds of pride
flags. But oh, Leo's got a pine
tree flag.
Unknown: This morning, Supreme
Court Justice Samuel Alito faces
new calls to remove himself from
cases tied to the former
president and the assault on the
Capitol. The New York Times
reports the second flag used by
January 6 protesters was seen
flying at a lidos vacation home.
Scott McFarland looks at the
modern message of that
Revolutionary War banner. This
Adam Curry: is fantastic. The
guys flying a flag, and it's a
problem. They flown pride Flags
over the White House.
John C Dvorak: I know I actually
have a clip from two shows ago
Adam Curry: yeah, they're about
to fall. Okay, play the follow
up and then I want to
John C Dvorak: hear I played it
for a while but I want to just
mentioned that this is part and
parcel I think of the upcoming
Supreme Court decisions about
flat Chevron deference flags.
It's got nothing to do. Of
Unknown: course not. You can see
the white and green appeal to
heaven flag amid the rioters who
searched one guy to seek help
make the flag a symbol of
support for former President
Trump and the conservative
Christian nationalist movement.
According to this New York Times
report Wednesday and appeal to
heaven flag was photographed
flying at the New Jersey
vacation home of conservative
Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito
last summer. The report comes
days after Alito acknowledged
and upside down US flag also
associated with the January 6
attack and the stop the steel
movement flew outside his
Virginia home days after the
deadly capital riot Alito argued
he had no involvement whatsoever
in the flying of the flag that
was hung by his wife amid a
dispute with neighbors and
recently Alito argued free
speech is under attack. Troubled
Waters are slamming against some
of our most
fundamental principles. The
controversy
comes as the court is deciding
whether Trump should have
immunity from prosecution.
McGrath, Justice Alito, to
recuse himself from those cases
in court he did was really
the wrong thing to do. And it
casts some
doubt on impartiality
as the appeal to heaven flag
also hangs outside the office of
Republican House Speaker Mike
Johnson Johnson issued a
statement in support writing he
has long appreciated the rich
history of the flag because it
was first used by General George
Washington during the
Revolutionary War.
Adam Curry: Yeah, and it was
against the British because they
wanted to cut down our pine
trees. And we said now, we we
Murni
John C Dvorak: these pine trees
from making cheap furniture. You
guys haven't got a clue. Ikea.
Ikea needs IKEA needs a damn
pine tree. Here's I got this
from two weeks ago. This is
upside down flag became an
issue.
Unknown: An American flag lens
reportedly thrown upside down at
the home of a Supreme Court
justice. The presidential
contenders agreed to debate and
pretty soon also Michael Cohen
on the stand at criminal trial
of Donald Trump appears Ron
Elving joins us Ron, thanks so
much for being with us. Good to
be with this guy. The New York
Times reported this week it had
photographs confirmed by
interviews with neighbors that a
US flag flew upside down at the
home of Justice Samuel Alito
just days before President Biden
was inaugurated in 2021. Now is
this just a matter among Capitol
pundits and opinion naters or
something more?
It certainly has set pundit
tongues to wagging Scott and
it's still a developing story,
but there are some facts agreed
upon Alito says he had nothing
to do with a flag but his wife
put it up after a verbal dispute
with a neighbor over yard signs.
Apparently one sign was reported
to have had an obscenity on it.
Mrs. Alito took exception to
that had an altercation with a
neighbor, and then she ran up
all glory upside down. Now it's
a nautical sign of a vessel in
distress. But it was also
brandished by some of the riders
at the Capitol trying to
overturn results in the 2020
election. That was several days
before this flag incident at the
lidos. So Democrats are taking
this very seriously. House
Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the
Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick
Durbin have both called on Alito
to recuse himself from two cases
pending down before the High
Court cases that are pertinent
to Trump's trials and his
election denial.
Adam Curry: This is so amazing
because you know when it comes
to flag etiquette, I mean
seriously, I've seen the pride
but I'm gonna say it again the
pride flag flying above the
American flag totally out of out
of all flag regulations. Any
flag in America should not be
flown above the US flag. Right.
And fly. What are the what is
the deal with these people? I
should have clipped it. You know
my hatless and pivot with Kara
Swisher and Scott Galloway. They
were like you should just leave
the flag alone. You should never
do that stop with the flag. All
of a sudden they care about the
flag.
Unknown: These people hate the
American Day. They
Adam Curry: hate the American
flag because it represents
Trump. They hate it. They hate
America. They're haters. The
haters gotta hate the haters.
You know, a 69 year old
grandmother was arrested here in
Fredericksburg this week, by the
by the sheriff. You know why?
Because there was video of her
praying inside the Capitol on
January 6. This is almost three
years later. There's still
Rousteing, grannies
John C Dvorak: Rousteing
grannies, and how did they find
out who it was a and why is the
sheriff going along with his
bull crap? Well,
Adam Curry: thank you. Do we
just and this is why it's a big
issue here. I'm gonna write down
roasting granny. That's pretty
funny. We have a run off
election for Gillespie County
Sheriff, which ends tomorrow.
And this is the incumbent
sheriff. And so apparently the
way it works is, whenever you're
riding around the sheriff, just
scan your license plate and if a
warrant pops up, he's going to
arrest you. So I didn't know the
sheriff was riding around just
checking everybody's license
plate. But apparently it is so
it's part political. Now. Of
course. Look at what he did.
He's bad. He's bad. Vote for the
other guy. Vote for the other
guy. But he's bad. Vote. Vote
for Chris gonna vote for Chris.
I'm bad. He's bad.
Unknown: I'm working on working
on it. Yes, it was good.
Adam Curry: But in general, the
the knowledge of what really and
you notice that they only talk
about riders now they don't talk
about insurrectionists that went
by the wayside. They stopped
calling
John C Dvorak: as Biden can't
pronounce it. He keeps saying
this. Here
Adam Curry: is Bill Maher, who
appeared on the Megyn Kelly
show.
John C Dvorak: He did this by
the way I should mention he also
appeared on gut felt.
Adam Curry: And on the view He's
everywhere. He's got a book and
John C Dvorak: he's got a good
book agent and she's pushing him
on this showing that he was not
happy on Gutfeld
Adam Curry: well, he wasn't
happy on on Megyn Kelly either
on January 20 2025. He'll show
up at the White House whether
he's invited or not. And I don't
think that's going to be good.
We're now he's
Unknown: gonna bomb in behavior.
Yes, yes.
Adam Curry: Oh, yeah. Bomb is
worried I wouldn't even throw
around likely. He's not gonna do
that. Right. Like there was
never an attack on the Capitol.
Unknown: I hear you I hear you.
But he's that never show up at
the inauguration show up
Adam Curry: at the Capitol and
break windows and knock down
doors and kill cops and chase do
damage. They didn't break
windows knocked on ops. They of
course did. No they didn't. Who
did they died of natural causes
that day. Yeah.
Unknown: Nobody died that day.
Cops. No, not true. Oh,
okay. I don't remember the
names.
They didn't. There was Brian
sick Nick, who died later after
the fact. And the coroner's
report did not say it was
because of what he had inhaled
that day said it possibly
accelerated the condition that
killed him.
Adam Curry: So this is the kind
of knowledge or ignorance that
people have. Well, cops were
killed man cops were killed,
they killed cops. That's Bill
Maher, a guy who has a voice. He
has a voice he
John C Dvorak: was very similar
on got fouled when he had got
Phil has it has a tremendous
sense of humor when it comes to
dealing with this guy. And he
just did just amazing to watch
is faster to that because the
two of us got into a sparring
match. And you can just see that
the clips are faster. And it's a
big deal. You know that this
way. Johnny Carson always got a
lot of kudos. Because if you
wanted to get into like an
insult thing going on, he kill
you, as you just aren't that
fast. He's real fast. And so his
gut felt turns out to be really
quick. But he said the same
thing. He said, Trump's going to
you know, he's just going to
take the office and he's going
to and if he gets elected, he's
never going to leave. This is
same stuff. He says that he's
going to ruin it. He's going to
kill it. And democracy. Where
does this even how does this
even develop? It's it's just
Adam Curry: derangement syndrome
is totally deranged. I should
have I should have played these
clips after you brought up the
10 commandments because Norah
O'Donnell this was really You're
saying Norah O'Donnell
interviewed the Pope?
John C Dvorak: Yes, she did. And
it took up the whole show. Well,
Adam Curry: we I don't have all
that. But a lot of things that
have been reported in the news
turned out to be fake news.
According to the Pope, what? I
know, I was surprised. Let's
start with number one.
Unknown: It's Francis's capacity
for forgiveness and openness
that has defined his leadership
of the churches, nearly 1.4
billion Catholics. He put them
and the world on notice during
an impromptu press conference on
a plane in 2013, when he spoke
on the subject of homosexuality,
so no persona gay if someone is
gay, he said, and he searches
for the Lord when everyone has
good will follow you am I to
judge? And he did not stop
there. Last year, you decided to
allow Catholic priests to bless
same sex couples. That's a big
change. Why?
Oh, god, okay. But know what I
allowed was not into union
cannot be done because that is
not the sacrament. I cannot
really say the Lord made it that
way. But to bless each person,
yes. Having the blessing is for
everyone. For everyone to see
around you, unless a homosexual
type of union whoever goes
against the given right against
the law of the church today it
is thrilling to see but to bless
each person. Okay, no, why not?
But the blessing is for all
secondary. Some people were
scandalized by this, but why?
Everyone thought every paths.
You have said Who am I to judge?
Homosexuality is not a crime?
No, it's a human friend.
Adam Curry: Oh, which brings me
to the words in here the new
show starting on peacock. June
6, here's the promo.
Unknown: Our planet is home to
over 11 million species.
ROTC really are everywhere.
Everything you were taught as a
kid is wrong. You make gay
penguins, bisexual lions six
changing clownfish. This is a
queer,
Queen as has always existed.
It's only in humans that we have
such a stigma about it.
The idea of just having to fix
sexes is clearly out of style.
Mother Nature is pretty open
minded.
Sex is not just
for reproduction. It's clear
that no matter where you look on
our planet, Nature is full of
clear surprises. To be honest,
we should all probably get laid
a little more than we do.
Adam Curry: That's right. Queer
planet starts June 6 on that
peacock network.
John C Dvorak: Gay and it's
called queer planning.
Adam Curry: This show is called
queer planet.
Unknown: Yep, that's you. Yeah.
Yeah,
Adam Curry: yeah. No, that's all
good. It's all good. It's all
good. It's perfect. But don't
hang the 10 commandments up in
the in the school's queer plans.
They show a bunch of lions board
looked at gay lions. And it
really it looks highly produced,
I must
John C Dvorak: say looks Yeah,
well, they got a lot of
producers that know what they're
doing. They certainly had a gay
Adam Curry: anyway. I don't know
why I went that route, but maybe
we should get back to get down
to either get back to Trump.
Because Comey is out and
John C Dvorak: about oh, wait,
wait before you do that back to
get going about you know you
first you brought up the 10
cameras now we got Brad gay
planet are gay. We are planet
difference. Yeah. I might as
well play this clip. This is
Biden and the five daughters
clip. Have you heard this?
Adam Curry: I have. Yeah, it's
kind of creepy
Unknown: purgatory for this guy.
five daughters. straight to
heaven. And by the way, I say to
every young man thinking of
getting married, married to a
family of five or more
daughters. I did my wife's
oldest of five sisters. You know
why? One of them was always
loved. And not to say one one of
them was always on your side.
That's the biggest advantage and
married and have five daughters.
Adam Curry: This creepy, he's
creepy. It's creepy.
John C Dvorak: What is he
saying? What is he telling us
here? That
Adam Curry: you should marry a
woman who has The sisters I
guess has
John C Dvorak: four sisters or
more. I would assume or one of
one of them will love you. Yeah,
not necessarily the same one.
No. Which means he's having set
he has sex with one of his
wives, sisters. That's what it
tells me that he is that for a
good good, good Catholic boy. He
is a sinner.
Adam Curry: You think, Wow, big
revelation. Stop the presses
Biden is a sinner. The prop bets
are in for the debate, we have
the odds for which drug?
President Biden was positive for
we have. Now when it says plus
200 What does that mean?
John C Dvorak: That means if you
bet $200 You win 100. I know I
know of two is plus $201. If you
bet, if you bet $1. You get two
back so you get three back.
Adam Curry: All right, so that's
Adderall a 200. Cocaine at 400
PCP or angel dust at 600 By the
way, this is from a bet online.
Ketamine 1000. Now Viagra 1500
I'm surprised
John C Dvorak: they're not gonna
test anybody for drugs. So this
betting thing what Okay, here's
the question I have when I saw
this list if they don't know I
bet yeah. Do I get my money back
of a test effort takes place? I
don't think so. Probably
Adam Curry: not probably not.
Probably not.
John C Dvorak: I'll take the
long shot.
Adam Curry: This is kind of a
little bit off the wall but in
the in the category of post
traumatic syndrome disorder. But
what other what word softening
have we had throughout the ages?
Women's Health Care,
reproductive health care what
other what other we should
John C Dvorak: make? We should
have a list. Concise list
euphemism
Adam Curry: euphemisms that you
feel euphemisms
John C Dvorak: as the
Adam Curry: word Illinois has
just passed a new euphemism law
on
Unknown: Tuesday, Bill 4409
passed in the state senate 34 to
20. Question Is
Adam Curry: your house bill
4409. Pass all those in favor
vote aye. Aye. Opposed nay the
voting is open.
Unknown: The proposed
legislation would remove the
term offender and replace it
with the justice impacted
individual for individuals in
the state's adult redeploy
Illinois program commonly
referred to as a ri. According
to the Illinois Criminal Justice
Information authority. MRI is an
initiative that divert offenders
from prison to programs to help
rehabilitate them to success.
Republicans say the language
change portrays a lack of
empathy for victims and lack of
concern for public safety,
change this change that the only
thing that you don't want to
change is the behavior of
criminals. And guess who's
paying for that right now?
Victims all across this state? I
urge a no vote.
How about that? I love that. I
John C Dvorak: love how they
change. Yes, this impacted
individual Yes,
Adam Curry: I'm sorry. I've been
impacted by justice. Yeah, I'm
in jail. I've been impacted by
justice. Yeah, gender affirming
care. That was the other one. Of
course, that was the big
euphemism. Yah, yah, yah. Yah.
Yah, yah. Yah. But, but but
whatever you do keep the 10
commandments out of schools.
Because that's going to hurt
children. That's really going to
hurt children.
John C Dvorak: You have kids
playing adultery to him? Yeah.
Adam Curry: Janet Yellen is in
Italy today. And Italy yet? What
do you think she's discussing
with her counterparts? The g7
finance ministers? Well, it's
Unknown: this focus now turns to
your meeting in Italy with the
g7 finance ministers and the
frozen Russian assets. Yes, we
know those assets are not going
to be seized altogether and
gifted to Ukraine. This talk,
though, that alone could be
given to bring forward future
profits to give more money to
Ukraine now to the tune of
40 $50 billion. Is that
something you support?
Yes, I think that's a
possibility. I believe it's
important for the g7 to work
together to show united front
and to show that we can generate
meaningful resources to support
Ukraine over the next several
years in while America stands
behind Ukraine, and why expect
Congress, if necessary, will
pass future packages. Ukraine
has substantial needs and being
able to marshal significant
resources to help Ukraine is
important. And that's one way to
do it. I understand that today.
European Union took the final
step in improving The plan by
which windfall profits that are
being earned on Russian Russian
assets? Now
Adam Curry: listen to this, this
is about euro clear listen to
the words that say using
regarding interest and making
money or not. I mean, it's very
confusing here in Euro
Unknown: clear that they will be
dedicated for Ukraine's use. And
the plan that you mentioned
would essentially bring forward
that flow of interest proceeds
from the assets that do not
belong to Russia. The question
assets are not earning interest
anymore, but they are generating
returns for Euro clear.
Adam Curry: How, okay, so it's
just the Russian money that's in
Euro clear is not generating any
money. But somehow Euro clear is
going to be taking the interest
earned on that money and sending
it to Ukraine. Yeah, this is a
mistake.
John C Dvorak: They're stealing
money. Yes, loans
Unknown: could be given to
Ukraine that would be repaid
over several years by that flow
of interest. Oh,
Adam Curry: it's a loan. I see
over that flow of this is a big
mistake. And this is why Russia
and China they're trying to get
their own. The BRICS, they're
going to try and get their own
money together. Not something
that happens overnight will take
decades probably. But this is
dumb. This is dumb. I don't
think Janet Yellen is hates
America. Um, she is she just
wants the dollar to break apart.
I think she's an agent of change
for some for maybe the Chinese.
How can we have someone so dumb
doing these things?
John C Dvorak: To us the head of
the Fed for a while?
Adam Curry: Yeah, great job.
John C Dvorak: I think under
Trump. No. Was she under trolled
by Trump or Obama could have
been Obama.
Adam Curry: I think maybe she
maybe she might have been? She
might have been under Trump. I'm
thinking but no. But anyway,
John C Dvorak: she she was I
think she definitely worked
under Trump for a while and then
he got rid of her. Yeah.
Adam Curry: Yeah. Because she's,
she's dumb. This makes no sense.
The here's here's Now
interesting things are
happening. The the Fitz 21 Act
was passed by the House. Here's
Tom Emmer, which always gives me
a chuckle because Emmer is
bucket in Dutch. So here's Tom
bucket to talk about. Thank you,
Mr. Speaker. Today, we have an
opportunity to determine whether
the next iteration of the
internet will be designed by
Americans, or if it will,
instead reflect the values of
some other nation. The fit 21
Act gives us that opportunity
and unlocks a larger
conversation beyond innovation.
This bill is about national
security. It's about consumer
protection. It's about global
competitiveness. It's about
shaping what every future global
digital economy looks like and
how it functions. Currently, all
online transactions are
intermediate. But as we move
deeper into the digital age,
digital assets are key to
decentralizing the internet. So
Americans can transact directly
with each other. Now, no income
intermediary needed. Without
cryptid. We all have this
ability. And I think giving
Americans the choice to do
business through an intermediary
or directly with each other is
important. Having that choice
will fundamentally alter the
digital economy unlocking new
opportunities for Americans and
individuals across the world in
ways we haven't even begun to
contemplate. However, this
Congress can no longer stand by
US regulators squander this
opportunity right within our
grasp. This administration has
demonstrated they simply are not
willing to allow the digital
asset industry to innovate in
the United States. For every
legal inconsistency or
regulatory hurdle they produce.
Instead of coherent and informed
guidance, they drive American
digital asset users into less
safe jurisdictions. That's why
the fit 21 Act is significant.
So this clears the way for
central bank digital currency,
but it also cleared the past. I
mean, it has to pass the Senate
and, of course, the President
has to sign it. But you can have
your own bitcoin wallet. You
don't have to have it connected
to your bank. You can create
services that have Bitcoin
wallets, you can help transfer,
I should say digital assets, but
I just think of Bitcoin. You can
have services that transfer that
pass through payments. It's
really good for innovation, bad
for the dollar. Good.
John C Dvorak: Innovation has
helped the IRS I'm not seeing
it.
Adam Curry: That's what the
beauty is. I'd say. It's not
it's not they didn't pass it.
They must hate the IRS. It
passed overwhelmingly in the
house House
John C Dvorak: Well, what was
the votes? It was overwhelming.
That means a bunch of Democrats
had to vote for a 71
Adam Curry: voted against mostly
Democrats. All the rest voted
for.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, they're up
to something but to
Adam Curry: be honest about it
that the you know, a wallet is
just a metaphor, there's no
wallet, all you're doing all a
wallet is is just making signing
cryptographically signing
something, you know, you don't
get any money. It's not like,
you know, like money trickles
into some thing, like a pocket
book. So if you can do encrypted
email, you should be able to do
an encrypted signing of a
transaction.
John C Dvorak: All right, I
guess that's interesting. It is
to me. Here's something that we
would be good to go that this is
interesting to me. All right,
and PR at best.
Unknown: Okay. maxtow once lived
on the streets of Fairhaven,
Vermont, but he receives an
honorary doctorate this morning
at Vermont State University
Casselton Max may have some
faults but he's really a
pussycat. A Tabby public radio
reports. The ones feral kitten
taken in by a woman named Ashley
DOE has become part of
university life over the past
five years. He's posed for
photography classes, he's hitch
rides on backpacks and been a
general source of campus cheer.
Ashley Tao told Vermont public
radio she's encouraged students
to bring Mac's home if they see
him out after five. And students
did actually bring him home. She
says I'll get text messages from
random students. It's like he's
okay. He's up by the greenhouse.
A school announcement on
Instagram says Max's Doctor of
Literature degree comes quote
complete with all catnip perks,
scratching post privileges and
litterbox responsibilities that
come with it. Don't invite max
to a CAGR to celebrate this
weekend. He's still not 21.
Adam Curry: So let me just get
this straight. You compare one
of the most important financial
innovations in our life to
John C Dvorak: get Ovation Oh,
yeah. Well, when the getting a
phony baloney degree in
literature, why literature? Or
is it litter litter?
Adam Curry: Yes. Well, when the
IRS comes for your money,
they'll get it. They'll have to
they'll have to pry it out of my
cold hand my dead hands.
John C Dvorak: Well, I'm just
that that clip is really just
saying what a degree is worth in
today's world.
Adam Curry: Well, not like our
PhDs is a little different. I
John C Dvorak: think those are
valuable, very valuable.
Adam Curry: I'd say indeed.
John C Dvorak: I have some
random clips I can play or I can
play a series of clips on Mar a
Lago case.
Adam Curry: Yeah, the moral Lago
I'd like to hear that the MAR a
Lago case is kind of
interesting, because it seems I
don't know if if we learn
anything new, but it seems like
a there was some coined the
phrase trumped up documents that
were shipped over there. Second.
Trump is using this to campaign
by saying that the FBI wanted to
shoot him.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, yeah, it's
all good stuff. I have two ways
I can go with this. There's a
bunch of clips, but I'm only
gonna I'm going to run these
which are the more complex where
there's three clips the one a
two a and three A, skip the
other ones. Start with one A,
Unknown: we've been hearing a
lot about Donald Trump's
criminal trial in New York for
making hush money payments.
Well, while that one's on pause
through the long weekend,
lawyers for Trump and two co
defendants appeared in a Florida
court today. In that case, the
former president is charged with
taking classified and top secret
material to mar a Lago when he
left the White House, then
conspiring to hide those
documents from federal
investigators and peers. Greg
Allen is at the courthouse in
Fort Pierce, Florida. Hey, Greg.
Hi. Alright. Tell us what
happened in court today.
Well, defense attorneys asked US
District Judge Eileen cannon to
dismiss the charges against
their clients. They say this
case is politically motivated.
The prosecution is quote
selective and vindictive.
Federal former President Trump
wasn't here today, but he
skipped the session but his two
co defendants were here. The
court heard two motions both
filed by Trump's aide Walt
Nauta. Now is charged with
moving boxes containing
classified documents to
different locations at Mar a
Lago in an alleged attempt to
hide them from federal
investigators and then lying
about it afterwards. Not as
attorney Stanley Woodward told
the judge he believes his client
is being prosecuted because he
refused to cooperate with the
government's case against his
boss. When not to refuse to be a
witness against Trump. Woodward
says prosecutors retaliated by
in his words, shoehorning him
into the indictment of the
former president, Judge cannon
who's a Trump appointee, you
know, and has been criticized
for some rulings in favor. The
defense scheme seemed skeptical
a day she said, Isn't that a
fairly standard way to try to