June 20th, 2024 • 3h 20m
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John C Dvorak: I'm digging the
cow out of the canal.
Adam Curry: Adam curry Jhansi
Devora June 20 2024 This Year
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is no agenda fake and cheap and
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Amsterdam in the lowlands in the
morning, everybody. I'm Adam
curry, and
John C Dvorak: from Northern
Silicon Valley where you miss
the Federal holiday. I'm John C.
Dvorak.
Adam Curry: Greg Levin,
Buzzkill. We had holiday. What
holiday is it a holiday today?
No. Once the holiday yesterday
John C Dvorak: was a holiday it
was federal holiday. What?
Adam Curry: Oh, god OH.
Juneteenth Of course. How could
I miss the fact that
John C Dvorak: I would like to
start to show us some
gaslighting clips.
Adam Curry: Some okay. Now, by
the way, did you know because I,
I think you had part of it or
have all of it in the
newsletter. I don't really
remember because I couldn't.
When you sent it to me, there's
no way I could I could get to
looking at it. Originally,
Juneteenth was celebrated on
January 1. Did you know that?
No, yeah. That's when the
John C Dvorak: what would it be
called June? What makes it even
worse? Today, January 1, to make
sense, obviously,
Adam Curry: I'm guessing it a
bit a little bit. But black
Americans used to celebrate
January 1, because 1863 is when
slavery ended. That's when the
Emancipation Proclamation was
signed by President Abraham
Lincoln. And then, of course,
this Texas thing in Galveston 80
to two years later, it makes no
sense because black Americans
used to celebrate on January 1.
John C Dvorak: Well, I think
that's what would lead right
into the Juneteenth clip that
you'll like,
Adam Curry: okay. The Juneteenth
BS clip. Is that it by any
chance?
Unknown: When I hear well,
people explained Juneteenth, it
makes me wish that Rosa Parks
personally forced you all to sit
in the front of a school bus and
go to history class. Now walk
with me. Walk with me. The left
has convinced you that
Juneteenth was the abolition of
slavery when a black revolution
arose, but what it really proved
is that some people remain
enslaved mentally. And that's
all it takes to keep you on the
plantation. If you know the
actual history, Democrats kept
black people enslaved for two
and a half years after slavery
was abolished until white,
mostly right wing men came on
June 19 1865, and said y'all
have been free since 1863. Get
off the plantation and go get a
job. I wish we could celebrate
what Juneteenth actually is. But
instead, we continue to let the
left repackage segregation and
sell it back to us. There is no
such thing as a black
Independence Day, but if that's
what you want to call
Juneteenth, then I don't want to
see all twerking on a bow on
July 4.
Adam Curry: Well, there you go.
That's, that's such a better way
to explain it. I hadn't even
thought of it that way.
Democrats kept it quiet.
John C Dvorak: I like that.
Which brings me to the more that
was gaslighting, which I
discussed in the newsletter.
Yeah, I had a gas lighting
promotion, which nobody bought
into so we had a very lousy us
showing for the for the
donations but it brings me to
John Pierre Van Damme.
Adam Curry: Oh, baby, I love I
love this clip. I love this
whole topic.
John C Dvorak: Well, here we go
like this starts. The first one
is John Pierre, deep fakes. This
is her at a press at the press
conference. Oh,
Adam Curry: I thought you're
gonna start with the okay. I
thought you're gonna start with
a supercut
Unknown: of videos that have
been edited to make the
president
appear especially frail or
mentally confused. I'm wondering
if the White House is especially
worried about the fact that this
appears to be
a pattern that we're seeing
more. Yeah, we and I think you
all have called this the cheap
fakes video. And that's exactly
what they are. They are cheap
fakes video.
Adam Curry: I love this part,
John, because this is the memo
they sent out earlier.
Obviously,
Unknown: they're done in batch.
And in some of your news
organization, have have been
very clear have stressed that
these right wing critics of the
President have a credibility
problem. Because of the fact
checkers have repeatedly caught
them pushing misinformation
disinformation. And so we see
this and this is something
coming from from your your part
of the world calling them cheap
fakes and misinformation. And
I'll quote The Washington Post
where they wrote they wrote
about this and they said, how
Republican use misleading videos
to attack Biden in a 24 hour
period. And to their credit, we
have a conservative Washington
Examiner did call them out as
well call me out the New York
Post. Ironically, several
several recent fakes actually
attacked the president for
thanking troops for thinking
through so that is what they're
attacking President And for both
enormity, this happen and again
in Italy. And I think that it
tells you everything that we
need to know about how, how
desperate, how desperate
Republicans are here. And
instead of talking about the
President's performance in
office, and what I mean by that
is his legislative wins what
he's been able to do for the
American people across the
country. We're seeing these deep
fakes these manipulated videos,
and it is again, done in bad
faith
Adam Curry: fact check. False.
God, I love this. I love I love
that you got the longer version
of it because the was trending
online was like 47 seconds or so
it wasn't really
John C Dvorak: Yeah, no, she
goes on, and I have the
Adam Curry: other. We can play
that later. I have the there
were three other questions that
that were asked that no one has
really played.
John C Dvorak: We could play
that play. There's this I'll
finish this with a capital war
here is first of all, after she
did this, she went on Nicole
wall Wallace, which is to clip J
OJJO, which is kind of what she
was doing. Nicole Wallace and
she and she doubles down with
the same and I liked the way she
she pushes the idea that the
whole deep fake terminology was
not her idea. Oh, no, it was it
was the media. They
Unknown: think there is so much
misinformation disinformation,
as we've been talking about. You
talked about the video the
president wandering and it's not
true, right. The President
wasn't wandering a parish
shooter that was right in front
of him. And what you saw is the
Republican Party, really
manipulating what was being said
and what was being seen by the
American people is also very
insulting to the folks who are
the viewers who are watching it.
And we believe we have to call
that out. We've been calling it
that is something that came from
directly from the media outlets,
calling it that the fact
checkers and calling it that
Adam Curry: yeah, I love that.
The media, we didn't come up
with it. It was the media
doesn't meet the fact checkers
came up with it. fact checkers
whose job is to check facts came
up with the whole term.
John C Dvorak: And so that last
clip was just a supercut. And
then you can play that other one
is the is just the word went
out. And so this is all clips
from MSNBC and CNN various
stages, including people that I
thought were off the air like
Stelter was still going on and
on making it up as they go
along, as if Joe Biden wasn't
staggering around cheap fakes,
videos of relevance that are
intentionally manipulated
Korean, John
Unknown: Pierre and others are
calling these cheap fakes. But
what it is, is truly deceitful
behavior,
what the White House is calling
cheap fakes,
who are hearing about so called
cheap fakes. It's playing out on
right wing media, these videos.
I mean, they're blatant lies.
These are cheap fakes with a
White House and Biden, people
call them cheap.
fakes are a little bit simpler.
They're cheap. They're just
distorted out of context videos
chopped up in certain ways
constructed in certain ways.
That's what we're seeing. We've
seen all of the cheap fakes Joe
Biden's suggesting that he's out
of it.
Adam Curry: So yeah, I did hear
Stelter, what's he even doing
there? Is did he call in as a
guest?
John C Dvorak: He was in he was
on the table as a guest on
Adam Curry: the table as a
guest.
John C Dvorak: Well on the
table,
Adam Curry: well, I gotta, I
gotta hand it to whoever came up
with this because they knew that
they couldn't use deep fake
because, obviously, it's not AI
but they want to allude to that
allude to the deep fake. And
then they throw in the cheap
fake, I think it was a it was a
good term. Of course, they
passed out the memo to their as
you pointed out, their stooges.
And they also they kind of took
our wind away from us. If we go
back to January 28 of this year,
no agenda episode 1629. What are
we talking about them? I think
when it comes to AI, we had an
event take place, something is
on the horizon. I have said that
this AI stuff. The way it's
going to be used is something's
gonna come out. And we need to
flood the market with thinking
like, oh, that's just AI guy.
No, that's not real. That's just
AI, and this is part of the
Swift up.
Unknown: Now a disturbing trend
on social media struck one of
the world's biggest stars this
week, when explicit AI generated
images of Taylor Swift began to
circulate on x. Now,
Adam Curry: Elon Musk is great
at making money from the
government. So I wouldn't put it
past him somehow he's involved
in this
John C Dvorak: up this is
nothing new. This is nothing new
at all. No, but
Adam Curry: what I think is
happening and I have a piece of
John Claude Van Damme here with
the question that was asked
about this all White House is
concerned. Why is the White
House concerned? Something's
coming out. Listen to the Setup
question. Listen to her answer
it
Unknown: there were being
sexually explicit images of
Taylor Swift all over social
media this week like, narrated
by AI. Concern, is the White
House about the misuse of this
kind of technology. And does the
White House want to see Congress
moving forward legislation that
would make sharing posting
images like that?
So I'm glad you asked that
question, because it is.
Adam Curry: First of all, all
these questions are approved
before the press conference. So
for jump here about Claude Van
Damme to say, I'm glad you asked
that question. This was a setup
question.
Unknown: We are alarmed by the
reports of the circulation of
images that you just laid out a
false images to be more exact,
and it is alarming. So while
social media is alarming, their
own independent decisions about
content management, we believe
they have an important role to
play in enforcing enforcing
their own rules to prevent the
spread of misinformation.
Adam Curry: So we don't get the
full two points. And then we get
1.1 point for the setup. It just
was it just wasn't a diff. It
was close enough. Close enough.
And there we go. Now that deep
fakes are firmly embedded in
everybody's mind, they use a
different term, the cheap fake.
Although we all saw we all saw
what really happened before I
get
John C Dvorak: to it, and they
show and there's an extended
version of those clips, all
unedited. There's no edits at
all, by enrollment around
daggering.
Adam Curry: Don't believe your
lying eyes is what they're
saying. You're not seeing that.
No, no, no, no, you're seeing
something wrong. That's just
your bias. CBS also jumped in. I
mean, I do have a couple of
short ones here from CBS. So it
wasn't just the cable companies
you've
Unknown: probably heard of deep
fakes. But just last week as
President Biden was at the g7
summit in Italy, cheap fake
clips went viral on social media
and were picked up by some news
outlets.
Adam Curry: Just don't you think
that this new term, they just
roll it out? Like everybody
knows what it is? It's just
like, no
John C Dvorak: one's believable
that CBS could have eluded me.
But that's that's more
ridiculous in the MSNBC CNN
clips because they say it as a
matter of
Unknown: fact, take a look at
this clip. For example, it shows
Biden and other world leaders
watching a skydiving
demonstration. Before the
President is seen walking away
and looking in another direction
walking away outlets, claimed
that he was sort of just
aimlessly wandering away. The
clip amassed millions of views
within just a few hours, when
actually he if you widen out,
you can see that he was talking
to one of the members of the
military that was participating
in that demo. How prevalent are
cheap fakes and how big of a
problem will really be in this
election? WILDerland. Let's take
a look with executive editor of
CBS News confirmed Rona Tarrant
who joins us now from 57 to
explain Hi, Ron. It's great to
see you so
Adam Curry: high. So they're
bringing the executive editor
John, this is not just some
slouch. This is not some pundit.
John C Dvorak: Oh, they're
freaked out. This is guy now
that you did did this makes it
obvious that they're freaked out
about this? And they're due and
they're bringing in the big guns
and you're doing everything they
can do gaslight which is the
theme here is gaslight, the
public and use this term cheap.
There's no fakery involved. He
turned around started wandering
off. What's the fake part?
Adam Curry: Well, first of all,
let's go to this term. I mean,
this cheap fakes you and I would
dummies, it's been around man,
tell us how long
Unknown: cheap fakes have been
around. I'm assuming they've
been around since the beginning
of the media, because you know,
anybody?
Adam Curry: Yeah, pretty much
every night on the news lady
Unknown: can take an image and
manipulate it to make it look
like it's just something that
didn't
happen. That's exactly it. It
really is a case of all
Adam Curry: Oh, no, listen to
that. Another Brit running our
news go figure
Unknown: meets new technology.
So as you said, cheap, fake
videos, not videos that are
edited in a really simple way.
Those have been around as long
as political videos have
existed. So there's a few ways
for example that people might be
familiar with. One is there
might be a long video and you
might take a very short clip and
you take our key context.
Another is maybe you slow
something down and it makes it
sound like someone was slurring
their words.
Adam Curry: That was when Pelosi
was actually drunk, but no, it
was slow down, okay?
Unknown: Or another as you might
supply several pieces together
and it makes it sound like
someone said something that they
didn't. This is literally
Adam Curry: describing every Joe
Biden video that's out there
when he's literally describing
John C Dvorak: what CBS News has
been doing for years.
Unknown: What's different in
this election and the last two
weeks elections in the
presidential elections is,
number one, everyone has access
to mobile phones where they can
edit. And number two, most
people have social media
accounts where they can publish
this stuff. So
John C Dvorak: what was the
Okay, let's start stop it. Does
she explain what exactly the
Edit was? When Joe Biden turned
around and started walking
toward the right in the wrong
direction toward this other
paratrooper that was over there,
we all saw what it was a guy was
packing his bags, they started
talking to him, the guy was
trying to get out of there. And
meanwhile, the action was in the
front, where were they? Where
the cameras were? Yeah. And
Maloney had to go over there and
grab him and say, Hey, over
here, no. So everyone came
Adam Curry: around, and then
came behind him looking in the
other direction. So it he would
turn around, if you remember
correctly. So they were all
looking in the right direction.
They just they went over there
or
John C Dvorak: came around
again, from doing it again.
Yeah, where was the edit?
Adam Curry: Was deceptively
edited
Unknown: social media accounts
where they can publish this
stuff. So it's worth saying
these are not anything new, you
know, when Trump was president,
these targeted him as well. But
what we are seeing in the last
few weeks is really the steady
stream of videos that are
targeting President Biden and in
particular, taking aim at his
age. Ah, that's
Adam Curry: it, they're taking
aim at his age, because you
can't do that with Trump for
some reason. That's weird. Okay,
so what is the impact? I mean,
this has got to be very
impactful. This can sway voters,
is
Unknown: there any way to
measure the impact that these
videos could have on the 2024?
Election? Yeah,
Adam Curry: just look at the
download numbers, like
podcasting. It's so accurate in
comparison
Unknown: to other forms of
misinformation. You know, that's
a really great, great question.
Adam Curry: You want to respond,
John C Dvorak: man, is that even
remotely a great question. And
by the way, it's just like, This
is so misleading. It's shameful,
Adam Curry: is it? That's what
makes it so groovy, though, for
this something I really liked it
for us for us. Is this doc.
Thank you. Thank you, CBS.
Unknown: No, that's a really
great, great question. I think,
you know, in terms of what our
team has been tracking, we have
seen these so called cheap fake
videos, they are targeting Biden
and they are targeting Trump.
However, we have seen
particularly in the last few
months, the videos targeting
Biden are getting a lot more
traction online. And in
particular, the ones that target
Biden's age. So for example,
like you had said, claiming that
he is wandering off and really
was having a conversation with
somebody these days
John C Dvorak: having a
conversation.
Adam Curry: Yes, you have
something to say.
John C Dvorak: I'm just it just
annoys me because we've all seen
this video. And we've seen the
extended version of it, because
it's posted and you can see the
whole thing, and he's just turns
around starts wandering off, and
yakking about something the
guy's trying to pack his
parachute. He's not paying any
attention to Biden, there's no
conversation involved.
Unknown: These videos are
effective, because they are
they're called to fix for a
reason. They are quick. They're
easy to publish. And oftentimes
they have big impact on people
who are just scrolling through
their phones, they watch it for
five seconds, and they move on.
Oh, like Democrat voters. Also,
what's interesting about this is
we've heard a lot about the fear
of deep fakes in this election.
And we've seen the deep fakes
haven't really shown up in the
way that maybe people were
worried about them showing up.
But these videos that are edited
in a really basic way with
technology that's been around
for a long time, are effective,
effective to the extent that the
White House is addressing them.
Adam Curry: Yeah. Okay. There it
is, by the way,
John C Dvorak: that's an Irish
accent. Thank you. Yeah,
Adam Curry: you're right. You're
right.
John C Dvorak: And there was one
in the last show, too, that you
said was British and she was
Irish, or he was Irish. Sorry.
Adam Curry: I apologize.
John C Dvorak: I've noticed that
the Irish are moving in. Well,
besides they're very, they all
hate Trump and they all love
Biden.
Adam Curry: Oh, interesting.
Huh? Okay. Last one last
observation. Yeah, no, it's
good. One. Last one is B hopes,
because they know their viewers
so well. They know their
viewers. Here's a question that
is important and pertinent.
Unknown: How can voters best
discern between videos that are
real, and videos that are not?
So
social media platforms,
sometimes they will attach fat
checks to these videos. So
sometimes on X, you might see
community notes or on Facebook,
you might see fat checks.
However, the reality is for the
vast majority of them, they're
not going to have anything
attached. So unfortunately, it
really is on the viewer. Number
one piece of advice I would have
is always check your sources. So
if you see something on an
account, is this a partisan
account? Is it pushing for a
particular candidate? And does
it have a history of posting
misinformation? And the second
thing, which I think is really
important is always seek another
source. So don't just take it
from one account, make sure that
you get a second source or even
a third source, and most
importantly, make sure that's a
credible source.
And CBS confirmed is one of the
most credible Rona, Karen, thank
you so much for breaking it down
with us. I appreciate it. See
Adam Curry: vs confirmed John
just in case you didn't know,
CBS confirmed as one of the most
credible ever, ever, ever, ever
very credible.
John C Dvorak: Wow. So that took
a lot of guts. Oh, they've
shameless.
Adam Curry: So, but there were
three other questions in this
press conference it got no play
even. Everyone's just showing
the the Biden video where he's,
you know, wandering off and
looking at some other dude pack
in his chute. But there were
three other instances that were
obvious that also did get some
virality. And these were asked
of jurien jurien.
John C Dvorak: Jury, that's a
new name name is Yuri.
Unknown: two instances in recent
days were leaders from President
Obama and George Maloney early,
they physically put hands on the
President to guide him and show
him. How
Adam Curry: did you see this one
where, where he was on stage
with Obama and Jimmy Kimmel,
John C Dvorak: believe me. We
were You were gone. I saw that
one was a hot hot one, because
it was like he was staggering
off the stage.
Adam Curry: Obama grabbed him by
the wrist. You know, it's like
what somebody
John C Dvorak: pointed this out
on one of the one of the hater
shows that people in dementia
get startled. When they do
they'll freeze, touch him grab,
grab their hand, or the rest of
them and they jump kind of jump
because it's like that they're
snapped out of it. And that's
exactly what happens. Obama
grabs his wrist and and Biden
snaps out of it looks over at
him. And then he was walking
slowly off the stage, carefully
off the stage, because he's
looks like he's gonna keel over.
Adam Curry: I think it's
probably time to reinstate the
term elder abuse. We haven't
talked about it
John C Dvorak: for now, the
theme, by the way that I've
noticed on the right wing shows,
every one of the shows has been
bringing up elder abuse. Really?
Adam Curry: I see I haven't seen
or heard anything. I just, it's
a natural occurrence that
interesting. Well, it's
John C Dvorak: because we
brought it up, you brought it
up, not yours. To me, I have not
brought it up. The President in
the United States is not subject
to elder abuse. He's a
president. And so criticism is
what I would call it. So
Adam Curry: does that go for
podcasters? Like when we're old
and demented, then it's not
really elder abuse. If the if
we're getting dragged on social
media,
John C Dvorak: we get blasted
anyway. Okay.
Adam Curry: Let me continue here
with the Yes. Was your reading
stage directions? Are they doing
that on
Unknown: their own? Or Is
anybody asked them to
look on the show? When we spoke
to the most recent, right,
right, and as we saw on
Saturday, the President Obama,
President Obama's office put out
a statement. So I would refer
you to that statement about what
was being accused in those by
others. And he said this did not
happen in the sense of what
people were saying, saying they
were seeing right, or what was
being falsely reported. That
they were saying, let's not
forget President Obama,
President Biden have a
relationship. They are friends.
They're like family to each
other. And I think that's what
you saw.
Adam Curry: That's funny, to
like family to each other. No, I
think I think Obama has been
pretty clear he hates Biden. I
think that's that's universally
understood. Everyone knows that.
Unknown: You saw the President
put his hand behind the on the
back of President Biden. And,
and they walked off the stage
after after taking questions, or
at an event taking questions
from Jimmy Kimmel. That is that
is what you saw. No,
Adam Curry: no, I'm pretty sure
I saw a President Obama grabbed
President Biden's wrist who was
just standing there not taking
questions from Jimmy Kimmel
who's staring into the lights.
Unknown: But I will refer you to
the President Obama's office
statement. They talked about
this. They discussed this and
they came out with it pretty,
pretty quickly. All right.
Maloney.
Adam Curry: I Maloney How about
Maloney
Unknown: don't have anything. I
don't know specifically what
happened with Maloney.
Adam Curry: But wondering the
parachutes. Oh, I mean, of
course I know Maloney. Oh, that
one? Oh, yeah. Just so many of
them to keep track of
Unknown: that was as I said, it
was a cheap, you know, cheap
fake.
Adam Curry: That was it was a
keep Jake definitely
Unknown: cheaper. It was widely
fact checked widely. But that
video was widely factcheck,
including by conservative media,
on what had what happened that
what occurred, the President
walked over to give a thumbs up
to divers who had just landed
right in front of him. And if
you run that tape a little bit
longer, you would see, you would
see what was happening, what the
President was actually doing.
And it is a cheap fake. That is
what nothing and he's totally
normal. What I'm saying is,
Adam Curry: I don't know who
asked that, but I like it. So
you're telling me Totally
normal. You can't really answer
the question nothing and he's
totally normal.
Unknown: What I'm saying is this
is a president. See,
Adam Curry: she can't say no,
it's totally normal. Listen to
this bit.
Unknown: Let's step back for a
second. Yeah. And I said this
moments ago instead of
Republicans, you know, focusing
on the President's performance
in office and what he's been
able to accomplish his actual
record, they do these cheap
fakes. They're cheap fakes. And
you're asking me about the money
or
Adam Curry: listen how she's
banging the desk to I mean, she
bangs that desk like
John C Dvorak: nobody does. She
Bangs the desk when she's trying
to get appointed about Zama does
she say the Maloney? You turn
the Brody or
Adam Curry: Maloney. I'm doing a
Maloney baby
Unknown: in office and what he's
been able to accomplish his
actual record. They do these
cheap things. They're cheap
fakes. And you're asking me
about the Maloney. You're asking
me what happened that video?
Adam Curry: It's a new dance
craze, John on Tik Tok. It's
Unknown: the Maloney the
Maloney. Video, man,
this is this. Thank
Adam Curry: you. urien I love
you. You watch. The real reason
is is like shooting fish in a
barrel.
Unknown: That video. That video
was, okay, let's talk about you
Adam Curry: know, the Juneteenth
one is the best, because this is
where everyone's dancing and
grooving. And Biden just
standing there like lunch or
whatever he was thinking. Know
what he was thinking. It was it
was sad, or it was almost over.
Listen.
Unknown: The President stood
there listening to the music,
and he didn't dance. Excuse me.
I did not know not dancing was a
mental wasn't it was a health
issue.
Adam Curry: Oops. jurien, could
you come into my office for a
moment? Yeah, we're trying to
focus on the President's age
with these cheap fakes, not his
mental health. So could you
ixnay on the mental may melt a
Unknown: into the music. And he
didn't dance. Excuse me. I did
not know not dancing was a
mental was um, it was a health
issue. That is a weird thing to
actually.
Adam Curry: And then she was she
then goes on to say health
issue. There was supposed to be
an age issue. She's dying on the
podium here. She's dying.
John C Dvorak: I thought I heard
all this, too. I didn't clip it.
But now that you mentioned that
I didn't catch that right away.
That's that's quite revealing.
Excuse
Unknown: me. I did not know not
dancing was a mental was. It was
a health issue. That is a weird
thing to actually flag when if
you if you look at the people
who around him if you look at
the expanded video of the people
who around him, they were not.
They weren't there were some
folks who were not dancing
either. And that has been fact
checked. I mean, just because
you're standing up listening to
music and not dancing. That is
not a health issue. No, it's
supposed to be age.
John C Dvorak: Did you? Did you
watch the real extended clip
where that where they're all
seated first and then they're
clapping and he was clapping
like well, I don't know what to
say. But like a white man off on
the one lap and pretty much with
the beat. And he's just kind of
randomly clapping. Did you see
this? Yes,
Adam Curry: I have seen it. It
hurt me. He's very, very pain
ready, but fatik When someone
claps on the one and in the
three instead of the two in the
four it's a real problem. It's
yeah, no, that's that's beyond
white. Yeah. And but the funny
thing is that this is literally
emperor has no clothes. That's
what this is. And for those of
you who don't know the story,
because they don't teach it in
school anymore, look it up. The
emperor has no clothes. He's
naked. No, he's not. He's got
beautiful, beautiful clothes on.
It's not meant to I mean,
health, old. No, it's nothing.
Nothing wrong. Well,
John C Dvorak: gaslighting Yes,
whatever. The The emperor has no
clothes stores gaslights. Right?
It
Adam Curry: is classic
gaslighting classic. It's just
it's like, wow, okay. I mean,
how do you go to bed at night?
And say, do you go like, Yeah, I
told them they believe it.
Seriously? Is that Is that how
that goes down? Do you think
when when jurien goes there?
John C Dvorak: I think they're
irked. Like you have to have
your Shareen or whatever her
name is that we're now calling
her? Yes. Well, I don't think
she's got the the brainpower to
be honest about it. But I would
say just the whole group around
buying they have to be just
worked with themselves and with
the situation because they know
they think Biden could do a
better job of hanging in there.
I don't know. It's hard to say I
think they're concerned but I
don't know if they lose sleep.
Over it
Adam Curry: then they might with
this level of gaslighting they
must have a plan B. I mean, you
wrote about it in the
newsletter. I guess the Plan B
is we do a switcheroo. What I've
heard was Did you write that
that Hillary could come in?
Hillary Clinton comes
John C Dvorak: in replaces
Camela newsletter for people who
took their got rid of their
subscription is very elaborate.
Yes. Hillary takes over from
camera like camera has some sort
of a health issue. Something
happens. Yeah. And Hillary is
brought in at the last minute
because people say well, it does
a number of things. One thing it
brings the women, Hillary flip
fans back into revenge revenge
Adam Curry: for a week. Duck
Duck. She's swooping around
again.
John C Dvorak: So it brings her
back into the fold brings women
back in the fold puts Hillary
and Hillary's like two years
younger than I think she's
already she's one year younger
than Trump. And so if Biden is
something happens, he has to
quit or he's 20 sheet by the
way, one thing about Hillary for
sure. She'd 25th amendment him.
Oh,
Adam Curry: yeah. Oh, in a
John C Dvorak: heartbeat. No
hesitation in a heartbeat.
Sorry, Joe.
Adam Curry: You gotta go. Yeah,
exactly. So
John C Dvorak: he won't he
wouldn't serve out his term and
Hillary would take over because
the Democrats don't want Kamla
Harris to be the first female
president. Now
Adam Curry: what are what can we
do with Kamala? What do we do
about Kamla? I mean, you say
some kind of health issue. I
think it's a little too easy.
Well,
John C Dvorak: this is this. I
did not answer the question
fully in the newsletter because
I don't know either. Now. Now,
there are some rumors she wants
to run for California governor.
And I think Gavin Newsom term
will be up did course her chance
of winning. This is a one
opportunity for the Republicans
to get somebody and nobody in
California likes her, even
though they liked it or Attorney
General, but it was kind of like
just everyone's a Democrat gets
in, and maybe the machine
Adam Curry: governor, but she's
campaigning. So you know, there
has to be a reason that she
stops campaigning. You know,
she's, well,
John C Dvorak: we go we have the
we put its alert, it's an alert
for us and alert, keep an eye on
her good. Let me was on Sherry,
that miserable show that used to
be Wendy Williams got taken, Oh,
she got ousted in for some
health reason. And this woman
Sherry took over her show and
they fired all day, every day,
the whole staff always changed.
And Sherry's
Adam Curry: unfortunately,
unfortunately, I think the only
way to really make it happen for
her to save face for her then to
you know, to phase out is I
think the I think her husband
has to go so she can go into
bereavement. The guys
Expendables be honest. Yeah, I
agree. I mean, if we're just
thinking like these people do,
like, before
John C Dvorak: they get like,
these people, these people,
these people think this way, but
they have to kill the guy. They
also just making these No, no,
no, she
Adam Curry: needs to help him.
You know, she needs to be with
her man. Doug. I mean, his face
name like Doug. I mean, no
offense to dogs. But it's kind
of like a dog. Poor dog. Don't
you just see that cartoon
character dog when you think
dog?
John C Dvorak: I think that
voice that you used to have a
dog that used to be on the
street as a dog on the news
reader. That's what I think of.
Adam Curry: So in an odd way, I
think I can connect these next
two clips. First of all. So all
I'm sure I know. You've seen it.
But the news here is extinction
rebellion. First they paint
Stonehenge orange. Yeah, they
did, like, wow. And then a
John C Dvorak: lot of respect
for the environment. Well,
Adam Curry: you know, that they
they removed all those stones
back in the 70s. You know, that
they moved all that stuff out of
the way. And they completely
reset them.
John C Dvorak: What year was
that?
Adam Curry: I think it was the
70s.
John C Dvorak: Well, I visited
Stonehenge first time in 1973. I
was there that's when you know,
probably that's when they were
cows in the field. There was
nobody around you go see on the
stone. Yeah. And it was like,
Oh, that's cute. Then they turn
it then the next time I went
which was like 20 years later
was like holy Mack was all
fenced off. There's a big
parking lot people are standing
around looking at it. Oh,
Adam Curry: if you look at I've
never actually looked this up
but I have seen the pictures.
Apparently was moved. Oh 1919 58
Oh, no. And I said that's not
moved about factcheck falls.
Here, though the stones were
moved. Taken from Wales. From
where else so they're in a whole
different spot on I don't know
about that. I've seen I've seen
pictures where they're they're
you know, they have cranes I
thought that they would just
fortifying them and and not not
a huge deal. I mean, it seems
kind of weird but anyway, then
they supposedly spray paint
Taylor Swift jet which I can't
confirm that's her Did they I
think they spray painted two or
three. And they
John C Dvorak: well they showed
the video and BBC had a video of
this woman first of all she on
the fire extent high pressure
fire extinguisher fill with
orange paint. And she painted
this. She did two jets. She ran
from one to the other. It took
her about, I'd say five to 10
seconds in time to paint the
entire side of the jet with this
fire extinguisher. I mean it
just spraying it out like
there's no tomorrow. And then
that was it. It was a very short
clip somebody who I guess one of
their her cohorts made the
movie. Yeah. The video, but it
was pretty amazing. It was
pretty, pretty, pretty easy. It
was impressive.
Adam Curry: Yeah. Let me tell
you, if that happens to your
playing, you're grounded. You're
not taken off. The paint is very
important on aircraft. Can't
just you can't just spray paint
and say, Oh, I'm good to go.
They have to they have to. That
has to be worked. But it didn't
that I don't know if it's her
jet. I don't know. I think she
does know, we know she owns one
because she leases it out. But I
didn't see anything that looked
like a intercontinental jet. So
I'm not sure if you know some
sap, you know, some sap with a
Jif G five. Okay, some sap gets
his airplane spray painted
because Taylor Swift is over in
Europe. Kind of sucks. But an
old favorite came back in the
news here, because she's now on
tour. So it's part promotion,
but I've never heard them go so
in depth into this particular
phenomenon, which is the
transient mind you transient
global amnesia of Taylor Swift.
Do you remember we talked about
this month and maybe a year ago,
John C Dvorak: I forgot.
Unknown: Now imagine paying
hundreds of euros to see your
favorite artist good line, by
the way in concert, only to get
home and realize you can't
actually remember their
performance. It might sound
crazy, or at least quite
unusual. But since the start of
Taylor Swift's talk that is
precisely what some fans say has
been happening to them is a
phenomenon called transient
global amnesia. And tell us a
bit about it. Our science editor
Julia sigue is with me in the
studio Julia festival. What are
we talking about here?
Hi, Nadia. So indeed, it did
happen to French fans, but also
fans in the in the United States
and tickets there are 1000s of
euros. But they're called Swift.
He's right there, the Taylor
Swift Fans, and they all
reported not being some of them
reported not being able to
recall Taylor Swift performance
during the heiress tour. Now
some don't remember the color of
her outfits or choreographies.
But for others, it's a total
blackout. They don't remember
some entire portions of her
show, but they always vividly
remember whatever happened
before the show, or after the
show. Now, the phenomenon was so
widespread that a psychiatrist
from New Jersey decided to
investigate these fan
testimonies. And she even
published a research paper and
she believes it is the syndrome
called transient global amnesia,
which is characterized by a
temporary loss of memory. So
it's actually due to an overload
of excitement and stress. So it
overwhelms the brain, which
makes it unable to encode
memories, if you will. So are
our memories extremely sensitive
to stress, let it be positive
emotions, but also negative
emotions. If you're overwhelmed
by negative emotions, you're
more inclined to develop Post
Traumatic Stress Disorder. But
if you're overwhelmed by
positive emotions, then you
you're more inclined to develop
somewhat of an this amnesia. So
Adam Curry: our old friend the
amygdala is busy involved in
John C Dvorak: a second. Isn't
this the same phenomenon that
critics would say it was a it
was a forgettable performance?
Adam Curry: Yeah, how I like it.
The no agenda take is always
just a little different,
everybody. Now
Unknown: it's very similar to
what you may feel, the sensation
that you have when you're having
a lot of fun that time is flying
by. That's exactly what the
phenomenon is all about. Now,
it's related more specifically
to an overreaction of the
amygdala in the brain. So when
your body faces stress, what it
does is your liver releases
glucose into the bloodstream and
into the muscles, the muscles
then send a signal to the brain.
And the amygdala is then going
to release a neurotransmitter
called neuro adrenaline. If it
if Adrenochrome baby, there's
just a little bit of it, it
helps encode the memories, but
if there's too much, it's
counterproductive. And you
suffer a memory loss.
This is such an interesting
story. And look, is this only
happening to Taylor Swift Fan?
Yeah,
Adam Curry: this is the
important thing because I mean,
I've been to a lot of concerts
of I have been to some sports
ball events I've been I've been
around now tell me if you've
ever had any of this happened
during any of these other places
where it apparently just can
happen
Unknown: to Taylor Swift Fan no
it can actually happen for other
events sports events if you're
you know, you're a sports fan
you can actually you're so
overwhelmed by someone's victory
for instance, it can happen
during a wedding a graduation
ceremony. Well,
Adam Curry: no, no, all I
remember from weddings is this
thing over.
John C Dvorak: No, not none of
this. I've, I've been to a lot
of things to Jimi Hendrix six
times. Oh, I've been seeing Dr.
Bento games where there's a
clinch a clinching game, the
warriors, for example. So I've
been to the World Series with
the a's and the Giants. I've
seen a lot of these high end
events. I've gotten. I went to a
Super Bowl. I remember all of
these things. I
Adam Curry: have known you for
17 years almost. Well, I've
known you for longer, but we've
been doing the show for 17
years. I can't I can't recall it
might be transient global
amnesia. But I cannot recall you
ever telling me that you went to
see Jimi Hendrix six times?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I have said
it a couple of times. Wow. I saw
Jimi Hendrix six times I can't
even name the fact I've
remembered so well, I can tell
you every venue. The last time I
saw him was at the Berkeley
community theater where he
unrolled his national anthem,
with uh, with with speakers all
across the stage. And he had his
various you know, he invented
the Wawa pedal supposedly, and
he had to see stomped on some
pedal and his sound would go rap
rap rap back and forth across a
very large stage. And he was
just a terrific performer.
Adam Curry: Are You Experienced?
So
John C Dvorak: I, the one of the
times, I saw Jimi Hendrix, he
was so drunk that I actually
left I was dating somebody and
we it was so bad that I left I
actually walked out of a Jimi
Hendrix concert did
Adam Curry: you leave your date
behind?
John C Dvorak: No, she came with
me.
Adam Curry: Wow, things to do.
This is a I'm always happy to
hear something I didn't know
about you guys continue.
Unknown: Whenever there's too
much anticipation, excitement,
pressure, emotion, you can go
through that amnesia now more
specifically, we're seeing it
with concerts. Why? Because
they've changed so much in the
last few years. As you can see
here, you have strobe lights,
every two seconds there's a
surprise and explosion a you
know even a costume changes and
it's perhaps almost too much for
our brains. Yes, very similar to
what we see with young kids when
they're watching video games or
cartoons and it's going too
fast. Well, that's when the
attention actually goes down and
you can't encode the memory
anymore.
Adam Curry: This is the true
swift up there mind controlling
your children. There's messages
flashing everywhere. Their
amygdala freaks out, they can't
remember anything and meanwhile,
vote Democrat or something like
that. Something's going on.
Something like that. Democrat
and we need boots on the ground.
Where am I? Where am I Swifties
at? I need to know what is
flashing everywhere. What are
the what is the messaging?
Vaccines are good. We need to
know what is being done there
besides the witch because there
is that whole witchcraft thing.
You notice the kids don't come
off or the out of the stadium
going wow, the witchcraft stuff
was great. deeply embedded myths
concerning very concerning. I
just read the Donald Sutherland
passed away. Oh, he did. Yeah.
Now, today,
John C Dvorak: it's enjoyable
actor.
Adam Curry: Yes. Happy Eid.
Everybody. Do I pronounce it
Eid? Eid.
John C Dvorak: I think it's
pronounced Eid bits. Big
Adam Curry: deal over here in
Muslim Holland Eid.
John C Dvorak: Every night he
used to get a donation from here
on Amazon.
Adam Curry: Or maybe he's just
like this. All right. But happy
eats are on a must have Dogpatch
in lower Slavia and all of our
other Muslim friends. So the big
the big thing here is the
inhumane butchering of the lambs
and the goats and heavies. They
have the man on the street, they
go up to these butcheries and
there's a whole bunch of dudes
hanging around with beards. And
then one guy comes out he's got
all blood splatters over his
face. It's great. Hey, the Jews
do that too. On their own
special day. We do it on our
day. We just do it differently.
Meanwhile, there's not one swarm
of places open to get us warmer
because everybody's celebrating
Eid. And which was kind of I
think
John C Dvorak: you can put it
off.
Adam Curry: Put what off?
Getting
John C Dvorak: a swarm. Now
Adam Curry: the whole this this
this thing goes on forever. And
that's Stop and with the
celebration I was gonna get a
swarm I was taxi Eric You
remember taxi Eric Right? Oh
John C Dvorak: yeah he almost
got me killed yeah that's what I
keep telling
Adam Curry: John all John
remembers about us You almost
killed him so he drove me to
Christina Christina's house and
we're driving through the city
and you know if you really want
to know what's going on with the
temperature of the nation you
got to talk to the guys on the
street the cab drivers they know
what's happening and he and
he'll be looking at another
Range Rover Ukrainian looking at
Bentley Ukrainian came through.
It's true that there's high end
high end vehicles all with
Ukrainian license plates and
people are mad now. Like Ben
Yeah, well
John C Dvorak: there's all those
cars are bought by him with
American taxpayer money. Yeah, I
Adam Curry: don't know about
that. But I could be but what
they're mad about is that you
know, they're getting free
housing they're getting a
stipend every single day. Do
whatever they want to do and
they've got the Range Rover and
the parking on the on the
sidewalk. Don't even get a
ticket. It's it's, it's people.
There's no let me put it this
way. No Ukrainian flags flying
around everywhere. You know, in
Europe is so concerned with
Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine,
everyone's like crazy.
Everyone's like, get rid of this
stuff. We don't like it. Yeah.
Yeah. No bet. It's just a
general feeling everywhere.
Everybody is so sick and tired.
We'll get
John C Dvorak: fed up. But what
do they do about it? Nothing.
Well, that's part
Adam Curry: of why they voted
for hate builders, of course.
Because now they're like, well,
I'll vote for that guy. He'll
fix
John C Dvorak: it. He'll fixes
anything. That's
Adam Curry: the point. The big
story here is Margarita. He's
the about him. Well, He is the
former Dutch Prime Minister, the
guy who got to your buddy No, I
don't know him. I know you met
him. Now. I know the climate
Pope Timmermans and the other
guy Balkan out. He's the guy
before Margarita, the guy with a
little with a little, you know,
student glasses. Now so drifta
is the is the the Nimrod the
what do you call? The Knud?
Nick, he's the Nadine and Nick,
Nick. Nick, Nick, who's been
Prime Minister for eight years,
you know, used to be in HR at
mostly like Unilever I think he
was literally an HR lady at
Unilever. And then all sudden he
was Prime Minister. Okay, sure.
And you know, he's no one no one
really liked him at all. Very,
very just wishy washy. He's just
a nothing burger has said that.
But he is he said it. I know.
He's just a wishy washy, dude.
So now that Victor milquetoast
is Oh, there you go. So he wrote
a letter to Viktor Orban because
he's just wait, he's been
waiting in the wings to replace
Ian Stoltenberg the the NATO
guy, or as they say, the Navo
guy. And if one country one of
the European Union member states
says Now I don't want him to be
that, or one of them and one of
the NATO members I'm sorry. If
they say no, we don't want that
guy then you know, it's off the
table until everybody agrees.
And Ruth wrote a personal letter
to Viktor Orban and said, Okay,
that was your agreement because
you remember he he buckled on
the Ukraine money. He said, as
per your agreement, I guarantee
you here in writing the letters
published everywhere was
guaranteed in writing that you
you hungry will not have to put
in any people or money for
Ukraine. And so I said, Okay,
are you good to go then? As long
as my people aren't gonna have
to go fight your stupid war and
you can't take our money. So now
all that's left is Romania. I
think it's Romania Romania in
NATO. It had to look I think so.
Yeah, I think it's partly our
probably our So what So and that
kind of just shows you I think
everyone here knows like, that
guy is going to be in charge of
NATO. Well, that must be a scam.
Because that guy's nude Nick. I
gotta teach the ducks that word.
He's a nude Nick.
John C Dvorak: It's a good term.
Adam Curry: So let's go to
Richard angle to get the true
the True Lies because of course
spook. Let's find out about the
latest in the Ukraine aid. How's
that working out for everybody?
You know, we sent some more
money over 65 billion then we
took 50 billion from the
Russians and or we lent it with
the Russian the Russian money as
our security deposit. And let's
see how that's working out.
Unknown: Jackson. Thank you. So
night Russian President Putin is
set to visit North Korea meet
Kim Jong Un's growing support
for Russia. his war in Ukraine.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian commanders
hope American aid will push back
Russia's momentum. Richard Engel
is there we have to warn you
some images in this report are
disturbing,
John C Dvorak: though no.
Unknown: Abrams talks today
defend Ukraine's eastern front
line near the Russian border.
resupplies of American weapons
are flowing again. And Ukrainian
troops tell us they're arriving
just in the nick of time.
resupplies of American weapons,
including these tanks are now
finally after long delays making
their way to the frontlines, and
it's making a difference.
Ukrainian troops have already
been able to slow down a major
Russian offensive. Ukraine is
flush at the moment $60 billion
in aid from Congress 50 billion
more from interest on frozen
Russian funds and did a
conference on peace in
Switzerland over the weekend,
the United States was among 80
nations, pledging support for
Ukraine's territorial integrity.
But a tank commander here tells
us he's worried about pressure
on Ukraine to make a deal with
Russia.
Everyone in the West should
understand that once we see more
territory to Russia, it won't
stop.
Adam Curry: I love peace, the
peace conference, that's the one
thing no one ever talks about.
Over here. It's never about
peace. Now. It's just like more
weapons. More weapons got to
stop. Russia Can't we can have
peace negotiations, we can talk
about peace. It's not
profitable.
Unknown: And Ukrainians have a
more immediate problem. A
Russian technological
innovation, so called Glide
bombs. This shopping center was
hit by just two
Adam Curry: eyeballs. Yeah,
yeah, you identified those
firsts
Unknown: and the impact was
devastating. Russia has vast
quantities of old fashioned
style bombs, and by attaching
wings and a basic guidance
system to them. Russia has not
only managed to extend their
range, but turn them into
precision weapons that Ukraine
has been struggling to deal
with. Surveillance video
captured the moment of the
attack. Officials say 19
Ukrainians were killed,
including two children.
President Solinsky says Russia
is now firing 3000 glide bombs
among commanders tell us fire
they don't have an effective way
to stop them. seeking more
weapons for his war here in
Ukraine. Vladimir Putin tomorrow
travels to North Korea, which US
officials say has been providing
Russia with large quantities of
artillery shells.
Adam Curry: That's the thing
that um you don't
John C Dvorak: fire him you drop
them? Yes.
Adam Curry: I'm skeptical about
this North Korea supplying their
their shells. Does that make it
does that sound right to you?
No,
John C Dvorak: it doesn't sound
right to me, but they could be
as part of I don't know what I
have the clip on North Korea,
Putin North Korea clip Putin in
North Korea and TD 134 clip is
maybe shed some light
Unknown: as Russian President
Vladimir Putin is wrapping up
his trip to North Korea meeting
with Kim Jong Hoon. They're
pledging to strengthen their
ties. They've signed a new
security agreement promising to
help each other if either is
attacked.
The leaders of Russia and North
Korea have signed a new security
agreement promising to come to
each other's aid if they are
ever attacked. Now the details
of this agreement are still
unclear. They're calling it a
comprehensive strategic
partnership agreement. They said
they're aiming to strengthen
their military and economic
cooperation. This comes amid
Western sanctions on the two
countries the deal is drawing
international attention. The US
and its allies are concerned
over weapons and ammunition that
North Korea provides to Russia.
In exchange for economic
assistance. Russia's economy and
military are mostly reliant on
the Chinese Communist Party, and
this was reiterated on Tuesday
by NATO Secretary General Jens
Stoltenberg and Secretary of
State Antony Blinken through his
visits to North Korea
demonstrates and confirms
they're very close alignment
between Russia and all
authoritarian states like North
Korea, but also China and Iran.
If China in particular, which
professes to have a strong
interest in ending the war, it
really means that it will stop
fueling the war machine and will
continue to do everything we can
to cut off the support that
countries like Iran and North
Korea are providing.
This marks Putin's first visit
to North Korea in 24 years after
North Korea Putin is visiting
Vietnam's capital meeting with
its leaders. As Russia is facing
growing international isolation.
It's seeking the assistance of
other authoritarian countries.
Adam Curry: Okay. So a couple
things. First of all, I can't
wait until Margaret to get to
him because he'll be much more
fun to make fun of with his
Dutch accent. When he's talking
like this, you know, I'm looking
forward to that. Second, so he's
going to Vietnam also a
competitor to China, North
Korea. Interesting choice. How
about this? Perhaps Putin is
thinking, you know, I've got to
draw this out. because it looks
like Trump might get in. I can
deal with Trump we can we can
manage this situation. We can
figure out Jay Paul, for all I
know, they're already talking, I
don't know. How Wouldn't it be
awesome. And I use that word,
specifically to have the summit
between Trump and Putin in North
Korea.
John C Dvorak: Or Vietnam for
that.
Adam Curry: But North because
when Trump went to you know, he
stepped over the stepped
John C Dvorak: foot in North
Korea, unlike anyone else, and
then
Adam Curry: that would that
would put North Korea in a whole
different light. We could get
them out of you know, like, hey,
these guys actually helped
something. I don't know what I
have a feeling there's a reason
for this. It's not just for some
supply chain. Where's the supply
chain of weaponry? Do we have
trained eyes?
John C Dvorak: Putin does the
need to go there. If they're
buying shells from North Korea,
they're buying shells from so
what economic assistance is they
be given the hard cash and say
give us some shells and there we
go. We don't need to visit.
Adam Curry: It's just Hey, Kim.
Samia, you're right. Venmo
windows. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: I think you're
onto something. Yeah. There's
some other reason why else would
he be going there? He's not
going there to confirm a shell
deal.
Adam Curry: Let me check the
shells man. Exactly. Madison
there
John C Dvorak: he may be
planning something in advance
and Trump may be involved now
Adam Curry: at the same time the
danger is that the nut jobs who
are running the show over there
in in Ukraine, Ukraine and NATO
and they're probably going to
try and hold we got it before
Trump comes in we got to do what
we can do. So I'm a little
concerned about that too.
John C Dvorak: Because they
could do this because because of
gravy trains over once Trump
gets in Yeah,
Adam Curry: because you know a
cat who's driven into the corner
can make strange jumps This is a
Dutch ism
John C Dvorak: Yeah, Jade again
and cotton
Adam Curry: had now cadre from
Mark routers promo so if you if
you corner a cat it can make
weird jumps. Yeah, cats do
kitten cat jumps. Yes. But the
war machine I mean, they've got
plenty to work on because just
in case we can't keep that
Ukraine thing going. I think we
should add Lebanon to the
problem. This footage
Unknown: released by the Israeli
army aims to show its striking a
base operated by Hezbollah and
Lebanon. The militant group says
at least three of its fighters
were killed in the attack, as
footage from the ground showed
smoke billowing into the air,
about 30 kilometers from the
border. on the Israeli side of
the border air defenses shot
down rockets launched by
Hezbollah Wednesday and apparent
retaliation for that strike.
This has Israel's Army issued a
statement saying it was ready
for a full blown conflict with
the militant group. As
part of the situational
assessment. Operational plans
for an offensive in Lebanon were
approved and validated, and
decisions were taken on the
continuation of increasing the
readiness of troops in the
field.
That announcement followed the
release of drone footage that
Israel said was taken by
Hezbollah showing possible
targets in several Israeli
cities, and comments from
Israel's foreign minister who
vowed and an all out war
Hezbollah will be destroyed and
Lebanon severely beaten close
ability, funded by promising the
same for Israel's.
Israel knows that no place will
be saved from our missiles and
our drones and our strikes and
not indiscriminate. Israel knows
that we have a list of targets.
And we have the ability to reach
these targets. And we will shake
the foundations of Israel
since the October 7 attacks by
Hamas and Israel. Hezbollah has
launched ongoing attacks in
northern Israel, killing at
least 16 soldiers and 11
civilians. Israeli strikes and
Lebanon during the same period
have killed more than 400
people, most of whom were
Hezbollah fighters. But dozens
of civilians have also been
killed. I mean,
Adam Curry: if you're Hezbollah
What are you thinking? Like this
is a couple
John C Dvorak: of clips on this
too. I think there's some things
you know, there's a today's
news, for example, talks a lot
about how the army the IDF is
going well you know, we can do
we're not gonna be able to kill
all these Hamas guys. And I
think Netanyahu is nuts. And
they're getting into a lot of
beef. And meanwhile, there's
Hezbollah things been cranked up
and I have two clips on that.
One, we'll see Hezbollah action
one. This
Unknown: is in di D lawmakers
from the American Israel Public
Affairs Committee are in the
Middle East on Wednesday night,
Israeli President Isaac Herzog
told them it's crucial that the
US and Israel maintain strong
ties watch that we are fighting
here the Battle of the free
world against the Empire. Evil.
That's what we're doing today.
The visit comes as a high level
meeting between Israel and the
US has reportedly been
cancelled. That's according to
Axios and CNN citing to US
officials. This comes after
Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu said this on Tuesdays,
the administration has been
withholding weapons and
ammunition students. Their
reports an envoy for President
Biden later told Netanyahu that
the accusations are inaccurate
and out of line. On Wednesday,
the Israeli government gave this
update ammunition
and weapons that the Prime
Minister referred to are in the
process of being delivered to
Israel. This
comes as tensions at the Israel
Lebanon border keep rising.
Hezbollah says Israeli strikes
killed four of its fighters on
Wednesday. Israel meanwhile,
says the Iran backed group fire
15 rockets from southern Lebanon
towards a city in northern
Israel. Most of that city has
now been abandoned living right
now.
It's very sad to see these
entity most of the time the head
of Hezbollah said no place in
Israel will be safe from attacks
if a bigger conflict breaks out.
He also threatened other
countries in the Mediterranean.
In response, Israel is already
strengthening its military
readiness in the north, saying
they're getting ready for any
possibility.
We have an obligation to change
the situation in the North and
return the citizens safely to
their homes
Adam Curry: and BB is becoming a
problem because like, hey, h
should be quiet about the
weapons. If it's not good for
Joe cut problems enough.
John C Dvorak: We'll talk about
I don't think he likes Joe. No,
of
Adam Curry: course he doesn't
because they're not helping him
out anymore.
John C Dvorak: And what was the
second part of this Hezbollah
clip now
Unknown: and lastly, the United
Nations Human Rights Office says
Israel may have violated the
laws of war by failing to
distinguish between civilians
and fighters in Gaza.
Unlawful targeting, when
committed as part of a
widespread or systematic attack
against a civilian population
may also implicate the
commission of crimes against
humanity.
The UN Office came to that
conclusion by assessing six
Israeli attacks that caused a
high number of casualties.
Israel called the analysis
flood.
Adam Curry: Just I don't
understand, I keep hearing
Thomas Massie in the back of my
mind God, these guys they want
to take it all to Iran. Is this
just the next step? And what is
Hezbollah thinking? Oh, this is
a good idea to choose from
rockets into Haifa. Yeah, that
makes sense. Israel's going to
go into Lebanon it's obvious
that's the next step and then
what
John C Dvorak: then what then we
have the Democratic National
Convention
Adam Curry: right right on time.
John C Dvorak: I don't know
Yeah, it's obvious to me too. I
agree that these they're gonna
they're gonna shift focus
because this Gaza thing is done
the best they can do and
Netanyahu is under a lot of
pressure but if we created a
really kind of a nasty nasty
your situation with Hezbollah,
they're bigger they're stronger
they got more stuff Yeah, that's
exactly what's gonna they're
gonna go to Lebanon on the on
the west Clarke seven is one of
the heroes taken over years and
years ago we never did we kind
of
Adam Curry: just kind of rub
alized and financially mobilized
for sure. I mean, the places
there's a mess and then and then
all of a sudden the Houthi start
acting up again and I don't know
about you but I see video is
like is that of the trying to
make it look like some kind of
submarine targeted when a sub
ship and then blows up the back
part or there's the almost
honestly it looks like a fake
and then you see another shot
and it blows up the middle
section. But you but you don't
neither shot Do you see. So in
the in the in the mid in the mid
ship shot? The back is still
fine. But then, when they hit
the back of the ship, the mid
ship is fine. So it's like make
up your mind. What did we blow
up here?
John C Dvorak: Well, I know that
they have one clip from Russia.
That is the weirdest clip I have
on this list, which is they
claim to have sunk the
Eisenhower guys and yeah, the
USS the giant aircraft carrier.
Adam Curry: Okay, we
John C Dvorak: have any here's a
report on it, USS I like this
guy who
Unknown: these claim to have hit
or even sunk the USS Dwight D.
Eisenhower in the Red Sea. Now
Captain Christopher Shouta. Hill
is using his social media
profile to show his crew remains
ready for combat.
I think most of the false claims
that have occurred about us, you
know, for instance, saying that
we've been sunk I think it's
been about two or three times.
In the past six months we've
allegedly been sunk. which we
have not been is almost comical
at this point right. Hill also
wants to show the morale of the
nearly 5000 personnel aboard the
Eisenhower remains high. He says
the nuclear power chip will
continue with the traditions
despite Houthi attacks and
misinformation.
So we're going to celebrate Taco
Tuesdays because it's my
absolute favorite day of the
week. That will never end You
know, I
Adam Curry: will show videos of
our Hey, okay. It used to be
we're going to have a cookout
we're going to have hot dogs and
hamburgers. Now we're at Taco
Tuesdays or Thursdays is weird
Unknown: powered ship will
continue with its traditions
despite Houthi attacks and
misinformation. So
we're going to celebrate Taco
Tuesdays because it's my
absolute favorite day of the
week. That will never end You
know, I will show videos of our
ships facility dog because he
makes a difference here. People
like having him around. He
improves moods. So that if you
call that information warfare
campaign campaign, you can
Captain
David row commands the
destroyers escorting the
Eisenhower, he says his crew
works diligently to address the
needs of the mission now,
using the appropriate effect
weapon weapons system on the
appropriate threat to preserve
magazine depth to have more
missiles to not is a certainly
germane tactical question that
my captains are constantly
reviewing. Okay,
Adam Curry: so we have no real
goes on I stopped it has no real
answer if he's if he's been sunk
or not. Three times. I mean, he
could still have Taco Tuesdays.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, he's gonna
have forever on the shore. This
is costing us a fortune. Yeah.
That that whole group, that
group that carrier group, yeah,
if you see pictures of it, it's
it's the Eisenhower wood must be
50 ships surrounding it. Yeah.
This is not a cheap venture. And
it's the taxpayers were picking
this up and what what good is it
do I do have a couple more
Houthi analysis clips, which
really condemned the whole
thing, because it's costing us a
million dollars to shoot down a
$1,000 piece of crap every so
often. A
Unknown: cargo ship is believed
to have sunk in the Red Sea
after being attacked by Houthi
terrorists. Earlier we spoke
with a Justin Logan, Director of
defense and foreign policy
studies at Cato Institute about
the US approach to the Houthi
attacks. Now to begin reports,
note of escalation in the Red
Sea by the Houthis. This is
after a bulk ship carrier sank
along with reports of a Remainer
onboard being killed. Now this
does come after weekend attacks
on two ships as well as an
American destroyer. How do you
read these latest moves,
especially when it comes to war
in the region and fears of this
escalation?
Well, I think the
administration's Middle East
policy has really gone from bad
to worse. I mean, they
infamously said that before the
10, seven attacks, the Middle
East hadn't been as quiet as it
had, as it was then in decades
than the 10. Seven attacks
happened. We built this magical
mystery pier, which is now
disintegrated off the coast of
Israel. And then there's this
month long war with the Houthis,
which was just
Adam Curry: what did he call it?
The Magical Mystery pier? Is
that what he called it?
Unknown: Here, which is that's
pretty funny. Then in decades,
than the 10 seven attacks
happened. We built this magical
mystery pier, which is now
disintegrated off the coast of
Israel. And then there's this
month's long war with the
Houthis which was just revealed
both that we've spent over a
billion dollars fighting them
and that they are making
progress. As you mentioned, they
have sunk a second vessel
potentially killed one Filipino
mariner. So this thing has
really gone from bad to worse.
And you know, I anybody who's
had their hands on this Middle
East policy should really hide
their head in a bag because it's
been just an absolute disgrace
from pillar to post.
Adam Curry: You really need to
look at that that video of the
so called sinking of that ship
is bullcrap. I mean, where's
that? Where's where's the rescue
or where there's no video of
anything except there's a little
little crosshairs and then you
see an explosion it totally what
is that a
John C Dvorak: Filipino ship?
Adam Curry: I think so. It's
very unclear, because why do you
want a reporting? Let's just say
to have the
John C Dvorak: whole thing is a
disaster in terms of like in
this next he mentioned this
along the way, which is that
we're protecting we're not doing
it this is not protecting
anything that's got to do
anything to do with us.
Adam Curry: Well, there's no
there's one thing that if the if
the Iranians who these whoever
whoever flavor of the day, if
they sink a ship in the Straits
of Hormuz then is blocked, you
know, there's that little narrow
bit
John C Dvorak: Yes, right. This
was this was the storyline of
the of the one season episode of
Rubicon, I
Adam Curry: don't think I don't
think it was in the Strait of
Hormuz that I thought it was it
John C Dvorak: was right in the
middle of the Strait of Hormuz.
I tried to well, but regardless,
okay is it's it's it's the
Adam Curry: idea is that it's a
choke point and that that would
severely hamper international
shipping of energy. And you
know, you could just do that and
blame it on Iran. Here we go.
John C Dvorak: People are crazy.
So let's just play part two of
this
Unknown: expanding on the
Houthis apart reports. Note that
the Navy faces its most intense
maritime fighting since World
War Two, with near daily attacks
car targeting commercial
vessels, as well as warships.
How have the Houthis tied down
the US Navy in the Red Sea?
Well, it's
really strategic malpractice on
the part of the United States,
the Houthis are doing what
they've been doing for years and
indeed decades, which is what
military people refer to as
shoot and scoot. Right, you have
very light munitions, you're
very mobile, and the minute you
launched, you get out of there.
And so there are limited ability
to retaliate. Moreover, the
technologies that the United
States are using are many orders
of magnitude more expensive than
what the Houthis are using. If
you look at the cost that we
spend to shoot down one Houthi
missile, which is not
particularly accurate, you're
talking about in the
neighborhood of a million
dollars to destroy 2000 or 5000.
At most dollars worth of
technology. This is a bad deal
for the United States. And
that's how you tally up a
billion dollars of expenditures
over just about six months, with
very little to show for it in
terms of military or political
developments.
Adam Curry: I like to shoot and
scoot. That's
John C Dvorak: good scoot. I
think that would explain the
problem with catching these
guys. That's
Adam Curry: what we should have
on the instructions for our no
agenda slingshots. scootin.
Shoot.
John C Dvorak: Perfect. Anyway,
the last clip, which is this one
is brings up something that that
irks me
Unknown: expanding on that the
Cato Institute where you're
based has a piece out titled The
US military role in the Red Sea.
Now turning offensive is a bad
deal. Noting that the US led
coalition operation prosperity
Guardian has cost the US too
much. Given that what should be
the US strategy in the Red Sea
going forward? Well, I
think we got roped into this by
telling ourselves a story about
freedom of navigation, which
sounds like a really good
principle to defend, right, we
want commercial ships to be able
to go anywhere they want with
impunity. However, that's not
the way the international
economy works. So if you look at
what's transpired, the ship
traffic going through the Red
Sea has gone way down. And
there's a significant rerouting
of maritime traffic from the
Middle East around the Cape of
Good Hope. Almost all of this
carriages going to Europe, all
of almost all of the trade is
going to Europe, not to the
United States. So it's not the
case that we sort of run a
maritime convoy with every trade
shipment that goes around the
world. And that does increase
the costs at the margins for
European consumers of these
goods that are have to pay more
Mariners and have to use burn
more fuel to reroute away from
the Red Sea. But I think before
you get into a shooting war with
the Houthi is you want to have a
story that you can tell yourself
about what cost it would be
worth paying, and what that
likely cost would be to make a
dent in the Houthis ability to
launch these attacks, which
while terrifying, are not that
consequential? I mean, they've
been at this for the better part
of six months and they just sank
their second vessel and even so
there's still some commerce
going through the Red Sea so I
think we're you know, have been
in for a penny but should not be
in for a pound on this thing.
Adam Curry: Yeah, they gotta tee
that up. I think it's perfect.
Because the minute you the
minute you blocked you get the
choke point there. Yeah, you
have the Houthis with Iranian
missiles sinking something we
can send over more liquid
petroleum gas ships. Because the
exactly everybody here,
John C Dvorak: everybody here on
the deal if you get the hell out
of there, yep, scoot
Adam Curry: and shoot. Everyone
here knows that said, hey, you
know, it's kind of weird. When,
when, when the Nord Stream to
when that got blown up, you
know, by Putin, who did it
himself. It's kind of weird that
you guys showed up right away
with all that liquid petroleum
gas. That was really
interesting. That's why I say
hey, Michel,
John C Dvorak: it makes no sense
that we're there at all in the
Red Sea. Igloo protecting we're
projecting shipping to Europe,
let them predicted themselves.
No,
Adam Curry: I think we're gonna
sink something and then blame
it. It's this this false flag
written all over it all over it.
When that'd be perfect. Then we
can
John C Dvorak: worry. I like the
false doing a false flag and the
then get now it's about
Adam Curry: time. It's about
it's really tried. It's about
time for a false flag. We get a
good false flag people
John C Dvorak: Yeah, we're way
overdue.
Adam Curry: For we take a break
to eclipse I've been tracking
this. And I think there's a new
angle that is that has come in
which I like, I may don't like
it. But I'd like what what
they're exposing in our season
of reveal. And this is about the
constant droning on and pushing
of age restrictions for social
media. And I thought
John C Dvorak: i
Congratulations. You brought it
up first. I didn't think much
about it. But this was where I
brought it up. Or you said you
had this, this thing about
Australia being a testbed. And
within a week, that's all
they're talking about over here.
We later is putting new
restrictions on social media so
the kids don't get hurt. There's
Adam Curry: something extra
going on. And I think we can
deconstruct this, because
they're, well, here's the first
one from NBC.
Unknown: A stark warning from
the nation's top Doctor
accelerates a national push to
limit kids access to social
media. And the New York Times
the Surgeon General writes, the
mental health crisis among young
people is an emergency and
social media has emerged as an
important contributor. On today
Dr. Murthy said adolescents
average five hours per day on
social media
when adolescents spend more than
three hours a day on social
media we're seeing an
association with a doubling of
the risk of anxiety and
depression symptoms.
surgeon general Murthy wants
congressional approval to add a
warning label on social media
much like the warning on
cigarettes. Research suggests
text posts and online bullying
can undermine kids self
confidence, especially body
image with some taking their own
lives.
Many of them say that they can't
get off it because the platforms
are often designed to maximize
how much time our kids are
spending on them. If you have
blood
on your hands you're January top
social media CEO is faced by
partisan fury. CEO Mark
Zuckerberg apologized to victims
families and sustained meta
Facebook is working to reduce
social media as harmful effects
make sure that your family's the
Surgeon General recommends phone
free zones at school and at home
during meals bedtime and social
gatherings. And kids should have
no access to social media until
they're out of middle school.
Adam Curry: Okay, so here's
here's what I've been tracking.
We've we're seeing states enact
rules and laws themselves. Not
all pass yet but hope goal came
in from New York. I'm pretty
sure California has done this
probably other states. And I've
been tracking my hatless and
pivot with your buddy Kara
Swisher protege, and Prof. G.
And they keep they've been
saying this for months I've just
been waiting and waiting and
waiting. And they keep bringing
up the same analogy to social
media age gating as they like to
call it we need to age gate that
it should be easy. We just
technology exists age gate. It's
just like the tobacco industry
now
Unknown: to the Surgeon General
calling for a tobacco style
warning label on social media,
saying it poses a mental health
crisis among young people.
Elizabeth shozy has those
details for us. Good morning,
Elizabeth. Good morning, Rebecca
and the US Surgeon General now
wants to put those warning style
labels on social media like what
you'd see for cigarettes or
tobacco. And an op ed in the New
York Times Dr. Vivek Murthy
writes, a surgeon general's
warning label which requires
congressional action would
regularly remind parents and
adolescents that social media
has not been proved safe. He
says that similar labels that
were put on tobacco products
have dramatically reduced their
usage. Now Murthy is pointing to
data that shows teens who spend
more than three hours a day on
social media faced double the
risk of anxiety or depression.
The average user that age was on
social media for almost five
hours a day last year Murthy
sounded the alarm about how
social media is contributing to
a mental health crisis among
younger Americans. He has urged
Congress to pass legislation
that would stop platforms from
collecting data about kids and
putting restrictions on push
notifications or auto scrolling.
And while there is bipartisan
support for some of those
measures, none of them have
passed in Congress guys.
Something so many parents are
thinking about here five hours a
day on social. Trust
me I saw that number and I said
I need to get home it takes the
phone.
Adam Curry: Wow. Wow. All right.
So
John C Dvorak: that clip was on
your game is the second time
you've done it. It's clipped.
It's too low. I can barely hear
it. For
Adam Curry: so it was out of
balance. There's something with
clips clean for everyone else
heard something? Yeah, something
with clean feed is a problem. So
wait, wait, no, no, I have
something to say here. I was
leading this whole thing all you
can think about is the audio
Quality, please.
John C Dvorak: When you watch,
okay go on.
Adam Curry: When we we make the
comparison between social media
and tobacco and warning labels.
Now we know a lot about the
warning labels. First of all,
when you put the warning label
on it, it makes people want to
smoke more. So it only makes
kids want to be on social media
more. But what is the main thing
of tobacco regulation that we
learned from the master state's
agreement, taxation, taxation
goes to the states for to pay
for all the people who don't
have healthcare who will need
the mental health care. I think
we're getting a social media tax
per state that's coming in, just
like book, I wanted it in the
Red Book. There's something
something about this, this
comparison to tobacco that is
not just about age gating. It
has to do taxing.
John C Dvorak: I think that's an
interesting Well, no one. No
one's heard that yet. No. I have
two clips on cell phones and
schools, which is similar. Okay.
Because and what gets me about
these two cell phones a school
in Los Angeles mainly, is that
as I listened to these clips, I
can't believe that they've been
allowing, I guess, I haven't
been paying attention or I did
know this, but I wasn't really
tuned into it, that you have a
class full of kids. And half of
them are on their phones in the
classroom, scrolling or dicking
around or whatever they do. How
is this like, inclusive to
learning anything? I don't get
why these I'm sorry, why it's
been allowed to begin with. I'm
Adam Curry: sorry. At what point
did you think that we were still
teaching children in school
when? I mean, neither of us have
kids in school anymore. It's a
mess. It's a free for all. The
only some smaller schools,
private schools, no home
schools. There, the rest is a
mess. The teachers are woke then
they're not doing the Oh,
everyone's on meds and
everyone's on their phone.
John C Dvorak: And the US
disaster it is
Unknown: 72% of high school
teachers said a cell phone
distraction is a major problem
in the classroom. That's
according to a report last week
by the Pew Research Center.
Educators in Los Angeles are
taking action on this issue. By
early next year, students in the
nation's second largest school
district will no longer be able
to use cell phones during the
school day. NTDs. Cristina
Corona has more on the decision.
The LA Unified School District
the
Los Angeles Unified School
District Board of Education
voted Tuesday to ban cell phone
use during the school day board
member Nick Melvoin who pushed
the bill stated that students
are surreptitiously scrolling in
school in class time there have
their head in their hands
walking down the hallways.
They're not talking to each
other or playing at lunch or
recess because they have their
air pods in
the band which includes lunch
and breaks aims to improve
student's interpersonal
communication skills and reduce
social media distress and
cyberbullying.
It's crystallizing these
deleterious effects the harmful
effects on students academic
achievement on their mental
health on their physical health.
He noted that another school
districts with this policy kids
are happier, engage more with
each other and show improved
academic performance. When
teachers said that years ago,
students having a cell phone in
class wasn't as much of an issue
as it is today.
This year, even with a very
strict no cell phone policy in
my classroom, it was an uphill
battle. Managing Student use of
smartphones is now like as a
classroom teacher is now more
like running a nonstop marathon.
However, many board members
oppose the bill arguing that
cell phones are essential for
safety.
Adam Curry: Alright, just
because I can feel the steam
already rising. I want to say
there are many good teachers. I
know they've been castrated.
They have no power. They're
living in this woke complex and
it's being shoved down their
throat. There's plenty of good
ones. And it's very difficult. I
think if you choose that
profession, I hold you in high
regard. It's a tough, tough gig
these days. And luckily there
are you know, I'm seeing
initiatives eighth grade is kind
of the thing that pet because
the parents have to agree. No
cell phone, not just school, no
cell phone until eighth grade.
That's what a lot of parents are
talking about these days. I
think. No cell phone until
you're 80. Yeah.
John C Dvorak: Does the
smartphone came out in 2007?
It's taken 17 years are you
telling me to get to the point
where well gee, maybe we
shouldn't have these things in
class.
Adam Curry: Yeah, I think I
think that what See what's
happening is the the adults
themselves are now realizing
Wow, I'm really messed up my
brains all jumbled the what must
be doing to the kids? I think it
took a long time to realize
remember all we could report on
for the first 10 years of
smartphones was all look at the
new iPhone. Oh this Whoa look at
this one new phone new phone.
John C Dvorak: But that's it.
That wasn't me.
Adam Curry: No, that's not.
John C Dvorak: Part two is shows
that some people are still
resisting. Our cell
Unknown: phones also provide
some comfort is I can reach my
son or we can reach our children
and he can reach me during an
emergency or when he needs me
what other members stated that
some kids will use their devices
regardless,
cell phones gonna exist anyway.
And before you live by yourself
or what's going to be noticed
they don't have it on their
watch and have a watch that
tells him the same stuff. The
same stuff you can do on the
cell phone you can do pretty
much from your computer.
However for some students using
cell phones is a necessity. It's
just that some of our newcomers
students utilize new
Adam Curry: bombers the new
comers good was it
Unknown: does just that some of
our newcomers students utilize
phones for translation purposes
obviously a person is ideal but
in sometimes in less common
languages, there's the
utilization of phones in class
for that purpose
school will be able to determine
how to implement the phone ban
whether by requiring phones to
be stored in lockers or pouches
during the day the resolution
instruct staff to develop and
present policies and a plan to
the public before the board
approves them. Within 120 days,
the policy will go into effect
as early as January 2025.
Adam Curry: And whenever I get
an email from a from a teacher,
say well what should I do? I
said leave the school and find
the homeschool movement. You're
in high demand. You'll love the
hours you'll love the
environment. Just you got to you
got to opt out of this. This is
It's unfixable. It's unfixable.
John C Dvorak: Think it is
unfixable? Especially if you're
going to have apologists like
the last clip had Oh, you know
they needed anyway. Oh, it's a
case of an emergency. I want my
kid to be able to get a hold of
me. What emergency what what how
often does this happen? Well,
but
Adam Curry: that's because we've
we've raised this whole my gen.
A generation now behind me.
They've been raised as ninnies.
You know, worried about
everything he's worried about
their kids, you know? worried
because emergency What if
there's a school? What it says
school shooting? I won't know
what to do.
John C Dvorak: No, ninnies.
Adam Curry: Hey with that I want
to thank you for your courage in
the morning to you the man who
put the sea in the cheap fake
say hello to my friend on the
other end the one and only Mr.
John Cena.
John C Dvorak: Morning new Mr.
Adam Korean morning all ships
and sea boots on the ground feed
near subs in the world in the
days and nights out there. Hello
there
Adam Curry: we're up today. This
is nice. We see on the last
Thursday. We had 1584 Today we
have 1609 Extra trolls and the
troll room Good to see you there
trolls. Remember you can join
the trolls live on our Thursday
and Sunday shows to you crack
some open there.
John C Dvorak: No, no. No, I
just thought you were watching
stuff off the list.
Adam Curry: I want to know your
drink and you can join the
trolls at troll room.io or the
fancy new no agenda dot stream.
Very nice. Very nice website.
Sir Tim coded monkey put in. I
gotta make sure I say coded
monkey. And well, you can use a
modern podcast app. There's
plenty of them. Pod verse is a
great one to use. Cast thematic
podcast guru fountain you can
find them at podcast apps.com.
Why are they so cool? Well,
first of all, they're built by
independent people. So you can
have something changed or added
if you want to you can talk to
the developer also, when we go
live, you don't get this on
Apple or Spotify didn't even
have live in their podcast apps.
When we go live boom, you get a
notification. You tap on
listening live. He get chapters
you get transcripts. And the
minute we publish it night in
about a minute and a half. 90
seconds later, you get notified
if you're listening later. It's
fantastic. I don't see why you
would still you get people. It
has been uploaded to Apple for
five hours after the show. I'm
flipping out. Get a real app.
Stop it. Stop it. Rev if you're
listening to the show, you
should be against the man.
Certainly against Spotify.
That's where I can find your
podcast on Spotify. There's a
reason for that. Because they
want to put ads in because you
have to sign a contract. That's
not how podcasting supposed to
work. Take it for me. I was
there. Yeah. You're the guy I
was there I was there I
John C Dvorak: don't get it.
It's very weird. didn't touch
Spotify call you and ask you for
some advice at some point.
Adam Curry: Oh yeah. When cuz
when they were when they were
rolling out when they're getting
ready for their podcast strategy
they had hosted the consultancy.
Not Anderson but the were mayor
peeps from
John C Dvorak: Indianapolis No,
no,
Adam Curry: the consultancy the
consultants, the consultants.
Oh, McKinsey McKinsey. Yeah.
They did a big white paper. And
my advice was don't do it.
McKinsey
John C Dvorak: got to do it. The
price of bread when it comes to
podcasting, when they have
somebody who actually invented
the whole thing. Like you, for
example. Well just ask, and you
probably would have given it
away.
Adam Curry: Well, they called me
mackynzie called me and said,
Well, you know, they had all
these questions. I said, this is
this is a dumb idea. Stay out of
podcasts and just generally
screw it up.
John C Dvorak: And she said,
Instead of that, you should say,
Well, I my fee is
Adam Curry: no I wanted I wanted
to warn them. And they promised
me a copy of the report, which
they never gave me so McKinsey
are liars. They're liars is
horrible. They lie believable.
That happened. Liars. Yeah. Gee,
I wonder why that happened? No,
I said, Don't do this. This is
stupid. And they spent a billion
dollars in didn't work. There
you go. That's how it goes.
Yeah, obviously they try to do
at advertising play. As we say
in the business. We've got an
advertising play. Well, how did
that work out? It didn't. It
didn't they got all the big
names, like Michelle Obama and
the Kardashians. And Megan
Markel, and Harry, and it
failed. Because no one cares.
They're not podcasters it's just
celebrities doing an mp3 trying
to get some ad money. And then
they couldn't even fulfill it.
They had to open it up and put
on all the podcast apps. And
then, you know, people always
say, you know, it's so smart
that you guys didn't go with
advertising because you know,
you can't get the platform. I
just want to be honest about it
the real honest reason because
we weren't thinking about D
platforming in 2007 We weren't
thinking about that. No, because
it wasn't a thing that I think
brand safety was already kind of
bubbling under you know there
was some talk about it that term
specifically but
John C Dvorak: it wasn't like it
was went once they D platform
Alex no need to be exhausting to
start throwing people off the
air
Adam Curry: you're out Yeah,
well it wasn't like that. The
reason why we wouldn't didn't
want to have an advertising
model in the beginning was
because we didn't want to have
any meetings with advertisers do
you know how tedious it
John C Dvorak: was the main
thing you said are you had to
actually Moore's lewd way? I did
it I
Adam Curry: did. We don't want
to talk to those guys. It's
tedious. It's horribly of that
meetings. And then that listen,
we didn't really quite like your
read on that last show. Yeah, he
didn't really didn't really
punch at home and John stopped
making noises when Adams doing
the read. Yeah, who needs that
nonsense.
John C Dvorak: It's exactly what
you'd get.
Adam Curry: And then they'll be
like, in and we get in fights
we're like, Well, we really like
John's read better. So we're
gonna have him read everything
and then I'll be like, Well,
yeah, we get in fights about it
would be bad between us would be
bad blood.
John C Dvorak: More money
though. Well,
Adam Curry: maybe that well.
Although something kind of
amazing happened today. Yes.
John C Dvorak: Well, I do we
have we do have people are super
supporters that come in every so
often, but it wasn't for them.
No, I
Adam Curry: mean, we literally
have the amount of donations is
very
John C Dvorak: sparse today.
Yeah, we only have 35 Actually,
but and
Adam Curry: this is kind of the
random number theory. And this
is this is what we discovered
with value for value. Somehow
the roller coaster evens out
along the way. Duchess Kim of
the fluffer noddy's decided her
fluffy is not it says fluffer
noddy's
John C Dvorak: English it Yeah,
but I think that's just another
type of word.
Adam Curry: Not her fluffy. I
think you're right. I mean, it
didn't sound right when I
John C Dvorak: read this in the
note, the note is Oh, it didn't.
Adam Curry: It didn't sound
right when I read she's Kim
John C Dvorak: keeper of the
natty fluffy There you
Adam Curry: go. fluffers Nadine,
Hey, what's wrong? What is Jay
thinking of when she's doing the
spreadsheet?
John C Dvorak: She cracked up
and she said you know you guys
can fix it.
Adam Curry: No one told me fix
it in post. Another thing we
decided we never do. She decided
to come in with two donations.
The first one is really
incredible. is none other than
the coveted soon to be rewarded
with I hope a challenge coin or
tote bag we're still working on
it. Tote Bag is to know is the
magic number. A donation, also
known as the rubble, iser
donation
Unknown: in the standby 3333 or
otherwise are out. So
Adam Curry: 3333 dot 33 She just
comes in, lays that right down
and then comes in with another
1000 with a note my read which
is a switcheroo you have it
there in front of you. Yeah, I
John C Dvorak: do it I'm John
and Adam she needs some jingles
retirement karma. That's an
interesting thing to develop.
Little Girl Yeah, and screw your
freedom. This donations a
switcheroo for my dad John his
his birthday June 26 65 is going
to be 65 and a Father's Day gift
from all his Oregon family have
a lot like denied him pop pop of
the pocket protectors and keeper
of his 15 grand babies. At least
somebody's doing their part. at
the round table. Can I get him
some Patrone platinum and
Tomahawk steaks, good ones,
which is an interesting thing.
He taught me how to be how to be
tougher when things got hard,
and how to push through any
obstacle in my way because of
him. I am where I am today.
Which is
Adam Curry: in a good spot
apparently. In a good spot. We
John C Dvorak: like it. Yes. And
I would change nothing from our
past. Shit was hard, but we
still kick some ass for
everything. Wow. Oh yeah, you
two are great as well. Worth,
Duchess Kim, keeper of the nutty
fluffers and Hubbard Oregon.
It's $1,000
Adam Curry: Wow. And that's the
switcheroo for him as you said
and we don't necessarily have an
exit strategy karma but I'll
make one up for you. Screw you
freedom
Unknown: or more Yeah.
You've got karma. That's
John C Dvorak: well, she
actually went to retirement
karma not exit strategy. But
Adam Curry: that's retirement
when we say exit strategy.
That's retarded. Look, did you
have anything better?
John C Dvorak: I never. I never
thought of it as retirement I
thought of is doing something
different.
Adam Curry: What do you think
he's, you think he's just going
to sit on his but he's got
John C Dvorak: to do it with a
daughter like that? I
Adam Curry: doubt it. Yeah,
he'll probably be doing
something. Onward today. There's
John C Dvorak: no such thing as
retirement for people like No,
not like that. jurien
Adam Curry: Faust is in
Heidelberg, Missouri 333 dot 33.
This is also a switcheroo to
Blaine brining for his birthday
June 22. Happy 60th birthday to
my smokin hot husband. Brian
breading in Evansville, Indiana.
Please do do shit. Ben de douche
has recently hit him in the
mouth. I love you baby from
jurien Oh, nice.
John C Dvorak: Sir D I'm sorry
your Jurina is Sebastian that oh
Sebastiaan de Stigler? stricter,
stricter stricter. So
Adam Curry: Sebastiaan the
shifter stick down past the
geese traced birds gashed.
John C Dvorak: And he's already
our Associate Executive
Producer. We're done with the
executives just that quickly.
290 201 And he says in
hindsight, it took way too long
to get the knighthood, but I
made it keep doing what you're
doing. May you never exit
execute on your exit strategy
ideas. What if we did, please
Knight me as Knight of the Dutch
spirit grounds equals completely
wrong and literal translation of
the of the de geest Garone den?
already blessed with Karma so
not not needed. If any jingles
at all, please select them
yourselves. To expand Sebastien.
Oh,
Adam Curry: the face Chroma.
That's what it is the face the
face through face. I'm gonna
give them a karma. He wants
that. You've got karma. By the
way I wanted to. I wanted to
thank Harry Harry's is doing
because Carrie is the one who
spent 15 hours knitting the
monkey. Which, which is the show
title. I remember I got that.
That needed monkey. From the
meetup. Yeah, yeah. So her son
gave it to me. And I said, Oh, I
got a monkey. And he's like,
Dude, my mom has spent 15 hours
on that. Can't you like thank
her? Like, okay. I think you're
right. Good point. Good point.
Here's sir D. from Martin's DAG,
the Netherlands. Hey, guys
forgot to donate it. The meetup
was nice meeting you Adam.
That's 210 and 60. And John, I
love my old Lexus and I love
what I do, sir D of the whole
long surrounding all right, and
he's Dutch man. I love these
guys. Like, hey, you know, I
gotta make sure I pony up for
the meetup. Thank you. Thank you
brother.
John C Dvorak: Linden LAPACK is
on the list and she's last on
the list. This is how grim it
is. In Lake Thank you.
Juneteenth and blue pack in
Lakewood, Colorado. 200 bucks.
As usual, she says jobs karma
she hasn't missed a beat for an
unrivaled resume that gets
results. Results. Try to blast
through at night without loving
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phone rang. Oh, John. Image
makers Inc with a k.com once
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Unknown: She does jobs, jobs,
jobs and jobs for jobs.
Adam Curry: Well, thank you very
much, especially thanks to
Duchess Kim for saving us here.
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Unknown: formula is this. We go
out. We had people in the mouth
through your freedoms
John C Dvorak: Can we start with
the bonus clip?
Adam Curry: Now did you get my
email? Did you get my email
about the bonus clip?
John C Dvorak: No, I didn't want
to say that.
Adam Curry: It said Do you
realize this is from 2019?
John C Dvorak: No, it's from
2020.
Adam Curry: I think okay.
John C Dvorak: Well he was
writing him I was somebody
research instead it was from
2024 years
Adam Curry: old. I mean,
everyone's this clip is is going
viral. I'm like who cares? It's
old. I mean, we know everyone
was
John C Dvorak: I can I know what
is that is old, but it got to
fell through the cracks because
of COVID.
Adam Curry: Oh, yeah. Okay, so
we're gonna dig this old cow out
of the canal.
John C Dvorak: I'm digging the
cow out of the canal. Because
it's clogging up things. And
because the guy who's who this
is from New Amsterdam or
Amsterdam News, New Andrew, New
Amsterdam. Yeah, it was it is
about the Bellevue Hospital. It
was from a from a novel, they
turned into a TV show. It lasted
five years somehow. And it ended
in 2023. I mean, it's at least
two years old. And it and the
guy who was the creator of this
show as a huge Democrats, if you
look him up and open secrets
he's donated, and he's big, big
Biden supporter. Oh, and so I so
I thought because of all that,
that it would be worth listening
to his I never heard it before.
Unknown: Makes him comfortable.
There's a couch over there. He's
okay. By hence the first answer
some questions from a Harvard
test known as unrest. It is
designed to measure someone's
level of social resistance,
social resistance. When people
like us oppose the values and
policies of the dominant
culture. What does that have to
do
so he feels threatened on a
daily basis, like everything
he's earned can just be taken
away. He's disenfranchised. But
because his life is seemingly
free from all this, because he
can't name it. He's
internalizing it racism I think
it sounds tomorrow's caused by
racism.
Adam Curry: Yes. The beauty
tumors caused by racism, tumors
John C Dvorak: caused by design
with credit. One of our
producers sending me that and I
looked into it of course and you
find out what it was an old it's
an old clip. There's no doubt
about it, but I never heard it.
And the fact that they'd have
the guts to put something like
that Add on TV is just
astonishing.
Adam Curry: Well remember it was
during COVID, you made the point
a lot of stuff was going on in
2020. And they shot it before
that, of course, they probably
shot it when Trump you know,
Trump was president and we have
Black Lives Matter. And so there
was all that stuff that was
going on. But it doesn't matter
because we have still a lot of
racism happening, particularly
at American Airlines.
Interesting little gaps in this
clip to fourth base
Unknown: American Airlines is
responding after three black
passengers accused the airline
of racial discrimination. CEO
Robert ISON wrote a letter to
airline employees Tuesday that
called the incident
unacceptable. Now three black
passengers sued American in
federal court last month
accusing flight attendants of
removing them due to racial
discrimination. The airline says
another passenger complained of
an offensive odor which led to
their removal but the lawsuit
says flight attendants made no
mention of an offensive odor on
an earlier flight on the same
day, American CEO wrote in that
letter to employees that the
airline would take immediate
action in the aftermath of this
incident forming an advisory
group that would focus on
improving the travel experience
specifically for black
customers. Now, the NAACP
responded with a statement
saying, quote, the NAACP is
pleased to see that American
Airlines has taken initial steps
towards a path to forge a path
rather towards a more inclusive
experience for all while it is
unfortunately common for black
consumers to experience racism
and discrimination at the hands
of corporations. It is not
common to see such swipe swift
and device decisive action,
Adam Curry: divisive. Our heads
filled with diversity and
divisiveness. And she can't
heard that. So, I mean, that
it's a weird story. Like did the
black people stink? Is that what
you're saying? Was that the
accusation
John C Dvorak: idea? you team up
with some some guys or some?
Anybody you want you you're the
white person, and you team up
with some and you make this
complaint to get him kicked off
so they can sue and you get part
of the you get a piece of the
action? Oh, in other words, the
whole thing is a scam. Is that
possible that anyone would do
that? You think?
Adam Curry: No self respecting
black American would? No,
John C Dvorak: I don't think so.
scammer.
Adam Curry: We stick with a
trans Maoism for a second I got
some feedback. Remember the U
turn sign that was taken down
which was a clear symbol of
LGBTQ i A P hatred. Yeah,
remember the story? Right? And I
and I was saying, you know,
there's something weird about
this. What are they promoting?
What is going on? Why is the
drag queen there? Well, guess
what? The drag queen is none
other than maybe ma II who was
elected in California district
30 elected to Congress under
that screwball name that he she
uses Yeah, with the wig and
everything maybe
John C Dvorak: a guy I think is
what the name was
Adam Curry: maybe for Congress
but okay yes, here's here's
maybes here's maybes platform
universal health care tuition
free college housing for ALL
Whoa. Environmental Justice LBG
LGBTQ i A rights racial justice
abolish ice livable wage no more
war. I'm all in with navy and
reproductive rights. In the
website is maybe a girl for
congress.org Oh, maybe a girl?
Yeah, maybe a girl for
congress.org So that's what this
was about. And you remember that
then there was this? This weird
signage everywhere about baby
gay and we were questioning with
that as well. Yeah, baby gay.
Well, trust trust our anonymous
gay accountant to check in. And
the anonymous gay accountant who
has my number text me dude.
Dude, dude. That's how we talk,
dude. Baby gay is not a gay
couples baby dressed up in pink.
There's no baby gay book they're
selling a baby gay is just some
guy that has recently come out
of the closet. He could be 30 or
25 or 50 or 18 or whatever. Oh
is slaying? Yes. Just someone
new at being out in gay culture.
Some people think the term is
funny and some don't like it.
It's animosity in the gay
community.
John C Dvorak: They're bound to
be Yeah.
Adam Curry: And then
John C Dvorak: this report which
we're keeping up somehow. Yeah.
Adam Curry: Well, thank you.
This is why this is why we have
producers is why you don't have
listeners. We have producers
whenever we say something off or
dumb or whatever. Or even if
there's something we haven't
said and you think you want to
tell us Wow bless you. Do you
want to want to blow your nose?
No, I think you do. No, no, I'm
fine. Okay. Whenever there's
something that everyone's an
expert at something every buddy
is an expert at something. And
your job is to let us know. So,
the anonymous gay accountant,
he's a he's an expert in
accounting and gay, so perfect,
appreciate. And then there's
this story which has an
interesting kicker at the end a
case in
Unknown: the making since 2017.
Now in the hands of the Colorado
Supreme Court. For background
autumns Gardena, a transgender
woman ordered a pink cake with
blue frosting commemorating her
transition. Jack Phillips of
masterpiece cake shop refused
after learning its significance,
I will not recreate a custom
cake expressing any message that
violates my religious beliefs.
Regardless of grasper under
the Colorado anti discrimination
act, it's illegal for places of
public accommodation like retail
stores to discriminate against
protected classes of people
which includes transgender
people. But Phillips lawyers of
the conservative legal group
Alliance Defending Freedom claim
a recent Supreme Court ruling
protecting artists freedom of
speech is on their side
when the Supreme Court ruled in
303 Creative. The court
reaffirmed that Colorado can't
force artists to express
messages they don't believe the
Constitution prevents the
government from forcing cake
artists, website designers,
photographers and other artists
to express messages they don't
believe in their custom art.
Well, some LGBTQ rights
supporters watching the case are
concerned about how the justices
will rule in light of 303
creative Scardino as attorney
claims that case is too narrow
to apply. Sticking with this
argument, businesses
are not permitted to
discriminate against members of
the public just because they
object to their gender identity.
This
isn't Jack Phillips first time
in court back in 2018. The US
Supreme Court sided with Philips
and a narrow ruling after he
refused to make a wedding cake
for same sex couple. The US
Supreme Court announced it would
take up that case in 2017. And
on the same date when made the
announcement scarred Deena
called requesting the pink and
blue cake.
Adam Curry: So this is all
posturing. It's all phony. It's
all fake. This person is not
really offended. They're just
trying to make a point. minute
then in the meanwhile,
everyone's hair on it's the same
guy from the gay cake.
Unknown: To gay cake. Yeah, the
gay cake
John C Dvorak: admissions show
title.
Adam Curry: They didn't want to
do the trans cake, but it was
filed on the same day of the gay
cake ruling. This is just
John C Dvorak: free publicity. I
don't know what they're up to.
Well, and Colorado is Colorado
is more screwed up than
California. But this brings
Adam Curry: me to another case
that I think is worth
discussing. Because I'm gonna
take the other side on this. And
I think I know what's going on
here. This is Louisiana, who
have now put into law that the
10 commandments must hang in
every single public school
classroom. Critics
Unknown: say it threatens to
blur the separation between
church and state enshrined in
the First Amendment in the US
Constitution. Republican
governor Jeff Landry signing
into law new legislation
requiring the 10 commandments be
displayed in classrooms across
the state of Louisiana.
John C Dvorak: This bill
mandates the display of the 10
commandments in every classroom
in public, elementary, secondary
and post education schools in
the state of Louisiana because
if you want to respect the rule
of law, you got to start from
the original law giver, which
was Moses.
Unknown: All right, the
Louisiana
the first country to require
that the religious texts be
displayed in public schools. The
law orders that posters no
smaller than 28 by 35
centimeters be put up on them.
commandments must be laid out in
large and easily readable font.
While the religious texts will
be the central focus. It will
also be paired with a statement
detailing the 10 commandments
have been a prominent part of
American public education for
almost three centuries. Soon
after the bill was signed into
law civil rights groups vowed to
sue. The joint statements the
American Civil Liberties Union
and several other organizations
say the legislation is
unconstitutional. The First
Amendment promises that we all
get to decide for ourselves what
religious beliefs if any to hold
and practice without pressure
from the government. Politicians
have no business imposing their
preferred religious doctrine on
students and families in public
schools.
It's not the first time such a
case has come up. In 19. AC the
Supreme Court ruled that a
similar Kentucky law was
unconstitutional but six
conservatives now in the top
courts, supporters of this new
law believe the justices would
rule in their favor in any
potential lawsuits. I
Adam Curry: don't think it's
about about the Supreme Court. I
think that first of all, as much
as I think it's a great idea,
I'm gonna give it to the ACLU on
this one. Obviously, this is
where the so called Set ration
of church and state in the First
Amendment does apply. The
government cannot mandate any
anything religious, I think you
can you can make an argument
that this is a mandate of a
religious text. However, I think
they're doing it to get the to
get the pride flags out. I think
that I think this is a setup.
John C Dvorak: That's an
interesting theory. It might be
a way to get the pride flags out
because there's too many of them
are becoming a
Adam Curry: problem or make them
a certain size 35 centimeters,
your flag can only be this big,
something like that.
John C Dvorak: I think that's
interesting, because why oh,
well, California talking about
all these issues California
since you're playing these
localized clips, play this clip
here, which is I think, more
concerning than anything I don't
be honest about I don't think
the 10 commandments are a big
deal to take out of the schools
good idea, but Cal schools and
the pronoun law, school
Unknown: districts in California
would be banned from forcing
teachers to notify parents if
their child asks to go buy a new
pronoun. Today the state Senate
approved this proposal now heads
to the assembly. Supporters say
it protects LGBTQ students from
bullying and harassment.
Opponents say the bill strips
parental rights undermines the
trust between schools and
parents.
Adam Curry: Hmm Well,
John C Dvorak: this is the show
so in other words, the kid is a
girl at the school and wants to
be a boy and then the and must
be called Zhi Zhu or whatever
him yo the astute the the
teachers are forbidden from
mentioning any of this to the
parents
Adam Curry: is great. Take it as
crazy as
John C Dvorak: funny you can't
have a cell phone but but and
then the rationale is to prevent
bullying does the bullying take
place in school 90 haha at
somebody's house? Unless you're
bullied by your your parents? Is
that what they're saying?
They're saying the parents are
bullies know what they're trying
to imply?
Adam Curry: It's, it's nonsense.
It's nonsense. But let me just
go back to to religion. I think
we can safely say and we may
even be able to prove it
scientifically that climate ism
is a religion. Would you agree?
John C Dvorak: We've discussed
this before in the past and
listed the Bible of the of the
of that religion and on and on
and the various saints of that
religion. Hansen for example,
weed This is not a new topic.
No,
Adam Curry: no, I'm not going to
discuss that as the topic. But I
think they shouldn't be able to
teach it in school. As climate
ism is out of control. We are
talking Okay. You started the
show off talking about
gaslighting. You want to hear
some gaslighting? Here's Kathy
Hoko governor of New York. This
Unknown: is not a natural hot
weather stretch for us here in
New York, especially upstate.
But we're gonna be seeing
temperatures at levels we have
not seen in our lifetimes. And
I'm wondering Yorkers and what
we're doing about this
significant public health event
right now everywhere north of
New York City is under a heat
advisory and it's only going to
get worse starting today in the
Genesee Valley and the Finger
Lakes. And starting tomorrow.
Extreme heat will hit everywhere
in the great state of New York.
Now, what does this mean? It's a
dangerous mix of high
temperatures and extreme
humidity causing feels like
temperature of over 100 degrees.
Now that's hot.
John C Dvorak: You and I have
bought, by the way that social
media just blast off cars, all
kinds. You and I have both been
in New York. I lived there for
12 years and in New Jersey lived
in the area forever. Yeah. And
it's like this. Every summer I
was there one year to get some
meetings. I had to be there. And
right in the middle of summer, I
think it was in August. And it
was so hot and humid. That
literally had to change my
clothes three times a day.
Because you just get soaked.
Yeah, and it's just a mess. And
this isn't during our lifetimes.
Adam Curry: I remember I
remember walking on the streets
of New York City and the tar was
sticking to your shoes. Now
okay, it's
John C Dvorak: terrible. It can
get miserable and very,
Adam Curry: very humid, and a
jacket and it just hangs there.
Now of course, this is because
of the so called heat dome,
which they are now lying about.
We discovered this on a previous
episode. They're saying oh, this
is the this is the carbon
dioxide it hangs in the air. And
that creates you in one spot
fish creates a wet blanket over
over everything and that's why
it's hot instead of the humidity
and even some dust there's all
kinds of stuff that causes it.
But this is not the carbon
dioxide but no more
Unknown: than a dozen cities hit
new record highs today including
boss in Hartford, Connecticut
and Gary Indiana as 18 states
broil under the heat dome,
Tina's
Adam Curry: roil Tina's entire
family still lives in Indiana.
She grew up literally on the
other side of the train tracks
from Gary, Indiana. Guess who
hasn't been calling like, oh,
cheetahs sister. You won't
believe it. Her family because
like, okay, it's a little warm.
But oh, Gary, Indiana. We're
pleased and what are we talking
90 degrees? Oh, no, it's 90. The
map is red.
Unknown: In some places. It
felt as hot as 110 degrees felt
as
Adam Curry: hot. So it wasn't
actually that hot just felt that
way. CBS
Unknown: is Lilla Lilia Luciano
reports from a brutally hot
Philadelphia in the city of
brotherly love. The heat came
early. Super hot. EMT Don Yellow
Green says he's bracing for a
busy season. Are you making
those knots earlier in the
season you feel this? Last
summer it was actually summer
when we started getting
exhausted. The city has already
declared its first heat health
emergency of the year through
Saturday in Vermont for out here
for the next couple days just
trying to beat the heat. Get out
of the heat though. There are
parts of the state today that
are almost 10 degrees hotter
than Miami. Meteorologists show
Winkley with Climate Central
says Miami
Adam Curry: is almost hotter
than Miami is 87 degrees. Is
Horowitz calling you saying I
can't do the show. It's too hot
a melting here. This is this is
gaslighting
Unknown: meteorologist Joe
Winkley. With Climate Central
says the shifting weather
patterns have a culprit talk to
us about the impact of human
activity on these heat patterns
as we pollute our atmosphere
with things like carbon, extra
carbon from burning oil and
natural gas and coal.
Adam Curry: Either way, I think
it means carbon dioxide, I'm
just going to keep harping on
that I refuse to allow people to
just call it carbon. It's not
carbon is carbon dioxide. That's
what you've told us. The problem
was you can't just you know,
it's going to be carb. That'll
be it. And before you know what
carbs are just going to be
carbon dioxide carbs.
Unknown: Talk to us about the
impact of human activity on
these heat patterns.
As we pollute our atmosphere
with things like carbon, extra
carbon from burning oil and
natural gas and coal. What we're
essentially doing is trapping in
a lot of this heat adds that
wool blanket over the top of us
so that he is basically trapped.
There's nowhere for it to go.
And what's interesting, too, is
that the nighttime temperatures
are also rising. So there's not
enough time for the cities for
the land for people to recover
before the sun comes out. So it
only keeps getting
hotter. Important
Adam Curry: explanation really,
Luciano? Thank you. So it's
important explanation. Thank
you. It's a lie. That is not
what I need to go back and get
some old heat dome clips to so
they couldn't hear what they
were talking about when it was
actually a heat dome, which
we've had heat domes happen. Not
these Oh, it's carbon diet as
carbon is just hanging in the
air the carbon like a blanket
John C Dvorak: has more did you
have to barometric pressure?
Yes, it's
Adam Curry: all about the
pressure now. So this was a nice
little one of those performative
q&a is in Senate, which is
always fun to listen to. And
it's meant for podcasters so we
can pull clips. This is the
house science. Oh, I'm sorry
that the House representative,
the House Science Committee,
they had a hearing on
California's train emissions.
Train. Yes. Because trains have
emissions, you know, trains,
electricity emissions is carbon
man. And so this is
representative McCormack from
Hmm. I don't know where he's
from, but doesn't matter. So
he's grilling this poor sap?
Who's they're trying to say, you
know, talk about the emissions.
Oh, boy, oh, we can't have
trains. They're not even that
great boat can have trains
because, you know, carbon heat
dome.
Unknown: Mr. McCormick, you're
recognized for five minutes.
Thank you, Mr. Minister. You
just brought up an interesting
point about the ocean rising.
How much is it risen in the last
50 years?
I'll have to get back with you
on that. Congressman,
not not significant amount of
obviously 50 years. Since 1970.
What's the carbon emissions? The
carbon content to the
atmosphere? Is it greater or
less than what it was? 1970?
Could you repeat that question
and carbon content carbon
dioxide levels in the United in
the entire Earth atmosphere? Was
it greater or less than it
wasn't 1970
I would say greater. You
care to state that bet money on
that.
I'll let you know answer answer
the question, either that I'm
right or wrong. Okay?
And what percent is atmosphere
is carbon as made up of carbon
dioxide per se?
It's a little over 400 parts per
billion.
So point zero. 4% right? That
how much comes from human
beings? By 11% About how much
comes from the United States 14%
of that how much comes from
trains? And United States? Point
5%. So, we're talking about
eliminating point 0000 3% of the
Earth's atmosphere, carbon
dioxide. That's what we're
talking about. Is that a
negligible effect when it is
compared to nitrogen? 71%? Yes,
thank you. So I love science.
Adam Curry: Yeah, yeah, that's
how we need to look at this
stuff. But oh, no, it's going to
kill us all. Well,
John C Dvorak: they had that one
congressional hearing where they
asked a bunch of people what was
the percent? Well, how much
percent carbon dioxide is in the
atmosphere? People think 30% Do
you ever would get weren't even
close? It's point oh, 4% is
hardly any and what I learned
here is that the and that guy by
the way, said parts per billion
its parts per million per
million.
Adam Curry: Well, when you get
down to it, then it's parts per
billion. When he when it's the
percentage of the trains is
parts per billion because your
know the 1000 million? I think
1000 Milk Yeah. 0.0004%. That's
4% per billion, four parts per
billion
John C Dvorak: think
gaslighting.
Adam Curry: I love science.
Thank you. Thanks. Thank you to
our producer David, who came
across a peer reviewed published
paper in the January 2024 volume
of global ecology and comm
conservation. This is a very
hefty document. It's in the show
notes. Of course, I'll spare you
the boring academic details.
Because you know, these are
people who know how to read this
stuff. That's who our producers
are. The nutshell of this is
that in the latest series of
papers that claim to have
detected the global greening
trend over the past couple of
decades with an extra leafage
equivalent to the total area of
1.4 times that of the contiguous
United States now covering
Earth. Furthermore, the trend
shows signs of acceleration,
correlating the greening with
multiple time series. The
authors found that this trend
was most correlated with
increased co2 levels, followed
by changes to air temperature.
How about that?
John C Dvorak: It was a guy on
one of the it was on NPR some
years ago that went on and on
about his he had greenhouses and
he had been pumping extra co2
into them to get these things
get to plant plants in the
greenhouse to go nuts. Plants
need carbon dioxide,
Adam Curry: not just plants, but
you know sir Jean, he has
snakes. He has two snakes I
think one is 17 feet and the
other one is small one about
seven feet and they're in his
house and he usually has the
carbon dioxide levels in his
house up to about 12 or 1400
parts per million he says the
snakes love it he's meant
there's a whole community you
know more co2 community there's
that newsletters and secret meet
up more
John C Dvorak: co2. Yeah, we
don't have enough now we don't
know if it drops below like I
think three I think I think 260
We got everything. We die.
Exactly.
Adam Curry: Huh. Makes you
wonder why they want it to go
down. And of course more
gaslighting in California with
the climate ism
Unknown: two months early fire
season has ignited in California
dry conditions and high winds
are fueling the flames making it
difficult for firefighters to
contain the blaze
and we have two and a half years
of unburned fuel and a lot of
places because we haven't had a
big major fire over the last
couple of seasons we've had them
just bumping off but not to this
size
to post fire has been burning
since Saturday, so far scorching
56,000 square kilometers forcing
evacuations with only 25% of the
blades contained.
So you can see our number one
Nemesis is when that wind is
really whipping up there even
worse than it is right here. So
that's really what is the
biggest challenge right now.
As you can see behind me, the
fire destroyed this car along
with other structures in the
town of Gorman about 100
kilometers north of Los Angeles.
Luckily, no one has died.
California has seen a surge in
fires in recent years making it
difficult to insure some homes.
Scientists say human caused
climate change is worsening
these extreme weather events and
now a dangerous heat wave is
gripping much of the Western US
but probably
across the West. This heatwave
will probably mark the start of
increased a fire activity it is
still early in the season so
vegetation has not approaching
its peak seasonal dryness that
would typically occur sometime
between August and October
depending on where you are. So
the fire risk will be
increasing. The
fire extends beyond California
in New Mexico to wildfires rage,
triggering evacuations and
confirming an early start to a
devastating fire season.
Adam Curry: Ah, that's France 24
In case you're wondering about
that read? Yeah, I
John C Dvorak: was wondering as
a matter of fact,
Adam Curry: they got a new dude
in there. Yeah, I think he also
doubles the w's what is it?
There'll be
John C Dvorak: no Oh, no. Pencil
next.
Adam Curry: So of course, you
know, they haven't had a good
fire in two years. So yeah, no
wonder no forest management but
okay,
John C Dvorak: there's no forest
that yeah, we used to manage
this stuff. And I don't know
what they took the money away
from it. I guess? Because of
global warming. I don't know.
It's just the whole thing seems
like a setup.
Adam Curry: Well, we're getting
ready for cop 29 That's why the
stories have to increase with
this is the big cop, where we're
finally going to figure out how
we're going to finance it all.
How we're gonna pay what
John C Dvorak: Where's this one
taking? What private airplane?
Hangar nearby is this taking?
What Where did all these climate
guys have to fly on their
private jets to this time? It's
for the cop?
Adam Curry: It's a fan favorite.
It is basically the Casa Blanca
of the Middle East. Baku. Okay,
remember Baku? Baku is like,
awesomely remembered
John C Dvorak: by KU. I noticed
they've finally taken it out of
Europe. Because they've one time
they was in Holland, I think or
someplace where it just happened
to be a fluke. It was snowing.
Today was during the show era.
Adam Curry: Baku is I mean,
that's. I mean, that's you might
as well do it in Dubai. Yeah,
it's hot. But no, but it's also
nice. It's nice. It's you know,
you got all kinds of amenities
that are cool. If you're doing,
you know, big needled. But of
course we don't I mean, it's not
just the the fires is not just
the heat dome. No, no, it's also
the tropical glaciers forget
about Ukraine.
Unknown: And if there was then a
two degrees rise in
temperatures, what could that
mean? Well,
it's and thank you very much for
having me. You know, this is in
a way the third kind of crisis
that's happening right now. It
can be very difficult to focus
on this. Russia's full scale
invasion of Ukraine, but the
reality so
Adam Curry: the minute she says
that it's just the third crisis,
because of course, we had the
full scale invasion of Ukraine.
That means she's here to deliver
talking points. By
John C Dvorak: the way, she
sounds exactly like that woman
from that used to be running NPR
that talks about advertising.
She got that same voice. Yes.
She does.
Unknown: It can be very
difficult to focus on this with
Gaza with rushes full scale. And
Adam Curry: now you drive me
crazy. Let's listen to it. In
PR, advertising, okay. You
always have a problem. Oh, this
is the one I think you
John C Dvorak: know, I do this
the mess of your show. As you're
very good at it.
Adam Curry: Underwriting Oh,
man,
John C Dvorak: advertising,
whatever you want to call it.
Adam Curry: Yeah, but that's
what you that's what you think
it will be? Whatever you want.
Oh, heck, thank you. Okay, let's
listen. Let's go to the to this
lady. First. You shouldn't
Unknown: have Ukraine. But the
reality is this crisis is going
on right now. Okay,
moving on to money. How are NPRs
corporate underwriting revenues
holding up in the recession? And
what about foundation grants
to different stories?
Underwriting is underwriting is
is down. It's down for everybody
with Gaza with Russia's full
scale invasion of Ukraine. But
the reality is this.
Adam Curry: I mean, this is this
is the kind of kind of
Unknown: crisis is going on
right now.
John C Dvorak: And the EQ is
different. So the same cadence,
it's the same lady
Unknown: this is going on right
now. It will indeed be
irreversible parts of it are
right now already. There's a
very good chance for example,
that the West Antarctic Ice
Sheet has already tipped, but we
can slip jump,
Adam Curry: the West End Arctic
ice sheet has tipped, it's
followed hip, it's fallen over.
It's too if
John C Dvorak: Trump gets in
they won't have to pay taxes.
Unknown: Antarctic ice sheet has
already tipped but we can slow
it down so that we're probably
looking at maybe three meters of
sea level rise that we can no
longer
what three meters
Adam Curry: were made. they'd be
looking at three meters of sea
level rise. When is this going
to happen? Lady stop,
Unknown: but we may be able to
stretch it out to 800 or 1000
years. Oh,
Adam Curry: is that what the
model says in 800 to 1000 years
is going to be okay?
Unknown: Glaciers especially
tropical glaciers are
disappearing incredibly quickly
right now. And Venezuela lost
its last glacier la corona
glacier sometime in the past
year. And so these have
inevitable consequences for
humans just this morning. The
group se mod which is an
international organization
focused on the Himalayas advise
the countries in that region to
prepare for drought this year
because snow is at a record low
amount in River Basin such as
the induce and so this is
ongoing it's sort of the slow
crisis but the inevitable crisis
inevitable we have to focus on
and that we can still prevent
the worst of if we can stick to
1.5 degrees but unfortunately
we're not on that track in any
way shape or form right now.
Adam Curry: I think 1000 years
we could you know, what was take
a gamble
John C Dvorak: was taking the is
the isn't slow crisis as a term
an oxymoron
Adam Curry: Oh, slow
John C Dvorak: crisis that's a
Adam Curry: very good point.
Yeah, a crisis is something that
happens kind of immediately.
John C Dvorak: You have it's a
crisis it's a crisis Run Run get
hair on fire. Yeah, but no point
oh crisis. What is that it is
bullcrap term this is like the
bull crap turn about term about
cheap fake same thing. This is
what we're getting a lot of
these gaslighting terms a
Adam Curry: minute she was done
with the interview all buddies
calls it oh man, you're buying
at Baku. You're buying drinks.
Good one. Slow crisis. Slow
crisis. Good one. Luckily the
European Union is fixing it's
the
Unknown: culmination of a long
battle within the European Union
long
John C Dvorak: battle.
Unknown: That's that's that's
really a relief.
environment ministers from the
blocks 27 countries meeting in
Luxembourg have backed the
nature restoration plan. Finland
Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands,
Poland and Sweden voted against
it. But Belgium abstained. And
after opposing the text in
March, Germany, this time voted
in favor of the legislation,
meaning it can now pass into law
following months of setbacks.
The plan requires member states
to introduce measures restoring
nature on a fifth of their land
and sea side 2030.
This is ownCloud Singh knio Does
it's a clear signal that the
protection of the environment
and nature is important for our
future threatens the existence
of a soul for agriculture and
for forestry. It's therefore
also a sign of better protection
for our population shorts on
xaba. Fogle is
the voter just enough support to
pass with Austria's environment
minister to find her
conservative coalition partners
by pledging to back the policy
because she said the health and
happiness Raider generations is
at stake. My
decision to support this law has
been intensely debated. I know I
will face opposition in Austria
on this but I'm convinced that
this is the time to adopt this
law. Austrian
Chancellor Khan their hammer
promptly responded that his
government would file a
complaint at the European court
against the quote, unlawful
vote.
Adam Curry: This is exactly what
the farmers in the Netherlands
and France what they all
protested against. Is this oh
no, no, we have to get rid of
cows and get rid of farms. It
just has to be nature just has
to be nature. Now I was walking
with Christina and Rotterdam.
They got plenty of nature in the
city is great and there's no
farm. No cows, you need to get
rid of this perfect. And it's
getting very green because of
all the co2. And why I wonder if
they're panic. It's a slow panic
for them. final clip. I saved
this one for last. It's for you.
It looks like even though
they've had some problems. They
will be raising money to fix
your potholes. The pothole
problem is going to be fixed in
California
Unknown: with more than 30
million registered passenger
vehicles in California. The
state says it shows up more than
$8 billion a year to maintain
the roads those cars drive on.
Much of that cost is paid for
money collected here at the pump
from gas taxes. But because so
many Californians now own
electric vehicles, that gas tax
money is starting to dry up
potentially 10 years from now
we'll see a $4.4 billion loss in
revenue because of these issues,
which
is why Caltrans wants to instead
charge drivers per mile and is
now enrolling people in a six
month pilot program to test out
the concept
and what's unique about this
pilot is This time we will need
collecting actual revenue from
participants.
So why would you participate in
a program that charges you about
three cents for every mile you
drive. Caltrans says it will
waive gas tax fees and give
participants up to $400. Drivers
would track their miles by
taking a photo of their odometer
or using a transponder placed in
their car. Big concerns about
being tracked any
data that's shared is totally
the control of the participant
they choose how much data the
data is processed by our account
manager and it does not come to
Caltrans all the Caltrans and
fee is the number of miles not
going to ever see your location
information. If
you'd like to participate in the
pilot program, you can sign up
on Caltrans website. Now
participants will be charged to
different rates, some will be
charged a flat rate per mile and
others will be charged based on
the fuel efficiency of their
vehicle. That's
Adam Curry: the tricky bit in
there. So you will be charged
based upon the few how's that
old Lexus doing on fuel
efficiency? I get about
John C Dvorak: I think get about
90 miles per gallon on that
thing.
Adam Curry: That's pretty good.
But it's no Eevee pretty good.
That's pretty good. But it's no
Evie.
John C Dvorak: No, no, I mean,
you'd be getting if you're a
hybrid. It's amazing. 5060 miles
per gallon is amazing. What
Adam Curry: they're doing there
in California really is
John C Dvorak: oh yeah, this is
it. By the way. If they had if
they had all this pothole money
before the Eevee showed up at
home, why aren't their potholes
fixed? This is bullcrap. I like
lies. This is gaslighting. This
is the theme of today's show
gaslighting.
Adam Curry: I got a pothole
money. JC de ain't happy.
pothole money. There's a hip hop
song in there somewhere.
John C Dvorak: pothole money.
Yeah. Let's go well, I got some
interesting this. How about
doing a pothole money elder
bliss I got gazes building nukes
and so he's out of the news a
little bit. Want to get these? I
want to get these clips out of
the way because it's about
Hunter Biden's verdict be it's
from the Heritage Foundation had
an expert come on one of the
shows. I think it's NTD and
discuss the what's actually
going on, which is that you
know, cuz I watched John
Stewart. And it's like, oh, you
know, everybody's Even Steven,
because Oh, yeah, Trump got, you
know, maybe political but
they'll go they did the Hunter
Biden. Because you have found
guilty and he's not going to be
pardoned. Which is unlikely. So
here we are. I want to play
these two clips. There's only
two of them's H F. Hunter Biden.
Unknown: We're joined now by
Mike Howell, the executive
director of the oversight
project at the Heritage
Foundation. Mike on Tuesday, the
jury in the hunter Biden's
federal criminal case, found
Hunter guilty on all three of
the charges that he faced. What
was your initial reaction when
you learn this guilty verdict?
Yeah, not
surprised whatsoever who was
born a night wasn't born and
last night and the fix has been
in for some time here. I mean, I
really worried that the
propaganda media is going to
play this as a both sides thing.
They're going to basically say
at the high level, oh my gosh,
Hunter was held accountable. And
that's what's happening to Trump
and then when they're
categorically different things,
degree and kinds and
implications. What's happening
with with Hunter, is,
essentially they pick the lowest
level thing that didn't connect
to Joe the thing they could
paint into the light of
addiction in a sympathetic light
as as a means to absolve him for
guilt and everything else. What
the American people really care
about what I care about is, you
know, not that Hunter was a
crackhead. Not a crackhead that
got his dead brother's wife
addicted to crack cocaine. She's
one who found the gun and got
rid of it. All that's in
material. What's material is the
corruption in the federal
government that Joe Biden and
his family running an
international pay to play
influencing peddling scheme and
some of the most corrupt regions
of the world to include Ukraine
and the CCP, you know, our
enemies in the CCP and other
corrupt regions.
Adam Curry: Have you ever met a
crackhead?
John C Dvorak: Ah, I know. I bet
a guy that eventually became a
crackhead. But I don't know that
I've ever met an active
crackhead. Did you?
Adam Curry: Yes. Just this week.
You know, Christina has. She
went to school and she's now a
social worker in a I think they
have 3030 people in this house
and they are adults. I think
it's all male, middle age. Like
40 to 70 from middle age and
above. And they either have like
mental issues or drug addictions
but most of both, and this one
guy. He was a crack addict. He
was quite entertaining. Now he
he's also agenda.
John C Dvorak: What? Oh, yeah.
We have crackheads listening to
our show. We have the
unbelievably wide fire shoe,
which is another reason that we
couldn't take advertise. It's
really
Adam Curry: true. I don't want
to say his name, but he's great.
He was quite interesting. Yeah.
Oh, yeah, absolutely. He's very,
you know, punter may have been a
very fun guy to hang out with
when he was on crack.
John C Dvorak: This was some
people think he's up for his
missing teeth. Well, yeah. Oh,
Adam Curry: yeah, no, there's
definitely that the dental
hygiene is not great with the
cracks.
John C Dvorak: So basically,
it's a it's an accurate smoke
that just basically eats away at
everything
Adam Curry: does. It is not
good. It's not an outstanding
product people. I'm not
endorsing it.
Unknown: Part two, what happened
in this this arc, starting from
a year ago, and we're in federal
court, they were trying to send
federal court by the way that he
just got convicted. And David
Weiss, the prosecutors and
prosecutor here, tried to give
Hunter a plea deal, say you
know, accept liability for the
gun and tax stuff, and will
pardon you for all this other
stuff that connects back to Joe
and the corruption that the
American people are upset with.
We sniffed that out, got it
blown up. And so here they are
back at the drawing board today,
convicting him of the gun
charge, but still no mouse
movements on the things that
American people care about. And
what this sets up for. Not only
is the misinformation that like
the law is being applied evenly
in this country, but for a
portion of Hunter, they pick the
sympathetic thing that you can't
or you can wrap an addiction and
all those things and you cannot
connect to Joe. And it's up Joe
for a part in the punter a part
in that will not only be for
this charge, but for all the
things connected not only back
to Joe and his family, but the
thing I'm even more concerned
about in the Biden's is the
intelligence community and law
enforcement who sat there and
watched this corruption
happening in plain sight. Not
only did nothing but hit it, and
then used every tool the
disposal of the awesome force of
the US government and even some
other governments to go after
President Trump which they're
still doing today. And so this
is not a both sides thing. This
is corruption.
Adam Curry: Okay, that's
actually a good analysis. So
they can you can pardon him from
everything all crimes. Close the
book on the Biden's so
John C Dvorak: you do it's how
you do it. These guys are not
stupid. No, they're
Adam Curry: they're doing a good
job. Okay, here's another thing
I do when you delve into this is
this, this I think we're at
level gaslighting on this Boeing
thing as well. Now remember,
there's only two real
manufacturers have any merit
when it comes to commercial
aircraft Airbus and, and Boeing.
Both are huge defense
contractors. So there's got to
be I'm now thinking that
Congress is sending a big
message to Boeing saying you
need to donate more money.
Because this is really I mean,
the coincidence of yet another
whistleblower showing up just
before the latest hearing with
the CEO. Listen to this
interview with Blumenthal, who I
don't like anyway. Oh my gosh,
terrible. She listened to how
she pronounces his name.
Unknown: We've got breaking news
for you this morning. A current
Boeing employee is accusing the
airplane manufacturer of cutting
corners. This latest
whistleblower came for an hours
before Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun,
will be grilled on Capitol Hill
today. And they are of course
growing questions over the
safety of Boeing's aircraft,
which is why he is speaking to
those on the Hill Democratic
Senator Richard Blumenthal
chairs the subcommittee.
She says Blumenthal
Adam Curry: I don't know. I
don't know why I like it. She
corrects yourself later. So
Blumenthal is doing the
interview here. He's about to
grill the CEO and a new
whistleblower shows up what are
the chances
Unknown: to those on the Hill
Democratic Senator Richard
broomwade. Before he
John C Dvorak: say that don't
have a clip. But I did watch
this. And it was Hallie, who's a
great show boater big time who
went who really dug into the
amount of money that the CEO is
making 36 million
Adam Curry: No, no, no, no, it
was 33 it was 32.8 33 million
which of course is
John C Dvorak: well, it was
still it was the way he was
brought up to stasis. Yeah, the
way he was digging into the guys
money. It was like, you know,
you making an awful lot of
money. Where is our cut? And I'm
Adam Curry: looking at open
secrets. And they Boeing has
only spent in 2024 2.9. Well,
$2.94 million.
John C Dvorak: That's not even
10% of the guys salary. Exactly.
Where's your tight? Dude, we
needed 6 million for me. Where's
Adam Curry: your tithing? Look,
listen to the numbers we've got
for the democratic country. A
Democrat, Democratic
Congressional Campaign Committee
210,000 for the Democrat
Senatorial Campaign Committee
210,000 for the National
Republican Congressional
Committee to win a 10,000 The
National Republican Senatorial
Committee 210,000 nothing to buy
nothing. Oh, wait 10,000 to the
DNC Services Corporation, Tim
Kaine Democrat got 10 grand, and
Nikki Hey, and Nikki got nothing
Mark Warner got nothing. So this
is all a lot of Nothing's here,
including Biden and Trump, at
least not so far. I think
they're there. I think this is a
shakedown. Like you're right,
you make $33 million. You've
given $2.9 million dollars.
What's
John C Dvorak: the corporation?
Where's your individual? You
have to look him up individually
see if he gave any money.
Adam Curry: What's his name?
John C Dvorak: I don't know.
Calhoun. Calhoun's Yep. I don't
know his first name. You have to
look it up. I'll find but
whatever the case, I think,
yeah, Shakedown. It. This is an
extortion game and they're
trying to humiliate the guy.
Yeah, doing it pretty well. In
on this thesis completely.
Unknown: To those on the hill,
Democratic Senator Richard
Blumenthal chairs the
subcommittee holding today's
Boeing hearing. He joins me now.
Thank you so much, sir, for
coming this morning. We are all
very curious about this last
minute whistleblower who has
come forward, you magically
spoke to him? What did you learn
from him from this new
whistleblower?
This whistleblower Sam Mohawk is
one of a dozen who have come to
us in recent months, and his
allegations are extraordinarily
serious. He is saying that
Boeing used non conforming
parts, those are parts that are
defective or damaged or
undocumented and Miss tracked in
airplanes, installing them, and
then lying to the FAA, about how
it was storing those non
conforming parts. This kind of
violation of trust is part of a
pattern of broken safety
culture. at Boeing, the company
promised it would turn around
that safety culture after the
two crashes that occurred in
2018. And 2019. There was a
deferred prosecution as you
trumped it that, by the way,
recall, on the condition that
Boeing, in effect, improve its
performance on safety and
reliability. But, you know,
ultimately, we should want
Boeing to succeed. It's come
Adam Curry: trust me, dude, we
really want you to do well, Dave
Calhoun, but you got to pony up.
I
Unknown: mean, that is key to
our economy, and to aircraft
manufacturing is one of me.
Yeah, exactly. Major aircraft
manufacturers in the world. I
want to help it regain trust by
facing the facts and the facts
are very bluntly, and deeply
alarmingly, that Boeing has
failed to comply with the
conditions that it promised it
would. And
Adam Curry: absent from actually
I have a little bit of the
Boeing's. I have a report here,
absent as far as I could tell,
unless you saw I don't see poot
Buttigieg Pete Buttigieg
anywhere. Is he in there? Is he
being grilled about the I mean,
ultimately, it falls under his
in his port of failure, is it
not? Isn't?
John C Dvorak: It would be his
apartment, he headed Department
of Transportation. He's a he's
in charge of the FAA Grilli.
Well, he doesn't he can't pony
up any money so
Adam Curry: instead, Jane Pauley
does puff pieces of him and
Chaston in their kids at home
cooking pancakes, which is not a
good luck when your planes are
falling out of the sky.
Unknown: met by chance of shame
as he entered the hearing room.
Boeing jail David Calhoun
quickly apologized to the
families of those who died in
two Max eight crashes overseas.
And promised Boeing is changing
our culture
is far from perfect. But we are
taking action and we are making
progress which Calhoun
came under immediate bipartisan
fire
this year. That's is the moment
of wreck there it is for
the max age crashes to max nine
door plug blowout in January
quality control breakdowns,
defective parts and
whistleblower reports of
falsified documents intimidation
and retaliation. It appears
that Boeing has fostered a
culture that censors people who
tried to speak up and help
You're the
Adam Curry: problem. And I just
hope to God that you don't
destroy this company before it
can be saved.
Unknown: Today. A new
whistleblower claims Boeing 737
Max assembly line lost hundreds
of parts that did not meet
Boeing specs which he can claims
were hidden from FAA inspectors
and may have ended up in planes
and that it could lead to a
catastrophic event.
I have not directly spoken to
any of the whistleblowers. Do
you think that'd be a good idea
to do that? Yeah, I think it
would,
Tom, the Justice Department
could still charge Boeing and
the CEO. Yeah, prosecutors
have until July 7 to decide. But
Boeing is critical to the
national economy, the space
program, national defense. So
the government has a lot to
weigh in deciding whether to
file charges. National Defense,
Adam Curry: you know, that could
also be an angle. Someone's
trying to lean on him. Maybe
someone else wants to get in on
their defense action, build some
different plenty of military
planes. Anything's possible. But
this is a shakedown of some
sort. This is, this is not
something
John C Dvorak: of some sort,
just a shakedown period. It's
not any particularly different
kind of ShakeDown in these guys
do. All you have to do is look
at their net worth of all these
people that are in Congress,
when they got in what they were
worth and then what they got
became worth like, six years
later on a pretty kind of a
modest salary. Somehow, they
became worth a fortune.
Adam Curry: Almost all of them.
How about Josh Hawley?
John C Dvorak: I'm sure Holly's
right up there with him. He's
one of the best of the group in
terms of like, of showboating up
but in Congress. I mean, I find
it very entertaining. He's
really good at it. But I'm sure
Josh Holly's got some bookstore
and they all do is and they said
it was nonpartisan. That's a
giveaway. World.
Adam Curry: Yeah. Because
they're they're definitely not
doing it for our safety. Let's
be honest. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
We want to make sure people fly
safe. We want Boeing to succeed.
That's what they're saying. We
weren't
John C Dvorak: willing to do
they want him to succeed, but
they want their cut.
Adam Curry: How much you make
him dude. 33 million. And you
gave us 2.9 accredited only half
of that went to us. It's
cynical, but I think there's
something to it. I like it.
John C Dvorak: The way I don't
have any argument against the
thesis, that's gotta be what it
is. Of course, I have a couple
couple of clips. I wanted to get
out of the way again, more
Hunter hanging Earth. This is
Robert Reich.
Adam Curry: Talks about this,
you got to explain who Robert
Reich is this guy. What Nink
Robert Reich is
John C Dvorak: the former labor
secretary under Clinton, he's a
professor at Cal. And he's a
left wing stooge. And he does a
podcast. Oh, with with his
mistress, with some woman,
whatever. I don't know. We don't
know that. We don't know that.
Well, that's tricky, right? I
never asked her pronouns either.
But and he wears his He's like,
he's a professor and he's
professorial on his end he wears
this raggedy ass t shirt is like
a like a beat up old one that's
in the commercial with this old
beat up and it gets embarrassed
to be at a restaurant wearing
and he's that's what he wears on
his podcast and I find it to be
like off putting
Adam Curry: this Why Does he
even have to be on video with
the podcast? Just do an audio
video
John C Dvorak: and he dances a
little bit when he does a little
thing at the beginning where
they play their little intro
music,
Adam Curry: the name of this
podcast again. I have to get the
name but whatever
John C Dvorak: the case is
Robert, you just look up Robert
Wright podcast. Thank
Adam Curry: you. Thank you for
the search tip.
John C Dvorak: Cool. Well, I
have coffee. It will be the tip
that could be used that coffee
Adam Curry: ship. It's the name
of the show is coffee clutch.
John C Dvorak: Clutch clutch
caca flash. Yeah.
Adam Curry: And he spelled with
a K Yes. Que la tch Coffee
Klatch? I'm all for clams. I'm
Robert Reich.
John C Dvorak: So he has his his
normal talking points. And he's
part of the group of every
Democrat there is going after
our Supreme Court, especially
Clarence Thomas. Yes. And so
they they just put this stuff
out there to just part of the
whole situation they get, you
know, Alioto Elliott, not out,
Alito, Alito and Thomas are
under fire. At least God used to
be the mayor of San Francisco,
and Alito and Thomas are targets
because of this upcoming they
haven't ruled on it to finish
their ruling on this Chevron
deference. But that's what's to
come next month. We'll
Adam Curry: see that's cranking
up crank it up.
John C Dvorak: So let's play a
break.
Unknown: Well, what about the
Supreme Court kind of a bump
stock? That's it pinion.
So basically what happened was
the court threw out in a
decision led by Clarence Thomas,
a ban that would have stopped
this addition to a gun and made
it faster. It's why translation.
Wow,
Adam Curry: great translation.
Unknown: It's the right
translation. I think no, it's
not interesting thing to me here
is this isn't Not the Second
Amendment right to gun case.
This is a another example of the
Supreme Court of trying to erode
the legitimacy of administrative
agencies who are tasked with the
job of interpreting statutes. If
administrative agencies in the
federal government in the
executive branch can't interpret
statutes, then who's going to
interpret the statute? So
nobody? Okay,
Adam Curry: hold on a sec. Well,
John C Dvorak: I worked for an
administrative agency. When I
was younger, for almost a
decade, not quite. This was the
Chevron deference which says,
you can, you know, these
agencies have all this leeway
was in 1984. I worked there
before that even got through,
how would they were operating?
How were they operating before
1984. According to him, it can't
be done.
Adam Curry: I would like to
remind everybody that it was
Trump, during the Trump
administration that the bump
stocks were banned after the
Vegas shooting, which was
blatantly not a bump stock,
which fires rounds much faster
than the belt fed machine gun
that was obviously used. I mean,
we, we remember, we would
disagree this, this to an
extreme everything. So
John C Dvorak: that whole was
officious thing. They never
really solved it. They guy who
is a gun dealer was supposedly
doing it. And he was dead
somehow, the whole thing that
whole thing was, and then I
think at the time, it came out
to that al Qaeda, not Al Qaeda,
but ISIS or some way along these
Adam Curry: MBS was roaming
around Vegas and some other
Saudi prince and there was we we
do not know the full story.
John C Dvorak: Now, this story
has never been revealed. Okay?
Wrap it up with this guy. So
notice that they do run right
after Clarence Thomas. And
they're going to do it again, of
course, and
Unknown: Thomas Intuit opinions
on this bump stock and also on
the National Labor Relations
Board. And Starbucks, basically
said the ministry of agencies
had gone beyond their, their
official realm of power. The
Supreme Court doesn't like
administrative agencies who
would like instead, but either
the President or Congress to
take more responsibility.
Honestly, Heather, this is this.
This was was so much beyond an
activist Supreme Court, right? I
mean, this is this is a Supreme
Court that is out of control.
That bump stock opinion, was,
was really, in the face of what
happened in Las Vegas, everybody
remembers what happened in Las
Vegas. How many years ago just a
few years ago, a few years ago,
60 I
think people killed 60 People
400 injured. I mean, it was big,
because of because the the the
shooter used a gun stock. The
only thing that we have done as
a country with
Adam Curry: John the shooter,
use the gun stock now not a bump
stock.
Unknown: Because unbelievable.
shooter used a gun stock. It's
the only thing that we've done
as a country to try to control
guns. And we can't even do this.
I know with the Supreme Court
and Clarence Thomas,
Adam Curry: I know it in a weird
way. They're kind of tying these
two things together. I think
this is the clip. Because the
two things together being the
Supreme Court, Chevron
deference, and oh, my Trump's
going to get rid of the entire
administrative state. Oh, what's
going to happen?
Unknown: I often talk about the
Trump hangover, the fact that
even when he is not in power,
there are still reminders
everywhere of the effect that he
had on public opinion. And these
attitudes about vaccines are
just one example. Oh,
absolutely. You
know what we saw a pre pandemic
to now, there has been maybe
this is not the clip, but let's
listen to anyone 50% increase in
the number of parents who think
pre pandemic to now that routine
childhood vaccinations like
measles, mumps, and rubella
should be voluntary. Just just
over the course of the last few
years of this spillover effect
is real spillover, and we're
seeing this depth of expertise
Dr. Fauci talked about a few
days ago, the unwillingness to
bind expertise, what does that
mean? We've created an unsafe
environment for people as they
navigate their own healthcare
journey, that they're going to
rely on supplements, things that
are not FDA approved, because
they don't believe in the FDA,
whatever it may be. So now we
have a bunch of individuals who
are willing to take their own
healthcare decisions, leveraging
the internet, or leveraging
their favorite podcast host.
That's not where expertise is.
Adam Curry: There's no expertise
here. Let's be very clear.
Neither John C. Dvorak, Adam
curry claimed to have any
expertise in anything. You might
have lived through the pandemic,
but we don't know anything. Or
we know nothing. Yeah, it wasn't
that it didn't quite connect the
way I wanted it to.
John C Dvorak: There was it was
still entertaining. And it's
interesting because what it did
point out is that there's a
number of these podcasts. Gal
guy, Pa I'd casts where the
woman throws the soft balls to
the guy and he goes on and
pontificates. And then she's
agreeing if you listen to the
other one with rights. Oh, y'all
blah, blah, blah.
Adam Curry: Gun stocks. Yeah,
yep. Yep. That's actually how I
envisioned this show that you
would just do that with me. But
it turned out so different.
Yeah.
John C Dvorak: It's hard for me
to go. Yeah, yep. I agree with
you two or three times today.
Adam Curry: I know. It's already
hard. Yeah. So finally, we're
gonna do Fauci is out with the
book. And he's doing the rounds.
Yeah, it's
John C Dvorak: great. I did
nothing, which puts
Adam Curry: him kind of puts him
in play for bird flu, although
there wasn't a lot of bird flu
happening the past few days. So
we're kind of in limbo there.
And I've several different
pieces. But I think the one that
is most because he was on
basically did the big CBS
interviews with Gail. Actually,
I'll play one clip from Gail
because that was kind of
interesting. It's almost like
he's giving Trump a pass while
taking credit for it.
Unknown: I read your book over
the weekend. And I love how you
started. First of all,
Adam Curry: that's a lie. We
know you didn't read that.
You're too busy pounding
ozempic. With Oprah,
Unknown: I read your book over
the weekend. And I love how you
started with Albert Borla of
Pfizer calling you to say, Tony,
I think we have a vaccine and I
think it works. You said your
debt can be yes. Borla
John C Dvorak: call away. Bring
ray in maybe, Fauci, Fauci, tai
chi, I think we got a vaccine. I
think it works that dude, you're
already it was already patented.
Before the whole thing took
place. This was a scam this
this, this interview is
ridiculous
Unknown: works. You said you
literally sort of broke down and
had a very emotional moment
because you didn't think this
would be possible that quickly?
No, I did not. I mean, this is
historic in what was
accomplished. 11 months if this
were 1015 years ago, this would
have taken years and years. But
the combination of the exquisite
science that was put in both for
the mRNA as well as for the
actual imaging or the business
vaccine was just amazing.
Because you were talking about
you're on the frontlines of
AIDS. And at the time, Bill
Clinton said, hopefully we'll
have a vaccine in 10 years. And
as you point out, we still don't
have an AIDS vaccine. But yet we
have this for COVID. Yeah,
it was an amazing scientific
accomplishment. And also, the
amount of effort that was put in
with Operation warp speed to get
millions and millions of doses
made before we even knew it
worked. That was very, very
helpful in getting it done so
quickly.
Adam Curry: How about that?
Isn't that interesting? Why
would he be out there saying
these things? When they can
blame everything on Trump, they
can make the Republicans hate
Trump. And now you say Oh, but
basically saying, Yeah, I did
that I took the call. I made I
made it happen.
John C Dvorak: So I'm going on
in the background, it also could
be part of the Trump getting
Trumpian.
Adam Curry: There was there was
kind of a to have to funny two
parter very short, about Trump
versus Biden, you
Unknown: spoke about your
relationship and write about
your complicated relationship
with former President Donald
Trump. He could possibly be our
president again. Given that you
know him, personally, from a
public health perspective, do
you believe he is fit to lead
us?
Adam Curry: Good, interesting
question. Is he fit to lead us
if
Unknown: he is elected
president?
You know, I don't want to get
into what's fit or not that I
want to respect the BOMA health
standpoint. He missed
opportunities to use the bully
pulpit of the presidency, to
tell people to do things that
would keep them safe.
Adam Curry: Now, how about
Biden, but what about Biden? Do
Unknown: you believe he is fit
to lead us for the next? Oh,
absolutely. You know, because
the first thing he did when I
became absolutely his chief
medical adviser, we had a
conversation literally the first
day saying we want to go with
the evidence and the truth. And
if we make a mistake, we correct
it. But we've got to be honest
with what's going on. Yeah, that
was his first words to me.
John C Dvorak: Yeah. Oh,
brother. All right. I'm
Adam Curry: gonna give you three
more their shorts. were the
first ones over a minute, but
the other ones are very short. I
know. I'm breaking all the
rules. I'm sorry. But sometimes,
you know, you just gotta prove
there's a rule by making an
exception to it. Rachel Maddow
with Fauci.
Unknown: It did seem the way the
way that you describe it that
President Trump didn't
understand some of the basics
about the flu and that it's a
different virus than COVID. He
said to you that he didn't see
why he would have to get a flu
shot. If he didn't have the flu.
He didn't understand that it was
preventative and not treatment.
That's true. He also said at
NIH, why can't we just use the
flu vaccine to prevent COVID?
Right. Do you think he does not
know what a vaccine is?
I think Now he you know, after
all of the things we've told
him, the thing that I think
underlies this, Rachael is that
he, he wanted it so much to be
like the flu. Because
historically, the flu peaks, and
it goes away in March,
Adam Curry: and it wasn't there
at all during COVID. April is
gone,
Unknown: and then you could go
on with the election season. But
it wasn't doing that it wasn't
going away. Notice
Adam Curry: how we slipped in
the election season there for
it's just, it was very
interesting. I heard that
before. I'm gonna roll that back
Unknown: peeks, and it goes away
in March, April is gone, and
then you could go on with the
election season,
Adam Curry: then you can go on
with the election cycle about
that. It wasn't
Unknown: doing that it wasn't
going away. So he kept on saying
it's gonna disappear like magic.
And that's when I had to start
saying, No, I'm sorry, but
that's not gonna happen. And I
had to do that publicly. And
then when that didn't work, he
started invoking magical cures
like hydroxychloroquine, you
know, and then when it became
clear, that wasn't working, he
brought in Scott Atlas, who told
him everything he wanted to
hear, and it was just wanting so
much for it to go away. And
figuring out if it wasn't gonna
go away, naturally, I'm gonna
act like it's gonna go away.
Adam Curry: Well, that's not the
way I remember it. But let's
drill down on.
John C Dvorak: I don't remember
that either. This is bullcrap.
Let's drill down on
Adam Curry: hydroxychloroquine
and ivermectin, shall we? Was
Unknown: it dangerous for him to
promote hydroxychloroquine and
ivermectin and those other
viewers, suppose viewers that
don't that don't actually treat
them.
John C Dvorak: But suppose when
did Trump ever promote
ivermectin? I think he did. I
don't think he did. Well brought
a drug see Chloroquine into the
conversation? That's the main
thing he brought. He said, I've
heard good things. He said, and
he was brought in by somebody
else. He said it and then he was
beat that beaten to death with
it. By every you know, left
winger, and he never mentioned
ivermectin, I don't think I'm
deleted later. No, I'm
Adam Curry: not finding a single
ivermectin clip even about that.
I mean, how about hydroxy?
John C Dvorak: beta hydroxy
group meeting came into the
picture way later.
Adam Curry: Yeah, it a lot about
hydroxychloroquine. But nothing
about it. We don't have any
clips of Trump that I can find
talking about ivermectin. That's
interesting.
John C Dvorak: Let's just make
it up. Let's just say set it
because that's what, Matt I'll
just say, you know, bring it in.
Because you still have to slam
ivermectin because it's just a
cheap cure for a lot of stuff.
So we don't want that.
Adam Curry: Oh, suppose that
cure, suppose and cure? Suppose
a cure?
Unknown: Yeah. I mean, I
obviously it is. I mean, I don't
want to get into how many
numbers of people who would have
made a difference,
Adam Curry: but clearly, oh, it
would have made a difference to
somebody, he missed
Unknown: an opportunity. Because
there were people out there who
knew nothing about this, who
were saying hydroxychloroquine
works. And we know that not only
does it not, but it actually
hurts people. Oh, he couldn't
use the bully pulpit of the
presidency, to say, Hey, listen
to the scientists. But he didn't
do
Adam Curry: that. I also don't
recall it. hydroxychloroquine
hurts people. But okay,
John C Dvorak: no, there was a
ton of studies about it. And it
was pretty harmless. In the
ivermectin even more, I mean,
there's millions of case doses
of the stuff out there.
Adam Curry: And then the final
clip, Rachel does does ME A
SOLID takes us right back to
2020.
Unknown: In terms of the vaccine
development that did happen in
this country that you described
as being almost miraculous in
terms of the pace going from
when in 11 months from the
identification of the pathogen
to a safe and effective and
deployable virus. Obviously,
that's something that the United
States of America contributed
into the world's response and
has a lot to be proud of, and
you have a lot to be proud of.
Adam Curry: That's right,
Rachel. A safe and effective
deployable virus right on nailed
it. Thank you. I miss clips like
that. Some of these were good,
some real Alright, so Fauci
takes. Fauci takes all the
credit for getting a safe and
deployable virus out there
within the within 11 months. I
don't know this this year,
right. There's some background
going on here. That is, that is
weird. Why would he even want to
have a book out? You retired?
Take your millions go away?
John C Dvorak: Yes, that looks
like he's pot a popper. Popper.
Popper. Popper. A poor person. A
power.
Adam Curry: A up er? Yes. A
popper. Popper. opposed eyes
popper a pop Halper off my Dutch
pauper? A Paul bar. All right.
Anything else you got to
John C Dvorak: have? Well did
Jay says you played a clip where
she's made a bunch. I do have a
job. Joe Biden making this you
have to listen very carefully to
what she says. But it's a gaffe.
Biden, so Gaffigan runs in the
family, I guess. And here we go.
This
Unknown: election is most
certainly not about age. Joe and
that other guy are essentially
the same age. Let's not be
fooled. Joe isn't one of the
most effective presidents of our
lives in spite of his age, but
because of it
Adam Curry: isn't one of the
most effective because of his
age is dynamite. Thank you,
Jill. You're right.
Unknown: I'm gonna show my
school by donation to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could
do that. Oh, yeah, that'd be
fun.
Adam Curry: Earlier, we thank
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Adam Curry: Nathan. Nathan from
Mercy Me I keep forgetting his
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John C Dvorak: Nathan Cochran
from Oh, yeah, and he's in
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Unknown: And good. Yeah, he's
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Adam Curry: it's the angel
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John C Dvorak: i Yeah, it's
something I'm unfamiliar with.
Irma SAO so De Lima de Prado, I
got I botched it, whatever it
is. But she's 7026 Oh, it's for
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Say? Let me check. You read
this. Yeah. When
Adam Curry: I was setting up the
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John C Dvorak: Nice. Rick in
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to Job's gonna get birthday
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John C Dvorak: ale. Ale Sir
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Interesting list of characters.
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Unknown: Okay
John C Dvorak: I wonder when
Bond Gino is going to find out
Adam Curry: he's like man I'm
really killing it with the codes
these were this week. I mean I'm
just I'm getting loads of
Benny's here because yeah
whenever you use code bond Gino
you get a discount but Bond Gino
gets money.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, well
assuming that I think he's not
getting money because I'm sure
he's Martel hard was not
Adam Curry: doesn't have pain
bonds you might have become code
bond. Gino seems to work
everywhere. Yes.
John C Dvorak: What somebody
wrote in us and gave us a hint
that's like a tip of the day use
code. Bungie knows
Adam Curry: that as a nominee.
That is not the tip of the day.
John C Dvorak: Dylan Langa in
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right Meyer in Green Bay,
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in honor of his 30th birthday.
Like it or not you guys are
example to our examples to our
boys. Were becoming men. Oh, all
right. Well, examples speak
like, like the weight of the
next generation rests on your
shoulders. That's
Adam Curry: right. Okay,
John C Dvorak: so we that's
exactly the way we feel. Yes.
Peter odo in rich New York 50.
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That concludes our shortlist of
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Baron we got a lot of barons
now. It's good to see that thank
you. So Richard, how
John C Dvorak: are you do we are
married Double
Adam Curry: bear and up we got
more barons in the United
Kingdom and the entire English
Empire British Empire. Yes three
two knights. Got your blade.
Let's bring these boys up here.
John C Dvorak: Here you go.
Adam Curry: Nice. That's
actually my favorite one with
the pearl handle Sebastiana
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Of course, I was here for one of
the big meetups in Amsterdam the
no agenda, Amsterdam crew, which
was fantastic. A lot of people
came from outside of Amsterdam.
Of course everyone's emailing me
now. It's nice to have some
correspondence. If I can get
through it all and thank you all
for coming. We have no other
reports but we do have a meetup
taking place today the Tucson
summer solstice soiree which is
underway now I think it canyons
crown in Tucson, Arizona, the
North Georgia monthly meet up
six o'clock Cherry Street
brewing Alpharetta, Georgia the
Denver summer solstice
Strawberry Moon meetup will be
at 630 today in the city park
Denver Museum of Nature and
Science in Denver, Colorado.
Charlotte's thirsty Third
Thursday seven o'clock at Ed's
tavern right after the show head
over there in Charlotte, North
Carolina. Tomorrow the central
Ohio post Father's Day meet up
in June kicking off at 530 Oh,
this is a secret location you
got to contact sir Larry for the
information go to no agenda
meetups.com For that Saturday,
the Fort Wayne barbecue and brew
club 33 meet up at one o'clock
and shakes in pit goddess. It's
the shakes in pit barbecue and
brew in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
That should be a good one. On
Saturday the I did that Seattle
meetup 2pm. And you need to go
to Edmonds Washington. I believe
the website no agenda
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The tiny Mignolet make a big
delay of Anchorage unite two
o'clock Alaska time sir Lane's
house in Anchorage, Alaska. Oh,
I'd love to go to that. I'll bet
that's fun. Alaska is great to
go. Another Gitmo nation's low
land. This is the happy wood
near the coup de meet up on
Sunday. Our next show day one
o'clock, Central European Time
in Tilburg, brabants Nora
Brahmam the Netherlands, sir
Hendrik organizing that we have
the South Florida Margarita meet
up at 230 in the Norris Alton
Palm Beach Gardens Florida. This
is all Sunday by the way the
Indiana a proud tribal meet a
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Greenwood organize that is
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get a beautiful reports that'll
be on Sunday. And the Kansas
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why No? Why no Connie Park,
Bonner Springs Kansas and
finally, the International
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makes nothing but since six
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in Helsinki, Finland. Hey, since
a meet up reports people we'd
love hearing him I'll even edit
out some of the ohms in the on
the stump dumb stuff. I'm happy
to do it. We love hearing from
you because these meetups they
really mean a lot. They mean a
lot to your fellow no agenda get
more nation citizens. You learn
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Anybody can go even if you're
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Unknown: you want to go hang out
with the Dyson days. You'd be
triggered. You want to be where
everybody feels the same.
Adam Curry: It's like me see I
got some ISOs see you have to
actually more than I thought So,
I have four ISOs. I'm gonna go
first. Yes. Ready?
Unknown: Yeah, that's when this
all fairly confusing. Good was
okay, it's okay. It's all a
bunch of hogwash. Let's go into
NOPAT and Hillary Clinton.
Ah, okay,
Adam Curry: since we talked
about it. Yeah. You didn't like
you didn't like that one? No.
Okay, then I have my final which
I think is a winner. Now that's
hot.
John C Dvorak: Hey, she liked
the second one the most at that
last one. I have a kind of a
one. That's a perfect end of
show. Okay,
Adam Curry: let me see you only
have one up. Okay. I'll play it
by you're always doing those.
It's like this is always bye bye
bye.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, show but I
will say that second one. But
you have. Yeah.
Unknown: And want to hear it. A
bunch of hogwash.
Adam Curry: I think is a good
one. I guess from C span by C
span original. That's the kind
of people they have listened
over there. That's it. I hate
you. i So is set.
Unknown: Good news. It's good
advice John sees.
Adam Curry: Now can I mention
something before you do the tip
of the day. But another
competitive tip? Well, I have a
tip but I have to say that I was
excoriated for bringing a boomer
tip to my friends. What was the
boomer tip your tip of the week?
The was what Ali Express?
John C Dvorak: Oh, yeah. A lot
of people. Mimi gave me great
grief and so did Brunetti.
Everybody
Adam Curry: gave me I said, I
said to Tina, hey, Ali
expressions. Oh, this is great.
She she she talked to the My
stepdaughter in in New York.
She's like, Oh, yeah, four years
ago. Boomer like, Thanks, John.
Thanks a lot.
John C Dvorak: Hey, what's new
to me? What am I supposed to
say?
Adam Curry: I mean, everybody
laughed at me, Christina.
Remember, after the show us like
I was in Dutch to
John C Dvorak: me. Mimi said why
don't you plug Ki Moon.
Adam Curry: That's what everyone
said to me was even newer than
Ali Express. So your tip of the
week is, is you're on probation.
Oh, please. You're on probation.
What's your way now?
John C Dvorak: I know he's
trying to sync the tip of the
day. No, I love that. Okay, my
tip is the one I gave this a tip
I'm gonna give this tip as a
product tip. Again, it's an it's
a product's been there. It's
been out a while and you use it
recently. I'd got you to use it
because you're having trouble
with your machine. It's called
the glary. Utilities is free.
It's out there. It's available.
People should download it and
use it but you can also get an
upgraded version but you don't
need to. It does all kinds of
cool stuff. It's got g l a r y
utilities. Google it. Duck Duck
go it being fine. I would use it
to great product.
Adam Curry: So I was I was
thinking about yourself
John C Dvorak: said that it sped
up your machine
Adam Curry: it did. I did
another glary product isn't
outstanding. Although when when
it said Do you know? Because you
said oh you should defrag your
your drive and and the glary was
given me like oh, do you really
want it? This is an SSD drive?
Do you really want it this could
decrease the lifespan of your
drive?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, well, in
the olden days, it would but
today's SSDs well with the same
memory they're
Adam Curry: warning was kind of
was kind of freaking me out.
John C Dvorak: I'm just saying
but the problem with SSDs
womanizer bring it up here we go
is that they especially the
early ones, the early old ones
had a limited lifespan because
you could only read write read
write to the same cells X number
of times it was very low in fact
the numbers were so low in the
early days how long that nobody
would use an SSD but since then
they're they're just as reliable
long term as far as a magnetic
drive so I they're just worried
that you may have an old piece
of crap SSD and you know just
give you a little warning
because it does have to do a lot
of work so as doing a lot of
reading and writing and moving
stuff around and so yeah, so
after
Adam Curry: that I did that
being a Windows user on the on
the on the studio machine for
software reasons. The only
software that really I love
really liked was Windows only.
Please don't tell me to run
under wine under Linux. Please
stop. It doesn't work. I
actually went into the settings
I found a tip. I went into
settings. This is an amazing one
for Windows Christopher's kind
of slowing down. It's not a very
powerful machine. It's it's a
bumblebee, what is that thing?
What's the bumblebee?
Unknown: What is it called the
feeling be like,
Adam Curry: yeah, the bumblebee
link. It does have it has. It
has eight gigs of memory, but
it's not very powerful,
particularly if you have
multiple
John C Dvorak: other use.
They're useful as utility
machines.
Adam Curry: Yeah. And it really
doesn't have to do much but it's
kind of pushing it. And so I
went into settings, Advanced
Settings, and there's actually a
little button you can toggle off
all of that fancy stuff. Like
shading and and pre determined
you're making images in your in
your in your explorer window.
And animations when you when you
minimize something, man, you
turn that off the machine
screams it screams I tell you.
It
John C Dvorak: was you put Linux
on it too.
Adam Curry: Yeah, that's right
and run anything under wine.
There's your tip, run everything
under wine analytics.
Unknown: All right, everybody
coming out tonight. We got one
more for you. By Anna Marie and
John fino moron.
Adam Curry: Thanks jingle makers
you get in better. It definitely
getting better. Love it. All
right, that is our broadcast day
for today. Coming up next we've
got what do we have on the
stream? Complex candor, limited
to liberty to duties and freedom
now this dame lady Vox. All
right. The same lady boxers as
cool stuff.
John C Dvorak: Yes. You wish
your son acts? Yes
Adam Curry: birthday. That's
right. End of show mixes,
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mixes. We have the one and only
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time to do it. It's all of the
other things he's working on.
And Professor James Jones, not
related. He's in China, both of
them coming in with end of show
mixes. And this concludes our
broadcast. They'll be back in
Texas tomorrow and hopefully the
show from the Hill Country.
Coming to you now from 11 feet
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Airport, Amsterdam, the
Netherlands in the morning,
everybody. I'm Adam curry.
John C Dvorak: from Northern
Silicon Valley. We're in 350
feet above sea level. I'm John
C. Dvorak.
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Unknown: We're gonna begin this
hour with the latest on a
dangerous bird flu and concerns
that the virus has the potential
to become Here you go the P word
with a few words
buddy if you do get one of those
Frankenstein plays where you
have a combination of a bird flu
and a human flu
Here we go. I don't want to feel
here we go again. Yikes.
We go again.
For more yay. For more years.
Makes me want to throw my hands
in the air.
And Google like just don't care.
If you get a note tell you to
vote. Let the algo say oh yeah.
It's much worse than you think.
John C Dvorak: Google sends out
a reminder at a rate two and a
half times greater to Democrats
and
Adam Curry: we have no idea how
bad it was here during the COVID
lockdowns. Very happy and
bright. The situation
Unknown: is even worse than you
thought it was.
John C Dvorak: Yes kill more
Ukrainians. We would condemn
humanity to a future without
hope they would make Mengele
blush 500 million people hitting
Google daily
Adam Curry: all looking for AOC
porn videos. Yes,
John C Dvorak: girl baby girl
How bad is probably somewhere
between 25 and
Unknown: 50% mortalities
John C Dvorak: adds up
Adam Curry: get worried get
worried.
Unknown: The US military is
prohibited from targeting
Americans with propaganda that's
true. But here's
the scary part Franken
Adam Curry: flu to hold on a
second alien ballots mask up
flatten the curve bird flu
pandemic Kuhn flu we need no
agenda shop was t shirts and
hoodies and stuff. I'm not
putting a mask on. I'm not gonna
do that. No
Unknown: way is the flu in the
back cuz Don't you believe roll
up the sleeves while the screens
just say it's bull crap,
Adam Curry: bird flu question
mark your mama.
John C Dvorak: That's not a
great question COVID
disinformation
Adam Curry: and at
Unknown: some point they're
gonna send out partisan mail in
your ballot reminders and at
some point they're gonna send
out partisan go vote reminders
and
Adam Curry: middle management is
fat. Google has
Unknown: made that information
disappear.
Adam Curry: You couldn't go
anywhere without a QR code
Unknown: MoPhO boruch.org/in A
it's all a bunch of hogwash.