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John C Dvorak: It was all
corrupt.
Adam Curry: Adam curry Jhansi
Devora July 21 2024. And this
year award winning give a nation
media assassination episode 1670
Nice
Unknown: is no agenda battling
Adam Curry: blue screens in
broadcasting live from the heart
of the country here and femur.
Reason number six in the morning
everybody. I'm Adam curry
John C Dvorak: and from Northern
Silicon Valley we're all saying
false flag. I'm John Cena moreq
Unknown: Buzzkill.
Adam Curry: Even better than
that breaking, breaking breaking
by Alert, alert, Alert, alert,
Biden drops out. He just dropped
out. He just dropped out
literally minutes before we
started.
John C Dvorak: Well, he didn't
drop out during the speech.
Yeah,
Adam Curry: I know. I know.
You're gonna
John C Dvorak: say he didn't
drop out during the speech. I
thought you're gonna when he
should have dropped out? Yeah,
well,
Adam Curry: they had a had a
different distraction in mind.
Remember, the whole idea was to
distract from the RNC to have
Biden drop out Sunday night or
sorry, Thursday night or Friday
morning didn't happen. Instead,
we got a glitch. You want to
hear his his note what he wrote?
Yes, please. Now I had to check
it with other mainstream
sources, because it's not on
official presidential
letterhead, which I found, oh,
to be suspicious. I know it'd
John C Dvorak: be, could be
Babylon be well,
Adam Curry: then I went to let's
just go to cnn.com Biden drops
out of race. Okay. So what if
we've were duped everybody's to
my fellow Americans. For the
past three and a half years,
we've made great progress as a
nation, blah, blah, blah, blah,
blah. I know, none of this can
be done without you, the
American people, blah, blah,
blah. We protected our
democracy. It has been the
greatest honor of my life to
serve as your President. And
while it has been my intention
to seek reelection, I believe it
is in the best interest of my
party and the country for me to
stand down and focus solely on
fulfilling my duties as
president for the remainder of
my term. I guess they finalize
the deal.
John C Dvorak: Yes, as Vivek,
put it, so aptly put it in the
in his analysis.
Adam Curry: What did he say?
Well, he
John C Dvorak: did play a four
or five clips of him do Oh,
yeah. And he said that he's just
holding that for a better deal.
Yeah. Well, we
Adam Curry: knew that. I mean,
we didn't know in fact, listen
to this show. We didn't need him
to repeat what we're saying. The
President does say a Taiwan's
thank Vice President come out
Kamala Harris for being an
extraordinary partner and all
this work and let me express my
heartfelt appreciation for the
American people. So no, no news
on that what they're going to do
now. So I'm sure you know, it's
like, but
John C Dvorak: we know what
you're going to do to get to
pick Kamla. If they don't or
come Allah depends. Is she
black? Either one, Mala she's
why she's Camela. It can be
either
Adam Curry: one. I mean, as long
as it's her because if you don't
pick Camela Humala, you you lose
the black vote, you lose that,
that that would be especially
after all this black judge,
black guy in the military, you
know, all that stuff. Well,
John C Dvorak: that it was
brought up on the books. I
didn't want to start with that.
By
Adam Curry: the way, Brooke
Blitzer. We did Brooks. I think
Brooks listens to this show.
John C Dvorak: What do you say?
Well, you didn't say no agenda
is a great podcast. Well,
Adam Curry: first of all, it
would be hard to imagine that
someone hadn't said, Hey, have
you heard the podcast that rips
on you all the time? So I'm sure
someone said that to him. At
some point. He wrote in his
column in his column
John C Dvorak: is true. You
would eventually at some point
after getting ripped on for
years. Of course, you think
maybe a tune in at least once.
Of course. It's
Adam Curry: like unavoidable.
It's unavoidable.
John C Dvorak: In the column,
Adam Curry: yes. Hold on a
second. I'm gonna get it up
here. If Democrats want to beat
Magga it's not enough to say,
Orange Man bad. Orange Man. Bad
talk. I actually got a couple of
people emailing that to me. Hey,
Brooks is listening to your
show. Did we come up with orange
MAN bad? I don't know. I don't
think we came up with but we
have incessantly Orange Man bad.
We have used that quite a lot.
So thanks, Brooks. Next time
best podcast in universe. So
well, I guess, man, it's so
annoying. The new cycle has been
I go I get whiplash. I got
whiplash. There's so much going
on. We we had an assassination
attempt. We had a meandering,
rambling speech.
John C Dvorak: Then we let's
start with that. Okay. Okay. I
watched the entire convention
because it was interesting. It
was a show it was fabulous. It
was a good show. If he would
doesn't win an Emmy for Best
Production. Oh, I'm telling you,
when they put the full lashing
Trump that big Trump in lights
and then he came out and then
they that was good. That was
that was ritual sets left and
right. The White
Adam Curry: House behind them
the White House I loved from for
multiple reasons, but when they
brought out compra tours uniform
Yeah, I mean, everything was
just fantastic.
John C Dvorak: But they will
What made you think they'd win
an Emmy? They should. But no,
well go to some Netflix special.
Adam Curry: I mean, it had
something for everybody. It even
satisfied the Jesus freakin me.
There was everything. Anything,
everything for everybody,
including
Unknown: so all you criminals,
all you lowlifes. All you
scumbags. All you drug dealers,
and all you crooked politicians
need to answer one question,
brother, what you're gonna do
when Donald Trump and all
trouble maniacs run wild on you,
brother.
Adam Curry: I think the count
was about 18 times you said
brother. No,
John C Dvorak: actually, it was
nine I counted. It was over and
under a date.
Adam Curry: It was pretty good.
Also think when it comes to
television production for my
tastes, it was brilliantly
timed. If people like it was too
long he would he wasn't even in
primetime. Wow. No, no, no. He
came on at like 1030
John C Dvorak: East Coast time.
It was to EA was after 10 Yeah,
it
Adam Curry: was close to 1030.
So the first half hour of him
talking about you know, that was
all the solemn kind of stuff and
talk and he's I'm only gonna
talk about this once. Of course,
he's been talking about nonstop
since then. That was all up
until the 11 o'clock hour that I
think you know, if people just
wanted to see it and get a get a
taste. And then everyone who
really was interested could
watch all the way to the end. I
thought the timing was
brilliant. He hit that primetime
slot perfectly. And then all the
other stuff that he likes to do
after you know the
John C Dvorak: normals. is
normal says Normal stick. Yeah,
Adam Curry: I do have to wrap
ups. So I hate hate wrap ups.
Cuz, right, right after he was
done. I mean, it was right. I
was like, rambling. Meandering
hasn't changed the bit. No,
good. We're back. We're back on
the race.
John C Dvorak: Actually, I got
to two clips too after you're
done. But let me just say I
would like I said, I watched the
whole thing. And a couple of
things. One, I thought it was
just a classic set, you know,
where he does his bits. He does
his jokes. I don't think it was
rambling. It was you know,
because he changed it. He does
change topics quickly. But it's
to keep the body and salary.
It's very professional at that.
And I watched the whole 92
minutes, which everyone made a
point of 92 minutes long as a
movie longer than a movie. I
watched the whole 92 minutes and
I I didn't have any troubles
keeping up with it or listening
to me me bitched about it
everybody else was on the West
Coast. Everyone watched the
whole thing because it was
earlier but it was like I didn't
find it to be that rambling or
bad or anything off his normal
pace or you know what I found? I
don't personally get it. No, I
Adam Curry: thought it was fine.
What I what I thought was
interesting. I did not clip it
is at one point he said it's
been such a it's been such a
great convention. I hope I don't
blow it oh boy. I just gave them
an idea. Which he literally did.
Or maybe he just telegraphing he
knew that that's what the what
the media would do was go out
was a great convention until
Trump spoke because that's that
was pretty much which is
actually what everybody said,
here's here's the Anna Navarro.
Unknown: I'm speaking to fellow
Christians. I was raised
Catholic. I'm a Christian girl.
When something like this happens
to you like this assassination
attempt and you say something
like God is watching it was
watching me that is a very
unChristian thing to say because
it's very narcissistic what
about what about Cory which is a
fireman who also
Adam Curry: I really care about
the Corey what's his name guy
saved
Unknown: because it's very nice.
Wow what about what about Corey?
What's his name? Good Chris What
about all those guys? Yeah,
killed on Sandy Hook all of
those. It's Oh, God was watching
me and not watching them.
There's something very
disturbing. I should have pulled
the plug on that Mike yesterday.
Adam Curry: This was very
consistent. You know, it's like,
Oh, God only save President
Trump but doesn't save
Ukrainians are children are
filling the classic, very
classic atheists nonsense, but
the best wrap up and and I think
this is also award winning has
to be from joy read. Kudos to
joy
Unknown: Trump's big campaign
moment. it last night followed
an introduction from the
Ultimate Fighting Championship
cheap Dana White, infamous for
getting caught on tape slapping
his wife during a New Year's
party.
Adam Curry: Do you remember
this? Have you heard of this of
him? So, I didn't know this. By
the way. Biden just gave his
full support to Kamala,
Unknown: and a certain ribbing
endorsement from Hulk Hogan, the
longtime WWE character now
infamous for dropping F bombs,
and suing Gawker out of
existence with billionaire Peter
Thiel money.
Adam Curry: I think she missed
the part where he got radically
saved and baptized like a year
ago, but okay, but
Unknown: needless to say, Trump
really dug their presentations.
And it was also failed rapper
turned in some kind of musician
or other Maga character, Kid
Rock. Wow.
Adam Curry: He's one of the most
successful touring acts of the
moment after the intro.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that's
true. I mean, it's just okay,
but he's back in him in this
good. This is good. After
Unknown: the intros, Trump made
a dramatic entrance strutting
onto the stage with his last day
Ben blazoned behind him in
bright tacky lights. And he
delivered what was essentially a
rally speech, a bizarre and
boring stream of consciousness
rant, full of lies, complaints,
and xenophobia. All of this
despite Trump and some in the
media assuring us that he was a
changed man seeking what was it
again? Oh, yes, unity. My
colleagues and I, we all had the
speech in front of us last
night. Okay. And the audience
could also see the speech in
this big teleprompter. So we
were trying to follow along, as
Trump veered off script and deep
into a rambling series of lies
that stretch the speech from a
time like maybe 25 minutes to
more than 90. Journalists in the
room reported that as Trump is
banged on and on audience
members were checking their
phones stealing glances at the
teleprompter slumping in their
chairs and even falling asleep.
Some even left. Oh,
Adam Curry: wow. Okay, good job,
Joy. Good, good.
John C Dvorak: You had you don't
have the clip where she equates
Biden getting COVID. With Trump.
We get we played
Adam Curry: that in the last
show. Oh, did we? Yeah, you want
to hear it again? I do have it.
John C Dvorak: Yes. Play it
again. A second.
Adam Curry: Joy. Here it is.
Unknown: Donald Trump is an
elderly man who, for whatever
reason was given. This
Adam Curry: may be a replay she
doing this again? Because I
remember she did it live with
Jen Psaki sitting there or does
a psyche. It sounds very
John C Dvorak: easy wish she was
sitting there with Jen Psaki.
Maybe this is the same Donald
Unknown: Trump is an elderly man
who, for whatever reason was
given nine seconds to take a
iconic photo op during an active
shooter situation, his survival
of that and bouncing right back
and going right to his
convention is being conveyed in
the media world as a sign of
strength. This current President
of the United States is 81 years
old, and has COVID. Should he be
fine in a couple of days?
Doesn't that convey exactly the
same thing? That he's strong
enough older than Trump to have
gotten something that used to
really be fatal to people his
age?
Adam Curry: I think I think we
played that on Thursday.
John C Dvorak: So so if you take
and listen to that, how does she
rationalize to Trump getting
shot coming back on stage going
out and giving a speech to Biden
getting COVID Then quitting the
campaign?
Adam Curry: You're not actually
taking her serious, you're not
gonna deconstruct what she
John C Dvorak: is saying you
have to take well, you have to
take her serious enough that
she's making she's influential
she wouldn't be on the air. And
you know, these people. There's
a study that was just recently
done by Fox that says, one in
three Democrats believe that the
shooting was false. False flag.
Adam Curry: Yeah. Oh,
Unknown: hold on. I
Adam Curry: have. I have one of
the premiere here. Here it is
the premiere guy Keith
Olbermann. After five
Unknown: days of no confirmation
that the injury to Trump's ear
and the assassination attempt
was actually from a bullet. We
have to now assume that they're
lying about something that
happened to Trump on Saturday.
No one has confirmed it and
there is no good reason why no
one has confirmed it. All that
and much more on the Thursday
countdown edition of the podcast
now available wherever you
podcast
Adam Curry: wherever you podcast
wherever your
John C Dvorak: podcast by the
way I feel saw the Rooney by
says it was real, by the way.
Adam Curry: Trump is is fake,
but Sandy Hook was real. Just
that.
John C Dvorak: So let's play
this deconstructing Trump. This
is PBS along the lines of your
last clips.
Unknown: He made good on the
promise of a unifying tone.
As Americans we are bound
together by a single fate and a
shared destiny. We rise together
or we fall apart. He
shared the story of surviving
last weekend's assassination
attempt.
The amazing thing is that prior
to the shot, if I had not moved
my head at that very last
instant, the assassin's bullet
would have frankly, hit its
mark. And I would not be here
tonight to spend. But
after that the tone and rhetoric
shifted, as Trump staying on
brand, repeatedly went off
script, repeating some stump
speech claims that Republicans
love, but which don't hold up
Oh, under my presidency, we had
the most secure border and best
economy in the history of our
country in the history of the
world. We had no inflation
soaring incomes,
so we call that false. Jacobson
and PolitiFact. But for all the
standard metrics, things like
the unemployment rate, things
like wages, wage growth, GDP,
these the first three years of
Trump's tenure, we're not
somehow the greatest in the US
history, we can find examples of
better economies in the 60s, for
instance, much less the entire
world.
John C Dvorak: Now, a couple of
things there one, he says we
had, Trump says we had no
inflation. We had the inflation
rate was 1.8. That's not zero.
No. So they call that a lie.
It's a lie and have no inflation
we had 1.8 That's inflation is
the smallest
Adam Curry: low know what
inflation even means.
John C Dvorak: And the other
thing is, they never disputed
his border policy. They just
said he lied about his
hyperbolic con. comment that the
we had the best economy in the
history of the world wishes, you
know, nobody's taking that too
seriously. Why there's probably
been better economies during the
Roman times. But who cares.
Adam Curry: But if you measure
by the Dow at the time, the Dow
was hitting new records,
everyone's 401k was doing great.
Well,
John C Dvorak: if you're gonna
if you would do that, and you
wanted to call it a lie, with
the way you the way you would do
it correctly, in my opinion,
would be to say, well, you know,
he bragged about the Dow, but
Biden is taking it to new record
highs, which he has, I mean,
this was way over what it should
be. It's in the 40,000 they
can't
Adam Curry: give Biden credit
for anything over there at PBS
because he's gotta go. He's
gotta go go anyway, anyway,
John C Dvorak: here's, here's
part two of this.
Unknown: Another example bad
things are going to happen.
Meanwhile, our crime rate is
going up while crime statistics
all over the world are going
down. That
is mostly false. So violent
crimes, the things that people
really care probably the most
about, have been consistently
going down under Biden, in terms
of property crimes, at least
some kinds of property crimes,
particularly motor vehicle
thefts, those actually are up.
So there's a grain of truth
there. But for the most part,
most types of crime despite all
the here on TV, and from, you
know, Trump himself, actually,
if you look at the total number,
and the percentage, it's been
going down for several years in
a row, oh, man,
Adam Curry: now muta, Noca,
John C Dvorak: the who cares?
Well, I didn't play the clip
because nobody cares. The point
is, and PBS refuses to
acknowledge it, and very few
outlets will, which is that for
the last couple of years, the
way crime statistics are
reported has been changed at the
at the FBI level, which is never
mentioned. So that sort of the
numbers are always going to vary
from what they used to be
because the ways reported is
change. And the police
departments aren't reporting in
some cases anything because they
just figured what's the point?
That's like Frederick, with a
lot of unreported crimes and and
indeed, there's a lot of crimes
like in California because of
prop 47. The shoplifting crimes
that are reported not a crime
these are unreported so we have
a situation where the reporting
is completely screwed up. So we
really don't know have a clue
about how bad it is. The
Adam Curry: biggest crime is joy
Reid is still on the air. I
mean, that's, that's a chronic
callback. It's like It's like
Fredericksburg. You know, if you
look at our newspaper, oh, we
had the sunshine Festival, the
wine and cheese festival
everything's groovy. Now talk
about the about the drug
dealing, talking about the
theft. Oh, no, it's all good. So
beautiful. sound beautiful.
John C Dvorak: Is there drug
dealing in Fredericksburg? I
don't know. Absolutely.
Adam Curry: Oh, we have. We have
Ms. 13 up here. Oh, yeah,
John C Dvorak: they just live
you have Ms. 13. In Dendrix. Oh
Adam Curry: yeah, they work in
Korea, but they live in
Fredericksburg. For sure, for
sure. That's why we elected a
new sheriff. Everyone's sick of
it. So we I want to I want to
have three short clips here
because Trump went to Michigan
the next day, nor Yes, I saw
part of that and and He has some
new stick. He has some he has
some funny new stick, which I
liked a lot. Normally, this is
your beat, I have three, three
quick punch lines all less than
30 seconds. And this is his
first one. This is about, you
know, as he promised he would
never talk about the shooting
again. So of course, he's
talking about the shooting
again, and talking and talking
about him looking off to the
sign. I never look at the sign.
I never look, I never look over
there is amazing, you know, I
would have been dead who's you?
What a great sign. Look
Unknown: at the great results
that we had on immigration just
looking at them. If I didn't say
that, and just because we had
like a crane holding this
massive sign. I call it the
million dollar sign that they're
expensive. But that sign was
very good. I think I'm going to
sleep with it tonight.
John C Dvorak: Heard one good
stick. Okay. He did. He did a
prelude to that. Because as he
was riffing on the RNC speech,
he came to him to talk about the
importance of the sign because
he was doing that. That's not
the bit he did, but I can see
where he developed it,
Adam Curry: ya know, and it's a
good bit, and then this is an
obvious one, but what
Unknown: they do is
misinformation and
disinformation. And they keep
saying he's a threat to
democracy. I'm saying What the
hell did I do for democracy?
Last week, I took a bullet for
democracy.
Adam Curry: Come on, man. That's
what you want from your
president. You want jokes. And
this last one self deprecating
humor from Trump is always
dynamite. You know,
Unknown: I have to just
interject, if you would turn off
those cameras, because I don't
want to see the screen up there
of me. That's very severe that
come over that says that's the
severe sucker. What's with that
one? It looks okay from the
other side. But that is very
severe. I apologize. I looked up
there. I said, Whoa. Look at
that. Wow. That's like a work of
art.
Adam Curry: I mean, making jokes
about your own comb over comb
over is that's just classic.
That's great. That's
John C Dvorak: the thing is
about a good third of the public
doesn't see any humor, anything
he does now just beyond me. It's
hilarious. So I do have the
clips from Brooks and K part
talking about all this.
Adam Curry: Okay, let's do that.
And then before we get to some
shooter stuff, because I do have
some things to talk about there.
Let us also do the CrowdStrike
thing, but let's go to Brooks
and boy,
John C Dvorak: yeah, yeah. Now,
I gotta tell you saw the
CrowdStrike stuff.
Adam Curry: Everyone's we all
got crowds. It's too much. It's
too much cross. But yes. Okay. K
part,
John C Dvorak: but it's
important. Yeah, it is. Okay,
we're going to Brooks and K
part. This was on last Friday's
PBS news hour.
Unknown: We were all together
every night of the Republican
National Convention. You were
there as night after night,
Jonathan. People would say, Mr.
Trump has been changed. He's a
more contemplative man. Now
after that attempt on his life
that he's going to deliver a
unity message that turned out
not to be true. When we heard
his speech. What did you take
away from his remarks in the
end?
Well, what we heard last night
in Milwaukee was his stump
speech. Now, most people
probably didn't realize that was
his stump speech, because the
convention is the one time when
maybe more people than usual are
watching. This was an
opportunity for Donald Trump to
represent himself to the nation,
certainly after the the
attempted assassination, the
assassination attempt. But what
we saw in the first 30 minutes
was you know, sort of new sort
of measured Donald Trump but at
the 30 minute mark, just about
in came crazy, Nancy Pelosi. And
by
Adam Curry: the way, by the way,
30 minutes exactly what I said
right after primetime, and then
he's off to the races
Unknown: just about in came
crazy. Nancy Pelosi, and it went
downhill from there. And so you
know, it was it was grievance,
it was anger, there was a lot of
attention paid or illegal
immigration, what he wanted to
do about that. And I just think
it was a missed opportunity on
the point on the part of the
former president because he has
been basically silent for the
last three weeks because of the
implosion happening on the
Democratic side. And yet he took
that took that chance yesterday
and just showed the country what
his party what his faithful have
been seeing for months now,
Adam Curry: that before we
continue. Let's just talk for a
second about Trump's thinking
here, because they handed out
the written speech to the media
or at least pieces of it before
he spoke. Okay, they were
already read because I was
switching around, they were
ramping up to it. Oh, it's gonna
be really reconciliatory. It's
going to be unifying. What is
his besides the strategy that I
think he had, which is let me do
all that stuff in prime time and
then let her rip. What do you
think about his thinking of
going in and out and bringing
back some of the tropes?
John C Dvorak: I thought it was
I enjoyed the speech. It was I
didn't even think it was that
long. In fact, I, of course, I
was talking to me about this
again. And we we've documented
this, the two of us on this
show, starting in 2015, where we
started to notice him go long,
because when he first began as a
candidate, he was it was going
around 2025 minutes, maybe even
shorter. And then he was
starting to stretch it further
and further and further. And
this is one of those things
where he got when he got to an
hour we used to comment on he
was doing an hour he go from
place to place to play,
sometimes two or three speeches
a day, and he do an hour they
started doing 115. Then he got
like this most to go round. He's
doing consistently doing an hour
and a half. But he's holding the
audience. It's not like, you
know, people were walking out in
droves, because he was so
boring, because he's not. I
think he's great.
Adam Curry: Yeah, me too. And I
think the audience thought it
was well, in fact, if anything,
they wanted more, they wanted a
little more of that.
John C Dvorak: Like when I was
watching it, I didn't think he
had gone the hour and a half.
And he was at 92 minutes when he
quit. It's it's just it's just I
think his pace and flow is good.
I think he knows how to do this,
right? He's got it down. He's
worked on it so many times that
he can do an hour and a half,
like falling off a log, he can
probably move it up to 145. Even
though I think that'd be pushing
it. By
Adam Curry: the way. Can I just
say that's not easy to do.
You're a public speaker, I'm a
public speaker, it's
John C Dvorak: very hard to do
to do. You can do it. If you're
a public speaker, it's usually
very easy to do an hour, 45
minutes, 45
Adam Curry: minutes, and then
q&a done.
John C Dvorak: That's the
typical public speaker. But to
do an hour and a half solid,
have pretty much off the cuff. I
mean, he does goes to the
prompter, and you can tell the
difference because of his
cadence. But doing an hour and a
half with or without priming.
When I gave a lot of speeches, I
would use PowerPoint
presentations as the prompter.
Yeah, because I would you have
30 smallest points of 30 slides,
you know, you're going to be
about for 38 minutes. I do
probably run around 20 slides,
but I did say each slide would
have a bunch of really bullet
points on it. And I would tag
the slide. If I was if I start
to forget what I was going to be
talking I
Adam Curry: would pay good money
for an old Jhansi Dvorak
PowerPoint presentation. I'm
sure a few of them are floating
around here. You have one on an
on a disk drive somewhere. I bet
it's great. Yeah, I
John C Dvorak: bet they're
great. Probably right next to my
other stuff lost in the house.
Like, anyway, the point is, is
that you're doing an hour and a
half. And to do it sometimes
twice a day. It's just
ridiculous. And it's it should
be admired, not condemned. I
agree. I agree. Although, you
know, I think in that situation
of the DEA and the RNC, he could
have probably cut it to an hour
and it wouldn't nobody would
complain. I like to like if it
would. I liked listening to him
for an hour. I don't like
listening to an hour and a half
all the time, because I've only
heard maybe five of his whole
speeches because they're just
they're too long. Yeah. But
they're enjoyable, but they're
just too long. I don't have that
much time just and
Adam Curry: it was it was a
Thursday night we'd done the
show, you know you chill.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I have no
problem watching on Thursday
night. Back
Adam Curry: and Martini. You
know, it's like, Yeah, bring it
on. This is good. Let's go.
Let's go.
John C Dvorak: Alright, yeah,
can bring back a martini after
the show. wasted. So anyway,
onward with Brooks and key part
because there's a funny couple
of funny bits in here.
Unknown: David, did we get a
sense that you had a sense of
what a second Trump
administration would look like
from those remarks? And to
Jonathan's point, was that a
missed opportunity?
Yeah, I mean, first, I should
say, I think it was an extremely
successful convention. I
thought, you know, the spirit
was unlike any other convention
I've been to. People were
joyful. People were unified.
There were a lot of good
spirits, speakers, a lot of
good, memorable moments. There
was only one bad speaker and the
problem for the Republicans it
was from the nominee. And so I
agree with Jonathan, I agree
with Jonathan. I agree with
Jonathan that it was it was
sorted out well, and then it
just deteriorated. And what it
said to me the guy who had only
one job, there were remarks on a
teleprompter. All he had to do
was read the remarks and he
would be crude.
Adam Curry: That would mean you
could be president moron. No,
no, that's not how it worked.
Just read the
Unknown: teleprompter and be
present. Densho made the remarks
and he stops
John C Dvorak: up. So I want to
meet you. I've always thought
this because I've been I was
giving a lot of talks, I would
go to these events and hear
other people. Obviously you do
that. And one of the things I've
always been bugged by or people
that either read their speech
they had an on paper, yeah.
Usually didn't have
teleprompters at most events is,
for most general conferences,
there's not teleprompters there.
Because you know, Bayview work
in a studio, there's
teleprompters, but they would
sit there and they had their
speech written out, and they
would read the speech for 45
minutes, like you said, 45
minutes, and maybe some q&a. And
I'm thinking, why am I listening
to somebody read a speech, just
send me the speech, I could
probably read it to myself
faster. It was I always found it
very annoying to listen to some
public speaker. The best public
speakers are very
conversational. Mike. I heard
Ray Bradbury was a good example.
I got to see him and breakfast
of them the next day to just to
name drop there. Oh, I wonder
what Hey, Ray Ray Bradbury would
just talk. And it was
fascinating, because he's an
interesting guy.
Adam Curry: By the way, that's
exactly what Tucker did to. Yes,
Tucker came out. 1012 minutes.
Just no prompter just talking.
He's very good at that. Tucker
is an excellent orator.
John C Dvorak: Yes, I agree.
Okay, can I'm sorry, continue
the clip.
Unknown: All he had to do was
read the remarks, and he would
be cruising today. But he has
incapable of self control,
incapable of non self
indulgence, incapable of non
narcissism. And so what I took
away from the speech was any
hope that some people may have
heard that a second Trump term
would look different than the
first Trump term because the guy
is suddenly organized and
disciplined. That hope has to go
out the window. I mean, the
second Trump term looks to be as
shambolic and as chaotic as the
first Trump term was if it
happens, because the guy's
incapable of self control. I
Adam Curry: love how everyone
has to if he wins, do you hear
that constantly? Well, there's
this new Trump presidency. If it
happens, they'll catch
themselves. Yeah, they'll
John C Dvorak: catch him. So
they make one more complaint
here. Okay. Why do we have
Brooks and K part? But like he
says, I agree with him on I
agree with you more. So I, Chip
and Dale, it's unbelievable. Why
don't we have somebody that
actually has a perspective
that's different. We have two
people. This is the crap that
PBS puts out. And it shouldn't
be supported by anybody that
listens to this show. They have
two people that are in total
agreement with each other and
all they do is reconfirm what
the other guy said, This is not
of any value to the audience.
Adam Curry: And that's why we're
giving it to our audience so
they can have valueless value.
John C Dvorak: Okay, that's a
good one. Nice, dry.
Adam Curry: Onward. Number
three, yes, please,
Unknown: much more dangerous
kind of vicious language
targeting really black and brown
immigrants talking about them
carrying disease and attacking
women and stealing jobs. Did
that stick out to you at all?
Adam Curry: If he had said that?
I didn't hear black and brown
immigrants. I didn't hear that
whatever
Unknown: jobs did that stick out
to you at all? Yes, I
did. It's paradoxical. And I
can't remember another ticket
where both candidates are
married to an immigrant or
children of immigrants, illegal
immigrants. I think what's
happened is that global populism
has done two things. One is fed
on each other the or bonds
Giorgia Maloney is the Marine Le
Pen's and, and this has
Adam Curry: to stop too. By the
way. This is a very mainstream
thing when you are just an empty
suit of vapid waste of co2. The
GA Maloney's the Tucker
Carlson's the Keith Olbermann
means that there's only one of
each of those people. It's
starting to work on my nerves.
John C Dvorak: You know what I
mean? But what do you think that
the psychology is behind doing
it? Why, you know, they they
cite or bond and how about this
trying to demonize these people
by grouping them together? Yeah,
but
Adam Curry: you group them by
the like this. There's only one
Georgia Maloney. There's not a
whole bunch of Georgia
Maloney's. There's no one. She's
John C Dvorak: a totally
different person than Marine
LePen and totally different than
Orban they're very singular. The
only thing they have maybe in
common is what these guys like
to define as popular. You don't
populism you don't
Adam Curry: say the Adolf
Hitler's you know, there was
only one. So it's a weird it's a
weird thing. And it's, I think
it shows low IQ honestly. One
Unknown: is fed on each other.
The autobahns GA Maloney is the
Marine LePen once you
Adam Curry: just say Orban
Maloney LePen that would be I
don't know this something weird
about it that I haven't quite
figured out
Unknown: what it's fed on each
other the or bonds the GA
Maloney's, the Marinela pens
and, and the Donald Trump's have
fed. This anti immigrant theme
is the thing that unites them
globally. And so it's gotten
uglier and darker and Trump, our
grievance has gotten more
menacing. But at the same time
bid Maga is a much more
intellectually serious movement
than it was. It has an agenda.
It has a group of intellectuals
that has a group of magazines,
all of which is magazines. I
hadn't
Adam Curry: heard that. I hadn't
heard the magazines.
John C Dvorak: I don't know
anything about the magazines. By
the way. I
Adam Curry: think that's a
fantastic products. You know, AI
guns, zine ar 15 magazines
telling you, there's a product
right there. Hello, no, that's a
good one. Yeah, mag,
Unknown: all of which is is
personified by JD Vance. And the
fact that the teamsters were the
president was represented there
was a sign that something much
bigger here is happening, that
Trump's grievance and the
ugliness is true. But the idea
that there is an intellectual
movement here on defense of the
working class, that is also
true. And so I think both those
realities, one kind of
impressive the way they've
intellectually come together
around that agenda, and the
other kind of alarming that the
level of prejudice seems only to
increase.
Adam Curry: rather alarming. The
level of prejudice, prejudice
seems to increase. Oh, my God.
They they this is the way they
talk on the Upper East Side at
those dinner parties. Rush or
Briefing Books, rah rah,
shrinker lovers. Yeah.
John C Dvorak: Yeah. So far
Adam Curry: divorced from normal
people and podcasters that
they're losing my attention.
Luckily, only one more. Do you
need setup?
John C Dvorak: No setup. This is
a key part telling it like it
is. Jonathan,
Unknown: you reference the
implosion within the Democratic
Party right now telling me about
how what we saw happen inside
the Republican National
Convention in Milwaukee is
impacting what's happening on
the Democratic ticket right now.
It doesn't seem like it's
impacting it at all. But I just
want to push back on one thing
that David said it was more than
one bad speaker, Congresswoman
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Eric
Trump, Speaker Johnson. These
were people who were also
feeding red meat to the Trump
faithful in in the hall. Now,
you would you would think that
the Democrats would be focused
on not just Donald Trump's
speech, but all the other
speeches that were happening in
the lead up to Senator Vance's
speech and Donald Trump's
speech. But instead, Democrats
have been spending all their
time trying to push out the
sitting president of their own
party from running as the
nominee of their party and you
have the President having
contracted COVID be in isolation
and Jehovah's having all of
these people bringing more
pressure to bear on him to get
out of the race, just as we're
on the air. I don't know if
you've reported it yet. Senator
Sherrod Brown just said that the
President should should give up
his reelection bid. What
does that say to you that
Sherrod Brown, someone who has
known Joe Biden for as long as
he has in a critical state of
Ohio, that he's come forward to
do this. And
this tells me that the pressure
is going to continue to mount
that. It could be that the
President will have no choice
but to give up his reelection
campaign. But the big concern I
have is great. You guys succeed
in getting President President
Biden to give up his
presidential bid, but you don't
say who should be the top of the
ticket? And I'll say it again,
if vice president Kamala Harris
is not the top of the ticket
Democrats are guaranteed to
lose. Yeah,
Adam Curry: I agree. I agree
most most so to see if they pass
or lose anyway with her. Oh, but
it'll be fun. And be fun. Couple
more terrible.
John C Dvorak: Low thinks that
the blacks are going to turn out
in droves to vote for Kamala
Harris or Kamala no is her name
Kamal? I like binge be
pronouncing his she was black or
Camela if she was a white girl
and Mo
Adam Curry: is saying is that
the the black women who still
are all in loyal will be
outraged.
John C Dvorak: And when they
will be the black women will
come out but the black woman
would have voted for Biden so
wouldn't really change anything.
But they might bail. They won't
Adam Curry: vote they won't go
vote.
John C Dvorak: Yeah. Now I agree
with that. But what about the
black men does have anything to
say about that? I can't see
black any black male wanting to
vote for No, no. Comala
Adam Curry: for Trump, they're
voting for Trump. But I'm just
saying that from a party
perspective skipping over the
black woman it would be
destructive to their entire No,
John C Dvorak: we've we V Yeah.
I have being put this into play
long time because it can't be
done a couple of
Adam Curry: things. And then I
want to then I want to go to
CrowdStrike and then we'll come
back to because the conspiracy
therapist needs to step in The
last song that Trump played or
that was, I guess he does the
playlist. I think he does the
playlists. These are his songs
is what he likes. So during the
balloon drop, oh, it's the
balloon drop. Did you do you
catch the song? Nessun Dorma.
For you he
John C Dvorak: was to do was to
with the FBI also did a version
of some other patriotic song at
the very end.
Adam Curry: He before that, now
at the very end, that's not the
last song. Norma was the last
song was the very last song at
the very, very end. And although
I think I've heard this before,
I can't remember where in
connection to Trump. What a lot
of people were sending me is Do
you know what this means? And
I'm like, No, it's a power. I
know. It's a Pavarotti top 10.
No, it is a song that's played
at the end of the movie some of
the world and which I have not
seen, but I've now gone back and
I've seen the clips. And so the
subplot of this movie. So this
is Russia, blows up a nuke in
America. And it's really between
between Russia and the United
States. But it's the subplot is
the President of the United
States, they plot to take them
out with an assassination
attempt, which fails, as at the
very end of the movie, where the
President United States is
signing a peace treaty with the
Russian president. This song
starts to play. And then you see
Hitman going around to every
single one of the people who are
involved in the conspiracy to
assassinate the president and
they're shooting him in the
head. They're blowing up their
cars, they're slitting their
throats. And people saw that as
very symbolic Godfather Part One
very much so very, I thought and
I like Yeah, good one. Put them
on notice. Anyway, we'll get
back to we got to talk about JD
Vance. We got to talk about the
about the conspiracies whirling
around because that is of course
what I do. But first, let's go
to something that actually
impacted the entire world in a
massive way. It's
Unknown: a massive computer
outage wreaking havoc worldwide
grounding flights across the
globe, hitting airlines, banks,
stores, and even some 911
services. It makes
taking care of people in the
emergency room extremely
difficult, and time consuming as
if it wasn't already the
outage appears to stem from an
update from a cybersecurity
company called CrowdStrike.
Causing users of Microsoft
Windows operating systems to
crash CrowdStrike tells NBC News
at suffered a major outage
impacting businesses globally.
The CEO says in a statement
CrowdStrike is actively working
with customers impacted by a
defect found in a single content
update. That is not a security
incident or cyber attack. At
least three major US airlines
Delta American and united
grounded flights earlier this
morning. The FAA says several
airlines requested assistance
lines have been growing at
airports nationwide.
There's no information there's
no flights taking off, you have
no idea what's going on,
American
says has now been able to safely
reestablish our operation.
Across the country users on
social media have been posting
messages of their computer
screens stuck on what's called
the Blue Screen of Death. Around
the World. Microsoft has
released a statement saying we
acknowledge how impactful this
is to our customers. And we are
working to restore services for
those still experiencing
disruptions as quickly as
possible. So
Adam Curry: a couple things
before we get into some other
clips here first of all,
technically, that's not really
the blue screen of death, the
blue screen of death is you get
a bunch of binary code. I mean
this Microsoft still uses the
blue screen. It was far from the
blue screen of death because
there was a relatively easy fix,
which people could do. But I
hope everybody was nice to their
dudes named Ben and dudettes
named Bernadette because this
was a nightmare for sis admins.
Since almost every computer I
talked to Dave Jones at quite
some length about this.
Basically every computer that
was affected had to be manually
manually restored which means
hands on or you have to walk
someone through it over the
phone. And of course the the fun
part of this and I've learned
this myself if you have machines
that have BitLocker then you got
to make sure you got all those
BitLocker unlock codes and you
wind up typing those in every
single time that boots up it's
very arduous process very, very
annoying. I just from what I
understand that crowd
CrowdStrike releases these
updates all the time, so I was
kind of like wow, why Would you
do this on a Friday morning,
early or late Thursday night? It
was, you know, it's a no point
error, it's seems like something
that could have been avoided.
Why wouldn't you test this? For
those of you who had your, if
you're in a corporate
environment course, I had no
problem with the unit, neither.
If you had your computer shut
down during the night, this is a
little tip. If you shut down
your computer, at the end of the
day, if something like this
happens, you're more likely to
boot up after they fix it and
get a proper version or not a
bug version. So it would not
affect you at all. And so I
think a lot of sis admins are
learning that they have to get
their their workers to shut down
the computers at night. But wow,
did this show how vulnerable the
world is to this centralized
system? That was nothing
John C Dvorak: like nothing.
This is microservices
architecture.
Adam Curry: Yeah. But it comes
from one spot. Well, that
John C Dvorak: one element
amongst the micro services comes
from one spot. And this is the
problem. It could have been from
any any number of these crappy
systems that are but it's a
centralized together. It's
Adam Curry: a centralized bug.
Now it's I understand your
microservices thing. But that's
not what that is. This is
everybody on one service. That's
the problem. Everybody on one
service, except, of course,
Southwest Airlines, who still
run on Windows 3.1, and Windows
95. And they their computers
work just fine, which is
probably the most beautiful
message I've read in a long
time. Tina was actually flying
out she's on a Southwest is
fine.
John C Dvorak: But actually,
there's some irony. Oh, yeah. to
an extreme.
Adam Curry: I go that's Well,
hold on. Before we get there.
Before we get to a couple more
things. Just to show you the
severity of this because we
we've heard we've heard reports
and airline Jaya, this and that
So Christina, who works in
basically One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest. People with like
drug addiction and other issues.
She said they couldn't use the
phones, you know, none of the
computers worked and the
Netherlands, Schiphol Airport
completely shut down KLM and
subsequently Delta grounded
because they're so integrated.
They're like an annex of
Microsoft Windows architecture.
So everybody should be
rethinking this stuff because
you know, yeah, it was
CrowdStrike today, it could be a
bad Windows update tomorrow. A
boots on the ground from one of
our producers hospital just to
give you an idea of Ohio State
Cincinnati Children's Cleveland
Clinic all hit pretty hard. They
had to cancel emergency
surgeries not show a show how
they're functioning at all. He
says here's a real life example
from UPMC. In Pittsburgh, every
unit has a medicine dispensing
cabinet, think vending machine
for drugs nice. The nurses have
to pull from that to administer
any drugs to patients because of
course you know, they gotta
protect us because nurses
otherwise getting high and so
almost out the back door. All
the medicine cabinets blue
screen calls start to generate
by five in the morning the
vendor that supplies support for
the cabinets was pressured not
to wait for a fix because people
need their medication. So
service technicians went in
started replacing hard drives,
which is not just a swap all the
information that the cabinet
previously held the stored on a
server from the vendor. And of
course, that's where all the
configurations drugs and
quantities patient information.
So they replaced the hard drives
but the server was affected so
they couldn't download anything.
The cabinet was still not
restored. The only way to access
these drugs is through
specialized proprietary keys
that unlock mechanical overrides
in these are real, real problems
that people went through payment
terminals banks. Mind you
Bitcoin worked just fine. This
is a side note.
John C Dvorak: So I wouldn't it?
Well, I mean, mind you, my
computer work just fine.
Adam Curry: My point is that
people couldn't use their they
couldn't pay for stuff. They
couldn't buy stuff they couldn't
use get their money.
John C Dvorak: I want to just as
a note, let me read this boots
on the ground. This is producer
Eric. I'm a dude named Ben for
one of the larger counties in
Iowa, you got this note.
Approximately two years ago, the
state of Iowa's CTO signed a
contract with CrowdStrike that
would allow the state of Iowa to
offer the Falken endpoint
application suite, which is what
we're talking about to every
county municipality, police,
Sheriff's Department, prisons,
et cetera, for free. Yeah, yeah,
I'd never I still have yet to
figure out what their business
model is. If they're given this
away, your entity would sign an
agreement that you would install
this application on all your
endpoints and the state of
Iowa's own NOC would Manage
Alerts etc. For each of these
entities, the adoption rate was
over 75% Amongst these groups, I
mean, it's free. In meetings
I've attended with other county
IT staff statewide, the question
was raised as to why some of the
room didn't take up to free
offer. The main points were lack
of control. Yeah, to get
somebody it guys doing. Yeah,
lack of control of your endpoint
security and, quote, if we are
all in the same protection, we
all have the same exposure.
Adam Curry: Yes, connection is
protection.
John C Dvorak: I was called by
our 911 dispatchers about five
minutes after all the systems in
our comm center started
rebooting Yeah, as well as our
jail.
Adam Curry: Reboot the jail.
John C Dvorak: This is
ridiculous.
Adam Curry: What's not like
people? This is not like we
didn't all know this. Well, you
John C Dvorak: and I have been
bitching about CrowdStrike since
the pew pew days, here we
Unknown: go. Alright, Clinton
paid for it. And the Democrats a
lot of it had to do they say
with Ukraine, but Mr. President
are interesting. It's very
interesting. They have this
server right from the DNC
Democratic National Committee
who has the the FBI went in and
they told him get out of here,
you're not gonna We're not
giving it to you. They gave the
server to CrowdStrike, or
whatever it's called, which is a
country which is a company owned
by a very wealthy Ukrainian. And
I still want to see that server.
You know, the FBI has never
gotten that server. That's a big
part of this whole thing. Why
did they give it to a Ukrainian
company where
you are they did that? Are you
sure they gave it to Ukraine?
No,
that's what the word is. And
that's what I asked, actually,
in my phone call if you know, I
mean, I asked it very point
blank, because we're looking for
corruption. There's tremendous
corruption we're looking for,
why should we be giving hundreds
of millions of dollars to
countries where there's this
kind of corruption?
Adam Curry: So that's the first
thing I thought of when this
happened. Just going back to the
convention, whatever we do,
we've got Biden out sick, we've
got Trump, you know, he's, he's
going to be the story of the
day, they're already trying to
massage the story, although also
smartly, all the newspapers,
they had a deadline, I probably
11 You would know better than I
would, because I looked at the
New York Times, LA, the LA Times
had some snarky stuff in there,
because they were in a different
time schedule. But everything on
the East Coast had emailed Trump
speaks after assassination
attempt, they didn't have any of
the narrative of rambling, hate
filled all of that stuff. So it
gives later. So if you really
want to change the news cycle,
and boy did it, you pull one of
these stones, I completely
believe this was sabotage.
Completely. And that was also
CrowdStrike. I think it was
timed, I really did not put that
past this company in particular.
John C Dvorak: They, they're not
going to argue with you on this.
Adam Curry: I think they're
dirty, I think they're dirty.
And we've always thought
John C Dvorak: that we were
always suspicious of this
operation. Guess for a lot of
giving this stuff away for free.
And then I asked him, you know,
our producer about this, and he
didn't come back with the right
answer. And I had to ask him
again, wrong, why another reason
why, where's what's the business
model for making everybody and
you know, say, hey, look what we
got here. You can have it for
free. Oh, sweet. I mean, they
okay, we'll take it.
Adam Curry: But they're also in
essence, an extension of the
intelligence community. They're
in continuous contact about, you
know, fuzzy bear and foggy dude,
or whatever, you know, all these
different to Oh, but they got
another thing coming out. So
there's an open pipe between
intelligence and these guys. So
it just what a great way to just
change the news cycle. We need
something listen, here's the
meeting. Look, we've got Trump
out there and he's taken a
bullet for democracy. The RNC
gentlemen, what are we doing?
Well, who's producing the DNC?
Our stuff sucks compared to what
Trump did? This is great. He had
Hulk Hogan, Bad Kid Rock. What
are we doing? We got to change
this narrative. Quick. We got
Joe down President down. I know
what we'll do. Seriously. I
mean, I have before you get to
your clips, I have a couple of
clips from the CEO that
John C Dvorak: should mention
something according to at least
one of the guys who posted on
Twitter, which is that Blackrock
owns a chunk of a huge chunk of
CrowdStrike. BlackRock is deep
in the White House. Yeah, well,
they're everywhere. So the show
your thesis that, you know,
somebody came up with this idea.
You know, just let's do this.
Yeah. Is not completely out of
the realm of possibility. That's
Adam Curry: the word because
you'll recall, I got the word
Thursday during the show Biden's
quitting tonight. And I said
that would be great. Because you
I mean, Biden would have to quit
eventually. But it'd be great
because then you can change the
news narrative. And I guess they
went beyond the the negotiating
deadline and by the 100 million
dollars, which we discussed that
specific amount is everywhere.
Now. 100 million dollars. Yeah
for the foundation 100 million
dollars, give them a nice
parachute 100 million dollars.
So they had to negotiate that
exit they held out for you know,
maybe they wanted a net jets
card or something. I don't know.
John C Dvorak: No, no jet. No
god, no.
Adam Curry: No jet out show
title. No jet no deal. Exactly.
So they went beyond the beyond
the deadline. And they had to
pull something. I do not put it
past these goals at all. So I'm
gonna explain two quick clips
from the CrowdStrike CEO who
moved and it was hilarious.
Australia. This was one of my
dreams. Actually. You had
television shows which could
barely stay on the air. Because
Chiron is didn't work scripts
didn't work. I mean, more of
this, please. But just for the
for the television networks.
That's what I've always said,
how can we don't take those guys
out. So that was taking place so
that today's show manages to
cobbled together everyone to get
on the air and they bring in
George Kurtz, the CEO of
CrowdStrike.
Unknown: George, it's good to
see a lot of people woke up,
they saw that blue screen of
death, we've been hearing all
about the messes at the
airports, a lot of broadcast
channels, Australia, even ours.
Here. We were, we had those blue
screens everywhere. People are
wondering, what happens. So what
did happen? Yeah,
so first, thank you for giving
me the opportunity to chat with
you first, on air. And I want to
start with saying we're deeply
sorry for the impact that we've
caused to customers, to
travelers to anyone affected by
this including our company. So
we know what the issue is, we're
resolving and have resolved the
issue. Now it's recovering
systems that are out there. And
essentially, as you've talked
about in the statement I put out
is the system was sent an update
and that update had a software
bug in it and caused a an issue
with a Microsoft operating
system. And we identified this
very quickly and remediated the
issue. And our systems come back
online. As they're rebooted,
they're coming up and they're
working. And now we are working
with each and every customer to
make sure that we can bring them
back online. But that was the
extent of an issue, the issue in
terms of a bug that was related
to our update.
Adam Curry: Now listen to this
next clip. And
John C Dvorak: before we
continue, what's with this guy's
haircut? He's got to run blue
Mohawk. Because that's
Adam Curry: what you do, man.
When you have a haircut
John C Dvorak: is this for a CEO
of a company like this? You look
at this guy goes, This guy's a
CEO. What is this haircut?
Adam Curry: Yeah, yeah. It's
douchey. That's what you do when
you're a mogul? The mogul with
the Mohawk? Now tell me if this
because he says, Great to be
with you first. So I don't know
if he had done a whole bunch of
interviews, or this was his
first interview. It sounded
like, Hey, I'm glad I can break
this with you. They're NBC Today
show. So was he tired from
talking? Was he parched? Or was
he emotional
Unknown: error in the
cybersecurity business? And I
certainly don't even pretend to
understand this. But according
to your statement, it was a
single content update that has
managed to shut down air travel
credit card payment systems,
banks, broadcast street lights
911 Emergency around the globe.
Why is there not some kind of
redundancy or some sort of
backup? How has it been one
single software bug can have
such a profound and immediate
impact?
Adam Curry: It was just a glitch
lady. It was just the glitch.
Unknown: Well,
when you look at the complexity
of cybersecurity are always
trying to stay what once Excuse
me one step ahead of the
adversary. Now,
Adam Curry: is she choking? Is
the emotional listen again, it
goes on a little bit longer.
He's like, I
John C Dvorak: think it's a tell
he's lying.
Unknown: Well, when you look at
the complexity of cybersecurity
are always trying to stay once.
Excuse me one step ahead of the
adversaries. Yeah.
Give me just one second.
Oh, yeah, take take a drink of
water.
Adam Curry: I think it's the gun
pointed at his head from behind
the camera. Yeah, sorry.
Unknown: It's been a long night,
we're always trying to stay one
step ahead of the adversaries.
And in this particular case, you
know, our systems are always
looking for the latest attacks
from these adversaries that are
out there. So this content,
update one out and as as it
does, and it's been doing
before, for many, many years,
obviously, we've got a robust
team that's looking at the
safety and security and the
quality of these updates. And we
have to go back and see what
happened here. But if there's a
negative interaction with the
way some of these operating
systems work, in this particular
case, it was it was only a
Microsoft operating system that
was impacted. You'll see your
reaction like this and this is
you know what we've seen here.
Adam Curry: I mean, that was
that was who cares? That was
what I think there was a he's
just he's just trying to to
speak you know, like oh yeah,
this these things do not happen
certainly not frequently in
these types of companies I mean
it's just it just doesn't happen
it can't happen these things
cannot happen and it did happen
and it destroyed their
reputation be interesting to see
how the stock does tomorrow
John C Dvorak: well when you
want to get to my clips from PBS
go ahead let's let's roll well
you want to do them now because
it does this they bring on okay
they do it the base I'm gonna
give you the rundown because
there's fighting five or six
clips. Yeah. They do the basic
rundown of the problem. They use
the word glitch too much they
bring in an expert who is a
cyber security guy who's an old
man with a white beard and one
of those little Scott Scotsman's
caps a golf cap thing.
Unknown: Why? Why? And
John C Dvorak: so they bring
this guy in who's a grump and
he's actually pretty decent. But
the it brings up the thing in my
mind, which is of course the the
bad guys couldn't have done a
better job of shutting down half
the world than these guys did
just by suppose it accident. How
Adam Curry: about government? I
mean, do you have any idea the
government's basically shut down
everywhere?
John C Dvorak: Everything shut
down. That it was involved with
this not obviously the 25% of
the Iowa counties didn't use the
product error probably hold on,
sir, I'm sure. Southwest there's
this
Adam Curry: little something I
gotta tell you. Headline
CrowdStrike global tech outed
snarls early voting in Arizona.
I thought these things were
supposed to be a networked.
Unknown: Wow. Yeah.
Adam Curry: He from their own
website cybersecurity and
election security Resource
Center. Cybersecurity is a
fundamental pillar of election
security. The elections
community and their partners in
government NGOs, and the private
sector must remain vigilant in
the face of potential threats,
elections, infrastructure and
systems enterprises that
administer elections campaigns,
and the channels through which
elections information results
are communicated can all be
targeted by us. Awareness is the
first step learn how cried
CrowdStrike can help. Yeah.
John C Dvorak: So just what you
said, I thought these things
weren't connected to the
internet. They're not supposed
voting systems.
Adam Curry: So this could also
be a nice dry run for the
election.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, well, they
gotta if they're gonna get
Camberley and they're gonna have
to do it through to choose
various means Can I
Adam Curry: Can I just get the
glitch thing out of my system
and then you won't hear me hear
me about it again. Just just
Sure.
Ladies and gentlemen of the
press of the media. This was not
a glitch. A glitch is when your
television goes first, second, a
glitches when you're when your
lights flash off for a second.
This is not a glitch. This was
for all intents and purposes a
centralized attack on the entire
world from one company whose now
like owes
Unknown: glitch.
Adam Curry: It's a very it's
very poor reporting. You should
have to turn in your press
John C Dvorak: Oh gee, poor
reporting in today's day and
age. I just me write this down
and get the date. Again,
reporting go don't
Adam Curry: like the glitch
term. It is. How can you call
this a glitch people died. You
got guaranteed people died.
Weddings weren't attended.
Birthdays weren't celebrated.
Medications were not given. Not
a glitch.
John C Dvorak: All right. Like
the mere fact that they have
this thing hooked to a medical
Cabinet will become believable.
Have you not
Adam Curry: seen Soprano's? I
mean, the nurse was hooked on
this stuff.
John C Dvorak: Oh, no, I know.
No, I'm not talking about that.
I'm talking about the fact that
this system, this overriding
International System of
interconnections would be hooked
to one of these cabinets, you'd
think it would just be a million
ways secure things you want to
go through this these guys.
Okay, let's start. This is the
PBS news hours presentation. I
believe they use glitch and they
do all the other mistakes and I
have thoughts on every one of
these clips.
Unknown: All right, we started
With numero uno, we start
tonight with a tech outage
around the world that halted
flights disrupted emergency
services and created headaches
for businesses.
The underlying problems behind
the glitch were fixed by the
afternoon. But the ripple
effects have lasted throughout
the day and may continue well
into tomorrow.
And as William Brangham reports,
1000s of passengers are still
trying to get to their
destinations tonight.
It was the glitch filth around
the world. Today's software
failure triggered far reaching
and frustrating outages
globally, air travelers were
among the most directly affected
with 10s of 1000s of flights
delayed and 1000s more canceled.
I've never seen it like this
before. Especially in this
airport. This airport is my
favorite because it's usually
getting it out. The
outage was caused by a faulty
software update within
Microsoft's Windows operating
system. Many users first notice
the problem when they saw the
notorious so called Blue Screen
of Death. The faulty update was
issued by the cybersecurity firm
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz
offered a mia culpa this morning
on the Today Show, we're
deeply sorry for the impact that
we've caused to customers, to
travelers to anyone affected by
this including our company. So
we know what the issue is. We're
resolving and have resolved the
issue now.
Adam Curry: I just want to make
a correction. It was not the
sopranos it was Jackie Edie
Falco, who was on The Sopranos
played the nurse
John C Dvorak: carry on this
that we didn't know what you
said. No, I said you said have
you seen The Sopranos? Yeah, but
she played Jack. She had a spin
off. So Jackie, the other thing
Oh, yeah, she was she was the
neuro ICU. You associated okay.
Yeah.
Adam Curry: Yeah.
John C Dvorak: Thanks for the
correction. Yeah. Well,
Adam Curry: I Hey, we don't want
to be fact checked on the show.
John C Dvorak: Ever. That'll be
the day.
Adam Curry: All right. So that
was the end of that commentary
and every clip. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: I do. Okay, let's
start off with the Oh, we're so
sorry. Where is the liability of
aspect of this? Where are the
Legal Eagles? I
Adam Curry: asked Dave Jones
about this. I said they're gonna
get sued. He said
John C Dvorak: he laughed. I
mean, I would laugh too, because
I he
Adam Curry: said there every
single EULA contains so many
outs for the US companies.
There's no way you can you guess
John C Dvorak: is because the
EULA has been in the EULA has
been turned into a protective
mechanism illegally I might add
by the court system because they
don't want to deal with what the
possibilities are. I mean, if
you remember what the Supreme
Court oh my god because we're
going to drop the Chevron
deference is going to be
resulted in a bunch of actual
work we're going to have to do
Oh no. So the EULA which has
been enshrined just
Adam Curry: give everybody for
those who don't know EULA e u l,
a end user license agreement.
That is when you install it when
when your iPhone says want to
update you say yeah, it gives
you that big screen you go Yeah,
I agree.
John C Dvorak: Because you have
to or it won't work it won't
work you get a EULA when you buy
a Tesla yeah so when the cart
when you put it on autopilot and
slams you into a brick wall in
your dad your family really
can't sue tough which was you
know if you have the opportunity
as a business guy to install a
EULA on everything giving you
free at you know you're in other
words your your judgment proof
basically yeah, you're gonna do
that. But let's continue I make
this is gonna be my main
complaint but can DFA
Unknown: temporarily grounded
major US airlines including
United American and delta with
flight stalled check ins were
brought to a standstill. You're
his passenger in Minneapolis was
disappointed with his airlines
response.
What's interesting to watch is
the airline have no idea what's
happening. Because it is such a
such an issue that they don't
have a grasp on yet, at least
here at the Minneapolis Airport
across the
world in Australia, travelers
had to fend for themselves.
flights
have been canceled. So they're
we're trying to find a
combination in Sydney, which is
not easy towards the trying to
do that online. And then we'll
have to try and get a flying
home somewhere else somewhere.
sometime. I don't know. It
wasn't just air travel that was
affected. hospitals and
healthcare systems overseas were
also locked up forcing the
cancellation of appointments and
the closing of clinics.
Massachusetts General Hospital
had to limit operations
announcing quote, due to the
severity of this issue, all
previously scheduled non urgent
surgeries, procedures and
medical visits are canceled
today. The outage also impacted
911 Call systems in many places
and emergency services in
Oregon, Alaska. Arizona global
news outlets like Sky News were
unable to broadcast their
regular programs. A
major global IT outage is
impacting many of the world's
largest companies, including us
here at Sky News.
John C Dvorak: Okay, yeah, I
don't have any comments on that
client made a mistake kind of
bogus. I mean, besides the fact
that Dallas is just more than
three states that were 911
services were affected. It was
everywhere. It was every because
everybody and I back it to the
guy in Iowa says this was a free
product
Adam Curry: until it's free.
That's got to make you
suspicious.
John C Dvorak: It makes me to
this minute it makes me very
suspicious. Why was it free, for
example, for
Adam Curry: exactly this moment?
When I need to pull the ripcord
CrowdStrike is your uncle. This
Dr. Pepper is flat in the can.
John C Dvorak: That's weird. You
have a flat Dr. Pepper.
Adam Curry: It didn't even go
up.
John C Dvorak: Maybe Oh, it's
probably had a pinhole
somewhere. I used to be a cannon
Specter. I know this sounds
weird. Well,
Adam Curry: this was not
inspected by John C. Dvorak.
That's for sure. So we used
John C Dvorak: to have I used to
work at Kaiser Aluminum, this is
going to be an aside, I do
actually go to hear the story
when people come for
Adam Curry: their stories.
John C Dvorak: So I so I'm
working the can I mean, I'm in a
Spectre two, which is the only
if anyone kids out there become
an inspector, that's your best
bet. So I'm an inspector on the
candy factory. And they the CANS
go flying by this giant in
accumulate and you can look down
and you can see the CANS that
don't have the coating inside
there's they spray a coating
inside all the cans. And it's a
different coating for a
different taste flavor.
Decoding, there's two there were
two coatings at this factory.
And they one of them was the was
a special epoxy coating that I
think they had to use on Coca
Cola or any drinks that had a
phosphate, phosphoric acid in
the in the in the mix, and the
data was a different color. But
there you could tell the ones
that weren't coded and there'd
be a candidate would come to
every so often it was encoded.
And it would be like silvery,
because it was just the color of
the aluminum and never had the
coating on it. And so I wasn't
the only guy who did this. But
once in a while, you'd look over
at final inspection because
there's another guy down way
down the line. And if he was
away from his is his station
could end they had to go do
something and you saw one of
these cans with this pure silver
which you'd normally pull out. I
know I just I'm a terrible
employee for doing this but
everybody did this. You'd let
the can go through and see it
get palletized and go over to
Coca Cola, or whoever it was
where they were they they would
fill it with some caustic soda
and then soda pop is caustic and
then you just know that it would
very slowly dissolve the
aluminum and become a submitter
just just the ink on the
outside. You've already blow up
on the line. But there was there
were opportunities for the
coating not to be completely
then you which we couldn't catch
and it would create this just a
pinhole area that pinhole would
get it it could be microscopic
could get eaten away by the soda
Dr peppers of phosphoric acid
base soda and he would have a
pinhole and it would just slowly
leash the co2 over a period of
about a month as that's what you
get one of those cans.
Adam Curry: Well first of all, a
story I have not heard first
time in 17 years appreciate it.
I love the term working the
cans. Because from now on that's
all I can ever associate with
you sir. Work in the can
inspector he's had so many jobs.
You are a versatile man.
John C Dvorak: Like an
inspector.
Adam Curry: He see my
stepdaughter she's beautiful.
She I'm sure here we go neatly
brought me to fresh cans. Thank
you so much.
Unknown: All right here we go.
In Paris. Olympic officials say
some of their systems were also
down. In many places, courts
were also closed or delayed.
While the underlying software
problem has been fixed, security
experts say residual problems
could continue for several days.
So to help us understand more
about what went wrong and the
broader risks to our system. We
turn again to Bruce Schneier.
He's an expert in computer
security and technology, a
lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy
School and writes the wonderful
blog Schneier on security
wonderful Schneier. Thanks so
much for being here again. How's
your stand the basics here, what
is it that went wrong?
Adam Curry: Every every solution
from Bruce is Spinrite Eight
spin, right? Just you spin
right? It'll bring it right
back.
Unknown: You know, basically
there are hundreds of companies
that do small things that are
critical to the internet
functioning. And today, one of
them failed.
Adam Curry: So you knew it was
Bruce, you just said the guy
with the hat. You didn't want to
give it away that was shine
Schneier shine or shine or
what's his name? Bruce?
Unknown: Yeah, Bruce.
Adam Curry: Yeah. Oh, I'm
John C Dvorak: sorry, the
Spinrite. Guy you're
Adam Curry: thinking of Jimson?
Yeah, I'm thinking of Gibson.
Anyway, it's still the solution
to everything.
John C Dvorak: But the point is,
is this guy brings out this
micro East he's discussing
microservices architecture never
says it. But he claims and
microservices architecture holds
up to the internet, which isn't
true. So we're right away at the
right at the beginning here is
assertions are wrong? Boy,
Unknown: it's company you've
probably never heard of and
wouldn't hear of if it didn't
fail. It's one of many. The
details are geeky. But basically
one of the critical things that
holds the internet up fell down.
Okay,
but no simple little is not true
glitch today. Stopped surgeries
from happening had 911 systems
go down? I mean, if that can be
happening because of an
accident. I mean, what would
happen if there was a motivated
bad actor getting into these
systems,
we see that remember, change
healthcare, we don't get
prescriptions because a
ransomware. Remember, Colonial
Pipeline where oil stopped
flowing in the East Coast,
because the ransomware we see
this again, and again, sometimes
it's malice, sometimes it's
accident. But there are so many
critical things that make this
network function. And if any one
of them fails, the network
fails. So
or is it just that we are too
over reliant on a concentrated
number of companies? It's
concentrated and the fact that
there's no, no resilience, that
it's a very fragile system? And
a lot of that is the way is the
economics? Right, it
redundancies are viewed as
inefficient. So they're pulled
out of the system because of
profits. But that ends up with a
very fragile system. It all
works great when it works. When
it fails. It fails
catastrophically, which is what
we saw today.
So is that the incentive here?
Is that to change to make a
meaningful incentive to sort of
build in that redundancy? Is it
economics? Principally,
it's economics, we have the
technology here, you know, I can
describe ways that CrowdStrike
could have rolled out this
change incrementally and caught
this before it was a disaster.
We could talk about maybe there
being a dozen companies do the
same thing so that the disaster
is contained. But really it is
funnily economics, the business
incentive is to grow and become
critical, and then run as lean
as absolutely possible.
Adam Curry: So I have a question
for you. I think everyone
deserves to hear your definition
of microservices. Because first
of all, I believe that 95% of
all problems on the actual
network when this was not a
network problem, this was a this
was a a specific problem related
to one company that delivers a
service to Windows network
computers. 95% of the problems
is DNS, which do you consider
DNS to be a micro service?
John C Dvorak: No, DNS is a
basic service. Okay, what is
micro, you can't do anything
without DNS. You can do plenty
without micro services. So
explain micro services. micro
services are subsystems that a
lot of bigger systems rely on.
So exam, for example, that does
CrowdStrike thing or anything,
give me another exam
Adam Curry: that give me another
exam.
John C Dvorak: I'll give you
some examples. You have, you
have databases of birth dates.
And so somebody like Amazon,
Amazon doesn't keep any of this
information. They go to a micro
service, look up your birthday
and send you Hey, happy
birthday. It's your birthday
today. Okay, that'd be wrong.
Could be right. Okay. So micro
services are telling you what
your location is in Miami.
Adam Curry: Hold on to like
Ticketmaster. They, I think was
Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster, it
wasn't just recently you said,
Oh, well, you know, a third
party was hosting our database
with information or something
like that. And that one got
hacked. That's
John C Dvorak: those, those
third parties are all micro
services. micro service will
will say, Well, we're this.
It'll say, well, you're like I'm
using, I use VPNs. And now all
of a sudden, I go to some
system, and it says, Oh, I see
that you're in New Mexico. I see
you're here. You're there.
That's not where I am. I'm in.
I'm in Berkeley. But no, no, no.
Because a microservice tells
them that I'm in New Mexico. We
Adam Curry: used to call web
services.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, web
services. Yeah. Okay. And
they're always and they're part
of the overall system and
they're being pinged for
information constantly and a lot
of them are, are, are in such a
way they're done. They're
architected in such a way way
into the main software that if
they fail, the whole system
fails. Now a lot of them don't
aren't designed that way. But a
lot of them are designed to be,
you know, if if this fails, and
this isn't gonna work at all
Adam Curry: right? So snowflake,
who actually was hosting all
that data for Ticketmaster and
for many other companies
microservice. And actually, for
25 apps and services out there
podcast index.org, is by that
definition of micro service. And
if we go down, then all those
apps have problems.
John C Dvorak: I would say
that's true. And it's also micro
services, it can get to the
point where the minutia, where
microservice is actually telling
you what time it is. Yeah, and
that conscript. So I mean that
these little things, but they
some of them are crucial, and
there's no redundancy and the
code isn't written properly. So
if the micro service fails, it
just ignores the lack of data
and keeps on his merry way.
Obviously, that didn't happen
with this. Now this guy may
makes the point that
redundancies couldn't be made
built anywhere, you have two
microservices, one covering for
the other, doing the exact same
thing. But oh, that would cost
an extra nickel even though the
service they're giving it away
for free. But it will cost
somebody and Nagel in
Adam Curry: this case, I think
the level of access that the
this crowdsite microservice has
is right into the the core of
the of the boot up process and
the networking, so probably
wouldn't be able to failover to
something else. But that's a
separate issue.
John C Dvorak: Well, I think it
could, if it would, what this
guy's point was, is that it's
it's cheaper to do it the way
they're doing it and you make
more money, and you can have big
bonuses and get million dollar
payouts for the CEO, and on and
on. Which none of this would be
the case this none of this would
have happened. None of this
would have been the case. If
these guys were liable. If they
were liable for screwing over
the airline customers and they
could be sued for not you missed
your flight. You missed this,
you missed that you missed a
business meeting. I am suing
you. If you could sue over this
stuff not and you can't because
of EULAs, which are made as some
government protection for the
software industry. It's bullcrap
it these things should be banned
immediately. And we should have
a normal system. Like if you
make a piece of a product A made
out of, you know, like a car and
the car fails and you there's no
EULA involved, you can sue them.
And it's what happened with the
Pinto and the exploding gas
tanks. You can sue you can't sue
over this because of these, the
government protection based on
the courts allowing these Ulus
to exist in the US are bogus
because it's you can't you
either can't use the product. If
you don't sign off, or you just
can't use it you're not you
know, you can get it as a kid to
sign it and the kids are liable
for they can't legally signed
contracts. So there's some angle
there. But this is government.
This is protectionism, John C de
Bourgh. Acts as Eva de
Adam Curry: Yeah, feel the Feels
good, doesn't it? Onward.
Unknown: So what do you think
the downstream consequences for
CrowdStrike? And or Microsoft
will be? Or will there be none?
There
will be none? What were the
downstream consequences for
Colonial Pipeline or change
healthcare, or the dozens of
other incidents like this in the
past few years? We move on,
right? Politics is all
consuming. This is a blip
tomorrow, I don't even think
it's gonna be news
on a practical basis for an
individual who late last night
or today might have done some
online transaction paid a bill
transferred money, do they need
to worry it? Could this have
impacted them in some way, make
it good. If they were flying
today, if they wanted to, you
know, needed nine on one
services, hospitals, a lot of
things collapsed, but really is
individual, there's nothing you
can do. You're not in charge of
these networks. You don't get to
say what products and services
are used or not. We are all at
the mercy of mercenary, large
consolidated systems. And when
they fail, you know, our life is
impacted. The only way to make
this change at the political
level, right agitate for some
meaningful rules here that will
keep companies from being this
lean while you're kind of
Adam Curry: on board with what
he's saying.
John C Dvorak: No I'm not he
wants to regulate do regulation.
Adam Curry: Oh, no. I mean, he's
saying we need something at the
government level which would be
changing the the EU law nonsense
you said it's protectionism
protectionism from the
government that's kind of what
you said Miss unless Yes,
John C Dvorak: that's what it is
is protectionism but but going
toward the focus on regulation?
Oh, we should regulate when you
all you have to do is pull the
plug on EULAs and say hey, no,
no, this is a product. You
bought the product a product has
made guarantees to you about
certain things if you bought a
product from should do this,
that and the other and it
doesn't, it fails. It doesn't do
this, that and the other doesn't
do anything. You can sue over
that. I can't do that today. I
would
Adam Curry: like all of our
producers who also work at CNBC
or other television news
stations, you should get Jhansi
Dvorak on the air. This is this.
You got one of those hats one of
those little like, if like
John C Dvorak: a guy with a
little French hat, Scottish
Scottish cap,
Adam Curry: you got to have a
look. If you have a look, then
they'll keep calling you. Oh,
yeah, we go to Jhansi Dvorak. So
John C Dvorak: the point is, is
that this guy's again, the old
you know, this is a liberal
attitude. Oh, let's just do
regulations, regulations. This
is an example you should
deregulate, you should get rid
of EULAs deregulate let the
legal system takes due course I
don't understand and this idea
of regulating what are you going
to regulate?
Adam Curry: You think you've
made your point? Yeah, I
John C Dvorak: know. I just, I'm
just pounding at home. I'm doing
what I've taken. Finally. I do
Nick curry. Yeah.
Adam Curry: You know, what
happens? You're gonna get a lot
of email, you get annoyed at
people who said,
John C Dvorak: because that's
what I already get that I know,
I know, everything from the tip
of the day, I will tell you
about that. Okay, I'll leave
Adam Curry: that for later.
Okay, last clip here who were
getting through it.
Unknown: But you know, the
difficulties of that kind of a
thing. One, that's not a
constituency that's naturally
out there that's organically
fighting for this kind of a
thing. Absent that, are there?
Are there political leaders that
could be doing this that can be
pressing this in a regulatory
way?
I mean, there can I don't think
there will be. It's we have a
lot of trouble because the
United States regulating
anything. And this is certainly
not the worst disaster. This is
just one of many this is today's
disaster. So yes, there could be
change, I wouldn't expect it. EU
is doing better. You see more
meaningful regulation there. But
even there, they're not doing
the kinds of things that will
make our critical infrastructure
more redundant, more resilient.
All right, Bruce Schneier of
Schneier on security. Thanks so
much for being here. Wow.
Adam Curry: All right. Thanks so
much again. Geez. So the fallout
from this will be I don't know
if we're gonna get much
reporting on it from here on out
because it was just a glitch.
Yeah, big deal. But I think a
John C Dvorak: billions of
dollars to the economies of the
of the world
Adam Curry: a nice or at least
everyone got hit a nice October
surprise, oh, voting machines
glitch glitch, which, I mean, if
a voting machines are connected
to this, they can put all kinds
of stuff in there. They're at
the low one of the lowest levels
of the operating good. They
don't think they've been doing
it. I'm sorry, what am I even
saying? Yes. So this should be
very telling. I've always been
led to believe voting machines
are not connected to the
network. They keep saying it,
don't they, by definition, if
CrowdStrike is in there, and
it's working as advertised, it's
connected to something. So that
should be a Gillespie County.
Pen and paper. No voting
machines here. All right, let me
let me put up the sign here. The
conspiracy therapist is an All
right. Couple of things. Related
to the shooting, first of all,
thank you. We have the best
podcast producers in the
universe. Douchebag. Pat came in
regarding the shorting of the D
J. T stock prior to the
shooting. Well, well, well. I
mean, how many emails did we not
receive about? Oh, yeah,
BlackRock and Clinton. They're
shorting and made money just
like 911 Airlines. And
douchebag. Pat says, Well, I
looked at the volume price
action since July, when the
stock button was very subdued
average trading range less than
normal. The stock price was flat
during the entire time, the
average daily volume was about
11 million shares. So it's
almost impossible that 12
million got shorted without any
ramifications. He says I checked
the put value volume. This would
be the snapshot of how many
contracts existed at the end of
the day on July 12. Before the
shooting, I put up a chart of
every single option contract
that had over 1000 contracts.
Most of the put buying occurred
after the run ups that can be
attributed to things like the
debate in June, as far as
reports of 120,000 put contracts
being bought. There were not
even 120,000 Put contracts in
existence. Yep, I saw zero
evidence of any ramped up put
buying during July through the
12th before the shooting. And so
he says this is bogus. That is
absolutely absolutely bogus.
John C Dvorak: Probably true
that was unclear should be
ashamed of themselves for
sending us this.
Adam Curry: They don't know I
mean that no, they should know
they should be Dogen
John C Dvorak: The listener
should get included some
Adam Curry: police should not be
ashamed. It's just what it is.
Okay, they shouldn't be ashamed.
Now a couple a couple of other
things. Now I just want you to
read it reiterate. I believe
you're on board with this
general thesis that from the no
agenda perspective, we seen this
many times. This looks like the
FBI specifically, by the way,
FBI with the guys on the roof
hosing it down. Closing down the
evidence. Hello, FBI. The minute
we heard that this kid had some
bombs with a remote control up
on the roof. Immediately this
this is a very stereotypical FBI
six week cycle operation, you
find some weak brother online,
who's talking terrorism is
yelling about Allahu Akbar.
Don't get mad at me. I'm just
saying. You know, and then they
jack him up like, yeah, it was
all Yeah. Do you want to cause
some mayhem? Yeah, we should do
this. And they jack them around
for two months. And then they
give him a phony baloney
detonator. And then the minute
he goes to press the button,
which doesn't work, they swoop
in save the day, we almost
almost blew everybody up. And
the funny
John C Dvorak: thing is, we keep
overlooking the Whitmer
kidnapping, murder plot was
largely one of these operations.
Well,
Adam Curry: interesting that you
bring that up. Here's two clips
Unknown: or sign here. Whitmer
kidnap plot victim, but you were
one of them. You were one of the
ones to talk to you for very
long. So real quick, I'm gonna
go back to Miranda but tell me
real quick. We only got about 20
seconds. All right. You're so
you're one of the ones that got
arrested for the plot. Yes, sir.
Eric, I'm Eric Molitor. Tell me
about it real quick, real quick.
I don't even know where to
start. FBI infiltrated basically
set it up. Am I right? The FBI
set everything out. They drove
people they paid for everything
how they wrote the script,
Governor Whitmer herself open
her scheduling book and decided
with the FBI and State police
wouldn't be the best time for
the daytime ride the nighttime
ride, then they do people into
it. They even have proof we even
have proof of them telling
people get as many people in the
trucks as possible and don't
tell them what you're doing
until they're already on the
road. The idea was 100% setup
and Governor what Marian if they
can do it to nobody like me.
They will come after everybody
else. So let me ask your partner
this without getting I don't
know if you're still going
through the legal battles on it
acquitted man acquitted,
acquitted. So this is one of
those things. She's still out
there pushing this as if it was
a legitimate thing that there
was a kidnap plot against her
that she set up with the FBI.
It's walk me through what
actually happened that night. Oh
my gosh, man. So I didn't go on
to what's known as the nighttime
ride. I was duped into the
daytime ride. And oh my gosh,
again, there's so much that goes
into anyways, I set up a Civil
Defense Force for my area in
Wexford Cadillac city, because
Antifa bail almost coming up
there. Through this process. I
met Adam Fox who lived down here
in Grand Rapids actually, after
a while he got me a job in
private security, which was
really awesome. I thought that
Stewart was really, really cool.
And he actually is a good guy,
by the way. So
Adam Curry: you get the idea.
Actually, I have a longer clip
of that, but it was fake. And
then NPR stations. So one of the
troll room just posted are still
talking about it in Michigan as
if it all was real and happened
it wasn't the guys were
acquitted. It was a setup.
John C Dvorak: So this is where
all acquitted because they got
the FBI got busted. So this is
Adam Curry: very typical of the
FBI, specifically the FBI. And
no one typically no one gets
hurt, but they can swoop in.
Remember the guy with the drones
in DC like this huge, remote
controlled aircraft drive it
over and over and over again. We
see this except you're
John C Dvorak: right, the FBI
goes out of their way or tries
to go out of their way. So
nobody gets hurt. Yeah, they
just get arrested. And they and
the FBI budget goes up. Well,
Adam Curry: or at least they
maintain it or it goes up. And
yeah, and so our thinking is
that this kid kind of went rogue
as you say freelance and he
brought his dad's rifle I like
yeah, you know what, I'm gonna
really I'm gonna do something
here. Everything points towards
this, including
John C Dvorak: so much more,
including the dad calling 911
Yes,
Adam Curry: yes. The Wall Street
Journal has a lot of reporting.
They say he was for the past
year, he was quietly quietly
receiving nice reporting Wall
Street Journal, quietly
receiving several packages that
were marked hazardous material,
some of which law enforcement
officials think he might have
used to make a pair of homemade
bombs. Now notice there was no
detonation of the bombs. No one
has told about I mean, we know a
little bit about what was in
them basically, you know, like
your standard ammonium bomb was
some nitro flicker makan in
there, whatever. It doesn't
matter nitrates what you're
saying. But they didn't they
didn't explode. They didn't
detonate them. He had a he had a
fireworks ignition system. By
the way the antenna was broken
off at least in the picture I
saw. He had two cell phone It's
I mean, this reeks of an FBI
setup. But the kid who has a
horrible shot, he's like, you
know, I'm going to show that I'm
a good shot. And he comes in and
he tries to shoot Trump and
comes very close. This there's
something else that if if there
was any noise out there or some
rumor, you remember the first
headlines, what were the first
headlines that came out? When?
When, when when Trump was shot
during the first headlines? No,
I don't loud noises scare Trump.
John C Dvorak: Oh, that was the
headlines from the from from
multiple, multiple multiple
outlets that tried to downplay
the whole thing,
Adam Curry: or were they
expecting loud noises? were they
expecting some pre written
maybe? Maybe I'm just saying
it's just
John C Dvorak: that they made
fools of themselves by putting
in the headlines. Oh, Trump
falls. So
Adam Curry: I think that it's
very possible that a couple of
these outlets, were ready to go.
Loud noises Trump, you know,
there was a couple of headlines.
And we all looked at it and
said, Oh, man, they can't even
say that he got shot. I mean,
obviously, it's the difference
between loud noises and
gunshots. Gunshot everyone heard
was gunshots. There was no
mistake in that whatsoever.
Where did these headlines come
from? That that I think it just
adds to our possible scenario
here. Then we hear there's a lot
of multiple shooter stuff out
there. And so there's some
really grainy video where you
have the water tower, you see
the water, even the top of the
water tower is going back and
forth because the camera is
zooming in and zooming out. I
mean, know that. As far as I
know, there were
John C Dvorak: these things that
people are buying. It's just
like, what if they were they?
Adam Curry: If there were two
shooters, Trump would be dead?
If I even heard today. The guy
had a zipline, he zipline down
from the water tower. Okay, all
right. It's nonsense. Then we
have the audio analysis,
multiple guns, multiple
shooters. I liked it. A little
bit about audio. I liked this.
By the way, I liked the idea of
looking at the sound, the crack
and the retort. So pluck, pluck
foam, pluck foam, two seconds
between each one. And then the
last one on the last four shots,
or three or four shots. You hear
there's a different distance
between the talk and film. What
I think I can dispute this, this
audio is taken outside, on a
camera on a phone, which is
moving around, you're going to
get different acoustics you're
going to get all kinds of
different slap backs from a
camera that is not stationary.
It's not like it was a
stationary mic.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, there's
also the thing that seems to be
ignored. wish there were two
shooters. One of them was the
Secret Service sniper shooting
at the kid.
Adam Curry: Well, supposedly,
the ninth shot is that one. But
we don't know. Breaking news. We
don't really know.
John C Dvorak: We don't know.
But it's since the ninth shot
was that one. We have one guy
who has? No he's just kind of
chuckling to himself as though
he's solved the whole thing. And
he shows the guy shooting three
times. This hole is just
ridiculous.
Adam Curry: So there is a large
contingent of people out there
believing this was a complete
setup. I mean, people I respect,
this is the biggest show on
earth. I and I have to say
again, no. If this was not if it
was October, I would give you
some leeway. They make Oh, but
this was for he was going to win
the nomination anyway, this is
not to get him nominated. This
makes no sense that this was a
false flag. Already. It was you
know, he he had a little ear
clip, you know, He clipped his
own ear. And when he put his
head no, no. How about it was
real. How about that for a
second? It was real. But the
mounting evidence, evidence and
circumstances of this kid is
amazing. We're seeing a
narrative being built. It is all
coming from sources. From phone
calls that people aren't allowed
to talk to there's no briefing
for everything else in the
world. We get daily briefings,
we get the FBI, they're up
there, you know, you maybe get
the Secret Service, someone's
going to be talking about it,
but there's nothing there's none
of that. So it's very fishy,
that that's not happening. And I
don't think it's because there's
some conspiracy outside of the
FBI trying to pull off one of
the little gambits but then we
have this bombshell.
Unknown: In the meantime, we do
want to get into this new
bombshell report right now shell
just moments ago coming in from
the Wall Street Journal, and I'm
going to read from some of the
piece and this is quite
stunning. Let's take some of
this video out there. Here's
what we know. According to The
Wall Street Journal, they just
published this piece that a
gunman who tried to kill Donald
Trump was able to fly a drone
and get aerial footage of the
Western Pennsylvania
fairgrounds. Shortly before the
former president was set to
speak their law enforcement
officials briefed on the matter
said further underscoring the
stunning security lapses ahead
of Trump's assassination. They
go on to say And they're
reporting that Thomas Matthew
crooks flew the drone on a
programmed flight path earlier
in the day on July the 13th. to
scour the butler farm
Showgrounds ahead of Trump's ill
fated rally according to the
officials, the predetermined
path, the officials added,
suggests crooks flew the drone
more than once as he researched
and scoped out the event site.
So
Adam Curry: I would like to see
said drone. I'd like to get a
little bit of information about
this drone. What kind of drone
was it because there was a TFR
in place a temporary flight
restriction has very normal when
the when someone of this stature
speaks, and it's a zone and it
was all around this entire area
where you cannot fly it and they
put it out and in no time notice
to Airmen. Oh, I'm sorry. That's
misogynistic. And as a part of
it, and so even even a drone
flying would be under this TFR
and in fact, it says in the know
time the Department of Defense,
the Department of Homeland
Security, the Department of
Justice may take security action
that results in the interference
disruptions seizure, damaging or
destruction of unmanned aircraft
deemed to pose a credible safety
or security threat to protected
personnel or assets. So
possible, that's just bullcrap.
And they're not looking at all
for drones. I don't think drones
have transponders. But if there
were serious about this
security, then you know, as they
portend here, yes, then that is
something that probably should
not have been able to happen. I
John C Dvorak: want to correct
your terminology. sexist and
misogyny is not they're not
synonyms. I'm
Adam Curry: sorry. Yes, sexist.
I'm just sexist.
John C Dvorak: Wait, since
you're playing that, like that's
a distraction. Let's play this
Josh Hawley clip. It's a false
report.
Adam Curry: You're jumping
ahead, but okay, we can do this.
Where is yes, Jess, harlot. Can
we just wait one second on the
Josh Holly thing? Because the
secret services is last. Secret
Services last. All right, then
it will play it. Yeah. Yeah.
Because he has the
whistleblower. So now we're
starting to supposedly Yeah, now
now we're starting to build up a
little bit of a profile with
different news reports.
Unknown: They do know that he
registered as a Republican a
couple of days after his 18th
birthday. But that's, you know
that and I think his final
search on the internet was for
pornography. He also looked for
pictures of both Trump and
Biden. And also Chris Wray, the
FBI director and Merrick
Garland. So he was very angry, I
think with the government in
general,
Adam Curry: beautiful. First of
all, he's he's an INCEL. Looking
for porn. Couldn't be FBI
couldn't be involved because he
had a picture of FBI director
Chris rea on his phone. So the
Department of Justice because
you know, we got the Attorney
General there. No, wait, where'd
John C Dvorak: you get this
clip?
Adam Curry: I don't remember
where I got that from it.
John C Dvorak: This is planned
his story. This is his plan. I
don't have to be nice to know
the source. Okay. Yes, someone
Adam Curry: sent it to me and it
was no source I should have
asked for a source. Normally
habits such as this as CNN,
here's a big part of the of the
story that's being created law
Unknown: enforcement sources
telling CNN that there were
pictures on the shooters phone
of both President Biden and
President Trump, but law
enforcement. Sources also noted
that there were other Political
figures on his phone as well,
including pictures of House
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries,
and speaker Mike Johnson, but no
threatening language
accompanying any of those
photos. And
Adam Curry: you know, what I
love about there were pictures
on what did he have in an album,
they have him as his screen, his
lock screen,
John C Dvorak: we had to look at
the picture of Trump mood before
he took the shot to make sure.
Adam Curry: I mean, this is
completely bogus. The
Unknown: other thing is new
information is that crooks
apparently has searched for
information on major depression
disorder. But still law
enforcement officials say that
there's no evidence that he
himself had any diagnosis. And
the last thing, sir, that I'll
note is from the House Briefing
law, say legislative sources
were telling us that the shooter
actually visited that rally site
twice before the shooting. And
cellphone data shows that he was
at that rally site at least 70
minutes prior to the shooting.
So
Adam Curry: this is new, this is
something new, they have not
done it before, which tells me
they're a little desperate,
because clearly, this is not
politically motivated. We can't
blame it on that. Can't blame it
on the FBI in the oh, he was
very interested in Hakeem
Jeffries. Okay, sure. But the
Daily Mail expert
John C Dvorak: before before he
go on, I want to say what you're
doing. You are showing that the
FBI was reverse engineering, a
possible scenario because of the
screw up but of the kids growing
up with this kid with the kid
going rogue so now what are we
going to do? Yes, let's start
piecing together a phony story.
Yes.
Adam Curry: Including and this
is new. They never do this.
Doctors say antidepressants may
have pushed Trump shooter Thomas
crooks over the edge as Oh, as
concerning new details emerge.
Now and remember, let me just
read a few pieces from this
report. Details are beginning to
emerge about the state of mind
of Donald Trump's would be
assassin after the FBI gain
access to his cell phone this
week apparently had two or three
but okay. Though no concrete
motive has been established
Thomas crooks exclusive story.
Internet history revealed he
searched for information about
major depressive disorder in the
days leading up to the attack.
In addition to that,
John C Dvorak: well, by the way
that shows there's a flaw
because according to the
reports, he never went got
diagnosed by a doctor. So how
did he get the prescription?
Adam Curry: We Oh, we don't know
if he if he was looking for
prescription, but this Oh
John C Dvorak: no. How did he
get the prescription? He was
told if they're gonna start
blaming drugs on this. Somebody
has yet to get diagnosed.
Adam Curry: Well, they haven't
figured that one out yet. But
this story, I have never seen
this before. This story from The
Daily Mail links to an Oxford
Department of Psychiatry. Story
depression linked to violent
crime study finds. Wow, didn't
hear about that. Three times
more likely, according to
Oxford, three times more likely
to commit violent acts, violent
crimes. If you're on
antidepressants. Gee, what next?
Video games make you do this
stuff? I mean, come on. I'm
trying to see if this there was
one more piece let me see if
this is it. a
Unknown: clearer picture of the
shooter and the actions of 20
year old Thomas Matthew crooks
is emerging.
Adam Curry: From the FBI at you
Unknown: crooks is emerging. A
source familiar with the
investigation telling NBC News
crooks flew a drone oh,
Adam Curry: by the way, crooks
worked at a nursing home maybe
had access to drugs there. You
never know. Those
Unknown: familiar with the
investigation telling NBC News
crooks flew a drone at the rally
site mere hours before Donald
Trump took the stage. While
common for the Secret Service to
banned drones over areas they
are securing. It's unclear if
that happened in this case,
drone and drone equipment were
found in Crixus car according to
a senior law enforcement source.
To senior law enforcement
sources tell NBC News The FBI
has uncovered more than 14,000
links on the phone to the
shooter. And then online
searches by crooks involved
depressive disorder, explosive
materials and chemical compounds
as well as information about the
2021 Oxford High School mass
shooting and convicted shooter
Ethan crumbly
Adam Curry: that's the one who's
the one whose parents went to
jail.
John C Dvorak: Cromley maybe
yeah, criminally maybe I'm using
14,000 links first of all with a
phone first got is cracked. It's
there is nothing on it. If I
don't know maybe I just heard
that. And now all of a sudden
this 14,000 14,000 links on your
phone you guys gotta get he's
got to have some tendinitis in
his thumbs. Well, there's a lot
of links. I mean,
Adam Curry: one one web page
could have 100 links. We have no
and breaking news. We have no
information. We're building a
story as you said the reverse
engineering a story around this
kid because it did not do what
they wanted. They wanted some
loud bang bang noises this kid
Oh crazy. Oh yeah, they probably
would have killed him. Probably.
John C Dvorak: Not necessarily.
I'm gonna kill these other guys
like the crazy guys that were
trying to blow up one thing you
know that Muslims, that guys
that they were at a party and
they're going to blow up
something Florida alive. I'm
going to say necessarily kill
anybody.
Adam Curry: I'm going to set you
up for the holly clip or the
Unknown: House Oversight
Committee has subpoenaed the
Secret Service Director Kimberly
Cheeto to appear before that
panel on Monday as they
investigate the security
breakdown. That apparently made
the shooting possible over the
past weekend. Republican
Congressman Mark Alford of
Missouri joins me now.
Congressman, thank you very much
for joining us. I guess. First
of all, we know that law
enforcement officials briefed
members of Congress yesterday
about some of the details of
that assassination attempt over
the weekend. What did you hear
from that briefing regarding the
shooting that stood out to you
Well, Jim, thanks for having me
on.
Yes, I was on that briefing
call. It was an Off The Record
call. So there's not a lot that
I can share with you. I will
tell you in generalities though
director Cheadle and director
Ray did acknowledge that this
was a failure, insecurity. And I
believe that Mike Johnson, our
speaker was the one to say that
this was the biggest security
failure for the Secret Service
since Ronald Reagan was shot.
They gave us a timeline, a very
detailed timeline of what went
on, but no real answers. And
they said, at this point, we're
really not ruling anything out
that we have to continue the
investigation, in a candid let
the facts lead us where they
may. So of
John C Dvorak: course, to
continue writing the script,
we're not we're not done with
the script too many we get some
creative people, it takes them a
while sometimes. Yeah. And you
Adam Curry: know, there was a
strike, so it's hard to get them
back. So now we have all kinds
of new reporting. Turns out
well, you know, we kind of had
resource issues. That's why we
went all dei to get anybody in
there that we could, some of
these secret service agents
probably weren't even really,
you know, regular Secret Service
agents, we have to sometimes get
local people turns out, just
like I said, we're not living in
the West Wing people. This is
not a Harrison Ford Presidential
movie. It's real life.
Government sucks. They don't
protect anybody or anything. Not
really. They don't protect you.
And, you know, even President
Biden I got a picture from one
of our producers when he arrived
at Delaware Air Force Base
Delaware. Yeah. He says I just
got in with my regular
credentials went right up to the
up to the fence took this
picture. I could have done
anything. Could have done
anything at that. I could have
picked him right off. Probably
yeah, because it's it's a hoax
does
John C Dvorak: or is this when
he went to Baphomet where is
that? Baphomet Delaware's?
Really? Baphomet Are you kidding
me?
Adam Curry: Baphomet the he goes
to Baphomet please tell me it's
Baphomet is there a bathroom?
It? Oh, no, no, no, we
John C Dvorak: hold that over
Jehovah the bathroom that some
Taos Baphomet
Adam Curry: he better not.
Baphomet? No, there's no such
thing as bad from Delaware. But
he may have gone to see Baphomet
I don't know. All right. So now
you're
John C Dvorak: this is a short
clip from Fox News. And this is
only part of the long, long,
long clip on this, but I thought
it would at least it brings in
another element of confusion and
Unknown: we continue to follow
the latest here in Trump's
attempted assassination. We are
getting big breaking news here
on this Friday. This is all
recording. Josh Hawley. He has
whistleblowers coming to him
that detail most of Trump's
security detail working the
event last Saturday, we're not
even Secret Service. Again,
we're not even Secret Service
Day, DHS assigned unprepared and
inexperienced personnel. So this
is the letter A right now that
Senator Josh Hawley just put out
to the Department of Homeland
Security saying I write to raise
concerns brought to me by
whistleblowers about your
department's stunning failure to
protect former President Trump
on July 13 2024. As Secretary of
Homeland Security, you are
ultimately responsible for your
agency. And its components,
including the US Secret Service,
whistleblowers who have direct
knowledge of the event have
approached my office. According
to the allegations, the July 13
rally was considered to be a
loose security event.
Adam Curry: There's all kinds of
stories out there.
John C Dvorak: And it doesn't
make any sense with the fact
that supposedly another I think
misdirection which is that Iran
has got a hit on Trump. Yeah,
was my favorite. Yeah, so this
is just this is bordering on
ridiculous, and it doesn't help
by the way with all the false
flag narratives and the rest of
it. The whole thing is a joke,
Adam Curry: but we've all been
conditioned to this. We've all
been conditioned to be looking
at these things. Well, I mean,
this is so our comes razor for
the show, at least, like come
on. We've seen this we've seen
this script. We've seen the
reverse engineering of the of
the actor, and it's so obvious
the kids stopped me he went got
50 rolls 50 rounds, man, that's
half a box but what is that? 50
rounds, nothing. Cut 50 rounds,
but
John C Dvorak: that's a pretty
big bullet. Don't think that's
half of I think it's I think
they come in 100 I don't think
that big bullet comes in 100 big
bullet. It's a 556 is a big
bullet. It's
Adam Curry: not a 2002 You know,
it's a 556
John C Dvorak: they they've
discovered they fit rods been
brought out and just discussed
The lot. That is a 556
Adam Curry: Douchebag Pat says
50 rounds in a box
John C Dvorak: of that big 556
bullet. I don't think so.
Adam Curry: 556 is not that big.
John C Dvorak: Okay, 5050 rounds
in a box. So we bought a box.
One got a box, whatever you
bought whatever he bought, he
took his dad's
Adam Curry: gun. The dad's like,
hey, I can call a 911. We think
we don't know. Breaking this
true to
John C Dvorak: we don't have any
proof of back don't know
anything Russian. So no, the
whole thing is bad. It's bad
morning.
Adam Curry: And before Biden
resigned. Thank you everybody
for jumping in. Biden resigned.
Thank you. I'm it's like people
are texting me.
John C Dvorak: Yes. A little
late.
Adam Curry: I got you. That's
okay. News travel. We
John C Dvorak: opened the show
with Biden resigned. Not
Adam Curry: everyone. Not
everybody had people just trying
to be helpful, just trying to be
helpful. So, the word the
headlines were that Cheeto was
going to resign, which she
better do because she didn't she
wants to resign before she I
don't know if she can get out of
this hearing. But you want some
ratings. Man Cheeto. Tomorrow is
going to be fantastic. I
John C Dvorak: hate to say it,
but you're right. So I'm going
to end up to go opening up the C
span. Yeah. So
Adam Curry: Captain Obvious
Jesse waters somehow got to
President Trump on in the
studio. No one
Unknown: told you not to
take the stage. Nobody mentioned
it. Nobody said there was a
problem. And I would have waited
for 15. They could have said
let's wait for 15 minutes. 20
minutes, five minutes, something
nobody said I think that was a
mistake. How did somebody get on
that roof? And why wasn't he
reported because people saw that
he was on the roof. We knew had
Trumpers screaming a woman in
the red in the red shirt. She
was screaming in a man on the
roof and then other people's it
is a man on the roof who's got a
gun? And that was quite a bit
before I walked onto the stage.
So you would have thought
somebody would have done
something about it? No.
Adam Curry: And I'm just gonna
keep it where it is. FBI sting
typical six week cycle went
wrong. Supposed to be Bang Bang
Trump was supposed to be
cowering make him look all
scared running away. Maybe
that's why the photographer was
there. Who got the who got the
shot, you know, with the bullet
flying through the air, which
Thank you. At least 100
photographers have told us this
is completely possible. Not
crazy. Not fake. Not phony. So
calm down every mostly
John C Dvorak: about that one.
8000s. Shutter speed. More notes
on that than anything.
Adam Curry: Yeah, calm down. I
John C Dvorak: don't think we
said it was impossible. Did we?
I
Adam Curry: know. You actually
said bullcrap. But it's okay. I
said bull crap. Yeah, it's okay.
It's okay. People are more upset
about your tip of the day than
that. Trust me. So
John C Dvorak: they are they're
upset about them. I'm going to
stop doing Tip of the day
because they get so much blow
for you don't get that was Oh
crap.
Adam Curry: Oh, by entities that
people love you. Hey, you know
you're over the target when
you're getting Flack. Oh,
John C Dvorak: yeah, must be it.
Adam Curry: Alright, I'm gonna
close the conspiracy. Well, no,
I'm gonna keep the door open for
a minute because we gotta go
into the next piece, which is
critically important. Lo and
behold, on the Bill Maher show,
which I just happen to catch on
CNN because I was prepping last
night. And you know I was having
scanning through the channels
just to see if I need to clip
anything which by the way,
YouTube TV, here's a tip of the
day. YouTube TV is so awesome
for that because you can just
stop it. Click back a little
bit, get my clip machine going
roll it got the clip. Fantastic.
And that's how I got who told
you this? You did. So it should
have been Tip of the Day. It
should
John C Dvorak: have been Yeah,
YouTube TV is dynamite because
of his virtual record fueled
recording system is a virtual
PCR and you can basically record
everything and it keeps it for
like 90 days. Yeah,
Adam Curry: I mean, I've already
got all my favorite Olympic
sports lined up as great
recording fencing.
John C Dvorak: I doubt well
you'd have that but that would
be the only one no and athletic.
Yes, that's not gay enough for
you. Fencing is wow. The I'm
sorry that it was uncalled for
fencing
Adam Curry: is anything but gay.
That's a real man sport.
John C Dvorak: Without all the
protective gear I say yes.
Adam Curry: So who shows up for
the opening interview on Bill
Maher show? Mayor Pete. Pete
Buda judge, very interesting.
Spoke better than he usually
does. Should
Unknown: Joe Biden have fired
the Secret Service head. I mean,
I don't understand that. I'm
not in on all the details of the
Homeland Security side. I know
there's really serious after
action report and process and a
whole lot of scrutiny going on
there. I think you know,
everything that led up to that
moment that horrible moment is
under a microscope. And I
believe that President Biden in
the administration will do the
right thing. But you didn't
need a microscope to see it.
Yeah, but you also was on the
roof. Like, like, not that far
away with a rifle for a long
time. I mean, I know. I've seen
people fired for less. And it
just looks bad. It looks like
Well, the other guy from the
other party got shot, we'll look
into it. If we got time. I think
it's doing something of this
gravity happens. You don't just
dash off a decision, you do a
comprehensive process to find
every single piece of anything
that could go wrong. And then
there's going to be
accountability, and there's
going to be changed. I'm sure of
that. Again, I'm not in the
middle that obviously that's not
my lane. But I know that's
what's going
Adam Curry: on I lane, that's
not my lane. It's not his lane.
So it's like, well, we know what
pizza lane is.
John C Dvorak: So Whoa, that
well, that's what triggered me
on the other thing.
Adam Curry: That's that's what
happened. So then he gets into
JD Vance. And I have a few
things to say about JD Vance,
because I've done some
reflection and thinking about
it. And all of a sudden became
incredibly clear to me,
actually, Thursday night when I
was watching JD Vance. And and
you know, and his wife and just
seeing all the dynamics
happening. JD Vance, of course,
people have a lot of issues with
him, mainly because he switched
from a never Trumper which Vance
himself says, Well, that was,
you know, I was 30. I said dumb
things. And I got three girls
around 30. And I agree with
that. When you're 30. I've said
dumb stuff when I was 30. But he
changed his tune. Then of
course, there's the very
problematic connection to the
PayPal Mafia to Elon and to
teal. And he was in the, you
know, was a venture capital guy
and now and teal helped him win
Ohio and it went so fast and he
changed his name. You know, he
changed his last name. He
changed his first name,
manufactured candidates. So
let's hear from Mayor Pete.
Unknown: I know a lot of guys
like JD Vance. I run into a lot
of guys like him not so much.
When I was growing up at Diageo.
Peter Thiel is his big backer.
Yeah, for sure. Okay, if people
aren't who that is, he started
PayPal. If he's gay, he's a
billionaire. I mean, I've had a
couple of people who knew you
were coming on this week's Ask
Pete. What do you thinks about
Peter Thiel being so in love
with JD Vance who is against
flatly against gay marriage? So
I think it's a profound
contradiction, but maybe it's
not that complicated. I know.
There are a lot of folks who say
what's going on with some of
these Silicon Valley folks
veering into Trump world with
the JD Vance and backing Trump.
What are they thinking still
come Valley's supposed to be you
know, they're supposed to care
about climate they're supposed
to be, you know, our pro science
and rational and libertarians.
Normally, Libertarians don't
like authoritarians. What's up
with that? I think it's actually
we've made it wait. These are
very rich men who've decided to
back the Republican Party that
tends to do good things for very
rich men.
That's kind of what you're
getting is. That's kind of what
you're getting with Jay do.
Right. So I knew a lot of people
like him. When when I got to
Harvard, I found a lot of people
like him who would say whatever
they needed to get ahead. And
five years ago, that seemed like
being the anti Trump
Republicans. So that's what he
was talking about how he was on
fitted, how he was cynical,
called him an OP fighter, which
is kind of a weird thing to say
about a person but definitely a
really good I mean, for somebody
whose identity is that they're
connected to Appalachia, which
has an opioid crisis. That
really is the darkest thing you
could possibly say about Donald
Trump.
Adam Curry: Okay, so first thing
we need to look at is the
Silicon Valley connection Trump
talked about, talked about the
power needed for AI is like,
Yeah, I'll get you as much power
as you want. Drill, baby drill,
by the way, before I forget,
Trump also told gave a signal to
the military industrial complex,
but you heard him say, big,
beautiful ship being built here.
Big beautiful ship and an Iron
Dome around America. Does it get
any better? The contracts are
being written as we speak, so
there'll be no war, but we'll
have finally Reagan Star Wars,
or as Trump called it spaceship
or whatever
John C Dvorak: he has, he
screwed it up.
Adam Curry: I mean, he set up
Space Force. So we're going to
have an Iron Dome. Perfect. So
there's your military guys.
They're like, Oh, okay, well,
good. We got lucky with that a
lot of work to do. But bringing
in the Silicon Valley, money
people who are as we've
discussed horrors, because
they're Democrat or Republican,
it doesn't matter whoever is
going to be their guy who was
going to and that's what Peter
Thiel was doing. He was of
course funding JD Vance. Let's
get him in. You know, then we
because you know, he understands
And he can get the regulation
lifted on AI because those guys
still believe in it. They gotta
believe in something. Crypto
regulation, Bitcoin. All of that
makes total sense. And just to
give you a little idea of I
mean, this blew my mind.
Zuckerberg Zuckerberg even
saying things like this,
Unknown: I've done some stuff
personally in the past, I'm not
planning on doing that this
time. And that includes, you
know, not endorsing either of
the candidates. Now, look, I'm
there's obviously a lot of crazy
stuff going on in the world.
I've been to historic events
over the last, like, over the
weekend. And I mean, a personal
note, it's, yeah, I mean, seeing
Donald Trump get get up after
getting shot in the face, and
pump his fist in the air with
the American flag is one of the
most badass things I've ever
seen in my life. But, but look,
I mean, it's, you know, as I
think like, it's some level as
an American, it's like, look
look hard to not get kind of
emotional about that spirit. And
that fight. And I think that
that's why a lot of people, like
the guy,
Adam Curry: Mark Zuckerberg has
no emotional bone in his body.
He's like, Oh, regulation for
Facebook, facebook, you know,
Trump's gonna hate me because
now we kicked them off. And so
so it's very normal for a guy
like Trump to bring in the
Silicon Valley clan, bring in
the money, bring all the big
boys in, bring in the social
media guys, Elon, what flipped
on a dime said he never endorsed
any candidate makes total sense.
Now we get to, will he be
reliable? Can you trust him as a
vice president? Will he be a
true partner five
Unknown: years later, one way he
gets ahead is that he's the
greatest guy since sliced bread.
And actually watch this exact
same process with somebody else
I got to know, in my days in the
Midwest, which was my former
governor, Mike Pence, who I
watched start out as an
evangelical Christian who cared
about rectitude and family
values, and then get on board
with a guy who was mixed up with
a porn star, make excuses for
him, so that he could have
power. And then he did. He got
four glorious years, I guess, as
vice president United States.
And it ended on the west front
of the Capitol with Trump
supporters proposing that he be
hanged for using the one shred
of integrity, he still had to
stand up to an attempt to
overthrow the government. So I
guess, maybe not as a
politician, but as a human
being. What I'll say is that I
hope things work out a little
bit better for JD Vance.
Adam Curry: All right. What does
everyone get all panties all in
a bunch about the connection to
the intelligence community
because Peter Thiel Palantir
Whitney Webb WOTUS wrote a 6800
word essay about JD Vance, the
man behind Trump's VP, VP pick
is worse than you think.
Intelligence. totally new thing
for me information awareness.
This is the worst thing Trump is
a dummy. He's an idiot. He's
bringing in the intelligence.
We're gonna be all under
surveillance. 24/7 Welcome to my
office here in the conspiracy
therapist. suite of offices.
Trump is smart. When when pence
became untrustworthy, he just
says guys a loser. When JD Vance
is untrustworthy, guys, a loser
will know very quickly. But
first, you're bringing in the
Silicon Valley billionaires. And
he's an art of an art of war
guy. You keep your friends
close, but your enemies even
closer. Of course, you want the
intelligence community in your
vice president. So you can miss
direct, you can give me a little
bit of information, see where it
comes back. This is a brilliant
move. You want the intel
community? You want to know who
the guy is? I think Vance is
probably reasonably smart, but
maybe not super smart. This is
exactly what you want to do.
Because the intelligence
community is the danger. So this
I mean, I cannot agree with all
of these. These people getting
their panties in a bunch and
getting all spun up. This is
what you want. You want a
president who knows what the
Intel communities are doing?
Because he's got them in the
office next door. And he knows
the guy. This is what you do.
You want to find a leak in your
company. Give some information
to somebody that only that
person has. See where it comes
out. I'm closing the door.
John C Dvorak: Does sound effect
Yes.
Adam Curry: So don't worry
everybody. Now, will trump stay
alive? I mean, I heard this
morning. There was what's his
face Sorkin Sorkin who wrote the
West Wing didn't eat and Sorkin
write the West Wing and was one
of the one of the West Wing
producers. Andrew Ross Sorkin.
John C Dvorak: I don't think so.
I thought he was I think you're
thinking of the other guy who is
the well, we'll just keep
talking about check it out.
Okay. Yeah. You know, we don't
have to guess. Yes, please.
Adam Curry: So he's, he does an
op ed in in the Aaron
John C Dvorak: Sorkin
Adam Curry: Oh, okay. That's why
I was confused. Well, Andrew
Ross Sorkin isn't is a weenie
anyway. He does an op ed in the
New York Times and he says, Joe
Biden out the solution. Mitt
Romney, the Democrats should run
Mitt Romney which I think is
probably what Vivek was been
talking about. Oh, no. Oh, no.
The Who are they? You watch you
they're gonna pick you watch and
we'll never be Trump to hate so
they actually suggest Mitt
Romney for the Democrats. How
about that?
John C Dvorak: That's very
funny. If it was a humor column
I take it down
Adam Curry: on unfortunately
these guys are void of any humor
so I think that's about all we
all we can answer right and
wrong. That's about all we can
answer right now. Because
breaking news, nobody knows
anything. We have no information
there bill. We're
John C Dvorak: not gonna get any
more than we're doing our
analysis as far as it goes.
Adam Curry: And with that, I'd
like to thank you for your
courage say in the morning to
you the man who put the C in the
can inspectors say hello to my
friend on the other end, the one
and only Mr. John.
John C Dvorak: Good morning to
you, Michelle and Kareem is
watching graphene near subs in
the water. And all the names of
knights out there.
Adam Curry: Well, we are an hour
late. Wow, I'm pretty impressed.
Actually. 20 899 Two hours in.
Unknown: That's good.
Adam Curry: That's good. That's
a great number. Hello, trolls.
Good to have you here. Of
course, we had 1000 come in to
tell us that Biden quit. So we
appreciate you guys so much that
matches
John C Dvorak: the price
equipment he did. I thought it's
gonna go another week at least.
Well, I mean,
Adam Curry: I had Thursday
night, you know, so I was that
was I was. I was close. Well, we
had we had a different
distraction, because it was but
no cigar. They didn't get the
jet card. So they had to come
up. Which brings us to the bonus
clip. Oh, look at that. Is that
something that you sent that I
don't have? No,
John C Dvorak: I have it right
here. No, it's on the list by
his bonus for the we always like
to say that people are nations.
Yes.
Adam Curry: But for the for the
bonus clip? Yes. Okay.
John C Dvorak: Blyden not going
anywhere.
Unknown: President Joe Biden's
campaign meanwhile, continues to
insist this weekend that Biden
will not step down as the
Democratic presidential
candidate calls for Biden to
drop out of the race have
continued to grow with the
latest coming from a senator
from the Midwest. NPRs Elena
more explains,
we saw Senator Sherrod Brown of
Ohio come forward. And he's in a
really competitive race this
fall. And he argues that the
speculation around Biden's
political future is actually
taking away from the messaging
around issues that he is trying
to use to keep his seat you
know, and you know, he was
actually the fourth senator to
call for Biden to step aside and
there's been more than two dozen
elected House Democrats who have
said the same thing
John C Dvorak: this weekend he's
not quitting no not quit just so
you get that out. Yeah. All
right. So there's these reports
are bogus I guess because today
is part of the weekend
Adam Curry: now and we've been
calling we've been telling this
is gonna happen. We were so
clear. It was obvious that it
only happened two days later.
Not bad. Not bad.
Unknown: So three, actually.
Adam Curry: Okay, three, still
pretty close. We had the number
right and you watch the jet card
will be a part of it. Along with
the foundation. Excuse me, along
with the foundation 100 million
dollars. It's gonna be some
money. Yeah, seed money. Party,
everybody party at Hunter's
house. So those trolls that we
just counted are in the troll
room troll room.io You can find
that 24/7 There's always trolls
hanging out there. It's part of
the no agenda stream empire. We
have shows on there all the
time. As I said 24/7 Some of
them are the podcast had been
recorded previously or we do
have a schedule so us or bemrose
schedules everything nicely. So
you whenever you go in there,
there's something fresh a lot of
live shows. Darren O'Neil does
his live show before our
Thursday and Sunday shows and
and often there's a live show
afterwards. Let me see. Do we
have a live show after today?
Oh, yes. Yeah. Unrelenting. I
don't know if that's live or
not, but they're doing the
CrowdStrike chaos so it's a good
place to hang out. And you can
also use a modern podcast app,
which will alert you when we go
live or any of these shows go
live really which is kind of
cool. And it also tells you
within 90 seconds of us
publishing your show if you
couldn't listen live that it's
there. It's got chapters with
cool art. Dred Scott does those
for us. It's got transcripts.
It's got a Hootenanny of