0:00
John C Dvorak: It was all
corrupt.
0:01
Adam Curry: Adam curry Jhansi
Devora July 21 2024. And this
0:06
year award winning give a nation
media assassination episode 1670
0:09
Nice
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Unknown: is no agenda battling
0:13
Adam Curry: blue screens in
broadcasting live from the heart
0:17
of the country here and femur.
Reason number six in the morning
0:20
everybody. I'm Adam curry
0:22
John C Dvorak: and from Northern
Silicon Valley we're all saying
0:24
false flag. I'm John Cena moreq
0:28
Unknown: Buzzkill.
0:30
Adam Curry: Even better than
that breaking, breaking breaking
0:33
by Alert, alert, Alert, alert,
Biden drops out. He just dropped
0:38
out. He just dropped out
literally minutes before we
0:42
started.
0:43
John C Dvorak: Well, he didn't
drop out during the speech.
0:46
Yeah,
0:46
Adam Curry: I know. I know.
You're gonna
0:49
John C Dvorak: say he didn't
drop out during the speech. I
0:52
thought you're gonna when he
should have dropped out? Yeah,
0:54
well,
0:55
Adam Curry: they had a had a
different distraction in mind.
0:57
Remember, the whole idea was to
distract from the RNC to have
1:01
Biden drop out Sunday night or
sorry, Thursday night or Friday
1:05
morning didn't happen. Instead,
we got a glitch. You want to
1:10
hear his his note what he wrote?
Yes, please. Now I had to check
1:14
it with other mainstream
sources, because it's not on
1:17
official presidential
letterhead, which I found, oh,
1:22
to be suspicious. I know it'd
1:25
John C Dvorak: be, could be
Babylon be well,
1:27
Adam Curry: then I went to let's
just go to cnn.com Biden drops
1:31
out of race. Okay. So what if
we've were duped everybody's to
1:36
my fellow Americans. For the
past three and a half years,
1:39
we've made great progress as a
nation, blah, blah, blah, blah,
1:42
blah. I know, none of this can
be done without you, the
1:45
American people, blah, blah,
blah. We protected our
1:47
democracy. It has been the
greatest honor of my life to
1:50
serve as your President. And
while it has been my intention
1:52
to seek reelection, I believe it
is in the best interest of my
1:54
party and the country for me to
stand down and focus solely on
1:57
fulfilling my duties as
president for the remainder of
2:00
my term. I guess they finalize
the deal.
2:05
John C Dvorak: Yes, as Vivek,
put it, so aptly put it in the
2:10
in his analysis.
2:12
Adam Curry: What did he say?
Well, he
2:14
John C Dvorak: did play a four
or five clips of him do Oh,
2:18
yeah. And he said that he's just
holding that for a better deal.
2:22
Yeah. Well, we
2:23
Adam Curry: knew that. I mean,
we didn't know in fact, listen
2:25
to this show. We didn't need him
to repeat what we're saying. The
2:30
President does say a Taiwan's
thank Vice President come out
2:33
Kamala Harris for being an
extraordinary partner and all
2:36
this work and let me express my
heartfelt appreciation for the
2:38
American people. So no, no news
on that what they're going to do
2:41
now. So I'm sure you know, it's
like, but
2:43
John C Dvorak: we know what
you're going to do to get to
2:44
pick Kamla. If they don't or
come Allah depends. Is she
2:47
black? Either one, Mala she's
why she's Camela. It can be
2:51
either
2:51
Adam Curry: one. I mean, as long
as it's her because if you don't
2:55
pick Camela Humala, you you lose
the black vote, you lose that,
3:01
that that would be especially
after all this black judge,
3:05
black guy in the military, you
know, all that stuff. Well,
3:09
John C Dvorak: that it was
brought up on the books. I
3:11
didn't want to start with that.
By
3:13
Adam Curry: the way, Brooke
Blitzer. We did Brooks. I think
3:17
Brooks listens to this show.
3:20
John C Dvorak: What do you say?
Well, you didn't say no agenda
3:22
is a great podcast. Well,
3:25
Adam Curry: first of all, it
would be hard to imagine that
3:27
someone hadn't said, Hey, have
you heard the podcast that rips
3:30
on you all the time? So I'm sure
someone said that to him. At
3:33
some point. He wrote in his
column in his column
3:37
John C Dvorak: is true. You
would eventually at some point
3:39
after getting ripped on for
years. Of course, you think
3:43
maybe a tune in at least once.
Of course. It's
3:46
Adam Curry: like unavoidable.
It's unavoidable.
3:50
John C Dvorak: In the column,
3:51
Adam Curry: yes. Hold on a
second. I'm gonna get it up
3:53
here. If Democrats want to beat
Magga it's not enough to say,
4:01
Orange Man bad. Orange Man. Bad
talk. I actually got a couple of
4:07
people emailing that to me. Hey,
Brooks is listening to your
4:10
show. Did we come up with orange
MAN bad? I don't know. I don't
4:15
think we came up with but we
have incessantly Orange Man bad.
4:18
We have used that quite a lot.
So thanks, Brooks. Next time
4:22
best podcast in universe. So
well, I guess, man, it's so
4:29
annoying. The new cycle has been
I go I get whiplash. I got
4:32
whiplash. There's so much going
on. We we had an assassination
4:36
attempt. We had a meandering,
rambling speech.
4:43
John C Dvorak: Then we let's
start with that. Okay. Okay. I
4:46
watched the entire convention
because it was interesting. It
4:50
was a show it was fabulous. It
was a good show. If he would
4:54
doesn't win an Emmy for Best
Production. Oh, I'm telling you,
4:59
when they put the full lashing
Trump that big Trump in lights
5:02
and then he came out and then
they that was good. That was
5:04
that was ritual sets left and
right. The White
5:07
Adam Curry: House behind them
the White House I loved from for
5:11
multiple reasons, but when they
brought out compra tours uniform
5:18
Yeah, I mean, everything was
just fantastic.
5:23
John C Dvorak: But they will
What made you think they'd win
5:25
an Emmy? They should. But no,
well go to some Netflix special.
5:31
Adam Curry: I mean, it had
something for everybody. It even
5:34
satisfied the Jesus freakin me.
There was everything. Anything,
5:37
everything for everybody,
including
5:39
Unknown: so all you criminals,
all you lowlifes. All you
5:42
scumbags. All you drug dealers,
and all you crooked politicians
5:47
need to answer one question,
brother, what you're gonna do
5:52
when Donald Trump and all
trouble maniacs run wild on you,
5:57
brother.
6:00
Adam Curry: I think the count
was about 18 times you said
6:03
brother. No,
6:05
John C Dvorak: actually, it was
nine I counted. It was over and
6:09
under a date.
6:11
Adam Curry: It was pretty good.
Also think when it comes to
6:16
television production for my
tastes, it was brilliantly
6:20
timed. If people like it was too
long he would he wasn't even in
6:24
primetime. Wow. No, no, no. He
came on at like 1030
6:31
John C Dvorak: East Coast time.
It was to EA was after 10 Yeah,
6:36
it
6:36
Adam Curry: was close to 1030.
So the first half hour of him
6:40
talking about you know, that was
all the solemn kind of stuff and
6:43
talk and he's I'm only gonna
talk about this once. Of course,
6:46
he's been talking about nonstop
since then. That was all up
6:50
until the 11 o'clock hour that I
think you know, if people just
6:53
wanted to see it and get a get a
taste. And then everyone who
6:56
really was interested could
watch all the way to the end. I
6:59
thought the timing was
brilliant. He hit that primetime
7:02
slot perfectly. And then all the
other stuff that he likes to do
7:05
after you know the
7:06
John C Dvorak: normals. is
normal says Normal stick. Yeah,
7:10
Adam Curry: I do have to wrap
ups. So I hate hate wrap ups.
7:15
Cuz, right, right after he was
done. I mean, it was right. I
7:19
was like, rambling. Meandering
hasn't changed the bit. No,
7:24
good. We're back. We're back on
the race.
7:28
John C Dvorak: Actually, I got
to two clips too after you're
7:30
done. But let me just say I
would like I said, I watched the
7:33
whole thing. And a couple of
things. One, I thought it was
7:38
just a classic set, you know,
where he does his bits. He does
7:42
his jokes. I don't think it was
rambling. It was you know,
7:45
because he changed it. He does
change topics quickly. But it's
7:48
to keep the body and salary.
It's very professional at that.
7:53
And I watched the whole 92
minutes, which everyone made a
7:56
point of 92 minutes long as a
movie longer than a movie. I
8:00
watched the whole 92 minutes and
I I didn't have any troubles
8:03
keeping up with it or listening
to me me bitched about it
8:06
everybody else was on the West
Coast. Everyone watched the
8:09
whole thing because it was
earlier but it was like I didn't
8:12
find it to be that rambling or
bad or anything off his normal
8:17
pace or you know what I found? I
don't personally get it. No, I
8:21
Adam Curry: thought it was fine.
What I what I thought was
8:23
interesting. I did not clip it
is at one point he said it's
8:27
been such a it's been such a
great convention. I hope I don't
8:31
blow it oh boy. I just gave them
an idea. Which he literally did.
8:37
Or maybe he just telegraphing he
knew that that's what the what
8:40
the media would do was go out
was a great convention until
8:42
Trump spoke because that's that
was pretty much which is
8:45
actually what everybody said,
here's here's the Anna Navarro.
8:49
Unknown: I'm speaking to fellow
Christians. I was raised
8:52
Catholic. I'm a Christian girl.
When something like this happens
8:56
to you like this assassination
attempt and you say something
8:59
like God is watching it was
watching me that is a very
9:02
unChristian thing to say because
it's very narcissistic what
9:05
about what about Cory which is a
fireman who also
9:13
Adam Curry: I really care about
the Corey what's his name guy
9:15
saved
9:15
Unknown: because it's very nice.
Wow what about what about Corey?
9:18
What's his name? Good Chris What
about all those guys? Yeah,
9:25
killed on Sandy Hook all of
those. It's Oh, God was watching
9:30
me and not watching them.
There's something very
9:32
disturbing. I should have pulled
the plug on that Mike yesterday.
9:38
Adam Curry: This was very
consistent. You know, it's like,
9:40
Oh, God only save President
Trump but doesn't save
9:44
Ukrainians are children are
filling the classic, very
9:48
classic atheists nonsense, but
the best wrap up and and I think
9:53
this is also award winning has
to be from joy read. Kudos to
9:58
joy
9:58
Unknown: Trump's big campaign
moment. it last night followed
10:01
an introduction from the
Ultimate Fighting Championship
10:04
cheap Dana White, infamous for
getting caught on tape slapping
10:08
his wife during a New Year's
party.
10:11
Adam Curry: Do you remember
this? Have you heard of this of
10:13
him? So, I didn't know this. By
the way. Biden just gave his
10:16
full support to Kamala,
10:18
Unknown: and a certain ribbing
endorsement from Hulk Hogan, the
10:20
longtime WWE character now
infamous for dropping F bombs,
10:24
and suing Gawker out of
existence with billionaire Peter
10:28
Thiel money.
10:29
Adam Curry: I think she missed
the part where he got radically
10:31
saved and baptized like a year
ago, but okay, but
10:35
Unknown: needless to say, Trump
really dug their presentations.
10:39
And it was also failed rapper
turned in some kind of musician
10:42
or other Maga character, Kid
Rock. Wow.
10:47
Adam Curry: He's one of the most
successful touring acts of the
10:49
moment after the intro.
10:51
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that's
true. I mean, it's just okay,
10:53
but he's back in him in this
good. This is good. After
10:56
Unknown: the intros, Trump made
a dramatic entrance strutting
10:58
onto the stage with his last day
Ben blazoned behind him in
11:02
bright tacky lights. And he
delivered what was essentially a
11:05
rally speech, a bizarre and
boring stream of consciousness
11:08
rant, full of lies, complaints,
and xenophobia. All of this
11:13
despite Trump and some in the
media assuring us that he was a
11:16
changed man seeking what was it
again? Oh, yes, unity. My
11:20
colleagues and I, we all had the
speech in front of us last
11:23
night. Okay. And the audience
could also see the speech in
11:26
this big teleprompter. So we
were trying to follow along, as
11:29
Trump veered off script and deep
into a rambling series of lies
11:33
that stretch the speech from a
time like maybe 25 minutes to
11:37
more than 90. Journalists in the
room reported that as Trump is
11:40
banged on and on audience
members were checking their
11:44
phones stealing glances at the
teleprompter slumping in their
11:46
chairs and even falling asleep.
Some even left. Oh,
11:50
Adam Curry: wow. Okay, good job,
Joy. Good, good.
11:54
John C Dvorak: You had you don't
have the clip where she equates
11:57
Biden getting COVID. With Trump.
We get we played
11:59
Adam Curry: that in the last
show. Oh, did we? Yeah, you want
12:02
to hear it again? I do have it.
12:03
John C Dvorak: Yes. Play it
again. A second.
12:08
Adam Curry: Joy. Here it is.
12:11
Unknown: Donald Trump is an
elderly man who, for whatever
12:14
reason was given. This
12:16
Adam Curry: may be a replay she
doing this again? Because I
12:18
remember she did it live with
Jen Psaki sitting there or does
12:24
a psyche. It sounds very
12:26
John C Dvorak: easy wish she was
sitting there with Jen Psaki.
12:27
Maybe this is the same Donald
12:29
Unknown: Trump is an elderly man
who, for whatever reason was
12:32
given nine seconds to take a
iconic photo op during an active
12:36
shooter situation, his survival
of that and bouncing right back
12:41
and going right to his
convention is being conveyed in
12:43
the media world as a sign of
strength. This current President
12:48
of the United States is 81 years
old, and has COVID. Should he be
12:53
fine in a couple of days?
Doesn't that convey exactly the
12:56
same thing? That he's strong
enough older than Trump to have
13:00
gotten something that used to
really be fatal to people his
13:04
age?
13:05
Adam Curry: I think I think we
played that on Thursday.
13:07
John C Dvorak: So so if you take
and listen to that, how does she
13:11
rationalize to Trump getting
shot coming back on stage going
13:14
out and giving a speech to Biden
getting COVID Then quitting the
13:17
campaign?
13:18
Adam Curry: You're not actually
taking her serious, you're not
13:21
gonna deconstruct what she
13:22
John C Dvorak: is saying you
have to take well, you have to
13:24
take her serious enough that
she's making she's influential
13:27
she wouldn't be on the air. And
you know, these people. There's
13:30
a study that was just recently
done by Fox that says, one in
13:34
three Democrats believe that the
shooting was false. False flag.
13:39
Adam Curry: Yeah. Oh,
13:40
Unknown: hold on. I
13:41
Adam Curry: have. I have one of
the premiere here. Here it is
13:45
the premiere guy Keith
Olbermann. After five
13:48
Unknown: days of no confirmation
that the injury to Trump's ear
13:52
and the assassination attempt
was actually from a bullet. We
13:55
have to now assume that they're
lying about something that
13:59
happened to Trump on Saturday.
No one has confirmed it and
14:03
there is no good reason why no
one has confirmed it. All that
14:07
and much more on the Thursday
countdown edition of the podcast
14:11
now available wherever you
podcast
14:13
Adam Curry: wherever you podcast
wherever your
14:15
John C Dvorak: podcast by the
way I feel saw the Rooney by
14:18
says it was real, by the way.
14:21
Adam Curry: Trump is is fake,
but Sandy Hook was real. Just
14:25
that.
14:27
John C Dvorak: So let's play
this deconstructing Trump. This
14:29
is PBS along the lines of your
last clips.
14:31
Unknown: He made good on the
promise of a unifying tone.
14:34
As Americans we are bound
together by a single fate and a
14:39
shared destiny. We rise together
or we fall apart. He
14:44
shared the story of surviving
last weekend's assassination
14:47
attempt.
14:48
The amazing thing is that prior
to the shot, if I had not moved
14:54
my head at that very last
instant, the assassin's bullet
14:59
would have frankly, hit its
mark. And I would not be here
15:04
tonight to spend. But
15:05
after that the tone and rhetoric
shifted, as Trump staying on
15:09
brand, repeatedly went off
script, repeating some stump
15:13
speech claims that Republicans
love, but which don't hold up
15:17
Oh, under my presidency, we had
the most secure border and best
15:21
economy in the history of our
country in the history of the
15:24
world. We had no inflation
soaring incomes,
15:28
so we call that false. Jacobson
and PolitiFact. But for all the
15:32
standard metrics, things like
the unemployment rate, things
15:36
like wages, wage growth, GDP,
these the first three years of
15:43
Trump's tenure, we're not
somehow the greatest in the US
15:48
history, we can find examples of
better economies in the 60s, for
15:52
instance, much less the entire
world.
15:58
John C Dvorak: Now, a couple of
things there one, he says we
16:02
had, Trump says we had no
inflation. We had the inflation
16:06
rate was 1.8. That's not zero.
No. So they call that a lie.
16:11
It's a lie and have no inflation
we had 1.8 That's inflation is
16:15
the smallest
16:16
Adam Curry: low know what
inflation even means.
16:20
John C Dvorak: And the other
thing is, they never disputed
16:22
his border policy. They just
said he lied about his
16:25
hyperbolic con. comment that the
we had the best economy in the
16:31
history of the world wishes, you
know, nobody's taking that too
16:35
seriously. Why there's probably
been better economies during the
16:38
Roman times. But who cares.
16:39
Adam Curry: But if you measure
by the Dow at the time, the Dow
16:44
was hitting new records,
everyone's 401k was doing great.
16:48
Well,
16:48
John C Dvorak: if you're gonna
if you would do that, and you
16:50
wanted to call it a lie, with
the way you the way you would do
16:54
it correctly, in my opinion,
would be to say, well, you know,
16:58
he bragged about the Dow, but
Biden is taking it to new record
17:02
highs, which he has, I mean,
this was way over what it should
17:07
be. It's in the 40,000 they
can't
17:08
Adam Curry: give Biden credit
for anything over there at PBS
17:10
because he's gotta go. He's
gotta go go anyway, anyway,
17:14
John C Dvorak: here's, here's
part two of this.
17:17
Unknown: Another example bad
things are going to happen.
17:21
Meanwhile, our crime rate is
going up while crime statistics
17:24
all over the world are going
down. That
17:27
is mostly false. So violent
crimes, the things that people
17:32
really care probably the most
about, have been consistently
17:35
going down under Biden, in terms
of property crimes, at least
17:38
some kinds of property crimes,
particularly motor vehicle
17:41
thefts, those actually are up.
So there's a grain of truth
17:46
there. But for the most part,
most types of crime despite all
17:53
the here on TV, and from, you
know, Trump himself, actually,
17:58
if you look at the total number,
and the percentage, it's been
18:03
going down for several years in
a row, oh, man,
18:07
Adam Curry: now muta, Noca,
18:10
John C Dvorak: the who cares?
Well, I didn't play the clip
18:15
because nobody cares. The point
is, and PBS refuses to
18:20
acknowledge it, and very few
outlets will, which is that for
18:23
the last couple of years, the
way crime statistics are
18:26
reported has been changed at the
at the FBI level, which is never
18:33
mentioned. So that sort of the
numbers are always going to vary
18:36
from what they used to be
because the ways reported is
18:39
change. And the police
departments aren't reporting in
18:42
some cases anything because they
just figured what's the point?
18:46
That's like Frederick, with a
lot of unreported crimes and and
18:50
indeed, there's a lot of crimes
like in California because of
18:54
prop 47. The shoplifting crimes
that are reported not a crime
18:59
these are unreported so we have
a situation where the reporting
19:02
is completely screwed up. So we
really don't know have a clue
19:06
about how bad it is. The
19:08
Adam Curry: biggest crime is joy
Reid is still on the air. I
19:10
mean, that's, that's a chronic
callback. It's like It's like
19:14
Fredericksburg. You know, if you
look at our newspaper, oh, we
19:16
had the sunshine Festival, the
wine and cheese festival
19:20
everything's groovy. Now talk
about the about the drug
19:23
dealing, talking about the
theft. Oh, no, it's all good. So
19:27
beautiful. sound beautiful.
19:29
John C Dvorak: Is there drug
dealing in Fredericksburg? I
19:31
don't know. Absolutely.
19:33
Adam Curry: Oh, we have. We have
Ms. 13 up here. Oh, yeah,
19:35
John C Dvorak: they just live
you have Ms. 13. In Dendrix. Oh
19:39
Adam Curry: yeah, they work in
Korea, but they live in
19:41
Fredericksburg. For sure, for
sure. That's why we elected a
19:47
new sheriff. Everyone's sick of
it. So we I want to I want to
19:53
have three short clips here
because Trump went to Michigan
19:56
the next day, nor Yes, I saw
part of that and and He has some
20:00
new stick. He has some he has
some funny new stick, which I
20:04
liked a lot. Normally, this is
your beat, I have three, three
20:08
quick punch lines all less than
30 seconds. And this is his
20:12
first one. This is about, you
know, as he promised he would
20:15
never talk about the shooting
again. So of course, he's
20:19
talking about the shooting
again, and talking and talking
20:22
about him looking off to the
sign. I never look at the sign.
20:25
I never look, I never look over
there is amazing, you know, I
20:28
would have been dead who's you?
What a great sign. Look
20:31
Unknown: at the great results
that we had on immigration just
20:35
looking at them. If I didn't say
that, and just because we had
20:42
like a crane holding this
massive sign. I call it the
20:46
million dollar sign that they're
expensive. But that sign was
20:50
very good. I think I'm going to
sleep with it tonight.
20:56
John C Dvorak: Heard one good
stick. Okay. He did. He did a
21:00
prelude to that. Because as he
was riffing on the RNC speech,
21:06
he came to him to talk about the
importance of the sign because
21:11
he was doing that. That's not
the bit he did, but I can see
21:14
where he developed it,
21:15
Adam Curry: ya know, and it's a
good bit, and then this is an
21:19
obvious one, but what
21:20
Unknown: they do is
misinformation and
21:22
disinformation. And they keep
saying he's a threat to
21:25
democracy. I'm saying What the
hell did I do for democracy?
21:29
Last week, I took a bullet for
democracy.
21:37
Adam Curry: Come on, man. That's
what you want from your
21:39
president. You want jokes. And
this last one self deprecating
21:43
humor from Trump is always
dynamite. You know,
21:47
Unknown: I have to just
interject, if you would turn off
21:49
those cameras, because I don't
want to see the screen up there
21:52
of me. That's very severe that
come over that says that's the
21:57
severe sucker. What's with that
one? It looks okay from the
22:02
other side. But that is very
severe. I apologize. I looked up
22:11
there. I said, Whoa. Look at
that. Wow. That's like a work of
22:18
art.
22:19
Adam Curry: I mean, making jokes
about your own comb over comb
22:22
over is that's just classic.
That's great. That's
22:26
John C Dvorak: the thing is
about a good third of the public
22:30
doesn't see any humor, anything
he does now just beyond me. It's
22:34
hilarious. So I do have the
clips from Brooks and K part
22:38
talking about all this.
22:40
Adam Curry: Okay, let's do that.
And then before we get to some
22:43
shooter stuff, because I do have
some things to talk about there.
22:46
Let us also do the CrowdStrike
thing, but let's go to Brooks
22:50
and boy,
22:51
John C Dvorak: yeah, yeah. Now,
I gotta tell you saw the
22:54
CrowdStrike stuff.
22:55
Adam Curry: Everyone's we all
got crowds. It's too much. It's
22:58
too much cross. But yes. Okay. K
part,
23:01
John C Dvorak: but it's
important. Yeah, it is. Okay,
23:04
we're going to Brooks and K
part. This was on last Friday's
23:07
PBS news hour.
23:09
Unknown: We were all together
every night of the Republican
23:11
National Convention. You were
there as night after night,
23:14
Jonathan. People would say, Mr.
Trump has been changed. He's a
23:18
more contemplative man. Now
after that attempt on his life
23:21
that he's going to deliver a
unity message that turned out
23:24
not to be true. When we heard
his speech. What did you take
23:27
away from his remarks in the
end?
23:28
Well, what we heard last night
in Milwaukee was his stump
23:32
speech. Now, most people
probably didn't realize that was
23:36
his stump speech, because the
convention is the one time when
23:39
maybe more people than usual are
watching. This was an
23:43
opportunity for Donald Trump to
represent himself to the nation,
23:47
certainly after the the
attempted assassination, the
23:50
assassination attempt. But what
we saw in the first 30 minutes
23:54
was you know, sort of new sort
of measured Donald Trump but at
23:59
the 30 minute mark, just about
in came crazy, Nancy Pelosi. And
24:04
by
24:04
Adam Curry: the way, by the way,
30 minutes exactly what I said
24:06
right after primetime, and then
he's off to the races
24:09
Unknown: just about in came
crazy. Nancy Pelosi, and it went
24:13
downhill from there. And so you
know, it was it was grievance,
24:17
it was anger, there was a lot of
attention paid or illegal
24:21
immigration, what he wanted to
do about that. And I just think
24:25
it was a missed opportunity on
the point on the part of the
24:29
former president because he has
been basically silent for the
24:32
last three weeks because of the
implosion happening on the
24:35
Democratic side. And yet he took
that took that chance yesterday
24:40
and just showed the country what
his party what his faithful have
24:43
been seeing for months now,
24:45
Adam Curry: that before we
continue. Let's just talk for a
24:49
second about Trump's thinking
here, because they handed out
24:54
the written speech to the media
or at least pieces of it before
24:59
he spoke. Okay, they were
already read because I was
25:01
switching around, they were
ramping up to it. Oh, it's gonna
25:04
be really reconciliatory. It's
going to be unifying. What is
25:08
his besides the strategy that I
think he had, which is let me do
25:12
all that stuff in prime time and
then let her rip. What do you
25:15
think about his thinking of
going in and out and bringing
25:18
back some of the tropes?
25:22
John C Dvorak: I thought it was
I enjoyed the speech. It was I
25:26
didn't even think it was that
long. In fact, I, of course, I
25:29
was talking to me about this
again. And we we've documented
25:33
this, the two of us on this
show, starting in 2015, where we
25:37
started to notice him go long,
because when he first began as a
25:42
candidate, he was it was going
around 2025 minutes, maybe even
25:47
shorter. And then he was
starting to stretch it further
25:50
and further and further. And
this is one of those things
25:52
where he got when he got to an
hour we used to comment on he
25:56
was doing an hour he go from
place to place to play,
25:59
sometimes two or three speeches
a day, and he do an hour they
26:02
started doing 115. Then he got
like this most to go round. He's
26:07
doing consistently doing an hour
and a half. But he's holding the
26:11
audience. It's not like, you
know, people were walking out in
26:14
droves, because he was so
boring, because he's not. I
26:17
think he's great.
26:18
Adam Curry: Yeah, me too. And I
think the audience thought it
26:20
was well, in fact, if anything,
they wanted more, they wanted a
26:24
little more of that.
26:26
John C Dvorak: Like when I was
watching it, I didn't think he
26:28
had gone the hour and a half.
And he was at 92 minutes when he
26:32
quit. It's it's just it's just I
think his pace and flow is good.
26:38
I think he knows how to do this,
right? He's got it down. He's
26:41
worked on it so many times that
he can do an hour and a half,
26:44
like falling off a log, he can
probably move it up to 145. Even
26:48
though I think that'd be pushing
it. By
26:49
Adam Curry: the way. Can I just
say that's not easy to do.
26:52
You're a public speaker, I'm a
public speaker, it's
26:55
John C Dvorak: very hard to do
to do. You can do it. If you're
26:59
a public speaker, it's usually
very easy to do an hour, 45
27:03
minutes, 45
27:04
Adam Curry: minutes, and then
q&a done.
27:06
John C Dvorak: That's the
typical public speaker. But to
27:09
do an hour and a half solid,
have pretty much off the cuff. I
27:16
mean, he does goes to the
prompter, and you can tell the
27:18
difference because of his
cadence. But doing an hour and a
27:21
half with or without priming.
When I gave a lot of speeches, I
27:25
would use PowerPoint
presentations as the prompter.
27:29
Yeah, because I would you have
30 smallest points of 30 slides,
27:33
you know, you're going to be
about for 38 minutes. I do
27:38
probably run around 20 slides,
but I did say each slide would
27:41
have a bunch of really bullet
points on it. And I would tag
27:44
the slide. If I was if I start
to forget what I was going to be
27:48
talking I
27:49
Adam Curry: would pay good money
for an old Jhansi Dvorak
27:51
PowerPoint presentation. I'm
sure a few of them are floating
27:54
around here. You have one on an
on a disk drive somewhere. I bet
27:58
it's great. Yeah, I
27:59
John C Dvorak: bet they're
great. Probably right next to my
28:01
other stuff lost in the house.
Like, anyway, the point is, is
28:06
that you're doing an hour and a
half. And to do it sometimes
28:09
twice a day. It's just
ridiculous. And it's it should
28:14
be admired, not condemned. I
agree. I agree. Although, you
28:18
know, I think in that situation
of the DEA and the RNC, he could
28:23
have probably cut it to an hour
and it wouldn't nobody would
28:27
complain. I like to like if it
would. I liked listening to him
28:32
for an hour. I don't like
listening to an hour and a half
28:34
all the time, because I've only
heard maybe five of his whole
28:38
speeches because they're just
they're too long. Yeah. But
28:41
they're enjoyable, but they're
just too long. I don't have that
28:43
much time just and
28:44
Adam Curry: it was it was a
Thursday night we'd done the
28:46
show, you know you chill.
28:48
John C Dvorak: Yeah, I have no
problem watching on Thursday
28:50
night. Back
28:51
Adam Curry: and Martini. You
know, it's like, Yeah, bring it
28:53
on. This is good. Let's go.
Let's go.
28:57
John C Dvorak: Alright, yeah,
can bring back a martini after
28:59
the show. wasted. So anyway,
onward with Brooks and key part
29:09
because there's a funny couple
of funny bits in here.
29:11
Unknown: David, did we get a
sense that you had a sense of
29:13
what a second Trump
administration would look like
29:16
from those remarks? And to
Jonathan's point, was that a
29:19
missed opportunity?
29:20
Yeah, I mean, first, I should
say, I think it was an extremely
29:23
successful convention. I
thought, you know, the spirit
29:25
was unlike any other convention
I've been to. People were
29:29
joyful. People were unified.
There were a lot of good
29:32
spirits, speakers, a lot of
good, memorable moments. There
29:35
was only one bad speaker and the
problem for the Republicans it
29:37
was from the nominee. And so I
agree with Jonathan, I agree
29:41
with Jonathan. I agree with
Jonathan that it was it was
29:43
sorted out well, and then it
just deteriorated. And what it
29:46
said to me the guy who had only
one job, there were remarks on a
29:50
teleprompter. All he had to do
was read the remarks and he
29:53
would be crude.
29:54
Adam Curry: That would mean you
could be president moron. No,
29:57
no, that's not how it worked.
Just read the
29:58
Unknown: teleprompter and be
present. Densho made the remarks
30:01
and he stops
30:02
John C Dvorak: up. So I want to
meet you. I've always thought
30:05
this because I've been I was
giving a lot of talks, I would
30:08
go to these events and hear
other people. Obviously you do
30:11
that. And one of the things I've
always been bugged by or people
30:16
that either read their speech
they had an on paper, yeah.
30:20
Usually didn't have
teleprompters at most events is,
30:23
for most general conferences,
there's not teleprompters there.
30:27
Because you know, Bayview work
in a studio, there's
30:29
teleprompters, but they would
sit there and they had their
30:35
speech written out, and they
would read the speech for 45
30:40
minutes, like you said, 45
minutes, and maybe some q&a. And
30:43
I'm thinking, why am I listening
to somebody read a speech, just
30:47
send me the speech, I could
probably read it to myself
30:50
faster. It was I always found it
very annoying to listen to some
30:55
public speaker. The best public
speakers are very
30:58
conversational. Mike. I heard
Ray Bradbury was a good example.
31:02
I got to see him and breakfast
of them the next day to just to
31:06
name drop there. Oh, I wonder
what Hey, Ray Ray Bradbury would
31:11
just talk. And it was
fascinating, because he's an
31:15
interesting guy.
31:16
Adam Curry: By the way, that's
exactly what Tucker did to. Yes,
31:20
Tucker came out. 1012 minutes.
Just no prompter just talking.
31:24
He's very good at that. Tucker
is an excellent orator.
31:28
John C Dvorak: Yes, I agree.
Okay, can I'm sorry, continue
31:32
the clip.
31:33
Unknown: All he had to do was
read the remarks, and he would
31:36
be cruising today. But he has
incapable of self control,
31:41
incapable of non self
indulgence, incapable of non
31:44
narcissism. And so what I took
away from the speech was any
31:48
hope that some people may have
heard that a second Trump term
31:52
would look different than the
first Trump term because the guy
31:54
is suddenly organized and
disciplined. That hope has to go
31:57
out the window. I mean, the
second Trump term looks to be as
32:00
shambolic and as chaotic as the
first Trump term was if it
32:03
happens, because the guy's
incapable of self control. I
32:07
Adam Curry: love how everyone
has to if he wins, do you hear
32:09
that constantly? Well, there's
this new Trump presidency. If it
32:13
happens, they'll catch
themselves. Yeah, they'll
32:16
John C Dvorak: catch him. So
they make one more complaint
32:18
here. Okay. Why do we have
Brooks and K part? But like he
32:22
says, I agree with him on I
agree with you more. So I, Chip
32:26
and Dale, it's unbelievable. Why
don't we have somebody that
32:29
actually has a perspective
that's different. We have two
32:32
people. This is the crap that
PBS puts out. And it shouldn't
32:36
be supported by anybody that
listens to this show. They have
32:40
two people that are in total
agreement with each other and
32:42
all they do is reconfirm what
the other guy said, This is not
32:46
of any value to the audience.
32:47
Adam Curry: And that's why we're
giving it to our audience so
32:50
they can have valueless value.
32:54
John C Dvorak: Okay, that's a
good one. Nice, dry.
32:58
Adam Curry: Onward. Number
three, yes, please,
33:00
Unknown: much more dangerous
33:01
kind of vicious language
targeting really black and brown
33:05
immigrants talking about them
carrying disease and attacking
33:08
women and stealing jobs. Did
that stick out to you at all?
33:12
Adam Curry: If he had said that?
I didn't hear black and brown
33:17
immigrants. I didn't hear that
whatever
33:20
Unknown: jobs did that stick out
to you at all? Yes, I
33:22
did. It's paradoxical. And I
can't remember another ticket
33:26
where both candidates are
married to an immigrant or
33:30
children of immigrants, illegal
immigrants. I think what's
33:34
happened is that global populism
has done two things. One is fed
33:37
on each other the or bonds
Giorgia Maloney is the Marine Le
33:41
Pen's and, and this has
33:42
Adam Curry: to stop too. By the
way. This is a very mainstream
33:46
thing when you are just an empty
suit of vapid waste of co2. The
33:52
GA Maloney's the Tucker
Carlson's the Keith Olbermann
33:57
means that there's only one of
each of those people. It's
34:02
starting to work on my nerves.
34:05
John C Dvorak: You know what I
mean? But what do you think that
34:08
the psychology is behind doing
it? Why, you know, they they
34:13
cite or bond and how about this
trying to demonize these people
34:17
by grouping them together? Yeah,
but
34:19
Adam Curry: you group them by
the like this. There's only one
34:21
Georgia Maloney. There's not a
whole bunch of Georgia
34:24
Maloney's. There's no one. She's
34:26
John C Dvorak: a totally
different person than Marine
34:28
LePen and totally different than
Orban they're very singular. The
34:32
only thing they have maybe in
common is what these guys like
34:35
to define as popular. You don't
populism you don't
34:39
Adam Curry: say the Adolf
Hitler's you know, there was
34:42
only one. So it's a weird it's a
weird thing. And it's, I think
34:47
it shows low IQ honestly. One
34:50
Unknown: is fed on each other.
The autobahns GA Maloney is the
34:53
Marine LePen once you
34:54
Adam Curry: just say Orban
Maloney LePen that would be I
34:59
don't know this something weird
about it that I haven't quite
35:01
figured out
35:02
Unknown: what it's fed on each
other the or bonds the GA
35:04
Maloney's, the Marinela pens
and, and the Donald Trump's have
35:08
fed. This anti immigrant theme
is the thing that unites them
35:11
globally. And so it's gotten
uglier and darker and Trump, our
35:15
grievance has gotten more
menacing. But at the same time
35:18
bid Maga is a much more
intellectually serious movement
35:21
than it was. It has an agenda.
It has a group of intellectuals
35:25
that has a group of magazines,
all of which is magazines. I
35:29
hadn't
35:29
Adam Curry: heard that. I hadn't
heard the magazines.
35:32
John C Dvorak: I don't know
anything about the magazines. By
35:34
the way. I
35:34
Adam Curry: think that's a
fantastic products. You know, AI
35:38
guns, zine ar 15 magazines
telling you, there's a product
35:43
right there. Hello, no, that's a
good one. Yeah, mag,
35:46
Unknown: all of which is is
personified by JD Vance. And the
35:50
fact that the teamsters were the
president was represented there
35:54
was a sign that something much
bigger here is happening, that
35:57
Trump's grievance and the
ugliness is true. But the idea
36:01
that there is an intellectual
movement here on defense of the
36:03
working class, that is also
true. And so I think both those
36:06
realities, one kind of
impressive the way they've
36:09
intellectually come together
around that agenda, and the
36:11
other kind of alarming that the
level of prejudice seems only to
36:15
increase.
36:17
Adam Curry: rather alarming. The
level of prejudice, prejudice
36:21
seems to increase. Oh, my God.
They they this is the way they
36:26
talk on the Upper East Side at
those dinner parties. Rush or
36:30
Briefing Books, rah rah,
shrinker lovers. Yeah.
36:35
John C Dvorak: Yeah. So far
36:37
Adam Curry: divorced from normal
people and podcasters that
36:41
they're losing my attention.
Luckily, only one more. Do you
36:45
need setup?
36:46
John C Dvorak: No setup. This is
a key part telling it like it
36:49
is. Jonathan,
36:50
Unknown: you reference the
implosion within the Democratic
36:53
Party right now telling me about
how what we saw happen inside
36:57
the Republican National
Convention in Milwaukee is
37:00
impacting what's happening on
the Democratic ticket right now.
37:03
It doesn't seem like it's
impacting it at all. But I just
37:06
want to push back on one thing
that David said it was more than
37:08
one bad speaker, Congresswoman
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Eric
37:12
Trump, Speaker Johnson. These
were people who were also
37:16
feeding red meat to the Trump
faithful in in the hall. Now,
37:20
you would you would think that
the Democrats would be focused
37:24
on not just Donald Trump's
speech, but all the other
37:27
speeches that were happening in
the lead up to Senator Vance's
37:31
speech and Donald Trump's
speech. But instead, Democrats
37:35
have been spending all their
time trying to push out the
37:38
sitting president of their own
party from running as the
37:42
nominee of their party and you
have the President having
37:46
contracted COVID be in isolation
and Jehovah's having all of
37:50
these people bringing more
pressure to bear on him to get
37:55
out of the race, just as we're
on the air. I don't know if
37:57
you've reported it yet. Senator
Sherrod Brown just said that the
38:01
President should should give up
his reelection bid. What
38:05
does that say to you that
Sherrod Brown, someone who has
38:08
known Joe Biden for as long as
he has in a critical state of
38:11
Ohio, that he's come forward to
do this. And
38:13
this tells me that the pressure
is going to continue to mount
38:17
that. It could be that the
President will have no choice
38:21
but to give up his reelection
campaign. But the big concern I
38:24
have is great. You guys succeed
in getting President President
38:29
Biden to give up his
presidential bid, but you don't
38:32
say who should be the top of the
ticket? And I'll say it again,
38:36
if vice president Kamala Harris
is not the top of the ticket
38:39
Democrats are guaranteed to
lose. Yeah,
38:42
Adam Curry: I agree. I agree
most most so to see if they pass
38:48
or lose anyway with her. Oh, but
it'll be fun. And be fun. Couple
38:53
more terrible.
38:56
John C Dvorak: Low thinks that
the blacks are going to turn out
38:58
in droves to vote for Kamala
Harris or Kamala no is her name
39:02
Kamal? I like binge be
pronouncing his she was black or
39:05
Camela if she was a white girl
and Mo
39:07
Adam Curry: is saying is that
the the black women who still
39:10
are all in loyal will be
outraged.
39:15
John C Dvorak: And when they
will be the black women will
39:16
come out but the black woman
would have voted for Biden so
39:20
wouldn't really change anything.
But they might bail. They won't
39:25
Adam Curry: vote they won't go
vote.
39:26
John C Dvorak: Yeah. Now I agree
with that. But what about the
39:29
black men does have anything to
say about that? I can't see
39:32
black any black male wanting to
vote for No, no. Comala
39:36
Adam Curry: for Trump, they're
voting for Trump. But I'm just
39:38
saying that from a party
perspective skipping over the
39:42
black woman it would be
destructive to their entire No,
39:47
John C Dvorak: we've we V Yeah.
I have being put this into play
39:51
long time because it can't be
done a couple of
39:54
Adam Curry: things. And then I
want to then I want to go to
39:56
CrowdStrike and then we'll come
back to because the conspiracy
39:58
therapist needs to step in The
last song that Trump played or
40:05
that was, I guess he does the
playlist. I think he does the
40:07
playlists. These are his songs
is what he likes. So during the
40:11
balloon drop, oh, it's the
balloon drop. Did you do you
40:15
catch the song? Nessun Dorma.
For you he
40:22
John C Dvorak: was to do was to
with the FBI also did a version
40:25
of some other patriotic song at
the very end.
40:29
Adam Curry: He before that, now
at the very end, that's not the
40:31
last song. Norma was the last
song was the very last song at
40:35
the very, very end. And although
I think I've heard this before,
40:40
I can't remember where in
connection to Trump. What a lot
40:43
of people were sending me is Do
you know what this means? And
40:47
I'm like, No, it's a power. I
know. It's a Pavarotti top 10.
40:52
No, it is a song that's played
at the end of the movie some of
40:57
the world and which I have not
seen, but I've now gone back and
41:02
I've seen the clips. And so the
subplot of this movie. So this
41:05
is Russia, blows up a nuke in
America. And it's really between
41:09
between Russia and the United
States. But it's the subplot is
41:14
the President of the United
States, they plot to take them
41:17
out with an assassination
attempt, which fails, as at the
41:20
very end of the movie, where the
President United States is
41:23
signing a peace treaty with the
Russian president. This song
41:27
starts to play. And then you see
Hitman going around to every
41:32
single one of the people who are
involved in the conspiracy to
41:35
assassinate the president and
they're shooting him in the
41:38
head. They're blowing up their
cars, they're slitting their
41:40
throats. And people saw that as
very symbolic Godfather Part One
41:46
very much so very, I thought and
I like Yeah, good one. Put them
41:52
on notice. Anyway, we'll get
back to we got to talk about JD
41:58
Vance. We got to talk about the
about the conspiracies whirling
42:02
around because that is of course
what I do. But first, let's go
42:06
to something that actually
impacted the entire world in a
42:09
massive way. It's
42:10
Unknown: a massive computer
outage wreaking havoc worldwide
42:13
grounding flights across the
globe, hitting airlines, banks,
42:17
stores, and even some 911
services. It makes
42:21
taking care of people in the
emergency room extremely
42:23
difficult, and time consuming as
if it wasn't already the
42:27
outage appears to stem from an
update from a cybersecurity
42:30
company called CrowdStrike.
Causing users of Microsoft
42:34
Windows operating systems to
crash CrowdStrike tells NBC News
42:38
at suffered a major outage
impacting businesses globally.
42:42
The CEO says in a statement
CrowdStrike is actively working
42:46
with customers impacted by a
defect found in a single content
42:50
update. That is not a security
incident or cyber attack. At
42:54
least three major US airlines
Delta American and united
42:58
grounded flights earlier this
morning. The FAA says several
43:02
airlines requested assistance
lines have been growing at
43:05
airports nationwide.
43:07
There's no information there's
no flights taking off, you have
43:11
no idea what's going on,
American
43:13
says has now been able to safely
reestablish our operation.
43:16
Across the country users on
social media have been posting
43:20
messages of their computer
screens stuck on what's called
43:23
the Blue Screen of Death. Around
the World. Microsoft has
43:28
released a statement saying we
acknowledge how impactful this
43:31
is to our customers. And we are
working to restore services for
43:34
those still experiencing
disruptions as quickly as
43:38
possible. So
43:39
Adam Curry: a couple things
before we get into some other
43:41
clips here first of all,
technically, that's not really
43:43
the blue screen of death, the
blue screen of death is you get
43:46
a bunch of binary code. I mean
this Microsoft still uses the
43:50
blue screen. It was far from the
blue screen of death because
43:54
there was a relatively easy fix,
which people could do. But I
44:00
hope everybody was nice to their
dudes named Ben and dudettes
44:03
named Bernadette because this
was a nightmare for sis admins.
44:07
Since almost every computer I
talked to Dave Jones at quite
44:11
some length about this.
Basically every computer that
44:15
was affected had to be manually
manually restored which means
44:21
hands on or you have to walk
someone through it over the
44:23
phone. And of course the the fun
part of this and I've learned
44:27
this myself if you have machines
that have BitLocker then you got
44:34
to make sure you got all those
BitLocker unlock codes and you
44:40
wind up typing those in every
single time that boots up it's
44:43
very arduous process very, very
annoying. I just from what I
44:51
understand that crowd
CrowdStrike releases these
44:56
updates all the time, so I was
kind of like wow, why Would you
45:00
do this on a Friday morning,
early or late Thursday night? It
45:05
was, you know, it's a no point
error, it's seems like something
45:10
that could have been avoided.
Why wouldn't you test this? For
45:14
those of you who had your, if
you're in a corporate
45:16
environment course, I had no
problem with the unit, neither.
45:19
If you had your computer shut
down during the night, this is a
45:22
little tip. If you shut down
your computer, at the end of the
45:25
day, if something like this
happens, you're more likely to
45:29
boot up after they fix it and
get a proper version or not a
45:34
bug version. So it would not
affect you at all. And so I
45:38
think a lot of sis admins are
learning that they have to get
45:41
their their workers to shut down
the computers at night. But wow,
45:47
did this show how vulnerable the
world is to this centralized
45:53
system? That was nothing
45:54
John C Dvorak: like nothing.
This is microservices
45:57
architecture.
45:58
Adam Curry: Yeah. But it comes
from one spot. Well, that
46:01
John C Dvorak: one element
amongst the micro services comes
46:05
from one spot. And this is the
problem. It could have been from
46:07
any any number of these crappy
systems that are but it's a
46:12
centralized together. It's
46:14
Adam Curry: a centralized bug.
Now it's I understand your
46:17
microservices thing. But that's
not what that is. This is
46:20
everybody on one service. That's
the problem. Everybody on one
46:26
service, except, of course,
Southwest Airlines, who still
46:29
run on Windows 3.1, and Windows
95. And they their computers
46:33
work just fine, which is
probably the most beautiful
46:36
message I've read in a long
time. Tina was actually flying
46:40
out she's on a Southwest is
fine.
46:43
John C Dvorak: But actually,
there's some irony. Oh, yeah. to
46:46
an extreme.
46:47
Adam Curry: I go that's Well,
hold on. Before we get there.
46:50
Before we get to a couple more
things. Just to show you the
46:53
severity of this because we
we've heard we've heard reports
46:56
and airline Jaya, this and that
So Christina, who works in
47:01
basically One Flew Over the
Cuckoo's Nest. People with like
47:06
drug addiction and other issues.
She said they couldn't use the
47:09
phones, you know, none of the
computers worked and the
47:13
Netherlands, Schiphol Airport
completely shut down KLM and
47:18
subsequently Delta grounded
because they're so integrated.
47:22
They're like an annex of
Microsoft Windows architecture.
47:27
So everybody should be
rethinking this stuff because
47:29
you know, yeah, it was
CrowdStrike today, it could be a
47:33
bad Windows update tomorrow. A
boots on the ground from one of
47:37
our producers hospital just to
give you an idea of Ohio State
47:42
Cincinnati Children's Cleveland
Clinic all hit pretty hard. They
47:45
had to cancel emergency
surgeries not show a show how
47:48
they're functioning at all. He
says here's a real life example
47:52
from UPMC. In Pittsburgh, every
unit has a medicine dispensing
47:56
cabinet, think vending machine
for drugs nice. The nurses have
48:00
to pull from that to administer
any drugs to patients because of
48:03
course you know, they gotta
protect us because nurses
48:06
otherwise getting high and so
almost out the back door. All
48:09
the medicine cabinets blue
screen calls start to generate
48:13
by five in the morning the
vendor that supplies support for
48:16
the cabinets was pressured not
to wait for a fix because people
48:19
need their medication. So
service technicians went in
48:22
started replacing hard drives,
which is not just a swap all the
48:27
information that the cabinet
previously held the stored on a
48:29
server from the vendor. And of
course, that's where all the
48:32
configurations drugs and
quantities patient information.
48:35
So they replaced the hard drives
but the server was affected so
48:38
they couldn't download anything.
The cabinet was still not
48:41
restored. The only way to access
these drugs is through
48:43
specialized proprietary keys
that unlock mechanical overrides
48:47
in these are real, real problems
that people went through payment
48:52
terminals banks. Mind you
Bitcoin worked just fine. This
48:56
is a side note.
48:59
John C Dvorak: So I wouldn't it?
Well, I mean, mind you, my
49:02
computer work just fine.
49:04
Adam Curry: My point is that
people couldn't use their they
49:06
couldn't pay for stuff. They
couldn't buy stuff they couldn't
49:09
use get their money.
49:11
John C Dvorak: I want to just as
a note, let me read this boots
49:14
on the ground. This is producer
Eric. I'm a dude named Ben for
49:19
one of the larger counties in
Iowa, you got this note.
49:22
Approximately two years ago, the
state of Iowa's CTO signed a
49:25
contract with CrowdStrike that
would allow the state of Iowa to
49:29
offer the Falken endpoint
application suite, which is what
49:32
we're talking about to every
county municipality, police,
49:37
Sheriff's Department, prisons,
et cetera, for free. Yeah, yeah,
49:43
I'd never I still have yet to
figure out what their business
49:46
model is. If they're given this
away, your entity would sign an
49:48
agreement that you would install
this application on all your
49:51
endpoints and the state of
Iowa's own NOC would Manage
49:55
Alerts etc. For each of these
entities, the adoption rate was
49:58
over 75% Amongst these groups, I
mean, it's free. In meetings
50:03
I've attended with other county
IT staff statewide, the question
50:06
was raised as to why some of the
room didn't take up to free
50:09
offer. The main points were lack
of control. Yeah, to get
50:13
somebody it guys doing. Yeah,
lack of control of your endpoint
50:17
security and, quote, if we are
all in the same protection, we
50:22
all have the same exposure.
50:24
Adam Curry: Yes, connection is
protection.
50:27
John C Dvorak: I was called by
our 911 dispatchers about five
50:29
minutes after all the systems in
our comm center started
50:33
rebooting Yeah, as well as our
jail.
50:38
Adam Curry: Reboot the jail.
50:40
John C Dvorak: This is
ridiculous.
50:42
Adam Curry: What's not like
people? This is not like we
50:44
didn't all know this. Well, you
50:46
John C Dvorak: and I have been
bitching about CrowdStrike since
50:48
the pew pew days, here we
50:50
Unknown: go. Alright, Clinton
paid for it. And the Democrats a
50:53
lot of it had to do they say
with Ukraine, but Mr. President
50:57
are interesting. It's very
interesting. They have this
51:00
server right from the DNC
Democratic National Committee
51:03
who has the the FBI went in and
they told him get out of here,
51:07
you're not gonna We're not
giving it to you. They gave the
51:09
server to CrowdStrike, or
whatever it's called, which is a
51:13
country which is a company owned
by a very wealthy Ukrainian. And
51:17
I still want to see that server.
You know, the FBI has never
51:20
gotten that server. That's a big
part of this whole thing. Why
51:24
did they give it to a Ukrainian
company where
51:26
you are they did that? Are you
sure they gave it to Ukraine?
51:31
No,
51:31
that's what the word is. And
that's what I asked, actually,
51:33
in my phone call if you know, I
mean, I asked it very point
51:36
blank, because we're looking for
corruption. There's tremendous
51:40
corruption we're looking for,
why should we be giving hundreds
51:43
of millions of dollars to
countries where there's this
51:46
kind of corruption?
51:47
Adam Curry: So that's the first
thing I thought of when this
51:49
happened. Just going back to the
convention, whatever we do,
51:54
we've got Biden out sick, we've
got Trump, you know, he's, he's
51:57
going to be the story of the
day, they're already trying to
52:00
massage the story, although also
smartly, all the newspapers,
52:04
they had a deadline, I probably
11 You would know better than I
52:06
would, because I looked at the
New York Times, LA, the LA Times
52:10
had some snarky stuff in there,
because they were in a different
52:12
time schedule. But everything on
the East Coast had emailed Trump
52:16
speaks after assassination
attempt, they didn't have any of
52:19
the narrative of rambling, hate
filled all of that stuff. So it
52:24
gives later. So if you really
want to change the news cycle,
52:27
and boy did it, you pull one of
these stones, I completely
52:32
believe this was sabotage.
Completely. And that was also
52:39
CrowdStrike. I think it was
timed, I really did not put that
52:43
past this company in particular.
52:47
John C Dvorak: They, they're not
going to argue with you on this.
52:50
Adam Curry: I think they're
dirty, I think they're dirty.
52:53
And we've always thought
52:54
John C Dvorak: that we were
always suspicious of this
52:55
operation. Guess for a lot of
giving this stuff away for free.
53:00
And then I asked him, you know,
our producer about this, and he
53:03
didn't come back with the right
answer. And I had to ask him
53:05
again, wrong, why another reason
why, where's what's the business
53:10
model for making everybody and
you know, say, hey, look what we
53:12
got here. You can have it for
free. Oh, sweet. I mean, they
53:15
okay, we'll take it.
53:16
Adam Curry: But they're also in
essence, an extension of the
53:20
intelligence community. They're
in continuous contact about, you
53:23
know, fuzzy bear and foggy dude,
or whatever, you know, all these
53:27
different to Oh, but they got
another thing coming out. So
53:30
there's an open pipe between
intelligence and these guys. So
53:34
it just what a great way to just
change the news cycle. We need
53:39
something listen, here's the
meeting. Look, we've got Trump
53:42
out there and he's taken a
bullet for democracy. The RNC
53:47
gentlemen, what are we doing?
Well, who's producing the DNC?
53:52
Our stuff sucks compared to what
Trump did? This is great. He had
53:55
Hulk Hogan, Bad Kid Rock. What
are we doing? We got to change
53:59
this narrative. Quick. We got
Joe down President down. I know
54:03
what we'll do. Seriously. I
mean, I have before you get to
54:08
your clips, I have a couple of
clips from the CEO that
54:11
John C Dvorak: should mention
something according to at least
54:13
one of the guys who posted on
Twitter, which is that Blackrock
54:18
owns a chunk of a huge chunk of
CrowdStrike. BlackRock is deep
54:22
in the White House. Yeah, well,
they're everywhere. So the show
54:26
your thesis that, you know,
somebody came up with this idea.
54:30
You know, just let's do this.
Yeah. Is not completely out of
54:34
the realm of possibility. That's
54:36
Adam Curry: the word because
you'll recall, I got the word
54:40
Thursday during the show Biden's
quitting tonight. And I said
54:43
that would be great. Because you
I mean, Biden would have to quit
54:47
eventually. But it'd be great
because then you can change the
54:50
news narrative. And I guess they
went beyond the the negotiating
54:54
deadline and by the 100 million
dollars, which we discussed that
54:57
specific amount is everywhere.
Now. 100 million dollars. Yeah
55:01
for the foundation 100 million
dollars, give them a nice
55:03
parachute 100 million dollars.
So they had to negotiate that
55:06
exit they held out for you know,
maybe they wanted a net jets
55:10
card or something. I don't know.
55:16
John C Dvorak: No, no jet. No
god, no.
55:18
Adam Curry: No jet out show
title. No jet no deal. Exactly.
55:23
So they went beyond the beyond
the deadline. And they had to
55:27
pull something. I do not put it
past these goals at all. So I'm
55:33
gonna explain two quick clips
from the CrowdStrike CEO who
55:37
moved and it was hilarious.
Australia. This was one of my
55:40
dreams. Actually. You had
television shows which could
55:44
barely stay on the air. Because
Chiron is didn't work scripts
55:47
didn't work. I mean, more of
this, please. But just for the
55:51
for the television networks.
That's what I've always said,
55:54
how can we don't take those guys
out. So that was taking place so
55:58
that today's show manages to
cobbled together everyone to get
56:01
on the air and they bring in
George Kurtz, the CEO of
56:05
CrowdStrike.
56:06
Unknown: George, it's good to
see a lot of people woke up,
56:08
they saw that blue screen of
death, we've been hearing all
56:11
about the messes at the
airports, a lot of broadcast
56:14
channels, Australia, even ours.
Here. We were, we had those blue
56:18
screens everywhere. People are
wondering, what happens. So what
56:22
did happen? Yeah,
56:24
so first, thank you for giving
me the opportunity to chat with
56:27
you first, on air. And I want to
start with saying we're deeply
56:31
sorry for the impact that we've
caused to customers, to
56:35
travelers to anyone affected by
this including our company. So
56:40
we know what the issue is, we're
resolving and have resolved the
56:43
issue. Now it's recovering
systems that are out there. And
56:46
essentially, as you've talked
about in the statement I put out
56:48
is the system was sent an update
and that update had a software
56:55
bug in it and caused a an issue
with a Microsoft operating
56:59
system. And we identified this
very quickly and remediated the
57:03
issue. And our systems come back
online. As they're rebooted,
57:07
they're coming up and they're
working. And now we are working
57:11
with each and every customer to
make sure that we can bring them
57:13
back online. But that was the
extent of an issue, the issue in
57:18
terms of a bug that was related
to our update.
57:21
Adam Curry: Now listen to this
next clip. And
57:24
John C Dvorak: before we
continue, what's with this guy's
57:26
haircut? He's got to run blue
Mohawk. Because that's
57:32
Adam Curry: what you do, man.
When you have a haircut
57:35
John C Dvorak: is this for a CEO
of a company like this? You look
57:38
at this guy goes, This guy's a
CEO. What is this haircut?
57:41
Adam Curry: Yeah, yeah. It's
douchey. That's what you do when
57:46
you're a mogul? The mogul with
the Mohawk? Now tell me if this
57:52
because he says, Great to be
with you first. So I don't know
57:55
if he had done a whole bunch of
interviews, or this was his
57:57
first interview. It sounded
like, Hey, I'm glad I can break
58:01
this with you. They're NBC Today
show. So was he tired from
58:05
talking? Was he parched? Or was
he emotional
58:08
Unknown: error in the
cybersecurity business? And I
58:11
certainly don't even pretend to
understand this. But according
58:14
to your statement, it was a
single content update that has
58:18
managed to shut down air travel
credit card payment systems,
58:23
banks, broadcast street lights
911 Emergency around the globe.
58:29
Why is there not some kind of
redundancy or some sort of
58:32
backup? How has it been one
single software bug can have
58:36
such a profound and immediate
impact?
58:39
Adam Curry: It was just a glitch
lady. It was just the glitch.
58:43
Unknown: Well,
58:43
when you look at the complexity
of cybersecurity are always
58:47
trying to stay what once Excuse
me one step ahead of the
58:51
adversary. Now,
58:53
Adam Curry: is she choking? Is
the emotional listen again, it
58:57
goes on a little bit longer.
He's like, I
58:58
John C Dvorak: think it's a tell
he's lying.
59:01
Unknown: Well, when you look at
the complexity of cybersecurity
59:04
are always trying to stay once.
Excuse me one step ahead of the
59:09
adversaries. Yeah.
59:11
Give me just one second.
59:14
Oh, yeah, take take a drink of
water.
59:17
Adam Curry: I think it's the gun
pointed at his head from behind
59:19
the camera. Yeah, sorry.
59:22
Unknown: It's been a long night,
we're always trying to stay one
59:24
step ahead of the adversaries.
And in this particular case, you
59:28
know, our systems are always
looking for the latest attacks
59:31
from these adversaries that are
out there. So this content,
59:35
update one out and as as it
does, and it's been doing
59:39
before, for many, many years,
obviously, we've got a robust
59:43
team that's looking at the
safety and security and the
59:45
quality of these updates. And we
have to go back and see what
59:48
happened here. But if there's a
negative interaction with the
59:52
way some of these operating
systems work, in this particular
59:55
case, it was it was only a
Microsoft operating system that
59:57
was impacted. You'll see your
reaction like this and this is
1:00:02
you know what we've seen here.
1:00:03
Adam Curry: I mean, that was
that was who cares? That was
1:00:06
what I think there was a he's
just he's just trying to to
1:00:11
speak you know, like oh yeah,
this these things do not happen
1:00:17
certainly not frequently in
these types of companies I mean
1:00:21
it's just it just doesn't happen
it can't happen these things
1:00:26
cannot happen and it did happen
and it destroyed their
1:00:29
reputation be interesting to see
how the stock does tomorrow
1:00:35
John C Dvorak: well when you
want to get to my clips from PBS
1:00:39
go ahead let's let's roll well
you want to do them now because
1:00:42
it does this they bring on okay
they do it the base I'm gonna
1:00:45
give you the rundown because
there's fighting five or six
1:00:48
clips. Yeah. They do the basic
rundown of the problem. They use
1:00:53
the word glitch too much they
bring in an expert who is a
1:00:55
cyber security guy who's an old
man with a white beard and one
1:01:00
of those little Scott Scotsman's
caps a golf cap thing.
1:01:06
Unknown: Why? Why? And
1:01:09
John C Dvorak: so they bring
this guy in who's a grump and
1:01:11
he's actually pretty decent. But
the it brings up the thing in my
1:01:17
mind, which is of course the the
bad guys couldn't have done a
1:01:21
better job of shutting down half
the world than these guys did
1:01:25
just by suppose it accident. How
1:01:27
Adam Curry: about government? I
mean, do you have any idea the
1:01:30
government's basically shut down
everywhere?
1:01:33
John C Dvorak: Everything shut
down. That it was involved with
1:01:36
this not obviously the 25% of
the Iowa counties didn't use the
1:01:42
product error probably hold on,
sir, I'm sure. Southwest there's
1:01:46
this
1:01:46
Adam Curry: little something I
gotta tell you. Headline
1:01:52
CrowdStrike global tech outed
snarls early voting in Arizona.
1:01:57
I thought these things were
supposed to be a networked.
1:02:02
Unknown: Wow. Yeah.
1:02:06
Adam Curry: He from their own
website cybersecurity and
1:02:08
election security Resource
Center. Cybersecurity is a
1:02:11
fundamental pillar of election
security. The elections
1:02:13
community and their partners in
government NGOs, and the private
1:02:17
sector must remain vigilant in
the face of potential threats,
1:02:20
elections, infrastructure and
systems enterprises that
1:02:23
administer elections campaigns,
and the channels through which
1:02:26
elections information results
are communicated can all be
1:02:28
targeted by us. Awareness is the
first step learn how cried
1:02:33
CrowdStrike can help. Yeah.
1:02:37
John C Dvorak: So just what you
said, I thought these things
1:02:40
weren't connected to the
internet. They're not supposed
1:02:42
voting systems.
1:02:44
Adam Curry: So this could also
be a nice dry run for the
1:02:47
election.
1:02:48
John C Dvorak: Yeah, well, they
gotta if they're gonna get
1:02:50
Camberley and they're gonna have
to do it through to choose
1:02:54
various means Can I
1:02:55
Adam Curry: Can I just get the
glitch thing out of my system
1:02:57
and then you won't hear me hear
me about it again. Just just
1:03:00
Sure.
1:03:20
Ladies and gentlemen of the
press of the media. This was not
1:03:25
a glitch. A glitch is when your
television goes first, second, a
1:03:32
glitches when you're when your
lights flash off for a second.
1:03:36
This is not a glitch. This was
for all intents and purposes a
1:03:41
centralized attack on the entire
world from one company whose now
1:03:46
like owes
1:03:47
Unknown: glitch.
1:03:49
Adam Curry: It's a very it's
very poor reporting. You should
1:03:52
have to turn in your press
1:03:53
John C Dvorak: Oh gee, poor
reporting in today's day and
1:03:55
age. I just me write this down
and get the date. Again,
1:04:00
reporting go don't
1:04:02
Adam Curry: like the glitch
term. It is. How can you call
1:04:05
this a glitch people died. You
got guaranteed people died.
1:04:08
Weddings weren't attended.
Birthdays weren't celebrated.
1:04:12
Medications were not given. Not
a glitch.
1:04:17
John C Dvorak: All right. Like
the mere fact that they have
1:04:20
this thing hooked to a medical
Cabinet will become believable.
1:04:24
Have you not
1:04:25
Adam Curry: seen Soprano's? I
mean, the nurse was hooked on
1:04:27
this stuff.
1:04:29
John C Dvorak: Oh, no, I know.
No, I'm not talking about that.
1:04:30
I'm talking about the fact that
this system, this overriding
1:04:34
International System of
interconnections would be hooked
1:04:41
to one of these cabinets, you'd
think it would just be a million
1:04:44
ways secure things you want to
go through this these guys.
1:04:47
Okay, let's start. This is the
PBS news hours presentation. I
1:04:53
believe they use glitch and they
do all the other mistakes and I
1:04:57
have thoughts on every one of
these clips.
1:04:59
Unknown: All right, we started
With numero uno, we start
1:05:01
tonight with a tech outage
around the world that halted
1:05:04
flights disrupted emergency
services and created headaches
1:05:08
for businesses.
1:05:09
The underlying problems behind
the glitch were fixed by the
1:05:12
afternoon. But the ripple
effects have lasted throughout
1:05:15
the day and may continue well
into tomorrow.
1:05:17
And as William Brangham reports,
1000s of passengers are still
1:05:21
trying to get to their
destinations tonight.
1:05:25
It was the glitch filth around
the world. Today's software
1:05:28
failure triggered far reaching
and frustrating outages
1:05:31
globally, air travelers were
among the most directly affected
1:05:35
with 10s of 1000s of flights
delayed and 1000s more canceled.
1:05:40
I've never seen it like this
before. Especially in this
1:05:42
airport. This airport is my
favorite because it's usually
1:05:45
getting it out. The
1:05:46
outage was caused by a faulty
software update within
1:05:49
Microsoft's Windows operating
system. Many users first notice
1:05:54
the problem when they saw the
notorious so called Blue Screen
1:05:58
of Death. The faulty update was
issued by the cybersecurity firm
1:06:01
CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz
offered a mia culpa this morning
1:06:06
on the Today Show, we're
1:06:07
deeply sorry for the impact that
we've caused to customers, to
1:06:11
travelers to anyone affected by
this including our company. So
1:06:16
we know what the issue is. We're
resolving and have resolved the
1:06:19
issue now.
1:06:20
Adam Curry: I just want to make
a correction. It was not the
1:06:22
sopranos it was Jackie Edie
Falco, who was on The Sopranos
1:06:26
played the nurse
1:06:29
John C Dvorak: carry on this
that we didn't know what you
1:06:31
said. No, I said you said have
you seen The Sopranos? Yeah, but
1:06:35
she played Jack. She had a spin
off. So Jackie, the other thing
1:06:39
Oh, yeah, she was she was the
neuro ICU. You associated okay.
1:06:43
Yeah.
1:06:44
Adam Curry: Yeah.
1:06:45
John C Dvorak: Thanks for the
correction. Yeah. Well,
1:06:46
Adam Curry: I Hey, we don't want
to be fact checked on the show.
1:06:50
John C Dvorak: Ever. That'll be
the day.
1:06:54
Adam Curry: All right. So that
was the end of that commentary
1:06:57
and every clip. Yeah,
1:06:58
John C Dvorak: I do. Okay, let's
start off with the Oh, we're so
1:07:02
sorry. Where is the liability of
aspect of this? Where are the
1:07:08
Legal Eagles? I
1:07:10
Adam Curry: asked Dave Jones
about this. I said they're gonna
1:07:13
get sued. He said
1:07:15
John C Dvorak: he laughed. I
mean, I would laugh too, because
1:07:18
I he
1:07:18
Adam Curry: said there every
single EULA contains so many
1:07:22
outs for the US companies.
There's no way you can you guess
1:07:25
John C Dvorak: is because the
EULA has been in the EULA has
1:07:30
been turned into a protective
mechanism illegally I might add
1:07:34
by the court system because they
don't want to deal with what the
1:07:37
possibilities are. I mean, if
you remember what the Supreme
1:07:41
Court oh my god because we're
going to drop the Chevron
1:07:44
deference is going to be
resulted in a bunch of actual
1:07:47
work we're going to have to do
Oh no. So the EULA which has
1:07:52
been enshrined just
1:07:53
Adam Curry: give everybody for
those who don't know EULA e u l,
1:07:57
a end user license agreement.
That is when you install it when
1:08:01
when your iPhone says want to
update you say yeah, it gives
1:08:04
you that big screen you go Yeah,
I agree.
1:08:08
John C Dvorak: Because you have
to or it won't work it won't
1:08:10
work you get a EULA when you buy
a Tesla yeah so when the cart
1:08:14
when you put it on autopilot and
slams you into a brick wall in
1:08:18
your dad your family really
can't sue tough which was you
1:08:23
know if you have the opportunity
as a business guy to install a
1:08:26
EULA on everything giving you
free at you know you're in other
1:08:32
words your your judgment proof
basically yeah, you're gonna do
1:08:37
that. But let's continue I make
this is gonna be my main
1:08:40
complaint but can DFA
1:08:42
Unknown: temporarily grounded
major US airlines including
1:08:45
United American and delta with
flight stalled check ins were
1:08:53
brought to a standstill. You're
his passenger in Minneapolis was
1:08:57
disappointed with his airlines
response.
1:08:59
What's interesting to watch is
the airline have no idea what's
1:09:03
happening. Because it is such a
such an issue that they don't
1:09:07
have a grasp on yet, at least
here at the Minneapolis Airport
1:09:10
across the
1:09:10
world in Australia, travelers
had to fend for themselves.
1:09:14
flights
1:09:14
have been canceled. So they're
we're trying to find a
1:09:17
combination in Sydney, which is
not easy towards the trying to
1:09:21
do that online. And then we'll
have to try and get a flying
1:09:25
home somewhere else somewhere.
sometime. I don't know. It
1:09:29
wasn't just air travel that was
affected. hospitals and
1:09:32
healthcare systems overseas were
also locked up forcing the
1:09:36
cancellation of appointments and
the closing of clinics.
1:09:39
Massachusetts General Hospital
had to limit operations
1:09:43
announcing quote, due to the
severity of this issue, all
1:09:46
previously scheduled non urgent
surgeries, procedures and
1:09:50
medical visits are canceled
today. The outage also impacted
1:09:54
911 Call systems in many places
and emergency services in
1:09:58
Oregon, Alaska. Arizona global
news outlets like Sky News were
1:10:03
unable to broadcast their
regular programs. A
1:10:06
major global IT outage is
impacting many of the world's
1:10:11
largest companies, including us
here at Sky News.
1:10:19
John C Dvorak: Okay, yeah, I
don't have any comments on that
1:10:22
client made a mistake kind of
bogus. I mean, besides the fact
1:10:25
that Dallas is just more than
three states that were 911
1:10:29
services were affected. It was
everywhere. It was every because
1:10:32
everybody and I back it to the
guy in Iowa says this was a free
1:10:36
product
1:10:37
Adam Curry: until it's free.
That's got to make you
1:10:40
suspicious.
1:10:41
John C Dvorak: It makes me to
this minute it makes me very
1:10:44
suspicious. Why was it free, for
example, for
1:10:47
Adam Curry: exactly this moment?
When I need to pull the ripcord
1:10:52
CrowdStrike is your uncle. This
Dr. Pepper is flat in the can.
1:10:59
John C Dvorak: That's weird. You
have a flat Dr. Pepper.
1:11:04
Adam Curry: It didn't even go
up.
1:11:06
John C Dvorak: Maybe Oh, it's
probably had a pinhole
1:11:08
somewhere. I used to be a cannon
Specter. I know this sounds
1:11:12
weird. Well,
1:11:13
Adam Curry: this was not
inspected by John C. Dvorak.
1:11:15
That's for sure. So we used
1:11:17
John C Dvorak: to have I used to
work at Kaiser Aluminum, this is
1:11:20
going to be an aside, I do
actually go to hear the story
1:11:24
when people come for
1:11:25
Adam Curry: their stories.
1:11:26
John C Dvorak: So I so I'm
working the can I mean, I'm in a
1:11:28
Spectre two, which is the only
if anyone kids out there become
1:11:32
an inspector, that's your best
bet. So I'm an inspector on the
1:11:35
candy factory. And they the CANS
go flying by this giant in
1:11:41
accumulate and you can look down
and you can see the CANS that
1:11:44
don't have the coating inside
there's they spray a coating
1:11:47
inside all the cans. And it's a
different coating for a
1:11:50
different taste flavor.
Decoding, there's two there were
1:11:54
two coatings at this factory.
And they one of them was the was
1:11:59
a special epoxy coating that I
think they had to use on Coca
1:12:02
Cola or any drinks that had a
phosphate, phosphoric acid in
1:12:06
the in the in the mix, and the
data was a different color. But
1:12:10
there you could tell the ones
that weren't coded and there'd
1:12:12
be a candidate would come to
every so often it was encoded.
1:12:15
And it would be like silvery,
because it was just the color of
1:12:18
the aluminum and never had the
coating on it. And so I wasn't
1:12:22
the only guy who did this. But
once in a while, you'd look over
1:12:26
at final inspection because
there's another guy down way
1:12:29
down the line. And if he was
away from his is his station
1:12:35
could end they had to go do
something and you saw one of
1:12:38
these cans with this pure silver
which you'd normally pull out. I
1:12:43
know I just I'm a terrible
employee for doing this but
1:12:46
everybody did this. You'd let
the can go through and see it
1:12:50
get palletized and go over to
Coca Cola, or whoever it was
1:12:55
where they were they they would
fill it with some caustic soda
1:13:00
and then soda pop is caustic and
then you just know that it would
1:13:04
very slowly dissolve the
aluminum and become a submitter
1:13:10
just just the ink on the
outside. You've already blow up
1:13:13
on the line. But there was there
were opportunities for the
1:13:18
coating not to be completely
then you which we couldn't catch
1:13:22
and it would create this just a
pinhole area that pinhole would
1:13:26
get it it could be microscopic
could get eaten away by the soda
1:13:30
Dr peppers of phosphoric acid
base soda and he would have a
1:13:35
pinhole and it would just slowly
leash the co2 over a period of
1:13:40
about a month as that's what you
get one of those cans.
1:13:43
Adam Curry: Well first of all, a
story I have not heard first
1:13:47
time in 17 years appreciate it.
I love the term working the
1:13:51
cans. Because from now on that's
all I can ever associate with
1:13:56
you sir. Work in the can
inspector he's had so many jobs.
1:14:01
You are a versatile man.
1:14:03
John C Dvorak: Like an
inspector.
1:14:07
Adam Curry: He see my
stepdaughter she's beautiful.
1:14:09
She I'm sure here we go neatly
brought me to fresh cans. Thank
1:14:13
you so much.
1:14:15
Unknown: All right here we go.
In Paris. Olympic officials say
1:14:18
some of their systems were also
down. In many places, courts
1:14:22
were also closed or delayed.
While the underlying software
1:14:29
problem has been fixed, security
experts say residual problems
1:14:33
could continue for several days.
So to help us understand more
1:14:37
about what went wrong and the
broader risks to our system. We
1:14:41
turn again to Bruce Schneier.
He's an expert in computer
1:14:43
security and technology, a
lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy
1:14:47
School and writes the wonderful
blog Schneier on security
1:14:51
wonderful Schneier. Thanks so
much for being here again. How's
1:14:54
your stand the basics here, what
is it that went wrong?
1:14:57
Adam Curry: Every every solution
from Bruce is Spinrite Eight
1:15:00
spin, right? Just you spin
right? It'll bring it right
1:15:02
back.
1:15:03
Unknown: You know, basically
there are hundreds of companies
1:15:06
that do small things that are
critical to the internet
1:15:10
functioning. And today, one of
them failed.
1:15:13
Adam Curry: So you knew it was
Bruce, you just said the guy
1:15:15
with the hat. You didn't want to
give it away that was shine
1:15:17
Schneier shine or shine or
what's his name? Bruce?
1:15:21
Unknown: Yeah, Bruce.
1:15:21
Adam Curry: Yeah. Oh, I'm
1:15:22
John C Dvorak: sorry, the
Spinrite. Guy you're
1:15:24
Adam Curry: thinking of Jimson?
Yeah, I'm thinking of Gibson.
1:15:26
Anyway, it's still the solution
to everything.
1:15:30
John C Dvorak: But the point is,
is this guy brings out this
1:15:33
micro East he's discussing
microservices architecture never
1:15:36
says it. But he claims and
microservices architecture holds
1:15:40
up to the internet, which isn't
true. So we're right away at the
1:15:43
right at the beginning here is
assertions are wrong? Boy,
1:15:48
Unknown: it's company you've
probably never heard of and
1:15:50
wouldn't hear of if it didn't
fail. It's one of many. The
1:15:54
details are geeky. But basically
one of the critical things that
1:15:57
holds the internet up fell down.
Okay,
1:16:00
but no simple little is not true
glitch today. Stopped surgeries
1:16:06
from happening had 911 systems
go down? I mean, if that can be
1:16:11
happening because of an
accident. I mean, what would
1:16:14
happen if there was a motivated
bad actor getting into these
1:16:17
systems,
1:16:18
we see that remember, change
healthcare, we don't get
1:16:22
prescriptions because a
ransomware. Remember, Colonial
1:16:24
Pipeline where oil stopped
flowing in the East Coast,
1:16:27
because the ransomware we see
this again, and again, sometimes
1:16:31
it's malice, sometimes it's
accident. But there are so many
1:16:35
critical things that make this
network function. And if any one
1:16:40
of them fails, the network
fails. So
1:16:43
or is it just that we are too
over reliant on a concentrated
1:16:47
number of companies? It's
1:16:50
concentrated and the fact that
there's no, no resilience, that
1:16:55
it's a very fragile system? And
a lot of that is the way is the
1:16:59
economics? Right, it
redundancies are viewed as
1:17:02
inefficient. So they're pulled
out of the system because of
1:17:05
profits. But that ends up with a
very fragile system. It all
1:17:09
works great when it works. When
it fails. It fails
1:17:11
catastrophically, which is what
we saw today.
1:17:14
So is that the incentive here?
Is that to change to make a
1:17:17
meaningful incentive to sort of
build in that redundancy? Is it
1:17:21
economics? Principally,
1:17:23
it's economics, we have the
technology here, you know, I can
1:17:26
describe ways that CrowdStrike
could have rolled out this
1:17:30
change incrementally and caught
this before it was a disaster.
1:17:33
We could talk about maybe there
being a dozen companies do the
1:17:35
same thing so that the disaster
is contained. But really it is
1:17:39
funnily economics, the business
incentive is to grow and become
1:17:44
critical, and then run as lean
as absolutely possible.
1:17:47
Adam Curry: So I have a question
for you. I think everyone
1:17:49
deserves to hear your definition
of microservices. Because first
1:17:54
of all, I believe that 95% of
all problems on the actual
1:17:58
network when this was not a
network problem, this was a this
1:18:01
was a a specific problem related
to one company that delivers a
1:18:06
service to Windows network
computers. 95% of the problems
1:18:11
is DNS, which do you consider
DNS to be a micro service?
1:18:15
John C Dvorak: No, DNS is a
basic service. Okay, what is
1:18:19
micro, you can't do anything
without DNS. You can do plenty
1:18:22
without micro services. So
explain micro services. micro
1:18:25
services are subsystems that a
lot of bigger systems rely on.
1:18:31
So exam, for example, that does
CrowdStrike thing or anything,
1:18:34
give me another exam
1:18:35
Adam Curry: that give me another
exam.
1:18:36
John C Dvorak: I'll give you
some examples. You have, you
1:18:39
have databases of birth dates.
And so somebody like Amazon,
1:18:43
Amazon doesn't keep any of this
information. They go to a micro
1:18:47
service, look up your birthday
and send you Hey, happy
1:18:49
birthday. It's your birthday
today. Okay, that'd be wrong.
1:18:51
Could be right. Okay. So micro
services are telling you what
1:18:54
your location is in Miami.
1:18:59
Adam Curry: Hold on to like
Ticketmaster. They, I think was
1:19:03
Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster, it
wasn't just recently you said,
1:19:06
Oh, well, you know, a third
party was hosting our database
1:19:11
with information or something
like that. And that one got
1:19:13
hacked. That's
1:19:14
John C Dvorak: those, those
third parties are all micro
1:19:16
services. micro service will
will say, Well, we're this.
1:19:21
It'll say, well, you're like I'm
using, I use VPNs. And now all
1:19:25
of a sudden, I go to some
system, and it says, Oh, I see
1:19:28
that you're in New Mexico. I see
you're here. You're there.
1:19:31
That's not where I am. I'm in.
I'm in Berkeley. But no, no, no.
1:19:37
Because a microservice tells
them that I'm in New Mexico. We
1:19:40
Adam Curry: used to call web
services.
1:19:43
John C Dvorak: Yeah, web
services. Yeah. Okay. And
1:19:45
they're always and they're part
of the overall system and
1:19:48
they're being pinged for
information constantly and a lot
1:19:53
of them are, are, are in such a
way they're done. They're
1:19:58
architected in such a way way
into the main software that if
1:20:02
they fail, the whole system
fails. Now a lot of them don't
1:20:06
aren't designed that way. But a
lot of them are designed to be,
1:20:09
you know, if if this fails, and
this isn't gonna work at all
1:20:13
Adam Curry: right? So snowflake,
who actually was hosting all
1:20:16
that data for Ticketmaster and
for many other companies
1:20:19
microservice. And actually, for
25 apps and services out there
1:20:24
podcast index.org, is by that
definition of micro service. And
1:20:28
if we go down, then all those
apps have problems.
1:20:33
John C Dvorak: I would say
that's true. And it's also micro
1:20:35
services, it can get to the
point where the minutia, where
1:20:38
microservice is actually telling
you what time it is. Yeah, and
1:20:44
that conscript. So I mean that
these little things, but they
1:20:47
some of them are crucial, and
there's no redundancy and the
1:20:50
code isn't written properly. So
if the micro service fails, it
1:20:53
just ignores the lack of data
and keeps on his merry way.
1:20:58
Obviously, that didn't happen
with this. Now this guy may
1:21:01
makes the point that
redundancies couldn't be made
1:21:04
built anywhere, you have two
microservices, one covering for
1:21:07
the other, doing the exact same
thing. But oh, that would cost
1:21:10
an extra nickel even though the
service they're giving it away
1:21:13
for free. But it will cost
somebody and Nagel in
1:21:16
Adam Curry: this case, I think
the level of access that the
1:21:21
this crowdsite microservice has
is right into the the core of
1:21:25
the of the boot up process and
the networking, so probably
1:21:29
wouldn't be able to failover to
something else. But that's a
1:21:33
separate issue.
1:21:34
John C Dvorak: Well, I think it
could, if it would, what this
1:21:37
guy's point was, is that it's
it's cheaper to do it the way
1:21:42
they're doing it and you make
more money, and you can have big
1:21:44
bonuses and get million dollar
payouts for the CEO, and on and
1:21:49
on. Which none of this would be
the case this none of this would
1:21:54
have happened. None of this
would have been the case. If
1:21:56
these guys were liable. If they
were liable for screwing over
1:22:00
the airline customers and they
could be sued for not you missed
1:22:04
your flight. You missed this,
you missed that you missed a
1:22:06
business meeting. I am suing
you. If you could sue over this
1:22:10
stuff not and you can't because
of EULAs, which are made as some
1:22:15
government protection for the
software industry. It's bullcrap
1:22:20
it these things should be banned
immediately. And we should have
1:22:23
a normal system. Like if you
make a piece of a product A made
1:22:27
out of, you know, like a car and
the car fails and you there's no
1:22:32
EULA involved, you can sue them.
And it's what happened with the
1:22:34
Pinto and the exploding gas
tanks. You can sue you can't sue
1:22:39
over this because of these, the
government protection based on
1:22:42
the courts allowing these Ulus
to exist in the US are bogus
1:22:46
because it's you can't you
either can't use the product. If
1:22:49
you don't sign off, or you just
can't use it you're not you
1:22:53
know, you can get it as a kid to
sign it and the kids are liable
1:22:57
for they can't legally signed
contracts. So there's some angle
1:23:02
there. But this is government.
This is protectionism, John C de
1:23:07
Bourgh. Acts as Eva de
1:23:10
Adam Curry: Yeah, feel the Feels
good, doesn't it? Onward.
1:23:15
Unknown: So what do you think
the downstream consequences for
1:23:18
CrowdStrike? And or Microsoft
will be? Or will there be none?
1:23:21
There
1:23:22
will be none? What were the
downstream consequences for
1:23:24
Colonial Pipeline or change
healthcare, or the dozens of
1:23:27
other incidents like this in the
past few years? We move on,
1:23:32
right? Politics is all
consuming. This is a blip
1:23:35
tomorrow, I don't even think
it's gonna be news
1:23:37
on a practical basis for an
individual who late last night
1:23:42
or today might have done some
online transaction paid a bill
1:23:46
transferred money, do they need
to worry it? Could this have
1:23:49
impacted them in some way, make
1:23:51
it good. If they were flying
today, if they wanted to, you
1:23:54
know, needed nine on one
services, hospitals, a lot of
1:23:57
things collapsed, but really is
individual, there's nothing you
1:24:00
can do. You're not in charge of
these networks. You don't get to
1:24:04
say what products and services
are used or not. We are all at
1:24:08
the mercy of mercenary, large
consolidated systems. And when
1:24:12
they fail, you know, our life is
impacted. The only way to make
1:24:17
this change at the political
level, right agitate for some
1:24:20
meaningful rules here that will
keep companies from being this
1:24:26
lean while you're kind of
1:24:27
Adam Curry: on board with what
he's saying.
1:24:29
John C Dvorak: No I'm not he
wants to regulate do regulation.
1:24:33
Adam Curry: Oh, no. I mean, he's
saying we need something at the
1:24:34
government level which would be
changing the the EU law nonsense
1:24:38
you said it's protectionism
protectionism from the
1:24:40
government that's kind of what
you said Miss unless Yes,
1:24:42
John C Dvorak: that's what it is
is protectionism but but going
1:24:44
toward the focus on regulation?
Oh, we should regulate when you
1:24:48
all you have to do is pull the
plug on EULAs and say hey, no,
1:24:52
no, this is a product. You
bought the product a product has
1:24:56
made guarantees to you about
certain things if you bought a
1:24:59
product from should do this,
that and the other and it
1:25:01
doesn't, it fails. It doesn't do
this, that and the other doesn't
1:25:05
do anything. You can sue over
that. I can't do that today. I
1:25:09
would
1:25:09
Adam Curry: like all of our
producers who also work at CNBC
1:25:13
or other television news
stations, you should get Jhansi
1:25:17
Dvorak on the air. This is this.
You got one of those hats one of
1:25:22
those little like, if like
1:25:24
John C Dvorak: a guy with a
little French hat, Scottish
1:25:26
Scottish cap,
1:25:28
Adam Curry: you got to have a
look. If you have a look, then
1:25:31
they'll keep calling you. Oh,
yeah, we go to Jhansi Dvorak. So
1:25:34
John C Dvorak: the point is, is
that this guy's again, the old
1:25:37
you know, this is a liberal
attitude. Oh, let's just do
1:25:39
regulations, regulations. This
is an example you should
1:25:43
deregulate, you should get rid
of EULAs deregulate let the
1:25:47
legal system takes due course I
don't understand and this idea
1:25:51
of regulating what are you going
to regulate?
1:25:54
Adam Curry: You think you've
made your point? Yeah, I
1:25:56
John C Dvorak: know. I just, I'm
just pounding at home. I'm doing
1:25:58
what I've taken. Finally. I do
Nick curry. Yeah.
1:26:03
Adam Curry: You know, what
happens? You're gonna get a lot
1:26:04
of email, you get annoyed at
people who said,
1:26:08
John C Dvorak: because that's
what I already get that I know,
1:26:11
I know, everything from the tip
of the day, I will tell you
1:26:13
about that. Okay, I'll leave
1:26:15
Adam Curry: that for later.
Okay, last clip here who were
1:26:17
getting through it.
1:26:18
Unknown: But you know, the
difficulties of that kind of a
1:26:20
thing. One, that's not a
constituency that's naturally
1:26:23
out there that's organically
fighting for this kind of a
1:26:25
thing. Absent that, are there?
Are there political leaders that
1:26:29
could be doing this that can be
pressing this in a regulatory
1:26:32
way?
1:26:33
I mean, there can I don't think
there will be. It's we have a
1:26:36
lot of trouble because the
United States regulating
1:26:38
anything. And this is certainly
not the worst disaster. This is
1:26:41
just one of many this is today's
disaster. So yes, there could be
1:26:46
change, I wouldn't expect it. EU
is doing better. You see more
1:26:50
meaningful regulation there. But
even there, they're not doing
1:26:53
the kinds of things that will
make our critical infrastructure
1:26:57
more redundant, more resilient.
1:27:00
All right, Bruce Schneier of
Schneier on security. Thanks so
1:27:02
much for being here. Wow.
1:27:04
Adam Curry: All right. Thanks so
much again. Geez. So the fallout
1:27:11
from this will be I don't know
if we're gonna get much
1:27:14
reporting on it from here on out
because it was just a glitch.
1:27:17
Yeah, big deal. But I think a
1:27:21
John C Dvorak: billions of
dollars to the economies of the
1:27:24
of the world
1:27:25
Adam Curry: a nice or at least
everyone got hit a nice October
1:27:30
surprise, oh, voting machines
glitch glitch, which, I mean, if
1:27:35
a voting machines are connected
to this, they can put all kinds
1:27:38
of stuff in there. They're at
the low one of the lowest levels
1:27:40
of the operating good. They
don't think they've been doing
1:27:44
it. I'm sorry, what am I even
saying? Yes. So this should be
1:27:48
very telling. I've always been
led to believe voting machines
1:27:52
are not connected to the
network. They keep saying it,
1:27:56
don't they, by definition, if
CrowdStrike is in there, and
1:28:00
it's working as advertised, it's
connected to something. So that
1:28:06
should be a Gillespie County.
Pen and paper. No voting
1:28:11
machines here. All right, let me
let me put up the sign here. The
1:28:16
conspiracy therapist is an All
right. Couple of things. Related
1:28:26
to the shooting, first of all,
thank you. We have the best
1:28:29
podcast producers in the
universe. Douchebag. Pat came in
1:28:36
regarding the shorting of the D
J. T stock prior to the
1:28:40
shooting. Well, well, well. I
mean, how many emails did we not
1:28:46
receive about? Oh, yeah,
BlackRock and Clinton. They're
1:28:49
shorting and made money just
like 911 Airlines. And
1:28:54
douchebag. Pat says, Well, I
looked at the volume price
1:28:57
action since July, when the
stock button was very subdued
1:29:00
average trading range less than
normal. The stock price was flat
1:29:03
during the entire time, the
average daily volume was about
1:29:05
11 million shares. So it's
almost impossible that 12
1:29:09
million got shorted without any
ramifications. He says I checked
1:29:12
the put value volume. This would
be the snapshot of how many
1:29:16
contracts existed at the end of
the day on July 12. Before the
1:29:19
shooting, I put up a chart of
every single option contract
1:29:22
that had over 1000 contracts.
Most of the put buying occurred
1:29:25
after the run ups that can be
attributed to things like the
1:29:28
debate in June, as far as
reports of 120,000 put contracts
1:29:33
being bought. There were not
even 120,000 Put contracts in
1:29:37
existence. Yep, I saw zero
evidence of any ramped up put
1:29:41
buying during July through the
12th before the shooting. And so
1:29:47
he says this is bogus. That is
absolutely absolutely bogus.
1:29:52
John C Dvorak: Probably true
that was unclear should be
1:29:54
ashamed of themselves for
sending us this.
1:29:56
Adam Curry: They don't know I
mean that no, they should know
1:29:58
they should be Dogen
1:30:00
John C Dvorak: The listener
should get included some
1:30:02
Adam Curry: police should not be
ashamed. It's just what it is.
1:30:05
Okay, they shouldn't be ashamed.
Now a couple a couple of other
1:30:08
things. Now I just want you to
read it reiterate. I believe
1:30:11
you're on board with this
general thesis that from the no
1:30:15
agenda perspective, we seen this
many times. This looks like the
1:30:19
FBI specifically, by the way,
FBI with the guys on the roof
1:30:22
hosing it down. Closing down the
evidence. Hello, FBI. The minute
1:30:28
we heard that this kid had some
bombs with a remote control up
1:30:33
on the roof. Immediately this
this is a very stereotypical FBI
1:30:38
six week cycle operation, you
find some weak brother online,
1:30:42
who's talking terrorism is
yelling about Allahu Akbar.
1:30:47
Don't get mad at me. I'm just
saying. You know, and then they
1:30:52
jack him up like, yeah, it was
all Yeah. Do you want to cause
1:30:55
some mayhem? Yeah, we should do
this. And they jack them around
1:30:58
for two months. And then they
give him a phony baloney
1:31:01
detonator. And then the minute
he goes to press the button,
1:31:03
which doesn't work, they swoop
in save the day, we almost
1:31:06
almost blew everybody up. And
the funny
1:31:10
John C Dvorak: thing is, we keep
overlooking the Whitmer
1:31:13
kidnapping, murder plot was
largely one of these operations.
1:31:18
Well,
1:31:19
Adam Curry: interesting that you
bring that up. Here's two clips
1:31:21
Unknown: or sign here. Whitmer
kidnap plot victim, but you were
1:31:25
one of them. You were one of the
ones to talk to you for very
1:31:28
long. So real quick, I'm gonna
go back to Miranda but tell me
1:31:30
real quick. We only got about 20
seconds. All right. You're so
1:31:33
you're one of the ones that got
arrested for the plot. Yes, sir.
1:31:35
Eric, I'm Eric Molitor. Tell me
about it real quick, real quick.
1:31:39
I don't even know where to
start. FBI infiltrated basically
1:31:43
set it up. Am I right? The FBI
set everything out. They drove
1:31:46
people they paid for everything
how they wrote the script,
1:31:49
Governor Whitmer herself open
her scheduling book and decided
1:31:52
with the FBI and State police
wouldn't be the best time for
1:31:55
the daytime ride the nighttime
ride, then they do people into
1:31:58
it. They even have proof we even
have proof of them telling
1:32:01
people get as many people in the
trucks as possible and don't
1:32:03
tell them what you're doing
until they're already on the
1:32:05
road. The idea was 100% setup
and Governor what Marian if they
1:32:09
can do it to nobody like me.
They will come after everybody
1:32:12
else. So let me ask your partner
this without getting I don't
1:32:15
know if you're still going
through the legal battles on it
1:32:17
acquitted man acquitted,
acquitted. So this is one of
1:32:19
those things. She's still out
there pushing this as if it was
1:32:23
a legitimate thing that there
was a kidnap plot against her
1:32:26
that she set up with the FBI.
It's walk me through what
1:32:29
actually happened that night. Oh
my gosh, man. So I didn't go on
1:32:32
to what's known as the nighttime
ride. I was duped into the
1:32:35
daytime ride. And oh my gosh,
again, there's so much that goes
1:32:38
into anyways, I set up a Civil
Defense Force for my area in
1:32:41
Wexford Cadillac city, because
Antifa bail almost coming up
1:32:45
there. Through this process. I
met Adam Fox who lived down here
1:32:47
in Grand Rapids actually, after
a while he got me a job in
1:32:52
private security, which was
really awesome. I thought that
1:32:54
Stewart was really, really cool.
And he actually is a good guy,
1:32:56
by the way. So
1:32:57
Adam Curry: you get the idea.
Actually, I have a longer clip
1:33:01
of that, but it was fake. And
then NPR stations. So one of the
1:33:04
troll room just posted are still
talking about it in Michigan as
1:33:07
if it all was real and happened
it wasn't the guys were
1:33:10
acquitted. It was a setup.
1:33:12
John C Dvorak: So this is where
all acquitted because they got
1:33:14
the FBI got busted. So this is
1:33:16
Adam Curry: very typical of the
FBI, specifically the FBI. And
1:33:21
no one typically no one gets
hurt, but they can swoop in.
1:33:25
Remember the guy with the drones
in DC like this huge, remote
1:33:30
controlled aircraft drive it
over and over and over again. We
1:33:34
see this except you're
1:33:35
John C Dvorak: right, the FBI
goes out of their way or tries
1:33:39
to go out of their way. So
nobody gets hurt. Yeah, they
1:33:41
just get arrested. And they and
the FBI budget goes up. Well,
1:33:45
Adam Curry: or at least they
maintain it or it goes up. And
1:33:48
yeah, and so our thinking is
that this kid kind of went rogue
1:33:53
as you say freelance and he
brought his dad's rifle I like
1:33:56
yeah, you know what, I'm gonna
really I'm gonna do something
1:33:58
here. Everything points towards
this, including
1:34:03
John C Dvorak: so much more,
including the dad calling 911
1:34:06
Yes,
1:34:06
Adam Curry: yes. The Wall Street
Journal has a lot of reporting.
1:34:11
They say he was for the past
year, he was quietly quietly
1:34:15
receiving nice reporting Wall
Street Journal, quietly
1:34:19
receiving several packages that
were marked hazardous material,
1:34:22
some of which law enforcement
officials think he might have
1:34:25
used to make a pair of homemade
bombs. Now notice there was no
1:34:28
detonation of the bombs. No one
has told about I mean, we know a
1:34:33
little bit about what was in
them basically, you know, like
1:34:36
your standard ammonium bomb was
some nitro flicker makan in
1:34:41
there, whatever. It doesn't
matter nitrates what you're
1:34:44
saying. But they didn't they
didn't explode. They didn't
1:34:47
detonate them. He had a he had a
fireworks ignition system. By
1:34:54
the way the antenna was broken
off at least in the picture I
1:34:57
saw. He had two cell phone It's
I mean, this reeks of an FBI
1:35:02
setup. But the kid who has a
horrible shot, he's like, you
1:35:05
know, I'm going to show that I'm
a good shot. And he comes in and
1:35:08
he tries to shoot Trump and
comes very close. This there's
1:35:13
something else that if if there
was any noise out there or some
1:35:17
rumor, you remember the first
headlines, what were the first
1:35:21
headlines that came out? When?
When, when when Trump was shot
1:35:28
during the first headlines? No,
I don't loud noises scare Trump.
1:35:32
John C Dvorak: Oh, that was the
headlines from the from from
1:35:35
multiple, multiple multiple
outlets that tried to downplay
1:35:39
the whole thing,
1:35:40
Adam Curry: or were they
expecting loud noises? were they
1:35:46
expecting some pre written
maybe? Maybe I'm just saying
1:35:51
it's just
1:35:51
John C Dvorak: that they made
fools of themselves by putting
1:35:54
in the headlines. Oh, Trump
falls. So
1:35:55
Adam Curry: I think that it's
very possible that a couple of
1:35:58
these outlets, were ready to go.
Loud noises Trump, you know,
1:36:04
there was a couple of headlines.
And we all looked at it and
1:36:08
said, Oh, man, they can't even
say that he got shot. I mean,
1:36:11
obviously, it's the difference
between loud noises and
1:36:13
gunshots. Gunshot everyone heard
was gunshots. There was no
1:36:16
mistake in that whatsoever.
Where did these headlines come
1:36:19
from? That that I think it just
adds to our possible scenario
1:36:23
here. Then we hear there's a lot
of multiple shooter stuff out
1:36:30
there. And so there's some
really grainy video where you
1:36:35
have the water tower, you see
the water, even the top of the
1:36:38
water tower is going back and
forth because the camera is
1:36:42
zooming in and zooming out. I
mean, know that. As far as I
1:36:45
know, there were
1:36:46
John C Dvorak: these things that
people are buying. It's just
1:36:48
like, what if they were they?
1:36:50
Adam Curry: If there were two
shooters, Trump would be dead?
1:36:53
If I even heard today. The guy
had a zipline, he zipline down
1:36:58
from the water tower. Okay, all
right. It's nonsense. Then we
1:37:02
have the audio analysis,
multiple guns, multiple
1:37:08
shooters. I liked it. A little
bit about audio. I liked this.
1:37:11
By the way, I liked the idea of
looking at the sound, the crack
1:37:16
and the retort. So pluck, pluck
foam, pluck foam, two seconds
1:37:21
between each one. And then the
last one on the last four shots,
1:37:26
or three or four shots. You hear
there's a different distance
1:37:31
between the talk and film. What
I think I can dispute this, this
1:37:38
audio is taken outside, on a
camera on a phone, which is
1:37:43
moving around, you're going to
get different acoustics you're
1:37:48
going to get all kinds of
different slap backs from a
1:37:52
camera that is not stationary.
It's not like it was a
1:37:55
stationary mic.
1:37:58
John C Dvorak: Yeah, there's
also the thing that seems to be
1:38:00
ignored. wish there were two
shooters. One of them was the
1:38:03
Secret Service sniper shooting
at the kid.
1:38:07
Adam Curry: Well, supposedly,
the ninth shot is that one. But
1:38:10
we don't know. Breaking news. We
don't really know.
1:38:13
John C Dvorak: We don't know.
But it's since the ninth shot
1:38:16
was that one. We have one guy
who has? No he's just kind of
1:38:20
chuckling to himself as though
he's solved the whole thing. And
1:38:23
he shows the guy shooting three
times. This hole is just
1:38:27
ridiculous.
1:38:29
Adam Curry: So there is a large
contingent of people out there
1:38:31
believing this was a complete
setup. I mean, people I respect,
1:38:35
this is the biggest show on
earth. I and I have to say
1:38:39
again, no. If this was not if it
was October, I would give you
1:38:44
some leeway. They make Oh, but
this was for he was going to win
1:38:48
the nomination anyway, this is
not to get him nominated. This
1:38:52
makes no sense that this was a
false flag. Already. It was you
1:38:58
know, he he had a little ear
clip, you know, He clipped his
1:39:01
own ear. And when he put his
head no, no. How about it was
1:39:04
real. How about that for a
second? It was real. But the
1:39:09
mounting evidence, evidence and
circumstances of this kid is
1:39:14
amazing. We're seeing a
narrative being built. It is all
1:39:18
coming from sources. From phone
calls that people aren't allowed
1:39:24
to talk to there's no briefing
for everything else in the
1:39:26
world. We get daily briefings,
we get the FBI, they're up
1:39:30
there, you know, you maybe get
the Secret Service, someone's
1:39:33
going to be talking about it,
but there's nothing there's none
1:39:35
of that. So it's very fishy,
that that's not happening. And I
1:39:39
don't think it's because there's
some conspiracy outside of the
1:39:42
FBI trying to pull off one of
the little gambits but then we
1:39:46
have this bombshell.
1:39:47
Unknown: In the meantime, we do
want to get into this new
1:39:49
bombshell report right now shell
just moments ago coming in from
1:39:52
the Wall Street Journal, and I'm
going to read from some of the
1:39:56
piece and this is quite
stunning. Let's take some of
1:39:59
this video out there. Here's
what we know. According to The
1:40:01
Wall Street Journal, they just
published this piece that a
1:40:03
gunman who tried to kill Donald
Trump was able to fly a drone
1:40:07
and get aerial footage of the
Western Pennsylvania
1:40:10
fairgrounds. Shortly before the
former president was set to
1:40:13
speak their law enforcement
officials briefed on the matter
1:40:16
said further underscoring the
stunning security lapses ahead
1:40:19
of Trump's assassination. They
go on to say And they're
1:40:23
reporting that Thomas Matthew
crooks flew the drone on a
1:40:27
programmed flight path earlier
in the day on July the 13th. to
1:40:32
scour the butler farm
Showgrounds ahead of Trump's ill
1:40:36
fated rally according to the
officials, the predetermined
1:40:39
path, the officials added,
suggests crooks flew the drone
1:40:43
more than once as he researched
and scoped out the event site.
1:40:48
So
1:40:48
Adam Curry: I would like to see
said drone. I'd like to get a
1:40:52
little bit of information about
this drone. What kind of drone
1:40:54
was it because there was a TFR
in place a temporary flight
1:40:59
restriction has very normal when
the when someone of this stature
1:41:04
speaks, and it's a zone and it
was all around this entire area
1:41:08
where you cannot fly it and they
put it out and in no time notice
1:41:11
to Airmen. Oh, I'm sorry. That's
misogynistic. And as a part of
1:41:16
it, and so even even a drone
flying would be under this TFR
1:41:23
and in fact, it says in the know
time the Department of Defense,
1:41:26
the Department of Homeland
Security, the Department of
1:41:29
Justice may take security action
that results in the interference
1:41:33
disruptions seizure, damaging or
destruction of unmanned aircraft
1:41:38
deemed to pose a credible safety
or security threat to protected
1:41:41
personnel or assets. So
possible, that's just bullcrap.
1:41:46
And they're not looking at all
for drones. I don't think drones
1:41:49
have transponders. But if there
were serious about this
1:41:52
security, then you know, as they
portend here, yes, then that is
1:41:57
something that probably should
not have been able to happen. I
1:42:00
John C Dvorak: want to correct
your terminology. sexist and
1:42:04
misogyny is not they're not
synonyms. I'm
1:42:06
Adam Curry: sorry. Yes, sexist.
I'm just sexist.
1:42:09
John C Dvorak: Wait, since
you're playing that, like that's
1:42:12
a distraction. Let's play this
Josh Hawley clip. It's a false
1:42:16
report.
1:42:17
Adam Curry: You're jumping
ahead, but okay, we can do this.
1:42:19
Where is yes, Jess, harlot. Can
we just wait one second on the
1:42:22
Josh Holly thing? Because the
secret services is last. Secret
1:42:27
Services last. All right, then
it will play it. Yeah. Yeah.
1:42:31
Because he has the
whistleblower. So now we're
1:42:33
starting to supposedly Yeah, now
now we're starting to build up a
1:42:37
little bit of a profile with
different news reports.
1:42:40
Unknown: They do know that he
registered as a Republican a
1:42:43
couple of days after his 18th
birthday. But that's, you know
1:42:47
that and I think his final
search on the internet was for
1:42:51
pornography. He also looked for
pictures of both Trump and
1:42:56
Biden. And also Chris Wray, the
FBI director and Merrick
1:43:00
Garland. So he was very angry, I
think with the government in
1:43:04
general,
1:43:05
Adam Curry: beautiful. First of
all, he's he's an INCEL. Looking
1:43:09
for porn. Couldn't be FBI
couldn't be involved because he
1:43:13
had a picture of FBI director
Chris rea on his phone. So the
1:43:16
Department of Justice because
you know, we got the Attorney
1:43:19
General there. No, wait, where'd
1:43:21
John C Dvorak: you get this
clip?
1:43:23
Adam Curry: I don't remember
where I got that from it.
1:43:27
John C Dvorak: This is planned
his story. This is his plan. I
1:43:30
don't have to be nice to know
the source. Okay. Yes, someone
1:43:33
Adam Curry: sent it to me and it
was no source I should have
1:43:35
asked for a source. Normally
habits such as this as CNN,
1:43:39
here's a big part of the of the
story that's being created law
1:43:43
Unknown: enforcement sources
telling CNN that there were
1:43:46
pictures on the shooters phone
of both President Biden and
1:43:50
President Trump, but law
enforcement. Sources also noted
1:43:53
that there were other Political
figures on his phone as well,
1:43:56
including pictures of House
Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries,
1:43:59
and speaker Mike Johnson, but no
threatening language
1:44:02
accompanying any of those
photos. And
1:44:04
Adam Curry: you know, what I
love about there were pictures
1:44:06
on what did he have in an album,
they have him as his screen, his
1:44:11
lock screen,
1:44:11
John C Dvorak: we had to look at
the picture of Trump mood before
1:44:14
he took the shot to make sure.
1:44:16
Adam Curry: I mean, this is
completely bogus. The
1:44:20
Unknown: other thing is new
information is that crooks
1:44:23
apparently has searched for
information on major depression
1:44:26
disorder. But still law
enforcement officials say that
1:44:29
there's no evidence that he
himself had any diagnosis. And
1:44:33
the last thing, sir, that I'll
note is from the House Briefing
1:44:36
law, say legislative sources
were telling us that the shooter
1:44:41
actually visited that rally site
twice before the shooting. And
1:44:44
cellphone data shows that he was
at that rally site at least 70
1:44:48
minutes prior to the shooting.
So
1:44:50
Adam Curry: this is new, this is
something new, they have not
1:44:52
done it before, which tells me
they're a little desperate,
1:44:55
because clearly, this is not
politically motivated. We can't
1:44:58
blame it on that. Can't blame it
on the FBI in the oh, he was
1:45:03
very interested in Hakeem
Jeffries. Okay, sure. But the
1:45:06
Daily Mail expert
1:45:08
John C Dvorak: before before he
go on, I want to say what you're
1:45:10
doing. You are showing that the
FBI was reverse engineering, a
1:45:17
possible scenario because of the
screw up but of the kids growing
1:45:21
up with this kid with the kid
going rogue so now what are we
1:45:23
going to do? Yes, let's start
piecing together a phony story.
1:45:26
Yes.
1:45:27
Adam Curry: Including and this
is new. They never do this.
1:45:30
Doctors say antidepressants may
have pushed Trump shooter Thomas
1:45:34
crooks over the edge as Oh, as
concerning new details emerge.
1:45:40
Now and remember, let me just
read a few pieces from this
1:45:44
report. Details are beginning to
emerge about the state of mind
1:45:48
of Donald Trump's would be
assassin after the FBI gain
1:45:52
access to his cell phone this
week apparently had two or three
1:45:55
but okay. Though no concrete
motive has been established
1:45:58
Thomas crooks exclusive story.
Internet history revealed he
1:46:03
searched for information about
major depressive disorder in the
1:46:06
days leading up to the attack.
In addition to that,
1:46:10
John C Dvorak: well, by the way
that shows there's a flaw
1:46:14
because according to the
reports, he never went got
1:46:17
diagnosed by a doctor. So how
did he get the prescription?
1:46:19
Adam Curry: We Oh, we don't know
if he if he was looking for
1:46:22
prescription, but this Oh
1:46:23
John C Dvorak: no. How did he
get the prescription? He was
1:46:25
told if they're gonna start
blaming drugs on this. Somebody
1:46:28
has yet to get diagnosed.
1:46:31
Adam Curry: Well, they haven't
figured that one out yet. But
1:46:35
this story, I have never seen
this before. This story from The
1:46:39
Daily Mail links to an Oxford
Department of Psychiatry. Story
1:46:46
depression linked to violent
crime study finds. Wow, didn't
1:46:50
hear about that. Three times
more likely, according to
1:46:55
Oxford, three times more likely
to commit violent acts, violent
1:47:00
crimes. If you're on
antidepressants. Gee, what next?
1:47:04
Video games make you do this
stuff? I mean, come on. I'm
1:47:09
trying to see if this there was
one more piece let me see if
1:47:11
this is it. a
1:47:12
Unknown: clearer picture of the
shooter and the actions of 20
1:47:14
year old Thomas Matthew crooks
is emerging.
1:47:19
Adam Curry: From the FBI at you
1:47:21
Unknown: crooks is emerging. A
source familiar with the
1:47:23
investigation telling NBC News
crooks flew a drone oh,
1:47:26
Adam Curry: by the way, crooks
worked at a nursing home maybe
1:47:29
had access to drugs there. You
never know. Those
1:47:31
Unknown: familiar with the
investigation telling NBC News
1:47:34
crooks flew a drone at the rally
site mere hours before Donald
1:47:37
Trump took the stage. While
common for the Secret Service to
1:47:40
banned drones over areas they
are securing. It's unclear if
1:47:44
that happened in this case,
drone and drone equipment were
1:47:47
found in Crixus car according to
a senior law enforcement source.
1:47:50
To senior law enforcement
sources tell NBC News The FBI
1:47:54
has uncovered more than 14,000
links on the phone to the
1:47:57
shooter. And then online
searches by crooks involved
1:47:59
depressive disorder, explosive
materials and chemical compounds
1:48:03
as well as information about the
2021 Oxford High School mass
1:48:07
shooting and convicted shooter
Ethan crumbly
1:48:10
Adam Curry: that's the one who's
the one whose parents went to
1:48:14
jail.
1:48:15
John C Dvorak: Cromley maybe
yeah, criminally maybe I'm using
1:48:19
14,000 links first of all with a
phone first got is cracked. It's
1:48:25
there is nothing on it. If I
don't know maybe I just heard
1:48:28
that. And now all of a sudden
this 14,000 14,000 links on your
1:48:33
phone you guys gotta get he's
got to have some tendinitis in
1:48:37
his thumbs. Well, there's a lot
of links. I mean,
1:48:41
Adam Curry: one one web page
could have 100 links. We have no
1:48:45
and breaking news. We have no
information. We're building a
1:48:50
story as you said the reverse
engineering a story around this
1:48:54
kid because it did not do what
they wanted. They wanted some
1:48:58
loud bang bang noises this kid
Oh crazy. Oh yeah, they probably
1:49:02
would have killed him. Probably.
1:49:06
John C Dvorak: Not necessarily.
I'm gonna kill these other guys
1:49:10
like the crazy guys that were
trying to blow up one thing you
1:49:13
know that Muslims, that guys
that they were at a party and
1:49:16
they're going to blow up
something Florida alive. I'm
1:49:20
going to say necessarily kill
anybody.
1:49:22
Adam Curry: I'm going to set you
up for the holly clip or the
1:49:25
Unknown: House Oversight
Committee has subpoenaed the
1:49:27
Secret Service Director Kimberly
Cheeto to appear before that
1:49:30
panel on Monday as they
investigate the security
1:49:32
breakdown. That apparently made
the shooting possible over the
1:49:36
past weekend. Republican
Congressman Mark Alford of
1:49:39
Missouri joins me now.
Congressman, thank you very much
1:49:42
for joining us. I guess. First
of all, we know that law
1:49:47
enforcement officials briefed
members of Congress yesterday
1:49:49
about some of the details of
that assassination attempt over
1:49:53
the weekend. What did you hear
from that briefing regarding the
1:49:56
shooting that stood out to you
1:50:00
Well, Jim, thanks for having me
on.
1:50:01
Yes, I was on that briefing
call. It was an Off The Record
1:50:04
call. So there's not a lot that
I can share with you. I will
1:50:07
tell you in generalities though
director Cheadle and director
1:50:10
Ray did acknowledge that this
was a failure, insecurity. And I
1:50:15
believe that Mike Johnson, our
speaker was the one to say that
1:50:18
this was the biggest security
failure for the Secret Service
1:50:21
since Ronald Reagan was shot.
They gave us a timeline, a very
1:50:26
detailed timeline of what went
on, but no real answers. And
1:50:29
they said, at this point, we're
really not ruling anything out
1:50:33
that we have to continue the
investigation, in a candid let
1:50:36
the facts lead us where they
may. So of
1:50:38
John C Dvorak: course, to
continue writing the script,
1:50:40
we're not we're not done with
the script too many we get some
1:50:44
creative people, it takes them a
while sometimes. Yeah. And you
1:50:46
Adam Curry: know, there was a
strike, so it's hard to get them
1:50:48
back. So now we have all kinds
of new reporting. Turns out
1:50:55
well, you know, we kind of had
resource issues. That's why we
1:51:00
went all dei to get anybody in
there that we could, some of
1:51:04
these secret service agents
probably weren't even really,
1:51:07
you know, regular Secret Service
agents, we have to sometimes get
1:51:11
local people turns out, just
like I said, we're not living in
1:51:15
the West Wing people. This is
not a Harrison Ford Presidential
1:51:18
movie. It's real life.
Government sucks. They don't
1:51:23
protect anybody or anything. Not
really. They don't protect you.
1:51:27
And, you know, even President
Biden I got a picture from one
1:51:30
of our producers when he arrived
at Delaware Air Force Base
1:51:37
Delaware. Yeah. He says I just
got in with my regular
1:51:40
credentials went right up to the
up to the fence took this
1:51:42
picture. I could have done
anything. Could have done
1:51:45
anything at that. I could have
picked him right off. Probably
1:51:49
yeah, because it's it's a hoax
does
1:51:51
John C Dvorak: or is this when
he went to Baphomet where is
1:51:53
that? Baphomet Delaware's?
Really? Baphomet Are you kidding
1:51:58
me?
1:51:58
Adam Curry: Baphomet the he goes
to Baphomet please tell me it's
1:52:02
Baphomet is there a bathroom?
It? Oh, no, no, no, we
1:52:05
John C Dvorak: hold that over
Jehovah the bathroom that some
1:52:09
Taos Baphomet
1:52:11
Adam Curry: he better not.
Baphomet? No, there's no such
1:52:15
thing as bad from Delaware. But
he may have gone to see Baphomet
1:52:21
I don't know. All right. So now
you're
1:52:24
John C Dvorak: this is a short
clip from Fox News. And this is
1:52:27
only part of the long, long,
long clip on this, but I thought
1:52:30
it would at least it brings in
another element of confusion and
1:52:34
Unknown: we continue to follow
the latest here in Trump's
1:52:37
attempted assassination. We are
getting big breaking news here
1:52:41
on this Friday. This is all
recording. Josh Hawley. He has
1:52:47
whistleblowers coming to him
that detail most of Trump's
1:52:51
security detail working the
event last Saturday, we're not
1:52:56
even Secret Service. Again,
we're not even Secret Service
1:53:01
Day, DHS assigned unprepared and
inexperienced personnel. So this
1:53:08
is the letter A right now that
Senator Josh Hawley just put out
1:53:14
to the Department of Homeland
Security saying I write to raise
1:53:19
concerns brought to me by
whistleblowers about your
1:53:22
department's stunning failure to
protect former President Trump
1:53:26
on July 13 2024. As Secretary of
Homeland Security, you are
1:53:30
ultimately responsible for your
agency. And its components,
1:53:34
including the US Secret Service,
whistleblowers who have direct
1:53:39
knowledge of the event have
approached my office. According
1:53:42
to the allegations, the July 13
rally was considered to be a
1:53:46
loose security event.
1:53:50
Adam Curry: There's all kinds of
stories out there.
1:53:53
John C Dvorak: And it doesn't
make any sense with the fact
1:53:55
that supposedly another I think
misdirection which is that Iran
1:53:59
has got a hit on Trump. Yeah,
was my favorite. Yeah, so this
1:54:04
is just this is bordering on
ridiculous, and it doesn't help
1:54:07
by the way with all the false
flag narratives and the rest of
1:54:11
it. The whole thing is a joke,
1:54:13
Adam Curry: but we've all been
conditioned to this. We've all
1:54:16
been conditioned to be looking
at these things. Well, I mean,
1:54:20
this is so our comes razor for
the show, at least, like come
1:54:23
on. We've seen this we've seen
this script. We've seen the
1:54:26
reverse engineering of the of
the actor, and it's so obvious
1:54:30
the kids stopped me he went got
50 rolls 50 rounds, man, that's
1:54:34
half a box but what is that? 50
rounds, nothing. Cut 50 rounds,
1:54:38
but
1:54:39
John C Dvorak: that's a pretty
big bullet. Don't think that's
1:54:42
half of I think it's I think
they come in 100 I don't think
1:54:46
that big bullet comes in 100 big
bullet. It's a 556 is a big
1:54:51
bullet. It's
1:54:51
Adam Curry: not a 2002 You know,
it's a 556
1:54:54
John C Dvorak: they they've
discovered they fit rods been
1:54:58
brought out and just discussed
The lot. That is a 556
1:55:03
Adam Curry: Douchebag Pat says
50 rounds in a box
1:55:06
John C Dvorak: of that big 556
bullet. I don't think so.
1:55:09
Adam Curry: 556 is not that big.
1:55:13
John C Dvorak: Okay, 5050 rounds
in a box. So we bought a box.
1:55:18
One got a box, whatever you
bought whatever he bought, he
1:55:20
took his dad's
1:55:21
Adam Curry: gun. The dad's like,
hey, I can call a 911. We think
1:55:25
we don't know. Breaking this
true to
1:55:27
John C Dvorak: we don't have any
proof of back don't know
1:55:29
anything Russian. So no, the
whole thing is bad. It's bad
1:55:33
morning.
1:55:34
Adam Curry: And before Biden
resigned. Thank you everybody
1:55:37
for jumping in. Biden resigned.
Thank you. I'm it's like people
1:55:41
are texting me.
1:55:42
John C Dvorak: Yes. A little
late.
1:55:43
Adam Curry: I got you. That's
okay. News travel. We
1:55:46
John C Dvorak: opened the show
with Biden resigned. Not
1:55:48
Adam Curry: everyone. Not
everybody had people just trying
1:55:50
to be helpful, just trying to be
helpful. So, the word the
1:55:56
headlines were that Cheeto was
going to resign, which she
1:56:00
better do because she didn't she
wants to resign before she I
1:56:03
don't know if she can get out of
this hearing. But you want some
1:56:07
ratings. Man Cheeto. Tomorrow is
going to be fantastic. I
1:56:11
John C Dvorak: hate to say it,
but you're right. So I'm going
1:56:14
to end up to go opening up the C
span. Yeah. So
1:56:19
Adam Curry: Captain Obvious
Jesse waters somehow got to
1:56:21
President Trump on in the
studio. No one
1:56:25
Unknown: told you not to
1:56:26
take the stage. Nobody mentioned
it. Nobody said there was a
1:56:28
problem. And I would have waited
for 15. They could have said
1:56:32
let's wait for 15 minutes. 20
minutes, five minutes, something
1:56:36
nobody said I think that was a
mistake. How did somebody get on
1:56:39
that roof? And why wasn't he
reported because people saw that
1:56:43
he was on the roof. We knew had
Trumpers screaming a woman in
1:56:49
the red in the red shirt. She
was screaming in a man on the
1:56:53
roof and then other people's it
is a man on the roof who's got a
1:56:56
gun? And that was quite a bit
before I walked onto the stage.
1:57:01
So you would have thought
somebody would have done
1:57:03
something about it? No.
1:57:05
Adam Curry: And I'm just gonna
keep it where it is. FBI sting
1:57:08
typical six week cycle went
wrong. Supposed to be Bang Bang
1:57:13
Trump was supposed to be
cowering make him look all
1:57:16
scared running away. Maybe
that's why the photographer was
1:57:19
there. Who got the who got the
shot, you know, with the bullet
1:57:22
flying through the air, which
Thank you. At least 100
1:57:25
photographers have told us this
is completely possible. Not
1:57:29
crazy. Not fake. Not phony. So
calm down every mostly
1:57:34
John C Dvorak: about that one.
8000s. Shutter speed. More notes
1:57:38
on that than anything.
1:57:39
Adam Curry: Yeah, calm down. I
1:57:40
John C Dvorak: don't think we
said it was impossible. Did we?
1:57:42
I
1:57:43
Adam Curry: know. You actually
said bullcrap. But it's okay. I
1:57:46
said bull crap. Yeah, it's okay.
It's okay. People are more upset
1:57:51
about your tip of the day than
that. Trust me. So
1:57:54
John C Dvorak: they are they're
upset about them. I'm going to
1:57:56
stop doing Tip of the day
because they get so much blow
1:57:59
for you don't get that was Oh
crap.
1:58:03
Adam Curry: Oh, by entities that
people love you. Hey, you know
1:58:07
you're over the target when
you're getting Flack. Oh,
1:58:12
John C Dvorak: yeah, must be it.
1:58:14
Adam Curry: Alright, I'm gonna
close the conspiracy. Well, no,
1:58:16
I'm gonna keep the door open for
a minute because we gotta go
1:58:18
into the next piece, which is
critically important. Lo and
1:58:22
behold, on the Bill Maher show,
which I just happen to catch on
1:58:26
CNN because I was prepping last
night. And you know I was having
1:58:32
scanning through the channels
just to see if I need to clip
1:58:34
anything which by the way,
YouTube TV, here's a tip of the
1:58:36
day. YouTube TV is so awesome
for that because you can just
1:58:40
stop it. Click back a little
bit, get my clip machine going
1:58:44
roll it got the clip. Fantastic.
And that's how I got who told
1:58:47
you this? You did. So it should
have been Tip of the Day. It
1:58:51
should
1:58:51
John C Dvorak: have been Yeah,
YouTube TV is dynamite because
1:58:53
of his virtual record fueled
recording system is a virtual
1:58:57
PCR and you can basically record
everything and it keeps it for
1:59:02
like 90 days. Yeah,
1:59:03
Adam Curry: I mean, I've already
got all my favorite Olympic
1:59:05
sports lined up as great
recording fencing.
1:59:09
John C Dvorak: I doubt well
you'd have that but that would
1:59:11
be the only one no and athletic.
Yes, that's not gay enough for
1:59:15
you. Fencing is wow. The I'm
sorry that it was uncalled for
1:59:21
fencing
1:59:22
Adam Curry: is anything but gay.
That's a real man sport.
1:59:26
John C Dvorak: Without all the
protective gear I say yes.
1:59:30
Adam Curry: So who shows up for
the opening interview on Bill
1:59:33
Maher show? Mayor Pete. Pete
Buda judge, very interesting.
1:59:39
Spoke better than he usually
does. Should
1:59:42
Unknown: Joe Biden have fired
the Secret Service head. I mean,
1:59:46
I don't understand that. I'm
1:59:48
not in on all the details of the
Homeland Security side. I know
1:59:51
there's really serious after
action report and process and a
1:59:55
whole lot of scrutiny going on
there. I think you know,
1:59:58
everything that led up to that
moment that horrible moment is
2:00:01
under a microscope. And I
believe that President Biden in
2:00:03
the administration will do the
right thing. But you didn't
2:00:05
need a microscope to see it.
Yeah, but you also was on the
2:00:08
roof. Like, like, not that far
away with a rifle for a long
2:00:13
time. I mean, I know. I've seen
people fired for less. And it
2:00:17
just looks bad. It looks like
Well, the other guy from the
2:00:20
other party got shot, we'll look
into it. If we got time. I think
2:00:24
it's doing something of this
gravity happens. You don't just
2:00:27
dash off a decision, you do a
comprehensive process to find
2:00:30
every single piece of anything
that could go wrong. And then
2:00:33
there's going to be
accountability, and there's
2:00:35
going to be changed. I'm sure of
that. Again, I'm not in the
2:00:37
middle that obviously that's not
my lane. But I know that's
2:00:39
what's going
2:00:39
Adam Curry: on I lane, that's
not my lane. It's not his lane.
2:00:42
So it's like, well, we know what
pizza lane is.
2:00:45
John C Dvorak: So Whoa, that
well, that's what triggered me
2:00:48
on the other thing.
2:00:50
Adam Curry: That's that's what
happened. So then he gets into
2:00:53
JD Vance. And I have a few
things to say about JD Vance,
2:00:56
because I've done some
reflection and thinking about
2:00:58
it. And all of a sudden became
incredibly clear to me,
2:01:02
actually, Thursday night when I
was watching JD Vance. And and
2:01:07
you know, and his wife and just
seeing all the dynamics
2:01:10
happening. JD Vance, of course,
people have a lot of issues with
2:01:15
him, mainly because he switched
from a never Trumper which Vance
2:01:20
himself says, Well, that was,
you know, I was 30. I said dumb
2:01:23
things. And I got three girls
around 30. And I agree with
2:01:27
that. When you're 30. I've said
dumb stuff when I was 30. But he
2:01:31
changed his tune. Then of
course, there's the very
2:01:34
problematic connection to the
PayPal Mafia to Elon and to
2:01:40
teal. And he was in the, you
know, was a venture capital guy
2:01:45
and now and teal helped him win
Ohio and it went so fast and he
2:01:50
changed his name. You know, he
changed his last name. He
2:01:54
changed his first name,
manufactured candidates. So
2:01:57
let's hear from Mayor Pete.
2:01:59
Unknown: I know a lot of guys
like JD Vance. I run into a lot
2:02:02
of guys like him not so much.
When I was growing up at Diageo.
2:02:05
Peter Thiel is his big backer.
Yeah, for sure. Okay, if people
2:02:09
aren't who that is, he started
PayPal. If he's gay, he's a
2:02:12
billionaire. I mean, I've had a
couple of people who knew you
2:02:15
were coming on this week's Ask
Pete. What do you thinks about
2:02:18
Peter Thiel being so in love
with JD Vance who is against
2:02:21
flatly against gay marriage? So
2:02:24
I think it's a profound
contradiction, but maybe it's
2:02:26
not that complicated. I know.
There are a lot of folks who say
2:02:28
what's going on with some of
these Silicon Valley folks
2:02:31
veering into Trump world with
the JD Vance and backing Trump.
2:02:35
What are they thinking still
come Valley's supposed to be you
2:02:37
know, they're supposed to care
about climate they're supposed
2:02:39
to be, you know, our pro science
and rational and libertarians.
2:02:42
Normally, Libertarians don't
like authoritarians. What's up
2:02:45
with that? I think it's actually
we've made it wait. These are
2:02:49
very rich men who've decided to
back the Republican Party that
2:02:54
tends to do good things for very
rich men.
2:03:03
That's kind of what you're
getting is. That's kind of what
2:03:08
you're getting with Jay do.
Right. So I knew a lot of people
2:03:12
like him. When when I got to
Harvard, I found a lot of people
2:03:14
like him who would say whatever
they needed to get ahead. And
2:03:19
five years ago, that seemed like
being the anti Trump
2:03:22
Republicans. So that's what he
was talking about how he was on
2:03:25
fitted, how he was cynical,
called him an OP fighter, which
2:03:29
is kind of a weird thing to say
about a person but definitely a
2:03:31
really good I mean, for somebody
whose identity is that they're
2:03:38
connected to Appalachia, which
has an opioid crisis. That
2:03:41
really is the darkest thing you
could possibly say about Donald
2:03:45
Trump.
2:03:46
Adam Curry: Okay, so first thing
we need to look at is the
2:03:48
Silicon Valley connection Trump
talked about, talked about the
2:03:53
power needed for AI is like,
Yeah, I'll get you as much power
2:03:56
as you want. Drill, baby drill,
by the way, before I forget,
2:03:58
Trump also told gave a signal to
the military industrial complex,
2:04:05
but you heard him say, big,
beautiful ship being built here.
2:04:08
Big beautiful ship and an Iron
Dome around America. Does it get
2:04:13
any better? The contracts are
being written as we speak, so
2:04:17
there'll be no war, but we'll
have finally Reagan Star Wars,
2:04:21
or as Trump called it spaceship
or whatever
2:04:25
John C Dvorak: he has, he
screwed it up.
2:04:27
Adam Curry: I mean, he set up
Space Force. So we're going to
2:04:30
have an Iron Dome. Perfect. So
there's your military guys.
2:04:33
They're like, Oh, okay, well,
good. We got lucky with that a
2:04:36
lot of work to do. But bringing
in the Silicon Valley, money
2:04:40
people who are as we've
discussed horrors, because
2:04:45
they're Democrat or Republican,
it doesn't matter whoever is
2:04:48
going to be their guy who was
going to and that's what Peter
2:04:52
Thiel was doing. He was of
course funding JD Vance. Let's
2:04:55
get him in. You know, then we
because you know, he understands
2:05:00
And he can get the regulation
lifted on AI because those guys
2:05:03
still believe in it. They gotta
believe in something. Crypto
2:05:07
regulation, Bitcoin. All of that
makes total sense. And just to
2:05:11
give you a little idea of I
mean, this blew my mind.
2:05:15
Zuckerberg Zuckerberg even
saying things like this,
2:05:20
Unknown: I've done some stuff
personally in the past, I'm not
2:05:22
planning on doing that this
time. And that includes, you
2:05:25
know, not endorsing either of
the candidates. Now, look, I'm
2:05:29
there's obviously a lot of crazy
stuff going on in the world.
2:05:31
I've been to historic events
over the last, like, over the
2:05:33
weekend. And I mean, a personal
note, it's, yeah, I mean, seeing
2:05:38
Donald Trump get get up after
getting shot in the face, and
2:05:43
pump his fist in the air with
the American flag is one of the
2:05:48
most badass things I've ever
seen in my life. But, but look,
2:05:52
I mean, it's, you know, as I
think like, it's some level as
2:05:56
an American, it's like, look
look hard to not get kind of
2:05:59
emotional about that spirit. And
that fight. And I think that
2:06:03
that's why a lot of people, like
the guy,
2:06:06
Adam Curry: Mark Zuckerberg has
no emotional bone in his body.
2:06:10
He's like, Oh, regulation for
Facebook, facebook, you know,
2:06:13
Trump's gonna hate me because
now we kicked them off. And so
2:06:18
so it's very normal for a guy
like Trump to bring in the
2:06:22
Silicon Valley clan, bring in
the money, bring all the big
2:06:26
boys in, bring in the social
media guys, Elon, what flipped
2:06:30
on a dime said he never endorsed
any candidate makes total sense.
2:06:34
Now we get to, will he be
reliable? Can you trust him as a
2:06:39
vice president? Will he be a
true partner five
2:06:42
Unknown: years later, one way he
gets ahead is that he's the
2:06:44
greatest guy since sliced bread.
And actually watch this exact
2:06:47
same process with somebody else
I got to know, in my days in the
2:06:51
Midwest, which was my former
governor, Mike Pence, who I
2:06:54
watched start out as an
evangelical Christian who cared
2:06:57
about rectitude and family
values, and then get on board
2:07:01
with a guy who was mixed up with
a porn star, make excuses for
2:07:05
him, so that he could have
power. And then he did. He got
2:07:08
four glorious years, I guess, as
vice president United States.
2:07:13
And it ended on the west front
of the Capitol with Trump
2:07:17
supporters proposing that he be
hanged for using the one shred
2:07:21
of integrity, he still had to
stand up to an attempt to
2:07:24
overthrow the government. So I
guess, maybe not as a
2:07:26
politician, but as a human
being. What I'll say is that I
2:07:29
hope things work out a little
bit better for JD Vance.
2:07:35
Adam Curry: All right. What does
everyone get all panties all in
2:07:39
a bunch about the connection to
the intelligence community
2:07:43
because Peter Thiel Palantir
Whitney Webb WOTUS wrote a 6800
2:07:50
word essay about JD Vance, the
man behind Trump's VP, VP pick
2:07:56
is worse than you think.
Intelligence. totally new thing
2:08:01
for me information awareness.
This is the worst thing Trump is
2:08:04
a dummy. He's an idiot. He's
bringing in the intelligence.
2:08:08
We're gonna be all under
surveillance. 24/7 Welcome to my
2:08:12
office here in the conspiracy
therapist. suite of offices.
2:08:19
Trump is smart. When when pence
became untrustworthy, he just
2:08:28
says guys a loser. When JD Vance
is untrustworthy, guys, a loser
2:08:33
will know very quickly. But
first, you're bringing in the
2:08:37
Silicon Valley billionaires. And
he's an art of an art of war
2:08:43
guy. You keep your friends
close, but your enemies even
2:08:47
closer. Of course, you want the
intelligence community in your
2:08:51
vice president. So you can miss
direct, you can give me a little
2:08:54
bit of information, see where it
comes back. This is a brilliant
2:08:58
move. You want the intel
community? You want to know who
2:09:02
the guy is? I think Vance is
probably reasonably smart, but
2:09:06
maybe not super smart. This is
exactly what you want to do.
2:09:12
Because the intelligence
community is the danger. So this
2:09:16
I mean, I cannot agree with all
of these. These people getting
2:09:21
their panties in a bunch and
getting all spun up. This is
2:09:24
what you want. You want a
president who knows what the
2:09:27
Intel communities are doing?
Because he's got them in the
2:09:30
office next door. And he knows
the guy. This is what you do.
2:09:35
You want to find a leak in your
company. Give some information
2:09:38
to somebody that only that
person has. See where it comes
2:09:41
out. I'm closing the door.
2:09:48
John C Dvorak: Does sound effect
Yes.
2:09:49
Adam Curry: So don't worry
everybody. Now, will trump stay
2:09:53
alive? I mean, I heard this
morning. There was what's his
2:09:57
face Sorkin Sorkin who wrote the
West Wing didn't eat and Sorkin
2:10:02
write the West Wing and was one
of the one of the West Wing
2:10:05
producers. Andrew Ross Sorkin.
2:10:07
John C Dvorak: I don't think so.
I thought he was I think you're
2:10:10
thinking of the other guy who is
the well, we'll just keep
2:10:14
talking about check it out.
Okay. Yeah. You know, we don't
2:10:17
have to guess. Yes, please.
2:10:24
Adam Curry: So he's, he does an
op ed in in the Aaron
2:10:31
John C Dvorak: Sorkin
2:10:32
Adam Curry: Oh, okay. That's why
I was confused. Well, Andrew
2:10:35
Ross Sorkin isn't is a weenie
anyway. He does an op ed in the
2:10:39
New York Times and he says, Joe
Biden out the solution. Mitt
2:10:44
Romney, the Democrats should run
Mitt Romney which I think is
2:10:50
probably what Vivek was been
talking about. Oh, no. Oh, no.
2:10:55
The Who are they? You watch you
they're gonna pick you watch and
2:10:57
we'll never be Trump to hate so
they actually suggest Mitt
2:11:01
Romney for the Democrats. How
about that?
2:11:04
John C Dvorak: That's very
funny. If it was a humor column
2:11:06
I take it down
2:11:07
Adam Curry: on unfortunately
these guys are void of any humor
2:11:12
so I think that's about all we
all we can answer right and
2:11:16
wrong. That's about all we can
answer right now. Because
2:11:19
breaking news, nobody knows
anything. We have no information
2:11:22
there bill. We're
2:11:23
John C Dvorak: not gonna get any
more than we're doing our
2:11:25
analysis as far as it goes.
2:11:27
Adam Curry: And with that, I'd
like to thank you for your
2:11:28
courage say in the morning to
you the man who put the C in the
2:11:30
can inspectors say hello to my
friend on the other end, the one
2:11:33
and only Mr. John.
2:11:39
John C Dvorak: Good morning to
you, Michelle and Kareem is
2:11:41
watching graphene near subs in
the water. And all the names of
2:11:43
knights out there.
2:11:45
Adam Curry: Well, we are an hour
late. Wow, I'm pretty impressed.
2:11:52
Actually. 20 899 Two hours in.
2:11:58
Unknown: That's good.
2:11:59
Adam Curry: That's good. That's
a great number. Hello, trolls.
2:12:01
Good to have you here. Of
course, we had 1000 come in to
2:12:05
tell us that Biden quit. So we
appreciate you guys so much that
2:12:11
matches
2:12:11
John C Dvorak: the price
equipment he did. I thought it's
2:12:13
gonna go another week at least.
Well, I mean,
2:12:15
Adam Curry: I had Thursday
night, you know, so I was that
2:12:17
was I was. I was close. Well, we
had we had a different
2:12:21
distraction, because it was but
no cigar. They didn't get the
2:12:24
jet card. So they had to come
up. Which brings us to the bonus
2:12:27
clip. Oh, look at that. Is that
something that you sent that I
2:12:31
don't have? No,
2:12:32
John C Dvorak: I have it right
here. No, it's on the list by
2:12:34
his bonus for the we always like
to say that people are nations.
2:12:38
Yes.
2:12:38
Adam Curry: But for the for the
bonus clip? Yes. Okay.
2:12:41
John C Dvorak: Blyden not going
anywhere.
2:12:45
Unknown: President Joe Biden's
campaign meanwhile, continues to
2:12:48
insist this weekend that Biden
will not step down as the
2:12:51
Democratic presidential
candidate calls for Biden to
2:12:54
drop out of the race have
continued to grow with the
2:12:57
latest coming from a senator
from the Midwest. NPRs Elena
2:13:00
more explains,
2:13:01
we saw Senator Sherrod Brown of
Ohio come forward. And he's in a
2:13:05
really competitive race this
fall. And he argues that the
2:13:09
speculation around Biden's
political future is actually
2:13:12
taking away from the messaging
around issues that he is trying
2:13:16
to use to keep his seat you
know, and you know, he was
2:13:18
actually the fourth senator to
call for Biden to step aside and
2:13:22
there's been more than two dozen
elected House Democrats who have
2:13:25
said the same thing
2:13:29
John C Dvorak: this weekend he's
not quitting no not quit just so
2:13:32
you get that out. Yeah. All
right. So there's these reports
2:13:35
are bogus I guess because today
is part of the weekend
2:13:37
Adam Curry: now and we've been
calling we've been telling this
2:13:39
is gonna happen. We were so
clear. It was obvious that it
2:13:43
only happened two days later.
Not bad. Not bad.
2:13:47
Unknown: So three, actually.
2:13:50
Adam Curry: Okay, three, still
pretty close. We had the number
2:13:54
right and you watch the jet card
will be a part of it. Along with
2:13:57
the foundation. Excuse me, along
with the foundation 100 million
2:14:01
dollars. It's gonna be some
money. Yeah, seed money. Party,
2:14:07
everybody party at Hunter's
house. So those trolls that we
2:14:11
just counted are in the troll
room troll room.io You can find
2:14:14
that 24/7 There's always trolls
hanging out there. It's part of
2:14:17
the no agenda stream empire. We
have shows on there all the
2:14:20
time. As I said 24/7 Some of
them are the podcast had been
2:14:25
recorded previously or we do
have a schedule so us or bemrose
2:14:28
schedules everything nicely. So
you whenever you go in there,
2:14:31
there's something fresh a lot of
live shows. Darren O'Neil does
2:14:33
his live show before our
Thursday and Sunday shows and
2:14:37
and often there's a live show
afterwards. Let me see. Do we
2:14:39
have a live show after today?
Oh, yes. Yeah. Unrelenting. I
2:14:46
don't know if that's live or
not, but they're doing the
2:14:47
CrowdStrike chaos so it's a good
place to hang out. And you can
2:14:53
also use a modern podcast app,
which will alert you when we go
2:14:57
live or any of these shows go
live really which is kind of
2:14:59
cool. And it also tells you
within 90 seconds of us
2:15:02
publishing your show if you
couldn't listen live that it's
2:15:04
there. It's got chapters with
cool art. Dred Scott does those
2:15:07
for us. It's got transcripts.
It's got a Hootenanny of
2:15:10
features and it's brought to you
by independent people who are
2:15:13
doing this just to keep
podcasting free and open. I
2:15:18
there was a an interesting
article about podcast numbers in
2:15:25
the United Kingdom, because, you
know, they had this big
2:15:29
political week in the UK, you're
not allowed to do any political
2:15:32
stuff on television or radio. So
everyone was looking to podcasts
2:15:38
to to get their political
information. And so now they
2:15:42
have gotten the this is UK is a
country of 60 60 million,
2:15:46
probably 65 million now with all
the illegal people. podcasters
2:15:50
are very secretive about exact
listener numbers, but they did
2:15:53
get a few. And for instance,
what do you think the news
2:15:59
agents the hottest podcast, the
hottest podcast out there? What
2:16:05
do you think they get in the UK?
Average episode view per
2:16:11
episode?
2:16:13
John C Dvorak: This is a
question for me to guess. Yeah.
2:16:16
Adam Curry: Listen, not
2:16:17
John C Dvorak: a view or less
2000.
2:16:21
Adam Curry: It's the hottest the
podcasts out there are the
2:16:24
hottest one. It's the hottest
one the news at 2500. Now it's
2:16:28
it's 42,000.
2:16:31
Unknown: Wells.
2:16:32
Adam Curry: We better we get
multiple times that?
2:16:36
John C Dvorak: Yeah, we get more
long lines of 800,000. How about
2:16:39
Adam Curry: pod save the UK?
Which is the The Daily Show for
2:16:43
pod save pod save America. So
it's the crooked media. It's the
2:16:49
valued, yeah. 30,000 An episode.
And these people are making big
2:16:55
money. Well,
2:16:56
John C Dvorak: that's because
they had they take advertising
2:16:58
and they send they soak the
advertisers. It takes skill. But
2:17:01
the problem is, of course, you
can't really do a reasonably
2:17:04
good podcast if you're going to
be beholding to some corporate
2:17:09
advertiser that's going to want
you to say,
2:17:11
Adam Curry: actually, I copied
You are my response. You know,
2:17:15
they're so desperate they're
looking for inventory because
2:17:18
turns out most of these podcasts
are just getting crap numbers.
2:17:22
Buddha mud pudsey of the UK, no
one's listening to you douche.
2:17:27
No agenda, best podcast in the
universe. So they're so
2:17:30
desperate for inventory. They're
emailing us, hey, we'd like to
2:17:34
know what what it would cost to
run the NetSuite ads are no
2:17:38
agenda. Have you ever listened?
This
2:17:42
John C Dvorak: is well, you
know, this reminds me. I want to
2:17:45
tell another story. Oh, come on.
Okay, so I'm on the Highlander,
2:17:50
which is the Forbes yacht.
Forbes magazine.
2:17:56
Adam Curry: drinking champagne
eating caviar with potato chips.
2:18:00
Pretty much. Yeah.
2:18:02
John C Dvorak: They have a full
time chef on board a really nice
2:18:04
yacht.
2:18:05
Unknown: Highlander. Let
2:18:06
John C Dvorak: me I gotta call
the Highlander. Yeah. They have
2:18:08
matchbooks everyone's Gauchos.
Yeah. So it was a big deal to go
2:18:13
on this thing because if they
don't normally writers on but I
2:18:16
was on the thing for and it was
2:18:19
Adam Curry: buyers. This thing
is amazing. The Highlander.
2:18:22
Yeah. Nice boat. Yeah, it's not
a boat. It's a ship.
2:18:27
John C Dvorak: So they gave us a
tour around Manhattan. While it
2:18:31
was really a tour for the media
buyers. Yeah, of course. Thanks.
2:18:35
So this one. And then people
will always irked about this and
2:18:38
there's a lot of stores that
bought this boat, confronting
2:18:42
other small boats and other
publishers tried to you know,
2:18:46
impress people with gone by red,
gone by giving them the finger.
2:18:52
So, so I got to talk to a bunch
of they're all young women just
2:18:57
out of school. And they're all
media buyers. And so there's
2:19:01
it's mostly a boat full of women
that are all media buyers. Hey,
2:19:04
girls, there's Jaws pretty much
and so you get to chat with
2:19:08
them. And it's like, oh, yeah,
we bought this we're gonna be
2:19:11
good to buy do a buy purchase
for so and so they're all part
2:19:14
of some advertising agency. And
they're they they buy space in
2:19:18
the different magazines and they
were you know, forced takes them
2:19:20
on this little boat, right? So
that impresses them and they
2:19:23
feel obliged to buy to push
advertising to Forbes at the
2:19:28
time. And they not one of the
media buyers I've ever talked
2:19:34
to, at least on this particular
voyage. knew they'd never looked
2:19:38
at any of these magazines. They
were totally no no. You know,
2:19:43
we're just here to get a free
boat ride. I'm giving you
2:19:46
advertising it was all corrupt.
2:19:50
Adam Curry: What your
2:19:52
John C Dvorak: gambling going
on? Yeah, don't
2:19:54
Adam Curry: say Yeah. Yeah. It's
not like any of these media
2:19:57
buyers. Listen to the podcast.
They're buying
2:19:59
John C Dvorak: it No. And that's
the point you were making. Yeah.
2:20:02
You saw my reply
2:20:03
Adam Curry: said 17 years we've
been listener funded. We don't
2:20:07
take advertising. I mentioned
this exact thing on your boss's
2:20:10
podcast just three weeks ago.
Yeah,
2:20:13
John C Dvorak: they don't even
listen to their own bosses.
2:20:16
Unknown: I thought I thought
that was funny.
2:20:20
Adam Curry: Ah, yes. Hey, girls,
I got a podcast.
2:20:26
Unknown: Where's your bikini?
2:20:28
Adam Curry: Did they have
bikinis on? No, there?
2:20:30
John C Dvorak: Were just there
were just a classic CO is just
2:20:33
out of school COVID style
sorority sisters old drink
2:20:38
eating the filet mignon and
drinking the booze. That was
2:20:42
lots of it.
2:20:44
Adam Curry: Awesome. We're in
the wrong business.
2:20:46
John C Dvorak: Yeah, probably.
2:20:50
Adam Curry: So as you just
heard, we run this value for
2:20:52
value, which means we don't take
your NetSuite advertising. And
2:20:57
though and we've got a bigger
audience anyway, so stand on the
2:20:59
sidelines and Boo hoo, bully
you. You can't buy us we're
2:21:03
unviable. Well, until it's time
for an exit, but for now we're
2:21:08
unviable. Yeah, well, there's
everyone has a price
2:21:15
John C Dvorak: said no one's
getting close. So no one's
2:21:18
Adam Curry: coming close. You
can support us with your
2:21:20
financial contributions that no
boat ride here by the way,
2:21:24
you'll get a credit if you're an
executive or Associate Executive
2:21:26
Producer. But you can also help
us with your time your talent
2:21:30
you can support us by getting
other people to listen you know
2:21:33
it's always every single day I
see on on my timeline on x I see
2:21:40
people Oh yeah, you should
listen to no agenda, Corinne
2:21:43
Dvorak. My favorite is when
someone from some podcast goes
2:21:47
Who should I have on as a guest
next? And it's always yeah Adam
2:21:51
curry Jhansi Dvorak and that
we've never been booked on those
2:21:54
so you can stop we never do get
it never that nice
2:21:56
John C Dvorak: CSS competition
or something I'm not sure and
2:21:59
we're not but he gets a log
rolling well,
2:22:03
Adam Curry: they know that
they'll never get us together
2:22:04
because you only get we he would
you both do that show? Nope. No,
2:22:08
no, if you want Adam and John
together you this is the only
2:22:11
place and that's our secret
sauce. We get a lot of talent
2:22:17
from our artists who use no
agenda, our generator.com
2:22:22
Another fine value for value
contribution for cerebral
2:22:25
couture, which has been running
for a long time for us keeps all
2:22:28
the art in check. It's a great
place to upload anybody can
2:22:31
compete anybody can go take a
look at it. Right after the show
2:22:34
we we get the you know
everything together we do the
2:22:37
credits, we get the title and
then artwork and then we choose
2:22:43
one and that's really something
we use for marketing the show
2:22:46
and it's a big help. It's a lot
of value to us. There's no way
2:22:50
you could get you know artists
to do 2030 pieces for every
2:22:52
single show done while we're
doing the show live now it
2:22:55
doesn't mean that everything is
great AI has certainly hurt the
2:22:58
quality of the of the work
everything kind of looks the
2:23:00
same.
2:23:02
John C Dvorak: But it's hurt the
I don't think it's hurt the
2:23:05
quality.
2:23:06
Adam Curry: Well it's hurt the
look it's the it's I think it's
2:23:08
hurt.
2:23:08
John C Dvorak: I think the look
is a Korean TV I ish Yeah, the
2:23:12
Adam Curry: soul is gone out.
Which is kind of what I liked
2:23:15
about Dame Kenny Ben, one of our
Dutch masters, who and we had a
2:23:20
big argument over this. In fact,
John's like you owe me with this
2:23:23
one you owe me.
2:23:25
John C Dvorak: I thought it was
two in a row. You owe me twice.
2:23:27
You owe me double.
2:23:28
Adam Curry: I thought it was an
excellent piece. I understood
2:23:31
the humor of it. It was the
sloped rope roof with a little
2:23:37
was it was it little traffic
sign with a little man slipping
2:23:41
on the slope roof. And the
reason why John didn't like it
2:23:45
is because and this is very
interesting because there's a
2:23:49
chimney on it. But you kept
saying chimney chimney. Is it
2:23:54
chimney or chimney?
2:23:56
John C Dvorak: Most probably
both.
2:23:57
Adam Curry: I think it's just
chimney. Well,
2:23:59
John C Dvorak: chimney. You kept
saying chimney. Yeah, there's
2:24:01
I'm adding an eye. Yeah.
2:24:04
Adam Curry: Chimney chimney,
some
2:24:06
John C Dvorak: Midwestern
affectation.
2:24:08
Adam Curry: He kept saying
chimney was a chimney chimney.
2:24:11
He's
2:24:11
John C Dvorak: got a chimney.
2:24:12
Adam Curry: Not a chimney is
that chimney? Damn Kenny Ben
2:24:14
brought us that artwork. We
really appreciate it. Stolen
2:24:16
cookies, the title of episode
1678. We had a hard time we had
2:24:20
a hard to be honest with you. We
had a hard time finding anything
2:24:24
that we thought was. Now we did
talk a lot about Darren O'Neal.
2:24:28
you'd liked his his Olympic
boxes with the bed on it.
2:24:32
John C Dvorak: I thought it was
outstanding. I
2:24:34
Adam Curry: thought it was too
early because the Olympics
2:24:36
aren't happening yet. And it's a
little absurd. We were talking
2:24:39
about the cardboard box where I
didn't know the Rubik's cube by
2:24:42
Darren and all AI Of course, all
AI
2:24:45
John C Dvorak: which Yeah, he's
gone nuts he's gotten into he's
2:24:48
become a pump jockey. Yeah. But
that's not the real controversy.
2:24:53
The controversy and I'm very
irked about this as Matthew
2:24:56
dropped co
2:24:56
Adam Curry: Oh yes, because
that's the first one we wanted.
2:25:00
Yeah.
2:25:01
John C Dvorak: And we took a
look at it and you said, explain
2:25:03
what it is explain what it is.
Okay, it's a picture of three
2:25:06
versions of Spider Man. We've
all pointing at each other in
2:25:10
the meme. And one says local
police departments Secret
2:25:14
Service have been they're all
pointing at each other. So it's
2:25:16
their fault. And so you said,
and we've stopped doing this, we
2:25:23
used to always almost routinely
check on image search. Yeah, I
2:25:27
said, this is this has got to be
something. And there's about
2:25:30
1000 versions of this all the
exact same drawing. He just
2:25:34
stole it. I mean, it's so stolen
is ridiculous. So now I can't
2:25:38
trust anything dropped code
gives us
2:25:41
Adam Curry: well, to be fair, I
mean, this is this meme has been
2:25:44
used so much in the past, but
you saw it with local PD, Secret
2:25:48
Service, FBI, those three tags,
or not?
2:25:52
John C Dvorak: No, I just said
the art. It was just different
2:25:55
versions of the same thing. It's
beside the point. Yeah, it
2:25:58
wasn't exactly the same. And
now, obviously, nothing said no
2:26:01
agenda. It's just that it's just
like, there was nothing
2:26:05
original. I mean, yeah, you
could know. Now as far as I'm
2:26:10
concerned, it was it allowed
2:26:11
Adam Curry: me man was
abandoners. Not
2:26:13
John C Dvorak: it's not what
there was one or two of them.
2:26:15
We're talking 2030 4050
2:26:18
Adam Curry: has been around.
This has been around, it's been
2:26:20
around, we're gonna get
2:26:21
John C Dvorak: called out by
comic strip blogger
2:26:26
Adam Curry: that has stolen an
Aardvark that is not original.
2:26:28
That is bad meme. College logger
is about to never get you when
2:26:34
you upload 15 versions of your
API, you know, all next to each
2:26:39
other. It's like my eyes glaze
over. How
2:26:41
John C Dvorak: about this for an
idea? Find? Only upload the good
2:26:44
one. Yeah,
2:26:45
Adam Curry: well, there you go.
It's still you got to have soul.
2:26:49
It's got to have humor. Now just
because it looks, you know,
2:26:53
slick, doesn't mean that it's
good. Anyway, rant over. We
2:26:59
appreciate the true Dutch
masters rant.
2:27:02
John C Dvorak: Yes. The true
Dutch Master said there's
2:27:04
nothing we're going to be able
to do about it. We're resigned
2:27:08
to resigned to the fact that
this AI RT. Yeah. I mean, the
2:27:15
good side is that this costing
the AI companies money, because
2:27:19
there's no way that you can
produce that much material and
2:27:22
not be losing your ass.
2:27:24
Adam Curry: So one of our
producers, I typically don't
2:27:27
like this because people do this
to me, like, Hey, I sent every
2:27:31
back issue of QR Z Magazine to
your Pio box is great, all that
2:27:36
ham radio information. So a box
will show up with like 150 dusty
2:27:41
old magazines. And it's like,
okay, I'm not divorced. I'm not
2:27:45
an archivist. But one of our
producers sent me every single
2:27:50
back issue of Wired magazine
that had some AI related story.
2:27:56
Pretty interesting. This
nonsense this belief in you
2:28:01
know, in artificial intelligence
has been going on for a long
2:28:07
time. And just because we got a
bot that now can chat with you,
2:28:12
it's stupid. So you always had a
bot that could share with you
2:28:16
exactly. All this image stuff.
It's all gonna go away once the
2:28:20
funding dries up. Well,
2:28:22
John C Dvorak: one yet, if
you're taking a beating, which
2:28:25
you have to be doing, yeah,
2:28:28
Adam Curry: at some point, but
I'd have to spend 20 bucks a
2:28:30
month they got
2:28:31
John C Dvorak: 20 bucks that
would Darren Oh Neil's using
2:28:34
1000s of dollars worth of cycle
time to develop computer art
2:28:38
he's doing I don't know what
comic strip bloggers it's called
2:28:41
Adam Curry: his pewter compute.
2:28:44
John C Dvorak: He commonage By
the way, heard a new term. So
2:28:48
it's so JC is at the dinner
table. And he keeps saying out
2:28:51
of the blue. He keeps saying
this term. And I called him I
2:28:54
stopped him. I asked him, Where
are you? What venture
2:28:56
capitalist? Did you get this
room? And what I kept hearing
2:28:59
was, oh, yeah, well, the wind
direction, the wind direction. I
2:29:03
kept hearing wind directions
that like the term is the term
2:29:06
is when wind direction is a term
they're using in Silicon Valley
2:29:13
now amongst the VCs.
2:29:14
Adam Curry: I mean, the
direction of winning. Yeah.
2:29:17
John C Dvorak: The win
direction. Wow. And I'm
2:29:21
listening to this. I'm saying
because it's out of the blue. I
2:29:24
mean, he doesn't just start
using some term out of the blue.
2:29:28
And I stopped, I said, Where did
you get this, this stupid term
2:29:33
wind direction? And in a sudden
he thought about he didn't say
2:29:37
it again. Wind
2:29:39
Adam Curry: erection? No, he's
2:29:41
John C Dvorak: saying when
direction and I could just see
2:29:44
it as a kind of one of those
bogus terms here. These guys
2:29:47
like to throw out there. Well,
our wind direction will be
2:29:51
Adam Curry: Wow, that's even
lamer than usual.
2:29:54
John C Dvorak: It's pretty
blamed, but at the same time, I
2:29:57
can see it because it's just has
a ring to it. I don't know who
2:30:01
dreams these, these these
isolates up. But wind direction
2:30:06
is just like, Oh, we're gonna do
Yeah, we're going to change our
2:30:09
wind direction because when our
wind wind direction is stronger
2:30:14
than it used to be, you could
use it in place of pivot, which
2:30:18
is another way a
2:30:19
Adam Curry: pivot was a big one.
Yeah. Mm hmm. For a while there
2:30:24
in the advertising world, we had
the conceit. What's the conceit
2:30:28
of the campaign? The conceit?
Yes. The conceit of the
2:30:32
campaign. Oh, my God. I know. I
know. They know. It's horrible.
2:30:38
Anyway, Treasurer time, we'd
like to thank all of our
2:30:42
producers now we can't thank
every single one of you. Because
2:30:44
we luckily, we have many people
who are doing sustaining
2:30:47
donations. If everybody did
that, we it'd be great. But
2:30:51
that's a pipe dream. It's not,
that's not our wind direction.
2:30:55
On under $50, there already, I'm
gonna keep using it. Under $50.
2:31:00
We don't mention anything for an
anonymity and you can set up
2:31:05
your own frequency, your own
amount, whatever value you get
2:31:08
out of the program, and I think
we're, we've been people emails,
2:31:12
Hey, your wind direction is
great these days. So we want to
2:31:17
thank those producers. We will
we're gonna go through
2:31:20
everything in one go here
because we went very long on in
2:31:24
the conspiracy therapy office.
But our executive producers who
2:31:28
really always saved the day for
us, and many of you saw the sad
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Poppy come out and we thank you
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above, you get an Associate
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can use both of these producer
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on and, and people will think
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you are an actual producer, and
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2:32:12
anyone questions that you send
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2:32:15
So we're going to start with our
executive producers first and we
2:32:18
kick it off with our top
producer with $600 Andrew
2:32:23
Alexandrou comes in from Santa
Fe New Mexico 600 I have no note
2:32:27
from Andrew Alexander. And you
don't have a note either, I
2:32:30
presume? Well,
2:32:31
John C Dvorak: I'm looking up
everyone who's named Andrew
2:32:34
Yeah, it should be alone I gotta
listen we got Andrew
2:32:39
Adam Curry: no okay. You got a
double up karma then he's got
2:32:45
Karma
2:32:48
John C Dvorak: can read the I
gotta read this subject and one
2:32:50
of them another Andrew says kid
on roof never hit Trump's Here
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catch up. Catch up ketchup.
Okay, we go to Cody oz burn Ozy
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Only been listening for seven
months or so. But thanks for all
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you both do. I need the most
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guys can muster. My wife is 60
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make it happen. And Godspeed.
All All right.
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Adam Curry: Let's get her pitch.
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Unknown: You've got perma
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Adam Curry: free funny Cody.
Danielle parks Frederick,
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Maryland. 343 dot 75. Hello. She
says, you often mentioned the
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importance of parents getting
their kids out of traditional
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schools and I agree 100% No
jingles but yet karma would be
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appreciated for all us parents
trying to keep our kids from
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being indoctrinated. Yes.
Parents in the DMV
2:34:04
John C Dvorak: and the DMV? I
think that's mess. Maryland,
2:34:09
Virginia District of Columbia.
Ah,
2:34:11
Adam Curry: okay. It's not like
Department of Motor Vehicles.
2:34:13
Okay, gotcha. Yes. That Yes.
Maryland. Yes. seeking ways to
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kind to include it in the show
notes. Sure, I will. Thanks and
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keep up the great work and
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and some yet karma for y'all.
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Unknown: You've got karma
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John C Dvorak: Baron Fox bat in
Cincinnati 3437. Five. Hey, John
2:35:01
and Adam Barron Fox bat here.
It's been a while since
2:35:03
donating, so I decided to
respond to the sad puppy. Thank
2:35:06
you. John, if you consider
getting together with someone
2:35:10
like Andrew Oh, and doing a tech
podcast would be great. That
2:35:15
would be great. That man with a
tan.
2:35:18
Adam Curry: Andrew Orlovsky, I
guess, could
2:35:22
John C Dvorak: be Andrew Andrew.
We talk every so often. Yeah,
2:35:26
it'd be it would be a different
kind of tech podcast, but I've
2:35:29
given up on the idea of tech
podcasting. I think nobody
2:35:32
cares.
2:35:33
Adam Curry: I had an order last,
I think, I don't know if I
2:35:36
clipped it. He was on some
podcasts. And he was he was
2:35:39
saying exactly what I said about
AI. He said, Ah, AI has been
2:35:44
around for 10 years, but then
there's some parlor trick where
2:35:47
all of a sudden that sounds like
a human everyone loses their
2:35:49
crap and invest a trillion
dollars. He's like, This is
2:35:52
dumb. It's not going to work.
And who is the man?
2:35:56
John C Dvorak: Yeah, he's been
very skeptical of lots of
2:35:58
technologies. And
2:36:00
Adam Curry: rightly so. Baron
sir Good fellow, Davenport.
2:36:03
Floor 333 dot 33. Our favorite
number barons are good fellow
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here. It's been far too long
since my last donation. I'll
2:36:10
keep it simple, more Africa
news. Deconstruct more bills
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from Congress and rent your AV
gear from gig rent at gig
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rent.com. No jingles no karma.
Thank you. Yes. More Africa
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news. You got it coming up.
Well,
2:36:29
John C Dvorak: Bill of Ohio and
Columbus. Three, three 3.33 ITM
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introduced I'm sorry, Central
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Ohio, meet up the Michigan two,
which introduced me to a bunch
2:36:45
of wonderful people as the
people I have met along with the
2:36:48
show have kept me sane is these
past few years although sanity
2:36:52
is overrated. Special thanks to
Sir Leary for keeping the
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planning and organizing of the
central Ohio meetups going
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consistently. Come to one. prove
you're not a fed and join the
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local troll room. That
connection is protection. I
2:37:08
shall be henceforth known it as
Wild Bill is getting knighted of
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Ohio de douceur of Joe Rogan.
Also it's my 37th birthday
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please swell bill of Ohio de
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douche yes de douche or of Joe
Rogan. Does
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Adam Curry: he needed dilution?
No,
2:37:26
John C Dvorak: I don't think so.
2:37:28
Adam Curry: Hey there, sir era
Darien from finely. Yes, in
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Producer to under $50. He says
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thank you. Well, thank you, sir
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2:37:39
Unknown: Thank you. Thank you.
2:37:40
Adam Curry: Thank you,
2:37:41
John C Dvorak: John by in Golden
Colorado to 1060. Thinking about
2:37:45
the stopping of JDS good news
segment corresponded with some
2:37:49
bad happening. Probably the best
best to bring it back to make
2:37:53
the world a smiley, happy place.
Today, and
2:37:56
Adam Curry: I think it's a very
valid point ever since we
2:37:58
stopped doing good news the
world has gone nuts. That's not
2:38:03
it. That's not as interesting
thought. Then we have Eli the
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coffee guy from Bensenville
Illinois as a standard staple in
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just a few companies for the
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Simplicity is sustainability by
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Thank you. Yes, I actually wound
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up helping a couple of my
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2:38:53
workers. And I got them out of
the blue screen that says what
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you do for your neighbors is
what you do. There they hit the
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blue screen. Yeah, remote
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left them on
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John C Dvorak: that stinks.
Yeah, Baroness Monica and
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Drayton Valley. Alberta does not
stink and she gives us $22.02 is
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still enjoying your media
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exclamation mark and his karma
for Ken and Lance. Thank you
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kindly, Baroness Monica.
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Unknown: You've got karma.
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Adam Curry: Make sure you check
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don't get to his excellent
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John C Dvorak: a nice signature.
Yeah, well,
2:42:41
Adam Curry: that's what you do
as a lawyer. You want to have
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something that's recognizable,
as good as he does. Is it
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Houston? Yes, he is that Canyon
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That's his office. But in the
shownotes I often have a boots
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on the ground from him, which is
deconstructing any of like the
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Chevron deference. I mean, he
helped us a lot on that. So
2:43:02
thank you, brother. Appreciate
it. And you're on the list. And
2:43:05
that concludes our executive and
Associate Executive producers
2:43:09
for episode 16 What are we at 79
Wow, getting up there. We're
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gonna keep it going all the way
through to thank everybody up
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until $50 and I'll I'll kick it
off here with Nathan Cochran
2:43:22
because he's our buddy for Mercy
Me 102 112 3.45 still listening.
2:43:27
Still laughing still playing
music. Thank you very much,
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John. Take it all the way.
2:43:31
John C Dvorak: What happened to
our Weezer guy is on a mission
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Patrick, he's he's over
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Keefe in Sierra Vista Arizona
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want to fight there if do we can
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actually, after we get past
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apart. Brian Kenneth Ryan in
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Milton Mize in Covington,
Louisiana. 100 is a broken
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donation, broken donation Brian
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Vermont is 60 at 66 and he's got
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Tennessee 7676 Kyle Pok last in
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something, sir but he he says a
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gotta be it. Sir Rick in
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stuff to take pictures of. Paul
a John Paul Beth batch I think
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it's Bashi in but it's bad.
What's bad
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Adam Curry: on the background
there what noise Am I hearing?
2:45:52
John C Dvorak: That is a noisy.
Tree train load of of oil is oil
2:46:00
go okay. Oil tankers going by by
the boatload. All right. So in
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shipping our oil to China,
Andrew, bat bat tn in Crestview,
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Florida 5271. Now we got him 50s
already starting with
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in Rock Springs, Wyoming. He
also has a douchebag call out
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for Travis Baggett. And less
than a very short list of only
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total of 4040 people. John
Siebert in Auburn California
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$50. And that's concludes our
group of producers for shows
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1679
2:46:54
Adam Curry: Again, thank you to
everyone who came in under $50.
2:46:57
For anonymity, we do not mention
any of those, but we do see you
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and we're very appreciative and
anyone have any amount? The
2:47:03
whole point is we can't look at
your pocketbook, whatever is
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value to you. You send that to
us and we're even Steven, fair
2:47:09
and square. We appreciate it.
Obviously, thanks to our
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Executive producers for episode
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2:50:12
Unknown: so we have a
2:50:14
Adam Curry: number of meetup
reports. Remember, these are the
2:50:16
producer organized meetups where
people get together hang out. It
2:50:20
is your local community,
typically, although some people
2:50:23
drive hours just to go to some
of these. And we finally got a
2:50:26
full report from the Amsterdam,
the Netherlands meetup where I
2:50:30
attended which was over a month
ago now I think, so I might as
2:50:34
well play it since they sent it
in and did all the work in the
2:50:37
morning. Hey, everybody, this is
a crackpot. I am filled with
2:50:41
hookers and blow what a great
meetup. I
2:50:45
Unknown: just deduced myself up
2:50:49
in the morning life, from Texas
to labor in the morning, hey,
2:50:54
I'm
2:50:54
gonna talk to Neil. Hey, listen,
I'm looking for the Dutch
2:50:57
masters here. Have you seen
them? Can you then or Darren or
2:51:01
mu or networks or Francisco
Scaramanga? Have you seen them?
2:51:05
I can find them.
2:51:07
Now the welcome home
2:51:15
morning Sellersburg was Big
Mike.
2:51:19
This is the most crazy pizza
2:51:24
I came here to take the
screaming goat home John I
2:51:27
followed your advice I bought
Alexis
2:51:32
in the morning, Dutchess are
2:51:34
awesome hi this is surplus I
deny everything I got hairy legs
2:51:38
sir hair go nuts
2:51:42
in the morning connection is
protecting sir Ron Lauren years.
2:51:47
I found out that cannabis
actually gateway drug tobacco
2:51:53
cigars
2:51:54
again connections in the morning
and this has got to be the
2:51:57
longest
2:51:58
meet up report ever.
2:51:59
I like my old Lexus. And I love
what to do.
2:52:03
Hey, Caroline, having a blast of
the time in the morning.
2:52:07
Fantastic second you been
2:52:11
Adam Curry: tired? I was really
tired. You can tell why I was
2:52:14
tired after that after that
meetup. These people are high
2:52:17
maintenance but super fun. And
didn't turn to Neil sounds
2:52:21
sweet. And a lot of people drive
like sigh from the Netherlands
2:52:25
we go to Sonoma Wine Oh counter
a country
2:52:28
Unknown: in the morning. This is
Sir recalcitrant crazy Steve the
2:52:32
second here at the Sonoma Wine
Oh country made up 4.0. And
2:52:35
we're all convinced there was a
second shooter.
2:52:38
Suresh Meister here in beautiful
Sonoma County,
2:52:41
sir monta can join a beautiful
afternoon.
2:52:43
This is a dude named Ben named
Ben Cal San Francisco soon to be
2:52:47
Duke of San Francisco and may
the second shooter was using the
2:52:51
drone
2:52:52
is Brian from work. I think
there might have been third,
2:52:55
fourth and fifth shooters. next
meetup will be at OCAs chairs.
2:53:00
This is Cynthia from naughty
wine accessories. If she doesn't
2:53:03
care about any of that. Thank
you.
2:53:05
John, And the Lord.
2:53:09
Adam Curry: We stay in
California for the San Diego
2:53:12
Mita.
2:53:12
Unknown: Connie ago go
2:53:13
in the morning. This
2:53:14
is Ryan in the morning. This
2:53:16
is Tim in the morning, sir Mike
and congratulations. Kania. Gogo
2:53:22
in the morning de mon. In the
morning Dean Kelly of the
2:53:25
crushed grapes.
2:53:26
In the morning everybody. We're
here at the Santiago meet up a
2:53:32
little Ron Burgundy reference
for y'all. Enjoy yourselves. And
2:53:38
over now. See
2:53:39
Adam Curry: these meetups even
have their own language. It's
2:53:42
amazing what's going on? They
sent a picture along with this
2:53:45
meetup report. The Chicago
meetup. The Chicago crew is that
2:53:48
good looking crew
2:53:50
Unknown: service in Chicago.
2:53:51
Hi, David Gordy here in the
morning in the morning. This is
2:53:54
Sir NBS in Chicago representing
down by the river in the
2:53:58
morning. This is Laura from
Green Bay Sir Brian with a while
2:54:02
doing it live. Hi, William.
2:54:04
In the morning, morning.
2:54:07
And someone will edit that right
yeah,
2:54:08
Adam Curry: sure. I always edit
everything when necessary. No
2:54:11
problem at all. Thank you so
much for sending in your Meetup
2:54:13
reports. We have a couple of
meetups taking place. Let me see
2:54:17
to day it being Sunday Margarita
meet up two o'clock. It's
2:54:20
underway at Palm Beach Gardens
Florida. Linares, Alton Hello
2:54:23
everybody there. We have East
Central Illinois. Their Meetup
2:54:27
is underway at triptych brewing.
I think it is in Savoy,
2:54:32
Illinois, North Georgia monthly
start to six o'clock at Cherry
2:54:36
Street brewing Alpharetta,
Georgia. And a special mention
2:54:40
let me see we have I want to
mention that we have the Houston
2:54:43
meetup coming on August 3, I
think is that the Houston meetup
2:54:48
that something was coming up on
the 11th as well. But there's
2:54:51
we've got Oshkosh on July 26.
We've got visa Baden, Germany
2:54:56
Hello, here's the half of East
Boston July 27. La on the 27th
2:55:01
Ironton, Minnesota Mount Juliet,
Tennessee Columbus, Ohio, Tokyo
2:55:05
Shibuya, Japan on the 27th need
to meet up report followed by
2:55:09
the 28th Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad, Amsterdam, the
2:55:14
Netherlands on the third of
August Edmonds, Washington,
2:55:16
Norwich Vermont Norwood,
Massachusetts, Houston, Texas,
2:55:20
Garden City, Idaho on the 10th
Keyport, New Jersey on the 11th
2:55:23
Keene New Hampshire on the 11th
Alberni California. That's
2:55:27
another get John out of the
house meet up August 17. And
2:55:30
we're into September galega,
Lita, California and Tucson
2:55:33
Arizona many more to come. Many
more to be found. You can even
2:55:37
start one yourself if you can't
find one near you. The no agenda
2:55:40
meetups, no agenda meetups.com
Always a party to
2:55:46
Unknown: go hang out with you.
2:55:56
You say?
2:56:04
Adam Curry: Yes, indeed. It's
like a party. And guess what?
2:56:07
You're going to win the ISO
today because today I have zero
2:56:11
ISOs.
2:56:14
John C Dvorak: Okay, I win,
then. Yes. Thank you.
2:56:17
Adam Curry: Which one do you win
with? Oh, are we here? I
2:56:19
shouldn't have it's here.
2:56:20
John C Dvorak: Yeah, let's start
with I got two versions of
2:56:22
thanks. I got one and to start
with one. Thanks
2:56:25
Unknown: so much for being here.
Okay,
2:56:27
that too. Yeah.
2:56:29
Thanks for having me. Glad we're
on. Okay.
2:56:33
John C Dvorak: Okay. Well, I
think and then we have a a sent
2:56:36
in by a producer. The what to
2:56:40
Unknown: clip.
2:56:41
What the hell was that? Go?
2:56:43
Adam Curry: I got that one too.
I discarded it. I'm like, well,
2:56:47
that's Family Guy. I mean, I'm
not going to use that. I'm not
2:56:50
going to insult you. But you did
it. Well, I
2:56:54
John C Dvorak: used it instead.
2:56:55
Adam Curry: Thanks so much for
being here. I'm going to use
2:56:57
that one if you don't mind. I
think I think that's the best
2:57:00
one. All right, everybody. This
may be the last time but that's
2:57:03
all on you.
2:57:07
Unknown: Just JC?
2:57:11
Adam Curry: I hope it's not I
hope it's not the last time I
2:57:14
hope you're not thwarted by
these people who just say nasty
2:57:18
things. I mean, get used to it
be your your celebrity your
2:57:20
superstar. I
2:57:22
John C Dvorak: decided to go
with the most obscure thing I
2:57:24
can come up with today. Okay.
And that is an antiseptic that
2:57:30
would get you get people talk
and because of his they saw it
2:57:33
is always tends to be the label
tends to be in Russian. Okay.
2:57:38
And as a product, you can look
this up on Wikipedia so you can
2:57:42
find out the details about it.
It's a it's actually a dye
2:57:46
called brilliant green. It's
used in Ukraine and Russia for
2:57:51
anything that happens on your
skin. It kills all gram negative
2:57:55
bacteria. It prevents the flesh
eating bacteria kills staph does
2:58:01
all this stuff on the draw.
2:58:05
Adam Curry: It kills staph
infection. Yeah. Because
2:58:08
normally you have to be on like
antibiotics for a month and you
2:58:11
can't just
2:58:12
John C Dvorak: stuff on it. You
believe me? The gag. This came
2:58:15
the original tip comes from my
friend. Therefore I'm not my
2:58:18
friend. Well, I do know him.
David Duncan, who was lived in
2:58:25
Ukraine for a couple of years,
and talked about he got his hand
2:58:30
got impaled. And he ended up
getting the doctor so just puts
2:58:34
it put the green stuck the green
goo they call it their what's it
2:58:37
called? What's
2:58:38
Adam Curry: your product name
again?
2:58:39
John C Dvorak: brilliant green.
Soylent Green. brilliant green.
2:58:44
Brilliant and it's a die. Ah.
Wow. And it went why just dies?
2:58:52
Yeah. And so this it's used by
everybody and a heals everything
2:58:56
that is skin situation like
2:58:58
Adam Curry: windex for white
people.
2:59:01
John C Dvorak: Well, the product
drawback is it's a green dye.
2:59:04
And it leaves Lee is it takes
three or four days before it
2:59:08
rubs off. But it's a very
effective wow, if you can get it
2:59:13
you're gonna have to talk to
your Russian friends to find it
2:59:15
because it's so cheap to make
that the pharmaceutical
2:59:19
companies won't even touch it
because they can there's no
2:59:21
profit in it.
2:59:22
Adam Curry: I can hear sir Jean
whipping up a website already.
2:59:26
Sir G
2:59:26
John C Dvorak: knows about this.
I guarantee it. And once again
2:59:28
you asked him he decided that
Oh, yeah. Everybody uses that
2:59:31
stuff.
2:59:31
Adam Curry: What's it called
again?
2:59:33
John C Dvorak: brilliant green.
brilliant green is also has a
2:59:37
slang term is a link as e l e n
k consult Linka. Wow.
2:59:44
Adam Curry: Well, that's a good
tip. I hope you keep it up. I'm
2:59:47
sure to get lots of a bunch of
great
2:59:50
Unknown: tip of the day. Thanks
for listening.
2:59:53
Y'all come back now you hear
2:59:56
Adam Curry: please do come back
y'all for Another tip of the
3:00:00
day, although I agree that ever
since we stopped doing the good
3:00:04
news segment the world has just
gone downhill. Scary. Scary, so
3:00:09
scary. All right, you're up to
speed and you're spun down.
3:00:14
That's the way we like to see.
Everybody take care. We'll be
3:00:18
learning lots more about Joe
quitting and then we'll have we
3:00:21
got a nice three days before it
will four days, I guess Monday,
3:00:25
Tuesday about three days. Until
the next show. I'm looking
3:00:28
forward to it. Life is about to
get super interesting. As if it
3:00:33
wasn't already. In the film mix.
Chris Wilson DS laughs and Jesse
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Coyne Nelson. Remember
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John C Dvorak: in from Northern
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I'm John C. Dvorak.
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until then adios mofos Oui oui.
And such blaming glitch and I
3:01:20
did this work in 10 minutes it
wasn't that hard to find blame
3:01:23
John C Dvorak: it on the glitch.
Yeah, well reporters don't hear
3:01:26
this kind of okay, here's a song
I
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Unknown: was gonna keep going
with Interledger
3:01:32
John C Dvorak: said the song
idea. Find this song It's
3:01:35
Michael Jackson blame it on the
boogie to blame it on the
3:01:38
glitch.
3:01:39
Unknown: If you can't take that
in,
3:01:41
I think it can be done
3:01:43
Adam Curry: it can be blamed on
the button.
3:01:45
John C Dvorak: Now this sounds
too similar. I can hear that
3:01:48
three rights and lyrics to get
the
3:01:50
Unknown: rhymes right. Chris pop
in another beer as we speak. To
3:01:54
blame it on the bass. Don't
blame it on the law firm or
3:02:00
blame it on the glitch don't
blame it on the law firm over
3:02:09
blame it on the glitch
3:02:13
guys becoming alcoholics and
stealing stuff from the show.
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Drunk don't worry about
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read the article about the cost
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peace process we'll look back
3:02:37
with revisions and now when that
canard presented my membership,
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local plague is coming back to
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your review paper by these cool
pens and think tanks are to
3:02:48
combat the fact check and the
journalists have been captured
3:02:51
in this aspect. There was
something that conspiring to
3:02:54
silence the scientists a climate
denier book column denialists Do
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you believe with all your heart
Are you a buyer and now you buy
3:03:01
in this general consensus
science belies a liar or lie of
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risk potentials and expertise
the information dam is cracking
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I mean come on please pause and
centralize similar to Swiss
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up in the sky generate of AGI
overload the nation grid and
3:03:21
upgrade the power supply as
Google's greenhouse gas
3:03:24
emissions bootie judge is making
so many bonehead decisions
3:03:28
500,000 charging stations we got
that one know someone who wanted
3:03:32
to make America needs to go down
with AC renewable What's the
3:03:39
benefit of this energy?
3:03:42
Adam Curry: That's where we're
going you don't need to have
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don't need to have the biggest
numbers don't need to be at the
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top of the leaderboard or the
rancor it's just not necessary.
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In this new model.
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Unknown: You're a mean one.
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Glitch glitch glitch glitch
glitch.
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Frustrated target customers
stuck in long lines when a
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computer glitch caused problems
at checkout. Taxpayers waited
3:04:08
till the last day to pay Uncle
Sam may have suffered some
3:04:11
digital distress Tuesday. The US
internal revenue services
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computers were hit with a glitch
hit up the midnight tax
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deadline.
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Did you guys get affected by
this? I really want to know how
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many people got affected by
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the Facebook glitch in the past
week.
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You're a mean one.
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John C Dvorak: Leaks, glitch
glitch glitch glitch glitch
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ditch
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Unknown: technical glitch that
caused chaos at London airports
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on Friday has now been fixed and
air traffic control systems are
3:04:39
returning to normal. They were
3:04:41
deployed longer than any other
combat unit in Iraq and now
3:04:45
they're fighting the Pentagon
over benefits. Their their
3:04:48
ployment orders were written for
729 days. That happens to be one
3:04:53
day short of the 730 days needed
to qualify for benefits under
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the GI Bill. Well tonight the
The army is telling NBC News
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they predict this glitch will be
fixed and the guardsmen will be
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eligible for those benefits.
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John C Dvorak: But I think the
big glitch, the major glitch,
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the Whopper is going to
supersede everything you said.
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And that is the automated update
of Windows Windows. That seems
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down everything that
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Unknown: oppo for.org/and
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Thanks so much for being here.