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Unknown: It's crazy talk.
Adam curry. John C Dvorak,
it's Thursday,
August 15, 2024
Adam Curry: this is your award
winning Kimber nation. Media
assassination Episode 1686,
Unknown: this is no agenda,
Mama.
Adam Curry: We're all crazy now,
and we're broadcasting live from
the heart of the Texas Hill
Country, here in FEMA Region,
number six in the morning,
everybody. I'm Adam curry and
from
John C Dvorak: Northern Silicon
Valley, where I see that brought
Matthew Perry's killers to
justice. I'm John C Dvorak.
Adam Curry: Now, wait a minute.
Wait a minute. I thought he
drowned of of accidental MDMA
sleeping in his pool,
John C Dvorak: ketamine
overdose,
Adam Curry: right? Yeah,
ketamine was ketamine. You're
right. We knew that. That's not
news. They
John C Dvorak: brought the four
they they charged five people,
oh, of his death, including two
MDs, one of whom said, I wonder
how much more this moron is
going to pay for this stuff?
Adam Curry: Do they have this on
tape? They
John C Dvorak: have it all the
text messages which they
scramble to to get rid of once
they started getting busted left
and right. Oh, no. But
unfortunately, nobody seems to
realize that text messages are
stored here and
Adam Curry: there in certain
places
John C Dvorak: and wow, no
dummies, wow.
Adam Curry: Well, that's pretty
amazing.
Unknown: Yeah, huh? Poor guy.
Adam Curry: So this, so the docs
killed him. Now, this micro
dosing of Kevin,
John C Dvorak: the docs got him
fully addicted. Yeah? And then,
then a ketamine queen of LA,
Adam Curry: who is the ketamine
queen? Ketamine queen.
John C Dvorak: It's a very
interesting I was watching it
this morning on Court TV press
conference. That's
Adam Curry: what you're doing
with your prep mornings. I see,
I see, really did
John C Dvorak: you see one of
these things? What? What?
Adam Curry: There's a lot to
discuss. My friend. Get the
bonus clip, by the way. Oh,
wait, no, I did not get a bonus
clip. Let me see. Let me see
what your bonus clip? He's got a
bonus clip. Hold on a second.
Okay, let me put it into the
into the bin. All right. Bonus
clip is in the bin, but there
is, there's some big news. Big
news today. Big news. We have a
winner. Not bird flu, not covid,
flirt, not sloth fever or
dengue, no, ladies and
gentlemen, it
Unknown: is M box. The World
Health Organization tonight is
declaring M pox, formerly known
as monkey pox, a global public
health emergency, as a new form
of the virus is now rapidly
spreading across Africa. Cases
have been detected to more than
a dozen countries, more of them
and the Democrat most of them,
rather, in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, with more
than 14,000 cases, there 524
deaths this year alone. Here at
home, the CDC is urging doctors
and the public to be alert for
signs of the virus, including
fever, muscle aches, swollen
lymph nodes. Dr ashkeal is
joining us now.
Adam Curry: Oh man M pox to the
rescue. Just in time for the
election, get your mail in,
ballots ready. This is horrible.
Oh no, we can't go vote. No.
Doctor, tell us.
Unknown: Doctor, how big of a
threat is this in terms of a
global perspective, and what
does this global health
emergency really do from a
practical standpoint?
Hey, time. So this is actually
the second time in three years
the who has declared a public
health emergency over over m
pox. And what we're seeing now
is, yes, the cases are largely
in in Africa, specifically in
the DRC, the Democratic
Republic. But the reason they're
calling this out now Tom is that
it's actually leaking. I think,
by
Adam Curry: the way, the whole
Democratic Republic of Congo is,
is subtle messaging, Democrats,
Democrats, to your mass to the
mass mobile Democrat, Democrat,
Republic of Congo, Republic
Unknown: of Congo. But the
reason they're calling this out
now Tom, is that it's actually
leaking out into neighboring
countries. This is a different
strain than the impacts outbreak
we saw a few years ago,
including here in the US. This
one has a fatality rate about 15
to 30 times higher,
significantly more deadly than
the other ones. You can see the
WHO IS is acting quickly here in
the Ph D, I see the public
health emergency really calls
for nations to start sharing
resources, vaccines, treatments,
research can be really, really
useful for those countries. And
you can see really, even time we
just got in the last hour from
HHS saying that, while the CDC
Yes, saying the public should be
alert right now, the threat is
very low here in the United
States. People should
nonetheless be on the lookout
for this thing, for this, for
this virus, and into stay alert
for those symptoms that you
mentioned earlier there. Tom,
yes, they
Adam Curry: alert. Stay alert
for these symptoms now. Before
we continue with Dr shy, she
all, we must go, because he's
back as well. Ladies and
gentlemen. Welcome back to the
ring. Dr Tedros, last week,
Unknown: I announced that I was
convening an emergency committee
under the International Health
Regulations to evaluate the
upsurge of mpox in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
and other countries in Africa.
Today, the Emergency Committee
met and advised me that, in its
view, the situation constitutes
a public health emergency of
international concern. It is a
Adam Curry: public emergency,
public emergency of
international concern. The
Unknown: situation constitutes a
public health emergency of
international
Adam Curry: not sure what it is,
but it sounds bad that it's
public and
Unknown: rapid spread of a new
clade of M pox in eastern DRC.
It's detection in neighboring
countries that had not
previously reported M pox, and
the potential for further spread
within Africa and beyond is very
worrying. Worry clear that a
coordinated international
response is essential to stop
these outbreaks and save lives.
We
Adam Curry: must save lives
because there are many deaths.
Let's go back to Dr Akshay at
NBC, Hey,
Unknown: doctor, talking about
the symptoms, I thought, are we
missing one? In other words, I
thought that one of the symptoms
with monkey pox anyway, was
gayness, kind of a severe
blistering type of thing. Yes,
it was that rash bullet on
there. You can see in the bottom
right that it's very It's very
typical of M pox. When you when
you see it, you can't really
miss it. But those are the
symptoms you mentioned, fever,
chills, exhaustion. Odds are, if
you're having those things, it's
probably something else,
including the flu or maybe even
covid. But the rash really is
the hallmark symptom Tom that
blistering rash you mentioned.
Yes.
Adam Curry: Okay, so before I
have two more clips here,
there's a discrepancy here that
is very odd. Looking at all of
the videos we're seeing, mainly
kids looks like they have
chicken pox. They're walking
into the tents. We've got once
again, we've got Africa, we've
got tents, we got people in
hazmat suits. Oh no, oh no, it's
the M pox. But we don't forget
easily here at the no agenda
show. Thank you for accentuating
my point. We go back to the
previous M pox outbreak here in
the United States, let us
remember what that was all
about. Here's a supercut. Is a
Unknown: disease that the
majority of people who have it
in this country are men who have
sex with other men,
men who have sex with men, male
to male sexual contact, men who
have sex with men, male to male
sexual contact, men who have sex
with men, who have sex with men,
men who have sex
with men, men who
have sex with other men,
men who have sex with men, men
who have sex with men, men
who've had sex with men,
men who have sex with men.
Adam Curry: Alright, so last
time, it was only for men who
have sex with men, which
confused us in general. And now
it seems to be everybody. It's a
new strain. And the most
detailed information I could get
came to us from the CBC,
Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation. It's
Unknown: the second time now
that the World Health
Organization has declared a
public health emergency of
international concern for mpox,
and we heard from them on this
just this past hour, and it
follows outbreaks in Congo and
elsewhere in Africa, with cases
seen among children adults in
more than a dozen countries.
There. You can see in some of
those visuals, there the
symptoms of this condition and
pox, which was known as monkey
pox, known for causing painful
post filled lesions, also can
cause severe illness or even
death as well. It was first in
the headlines a few years ago,
the summer of 2022 after an
explosion of illnesses then and
the last emergency, public
health emergency like this was
declared by the WHO that lasted
about 10 months, The Who, The
Who, part of me says that in
this current outbreak, the cases
have actually exceeded the total
number seen in all of Last 14
about 14,000 cases so far as
well, 524 deaths. Who says that
it's working on the ground in
affected countries with its
partners there, says it's
supporting laboratories to see
sequence viral samples, health
workers, supporting clinicians
to provide appropriate care,
also supporting countries to
access, helping them with
rolling out those vaccines. It
does say that it has developed a
regional response plan here, and
it has released 1.5 million US
dollars from fund that it has
but it is appealing to donors to
provide more money as well. Says
that it's coordinate the global
response, working closely with
those and leveraging its on the
ground presence to treat those
infected, prevent transmission,
and ultimately to save lives.
Oh, save
Adam Curry: lives. Gotta save
lives.
John C Dvorak: That was much of
a report. It's a guy. The guy
says at the end of a word,
Adam Curry: I got a note just in
time from Dame Trish. Dame Trish
has been in the medical field
for, I believe, up close to 20
years. And she says, I hope I
know your time is valuable, but
I think this monkey pox data
will interest you. This comes
from the National Vaccine
Information Center, and luckily,
she has done some work for us.
She has given us an excerpt.
Here come the mRNA smallpox and
monkeypox vaccines amid
unanswered questions about why
the monkeypox virus is suddenly
mutating and becoming more
virulent, virulent and
transmissible among humans. It
sure looks like the public
health Empire is gearing up for
a global monkey pox pandemic. If
it does come to pass, the
solution they will offer is to
make sure everyone gets an ortho
pox virus vaccine, just like in
the old days, when every child
was mandated to get the highly
reactive smallpox vaccine,
without understanding just how
lethal the side effects were and
how many infants, children and
adults would be injured or die
from those side effects. The
difference between today and the
old days is that people around
the world are suffering with
broad based immune dysfunction
due to either infection with the
lab mutated SARS cov virus,
covid two virus, or injection
with the lethal mRNA biological,
or both. And that makes the
addition of another mRNA
biological a potential
prescription for disaster,
disaster, or disaster, that
John C Dvorak: disaster for the
Democrat Party. Man,
Adam Curry: we took a trip, and
there were a lot of Democrats at
the airport. I mean, mask
wearers, is there a difference?
Oh, my goodness, since
John C Dvorak: you've been
playing this, I want to play an
old mad ow clip, and it's under
old. This is Jad Ow. I think
obviously get that correct. This
is an old mad ow clip so we can
be reminded about how great the
news is. Now
Unknown: we know that the
vaccines work well enough that
the virus stops with every
vaccinated person stop. I
John C Dvorak: got infected
about two weeks ago. It was my
third infection, and I had been
vaccinated and boosted a total
of six times. It's juxtaposition
of clips.
Adam Curry: Yes, indeed. Fauci
getting the getting the vacs and
the mask, and Yo, he's already
saying, wear your mask again.
Wear your mask. Wear your mask.
Ah, I mean this. I think they've
got something here, you know,
they've been trying the bird flu
wouldn't fly. Covid, you know,
no one cares.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, you know, I
think they've got a vaccine or
something they want to sell. I'm
not sure that this is what
you're looking for. These aren't
the drones you're looking for. I
think the one that they're
missing out on, they can still
pull it out, pull a rabbit out
of the hat with the sloth, with
the sloth blue.
Adam Curry: Sloth fever,
everything, no, it's called
sloth Fever,
John C Dvorak: fever slots.
Fever also has a you can do, I
can see song parodies. Sloth
fever has comes out of Brazil.
Comes out of Brazil. It's a
Zika, oh, Zika variant, Zika
Zika. And it's went from
straight from Brazil to Cuba to
Europe. It hasn't come over here
yet. And it seems to me, because
of the Zika angle, and it causes
birth defects, it's a better way
to go. I would have gone with
that. Hmm, yeah.
Adam Curry: But you know,
they're, they're not all that
smart. They really aren't. Hey,
let me we have there's
John C Dvorak: kind of screwed
up because this monkey pox
thing, like you played the super
cut, yeah. I mean, that was the
whole scam. Was this all men
having sex with men? But no one
remembers that. Watch this wide
open.
Adam Curry: So to speak, we're
the only ones who remember that
stuff. Man, come on. Now, I've
just seen the news flow. I mean,
I don't know if they're going to
make it with this. I agree. I
think sloth fever sounds better.
It's a funnier name. It's a Zika
variant, but they're trying.
They are. They need to do
something, and now is the time.
Now is the moment they got to do
it. They got they got to lock
them down. They got to lock them
down. So
John C Dvorak: have you seen the
clips of the lockdown in
Minnesota when they had the cops
are walking down the street,
shooting people, shooting
Adam Curry: people, yes, yeah,
with
John C Dvorak: paintballs, yeah,
although the now, were
Adam Curry: they really
paintballs? Because they had
paintballs. Don't have an
explosion in the gun.
John C Dvorak: They there was
the sound effect was from the
paintballs hitting the house.
No,
Adam Curry: but you saw a flash.
You saw. A flash. I
John C Dvorak: never saw a
flash. I saw flashes. Well, I
saw the person getting hit, but
they had the one clip with a
girl got hit with the paintball,
and she was then they showed her
maybe,
Adam Curry: maybe they were
using the rubber bullet guns.
Just loaded them up with paint
balls instead of rubber. Rubber
bullets can do some damage,
yeah,
John C Dvorak: but I think it
was, I don't think you can put a
paint. Paint balls aren't the
same as a rubber bullet. You'd
have to get a paintball gun.
They had paintball guns there.
Was pathetic. This was and I
have the clip. The bonus clip,
which I gave to you is the clip
of the think line that wall,
this walls, is a bad guy in
every single way. I think that
more people that start to see
he's creepy. He's a creepy guy,
and he put this line in so you
call and think on your neighbors
if they left the house and they
had cops walking around shooting
at you if you But meanwhile, of
course, they could burn the City
of Minneapolis. Now that's no
big deal, of course, but this is
what the think line. This is
what it the recording I have it
once you want to play that.
Unknown: Hello, you have reached
the Department of Public Safety
stay at home hotline. The
information you leave is
considered public information.
At the tone, please leave the
following information, your
name, your callback number, how
the stay at home order is being
violated and where the stay at
home order was violated.
Thank you.
Adam Curry: That's what you do,
man, that's what you do that.
That is what you do in your
neighborhood. It's a beautiful
day in your neighborhood. Rat on
your neighbors. You know, he
knows the golden rule, mind your
own damn business, and rat on
your neighbors. That is him.
John C Dvorak: So, yes,
unavoidable, by the way, as we
speak, the Kamala Harris is
going to have her first
interview right now on x Oh,
being interviewed by walls. No,
no,
Adam Curry: that's fantastic. So
John, let me ask you a few
questions about me, pretty much.
Yeah, well, this comes amongst
severe pressure from the
mainstream media, including CNN
Jim Acosta, who would have
thought, here he is with the
Harris waltz comms director,
Unknown: would it kill you guys
to have a press conference? Why
hasn't she had a press
conference? Listen to the Vice
President, Governor Walz. Have
Been busy criss crossing this
country, the launch of this
campaign, and adding Governor
walls to the ticket. You saw the
ways in which they went across
the battleground states last
week, generating rallies of
1000s, 10,000 here, 15,000
there. But Michael, you know, a
campaign rally is not a press Do
you mind if I cut in? I mean,
you know, a campaign rally is
not a press conference. Why
isn't she at a press conference?
She's
the vice president. She can
handle the questions. Why not do
it? We absolutely are going to
do it. You hear her take
questions as she's out on the
stump, and she's she said last
week, we're going to be having a
sit down interview here before
the end of the month. What she's
going to be focused on, and what
this campaign is going to be
focused on, is communicating
directly with the voters that
are actually going to decide the
pathway to 270 electoral votes.
That's why she press conference
last week this past week. That's
why we're doing a bus tour in
Pennsylvania as we head into
Chicago, and it's why we'll sit
down for an interview before the
end of the month, to make sure
we can have a deep conversation
about the vision that Kamala
Harris has for where she wants
to take this country in the
contrast that we're going to
have with Donald Trump. We're
going to have plenty of
opportunities to do that
throughout the Michael but one
interview by the end of the
month. This month, I don't, I
don't want to, you know, belabor
this, but one, yeah, before the
other month. I mean, that's,
that's not a lot. I mean, can
you commit to a press conference
before
the end of the month? We
will commit to directly engage
with the voters that are
actually going to decide this
election. And that is going to
be a complete with rallies, with
sit down interviews, with press
conferences, with all the
digital assets that we have at
our disposal, all
Adam Curry: the digital assets,
which means Walt's interviewing
on x. That's great. That's what
a fantastic move. Their best
they are. You can't blame them.
That's pretty good. Whatever
works, yeah. I mean, it's on x,
so it's like, will it be a
spaces like that, like the the
Elon, Trump spaces,
John C Dvorak: the Elon trying
to get a word word in edgewise.
We trying to get a stammer in
edgewise. We could
Adam Curry: have predicted that,
that there would be some
technical issues that I feel
kind of bad, and I didn't even
consider it was going to be a
spaces. I thought it would be
video like, oh, it's space.
Spaces suck. I've never liked
them, you know. And, and I think
the curry Dvorak consulting
group would have warned for, you
know, hey, set yourself. You
see, the problem with the space
is you can't do it from a.
Computer. You can't do it with a
pro unless you have a microphone
stuck into your phone, because
you can only, you can only speak
on spaces if you're using the
app. You can't do it on a web
browser. So you got Trump bent
over his iPhone, you know, talk
and of course, Hey, man, Elon
used AI to make him sound
slurry. No, no, no. It just, it
sucks. It that's the if
anything, it was a bandwidth
constraint. It stepped down to
lower, to a lower sample rate. I
mean, I have a little example of
it here.
Unknown: Well, I think we will.
I'm pretty sure we will. And
congratulations, because I see
you broke every record in the
book with so many millions of
people. And that's an honor. We
view that as an honor. And then
you do want silencing of certain
voices. He
Adam Curry: sounds like
Calacanis, because you don't
want Satan.
Unknown: Usually those are
voices that
John C Dvorak: doesn't he sound
like. Callaghan, you're not. You
mentioned it constructive,
Unknown: oftentimes
constructive, and so we have to
consider it an honor. But
congratulations and breaking
every record in the book.
Adam Curry: What record? Every
record in the book. So we got a
million concurrent listeners.
Whoop dee. Doo. I call that a
fail. That was, that was not, I
mean, you know, he wanted 80
million or whatever. Apparently
there was a denial of a
distributed denial of service
attack, which I can believe now
and that that that makes that
could be anybody, of course. But
the insinuation from this next
clip is it was the Biden
administration. Elon Musk is
slated to this is a guy from the
WaPo, journalist from the WaPo
in the press brief briefing with
Jean Paul, Abdul Pierre Van Dam
and and he it was quite
interesting that he even asked
this question.
Unknown: Elon Musk is slated to
interview Donald Trump tomorrow,
tonight on x I don't know if the
President is going to feel free
to say if he is or
not, but I think that
misinformation on Twitter is not
just a campaign issue. It's a,
you know, it's an America issue,
American issue.
What role does the White House
or the President
have in sort of stopping that,
or stopping the spread of that,
sort of inter intervening in
that? And
some of that was about campaign
misinformation, but you know,
it's a wider thing, right? Yeah,
no,
I know you've heard us talk
about this many times here,
about the responsibilities that
social media platforms have when
it comes to misinformation
disinformation. Don't have
anything to read out from here
about specific ways that we're
working on it, but we believe
that that they have the
responsibility. These are
private companies, so we're also
mindful of that too. But look it
is, I think it is incredibly
important to call that out as
you are you're doing. I just
don't have any specifics on what
we have been doing internally as
as it relates to the interviews,
and not something that I'm
tracking, and I'm sure the
President is not
Adam Curry: tracking, so that
you know that kind of
John C Dvorak: what she she's
complimenting the guy for, for
for demanding a reporter, for
demanding censorship,
Adam Curry: it's great.
John C Dvorak: What is wrong
with these people? It's
Adam Curry: the season of
reveal. All shall be made known
to
John C Dvorak: reveal the
reveal. They're idiots. Yeah,
Adam Curry: for us, the reveal
was already there. But for a lot
of people, they're like, oh,
wait a minute. I think some
people are seeing it, not many.
I
John C Dvorak: don't think so. I
Adam Curry: don't think the mask
wears I saw in my travels over
the past few days really will
know. I mean, just we still have
family members who believe that
Trump was never hit by a bullet.
You know, Where'd you hear that?
MSNBC, oh, okay,
John C Dvorak: gotcha. That's
fine. I want to play while we're
on this side of things, I want
to play the latest attempt by
the MSNBC CNN folk to promote
Camelot. Okay, and this is the
use of the term vibe. Have you
started hearing this? This is
from they've switched over from
cuddly, all these different
kinds of super cuts that we hold
Adam Curry: on, hold on. I'll
Unknown: bring this guy. It's a
bird
John C Dvorak: super cut. That's
Adam Curry: a super cut. The
Super cuts are the best way to
show that the media is in
lockstep. They're just they are
beautiful. I have not heard this
one. Did you put it together.
You got it from from somewhere.
John C Dvorak: I stole it. Oh,
good from people who steal from
us. Yeah, here we go. The way I
see it. That's the way I see it.
Here's here. This is the vibe
supercut.
Unknown: There is a vibe.
There's a cultural shift going
on here. It's
heavy on vibes. And so far, it
seems to be working. You. Tax
just aren't sticking. The
bully's power starts to shrink,
and the new kid changes the vibe
on the playground. You
now see Democrats smiling. There
is joy in our party. This Harris
waltz ticket is like a moment of
joy that allows us to heal the
trauma and get to a different
space.
One of the great achievements of
the Young Harris walls candidacy
is they popped that balloon and
now he just looks like a boob.
Adam Curry: He's got a vibe.
John C Dvorak: Well, allow me so
they continue this, the vibe
thing. Every time I run in one
of these super casino, they had
this joy. There was vibe, there
was cuddly. They've been using
these different terms. They
always assign one of the anchors
to take it to the limit,
Adam Curry: yes, and it's always
at the end of the super cut. The
last
John C Dvorak: time it was mad
Owen, she was going on and on
about something. This is Katie
Tur This is Katie to taking,
taking her cue. She's on MSNBC.
She's terrible, she and by the
way, she's also a she's what I
call and I've seen this with
other people. They can only get
so far with this. By the way,
she's a Lunger. You have your
complaints about people. You
know the, I can't remember the
one you like to call him
something. Do you have a Puerto
for this puker? Puker, yes,
puker, this girl's she's a
Lunger. And so as she speaks,
she jumps, she moves toward the
the camera. She lunges. She's
constantly lunging at the
cameras, like, Hey, back off
lady. Yeah,
Adam Curry: that's a good point.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, she's a
Lunger, and she, here she is.
She's going to go off the deep
end with vibes, and then she's
going to just, she's going to
talk about it, and then she's
going to talk about Trump, and
she's literally going to lie.
It's all
Unknown: about the vibes, on the
economy, crime, the future, the
politics of and politics itself.
Weird vibes. Month, those vibes,
or a bummer for Democrats, says
on we about the top of the
ballot was dragging down the
rest of the ballot, but now that
President Biden stepped out and
VP Kamala Harris has stepped in,
the vibes flipped. Now the
Democrats are riding high, big
enthusiasm and big new numbers
and all of the polls that
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the most significantly VP Harris
has taken from Donald Trump, his
biggest political asset, his
ability to ride on a wave of
personality over policy, relying
on a magnetism that so bewitched
his voters it didn't matter to
them what his positions were,
which was good because he kept
flipping and then flopping and
then flipping again on a whole
host of meaningful policy.
Adam Curry: What you kept
flipping them flopping
John C Dvorak: on a whole host
of flipping and flopping is
Harris.
Adam Curry: Here's what I'm
seeing. Trump appears to be
zigging to their zag. So he is
now slowed down, and he's doing
a lot of press conferences from
Mar a Lago from the living room.
He keeps pointing that out by
saying there used to be a big,
beautiful couch there. Now you
are there. And he's doing policy
speeches with a low tone, low
energy, low tone, talking about
economy and border consistently.
He seems to have taken this,
this cue from them, like, Oh,
you're going to do that. Okay,
I'm going to do this. And I
think it's an interesting turn
of events, because now they are
the say nothing, big crowd, wow,
which, by the way, it's working,
because you just get on any
social network people like, man,
they're all flipping out over
it. Like, who cares? Now, I know
the M 5m chooses, likes to think
they choose our leaders, and
this might have been the way to
do it, but, you know, it seems
like Trump is not playing into
their card. I have it. I have a
super cut as well, which plays
along with the vibe this one's a
little more obvious,
Unknown: battleground momentum,
new
numbers showing the Harris wall
ticket is gaining ground. Vice
President Harris, gaining
momentum,
momentum in some key states this
morning, Vice President Kamala
Harris, gaining momentum,
gaining momentum, gaining
momentum,
gaining momentum. But look this
momentum, this
momentum, keeping the momentum.
Harris
is momentum. Harris is momentum.
You can't slow down the
momentum. This remarkable
momentum. Mission
number one is create the
momentum and then keep the
momentum. What does momentum
look like in the polls?
Kamala Harris is doing two
things here, number one,
momentum and number two,
momentum. But take a look here.
Clear momentum,
momentum. It is
momentum. It is Democrats ride a
wave of momentum. Have
that momentum the Democrats are
riding. A wave of momentum,
generating
a kind of momentum.
The Harris team is going to want
to keep this momentum, keep the
momentum going. They
want to keep that momentum. The
momentum here is amazing. The
crowds are literally insane.
This momentum,
it just seems day in and day
out, to keep getting more
powerful by the day. The trend
is
heavily towards Harris, and it's
rushing towards Harrison. It's
rushing. This
Adam Curry: trend is momentum,
unbelievable? No, it's very
believable. It's great. It's so
John C Dvorak: unbelievable then
and we just believable, but it's
unbelievable that, yeah, you
think that they could do better
than this? No,
Adam Curry: no, no. This is,
this is what you call talking
points.
John C Dvorak: I have a super
cut. Oh
Adam Curry: no, hold on
Unknown: for this guy, it's a
bird
Adam Curry: super cut, another
super cut. We're super cut
heavy, ladies and gentlemen,
what's your super cut? This
John C Dvorak: is the cut the
camel super cut from her
speeches.
Unknown: Good to be back in
Pennsylvania. It really is good
to be back in Wisconsin. It is
so good to be back in Michigan.
I am clear the path to the White
House runs right through this
state. And listen, I am clear
the path to the White House runs
right through this state. I took
on perpetrators of all kinds. I
took on perpetrators of all
kinds. I took on perpetrators of
all kinds. I know Donald Trump's
type. I know Donald Trump's type
in this campaign, I proudly put
my record against his any day of
the week. In this campaign, I'll
tell you. I will proudly put my
record against his any day of
the week,
are you ready
to make your voices heard? Ready
to make your voices heard? Are
you ready to make your voices
heard?
Adam Curry: Go, Team. Go.
Beautiful. It's beautiful. I
it's a great time to be a
podcaster and to be able to sit
back and just listen to it all
it's I find it very enjoyable.
I'm having a great election
season. How's your election
season been? John? Are you
enjoying your election season?
Definitely
John C Dvorak: distressing.
Adam Curry: Now, of course, Miss
Harris is she does have her
issues when she's speaking
publicly, she comes up with fun
gaffs though
Unknown: Trump accusing Harris
of stealing his proposal to end
taxes on tips, which he
announced months ago and she
adopted over the weekend,
eliminate
taxes on tips for service and
hospitality
Adam Curry: workers. Hospital
nobody
John C Dvorak: caught that.
Hospitality workers. I heard
them that being clipped all all
over the place, and nobody
picked up on I heard
immediately, yeah, of course,
hospitality. I
Adam Curry: even looked it up,
just to make sure that it wasn't
an actual word. It's
hospitality. So I want to do a
few more Harris things, or
Harris related things, before we
check out Trump, because he has
been doing some interesting
stuff. First, ABC had a chat
with Charlemagne, the god. This
is the if you ain't black, you
ain't if you don't black, thank
you. With with Biden. Here he is
talking about Tim waltz, the
vice presidential nominee pick
for for nominee, what do
Unknown: you think of the Tim
Walz pick? You didn't mention
his name just then.
I didn't know him. Yeah,
most of America didn't know I
just found out about him for the
last couple of weeks. At first,
I was a little bit disappointed,
like I knew she we we knew she
needed a dei hire, right? We
know she that she needs so
Tim walls is the DEI hire on
this ticket. We know diversity,
equity, inclusion. She
needed a white male to make
America comfortable. It is what
it is. No need for us to, you
know, act crazy about it. You
know what it
Adam Curry: is. Yeah, nice. Now,
that's Charlemagne the God. Of
course we could go to let me
see. No, let me do this first.
Let me go. Let's stick with ABC.
Because the thing that is great
about JD Vance is, not only does
he get asked to do interviews
under the under friendly fire,
he does them. So he goes on CNN,
he goes on ABC, they invite him
on, and I think he does a pretty
good job. We
John C Dvorak: commit to that.
Yeah, I was just gonna say, I
was just gonna say. I think he
relishes it.
Adam Curry: What do you mean?
John C Dvorak: I think he really
enjoys taking Flack. He's almost
like a Marine in that way. Good
Adam Curry: point. Good point.
Yeah, he does, and he stands,
he's
John C Dvorak: got a smile on
his face, and he's goes after
him and he gives him grief. And
I've
Adam Curry: got to add, you
know, I need to ask some of our
makeup professionals, is he
really wearing a mascara, or are
his his eyelashes just that
dark? Because it's a very odd
look. I
John C Dvorak: you know that I
had a guy, there was a guy in
high school that had that look
and and he had because everyone
was always thinking, it's
called, it's called guy liner,
by the way. He never wore
eyeliner. He had two sets of eye
of eyelashes, two sets behind
the scene so they reject double
eyelashes, and it made it may
look like that. I think that's
what we're dealing with. Guys.
Adam Curry: Hey, man, he's just
hairy. Okay,
Unknown: he's probably got back
hair. We commit to this race to
kind of sticking to the facts. I
mean, I heard Donald Trump Give,
give this speech in Montana. He
just gave, and he said that Tim
Walz has signed a letter letting
the state kidnap children to
change their their gender, that
allowing pedophiles to claim,
you know, I
mean, it to be exempt from
crimes. I mean,
this is not true. It's not
remotely
well what President Trump said,
and I haven't watched the whole
rally, what said was not true.
What President Trump said, John
is that Tim waltz has supported
taking children from their
parents if the parents don't
consent to gender reassignment.
That is crazy. And by the way,
Tim waltz gets on his high horse
about mind your own damn
business. One way of minding
your own damn business John is
to not try to take my children
away from me. State to kidnap,
save of children, to change
them. How would you what I just
explained to you, I would
describe as kidnapping John. He
has absolutely done this stuff.
It's not crazy, John, come on,
it's not. You should not. You
should not be able to take
people's children away from
them, and if you disagree with
decisions about gender
reassignment, yes, he has
proposed that John, He
absolutely has.
Adam Curry: So this is an
interesting role. If this is
exactly what Trump needs, he
needs a translator. So when
Trump says he signed a law to
kidnap children, which, of
course, everyone understands
exactly what he's talking about.
But the mainstream has to the
legacy media needs to feign
this. The legacy
John C Dvorak: media looks at it
says, Where does it say that?
Where's the word kidnap in
there, which
Adam Curry: I have to say, not
as an insult, but you're a
little bit like that. If I say
you bumped your mic, you say,
No, I bumped the stand.
John C Dvorak: You're right.
Well, I'm from that, yeah, from
there. You just figured that
Adam Curry: out. Eureka, here's
here. Now we go to Dana Bash,
who I think gets flustered.
John C Dvorak: Oh, she is so
flustered. But this is a good
clip.
Adam Curry: This is on CNN State
of the Union with J Eddie vans.
He's hairy, but I think
Unknown: Kamala Harris clearly
owns the policies of the Biden
Harris administration,
especially when we consider the
fact that, as we've all learned
over the last few months, Joe
Biden clearly isn't capable of
doing the job. And so I think
that drives home that Kamala
Harris really has been the one
calling the shots. I mean, how
could she not? I think Joe Biden
doesn't really know where he is.
Kamala
Harris has been calling the
shots. Says who? Well, I think
she has
to have been right, because if
she's not calling the shot
standard than who is, and I do
think it drives home something
that's fundamentally dishonest
about the way that Vice
President Harris and also a lot
of senior Democrats have
approached this, if you
remember, for for months, even
years, the argument was that Joe
Biden was sharp, he could
clearly do the job, and the
minute that he performed poorly
in that debate and he became
political dead weight, you have
Kamala Harris and everybody else
trying to throw him overboard.
But I think the more troubling
question is, why did so many
senior Democrats, including the
Vice President, cover for him,
and if Joe Biden wasn't capable
of doing the job, as even a lot
of Democrats say now, was Kamala
Harris in charge, or was
somebody else in charge? And
that's a real, real issue.
There's
no evidence that Kamala Harris
threw him overboard.
Adam Curry: No, I'm sorry.
There's no evidence. Just
saying, pulling out, no
John C Dvorak: evidence. Guy, he
got a he's a little he's got a
law degree from Yale, if I'm not
mistaken, yes, well, he's, so
he's got the chops to do this.
He
Adam Curry: sounds like he
sounds like a pundit. He is,
well, he's,
John C Dvorak: but he's doing it
in a lawyerly ways. In other
words, he's making arguments
that that are that the kind of
things that to get the jury,
which is the audience. He's
working the audience, and as he
works against the bash, was
flustered by him. Did
Adam Curry: he specialize in
prosecutions or defense? What
kind of idea I have no idea was
he let me see. I
John C Dvorak: should probably
look into it. But he definitely
has the chops, and he's got
different shops than than Trump,
but he's but he is also like
Trump. He's a chatterbox. He
Adam Curry: was the editor of
the Yale Law Journal with a
Juris Doctor degree. He wrote
for David frums from Forum
website under the name JD
Hamill, apparently, and of
course. He's a writer. He wrote
Hillbilly Elegy,
John C Dvorak: Hebrew. He has
the he's running
Adam Curry: circles around Dana
Bash. That's what's happening.
John C Dvorak: He really is. I
can see why they don't like this
guy. He's a little bit he's like
Trump with a lot more going on.
Well, he
Adam Curry: keeps coming and
still say, Yeah, I'll be there.
Yeah, no problem. I'll show up.
Do you believe
Unknown: Kamala Harris is
black? I believe that Kamala
Harris is whatever she says she
is, but I believe, importantly,
that President Trump is right,
that she is a chameleon. She
pretends to be one thing in
front of one audience. She
pretends to be something
different in front of another
audience. Look, Dana, she's not
running a political campaign.
She's running a movie. She only
speaks to voters behind a
teleprompter. Everything is
scripted. She doesn't have her
policy positions out there. She
hasn't answered why she wanted
to ban fracking, but now she
doesn't. She wanted to fund
police, but now she doesn't. She
wanted to open the border, but
now she doesn't. She should have
to answer for WHY. She presents
a different set of policies to
one audience and a different set
of policies to another audience.
And I think that's what
President Trump is getting at.
This is a fundamentally fake
person. She's different
depending on who she's in front
of. Again,
Adam Curry: he's translating
Trump. Yeah, this is, that's a
great strategy.
John C Dvorak: That's a good
catch, too. Yeah, he simplifies
Trump, yes, for the for the weak
mind when the feeble minded
don't get it before they don't
have a sense of humor?
Adam Curry: No, no, of course.
And he is, he does. He is
laughing when he says about
Trump saying she's black, he
just laughs at it. It's It's
beautiful to see. I think this
clip kind of shows the
difference between what the
Harris campaign, Harris waltz
campaign, is doing, versus
Trump. So she's out there. Look
at my crowds. Now, he did fall
for it. He did fall for the it's
aI he did that, or whoever's
running his truth social. They
did fall for that. But then
quickly stop realizing, Wait,
wait, this is not going to work.
We just we that we got to stop
with someone said to Trump, stop
with the crowd sizes. Go back to
mar a Lago. Go to Bedminster. Do
your slow, calm press
conferences. Talk about issues
only, and
Unknown: former President Donald
Trump will be in Bedminster New
Jersey to host another news
conference following his rally
in North Carolina on Wednesday,
the President and the Democratic
presidential nominee will be
side by side on stage today in
their first appearance since
Biden's re election bid ended.
Their focus will be on efforts
to lower prescription drug
costs. Then tomorrow, Harris
will be in the battleground
state of North Carolina to lay
out her own economic agenda,
which is said to include a plan
to tackle inflation and lower
costs for the middle class.
Meanwhile, Trump will be back at
his golf club today to hold a
news conference taking questions
from the media for the second
time this week. This week, the
economy taking center stage in
the race, as Trump also laid out
some of his plans for the
economy and his North Carolina
rally on Wednesday saying there
would be no tax on Social
Security and says his
administration would slash
energy costs as it planned to
alleviate inflation and ahead of
the Democratic National
Convention next week, Trump's
campaign says It plans to offer
some sort of counter
programming. Harris is
presidential campaign is also
launching a $90 million
advertising effort over the next
three weeks. It's her campaign's
largest yet investment in
messaging to voters with just
two and a half months until
election day, all
Adam Curry: they're salivating.
90 million bucks coming up.
People stand by. It's incoming.
John C Dvorak: May have a clip
on this 90 million. The this 90
million, they're spending
everyone nuts. There's a lot of
money. It's to get as much out
there as you can, early enough
to get the because people are
going to start the voting starts
like the, you know, next week,
Adam Curry: the early voting,
yeah? So, yeah. So
John C Dvorak: they're gonna,
they're pushing to get people to
stupidly early vote. Do you have
before they find out anything
bad about but, you know, this is
like the Hunter Biden laptop
situation, yeah. Do
Adam Curry: you have the 90, 90
million clip?
John C Dvorak: I don't know
that. I do.
Adam Curry: I don't see it.
John C Dvorak: You have a, well,
I do have a Trump Harris economy
clip that. Let's
Adam Curry: do that. Let's do
that. Trump Harris economy,
gotcha, former President
Unknown: Trump today outlining
his economic agenda in the
battleground state of North
Carolina. This comes before vice
president Kamala Harris is set
to lay out her economic plan.
Friday entities, Iris Tao has
more from Asheville, North
Carolina, former
President Trump on Wednesday
giving a speech about the
economy right here in the
battleground state of North
Carolina, which he won in 2020
by just over one percentage
point. At the top of his agenda
here is to lower inflation and
talk about how to end tax on
tips. Yes,
on my first day back in the Oval
Office, I will sign an executive
order directing every cabinet
secretary and agency head to use
every tool and authority at
their disposal to defeat
inflation and to bring consumer
prices rapidly down. We'll do it
very rapidly. No tax on tips.
Okay? No tax.
A Trump speech on Wednesday
comes just before vice president
Kamala Harris is set to lay out
her policy agenda on the economy
this upcoming Friday in Raleigh,
North Carolina, the two are
already getting into an
increasingly heated debate about
the economy. A new report on
Wednesday shows that inflation
has now dropped to 2.9% the
lowest level in about three
years. Kamala Harris's campaign
is taking credit for that thing
that is the result of the work
by President Biden and Kamala
Harris, adding that in her
upcoming address, Harris will
address how to make the middle
class be better economically,
and also how to take on greedy
corporation.
Adam Curry: So this is what's
interesting is, and I'm sure
that that Harris and waltz will
also say no tax on Social
Security, which, by the way, is
pretty outrageous, that Social
Security is taxed. So what, what
they could get into is like,
well, and I'm already seeing
articles similar to this saying,
well, there's really, there's
not much sunlight between the
two. You know, Trump and Harris,
they're kind of saying the same
thing about the economy. So why
don't you go for the lady? Might
as well go for the happy person.
There's no difference. They're
going to give you the same
policies. There is a version of
that floating around. I can feel
it. But the one thing she cannot
compete on is energy prices,
because that's a fund unless,
well, she could. The fundamental
difference is drill, baby drill
versus wind power. By contrast,
Unknown: I'm announcing today
that, under my leadership, the
United States will commit to the
ambitious goal of slashing
energy at electricity prices by
half, at least half.
We intend to slash prices by
half within 12 months, at a
maximum 18 months. And if it
doesn't work out, you say, Oh,
well, I voted for him. I still
got him down a lot, but we're
looking to do it. We're looking
to cut him. And
John C Dvorak: what is that?
What
Adam Curry: is that hedge? It's
like, well, you know, I did say
I'll get it done by a lot, but
maybe not everything, but you'll
still like it because you voted
for me, and
Unknown: we think we'll be able
to do better. And every single
thing that I promised, I
produced, every single thing
drain
John C Dvorak: the swamp. The
Unknown: Swamp
John C Dvorak: Mexico, pay for
the wall. He does never have
Unknown: had energy
so low, as you will, under a
certain gentleman known as
Donald J Trump. Have you heard
of it? He's
Adam Curry: uh, unfortunately,
he came close. We have been
saying for months. We have been
saying for months, the only name
fitting for Trump to use for
vice president Harris is
cackling Camella. That is the
name it would stick. It would
work because it's
uncontrollable. She may have
PBA. Now that I think about it,
remember that that illness? PBA,
we there's a there's
John C Dvorak: a bell, but I
don't remember PBA. PBA, listen,
don't
Unknown: call it depression.
Call it by its real name.
Don't call it crazy. Call it
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causes frequent episodes of
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PBA. So that was
Adam Curry: the laughing
disease. PBA, I forget who?
John C Dvorak: I don't remember
that at all.
Adam Curry: Oh yeah, yeah. Well,
anyway, so he gets so close and
fumbles the ball on the one yard
line. Just
Unknown: remember, she goes to
work every morning in the West
Wing. Her desk is 10 steps from
the Oval Office. She cast the
tie breaking votes that gave us
record inflation, and for nearly
four years, Kamala has crackled
as the American I haven't heard
that laugh at about they keep
her off the stage. That's right,
she's disappeared. That's the
laugh of a crazy person. I will
tell you, if you haven't done
too crazy, she's crazy.
Adam Curry: Cackling. Come
along, not crackling. Do we not
speak clearly enough?
John C Dvorak: Yes, it's a
mystery. Do
Adam Curry: you think he'll,
he'll correct it. He has to
correct this. He has to correct
it. Something
John C Dvorak: about cackling
camera that I have to say at
this point, because it's been
going on for so long, and that's
what everybody calls or
including the parody guys who do
His voice, they all use it. He
must have something about it, it
personally that he doesn't like.
Oh, that's the only thing I can
assume. No,
Adam Curry: I know. I think he's
just slower. This is not Trump
from 2016 he's slower. He's
slower on the ball. He's
clearly, there's a lot of
distractions going on him. You
know, Trump's
John C Dvorak: getting shot.
Someone tried to kill him. Other
stuff happened and help. And
he's
Adam Curry: older. He's just
older, and I think he's losing a
little bit of the touch. But
then again, here he has JD Vance
coming into to translate the New
York
Unknown: Times. I wanted to ask
you about the latest economic
news from this morning with
inflation now being under 3% the
lowest rate since mid 2021 what
is your sort of reaction to that
news? Well, I think the crowd
reaction says it all. Look when
they say that inflation is down,
they mean from a baseline where
groceries are already 30% more
expensive than they were when
Donald Trump was president. And
they're not saying it's coming
down, they're just saying it's
not going up as fast as it was
three years ago. That is not a
reputation or a record to brag
on, that's a record to be
ashamed of. Why did it take them
so long to get inflation to
where it is, and why are prices
so high. It's because Kamala
Harris failed to do her job. So
if they want to go around, and
this is, you know, it's funny,
Kamala Harris, on the one hand,
will say, Wow,
Adam Curry: he has a bit of Cruz
in there too, a little bit of
Ted Cruz. Must say, you know,
it's funny. That's, that's a Ted
Cruz ism right there. Their
Unknown: price is so high. It's
John C Dvorak: because, stop a
second. Ted crew would not know
what school did Cruz go to Yale?
We should look that up. But
because whatever school he went
to, Ted, Cruz's was at the
school he went to was the
debating champ part. You went to
Harvard, okay? He was the
Harvard debating. She was the,
the best debater in the school.
So he has techniques a
masturbator. He was a
masturbator. And so he has
techniques that are, I think,
are generally used by those
schools. And I think that it
just was something that he
picked up. So it's not, he
wasn't copy. He's not copying
Ted Cruz. He's copying the
model? Yes. Well, Harris
Unknown: failed to do her job.
So if they want to go around,
and this is, you know, it's
funny, Kamala Harris on the one
hand, stop,
John C Dvorak: stop again, you
got to back it up a little bit,
because right there not you
mentioned Ted Cruz. That sounds
exactly like Ted Cruz
stammering. Yeah, stop, stop
sign as much as funny, whenever
you say, you know that that
whole, that patter that he just
did, extremely Ted Cruz, their
Unknown: price is so high it's
because Kamala Harris failed to
do her job. So if they want to
go around and this is, you know,
it's funny, by
Adam Curry: the way, it's not
funny that that's that's the
travesty of it. It's not funny.
Kamala
Unknown: Harris, on the one
hand, will say, on day one,
we're going to tackle the
affordability crisis. And like I
said earlier, Kamala Harris has
been the vice president for
three and a half years, and I
think, ladies and gentlemen,
she's, in effect, been the
acting president, because we all
know Joe Biden is at home. There
it is. She's been the one
controlling government policy
for three and a half years, she
says she wants to tackle the
affordability crisis on day one,
and then on the other hand,
she'll say, Well, we've already
got inflation under control.
Well, which is it? Kamala? Which
is it? The simple truth is,
American credit card debt is
getting higher. Americans are
finding the basic necessities in
middle class life less
affordable. Americans are
becoming especially young people
are becoming poppers in their
own country. If we don't do
better our young generation,
they're not going to own
anything, they're not going to
have anything. They're going to
be renters in the country that
their parents and grandparents
built. Inflation is a disaster.
Kamala Harris does not have a
leg to stand on.
Adam Curry: So now I'm now, I'm
realizing this is very
interesting. I don't know if it
was strategy, but Vance,
horrible pick. Oh, I'm sure
Trump is hating it right now.
He's dumb. He's an elite he's an
idiot. He has sex with the
couch. Bring him on. Bring him
on. Well, we'll Whittle him down
to size. Oops, they can't,
because he's he's good. He's
good at it. And speaking of the
economy, fact, he's
John C Dvorak: better than
imaginable. Yes, he's about as
good, I would say, listening to
these clips at least, and then
comparing him to Cruz and
debating style and. Fact that
he's a lawyer, I don't think you
could do much better than that.
Adam Curry: And so to try and
massage the economic numbers and
make it sound good, you know,
don't get too excited. They
bring out Bernstein. Do you
remember Bernstein, the chair of
the economic the Council of
Economic Advisers, do you
remember that guy?
John C Dvorak: No, I don't this.
You'll
Adam Curry: refresh your memory.
Unknown: The US government can't
go bankrupt because we can print
our own money.
It obviously begs the question,
Why exactly are we borrowing in
a currency that we print
ourselves? I'm waiting for
someone to stand up and say, Why
do we borrow our own currency in
the first place?
Like you said, they print the
dollar. So why? Why does the
government even borrow?
Well,
the, so, the, I
mean, again, some of this stuff
gets some of the Do you
Adam Curry: remember him now,
John C Dvorak: yeah, he didn't
handle this very well.
Adam Curry: No, he didn't. But
let's bring him out and talk to
the press. Does the White
Unknown: House at this point
think that the inflation problem
is solved?
The momentum is certainly in the
right direction. Inflation is
reliably coming down. We have a
record of disinflation, meaning
slower inflation that is now 60%
or a little bit more than that,
off of its peak. And so this is
a consistent trend that's moving
in the right direction. No
victory lapse, as I tried to
assert in my comments, our work
is not done, because even as we
get inflation back down to pre
pandemic levels, we still have
to be mindful that too many
families are facing too many
high costs.
Adam Curry: Okay, blah, blah
blah, so to bring the blah blah
guy out who doesn't know
anything really can't explain
any of it, and then comes this
Whopper, this. I loved this.
This is from Yahoo financial
news. Turning
Unknown: to the presidential
election here, former President
Trump saying at a press
conference in Florida that the
President should have more say
in the Federal Reserve's
decision making when it comes to
interest rates,
I feel the president should have
at least say in there? Yeah, I
feel that strongly. I think
that, in my case, I made a lot
of money, I was very successful,
and I think I have a better
instinct than, in many cases,
people that would be on the
Federal Reserve or the chairman.
So what could this
mean for the central bank moving
forward? Yahoo
Finance, the senior columnist
Rick Newman joins us with more.
Rick, help us make sense of
this.
The concept fills me with dread.
I don't know about anybody else,
but it sounds, frankly, like a
terrible idea to President. Have
more say in the what the Federal
Reserve decides. A
Adam Curry: question, doesn't
the President appoint the the
the boss of the Federal Reserve?
Isn't that a presidential
appointee? Yeah? So,
John C Dvorak: I mean, all is
actually selected by Trump, yes.
Adam Curry: Isn't it stupid to
think that the President doesn't
have a say?
John C Dvorak: I guess? Yeah,
it's kind of dumb,
Adam Curry: yeah. But I think
they're trying to launch and you
know he's gonna agree with you.
Probably, oh, you know it's Oh,
Trump. He's trying to
John C Dvorak: dread, a sense of
dread, yes, yes.
Adam Curry: So the only person
they could bring out, and by the
way, Pete Buttigieg, don't look
too closely at his lips. He
looks like he has the M pox.
He's got these little bubbles on
like little white lesions on his
lips. It's once his lips, yeah,
once you see, you can't see
good. It's very, very it's not,
it's not pleasant to look at.
But they bring him out, and he
launches into something new.
Unknown: There's something I
think much bigger, not at the
beginning play here, which is I
watched that interview and
watched JD Vance present himself
as suddenly very particular
about precision in speech and
very concerned about honesty.
He's running with Donald Trump,
somebody who has set records for
lying in public life. He just
gave a press conference where
fact checkers estimate that he
told 162 distortions or lies
that, frankly, is just
impressive in terms of being
able to physically do that. It's
like the Olympics of lying. So
maybe just because it's Sunday
morning, I can't stop thinking
about the scripture that says,
How can you look at your brother
and say, let me take the speck
out of your eye when you have a
plank in your own eye.
Adam Curry: Now this is this got
my attention. Oh, now all of a
sudden we're quoting scripture,
but Pete Bucha judge, and
indeed, if it wasn't enough to
go after the the tax on tips,
and I'm sure the the. Big Pharma
and I'm sure the tax on Social
Security. No, no, we need to go
after the Christians get the
Evangelicals on our side. We
begin
Unknown: tonight with
Evangelicals group that, in a
surprising twist, is mobilizing
support, surprising twist, for
the Kamala Harris presidential
campaign. One group, evangelical
Christians for Kamala Harris,
released a new ad highlighting
that time Donald Trump told the
family leadership summit in Iowa
that he does not ask God for
forgiveness.
Adam Curry: Oh, no, bad Trump.
Have
Unknown: you ever asked God for
forgiveness? That's a tough
question. I'm not sure I have. I
just I don't bring God into that
picture. I don't
evangelical Christians for
Kamala Harris was not on
anyone's bingo card for 2024
because most people assume
evangelical is synonymous with
conservative. It's not. There
are plenty of evangelicals who
reject the mean, selfish version
of the religion that follows
Jesus the Christ. Red Letter
Christians think Bishop William
Barber, friend of the show who
is wait for it, any evangelical
Christian? Think of the
Christian pastors who led the
civil rights movement. Think rev
Sharpton. Not all Christians are
the evangelical white dudes with
main character energy from The
Handmaid's Tale. Ah,
Adam Curry: hold on. This is
new. The Christians are all
bringing
John C Dvorak: in the handmaids
keys written by what's, what's
in that woman who is an atheist
at what? Atwood, yes. But so
Unknown: it's Christians for
Kamala. But this most surprising
election does keep delivering
surprises. Even some white
evangelical Protestants are fed
up with Trump.
Adam Curry: So it's, it's white
versus black. Now, okay,
Unknown: that is a group that
gave him 84% of their national
vote in 2020 they're not alone
in tiring of his act. Wait
Adam Curry: a minute. I thought
evangelicals and Christians
don't vote. What did she just
say here? That
Unknown: is a group that gave
him 84% of their national vote
in 2020
Adam Curry: I guess they guess
they're voting now they're not
alone
Unknown: in tiring of his act. A
separate group Christians, okay?
John C Dvorak: What kind of
language is in time they're not
alone in tiring of his act. This
is like that you ever get the
spam call where they they ask
you to hang on because Comcast
has some sort of a deal and then
the language is all botched. No,
she a native English speaker.
You're
Adam Curry: racist. They're
Unknown: not alone in tiring of
his act. A separate group,
Christians for Kamala, had a
Zoom meeting last night that
included leaders from several
progressive Christian groups
urging supporters to get behind
Harrison walls. Call it divine
intervention, or perhaps lots of
Christians are just getting fed
up with being associated with
the hateful vision of Donald
Trump his Bible stunts and
religious hypocrisy, and are
fighting back with a counter
narrative to conservative
evangelicals overwhelming
support for Trump. These groups
say the conversation on faith
and spirituality has been
hijacked by the Christian right.
Hijack
Adam Curry: been hijack. Jesus
has been hijacked.
John C Dvorak: Everybody been
hijacked by Christians,
bastards. Now, I
Adam Curry: didn't clip it. It
was too long. Of six minutes.
Nobody
John C Dvorak: watches this show
of hers. Why she even on the air
now, people say hateful,
hateful, hateful person. She's
terrible. But
Adam Curry: what was
interesting, and again, I didn't
clip it, but there's a six
minute, I guess, kind of mega,
mega, super cut of black pastors
going on and on about Harris
telling them to get on the Zoom
calls. I mean separation of
church and state, anybody? I
mean seriously, it's just like,
what? And they just go, oh yeah,
oh yeah, we got to vote for
Kamala. What is this? Is okay
now, it wasn't five minutes ago?
John C Dvorak: No, so, and
that's the group that bitched
and moaned the most, yes.
Adam Curry: So there they are,
really doing everything they
can, which, but, you know, it's
the white evangelicals, the
white white we're the racists
and the wrongies. We're the
baddies. It's it's the black
ones who are good like rev Al.
Sure,
John C Dvorak: that's a nice
try.
Adam Curry: I guess we should
talk briefly about the the Trump
Elon spaces. We already talked
about the slur change. Talked
about a little bit, yeah, but
there's, there's some more to
talk about. MSNBC brought on
some dude. Oh, he is, and it
seemed like the thing they're
most worried about. And he just,
I mean, you'll hear him lie
within two. 15 seconds, what
they're most worried about is
Elon's reach. He's got such
reach and all his mis and
disinformation, people will
start to believe it, unlike what
anyone else is doing in legacy
median
John C Dvorak: BC
Unknown: Imran take us through
what Elon Musk is doing and the
theories as to what his motives
are.
Well, unfortunately, I can't
tell you what's in the heart of
any individual, but I can tell
you what our researchers have
been studying with Mr. Musk's
own output on his platform x, we
examined posts about the US
elections that he'd posted
between January the first and
July the 31st identifying 50
posts that independent fact
check is found to be false, 50
posted accrued 1.2
Adam Curry: billion views. And I
just need to say, really, since
Do we really believe these view
counts? Come on. I mean, view
counts for the advertisers are
two seconds, which is what I
presume they're using for all
view counts. YouTube does it,
I'm pretty sure X does it. And
it's like, oh, it is 1.2 billion
views. Really, you really,
really think it's that much. And
there were three main
John C Dvorak: actually, that
funny thing is, if it was that
much, the polls wouldn't have a
Camela and Trump neck and neck
like that, yeah, but
Adam Curry: that's for
advertising. That's that's how
we get $90 million in
advertising. It's a close race,
people. It's a horse race. Well,
yes,
John C Dvorak: dude, no, that's
our basic thesis. Is that the
whole thing is scam extract
money from these dummies. It's
an accrued
Unknown: 1.2
billion views, and there were
three main categories. There was
an AI generated fake video of
the Democratic nominee Kamala
Harris. We had 100 million plus
views, which
Adam Curry: was a parody. It was
funny. Everyone's ever no one
thought it was real.
Unknown: There were claims that
Democrats are importing voters,
the great replacement theory a
really, really dangerous lie
that has led to bloodshed on
American streets, at the Tree of
Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
It's the same conspiracy theory
that led to the Christchurch
massacre in New Zealand.
Adam Curry: Okay, stop. You're
telling me that because Elon
Musk tweets something about
great replacement theory, which
I don't think he said that, but
okay,
Unknown: no, I
Adam Curry: don't think he's
ever brought it up. But okay,
that they're importing voters.
Yeah, I think that's a valid
because I think there's no doubt
about so that motivated the
Christ Church master, not the
same thing? No, that was, that
was a Muslim.
John C Dvorak: It was completely
different. So in a different
country, why would the great
replacement theory, which
applies to the United States,
have anything to do with what's
going on in New Zealand? It also
applies to Europe, still not New
Zealand. Oh, yes, Europe, yeah,
Europe and the US, but not New
Zealand
Adam Curry: in the vein of the
truth, wants to come out. BBC
ready to kick off a story about
the interview into the
conversation the space between
Elon and Trump. This news model
says it all.
Unknown: The billionaire
entrepreneur Elon Musk is due to
interfere interview the
Republican presidential
candidate Donald Trump on the ex
social media network. So
Adam Curry: what do you really
feel? Interfere? Yes, interfere.
Yes. It's interfering with
election. I mean, uh, interview.
It's so Wow. So clear. That's so
obvious. Okay,
John C Dvorak: it's obvious to
us.
Adam Curry: It is, I mean, yeah,
let me see of that. Oh yeah,
this was the Iran hack. Yeah, we
have someone Iran hacked,
Trump's systems. Do you know
where this hack came from?
John C Dvorak: I never followed
up on the hack.
Unknown: The former President's
team is blaming Iran for hacking
their campaign in June,
according to multiple sources,
the hackers compromised the
personal email account of long
time Trump operative Roger Stone
stealing sensitive documents
from the campaign.
Adam Curry: Are you kidding me?
Now you're telling me that Roger
Stone has sensitive documents
from the Trump campaign,
Unknown: please. That's
peculiar.
Adam Curry: He probably sent it
to them himself. That's that,
that right there. Just, okay, so
that's bull crap. That's
meaningless. They're also, by
the way, they're, they're really
going after RFK. Um, first we
had,
John C Dvorak: there's a lot of
misinformation about RFK too,
that I've noticed. Yeah. Yeah,
so for just throwing stuff out
there. And then I guess he got
kicked off the ballot. New No,
Adam Curry: no. Well, first he
got kicked off the ballot, then
I thought he got kicked off,
then he got back on. Yeah, got
kicked off again, yes. And then
North Carolina, and he's back on
again. But what came out in the
New York Times, I think, is a,
is a lie that RFK Jr reached out
to Harris campaign about
administration role in exchange
for endorsement. I don't believe
that first set.
John C Dvorak: I don't believe
it either. It doesn't make
sense. They they are so worried
about that guy.
Adam Curry: They're really,
really worried about him. One of
our producers, by the way, works
in one of the production houses
for the DNC, and he says he's
creating Democrat delegate
shirts for the Chicago show. He
says you will definitely notice
them. They chose red shirts with
gold letters. He says All that's
missing is a Trump hat. It is
the dumbest thing he's ever
seen.
John C Dvorak: But actually, it
also sounds like the Chinese
Communist flag. But I think the
idea was gonna look more like
that than the Trump hat.
Adam Curry: There you go.
John C Dvorak: Stars. What he
should have said, a big star on
there. So it's just,
Adam Curry: it's great. I'm, I'm
enjoying every single moment of
this. So the
John C Dvorak: Democratic
Convention, which is starting
on, I guess, Monday or Tuesday,
yes, I have going to be just a
laugh riot. I
Adam Curry: have some clips, and
Riot is right. Hey, hey,
Chicago,
Unknown: while civic leaders are
hoping for the best, they're
also preparing for the worst,
I'm confident that our plan will
provide a safe and secure and
secure environment during the
DNC,
the Department of Homeland
Security has designated the
Democratic National Convention
as a national special security
event, like the State of the
Union address the Super Bowl, or
a meeting of the United Nations
General Assembly. The
designation means federal
authorities believe it could be
a potential target for terrorism
or other criminal activity like
a mass shooting, a bombing, a
chemical attack, or a protest
that turns into a riot. United
Center sits just across the
Eisenhower Expressway from one
of the city's busiest hospitals.
Rush University Medical Center.
We are on the driveway of the
United Center is one of the
closest hospitals, and we're
preparing for anything, whether
it's a mass casualty attack,
whether it's a stabbing, whether
it's an explosion.
Yeah, Dr Nicholas cozy is Rush
University Medical Center's EMS
and disaster medicine director,
there'll be a nurse assigned to
predate con triage, and he or
she has one question, decon, yes
or no
since May, he's led 18 full
scale disaster drills to be
ready for a catastrophe. In this
drill, dividers drop from the
ceiling and nurses in protected
gear use soap and water to
decontaminate those who have
been exposed to the chemical
agents. We
have to be able to have an
ability to quickly remove that
substance from their body.
The Chicago Police Department is
assigning 2500 officers to the
DNC, an additional 500 officers
from departments across Illinois
and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, will
assist the CPD and back at Rush.
Doctors and nurses say they know
they're on the front lines and
are prepared, but they're hoping
the worst case scenarios never
unfold.
Adam Curry: So I have two more
clips in this series. How many
people? How many pro Palestinian
demonstrators? Because that's
what's being talked about. Do
you think they expect in
Chicago?
Unknown: 10,000 Yeah, four
different Muslim organizations
based here in Chicago gave this
press briefing this morning,
saying upwards of 100,000
protesters, demonstrators
expected in the streets of
Chicago just a week from today.
These are three main protests we
are talking about that are
planned next Monday as well as
next Wednesday and Thursday, the
largest of the demonstrations,
two of them, first on Monday the
19th and Thursday the 22nd that
would be the first and last days
of the DNC, more than 150
organizations from around the
country say they have formed a
collective to have these
protests be in large numbers,
and while they represent a
number of different interests,
they say their focus will be the
Israeli Palestinian war. They
say there will also be meetings
with Democratic leaders inside
of the convention about the US
response in the Middle East,
their push is to get President
Biden to arrange a permanent
cease fire and work toward a
Palestinian state before he
leaves office. So
Adam Curry: they say 100,000
which sounds like a lot, but i i
no reason to doubt it just yet.
And they are mad. They're mad.
They're already pre mad. So
things could pre med Robin and
Larry,
Unknown: organizers with the
coalition to march on the DNC
say their ability to share their
message is being hindered.
They're speaking out again after
getting a letter yesterday
denying some of their requests.
Now the city granted. Organizers
the use of two parks for rallies
with restrictions in place. The
letter reads in part, quote, no
stages or platforms portable
restrooms or toilets, tents or
canopies or sound equipment may
be installed by your
organization. The city defended
its stance, giving several
reasons, including the items
create a public safety risk. The
permit office says tents and
port A potties can also be used
to conceal illegal activities or
broken down to become weapons,
and also says those pieces of
the structures, again could be
broken down and used against
people or the police. The
coalition predicts 10s of 1000s
to March next week for more than
200 organizations across the
country, its organizers feel the
rules put in place make it
impossible to share their
messages. Those include calling
for an end of US aid to Israel
and showing their disdain with
the Democratic Party,
specifically the Biden Harris
administration's handling for
the Israel Hamas war.
Adam Curry: Okay, so they, they
get a dumb route. They get no no
place to poop. That'll make you
play. That'll make you pre mad,
that'll make you pre mad,
that'll
John C Dvorak: make you mad. You
know, the funny thing is, we,
months ago, we anticipated this,
talking about the 68 convention
where they had a riot.
Adam Curry: I put a video in the
show notes, like a 10, like 15
minute documentary of what
happened, ma'am, that was harsh.
John C Dvorak: Yeah,
Adam Curry: that was harsh.
John C Dvorak: And they had, the
key was, as we discussed months
ago, was they had to stretch
this war out. In the Middle East
war, they couldn't have a cease
fire, have anything going on
that was going to slow it down.
So they had to get past the
Convention, which I am actually
surprised they got that this
far. And they did. They did so
it's going to be, it's going to
be riot, take all it's going to
be very entertaining for people
who watch it on TV, which
doesn't want to be the best
place to be the best places to
be there, no, especially if you
saw that 68 documentary where
they were clubbing, everybody
got a club, And
Adam Curry: it it got really
bad. It was not good. So I want
to switch to Biden here for a
second, because he will, of
course, be speaking on the first
day, which is not the best spot,
unless you're going to do
something radical. We still
don't know. We don't even know
which Joe is going to show up.
Will it be Daddy Long Legs?
Something I don't, I never
really put a lot of credence
into, is, you know, they're
hiring social media influencers
to do so well, of course they
are. Of course they are. So, you
know, this is something that
goes viral. Everyone loses their
their minds like, Oh, they're
paying everybody's paying
influencers. Come on. Of course,
they're doing that. Here's an
example. Just
Unknown: the other day, I
received an email for a paid
promotion. Paid for me to make a
video and post it on Tiktok,
talking about the Democratic
side. At the end of this email,
it says, If you want to get
things going, we'll send over an
NDA for you to sign, and we'll
get started. I know a lot of
people get their views and their
opinions and their beliefs based
off of what their favorite
influencers are saying. Just
know they might have been paid
to say the things they're
saying. Okay,
Adam Curry: right? Well, of
course they're doing that. And
hello President vide. President
Biden paid a visit to the White
House creator economy
conference. No, it's not
evangelicals, it is the
influencers, and I think they
were already given their NDAs,
and he spoke to them, and I want
you to listen, because I'm
hearing something new from this
Biden, and I'll stop it once.
I've heard it a couple of times,
Unknown: and I think what you
guys are doing, and it's not the
national press, they're good
people. They don't they're not
that crazy about me.
John C Dvorak: What he's
chuckled in this is the national
press, they're good people.
Adam Curry: No, that's, that's
not what I'm what I'm going
after. Listen,
Unknown: they don't they're not
that crazy about me, but I like
them. But they'll tell you I'm
putting words in their mouth,
and they're going to write about
how I'm wrong, but they'll tell
you how things are changed, how
things have changed. There are
no editors anymore.
Adam Curry: I am hearing
dentures. I'm hearing dentures
go. I'm hearing them clicking in
his mouth. Never heard this
before, and once you hear it,
it's hard not to hear it. And so
this will be a distinction
between this Joe and any other
Joe. And I don't I'm not even
sure if this is Daddy Long Legs
or not. There's
Unknown: no editors anymore. You
want to get your new you want to
get your name in the news. You
want to get a click. It's not
always best to get it by doing
something positive. And by the
I'm not being facetious. These
are really bright, smart, decent
people, but it's all to. Means,
I hope you all thought about the
consequences of what you're
about. You're undertaking what
it means, and what presumptuous
may sound like a preacher, but
what obligations you have to do
it on the level. Do it on the
level. So, for example, when I
do this thing tomorrow. Hope a
couple of you show up, because
it really matters. It's how we
explain to ordinary people who
are busting their rear ends.
Adam Curry: This, to me, sounds
like the real Joe. Yeah, it
John C Dvorak: does to me too,
because he does a couple of
emphasis words he uses that very
common. I want to say this on
the level thing. So you go in
there, you sign an NDA Right,
right off the spot, right at the
beginning. Once you sign an NDA,
you're not on the level, of
course not. And they cannot
sign. If you're a journalist or
even an influence or whatever,
you cannot sign one of these
NDAs. You just don't do it. And
what was I think I saw, I think
I've signed. What did I ever
sign? I may have signed. Yeah, I
signed one when I quit me video,
really? Oh, we got you there,
didn't we? Well, what was gonna
do? Anyway, it was just, it was
not really. An NDA was a non
disparagement, yeah. Oh,
Adam Curry: sure, sure. Which
you've not really held to.
John C Dvorak: Well, I was a non
disparagement, thinking I got
money. Oh, more. I was gone by
then, five grand or something.
Just wow,
Adam Curry: I was gone by then,
crap. I
John C Dvorak: didn't get
anybody. I
Adam Curry: didn't get any
money. No, NDA, no, nothing. But
let me play the second clip,
because this is the end of this
visit at the Creator economy
conference, and he and Biden
says, Okay, I'll take any
questions from you influencers,
from you creators, not a single
one asks a question, no.
Instead, the M 5m who's
apparently plastered all over
the place, just start yelling
questions, and you can hear the
handlers going, Okay, thank you,
goodbye, goodbye, goodbye. It's,
it's, I found this to be
entertaining. Now,
Unknown: my staff always told me
this, any non press you're gonna
non press one ask me a question
you can ask I may not answer it.
Adam Curry: This is so the
original Joe. My staff always
tells me, any donated I can't
take a question from a non press
only. I may not answer it, non
press, but I
Unknown: like to stay on topic.
I don't want to get into talking
about what's going on in foreign
policy and the like right now,
but if anyone asked what I've
said, I'm happy to touch others.
I'm not talking to you guys.
Yes, yes, I'm not going to
answer your question. I'm
talking to them first, the
audience not talking
Adam Curry: to you.
Mainstreamers.
Unknown: Inflation,
Mr. President, yes, yes, yes. I
told you to have a soft landing.
We're going to have a soft
landing. My policies are
working. Start right that way.
Adam Curry: Joe is talking to
the press. Get everybody out.
Unknown: Mr. President,
do you know your son reached out
to a US Ambassador about
Burisma.
Thank you on this plan. Thank
you so much.
Adam Curry: So what you heard
there from one of the main
streamers, I believe, to be a
pressure tactic on Biden that
they have now launched to keep
him in line, because bro, bro,
Joe, Joe, bro, you better do
what we tell you during the
convention, or we're going to go
after your
Unknown: kid. There is new
controversy surrounding Hunter
Biden this morning related to
his business dealings when his
his father was vice president.
The New York Times is reporting
that Hunter Biden asked for help
from the U S ambassador to Italy
as he sought to make a business
deal in 2016 The Times Cited
documents and interviews which
referred to a deal Hunter
attempted to make for a
Ukrainian gas company in Italy.
Hunter Biden's lawyer said his
client asked various people to
introduce a company
representative to the president
of the Tuscany region. It's
unclear whether government
officials tried to help.
Adam Curry: Is a complete non
story, but all sudden, oh Hunter
Biden, always in the news again.
Oh no, Hunter. This is
messaging. This is Hey, hey,
hey, hey, calm down everybody.
Yeah,
John C Dvorak: yeah. I think
probably maybe, dude, the more
the stuff that comes out, about
100 the more I start to think
maybe he was a real player. You
know, though, doing these deals
here and there, of course, he
Adam Curry: was a player. Of
course, he
John C Dvorak: was like, you
know, he's just a dumb guy
doesn't know. Anything, and
meanwhile, he's doing these
deals left and right. Yeah,
Adam Curry: he had good deals.
Yeah, of course, that's how it
works. Do you mind if I, if I,
if I steal your three by three
and do a three by three? Oh,
John C Dvorak: is it? Did Steve
send them three by three by
Unknown: three?
Adam Curry: He didn't realize
it. Experiment, five, JC, D
Unknown: comparing stories from
ABC,
CBS and NBC, the
Adam Curry: never ending three
by three, he did. I don't think
he realized that he sent me a
three by three, and maybe he
meant to send them to you.
John C Dvorak: I don't think so.
I think I think he's, I think
he's, I've been kicked to the
curb. Now you probably
complained, I think is what
Adam Curry: happened. No way. It
wasn't even listed as a three by
three. And I said, Wait a
minute, there's three clips on
the same topic. It's MSNBC, CNN
and Ms. So it's actually not a
full It's Alex Wagner, that
horrible woman on CNN with John
Bolton and then Morning Joe.
This is the way, not No way. Did
you hear about this?
John C Dvorak: This is a, this
is a, not a three by three at
all. This is a fringe three by
three. Of anything fringe, it's
Adam Curry: a funny three by
three. Trump
Unknown: made this very strange
claim about a supposed
conversation he had with Russian
President Putin about Putin's
desire to invade Ukraine
again. I said to Vladimir,
Putin, I said, Don't do it. You
can't do it, Vladimir, you do
it. It's going to be a bad day.
You cannot do it. And I told him
things that what I do. And he
said no way. And I said way. He
said
no way. And then I said way. And
then I said party on Vlad, and
he said party on Don because
this was actually an episode of
Wayne's World and not something
that actually happened in
reality.
Adam Curry: So I guess this is
from the from the call, yeah, I
totally believe that. He said to
Putin, hey, no way you're gonna
do that. And Putin went, now,
what do you mean? Is he No way?
Yeah, way. But this was much of
much hilarity to everybody in
the mainstream. Trump
John C Dvorak: said, quote,
yeah, when it's fringe, these
are not mainstream, okay,
Adam Curry: they're still fun to
listen to.
John C Dvorak: It's not, I'm not
complaining about that, but I
just think, you know, if it was
ABC, CBS and NBC, okay,
Adam Curry: it's different.
That's why you didn't get them.
Because he didn't, Steve, no,
no, the
John C Dvorak: reason I didn't
get him is because you scolded
the brothers. That's
Adam Curry: Oh, and that's how I
talk really? Yeah, that's
exactly right. Resemblance is so
good. In fact, I went, Hey, man,
you're giving Dvorak all the
good stuff. Send some to me,
please.
Unknown: Trump said, I said to
Putin, don't do the Vladimir.
And I told him things that what
I would do. And he said, No way.
And I said, way. And Trump says
it's the last time we had the
conversation. He would have
never done I get along very well
with him, and I hope to get
along well with him again. It's
a good thing, not a bad thing.
What do you make of of one, just
that story, but also Trump,
Trump's argue of how much
influence he has on the Russian
leader? Well,
I think Trump's making that up.
He certainly didn't have that
conversation with Putin when I
was in the White House. I don't
believe he had it before. Then I
can't really speak to what came
after. But this is another case
of Trump making things up that
it's hard to prove or disprove.
He can say he had some private
conversation at a dinner, at a
g20 meeting, or something like
that. I don't think it happened,
and I don't think that there was
really an occasion for Trump to
have that conversation, but it
fits the persona that Trump
thinks he has. It's an
incredibly
serious conversation, and
obviously the Ukrainians are
doubly involved. But just to
hear it, describing it as, I
mean, it sounds like, like two
high school girls. I told him
things that what I would do, and
he's
John C Dvorak: like a high
school girl that add noise she's
got, she's tossed her adults at
a funny kind of a way, she
sounds like a kid, way,
Unknown: no way, like two high
school girls. I told him things
that what I would do, and he
said, No way. And I said, way. I
mean, it's that how world
leaders talk from No, it's
not even how Donald Trump talks.
It's how he wished he talked,
and how he wished he could show
that that he's the big alpha
guy.
Adam Curry: And then finally,
morning, Joe,
Unknown: I know Putin very well.
I
Adam Curry: got along. Don't be
moaning. We put up with your
three by threes all the time.
John C Dvorak: Oh, now, there
you go. Now it comes out. I knew
it. I
Unknown: know Putin very well. I
got along with him very well. He
respected me. And it's just one
of those things. And he would,
we would talk a lot about
Ukraine. It was the apple of his
eye. It, but I said, Don't ever
do it. Don't ever do it. You
can't do
Adam Curry: it. That was
awesome. They I was that in the
original call, where he went all
Satan like, don't ever do it,
don't ever do it.
Unknown: But I said, Don't ever
do it. Don't ever do it. You
can't do it. Vladimir, you do
it. Do
Adam Curry: you think that was
that? Did they put that in on
purpose, or what
John C Dvorak: was I had no
idea. Oh, yeah. I mean, it
wouldn't surprise me, but, yeah,
say that was interesting. Don't
ever, I don't hear him do that
voice that much, that's for
sure. No, but
Adam Curry: this is, this is an
audio anomaly. This is not Trump
doing it, but it just, I don't
recall that, but
Unknown: I said, Don't ever do
it. Don't ever do it. That
sounds
John C Dvorak: like, you're
right. Sounds like you're right.
Sounds like they doctored it.
Yeah, Madam
Unknown: Mayor, you do it. It's
going to be a bad day. You
cannot do it. And I told him
things that what I do. And he
said, No way. And I said, way,
the highest level of diplomacy
there. Come
on, little valley girl, way.
Wow. It was
apple with Zappa. Moon Unit.
Zappa was belly girl, yeah,
I think so, yeah, yeah,
channeling Moon Unit. There
no way. And he's
so proud of his relationship
with Vladimir Putin just won't
come off that position.
Adam Curry: Oh yes, really, oh
yes,
John C Dvorak: it probably kind
of those are all MSNBC clips,
weren't they? No,
Adam Curry: the second one was
CNN with Bolton. That was the
only
John C Dvorak: reason I uh,
Bolton, yeah. The only reason I
say this because I noticed this.
This on Fox, on Fox, they, if
you watch the five, try not to.
And I'm just saying, I'm just,
let me finish. If you watch the
five, you're watching a warm up
show for the gut felt show.
Yeah, he practices his gags, and
they have the same topics. You
go from, you go from the five to
Laura Frau Ingraham, Yeah, same
exact topics. Then you cut to
Hannity. What happened to
waters? Water? I'm sorry. I'm
sorry. Wow, boy. Okay. Waters
water, same topics, exact same
topics. You go to Hannity, exact
same topics you go to the gut
felt show the same. It's just
like they just keep pounding the
same topics the next day, same
thing as repeat, rinse and
repeat. Yeah, and I sense that
they do that. I don't listen to
all the MSNBC shows, but it's
like, these guys, there's not
enough, you know, they say, oh,
24 hour news cycle, just,
there's just, like, two hours of
news period that you can you do
over and over and over for a
whole day, then you do the next
day. It's just
Adam Curry: pathetic. It's easy
to fill 24 hours on the cable
channel. Janet.
Unknown: It's unbelievable.
Janet
Adam Curry: told us we were
crazy. Janet was Janet. Wasn't
Janet, I don't know. You guys
are crazy. If you think you can
John C Dvorak: fill a case.
Janet, yeah. Janet, yeah. We got
back and forth. Apologized that
I shoot her out for apologizing,
Adam Curry: you don't apologize.
We need this
John C Dvorak: before we're
having nothing but fun. This is
good. It's very good vibe.
Should we just do it? Should
Adam Curry: we just do Israel
quickly? Just zoom Israel before
we before we move on.
John C Dvorak: Do I have
anything on Israel?
Adam Curry: I don't know. I have
a couple which I think there's,
there's some things amiss with
what's being reported to us.
John C Dvorak: I think I have,
like, one thing. Maybe I got it,
mostly Ukraine today. Yeah, we
Adam Curry: got Ukraine too, but
what's your Israel thing? Where
is it?
Unknown: I'm looking for it.
Adam Curry: I don't see it. This
is very professional, you're
supposed to say. And I have this
thing about Israel and and then
I
John C Dvorak: saw, here it is.
No, that's not it. Yeah, no,
here I got this. No, that's no.
The problem is Harris. When I
put my glasses on it, Harris
looks like hammers
Adam Curry: on the list. That
can happen. It happens to the
best of us.
John C Dvorak: I'm going to
change that to Harry ball, I
Adam Curry: don't care you. Go
cease fire talks. I got it.
Unknown: It's been over eight
months of negotiations for a
cease fire in the Gaza Strip and
Israel and Hamas have yet to
make a deal. The US says it's
urgent to make a deal now to
prevent a wider war. Entities.
Jason Perry has the details.
Officials
are headed to Qatar for high
stakes cease fire talks
beginning on Thursday. These
talks are aimed at addressing
the Israel Hamas war in the Gaza
Strip. Officials from Israel,
the United States, Egypt and
Qatar are expected to be in
attendance and us, officials
have said the time is urgent to
reach a deal to prevent a wider
war from happening. President
Biden said that if a cease fire
deal is reached, then Iran may
refrain from attacking Israel,
according to Axios, Iran. Vowed
to attack Israel after Hamas
political leader Ismail Hania
was recently killed in Tehran.
Hania was previously involved in
the ceasefire talks, and his
position as political leader of
Hamas has been filled by Hamas
leader Yahya senoa, who some
believe to be located deep
inside a tunnel in the Gaza
Strip. However, Hamas said on
Wednesday that it would not take
part in the latest ceasefire
negotiations in Qatar. Hamas
official, Osama Hamdan, said the
only way Hamas will participate
in the talks is if they focus on
implementing the proposal
detailed by President Biden in
May. The US referred to it as an
Israeli proposal, and Hamas
agreed to it in principle. But
Israel later said that Biden's
speech was not entirely
consistent with the proposal
itself, but how much progress
can be made without Hamas taking
part in the talks? The West said
it expects indirect talks to go
ahead as planned, and that a
cease fire is still possible. As
of now, it's still unclear
whether Hamas will participate,
but a State Department
spokesperson said Tuesday that
representatives of Qatar have
assured the US they would
Adam Curry: so absent from this
conversation is Trump. He's
absent from this conversation
and remember he had BB over at
the house, yeah, they hung out
for a bit, did a little press
hit there, and I'm sure some
kind of deal was made, like,
bro, I got to be the one to
solve this. You can't give this
to them. And I think there's a
lot of shenanigans going on with
this. This
John C Dvorak: is the same thing
it had with Reagan, yeah, the
Adam Curry: hostages, the
October surprise, precisely. But
there was something in that clip
about urgent. It's urgent. And
this is, I mean, I don't even
know how this happened. Who
ordered the aircraft carrier,
who ordered the nuclear
submarine, which normally we
don't talk about, but, oh, now
we're announced. Yeah, I found
John C Dvorak: that peculiar,
too, that it's sense
Adam Curry: of urgency is the
key here. Well,
Unknown: there were two
announcements in the statement
from the Pentagon. First, the
deployment of the USS, Georgia.
That guy, what
Adam Curry: are you moaning
about?
John C Dvorak: This woman, she's
the from France, 20 years and
she talks up with a kind of a
thing that goes like this. She
never there's, there's all.
She's like a Hummer. She just
keeps yammering. And it's just a
very annoying person. I think we
should ban her from any clips in
the future. Okay, done.
Unknown: Deployment of the USS,
Georgia, that guided missile
submarine that you mentioned.
And it has to be noted that is
pretty rare for the Pentagon,
for the US to actually publicly
state submarine movements. That,
in itself, is pretty
significant. There was also
another announcement in that
statement that Lloyd Austin had
also ordered the Abraham Lincoln
strike group to accelerate its
redeployment to the Middle East.
The Lincoln strike group had
already been ordered to relocate
from the Asia Pacific region to
the Middle East, but the Defense
Secretary asked for them to do
that even faster. So it gives an
idea of the sense of urgency
coming from the now, it wasn't
clear for either one of these
groups how quickly they're going
to get to the Middle East, but
the message of urgency was
definitely clear, and was clear
in the statement that said that
the US was taking every possible
step to defend Israel in light
of escalating regional tension.
This was all announced in a
readout of a call between the US
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin
and his Israeli counterpart,
Yoav Gallant. And it comes as
there have been reports coming
out of a new Israeli assessment
about the imminence of a
possible response by the
Iranians, something that was
communicated, it seems, by you a
Galant to Lloyd Austin.
Adam Curry: So hold on a second.
Doesn't the President determine
when we go, you know, into a war
zone in the region, is it just
Lloyd Austin who has a phone
call says, oh, it's urgent. I
mean, do you know what this
costs?
John C Dvorak: Can you imagine?
Adam Curry: Yeah, hundreds of
millions of dollars is what this
costs. Oh, no, it's urgent. It's
very urgent. Sense of Where's
Biden saying this, where's vice
president Harris talking about
this? This is not normal. This
is the your military industrial
base. Moving out of control.
Yes, moving assets wherever they
want, do whatever. Yeah, we'll
just, you know, we got need some
more money in the pipe. Money in
the pipe people and then this
guy, the envoy.
Unknown: We continue to believe
that a diplomatic resolution is
achievable, because we continue
to believe that. No one truly
wants a full scale war between
Lebanon and Israel, especially
not the Lebanese people and the
Israeli people.
The US envoy Amos Hochstein met
with Lebanese speaker Nabi berry
in Beirut on Wednesday, after
nearly 10 months of cross fire
exchanges on the Israel Lebanon
border and tensions which reach
boiling point recently after the
killings of a top Hezbollah
commander and Hamas political
leader. Senior Iranian officials
have said only a cease fire deal
between Israel and Hamas could
halt a direct retaliation in
Israel, a deal Hochstein hopes
to achieve. Speaker Barry
and I also talked about the
framework agreement that's on
the table for a Gaza cease fire,
and he and I agree there is no
more time to waste, and there's
no more valid excuses from any
party for any further delay
that hopes for a cease fire
dimmed once again on Wednesday
when Hamas said it would not
take part in the discussions
slated to resume in Qatar on
Thursday. So
Adam Curry: this guy, Hochstein,
I look him up, I would be
thinking military guy, you know,
CIA guy, no, he's an energy guy.
He was in Obama's
administration, Assistant to the
President and senior advisor for
energy and investment. That's
what he is under Joe Biden, I'm
sorry he was in the Obama
administration. Served under
Clinton and Kerry at State. He
was the Assistant Secretary of
State for energy resources in
March 2017 he joined tellurin, a
private, Houston based LNG
company. Of course, he's on the
board of the Atlantic Council,
also on the Supervisory Board of
Ukrainian NAFTA gas. This. This
is an energy guy. This is about
oil. This is, and I think it's
about the price of oil. They
want to either drive it up or
not drive it up. I don't know.
But what is the energy guy doing
as the envoy? Well,
John C Dvorak: I was hoping,
since you discovered this, that
you'd explain it. I have
Adam Curry: no idea, other than
it has it has to do with, I
would believe he's trying to
make sure that oil doesn't go
crazy, because that will, of
course, increase inflation right
around the numbers for the for
the third quarter, which would
be right around election time. I
mean, we have seen oil inch up a
little bit, but
John C Dvorak: have the whole
market collapse just before the
election, and
Adam Curry: that would be good.
That would be fun. It doesn't
matter. It's all good for the
show. And then the other thing
is that Egypt, turns out, is not
a good actor in all of this, and
Unknown: that may mean, for
example, on the disputes about
how to secure the Egyptian Gaza
border, which, of course, was
we've now discovered, the main
gateway for Hamas. That's where
all the arms and the materials
and even the cars and and the
tents that went in and out of
the country to train they went
through the Gaza Egyptian
border. How is it going to be
secured? Well, the United States
appears to be putting on the
table a plan where it would help
Egypt seal those tunnels and
help and work with the United
with Egypt and Israel to set up
technology and other ways to
monitor that border. So I think
we're seeing, number one more a
more aggressive position by the
United States and the mediators
to solve the problems. And as I
said, this time, these Gaza
cease fire talks are happening
in the context of a potential
lot wider escalation, and that
danger has also created a kind
of urgency may push these talks
forward.
Adam Curry: Yeah, there's
something big happening,
something I what I do not expect
is Iran to launch anything I
don't expect, I don't expect any
of that. Just
John C Dvorak: more. Steve for
Steve Forbes was on with Kudlow,
oh, and he predicted that, or
said The possibility exists that
Biden is going to quit. Ooh,
Adam Curry: oh, this. But he can
he do it on stage? He
John C Dvorak: might. He thinks
it might happen at the
Democratic National Convention,
which
Adam Curry: is what we've been
discussing.
John C Dvorak: Well, we've been
discussing that he's going to go
on and win his votes back.
Adam Curry: No, we had, I think
we had three options. One, I
want my votes back. Two
John C Dvorak: keels over. Well,
that's right, yeah, it feels
over. Or
Adam Curry: three, nothing,
which would be the worst if he
doesn't
John C Dvorak: so the idea is
that he's going to quit, oh man,
camel is going to become
president. So she can be the
incumbent when she runs against
Trump, and she's going to start
the war with Iran, because she's
an idiot.
Adam Curry: No, no, it'll start,
and then Trump will swoop in and
broker a deal and get the
hostages back, whatever's left
of them. Apparently, they've
blown a couple more up.
John C Dvorak: Well, yeah,
there's a there's any hostages
left, it'll be a miracle.
Adam Curry: I mean, this is
history. Is is rhyming. It
really is. It's, there's a lot
of 68 in this. I mean, it would,
ha, we don't know, but we will
be on the foreground. We'll be
on the forefront. We'll be right
here, yeah,
John C Dvorak: and we'll be more
objective in these media to be
the fringe or their mainstream.
They're, they're all fully crap.
And with
Adam Curry: that, I'd like to
thank you for your courage. Say
in the morning to you, the man
who put the sea in public hole,
say hello to you, my friend on
the other end, he won the only
Mr. Adam curry money
John C Dvorak: with ship sea,
bus to the ground, feet in the
air, subs in the water, dames
the nights out there. Yeah.
Let's
Adam Curry: take a look at our
trolls here. Let
Unknown: me count them. Who's
in?
Adam Curry: Yeah, we're late in
the count, so they got bored.
1890 Yeah, I know, but I know.
I'm sorry. We should we should
have stopped while we were on a
high we can't be doing three by
threes that'll drive everyone
away. Nah, I'm sorry, but that
is still almost 2000 trolls
checking us out in the troll
room. It's not bad for a little
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Moly, I don't know if you've
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John C Dvorak: No, yeah, now's
the time to make the money. CBS
Adam Curry: News Radio, 88 out
of business. Getting rid of it
in New York, it's gonna become
ESPN Sports. So
John C Dvorak: how, of course,
can we take Well, I
Adam Curry: mean, you know,
they're all relying on garbage,
remnant advertising, but the one
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There's no levels, no
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You can do whatever you want. No
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in time talent or treasure the
John C Dvorak: show itself is
premium content.
Adam Curry: Patreon has now
announced that Apple is going to
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fee on top of their 8% for all
donations that are run through
Patreon.
John C Dvorak: Effectively. How
does that work? Well, Patreon
Adam Curry: is an app, and most
people use the Patreon app to to
support shows, and Patreon has
their own billing system. And
Apple said, you know, you've
been running this for a while,
and we're not going to take that
anymore, so now either.
John C Dvorak: So this is like
Apple when they when you have
these apps that have
collections, yes, payment,
payment systems within the app,
outside of Apple, yep, that's
over. They don't like that.
Adam Curry: No, they say you're
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Either you give us 30% or. Of
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your app, or we kick you off the
App Store, which is going to
affect a lot of podcasters,
40,000
John C Dvorak: interesting when
did that happen? That
Adam Curry: happened yesterday.
Wow. The news broke. Breaking.
The news broke. Breaking
John C Dvorak: alert. Yeah.
Adam Curry: Wow. Yeah, yeah. So
what
John C Dvorak: is, what has
Patreon said? Anything about
this? Yeah. Patreons crying,
Adam Curry: yeah? Like, hey,
what? Yeah. Basically, they're
saying, Well, you know, either
you eat it and we stay in the
App Store, or you don't eat it,
meaning the creators, creators,
or the or the supporters,
because it's subscription based.
You know, you subscribe for
level to get your premium
content, premium content,
premium content. That's right,
whereas we just give you premium
content right there, up front,
no
John C Dvorak: level is.
Adam Curry: We are. We are no
agenda. We are premium content,
exactly. So while I feel bad,
I'm very happy we chose for this
model.
Unknown: I feel bad.
John C Dvorak: You'll feel bad
at all. I
Adam Curry: don't, yeah, it just
proves that we were right.
Almost 17 years ago, we said,
you know, this is the only way
to do it, any other way you
could put anybody else in in
between, and it's going to be a
problem. That's why we have
PayPal. We have stripe. You
know, we have multiple ways for
you to support the show, MX
checks. I was just gonna watch
339.
John C Dvorak: Here. Let me just
do that. Plug. You want, you
have a check. You want to send
us a check? That's what you
wanted to do. Box three is to no
agenda show. Box 339, you can
rewind this. Box 339, El
Cerrito, El, C, E, R, R, i, t,
O, California, 94530,
Adam Curry: and it's a great way
to do it, because there's only a
very small charge for handling
the chain, cents total, and you
can send them directly from your
bank account. In America, at
least. I don't know if you can
do that from everywhere, but in
America, you can set it up and
it'll just send a paper
checkout. And you can, you can
schedule it, you can do whatever
you want. It works really,
really well. So that's the
financial part of value for
value, which clearly is needed
because we've got a lot of
podcasters in peril. Podcasters
in peril, in peril, I tell you,
and we're squeaking through once
again, thanks to our lovely
supporters, which includes our
artists, who are diligently
working on creating art for this
episode. They do it when they
should be working now. They're
Dutch masters, so they're all,
it's, you know, it's like, 8pm
9pm their time. So they are off
duty. But there are some in the
United States and other
territories who work, who are
also Dutch masters. They don't,
just don't live in Holland,
because that's all we've got, is
Masters of Fine Art. And we love
having a new piece for every
single show. And it was, in
fact, Darren O'Neill, a non
artist, a prompt jockey,
John C Dvorak: a prompt jockey,
of high, of the highest order,
Adam Curry: I hesitate to tell
you that you're banging
something.
John C Dvorak: It's the bot.
Yeah, I am banging something. I
can feel it when I'm banging it,
Adam Curry: yeah, though we
John C Dvorak: can hear it,
yeah, that's it's just, yeah.
Now there's a there's a couple
lewd jokes in there. Just he's,
I don't think I can let us hear
them properly. Just
Adam Curry: let it laugh.
John C Dvorak: I'm looking let
her go.
Adam Curry: Darren O'Neill, uh,
tickled our fancy with his
clown. Strike your data is not
safe at all. Image, we did go
back and forth on this. We, in
fact, discuss specifically
lawsuits. So we really don't
want to get a lawsuit from
CrowdStrike, but we felt
ultimately that the parity value
was large enough. Yeah, it
John C Dvorak: was a joke. We're
kidding. Yeah. Nanu. Nanu,
Adam Curry: there was, once
again, a lot of AI. You kind of
liked another Darren O'Neill
piece, which was Kamala Harris
as a pig, to which I said, come
on. Man, come on. Man, come on.
Man, we're not really gonna do
that, are we? No, we can't do
that. That's not that
John C Dvorak: was funny. It was
Animal Farm 2024 because we
talked about animal farm and
then you so it made sense in the
context of the show, yeah, but a
lot of people thought this art
was just junk. The the dare I
say that it was because they
were discussing it. Yes, this
particular one artist goes and
does a a kind of a rundown of
all the events in order quality.
This
Adam Curry: is junk. Darren,
junk. Well, what else was there?
I mean, keep me. Mean, go to
jail. No, not funny. AOL, stuff,
which was, well, you
John C Dvorak: had the one you
like was the toast clown. Did
you someone?
Adam Curry: I did and no, I said
you're not gonna like that one.
Because gruesome, and you were
right. And the other one, and we
discussed nestworks, wrong
magazine, which you thought was
too simple, I think was the term
you used. Where was that? This
the one up top there with wrong
Wired Magazine, wrong magazine.
Oh,
John C Dvorak: right, right. The
Wired Magazine, yeah, you didn't
like that one,
Adam Curry: and everything else
was just either AI or no good. I
mean, stop with the camel AI
already. Yeah, we don't.
Goodness gracious, no, just not
gonna use it. So by the way,
bonus clip, CrowdStrike. EULA,
the EU law of crowd strike we've
been discussing this is under
attack. Did you hear the latest
news about EULAs? Yes, I did.
You want to hear clip?
John C Dvorak: I got two clips
here. Yeah, absolutely. The clip
Unknown: is fun. And NYU
Langone, physician from plain
view, was vigilant, says her
best friend when she dined out
her severe dairy and nut allergy
always communicated it
would not only be her that would
make the staff aware, it would
be whoever was with her, and
when we would reiterate,
according to her husband's
lawsuit, in October at the
Disney Springs restaurant Raglan
road, the waiter guaranteed
certain foods could be made
allergen free, and confirmed
several more times, she died
soon after from anaphylactic due
to elevated levels of dairy and
nuts in her system. Her cousin
attorney Peter guiltano calls
Disney's response shocking and
absurd, because years earlier,
her husband Jeffrey piccolo
signed up for Disney, plus he
signed away his rights to sue.
Adam Curry: Now this was the
most fascinating use of a EULA
I've ever heard. Here's the
concluding clip.
Unknown: She was stolen from
him, and now, in effect, what
Disney is doing is trying to
steal his day in court, and
that's a fundamental right that
we all
have. Disney cites fine print in
the agreement, which requires
users to arbitrate all disputes
with the company. It claims
piccolo also okayed a similar
agreement more recently, when he
bought Epcot tickets online.
This would create
just a horrific and horrible
precedent. If you open up your
phone, look down at all the
services and things that you
subscribe to, But legal
experts say we're signing
consumer arbitration agreements
all the time, and courts have
ruled them enforceable.
Arbitration must be fair and can
be cheaper than a jury trial,
but
you're also less likely to get
those big punitive damages that
you hear about. You're less
likely to get the sympathy
factor. The
case could have implications for
anyone who's ever signed a user
agreement. Usually just call it
a bottom and hit, OK.
I just like, hit the circle
where you accept, and then I
just hit continue. I think
it's wrong. I
mean, people aren't going to be
really fine print
Adam Curry: amazing, even if he
bought the tickets and had
nothing to do with Disney plus
and there was a EULA there. I
mean, all of this, look at the
back of your ticket. If it's a
pay gotta go. It's gotta go.
This has to stop. We need better
abuse.
John C Dvorak: This is abuse of
the system. It is, it is. These
are, these are bull crap. Just
have the your kids do the work
if you're signing up for Disney,
plus have your kid do it because
they're under 21 or 18, or
whatever the ages. If they're
16, 1514, that's legally not
they can't sign a contract. Oh,
that's
Adam Curry: a good hack.
Actually,
John C Dvorak: it is a hack. I
didn't do it. My kid did. I
Adam Curry: think we should have
some kind of EULA for this show.
John C Dvorak: There is one.
It's the terms of there's a
Terms of Use, terms that we have
in terms of endearment, that is
on the website that discusses
this is quite unique, this
Adam Curry: type of insight and
these life hacks you only get
from your no agenda show, Surely
that is value that you'd like to
return and anonymous from
Central Ohio definitely thought
so, and sent us $1,000 and says,
gents, gents, this donation is
made in two parts, one of 667 to
bring me to knighthood. This is
my birthday gift to myself, and
I'd like to be known as dame of
raccoon Valley at the round
table like a slice of key lime
pie. I cannot be a dame with a
douche bag, but smoke but
smoking hot husband. So I'd like
to do a switcheroo with the
remaining 333, and call him
anonymous husband of Central
Ohio. And please de douche him.
Unknown: You've been de douched.
I've enjoyed
Adam Curry: listening for
several years, and hope this
keeps the sad puppies away for a
while. So that means we add, I
guess, means we add him to the
list as an executive producer.
Yeah, right. Okay, just want to
make sure, and I have to put the
slice of key lime pie at the
round table. So you got it. We
will take care of it. And. Make
sure that he is on the list and
that you have your key lime pie
John C Dvorak: and mouse of the
famous mouse family, big
supporters, Petrolia, Ontario
Canada, 482 I'm not sure if this
is Canadian money. That is hard
to say, but it's 42 so it
doesn't matter ITM gents is a
switcheroo. This donation is for
Sir bird dog of Glen Ray. He has
donated monthly for years since
his initial knighthood, while
hitting many in the mouth. This
should definitely bring him to
Baron status, maybe even
Viscount. Oh, the title changes
in order. When he sorts out the
accounting, I think we're gonna
boost him today.
Adam Curry: He's being boosted.
John C Dvorak: Happy 20th, a
smoking hot hubby. Thanks for
all you do. Love you lots. Can
you give him a rubbisher? He's
got rebel eyes, rubbish, yes,
and all the karma you have. Keep
up the great deconstruction
work. John and Adam
Unknown: India, hang out. Mike
standby, 3333 33
you've got karma.
Adam Curry: Brad Fox checks in
from press Presque Isle. Presky,
presky Isle. What do you think
Press? Presky presque P, R, E,
S, Q, E, Prisk. Presque Isle.
He's in Maine, and he sends $450
and he says, in the morning,
gents, this donation brings me
to knighthood. Staff. Knighthood
status. See accounting below. I
figured, instead of blowing more
money betting on the Red Sox to
cover even just the money line,
I donate to something that
always pays off the best podcast
in the universe. And yes, yes,
we always pay off. And yes, like
politics, there is gambling in
baseball. Please dub me sir,
Waldo Chicken Caesar. Hopefully,
this sparks a rash of that.
Mitchell and Webb Look number
Wang donations. For those in the
know, that must be a gambling
thing, I'd like to request Bud
Light and Brontosaurus at the
round table. Hey, random number
theory. I'd also like to have a
rubbish jingle followed by a yak
karma for everyone still
listening. Oh, there's plenty.
Thanks for the comedy now and
forevermore, sir Waldo Chicken
Caesar, India. Hang out. Mike
Unknown: standby, 3333 33
out you've got
John C Dvorak: to move on to
Jason crutchman in Richmond,
Indiana, 333, dot, six, six. And
he writes in
Adam Curry: remember middle
format, almost, kinda,
John C Dvorak: almost, but not
quite. In the morning.
Gentlemen, Adam, if you could be
so kind as to chip in a penny,
yes, I have this donation will
efficiently, effectively bring
me back to knighthood status,
officially as your penny. I was
at a back to school orientation
yesterday, and the principal was
giving her presentation on the
coming school year. She started
talking about how our school was
a strong community, okay?
Community, strong community, and
how we must work together for it
to continue to grow and thrive.
And the slide that appeared next
was community commitments, time,
talent, treasure,
Adam Curry: yay. Did she hit you
up for some donations?
John C Dvorak: I've seen the
numbers begging me to donate,
but it never have I seen the
words. There were a couple of
reasons this slide shocked me.
What the donation was. It
shocked you because you it. We
drills it into your brain.
That's right. Two, I talked
about the value for value model
with some of the school leaders
of the year, and they were
intrigued. I explained to them
how the model worked and the no
agenda podcast that created it,
and here, a year later, I didn't
even get credit. However, let
this be proof the model is
growing and reaching more human
resources all over the world.
But that said, may I be Knight
is Sir Kretschmann of the White
Water Valley at the round table,
uh, could I have a warped wing
brewery, gamma bomb beer, neon
movie theater, popcorn and a box
of bunch of crunch, jeez, I need
a Trump around. Was Trump
massive dumps and a shut up at
science. Thank you for your
courage. Jason critchman in
Richmond, Indiana, you know, I
think he sent a note in
complaining this letter took
forever to get to us. Well, we
got it it was
Unknown: hard to get it aroused,
and it is hard to get it
aroused, but we got it aroused.
They
did dumps.
They call them dumps, big,
massive dumps. Shut
up, already. Science.
Adam Curry: Oh, classic, classic
jingle there. Then we have. Tim,
what
John C Dvorak: was just I'm
looking at the I needed to blow
that one up. I was having
trouble reading it. Tim
Adam Curry: frick is next. He
also sent in a note with 333
dot, 33 our favorite donation
amount. And he says, in the
morning, gentlemen, thank you
for your service, for keeping me
sane over the years. Thank you,
Adam, for sharing your faith
journey. It has been an
inspiration to so many and we
all, and we need all the god
warriors we can get for this
spiritual battle upon us. Amen,
my apologies for staying a
douche bag for so long, but no
more. Please. Deduced.
Unknown: You've been deduced.
Also,
Adam Curry: if you could give a
quick plug for the cooking show,
I started recently with my dog,
Nash, and he sent a picture of a
dog with Nash and an arrow
handsome looking dog. It's
called Chaos kitchen. It's a fun
show. We cook delicious stuff,
and it's been a fun hobby
project that I'd love to share
with all. Maybe John has some
wine pairing suggestions for
some of the recipes at chaos
kitchen with Tim on YouTube, all
links and recipes on the
website, Tim's chaos kitchen.com
if I could please get some sales
and jobs karma for my day job
and goat karma for all
sincerely, thank you both for
all that you do. You betcha,
Tim, you've got karma. Done,
done, my friend, done. Kelly
John C Dvorak: Stewart and Kenai
Alaska comes in with 333, and I
do not see a note, no, I want to
give Kelly a double up karma
Unknown: you've got karma.
Adam Curry: Associate Executive
Producer, title for Jim Andriana
cos in Glen, view, Illinois, 230
3.9, or nine are grateful I am
for your courage, dear friends.
Let's ensure the mac and cheese
jingle is played for all the
future planned up opolis,
Freedom ghetto. Opolis, the
future planned, oh,
plannedopolis, Freedom ghetto,
there you go, bringing joy to
all
John C Dvorak: you slaves can
get used to mac and cheese, the
mac and cheese, mac and cheese,
macaroni and cheap chatter,
melted together, mac and cheese,
mac
Unknown: and cheese, mac and
cheese.
Adam Curry: Yo, mac and cheese.
John C Dvorak: Joseph Stegman in
1000 Oaks, California, 222, row
of ducks. ITM gents, that's all
he says. And came in as a check.
Thank you very much. Lady
Adam Curry: N from no city
provided us a 208. Dot, 88 Can I
get a house buying karma jingle?
Thank you both for the show.
Lady in Yes, of course you can.
You've
Unknown: got karma.
John C Dvorak: Eli, the coffee
guy in bensonville, Illinois, is
back Illinois, 815 he says, and
by the way, I've taken a liking
to his dark roast. So it takes a
certain skill to do dark Do it?
Do a good dark roast. I agree.
Yeah, without making it bitter,
Gentlemen, thanks for pointing
out that I'm not an advertiser,
I'm just a business owner. I'm
just a business owners fortunate
enough to be able to support my
favorite podcast. It's a bonus
that I can share a discount I'm
doing it kind of very wise. It's
a bonus that I can share a
discount code for our coffee
with fellow producers. I'm glad
you guys enjoy gigawatt Adam.
Yes, I'm happy you also like
black rifle coffee, just like
beer or wine. Most people don't
just drink only one type or
brand. That's right. One
important thing is whatever
you're drinking is that it's a
quality product. That's why
people should visit gigawatt
Coffee roasters.com and use code
ITM 20 for 20% off your order.
By the way, we just released a
new Tanzanian Tanzanian
Tanzanian Tanzanian pea Berry.
Pea Berry is like the latest,
trendy. Is it trendy? Oh, pea
bear, yes, it's just little
history, just for people who
want to know. So pea berry are
these little bitty coffee beans
that were always just thrown
out. Yeah, they were discarded
as, like, in the process of,
this is where they this is
Adam Curry: like lobster, where
they used to feed it to
prisoners, and they turned it
into a premium product. Oh,
interesting. So
John C Dvorak: the pea Berry was
filtered out. You know, they
have these grates, and they the
big beans. Is the one. You want
to keep the little junky pea
berries? They threw them out for
years. And then somebody, you
know, I guess the staff or
somebody, was putting them aside
and making coffee with them. It
turns out that the little ones,
just like, reminds me of wild
strawberries, by the way,
strawberries, when they're
smaller, better. It turns out
that these berries are really
made a really good cup of
coffee. And so somebody decided
to name it pea Berry, and then
make a turn into a product. And
it's, I've never had bad pea
Berry. Anyway, he says it's a
pretty that's your your history
for today, the state caffeinated
says the ELI, the coffee guy,
Adam Curry: it's a new product.
New, new, new from gigawatt
coffee. Gigawatt coffee,
Tanzanian pea Berry. Pea Berry.
You can taste the pee. Taste the
pee. Here's your free jingle.
Yes, the pee. By the way, my
guests love the gigawatt coffee,
and I love it when I'm out of
black rifle, because that's all
I have. And I'm like, I'm so
happy you got the dark roast.
Eric levenberg is in Los
Angeles, California. Yes, there
are still people who live there.
$200.22 look, this is for the
best podcast in the universe. He
says, Please grant me job and
relationship karma, and don't be
weird about it, jobs, jobs,
Unknown: jobs and jobs. Let's
vote for jobs.
Adam Curry: Man, you're bumping.
Stop mass bumping. No,
John C Dvorak: I'm not bumping.
I'm trying to duplicate this, by
the way, and I can't.
Adam Curry: I'll do this next
one. Anonymous in Chicago,
Illinois, yes, there's still
people who live in Chicago who
listen. $200 Associate Executive
Producer. Welp, I'm as surprised
as anyone. John's last two tips
were exact matches for a couple
of ongoing issues we've had. I
immediately forward the time
stamps to my bf for Wi Fi
coverage and impossible to catch
mice. I will report back. And
thank you for your courage.
Well, if that is an endorsement
for the tip of the day, I don't
know what is beautiful.
Unknown: Well, yeah,
John C Dvorak: patkin in
Lakewood, Colorado, finally
comes into 200 bucks, and she's
wants jobs, karma and John's.
Donate. Donate. Donate. A fellow
no agenda producer called me to
ask if I was really donating
$200 a show. What is that?
Course, it was just a kind of a
scam cooked up with Adam and
John to John to encourage others
to donate. Oh, yeah, well, I'm
here to tell you through John
that I'm a real, that I am for
real, and getting your name out
there on no agenda works, plus
meeting fellow producers is
awesome. I bet Eli the coffee
guy would agree. So for all your
small businesses out there, I
highly recommend donating, and
remember, for a resume that gets
results, go to Image makers,
inc.com that's image makers,
Inc, with a k.com and work with
Linda Lou, Duchess of jobs and
writer of resumes, sincerely,
Linda, I am
Adam Curry: shocked. I am really
shocked that someone went
through the trouble of reaching
out to Linda Lou and said, You
know, I bet it's just a scam.
You get you could, they could,
those guys just mention you to
get people to send money. No,
no, no. Agenda is the premium
product. That's how it works.
Unknown: You've got
jobs, jobs. Jobs
and jobs, let's vote for jobs.
Adam Curry: Thank you very much
to these producers of the no
agenda podcast for Episode 1686,
in our 16th soon to be 17 years
on the air everywhere, rocking
it live twice a week. We are
premium. Anyone who donates $200
or above, we read your note and
you receive an official
Associate Executive producer
credit. Anyone $300 or above, we
read your note on the air and we
offer you for a well deserved
executive producer credit, which
you can use anywhere credits are
recognized, which includes
LinkedIn, your social media
profile, and, most importantly,
imdb.com, which is the home of
all people who have show
business production credits.
It's a real thing. They are
forever, so you always will be
an associate or an executive
producer of the no agenda show.
Thank you so much. We'll be
reading out more. Thank yous to
more producers who support us in
our second segment, once again,
thank you for producing episode.
1686
Unknown: our formula is this, we
go out. We hit people in the
mouth. You.
Adam Curry: You shut up. Slave.
Do you know him? Yes,
John C Dvorak: I like to do the
Ukraine stuff and get it out of
the way, good
Adam Curry: idea. Good idea
this, by the way, if I can just
start us off with a little boots
on the ground this 1000
kilometers from what I'm hearing
is bull crap that I'm getting
videos of Ukraine Special Forces
being annihilated on beaches,
being blown to smithereens that,
yeah, maybe it was 10 kilometers
they got, but not 100,000
kilometers, square kilometers.
So that's what I'm getting from
the inside.
John C Dvorak: I have three
clips. One is incursion. One,
Unknown: incursion.
John C Dvorak: Is under Ukraine.
Ukraine, I
Unknown: got you. I got you.
Ukraine today claims is
advancing deeper into the curse
region in Russia that says both
the White House and State
Department continue voicing
support for Kyiv as the
offensive continues,
I expect will continue to stand
shoulder to shoulder with our
Ukrainian partners, the
State Department on Wednesday
saying it will continue
supporting Ukraine to defend
itself against Russia. This
comes a week after Ukraine
launched a surprise incursion
into Russia's curse region.
Russia's emergency ministry
released this video on Wednesday
showing people being evacuated
from a town in cursed Ukraine.
Meanwhile, published this video
saying it shows the moment its
soldiers pulled down a Russian
flag and the incursion
continues. Ukraine's army chief
gave this update when speaking
to President Vladimir Zelinsky.
Since the start of today, troops
have advanced around one mile in
various directions. Since the
beginning of this day, we've
captured about 100 enemy
soldiers. Newly released
satellite footage shows that
Russia has dug trenches in the
region. Russia's foreign
ministry accused Ukraine of
stalling potential progress in
peace talks
with their terrorist actions in
the course area, Ukraine has, at
minimum, put peace talks on
pause for a long time. In my
opinion, they did this
intentionally. Peace talks with
an absolutely inadequate enemy
is unnatural,
but the White House says Peace
doesn't depend on Ukraine.
This war can end today. It could
if Russia would stop the war,
the war that they started.
Adam Curry: Okay, I love that.
Every report has that flag being
taken down. Oh, there's proof.
Look at the flag.
John C Dvorak: That's pretty
lame. Pretend we have John
Pierre Van Dam making a
conclusion that as if she knows
anything, let's go to part two
of this clip.
Unknown: Meanwhile, the governor
of the Russian bogorot region
says the situation continues to
be extremely difficult and
tense. Bogorot is next to cursed
where Ukraine launched a
surprise incursion last week,
there are daily shellings by the
Ukrainian Armed Forces,
destroyed homes, injured and
killed peaceful civilians.
Therefore, we have decided to
declare a regional level state
of emergency.
The governor says the state of
emergency will help to provide
more protection.
John C Dvorak: Okay? And now,
okay, I did, went nowhere. So
let's go to the you, yeah. Then
I think if I don't have a third
clip,
Adam Curry: well, I have two
clips, what appears to me that
is happening here is the long
show predicted demilitarized
zone is being created. And I
think some of that is apparent
in this clip,
Unknown: keys incursion that's
rattled the Kremlin marks the
largest attack on Russia since
World War Two, and a significant
progress in the Ukrainian war
effort. After months on the back
foot, progress, President
Zelensky is pleased about
I thank all our warriors, every
Sandra of ours, every sergeant,
every officer who defends our
country. Our advance in the
Kursk Region is going well
today. We are reaching our
strategic goal.
According to Ukrainian
authorities, it aims to
establish a buffer zone in Kursk
to protect its own border
communities from shelling, as
well as building humanitarian
corridors to help Russian
civilians, Kyiv says its troops
have advanced into 1000 square
meters of the Kursk territory.
Adam Curry: Oh, now it's 1000
square meters.
John C Dvorak: Oh, that's always
been 1000 square meters. I've
never heard
Adam Curry: I am so sure I heard
1000 kilometers. No, I've never
heard this. Oh, one. 1000. So
that's literally a kilometer.
Yeah,
John C Dvorak: the previous
report also said a mile. So it's
similar, no,
Adam Curry: but okay, and whilst
Moscow has acknowledged the
Ukrainian, oh, a mile is 1.8
kilometers, it's not similar.
Unknown: That's similar. It's
double.
Moscow has acknowledged Double.
Double
John C Dvorak: be two, not 1.8
closer.
Adam Curry: It's closer to
double. That is to similar.
Okay,
Unknown: ask territory. And
whilst Moscow has acknowledged
the Ukrainian gains, they insist
the advance is smaller than Kyiv
has claimed. Russia's Defense
Ministry attests it had repelled
Ukraine's attempts to push
deeper, and released images
purporting to show fighter jets
at work, as well as footage that
it claims shows captured
Ukrainian soldiers.
Adam Curry: So when you say this
is our strategic goal, and it's
to create a buffer zone that, to
me, says set up for
demilitarized zone, no one else
seems to understand what they've
done other than this. Yo, Oh,
wow. It's going well, it's
really good. It's fantastic.
Good work. Vlad no
John C Dvorak: vlog, by the way.
Just for your information, one
mile is 1.6
Adam Curry: 1.6 You're right. I
was wrong,
John C Dvorak: still I was not
right. I said one
Unknown: okay, but
Adam Curry: this is the big
news, which has meaning. German
Unknown: media are reporting
that prosecutors here have
issued an arrest warrant for a
suspect behind the 2022
explosions on the Nord Stream
gas pipeline. It is believed
that the Ukrainian man was one
of the divers who allegedly
planted explosive devices. Two
underwater explosions were
registered on the Nord Stream
pipelines off the Danish island
of Bornholm in September 2022,
months after the start of
Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
The pipelines were supposed to
bring Russian gas into Europe,
but were not in operation at the
time of the blast. So
Adam Curry: the story goes that
private businessmen funded this
shoestring operation,
John C Dvorak: including this is
just, this makes zero sense.
Adam Curry: Oh no, it doesn't
but, but this line does. This
was funded on a shoestring, as a
shoestring operation done from
that that stupid. They call it a
yacht, but it's basically some
sailboat which was overseen by a
top general president, Zelensky.
Reports say, approved the plan
then tried unsuccessfully to
call it off. In May of 2022 a
handful of senior Ukrainian
military officers and
businessmen had gathered to
toast their country's remarkable
success in halting the Russian
invasion. Buoyed by alcohol and
patriotic fervor, somebody
suggested a radical next next
step, destroying Nord Stream.
Now what is interesting is the
Dutch newspaper. Newspapers are
reporting this morning that the
Dutch Ministry miv, it's the
CIA. The Dutch CIA intelligence
services knew that this was
taking place. And here's,
here's, this is the giveaway.
After the downing of MH 17, they
say the Dutch set up a very
sophisticated intelligence
network in Ukraine and Russia
and and this is all from the
Wall Street Journal reporting,
by the way. And so they knew
that these guys were plotting
this and planning this. So all I
can take away from what is being
reported here by Deutsche Bella,
a direct line to US intelligence
is that they just want to pin it
on Zelensky. Maybe they're
worried about something coming
up in a debate or some other
place, but they needed to stop
the story that it was the US. It
was Biden, literally Biden, who
said that he was going to do it.
We haven't forgotten Biden. By
we have the clip. He's Let me
see. Do we still have that clip?
John C Dvorak: What we do? We
do, but Nord Stream,
Adam Curry: no Well, probably
somewhere. He said that, no, the
Norse is not going to happen. We
will make sure that that doesn't
happen. Not, not, not going to
continue. So, you know, this is
pinning it on Zelensky, but he
tried, he tried to stop it. Nah,
nah. I am, as you would say, not
buying it. This is clearly
pinning it on Zelensky. So we
have a demilitarized zone. We
have Zelensky being blamed.
Stuffs on the move. Stuff is on
the move, on the move.
John C Dvorak: They I think
that's that, yeah, that is that.
I have a couple of a clip I
want. To play, okay, local news,
local news. This is the
Democrats in action here in
California. And I just found
this to be distressing, and I
found the rationale for it to be
even more distressing. What do
you think it means when
somebody, some murderer, is put
in jail? Yeah, and found guilty
and put in for life without
possibility of parole. Okay,
what does that mean to you?
Adam Curry: It? Well, it
depends. Am I living in
California?
John C Dvorak: Just what does it
mean to you? In general, means
Adam Curry: you're gonna rot in
jail.
Unknown: Yeah? Well,
John C Dvorak: not in
California. I want to play this
clip. Does the Cal bill?
Meantime,
Unknown: lawmakers in the state
assembly are reintroducing a
controversial bill that allows
early release for some convicted
felons serving life without
parole. The bill creates a
process to reduce sentences for
offenders who have been
incarcerated for at least 25
years. Those convicted of murder
could be eligible, but not if
they killed a police officer or
were a serial killer. SB 94 was
moved back into assembly
circulation just yesterday
without assembly discussion at
the request of San Jose State
Senator Dave Cortese. Supporters
of the measure say it provides a
process for criminals who were
convicted before many state
criminal justice reforms were
enacted. Lovely.
John C Dvorak: What's it got to
do with criminal justice reform?
Criminal justice reform is not
to let murderers out who were
convicted given a life sentence,
specifically without possibility
of parole, which is what it is.
Yeah, what is wrong with these
people?
Adam Curry: It's California.
Man, Hey, guys,
John C Dvorak: been in too long.
Man, let's let him out. But he
said, no parole, none. Forget
it, life without parole. No, no,
no, no, that's no good. Dare
Adam Curry: I ask what this guy
look like? What guy, the guy who
was sentenced to life without
parole?
John C Dvorak: No, no, they're
not doing it's not for a guy.
It's this is in general. In
general. This is a dissembly
bill that's been put forth to
make it so everybody gets out.
Oh, cool. It's not for some guy.
It's cool.
Adam Curry: So does that mean
they'll be letting a whole bunch
of people out of jail soon? No.
Well, the bill
John C Dvorak: hasn't passed,
but it's a Democrat bill
sponsored by Democrats. They're
not going to do anything with
this until after the election.
Then they'll do it, and they
actually may not do it, because
Newsom is taking a hard line.
Newsom seeing the writing on the
wall, and he says to himself,
self, I don't think Ken was
going to win this thing. Doesn't
win it. Yeah, I'm up in 28 I
better clean up the state. I got
four years to do it,
Adam Curry: and I also learned
that he needs to clean up the
state for the Olympics.
John C Dvorak: Yeah? La, yeah.
In particular,
Adam Curry: yeah. It's going to
be the Olympics in 2028 in Los
Angeles. They
John C Dvorak: do have events up
here when they have the Olympics
in LA, I have been to an Olympic
event.
Adam Curry: We have, we have the
best producers in the universe.
There's no doubt about it. So
I'd like to read if catches a
couple of brief boots on the
ground. We also have a lot of
TSA agents who listen, and all
good, yeah, that's very good.
And I just like to share what
they said to us, because, and I
noticed this by the we were on a
trip. We went through San
Antonio airport. They are so
nice and so just calm and
relaxed about things. There's
there's no more yelling. I don't
know if that's just San Antonio,
but I also didn't probably just
San Antonio. It was the same in
in Boston at Logan, they were
just nice. It's almost like, Hey
everybody, here's a memo.
Everybody be nice.
Unknown: So that could be Adam
and John
Adam Curry: just listen to the
show. Heard about the anonymous
report from the airport and TSA
a couple of things. One, we as
officers could care less if
people opt out of this, about
the about the your picture being
taken, which they just slipped
in there. I don't blame them,
frankly, and would do the same.
They are not flagged for opting
out. However, there are tons of
cameras all over the airport,
the machine is just verifying if
your ID is real, because these
days, you don't have to show a
boarding pass. You just have to
show your ID. It connects it to
your travel document, so you're
in the system two if you wear
baggy, saggy pants, a belt or
leaf stuff in your pockets, the
machine highlights in the groin.
It is especially unforgiving to
males get pre check. So baggy
pants if you don't have TSA, pre
check will flag you because
you've got something hanging at
three. We barely communicate
with the airlines at a
checkpoint level, and we do not.
Watch the people who make
complaints. I think you guys
give us way too much credit.
Personal opinion after being
here five plus years is, this is
just the government's job
program. The pay is good for
what is expected, but most of us
understand the show we are
putting on daily. Well, that's
nice to know,
John C Dvorak: yeah, security
theater. That's what we've
always called it. Yeah,
Adam Curry: it's good then, on
the legals, on the legal note,
the
John C Dvorak: theater does work
with dummies, by the way, so
it's not a bad thing, no
Adam Curry: and no, not at all.
You had an interesting set of
clips on the last show about it
was Ritter and Tulsi talking
about a chilling effect.
John C Dvorak: Chilling effect.
Yes, this
Adam Curry: is a good note, and
this is our producer saying, I
hope our constitutional lawyer
already sent you a note, but in
case he is AWOL, the quote,
chilling effect, language from
Ritter and Tulsi is a specific
legal concept for First
Amendment cases. You can
challenge government laws and
actions under the First
Amendment, if you can prove it
has a chilling effect on your
speech, ie, made your expression
of protected, protected speech
difficult, I would assume
there's a lawsuit brewing, and
that is the reason for the
coordinated mention of this
legal term. And of course, our
constitutional lawyer Rob
checked in. He says, yes, the
chilling effect language is all
over the First Amendment
jurisprudence. Sometimes he
says, I wish I could be like the
guy they keep at the booth
during football games, who
explains the referees calls. We
need a hotline. Well, you can
always hotline. Me, Rob, always.
So that's, these are good
updates. This is good stuff to
know. Then the oh, man, I love
your new the sound of your new
mic, but poof, it's a banger. I
didn't even touch it. Well,
you're banging something.
John C Dvorak: I picked up a
piece of paper, but that banged.
So banging is a banging note.
Adam Curry: So we played a
couple of pool boy clips of the
FBI whistleblower. No, that's
right, and immediately concluded
that the Pakistani who wanted to
kill Trump was one of these six
week cycle bonus deals. And
wouldn't you know it, the
whistleblower calls into Beck
and says exactly that. And
Unknown: then the last thing
that I definitely want to get to
is this Pakistani national. Now
this is what I like to call the
playbook that the FBI has been
running the last two and a half
decades, particularly since 911
where essentially what they do
to justify their existence as a
bureaucracy, as a self looking
ice cream cone, they will
identify a vulnerable person in
a motion to serve, maybe someone
with radical intentions but not
capable of carrying forward an
actual attack without the
involvement of the FBI. They'll
identify them, use confidential
human sources, use undercovers,
and then groom them for as long
as it takes to engage, or at
least agree, to engage, in an
activity that can be labeled as
terrorism. And then they will
arrest them. And the added
wrinkle here was that they
imported this Pakistani through
the border. They sponsored him
arriving, arriving. The FBI
Dallas office actually was
assignee on him arriving. And it
wasn't just to slap the cuffs on
him. They followed him and
orchestrated this plot that
could never have happened
without the involvement of the
government for three months and
then justify their existence
with this big dismantlement
stack, which is also tied to
their quotas. This is just the
eight the FBI version of death
and furious, but except with the
exception of being guns with the
ATF we are now running
terrorists so that we can
justify our existence as an
agency.
Adam Curry: There you go. Those
of you who have been listening
to the no agenda show for more
than a decade will have already
known this. That's why Glenn
Beck makes $100 million a year.
John C Dvorak: He's a hard
working guy. He works
Adam Curry: very hard. He's got
a great museum.
John C Dvorak: I'm going to play
this this off the wall clip.
I've been wanting to play this
clip for a while. This is the
especially here from in
California, where our students
are all stupid. Now, this is a
Mississippi reading has
increased dramatically in
quality.
Unknown: 10 years ago,
Mississippi's elementary
students ranked near the bottom
in literacy today, the State
House soared to the 21st spot in
the nation entities. Dana
Monahan speaks with the
Mississippi Department of
Education literacy director
about how the state achieved
those results.
Mississippi ranked 49th in the
United States for elementary
school literacy. 10 years ago,
fourth graders were essentially
an entire grade level behind the
rest of the nation in 2023 85%
of third graders passed the
state reading test thanks to a
shift from balanced literacy to
the science of reading approach.
In balanced literacy, students
are taught to use cues to guess
words and then memorize. Them.
The science of reading approach
uses phonics so students
understand how words look and
sound as they acquire
vocabulary. The
systems of language is explicit.
It's systematic. There's a scope
and sequence of foundational
skills that have to be taught to
students that go from very easy
skills to more complex skills.
And you know, so it's really
like that, really direct type of
reading instruction, where we're
not playing a guest and game.
Mississippi Department of
Education literacy director
Kristen wells win says they
created key strategies and an
early literacy policy that was
very detailed to implement the
changes,
we had to go back and retrain
all of our teachers. We had to
go back and retrain all of our
leaders, retrain all of our IHL
professors. And so we opened up
professional development
grounded in the science of
reading at all stakeholder
levels. And so we offered that
free to all educators from the
state level.
They also put coaching support
in place to help classroom
teachers take those practices
and implement them in their
classrooms.
Adam Curry: And it worked.
John C Dvorak: It worked. This
is something from the 1800s This
is phonics. They implemented
phonics, which is the way I
learned to read when I was a
kid. Remember they all sound it
out, sound it out. What's the
word? Sound it out, pH, you
know, is spelled pronounced like
an F,
Adam Curry: hook down phonics.
Remember that? Hook down
phonics? Yes,
John C Dvorak: phonics was all
and so what they changed to some
other screwball methodology. In
fact, I looked this up, and
there's a, there's a technique
called Evidence Based re
reading. What is? What is
evidence based reading? This is
all the weird crap that these
guys, instead of the old
classics, like phonics, they've
they've devolved into this
horrible methodologies that
don't work, and then they wonder
why nobody can read is beyond
me. Beyond me. There
Adam Curry: is a note here from
the the millennial guys, the
millennial show in the troll
room. Mississippian here, he
says the improvement in the
numbers has to do with a change
in the assessment method, not an
improvement on the scale. It's
touted to be, well, that
wouldn't surprise me either.
They just changed the scale.
John C Dvorak: Well, I'd like to
so in other words, nothing's
changed, is what he's saying. I
Adam Curry: find that hard to
believe. I think if you go back
to the basics of phonics, that
you will get a big improvement.
John C Dvorak: It seems logical
as opposed to evidence based
reading. What
Adam Curry: happened to Common
Core was
John C Dvorak: the Common Core
guy still got in there, and is
it added all these complexities
that don't work, and I have no
idea why they even began with
Adam Curry: it. Millennial media
offensive says there was a small
improvement, okay, all right,
despite the change. Well, that
is kind of the trick that the
education has been using for
years. Is just change the scale,
make it hey, my nephew, 18, he
just graduated. The whole family
is like, That guy should not
have graduated. We love Joe we
love Joey, by the way, but
there's no way he should have
graduated. And he's in Indiana,
so we know that they just let
him go. Let him go.
John C Dvorak: Well, on the
topic of education, let's go to
how the British universities are
all going broke.
Adam Curry: I was not aware of
this.
Unknown: Nearly half of British
universities are facing budget
deficits because of falling
numbers of international
students. This poses risks to
their future and has prompted
calls to restructure their
business model. NTDs
INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT
Malcolm Hudson has this report,
British universities are facing
financial troubles. According to
the higher education regulator,
the Office for Students, 40% of
universities are in a budget
deficit. That means they're
spending more than they have
coming in. James Tooley, Vice
Chancellor of the University of
Buckingham, explains why. How
did
they get into this problem? They
became their business model
became over reliant on
international students. This is
the key thing, particularly from
China, but from from many
countries
truly said. Recent visa policy
changes have reduced the number
of international students coming
to the UK. They used to be able
to bring their families with
them, but the previous
administration toughened rules
to stop this, in most cases, as
a way to lower immigration
levels. And to Lee says the new
labor government doesn't look
like it will change the policy
so
this, this really upset the
universities. They were reliant
on the international students,
because they charge
international students whatever
they like for price. These are
typically fixed for homes to.
Students for students from
England, and so their complete
business model was thrown out of
kilter, and this is a severe
problem for universities. A
report by the University of
Warwick and consultancy firm
public first recommended
creating a fund to provide state
backed loans to universities.
This $3.2 billion fund would
help universities to
restructure, to prevent
collapse. No,
Adam Curry: bring back the
immigrants. There's your answer.
Bring them back. Bring back the
money. They were all benefiting
from it,
John C Dvorak: yeah. Well, those
days are over. They have the
same problem in the United
States with these foreign
students, especially the
Chinese, yeah, but the Chinese,
one of the little things that
has to be understood is as the
Chinese students. And when I was
a kid, there we go at Cal there
was a lot of Chinese students
then, and they were all
nationals. Oh,
Adam Curry: man, and I've flown
up there in the San Francisco
region, but I remember, I think
I flew to camp curry. This is
years ago, from from San
Francisco to camp curry
Yosemite, and you're flying
around and you ends. A lot of
them are in aviation school, and
you cannot understand what
they're saying. It's dangerous.
Whoa, even ATC is going like,
Yeah, can you talk slower? I do
not understand what you're
saying. Not trying to be racist,
but
John C Dvorak: a lot of the
students, I think that graduated
from the even the British
schools, Chinese in particular,
they've gone back and people
their own universities to make
them very competitive. There's a
lot of no reason for them to
necessarily come over here. I
think at this point, well,
Adam Curry: there's probably no
reason for anyone to go to
university at all. Anyway. I'm
sure it's just as woke and
stupid as it is here. Well,
John C Dvorak: here we go with
part two. Truly
Unknown: said he doesn't think
the government will allow any of
the most prestigious
universities to go out of
business, but they will
encourage
mergers and acquisitions link
ups so that there's a university
in town X looks as though it's
suffering, then it might link up
with another university in Town
Y and become the University of
x, y.
Tooley said British universities
should start thinking about how
to manage their resources more
effectively in the face of a
receding customer base, be it
saving money in departments or
using their buildings more
efficiently and attracting more
students too. And he added that
universities themselves have
contingency plans,
so no foreign students if you're
thinking about coming to the UK
to university, no foreign
student should be deterred by
anything that I've said or
anything they've heard, because
universities want you
to come. He said that if
anything financially extreme
happens to a British university,
students will still be taken
care of very well thanks to
these contingency plans. Yeah,
Adam Curry: go ahead, taxpayers.
Fantastic, beautiful. I would
like to update us on the latest
going on in climate change,
because there has not really
been room for climate change
news because of you know,
obviously this existential
threat known as climate change
is not as important as Trump and
Harris much more important, and
it's local to you, California.
You probably didn't know this.
New data shows that our state
had its hottest month ever, in
July, ever. For environmental
information, published a report
yesterday the average
temperature across our state
last month was nearly 82
degrees. That was almost two
degrees higher than the previous
record set back in July of 2021
the climate data for our state
goes back to 1895 researchers
say the record high temps last
month here in our state further
evidence of human caused climate
change. They warn we are likely
to see above average temps this
month as well. All of this as we
look ahead to the Olympics four
years from now, in the middle of
July, cooking, cooking. It's
gonna be cooking, baby. Gonna be
cooking, sure. And then, by the
John C Dvorak: way, the
temperature here, seen
California, where I am, has been
very 68 Yeah,
Adam Curry: yeah, 60. I know,
but I look, I look it up, we've
had a beautiful summer. We
haven't hit maybe two days above
100 It's been phenomenal. And
then this NBC report, which was
just unbelievable, what a bunch
of lies we're
Unknown: back with. Our series,
climate challenge research
Adam Curry: is now the climate
challenge. The climate
challenge.
Unknown: We're back with our
series climate challenge
researchers along the California
coast looking at Hawaii. An
alarming number of sea lions and
at least two dolphins are
getting sick. Liz Kreutz has a
closer look. Come on in Liz,
in California. An urgent race to
save dozens of sea lions showing
up sick and disoriented on
beaches along the central coast.
The
Marine Mammal Center is
responding to multitude of calls
here and rescuing them.
So far, volunteers here have
responded to nearly 150 sea
lions and at least two dolphins,
all showing signs of poisoning
from domoic acid, a neurotoxin
from algae, that gets into the
fish these animals eat, and can
flare up during the summer. The
Marine Mammal Center says this
outbreak has been longer and
more intense and to human health
as well. Are humans at risk?
There's a risk right
now, currently, there isn't a
warning for human consumption,
but sea lions are the first
indicators of that toxin being
in the environment. Although
there's still much to learn
about domoic acid outbreaks,
experts say a strong upwelling
of cold water and our warming
climate are contributing
factors.
These algae do well in warm
environments, and so if we're
seeing more of that and an
increase in that, then that's
definitely a factor for these
events. Sea
lions, a sentinel for our
Ocean's health.
Bullshit.
Adam Curry: It's called the Red
Tide. They couldn't even bring
themselves to say it. It's the
red tide. This happens all the
time, cyclical. Did you know
this red tide? And on the
California coastline. It
John C Dvorak: wouldn't surprise
me. Yeah, it's red tie. Also
have an urchin problem.
Adam Curry: I don't know about
that purple urchins,
John C Dvorak: but there is a
red because of climate change.
That's
Adam Curry: what bugs me. And
then sad news, very, very sad
news from the Copernicus
Institute. I can't believe they
even released the report. Stand
by everybody. The pivot is here.
Unknown: Earth's run of record
setting heat has finally ended
at 13 months. According to the
European climate agency
Copernicus, temperatures in July
just missed the record set last
year.
Adam Curry: What happened to
hottest ever in California? Oh
no, oh no, oh no, oh no. Its
switch is changed. The
Unknown: El Nino weather
pattern, which normally warms
the Pacific Ocean, spurred the
heat streak. Now that it's
passing, temperatures are
cooling just a bit. Global
temperatures averaged 62.4
degrees Fahrenheit. What
happened
Adam Curry: to boiling earth?
John C Dvorak: You think the El
Nino had something to do with
the red tide? Probably, well,
they don't ever bring this up.
They never make the connections.
But the
Adam Curry: global Earth
temperature is 62 on average.
Where's the boiling
Unknown: full temperatures
averaged 62.4 degrees Fahrenheit
in July 1.2 degrees above the 30
year average, but not enough to
break the previous record. July
22 and 23rd were the hottest
days ever recorded in Seattle.
The record was set on June 28
2021 when the thermometer topped
108 degrees. Climate change has
driven severe weather events
like flooding in South Africa, a
fatal landslide in Indonesia,
and officials say more than 120
people died from record heat in
Tokyo. Oh,
Adam Curry: please. I mean,
anyone there's the recorder
again. Haven't heard that in a
while. Does anyone does
John C Dvorak: is actually a
cuckoo thing. It doesn't it's
only notes. It plays,
Adam Curry: oh, it's a cuckoo
thing.
John C Dvorak: Doesn't play
anything else.
Adam Curry: Okay? The only other
clips I'd like to play, unless
you have something, is just like
to update us on the AI bubble.
It is, after all, my beat. I
cannot get off of it. I'm
waiting for it to all fall
apart. What are you seeing in
the markets? What do you see in
the markets? Nothing. Well, CBC,
the front burner podcast.
Brought on this guy named Paris
marks, who, I guess, has a
newsletter. There's business in
that newsletter stuff. And two
clips here, he is talking about
the obvious AI bubble that
people on the street, Wall
Street are starting to see. How
Unknown: prevalent is this
bubble idea now? Like, how big
is this theory for people who
are watching the tech world,
yeah, it's very common. You
know, people like me have been
talking about it as a bubble for
a long time, like me, but it's
interesting now, you know,
Goldman Sachs had a report out
last month, the major investment
bank, explicitly calling it a
bubble, and, you know,
questioning the productivity
benefits that would come from
it, and saying that, you know,
investors can make money from
this, but we think it's very
inflated, and that these numbers
are going to come down. Sequoia
Capital, which is one of the
biggest venture capital firms in
Silicon Valley, also had a
report out recently talking
about it as a bubble and saying
that these tools need to
basically find $600 billion in
revenue if they're going to be
profitable. The information in a
major tech publication was.
Recently talking about how open
AI could lose $5 billion this
year alone because it's making
so little money. But what it's,
you know, what it's offering to
the public is so expensive to
run. So this is becoming, like,
a pretty common concern at this
point, and I think you've really
seen it, you know, gain a lot
more traction over the past
couple weeks, as we've seen
these, you know, challenges in
the stock market after these
major drops that have somewhat
recovered at this point, but
they're still concerned that,
you know, these things could
drop a lot again very soon. Oh,
Adam Curry: concern, concerning
the markets. And this is where I
need your feedback, because he
now says, this is a playbook.
This is a playbook that Silicon
Valley uses over and over again,
and takes us back to the the.com
bubble of 2000
Unknown: How did we end up here?
How did it get to this point?
Yeah,
that's that's a really great
question. Oh,
you know,
I think it's always interesting
to think back about the way that
the tech industry has structured
itself for quite a long time,
right? You talked earlier about
the.com bubble, and then you
know how that burst in the early
2000s and there's an author,
Malcolm Harris, who wrote this
book, Palo Alto, where he
basically argues that the lesson
the tech industry took from that
moment, right, that big
installation of the values of
tech stocks and then their
crash. Was not so much to never
do this again, but rather that
it was a good model to keep
doing, you know, by hyping up a
certain technology, getting the
values of certain stocks to
really increase, and then
knowing when to get out at the
exact precise moment before it
crashes again. And just to kind
of keep doing that again and
again and again, and that is
what we've seen with a lot of
technologies, right? You know,
if we go back to the mid 2010s
there were a lot of promises
about how self driving cars were
going to wipe out, you know, a
ton of jobs in, say, trucking
and taxi driving and all this
kind of stuff. And that never
really happened, right? We had
this significant increase in
deliveries now, you know, Uber
is still a very popular thing.
There's still a lot of people
doing that work. Rather, you
know, just the conditions of
their work changed because of
how the technologies were rolled
out. And we've seen that time
and again, right? Crypto didn't
transform the financial industry
in a really major way, and we're
not, you know, living in the
metaverse now, as Mark
Zuckerberg predicted,
John C Dvorak: he's full of
crap. Guys, it's only full of
crap. What was the bubble with
the with the self driving cars?
Where's the bubble?
Adam Curry: No, that's not what
he's not what he's saying. He's
saying, what
John C Dvorak: he's saying? Yes,
exactly what he's saying. As
soon as these bubbles, they come
and they go and they get
exploited by
Adam Curry: Nvidia. Now, John is
a guaranteed winner. Good thing.
Go for it. Closest to the pin.
Go for it. Go for it. Yeah, I am
just waiting for this to happen.
John C Dvorak: I don't Well, you
can wait. It's gonna happen. It
always does, but it's not gonna
happen tomorrow.
Adam Curry: No, not tomorrow. It
won't happen tomorrow. Final
clip for me. This was just the
funniest clip that went viral.
This is Caitlin Collins from
CNN. We're on the Colbert show.
Just loved it. Trump has kind
Unknown: of been thrown on his
heels by this, and he's not
really sure how to go after vice
president Harris. He knew his
attack lines on President Biden.
He really has struggled with how
to how to go after someone who's
20 years younger than him, who
is a different gender, a
different race, race. It's kind
of been this moment where he has
not been able to coalesce around
a single attack line. I
know you guys are objective over
there that you just report the
news as, oh, I know CNN makes
that supposed to be a lab like
it wasn't supposed to be. But I
guess it is
Adam Curry: the people know, the
people are onto it, even
Colbert's audience.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that really
surprised me. Colbert's audience
got a kick out of that line.
Adam Curry: That doesn't
surprise me, nobody
John C Dvorak: analyzed and
said, you know, Colbert wouldn't
have even said that if he ever
watched. CNN,
Adam Curry: no, that's a good
point.
Unknown: Yeah, go. Well,
John C Dvorak: he was just, you
know, blathering away. Gotta
ended up with a laugh line.
Adam Curry: Yeah, I love the
laugh line. Is that a laugh
line? Is that how they talk in
cable news? I've got a great
laugh line. Everybody? John, you
had some great laugh lines in
this show.
John C Dvorak: I have one last
clip. Then, this is the walls.
Just get back to the walls of
the balls. Balls guy,
Adam Curry: Harry balls,
John C Dvorak: this is a comment
he makes, and I have it written
down as a kicker. So there's
something funny in here. I'm
Adam Curry: looking for what it
might be titled. It's not under
W for walls. Oh, it is W, l, Z,
Unknown: I'm sorry. Minnesota
Governor Tim Walz is economic
policies aim to direct. Help the
working and middle class by
taxing businesses and the
wealthy. It was
nurses, it was teachers, and it
was state and local government
employees that built this
station.
Minnesota has the sixth highest
state tax rate in 2024 at around
6.875%
John C Dvorak: it was state
workers that built this country.
That's right.
Adam Curry: Actually, I have a
an additional tip of the day
that we'll talk about just that.
So you will have a tip. And then
I also have a, I have a Travel
Tip of the day that talks about
the workers who built this
country. Yes, I was, but we'll
get to that after
Unknown: I'm gonna show my salon
by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could
do that. Oh yeah, that'd be
fabulous.
Adam Curry: And as you heard
earlier, the tips of the day are
very valuable people even
sending in donations thanking us
for these tips. So you might
want
John C Dvorak: the irony is that
my tip of the day is also travel
Adam Curry: related. Oh, that is
ironic. No random number, random
number theory. We want to thank
our producers with In fact, we
do thank all of them who come in
$50 or above. Under $50 we don't
mention because that is the
cutoff for anonymity. Many
people like to be enormous and
be assured of it. And some send
even multiple donations under 50
to take care of business. And as
always, we recommend everybody
try a sustaining donation, which
you can set up yourself. You can
just it's a recurring number,
whatever it is, whatever is
valuable to you that represents
the value you get from this
podcast. Go to no agenda
donations.com. John, please take
us through to the 50s. We don't
John C Dvorak: have that many
very short list, but let's start
with Lucas Williams in Roswell,
New Mexico, another we have a
number of roswellians. We do
$100 sir. Dude named Ralph in
Miami, Florida, 100 hold my
beer. Sends in a Happy
Anniversary donation of 9272
Kevin McLaughlin's already there
with 808. He's the Archduke of
Luna. Scott McAtee mcinty,
McEntee in Encinitas,
California, 60 M Jill John T in
Omaha, Nebraska, 60 Matthew
Martel, 5856 and he says he's
picking up the slack for Eli the
coffee guy. Hey, this is Martel
hardware. Hardware.com use code
black rifle. 10% off your order.
I
Unknown: Yeah, that's good.
John C Dvorak: I like it. Yeah.
He's wants to drink, eat filet
mignon. Is sick of pork. Uh,
Christopher dector, 5678 James
Moore is San Pablo California,
right up here. Uh, 5623 now he
should come down to the meetup.
We have a meet up on Saturday at
the mallard club in in Albany,
California. Oh, it's going to
Adam Curry: be great. Well,
let's hope, well, you're coming.
So that's great. I'm
John C Dvorak: going to this.
I'll be at the meetup. So Be
there or be square. James Moore
and San Pablo is 5623 he says
camera is not going to be good
for the show because she's
boring. No,
Adam Curry: that's not true. No.
Should be the way we see it.
She'll be funny.
John C Dvorak: Matt long and
Carrie, North Carolina, 5342 and
then he needs a D douche.
Unknown: You've been deduced.
Also
John C Dvorak: sending a nice
note. Mark Hardwick in Aledo,
Texas, 5333 Cole dial in Farina,
Illinois. 5325 Paul DuBois, 5272
and he's in curry. Honkson
kerhunks in New York. Yep. So
economic hit man in tumble
Texas. 5001 and we're already at
the 50s. There we go. Name and
location, $50 donors, starting
with Stephen ng in Box Elder,
South Dakota. Gary Mau in
Woodland Hills, California.
Jared ya in Nashville,
Tennessee. Brandon Savoie in
Port orchard, Washington. He
donates a lot. Dame Patricia
Worthington does too, and she's
in Miami, Florida. Diane
schwanabeck In johnsburg,
Illinois. Christian Freeman in
San Marcos, Texas. Kevin dills
in Huntersville, North Carolina.
Michael Peratt in Salem, Oregon,
sir. Chris Lewinsky in Sherwood
Park, Alberta. Has been with the
show forever. Michael Thompson,
new brown fells, Texas. Phillip
Baloo in Louisville, Kentucky.
Easy landscapes. If you're in
North Stonington, Connecticut,
check them out. And last on our
list is Wendy in Saginaw,
Michigan. 50 bucks. Want to
thank these. People for making
show 1686 a distinct reality,
since we're doing it.
Adam Curry: And thanks to
everyone who came in under $50
again for reasons of anonymity,
and those who are doing
sustaining donations lower
donations. And there was one
note that came in from a night
we always break for nights. This
is Sir Mulk DOER of things, and
he simply said he's in a
heartbreaking note, actually a
lot of bad things happening to
him and his family. And he just
says, need prayers for us not to
lose our home and to be able to
pay our bills. So if you can do
that for our night, that would
be great. Thank you all for
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Unknown: You've got karma.
Adam Curry: You Yes, we do have
a list of birthdays, a very
short one, actually, sir
Montauk. Turn 40. Turns 44
today. Actually, happy birthday,
sir Montauk, and dame of raccoon
Valley, who I believe will be
damed momentarily, also
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say happy birthday. On behalf of
everybody here at the best
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Sir bird dog of Glen Ray
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He tallied it up another $1,000
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Baron sir bird dog of Glen Ray.
Congratulations. And thank you
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then and two nights blade out
there. If
John C Dvorak: you got the same
blade, look at that thing. Look
Adam Curry: at the size that
thing. Anonymous. Anonymous
lady. Brad Fox and Jason
Kretschmann, step on up here
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John C Dvorak: from Austin,
Austin tisity,
Adam Curry: that's right, no
agenda rings.com. No agenda
donations.com support the show.
Always premium content.
That's right. It is your
companion to the show. It is
something you need to do. You
have to go to a meet up,
especially if John or I are
there. That's always good.
That's always groovy, man. John
will be there. We're going to
mention that in a moment. And
the fun thing about the meetups
is you can send in a report.
Will play. It will let everybody
know how much fun you had, such
as the kids at Orange Beach.
Unknown: All right, in the
morning to get mo nation out
there. This is Sir spooky of the
Elm streets coming to you live
from the Orange Beach, Alabama
meet up. We've had a really nice
crowd here. I'm glad we can make
this work. And we all just want
to say hello, hi. This
is Ann in Orange Beach.
Just The Tip John.
It makes me happy. This
is Craig in Orange Beach, and I
think Phoebe is a black night
in the morning. It's sir Waldo
of like of lower Alabama, and
thanks for Sir spooky for
putting on the Orange Beach
meetup.
And he couldn't be here, but he
wanted me to say this, Associate
Executive Producer John from
bond secure says we need a
clothing optional pineapple.
People meet up between mobile
and Pensacola, whatever that
means
Adam Curry: in the morning, yes,
whatever that means. Do not send
pictures of that one and the
Fort Worth. I think it's the
Fort Worth meetup. There's a
report.
Unknown: This is the Fort Worth
meetup that flips patio and
grill. We have so many nights
and days here. We're gonna wax
this ceiling so it shines on the
top of the crash the building.
What is that?
This is Chris in Dallas, Tip of
the Day.
Never pet a burning dog.
This is Brad,
Adam Curry: always pet a burning
dog.
Unknown: This is for all the
trusted advisors.
Never touch a hot stove. This
dirty Jersey whore creeping in
on their feet up and don't touch
anything.
Burn all right.
Adam Curry: Leave the humor up
to professionals at least. Let's
try today, we have a couple of
meetups taking place. We have
the anonymous goddess hosting
the Deutsch bags in the USA at
five o'clock in Rockford,
Illinois, at the Norwegian the
monsoon Dodgers summer meet up
630 at the Denver Museum of
Nature and Science Park in
Denver. Today, the Charlotte
thirsty Third Thursday meet up
seven o'clock tonight. Edge
Tavern in Charlotte, North
Carolina, tomorrow, the put in
the sea and Cajun meet up seven
o'clock at Blue Moon saloon.
Lafayette, Louisiana on
Saturday. The Dallas Fort Worth
mid cities meet up 1130 in the
morning. Bourbon Street Bar and
Grill bed for Texas, the
shrunken amygdala support group
meets at two o'clock on Saturday
at task reporium in Cincinnati,
Ohio club, 33 threat to
democracy. Meet up 330 at Hill
halls Tavern and Coventry in
Fort Wayne, Indiana, and on
Saturday, the get John out of
the house. Meet up 4.03 33
pacific time club, Mallard,
Albany, Albany, California, also
the fourth annual Central Texas
float meet. That is Baron Scott
and Dame Christine. The float
portion kicks off at 1030 in the
morning. That's the Texas State
tubes in Martindale, east of San
Marcos. I even heard some single
women are gonna go and float in
the river. Just saying, Go float
in the river. Yeah, it's a float
meet. So you float in the river,
and then at three o'clock after
you floated down the river, they
all meet at Ivars river pub in
San Marcos. More details at no
agenda meetups.com and
John C Dvorak: our next show
today. Meet ups all wet, yeah.
Adam Curry: Well, that's what
I'm saying. Single Girls float
in the river. You get the
picture. On Sunday, the hidden
gem burger shack, edition of the
meet up 330 at tays burger
shack, North Kansas City,
Missouri, sir Spencer, The Wolf
of Kansas City, hosting that
coming up this month in
September, northwest Arkansas,
Monrovia, California,
Alexandria, Virginia,
spookville, Spearfish, South
Dakota, London on the 25th keen
New Hampshire, Tulsa, Oklahoma,
Alpharetta, Georgia, Sharpsburg,
Maryland, Medford lakes, New
Jersey, Goleta, California,
Aurora, Illinois, Garden City,
Idaho, St Augustine, Florida,
Tucson, Arizona, and wind of
September now on the 21st North
Charleston, South Carolina.
These are just some of the many
meet ups available at the
website. Thank you, sir Daniel,
for always keeping that site
running. Thank you to Mimi for
organizing and reorganizing and
making sure everything is on the
up and up. No agenda meetups. It
is a place where you can meet
your fellow people. Connection
always gives you protection. No
agenda meetups.com. If you can't
find one near you, start one
yourself.
Unknown: You I would
Adam Curry: say, five minutes of
you banging the drum is enough,
probably I'm done. Thank God. I
John C Dvorak: like the drummed
in the background where you're
talking because it sounds like
we're at a beatnik club in the
50s.
Adam Curry: Oh, that's what
you're going for. Oh, well, in
that case, continue for the
beatnik the beatnik club.
Beatnik club.
John C Dvorak: You just have to
say, uh, certain beatnik terms
once in a while, groovy, man.
Know if that's it, far out. All
right, would be good. Far out,
Adam Curry: man. Let's do some
ISOs. I got two. I don't know if
they're any good. I'll play
them, and you let me know if you
like them. Here's the first one,
boomers in the house. That's too
muddled. He said. He said,
boomers in the house. But no,
no, here's another one. I would
say
Unknown: that's kooky, huh?
That's not too bad
John C Dvorak: I have five.
Adam Curry: Oh, well, you're
gonna win. Then obviously,
John C Dvorak: we'll start with
the bet. The first one, which is
the backup, is always gonna win.
This is the goodbye one.
Goodbye.
Unknown: It's too easy,
John C Dvorak: yeah, but that's
the one that can always it's a
fallback, yes. Here's the kids
saying, wow, wow.
Adam Curry: I kind of like that
one. Okay, yeah, yeah.
John C Dvorak: Here's a girl
saying, oh no, oh
Adam Curry: no. Ooh, ooh,
contender, contender.
John C Dvorak: I have this one,
I think is one that would be
very funny and ironic, which is,
subscribe.
Unknown: Don't forget to
subscribe.
Adam Curry: Smash that like
button and subscribe. You can't.
Well, you can subscribe to the
podcast. That's true. That's
true.
John C Dvorak: Good, that's
true. Don't forget to I'm liking
it. I'm liking it. And then last
is Woo. Woo.
Adam Curry: I think don't forget
to subscribe. I think that's the
one. John, yeah, I
John C Dvorak: think that could
be good. That's really good.
Well, with
Adam Curry: that out of the way,
which means that will be the
very last thing you hear from us
today. It's always the end of
show. ISO, now it is time for
not one but a double Tip of the
Day.
Unknown: And sometimes Adam.
Adam Curry: Yeah, today is one
of those sometimes Adam days.
This
John C Dvorak: was a producer,
producer, Joe and I just a tip I
should use myself. Is a really
good tip.
Adam Curry: Okay, May I May I
mentioned, by the way, lots of
people love the the wire the
wire line tip
John C Dvorak: was, Oh, yes, the
wire line tip is the home, yeah,
working, yes. People, power
line, network power line.
Adam Curry: People from all over
the world were just so happy
with that tip. They really
what's
John C Dvorak: funny about it is
that it's an ignored technology
that is very efficient. Yes,
somehow along the lines. I mean,
I remember when it first came
out, it didn't work, and it was
causing all kinds of issues, and
the years went by then, all of a
sudden, now it's working at two
gigabits. I
Adam Curry: mean, he's crazy.
It's crazy talk. Um,
John C Dvorak: okay, this guy is
great. Tip, turn off fuel
efficient routes on Google Maps.
Oh, you can look for a video on
it, because it's, it turns out
that they'll just run you around
and fuel efficient that you
don't want, that you want the
best route, not the fuel
efficient route. No.
Adam Curry: So is that something
you have to opt out of? Do they
automatically?
John C Dvorak: Because it's
automatically turned on? Turns
out they turn it on and send you
have to go to your settings and
find out you can look it up on a
Google on a YouTube video.
There's plenty of them just say,
how to turn off fuel efficient
route on Google Maps, wow, and
turn it off. Wow,
Adam Curry: that's a good tip.
That's That's right up there
with turn off the you know, on X
you automatically opted into all
of your tweets being sucked into
the grok. Ai.
Unknown: Grok, yeah. Did
Adam Curry: you know that? No,
yeah, you might want to turn
that off in your settings. I
will Elon stealing from you. Man
stealing. So here's a travel
tip. We went to the Boston area
Monday for two reasons. One, we
went to go see the Doobie
Brothers in concert, which was
quite a good show, but Steve
Winwood opened up. Oh, that's
cute. Steve Winwood, who is now
76 years old. This is the
XFINITY center in was that
Foxborough? I think this 10 or
12,000 people is pretty big
amphitheater. He now, even
though it was a little tough for
him to get up off the piano
bench for playing the the
Hammond b3 he kicks absolute
ass.
John C Dvorak: I mean, did he?
Did he show up the Doobie
Brothers? Yes,
Adam Curry: we, even though he
was, he was the opening act. He
does about an hour. He did Mr.
Fantasy, which is a classic, uh,
classic, classic, with a third
of that song is guitar solo. And
he did this, I didn't even know
he played guitar, and he played
that solo. He was just, it was
phenomenal. It was absolutely
stunning. And I think, I think
he blew the doobies away. Now,
he blew the doobies away, man.
Now, the other reason we went is
we had seen this documentary
called monumental, and it's
about this, this monument in
Plymouth. Plymouth, of course,
is best known for the Plymouth
Rock. So everyone goes to
Plymouth, you can go see the
Plymouth Rock, which, believe
me, is the biggest
disappointment you've ever seen.
It's just a rock. And when you
read the sign, when you read the
plaque about the rock, it's not
even the rock. No, it's a phony
rock. It's a fake news rock.
They got a big monument built
around it, and people look at
it's like, that's a rock. People
throw pennies on it. Why you
throw a penny on the rock? Well,
for good luck, this is dumb it's
a dumb rock. Then we did take
the little visit on the
Mayflower too, which is a
replica. It actually does sail.
But what you want to see is the
National Monument to the
forefathers. I had never heard
of this. They never taught me
this in school, that it's, it's
about a mile away from the rock,
and it is the biggest granite
structure in the United States.
And it is, for all intents and
purposes, it is the true Georgia
guidestone of the United States.
And. Coach, and they and the
founders, the forefathers, not
the founders. The forefathers,
came up with this idea. It was
completed in 1889 took them 50
years to build some war in the
Middle, or something. And it
shows the elements of the United
States, morality, law, liberty
and education. And when you see
this thing, you think, Why have
I never learned about this mind?
I mean, it's, you know,
John C Dvorak: it's even more
annoying what I'm the educated
one. And you told me you're
gonna go see this thing, so I'm
looking it up too. I never heard
of this thing. It's
Adam Curry: really cool. And
it's, it's right in the middle
of of a residential area.
There's no t shirt stand,
there's no IPO beard, no,
there's nothing.
John C Dvorak: Now I'm gonna go
see it. It is
Adam Curry: a travel tip that
if, if you're gonna go see the
stupid rock, go do that, buy
your T shirt, but then go to the
National Monument to the
forefathers. It's an outstanding
educational moment.
John C Dvorak: Looks of it.
It's, it
Adam Curry: is huge, and, and
there's, you know, there's no
ropes. You can go up there, you
can walk around, you can touch
it. There's almost, there's no
one there.
John C Dvorak: There's no nobody
knows about
Adam Curry: it. You gotta
wonder,
John C Dvorak: what like a
secret so you can keep the
public dumb down and vote for
Camelot Yes,
Adam Curry: because everything
about this says, Don't let
anybody know that these the four
things that makes America great.
And then, just as a side note,
we also went up to the like the
Lexington green, where the shot
that was heard around the world
known as the birthplace of
American liberty. I didn't know
about that either. Do you know
about this? This is where Paul
Paul Revere, yeah, where Paul
Revere rode. It
John C Dvorak: rode down the
street, yeah. And
Adam Curry: then so it was 800
British soldiers against a
ragtag bunch of 30 guys and and
that's when that was 1775 and
that's when we started to say,
hey, you know what? British suck
it. It's
Unknown: not good news. It's
good advice. John sees Tip of
the day,
Adam Curry: and sometimes Adam,
that's right, sometimes,
sometimes, sometimes, oh, there
you go. For the people who
didn't stay for the tip, sorry
for you. I think this is a
winner. John, your tip of the
day. And, you know, sometimes
mine, it's people like it.
John C Dvorak: They learned.
Thank one of our producers for
coming up with the idea. Oh,
Adam Curry: yeah, there you go.
That's right, yeah, that's
right. One of our producers,
Brunetti, yeah, was it Brunetti?
John C Dvorak: It was Brunetti.
Mega
Adam Curry: producer, Dana
Brunetti, everybody that's
right. He's now retired. End of
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Unknown: and Dr Jill,
he comes to search in general,
Lady lady lady.
That's the
kind of up.
That's the kind of First Lady,
lady, lady, lady
who just killed Biden will be.
And then all this stuff about Dr
Jill. Look, nobody in America
who's got a doctorate in
education is called Doctor. It's
not done, ladies.
Time for her to keep calling
herself doctor. Just point out
she's not a real doctor.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, so lady.
And then he lost his train of
thought to pick it up, he said,
Lady, at the end of thinking it
would happen, then he couldn't.
Then they said it again and
again. It said it again three
times, or four times. Lady,
lady, lady sounds like Jerry
Lewis.
Unknown: There are certain
professions that, yes, if you
have a doctor, you're called
Doctor. For the rest of them,
you're not. That's the kind of
first lady who. Lady, lady,
ladies. This Jill Biden will be
I want to ask you about a
specific kind of gender
affirming care, and that is
surgeries for minors,
surgeries, surgeries, surgeries,
surgeries for minors. I don't
think the science is where a lot
of people on the trans rights
universe say this puberty
blocker stuff has real dramatic
consequences, and there's a lot
of sort of social contagion
stuff involved in a lot of this.
Five
Signs You might be gender fluid.
At least they were for me.
25 states now have laws that bar
transgender minors under 18 from
having gender affirming care
such as puberty blockers or
hormones, or in rare cases,
surgery, surgery, surgery for
minors,
the correct term of what I'm
going to talk about is called a
total hysterectomy with a new
correct Me.
You don't want to make permanent
life changing surgical
alterations to people making it
possible for them to have kids.
Total hysterectomy, which is
correct to me,
surgeries for minors.
One can draw distinctions
between life changing, permanent
surgical operation. But if a kid
wanted to have his arm cut off
the state, we would
all agree the state should
intervene now
that
you've had your gender affirming
history. To me. What should you
expect? Well, in my practice, I
perform the surgery with very
small incisions that's minimally
invasive so that all of my
patients can go home the same
day and again.
Look and again, look, this is
preaching to the choir, but the
choir needs to sing. One
person's socialism is another
person's neighborliness. Just do
the damn work. Please. Please do
what you can. We're all in this.
We're all undefeated. We got an
opportunity on this. And again,
keep hammering on these guys.
Talk to your neighbors. This is
transformational for several
generations, but we can get out
there, reach out, make the case,
and for one thing, don't ever,
don't ever shy away from our
progressive values. We have
communities that are going to
pay the price because we don't
address socialism. Damn plan.
And again, here's the great
news, one person's socialism is
another person's neighborliness.
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