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August 25th • 3h 14m

1689: Unhappy Newcomer

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John C Dvorak: She was a dipshit
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Unknown: Adam curry.
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John C Dvorak,
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Adam Curry: Sunday, August, 25 2024 this is your award winning.
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Give our nation media assassination. Episode 1689,
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Unknown: this is no agenda.
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Adam Curry: Boosting Bobby and broadcasting live from the heart
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of the Texas hill country here in FEMA Region. Number six in
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the morning, everybody. I'm Adam curry from
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John C Dvorak: Northern Silicon Valley, where we're wondering
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whatever happened to John Tesh. John Tesh, I'm John C Dvorak
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Adam Curry: buzzkill, isn't he? Hanging out on an island with
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Kenny G. John Tesh sold a lot of records. I'll have you know,
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John C Dvorak: did he now? Yeah, well, he was always on PBS. The
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reason I bring this up because the PBS keeps showing these.
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Does anyone
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Adam Curry: even know? Does anyone even know who John Tesh
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is? He
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John C Dvorak: wasn't that kind of pathetic if he sold as many
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records as you say, well, but he was, nobody knows who he is
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anymore. Well,
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Adam Curry: he was most known for his stint, as we'd say,
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stint on Entertainment Tonight.
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John C Dvorak: Yeah, he was the guy he go to, guy he was,
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Adam Curry: he was the guy with, uh, what was her name? What was
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her name?
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John C Dvorak: Yeah, see Nancy Cordes, I have no oh
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Adam Curry: no, no, no, no, no. And then later he was with Lee's
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Gibbons.
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John C Dvorak: Uh, yes, please remember that. And
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Adam Curry: Yanni, of course, he toured with Yanni. He did
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whatever happened to Yanni? Wait, didn't he marry Barbara
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Streisand?
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John C Dvorak: No. Barbara Streisand is married to this
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actor. All right, who
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Adam Curry: is John Tesh married to, I don't know, Connie Celica.
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John C Dvorak: Oh, she's no, you knew just off the top of your
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head. I want to point that out, but
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Adam Curry: of course, I mean, this is me. This is this is why
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there's two of us. You know, someone's got to have all the
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good stuff.
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John C Dvorak: Well, he was used to do all these concerts for the
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PBS broadcasting system. And that sort of reminded me,
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because I was watching one of these things. So they they keep
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interrupting it, Dad, beg for money.
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Adam Curry: Why were you wait? So you were watching it, and you
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were actually annoyed they interrupted John Tesh concert.
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Is that what I'm
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John C Dvorak: no, no, they haven't shown a John Tesh
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concert for a decade or more. It's just they interrupt all the
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concerts, and then they Oh
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Adam Curry: yeah, and then they offer it to you on DVD, like
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anyone has a DVD player, right anymore?
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John C Dvorak: Or Yes, DVD or Blu Ray, and it said, came to
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mind. I said, Whatever happened to John Tesh? Yeah, okay. Well,
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he was a piano player.
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Adam Curry: I would say more synth, synth guy. He was New
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Age. So synth, synth, synth, synth, all right, before we get
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into the obvious that we must talk about since Bobby The Op,
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yeah, before we get into Bobby on, before we get into Bobby The
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Op, we need to go to the next op.
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Unknown: Now, the billionaire founder of encrypted messaging
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app Telegram has been arrested in France, was reportedly
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detained after his private jet landed at the Bourget Airport
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outside Paris. Telegram is one of the most downloaded apps in
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the world, and it's particularly popular in Russia, but it's
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focused privacy has raised questions about its use by
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criminals. So let's find a little bit more about this Molly
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Malone is here with me. Hi, Molly.
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So just a bit about who he is. This is not exactly a household
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name. He's Russian, born, gained French citizenship a few years
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ago, but he's really famed for founding this encrypted private
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messaging app, telegram. And suggestions in French local
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media this morning that the arrest and potential
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investigation relates to this app for its potential lack of
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moderation and potential
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criminal activity, because it's actually not
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potentially as well known here as it is across the globe. It's
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one of the most downloaded apps after the likes of Instagram,
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WhatsApp, Facebook, with upwards of 950 million users. It's an
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encrypted private messaging app, effectively protecting data from
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being intercepted with, as you said, a big focus on privacy.
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It's been in recent years, particularly popular in Russia
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and Ukraine. It was actually banned back in 2018 in Russia
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because it's of its refusal to release data.
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John C Dvorak: So first of all, before you continue, I had, I
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have no clips on this. I'm actually stunned. But I'm not
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not disappointed, just stunned that you brought this into the
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Adam Curry: What do you mean? Stunned? You Are you surprised
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that I brought this? Yeah, I
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John C Dvorak: am kind of because it wasn't something I
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was thinking about, just another guy. I mean, this has been going
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on. This is a long standing let's start, if we want to go to
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the beginning, yeah, we have to remember when Phil Zimmerman,
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they went after him. PGP, I don't know, 30 years ago for
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PGP, it was 30 years ago. I think it was a while ago. Yes.
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Sure, and they tried to get to rest the guy and throw him in
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jail, because the governments, these these fascist governments
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that are running the world, do not like the idea that people
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can whisper to each other, which is what this amounts to. This is
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they would love it. So if I whispered into somebody's ear,
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they would they could record it and keep it to use against me,
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if possible, but they can't seem to get to that point yet. And
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now it turns out that kim.com they're really going after him.
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He's been complaining a little bit on Twitter, to grab him
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somehow he's not even an American citizen, but to do the
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same thing as he did with Assange and arrest him for
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violating American laws. Okay,
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Adam Curry: well, let's not get distracted yet. From from Pavel,
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now, I
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John C Dvorak: just want a backgrounder. Yeah,
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Adam Curry: well, and I think that is the general consensus a
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couple of things. One, every report says he was arrested at
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boujee airport. It's le boujee airport. It's very annoying to
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hear this. I don't know why they're not. You know, it'd be
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like Kennedy Airport is John F Kennedy Airport? Le Bouchet, the
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rumble CEO jumps on the train by posting on x.
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John C Dvorak: Oh, I just wait a minute. Why does he just post on
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rumble? Chris Pavlovsky,
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Adam Curry: I've just safely departed from Europe. France has
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threatened rumble now they've crossed a red line by arresting
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telegram CEO Pavel Durov, reportedly for not censoring
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speech. Rumble will not stand for this behavior. We'll use
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every legal means. Blah, blah, blah, okay, so he's jumping on
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the train and and that is the the general response from people
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is, and of course, what we've heard is no, as far as I know,
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there's no actual official announcement, but he is be, was,
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I think, I think it was Reuters says he's being charged with
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terrorism, narcotic, supply, fraud, money laundering,
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receiving stolen goods, pornography with miners, because
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he didn't moderate. He doesn't have moderate he doesn't have
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poor moderation tools. So first Are you? Do you use telegram at
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all?
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John C Dvorak: As a matter of fact? No, no,
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Adam Curry: and I use it because I detest it. I really don't
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John C Dvorak: like telegram. You said this before years ago.
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Adam Curry: I find it cumbersome. Now, many dudes
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named Ben swear by it, of course, because of its apparent
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security, I presume it's it's secure that you have end to end
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encryption. I've not really even checked it. You can report
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people and block people those there's some kind of moderating
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going on somewhere, I guess, but it's tedious, you know. So
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people have these channels and you can, and often you're unless
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you have the settings set properly, you are auto joined to
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a channel. All of your sudden, you have some bitcoin thing. And
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a lot of the Bitcoin people are on, I'd say most of the Bitcoin
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people who aren't also on noster are on telegram. I see this a
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little differently, though. I think that this move coming
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right now, and Pavel, he's a billionaire, he didn't make it
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off a telegram. Because as far as I know, no one paid. Does
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anyone pay for telegram? Is there any business model there
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for payment? They're
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John C Dvorak: asking the wrong guy. Well,
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Adam Curry: I'm asking in general, maybe the troll room
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knows. I don't think that there's a payment necessary. He
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did have a payment cryptocurrency, which went to
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basically zero upon this news. Surprise, surprise. So there was
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some kind of, although that's not even mentioned in any of the
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allegations that I heard of but I think this is something
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different. Telegram is is used extensively by, I would say by
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our United States operatives to stir up stuff. How many times
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have we heard? Oh, this the, this particular revolution, this
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color revolution, was started on telegram amid some sketchy guys
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in Germany on telegram. I think that this is more marketing than
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anything. It wouldn't surprise me if Pavel is is led off quite,
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quite soon, he'll be, he'll be sent on his merry way.
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John C Dvorak: That's the, actually, the first thing I
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thought of, Oh, good. Well,
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Adam Curry: you didn't see it, so I get dibs. That's funny. I
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John C Dvorak: don't care. But to see, it seems to me, and I'd
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say that because of your attitude toward it, which is
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that you've always been skeptical of its true safety
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well, and yeah, and it seems to me that if the thing is really
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full of holes and actually has back doors, the arrest the guy,
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and make it sound as though there's nothing wrong with this,
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it's a great but. Secret thing. If you want to do secret
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communications, please use this. Don't use anything else. I'm
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Adam Curry: saying something different, though. I'm saying
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I'm not questioning its its encryption and its privacy. I
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think that it's what the intelligence communities and the
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State Department and the, you know, the the people who make
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trouble around the world, Victoria Nuland, I think they're
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annoyed by x, and they really want to control things by
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starting stuff. And when it comes from Telegram, oh, this is
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a secure app. This guy's got to be for real. To me, it feels
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more like everybody use telegram. Don't use x I think
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beyond actually, didn't he promise that we'd get secure
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DMing. Never saw that happen.
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John C Dvorak: I don't remember. Yeah, there was an
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Adam Curry: end to end encryption promise somewhere.
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But no, I it's to me, this is more like everybody you've got.
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Please use telegram. It's secure. See, we got this guy
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because it's because it can't be moderated. Everybody use that,
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don't use x, where, where, Elon control, because there's no
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algorithms in telegram. It's just, you know, chat channels or
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direct messaging. That, to me, it feels like this is something
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else is going on, and it's and it's marketing for people who
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like to stir up crap in countries and would prefer
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people to use something that, although they don't control
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directly, they can control the perception that it's real when
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they
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John C Dvorak: get to the next level, which is they do control
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it directly. Well, then they're monitoring it. That's
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Adam Curry: what happened with WhatsApp. I mean, WhatsApp had
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that promise. Remember when WhatsApp was cool and you paid
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$1 a year and they had millions, like 100 million, people using
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it?
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John C Dvorak: I remember that I again, was another non user.
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Yeah, I'm too busy.
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Adam Curry: Hold up. Well, you cannot communicate with
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Europeans almost without using WhatsApp. Everybody uses
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WhatsApp in Europe, and I certainly don't trust WhatsApp.
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I
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John C Dvorak: could send him a DM. I could call it, make a call
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on the phone. Yeah, I can communicate with Europeans
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without using your WhatsApp. You're
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Adam Curry: being a technical person. Now, of course you can,
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but Europeans prefer WhatsApp over SMS, text messaging and
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anything else. They prefer it. That's where the family have
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groups, and it's bigger than iMessage. And also, of course,
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because iMessage is not as prevalent in Europe, people are
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poor there. The poor saps can't afford an iPhone, so they're all
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on Android, cheap Android.
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Unknown: So anyway,
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Adam Curry: I, I'm, I'm suspicious of this action. I'm
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very suspicious of it.
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John C Dvorak: And will you should be,
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Adam Curry: yes, I, I know you're not bumping the mic, but
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something is is booming. I know what that could be, okay, well,
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then it's fine. All right, we kind of knew this was happening
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on Thursday. We were just waiting for the announcement. It
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happened on cue,
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John C Dvorak: exactly as we said, yes, it
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Adam Curry: wasn't like was a big secret. Do you before we go
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to Bobby the OP. Do you want to finish up the DNC and and the
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final evening of of joy, or actually, non joy, because both
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of us were wrong on our predictions. There was not a
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single cackle, let alone three.
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John C Dvorak: No, no, there was one.
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Adam Curry: It was a cat. It wasn't a cackle. It was a cat
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car. It wasn't a
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John C Dvorak: was it was enough. It was enough of a
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cackle that I think it would count if you were taking bets.
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Adam Curry: Well, I You said, No cackles. I said, three. So
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neither of us win there? No.
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John C Dvorak: I said, the over and unders, 2.5 Okay, you win.
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Adam Curry: But there was no I know Donald Trump. I know his
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type. She didn't. She didn't pull that one out. Now, did she
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John C Dvorak: that was, well, you and I both agreed that she
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would, yeah, of course. In fact, you made a big stink about, oh,
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that's not much of a bet.
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Adam Curry: Is that how I said it? So we were both thinking,
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uncanny, how you nail my my voice. It was,
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John C Dvorak: it was, and I know I can do it. I tried to
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avoid it, but I can't. I
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Adam Curry: do have the clip of what she did say about Trump.
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It's about a minute and a half. It was one of the what was the
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count? I was like hundreds of times during this convention
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they talked about Trump, which is kind of interesting. Here's,
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sorry, interesting. It was interesting.
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John C Dvorak: No, I know, I don't know what you're getting
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at. You're asking me a question. No,
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Adam Curry: I was not asking you a question. Oh, yeah. Here is
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what the Vice Presidential, Vice President, a presidential
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nominee, said about four. Former President Trump ha but
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Unknown: the consequences of putting Donald Trump back in the
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White House are extremely serious. Consider what he
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intends to do if we give him power again. Consider, consider
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explicit intent to set free violent extremists who assaulted
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those law enforcement officers at the Capitol.
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Adam Curry: This was there was a lot of lot of lying going on.
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John C Dvorak: The amount of lying is unbelievable. Well,
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Adam Curry: unfortunately, unfortunately, it works. You
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know it works. People hear these things over and over again, and
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they're certain that it's true. His explicit
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Unknown: intent to jail journalists. No,
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John C Dvorak: he's kind of jail.
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Adam Curry: His explicit, I don't think I've heard that.
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Have you heard
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John C Dvorak: was an explicit intent,
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Unknown: okay, intent to jail journalists, political opponents
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and anyone he sees as the enemy, his explicit intent. Why
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Adam Curry: do you think she's using the term explicit intent?
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John C Dvorak: It reminds me of the I don't know if I have this
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clip, I probably don't, but of the guy who, who, who ran into a
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woman? Oh, no, I don't have it. This is the kind of a redneck
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character talking about how he ran into a woman who claims she
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saw Donald Trump. It was, it was a veteran. I saw that. Yeah, the
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veteran, he says they saw Trump, say, watched him say, losers and
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suckers, which is yes, yes, yes. And he there, and he said, Well,
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he looked into it, of course, because he didn't know better to
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know it was bull crap, but he looked into him. There is no
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video of this, but she saw it. And so I think the idea is to
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drum into people's brains that explicit intent means he said
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it. Try to visualize him saying it, and you will eventually
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imagine he actually saying it on the podium, because he says a
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lot. So he could Yes, and I
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Adam Curry: understand that. But the term explicit intent is,
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it's notable. I'm not sure there must be. We need Scott Adams,
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the professional hypnotist, to tell us why she's using
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John C Dvorak: that. There's probably actually, in this case,
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Scott might have an answer, yeah, there's some persuasive
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Adam Curry: mechanism to it to
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Unknown: deploy our active duty military against our own
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citizens.
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John C Dvorak: Yeah, gonna come and start shooting people.
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Unknown: There's,
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John C Dvorak: I think there's, I don't know if
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Adam Curry: you there's a law against that that's not actually
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legal. I don't tell you, whatever doesn't
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John C Dvorak: matter. He's gonna be from day one. Just want
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to do it. He's
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Adam Curry: gonna do it. He's gonna do it. You want to say
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something else?
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John C Dvorak: I was did? No, just play these out, because
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there's one in this group. Well, actually, I, before you even
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continue this, I want to play what something? Well, because I
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Okay, no, this just fits right in. I want you to, let's see, I
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think it's a DN, I want you to play. DNC, Camela two, because
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it what you're playing. And early in the speech, she says
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the following, this is Kamla to respect. They
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Unknown: instilled in us the values they personified,
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community, faith and the importance of treating others as
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you would want to be treated with kindness, respect and
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compassion.
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John C Dvorak: Okay, so she's been drummed into her to treat
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others the way she'd like to be treated with kindness and
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passion and all the rest of it. And meanwhile, you're playing
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these clips. This is an example of treating others by lying
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about them, I guess. So consider,
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Unknown: consider the power he will have, especially after the
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United States Supreme Court just ruled that he would be immune
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from criminal prosecution, but you
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Adam Curry: will have the same power. Ms Harris, it wasn't just
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for him, it was for all presidents, and it wasn't really
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what you're saying. It is, but not at all. Okay, that sounds
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scary.
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Unknown: Just imagine, imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails.
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Oh no, my voice is skipping, and how he
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would use the immense powers of the presidency of the United
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States, how not to improve your life, not to strengthen our
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national security, but to serve the only client he has ever had
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himself. I.
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John C Dvorak: Yeah, it was great. That was good. Oh, so you
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didn't get what I was hoping for. Oh, what were you hoping
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for? The one where she goes, this is part of her litany. She
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says he's going to set up a commission to track abortions
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and every miscarriage and see what, what he's going to track
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all the miscarriages and crack down on abortions. It's
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Adam Curry: also the IVF. Thing is, is just astounding that
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there is, this is not a a talking point. It's not in
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Project 2025, there was one Alabama guy, Supreme Court. Just
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Supreme Court, Justice in Alabama, one who who said, Well,
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you know, we've got to treat these, these embryos, embryos,
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as children and and this, if anything, has been successful as
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that is the IVF thing. It's really odd, all the way up to
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Michelle Obama admitting, for the first time in history, as
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far as I know, that she well, you had the clip that that one
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of her children, maybe both, were born through IVF. This is
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new. This is groundbreaking. This is breaking.
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John C Dvorak: I never knew that. And Trump has gone on and
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said that he's going to protect IVF as much as he can. He's
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everything she says is a blatant lie, pretty much. And it's like,
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and everyone's eating it up. So
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Adam Curry: not everyone, John, I would just say dimension B is
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eating it up. It's, it's their rocket fuel. They're fired up
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fire. I
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John C Dvorak: have, I have more than a couple of clips here. Can
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Adam Curry: I just give an overall impression of Harris and
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waltz after having watched the Thursday evening festivities?
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Yeah, sure. They are just like American food processed. Oh,
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here we go, filled with soy and sugar and marketed with rainbow
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colors. That's what they are. And this and people want it.
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People eat that. They like it. Mmm, yummy. It's good soy sugar.
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Mmm, pretty colors. So it makes sense that there's a large
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portion of the population that is all in on it.
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John C Dvorak: Well, that brings me to some funny clips. But
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before we get to that, I do want to play this, because I this was
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on Democracy Now, and you can put the warning up.
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Adam Curry: Oh, okay, yes. Amy trigger warning, yes.
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John C Dvorak: So this is the clip. Is DNC covered up
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protests. There was actually this was not reported by the
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mainstream media. Amy picked it up, and they had a video of it
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because she happened to be sitting in the audience near it.
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And I was actually kind of surprised by the way it was all
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coordinated. I guess everyone was clued in on how to cover up
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any sort of protest that took place on the on the convention
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floor. Play this
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Unknown: morning AMY GOODMAN cliff and bound a few minutes
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into President Biden's remarks. Three delegates, part of
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delegates against genocide, dropped a banner that read, stop
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arming Israel. We were inside the convention floor, right next
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to the Florida delegation where it happened. While some
23:26
delegates snatched the banner away, many others of the Florida
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delegation quickly raised Joe Biden placards that said, thank
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you, Joe and we love Joe, to block any view of the banner.
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The protesting delegates who dropped the banner were quickly
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escorted from the convention floor by security straight
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Adam Curry: to the vasectomy mobile took care of them. Well,
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I do have one protest clip from outside, and they've taken a new
23:56
a new bent on on the alliteration of any name, like
23:59
cackling Kamala. They've got a better 1000s.
24:05
Unknown: Marched through the streets of Chicago, home to one
24:07
of the largest Palestinian communities in the United
24:10
States. It's the final night of the Democratic National
24:15
Convention. Throughout the week, these protests have made it
24:18
clear which issue most divides the party.
24:21
The only way I'm voting for her is she calls for an arms embargo
24:25
on Israel.
24:28
Those hoping for an end to military support for Israel,
24:30
however, won't be won over by Kamala Harris's speech as she
24:34
accepted her party's nomination for president. I will
24:39
always ensure Israel has the ability to defend itself. Around
24:44
a dozen delegates to the convention remain sat outside
24:48
until the final hours. They represent the uncommitted
24:51
movement, a pro Palestinian campaign which, during the
24:54
primaries, mobilized hundreds of 1000s of voters to withhold
24:58
their support for President Joe Biden. Did they push for a
25:01
Primetime speaking slot for a Palestinian to address the
25:04
bloodshed in Gaza? But in the end, mention of it within the
25:07
convention hall was limited.
25:09
Gaza is watching and seeing that this party that we hold dear to
25:13
our hearts, that we know holds human rights dear, is not even
25:17
letting
25:18
my Palestinian siblings speak. Vice
25:20
President Harris did again call for a ceasefire if that's not
25:24
achieved soon. One party donor is reportedly worried that
25:27
protests could again erupt at universities as they reopen for
25:32
the new term.
25:33
Adam Curry: Ah, they're not done yet. Okay, you won't let us do
25:36
it at the DNC, they didn't even have a Palestinian American on
25:40
stage, even Jon Stewart made note of that, which I thought
25:44
was interesting.
25:46
John C Dvorak: They're not gonna do that. No, well,
25:48
Adam Curry: of course not. I mean, the what I found
25:53
disappointing is, you know, there were a couple of funny
25:57
people who were doing funny stuff inside, a la Alex Stein,
26:01
99 obviously he wasn't there. I think at this point he's even in
26:05
costume. He's too recognizable. Alex stranger, who is the
26:09
pedicab guy from Austin who I voted for in the mayoral race
26:14
years back because he wanted to put a dome over Austin and give
26:17
flamethrowers to teachers, which I thought was an outstanding
26:21
platform, uh, he, he was in there doing a bit that was so
26:26
good, or at least so convincing to whoever he was doing that to
26:32
as
26:32
John C Dvorak: the BBC. Oh, the BBC, yeah, British Broadcasting
26:36
suckers.
26:37
Adam Curry: But we had, uh, suckers, you spell with an
26:41
astronaut to see we had our own people saying, Look at this.
26:46
Look at this leftist cook. Like, yes, you don't see this. And
26:51
then the,
26:52
John C Dvorak: especially this stuff about the black lover's
26:55
wife's black lover teaching him about civil rights or something.
27:00
Adam Curry: And then the then the comedian. I don't know if
27:03
he's gay or not, but he was certainly acting very feminine.
27:06
I
27:06
John C Dvorak: have clips from him. Oh, okay, what's this is a
27:09
guy. His name is Lionel mcgloin. People also
27:12
Adam Curry: took him seriously. They didn't realize that was a
27:14
gag. It was
27:16
John C Dvorak: a gag. Not only that, but somebody put a clip on
27:19
Twitter where he did the same thing at the Republican National
27:23
Convention. The guy's a comic, yeah, so he plays characters,
27:26
and then the Republican Convention, I don't have any of
27:28
those, because they're not very funny, because the Republicans
27:31
weren't buying it. And the guy was in there. He was he had a
27:35
big hat, giant hat, on in the and he had Texas action. He
27:38
talked like this, Oh, good. And he and he tried to convince
27:41
everyone. He said, Texas a big house for Jesus or something he
27:45
was doing. And they but they were just not buying it. And
27:49
they there was nothing. They got out. It was funny. But so he
27:52
goes to the Democrat convention, and he acts unbelievably gay, to
27:58
the point where I don't know, is this guy really gay? It might be
28:02
even gay guys, like, I don't know, man, well, he ran into one
28:05
gay guy who was always going to want to date him. And so I have
28:09
like five. These are very, oh, you really went for it. Okay.
28:13
Good, good, good, good. 123, yeah, there's five or six very
28:17
short clips. But he went, but he got, he got gold when he was
28:21
there. And I the thing was linked in the newsletter. If you
28:26
have the newsletter, you can just go to the long version of
28:29
the bit. You
28:31
Adam Curry: put it in the newsletter. It was good.
28:34
John C Dvorak: So I want to play just a few of these things, just
28:37
to show you what was going on. And the Democrats just fell for
28:40
it. And I think the and I was thinking about why the guy was
28:44
so
28:44
Adam Curry: gay, they're afraid. They're afraid to say anything.
28:48
They were
28:48
John C Dvorak: afraid to say anything. And they figured he
28:50
boy, he's got to be a Democrat.
28:54
Adam Curry: Although we know that there's a lot of gay
28:56
Republicans. There's
28:58
John C Dvorak: probably as many as Democrats, but they're
29:00
little, they're less. This guy acted like a flamer, which is an
29:04
old term, yes. Okay, so for example, this is a good example.
29:09
He goes up, he's, and he's going up, he's, he ran into Kellyanne
29:15
Conway.
29:17
Adam Curry: Hold on, what happened? Kellyanne Conway, is
29:19
she? Is this a new mask, or did she have some unbelievable work
29:24
done?
29:24
John C Dvorak: She had some work done. Let's face it, not some
29:27
dude, they kind of, she looks 20 years younger. All those pointy
29:31
Adam Curry: features have been shaved down. And something
29:34
happened. Yeah, something happened.
29:36
John C Dvorak: So he went up to her, and he was giving her and
29:38
she was she was pretty affable. She wasn't like, making a fool
29:41
of herself, like when she I'm going to go from the from the
29:44
top here, this is he, he goes and sits down with Nadler, fat
29:49
Nadler, Jerry Nadler, from New York. There's only, like, this
29:53
is 11 seconds, but, but this was the theme of what he was
29:57
accomplishing by playing this character. Character and going
30:00
up to various Democrats, and they were buying it like there
30:03
was no tomorrow. And this little clip is actually disgusting.
30:08
This
30:08
Unknown: year it'd be so brat, have a higher tax rate for rich
30:12
white men.
30:14
Well, if we have a Democratic Congress, we certainly will.
30:16
Yeah,
30:17
baby, tax those rich old ladies. Come on.
30:20
Adam Curry: He was all over the brat, wasn't he? Everything was
30:23
brat.
30:23
John C Dvorak: Was a brat. In fact, yes, he made the he did
30:28
the brat thing for to an extreme, and that's why he
30:32
called these clips brat. He goes up to Leticia James, the
30:37
prosecutor in New York, and this happens. Are
30:40
Unknown: you worried Donald Trump's going to weaponize the
30:43
justice system if he gets some power? I'm concerned about
30:45
Project 2025 and it's important that individuals understand that
30:49
project 2025 basically consolidates power in the hands
30:53
of one dangerous man. And so it's really critical you're
30:55
prosecuting his political enemies. Exactly.
31:00
You're even more beautiful in person. Oh, I love him. I love
31:04
you. Thank you so
31:10
Adam Curry: much. That's fantastic. That is so good. And
31:16
the lie that project 2025, consolidates, no, it doesn't
31:22
consolidate anything
31:24
John C Dvorak: in what in the hands of one evil dictator. And
31:28
Adam Curry: here's a prosecutor who should know her documents.
31:32
Did not read it. Yeah, it's a flowery policy, flowery policy
31:38
pile of
31:41
John C Dvorak: Well, I think your point about Project 2025,
31:43
being written by AI, yeah, needs to be taken to into account.
31:49
There anyone talks about
31:50
Adam Curry: 30 pages of the intro is just about themselves,
31:53
about how awesome each person is who contributed to it, and then
31:57
this whole thing, the rest of the 930 pages could have, you
32:01
know, could be 30 pages itself, but you run it through jeeps,
32:05
chat, GPT, like flowered up baby, and that's what you get
32:09
paragraphs with, run on sentences, just hundreds of
32:13
words you should, you should look at it just for, for yucks
32:18
you won't get past. And in one chapter,
32:23
John C Dvorak: so here he runs into some guy who's defending
32:26
walls as he goes after walls as he makes a point that walls is
32:32
representing a body positive image. This is good body
32:39
positivity, which means, you know, Waltz is just a friend of
32:42
fat guy, and so, so we get this exchange. We
32:46
Unknown: have women of color, and we also have Tim waltz. What
32:50
a great example for the body positive community. What do you
32:53
think Tim waltz can be as an inspiration for body positive
32:57
people?
32:58
A young man came to him and said, We want to have a gay club
33:05
here at our high school. And he said, I want to lead that,
33:09
because I need to be he's
33:11
like a gay leader.
33:14
Adam Curry: Hey, this guy. What's his name? Again, the
33:16
comedian
33:18
John C Dvorak: mccloyne and Mick The Lionel McCloy,
33:21
Adam Curry: I would say he could be a stringer for gut felt or
33:24
maybe water should, should hire him and send him out on the
33:28
streets. You know, he can clearly do multiple types of
33:32
characters. He's got a gig with this. I could, I feel a gig, you
33:35
know, it's
33:36
John C Dvorak: definitely one of the most aggressive things I've
33:41
seen. And he and he did it for probably hours, and he played
33:46
this character, this, this ridiculous. He was doing all
33:48
kinds of bits in between these, these small interviews, he runs
33:53
into a random gay, obviously, a gay kid, a cute little gay kid.
33:57
And this, this exchange takes place,
34:00
Unknown: is Kamala so us. She's so us because she's brat. She is
34:05
so brat. What does brat mean? Brat is like, you're like a
34:09
party girl, but like you go out at really late at night, and
34:13
like you fall asleep with all your makeup on. And, I mean, I
34:17
have to love Kamala being in a menage a try at one point.
34:22
Adam Curry: You know, the thing is, and this, this is a huge
34:26
weakness for, for, you know, this dementia B collection of
34:30
people, I'm not even going to call them Democrats. This is,
34:33
this is a particular type of people who, who, who are just
34:36
completely brainwashed, MK Ultra, in a way, anybody can go
34:41
up and act gay, and immediately there'll be, I mean, you could
34:44
do it without, by the way, that's a great idea. Gay Dvorak,
34:48
going in, hey, hey, Brad, hey, girlfriend,
34:52
Unknown: you could do
34:53
John C Dvorak: it. My gay is, is not that great. I mean, I always
34:58
do it. I sound like I. Sound like a 60s I stereotype gay,
35:03
yeah, you
35:04
Adam Curry: should just talk about, oh, what's the, what's
35:07
the big festival with the old, the old fat dudes run around
35:10
naked in San Francisco.
35:13
John C Dvorak: There's a day they run around naked in San
35:15
Francisco, over in
35:16
Adam Curry: the in the tenderloin, they all run. They
35:18
all run around, yes,
35:20
John C Dvorak: oh, you're talking. Oh no, no, yeah, I know
35:23
what you're thinking of. You're thinking of the Folsom Street
35:26
Fair. Yes, yes, yeah, you
35:29
Adam Curry: could be one of those guys. Oh, yeah, I
35:31
John C Dvorak: did. And by the
35:32
Adam Curry: way, with chaps, not all gay guys talk like this at
35:36
all
35:37
John C Dvorak: they do around here. But that's
35:39
Adam Curry: my case in point, you could get in anywhere I you
35:43
can get interviews with with tech leaders.
35:46
John C Dvorak: Well, most of them are gay, so maybe, Ah,
35:49
there you go. Hello, everybody. So now I do have two before we
35:53
continue on this list. If you go to rat, v, r, a T, I forgot I
35:58
had two of these. These are the ones that are misspelled, brat
36:02
with a V, yes. So I got Ed Markey of the senator from
36:08
Massachusetts, falling for it, and they go back and forth and
36:12
listen to this idiot. So some
36:14
Unknown: Gen Z doubters of Kamala have noted her record
36:18
persecuting people for weed. I'm a stoner. I use it for PTSD. Do
36:22
you think that era is so over? She's so over that I think
36:26
that even in the period of the Biden Harris administration,
36:33
they have been working very hard in order to say, no, what
36:37
about like Coke and stuff? It should be, what about like coke
36:41
in her
36:42
I would have to look at it, but to decriminalize
36:45
the drugs, baby coke for the boys, oh man,
36:48
Adam Curry: oh man. These people are so stupid. They're so
36:53
stupid. Oh man. They can't even they're so afraid of offending
36:58
someone who just happens to be gay or flamboyant,
37:02
John C Dvorak: is what he is, flamboyant, flamboyant,
37:05
Adam Curry: flamboyant. They're so worried about being called
37:08
out for something that they'll just, they go along with
37:11
everything. This is what I'm synthetic. I'm gonna start. I'm
37:14
gonna start using this. Hey, hey, if I want something from
37:18
you, I'll just try it. Hey, so
37:20
John C Dvorak: here comes, yeah, that's gonna work, yeah. So
37:22
here's the second brat clip, which is the cam. This is where
37:26
he runs into some just a regular delegate, and they go about how
37:30
great camel's laugh is. No
37:33
Unknown: the best Kamala laugh ever. Oh, my God, she has a best
37:41
laugh. Joy, we love joy. How do we guarantee equity of joy?
37:47
Equity
37:47
of joy will flow forth from Kamala. It's a just a given, and
37:51
part of hope
37:52
we are manifesting. It's coming. People say vibes don't matter,
37:55
but we are manifesting our nation.
38:00
Adam Curry: So these are the people that actually, these are
38:02
delegates. These are people who determine who's running, who's,
38:06
uh, yes, this is great. This is, this is, this is, this is what
38:09
democracy looks like, yes.
38:12
John C Dvorak: And here I got two left, and they're both,
38:14
again, short. This is a here he is with a young now, this is an
38:19
attractive woman, a young D and she's from DC, and she's a
38:23
delegate and and they go into this is just so off the wall.
38:26
It's just kind of surprises me.
38:29
Unknown: Where are the cuties in the Democratic Party that are
38:31
speaking?
38:33
Oh, I don't know. Talk to anyone who lives in DC. It's hard to
38:36
find a cute Democrat.
38:40
Oh, my God, shots fired.
38:42
No, that's, I mean, that's the team. Ask anyone who lives in DC
38:45
and who works in democratic politics, it's hard to find the
38:49
cute ones. Republican
38:50
eyes are hotter, yeah, but
38:51
they're evil. So, like, I don't know we
38:54
kind of love evil. Oh, my God, you're so bad.
38:59
Adam Curry: Wow. Democrats in DC are ugly. That's what she said,
39:06
John C Dvorak: wow. And then the final one, I
39:09
Adam Curry: just stop and think about that for a second. Why
39:15
John C Dvorak: Democrats, if you think about it, generally
39:18
speaking, are not the most attractive people. Just think of
39:20
Jamie Raskin as a typical Democrat. Well, they
39:24
Adam Curry: have Dark Souls, some of them, but I'm okay.
39:27
John C Dvorak: I think comes out in the face, yeah,
39:30
Adam Curry: yeah, yeah. It's not, it's not healthy.
39:33
John C Dvorak: No, it's obviously not healthy. And this
39:34
girl reflected in now, this one, this last clip, is kind of a two
39:39
parter, because first he runs into Harry Sisson, or whatever
39:42
his name is, the influencer, creepy guy and and Sisson won't
39:46
play along with the idea that he was going to ask him a series of
39:49
questions, and you're supposed to respond yes or no. Queen, now
39:54
I don't know if this is some sort of a gay game or something,
39:57
but the idea is I ask you a question. You say yes. Queen. No
40:00
Queen Sisson wouldn't play the game. So he clips it right
40:04
straight to this woman, another attractive delegate. She's this
40:08
girl is really pretty.
40:09
Adam Curry: So there are pretty Democrats, just not in DC, not
40:13
John C Dvorak: in DC, but this, this girl was pretty, but she
40:18
was, she was a dipshit. So, so the pretty Democrats are dumb
40:23
shits, and this girl, if you listen to some of these
40:27
questions, like he wants her to affirm that it would be good to
40:32
give illegal alien sex changes. And think, I mean the questions,
40:37
this guy's over the top, and he's this is great. He's on a
40:41
roll. And he really got on a roll with this girl. And we
40:44
again, we finish it up the way we started it with tax rich
40:48
white guys, and here we go.
40:50
Unknown: One vinyl game, yes, queen or no. Queen, okay,
40:53
I'll give you a yes or no. How about that? Okay, amazing. Can
40:56
you do yes queen or no? Cleaner. Oh, really. Free abortions. Yes.
41:00
Queen, free gender affirming care for migrants, yes. Queen,
41:04
social child tax credits for dogs, yes. Queen, Ban
41:09
standardized testing, yes. Queen, my ADD is so crazy. Get
41:13
rid of those things, please. Yes. Queen, Yeah, amazing.
41:18
Different tax rate for white men, yes. Queen Amen says they
41:22
love you. Love her energy. She's a yes. Queener,
41:26
Adam Curry: wow,
41:29
Unknown: wow.
41:31
Adam Curry: I'm gonna do that with you. I'm just gonna say
41:33
yes. Queen, whenever I really disagree with you, I'm just
41:37
gonna throw out a yes, yes. Queen, there is, there is,
41:40
however, the curry Dvorak Consulting Group was not
41:43
contracted nor consulted for the Democrat party this year, and
41:48
they've made a rookie mistake, where they have, of course,
41:53
hooked their wagon to the brat summer, which is why this guy
41:56
did all the brat stuff. Now we could have told them that it's
42:01
very risky to attach your campaign. And as we know, the
42:06
Harris HQ X account has taken on the the brat summer green,
42:12
everything is brat. She's brat. Brat, this brat that these
42:16
trends are fleeting and very and I mentioned this in passing to
42:21
at least this morning. She's still with us. Couple more. I
42:24
said, like, 10 more days before she go goes
42:26
John C Dvorak: back. More days a good material. Yes, good before
42:29
she goes
42:29
Adam Curry: back to Brooklyn. She's a Zoomer. And I said,
42:32
because I'd seen, I'd not heard your clips, but I'd seen the
42:34
word brat. And I said, Oh, John's all in on brat. And she
42:37
says, Oh, ah, doesn't he know that brat is over. I'm like, oh.
42:43
He says, Oh yes, it's demure autumn.
42:46
John C Dvorak: No, we did that. We had the clip about demure
42:49
autumn. Well,
42:50
Adam Curry: it's gone a little further than your clip. Let's
42:53
not forget to be demure divas.
42:55
Unknown: You guys already know how I come to work. Always very
42:58
demure, very mindful, sort of like tiktoker Jules LeBron, who
43:01
recently sparked the terms demure and mindful to have a
43:04
viral bout of usage across Tiktok. Very demure,
43:07
very mindful, very demure, very mindful,
43:10
very demure,
43:11
very mindful.
43:12
In early August 2024 Jules posted several videos about how
43:15
she presents herself when going to work, describing her look as
43:18
very demure, very mindful. I don't do too much. I'm very
43:22
mindful while I'm at work, very demure. I don't wear too much
43:26
makeup. I'm very modest. I'm very mindful. You see my shirt?
43:30
Only a little chichi out, not my Chocho. Very demure, very
43:34
mindful. Her
43:35
earliest video using the phrase garnered over 10 million views
43:38
in a week, and she continued to post videos using her keywords,
43:41
demure, mindful, respectful and cutesy, often explaining how to
43:45
achieve these qualities. Tiktokers quickly took notice
43:47
and started using the terms in their own content, like tiktoker
43:50
Hal Batty, who posted several videos parodying jewels and
43:53
overusing the term demure, also to the tune of millions of
43:56
views, my
43:57
heart is pure. I'm so demure. I'm being serious. Keep it
44:01
demure.
44:03
These words blew up online over the following days, even
44:05
spreading to x as users continued employing them in
44:08
their videos, often ironically, showcasing things that are not
44:11
exactly demure, like eating a messy sandwich. Memers also took
44:14
note of the virality, creating parodies and remixes of jules's
44:17
original videos and lots of memes referencing the buzzwords
44:20
I
44:20
take my antidepressants every
44:22
Adam Curry: day. Very demure, very mindful. There it is, very
44:25
demure, very mindful. That's, well, I
44:27
John C Dvorak: want to call you out here so you go to her and
44:31
say that John is in on Brad. And I didn't even know what it was.
44:37
I've never been in on it, let alone,
44:40
Adam Curry: no, I said, John is all in. He has a whole bunch of
44:43
brat all in, is
44:44
John C Dvorak: what you said. All in, I'm not all in, yes,
44:47
queen, I'm not all in. I didn't queen,
44:53
Adam Curry: what I meant was, you've had a lot of brat clips.
44:56
No, I
44:57
John C Dvorak: had one brat clip. They're
44:59
Adam Curry: all. Labeled brat, that's
45:01
John C Dvorak: all I saw. Oh, no, this one, yeah, no, because
45:03
this guy presented himself as but I
45:05
Adam Curry: didn't know. Look, I don't listen to your clips, so
45:07
all I see is brat, Brad. Brat Jones, yes, queen, all I saw was
45:13
Brad. Brad. Brat. So calm down. Were you not? So
45:18
John C Dvorak: you assumed? No, I know you're an ass out of you
45:24
and me. You're making your
45:25
Adam Curry: take your you are taking this too far. I just
45:28
said, John's all in with the brat clips. I didn't sit and say
45:31
you're all in on brat. You're, you're, you're a okay,
45:35
John C Dvorak: you can dig yourself out of the hole later.
45:37
I'll let you slide. I'm just saying, yes, queen, she must
45:41
think, and you can stop that?
45:43
Adam Curry: I don't know if I can. It's too good. All right,
45:47
let me switch gears for a moment, because we were talking
45:50
just a minute ago about these are the people who who are the
45:53
delegates who choose who is going to run for the party. We
45:56
know that no one actually voted for Kamala Harris, and it was
46:02
amazing to hear your governor, California Governor Newsom,
46:08
John C Dvorak: with the pod. Hope you got the part again. I
46:11
hope, I hope I got to try to find this clip, because I noted
46:15
it down in the notepad. I went back. You
46:18
Adam Curry: were too busy clipping the brat guy. No, no,
46:20
no, no. I was,
46:21
John C Dvorak: I was looking for somehow, the problem was, yeah,
46:25
on YouTube video, I wrote down it was Democrat. It was this
46:30
Democrat 2024. Is something they had a label. And so I go to look
46:34
it up on the search engine, and there's like, 1000s of them.
46:38
They Fox did a very crappy job of there's
46:43
Adam Curry: all kinds of stuff I couldn't find that. Good stuff
46:46
is disappearing very quickly. I had a couple of those myself.
46:49
Anyway, you might have the clip I'm looking for. I
46:51
Unknown: hope so.
46:52
Adam Curry: I hope I'm trying to regain a favor. Yes, queen, it's
46:58
contagious. Pod saves America, which is a very pro Democrat
47:04
Party podcast. It's very successful podcast has a whole
47:08
bunch of Obama people on the podcast. They are now also
47:13
unionized that podcast, because they're from crooked
47:16
John C Dvorak: media, so you're trying to be funny. We won't
47:19
have to listen
47:19
Adam Curry: to them too long, because they will go out of
47:21
business, and here they are with Governor Newsom yucking it up,
47:24
laughing about the blatant disregard for what they would
47:30
call democracy, and just switching Harris or switching
47:35
Biden out for Harris.
47:36
Unknown: How you feeling about the switch?
47:38
I mean,
47:39
the switch now we went through a very open process. It
47:44
was bottom up.
47:46
You know that? Yes, that's what
47:49
the Blitz, primary,
47:56
30 minute convention. Yeah, it's been
48:00
amazing, I would have, yeah, it's been
48:02
amazing, but it is. What is amazing is how unified everybody
48:05
Adam Curry: is next level. And even making fun of Schumer with
48:09
the it's bottom up. It's grassroots that, I mean, that
48:15
was like, wow, and they're just laughing about it. They don't
48:18
care. These idiots, these ladies.
48:22
John C Dvorak: Now, well, the clip I was looking for, just to
48:24
bring it back and for, and I'll just have to just, oh, this,
48:27
this wasn't the clip you were looking for. No, the clip I was
48:30
looking for, he was being interviewed by Brett bear. Oh,
48:33
save America. And he loves going on Fox, by the way Newsome does,
48:38
and he always makes some comment about being on Fox. I know this
48:41
is dangerous
48:43
Adam Curry: enemy territory here. Yeah,
48:46
John C Dvorak: what he says? He says that too. And he says, he
48:49
said that. Well, the last, you know, the last number of years
48:52
have been disastrous, and the camera's going to bring us out
48:55
of it and and it's going to be a new a new way of go, going, a
49:01
new future, new way forward. And Brett calls him, I said, Well,
49:04
the last number of years she was in office, she was the Vice
49:06
President, you're talking about the Biden administration, and
49:09
then Newsom, no, no, no. What I meant was and he'd make some
49:15
sort of an excuse. And I was thinking about this, why I
49:17
needed the clip. He did this on purpose, and he did it on
49:21
purpose on that show too. I think he is. He is doing little
49:25
bitty snipes because he doesn't want Kamala to win. He wants to
49:30
be the nominee in 2028 if she wins, pushing it off to 2032
49:38
Adam Curry: I cleaned up the whole state. I put swept the
49:41
homeless under the carpet. I got the Olympics coming. Yes, I
49:46
agree. It's, yeah, yeah. He's doing he's he is a very sly one,
49:52
that Newsom. He's sleep.
49:54
John C Dvorak: But if you're looking for it, you see it
49:57
because he is transparent. Current. So the
50:01
Adam Curry: big mistake I feel and I'm not sure, I'm not sure
50:06
who launched the rumors or, I mean, all the news channels were
50:10
doing it, but this was the huge disappointment, a
50:13
Unknown: super sized letdown for the beehive, after rumors that a
50:20
star like Beyonce would make a surprise appearance and perform
50:23
at the Democratic National Convention would prove to be
50:26
just that, a rumor, a gap in Thursday's program, leading fans
50:31
and convention goers to speculate about a surprise guest
50:34
ahead of Harris' speech after an already star studded convention
50:38
that included surprise speaker, Oprah Winfrey a night earlier.
50:41
CB wonder pink, the chicks. There were lots of fantastic
50:45
talent
50:46
there, but I know people were hoping for a few other famous
50:50
faces to show up.
50:51
The Internet guessing everyone from Dolly Parton to former
50:54
President George W Bush, another notable Republican, Mitt Romney,
50:58
also named, but the Utah Senator squashing that rumor, eagle eyed
51:02
Swifties also noticing a gap in Taylor Swift's tour schedule,
51:06
but one of the most guests, Beyonce freedom has become
51:12
central to the Harris walls campaign, with the singer's
51:15
blessing, someone at the convention posting a clip of a
51:20
Beyonce song at soundcheck, which was viewed more than 1
51:23
million times. Then adding fuel to the rumor fire, publications
51:27
like The Hill and TMZ, seeming to confirm it. TMZ, Citing
51:31
multiple sources saying we're told Chicago PD is on high alert
51:35
as it's involved in security for Beyonce at the United Center
51:38
arena.
51:40
Adam Curry: So the way this played in, in the controlled, I
51:44
don't want to say opportunists, the Megyn Kelly's, I'll say the
51:49
Megyn Kelly's of the world. Oh, they just did this to juice the
51:53
ratings, to juice the ratings. I don't think so. These are just
52:00
idiots. The mainstream has no inside track. They were the ones
52:04
walking around. Oh yeah, look. But this curtain hasn't been
52:06
here for the past three nights. Or something has come out. Oh,
52:09
there. Oh, we can hear some drum. A drum battalion are
52:13
rehearsing back say it was all bull crap
52:17
Unknown: and well, and it
52:19
Adam Curry: raised some expectation. And I mean, I was
52:24
let down. I
52:26
John C Dvorak: think it was done. I more in line with Megan
52:29
on this. I think that it was done on purpose. It was done for
52:33
the purposes of keeping people attentive. Why didn't
52:36
Adam Curry: they just actually pay Beyonce to come out and do
52:38
it for anybody, for anybody.
52:42
John C Dvorak: I think it was done on purpose, and the Taylor
52:45
Swift thing in particular, and it was done on purpose to keep
52:48
people's attention. I think they did a good job of that. It got
52:51
if TMZ is suckered, because Harvey Levin is a Democrat,
52:56
insider, Trump hater. So there's that. He's an insider, so he's
53:00
gladly go along with the program. I think he may have
53:03
actually been part of the scheme. But the thing that that
53:06
gets me is that I think this is emblematic, and this is the you
53:12
say it was a, I think it was a huge, uh, fundamental mistake by
53:18
the Democrat Party and and the Harris campaign, because this is
53:22
a pro unkept promise, yes. So everything she says is a lie,
53:27
yes. And the promises she makes about tipping, for example,
53:30
there's no way if she says, Oh yeah, no tax on tips, bull crap.
53:37
That is just a lie. She'll never implement it. It's like, and I
53:40
think the Beyonce thing is symbolic weight of the Democrat
53:44
lies and mis and misdirection. It is it? It's a huge blunder.
53:50
Yes, it's
53:50
Adam Curry: a blunder. Do you think it could have been done on
53:53
purpose?
53:54
John C Dvorak: I totally think it was done on purpose. But I
53:57
Adam Curry: mean to submarine Harris waltz.
54:02
John C Dvorak: Oh, that's a man of look at it. That's an
54:06
interesting possibility.
54:07
Adam Curry: I mean, it was bad. It was bad because, again, I
54:13
still have the content machine here. She was like, Nah, Bae is
54:18
not going to do that. Queen Bee not coming. And so she didn't
54:21
watch with us, you know, she she said, Oh, what Beyonce? You
54:27
think Beyonce is going on after Kamala says, no, no, she's not.
54:31
She's not coming. And she's a huge Beyonce fan. And so she did
54:36
not watch. She was not interested. She certainly wasn't
54:39
interested in stink. So I was wrong. I'm with you. There
54:45
unkept promise, very, very bad, and it felt more like sabotage
54:50
to me.
54:51
John C Dvorak: I'm not going to argue against that thought.
54:54
Adam Curry: Yeah, one very quick clip this, but it could
54:57
John C Dvorak: have also been just a big screw it. And part of
55:00
a mentality of hoaxes, there you go. I mean, let's face it, the
55:04
hoaxes that were rolled out in all the speeches about Trump,
55:10
yeah, or just outrageous everyone was doing, we didn't
55:13
really
55:13
Adam Curry: talk about it, but even Biden bringing out the very
55:16
fine people lie and his goodbye on the first night
55:21
John C Dvorak: I'm getting I thought
55:24
Adam Curry: this was a very funny part of the VPS
55:30
Unknown: speech for seniors facing elder abuse.
55:35
Adam Curry: She was when I heard that, like, Yes, I'm coming out.
55:39
I stand up for seniors against elder abuse. You literally
55:43
abused an elder for years.
55:45
John C Dvorak: That's, I didn't catch that for years. Very funny
55:48
that that's IVF
55:50
Adam Curry: level stuff. And did you see, did you see this Pelosi
55:53
comment that everyone was sending me also, very quick,
55:57
John C Dvorak: sure one where she's talking about being a
55:59
lizard. Yes,
56:00
Unknown: they didn't know what they were talking about. We know
56:03
our we're different from the Presidential we're very
56:07
discreet,
56:10
reptilian, cold
56:12
blooded. These are the races we have to win.
56:16
Adam Curry: So the couple things so, you know, as the Democrat
56:21
Party has always told me, believe them when they tell you
56:24
what you are. So I will believe that. And she adds on to her
56:28
very reptilian and cold blooded and if you see what's her face
56:33
sitting next to her, who's the the Democracy Now? Lady, not
56:40
democracy. No, no, not democracy now, uh, PBS NewsHour, Lady
56:44
Woodruff, yes, she could barely keep her lizard tongue in her
56:49
mouth.
56:50
John C Dvorak: She Yes, it was. It
56:51
Adam Curry: was trying to come out. It was the freakiest thing.
56:55
John C Dvorak: There was a fly there, you know, in this, yeah,
56:58
but
56:58
Adam Curry: they she is. She's a reptilian, uh, I got a super
57:03
cut. I got a joint.
57:04
John C Dvorak: Wait before you do that, I went and play the
57:06
last DNC clip. Okay, cut that I have, which is, this is camel
57:10
one. This is when she opened the I want it. This is kind of an
57:13
ask Adam, you really want me to play this just like what this is
57:19
count DNC camera one. This is when she opened up her speech. I
57:23
want you to say, tell me what's missing from this what's missing
57:26
from this picture.
57:28
Unknown: Growing up, we moved a lot. I will always remember that
57:32
big Mayflower truck packed with all our belongings ready to go
57:37
to Illinois to Wisconsin. And wherever our parents jobs took
57:46
us. Yes,
57:46
Adam Curry: I'm missing Canada. Is what. I'm missing
57:49
John C Dvorak: Montreal
57:50
Adam Curry: back I'm missing Canada. I don't know how long
57:53
they were there, but I double years I was missing Canada as
57:56
John C Dvorak: well. She was in high school from, I think, 13 to
57:59
15, yeah, or she was there from when she was 13 to 15. It's
58:02
about that long. And if you I'm doing some research on this now,
58:06
and if you start, you have to find Canadian sources. They
58:10
loved her up there. And old roommate, or roommates,
58:15
schoolmates of her, say nobody in Canada knew that she wasn't
58:20
Canadian. Did she say she's like this chameleon? She probably
58:24
picked up the accent and everything.
58:25
Adam Curry: She went from from black speak to a,
58:29
John C Dvorak: yeah, a, that'll be fun. Yeah, oh, I like it here
58:32
in Canada. It's fabulous. A, hey, a queen,
58:37
Adam Curry: all right, since you put a meme of it in the
58:40
newsletter about Daddy, what's propaganda, and you had all the
58:44
joy letters circled. It was That was good. I got a supercut for
58:48
us. The one
58:48
Unknown: thing that I will not forgive them for is they're
58:51
trying to steal the joy from this country,
58:53
the joy felt by Americans backing the Harris
58:56
walls ticket, we are joyful warriors. Being
58:59
joyful is part of the American identity, the
59:02
joy factor, campaign of joy. You're talking about radical
59:05
joy. It is Denmark joyful.
59:07
It looks like a joyous rally. It looks like a joyous occasion. A
59:11
real zeal
59:12
and joy in the campaign. The joy that you're bringing back to the
59:16
country, joyful, exuberant rally. Thank
59:19
you for bringing back the joy,
59:21
power of joy, hope and joy, something incredibly joyful. She
59:26
does it all with a sense
59:27
of joy, joy,
59:29
joy, joy,
59:32
joy.
59:34
Imagine that American politics, joyful. Again, go,
59:38
Adam Curry: beautiful, beautiful.
59:40
John C Dvorak: And what do you make of this? Oh, what I
59:42
Adam Curry: make of it is is you cannot listen to mainstream
59:46
legacy media, including Fox. Just have to make sure people
59:51
understand the fox is run by Democrats without noticing that
59:56
they're pretty much all against Trump. Or let me put. It.
1:00:00
They're all pro Harris. They're pro Democrat, the way they
1:00:05
John C Dvorak: make of the but not asking that. You know, that
1:00:08
joy, the idea, what, what, what is the why is this? It's
1:00:12
Adam Curry: a different term for hope. And it's also, I think
1:00:16
it's a it's a nod. I don't
1:00:19
John C Dvorak: think it's a synonym in any way, or a
1:00:21
different term for a whole
1:00:22
Adam Curry: it's also a bit of a nod towards the Christians. For
1:00:25
Kamala, enjoy, for the churches, there's a little bit of that in
1:00:30
there. I
1:00:30
John C Dvorak: don't enjoy the
1:00:31
Adam Curry: world. Yeah, I'm
1:00:32
John C Dvorak: feeling that joy to the world. Well, there's, you
1:00:35
might be getting closer. There's some I don't have it either. So
1:00:38
persuasion, but joy, it's like, corny, well,
1:00:43
Adam Curry: yeah, how was hope? Hope and Change? It worked. Hope
1:00:49
and Change works. It worked. There you go. It worked. We
1:00:53
needed, yeah, it's not a synonym, but it worked. So they
1:00:55
needed something, and someone came up with joy, and we're
1:00:58
taking their joy. Oh, we can use it.
1:01:00
John C Dvorak: Who came up with this? And maybe, you know,
1:01:04
here's just kind of off the top of my head. I'm thinking, she
1:01:07
cackles and laughs, and we had that one clip with a woman and
1:01:11
the phony gay guy laughing like maniacs. Is it possible that
1:01:16
because of that laugh, they need a foil to to offset the laugh.
1:01:22
Oh, no, that's not, yeah, no, she's laughing because she's
1:01:25
joyful. So you, you kind of like give her a pass on that stupid
1:01:30
laugh of hers. Maybe,
1:01:33
Adam Curry: yeah, it's possible, yeah, yeah. I could see that. I
1:01:39
could see that
1:01:41
Unknown: anyway, right,
1:01:43
Adam Curry: right on time. We on Friday, the beautiful time to
1:01:51
change the news cycle. RFK, JR comes out, suspends his campaign
1:01:57
and and endorses Trump, and then subsequently
1:02:02
John C Dvorak: the writing that was Friday. Yes, No, you said
1:02:05
Sunday. Oh, I
1:02:06
Adam Curry: meant Friday. It was right after. So the day after,
1:02:10
we changed, I know, beautiful. Now there was I got from
1:02:13
deutscheville, interesting. I got the timing of this. Now you
1:02:18
and I, of course, see this as, oh, this is what you do. Let's
1:02:22
cut off all news coverage about the the convention, and let's
1:02:27
twist it over to Trump. And he had pyrotechnics. It was
1:02:30
fantastic. And Kennedy does a reasonably short speech. The
1:02:36
Time Magazine correspondent for deutschewela had an interesting
1:02:41
bit that I was not aware of regarding the timing. I
1:02:44
Unknown: think there were several factors. I think they
1:02:46
were clearly running out of money. That was something that
1:02:49
we knew for a while. I think also, it looked like a lot of
1:02:53
these ballots were going to be printed in swing states. So in
1:02:56
Arizona, which is a big swing state today, at 6am they were
1:02:59
going to start printing a ballot with Kennedy's name on it. So if
1:03:03
he wanted to be authentic, he really wanted to put a support
1:03:07
between one, you know, one of the two candidates. This was the
1:03:10
only time he could really do it. And, you know, I think a lot of
1:03:13
he clearly saw no path forward, even though that had been the
1:03:16
case for months. I spoken to people in the campaign who told
1:03:19
me that for more than a year, they have been weighing possibly
1:03:22
endorsing Donald Trump. So I think from what I hear, he's
1:03:26
just a very indecisive person, and clearly partly enjoyed being
1:03:30
on the campaign trail and getting to be the main
1:03:33
candidate. So but really kind of came to the end there.
1:03:37
Adam Curry: I have one other shorter clip from this lady,
1:03:39
because she then brought in kind of the talking point that
1:03:42
everybody was repeating about Bobby the opp before we speak
1:03:46
about his endorsement of Donald Trump, I want to talk about how
1:03:49
RFK Jr tried to talk to Kamala Harris for a potential cabinet
1:03:56
job in her administration. What
1:03:59
Unknown: can you tell us about that? And
1:04:00
what do you make of the fact that it looks like he's like
1:04:03
he's he's tried to play both political parties
1:04:06
here. I think he's done that from the very start. He
1:04:09
obviously started as a Democratic candidate, and he
1:04:12
took great pride, I mean, I interviewed him several times,
1:04:14
and he took great pride in saying that he spoke to both
1:04:17
sides, that he, you know, was always willing to talk to the
1:04:21
extremes of both parties, but, you know, obviously the Harris
1:04:24
campaign so absolutely nothing to gain from speaking with him,
1:04:27
because they actually did not want his endorsement. You know,
1:04:30
he's an anti vaccine conspiracy theorist. He doesn't really
1:04:34
align with most of their positions. So you know, even if
1:04:37
they could get a little bit of a bump in the polls, in some ways,
1:04:40
it didn't seem worth it to the Harris campaign. So
1:04:43
Adam Curry: I was watching CNN, and they've removed this is no
1:04:47
longer available. I was watching it on YouTube TV, and you hit
1:04:50
record and it doesn't record the whole show. It only records from
1:04:54
where you were watching. I had this beautiful clip of Axelrod
1:04:59
right out and. He's with Anderson Cooper, and the
1:05:01
announcement is made, and Axelrod says, Well, you can
1:05:05
clearly see Bobby Kennedy is not a well man. He has mental issues
1:05:09
like, holy crap. It was unbelievable. And and it's gone.
1:05:13
I couldn't find that, which was too bad. And now Fox, they, they
1:05:20
went live. They also, I could not find this. They cut RFK
1:05:25
speech off after they let him go for quite a while, but the Mandy
1:05:29
started talking about the drug industry, and we'll get back to
1:05:33
I
1:05:35
John C Dvorak: actually could have clipped it, but it was
1:05:37
like, I wish I had it. I looked for it was they just abruptly
1:05:41
ended. It didn't go on much longer than I had to scrounge
1:05:44
around to get back to the speech. I have two clips let me
1:05:49
Adam Curry: play the CNN cut off because that's also quite they
1:05:51
cut off much earlier. The same shadowy DNC operatives appointed
1:05:56
his successor, also without an election. They installed a
1:06:01
candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she dropped out
1:06:05
in 2020 without winning a single delegate. My uncle and my father
1:06:11
both relished debate. They prided themselves on their
1:06:15
capacity to go toe to toe with any opponent and the battle over
1:06:20
ideas, they would be astonished to learn of a Democratic Party
1:06:24
presidential nominee. Yeah, we got to cut this off. Let's go
1:06:37
Unknown: to independent candidate Robert F Kennedy from
1:06:40
Phoenix, outlining what led him to his quixotic quest for the
1:06:47
White House, dropping out and relinquishing the title of
1:06:52
Democrat. He hit a series of complaints about the party.
1:06:57
We're of course, going to continue watching his remarks.
1:06:59
There's a back and forth over whether he's going to endorse
1:07:02
for There
1:07:02
Adam Curry: you go. So they just cut him off when he started
1:07:05
lifting the veil on the corrupt media. Wasn't gonna happen. But
1:07:09
it was, it was, it was interesting that Fox the minute,
1:07:11
you know, their their advertisers were in peril, you
1:07:14
know, talking about Big Pharma. Let's cut them off.
1:07:19
John C Dvorak: Obvious, people should listen to this entire
1:07:22
speech. It's available on YouTube, I believe, yeah, yeah.
1:07:25
It's quite interesting. He also has an excellent rundown on
1:07:29
Ukraine, yep. And I thought it was very entertaining. I have
1:07:33
two clips of just random clips of Kennedy's above the speech.
1:07:38
It followed by two clips of the CNN analysis, okay, which
1:07:42
contrast, because they brought in the some just brutal people.
1:07:47
Adam Curry: Did they call them mentally ill, though? Because
1:07:49
that that's No. I wish I had that.
1:07:51
John C Dvorak: That's great. I
1:07:52
Adam Curry: can't find it. Well, let's
1:07:54
John C Dvorak: go with Kennedy quits. Uh, random. This is
1:07:58
random one each time
1:08:00
Adam Curry: that our volunteers turned in those towering boxes
1:08:04
of signatures needed to get on the ballot, the DNC dragged us
1:08:09
into court, state after state attempting to erase their work
1:08:14
and to subvert the will of the voters who had signed those
1:08:17
petitions. It deployed DNC aligned judges to throw me and
1:08:23
other candidates off the ballot and to throw President Trump in
1:08:27
jail. It ran a sham primary that was rigged to prevent any
1:08:33
serious challenge to President Biden. Then when a predictably
1:08:38
bundled debate performance precipitated the palace coup
1:08:42
against President Biden. The same shadowy DNC operatives
1:08:47
appointed his successor, also without an election, they
1:08:52
installed a candidate who was so unpopular with voters that she
1:08:56
dropped out in 2020 Yeah. The whole speech was fantastic. I
1:09:01
mean, it was like a no agenda speech. We could have, we could
1:09:05
have written most of it. He's like, Yeah, just go balls to the
1:09:08
wall. Bobby, say this. It was great.
1:09:11
John C Dvorak: Here's a second, his second, another segment.
1:09:13
These are sub segments of a long speech. But I want the reason
1:09:18
I'm playing these because they contrast them what CNN said they
1:09:21
were Yes, I got it, and so now it made logical. There was no
1:09:26
illogic or rambling or anything. It was pretty straightforward.
1:09:29
It looked like he wasn't reading it. But let's play the second
1:09:33
one, even
1:09:34
Adam Curry: today, users who try to post my campaign videos to
1:09:37
Facebook or YouTube get messages that this content violates
1:09:41
community standards. Two days after judge toady rendered his
1:09:45
decision this week, Facebook was still attaching warning labels
1:09:50
to an online petition calling on ABC to include me in the
1:09:55
upcoming debate. They said that violates community standards.
1:09:59
There. Community Standards. The mainstream media was once the
1:10:05
guardian of the First Amendment and democratic principles, and
1:10:09
has joined this systemic attack on democracy. Shots fired.
1:10:15
John C Dvorak: Okay, so now it's so they like you. Pointed out
1:10:17
where they cut him off on CNN. I want to play two clips. These
1:10:21
are, these are short of their analysis of what he had to say.
1:10:25
And I want to listen carefully to this basic slander.
1:10:30
Unknown: Donald Trump, last week stood and said in front of a
1:10:32
bunch of groceries and said, I haven't seen any Cheerios in a
1:10:35
long time. I had Cheerios for breakfast. This was cuckoo for
1:10:38
Cocoa Puffs. And trying to get any logic out of that. Wow, did
1:10:42
someone
1:10:43
Adam Curry: on the studio floor laugh at that lame ass joke?
1:10:46
Yeah,
1:10:47
Unknown: time I had Cheerios for breakfast, this was cuckoo for
1:10:50
Cocoa Puffs. And trying to get any logic out of that is good
1:10:54
luck with that, because it's one, you can't understand what
1:10:57
he says. Two, if you can, you can't understand what he says,
1:11:00
and reminded of a line of in Mel Brooks's Blazing Saddles, when
1:11:04
somebody gets up and gives an indecipherable speech. He says,
1:11:06
Who can argue with that? That's authentic frontier gibberish,
1:11:09
and that's exactly what that is.
1:11:11
Yeah, good. Well, I
1:11:13
was going to say to your point though, Brianna, the big
1:11:16
overarching issue here for both campaigns, for the Harris
1:11:19
campaign, the Trump campaign, is the third party sort of X
1:11:22
Factor, and what that means for turnout in November. So even if
1:11:26
what he was saying wasn't easy to follow, it is still the
1:11:31
concern of either campaign, which is partially why Trump is
1:11:35
looking for that endorsement, that these voters are sort of
1:11:38
The X Factor and what they decide to do with RFK Junior
1:11:41
going into November, when it's going to be such a tight race,
1:11:44
and we've seen that before, back in 2016
1:11:48
Adam Curry: by the way, for a black, for a black man, to say
1:11:50
that and evoke Blazing Saddles, pretty racist.
1:11:55
John C Dvorak: So what was hard to follow? Or nothing? For Coco
1:12:01
pubs, nothing. Where was the illogic? There was none. I mean,
1:12:04
I only played those two. You could have played the whole
1:12:07
thing. And it followed a logical pattern. It was discussing
1:12:10
things in a straightforward manner that but no, no, no, CNN,
1:12:15
who didn't play any they cut him off, as you said, they they
1:12:19
start making stuff up. This is CNN has really become a battle
1:12:23
here. All
1:12:24
Adam Curry: media, all media that has advertising
1:12:28
John C Dvorak: sucks. It does part two,
1:12:32
Unknown: and yet his supporters may be confused, because we're
1:12:36
even confused based on his own statements. Now we've gotten a
1:12:40
fresh statement from his campaign, clarifying previous
1:12:43
remarks, in which, initially in this court fighting in
1:12:46
Pennsylvania, it said that he would be endorsing Donald Trump.
1:12:49
His campaign came out and said, That's not what's happening.
1:12:52
Then he, in his remarks, said that he was throwing his support
1:12:55
behind Trump over the war in Ukraine, what he described as
1:12:58
the war on our children and chronic disease was another one.
1:13:05
It's hard to make sense of Johanna Maska. What do you see
1:13:09
in all of this? As this rambling speech goes on and he launches a
1:13:13
test ramble Democrats well,
1:13:15
and look, he's reminding us who he is. I mean, he's the troubled
1:13:19
son of a famous politician who has had drug problems, problems
1:13:24
with women, nefarious business dealings with Venezuela. I mean,
1:13:28
there were a lot of questions about his intentions in this
1:13:31
campaign. From the get go, he is not ready for prime time and
1:13:36
certainly not ready for the presidency. I mean, he's never
1:13:39
held elected office.
1:13:41
Adam Curry: Yeah, this is why I'm so upset. I couldn't find
1:13:43
that Axelrod clip because there was someone else who came right
1:13:46
after Axelrod and said the same thing. He's mentally ill. They
1:13:49
were saying men and just listen to him. Well, we know that he
1:13:53
has a an issue with his speech, but this is, this is so mean, I
1:14:01
can't say it's mean, but this shows you that advertising based
1:14:08
M 5m they have to self censor. They cannot bring themselves to
1:14:13
speak against Big Pharma, against their advertisers, for
1:14:18
political campaigns, this is a bonanza year. I mean, there's
1:14:20
going to be a lot of money spent on advertising. They just can't
1:14:24
do that. No, now with and this is why it sucks so bad. It's
1:14:28
just horrible.
1:14:30
John C Dvorak: Well, that brings me to another segue.
1:14:34
Adam Curry: Well, no, I want to stay. I have a couple things I
1:14:36
want to say about Bobby's speech. If you don't mind, love
1:14:39
John C Dvorak: you want I just had, this is a choice. Yes,
1:14:42
Adam Curry: I won. What would Is there a segue to a different
1:14:44
topic than No,
1:14:45
John C Dvorak: no, it's not a segue to a different topic. It's
1:14:47
a segue to what you just said about advertising and drug
1:14:51
companies.
1:14:53
Adam Curry: Well, no, that's, that's off topic. Okay? You
1:14:56
know, because when I saw okay queen, I mean. Take it. No, it's
1:15:00
yes. Queen,
1:15:01
John C Dvorak: oh, sorry, yes, yes. Queen,
1:15:05
Adam Curry: come on, you can do it. So when I saw him do this, I
1:15:10
really the first thing I thought is, oh man. Because this I'm a
1:15:15
family man, I'm thinking, oh man, his wife hates Trump, hates
1:15:22
Trump.
1:15:22
John C Dvorak: She's this, okay, that's Cheryl Heinz, yes, and
1:15:26
who we may suspect of being his handler for the CIA, which fits
1:15:31
in with the but
1:15:32
Adam Curry: she has barely been given a pass. You know, no one
1:15:36
really talks about it, but in Hollywood, you know,
1:15:40
particularly with the what's the show? The bald guy, the show
1:15:45
that she's on,
1:15:46
John C Dvorak: Curb Your Enthusiasm. Yeah.
1:15:48
Adam Curry: So that guy is a Trump hater.
1:15:50
John C Dvorak: They're all. He really hates Trump. So for Larry
1:15:54
David. Larry David, yeah,
1:15:56
Adam Curry: so when, and it's hard to tell in our in Bobby The
1:16:00
Ops voice, but I felt real emotion when he says, This is
1:16:04
really hard on my this comes from inside edition, who, of
1:16:07
course, would highlight this
1:16:08
Unknown: RFK Junior's wife, actress Cheryl Hines, is
1:16:12
reportedly not pleased about her husband's endorsement of Donald
1:16:15
Trump. Hines famously co starred in the Larry David hit comedy
1:16:18
Curb Your Enthusiasm behind the scenes. Heinz is not at all
1:16:24
happy. Cheryl Hines is not
1:16:26
exactly enthusiastic about him dropping out
1:16:29
or endorsing Trump. RFK
1:16:31
Jr formally suspended his campaign today in the swing
1:16:35
state of Arizona, and through his support behind the former
1:16:38
president. This
1:16:39
Adam Curry: decision is agonizing for me because of the
1:16:42
difficulties it causes my wife and my children and my friends.
1:16:47
Unknown: It's a stunning reversal. The New Yorker
1:16:49
magazine says RFK recently texted a friend that Trump is a
1:16:53
terrible human being and probably a sociopath. We just
1:16:56
had a very nice
1:16:58
endorsement from RFK.
1:17:05
Adam Curry: I like how they have the little text message they're
1:17:08
going they show on screen, obviously someone you know, just
1:17:11
doing it for the camera. You know, he's a sociopath. Now, I
1:17:16
have just one more clip to play, but let's just look at a bit of
1:17:19
analysis. Because there's, there's a cup, there's people.
1:17:23
I've really been trying to go with the flow on the socials and
1:17:27
see what people are thinking. So I'm seeing a lot of RFK
1:17:31
supporters, and I wouldn't say there's a lot of them, but
1:17:33
there's many who are very vocal, and they are posting things
1:17:38
like, Hey, okay, I want to talk to Maga people. Let's, let's see
1:17:42
if we can become united. So there that's and I think that's
1:17:46
genuine. What I'm seeing, I don't know if it's a lot of
1:17:49
people, but there's some big, you know, people with a lot of
1:17:51
followers, and they're saying, Okay, we're going to follow
1:17:55
Bobby in this, and we want to join with Maga and there. And
1:17:58
that is being received very positively and optimistically.
1:18:03
Now there's a lot of people who are saying, well, this is crazy,
1:18:07
by the way, Whitney Webb would be one. She's getting a lot of
1:18:10
pushback. For the first time, she's saying, This is no good,
1:18:15
you know, he's too close to intelligence. And you know, it's
1:18:19
someone has to say the hard things, and so she's getting a
1:18:23
lot of pushback from people. Think the funniest one is, hey,
1:18:28
look, we always, it's always until Jesus Christ is on the
1:18:31
ballot. We're always voting for the lesser of two evils, which
1:18:34
is true. Then there's another contingent. I see it even the
1:18:39
troll room. He didn't suspend this campaign only in the swing
1:18:42
states. Well, I don't know. I mean, there's some there's some
1:18:47
thinking out there. Well, if Trump gets assassinated,
1:18:50
seriously, this is some of the thinking I'm seeing, then he can
1:18:53
still run. But I think if you're not on the ballot in the swing
1:18:56
states, you have, you have no chance. So I'm not quite sure
1:18:59
why he didn't just say, I'm suspending the campaign
1:19:02
everywhere. I don't know what the thinking is behind
1:19:06
John C Dvorak: that. My my theory on this is it's too much
1:19:10
work. It took them a while. It's just as hard to get off the
1:19:14
ballot as it is to get on. Really, oh, I didn't really,
1:19:17
would be a major expense that. Oh, what difference does it
1:19:21
make? Let's put our efforts in getting off the swing states.
1:19:24
And then he said, Who cares? Also, because he's still on
1:19:27
these ballots. I think he still gets Secret Service protection.
1:19:30
Oh, okay, so there's, there's things going
1:19:33
Adam Curry: on, and then, and then there's, there's an
1:19:35
interesting contingent of people who were very anti Bobby, who
1:19:39
are now saying, Okay, we think this is real, and we're all in,
1:19:44
and this is actually a good thing, because they don't agree
1:19:47
on everything, and he will be good, and it's clear that he
1:19:50
would be in, you know, HHS, or, you know, something to do with
1:19:54
FDA and HHS and EPA, which he's a very accomplished lawyer. He
1:20:00
has sued, well, at least his organization, Children's Defense
1:20:04
Fund. They have sued all these agencies, and they have been
1:20:07
successful, and they've arguably done a lot of very good things.
1:20:11
John C Dvorak: You know that you mentioned something. I was
1:20:13
thinking about HHS immediately, but you said something just
1:20:17
casually on the last show, which is, what if they made him
1:20:19
Attorney General? That's what I that's what I want. That would
1:20:24
be pretty remarkable. It's
1:20:25
Adam Curry: not a great position for a Kennedy, but it's, it is,
1:20:29
it was,
1:20:30
John C Dvorak: it's not. It's not unknown to the Kennedys to
1:20:33
be attorney general. And
1:20:36
Adam Curry: I'm sure you were very annoyed by one part of his
1:20:38
speech this, I can't help when I saw him say this, I'm like, oh,
1:20:42
John's gonna be all annoyed by this. Did you did anything annoy
1:20:45
you in Kennedy speech?
1:20:46
John C Dvorak: Well, let's see what you have. What it is that
1:20:49
you think about his endurance. Hold on, sorry. Here we go.
1:20:55
Adam Curry: This one, cancer rates are skyrocketing, and the
1:20:58
young and the old young adult cancers are up 70 79% one in
1:21:04
four American women is on antidepressant medication. 40%
1:21:08
of teams have a mental teens have a mental health diagnosis,
1:21:12
and 15% of high schoolers are on Adderall, and half a million
1:21:16
children on SSRIs. So what's causing this suffering? I'll
1:21:21
name two culprits, first and the worst is ultra processed food.
1:21:25
About 70% of American children's diet is ultra processed. That
1:21:30
means industrial manufacture in a factory. These foods consist
1:21:34
primarily of processed sugar, ultra processed grains and seed
1:21:40
oils. Laboratory scientists who form many of them formerly
1:21:45
worked for the cigarette industry, which purchased all
1:21:48
the big food companies in the 1970s and 80s, deployed 1000s of
1:21:52
scientists to figure out chemicals, new chemicals to make
1:21:55
the food more addictive. And these ingredients didn't exist
1:22:00
100 years ago. They humans aren't biologically adapted to
1:22:05
eat them. Hundreds of these chemicals are now banned in
1:22:08
Europe, but ubiquitous in American processed
1:22:11
John C Dvorak: foods. Now we
1:22:13
Adam Curry: know where he got this from, because he has been
1:22:15
advised by Cali. Means you are adamantly against this theory,
1:22:20
and in fact, you still am. You think it's a conspiracy theory?
1:22:24
John C Dvorak: No, I don't think it's a conspiracy theory. I
1:22:26
think it's a nonsense.
1:22:28
Adam Curry: No, you No, I'm sorry, yeah, well, I mean a
1:22:32
conspiracy theory in in the nonsense kind of way.
1:22:36
John C Dvorak: Okay, I can. I'll accept that. Yeah, just
1:22:40
Adam Curry: all right, well, I thought it was so can we take
1:22:42
anything he says seriously? Then, yeah, I
1:22:45
John C Dvorak: think the food supply is toxic. I'm not arguing
1:22:47
that. No, but
1:22:49
Adam Curry: he's he's clearly parroting talking points that
1:22:54
that come from someone else. I mean, what else? Oh,
1:22:56
John C Dvorak: he does that with climate too. So he's not an
1:23:00
original thinker. I don't think,
1:23:04
Adam Curry: all right, all right, because I heard that. I'm
1:23:07
like, Oh, John must be yelling. No, I'm
1:23:09
John C Dvorak: not yelling. Oh, you yelled at it when I played
1:23:11
Adam Curry: the clip. No, I
1:23:12
John C Dvorak: didn't. I just thought. I just said it was bull
1:23:15
crap. It's what I think. I said
1:23:16
Adam Curry: it was a little more animated than that.
1:23:19
John C Dvorak: So, so So the clips I wanted to play about the
1:23:23
drug companies are something we used to do on this show, and we
1:23:25
stopped doing it. Uh oh, we need to start immediately. No, we
1:23:28
don't need to start immediately, but we do have to play these two
1:23:32
clips. This is that. This is this. This is 1/62 ad that I
1:23:36
chopped up into two parts, okay? And this is, I never heard of
1:23:41
this before, and there's all these things coming out, and I
1:23:43
think they're going, they're getting what they can out of the
1:23:47
especially with the fear that Bobby Kennedy is going to have
1:23:49
anything to do with this, because he's against advertising
1:23:53
drug companies advertising on TV as much as anyone. And this is a
1:23:58
product called volkenza, D, O, Q, U, E, Z, n, a, kind of how
1:24:05
they go with this.
1:24:06
Adam Curry: They spell it, vokesna, voc, voc, vocna,
1:24:10
John C Dvorak: I think quest it says in the day, they'd say it
1:24:13
in the ad, you can hear how they pronounce it. But it's basically
1:24:17
a heartburn medication, so people have a lot of heartburn
1:24:21
instead of taking Tums or changing their diet, or, you
1:24:25
know, eating more base foods, as opposed to acidic foods or
1:24:28
whatever, or even eating more acidic foods that counteracted
1:24:32
you use this pill, and here's the opening. This
1:24:35
Unknown: is Steve. Steve takes boques. This is Steve's stomach,
1:24:39
where voquest can kick some acid heal acid related damage to the
1:24:42
esophagus, called erosive esophagitis and relieve related
1:24:46
heart birth. Valquez is the first and only FDA approved
1:24:50
treatment of its kind. 93% of adults were healed by two months
1:24:55
of those healed, 79% stayed healed. And valquesda can
1:24:59
provide. Heartburn free, days and nights healed.
1:25:03
Adam Curry: Is heartburn some kind of,
1:25:06
John C Dvorak: well, it happens. The damage is your esophagus,
1:25:09
and it has to heal. It's like, it's like, oh, well, the
1:25:11
Adam Curry: acid reflux can damage your Yeah, that's what
1:25:13
they're talking about. This
1:25:14
John C Dvorak: is an acid reflux drug, basically, all right, but
1:25:19
the second half as deep. It's almost 60. It's like the 62nd ad
1:25:24
27 seconds. Promote the product. Here we go. Rest some of the
1:25:29
worst side effects I've ever heard. And how this drug ever
1:25:32
got released into the public is beyond me.
1:25:35
Unknown: Burn free days and nights, other
1:25:37
serious stomach conditions may still exist. Don't take it
1:25:39
allergic to voquena or while on products with real pivoting the
1:25:43
quesna may cause serious side effects, including kidney
1:25:45
problems, diarrhea, bone fractures, severe skin
1:25:48
reactions, low vitamin B 12 or magnesium levels and stomach
1:25:51
growths. Call your doctor if you have diarrhea, stomach pain or
1:25:55
fever that won't go away, decreased or bloody. Urine
1:25:58
seizures, dizziness, irregular heartbeat, jitteriness, muscle
1:26:01
aches or weakness, spasms of hand speed or voice.
1:26:04
Boquezna can help kick some acid. And so can you ask your
1:26:08
doctor about berquesta? Yeah, this
1:26:10
Adam Curry: doesn't sound like a great product, bone fractures,
1:26:16
John C Dvorak: seizures. And by the way, the one thing that's in
1:26:22
all these ads, I can't believe anyone would take this if, just
1:26:25
knowing, you get two hugged bone fractures you may
1:26:28
Adam Curry: experience death when taking boquezine.
1:26:31
John C Dvorak: So what I don't get is, don't take it if you're
1:26:34
allergic to it, yeah. How do you know? How would you know? Ask
1:26:39
Adam Curry: your doctor.
1:26:41
John C Dvorak: Well, how would he know? Nobody knows, until you
1:26:43
take it so it makes no so there's an ill logic to all
1:26:47
these.
1:26:47
Adam Curry: It's a catch all. I used to be a Tums addict,
1:26:51
actually, and until I figured out that taking Tums actually
1:26:55
keeps the heartburn going. Yeah, it doesn't, it doesn't help,
1:27:01
doesn't help. And
1:27:02
John C Dvorak: I stopped, and it's always helped me, but it's
1:27:04
also got a lot of calcium, which you need. Okay,
1:27:08
Adam Curry: well, drink milk. Well, since we're on the Big
1:27:11
Pharma, we might as well bring out the news of the day
1:27:14
Unknown: tonight, Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation's former top
1:27:17
infectious disease official, and the face of the fight against
1:27:20
covid is dealing with his own health scare. A spokesperson
1:27:23
says Fauci was hospitalized for six days with West Nile virus.
1:27:27
The rear virus is usually spread by mosquitoes and can be deadly.
1:27:31
Fauci, who's 83 is now recovering. So we
1:27:34
Adam Curry: have all these mosquito diseases popping up all
1:27:37
of a sudden. My favorite is the triple E Oxford,
1:27:40
Unknown: Massachusetts, and three neighboring towns have a
1:27:42
reason for concern, as mosquitoes carrying a
1:27:45
potentially deadly virus called Eastern Equine Encephalitis, or
1:27:49
triple E, infected a resident who is now fighting for his
1:27:53
life.
1:27:53
We don't want to see another human case of Triple E this
1:27:56
year. The
1:27:57
rare but dangerous disease can cause swelling in the brain,
1:28:00
there is no treatment and anyone can get infected. The death rate
1:28:04
is as high as 30%
1:28:06
even if you do survive. Usually there are long term significant
1:28:11
health impacts, neurological impacts,
1:28:15
Oxford has been declared a critical risk for Tripoli,
1:28:18
prompting Health Department officials to recommend a 6pm
1:28:22
curfew for outdoor activities, including club sports. These are
1:28:26
recommendations. They're not hard and stop requirements.
1:28:30
We are definitely nervous about it. Sarah
1:28:32
Fournier is also worried her children's sports seasons,
1:28:35
football and cheer could be jeopardized. Cheer, but they're
1:28:39
taking precautions by wearing mosquito repellent and long
1:28:43
sleeve tops.
1:28:44
We can't stop life.
1:28:46
They need to get out there. They need to play.
1:28:50
This is their time to be social with their friends and be a part
1:28:55
of
1:28:55
a team. Now,
1:28:56
triple E symptoms usually begin between four to 10 days after
1:29:01
being bitten by an infected mosquito, according to the CDC.
1:29:04
Now, some of those symptoms can include fever, headache and
1:29:08
seizures. This sounds
1:29:09
Adam Curry: like another bunch of bull crap to me, this triple
1:29:13
E everything is what
1:29:16
John C Dvorak: I was just going to say I have the number. Was
1:29:19
it? Five people, 11. There you go. Well, but 11 people average
1:29:24
it annually, 11 out of 300 what? Three 50 million people, it's
1:29:29
gonna be 11 annually. The number is, is so minute I think
1:29:34
Adam Curry: that. I think the whole idea is just run stories
1:29:37
that make people anxious, and you get medication because
1:29:41
you're anxious. Oh, Xanax or whatever. I mean, here's another
1:29:44
one. And
1:29:44
Unknown: let's turn to another health concern. The CDC is
1:29:47
warning pregnant woman women about something called parvo
1:29:49
virus. What B
1:29:52
19 is a specific type of virus, and it's a virus that children
1:29:56
often get, and they don't really get that sick. The one thing
1:29:59
they do get a. They get a red rash on their cheeks. We call it
1:30:02
slap cheek syndrome because it looks like the cheeks were
1:30:04
slapped. For children, not that big a deal. For pregnant women,
1:30:08
it can be a problem because of the fetus gets it. It can cause
1:30:11
fetal demise, it can cause fetal abnormalities, it can cause
1:30:14
fetal issues. And so the concern is children spreading it to
1:30:17
pregnant women. So they want to be careful. Some of the things
1:30:20
you can do, you know, essentially, like we talked
1:30:21
about during covid, a lot of hand washing, you know, stay
1:30:24
away from people who might be sick, and you can certainly wear
1:30:26
a mask if you're concerned, because that can help to a
1:30:28
certain extent.
1:30:29
Adam Curry: You are correct. As you said, this is not new, but
1:30:33
do you remember the last time we heard about Paro virus in
1:30:37
America? Arrow, Paro?
1:30:41
John C Dvorak: That does? Par Yes, Parvo, parvo virus. You
1:30:44
Adam Curry: remember the last time we heard about this? No two
1:30:48
years ago? Listen to the difference in story tonight.
1:30:50
Unknown: Officials in Michigan have identified the mysterious
1:30:53
virus that has killed at least 30 dogs. Animal experts
1:30:56
confirmed today the disease is parvo virus. Not all the dogs
1:31:00
were completely vaccinated. Now trying to figure out why initial
1:31:04
tests came back negative for parvovirus, leading officials to
1:31:07
wonder if it is a new strain.
1:31:09
Adam Curry: So, so how come they haven't linked this as its jump
1:31:13
from dogs to humans? What a missed opportunity, and there's
1:31:16
a vaccine apparently, I think they're missing all kinds of
1:31:21
opportunities here.
1:31:23
John C Dvorak: Well, not they're just trying to keep people on
1:31:25
edge.
1:31:26
Adam Curry: Well, here's the real big news, because this,
1:31:29
this is going to bankrupt all systems, and
1:31:32
Unknown: a lot of the arguments around weight loss drugs have
1:31:35
been about the cost. A lot of times they're not things unless
1:31:37
you have diabetes that you can get reimbursed for, and they are
1:31:41
expensive, but it could be a change coming for Medicare
1:31:44
patients. Yeah, a big one about Medicare patients. Medicare can
1:31:47
now cover some weight loss drugs for the first time under the new
1:31:51
guidance, treatments that have been FDA approved for other
1:31:53
health benefits can be covered. So that clears the way for a
1:31:57
drug like we'll go be to be covered. It was recently
1:31:59
approved to be prescribed to reduce heart attacks and
1:32:02
strokes. So under the new guidance, if the drug is being
1:32:04
prescribed to reduce the risk of strokes or heart attacks, it
1:32:07
could be covered and other weight loss drugs may be
1:32:10
eligible in the future, as some are now being tested to see if
1:32:13
they can provide additional health benefits, the weight loss
1:32:15
drugs would be covered under Medicare prescription drug plans
1:32:19
administered by private insurers known as Part D coverage. The
1:32:23
concern for patients needing it, for say, like, non weight loss,
1:32:27
is really supply guys. I mean, my best friend is diabetes, and
1:32:30
he's can't get his RX.
1:32:32
They got to make
1:32:34
sure, you know, should be able to get it.
1:32:36
Adam Curry: Hey, if you got your RX lately, your RX RX. So that
1:32:42
is a very bad sign, because that means they've the lobbying has
1:32:47
paid off. It will be trillions of dollars to put everybody on
1:32:52
this nonsense, what I deem to be nonsense, and
1:32:56
John C Dvorak: we still have unhealthy you're stuck with it
1:32:59
forever. Yeah, we
1:33:00
Adam Curry: still have to clear up this. One little annoying,
1:33:02
eat less food.
1:33:03
John C Dvorak: Hello. We have to
1:33:05
Adam Curry: lessen the pie hole. One little thing we got to clear
1:33:09
up about this report. They're still combating it. There's
1:33:12
Unknown: a new study out today that links a popular weight loss
1:33:15
drug to a higher rate of suicidal thoughts. But there are
1:33:18
questions about the findings. CBS News CHIEF MEDICAL
1:33:21
CORRESPONDENT, Dr John lapook is here to explain. Hi, there,
1:33:25
John, hey there.
1:33:27
Nora, there have been relatively few reported cases of patients
1:33:30
having suicidal thoughts or actions while taking one of
1:33:33
these drugs for weight loss. It's important to note here that
1:33:36
obesity itself is associated with an increased risk of
1:33:40
depression. The study out today searched a large World Health
1:33:43
Organization database that tracks adverse drug reactions
1:33:47
and found a possible link between suicidal thoughts and
1:33:50
semaglutide, the active ingredient in wegovy and
1:33:53
ozempic. But Nora. The study has limitations. It only looked at
1:33:58
people who reported having a problem while on the drug. We
1:34:01
don't know how many people were taking the drug without a
1:34:03
problem. We also don't know what the dosage was and how long
1:34:06
people were on it. So far, the FDA has found no link between
1:34:11
these drugs and suicidal thoughts and actions, but it's
1:34:13
continuing to investigate Novo Nordisk, the maker of ozepic and
1:34:18
we go V says it stands behind the safety of its drugs, and it
1:34:21
will continue to collaborate closely with the FDA. Today, the
1:34:25
FDA stressed to CBS News that health care providers and
1:34:28
patients should have a careful discussion of possible risks,
1:34:32
especially in patients with a history of depression or self
1:34:35
harm, and that patients should be aware of the importance of
1:34:38
reporting any change in how they're feeling.
1:34:41
Adam Curry: So I just wanted to remind everybody that a lot of
1:34:44
people eat to eat away their their their problems, and we
1:34:51
have played many reports of this. I There's probably no
1:34:54
direct link that you get depressed from taking this drug,
1:34:58
and that's why they can keep saying it over. Over and over
1:35:00
again. The issue is there's a segment of the population who
1:35:05
are unhappy, depressed, have trauma, and they eat to cover up
1:35:09
when they feel sad or lonely, and when you can't eat because
1:35:13
of this drug, then those feelings come back. That's
1:35:18
what's happening, and we will see, I think, a reasonably big
1:35:22
mental health crisis. But that's okay, because we can sell more
1:35:26
drugs for that, which is groovy. I did have a boots on the ground
1:35:31
from Bowling Green, if you recall, on the last show that we
1:35:35
had a news report a clip about the compounding of GLP one drugs
1:35:43
in Bowling Green, Kentucky. So we have our producer, Joshua. He
1:35:48
says, boots on the ground in BG, Kentucky. Here after listening
1:35:52
to Thursday's show, I figured give a little background on
1:35:54
Bowling Green as NPR decided to call us just a small town in
1:35:58
Kentucky. While not huge, Bowling Green is the third
1:36:01
largest city in Kentucky, only about 45 minutes north of
1:36:04
Nashville, also home to the Corvette plant and the Mammoth
1:36:06
Cave National Park. Okay, enough for that the ozempic story
1:36:10
failed to mention. The bowling green is known for having the
1:36:13
most restaurants per person in Kentucky and in many surrounding
1:36:18
states. Because of this, it has always been a tester market for
1:36:21
new types of food, drink and candy. New KitKat flavor, we get
1:36:26
it. New ridiculous, unhealthy creation at KFC, or Taco Bell or
1:36:29
McDonald's Bowling Green is going to roll it out and eat it
1:36:33
up. Apparently, anecdotally, this one thought was
1:36:36
interesting, the amount of divorces happening among people
1:36:39
my age, elder millennial in this area over the past half year or
1:36:43
so has been astounding and often tied to ozempic and similar
1:36:47
weight loss drugs, so much so that the saying looks like
1:36:51
someone else is competing in the summer. Ozempics has become a
1:36:55
thing recently. So people are getting divorced because they're
1:36:59
like, seeing how they're hot. People walking around. Hey, any
1:37:03
babe, you're not an ozempic. I think I'm going to cheat on you.
1:37:07
Recently, I've noticed a major uptick in advertising receive on
1:37:09
Facebook and other socials for semaglutide drugs, even a hymns
1:37:14
commercial offering free and cheap injections. But I only see
1:37:17
these when I'm scrolling while in the bowling green area. The
1:37:20
messaging is everywhere here. When I leave the state for work,
1:37:23
there's not a peep of it on my socials. Well, that's
1:37:26
interesting. Bowling Green, producer, we need you to stay,
1:37:30
stay on alert, because we'll know if they're trying something
1:37:33
else out, because they apparently you're the lab rats
1:37:35
of America.
1:37:36
John C Dvorak: There's a couple places in the country like that.
1:37:38
What else you
1:37:39
Adam Curry: know of any any other one? Well, I
1:37:40
John C Dvorak: know the Seattle area was the lab rat area for
1:37:44
rolling out previews of movies to see what for
1:37:48
Adam Curry: focus groups. Hmm, interesting.
1:37:51
John C Dvorak: Apparently, the people up there were, like the
1:37:53
average movie viewer,
1:37:56
Adam Curry: I guess, but these, but these people is different,
1:37:58
like they given them horrible sugary candy and pretty colors
1:38:03
and all kinds of stuff to eat. And then they throw them on, uh,
1:38:06
oh, yeah, that's
1:38:07
John C Dvorak: what you do. You find a spot Where's average
1:38:09
American, and you just use that as cheap. Instead of doing a
1:38:14
bunch of real research, you find one place can't be doing that.
1:38:19
You use what you find the one place and you just see what
1:38:21
happens? Oh, it's actually smart.
1:38:24
Adam Curry: Well, it's smart if these people are aware of it,
1:38:28
which they're not.
1:38:29
John C Dvorak: No, you don't want anyone aware of it. That's
1:38:31
the No, you can't do that. Then it screws it screws it up like
1:38:36
the Heisenberg uncertainty principle.
1:38:38
Adam Curry: Let's wrap it up with the the obvious to be
1:38:41
expected, the FDA
1:38:43
Unknown: is giving the green light for updated covid vaccines
1:38:46
from Pfizer and moderna, which have been designed and better
1:38:49
protect against the current circulating variants of the
1:38:52
virus. The best
1:38:53
plan going into this winter is for everyone to remain vigilant.
1:38:59
Vigilant, use the tools we have, tools treatment against the
1:39:04
illnesses responsible for the majority of fall and winter
1:39:07
deaths and hospitalizations. The FDA
1:39:09
says vaccinations continue to be the cornerstone of covid 19
1:39:13
prevention and can help avoid the lingering symptoms of long
1:39:16
covid.
1:39:17
The only way you get long covid is by having covid, and vaccines
1:39:22
can help prevent covid. Updated shots
1:39:24
are expected to be available at pharmacies and doctors offices
1:39:27
in the coming days or weeks. The release coming just as kids are
1:39:31
returning to school, the updated versions are approved for those
1:39:34
over six months, medical professionals are encouraging
1:39:37
anyone who's at high risk due to age or underlying health
1:39:40
conditions to get vaccinated as soon as possible. Health experts
1:39:44
recommend getting vaccinated sometime in September or
1:39:47
October. Going
1:39:47
to take a few weeks to get that protection, which may last for
1:39:50
several months heading into what may be a winter surge. Well,
1:39:54
Adam Curry: I must say, I know people who have had six
1:39:58
vaccinations. That's the OG and five boosters. And even they're
1:40:03
saying, Yeah, I don't think this is right for me. It's not
1:40:09
working for me. We
1:40:10
John C Dvorak: have that we I didn't get the clip, but we have
1:40:13
this one guy who keeps coming under our local stations. He's a
1:40:16
doctor at UCSF. He's a Chinese guy, Huang, something or other.
1:40:20
Yeah, and he just looks like a torturing he looks like a
1:40:24
character who plays a torturing person that I remember from
1:40:28
alias or someplace. He looks like an actor. And he is, in
1:40:31
some ways, and he come in his latest thing as well. If you get
1:40:35
covid, don't, you know, get the vaccine as soon as you can. If
1:40:40
you get covid
1:40:41
Adam Curry: After you get covid, yeah, oh,
1:40:44
John C Dvorak: that makes they're promoting this. Just get
1:40:47
the no matter where you could be sick as a dog. You get covid 20
1:40:50
times. Just keep taking this vaccine. I don't know. It's just
1:40:54
ridiculous. This, this, the logic is elusive, but this, in
1:40:59
that report there, they said, Well, you know the vaccine, you
1:41:02
take the booster and it'll last for three months. Yeah. How good
1:41:06
is that? Well, vitamin d3 Well, this
1:41:10
Adam Curry: does come timed with another FDA approval. John, get
1:41:13
ready, free stuff. Amid
1:41:15
Unknown: a wave of covid 19 infections this summer, and as
1:41:18
families start staying indoors more this fall, the Biden
1:41:21
administration is restarting its free at home covid 19 this
1:41:26
program. It's the third year in a row that families can order up
1:41:29
to four tests per household through the website covid
1:41:33
test.gov now the federal government is set to relaunch
1:41:36
the site again at the end of September. Since the program
1:41:40
began, it has sent out more than 1.8 billion covid tests. This
1:41:45
comes announced it has authorized updated covid
1:41:48
vaccines of both moderna and Pfizer biontech to better
1:41:52
protect against currently circulating variants. The CDC
1:41:56
said last week it estimates that covid 19 cases are growing or
1:42:00
likely growing in more than half the states.
1:42:03
Adam Curry: So they show this map during this bit of the of
1:42:06
the news report, growing or likely growing. Which is another
1:42:11
interesting little likely growing. What does that mean?
1:42:14
Well, and they show these colors, and you see New York,
1:42:19
California, they're growing. Not even likely growing. They're
1:42:22
growing. Texas and California. Texas and Florida don't even
1:42:26
have a color. There's nothing happening here. No covid. When
1:42:32
will people get it? I mean, not get get it, get the get the
1:42:36
covid or the VAX. But when will they start to understand,
1:42:40
understand
1:42:40
John C Dvorak: what that's bull crap. Yes, that
1:42:43
Adam Curry: the covid shot apparently makes you more
1:42:45
susceptible to getting covid.
1:42:49
John C Dvorak: It's crazy. It's logical, if you just keep
1:42:53
looking at the evidence. Now, I just went to covid test.gov
1:42:57
you're ordered for No, no, it was. It's a bullcrap report. Oh,
1:43:02
coming soon, you can order your free covid 19 test at the end of
1:43:07
September.
1:43:09
Adam Curry: Ah, fake news. That's fake news. And with that,
1:43:12
I'd like to thank you for your courage. Say in the morning to
1:43:14
you, the man who put the C in the slap cheek, say hello to my
1:43:17
friend on the other end, the one, the only, Mr. John
1:43:25
John C Dvorak: C, D, well, in the morning, you Mr. Adam curry.
1:43:27
In the morning, all ships at sea, boots on the ground, feet
1:43:29
in the air, subs in the water, and all the Dames and nights out
1:43:33
there. Joke out,
1:43:39
Adam Curry: 2341 trolls, about the same as last Thursday.
1:43:42
That's pretty good. Hello trolls. Yeah, the trolls are
1:43:45
good. The trolls are whenever there's something cool going on,
1:43:48
the trolls always just pile on, like, Oh, this is what the boys
1:43:52
have to say about it, by the way, I just have to say, I got
1:43:56
to stop promoting this microphone. Everybody wants one
1:43:58
now.
1:44:01
John C Dvorak: It's crazy. Uh, six months, we'll have them
1:44:03
available.
1:44:03
Adam Curry: Dame Jennifer already said she'll be a booth,
1:44:06
babe for us.
1:44:09
John C Dvorak: Oh, for the trade shows ratios. That's an idea.
1:44:13
She'd be good at this.
1:44:14
Adam Curry: Yes, she would. She would move product. Dame
1:44:16
Jennifer can move product six months. Yeah, okay, all right,
1:44:19
six months. Oh, I
1:44:21
John C Dvorak: forgot we're gonna have, yes, yeah. The thing
1:44:25
is, and by the way, this is not, won't be an exit strategy,
1:44:28
because we need the show to promote, the microphone
1:44:30
Adam Curry: it. We need to get it done before Christmas that
1:44:33
that that's gonna be so difficult. We can do it. We can
1:44:37
do it. You can do
1:44:39
John C Dvorak: so now, hey,
1:44:41
Adam Curry: I'm just the promo army and Dame Jennifer are
1:44:44
moving product. Here,
1:44:47
John C Dvorak: we missed NAB, so we're okay. We can try to get
1:44:50
him out before Christmas, and then we can, oh, NAB, I forgot
1:44:53
about
1:44:53
Adam Curry: that. There's a whole bunch of podcast
1:44:55
conferences. We can go to all the podcast conferences. Good
1:44:57
John C Dvorak: about both? Yes, rather go to nab. No, I'll
1:45:00
Adam Curry: go to with blueberry. I'll go there with
1:45:03
Todd. You know, we'll do joints. Man, we'll do joint deals with
1:45:07
joints.
1:45:07
John C Dvorak: You're gonna do joints anyway. What's it got to
1:45:09
do with this? I
1:45:10
Adam Curry: haven't done a joint or smoked anything 18 months.
1:45:15
Very proud of myself that long. Yeah. From cold turkey baby cold
1:45:19
turkey trolls are in the troll room. You can find
1:45:24
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1:45:59
John C Dvorak: it's, well, that's nice, it is. It
1:46:01
Adam Curry: skips a whole, you know, call to action piece.
1:46:04
You're listening. You're like, you know, I would not have
1:46:07
thought that, but those guys, they really gave me some food
1:46:11
for thought. I'm going to support them, because I don't
1:46:14
want them to go away, because that will be the consequence.
1:46:19
And you pulled out a cute dog, not quite the puppy, but it was,
1:46:23
it was, it was close to puppy time. We'll see. What does that
1:46:32
even
1:46:32
John C Dvorak: mean? I don't know what that doesn't mean
1:46:34
anything. If it
1:46:35
Adam Curry: was, wasn't for my upcoming birthday,
1:46:38
John C Dvorak: you have a birthday,
1:46:39
Adam Curry: I do. I'm turning the big six. Oh, and for the
1:46:42
occasion, my wife, you're the same
1:46:44
John C Dvorak: age as Kamala Harris, and you're the same age
1:46:48
as walls. Yes, yes, correct? Who looks like he's 90? Yes,
1:46:53
Adam Curry: well, that's being ages. But okay, it's nothing
1:46:56
wrong with 90 not being
1:46:57
John C Dvorak: ages. I just say he looks like he's 90. How is
1:46:59
that ageist?
1:47:01
Adam Curry: Well, you say it in kind of a condescending way.
1:47:05
Looks like he's 90.
1:47:06
John C Dvorak: No, I said it in a surprise manner. Oh, okay, I
1:47:10
wasn't mean condescending. The
1:47:12
Adam Curry: bonus of these modern podcast apps is that you
1:47:15
will get alerted when we go live, which is really the way
1:47:19
that I think podcasts are going people. More people are saying,
1:47:22
Yeah, we should just do it live. Record it live. Stop with the
1:47:26
tape, the endless editing and trying to cutting out all the
1:47:30
UHS and the ums and the that's the beauty of it, and tightening
1:47:33
up white space. Hey, I love silence. I love it when we're
1:47:37
contemplating and we're in thoughts, and people look at
1:47:41
their podcast app like, Did it break? Did it stop? What
1:47:44
happened?
1:47:46
John C Dvorak: What happened? These guys still talking to they
1:47:48
still on? What happened? It's called dead air, yeah,
1:47:51
Adam Curry: but I'm not I'm not against dead air. I think dead
1:47:54
air is beautiful. There's no reason to have to fill up every
1:47:57
single spot of dead air. It's okay to have just silence for a
1:48:02
moment. Silence is golden. Yeah, we are able to speak the way we
1:48:08
have been speaking for the past hour and 45 minutes, because we
1:48:13
do not have any advertisers. We don't have to have something in
1:48:16
the back of our mind. You know, actually, there was something
1:48:20
that someone alerted me to let me see if I have this. One of
1:48:25
our producers, we always have the tip of the day, and the tip
1:48:32
of the day is typically, I don't have one today, by the way, so I
1:48:34
hope you have a good tip of the day. But Tip of the Day has
1:48:36
often been a product. If it's a product you like, it's usually
1:48:41
of the lube variety, but it's bull. Yes, it's bull. I'm being
1:48:49
funny. We had people very happy with the rollerblade wheels tip
1:48:55
from the previous show. I
1:48:57
John C Dvorak: finally got mine. And have you tried them out? No,
1:49:00
I just got it. Okay.
1:49:02
Adam Curry: It turns out that there's an Amazon influencer
1:49:07
program, and
1:49:09
John C Dvorak: you got influenced. No, no,
1:49:13
Adam Curry: there are 1000s.
1:49:17
John C Dvorak: Wait, wait, literally, stop. Now, all of a
1:49:19
sudden, it just done. I mean what you just said takes a
1:49:22
while. Amazon is paying people money to promote Amazon
1:49:27
products. Yes,
1:49:29
Adam Curry: well, it's, it's like the old affiliate program,
1:49:33
but they are actively as far as I know, I don't, I
1:49:36
John C Dvorak: have no look into this, because it's sometimes,
1:49:39
well, it's, it's
1:49:40
Adam Curry: okay, so our producer got approved. It's
1:49:45
called shop and the videos, it's usually videos. So it's Tiktok.
1:49:50
John C Dvorak: Oh, that's the end of us.
1:49:52
Adam Curry: It's shoppable, shoppable, shoppables. So
1:49:57
people, I
1:49:58
John C Dvorak: can't trust these influencers. You
1:50:00
Adam Curry: can't, well, you can't trust any podcast
1:50:02
actually, that talks about products except ours, because
1:50:06
we've been doing this forever.
1:50:09
John C Dvorak: Yeah, we get nothing out of it. And and
1:50:11
Adam Curry: to be, to be, to be, you know, cut straight to it, I
1:50:16
believe this is a violation of federal the Federal Trade
1:50:19
Commission rules. I think you have to disclose if you're being
1:50:23
paid or you're getting a vision close to you from promoting
1:50:27
something. This
1:50:28
John C Dvorak: is true. Walt was about 678, years ago or longer.
1:50:33
Walmart
1:50:34
Adam Curry: is now doing this. Tiktok actually has their own
1:50:36
shop. We've known this for a while. We've talked about it,
1:50:40
but now it's gone way beyond Tiktok. Podcasts are doing it.
1:50:44
YouTubers are doing it. So be very careful. If it doesn't say
1:50:50
Tip of the day, you're no agenda show, you're probably being
1:50:52
scammed. That's just something to take note of, because we can
1:50:57
talk about whatever we want, because we don't get paid by
1:51:01
anybody. We get we get support from our producers, because we
1:51:04
don't even have listeners or fans.
1:51:08
John C Dvorak: Fans. We have fans the way you're derisive
1:51:10
when you say,
1:51:11
Adam Curry: Yeah, fans, as fans, you have to have fan days. We
1:51:15
have meetups. We have meetups. We got producers. Producers do
1:51:19
stuff. They send interesting information. They go down rabbit
1:51:22
holes. Yeah, okay, so sometimes they come up with weird stuff.
1:51:26
Ah, there it is. First one of the show. Okay, you're
1:51:29
John C Dvorak: up one to nothing. No, it, no.
1:51:32
Adam Curry: The tally was Adam six, John four. Adam five, John
1:51:36
Ford is now Adam six, John four. We have a producer, of course,
1:51:40
who was tracking that?
1:51:41
John C Dvorak: Good for him, Yes, so,
1:51:43
Adam Curry: so him. So it is six for me, four for you. I'm very
1:51:48
disappointed in myself. Yeah, I
1:51:50
John C Dvorak: am too because you're the one that can stop
1:51:52
stuff on a dime. Well,
1:51:54
Adam Curry: I I caught it the minute it came out, but it was
1:51:57
too late. It's okay, because
1:51:59
John C Dvorak: you caught it before now, do if you start to
1:52:01
say when you stop yourself right there
1:52:04
Adam Curry: earlier, I said, interesting. I've been working
1:52:07
on different words, Strange. Strange, yes, strange, we're
1:52:12
working on it. So we we get support in time, talent and
1:52:17
treasure, and one of the phenomenal things we've received
1:52:22
from Tim gaudrian. Is no agenda show net. He built that website.
1:52:27
He has, in fact, incorporated a lot of podcasting 2.0 features.
1:52:31
People don't realize this, but you can, you can take these 2.0
1:52:35
features, which, you know, the chapters, the transcripts, all
1:52:38
kinds of things you can put right into your website, which
1:52:41
is not a bad idea. Most podcasts have dumb, crappy websites and
1:52:47
and we have a good one, and that is what our producer Tim has
1:52:50
done for us, just as one of the many people who provide us their
1:52:52
time and talent, we'll be talking to our treasure
1:52:55
producers in a moment after we think we thank our artists for
1:53:00
Episode 1688, the title of that show was imposted. I was against
1:53:04
this art. I didn't like it a you, somehow you feel that you
1:53:08
had two gimmes in our every
1:53:12
John C Dvorak: and I got cheated out of one. No,
1:53:14
Adam Curry: it's always been two. You now have one left, and
1:53:18
you chose for Dame Kenny Ben's art, which was the balls for a
1:53:21
hot dog. And and I, and I couldn't figure out why I didn't
1:53:27
like it, until I saw it posted on some timelines. And now I
1:53:31
know if you step back, it looks like a monkey. You really have
1:53:37
to focus in on it to see that it's a vasectomy outfit that
1:53:44
gives you hot dogs for vasectomies. It looks like a
1:53:47
monkey when you just look at it looks like a monkey's face with
1:53:50
a monkey smile, and they didn't really work for me. But we have,
1:53:54
we have veto power here. I chose not to use it,
1:53:58
John C Dvorak: no what you wanted was the horrible tanta
1:54:01
Neal piece with a hot dog looking kind of like a limp dick
1:54:05
being cut in half by a pair of scissors.
1:54:08
Adam Curry: That was my top choice. The other I had other
1:54:13
choices. Let me see, not really well, I kind of liked commentary
1:54:19
bloggers, no agenda now with Blockchain, I thought that was
1:54:23
okay. And I saw that you use the riot drone by sweeper for the
1:54:31
newsletter, yeah, because it was an evergreen piece, yeah. And I
1:54:38
don't think that there really wasn't much else that that
1:54:42
really caught her? Oh, no. I like the the no agenda signs,
1:54:45
which was also a tantanil, which were like the DNC signs, like,
1:54:50
we love you, Joe and thank you, Joe, those stick signs,
1:54:54
John C Dvorak: yeah, the stick signs.
1:54:55
Adam Curry: I like those. I preferred that one, but you had
1:54:58
issues with it, which is probably. Totally true. It was,
1:55:01
John C Dvorak: it was the issues where it was just a little too
1:55:05
simple. It was, and it was small, it was, it didn't it
1:55:09
didn't work. Just didn't work. Yeah, anyway, I like the
1:55:12
creativity of it, but I didn't like it. Yes, you didn't like
1:55:16
it. Well, it's okay, man, it looked like it was done by hand.
1:55:20
I mean, it looked Yeah, that I give her credit for, yes.
1:55:23
Adam Curry: So thank you. Dame Kenny Benn, another Dutch master
1:55:26
at work, who brought us the artwork for Episode 1688, we
1:55:31
thank all of our artists. Of course, no matter what you're
1:55:34
doing, you put it up a no agenda Art Generator. It's appreciated.
1:55:37
A lot of this art is used in our 2.0 chapters, which you can see
1:55:41
in the modern podcast apps, also on noagendashow.net and dreb
1:55:45
Scott does that, so we love dreb, another great no agenda
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producer. Now we want to thank our executive producers and
1:55:53
Associate Executive producers. We appreciate any donation. The
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sends us $500 says, Happy Birthday, Adam, thank you for
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the blessing of you in this world and being an inspiration
1:56:46
to others. John, am I inspiring? Am I an inspiration to you?
1:56:50
John C Dvorak: No,
1:56:53
Adam Curry: funny you and your inspiration to me. In many ways,
1:56:56
I doubt it. Yeah, you're right. May this day be the best of
1:57:00
birthdays, celebrating you and all things you love. Well, thank
1:57:04
you, Chris and I appreciate a
1:57:05
John C Dvorak: nice note. It's a very anonymous nights in Lewis
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Barry, B, E, R, R, Y, next to Wallace Berry, Pennsylvania,
1:57:13
two, 421, 10. Appreciate you guys and the value you bring.
1:57:18
I'm hoping to be in Fredericksburg on Monday, 26 if
1:57:23
you're free for dinner, he's gonna buy dinner or she. I
1:57:27
Adam Curry: don't know it's a he, it is. Yes, if
1:57:30
John C Dvorak: possible, please play. JC, these jobs, they lap
1:57:34
it up. Clip, which he emailed to you,
1:57:36
Adam Curry: I'm not gonna play it because I know that you're
1:57:39
gonna hate it.
1:57:41
John C Dvorak: Okay, well then don't play. It's, it's
1:57:43
Adam Curry: you saying all kinds of lewd things.
1:57:45
John C Dvorak: We don't want that. No. And it's like, I think
1:57:48
the Nutting The peanuts is bad
1:57:50
Adam Curry: and Oh, then you'll hate, you'll hate this one. No.
1:57:53
So I don't need
1:57:54
John C Dvorak: to be ridiculed. I know. And that's normally on
1:57:57
the show. You're not.
1:57:58
Adam Curry: You are revered. You are revered. John C Dvorak,
1:58:04
yeah, yeah,
1:58:06
John C Dvorak: just get that mic and get this mic. So get me a
1:58:08
cup of coffee.
1:58:09
Adam Curry: By the way. May I make note of the fact that the
1:58:13
Trump campaign, who of course, still text me 20 times a day,
1:58:19
they have, they have gone, and it's just a trend. I just want
1:58:22
to mention it to you. They are now going for $10 every text I
1:58:27
get is just $10
1:58:29
John C Dvorak: I need everyone $2 $3 and $5 No,
1:58:33
Adam Curry: it's 10. I need everyone reading this to give
1:58:35
$10 the fate of the country is on the line. Okay, well,
1:58:39
John C Dvorak: so let's just stop right there. And I will say
1:58:42
this. This has to have been tested. They don't do this stuff
1:58:47
just out of the blue because they're shooting, you know,
1:58:50
blanks. They somebody tested this and determined that 10
1:58:55
bucks was the sweet spot. Well, listen to
1:58:57
Adam Curry: this from Trump colon, $10 question mark, if
1:59:00
everyone reading this gives $10 we'll outraise Kamala after her
1:59:04
convention ends. This is not a good strategy. Well, I hear, Oh,
1:59:11
I'm sorry. Well, this is Oh. This is interesting from Trump.
1:59:14
If, from Trump, if every Patriot in California chips in $5 before
1:59:21
my rally will break records. Well, the Californians are cheap
1:59:25
on the Cali's.
1:59:27
John C Dvorak: That's interesting. So you're getting
1:59:29
this to your California phone number. Idea, yes, yes, and
1:59:32
Adam Curry: everything is $10 $10 $10 now listen to this one
1:59:39
inbox, 99% full message from Donald Trump Jr will delete in
1:59:44
10 minutes. Read Now that's insulting.
1:59:48
John C Dvorak: That is bull crap.
1:59:51
Adam Curry: It's very insulting.
1:59:54
John C Dvorak: Yeah, well, I'm glad you're that. You're the
1:59:57
touchstone the lightning rod. I.
2:00:00
Adam Curry: I'm so mad at these guys. You're
2:00:01
John C Dvorak: the lightning rod for this crap. I
2:00:03
Adam Curry: am. A lot of pig butchering going, I
2:00:06
John C Dvorak: mean, I could be, but I don't know. You don't have
2:00:09
a cell phone. My phone is in the drawer where it belongs. Josh
2:00:12
Bates
2:00:12
Adam Curry: is in Jacksonville, Florida, and sends us 343 75 ITM
2:00:18
just baby making. Karma, please. One boy, please. Because if it's
2:00:21
a girl and gets her jeans, I'm gonna have to send it to a
2:00:24
nunnery on the moon. Thank you both. No problem. Here it is for
2:00:29
you. You've
2:00:30
Unknown: got Parma.
2:00:38
John C Dvorak: Here we go. OYSTEIN. OYSTEIN. Oistin,
2:00:41
oistin, I'm sorry, oistin Berg, and he's in Rotterdam, 2220,
2:00:49
we're already at the Associate Executive level. Yep, that ended
2:00:53
quick. Yep, it sure did with this donation. I would like to
2:00:56
bump my peerage up from Baron de vicount. You're on the list. I
2:01:00
have no accounting to show other than I know for sure I have
2:01:04
donated more than $5,000 to the show. That's a good number, if
2:01:08
it pleases the court and all the marshals I would like to be.
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Well, of course it does. You can be whatever you want. We don't
2:01:15
have that many Viscounts. Curiously, they usually skip
2:01:18
over it to become the Viscount of the province, South Holland.
2:01:24
Thank you for your courage. Okay,
2:01:26
Adam Curry: oistin, I met OYSTEIN at the Amsterdam meetup.
2:01:32
This is the guy, well, he's about eight feet tall, weighs
2:01:36
about 160 pounds. He's very thin, but has a OYSTEIN, he's
2:01:41
not Dutch, it's, he's from, I think, Denmark. So he's a very
2:01:45
Nordic looking face. And he also, he does, he does value for
2:01:50
value music,
2:01:52
John C Dvorak: which is, what does he do? Oh, he
2:01:55
Adam Curry: does songs.
2:01:56
John C Dvorak: I mean, sing. Is he a singer, a guitar player?
2:01:59
Well, listen,
2:02:00
Adam Curry: I'll play a little bit for you. Hold on a second.
2:02:02
This is mosquito mystery by oistin Berger. Get to
2:02:07
Unknown: the singing part. Here we
2:02:22
Adam Curry: go. He has this whole song about mosquitoes.
2:02:24
It's very joyful. It needs more bagpipe. But otherwise, is
2:02:28
great. The bagpipe
2:02:30
John C Dvorak: is, I think the bagpipes should be used more.
2:02:33
Adam Curry: I agree. It's right up there with the banjo. It's,
2:02:36
he's a great guy. So we'll see you for your your upgrade in a
2:02:41
bit. Oy steamberger, Megan richly in Boise, Idaho, $210
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Associate Executive producership for Megan in the morning
2:02:50
general. And this is the rightly, rightly. It says
2:02:53
richly, right there, pronounced richly. But that is saying,
2:02:56
John C Dvorak: I think is rightly. I know I see that
2:02:58
there, but I think she's got it wrong.
2:03:03
Adam Curry: Megan, you're pronouncing your own name wrong.
2:03:06
That's slick. John, this is the best birthday gift for the best
2:03:10
husband in the universe. Happy 58th birthday, David, he
2:03:14
celebrates today. We've been together for over 30 years and
2:03:17
never had a fight. He hit me in the mouth years ago, and we have
2:03:21
listened together ever since. Keep up the good work, and we
2:03:24
would appreciate some karma dealers choice for jingle. I
2:03:29
actually, I went and looked for one, a very old one. This is an
2:03:33
old one that we used to play when we before the Russia,
2:03:36
Ukraine war. This goes back. This one goes back maybe 10
2:03:39
years or so
2:03:58
Unknown: you've got Karma The much.
2:04:02
John C Dvorak: I don't remember that one. Yeah, I know you like
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the coffee guys up. And he's in bensonville, Illinois, 208, 25
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and he says, Keep up the good work, gentlemen. Uh, shows have
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been great lately. But if you could use more African news, or
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you could use more African news, sorry, watch the line there the
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producers who went or went doing it again, yeah, who want fresh,
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ITM, 20 stay caffeinated. Eli, the coffee guy, another self
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promotion donation, which is good. Phil
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Adam Curry: Barnett, Brentwood, Tennessee, $200.02 that's a nice
2:04:48
Palindrome switcheroo. He says, For my smoking hot wife,
2:04:51
Christy. Let me put that in right away. Christy, okay,
2:04:56
celebrating her birthday on Sunday. That's today. How about
2:04:59
a biscuit? For her birthday. Well, of course, they
2:05:01
Unknown: always give me a biscuit on my birthday. There
2:05:04
you go.
2:05:05
John C Dvorak: Linda lopatkin is up, and she's last on the list
2:05:08
shortlist today, a Lakewood, Colorado, 200 bucks, which is
2:05:13
very similar to her last donations. And she wants jobs
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come for a faster, more exec, oh man, for a faster, more
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effective job search. She writes, visit image makers.
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Inc.com, that's image makers. Inc, with a K, go your go to for
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executive resume and job search needs and work with Linda Lou,
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Duchess of jobs and writer of resumes. So here's,
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Adam Curry: here's another reason. Go love her. We don't
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take advertising. We can't get a read straight the minute the
2:05:45
pressure is so on. It's so hard to do. The people are donating
2:05:49
to other shows. John and saying, you know, for for us for an
2:05:55
effective job search, there's something viral about this,
2:05:59
which is funny. Linda. Thank you very much. Jobs,
2:06:02
Unknown: jobs and jobs.
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Adam Curry: There you go. Executive and Associate
2:06:09
Executive producers of Episode 1689, you can take these credits
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and use them wherever credits of the show biz variety are
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recognized, just like JJ Abrams is going to put his I did the
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DNC 2024 gonna put that on his IMDB? Think he will. Well, you
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can be proud of your production of the no agenda show, and you
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can go to imdb.com add it to your list if you're already on
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profile. It looks cool. You can always say I'm producer,
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executive or Associate Executive Producer of the best podcast in
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universe. Thank you again for helping us out producing episode
2:06:46
1689
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Unknown: our formula is this, we go out. We hit people in the
2:06:52
mouth shut.
2:07:00
John C Dvorak: Oh, I want to start off with something that
2:07:08
you are want to talk about, No, all right, and that is the
2:07:14
reemergence of the six week cycle. Yeah, yes, yes, yes. And
2:07:18
I have a clip which explains what happened.
2:07:21
Unknown: 66 year old Ronald siverud is behind bars tonight
2:07:24
Sean after he allegedly threatened to kill former
2:07:27
President Trump on social media now, sivru was taken into
2:07:30
custody in Cochise County without incident today, that
2:07:33
according to a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office there, the
2:07:36
66 year old has several outstanding warrants on separate
2:07:40
charges, including for a DUI and for failing to appear in court
2:07:45
in Wisconsin, he's also wanted for failing to register as a sex
2:07:50
offender, as well as a hit and run in the state of Arizona.
2:07:53
Clearly, he's got issues now the threat comes just six weeks,
2:07:58
just six weeks, just six weeks after former President Trump
2:08:02
survived an assassination attempt in Butler Pennsylvania,
2:08:06
Sid Rouge. Rap sheet also includes over a dozen aliases,
2:08:10
17 by my count, and multiple felonies. Well,
2:08:13
Adam Curry: this is another bonus for those agents, because
2:08:16
if you intervene, there's an intervention that you get a
2:08:20
bonus. They need to tie it into something from international
2:08:23
level. But this guy doesn't look like he has anything to do with
2:08:26
Iran at all. He's
2:08:29
John C Dvorak: one ugly guy,
2:08:30
Adam Curry: you know, I I had a clip earlier from inside
2:08:33
edition. I happened to have another inside edition clip. We
2:08:36
used to play more inside edition, I think, back in the
2:08:39
day. So it was fun to see what they're up to, and they had this
2:08:43
story as well with a tag. Five
2:08:45
Unknown: Secret Service agents have been placed on leave
2:08:47
following last month's assassination attempt in
2:08:49
Pennsylvania. There are
2:08:51
multiple Secret Service officials who have
2:08:53
been put on leave. At least five Secret Service members put on
2:08:56
leave. Four of them are from the Pittsburgh field office,
2:08:59
including the Special Agent in Charge, that, to me, would be a
2:09:03
likely indication that the agent in charge made some very bad
2:09:06
calls.
2:09:06
Trump may be breathing a little easier today, following the
2:09:09
arrest of a convicted sex offender who allegedly
2:09:12
threatened to kill him, the suspect was arrested last night
2:09:16
at a traffic stop in Arizona. Trump learned about the plot
2:09:19
moments before this interview with news nation at the Arizona
2:09:22
border.
2:09:23
We're in danger standing here talking, so let's not talk any
2:09:26
longer. No, I know about it, but they don't want me standing
2:09:29
here. They don't want you standing here
2:09:32
Adam Curry: either. Oh, man, I pray for him. Yeah, they would
2:09:37
be pretty bad six weeks. Yes, well, typical, that's we have
2:09:41
some real problems here in America with our intelligence
2:09:44
community. Real problems this Solingen in Germany. I'm
2:09:51
familiar with Solingen, not that and nothing's really far from
2:09:54
Holland. But this is not that far from Holland. I have the ABC
2:09:58
report, and then we have a. A late breaking report from
2:10:02
deutscheville. Here's the ABC giving us the rundown tonight,
2:10:06
Unknown: an urgent manhunt now underway in Germany for the
2:10:08
person authorities say is responsible for a violent
2:10:12
stabbing attack in the city of zollingen Friday night, ISIS now
2:10:16
claiming responsibility for the incident which left at least
2:10:19
three people dead and eight more injured. The city's mayor saying
2:10:24
last night, our hearts were torn apart. We in zollingen are full
2:10:28
of horror and grief, emergency calls coming in just after
2:10:32
9:30pm local time, the unidentified individual
2:10:35
attacking people with a knife in the middle of the crowded
2:10:38
festival of diversity commemorating the city's 150th
2:10:42
anniversary, an organizer at a stage nearby urging festival
2:10:47
goers to keep calm, but also your eyes open, because the
2:10:50
perpetrator is on the run. The crime scene cordoned off.
2:10:54
Forensics Team searching the area for evidence. The attack
2:10:58
occurring in the audience in front of this stage, the lights
2:11:01
above it still operating today as mourners gather nearby a
2:11:05
growing memorial of flowers and candles honoring the victims two
2:11:09
men, ages 56 and 67 and a 56 year old woman did not survive.
2:11:15
Police announcing a 15 year old is now under arrest. They say
2:11:18
they don't believe he was the attacker, but suspect him of
2:11:21
knowing about it in advance. Tonight, a police operation
2:11:25
underway at this refugee housing complex after they say they
2:11:28
received a tip in the case, authorities making a second
2:11:31
arrest there.
2:11:32
Adam Curry: Yeah, so turns out this guy starts stabbing people
2:11:39
in the neck. I have boots on the ground for this, shouted oliwach
2:11:42
bar. Somehow this is blamed on ISIS. But if you listen to the
2:11:49
deutscheville report, we quickly see that this is just another
2:11:53
unhappy newcomer. German
2:11:54
Unknown: police say a 26 year old Syrian man has confessed to
2:11:58
carrying out a knife attack in the western city of zollingen
2:12:02
that killed three people and injured eight others earlier.
2:12:05
The so called Islamic State claimed it was behind Friday
2:12:09
night's attack on the festival, but provided no evidence. Police
2:12:13
and prosecutors report that the suspect turned himself in.
2:12:17
Police Officers move in on the refugee center in Solingen, they
2:12:22
detained one man and questioned several others.
2:12:26
We are getting a lot of tips, and we have to investigate every
2:12:29
single one of them. When a tip becomes more concrete, then we
2:12:33
take action. We have to wait for the results of this
2:12:35
investigation, and then we can say more.
2:12:38
Earlier, the center of zollingen was cordoned off and the search
2:12:42
for the killer widened. The attack during a diversity
2:12:45
festival has left the city in shock.
2:12:48
Adam Curry: Yeah, so the whole diversity festival part, it's
2:12:51
all this is, this is the new normal. You look at knife crime,
2:12:56
of course, there are no guns in Europe to speak of. A man was
2:13:00
stabbed in the center of Amsterdam, actually not fair. I
2:13:03
mean, around the corner, almost from where I used to live,
2:13:05
Prince rosecraft. I mean, that is a stone's throw from my old
2:13:09
house. That happened yesterday or the day before, South Wales,
2:13:15
Newport, another stabbing Sydney, six people injured after
2:13:20
knife man rampage. And the common denominator, I hate to
2:13:24
say it is asylum seekers and immigrants in general that is
2:13:29
the common denominator, and it's just being papered over with us.
2:13:33
ISIS, please. ISIS,
2:13:36
John C Dvorak: unhappy newcomer, I think, is the term we're
2:13:39
looking for. That's a good show title to unhappy newcomer. Yeah.
2:13:44
When's the unhappy newcomers? They're here? Yeah, in the
2:13:48
United States, they let in a, you know, 10 million of them,
2:13:51
more, more than that, probably 2010, to 20. But I'll go
2:13:55
conservative and say 10, yeah, just to be nice, yeah. Uh. When
2:13:59
do they become unhappy and starts doing what they you know,
2:14:03
we can use guns here. So it'd be, you know, if you shoot
2:14:06
somebody in the middle of a crowd, it makes such a noise
2:14:10
that people are alerted. Guns are safer than
2:14:13
Adam Curry: knives, yeah, knives that cause much more
2:14:15
destruction, and it's really painful. Did you recall two
2:14:21
shows ago, we were talking about the that bogative story about
2:14:26
the 2.9 billion social security numbers, which, of course, is
2:14:30
not true
2:14:30
John C Dvorak: yet, right? More Yes. And I said,
2:14:33
Adam Curry: Be on the lookout. Be on the lookout for some kind
2:14:36
of legislation. Well, this came from multiple sources. The Biden
2:14:44
administration is working to expedite widespread adoption of
2:14:47
digital IDs, including driver's licenses and will be put into a
2:14:52
draft executive order. And it looks like login.gov will be a.
2:15:00
The portal that we will be asked to use for this, Oh, that'll
2:15:04
John C Dvorak: be hacked. Yeah. I
2:15:06
Adam Curry: mean, it's probably the worst idea ever, Eva, but it
2:15:11
is coming an executive order. And how long will it take before
2:15:15
you need that to do anything? Your ISP will require it to go
2:15:18
online. I mean, you can just see you coming down Broadway. I know
2:15:22
you think it's un American, which it is, but I feel they're
2:15:25
going to do this. They're going to they don't want people being
2:15:28
anonymous online. That's the ultimate goal,
2:15:32
John C Dvorak: ultimate the public's one account for
2:15:34
government. I'm looking at it now. Yeah, blogin.gov,
2:15:38
login.gov. Is for you. Individuals, use one account for
2:15:43
secure, private access to participating government
2:15:46
agencies. Yeah, baby, no one account for government. Learn
2:15:51
how to go you create an account now.
2:15:53
Adam Curry: Yes, go ahead. Create an account. Get ahead.
2:15:56
Get get a jump on it, John, get a Gmail address.
2:15:58
John C Dvorak: We recommend a personal email address that
2:16:00
you'll always be able to access, rather than a work email address
2:16:05
you already have an account with login.gov with that email
2:16:08
address, we'll send you an email to let you know how you can
2:16:12
reset your password and oh, yeah, okay, yeah, secure
2:16:17
passwords. Yes, yeah, one or more. Oh, now you need this. You
2:16:22
need one or more authentication methods, such as face or touch
2:16:27
for unlock security key authentication application, but
2:16:32
that's the one federal government employee or military
2:16:36
identification, and it's less secure if you use a test, a text
2:16:41
or voice message or backup codes. You
2:16:44
Adam Curry: know what graphene OS just released? You know
2:16:47
graphene OS is this alternative de Googled Android operating
2:16:52
system, which makes many smart? Finagled. Finagled, yeah.
2:16:56
Finagled, yeah. So they just released a new feature you can
2:17:00
add so you know, you can you log in with your passcode. You know,
2:17:04
your bunch of numbers, like a number pad, blah, blah, blah,
2:17:07
they've added a feature where you can have a secondary
2:17:11
sequence of numbers, and if you enter that so you know, the
2:17:14
police will say, give us your PIN code. Give us your PIN code
2:17:17
to unlock your phone. And you give them that code, it
2:17:20
immediately starts erasing the entire device, or
2:17:24
John C Dvorak: you give them the second code, yeah, exactly the
2:17:26
second code is a is a kill switch. Yes, it's
2:17:29
Adam Curry: fantastic. I love it. Well, yeah,
2:17:34
John C Dvorak: well, no, it's a great idea.
2:17:36
Adam Curry: Until they Well, they won't be happy, but they
2:17:39
won't be happy.
2:17:39
John C Dvorak: What if they grab the phone,
2:17:41
Adam Curry: no, they grab the phone, and then what they'll
2:17:44
say, give me your passcode.
2:17:45
John C Dvorak: Okay? And then they get to they get the fake
2:17:47
passcode. If they smart enough to see as a graphene OS, they