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John C Dvorak: It's hot. Adam
curry.
Unknown: John C Dvorak, it's
Thursday,
Adam Curry: August 29 2024 this
is your award winning give our
nation media assassination
Episode 1690
Unknown: This is no agenda, very
Adam Curry: demure, very
mindful, and broadcasting live
from the heart of the Texas new
country here in FEMA Region,
number six in the morning,
everybody. I'm Adam curry from
John C Dvorak: Northern Silicon
Valley, where we're all
wondering what the hell Kamala
said in the interview that's
been taped and edited. I'm
Johnson black.
Adam Curry: You barely made it
through it. It was hard. It was
hard. When is that? Air Tonight?
John C Dvorak: Yeah, airs
tonight at nine Eastern. It'll
be groovy. It'll suck. It'll be
all edited down. And you, CNN, a
bunch of journalists are going
along with the program. Oh,
whatever you say, we'll cut this
out. We'll cut that out. We'll
take the this and that. It's
gonna be
Adam Curry: who just who says
those who says they won't
sabotage her. You never know. We
don't know who's playing what
these days.
John C Dvorak: Do I agree with
that theory? Yeah, anything. In
fact, the latest thing with
Kennedy, I do have a Kennedy, a
quick, quick Kennedy thing that
nobody seems to want to point
out. And I'm going to point it
out on on Jen Psaki show, Carrie
Kennedy came out to bitch about
her brother. Yeah, she
Adam Curry: has the same voice.
John C Dvorak: Well, that was
the joke I was,
Adam Curry: yeah, I'm sorry. I'm
sorry. You said. No one wants to
talk about it. Everyone
John C Dvorak: was a hint.
Adam Curry: Is that? Now, is
that genetic? I thought that he
had some kind of,
John C Dvorak: well, the Yeah,
it's a just, it's called a
spasmodic dysphoria or something
has got some crazy name, but
it's play Kerry Kennedy. First I
got a clip here. Yep, I can't
understand a word of her. By the
way,
Unknown: I completely out and
separate and dissociate myself
from from Robert Kennedy Jr, and
this flagrant and inexplicable
effort to desecrate and trampled
set by her tonight, my father's
memory.
Adam Curry: We shouldn't be
laughing.
John C Dvorak: She can't help
it. No, I'm not laughing at the
fact that we're laughing that
she can't get what she's trying
to get out. She couldn't say it.
But nobody has pointed this out,
except you just now, oh, she has
this same disorder and and it, I
looked into it, so I read about
it. Dr Dvorak is all kinds of
different things. One out of
50,000 people have
Adam Curry: it. How about this?
Is it caused by inbreeding? No,
John C Dvorak: that's the thing.
There is no evidence that
there's anything genetic about
it. So wow, what are the odds
that somebody else in the family
would have it, unless it is
genetic, and they've got it all
wrong? No,
Adam Curry: stay away from Miami
sport. I guess there's something
in the water up there that's
John C Dvorak: screwy about the
fact that she has the same
ailment. But anyway, but back to
the other thesis. What so start
looking into it. I think it was
Breitbart or a Daily Caller. I
think maybe Daily Caller that
brought out the fact that it was
Cheryl Hines that told Bobby to
talk to Trump.
Adam Curry: Yeah, the daily
call. Well, try. He also talked
about it on Tucker's interview,
which was a good interview,
John C Dvorak: yeah,
Adam Curry: did you see it? Did
you see the whole thing?
John C Dvorak: No, I did not.
But I know about the situation,
and since she's she's already
bitched about the fact that he's
joined forces with Trump. What's
going on here?
Adam Curry: What do you mean?
Well, she's
John C Dvorak: first. She says
that she told him that, you
know, he didn't want to talk to
Trump because it would upset
her. She's no, no, no, go ahead
talk to him. So he talks to
Trump, and they make a deal. And
next thing you know, he's he's
on the Trump you know,
Adam Curry: this position, this
is so interesting. We had a
dinner last night with some of
the some of our friends who who
now actually think that the part
of RFK is played by JFK. JR,
yeah, but, but they said the
first thing because, you know,
we sit down. We haven't seen him
for a couple weeks. Sit down
there. He's a plant. He's a
plant. RFK, Jr's a plant. He's
there to ruin everything, as is
Tulsi. So, which is what you're
implying? Well, okay, you're
implying that he's a, you know,
I know he's
John C Dvorak: not, but he's not
a plan. He's, I think Cheryl,
I've, we've felt that he, she
may be his handler, he, we know
it's a daughter in law. I think
that's a CIA person.
Adam Curry: Oh, yeah,
John C Dvorak: Tulsi is, I think
she's in the 321 or she's in
some group, which is a
intelligence intelligence
operation. Well,
Adam Curry: let's recall that
RFK Jr said he wanted to clean.
Not the CIA. And so we have the
uncle Don old school CIA, and
then we have the woke nut job
CIA. But I think it goes much
deeper. I mean, much much
deeper. Just, you know, I've
been reflecting on this, and you
know, the title of the show is
no agenda. But at this point,
all the wickedness and these,
these nasty, horrible people,
just they're, they're
narcissistic psychopaths. They
really are psychopaths,
psychopaths, and they've turned
our country into a robber's den.
I mean, the whole everything
here, just this is how it works,
all the way down the line. So
my, my other stepdaughter, is
coming in for my birthday, which
is very nice. She's coming in
from Chicago. And so she texts
Tina this morning. Says, Oh man,
the TSA is now looking you know,
you have, you get that picture
taken in the TSA line. Now you
can opt out of it, but of
course, most people don't, and
if you're if the picture that
they take of you does not match
the picture on your ID, you're
taken out of the line. This is
new, and people are freaking out
about it, even though it's
supposed to be a test, and you
don't have to do it. And this is
and by the way, I hate the game,
not the players, because we have
plenty of TSA agents, and I'm
sure they're just as annoyed by
this. TSA just tweeted the other
day randomly because it hasn't
come up for at least nine or 10
months. The tweet reads, peanut
butter is a liquid. We said what
we said? It
John C Dvorak: was a whole
segment on the on the gut felt
show about this
Adam Curry: screw, these people
Screw this, all of it, but
there's a liquid screw, the
higher rationale, yeah, okay,
yeah. I mean, yes, I've seen the
rationale for but it's beyond
this. Beside the point. This
stems back to 2007 when a couple
of nut jobs had some things that
they never actually mixed and
never exploded on the
John C Dvorak: plane, yeah,
well, that's like the shoe
bomber, same thing, yeah, from
Adam Curry: firecrackers in his
heel. You know. Meanwhile you
got people fighting on
airplanes, beating on each other
and punches beating on each
other. It's, it's time to clean
this up. And I, I choose to
believe RFK Jr. I choose to
believe that he is 70 years old.
And he says, Hey, I think I can
save some kids. And I'm all for
it, because in 10 years, I'm
going to be 70, there's going to
be no one left for Social
Security and Medicare is going
to be done. There'll be no one
working that will have no more
kids. I know you may not care
anymore, but I care. I don't
care
John C Dvorak: anymore. Close
the hatch.
Unknown: Close the hatch behind
us.
John C Dvorak: So the that's
funny. So the possibility that
the two of them coming in, two
strong characters with a fan
base,
Adam Curry: and at Tulsi, I
think she's Yeah, no,
John C Dvorak: I say the two of
them. Oh, yeah, okay.
Adam Curry: I said
John C Dvorak: the two of them
coming in, Tulsi and and
Kennedy, both with some sort of
intelligence connections, may be
there to keep Trump from doing
the screw ups that he's done in
the past, which like hallelujah,
yes, exactly, hiring Your your
buddy Burks,
Adam Curry: my buddy. Oh, now
it's my buddy. Okay, oh, Fauci
John C Dvorak: and people and
people like John Kelly. And I
was looking into John Kelly,
it's like, Bolton. How about
Bolton? Oh, Bolton. Late in the
game, God, Bolton. By the time
Bolton came around, you think
he'd have a clue. So
Adam Curry: this whole op, that
is Kamala Harris, which it is.
And of course, the media loves
this. Look at all the polls,
neck and neck. She's a little
above Trump. We've got a horse
race. People advertise now. It's
like, oh, okay,
John C Dvorak: advertise now
spend your money. We don't want
to see anything left in the
coffers. We're the media,
Adam Curry: and you can't all of
it. All media is now no good,
and we'll get to telegram in a
moment. But I need some of your
historic knowledge for this.
Eric PP, who's one of the
developers on podcasting 2.0 he
sent me a documentary, and it's
called, Let me see. It's called
the ball of confusion, and it's
about the 1968 DNC. And of
John C Dvorak: course, now
there's a lot of a lot I may
have seen this documentary Well,
brings about. These
Adam Curry: are very short
clips, but I just want to get
your historic knowledge, because
Hubert Humphreys was, of course,
there at the DNC in. And where's
Hubert Humphrey where was Hubert
Humphreys from Minnesota?
Exactly. So listen to what
Hubert Humphrey was talking
about back then in 1968 at the
DNC, he was
Unknown: a real optimist in
politics, and he called it the
politics of joy. And if ever
there was a phrase that didn't
fit 1968 it was that here
we are the way politics ought to
be in America, the politics of
happiness, the politics of
purpose and the politics of joy.
And that's the way it's going to
be to all the way from here on
out.
He believed in the Johnson
domestic policies. His conundrum
was Vietnam.
Adam Curry: So very similar. You
know, this is history not
repeating, but rhyming right
down to, well, this blew me
away. So of course, we had Nixon
in, not at the DNC, obviously,
but Nixon in the race. Let's
just replace Nixon right now for
Trump in this clip,
Unknown: the charge against
Nixon was he couldn't win.
George Romney withdrew before
the first primary in New
Hampshire. Rockefeller didn't
amount to much, so he was really
running against himself. One of
the things that now is almost an
accepted fact is that Nixon had
a quote, secret plan to end the
Vietnam War. That he had uttered
these words, he never said them.
The story, as I understand it,
is that Rockefeller told a
reporter that Nixon's running
around saying he has a secret
plan, and the reporter reported
it in Nixon's mouth. And for
years, Nixon sought to dispel
that, said he never said it. Now
that sounds
Adam Curry: a lot like Judy
Woodruff saying, oh, Trump told
Netanyahu to keep it going so
that he could stop the war.
John C Dvorak: Right? Which he
had to walk back, which he
Adam Curry: had to walk back.
But then this clip makes it even
more interesting. In the context
of Trump and Bibi Netanyahu,
Unknown: we now know that
Richard Nixon had asked Anna
Chennault, who was the chairman
of the Republican women, for
Nixon to be a back channel to
the South Vietnamese to
encourage them not to
participate in peace talks in
Paris under the Lyndon Johnson
administration, because they
would get a better deal with the
Richard Nixon administration if,
in fact, Richard Nixon played a
hand in curtailing the peace
talks in Paris. There's no doubt
that that's a violation of the
Logan Act. And the Logan Act
essentially prevents American
citizens from getting in the way
of American foreign policy.
It is essentially treason. Now,
Nixon, even though he was a
former vice president, was a
private citizen at that time, so
he would have been covered by
the Logan Act. LBJ was furious.
Contacting
a foreign power in the middle of
war,
and it's a damn bad mistake.
When he heard what Nixon's
people at least were doing and
what Mrs. Chenault was doing, he
was deeply angry. He wanted to
expose Nixon, but realized that
if he did so would be obvious
that he knew because of illegal
wiretapped.
Adam Curry: I just love this. So
that's exactly what
Unknown: I think about a den of
thieves.
Adam Curry: Yes, yeah. So you
know, perhaps Trump is being
wiretapped at Mar a Lago. Judy
Woodruff hears about it, you
know, she thinks it's from
Axios, because the old bag can't
remember. Sorry to be ageist
about it. And everyone's like,
Oh, we can't let anybody know
that we actually know what's
going on. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: well, they
wiretapped him at Trump Tower,
and they made a big fuss about
the fact that only we didn't,
even though it turned out that
they did, and it was discovered
that they did, but they denied
it. This is ridiculous.
Adam Curry: And then this, this
one, of course, this is what LBJ
did seven days before the
election.
Unknown: I have now ordered that
all air, naval and artillery
bombardment of North Vietnam
cease.
Adam Curry: Yeah, that would be
perfect for just say, sounds
like Joe, even you ordered
Israel stop bombing. And my,
how, think this is the last one.
My, how things have changed
since the DNC of 1968 when
reporters were actually there,
reporting on protests and what
was going on. And this is a
famous clip. I'd forgotten all
about it. This is Dan, rather,
who was trying to report on
protests inside the DNC Mayor
Unknown: Daley really did have.
Wounds in that convention hall,
and any delegate who got out of
line or started indicating that
he or she was going to dissent,
generally speaking, was either
shown the door or was beaten up.
Take your hands off of me unless
you intend to arrest me. Don't.
Don't push me, please. But don't
push me. Take your hands off
him, even unless you in arrest
me. Wait a minute. Wait a
minute. Walter, as you can see,
I'm sorry
to be out of bed, but somebody
belt him in his stomach doing
that. What happened is a Georgia
delegate, at least he had a
Georgia delegate sign on. Was
being hauled out of the hall. We
tried to talk to him to see why,
who he was, and what the
situation was, and at that
instant, the security people,
well, as you can see, put me on
the deck. I didn't do very
well. I think
we've got a bunch of thugs here.
Dan,
Adam Curry: so you know,
contrast that with the 2024 DNC,
where people hold up aside,
there's no reporting on it from
the mainstream, only someone who
happened to have a cell phone
and because they got the thugs
in there, everyone's under
control. Shut up, shut up and
play along. This is the game.
We're all in. It joy. It's joy,
people, the politics of joy.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, you know,
John chancellor was also beat up
at the at the who was John
Chancellor. He was a very famous
correspondent. I think he was on
NBC. There was a good, yeah,
there were that report of from
what, rather, was one of many.
And they were out there
reporting, and they were
actually doing a real job of it,
as opposed to today, where you
just have a bunch of, in fact,
what they what the Democrats did
in this convention was bring in
a bunch of influencers, yes,
yes, crawling with them, yes,
Adam Curry: yeah. It's, it's
modern political warfare. So I
kept looking for joy. And there
is a joy, yeah, because
John C Dvorak: she's on MSNBC.
Adam Curry: Oh, joy. Joy now
kept looking for the politics of
joy, and this, these things just
happened in the past four
months.
Unknown: Kamala Harris's 2024
presidential campaign is being
propelled by the Black joy
movement, which emphasizes
celebrating Black humanity
beyond trauma and oppression,
and this has resonated deeply
with her supporters in the face
of political challenges and
racial identity debates. Yes,
Adam Curry: this is the black
joy. There's even an exhibit in
Tennessee. We only
Unknown: seem to truly focus on
black people's trauma, and while
that is valid, while that is
important, and while that needs
to be studied, so does our joy,
highlighting and showcasing our
ability and our audacity to find
joy in spite of everything that
has been thrown at us, is
something that we should not
only celebrate but honor.
Adam Curry: And of course, we
had a black joy Parade, which
you and I missed. What is black
joy?
Unknown: Black joy is the joy of
not only being black, but just
the culture that comes with this
black joy, to me, means the
ability to express yourself
authentically. Us. Being
able to come here is super
important for the children, for
the seniors, for everybody
in between. We're
bringing Oakland to the world.
This is what we're like on
everyday basis. But we want
everybody to see
the black joy that we have
we don't spend enough time
celebrating ourselves. We don't
spend enough time just like
basking in our own glory, if you
will.
John C Dvorak: So it's all
subversive. We should all be
basking in our own glory.
Unknown: It's all subversive.
John C Dvorak: These people
don't spend enough time. Adam,
basking glory. No, we
Adam Curry: should do that more
often on weekends? Oh, no, we
work on weekends. This is this
whole campaign, the media, the
entire administration, all of
all of the agencies. I mean, I
don't know if we can ever, if we
can ever reset all of this, but
man, what a bunch of jag offs,
all of them. It's all just
corrupt and narcissists and
sociopaths, psychopaths and
sociopaths, they're crazy and
crazy, I tell you,
John C Dvorak: and it's being
seems to be being. It's
encouraged by social media.
Adam Curry: Yes, yes, it is. And
John C Dvorak: I and I'm part of
it. You are. I mean, I admit to
it, yeah. I mean, I'll take a
look at these, these tick tock,
mainly, yes, these psychos that
are on tick tock with their, you
know, guys that pretend to be
women or want to be women, or
think they're women or whatever,
and they're all made up and
they're ugly. It's not like
they're attractive women.
They're very genuine, they're
very demure. They're not even
demure, they're psychotic. And
there's something compelling
about watching a psychotic
person rant about something I
don't know what it is. It's like
I. Why is this person even
available to to do this? Is they
should be, literally, it's
locked up. They should be in an
institution. Well,
Adam Curry: it's, it's, it's
part of the program, though. I
mean, the fact that it's all out
there to such a degree, and the
algos are bringing it to you
clearly, because the only time I
see any of this stuff is when
you post it. So the algos are
tuned they're fine tuned into
you. They
John C Dvorak: got it, man. Look
at this guy. He's gonna push all
this crazy stuff. He's nuts.
They're
Adam Curry: completely tuned
into you now. So, and I think
I'm gonna change my thinking
John C Dvorak: before you
continue with this thesis,
they're not tuned into me so
much because I don't even have
an account. It's people sending
them to me. I link to I look at
that, and then once I'm on that,
looking at one psycho, the
algorithm then gives me another
psycho. Well, I'm just, I'm just
talking about, but I'm not part
I'm not being targeted. But
Adam Curry: on X, I think you
are, and you have an account on
X, your post, you're reposting
this stuff on X, I don't know
what you're doing on tick tock.
I mean, tick tock. I mean, I
can't get on to I just, I
refuse, because I know what will
happen. Oh, this is great.
Sucked in. Get sucked in. It
gets sucked in. So I think I'm
going to change my opinion, or
my my original thesis on this
telegram thing. And I know you
have two clips. Let me just do
this. Do this background or see
if it lines up with you.
Unknown: Telegram Founder Pavel
Durov has been put under formal
investigation and released under
judicial supervision of
allegations his messaging
service is being used for
illegal activities. Allegations
include that the platform is
being used for child sexual
abuse, material, drug
trafficking, fraud and abetting
organized crime transactions.
Earlier this week, President
Emmanuel Macron denied political
motivations were at play.
It is up to the judiciary and
full independence to enforce the
law. The arrest of the President
of telegram on French soil took
place as part of an ongoing
judicial investigation. It is in
no way a political decision. It
is up to the judges to rule on
the matter,
but the Kremlin claims
otherwise, saying Durov
detention caused shock
throughout the world
so media, but it
seems to me that, well, it would
not be an exaggeration to say
that the whole world experienced
a greater shock than ever before
from the actions of
representatives of the
collective West
following durovs arrests.
Telegram said in a statement
that it abides by EU laws and
its moderation is within
industry standards. Jorov is
banned from leaving France due
to the investigation, so
Adam Curry: whenever a statement
comes out saying this is not
political, it's political, but
why? Pavlov is not a politician.
So, and I admit freely, I'm
somewhat influenced by the
interview that Mike Benz did
with Tucker, which I which I
watched yesterday. Are you
familiar with Mike Benz?
John C Dvorak: We've familiar
with Mike Benz, but I did not
see this interview. You have a
clip, I don't
Adam Curry: have a clip, and I
have a question. What does Mike
bends do for a living? That's my
question, because he seems to be
everywhere, telling everybody
exactly how the State Department
works and how the blob works.
But how does he make money? He's
everywhere, but, you know, he,
does he have a lot of ads? Or,
you know, does he I just, that's
just the question that no one
seems to be asking. So you just
asked it. We should find out?
Yeah, I hope to find out. So the
thinking, and by the way, it's
also influenced by this email
from one of our producers, who
talks about the privacy features
of Telegram, which turns out, is
not as great as I thought it
was. Aha, yeah. So the early I'm
going to read verbatim here, the
early team, I felt that it was
always full of holes. But, oh,
it's worse than you think. The
early team behind the start of
Telegram, led by Nikolai Durov,
that's pablo's Brother, I think,
consists of six ACM champions,
half of them PhDs in math, but
they're not cryptographers. Of
course, there's only a handful
of really good cryptographers in
the world, probably instead of
using known standards like PGP
or GPG that are well tested,
they created their own
encryption standard. Here we go,
and our boots on the ground.
Dude named Ben says there are
weak parts in it that will not
surprise you if some three
letter agency might have
compromised the telegram
security. Another big red flag
is that, by default, the
encryption of messages is not
on. Turning it on is only
possible in a chat to another
person. You have to you have to
actively select that you want
this encrypted. So there's no
encryption in channels or
groups, which is the main use of
telegram. There's no encrypt.
Impossible in channels or groups
only, the secret chats are
encrypted. And of course, most
people start, I think they've
changed it now, but most people
have started their account with
your own mobile phone number,
which is why you don't which is
why you don't have a telegram
account, and all of the photos
and files you share are all
stored on their closed source
servers for an unlimited time,
also unencrypted. So this is a
beautiful system, and I think
it's very possible this is what
Mike Benz was saying that the
Russians, either they have
access to the encrypted stuff,
or, you know, they have some
other access. And this is
hurting the use of telegram by
Ukrainians, which is, you know,
almost everybody in Ukraine is
using telegram because telegram
is what you use, or used to use
when you started some kind of
color revolution. Pay, a couple
of guys in Germany, we saw that.
But was it the Belarus uprising?
I think the two guys in Germany
are managing the telegram
channel well, that's suspicious,
and that this is why they want
to try and get to Pavel, because
this is one of the last systems
that the agencies and the State
Department have to control
revolutions and get people all
riled up, not by subverting
their messages necessarily, but
by using it as the main it comes
across as trustworthy. So I
think this is where we need to
have a hard look at Elon Musk,
not Elon himself. I mean, I've
never liked him. You know, he's
like, Oh, freedom, freedom of
speech, freedom of speech. But
he isn't actually running X,
that's Linda yacorino.
John C Dvorak: Well, before you
continue, let's play my two door
off clips. Okay, just about the
arrest. These are generalized.
There's not anything just I just
want to get him out of the way.
Unknown: In France, I'm sorry.
In France, authorities have
issued preliminary charges
against telegram CEO Pavel dura
for allegedly allowing illegal
activities on his social media
platform. He's been released
from custody on bail, but is not
allowed to leave France. Durov
was arrested on Saturday at a
Paris airport as part of an
investigation that opened last
month. Russia, born dorave, is
also a French citizen.
Allegations against him include
allowing his platform to be used
in connection with child sexual
abuse, drug trafficking, fraud
and organized criminal
activities. French prosecutors
also alleged that telegram
refused to share information or
documents with investigators
when required by law. French
media, AFP reports that Durov is
also under investigation for,
quote, serious violence against
one of his children in Paris.
Oh,
Adam Curry: I hadn't heard this
part that's interesting. A
little twist, serious. Oh, so
that so that's the that's the
leverage. Pavel, you serious
violence against one of your
kids. Pavel, look at this
picture. Pavel, What's that in
your mouth? Pavel, part two,
Unknown: After durovs arrest,
Telegram issued a statement
saying, quote, It is absurd to
claim that a platform or its
owner are responsible for abuse
of that platform. Elon Musk, the
billionaire owner of x, who has
called himself a free speech
absolutist, has been speaking
out in support of Durov and
posted hashtag free. Pavel,
Adam Curry: yeah, you know. So
it seems to me that a guy whose
main source of income is the US
government could possibly be
compromised to create a great
free speech platform that now
can be used instead of telegram.
And I'm not saying that Elon
himself is behind it, because if
anyone is running that place,
not for advertising success,
because we know that's not
working, it's yakarino, who is a
total mainstream Insider. NBC
Universal, started the peacocks,
was part of the peacock
streaming service team Ad
Council. She actually was in the
Trump administration didn't know
this, the President's Council on
sports, fitness and nutrition.
Why? Why?
John C Dvorak: Why I know that
either that's kind of obscure,
and
Adam Curry: this is the best
part. She has a twin sister, the
old twin sister bit now she's
the one that keeps saying,
freedom of speech, not freedom
of reach, so maybe she has her
fingers on the dial, you know.
And amidst all of this, all of a
sudden we got Zuckerberg going
Unknown: Facebook. CEO Mark
Zuckerberg has acknowledged
being pressured by the Biden
administration to censor content
during the pandemic in a letter
to the House Judiciary. Jury
committee, Zuckerberg says
senior administration officials
pushed the company to censor
certain posts about covid on
Facebook and Instagram.
Zuckerberg saying, I feel
strongly that we should not
compromise our content standards
due to pressure from any
administration in either
direction, and we're ready to
push back if something like this
happens again. Zuckerberg also
said he regrets hiding content
about Hunter Biden before the
2020 election, including
information about Biden's laptop
after the FBI warned it may have
been Russian disinformation, and
Adam Curry: we just need to play
a nice little supercut reminding
us how the M 5m treated us, the
citizens, their customers, or
really were their product about
the Hunter Biden laptop. Never
forget.
Unknown: Obviously we're not
going with the New York Post
story
right now on Hunter Biden.
This is really one of the
stupidest October surprises I've
ever seen. It helps to really
view this as storytelling, not
so much as news coverage, but as
political entertainment. NPR
explained, we don't want to
waste our time on stories that
are not really stories. Who even
thought to make that story up,
a story that many intelligence
experts say has all the
hallmarks of a foreign
interference campaign looks like
it's
tied to Vladimir Putin in
Moscow. This
is a Russian intelligence
disinformation campaign, foreign
intelligence operation,
foreign intelligence operation,
Russian intelligence. Rudy
Giuliani was not fed passively
Russian disinformation. He
ordered off the menu. This
is a classic example of the
right
wing media machine, and
he's in the midst of a scandal.
He's not taking
we should note Hunter Biden
isn't running for president.
That argument has been debunked.
There is no evidence that Joe
Biden did anything wrong. For
all we
know these emails are made up.
It just lacks credibility. Okay,
start doing that. Bearing No,
we're
not going to do your work for
you. Sorry.
John C Dvorak: The main player
in there was Stelter at least
three times. And then, of
course, Morning Joe jumps in.
These guys, of course, stelters
out. But these guys are so
corrupt at MSNBC, CNN, all of
them. John, all of them, yes,
but not to the extreme. Come on.
The extreme that you get when
you go to MSNBC is off the
scale, at least they fake it a
little bit. At the other
networks, again, I blame Brian
Right Blane Roberts, the guy who
runs Comcast. He's the guy
behind the whole thing. Anyway,
Adam Curry: it appears to me
that Elon may not have his
fingers on the knobs, and that
yakarino is the one we need to
be looking at. I'll give I'll
give Elon the benefit of the
doubt. But you know, he did buy
Twitter for $44 billion banks
can't unload this debt. They've
got $17 billion worth of debt,
which they want to sell for 30
cents on the dollar, because
that's what the debt is now
valued at. So you know why? Oh,
just because you have money and
you believe in free speech.
Maybe, maybe. Well,
John C Dvorak: another thing is,
I wonder how much of Elon's
money, this is because there's a
lot of Saudi money. It's
Adam Curry: not that's the point
everybody has influence in this
thing.
John C Dvorak: That's my that
would account for the fact you'd
have somebody else come in and
actually Elon being a front man,
Adam Curry: yes, yeah. And, and
it's always great. It's always
great when they're making fun of
the other team until it
switches. You know? I mean, it's
like, it's always great when
they censor the bad guy stuff,
but when they turn around and
use the same tools on you, then
it's not going to be so good. So
I'm just saying we need to be
wary of that, and that the only
place left for true free speech
is podcasting. I knew you were
no I was getting there and and
listen to and so now they're
this is the psyop that's been
going on for a long time, and
came to a head again this week,
pod is dead. Podcasting evolved
away from Apple towards YouTube.
Oh, it's the everyone watches
podcasts on YouTube. It's only
YouTube. They are trying so
hard, and to a degree,
succeeding, at convincing
everybody that podcasting is
dead. It's only YouTube. Now, I
haven't heard this at all. Well,
I'm in the business. I'm in the
business. Well, I'm
John C Dvorak: in the business
too,
Adam Curry: but you're not in
the business. No,
John C Dvorak: I'm not running a
whole
Adam Curry: infrastructure
system.
John C Dvorak: But yes,
Adam Curry: and, and, you know,
and I would be okay if they, I
mean, they should at least offer
to compromise me. I'm a little
disappointed by that. Yeah,
where's the money? I don't know.
The podcast index is, is truly
an, oh, man, so many these, a
lot of these hosting companies
are in on it. I Not a lot, some
of them.
John C Dvorak: I mean, it's,
it's, you know, in the
corruption, yeah,
Adam Curry: I believe so, yeah.
Yeah, I
John C Dvorak: believe so you're
probably right. You, like you
said, you take it down,
Adam Curry: take it down. Take
it down. Oh yeah, there's some
taken down going on. They've
already got, you know, Spotify,
for sure, because, you know
Spotify, they've got section 230
This is why Zuckerberg, I think,
is trying to cut bait and like,
oh, well, you know, Trump's
gonna get in, so I might as well
say hey, you know, because they
cleared his letter clearly says
they coerced us under a, you
know, threat of Section 230 cue
the ex Facebook people going out
and doing interviews.
Unknown: It was peak covid and
peak debate about what was right
or wrong information, and the
White House openly pressured
tech companies to moderate the
conversation. We don't
take anything down. We don't
block anything. Our point is
that there is information that
is leading to people not taking
the vaccine, and people are
dying as a result, and we have a
responsibility as a public
health matter to raise that
issue. Zuckerberg says he now
believes the government pressure
was wrong, and he's ready to
push back if it happens again.
Do you believe that Facebook is
trying to suppress certain types
of information? No, I don't.
Katie horbath is Facebook's
former Director of Public Policy
and left in the spring of 21 is
this a former censorship what he
described, he makes clear
that they made their own
decisions about this content. I
think that's really important.
All
of the platforms did.
She argues that Zuckerberg
admission is an example of
walking a fine line at a time of
court challenges to tech
companies over content
moderation and regulation
threats. I think this
is consistent with meta wanting
to pull back from politics and
news overall, and very much
trying to stay out of this
political fray this time,
meaning
while the letter may say one
thing, social media's
relationship status with
Congress remains complicated,
Adam Curry: let me clarify on
the hosting companies. What I
learned is that a lot of these
so called platforms, like
Spotify, Apple as well, Amazon
and iHeart, tune in if you want
your podcast there. It's not
just like you put out your RSS
feed and then they say, Oh, I'm
going to put this in. No, your
hosting company automatically
opts you into their terms of
service, which is exactly why
we're not on Spotify, because
they had Terms of Service like,
I'm not going to sign any terms
of service. So that's how the
minute something happens that
that is not liked by the system.
They cannot just go to the
hosting company and say, pull
the plug Terms of Service.
Violation done, you're out by
per episode or per feed itself.
John C Dvorak: So there's and
the problem, of course, is that
with something like Spotify, and
people started saying, listening
to our podcast on Spotify
idiots, idiots, but you don't,
but, but let's say that we're a
Spotify podcast. And what would
happen is that there'd be so
many people gravitating toward
that. Then once they pull the
plug on us, they would have
they'd be like fish out of the
water, you know, flapping
around. Where are we going to
go? I don't know. And then you'd
forget about the podcast, you'd
never find it someplace else,
and then you're done, it's done,
and you're done, the podcast is
ruined. Yeah, yeah. You have to
have do your own it has to have
a home base that's outside of
these systems,
Adam Curry: you know? And now,
when I signed up, I don't hate
even I don't think my login even
works anymore on Apple, but the
Apple also had Terms of Service.
I don't know if that. I'm sure
it has changed since covid. A
lot changed during covid. So to
bring it all back around,
there's not a lot of places, if
any, that we can really trust
for freedom of speech, because
you may think that you're, you
know, you're in the Bozo filter.
You know, Linda yakarino may be
dialing you down, isn't and
certainly YouTube, oh yeah, get
everybody on YouTube. That's
where podcasts are great. Use a
modern podcast app, people, one
that uses the index podcast
apps.com so we will see what
happens to Pavel, but, but I
would say that the longer they
keep him, although he's out on 5
million euro bail, can't leave
France, I would say that it's
going to become less trustworthy
for everybody. And then where do
you go? Signal literally takes
money from the US government. Us
well, NGOs that are funded by
the US government. So no, you
know WhatsApp, which is a
Facebook product or, yeah, a
meta product? No. So the control
system is closing in on us, and
meanwhile, we're just. Here live
in Val living the value for
value, life with no impact
whatsoever. We have no impact
just we have
John C Dvorak: no impact. We
have we don't have impact in a
in a threatening sense. And why
is that? We do have impact in a
subversive sense. Ooh,
Adam Curry: I like that explain.
John C Dvorak: Well, in other
words, we are. We have a subtext
to everything we do, which is
truth, yes, and kind of truth
and understanding, which is a
big deal. In other words,
figuring out what the news
really means, who's behind it,
what you just broke down with
the yakarino woman and the twin.
Yeah,
Adam Curry: Elon may not know.
Elon may think that he's talking
to yakarino, but it's the twin.
John C Dvorak: And so that sort
of thing gets into the public
subconscious, and that has a
subversive effect on the way
people think about things,
because they have some sort of
realization that you wouldn't
normally have, and it's nothing
you can put really stamp out.
It's just, it's subtle. And so
that's what we do. That's why
there's nobody really, that's
where you like we don't appear
to have influence. So
Adam Curry: we're kind of like
the Paul Revere of podcasting,
we're just ringing the just
ringing the bell. British are
coming. We're just ringing the
bell. We're the Minutemen. Okay,
well, I'm happy. I'm happy that
we're doing it. For sure, I'm
happy and,
John C Dvorak: well this people
are happy that we're doing
Adam Curry: it, yeah, oh, yeah.
And they, I don't care, and they
do meetups. And, you know,
people in the meetups like, what
are they? What are they? Were
these people may go stand over,
what are they talking about? And
they learn things. So we're a
slow role. We're like, the
molasses of influence,
John C Dvorak: molasses of
subversion. Exactly,
Adam Curry: I think I've figured
out what. This is actually quite
good. And it was predicted. It
was we it was all over the place
during covid, and we never
really followed through on it.
And I think that we're finally
getting there. I'll start with
this clip, just because you
understand what the what the
true evil is in our world. It's
not viruses anymore. No, no,
it's mosquitoes. Listen,
Unknown: there's a lot going on,
especially here in South
Florida, where we already have
experienced West Nile and dengue
and Zika, and now we have this
illness to concern ourselves
with sloth fever, or sloth flu,
is what it's sometimes called.
Decades ago, researchers first
investigating the virus found it
in a sloth, and it was thought
the animals helped spread the
disease.
You might have gotten it from a
sloth
that had been bitten by a Midge.
You might not have you might
have gotten it from a Midge and
bitten somebody else. Okay,
Adam Curry: so mosquitoes, they
add in midges because it's just
funny, because it makes you
think about So mosquitoes, and
what creates mosquitoes, and
this is the part that we stop
thinking about
Unknown: and to Healthwatch this
morning, the mosquitoes are bad
out there, and we're looking at
new concerns over diseases
spread by those mosquitoes. A
New Hampshire man recently died
from Eastern equine SF
encephalitis I knew is going to
screw that one up. It's a rare
illness, no vaccine, no
treatment. In Massachusetts,
some towns, in response, are now
spraying for mosquitoes and also
urging people to stay inside in
the evening and nighttime when
the mosquitoes are out. CBS News
Medical contributor Dr Celine
gounder asked the CDC director
Mandy Cohen if climate change is
affecting these kinds of
outgrowths.
You know, the impact of heat on
our health and climate change is
not only impacting us as humans,
but it's changing where
mosquitoes and ticks live, and
thus what diseases are moving
around in different regions.
We're just seeing more bugs, and
some of those bugs are becoming
resistant to our control methods
due
to climate change. That's
Adam Curry: right, dude. We
forgot all about this. They kept
saying, Oh no, the next pandemic
will come from climate change.
Unknown: Eastern Equine
Encephalitis. Equine means
horses. We're not horses. What
can you tell us about it? Why is
it hurting people? Well,
this is something that we see
with many infectious diseases,
that the host might be another
animal, maybe a bat, which is
what we suspect with covid, for
example, or with Ebola. But in
this case, what we think is
happening is horses. Perhaps
other animals are the host.
Mosquitoes are biting them and
then transmitting that infection
to humans. And
Adam Curry: what's better than
mosquitoes? Because it's just as
scary. I walked outside and saw
mosquito I've got I've got to
wear a hazmat suit to my
pickleball game. Oh no, and it's
all because of climate change.
So
Unknown: the CDC director Cohen
talked about. Out the big factor
of heat playing a significant
role, and we know the CDC has
said mosquitoes are the world's
deadliest animal. What more can
be done when it comes to
addressing these issues, finding
treatments and vaccines?
Well, climate change is creating
the right breeding ground for
mosquitoes, so you have hotter,
more humid, longer summers,
which means people are coming
into contact with mosquitoes
that much more and so therefore
mosquito borne infections. What
can we be doing? Well, the
really most important thing is
to be controlling the
mosquitoes. So there are some
traditional ways of doing that.
You want to drain your standing
water. You want to be spraying
and there are some newer
technologies there to control
mosquitoes that don't involve
pesticides. Some of those are
being piloted in place like the
places like the Florida Keys,
where you have lots of
mosquitoes, but we still have a
lot to go in terms of developing
treatments or vaccines. Now,
Adam Curry: let us all remind
ourselves that it is Bill Gates,
because, of course, wherever
there's something nasty, there's
the nasty man himself, Bill
Gates, who was genetically
modifying mosquitoes so they
wouldn't reproduce. They don't
talk about that right now, at
least, I haven't found any
clips. And in 2007 he was
already talking about
mosquitoes. Remember when he
released mosquitoes into the TED
conference illegally? Yes, and
was like, arrested
John C Dvorak: on the spot. So
Adam Curry: put all of that
together, climate change bill
gates, mosquitoes, and, you
know, like that gets the in
Massachusetts, and we played
that clip on the last show,
like, oh, you might want to stay
inside, because, you know,
climate change mosquitoes, Oh,
no. And right.
John C Dvorak: Just as an aside,
before you continue, there has
been less and less mosquitoes in
this area. We
Adam Curry: have none ever.
Yeah, I know
John C Dvorak: like and there's
two things going on that have to
be addressed with the
mosquitoes. One, it's windier
than usual, and when it's
windier, the mosquitoes, once
they get it, they are not a bug,
that is, that can fly around in
a wind. They just get blown to
someplace else. They get blown
away, and there's the end of
them. And so we've had more wind
than usual, which is that you
could say, Well, climate change
is causing winds. And if climate
change is causing winds. The
winds are blowing away the
mosquitoes. So there can't be
more mosquitoes. There is a
problem. That's a conundrum in
in logic.
Adam Curry: You drive these
mosquitoes. You drive on the
freeway right from time to I do
drive, of course, I drive what?
When's the you Well,
John C Dvorak: I can't get on
the freeway. What are you
talking about? Course I drive on
the freeway, just
Adam Curry: asking, because now
the next the follow up question
is, when's the last time you had
to scrape bugs off of your
windshield?
John C Dvorak: Excellent point.
When I was a kid, we would drive
down 99 or whatever to say to
LA, we were doing, we're just
driving anywhere. All you. Well,
there's two things here. I've
talked I thought about this too.
Is they used to get so many just
get the windshield be filled
with bugs and so but, but the
cars aerodynamics have changed
so much that the bugs, like
don't hit the windshield
anymore. They go up and over.
That's one supposed reason. But,
well,
Adam Curry: you have a 30 year
old Lexus,
John C Dvorak: very aerodynamic
car, but, but besides that, but
it doesn't excuse the fact that
the grills, right, which aren't
as aerodynamic, don't have the
bugs either, right? So there's
something we don't have the
flying insect problem we had,
I'd say 50 years ago. No.
Adam Curry: But even though this
morning, it was 72 degrees in
August in Texas, where my lawn
is green, for the first time
that I've lived in Texas for 15
years, somehow it's the hottest
year on record. This
Unknown: morning, record
breaking heat spreading across
more of the US.
It's warmer than I like. It's a
little hard to breathe. The
higher
temperatures a growing concern.
As a new study shows, the number
of related deaths in the US
skyrocketed by 117% between 1999
and 2023,
we saw more heat related deaths.
Wait,
John C Dvorak: wait, yes, stop
the clip. Do they give us actual
numbers just went up 100% from
one to two, but
Adam Curry: we also have 100%
more people homeless on the
streets who may just be frying
and dying.
John C Dvorak: There's that teen
percent
Unknown: between 1999 and 2023
we
saw more heat related deaths in
2023 than we ever have in the 20
some years of records. And
that's definitely still an
undercount. More than
21,000 heat related deaths were
reported over the last two
decades. Scientists citing
climate change. Wait, so what?
Again,
John C Dvorak: it gets better at
the end, if you're going to play
this kind of garbage, and you
get stopped. ABC says she if
you're going to play a always
becoming climate change. So if
you're going to play this stuff,
I have to interrupt. She said
something very peculiar in
there. She says, we have, don't
get these numbers, but it's and
we have this numbers more than
ever before, and it's under
counted. Yeah, how do you know
it's under counted? If you never
have these numbers? Because
Adam Curry: it's a lie. This is
all psychological warfare, and
we're propagating it for free
for them?
John C Dvorak: Well, no, we're
actually, I think we're counter
propagating. We are, we are, we
are. But this, this, this notion
that it's under counted. Wait
until
Adam Curry: you hear what she
says, what he says at the end 20
Unknown: some years of records,
and that's definitely still an
undercount.
Adam Curry: Definitely. It's not
just definitely, definitely
under it's definitely
John C Dvorak: that give us the
real count? Lady, more than 20?
No, it's an undercount. It's
definitely an undercount. What
is the real number? Then you
should be able to do it.
Adam Curry: She's not going to
tell you. It's not interactive
that way. She can't hear by
John C Dvorak: the way, did she
ever give actual numbers?
Percentages? 117%
Unknown: more than 21,000. Heat
related deaths were reported
over the last two decades.
Scientists citing climate
change, the weather so hot after
starting their first day of
school yesterday, students at 63
public schools in Philadelphia
will be sent home early today
and tomorrow. Do not
have air in our cafeteria, in
our auditorium. Schools,
also,
Adam Curry: there's no air,
there's
Unknown: no air, no air. I
Adam Curry: think she means air
conditioning, but yeah, we'll do
the Dvorak. What? No oxygen, no
air. Here, in
Unknown: our cafeteria, in our
auditorium, some schools
in Iowa also dismissed early due
to high temps and no AC. At
seven
o'clock, it
John C Dvorak: was already 86 or
87 degrees. Oh no, by the time I
leave at one, it'll be in the
90s. Why this is considered good
weather 87 it's beautiful. If
people go to Hawaii just to be
in 87 degree weather. It's
called, now you're dying from
it. It's called Summer
Unknown: in Detroit, students
will be sent home early again
today, frustrating parents. They
knew the weather was going to be
rather hot, and they know they
don't have accommodations in a
school to where they're
providing AC, the heat
fueling more calls to invest
federal funds and outfitting
more schools with AC. The
extreme heat continues for
several days. Triple digits are
possible in Nashville today, and
Chicago could set a record. I've
Adam Curry: been to Chicago
before this climate change, and
it could set
John C Dvorak: a wet record, but
it's not going to but wait, it
gets better. I lived in Chicago.
Yeah, it's hot and humid. It's
terrible in the summer. Listen
Adam Curry: to listen to the the
last numerical statistics.
You'll love it with
Unknown: feel like temperatures
in parts of the Midwest,
reaching one. Did you hear it?
John C Dvorak: I, you know, I
was watching this with Jay the
other day. Feels like, feels
like now. Feels like, it feels
like
Adam Curry: now. It's just feels
like temperature. Yeah, it feels
John C Dvorak: like temperature.
It feels like, oh. And then they
here's the worst part, they put
a map up and they put all these
temperatures up, but they
weren't temperatures at all.
They were all feels like, yes,
so you had 115 110, and it was
just a map of all these very
high temperatures, but none of
them were real. They're all
feels like yes, and you could
feel well right now. Let me
think right here in the in the
podcasting room, it feels like
200 degrees. Well, maybe I
should take this shirt off. It
feels like 200 degrees. No,
Adam Curry: don't take the shirt
off. Whatever you
Unknown: do people? Digits are
possible. In Nashville today and
Chicago could set a record with
feel like temperatures in parts
of the Midwest reaching 115
degrees. As for that study on
heat related deaths, researchers
say the uptick has been
especially high in the last
seven years, which scientists
say proves the impact of climate
change.
Climate change.
Adam Curry: It's all due to
climate change. Oh,
John C Dvorak: the last seven
years. And by because it's
happened in the last seven
years, not the last 1 million
years, by the way, but the last
seven years proves it. Proves it
because it's gone on for seven
years, supposedly gone on for
seven years, you don't even know
that to be true. Yeah.
Adam Curry: So the got the hot
weather, it's moisture. We also
have corn sweat. I didn't pull
the clip, but that's another new
one. What's corn sweat? Corn
sweat is, you know, when it gets
warm, then every every living
plant exudes moisture. Her. And
so they show a map and like, Oh,
look at this in the in the corn
region, it's various very bad
mosquitoes because of corn
sweat.
John C Dvorak: You guys, you
blew it. Didn't get that clip?
Adam Curry: Well, I can actually
find it for you. No, don't
John C Dvorak: worry about it. I
already gave away the punchline
here, corn
Adam Curry: sweat. Let me say
Scientific American. Here we go,
corn sweat and climate change
brings sweltering weather to the
Mideast. A heat wave is
John C Dvorak: sweat. So it's
corn sweat that's bringing the
weather. Is that what it said?
Yeah,
Unknown: there's a reason why
this map of corn production
looks so similar to this map of
heat risk in the US today. And
the answer heat risk, another
Adam Curry: good one, John,
John C Dvorak: that's a show
title, heat risk
Unknown: in the US today. And
the answer is, corn sweat. Yes,
corn sweat. Corn sweat is a
truly excellent term for
something that's really known as
evapotranspiration. It's
something that, oh,
Adam Curry: evapotranspiration.
This is why I didn't pull the
clip, because it's not a news
clip. It's some, some peachy
thing talking inspiration.
Unknown: It's something that all
plants do. It's releasing water
into the atmosphere when it
grows to regulate temperature.
But corn does this especially
well, and where there's lots and
lots and lots of corn grown,
like in the Midwest, it actually
has a measurable impact on the
humidity of the area.
Adam Curry: Corn sweat. I think
that's the show title right
there. Corn sweat. I'm agreeing.
Corn sweat. So man, we just just
making it up as we go along.
What can what can we sigh up
these idiots with now on a corn
sweat? Oh, good one. And you
know what comes from corn sweat
mosquitoes, and what comes from
mosquitoes, sloth fever and Zika
and dengue and dengue, yeah, and
sloth fever and Equine
Encephalitis. Yeah, which way,
there's
John C Dvorak: 11 cases a year
on average, every year, year in
and year out. There's one so
far, which I think is, let's
just get that out of the
Adam Curry: way, which I think
is treatable with ivermectin, I
believe could be Yeah. So it's
weird, and they're just, it's
building it's a strategy of
tension. Just build it up. Build
it up. Build it up. Oh, think of
the children there. Why don't
the children? Why do the schools
not have air conditioning? We
spend hundreds of billions of
dollars a year on stupid books
and and stupid books, stupid
books, really stupid books that
go into the schools, dumb books.
Oh, my first blow job at 12. But
we don't have AC for these
children, by Bill Clinton, by
the way. Oh, we need to stop
this.
John C Dvorak: Schools have AC.
Yes,
Adam Curry: not the ones in the
report, not in Chicago,
apparently, not in Chicago. Did
you go to school when you lived
in Chicago?
John C Dvorak: I did, of course.
Did
Adam Curry: they have air
conditioning? I don't remember.
Did they have heating in the
winter? You'd hope they would.
Boy, you
John C Dvorak: have to have
heating in the winter. Yeah,
it's cold too. Yeah, Chicago's
got is, got extreme climate,
yes, always has, though, it gets
super cold in the winter, yeah,
and miserable. And it get and
miserable, yeah, and, and it
gets extremely hot and muggy in
the summer, and there's a good
period of time, there's
probably, uh, four months out of
the year just before summer, and
just after summer works. Really
super nice. It's so nice, yeah,
Adam Curry: oh the so nice.
That's it. You get 44
John C Dvorak: months out of the
year that comes from Chicago.
Ridiculously Nice. Yeah,
Adam Curry: there's always been,
but she didn't hear about corn
sweat because she grew up in
Indiana. Never heard of corn
sweat, strangely enough. Yeah,
yeah. Well, there we go. All
right. Back to you, Bob.
John C Dvorak: Well, what else
we got here? You know, I want to
get this out of the way. I
didn't want to get these clips,
but I'm going to do them. This
is about Jack Smith and re
rejiggering. Oh, good, yeah,
yeah. This is good. I didn't
want to get them, but it turns
out that there's interesting
material in here. This is I got
four it's four parter. It was an
analysis. So it turns out to be
a lot more than I wanted. But
it's all short. I mean, I wanted
eclipses 13 seconds, so it's not
gonna kill anybody. Good. So
let's go with Jax. And this is
all from NTD. This is mt d, so
the Democratic
Unknown: Congressman Jamie
Raskin called the superseding
indictment against former
President Donald Trump
heroic and something quietly
heroic about Jack Smith
insisting on going forward to
make sure that this plot come to
light, Donald Trump tried to
interfere with the peaceful
transfer of power. So Jack Smith
is trying to make the law work
in the way it was intended to,
Adam Curry: wow, that's exactly
right. He's trying to make the
law work,
John C Dvorak: trying to trying
to make the law work.
Adam Curry: He just admits it.
He's just finagling everything
to try and squeeze it into the
law to make it work. All right.
John C Dvorak: Jamie Raskin is a
dick.
Adam Curry: Jamie Raskin is a
problem. He's, he's a he is, I'd
say, top of the list of people
we need to get out of there.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, he's a
terrible person. He's a Yeah,
and he looks evil. If you look
at him. He's just an evil
looking guy. Yeah, and, and he's
like, all in he has this theory
that it is, I don't have the
clip on this list, but he came
out with saying we're gonna not
let Trump take office if he
wins. Yes, yeah. He said
Adam Curry: we're gonna have to
have a Secret Service protection
for everybody in Congress,
because we're gonna get him out
and, you know, basically saying
we'll have a civil war, but
we'll be protected.
John C Dvorak: Yes, I heard that
clip. Basically, is what he
said, exactly. Yeah, that's what
he said. He is a very horrible
he's a horrible man. Okay, part
two,
Unknown: Speaker of the House,
Mike Johnson posted on social
media that Donald Trump
continues to be the most
persecuted politician in the
history of the US. Speaker
Johnson added that special
counsel Jack Smith has brought
yet another bogus indictment,
and that Americans are sick of
his corruption and shameless law
fair, Democratic Congresswoman
soy lovbren from California
aimed her criticism at the
Supreme Court's ruling last
month on presidential immunity
and blamed former President
Donald Trump for the events of
January 6
Supreme Court made really a
radical decision granting Trump
immunity. Bizarre case, the
judge has to have an evidentiary
hearing to find out what is the
evidence supporting the slimmed
down indictment. But I mean, one
thing is abundantly clear, the
former president summoned a mob
to Washington.
Adam Curry: Who was that
speaking?
John C Dvorak: Our local idiot,
Zoe Lofgren,
Adam Curry: oh, Zoe is still
around. Isn't? Was wasn't Zoe a
trans
John C Dvorak: No, no.
Adam Curry: I think of someone.
Else. She
John C Dvorak: just looks child.
She's an ugly woman. Oh, they're
Adam Curry: so judgmental.
Unknown: Well, well,
Adam Curry: we're handsome,
luckily. Well,
John C Dvorak: that's what we do
for this. No, we're not.
Adam Curry: Yes, we are. You
John C Dvorak: can make a
judgment about somebody being
ugly when they're ugly. I mean,
I don't think there's any reason
not to make this judgment.
Adam Curry: I'm with you. I'm
glad you said it.
John C Dvorak: You know, I've
never been condemned for that.
Adam Curry: People are afraid of
you, and they can't spell your
last name, so they don't know
how to email you. They email me
instead. Okay, so
John C Dvorak: we go, we now we
get to hear something that you
may have heard elsewhere. Let's
go to clip three. Senator
Unknown: and vice presidential
candidate JD Vance defended the
Supreme Court's ruling regarding
presidential immunity and
dismissed the superseding
indictment against former
President Donald Trump as
election interference. The
way that I think about it is try
to make this nonpartisan Barack
Obama ordered drones to strike
an American citizen in Yemen.
That's like the definition of
murder, unless you recognize the
President has some immunity in
conducting his official act.
Adam Curry: There's Vance doing
the translation, doing his job,
John C Dvorak: but he does, does
it well. And the fact is that
nobody keep he's the first guy
noticed that really brought it
up, which is that Obama, if you
didn't have this immunity
decision by the Supreme Court
would be Obama would be liable
for murder. And the only thing
Vance didn't do is bring up the
fact that, after murdering the
American citizen, he murdered
his son a few days later. Yeah.
Well, you know that innocent 16
year old kid drinking a coffee,
drinking a coffee mind his own
business, but no, that's okay.
That's good. That's good. All
right, I'm onward. It
Unknown: is important to note
that despite criticism against
Special Counsel investigations
against former President Donald
Trump, House Republican
leadership has decided not to
pursue the strategy of defunding
the Department of Justice
through the appropriations
process. What
John C Dvorak: Wait, this is the
reason I ended with this clip
was, this is the typical
Republicans, and they've been
doing this, and they do it and
do it. Holly just did it with a
by bringing on one
Adam Curry: showboat, and then
nothing happens,
John C Dvorak: yeah? Showboat,
in fact, she he actually, for
all practical purpose. He had
gray, I don't have the clip, but
he had Granholm, yeah, and he's
get lecturing her about how she
lied. Wait a minute, she lied to
Congress. Where is the
indictment for lying to now, if
it was a Republican in. In the
olden days, and a Democrat was
the Democrats are running
Congress. They indict them.
Yeah, they're lying to Congress.
They're much
Adam Curry: better at that
stuff. More to do. You just send
John C Dvorak: the indictment
through. They won't do it. They
just keep harassing them,
haranguing them and making them
looking good by being a showboat
or like Holly, and then you do
nothing. You do absolutely
nothing. These Republicans are
ridiculous. I would have
Adam Curry: more respect for
Holly if you just said, Hey,
Grant home, you're ugly and you
got big ears. I'd have respect
for him if you said that. No,
she's
John C Dvorak: not. She's not. I
wouldn't call her ugly. No.
Okay, so
Adam Curry: I have tried, and I
have some stuff here on this?
Well, I
John C Dvorak: want to do this
the last clip. This is the
analysis just it was a long
analysis. I only took I have
part one, but I didn't clip
anything else. Earlier,
Unknown: we spoke with Zach
Smith, senior legal fellow at
the Heritage Foundation, and
former federal prosecutor, about
the superseding indictment. Zach
Smith, thank you so much for
joining us. Great to have you
back on the show. Now to begin
what changes were made to this
newest indictment, the original
four charges haven't changed. So
what's different here?
Yeah, this is a little bit of an
unusual situation for a
superseding indictment. A
superseding indictment typically
means that prosecutors are
adding additional charges
against a defendant, but that's
not what Jack Smith did in this
case, as you mentioned, Jack
Smith left before original
charges intact, but he
essentially changed the factual
predicates underlying those
charges. For instance, he
removed references to Donald
Trump's conversations with
Justice Department officials in
the wake of the 2020 election.
He added some language to make
clear that, in his view certain
actions Donald Trump took in his
private or political capacities
rather than in his official
capacity. And he also added some
additional language relevant to
some of the other charges,
again, trying to emphasize that
those were private rather than
official acts. And the reason
Jack Smith took these actions,
the reason he made these
amendments is to try to get
around the immunity that the US
Supreme Court recently released,
where the Court said that
presidents, including Donald
Trump, are immune from
prosecution for actually taking
their official capacity while in
office.
Adam Curry: So I have an
analysis from our constitutional
lawyer, Rob Rob, who read, who
read everything, and I shall
read this for us right now. It's
relatively short. Under the
SCOTUS ruling, the charges can't
go forward unless Smith can show
that the alleged conduct is
either one, an unofficial Act,
or two, an official act that
doesn't fall within the outer
perimeter of the President's
official responsibility and is
not manifestly or palpably
beyond his authority. This is a
difficult burden for Smith to
satisfy. The outer perimeter
beyond his authority. Language
captures a vast range of
presidential conduct. This is
all as per the Supreme Court, so
it will be very likely, so it
will very likely encompass the
conduct alleged in the new
indictment. To the extent it
does, the courts must presume
that Trump is immune, and Smith
will have to overcome that
presumption, according to rob, a
very tall order. And remember,
there's still the lingering
issue raised by Justice Thomas
that Jack Smith appointment is
invalid under Article two
appointments clause, because
there's no law that establishes
Smith's office. If Trump wins
the election, this case will
die. DOJ doesn't prosecute
sitting presidents as a matter
of policy. And one thing he
says, Would you keep in mind, if
the M 5m and Dames and Dems
claim that this is a nail in
Trump's coffin, they will have
to simultaneously retreat from
their incompatible claim that
SCOTUS gave Trump total freedom
to do whatever he does or
whatever he wants to do. So this
is really all this is. Is just a
setup for questions during the
debate. That's all that this is.
That's why Trump immediately
started fundraising off of it,
as witnessed by another 8
million text messages. Yeah,
it's really just
John C Dvorak: so late. Yes,
these are on a phone that you
carry with you. For summary,
you're carrying a phone around
wherever you go.
Adam Curry: It's just, it's just
a text number. Yeah, so this is
it's all just about this debate.
John C Dvorak: Can you call
back, by the way, when they send
you one of these messages? Let
me see that's very calling. I
would call them back. Say hello.
You keep sending me these
messages. You want to talk?
That's
Adam Curry: a very good
question. Let me see this is an
alert from Donald Trump. Okay, I
was just indicted again. Please
read my response to Special
Counsel. No, I'm not going to
read them to call him back.
Let's see if I'm going to call
and not in
Unknown: service. Please check
the number and dial again. Oh,
it's
Adam Curry: not a service. Let's
try another one. Let's because I
have a lot from President Trump.
This is Donald Trump Jr. Let's
call Junior. Let's see what
Junior give
John C Dvorak: him a call, see
what he says. To say,
Adam Curry: oh, disconnected
right away. Let me see from
Trump, who's asking for $10
let's see and invalid number.
Now this is all, wait a minute,
it's a 213, number two. You're
John C Dvorak: giving getting
phone calls, a message, phone
calls, in other words, the
message through a phone, and you
call the number, and the number
is bogus. Wait, here's this is.
This is no different than a
number from Taiwan, China,
Philippines, India. Bombay, hey,
Adam Curry: let's call Rand
Paul. Let's see what he has to
say. He's in Virginia. Oh, no.
Oh, invalid number. Okay. Oh,
gee. Isn't that crazy? Well, I
can't even hang if
John C Dvorak: you can't call
him back, why would you send him
money? It sounds like you don't
know who it is you're sending
to. Could be anybody? Could be
anybody?
Adam Curry: Ah, yes, yes,
John C Dvorak: yes. Well, yeah,
welcome to the modern era.
Adam Curry: Yes, Hey, um, I got
a interesting clip here from our
from our buddy, Becky Worley,
have you spoken to Becky
recently?
John C Dvorak: No, I should have
lunch with her. I usually, I
used to have lunch with her once
a year. Yeah, but she's in LA,
isn't she? No, she used the
peninsula, as far as I know, and
then she moved. You
Adam Curry: need to go up there.
You need to go visit her and the
kids.
John C Dvorak: It's not up, is
down? Oh,
Adam Curry: she go down there.
Go down to Becky Worley, I've
always liked Becky Worley. I
mean, I, I always feel sad
because she is nothing like the
stupid reports they make her do.
But she, you know, she's playing
the game. She got kids and a
wife and, you know, she's got a,
yeah, she
John C Dvorak: is a She's a hard
worker. She's good at what she
does. She's always was behind.
She was a producer. Originally,
always behind. I first met her
when she was MSNBC, when it was
a different kind of network, and
she was always the producer of
shows. And then she but she had
the look and feel of a person
who had front of camera. She was
good looking on camera. She's
photo telegenic. She
Adam Curry: is she's a little
harsh in person, little more
well, what is the that's not the
right word harsh? Maybe it is
the right word.
John C Dvorak: She's a good
looking woman in person. Yes,
Adam Curry: he's not like Jamie
Raskin now,
John C Dvorak: but she's
telegenic, and she's very good
on the on the on the camera. I
guess she's always felt that
way. So she once she got then
the other side of the camera.
She stopped doing producing,
from what I can tell, and she's
she's good. I think she's very
talented. She's personable.
Adam Curry: Well, I think she is
adding something to the hair and
hookers report for the economy,
and it's something I have not
yet asked the Zoomer about. But
I take this to be very credible
luxury or
Unknown: affordability, right?
But what if you could have them
both? That's the premise fueling
a rise in Gen Z and millennials
shopping for so called dupes
instead of brand name goods. But
what's the downside? As we all
search for value this morning,
influencers are touting so
called dupes with pride. Don't
go
buy leggings for that much money
when you can get these for half
the price. It's
the same product. It's the same
it's the same thing.
It's always really fun to find a
really great, affordable
alternative to something,
because you're helping your
friends out, and you can tell
them, like, hey, you've been
using this, here's this. And
then they can put more money
towards bills instead of
foundation
and a path here has a series on
our socials where she breaks
down the active ingredients in
high end products and shows less
expensive options with the same
components. So
is everything that's highlighted
in yellow here is also
highlighted in yellow here.
Saving
money on items is now becoming
something that's a little bit in
vogue. It's cool to be wearing
something that is less
expensive, but looks
like the expensive brand. And
Herzog, who wrote a book on
counterfeit, says these so
called do products are different
from illegal knockoffs.
A do product doesn't necessarily
mean counterfeit. What it does
mean is that it is a similar
product, but less expensive than
the original product. When
you're talking about a
counterfeit item, you're talking
about an item that's pretending
to be like the original item,
down to the name of the item.
But
experts do say buying these
products brings up other issues
worth considering. Dupes
do not come with extended
warranties. You have a very
specific time that you need to
return that in. This
Adam Curry: is, this is what the
shop influencers are doing. And
let's just face it, everything
comes from China here,
everything we buy in America,
pretty much. Everything comes
from China, and you can get the
exact same product, and they're
not talking about brands like
Gucci, but everything else from
the from the makeup products,
which I looked it up the Amazon
influencer program. Number one
is games, online games. You can
get 20% VIG on the games. Right
after that, it's beauty and
makeup products, which is a big
deal on the Instagram, as you
know, all the makeup tip
influencers. And I think that
this is an interesting
development, and it goes right
along with the lab grown
diamonds. It's all part of the
same thing. We got a note from
Jessica who used to work in the
diamond industry, and she says,
lab grown diamonds are a great
way to sell jewelry to people
who cannot afford the price tag
of natural diamonds. They're
also a good way for jewelers to
make money, as you can slap a
huge markup to a lab grown and
it will still still come out
cheaper than the real thing. She
says, however people discover
when they get divorced and try
to sell their lab grown diamond
back to a jewelry shop, it's
basically worthless. It makes
nothing but sense. Makes nothing
but sense. So we're just living
in this fantasy land of
expensive products, which you
don't really need to buy. The
expense. You're the king of
this. We should do tips on
dupes. A dupe tip. Well, I've
John C Dvorak: always been a fan
of these things. Of course,
you're a frugal man, and I have,
well, for good reason, yeah, and
I've always had been a fan of
the Canal Street counterfeit
watch business. Is not what it
once was gone. It's gone. It's
gone. But my favorite
counterfeit watch, and I became
pretty good at spotting other
people who have counterfeit
watches. I've gone out to dinner
with Bishop. Do you think you
know you're kind of an expert on
this? Is this watch that my my
mother in law gave me? Is this a
real Rolex?
Adam Curry: Well, that's
counterfeit. That's not a dupe.
That's a counterfeit.
John C Dvorak: Yes, it
counterfeits. It counterfeits
are a part of the I see. But say
poo, poo counterfeits. No,
Adam Curry: no, it's it. I
believe, I think, like you, that
a lot of especially when it
comes to bags, handbags, for
sure, it's all from the same
factory. It's stuff.
John C Dvorak: I went to Korea
one year, and I just areas where
you can get these, what use,
bags, bags. And they had Eddie
Bauer bags for that. I know that
well. There's a blast from the
past. It was, it was a while
ago, is Eddie Bowers, these
Eddie Bower bags, and they were
beautiful, and they had the
logo. Everything was there. And
I realized a lot of this stuff
that you get from these
counterfeiters is not really
counterfeit. It's end of run 10
run, yes, they over produce.
They over produce. They get an
order for for 10,000 they crank
it up, and then they can't stop
the line fast enough, and
there's an extra 1000 to fall
off the back. What do we do with
these? So they sell them at cost
or twice cost, like so instead
of 50 bucks for the bag, is 10
or $8 but
Adam Curry: now you're seeing
that the brands, the the
companies that advertise on
television, they have a problem.
I'm surprised that Becky even
was allowed to do this, this
particular item that she did,
because it's going to cut into
these huge, luxurious brands the
John C Dvorak: margins. Yeah,
yes, those guys make mar the
margin is their game. Oh, man,
Adam Curry: you know, when my
first wife had had a cosmetics
company, the only reason I
agreed to it is one to shut her
up, and the second, well,
there's two reasons. The second
was the margins were incredible.
It's just goop. You know, you
like eyebrow pencils. It all
comes from one factory in
Germany, or at least back in the
day, I don't know if Germany
produces anything anymore, the
men Schwan pencils. This where
you get all your pencils,
including your H, 2h b2, pencil,
everything. It all comes from
one factory, and it's all about
the packaging. It's all about
packaging. That's where the
that's where you mark it up.
We're living in a fake world.
John, we are. It's fake. It's
phony, and it's only it's only a
matter of time until they call
compounded GLP ones dupes.
They're already trying to make
it look like it's counterfeit
because, oh, we can't cut. It's
the same thing. We
John C Dvorak: can't cut into
the margin. Chemical. A chemical
is a chemical. Yes, sodium
chloride is salt. No matter how
you cut it, that's right, no
matter how you make it, no
matter how you let it evaporate
from the water, no matter how
you get get sodium chloride,
it's still sodium chloride.
Adam Curry: It. I'm laughing at
the troll room. The world is
fake and gay. Okay, well, you
summed it up. There you go. And
And just to prove these margins
how crazy it is and the fake
world we're living in which you
can opt out of, Eli Lilly made a
nice, interesting move the other
day.
Unknown: Tonight, the drug
maker Eli Lilly is making its
popular weight loss drug,
zeppbound more affordable for
anyone whose insurance won't
cover it. Zeppbound will now be
sold on the ELI Willy website
with a prescription. The cost is
about half of the retail price.
Adam Curry: This half. Why is it
half? This,
John C Dvorak: of course, is not
for still making money. Yes,
this
Adam Curry: is not for people
with insurance. This is for
people who whose insurance won't
cover it, and all of a sudden
it's half but okay, let's put it
on Medicare so everybody else
can pay for it at full price,
price, full markup. Maybe one
day people will catch on, I
don't know. No, no, no. That's
John C Dvorak: not gonna work.
That's not even possible if they
listen to this podcast. Well,
we'll have a million people that
kind of catch on. But even so,
we've noticed, even though
listeners to our podcast, the
producers, every so often they
come up with some note that they
send us, that they've they've
locked they've been hook, line
and sinker, into some scam of
some sort that you know, you
hope that they were would be
immune to, based on what we keep
saying. Do you have an example?
No, do
Adam Curry: you have an example?
I
John C Dvorak: don't have one
off the top of my head, but it
happens all the time.
Unknown: It's sad.
John C Dvorak: It's just not
you, you can't beat you can't
beat back mainstream media and
its brow beating of the public.
Well,
Adam Curry: it is slowly, slowly
disintegrate. No, it's
John C Dvorak: not you. You're a
dreamer. You're a you're the
idealist.
Adam Curry: I have hope. I have
at least 10 more years of hope
on you. That's why I'm still in
that hope phase. Good luck. And
with that, I'd like to thank you
for your courage. Say in the
morning to you, the man who put
the sea in corn sweat, say hello
to my friend on the other end,
the one and only. Mr. Jones,
good
John C Dvorak: morning. You. Mr.
M curry, in the morning, all
ships and sea blues from the
ground, feeding the air subs in
the water, and all the Dames and
nights out there. Oh, let
Adam Curry: me check this out.
This is very odd. The troll
Unknown: count seems to be low.
Count. We
Adam Curry: must have the corn
sweat has devoured them. 1870
seems low for a Thursday, don't
we usually have more on a
Thursday?
John C Dvorak: No, we usually
have 1700
Adam Curry: Let me see. Oh, you,
I'm sorry, you're right. Let me
see now the last the last
Thursday, was 1889 Oh, you're
right. No, it's about right. I'm
sorry, you're right. 1870 so
we're on par. Hey, trolls. How
you doing? Are you corn sweating
in that troll room? You can join
them, by the way. But going to
trollroom.io. You can listen to
the no agenda stream, 24/7 live,
huh? So some you know, we're on
tune in. You know the app tune
in? No, I don't it's a streaming
radio app, and you can use tune
in to listen to radio streams
from radio stations. And the no
agenda stream is on there. It's
been on there. That's good for a
long, long time. Yeah, that's
good. But when you tap on it,
because I have it in the car,
this for some reason, and that
it has it, you can get Sirius XM
and tune in. Okay, so I listened
to tune in, and it starts off
with two ads. Oh, they're just
jacking ads in front of stuff.
John C Dvorak: Yeah,
Adam Curry: that's lame. All
right? This, this, it's a
ripoff, so don't use tune in to
rip off or Spotify. It's a
ripple. What?
John C Dvorak: What is the best
way to listen to the no agenda
show in the car? Well, you're
dreaming.
Adam Curry: You could. There's
two ways. I would suggest you
get a modern podcast app,
because not only will you be
driving in the car and all
sudden, bloop, it'll alert you
through your Android Auto or
your car play, or if you just
have your phone with you and
it's connected to Bluetooth, and
the modern podcast app will say,
hey, no agenda. Show is live.
You tap on it's the same place
you get your podcast, and it
starts playing. Now, we do not
recommend you enter the troll
room while driving. You can,
but, you know, we don't
recommend it, but you can use
trollroom.io, to get in, log in,
make an account, and everything
and and that's where the trolls
are. Podcast apps.com, you know,
if you want to continue to
listen to your favorite podcasts
before they get jacked and you
get all those great new
features, unlike everybody else,
like the Kelsey brothers. Holy
Mo. Did you hear this nonsense?
This, this promotional bull
crap? I'm going to play it for
you. New
Unknown: f1 32 Kelsey brothers
are taking their new heights
podcast to new heights
financially. Jason and Travis
Kelsey signed a new deal with
Amazon's wondery. That is.
Worth, reportedly, $100 million
over three years. The brothers
said they are excited about the
partnership and are thrilled to
start season three. The podcast
has been around since 2022 and
has won multiple awards,
including podcast of the Year at
the 2024 I heart Podcast Awards.
Adam Curry: We need an award.
John C Dvorak: We've gotten
awards. We don't
Adam Curry: pay to enter
anymore. So we don't get awards,
because every award show, no,
you have to pay to enter. Yes,
John C Dvorak: this is a this is
a fact of awards you have to
pay. Yeah,
Adam Curry: so we don't do that.
What the iHeart Awards? Please.
I
John C Dvorak: heard awards for
people that are on I Heart. Yes,
exactly. Well, also, I never
heard of this podcast, by the
way, and I like sports. Well,
Adam Curry: this, if you read
the release carefully, it's the
same as call her daddy. What
they're saying is,
John C Dvorak: it's so it's all
about blow jobs. It's, it's a
distribution
Adam Curry: deal. And wondery,
which was purchased by Amazon,
they will be able to sell ads.
So the deal can be worth up to
$100 million advertising
Exactly. So they're getting a
minimum guarantee, and I'm not
discounting that most
advertising money on television
and streaming goes into football
specifically. So there's a lot,
there's a lot of money that that
people will put into this, but
it's this. Oh, it's 100 million.
Oh, podcasting is still doing
great. No, well, podcasting is a
vow of poverty. People
John C Dvorak: more, more power
to them a and it's no sweat off
my balls. There
Adam Curry: you go. So instead
of paying to enter awards and
getting beat up on the football
pitch, John and I decided we'll
just do podcasts twice a week,
and we'll ask people to support
us if they think what we do is
worth anything, if we have
improved your life in any way.
Some people say it helps them.
Some people say, You know what,
I feel better listening to the
no agenda show because we're
light hearted. We're not so
serious. I literally saw Megyn
Kelly, boy, I like Megyn Kelly,
and don't get me wrong, but she
was yelling at Caitlyn, the CNN
lady, yelling.
John C Dvorak: She was, she was
all emotional on that thing, but
Adam Curry: she was, she was
yelling, Caitlin, here's a tip,
smile from time to time. And
this whole rant, she does
exactly, and she has a beautiful
smile. But will she smile? No,
it's like Pot, kettle. Hello.
Everyone's unhinged. We're not
unhinged. We're just poor. But
today, value came in in multiple
ways. The first thing we want to
do is thank our artists, who
always support us with their
time and their talent. It's part
of the trifecta time, talents
and treasure, and they support
us by making artwork that fits
with the show. They're doing it
during the live show. It's
amazing. They do this in this
case, in the evening, hours
after dinner, for the Dutch
masters who were working on
things. And Dutch master, who
lives in Chicago, brought us the
artwork for Episode 1689, and
that was Darren O'Neill with the
ozempic ice cream, which was a
classic, no agenda product,
comic strip. Blogger right away.
It's like, this is you can do
this. This is not fair use. Yes,
it
John C Dvorak: is Fair Use about
what did that art be stolen?
Adam Curry: No, he says, because
you're using the brand name,
ozempic. No, no, no, exactly.
Tell him. Tell him, John,
John C Dvorak: this is a as a
parody or a humor, and not for
the purposes of of cloning a
product. This is totally legal,
yes,
Adam Curry: and, and, by the
way, when comic strip blogger
freaks out is really good art,
then you know it's good art.
John C Dvorak: Well, he had a
good piece that I thought was
good, but you hated it, which
was his jazz queen, but I did,
Adam Curry: no,
John C Dvorak: I do not hella
pigeus ass.
Adam Curry: I did not hate it. I
said to you, I would be all for
it if the letters actually look
like they were on the jeans, and
they just didn't. And you agreed
with me in my hate I
John C Dvorak: did, yeah,
exactly
Adam Curry: see with other
pieces are, oh, we haven't said
the W word yet. There was a tip
jar for that. I don't think
we're doing quite well. What
else was there? Oh, that's yeah,
the right. There was a lot of
yes queens, a lot of yes queens,
yeah. But we're like, yeah. It
was a little overplayed at that
point. We had kind of done that.
I did like the very demure, very
mindful cheesecake, but you
thought it was too simple and
also same. That was a comics or
Blogger piece. But again, the
the letters didn't look they
like they were really on the t
John C Dvorak: shirt. Weren't
mapped, mapped. Thank they
weren't surface mapped. No,
Adam Curry: no, and that's,
that's the
John C Dvorak: which you. Can do
with Photoshop. I mean, it's
very easy, but AI, this is all
can't figure it out. How did,
Adam Curry: how are the earnings
for the for our favorite AI
company yesterday, all I saw,
yeah, all day. Oh, this.
Everyone's waiting. Oh, it's
down. It's down five and a half
percent. I guess they didn't do
do so, no, they actually, they
beat expectations, and people
are still selling.
John C Dvorak: There's something
going on. Yes, it's
Adam Curry: called the blow up
of AI nonsense, have you? You
don't, you don't have chat, GPT,
do you?
John C Dvorak: I know. I just do
it. If I'm ever going to use it.
I use it online. Well,
Adam Curry: here's what you want
to type in and it. I think Elon
Musk has corrected grok on this
one. But if you type in how many
Rs are in the word strawberry,
every ai i have used, including
the ones I run here at home, say
there are two Rs in strawberry,
even though there's clearly
three,
John C Dvorak: isn't that?
What's the point of this
exercise to prove the AI sucks?
Yes,
Adam Curry: yes, of course it
is. That means there's no
intelligence. It's just
splitting
John C Dvorak: the tool that
grok was fixed just by hand. Oh,
yeah, of course, it was how you
do it.
Adam Curry: They will all be
fixed by hand. You have to go
tweak it, yeah. Where did I
learn about this? On X so, of
course, you know this is, this
is what you do. You launch,
John C Dvorak: brought it. You
launched your hand, tweak it,
and then you point out everyone
else's screw, yeah, exactly,
exactly called Marketing.
Unknown: Yes, it's good.
John C Dvorak: It's good because
good marketing.
Adam Curry: Was there anything
else that we liked? I don't
think there was much. I don't
think there was anything else
John C Dvorak: actually was
pretty was pretty lame. It was
demure. I did use, I'm not using
that word that should be banned.
I did use one piece that was the
girls whispering to each other
from scaramonga as the
Adam Curry: Oh, yeah, but that
was a good piece for the
newsletter, because, yeah, it
wasn't, you know, wasn't. Yeah,
I'm passing some news on. It's
good for a newsletter. Hey,
listen to this. It's like Betty
and Veronica. These two, the
scarabanga piece. That's good.
John C Dvorak: Well, thank you.
Veronica's a brunette and this
girl's a red details,
Adam Curry: details, white,
details. Thank you very much.
Darren O'Neill for bringing us
the artwork for Episode 1689, we
appreciate it. We appreciate the
work that all of our Dutch
masters do. You guys are awesome
that I don't use that word
lightly. Anybody can upload art
to no agenda, artgenerator.com,
it's simple. Go ahead. Try it
out, then you too can be
excoriated for doing it wrong.
We're happy to do it for you.
Yeah. Now is valuable. It is
very valuable. Now. Let us thank
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Executive producers. We ask
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waited for everybody to support
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with he's back. He is back. He
comes in about once a month,
sironymous of Dog Patch and
lower slobovia, now normally a
3333 donation would be a
rubbilizer, and he didn't do
3333 he did 3322 which I'm
presuming includes a couple of
$2 bills, because he always
sends cash from an undisclosed
location. I'm going to get, I
believe there was one $2 I'm
gonna give him the rubbilizer
anyway. But he says, John, this
is a long note for you, so you
have to read it. No,
John C Dvorak: no, that's not
for me to read. He's, he's,
that's a reference to the fact
that it's extremely long note.
And I hate long notes,
Adam Curry: so that means I have
to read it. Yeah. All right.
Thank you to all the producers
that support this. By the
John C Dvorak: way, I should
mention just just as a
historically, he sends in kind
of short and often short notes,
yes, every once in a while, no
note, and he makes a little
stanza with no note. Money,
these little graphic and then
sometimes reasonable notes. And
I think he's finally built up.
He's been enough credit to do as
long a note as he wants, and
this is one of them. So that's
not so I'm not objecting to I
will
Adam Curry: come to his house
and wash his car. Thank you to
all the producers that support.
John C Dvorak: By the way, his
car is a rolls. It's got to be
his must be, including
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Like many Americans, I have
naturalized US citizen, family
and friends. In my extensive
travel outside the US over the
past few months, garnered one
question from both groups,
what's going on? Naturally, I
can hear him saying it that way
too. Naturalized citizens have a
keen perspective of politicized
governments. As many came to the
US to leave politicized
countries, they are unhappy that
their work to be US citizens is
being shortcut for political
purposes. They reinforce the US.
Educational System Programming
towards social agenda rather
than the three R's. Education is
creating a less valuable citizen
and workforce, and they include
their own children as victims as
they seek to be normal Americans
and seek private education when
possible. Many countries, this
is important stuff that he's
saying here. This is good. Many
countries I travel to have
polarized political environments
where violence overcomes
civility in political discourse.
International contacts ask me if
the US is the ideal place to
send their children to be
educated and gain citizenship.
They see the leading global
economy and military superpower
moving towards a Caligula like
society like the one they left.
Take note, people, because where
are we going to escape to the
two wars underway have far
greater impact than seems to
garner attention in the US.
Global trade is more affected
outside the US. Covid taught us
the term supply chain issues to
justify delays and higher costs,
no agenda listeners already know
grain exports from Ukraine,
Russia to Africa is causing
severe issues and starvation.
China is a leading exporter of
goods to the Suez Canal and is
severely impacted by the Houthi
Red Sea attacks of goods to the
Suez Canal and is severely
impacted by the Houthi Red Sea
attacks the defense industrial
base, which he says, dib of non
US actors are more aggressive
than the often maligned us, dib
participants, drone and missile
manufacturing outside the US is
far beyond us capability, and
while less sophisticated, using
dos level attacks will overwhelm
so called Iron Dome defenses,
and both sides know it.
Hezbollah has 150,000 missiles
AI, as in actual intelligence.
Ooh, nice. Sees non US, defense
industrial base pushing a more
aggressive agenda than us. Dibs,
unlike us, moral values these
countries do not value of lives
as Americans us, military is
working to learn what others are
experiencing and working to
adapt to these wars, but our
political leaders remain
oblivious to the reality of
these wars. How much leadership?
How much will leadership cause
US citizens to suffer, either to
prepare for war, or suffer
before surrender? If you believe
history rhymes, the Treaty of
Versailles, a concise history by
Nyberg. It's about 100 pages. Is
an interesting book of poetry
for today's events. No jingles,
no karma. And then he parked his
roles as a good note, something
to listen to, because, you know
he's saying, He's saying real
stuff. Here you should have, you
should do a podcast.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, well, he
does one. I'm
Adam Curry: gonna, I'm gonna
give him ours. He just did one.
I'm gonna give
Unknown: him a hang out.
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Adam Curry: out there you go.
Rubbilizer, jingle for
astronomers of Dog Patch and
Lois lobovia, thank you, as
always, for coming in to save
our month
John C Dvorak: a Zarin Dental in
Port Townsend, Washington, cute
little town, if ever there was
530 if I add up other donations,
I should be at night in the
night area. Can I just be night
Z, uh or Nido? Do I need a weird
name? Night z is perfect, yeah.
Night Z. Listening to you two
keeps me sane. And are you're
the best five to six hours of my
week. Huh? I'm hitting as many
people in the mouth as I can.
Adam Curry: Well, beautiful.
Thank you, and you, Aaron will
be night Z later today, Dame,
foreign lady before dakula,
Georgia. Dacula, dekula. Dacula,
470 and one cent, dear Johan and
Adam. It says, Here it says,
Johan, Johan. Yeah. Hello,
Johan. ITM gentlemen. Very
pleased to enclose a check to
you for 470 and one cent. This
amount brings me not only an
executive producership For my
76th birthday on September 2,
but takes me to the next tier of
damehood, whatever level comes
after Baroness, which is what is
after Baroness, Viscountess,
Viscountess, maybe I have also
recently moved and would like to
request a change to my
protectorate, if it pleases the
peerage committee. I would like
the protectorate of Old Town,
Grayson, in northeast Georgia.
We have checked it's all good.
Thank you both for what you
continue to do? No jingles, just
some r2, d2, karma for all the
producers. Cheers, Dame,
foreign, Lady before and what
does she say here at the bottom,
he says, PS, John, I typed this
for easier reading. Love you
both.
Unknown: You've got karma.
John C Dvorak: T, see all these
complaints of mine always pay
off with people, yeah, big time
making big payment. Big payoff.
Big payoff, payoff. Mark, we
have, was it? Mark, yeah. Mark,
goall, yeah, in Guelph, Ontario,
Canada, is it Guelph? Do we know
how to pronounce this? Yes,
Guelph. Sounds good to me.
Guelph. So could be Guelph 350
58 No, no, no, nothing. So he
gets a double up, karma. Yeah,
Adam Curry: he does indeed.
Unknown: You've got
Adam Curry: karma. Kathy Knight
is in Mesa, Arizona, the 333 dot
33 our last executive producer
for the show. ITM I appreciate
you too so much. I'm chipping in
to do my part so you can
continue providing us with the
best podcast in the universe.
Thank you for your courage. No
jingles, no karma. Sincerely.
Kathy Knight, Thank you, Kathy
Knight, we appreciate it. And
John C Dvorak: speaking of the
devil, rob the constitutional
lawyer in spring branch Texas
comes in with two $11.23 rob the
constitutional lawyer here says,
Happy Birthday, Adam. Oh, thank
you as a sex, sex a generic
Adam Curry: sex, sex sex a
generic Yes,
John C Dvorak: I'd have to look,
look into that. I'm
Adam Curry: chicken wing. Maybe
he's
John C Dvorak: talking about you
being sexy. Yes, you now qualify
for free legal advice at many
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Adam Curry: he, he asked me
privately, since it didn't fit
in the message, if I could add
his usual open up Adam curry
jingle and karma to ward off
Jack Smith and his overzealous
ilk. Mr. Adam curry
Unknown: now you've got karma.
Adam Curry: Eli, the coffee guy
is next. We're in his executive
or Associate Executive producers
here. He's from bensonville,
Illinois, 208, 29 over the
weekend, I met an awesome fellow
producer at the farmers market,
he says she echoed the same
sentiment that so many producers
I've spoken to have shared.
Those who listened to no agenda
through covid Say you guys
helped keep her saying amid the
media madness, well, we hope we
continue to do that, because
it's only crazier now. Thank
you. For those who only listened
to no agenda for the past few
years, I suggest going into the
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John C Dvorak: And let's go to
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Adam Curry: Let's vote for jobs.
And finally, on our list, last
Associate Executive Producer,
$200.33 sir. Not Space Force
here, sir. Not Space Force here,
sir. Not Space Force here. I
think it's sir. Not Space Force.
I have exciting news. I've
written two apps now available
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that's D, I, G, I, L, O, R, E, A
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Itm@machinepublishers.com with
subject. ITM, yeah, it's, I
think it's iOS only. He told me
about this. I have not seen it,
but I'm excited about it
because, you know, more
independent podcast apps the
better. Thank you very much,
sir. Not Space Force here, yeah,
John C Dvorak: I will say that
we have one more we do Associate
Executive Producer, because he
came in as Australian dollary
dues, which is well over $200
Okay. Thomas Weaver, with a I
doing this reluctantly, because
of the length of the note, yes.
But Thomas Weaver from
Blackwall, New South Wales,
comes in, and the numbers
probably around 210, I'm
guessing, yeah, always good to
first time donation. So a
deuceing would be a wonderful
thank you. You've been deduced
also a birthday. Birthday shout
out for myself. He's got that
we're on. You're on the list. I
first came across you via
hearing Adam just over a year
ago on the tftc with Marty bent.
Adam Curry: Marty bent, he's,
he's got a huge podcast, and
he's my friend
John C Dvorak: who, who's, I
don't know anything about this.
Oh,
Adam Curry: Marty bent is in
Austin. It's the tftc podcast.
He used to be in finance and
finance, and he left finance and
went into Bitcoin mining and all
he's a it. He is a cool dude.
He, I think he has now two young
kids moved from Florida. Was he
in Florida? No, he's in
Pennsylvania. I think was in
Philly. Moved to Austin a couple
years we've had dinner with him
and his wife. Lovely couple. A
young, young, John Young, half
our age, well my age. Thomas
John C Dvorak: Weaver continues.
So here I am swapping some of my
Aussie dollar dollary dues for
your American cookbooks, as
Marty would say. And let me tell
you, the Australia to USD
turnaround is terrible. We are
truly the land down under, yes,
but on the plus side, I'm a
regenerative farm worker, and
I've had the pleasure to have
met Texas slim. Oh, there you
go, in person and converse with
him. Get grass finished, meats
as at will, and listen to the
best podcast in the universe.
Well, whilst on my daily chores
of feeding the animals, you
know, Texas slim was on some,
some TV show recently I saw him.
Oh yeah, he
Adam Curry: gets around. He's
trying to very, very
John C Dvorak: skinny guy with a
big Texas hat, you
Adam Curry: know, I told him,
because he would do interviews
and he put on a baseball cap, I
said, bro, no, you need to
always have the hat on when
you're doing an interview.
Otherwise, he's just a skinny
dude with a hat. Now you're
Texas slim. You see, Texas Slim
is perfect. He gets around well,
he took your advice, yes, and
he's trying to, he's trying
John C Dvorak: to very erudite.
He's character. He
Adam Curry: is erudite is the
correct word. And
John C Dvorak: I won't anyway,
continuing, and I won't use this
donation to shamelessly plug the
business I work for. No instead,
I will plug my smoking hot
girlfriend's business meals for
mamas, an amazing ready made
meal delivery service for
postpartum mothers and their
partners. It's utilizing organic
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meats, even some from our farm,
and a delicious assortment of
healthier snack options as well,
delivered fresh throughout New
South Wales. Act and now act,
act a CT and now Queensland
Adam Curry: act is sent Central,
uh, yeah, something, yeah,
John C Dvorak: somewhere, sorry,
everyone only in Australia, go
to meals. That
Adam Curry: should be a four. I
think, I think he mistyped that
four mamas, not, not dollar
sign. Meals, number four mamas,
John C Dvorak: I think you're
probably right. Meals,
mamas.com.au, for delivering
more as for you, Adam and John,
a grass finished steak straight
from the farm and a brilliant
Aussie Shiraz or cap Sauvignon
for John, two will be here
waiting for you if you ever
decide to visit. Thanks again
for all the stellar work you
guys do. Thomas, well, I
Adam Curry: hear you guys. We'll
see. Even be our 51st state so
it'll be easy. You know, we
pretty much, we pretty much own
them now, don't we, with our,
what was the military
John C Dvorak: boys there? Oh
Adam Curry: yeah, we take all
over. Take it over. Hey, that's
anyway, that's our,
John C Dvorak: that's our group
of, uh, well wishers and
producers, Associate Executive
and executive producers for show
1680 and thank
Adam Curry: you again to
everyone else who came in with
with donations and notes. We
will be reading numbers above 50
for the donations and sometimes
a note, depending on what's in
it in our second segment. And of
course, thanks to everyone who
comes in under $50 for reasons
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you for producing 1690
Unknown: our formula is this, we
go out. We hit people in the
mouth, shut
Adam Curry: up. Mistakenly says
1680 did I say 1680 I meant 1690
No. I said 600. Wow, yeah. Well,
that's why I do all the
production,
John C Dvorak: yes, right? So I
could screw it, so I could screw
it up,
Adam Curry: which I do from time
to time. It does happen. All
right, I said we got lots of
clips, so lay it on now, let's
see
John C Dvorak: what we got. You
want some funny clips? You want
to give me some funny clips?
Well, let's, well,
Adam Curry: oh, well, I don't
have any funny clips. He said,
Oh, okay. Let's
John C Dvorak: talk a little bit
about, let's catch up with the
Middle East with an update. This
is, I can do a clip blitz Middle
Adam Curry: East. Really, it's
everyone's just okay. Look,
they're killing each other over
there. Here's a good one. Here's
John C Dvorak: a good one. Did
you know this was going on to
sag after strike?
Adam Curry: Wait, I thought we
already had a SAG after strike.
Oh,
John C Dvorak: how wrong you
are. There's still another one.
They just keep coming. The
Unknown: Video Game actors have
remained on strike since July.
This follows months of
negotiations with major gaming
companies. The strike aims to
ensure equal protection for
union voice actors and motion
capture performers against what
they say is unregulated use of
artificial intelligence.
Kristina Corona reports from
Southern California.
We're here in the city of
Burbank outside Warner Brothers
Studios, where members of sag
aktra are picketing as part of
their strike against major video
game studios.
The video game companies are
rightly isolated. When you look
at the studios, the streamers,
the record labels, we've been
able to achieve the necessary
protections for our members with
all of those companies, and yet,
for some reason, the video game
companies refuse to make the
same fair deal.
Several video game actors and
voice actors said they are
striking for fair contracts,
primarily to oppose unregulated
use of artificial intelligence,
something where we know that we
have something in writing, that
when we go into one session,
that doesn't mean they can just
reuse, digitally reproduce our
voice for future needs. It's
ensuring that we can still do
what we love to do for people
and moving forward, and we're
not phased out by robots.
Voice Actor Sam kwasman
mentioned many actors have
worked their entire career for
only a modest return.
We're fighting for our lives.
Basically, we spend all this
time learning our lives and
taking acting lessons, singing
lessons, dancing. I mean, you
train for your career and then
you wind up with a couple 100
bucks
Adam Curry: start a podcast,
listen. I have a I have a
question, guys. So the nanny
spent all this time setting up
this. No, AI for what I thought
was sag after, but they didn't
think to include the video game
industry. Yeah,
John C Dvorak: seems so, because
way I'm in close the hatch, huh?
Adam Curry: And are all act is,
are we going to see Angelina
Jolie go on strike for the video
game actors? Are they lesser
than do they not count, even
though their industry is 10
times as big as the movie
industry? Yeah, that's
John C Dvorak: the irony. Will
they go on irony is, the
industry is huge compared to the
film entertainment side of it.
So
Adam Curry: will they go on
strike? These scabs? Are this
going to continue to work? They
don't care about their brothers
and sisters, who also had to
learn how to act and sing and
read lines and whatever else
they were doing.
John C Dvorak: I think you can
figure it out. No one
Unknown: voice actor raised
concerns the AI is costing them
jobs as AI generated voices can
be manipulated to say
inappropriate or offensive
things, which then are falsely
attributed to them causing
issues with their agencies and
the
actors over here. Like, no,
wait, that was not me. Someone
cloned my voice through some
program and like, I would never
say any of this stuff, so the AI
protections. Are definitely what
is worth fighting for more
livelihoods.
AI is not coming. It's already
here.
Adam Curry: I have never heard
that guy in a video game,
John C Dvorak: and he might be a
voice guy that you know changes
his voice. Well,
Adam Curry: I will tell you
right now, if AI could take over
this podcast, and we could be on
the beach chilling like Bob
Dylan, I'm all in, but it can't,
can't it, can't it can't even
count the R's in strawberry.
John C Dvorak: The thing that's
kind of interesting when you
think about this particular
complaint is Mel Blanc. Oh, Mel
Blanc was a notorious prick that
did all the voices for every
character in Warner Brothers
cartoons. He did Bugs Bunny,
right? He did Porky Pig. He did
all the character, every
character, in fact, it was all
the vocalizations and all the
commercials and all the comic
cartoons, yes, that Warner
Brothers came out with, and he
it was the voice by Mel Blanc.
And Mel Blanc would make a fuss,
according to the rumors, that
Who knew he'd make a huge fuss
if they brought in one single
guy to do one single voice in
any of the cartoons he was
involved in, which was all of
Warner Brothers cartoons, all
the Bugs Bunny, all the Daffy
Duck, all that stuff.
Adam Curry: Are you sure he did
Elmer Fudd? Because people are
saying that's not true. I
John C Dvorak: believe so. He
had. He was a man of one of
these I run in, ran into one of
these guys I was doing when I
was doing a radio show. I ran
into the guy who took over
tigger's voice, which Tigger
used to be done by Paul Winchell
in the Winnie the Pooh series.
And Tigger was done by Paul
Winchell. He was the one who
developed the voice. And Paul
Winchell died, and they were
still doing these Winnie the
Pooh movies. And this guy who
was on the show, he was a voice
guy, and he took over. And I
didn't know anything that this
even happened, and he did a
bunch of voices for me,
including Tigger. And he sounded
he was one of those guys who
could just mimic voices like,
you know, like an impressionist,
or even better, and he could do,
he's had about 12 or 13 very
distinctive voices that he could
do, but Tigger was one of them.
And
Adam Curry: I could be wrong
about breaking, breaking news,
breaking news, breaking Steve
Webb og godcaster Text me. We
text as a voice actor. I can
confirm Mel Blanc, blank did
Elmer Fudd. Doesn't mean it is
voice. He might have just done
it, but okay, he did Elmer Fudd.
John C Dvorak: He did all the
voices and Warner Brothers
cartoons. If you look at because
they give credit on there,
there's only one guy's name,
but, yes, but So, so what was
the difference between, you
know, AI doing some voices, or
for these cartoons, or one guy
doing all the voices, not
letting anybody else work.
Where's the strike then? I mean,
it seems to me that that was
unfair.
Adam Curry: By the way, okay, by
the way, no, this is good.
Leanne Webb sent me an email.
She is the much better half of
Steve Webb regarding John Tesh,
John C Dvorak: I have wondered
what happened to John Tesh.
Well,
Adam Curry: couple years ago she
saw him at the coach house. Is
in Florida, no Arizona. I think
he's surviving a very rare form
of cancer, but still performing.
He performed, of course, on
Entertainment Tonight with Mary
Hart. He's still around. And
then I got a note from the boys
from Mercy Me are who are
knights at this point, and they
had some John Tesh trivia. Did
you know that he wrote the NBA
theme song?
John C Dvorak: No, I did not
know that. That's pretty that's
trivia. That is that stream
trivia News
Adam Curry: You Can Use right
John C Dvorak: there. Yes,
that's a lifetime of that
Adam Curry: you can retire. You
can retire on something that was
like Paul
John C Dvorak: Anka when he
wrote, he wrote the Johnny
Carson I show, yep, Tonight Show
theme. And since the show went
up for 30 years, yeah, he was
just gold. You know, you just
make money every show. But
Adam Curry: Can you hum the NBA
theme song? No, I cannot,
neither. And and they and so the
Mercy boys, Mercy Me. Boys said
that they met him on a cruise.
They were performing on a
cruise, and they said, you and
John should do a no agenda
cruise.
John C Dvorak: Yes, that's that.
Let me look on my list of things
I want to do.
Adam Curry: I can hear Horowitz
already going, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, let's do a cruise.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, yeah. Oh,
there it is. Is that number? Oh,
it's been dexed out. No, it
doesn't seem to be. No, it's
not, yeah, I
Adam Curry: have a feeling it's
not in the cards a cruise. Ruse,
oh, boy. And then someone else
emailed me saying, Hey, we
should do a no agenda con, you
know, like, which we do that
twice a week. No, no agenda con,
like, a big where everyone, all
producers from all over the
world, can come in and hang out
together, the world's largest
meetup. And I thought about, I
said, I think this has popped up
in the past, and the reason why
we always say no is because
people always want the same
thing, and then you can do a
live show on stage. Yeah, and
like no, we though it would be
great. Everyone could hang out
together, have a drink. But what
are we gonna do? You know, we
have, there's no tricks, there's
no, uh, no act. There's nothing
with, you know, there's we need
to do sessions.
John C Dvorak: We'd have to work
on a on a comedy act, a routine
like Rowan and Martin laugh in
routine.
Adam Curry: Who's on First? It's
John C Dvorak: not again, not in
the cards. No, it's, is that you
what we're what we've been
doing, is what we're doing, and
that's about it. You know? We
don't have, we have a microphone
company coming.
Adam Curry: I'm not allowed to
promote it anymore, you know?
And you know
John C Dvorak: how many we have
to hold off on promotion until
we actually get the microphones
done. And then we have, what is
there anything else that we
gonna do down the side? Not
really, I
Adam Curry: think. No, that's
about it. We gotta. I
John C Dvorak: mean, I have the
publishing company and, yeah,
you've got a bunch of other
podcasts, and podcasting 2.0
that keeps you busy. We're doing
work. I mean, we don't, but
we're not doing a cruise and
we're not doing a podcast
Adam Curry: 2.0 is zero income.
That's just to keep this show
going. I'm doing it for the
show. And anyone else who wants
to do a show, well,
John C Dvorak: it's actually
very philanthropic. That's what
it is.
Adam Curry: Yes, where's my
Nobel Peace Prize?
John C Dvorak: Do get it?
Adam Curry: Sure. Well, if Obama
could get one. So we're still
awaiting the return of the
astronauts on that failed Boeing
Starliner. Thing is that the
Starliner, yeah, was the
Starliner. You
John C Dvorak: know, I have a
clip I want to play before you
get to that which has got, this
is similar. This is, this is
like a thing that makes me
cringe. This is the Space X,
flip, and it is the private
thing they're going to do. And
you know, you know, Elon has not
gone up in the space yet that I
know he's smart, because it's
and I think, by the way, this is
just, I don't know if it's a red
book prediction, but we've lost
astronauts when we had the
billions of dollars. And, you
know, you send them up and
something goes wrong, and it
kills these guys, although
Adam Curry: they happen when
they're all alive in different
places in the country. But,
yeah,
John C Dvorak: well, that could
be the one that came in and the
tiles were falling off the
bottom, and the thing blew up,
and everyone got to see it, and
the Challenger went up and they
blew up. I mean, people. And
then the guys who sat on the on
the launch pad, they burned up
in the pit. Yeah, three of them.
That was bad. And, of course,
that's suspicious that one. But
the something's gonna happen on
one of these things, and it's
gonna be, it's gonna really
destroy
Adam Curry: in the business.
It's gonna be a day wrecker.
John C Dvorak: It's gonna
destroy, yes, I agree. It's
gonna end the business a day
record. But this one, this
particular one, this is they're
gonna send up people higher than
ever before, maybe through a
radiation belt. I'm not even
sure, belts really. We're gonna
make them go outside and roam
around. I mean, this does not
sound like a good thing. Space
Unknown: X's historical
Aristotle mission is delayed
once again, this time it's
because of bad weather. Four
private astronauts were set to
be launched into space this
morning, but SpaceX said bad
offshore weather is predicted in
the area where the crew will
eventually splash down at the
end of the mission. During the
mission, SpaceX plans to conduct
the first ever private spacewalk
as well as gather data from
dozens of experiments. The
mission commander said the crew
must be absolutely sure of
reentry weather before
launching. That's because the
supplies they are carrying are
limited. The mission had already
been postponed from yesterday
after engineers discovered a
helium leak in one of the
rockets components.
Adam Curry: Oh, he's also got a
helium leak.
Unknown: Yeah, helium
Adam Curry: Yeah. I'm all for
sending up satellites, you know,
it's fine, but yeah, going up
into space, sure, yeah, KLM has
just enough. So we have the
Boeing astronauts on the
International Space Station.
They won't come back until
February. Is now reported, and
they're going to send their
Boeing capsule back down. Watch
that thing you want to take over
under on this where there's that
thing like explodes on the way
down, or will it? Be safe.
John C Dvorak: I'm like, Oh,
well, that's not really an over
and under. And over and under
has a plus or minus, either
gonna blow up or not. Well, I
would, I would say it's gonna
come back. Okay?
Adam Curry: I think so too, not
that I'd risk my life on it.
Well,
John C Dvorak: that's why
they're not risking their life
on it, because the fact that
you'd even discuss it as blowing
up doesn't seem very not
Adam Curry: great, not great. So
KLM has now said they are
switching from Boeing to Airbus,
and KLM is, you know, Air
France, that's a big order.
They're losing. Airbus is
cleaner, quieter, more
economical, and doesn't have the
doors popping off. That was not
in the press release, but I'm
just going to add that. And in
China, we have another
competitor doing much better
than Boeing, is
Unknown: Air China. And China
Southern Airlines will become
the second and third Chinese
carriers to fly China's
homegrown c9 online passenger
jet. The two carriers took
delivery of the aircraft at
Chinese planemaker Comac space
in Shanghai. These
are the eighth and ninth planes
that Comac has delivered China.
Eastern Airlines has already
been flying seven of these
aircraft
Adam Curry: since May last year.
There you go.
John C Dvorak: No, what's a? C,
919,
Adam Curry: it looks like a 737
I think it's going to be a
competitor that big. Oh, yeah,
it's, it's a dupe. It's a it's a
dupe of the 737
John C Dvorak: Yeah, they look
nice. The commax. C9, 19, they
look nice. It looks like a 737,
you're right. It probably is a
copy of an old one. It's a
Adam Curry: dupe. It's a dupe.
It's a dupe. Yes, now I'm not
sure if this was a Boeing
aircraft, so I have not received
so
John C Dvorak: we're doomed once
the Chinese get into this. This
Adam Curry: is a very sad thing
that took place. People don't
really this could be a
maintenance issue. It could be
an aircraft issue. Again. I
don't know if it was Boeing or
Airbus, but this is sad thing
that happened this
Unknown: morning. Delta Airlines
searching for answers after two
employees were killed on the job
inside the airlines maintenance
facility on the Atlanta airport
grounds. A third worker is being
treated for serious injuries.
1775
Mayor Jackson, Junior Boulevard,
Delta, TLC, three
emergency crews rushing to the
Delta wheel and Brake Shop early
Tuesday morning. The airline
says employees were working on a
tire when the wheel component
suddenly ruptured. Delta
describing it as a heartbreaking
accident, it killed 58 year old
Merkel Marwick and 37 year old
Luis Aldo Rondo, it
was away from the main airplanes
had this high pressure, big
piece of metal, big piece of
rubber, and if it fails, for
some reason catastrophically,
can cause damage and injury to
people nearby.
A delta employee describing the
chilling scene to first
responders, saying, quote, I
walked toward where the
explosion occurred, and saw a
body lying face down, not
moving, with blood all around
the
accident. Investigators will
probably look at the two metal
rims around that tire and look
for some sort of a fatigue
failure. Was that airplane old?
Was that tire old? Or was it
somehow, some part of the way
that the tire was put together
that caused this mishap.
Adam Curry: Doesn't Delta, Delta
fly Boeing's,
John C Dvorak: yeah, but this is
probably, this is component.
It's like, it's like, certain
trucks have these types of
tires.
Adam Curry: They're still blame
Boeing.
John C Dvorak: Well, yeah. Well,
that's the idea, blame them.
Yeah. Sorry about Boeing's got
issues. I see there's a comeback
919 there's a 929 oh, so they're
building big jets. Yeah, um, I'd
probably honeywell's involved
with them. Oh, really, Americans
have, you know, help
Adam Curry: really,
John C Dvorak: yeah, but
Adam Curry: probably fly it. I
wouldn't, I'm not too afraid. I
wouldn't go, Well, go on a
spaceship, but
John C Dvorak: I'm taking a
rocket, here's a rocket, and
shoot it up there, and I'll be
on it and floating around for a
few minutes.
Adam Curry: This is a story
trending everywhere. It's not
rage, it's crazy. It's no good
California. I mean, it's just
California story so, but it was
doing the rounds, so we might as
well discuss it, since one of us
is in California
Unknown: now, to a live look at
the state capitol. Right now,
California lawmakers have about
three days to pass new laws for
the year. The deadline is
Saturday, at midnight. Lawmakers
today saying Governor Newsom a
bill that would allow
undocumented people to apply for
the state's first time home
buyers program. That program has
no money for the foreseeable
future, but that didn't stop
lawmakers in the state assembly
from approving it in a 45 to 15
party line vote, the proposal
specifically prohibits the
California Housing Finance
Authority from rejecting a
person's actions. Application
based on their immigration
status. The bill made national
headlines as California is
facing a housing crisis with
some of the highest costs in the
nation to own a home, we
need to remind ourselves that we
are a nation of immigrants, and
here in our state, we remind
ourselves all the time of the
value of those who are
continuing to come here and to
make our economy better. So for
those who are paying their
taxes, who are doing things
right, who have a good credit
score and who can qualify for a
loan, we are saying that we want
you to set roots here in our
great state. If you qualify,
Governor Newsom will have until
September 30 to sign or veto
this bill.
John C Dvorak: Apparently,
that's not the that's not the
way the story is told on this
clip. Oh,
Adam Curry: hold on. Can I just
say something that Governor
Abbott of Texas, he is now
commissioned signs to be put up
in Mexico that says, free homes
that way. Point him towards the
north.
John C Dvorak: Yes. Smart move
free homes in California. Is the
clip free?
Adam Curry: Oh, is that
literally the clip name? Oh, I
see a
Unknown: California proposal
could make illegal immigrants
eligible for housing aid. People
could get up to $150,000 in
loans to help buy a home paid
for by the state entities. David
lamb reports,
a new proposal would expand home
buying loans to illegal
immigrants. On Tuesday, the
Senate passed a bill in a 25 to
14 vote, California's home
purchase assistance program
would cover up to a 20% down
payment or closing costs capped
at $150,000 it's called Assembly
Bill 1840 which was introduced
by Assemblyman Joaquin arumbula,
and it prevents the state's home
purchase assistance program from
disqualifying an applicant based
on their immigration status.
Applicants would need to be
first time home buyers, and at
least one borrower needs to be a
first generation home buyer,
such as someone whose parents
don't own a home, or they've
been through foster care, the
homebuyer would have to repay
the down payment loan, plus a
portion of the profits if the
house is sold later on. So
that's the increased value of
the home. Now, as of Wednesday,
it's in the assembly before
going to Governor Gavin Newsom's
desk. Well, it
Adam Curry: wasn't that
different?
John C Dvorak: Well, they
emphasize the fact that this for
illegal immigrants, mainly,
Adam Curry: yes, well, of
course, that's what California
is all about. It's to improve
your economy now so that so 20%
John C Dvorak: 150,000 so much
of 2008 written all over it
does.
Adam Curry: That's a $750,000
home, which, at today's interest
rates, pretty steep price,
John C Dvorak: you know? Yeah,
it might not be workable. You
mean, but Newsom, if he's smart,
he'll veto it so he can keep on
his you know, because otherwise
he's going to get everything
Newsom does from now on is
assuming that Trump's going to
be president, and he has to be
very careful that he's not going
to have this stuff thrown in his
face. Hey, but
Adam Curry: wait a minute, this
would work great for your favela
idea. Free favelas. You can get
a down payment on a favela.
John C Dvorak: This idea of the
favela itself is self free. It's
free,
Adam Curry: it's free, free. I
love that idea. Well, let's
continue to stay in California
with the cleanup operation just
in time for the Olympics, just
in time for the 2020, 2028,
election. This is rousting the
homeless. We're back
Unknown: now with our homeless
in America series. Earlier this
summer, the US Supreme Court
ruled that cities can find or
even jail people for sleeping
outside. Seen as Nick watt went
to San Francisco, a city with a
notorious homeless problem,
which is now aggressively
sweeping homeless encampments
from its
streets. You got to go. But you
know where you're gonna go,
yeah. Okay,
Adam Curry: okay, okay,
Unknown: we're in the Mission
District. It's a little after
7am Is this the first time
you've been involved in one of
these sweeps? No, no, no. This
is the first time they've been
so quiet and nice you'll
be in a shelter tonight. Well,
this covid? Yes, the Supreme
Court ruled that cities can now
cite fine or jail these people,
even if they have nowhere else
to go. We
have the ability to now enforce
the law. Mayor
London breed introduced what she
calls a very aggressive
strategy. They issued around 25
citations in the first two
weeks, you're criminalizing
something that a lot of people
can't help. They have no other
choice,
and that would be the case if we
weren't offering people a place
to go inside. They
haven't offered your shelter.
They said there's no opening for
shelter right now. There's no
beds or anything for trash. The
city says
no one this. Morning sweep ended
up in a shelter, not one. This
is the afternoon sweep we're in
so much South of Market. The
issue is, this is the 34th time
the city has swept this area
this year alone.
Adam Curry: 34th time. That's
John C Dvorak: a little twist on
the story. Doesn't
Adam Curry: seem to be working
very well.
John C Dvorak: Well, I know
whatever they're doing in San
Francisco, a lot of it's housing
has an impact, and the homeless
are moving, probably wisely, to
Oakland, right
Adam Curry: across the road from
you.
John C Dvorak: Well, it's far
enough away. I'm not worried
about it. But, okay, I wasn't
open the other day driving
around. Yeah, and it's worse
than ever. In a homeless
situation, there's encampments
under every Overpass, which
seems like ever there's a you
won't find a freeway overpass
where there aren't a bunch of
tents. And there's a huge park
on the corner of MacArthur and
Broadway for people who want to
check it out. And there's just
Tent City. The whole park isn't
completely filled, but it's a
borderline favela, but not the
right kind. The right kind needs
a view. Yes, yeah, it's a view
formula. And I don't see anybody
doing anything about anything in
Oakland.
Adam Curry: I have a second part
to this report, more than 4000
Unknown: people live on San
Francisco streets. There are
fewer than 4000 shelter beds,
and most nights, they're near
full, with a wait list of over
100 he's offering your shelter
bed. Yeah, so what are you going
to do? Are you going to
take it? Yeah, I'm going to take
it. But you know what? It's
something where it's typical,
like, I won't do it, man, I want
to do it because I stayed in
prison 2022 years. Do you really
think I want to be closed up in
a room with bars? No, I don't
think so. I'd rather sleep
outside. Since
the Supreme Court's decision,
cities and towns and states
across the country are now
proposing passing and enforcing
anti camping laws across
California, state authorities
have started sweeping in camps.
I'm
here on behalf of 40 million
Californians that are fed up.
I'm here because I'm one of
them, but
more than 50 academics told the
Supreme Court there's no
evidence that criminalizing
homelessness works. In fact,
there's a lot of evidence that
it's counterproductive. It's
Adam Curry: all Brits, by the
way, who are representing your
news
Unknown: well, what we want to
be able to do is use the
penalties as a way to get people
to commit to going indoors. You
spent
a lot of money from the city
sweeping that same street. To
me, that is the definition of
matter. But
what I'm saying to you is the
next option that we have for
people who are refusing what
we're offering is we will be
citing, and you'll maybe, in the
next couple months, take a look
at our data and see whether or
not this is working, and if it's
working, we'll continue. If it's
not, we need to pivot and to try
something else. Pivot, pivot.
Adam Curry: Gonna pivot and try
something else, like
flamethrowers or something.
Unknown: This is, this is
John C Dvorak: what is citing
somebody that homeless or living
in a tent, they got no income,
they got no job, they got
nothing and you're gonna give
them a ticket there. Yeah,
there's a $20
Adam Curry: ticket. They have no
strategy. This is just, just
sweep them up, sweep under the
rug. It's no strategy. There's
no strategy. Turn Oakland into a
big, big park. It's not a
strategy. It's very sad. It is.
Well, they
John C Dvorak: let it, they let
it fester. That's the problem.
Well, it could have been solved
if they had stopped it a decade.
They let
Adam Curry: it fester for
political reasons.
John C Dvorak: That's what they
did. Democrats,
Adam Curry: yes, yes, yes. The
robbers den, you know, you
remember the knife attack and
souling in Germany.
John C Dvorak: Yes, in fact, I
have a clip that references it.
Oh, well, let
Adam Curry: me play the clip and
I can tell you some. Have some
interesting details. What is the
name of this clip?
John C Dvorak: That's a good
question.
Adam Curry: Well, you're the you
brought it up. Well,
John C Dvorak: I mean, you
tricked me.
Adam Curry: I did not trick you
into anything. Oh, here it is.
No, no. Do you have I don't see
a knives clip?
John C Dvorak: No, it's, it's
under it came at either my maybe
the UK NEWS it. Oh yeah, I think
it came out of here. This is
when I think this, yes, it's in
here. It's a two parter. It's UK
NEWS. It's about Starmer, oh
Adam Curry: yeah, hanging out
with the German dude. Yeah? Here
British
Unknown: Prime Minister Keir
Starmer is seeking to reset
relations with the European
Union as he meets in Berlin with
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
The two leaders have agreed to
work on a treaty covering issues
from defense to trade. Yeah,
let's
Adam Curry: just say defense.
Unknown: I'm absolutely. Clear
that we do want a reset. I've
been able to repeat that here
today, a reset with Europe, a
reset with the EU. But that does
not mean reversing Brexit or
reentering the single market or
the Customs Union. Scholes
said Germany wanted to take this
outstretched hand.
The United Kingdom
has always been an indispensable
part of the solution to the
major issues affecting the whole
of Europe. This has not changed
since the UK left the European
Union. The
new Cooperation Treaty would
deepen collaboration in science,
technology, business and
culture, while increasing trade
and guns. Britain and Germany
said they hoped to sign the
Cooperation Treaty by early next
year, at the heart of
this treaty will be a new
defense agreement. There it is
an agreement that builds upon
our already formidable defense
cooperation.
The deepening defense
cooperation comes ahead of a
possible scaling back of us
support for NATO if FORMER
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP returns
to the White House early next
year, Trump has said he would
not defend allies if they do not
increase their defense budgets.
Adam Curry: He don't think he
said that. Well, indirectly, he
says if you don't pay your fair
share, is what he said. But
yeah, it's a fair share thing.
Yeah. So where's the knife stuff
in the second clip? Here's the
second clip.
Unknown: Starmer also
highlighted cooperation on the
shared European challenge of
illegal immigration. The issue
is a hot topic in Germany at the
moment, following a knife attack
in zollingen that killed three
people and wounded eight more,
allegedly carried out by
suspected Islamic extremists
from Syria, Starmer reiterated
his plan to tackle the people
smuggling gangs behind the UK's
small boat crisis, which charged
migrants 1000s of dollars to
cross the sea from France to
Britain. He suggested the joint
action plan could involve
authorities intercepting boats
in transit across Europe to stop
them reaching the northern
French coast.
John C Dvorak: Have you ever
taken the before the Chunnel,
this very boat ferries across
the English Channel. It's
Adam Curry: called the vomit
Express.
John C Dvorak: It's
unbelievable. I don't do not
understand how a small boat can
make that trip. Well, a lot
Adam Curry: of them don't. I
guess a lot of them don't make
it. Well, back to the knife
attack, which was referenced in
that clip. I thought I
remembered the name Solingen. I
couldn't. I couldn't put my
finger on it. Do you know the
nickname of solingan, or what
they call it? No, the city of
knives, the Solingen knife
company comes from,
John C Dvorak: oh, that's there
is a nice Yes. It's
Adam Curry: called the city of
knives. Leave it to the city of
knives. Ironic, yes, the irony
is nuts. And now the the Berlin
police commissioner came out
with some tips and tricks to
employ if this happens and
you're around and someone is
going crazy, stabbing people.
The the police commissioner
said, Do something unexpected,
like making a phone call or
singing very loudly. This is,
this is the brilliant idea how
to thwart yourself from being
stabbed to death by a knife
attack. Just sing loudly. Oh
yes. And then this very sad news
from NPR regarding knives. All
right, here's
Unknown: a question, what is a
knife without a blade? That is
not a riddle or a Zen Buddhist
paradox? It's a question that
the maker of the Swiss Army
Knife has just answered in the
form of a new line of pocket
knives without blades, they
will still have the screwdriver
fear, not also the nail file,
the bottle opener, but not the
classic flip out blade.
Victorinox, the company behind
the ubiquitous multitool, has
made hundreds of millions of
Swiss Army knives since the late
19th century. But this is a
first. The
company's CEO told Swiss media
this week that the decision was
made because some countries have
increased the regulation of
knives in response to violent
crime.
Yeah, this is not the first time
Victoria Knox has had to pivot
based on current events when
sharp objects like pocket knives
were banned from planes after
911 the company leaned into
watches and luggage and leisure
wear and even fragrances. The
new bladeless pocket knives are
in development now, and
aficionados will still be able
to purchase the classic swiss
army knife.
Adam Curry: I love this story.
We should do hammers that are
just a piece of wood with no
head on it. It's a screwdriver
without a shaft. And what is a
Swiss Army Knife without a
blade?
Unknown: Dumb, yes.
Adam Curry: What I mean? What is
the world? And I remember we
used to say, hey, they're
banning knives in England. No.
Not true. There's no knife
crime, yes, meanwhile, we're
running around with nine mils
everywhere. Yeah, it's
John C Dvorak: a better idea,
you know, because when you shoot
somebody, everybody notices,
because it makes a lot of noise.
It's very loud, it's very
noticeable. Yes, yeah. So you
can get out. You can run out of
the way with some of the knife
and people left it right? You
scatter? Yes,
Adam Curry: you can scatter.
Yeah, unless, of course, you're
President Trump and you know,
and you're just walking around
with a with an AR 15, and you're
hanging out. Did you hear the
latest details? You see they had
pictures of the gun, and
John C Dvorak: I have the FBI
investigate shooting NTD, which
details what they did. Well,
Adam Curry: let me play mine
first, because NTD is such a
John C Dvorak: doom. Yeah, there
they do to complete a job of
actually giving you the
information.
Adam Curry: Well, this is
there's only one little bit in
here that I think is good.
Unknown: The FBI giving an
update this afternoon on its
investigation into the
assassination attempt a former
President Donald Trump in
Butler, Pennsylvania, that
update, including the release of
some new pictures showing the
gun backpack and undetonated
explosive device belonging to
the shooter, Thomas crooks
investigators saying that they
have been able to conduct an
extensive analysis into the
research he conducted before the
attack. However, they say no
clear motive has emerged.
Investigators say crooks
searched the dates and locations
of campaign rallies for both
Trump and President Joe Biden
today, the FBI also saying that
crooks was on the roof for just
six minutes before he fired
eight rounds at the former
president. Trump's ear was
injured in that shooting, one
rally, goer was killed, two
others were injured.
Adam Curry: Oh, it was only six
minutes. Six minutes. Are you
kidding me? And listen to how
that was reported. Oh, it was
only six minutes. What he was on
the roof for six minutes. That's
outrageous. Six
John C Dvorak: minutes is a if
we stop talking right now for
six minutes, everyone would stop
tuning it did. Six minutes is a
long time, I agree, of
especially dead air. But so the
guy gets up on the roof. He's up
there for six minutes, I would
say, over five minutes before
anybody
Adam Curry: even saw him. No,
you just say only six is how you
report on it. Well,
John C Dvorak: that's the way to
report only six. But six is you
got all these guys, spotters,
guys, you know? Yeah,
Adam Curry: I mean, people do a,
you know, mechanical bull for
eight seconds. If that do I want
to play your NTD report or
didn't mind cover it? I
John C Dvorak: think it's pretty
much the same story. It's a
little longer. No,
Adam Curry: it's the same
length, 46 seconds.
John C Dvorak: No, it was the
same, basically the same story.
Okay, let's go to this catch up
with some campaigning news. Oh,
okay, what painting?
Adam Curry: Oh, they were I
missed the queue. I'm queue
Unknown: you look queueless.
Vice President Harris is in
Georgia. Former President Donald
Trump is holding campaign events
in battleground states this
week, the very states that could
decide the election. NTDs
Washington correspondent Jack
Bradley has an update on Trump's
campaign. Former
President Trump is holding
campaign events this week in key
battleground states. Nothing is
scheduled for the former
president but his running mate,
Ohio Senator JD Vance, has two
rallies today. He's speaking in
Erie, Pennsylvania and in De
Pere, Wisconsin. Tomorrow, Trump
is holding a town hall in La
Crosse, Wisconsin, and on
Friday, a rally in johnsontown,
Pennsylvania, Trump said he'll
be attending the scheduled
presidential debate hosted by
ABC on September 10 in
Philadelphia. He initially
wanted to ensure the same rules
as the debate with CNN with
President Biden, rules,
including that candidates
microphones should be muted
while the other is speaking, and
they will be standing and they
cannot bring notes. RFK, Jr, who
recently dropped out of the
presidential race and endorsed
Trump, has pulled his name off
the ballots in several states.
He remains on the ballots in
Michigan and Wisconsin, both of
them swing states, even though
Kennedy tried to remove his
name, state laws don't allow it.
It will be interesting to see if
that actually impacts the votes.
Now this all comes as Trump's
campaign added Kennedy and Tulsi
Gabbard to his presidential
transition team. Gabbard is a
former Democratic Congresswoman
from Hawaii who ran for
president in 2020
Adam Curry: Okay, a couple
things. One, I think we should
analyze and think for a moment
about the next person who will
join the Trump campaign? There
has to be more. They can't be
shooting their all their wad on
RFK Jr in Tulsa. We've got to
have more coming in.
John C Dvorak: Oh, don't you
think that I never considered
this?
Adam Curry: Oh, there's got to
be another big name that joins.
It has to be a surprise, like
Alfred. Lincoln. That'll never
happen, but someone, someone of
great stature. Could there be
anyone who is not a complete
John C Dvorak: for it to be,
which is rare in that party, but
it has to be a disaffected
person uh, who sees it. It'll
reveal. It's the reveal will
take place after the debate, and
it will depend on how the
performance of Kamala goes. You
know, they kept trying to force
the idea that she could have
notes, and you know what that
means? She'd have a big binder
with tabs, a big, giant binder
with tabs, and she'd be flipping
it over and reading from these
notes.
Adam Curry: We, but we, I think
we need someone from show
business like Clooney, which
will never happen, but he's out
no but that level, someone,
someone big, maybe not. I mean,
this
John C Dvorak: show business
doesn't really have a I mean,
has no cash. I don't think this
is impactful, and it's and these
people are all pathetic, yeah, I
don't know. I don't see anybody
on the horizon. It'd be, it's a
good I like the idea, oh, he
Adam Curry: needs it. He needs
to do it. It has to be seen. How
about, how about Mike Rowe? Mike
Rowe would be a good one.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, but Mike
Rose already voting for him. Is
he, far as I can tell, he's a
Republican, yeah,
Adam Curry: okay, Mike Rowe
won't work. How about Bill
Maher?
John C Dvorak: That would be
interesting. I'll give you that
one. Bill Maher, but he hates
Trump so much that for him to
change, to change at this point.
Would it would be incredible,
yeah, I just don't see it. I
mean, it would be great, but I
he's such, he's such a
ideologue, yeah, and he really
hates Trump. He says, Yeah,
hates Trump, yeah,
Adam Curry: yeah, visceral well,
but he can still say, I hate
him, but he's got the right
ideas.
John C Dvorak: He could do that.
Adam Curry: And I saw this. I
saw an ad for this on X or it
wasn't an ad, because I have
premium free.
John C Dvorak: Oh, you paid. No,
I
Adam Curry: got it for free
because I you'd say I got the
blue check mark. You have the
blue check mark too. You don't
get to leave. You don't get ads.
I don't get any ads. You get
John C Dvorak: ads. I mean, once
in a while I think there's an ad
in there. No, I think
Adam Curry: it's just, I think
it's just a post. And I thought
it was a joke, but it wasn't.
Hello, everyone.
Unknown: This is your favorite
president, Donald J Trump, with
some very exciting news, by
popular demand, I'm doing a new
series of Trump digital trading
cards. You all know what they
are. We've had a lot of fun with
them. It's called the America
first collection, 50 all new,
Stunning Digital trading cards.
It's really something. These
cards show me dancing and even
me holding some bitcoins. Here's
the best part, I'm doing great
things for my trump digital card
collectors. First, there's the
real physical trump cards.
Purchase 15 or more of my trump
digital trading cards and we'll
mail you a beautiful physical
trading card. It's really, I
think, quite something. Each
physical trading card has an
authentic piece of my suit that
I wore for the presidential
debate, and people are calling
it the knockout suit. I don't
know about that, but that's what
they're calling it. So we'll cut
up the knockout suit, and you're
going to get a piece of it, and
we'll be randomly autographing
five of them, a true collector's
item. This is something to give
your family, your kids, your
grandchildren. Number two is to
purchase 75 of my trump digital
trading cards, and you will also
be invited to join me for a gala
dinner at my beautiful country
club in Jupiter, Florida. We
really have tremendous dinners
with my collectors. Have a lot
of fun together. We're gonna
have a good time.
Adam Curry: Okay, so I need to
say a
John C Dvorak: few things about
this unbelievable. First of all,
this definitely tops the Bible,
by the way,
Adam Curry: yeah, well, the
Bible, he was just endorsing. He
wasn't actually selling it, but
this, he's selling and so these
are nfts, which is exactly the
opposite of what the Bitcoin
people want, which is just dumb.
And then they say, Oh, I even
got some bitcoins or whatever,
but these are nfts. Gary Gensler
has just come out and said nfts
are securities, so he can expect
another lawsuit. Oh, yep,
they're unregistered securities.
You watch. He came out with it
yesterday, and and it's true. Of
course, they are, they are
unregistered securities because
you can trade them. Hello.
They're called trading cards. So
John C Dvorak: Pokemon card is
like, NFT is now going to be
subject to, uh, Securities
Exchange Commission. Are you
telling me that?
Adam Curry: No, because the. The
Those are real cards. This is
the digit. It's an NFT. It's a
little different than a Pokemon
Trading Card. It's the same
with, with all these cryptos,
they're all, they're all,
they've all been deemed not
commodities. But they except for
Bitcoin, they've been deemed
securities. I'm just, I'm just
analyzing. It's obvious what's
going to happen. Yeah, they're
John C Dvorak: gonna sue him.
He's gonna make a fuss. And
maybe it was designed for that,
but
Adam Curry: it's dumb and so and
they cost $99 Yes, $7,500 you
get invited to the gala. Okay,
well, you can just donate $7,500
John C Dvorak: I don't think so.
Well, maybe he just said it. I
know what the price? Oh yeah,
well, there'll be a bit. That
means there'll be a the place
will be packed with people, and
you'll never get to meet him.
Adam Curry: Yeah, no, no, that's
75,000 to meet him for a
picture.
Unknown: Oh yeah,
Adam Curry: he knows what he's
doing. Um, poll Paul came out
according to Axios, more
Americans embrace covid Vax
untruths, which is an
interesting choice of words,
John C Dvorak: untruths. Yeah.
Big picture the finding they
don't, so they say they don't
embrace covid lies. Yes, the big
Adam Curry: picture, says Axios.
The findings from the University
of Pennsylvania's Annenberg
Public Policy Center are further
evidence of how intense backlash
to the government's at times
muddled covid response eroded
trust in public health,
jeopardizing preparedness
efforts to address future crises
of mosquitoes. What they found,
28% of respondents to the survey
incorrectly believed that covid
19 vaccines have been
responsible for 1000s of deaths.
Wait,
John C Dvorak: how can you
incorrectly believe?
Adam Curry: Thank you. I'm glad
you caught that they incorrectly
you believe
John C Dvorak: something. You
just believe it. You believe it.
I believe that the sky is green.
You're incorrectly would go like
this. I believe he believes the
sky is green, although he's
incorrect. They
Adam Curry: should have said
Believe, without evidence,
John C Dvorak: my favorite
phrase, it turns out this is
Adam Curry: up from 22% in June.
2021 the percentage, oh, who
know this is falling? Okay, so
the percentage who know this is
false declined to 55% from 66%
22% believe the false idea that
it's false idea, listen to this,
that it's safer to get a covid
infection than to get the
vaccine. Up from 10% in April
2021, months after the covid
shots were rolled out, the
percentage of those incorrectly
believing that the covid 19
vaccine changes dn people's DNA
nearly doubled to 15% from 8%
Wow, you stupid Americans.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Meanwhile, I'd like to get some
confirmation on this, because it
comes from a sub stack in August
3333 nurses died suddenly.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, that's
what's his name? There's one guy
I can't remember his name off
hand. Who? Dark Mark Crispin
Miller. Mark Crispin, yeah,
yeah. Miller, is
Adam Curry: he full of crap?
John C Dvorak: All this is all
he does. No, he's not full of
crap. Okay? He just documents
every buddy he can find who died
before the age of 70, even
though he does it goes beyond
that too, uh, who they don't
have a cause of death, and he
just lists them all as as people
who died from the VAX. Well,
he's
Adam Curry: not saying that.
He's not, no,
John C Dvorak: it's what he No,
well, I'm
Adam Curry: implying, implying
it. Was implying it, yes, with
died. So
John C Dvorak: he's not saying
it, but he's, that's what he's
saying. Well,
Adam Curry: we have a lot of
nurses and doctors who are
producers. I'd love to hear if
they, if they are seeing similar
numbers of of their their
colleagues dying suddenly. I
John C Dvorak: know a lot of
these colleagues have quit the
business because they wouldn't
get this shot. Because what they
saw from people who did get this
shot, and the next thing you
know, they had to get the shot,
they said, No, I'm not going to
get the shot. I'm out of here.
And that's caused the problem,
same as in the military, with
people who quit Baron sir
Adam Curry: spud the mighty says
that x apparently still banning.
The hashtag died suddenly, what
I thought it was free speech
over there as Linda, Linda the
knob twiddler Can't trust Linda.
And then our Surgeon General
came out with an interesting
statement this week, as
summarized in this clip,
Unknown: I don't think it's a
surprise that parenthood is
stressful. I
think Desiree Terry is the
mother of three children.
I think we've all been feeling
it for a really long time, and
it's wonderful to actually have
some numbers to back it up.
Terry is talking about the
findings in a new surgeon
general advice. Three. Dr Vivek
Murthy says 48% of parents feel
completely overwhelmed. That
tells us we've got a real
challenge, and there's a lot
that's driving that. You know,
parents are they're not only
contending with the usual
stressors that come with being a
parent, worrying about finances
and safety, but they're also
worried about how to manage
social media and phones for
their kids. Associate
Professor of child psychiatry at
the University of Chicago, Dr
Holland. F Zell says parents'
well being is crucial when it
comes to a child's well being. F
Zell also says the finding about
the role of social media in a
parent's life was very
revealing. Murthy also says
employers should provide more
paid leave for parents and
access to affordable childcare
and have policies in place that
support parents and their mental
health.
Adam Curry: What kind of
psychological warfare is this? I
don't know so well. Don't Have
Kids. What it sounds like to me?
Oh, if you weren't worried
enough about the cost and social
media. It's going to stress you
out. Yes, my daughter just
turned 34 I'm still stressed
out. That's what you do as a
parent. It's one of the joys.
That's why I want them all to
have kids, to get back at them
Unknown: and laugh. What do you
think it is?
John C Dvorak: I have no idea.
Psychological Warfare nuts. Cut
off. There you go.
Adam Curry: Oh, okay, that'll do
it. Do you want to play one more
clip or so? Just go straight
into the
John C Dvorak: just from a gut
felt show. This is a I'm
wondering, if you can guess,
this is Tom Chalu was the host.
He's a funny comic who does
Biden as an imitation. He's very
good at it. This is hobbies that
turn off women. Oh, but before
we play it, what? What would you
guess? Podcaster
Adam Curry: and day trader,
let's listen.
John C Dvorak: Those aren't
hobbies. Those are vocations.
The Internet gets reactive to
hobbies deemed unattractive.
Tonight, we
Unknown: examine a viral social
media post purportedly ranking
men's hobbies by how attractive
they're perceived by women. And
much to my dismay, wait a
minute.
Adam Curry: Let me think. Let me
think collecting Star Wars
figurines. Is that on the list?
Yes,
John C Dvorak: ah, I
Adam Curry: got one another one
would be Star Wars figurines,
video gaming. Video gaming. Oh,
you, you
John C Dvorak: saw this? No, no,
I
Adam Curry: did not. I'm just
thinking of what I find
detestable. Hosting
Unknown: Gutfeld is near the
bottom of the list. Now, we
couldn't verify the scientific
authenticity of this poll, but
when has that stopped us?
According to the chicks of this
chart, playing video games is
the number one fast track to the
friend zone, followed by things
like collecting figurines, doing
magic, gambling and even
building model trains.
Adam Curry: You're four for
four, don't you have model
trains? I know you've got a
model train set. So, yeah,
you've got when
John C Dvorak: I was a kid
collecting, I like trains a lot.
I didn't build model trains,
necessarily, but I do have, have
kept an engine from the 50s that
probably is worth something, but
I haven't sold it, so it
doesn't, can't prove anything,
but I know guys as adults that
do trains, and I do, and I do
enjoy seeing a good train
layout. It's very fascinating.
There's a
Adam Curry: very famous used to
be disc jockey in Holland, Eric
gsvart, and he came up a little
bit before me, and he wound up
being co owner of a very big,
very popular radio station. Once
commercial stations were radio
538, and he is all he, I mean,
he has a train in his backyard
that he can sit on.
John C Dvorak: Oh, that that's
Walt. Disney had one
Adam Curry: of those and and so
now he's, I think he's obviously
still a shareholder, but I don't
think he works necessarily
anymore in the radio business.
He's probably about five years
older than me, and now he drives
the tram. He's a tram conductor
in, I think, in, I don't know if
it's Rotterdam or Amsterdam, and
he's always posting pictures.
Well, going to work today, gonna
drive the tram.
John C Dvorak: Wow, that's a guy
who's dedicated to much
something about it. Yeah, train,
you know, train and pushing the
lever and making it go, yeah,
there's
Adam Curry: no evidence. He
hangs out with hot chicks.
Unknown: Oh, my God, listen
to that horn. I'm gonna show my
sword by donating to no agenda.
Imagine all the people who could
do that. Oh, yeah. Be fun well,
Adam Curry: we have a lot of fun
things to talk about. We have a
nice, stacked birthday list. We
have a number of of produced
meetup reports. Which are, I
like them. I like it when people
produce them, but we've had a
lot of very successful meetups.
And of course, we have the tip
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John C Dvorak: I'll read a few
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Archduke of Luna. Now we have a
night, and we we will read these
notes when they come in at these
low levels. And this is
Christian rule ish In Winter
Haven Florida, 808 he says,
Adam Curry: Hey fellas, so many
puppies to feed this week, I've
sent my donation of 808 through
the usual method. And after some
careful accounting, I'm a Knight
of the no agenda show. Very
exciting, much, muchly happy,
and accounting is below. If it's
okay with the peerage committee,
I wish to be referred to as Sir
loin of the Winter Haven from
here on. That's fine for the
round table. I would like
Skyline chili, four way bean and
Jamison, Blackberry whiskey,
black barrel whiskey. We have
both of those for you lined up
at the table. It's been a
genuine pleasure listening to
John and his various
interpretations of pronunciation
of my last name to aid John with
future donations, he may just
refer to me as sir loin of
Winterhaven on my way to
becoming a Duke. Well, please
mention that in your future
donations so we get that right.
God bless you both. You are true
patriots of our great country,
Sincerely and respectfully
Christian grulich Sirloin of
Winterhaven. PS, and for a
winning resume that'll get you
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John C Dvorak: Ah, uh, Bart
Hendricks is next. Uh, he's in
part, heritan Holland, $75
Hareton, that's good. Uh, Dana
Carroll in Laughlin, Nevada,
7227 Borge Alvarez in Ponte.
Verdra Beach, Florida, 7171
Craig Kohler in Evansville,
Indiana, 6502 and these are the
following. Lindy, well, we got
Gaucho woodworking, of course.
Look them up. They're listed on
the Google Gaucho woodworking.
They make great cutting boards
and such. Redondo Beach,
California, 6352 this is a karma
for Adam's birthday. And it says
my birthday, plus my right knee
replacement on Adam's birthday.
Guy. Now I'm just going to read
these are 6229 and 60s. These
are all birthday shout out. So
I'm just going to go read the
name of the individuals, and if
there's a location, for some
reason, the location only shows
up a few times. But mansuor rod,
uh, prison O'Leary. The guy's
name is prison, I don't think
so. Yeah, I
Adam Curry: hope so. Maybe he's
from the prison in O'Leary.
John C Dvorak: Uh, Michael
Belcher, Kevin McLaughlin, once
again, thank you. Kevin, yeah.
Alan shaft, shaft, shaft chef,
uh. Steve Niles in Santa Cruz.
Trevor Hoagland, William Baker,
B, A, k, k, e, r bucker, Maria
Rickard Hong, nutritional
healing, okay, all right. Kelly
Hubbard, sir Job. Job, one of my
favorite names, Night Of The
Night of the jiggly bits. That's
right, sir. Jub job, uh. Derek
Tipton, Jamie Buell, a Baronet,
Benjamin Ritter's Angela
Pickering Dan King, Cameron
Adam Curry: Dan King also asked
for a deduced for his free, free
loading. Brother, Matt King,
from central point, Oregon,
you've been deduced. Caught it.
Caught it. Good. Catch.
John C Dvorak: Uh, Cameron
Linga, Brian, Belen Brian, mass
uh, Walter hilbeck, um, very
long. Thank you. Note there.
Yancey summer. Gerald Preston,
Schuman, Roy, sir, B boop. And
that ends the well, which is now
the next the next show will be
your official birthday show on
Sunday. Yes,
Adam Curry: this is my birthday
week. Is what we're celebrating
here, and I will be working on
my birthday. Well, no,
John C Dvorak: no, your birthday
is Tuesday. Well, you might be
working, but no, my show my
Adam Curry: birthday is
Wednesday. No, that was Tuesday.
The third It's Wednesday, and
then I'll be working Thursday,
while on a so called vacation,
uh, and Sunday, the Sunday after
that, because Tina's taking me
to Mexico. So that's my birthday
present. So I will be was, what
day is the what? The third of
September, that's Tuesday. Well,
I'll be celebrating it on
Wednesday. Okay, it's Tuesday.
I'm sorry. Tuesday is like, I
don't really want to know about
it. It's too late. So cheer me
up, everybody with a donation.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, yeah. $60
donation to Adam for his
birthday. Sunday show. Let's try
to boost the Sunday show with
congratulate and you get 600
would be cool.
Adam Curry: Yeah, that would be
cool. It's all right.
John C Dvorak: Steve banstric
comes to his 5993 eggs. Donation
over easy. 5993 backwards. Oh,
that is, yeah, that's cool if
you flip it over, yep, but
that's interesting. Eggs
Adam Curry: over easy and too
many eggs.com.
John C Dvorak: Yeah, too many
eggs.com. Geek rolling in Coeur
d'Alene, Idaho, 5856 Nicholas,
Oman in Dilworth, Minnesota,
5856 I don't know what that
number coming no, he
Adam Curry: needs something
travel karma. We'll give it
John C Dvorak: to you. Yes, put
some travel karma at the end for
him. Joshua Stewart and Bowling
Green, 55 he says
Adam Curry: he's been listening
for over a decade, and now he
requests the deduching is the
first time that he's donated
trace from Bowling Green,
Kentucky. He's from the summer
ozempics of Bowling Green. I'll
deduce him for that
Unknown: you've been deduced.
John C Dvorak: Here's a William
Edelen in Jacksonville, Florida,
which came in with 55 which is
the 20% cut of the David Dana
Brunetti unclaimed property
donation drive, an excellent
idea, I might add, as far which
was one of our tips of the day?
Yes, surprise of astonishment in
UConn, Oklahoma. 5444 another
missing name, Mark, oh no, it's
Mark Hardwick in Alito, Texas,
5333 Kyle tack in Yankton, South
Dakota, 5272 and as a happy
birthday, call out a might for
himself, yep, for Willa. Michael
Willa Willa Willa Willa, Michael
Friedel. Friedel in Kansas City,
5272 Scott Nelson, Council
Bluffs, Iowa, 5001 and now the
rest are 50s. And we're going to
go through them, name and
location if I have a location,
starting with Brian emmon Heiser
in Lancaster. Michael Elmore in
Gastonia, North Carolina. John
Taylor in Florida, fluorescent
Colorado. Aaron wise Gerber in
Bend, Oregon. Richard Gardner,
who I believe is in New York
City, but doesn't say ZEV green
in Teaneck, New Jersey. Hockey,
Esparza, Ella ragia in Mexico
City. I think. David Steele in
Mobile, Alabama, we need more
Mexico city people. We do leave.
They got to 13 million people or
plus living there. Leave.
Thompson in Meridian, Idaho.
Justin Kaler in Bluffton,
Indiana. Ed Edwin Torres in San
Antonio. Ryan wicker wickenhagen
in town. Send Georgia and last
uh, Baron Allen bean in
Beaverton, Oregon, who's been
with us since almost the very,
very beginning, who once said a
$50 check in, and says, As long
as you guys are good, I'm going
to send a $50 check in once a
month, and he has been giving
this money ever since
Adam Curry: it does he have a
title,
John C Dvorak: he's a baron. Oh,
okay, well,
Adam Curry: then he has a title.
He might, he
John C Dvorak: probably higher
than that, but he still goes by
Baron. Oh, well, that's it. He
used to live in Oakland.
Adam Curry: Well, thank you very
much, Baron. And thank you to
everyone who supported Episode
1690, of the best podcast in the
universe, because we have the
best producers in the podcast.
It's easy to check. You can ask
anybody someone was saying the
other day, you know that this
one podcast, the dire of a CEO,
has 65 people working on the
pod. Podcast. And I said, so
what? We've got 10s of 1000s of
producers working on the
podcast.
John C Dvorak: Does he pay those
65 people? He does. Are they
volunteers? No,
Adam Curry: no, he'll No, I
think he pays him. Yeah, they go
to an office and everything,
what? Yeah, no, he'll be poor
soon. Don't worry. He does all
kinds of but what do
John C Dvorak: you need that may
I mean, if you're going to be
paying people to work full time,
he also
Adam Curry: has, this was the
big news at Podcast Movement,
which was in Washington, DC, on
a Wednesday, a Thursday and a
Friday, which doesn't sound like
a great you know, when school's
back. I mean, I don't know how
many people showed up. Well,
this guy, this, I forget his
name, Bartlett. I think his name
is he's very famous, very famous
podcaster. When he does
interviews with people, he has a
CO two monitor in the studio,
and when it hits 1000 parts per
million, then he stops the
interview, because he says, then
people won't be thinking
straight. That was the big news
that came out of the podcast
world this past week.
Unknown: What?
Adam Curry: Yes, yeah. 1000
parts per million, then you
can't think straight. He claims,
is that true?
John C Dvorak: Well, I don't
know if it's true or not, but
What? What? Why don't you just
open up window, dude?
Adam Curry: Thank you all very
much, especially those who came
in under $50 for reasons of
anonymity, or if you're on one
of our many, many possibilities
for your own sustaining
donation, please remember us.
Support us. Send us some value
back. Go to no agenda
donations.com. Here's the goat
karma for those who want,
including sir CB, who needs some
garage sale karma?
Unknown: You've got
Adam Curry: karma. No agenda
donations.com.
Unknown: Here's the birthday
list. We've
Adam Curry: got Tim Kimbrough
turn 55 on the 25th Kyle tack
wishes Willa happy one turn 13
on the 25th as well. Andrew,
Andrew Andre Mackey turned 17
today. How about that? Sean
O'Connor turning 41 today.
Thomas Weaver turned 38 today.
Dame four and lady before turn
76 one day before me. I'll be
60, but she turned 76 on
September 2, and Gaucho
woodworking shares a birthday
with me on September 3. Happy
birthday from everybody here at
the best podcast in the
universe. She
well, not only does she turn 76
on September 2, but today she
becomes a vis Countess Dame
foreign lady before now becomes
vi Countess Dame a foreign lady
before. Protectorate for her is
the old town of Grayson in
northeast Georgia, a classy Dame
indeed, a vis Countess no less.
Congratulations. Two nights,
finally got some nice to bring
up here to the round table. So
get out your blade, John, there
you go. Don't bring out your
nice army knife, because it
doesn't have a blade.
John C Dvorak: It's just a
corkscrew.
Adam Curry: Saren Denzil,
Christian grillik, step on up.
Gentlemen, both of you have
supported the no agenda show in
the amount of $1,000 or more
that qualifies you for a
knighthood. It's just as good as
one of those that the King of
England gives away, only we
actually give you something cool
that you can wear every single
day. So I'm very proud hereby to
pronounce Kate Diaz, Sir Knight
Z and Sir loin of Winter Haven
for you gentlemen, we have
hookers and blow. That's
something the king won't give
you either. Red boys and
Chardonnay, Skyline chili, four
way bean and Jamison. Black
barrel whiskey along with that
Bong. It's bourbon, sparkling
cider escorts, ginger ale and
gerbils, breast milk and pablum.
And of course, we always have
the effervescent mutton and
Mead, and when you're done
snacking on that, go to no
agenda rings.com. Check out the
beautiful rings. We have the
Signet rings for knights and for
dames, and we deliver that to
you with a certificate of
authenticity and wax, which you
can melt down on seal your
important correspondence with.
Thank you both for supporting
the no agenda show, and welcome
to the round table of the no
agenda nights and days.
Unknown: Yeah, baby.
Adam Curry: So we may not do
anything big, centralized like a
no agenda con, but we love our
meetups, and everyone else in
the all the other producers seem
to love it. These are producer
organized meetups. You go to no
agenda meetups.com. You can
register your Meetup, or you can
find one near you. And people
like telling us how much they
enjoyed it. Here is the report
from Keene, New Hampshire.
Unknown: Hey there. This is the
new agenda meetup in Keene at
John C Dvorak: the Jamaica.
Restaurant, and
Unknown: we had a lot of fun.
There was four of us, three of
us Reapers, and one person got
hit in the mountain in the
morning, John and Adam. This is
crypto Duke. Maybe sometime
you'll come out here. You know,
it's not too far from a Plymouth
Mouse. Oh, but
we'll never get the grumpy gun
to come here.
Adam Curry: Okay, bye, bye. All
right, the tip is to record an
acquired location. Let's see how
Tulsa did. Hey, shmiri,
Unknown: what? Where do I find
the wildest and weirdest
conversational threads in
Oklahoma? The Tulsa, no agenda.
Don't be a douchebag. Meetup.
Hey, John and Adam. This is Alan
in Tulsa. I called this meetup
together to let everyone know
that I'm ending my campaign and
I'm endorsing the curry Dvorak
ticket. Four more years. It's
Hallie Howdy, John and Adam.
We're just here at this white
Christian nationalist meetup
looking to repeal the 19th Hey,
John, Adam. This is David. You
guys. Podcast is so informative.
But what is Aleppo
in the morning? Guys, this year
I'm
voting Linda lapatkin
Adam Curry: Aleppo, that's in
Syria. You know what Aleppo is?
Spearfish, South Dakota. Come on
in with your report.
Unknown: Good. Evening. This is
Jessica. We interrupt this
broadcast to bring you breaking
news from the cow peak. No
agenda. Meetup of the Black
Hills. Our very own Juan Miguel
is on the scene. Let's go to him
now live for more details.
Hey Jessica, thank you. I'm here
at the crows beat brewery here
in Spearfish, South Dakota. It's
an incredible scene. Lots of
energy, lots of activity. I
think we even have midgets. I'm
not sure they may also be small
children. Over here, we have a
table of people for the no
agenda. Meet up. Let's see if we
can get some comments from them
in the morning. This is Jessica.
The company is great, and the
green kombucha tastes better
than it looks. In the
morning, Adam and John. This is
Caitlin coming to you from the
cows peak meet up in Spearfish,
South Dakota. I saw a guy
wearing a t shirt that said, Put
a hog between her legs.
Everybody. This is John Dale
having a good time here at the
crow peak brewery here in
Spearfish, South Dakota, in the
morning,
in the morning, this is Casey,
and we're at the first ever snow
peas. No agenda, meet up in
Spearfish, South Dakota, at the
crow peak brewery.
Hey, my name is say I come down
here to Fortune get some beers
after working on the roof all
day, and they have some beers.
So I got a beard. I'm not sure
what is the no agenda's thing
though.
I just wanna know my social pet
store in the morning.
Back to you, Jessica.
Adam Curry: Wait What John Dale
actually emailed me, is it okay
if we say midgets in the meetup
report like you do? You bro,
whatever you want. Now we go
over to London, merry old
England. Here is guof and his
report from his meetup
Unknown: from the Gitmo nation,
the UK in the morning.
Who's my favorite look.
I do believe it's that John,
John C. I
think it's called John c1,
100% I'm Elliot from Croydon,
and I am the douchebag
in the morning. John and Adam,
this pop quiz is rigged like
your elections.
This is Woof the carcap, the
London no agenda meet hub,
longest standing member, part
two, and I'm affecting my pitch
for the V for VTV channel. Yeah,
hi,
John, Hi Adam seven. Freeze from
g7 LH, I can listen later on the
airwaves, and I've enjoyed every
member of it. So take
care. Bye, John and Adam,
please. Out. So thank you for
your
courage. Steve at the London
meet up in Fitzrovia, awesome
experience. Lovely ice gone off.
This is Sue from Melbourne,
Australia, reporting from meet
up at sump pub called the law of
the land. And I encourage you
all to come to this meet up with
Gregory and everyone else called
no agenda. And if we could come
back again next year, we would.
And John agrees,
I may have a bit of a hangover
tomorrow due to climate change.
Adam Curry: Okay? And a happy
birthday song. Thank you very
much. Well, sounds like everyone
had a good time there in the UK.
Time for us to visit John, we
got a lot of people out of
producers. Oops, a lot of
producers over there. Yeah, we
do having a good time.
Obviously. Here's what's coming
up today. The North Georgia
monthly kicks off at six o'clock
at Cherry brewing, Cherry Street
brewing in Alpharetta, Georgia
On Sunday, the first annual no
agenda, anti anti tam
battlefield meetup. Anti Tam,
anti Tam, that's at 10 o'clock
in the morning at anti tam
National Battlefield. Oh, that's
a Maryland, Sharpsburg, Maryland
and on. Also, that's
John C Dvorak: mispronouncing
it. How
Adam Curry: do i pronounce it?
John C Dvorak: Because you
mispronounce it, I can't. It's
antimony or something. It's,
Adam Curry: you literally
spelled A, N, T, I, E, T, A, M
and T, a tam and Tia and to,
hey, it's charming. The National
Battlefield of that place in
Sharpsburg, Maryland, very go
there.
John C Dvorak: Civil War battle,
yes, go there.
Adam Curry: And the annual South
Jersey pig roast meetup, five
o'clock at Medford Lake, New
Jersey. Oh, that's dame, one of
the lakes. You've got to contact
her for details. It's probably
at her house. So go to no nogen
to meetups.com. For that. Coming
up on September. This is gonna
cook a pig, I think so it's the
annual South Jersey pig roast
meetup. So yes, they're gonna
cook a pig. Cooking up a pig.
This is an interesting one
Plymouth, Massachusetts. I was
just there. I would have loved
to have been in a meetup.
Instead. They're doing one post
visit, and they sent a promo
Unknown: in a world on the brink
of war, it took 80 years to
build, where whispers of
rebellion echoed through the
colonies, one of his right on
the water, based on a true
story,
Adam Curry: it symbolizes The
America, it really does, of
Unknown: love, romance and Adam
and Tina's visit last month,
the British will be here. Soon.
We shall stand our ground and
fight them to the death.
This is America. You dumb, some
of it. Okay, this Labor Day,
James winters, Massachusetts,
the 81
Adam Curry: foot tall monument
was commissioned by the
Unknown: pilgrim society at the
National Monument to the
forefathers in Plymouth,
Massachusetts, the anarchists,
the agitators, the looters and
people who, in many instances,
have absolutely no clue
what they are doing, find out
what it really means an
entire nation founded on saying
one thing and doing another
to be an American, and we will
call that country
the United States of America.
The adamantino were here meet up
coming Monday, September 2, at
the National Monument to the
forefathers Massachusetts.
Adam Curry: That's pretty cool.
Too long. Yes, too long.
John C Dvorak: But by the way,
it's pronounced Antietam.
Antietam. Okay, that's
Adam Curry: pretty cool, though.
So finally, we're going to put
the National Monument to the
forefathers on the map. Can you
imagine the no agenda? Meet up
there. It's in a cul de sac.
It'll be interesting with see
what the neighbors have to say
John C Dvorak: about y'all. I'm
sure they won't be pleased. One
Adam Curry: more promo for North
Florida.
Unknown: Ahoy Florida producers,
you are quarterly invited to a
summoning of the seas at our
September meetup in Saint
Augustine on Sunday, September
15, at 2pm join us for a round
table full of seafood and
Sangria to hear all the tales of
the no agenda crew, don't forget
to cast your vote for our
November to remember meetup
adventure RSVP for this meetup
and more, all at no agenda
meetups.com. It's like a bard.
Ah, there
Adam Curry: you go. And we have
many more to mention. I'm going
to skip them, since this was a
very long meetup segment, but I
do want everyone to know,
October 18, Matt long. Matt
Long, who was a well known
person here in in
Fredericksburg, Texas, is
organizing a meetup right here
in Fredericksburg. Curry and the
keeper will be there. Many more,
I'm sure, who are in the Texas
region will be coming to
Fredericksburg. Come to our
lovely town, book an Airbnb. You
don't want to stay at the motel,
six and come join the meetup. I
think that's on Friday, I think
October 18, Fredericksburg,
Texas. Those are the meetups.
Many more you can can be
found@noadgendameups.com if you
can't find one near you, like
Fredericksburg, Texas, then
start one yourself at no agenda
meetups.com. It's easy and
always a party triggered all
Unknown: you to be where you
won't be triggered or, hell,
everybody feels the same.
Adam Curry: It's like a party.
It's like a party, yes, indeed,
just like a party. I only have
one. One ISO, so why don't you
do yours, and then I'll play
mine, which I think is gonna
win?
John C Dvorak: Okay, we start
with the podcast is so good. Oh,
that
Adam Curry: one might win. Let's
see. The podcast is so good.
Wow, it's really a low level.
You didn't make that yourself.
Someone else did that for you.
Let me try that again.
Unknown: The podcast is so good.
Adam Curry: That has no dynamics
Unknown: sexism. This is blatant
sexism.
Adam Curry: Well, that would be
appropriate for this show. Who
was that? Megyn Kelly, exactly,
John C Dvorak: and for our last
celebrity entry, nailed it,
nailed
Unknown: it, nailed it.
Adam Curry: Who was that?
Unknown: Who does that? Who said
that
John C Dvorak: he has an adenoid
an adenoidal voice, and he's
podcasting all the time. Scott
Adams, who that was Scott
Adam Curry: Scott Adams. Oh no,
no. Can't do Scott Adams. Here's
my I only have one entry
Unknown: breaking
crazy.
What freaking crazy?
Adam Curry: You don't like
freaking crazy. It
John C Dvorak: sounds like he's
saying breaking No, freaking
Adam Curry: All right. Well, I
think we go with Megan. This
Unknown: is blatant sexism. I
Adam Curry: think that's the one
we go with. I think so, yeah, I
think that's a good one. Now,
everybody, it's time before we
wind up the show. It is John's
Tip of the Day.
Unknown: And sometimes Adam.
John C Dvorak: So there's a
really good book. I'm going to
plug a book come
Adam Curry: into the mic.
John C Dvorak: I can't come in
any closer without banging my
nose. I'm going to plug a book
called might of the chain. I
don't like the title, but the
book is fantastic. Might of the
chain. Might, might the chain,
forging leaders of iron
integrity, another subtitle. I
don't like that either, but the
book itself is fabulous. It's
from is by Mike studeman, a Rear
Admiral, former retired who is
actually something of a of a
spook. He's now working for
miter as a national security
fellow. And this book is it's
outrageously interesting. In
fact, it's got a blurb by Henry
Kissinger, that says thoughtful
and engaging. When I read the
blurb, I said, one of those
blurbs that you just write. I
used to be an associate with
John Brockman, the New York
agent. And he told me very early
on, he says, you know Alan watt,
the guy who wrote all the books
on Zen Buddhism. He said that
guy, if somebody mentioned
blurb, he says, I'm in and he
would write the blurb. He would
write any blurb for anybody. And
I've taken that same I felt the
same way, always weirded out,
but by people who say, Oh no, I
have to read it first. I have to
do this. So I read this
thoughtful and engaging by
Kissinger, I said he's one of
those guys just writes phony
blurbs. No, this book is the
most thoughtful book I've ever
run into, at least for a couple
of years. It's just loaded with
information. If you are a
business manager, a guy who
wants to get into management, or
if you're in the military, it's
about leadership, and it's,
it's, it's it's just so full of
tips. It's, it's great. It's a
meta tip. It's really a good
book. So it's called might, I
don't like the title. It could
have been called a lot of
different things, but might of
the chain by stood studeman, s,
s, t, u, d, e, M, a, n, uh. Get
a copy if you can. If you want
to have something
Adam Curry: good to read. Wow. A
Reading Tip that doesn't happen
often. Now,
John C Dvorak: I think once a
month I'm going to try to do a
book. No
Unknown: commercials. More
content.
Your no agenda. Tip of the Day.
Adam Curry: There it is. Your no
agenda. Tip of the Day.
Everybody. Beautiful. And that
concludes our broadcast time.
Let's see, yep, it's time end of
show mixes, Professor Jay Jones,
we got Dee's laughs and David
kecta all coming in with end of
show mixes, good to have you
boys on board as usual. End of
show. Let's see. That means we
have something coming up next?
Ah yes, behind the schemes with
booberry and lavish live? Is it
live? I don't know if they're
live, but there are. They're on
the no agenda stream, which is
24/7 there's no reason to even
turn. You know what we say in
the old days, lock it in and rip
the knob off. No. No
agendastream.com, trollroom.io,
and coming to you from the heart
of the Texas Hill Country, and
right where the future meet up
in Fredericksburg, Texas, will
be taking place FEMA Region
number six in the morning.
Everybody. I'm Adam curry,
John C Dvorak: and from Northern
Silicon Valley, where I remain,
I'm John C Dvorak.
Adam Curry: We will be here on
Sunday. Please join us for more
media deconstruction. You know
you want it. You know you need
it. Remember us at no agenda,
donations.com, until then,
adios, mofos, a hooey, hooey and
such. I don't
Unknown: know what's wrong with
you, young
people. You think you just fell
off a coconut tree.
I think that sounds pretty good.
Every single day,
pick up the kids and pay your
bills,
look lost and confused, so she'd
lower everyone's income. Yes,
I think that sounds pretty good.
Is that a good thing?
That is a good thing.
You think you just fell out of a
coconut tree?
Who the hell is in charge? I
don't know what's wrong with you
young people, because she is
smart and she is more reliable.
Who
the hell is in charge? What
do you think about Donald Trump?
He started World war three?
Yeah, yeah. That's just not
true.
You think you just fell out of a
coconut tree?
I think that sounds pretty good.
The leader, who's
tough, tested,
yeah, yeah, that's
just not true. A total badass,
Sam, you
think you just fell out of a
coconut tree?
Look lost and confused,
so she lowered everyone's
income. Everything is in
context.
Adam Curry: Is that a good
thing?
Unknown: That is a good thing.
You think
you just fell out of the coconut
tree. They
don't care about me at all, at
all, at all.
Who the hell is in charge
because she is smart and she's
more reliable. They don't want
a population of citizens capable
of critical thinking. They don't
want well informed, well
educated people capable of
critical thinking. They're not
interested in that. That doesn't
help them.
That's against their interest.
That's great.
I don't know what's wrong with
you young people.
The leader who's tough. Hey,
this
scorching heat is is happening
globally, in Canada, and it's
unrelenting.
And one climate scientist at
Berkeley, you may have read
this, Dave said that this is
absolutely Gob, smackingly
bananas. And that's coming
Adam Curry: from a scientist. Oh
no, a scientist used the word
gobsmack.
Unknown: Yeah, malicious
malaria, mosquitoes are back.
Another gates invention with
this theory a mental attack
stick a thermometer in this
Jacuzzi. Planet scorching,
torrential roti. I think I know
who planned it. Gobsmackingly
bananas. Ocean's a hot tub, and
now they want to cancel winter
in Canada. It's pretty chilly
here all year. Survey everything
and stop almost nothing. Old is
the new fear. What's the cost
for you? Citizenship, my boss,
Adam Curry: it's a Jacuzzi
planet. I'm
Unknown: so cross claiming
privacy is necessary to protect
the neck only real way to keep
the masses really in check,
because they don't really rally,
distracted with the day to day,
the grind. I mean, the dreck.
They don't really rally.
Distracted with the day to day,
the grind and the dreck, global
citizen, never made sense to me.
You can only live your life as a
private, sovereign entity. Can
we all agree collectivism over
your individuality is a hell of
a schism if
John C Dvorak: you're going to
stick a thermometer in the
planet, yeah, to get an accurate
temperature, wouldn't you stick
it into into the planet's
butthole, or Toronto, as it
were,
Adam Curry: I already made,
sorry.
Unknown: I think that, listen,
we today is actually, I believe,
an anniversary, in terms of Dr
King, right? And, and we, I was
just in Selma, and we
celebrated, to acknowledge the
59th anniversary of the Bloody
Sunday. I think it's really
important that we as Americans
always embrace our history, the
parts that we're proud of, and
the parts that we're not proud
of, but that we can't forget.
And we should all agree that we
should teach history. We should
learn history if we're to ever
have an accurate idea of where
we want to go and where we don't
want to go in the future, and
that means also acknowledging
the importance of diversity. It
means acknowledging the
importance of the fact that
everyone should have an equal
opportunity to compete and
equity. And of course, includes,
you know, hey, let's look around
the room and see who's not here.
And. Did we leave the door open?
Kamala, you've done a horrible
job. You've been the worst vice
president in the history of our
country. Kamala,
you're fired. You're
fired. Get out.
Get out. Yes. Queen, yes. Queen,
this podcast is on
universe. Podcast.org/n, a,
this is blatant
sexism. I.